Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh and Dutchess County Receive Multimillion Donations From MacKenzie Scott
Habitat Newburgh, Habitat Dutchess, and 83 US Habitat affiliate organizations, along with Habitat for Humanity International, recently received $436 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
Bethel Woods Phish Tickets to Go on Sale
The world’s leading jam band Phish will play two local concerts at in July.
Neko Case to Play Two Shows at Levon Helm Studios in May
The country noir queen Neko Case will return to Levon Helm Studios for two shows on May 28 and 29.
Made X Hudson in Catskill Offers Small-Batch Garment Production for Indie Makers
After less than a year in operation, Catskill-based nonprofit Made X Hudson is already proving both the demand for, and the viability of, a centralized manufacturing facility for the Hudson Valley’s small-scale garment producers.
Pine Plains’ Chaseholm Farm Named Among America’s Top 50 Cheesemakers
The Pine Plains based certified organic and grass-fed creamery Chaseholm Farm has been recognized by Food & Wine as one of the top 50 cheesemakers in the US, with a special shout out to their signature triple cream, Nimbus.
Eddie’s Roadhouse in Warwick Serves Up Innovative Casual Food & Craft Brews
Since leaving a job in the finance industry, Eddie Cullari has found his passion creating globally inspired casual eats and serving them up alongside craft beer, using farm-fresh produce grown in Warwick’s famously fertile black dirt.
Top Taste in Kingston Nominated for a James Beard Award
Top Taste, a Jamaican restaurant in Midtown Kingston, gets the nod from the James Beard Foundation.
Chickens for Change: Rebecca Moore and the Institute for Animal Happiness
Rebecca Moore provides chickens with special care at the Institute for Animal Happiness.
Massive Development in Saugerties Raises Concern Among Locals
If you’ve ever driven on the New York State Thruway, chances are you’ve passed Winston Farm, a massive stretch of forested land situated immediately across from exit 20. The 815 acres of nearly untouched terrain provide a natural vista to the nearby mountain ranges and is known as the gateway to the Catskills. From a…
Art Review: “The Moving Picture Show” at Foreland in Catskill
Taliesen Thomas reviews an exhibition of work by Hudson Valley-based video artists at Foreland in Catskill curated by Peggy Ahwesh. The show, which opened on February 19, runs through March 27.
Comedian Lane Moore Brings “Tinder Live” to Colony Woodstock March 12
Comic Lane Moore performs her celebrated and acclaimed “Tinder Live” show at the Colony in Woodstock, a completely improvised and interactive show where the audience decides whether Moore swipes left or right.
The Little Schooner That Might
This story is Part II of a series on local business and climate solutions, sponsored by the Solutions Journalism Network. Part I covered solar grazing and the revival of sheep farming in New York. We are seeking reader feedback via a survey at the bottom of the article. What’s it worth to prove to the…
$125 Million Available for Artists in New York State
Creatives Rebuild New York launches two funding opportunities for artists totaling $125 million in New York State.
Seaside Style: Gather Brings Elegant Beach-Inspired Home Goods to Katonah
“My inspiration is villages by the sea,” says Suzanne Martin of the concept for her home goods boutique Gather, which opened in Katonah last October. “Montauk, Malibu, seaside Italy, or Portugal.” Martin isn’t new to retail, or to Katonah. She has owned Rubysue, a women’s clothing boutique right next door to Gather, for 22 years,…
Is This the Moment for Passive House Design in New York?
The writing is on the wall: Sometime in the next few years, New York State contractors will probably stop building new houses to be heated with gas and oil. As politicians hammer out the fine print on the 2022 state budget, one of the key battles looming is over a ban on fossil fuels in…
Dyad Wine Bar: A Perfect Marriage of Wine & Food
“About the time I was 21, I was studying to be a sommelier. I realized at a certain point that if I was going to be polishing glasses, I wanted them to be my own,” says Alex Van Allen, proprietor of Dyad Wine Bar in Kinderhook. It would be another three years before he returned…
“We Got the Beat: Women in Music Summit” at the Bearsville Theater
Writer Holly George-Warren and venue owner Lizzie Vann have teamed up to produce the first annual “We Got the Beat: Women in Music Summit.” The three-day event, taking place March 25-27, is aimed at combatting the gender inequality in the music industry. Part celebration, part networking event, We Got the Beat will feature a mix…
Savor These Tasty Hudson Valley Events
Sweet treats for your Hudson Valley events itinerary.
