Local filmmaker, Ben Rendich, will debut the proof of concept for his upcoming film, Sweet Confusion, on Thursday, April 4th at the Hudson Milliner Art Salon. All are welcome to attend the screening and director’s talk afterwards. Ben has produced a few short films over the last several years. As he describes it, Sweet Confusion…
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Black Legacy Association of Columbia County Exhibit at the Hudson Area Library
Hours of VHS 1980’s video interviews with Hudson African-American elders sat in a box in a basement at Columbia Opportunities. Through the dedication of Hudson residents Emily Chameides, Tiffany Garriga, and Quintin Cross, Columbia Opportunities, the organization largely responsible for this invaluable collection, saw that the library could be stewards of it and the box,…
Nine Cakes Be Jammin’
You would think that Betsy Thorleifson has enough to do, running the fabulous bakery, Nine Cakes at 748 Warren Street serving cakes, ice cream, cookies and sweets. Starting in March, Nine Cakes adds jars of homemade jams to the list The jams are the perfect Hudson souvenir or wedding favor to complement Nine Cakes’ creamy…
Amtrak Poetry From The Flow Chart Foundation
In collaboration with CREATE, The Flow Chart Foundation has been installing poetry in the Hudson, NY Amtrak station. Each installation features a set of three large poetry placards, which remain on view for two months. Starting March 15th and appearing through May 15th, the new set of Amtrak Poetry poems feature work published by the…
A Shayna Maidel – The Two of Us Productions at the Copake Grange
A Shayna Maidel (a “pretty girl” in Yiddish) is a memory play produced by The Two of Us Productions, recounting the story of two sisters reuniting after years of being separated by WWII; one sister moved to New York City prior to the war with her father, while the other sister barely survived a concentration…
The Hereafter in Hudson, New York
When you step into The Hereafter cocktail bar at 721 Columbia Street, nestled between the St. Charles Hotel, the CITCO station, and Vasilow’s Confectionery, you’ll think you’re entering a speakeasy that’s about a hundred years old, and not the former Golden Grain Pizzeria. For a newly-opened bar, that only has a small sign to let…
Penny Arcade Performs in the Hudson Valley at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY
Hudson Valley! You may remember Penny Arcade from the show, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, premiering in 1990 at Performance Space 122 in the East Village then moving at the Village Gate. As a protest performance art piece, the show was a reaction to former Senator Jesse Helms and the political attacks on the National Endowment…
Transcendent Turbulence: A Quartet of Women Artists Bring Refracted Natural Views to Warren Street
A couple weekends ago, I had the delight of visiting two galleries on Warren Street – both featuring women artists who offer sustained yet refracted views of nature in their work. The first of these galleries, Susan Eley Fine Art, presents Scenes of Ethereality – which is the second half of its two-part wintertime exhibition…
My Favorite Pizza?
One day, without any warning, someone turned to me and asked: “Trixie, what is YOUR favorite pizza??” I was caught off-guard! I knew that I could not NOT answer the question, but I also knew that answering your favorite pizza question is “fighting words”. Like a Hudson Community facebook post about an apartment listing, or…
All My Sons Review – A Gen-Xer Reflects on the “Silent Generation”
As a proud Gen X-er, I regularly tell my Millennial and Gen-Z counterparts, “You can’t have everything you want in life – the perfect job, a great home and family. Who told you that you could?” Gen X-ers would never tell you you could have it all, at least not the ones that I know….