APPLICATIONS DUE MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025 – 5pm HUDSON, NY – The City of Hudson Common Council Finance Committee has announced the availability of $30,000 of total funding to support events and projects in the City of Hudson for 2025 that encourage the promotion of Hudson as a destination for overnight and day-trip visitors. Applications…
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2024 – Winter Walk Window Winners
WINTER WALK WINDOW CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED Hudson, NY: December 7, 2024 – In partnership with The City of Hudson, The Foundry at Hudson is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 Winter Walk Window Decorating Contest. The contest is a traditional feature of Hudson’s annual Winter Walk celebration which this year features over 90…
Story Screen Cinema Announces Inaugural Music Film FestivalNovember 13-17, 2024
Story Screen Cinema is proud to partner with Musician & Director Jeremy Schonfeld to announce its inaugural Story Screen Music Film Festival (SSMFF) on November 13 – 17, 2024. The Story Screen Music Film Festival (SSMFF) presents eleven film screenings featuring a selection of genres – narrative, documentary, live performances, short films and more –…
Vote for Hudson Local Louis Scoffier, and his Mullet.
I love my mullet because it represents being different in life and that being different is okay.-Louis Scoffier Last year, Louis Scoffier, and his blond mullet, raised over $20,000 for the Jarren Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors. In 2023, Louis was the seventh out of 900 kids nationally in the Mullet Champ USA Competition. He…
Second Annual Hudson Film Festival returns August 9-11, 2024
For Immediate Release: Hudson Film Festival announces Year 2 programming highlighting diversity, local artists, and community partnerships with Hudson Valley premieres, including opening night feature The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, Sundance award-winning documentary Daughters, upstate New York filmmaker & production My First Film, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary A New Kind of Wilderness, a…
Stephen Bluhm, Local Musician, Releases New Album
Local singer-songwriter Stephen Bluhm’s new album, Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here., debuts Friday, April 19th. The album was recorded in Athens and Hudson with piano, guitar and eleven orchestral instruments including cello, oboe, flute, piccolo, clarinet, violin and viola. It features a cover by the formerly-Hudson based artists Kahn & Selesnick. On Thursday,…
Wonderful Things About Hudson
I go to events. Sometimes, I don’t always know what they’re about, or I forget, or I don’t read the description thoroughly. Last month, I found myself at two events – Friday and Saturday nights, back-to-back – both were about suicide. I had a suicide-themed weekend. It was unplanned. Because who would plan a weekend…
Kinderhook Memorial Library presents “Behind the Scenes: An Intimate View into the Studios of Local Artists”
Kinderhook Memorial Library celebrates area artists with a tour of their studios on May 4 and 5, 2024, “Behind the Scenes: An Intimate View into the Studios of Local Artists”. Proceeds from this event will directly support our youth programs and events, including our new in-person tutoring program that will be launched later this year….
Penny Arcade Rallies Against the ‘Banality of Evil’ and the Gentrification of the Mind in her show “Longing Last Longer” at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY
Penny Arcade’s show, Longing Lasts Longer comes with a warning. As the audience walked into the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill last week, she told them, “A lot of times, people come to my show, and during the show, they start to get angry with me. I need you to understand that this show was…
Local Filmmaker, Ben Rendich, Debuts Proof of Concept of the Film “Sweet Confusion”
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…