Two Years Into the Pandemic, Here’s Why I’m Still Paying Attention
My daughter tested positive for COVID on January 16 after complaining of a bad sore throat. Emily is a senior at Kingston High School, and even though she’s vaccinated and boosted, I wasn’t surprised she got sick. I mean, I’ve been paying attention, following news about the Omicron variant since December. I knew that it…
Rethinking How New York Buys Food
New York’s existing food procurement policies require municipalities and local institutions such as schools and hospitals to contract with the lowest responsible bidder. This model tends to drive business toward whoever can mass produce products in the fastest, cheapest way possible, regardless of consequences. But a new bill would change that. The Good Food Purchasing…
A New Medicare Program Threatens Seniors. We Can Stop It.
There is a stealthy menace threatening all seniors on traditional Medicare. It’s called the Medicare Direct Contracting program (MDC), and it threatens to privatize the publicly guaranteed health care everyone has paid into since they first got a paycheck. In brief, under MDC the government contracts with for-profit entities and agrees to pay them a…
New York’s Climate Action Wish List
Climate action has been on pause in the New York State Legislature since 2019. Could this be the year that changes? On January 25, a group of 38 state climate and community organizations held a press conference outside the Capitol building in Albany to press for the passage of a slate of climate legislation, dubbed…
8 Great Hudson Valley Events This Week
Check out these worthwhile area activities and events.
Tivoli Shop Thrift 2 Fight Sells Secondhand Clothes for Social Change
What started as a series of pop-up clothing sales to raise money for activist groups and organizers during the summer of 2020’s social justice protests, Thrift 2 Fight has grown into a movement uses the ethos of thrifting to fund racial justice work, disability activism, and queer liberation. Founded by friends in Red Hook, the…
The Assault on New York’s Bail Reform
Leer en español For those who fought to get New York’s bail reform law passed in April 2019, a simple idea was paramount: people accused of a crime shouldn’t be locked up just because they’re poor. The law eliminated pretrial detention and money bail for most misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies in an attempt to create…
“Mary Frank: The Observing Heart” Opens at SUNY New Paltz’s Dorsky Museum
“Mary Frank: The Observing Heart,” a retrospective of the Hudson Valley artist’s work, opens February 5 at The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz
Will the Town of Claverack Take a Stand Against Extremism?
For unknown reasons, the Claverack Town Board is not taking the rise of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in our town and county seriously. White supremacist recruitment stickers first appeared in the town of Claverack in February 2021. The Columbia County Board of Supervisors and the towns of Chatham, Germantown, Ghent, Hillsdale, New Lebanon, and…
High Traffic: The Cannabis DUI Conundrum
It is illegal to drive under the influence of cannabis, to consume cannabis while driving, and for passengers in a vehicle to consume cannabis—and all of that will remain illegal once New York’s commercial cannabis market begins operating, sometime in the yet-to-be-determined future. But what does it mean to be under the influence of cannabis…
Get Off the Couch! 5 Events to Attend this February
Our cultural short list for February includes Jim Gaffigan at Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Flee at Upsate Films, Pete Correale at Bearsville Theater, “Unnatural Acts” at SUNY New Paltz, and John Lewis: Good Trouble at Rosendale Theater.
Gemini Horoscope | February 2022
GEMINI (May 20–June 21) Retrograde Mercury in Capricorn stations direct February 3, re-entering Aquarius on Valentine’s Day, February 14. During this last Mercury retrograde period, you learned a profound life lesson about the transformative nature of grief. You find you’re able to articulate our collective losses after Mercury conjuncts Pluto February 11. Mercury squares Uranus and…
Editor’s Note: The Long Lost Age of Mechanical Reproduction | February 2022
Brian K. Mahoney finds a trove of old photographs.
