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Exciting events continue to abound in and around the Hudson Valley.
If you want to get high, concentrates are the way to go. Concentrates, of which there are many varieties, are the result of distilling cannabinoids and terpenes, i.e., isolating the sticky and shiny stuff on the buds that make you stoned and give cannabis its flavor. This not only means removing all that excess plant…
Like so many others who now live in Kingston, I relocated from New York City. There are two true things that can be said about me: I am a part of the gentrification of this city, and I am also deeply committed to fighting for housing justice here. These two things not only can coexist, but for…
The newly opened WYLDE in Hudson is many things rolled into one: retail store, café, local hangout. France built WYLDE around a sense of community––a place where locals can come and stay awhile to work or to chat, even to build relationships. WYLDE has its own pop-up market on Warren Street, running bimonthly on Saturdays…
Problems have plagued the Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) complex, Columbia County’s only public housing project, for years. Moisture soaks into the building through the porous, cracked facade. Rainwater leaks into the walls through panels meant to hold air conditioners. There’s an intractable roach infestation. Because of the heavy damage, as many as 20 percent of…
Terrain & Table, an immersive outdoor dining experience with local, sustainable food and pastoral views, returns to the Hudson Valley on July 10 with their first dinner of the season. Monthly events held across the Catskills and Hudson Valley feature a different location each time, but the throughline is always enjoying food at the source…
This week’s run of local events is a perfect entry to local warm-weather jubilation.
The Dig on Millerton’s Main Street sells pantry staples, smoothies, sweet and savory crepes on weekends, and has a daily changing breakfast and lunch menu. The Dig has become a hub for the work of local artists as well as a community gathering place, hosting food-themed events featuring traditional dishes made by locals, live music,…
Driving down Route 9 outside Garrison, it’s hard to miss the Bus Stop Grill—a large bright red bus-turned-restaurant parked on the side of the road. The mobile restaurant is the brainchild of local business owner Ernest Knippenberg, whose bus company Hudson Valley Charter Service has been in the family for more than 50 years. Bus…
It wasn’t long ago that the thought of legalizing marijuana in New York was, well, a pipe dream. This is the state that implemented some of the harshest penalties in the so-called War on Drugs; where arrests for possession were increasing as recently as 2017; and where the governor was staunchly opposed to legalization, even…
Juneteenth marks the official end of slavery in America on June 19, 1865. Today, the holiday focuses on Black achievements and culture, recognition of inequality and systemic racism in the United States, and the ongoing fight for equal rights. 2021 brings an expanded list of ways to celebrate Black freedom and to reckon with the…
Climate activists were hoping for more out of New York State legislators this year. In 2019, New York enacted the sweeping Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, a landmark piece of legislation that vaulted the state to the forefront of the effort to adopt tough, ambitious climate goals. The CLCPA commits New York to a…
Phillip Oshinsky began working for DoorDash during the summer of the pandemic in Tenafly, New Jersey. An immunocompromised person, Oshinsky had just left his job as a waiter because restaurants posed too high a COVID risk. The app-based delivery service allows customers to order food from local restaurants on their phone and either pick it…
Live music, art, literary events, food, comedy, dance, and more are back.
The Winnakee Land Trust opened Vlei Marsh to the public on June 1, a 165-acre nature preserve that is Rhinebeck’s second largest wetland area. Multi-looped, newly upgraded trails at Vlei Marsh take visitors through both wetland and forest, home to scores of mammals, amphibians, and birds. A 30-year-old accredited land trust and nonprofit, the WLT…
Late last year, New York State announced the completion of the 750-mile, multi-use Empire State Trail. Beginning in downtown Manhattan, the trail stretches up to Albany, where one branch splits west to Buffalo and another continues north through Plattsburgh to the Canadian border. One segment of the trail that passes through Kingston is known as…
Publisher Jason Sterns contemplates the unanswerable question: What is life?
Art Austerlitz is the brainchild of Ryan Turley, an artist who approached the Old Austerlitz Historical Society with the suggestion to transform an unused church into a contemporary art gallery.
Whimsical, unsettling, light-heartedly grotesque, the clay sculptures of Marianna Peragallo, now on display at the Wassaic Project as part of the group show “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now,” are cartoon-like in form and semi-surreal.
Nadia Boulanger is the thematic figurehead of Bard College’s 31st annual Bard Music Festival and “festival within a festival,” SummerScape, which will take place between July 8 and August 15.
Up this month: a reality check. You may find that the doors of perception may need to be re-hung to compensate for the distortion factor.
We check in with four legacy market operators about their thoughts on New York’s legalization of recreational marijuana, the likely persistence of a black market for weed, and their own plans for the future.
City Winery Hudson Valley was forced to cancel its planned debut bookings last year. Fortunately, many of the artists originally set to appear at the venue will make their appearance this summer with the Concerts in the Vineyard Series.
This month, expect positive attention and affirmation around your career and public persona.
