Artist Jack Millard has an upcoming show, Knowing/Unknowing coming up at Lightforms Art Center.The Opening Reception is Friday, August 30th, 5:30 – 7:30pm with singing saw serenades by Ryder & friends. Jack Millards’ paintings are largely an exploration of material, surface, color, texture and form. Ranging from geometric abstraction to distorted figures, landscapes and portraiture,…
Author: Trixie Starr
Hudson Area Library Builds a Queer Archive
In June 2024 the Hudson Area Library and OutHudson began the development of a new archive, the LGBTQ+ Hudson Area History collection. This community-sourced archive will include oral histories of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies as well as donations from the community of video, photographs, memorabilia, art, documents, and ephemera related to Hudson’s vital queer…
Tri-City Valleycats – Minor League Baseball
So close and yet, so far. The mascots for the Tri-City Valleycats represent the cities’ mayors – Schenectady, Albany, and Troy, respectfully. Could you imagine something similar in Hudson? I write this blog because I want to help people get out of the house and meet other people, places, whatnot. Go do stuff! Noble enough…
MAC-HAYDN THEATRE PRESENTS ‘ALL SHOOK UP’ FEATURING ELVIS PRESLEY TIMELESS HITS
The Mac-Haydn Theatre presents “All Shook Up,” a musical homage to Elvis Presley’s timeless songs and the pursuit of dreams. Loosely inspired by Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, audiences are invited to immerse themselves in a hip-swiveling, lip-curling extravaganza from August 1 through August 11. Director David Alpert and Choreographer Andrew Turteltaub are making their Mac-Haydn debuts….
Epicurean Purveyor, Café & Market OLDE HUDSON Expands
Wows Customers Old And New; Now The Market In Town For Immediate Release Women-owned, epicurean pioneer Olde Hudson Specialty Foods has doubled in size with an expansion and renovation that offers more of everything for which the store is known and loved: outdoor seating on the porch and garden, expanded indoor café seating, and of…
Mac-Haydn Theatre’s Coffee House – The Sweetest Spot in Town
There are few things sweeter in Columbia County than the Mac-Hayden Coffee House. Every Friday and Saturday nights, after the 8pm show, there’s a brief half-hour-ish long performance featuring songs from upcoming shows. The Coffee House also gives the performers a space to sing material not in the shows. The Coffee House is like a…
Summertime in the Hudson Valley
A Taste of Grandeur The Restaurant at Klocke Estateis a Sublime Destination for Spirits and Sceneryby Trixie’s List writer, Ben Rendich Review of “RENT” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre Lodro Rinzler reviews “RENT” for Trixie’s List Mac-Haydn Theatre’s Coffee HouseThe Sweetest Spot in Town Stay after the show on a Friday or Saturday nightat the Mac-Haydn…
Story Screen Cinema – Hudson: They are the Reel Deal!
As soon as you start talking to Diana and Mike, the new owners of Story Screen Cinema on 160 Fairview Avenue, you understand how happy they are. They are living their dream. They have the gumption and build-it-and-they-will-come attitude of a movie plot. After years of doing popup movies throughout the Beacon and Poughkeepsie areas,…
Pictures from the Former Foster Office
The Hudson Dog Park’s location, around North 2nd and Mill Streets, used to be the home of the Foster Refrigerator Corporation. When I first moved to Hudson in 2006, the Foster’s office was openly abandoned, as if people went out for lunch and did not come back. You could look in a window and see…
The City of Hudson’s Splash Pad is Kinda Like a Well-meaning, Middle-aged Recently Divorced Dad
You probably did not know that the City of Hudson has a Splash Pad at Promenade Hill Park. I did not know, until a meeting this week, and I’m on the City’s Common Council. New York State and other municipalities are all about Splash Pads. Policymakers understand that the planet is getting warmer, kids need…