“This Tender, Fragile Thing” at The School in Kinderhook
The current exhbhtion at Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School in Kinderhook, “This Tender, Fragile Thing” interrogates civil rights movements past and present, exploring the tenuousness of social progress.
Aquarius Horoscope | February 2022
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19) New Moon in Aquarius February 1 nourishes ideas you’ve been gestating since November. Jupiter’s sextile to Uranus February 17 supersizes your need for originality; no amount of appreciation means anything to you unless your personal uniqueness is acknowledged. Full Moon in Leo opposite your Sun February 16 with Venus and Mars conjunct…
Cancer Horoscope | February 2022
CANCER (June 21–July 22) New Moon in Aquarius February 1 highlights the way you share your values, values, resources, and intimacies with friends you’ve brought inside the family circle. First Quarter Moon in Taurus February 8 with Mars trine Neptune energizes manifestation of shared spiritual goals. Full Moon in Leo with Venus and Mars conjunct in…
Overwhelmed by Omicron: Stories from the Pandemic’s Third Wave
Hudson Valley residents share their first-hand experiences of Omicron.
Pisces Horoscope | February 2022
PISCES (February 20-March 19) Connecting to the cosmic wavelengths is one of your superpowers; you’re especially attuned February 2–4 with the Moon in Pisces. Your best day for languishing in sensual splendor is February 8 with Mars trine Neptune at the First Quarter Moon in Taurus. The Sun enters Pisces February 18 and this year, with…
Leo Horoscope | February 2022
LEO (July 22–August 23) Leo’s planetary ruler is the Sun, and with Sun traveling through Aquarius, Leo’s solar opposite, through February 18, opposites powerfully and passionately attract. An unusual meeting of the minds turns serious when the Sun conjuncts Saturn February 4. Are you manifesting your full, ripest maturity of mind and spirit, while retaining your…
The Greek Revival Farmhouse of Joseph Gosler and Sheila Wolper
Author Joseph Gosler and artist Sheila Wolper have retired to their weekend home, a Greek Revivl-style farmhouse on 12 bucolic acres in Ancramdale.
Poetry | February 2022
If you put the front lights of cars together you would get the sun —Joshua Fisher (4 years) Beginning You served me my first cup of coffee in a quilted Ball jar two stories above Main Street on a gray Thursday morning before a storm in December after finals were over and from above it…
Virgo Horoscope | February 2022
VIRGO (August 23–September 23) Retrograde Mercury stations direct February 3 and makes a conjunction to Pluto February 11 before returning to Aquarius February 14. You are in your power zone now. Decisions you make after all the time you’ve been given to pragmatically assess your life are now executable. Sun enters Pisces February 18, illuminating all…
Astrological Forecast | February 2022
External events that will have an internal consequence for each of us include the first-ever Pluto return for the US as a country.
Libra Horoscope | February 2022
LIBRA (September 23–October 23) “It’s funny how young lovers start as friends” sang Elton John in 1971. Whether or not you are technically “young,” you may find this true February 16 at the conjunction of Venus and Mars in Capricorn, with the Full Moon in Leo. Friends who feel like family bring renewed vigor and potency…
Aries Horoscope | February 2022
ARIES (March 20–April 19) Surprising and unexpected financial opportunities are on their way. Prepare to assess your risk/reward ratio. Though normally you’re a daredevil, these last two years have taught you not to cross the highwire without a net. The New Moon in Aquarius February 1 resurrects friendships which have been on the back burner for…
Scorpio Horoscope | February 2022
SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) Mars sextiles Jupiter and squares Chiron February 4–6, enhancing the benefits of reconciliation with others. The trine of Mars to Neptune at the First Quarter Moon in Taurus February 8 emphasizes the common ideals which bind you and your closest partnership relationships together. Words make powerful weapons to uplift or destroy when…
Taurus Horoscope | February 2022
TAURUS (April 19–May 20) First Quarter Moon in Taurus February 8 assesses and evaluates new beginnings, as you start to really feel the “fated” quality of time now that the North Lunar Node is transiting your sign. Valentines’ Day is February 14. But for you it’s really February 16, with Venus and Mars conjunct in Capricorn,…
Forge Project: Back to the Land
A Native-led initiative, launched in August, Forge Project is educating the public while providing Indigenous activists with a place to make changes in their communities.
