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By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:51 am
Over at the Kingston Progressive blog, Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen is full of ire about the Supreme Court's stunning 5-4 decision yesterday striking down limits on corporate political campaigning.
Do you realize what WalMart is about to do to any... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:03 am
Market Market Cafe in Rosendale goes the extra mile for Sari Botton, who can't eat regular bread.
Today, I had a toasted, buttered slice with my soup and salad. I felt like standing up and showing everybody, “Look! I have toast!” (You’d probably have to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 11:09 pm
Seriously. They have a whole section called "HDYGTFAJ?"
Hotelier (er, motelier?) Greg Henderson breaks it down for Ready Made editor Katherine Sharpe:
I guess you could say that we’re re-creating the fantasies of our childhood. I always wanted to live in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 9:39 am
Ulla Kjarval, whose family runs Meredith's Spring Lake Farm, has a great editorial on the Civil Eats blog today. The topic: a proposed 72,000-cow CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in New York State that if built, she writes, would be the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 8:56 pm
About Olive muses on Pete Seeger's old banjo head, currently up for auction on eBay to benefit development efforts in Haiti.
I have heard all sorts of wonderful tunes on this instrument. I have carried it from sloop to dock and slept next to it below... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Vera Farmiga, best known for her off-the-grid goat farm in the Catskills starring roles in Up In The Air and The Departed, had a gushy profile recently in the London Times.
You have already been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 11:53 am
NPR's All Things Considered has a terrific radio piece on the late Killian Mansfield, a masterful ukelele player from Woodstock who died of cancer last August at age 16. Mansfield's first and last album, Somewhere Else, was recorded last year.
Host Guy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 - 3:02 pm
Ellenville's floundering, decrepit, once-glittery Nevele Grande Resort has been sold. Finally.
Brooklyn builder Raphael Weiss of Tricon Development partnered with the Giluet Foundation is in contract to buy the resort from the Stratford Business... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 - 10:53 am
In an interview with Big Gay Hudson Valley, WAMC's Hudson Valley bureau chief, Susan Barnett, gets just a little too smug with the regional pride.
Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware counties are absolutely lovely and there are certainly some creative people... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Famed drag comedian (and one-time NYC mayoral candidate) Murray Hill tweets:
The best show in town... X-country skiing at Frost Valley in Catskills, and the pancakes at Sweet Sue's in Phoencia.
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