From a new cafe to tapas and an organic grocer, here are five places to eat, drink, and food shop this June.
A round-up of this summer’s must-see dance shows and festivals.
The Full “Super” Moon in practical and pragmatic Capricorn June 24 reveals the bottom line. Non-negotiables are laid on the table, and everyone must choose.
Tamar Adler is hard at work on her next cookbook, a follow-up to 2018’s Something Old, Something New: Classic Recipes Revised.
2021 is bittersweet for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, which celebrates a return to al fresco theater post-COVID during what will be its last season at Boscobel in Garrison.
Writer and design historian Amber Winick rolls the dice at her house in Croton- on-Hudson, leaning into whims of chance to curate an ever-changing home environment.
A round-up of some notable music festivals in the Hudson Valley, Catskills, and the Berkshires.
Trust your gut and don’t ask your head too many questions.
A look at the psychophysiology and health benefits of experiencing awe and other positive emotions.
This summer Harvey Fite’s Opus 40 will host a gamut of music, film, and theater programming, including the Sunset Sessions concert series, and Stockade Sunday Cabarets.
SCORPIO (October 23—November 21) June 5 brings challenges and potential rewards when classical planetary ruler Mars in Cancer opposes your modern planetary ruler Pluto in Capricorn, affecting your thought processes, communications, and ability to connect to and inspire others. Ego trips are a dead end. If approached with humility and consciousness, the rewards include tremendous…
Young activists in Poughkeepsie complete a traveling BLM mural.
“We really feel like everyone, especially young people, should be reminded of what Keith Haring stood for: art and justice are for everyone,” says Chris Rossi, director of exhibitions at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, where over 100 of the pop artist’s works are on display now through September 5 as part of its exhibition…
Positive energy is your most valuable asset now, Taurus.
COVID was a huge hurdle for many schools. But for educators at Clarkson, the doors were thrown open to plentiful opportunities, too. From the Hudson Valley to the North Country, the university continued to develop and enhance meaningful programs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields.
Kicking off Saturday, June 12, and continuing every second Saturday of the month, over 60 businesses will be staying open late to shine a light on Hudson, NY’s diverse art and design community.
An old inner conflict around your career path will be resurrected, but this time you have more experience and saavy to act on.
The extroverted municipality of Rhinebeck rallies after a tough pandemic year.
Theater makes its triumphant return to the region, though still with precautions in place; most of the theater productions in the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires are being staged outdoors this year.
Poetry submissions by Chronogram readers, selected and edited by Phillip X Levine.
Over 10 years ago, EnjoyRhinebeck was created to support the small businesses of the Village. Extra funds from the annual brochure, which includes a map and directory of businesses, go to support the village’s nonprofits, including Upstate Films, the Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, and the annual Sinterklaas Festival.
From traditional drive-in theaters to pop-up movie events in parks and parking lots, the Hudson Valley is offering up a plethora of outdoor film experiences this summer. From cult classics to horror films to new blockbuster releases to award-winning documentaries, you can watch it all with the hatch of your car popped open, on a…
Carolyn Quimby reviews Jonathan Lee’s The Great Mistake. Plus short reviews of Jacky Davis’s Sunny-Side Up, Phoebe North’s Strange Creatures, Michael Slaby’s For All the People, Edward M. Cohen’s Before Stonewall, and Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink The First Ten Years.
From the return of the three-day Upstate Art Weekend to a the three new exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, here are some standout art exhibits and events coming to the Hudson Valley in Summer 2021.
Jeremy Schwartz reviews the Big Takeover’s new album Spilling Water.
Connections lurking right under the surface emerge and energize your creative juices.
Marist College publishes a digital archive of Poughkeepsie Regatta memorabilia.
Peter Aaron reviews Franco Ambrosetti Band’s album Lost Within You.
The internal pressures which have been building for some time demand a concrete response.
After a long, isolated year, arts and culture return to the Catskills, Hudson Valley, and Berkshires with a bang. Our annual Summer Arts Preview rounds up can’t-miss dance events, arts exhibits, music festivals, and outdoor films plus spotlights on some of the region’s art centers and their programming for the upcoming season.
Morgan Y. Evans reviews Future One’s Lost Mighway.
Put on your seatbelt, it’s going to be an emotion-filled month, and the feelings are all about unresolved, unexamined ancestral trauma.
Editorial director Brian K. Mahoney remembers local craft beer pioneer and stalwart community member the late Tommy Keegan of Keegan Ales.
Musician, philosopher, and author David Rothenberg shares what he’s been listening to.
Capricorn, this month focus in on balancing the pragmatic with creative usage of your values and valuables.
The Upstate New York real estate market is white hot. But that doesn’t mean selling your home is foolproof. Follow these 5 tips from Lisa Halter of Halter Associates Realty to successfully list your home in a competitive market.
In the 1960s, Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, and artists have been pursuing their tick of the clock with ferocity ever since.
