In case you didn’t know, I’m gay. Not just a little bit gay, but drag-queen-planning-pride-parades gay. Yet, I do not hold a rainbow-colored, unicorn-scented candle to the latest production at the Mac-Haydn – Xanadu. By the show’s own admission, it is “children’s theater for 40-year-old gay people.” Did you see the 1980 movie, Xanadu starring…
Author: Trixie Starr
Koweek Family Donates Urban Renewal Planning Papers to Hudson Area Library
The Hudson Area Library is proud to announce that the Koweek family has donated the Arthur Koweek Urban Renewal Papers to the library’s History Room. Arthur Koweek chaired the Hudson City Planning Commission during the urban renewal project of 1971-1973. With Hudson again in a debate about housing and business development, much can be learned…
Call for Winter Walk Grants from Hudson Hall
CALLING ALL CREATIVES! GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR WINTER WALK 2022 Deadline to Apply: Midnight, October 1, 2022Notification Date: October 6-8, 2022Event Date: December 3, 2022 (December 2, 2022, for Window Decorating Entries) Help us make the 26th Anniversary of Winter Walk the biggest, brightest, and most magical yet! Hudson Hall invites local individual artists, cultural and community organizations to apply for…
Columbia County Fair Weekend
Hi Hudson, First, let’s talk about me. Ophelia Nightly and I performed at Hudson Brewing Co this past Wednesday. It was an amazing show! Stay tuned for the next one on Saturday, October 8th at Hudson Brewing Co. I’m bringing Merry Cherry back up from Brooklyn. It’s going to be a blast! Two of my…
Behind the Scenes at the Columbia Fair Cookie Contest
Thank you HillsdaleHamlet for the meme! To my surprise, they asked me to judge the Columbia County Fair Cookie Contest! The Fair is also an advertiser on this website! They are amazing. Some thought that I would be there, in drag, at the Fair, sampling and judging cookies. No. That is not going to happen….
Maker Flea Market – A Tale from “Antique Gay City”
You can always tell who’s new to Hudson, because they like to go shopping for stuff. After you’ve lived in Hudson for a while, or your whole life, there’s a tendency to want to get rid of things. That’s my current status. I wanted pancakes last weekend, so I invited a Hudson “newbie” to Bob’s….
The Kinderhooker’s Meme Interpretation of the Columbia County Fair
By TheKinderhookers Did you know that one of the five top regrets of the dying is not going to the Columbia County Fair enough? It’s true, just check this meme I made! Fun fact: the author of the book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying found my meme and gave me a smiley face…
Hudson Author Jill Dearman Discusses her new True Crime Novel “Jazzed”
Trixie’s List: First of all, what brings you to Hudson? How long have you lived here and how do you like it? JD: Besides the witness protection program? I’m a second generation New Yorker and a Scorpio, and honey, I honestly needed to slow down, calm down, and be closer to nature. My nervous system…
Animal Rescue Benefit | Hudson Eye | Savona’s | Jill Dearman | Columbia County Fair
Hi Hudson, There’s a lot going on this week! Saturday, Aug 27th at 11am is the Ad-Hof Animal Rescue Benefit. I met Ryder and Kurt out at the farm about a week ago. Kurt started with one rooster, and now has over 300 free-roaming animals! The animals are from all over – cast away from…
“Full Monty” Does Not Disappoint – Bigger and Better!
One could write any number of gender studies dissertations on the Mac-Haydn’s current production of the “Full Monty”, such as: “An Analysis of Western Post-Modern Industrial Male Ego within a Declining Economy”“Women in the Workplace and the Effects of Financial and Feminine Sexual Freedom”“Body Image Issues in Rust Belt American (particularly Buffalo, NY) in the…