Cold Spring Artist Jaanika Peerna’s Glacier Elegies
For the last decade, Cold Spring resident and performance artist Jannika Peerna’s work has focused on climate change and melting glaciers.
Esteemed Reader: Living Fully in Each Moment | February 2022
Jason Stern reflects on the fractured attention and the richness reaped when we bring full attention and presence to each moment.
Sound Check: Julie Novak’s Listening Picks | February 2022
TMI Project cofounder and radio host Julie Novak shares her latest music recommendations
Sagittarius Horoscope | February 2022
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22) Mars sextiles Jupiter February 3, energizing negotiations around family values and the value of family—including the financial aspects—within the home front. Understand that conflict with loved ones over these delicate issues requires supersized sensitivity on your part. Jupiter sextiles Uranus February 17, ensuring your unique imprint appears on everything you touch. Original…
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Country Chic Wedding: 6 Hudson Valley Inns that Make Excellent Venues
There’s something so Hudson Valley about a cozy inn, whether bursting with greenery or dusted with New Year’s Eve snow—and perfect for weddings!
Harana Market Brings Filipino Flavor & Asian Products to Woodstock
A year after opening, Asian grocery store and Filipino cafe/deli Harana Market in Woodstock is thriving.
On the Cover: Sculptor Nick Cave’s “Arm Peace” at Jack Shainman’s The School
Nick Cave’s sculpture, Arm Peace, now on display at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School is both a memorial for the Black lives lost at the hands of gun violence as well as a declaration of power—and hope.
Capricorn Horoscope | February 2022
CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20) Saturn ruled both Capricorn and Aquarius prior to the discovery of Uranus in 1781, after which Uranus was assigned rulership of Aquarius. However, Saturn’s classical influence makes most of February comfortable territory for you this year, especially after the Sun’s conjunction to Saturn February 4. The maturity and wisdom you’ve cultivated, as…
6 Book Recommendations for February 2022
Anne Pyburn Craig reviews Judy White Staber’s portrait of her actress mother, Joan White, in Rise Above It, Darling. Plus short reviews of The Broken Tower by Kelly Braffet, The Hard Sell by Evan Hughes, Street Legal by Rafi Zabor, Generation Disaster by Karla Vermeulen, and When the World Runs Dry by Nancy Castaldo.
The Artichoke Storytelling Series Returns to Howland Cultural Center
The Artichoke Storytelling Series returns to Howland Cultural Center on February 19.
Album Review: Alex Collins/Ryan Berg/Karl Latham | Together
James Keepnews reviews Together, the new album from Alex Collins, Ryan Berg, and Karl Latham.
The 2022 Hudson Jazz Festival Kicks Off February 10
Ahead of the Hudson Jazz Festival, which will return to Hudson Hall over two weekends, February 10-13 and 17-20, an interview with Anneice Cousin of local youth advocacy group Beautiful Racket.
Album Review: Frank Migliorelli and the Dirt Nappers | We’re Not Kiddin’ Around.
Peter Aaron reviews Frank Migliorelli and the Dirt Nappers’ new album, We’re Not Kiddin’ Around.
Remembering Kevin Archambault (1977-2022)
Kandy Harris remembers her late friend, actor and director Kevin Archambault, who worked for years at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebck.
Album Review: Sean Rowe | The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights
Jason Broome reviews Sean Rowe’s new album, The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights.
5 Live Music Shows to Catch This February in the Hudson Valley
Concerts we’re going to this month include Waxahatchee at Tarrytown Music Hall, Cate Le Bon at Colony, and Ornettiquette at Quinn’s.
Poughkeepsie: Real Renewal
The level of investment in the city now shows that Poughkeepsie is well poised to come out of the pandemic ahead of the curve.
