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RAE BK Transforms Kerhonkson House Into “Faraday Cage” Immersive Installation
Street artist RAE BK turns a doomed Kerhonkson house into “Faraday Cage,” a seven-room immersive work exploring isolation, ideology, and survival.
What’s New in the Kingston Food & Dining Scene
Kingston has a busy food and drink scene, with new players entering the scene in a rapid rotation. We’ve written longer features about some of these culinary developments in New York’s first capital, but for those who are just tuning in, here’s an update on the latest food and drink news for Kingston. Golden Hour…
A Snapshot of Hudson | September 2025
These beautiful b-roll photos of Hudson, NY by David McIntyre capture the town’s character, charm, and moments that didn’t make it into Chronogram print.
Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week’s Organic Runway Returns
Hudson Valley Sustainable Fashion Week (HVSFW) returns in 2025 with its signature celebration of eco-conscious design, creative innovation, and community engagement. The annual event, with its banner Organic Runway, has become the connective tissue for locally based designers, artisans, and advocates championing sustainability in fashion. From clothing swaps to mending workshops, pop-ups, HVSFW aims to…
Kestrel Tavern to Open in Midtown Kingston Mid-October
“I thought I was Jack Kerouac when I was younger, so I just traveled all around and wrote and worked at bars,” says Steven Ives, who is preparing to open Kestrel Tavern in the old Dear Kingston space in Midtown Kingston, injecting 33 years of savings and experience into the project. “I’ve bartended in California…
Bill Vanaver Tribute Concert in Kingston
Last June, we lost The Vanaver Caravan cofounder William “Bill” Vanaver, one of the Hudson Valley’s most active and widely loved personalities. On September 14, to honor the legacy and music of the late musician, folklorist, and teacher, the Ulster County Performing Arts Center (UPAC) will host “A Life in Song: A Tribute to Bill…
Kingston City Land Bank Selling 2 $150K Fully Electric Homes
The Kingston City Land Bank has opened the lottery registration process for the last two properties of its Keystone Program, which utilized the city’s ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) funding and money from the New York Department of Housing and Community Renewal’s Land Bank Initiative fund to turn six foreclosed properties into freshly renovated, energy…
Understanding September’s Eclipses
Eclipses are the course-correctors of the cosmos. They realign and adjust trajectories much like a chiropractor adjusts bones. Eclipses can also be seen as portals to alternate timelines, stories, and even physical space. One moment we’re “here,” the next moment, we’re “there,” and we can’t recall the journey between the two. Hence, eclipses can be…
Leo Horoscope | September 2025
LEO (July 22–August 23) Is hyper-self-sufficiency a trauma response? This month’s eclipses will highlight your sense of trust in others and yourself. Oftentimes, those that think “people can’t be trusted,” really don’t trust that they, themselves, are worthy of support. They have false notions about which qualities are valuable, and so if they are lacking…
Editor’s Note: Yes, and then No | September 2025
I showed up for my first improv class at 6pm on the dot. Not early—because that might involve small talk or standing awkwardly in a half-empty room. Not late—because I’m not rude. (Lateness is a form of narcissistic personality disorder, an unconscious assertion of status, importance, or special rules. Beware the chronically tardy.) Punctuality is how…
“Becoming Dr. Ruth” at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville
“She had no inhibitions,” Mark St. Germain says of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. He should know; he wrote “Becoming Dr. Ruth” after many conversations with the renowned sexologist. The play will be at Shadowland Stages in Ellenville September 19 through October 5. Dr. Ruth lived at least five lives: a child in Nazi Germany, a youth…
Aquarius Horoscope | September 2025
AQUARIUS (January 20–February 19) No matter how much therapy you do, you will never be perfectly healed, but you can be more integrated. During periods of deep personal work, it can be frustrating to accept that we can never understand ourselves or others in totality. We will never “get rid” of parts of ourselves we…
2025 Chronogram Readers’ Choice Awards Party
Four hundred of the Hudson Valley’s finest—business owners, bakers, brewers, yoga teachers, tattoo artists, vintners, visionaries—gathered at Hudson House & Distillery in West Park on August 14 to toast themselves and each other. It was our first time under our new banner: Chronogram Readers’ Choice Awards. You may remember the “Chronogrammies.” So did the Recording…
Basilica SoundScape Celebrates 10 Years
This year marks two milestones for Basilica Hudson: the 15th anniversary of the venue itself and the 10th anniversary of its signature music festival, Basilica SoundScape. The event will return to the waterfront location once again on September 19-20, bringing a stacked schedule of acts whose artistic accents are on the dark, the heavy, and…
Pisces Horoscope | September 2025
PISCES (February 20–March 19) This month is about an emotional and relational rebirth. You’re realizing that you need new structures, systems, and containers to hold your vast and complex emotions. How do you know when you’ve found a useful receptacle? It won’t inhibit your flow but will gently inform it. It will help your feelings…
The Renovated Catskill Community Theatre Reopens September 5
In 1976, Dog Day Afternoon was one of the season’s biggest box office smashes. Nominated for seven Golden Globes, the Oscar-winning dark comedy about a botched bank robbery and starring a rising young Al Pacino grossed nearly $56 million—over $280 million in today’s money. Among the numerous small-town movie houses where the film appeared during its…
18 Things to Do in the Hudson Valley in September
Shorts Galore September 5 at Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock A comic torrent of brevity and wit floods Maverick Concert Hall as Actors & Writers, plus a constellation of friends, unleash “Shorts Galore”—an evening of quick-hit theater from some of the Hudson Valley’s sharpest pens. Laura Shaine Cunningham, Davis Hall, Mikhail Horowitz, Adam LeFevre, Nicole Quinn,…
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Pup-Friendly Places to Visit in the Great Western Catskills
With domestic travel on the rise this year, more people are choosing regional getaways and day trips, and bringing their dogs along. Nestled in the Great Western Catskills, Delaware County’s rolling farmland, mountain views, and picturesque small towns offer an ideal mix of outdoor exploration and hospitality for travelers with dogs. From scenic trails that…
“Isadora Duncan in the Theater of Love and War” at the Woodstock Playhouse
Anyone who has had the slightest bit of dance training (except for Indigenous or ballet), owes American doyenne of dance Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) a debt of gratitude, as it was her pioneering in the art of movement that led to all the modern, jazz, Broadway show, and pop dances that have been created since the…
Hudson Valley Fall Food Pop-Ups
Hudson Valley food pop-ups continue through fall at venues throughout the region from farms and orchards to breweries. Below is a curated roundup of late summer and early fall pop-ups to savor. Hibino Day by Day Chef Yasuyo Hibino’s bento box pop-up Hibino Day by Day offers onigiri and fresh maki multiple times a week…
Studios in Bloom: Art Walk Kingston
On September 20 and 21, Kingston’s studios and galleries will throw open their doors for the 10th annual Art Walk Kingston, showcasing paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, jewelry, and handmade furniture from 200 artists at nearly 50 locations across the city. Founded in 2016 by photographer Joe Gonzalez and former Arts Mid-Hudson executive director Linda Marston-Reid,…
A Permaculture Oasis in Ellenville
Most people think of home as four walls and a roof. For Andrew Faust and Adriana Magana, that myopic view is the problem. Permaculture educators and consultants, the two have dedicated their livelihoods—and their 14-acre property—to modeling a more expansive concept of home. They founded and designed their Center for Bioregional Living in Warwarsing, which…
Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis: A Natural History
In Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis, the bugs outlive us—and inherit our libraries. While the book starts as an ode to the New York Public Library’s educational exhibitions, it soon takes a turn when an apocalyptic episode clears the streets. Void of humans, the insects of New York head to the Public Library to see its newest…
Sacred Bridge Retreat at Menla
Long before the internet, we were profoundly connected to each other and to every other facet of the natural world—an awareness that’s only growing in importance as global well-being faces a wide range of threats, and as we learn more about the mechanics of mycorrhiza (the symbiotic relationship between fungi and plant roots), the quirks…
September 2025 Astrology Report
The month of September is judicious and calculating, especially with two eclipses and multiple planets entering signs known for their intellectual acumen. However, this month is not all hospital corners and spreadsheets. Though decisive, eclipses can leave a lot of mess and emotional overwhelm in their wake. We’re also sure to witness much that doesn’t…
Hudson Rewrites Its Future in Real Time
Hudson is a city constantly reinventing itself by committee. The unending din of passionate socio-political argument has, over recent decades, reforged the 19th-century-whaling-port-turned-blue-collar-factory town, first into an antiques mecca at the turn of this century, then an arts hub, and now—a kind of mishmash, boho-chic, progressive playground, where commerce and culture blend into an overwhelming but…
Aries Horoscope | September 2025
ARIES (March 20–April 19) There are parts of you that are too vast and unwieldy to be organized. They are to be felt, processed, and then laid to rest. You’re going through a psychic rinse cycle. You may be tempted to do a closet purge or digestive detox as a metaphorical ritual, but those processes…
Gemini Horoscope | September 2025
GEMINI (May 20–June 21) All that work and sacrifice is paying off. It’s time to release a project, or your feelings, out into the world and let the chips fall where they may. You might simply be tired of detailing and micromanaging every thought and emotion that crosses your awareness. In your current situation, it’s…
Poetry | September 2025
Poetry submitted by readers and published in the September 2025 issue of Chronogram.
Taurus Horoscope | September 2025
TAURUS (April 19–May 20) Give up trying to curate your audience. Don’t even try to manicure the way you are perceived. I say this not because you are incapable, but because to do so would be terribly unfulfilling. Andy Warhol once said: “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide…
Book Review: Clemence Michallon | Our Last Resort
Our Last ResortClemence MichallonAlfred A. Knopf, 2025, $29 Frida has booked a suite at an upscale resort in the Utah desert to spend some time reconnecting with her mildly estranged brother Gabriel. We first meet her in the wee hours of the morning, contemplating the delight of her surroundings as she slips out for a…
Cancer Horoscope | September 2025
CANCER (June 21–July 22) You have to let yourself grow. Growth isn’t perfect or symmetrical, and it’s not a destination. It’s quite possible that your old receptacles and tools for measuring your growth have become obsolete. You’ll need a larger, more forgiving container to process, hold, and integrate the bounty of experience coming your way.…
5 Hudson Valley Books to Read in September
Be the Poem: Living Beyond Our Fears Bettina “Poet Gold” WilkersonCAPS Press, 2025, $15 In her new poetry collection, Poet Gold goes from crafting an ode to waiting for spring in “this little spring game” one minute and describing how the sound of a van hitting human flesh sounds the same as a bag of…
Album Review: Gwen Laster and New Muse 4Tet | Keepers of the Flame
Gwen Laster and New Muse 4Tet Keepers of the Flame(Independent) Evolutionary, entropic improvisation is deployed fluidly on Keepers of the Flame, summoning tonal imagery of almost synesthetic vividness—channeling the grief, loss, and injustice that has relentlessly, insidiously pervaded the African American diaspora and remains, infuriatingly, an inescapable part of the Black American experience and its…
Virgo Horoscope | September 2025
VIRGO (August 23–September 23) Is it a boundary, or is it avoidance? Everyone can feel strong and clear when they’re not letting anything affect them. When boundaries are flexible and responsive, they help us process the information that’s mirrored back to us from others. Rigid walls, on the other hand, let nothing in or out.…
Album Review: Overheard | Intertwined
Overheard Intertwined(Dromedary Records) Intertwined, the debut album of Kingston-based indie-rock band Overheard, maintains a quiet intensity. There are moments of thrashing grandeur, such as on the track “Home,” an eerie-yet-nostalgic song that begins with a haunting, echoey guitar, but ends in a cacophonous breakdown, putting the “rock” in indie-rock. The opening track “Return” builds from…
Libra Horoscope | September 2025
LIBRA (September 23–October 23) Your body will tell you everything you need to know. It might also tell you some things you didn’t want to know. If it’s true that the body keeps the score, your number is up. There’s a purge that needs to happen now. The things that need to go will make…
Album Review: Lisa Michelle Anderson | Get to Somewhere
Lisa Michelle AndersonGet to Somewhere(Independent) There’s not a lot of meat on the songs of Berkshires-based Lisa Michelle Anderson’s Get to Somewhere, but since when has that been a prerequisite in pop music? With its county-fair cover art, the disc is unabashedly a summer record, loaded with laid-back, country-tinged numbers tailor-made for evenings when the…
Sagittarius Horoscope | September 2025
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22) This month might be a little soggy for your fiery taste. It will ask you to go deep into your feelings and confront your sense of emotional security. For someone as forward-looking as you are, you might, at the very least, be annoyed with being dragged into the past. What about…
Esteemed Reader: On Not Knowing | September 2025
How to begin? I don’t know. Not knowing is a good place to begin. First of all I come to stillness. I see that I am not still. Not yet. So I wait. A space appears approximately at the center of a triangle formed by the points of my cerebellum, sacrum, and solar plexus. My…
Sound Check: Rob Norris’s Music Recommendations
Each month we ask a member of the community to tell us what music they’ve been digging. We have such a great music scene here in the Hudson Valley and I go to lots of shows. Recent standouts are Femi Kuti at Assembly, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp at Opus 40 (a great place for…
Capricorn Horoscope | September 2025
CAPRICORN (December 22–January 20) Nothing is pure. Nothing is personal. Nothing is permanent. While you may strive to behave in perfect accordance with your ideals, the complexity and messiness of humanity has to be engaged with for those ideals to have any real value. Otherwise, they remain abstractions. Forgive yourself and others for a little…
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Guide to Columbia County
Ensconced by the beauty of the Berkshires and the Catskills, Columbia County is home to rolling farmland and a thriving arts, cultural, and restaurant scene, nourished by easily accessible train and highway routes and the energy of its dynamic county seat in Hudson. Roe Jan Brewing 32 Anthony Street, Hillsdale | (518) 303-8080Roejanbrewing.com This beautifully…
11 Art Exhibitions to See in the Hudson Valley in September
From bird portraits to black-on-white meditations, September’s Hudson Valley art shows span the mythic, the musical, and the wildly material.
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Hudson Valley Dining Guide
A round-up of Hudson Valley restaurants to tick off your local dining bucket list.
