Author of Jazzed and astrology columnist Jill Dearman hosts an evening at Spotty Dog with author Shawn Stewart Ruff on Saturday, March 8th at 7pm. SHAWN STEWART RUFF(born July 19, 1959) is an American novelist and editor who won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction at the 21st Lambda Literary Awards in 2008…
Category: Retail
Natural Rhythms – Meet Lindsay and Austin Guibor, Hudson’s Restoration and Interior Design Couple
You may know Lindsay and Austin Guibor from their Natural Rhythms storefront across from the Amtrak station in the warehouse. Lindsay is a Red Hook native, who grew up in the Hudson Valley, met Austin while living in southern California, and brought him back upstate to fulfill their dreams of restoring and decorating old houses….
Queer Holiday Market
Last month, I learned about incidents of anti-gay harassment on Warren Street. As a city official, I worked with our lawyer to draft the following resolution, as a reminder that New York State has Hate Crimes legislation. The City of Hudson’s Common Council unanimously passed the resolution in November 2024. If you are a victim…
Hudson Home Holiday Sale!
Hudson Home is having a big holiday sale. ALL Christmas ornaments, garlands, and trees are now 75% off. To be the first to know about Hudson Home sales (and deeper discounts!) please text code TRIXIEHOLIDAY2024 to Hudson Home, at 518-822-8120.
How to Survive the Long Upstate Winters
Brrr…it’s cold outside! For seasoned upstaters, thirty-five degrees is nothing. It’s fine. It’s above freezing. People in Miami pull out their fur coats when the temperature dips below sixty while Dade County newscasters warn listeners ‘Take in your orchids!’ If you’ve lived upstate long enough, you know that after a week of single digit or…
Cannonball Factory Hudson Pop-Up Holiday Market
Hudson’s Cannonball Factory (formerly the Etsy building) at 359 Columbia Street – Columbia and North Fourth, entrance on ally – is hosting a holiday pop-up market featuring local merchants and makers. The market takes up the entire ground floor. The vendors behind the tables are often the same people who made the products. There’s no…
Hudson Home Gift Guide
Hudson Home, at 366 Warren Street, has a wide selection of holiday items and gifts for the season. They are celebrating twenty years on Warren Street.
Rachael Que Vargas – Firepits and Designer Clothes
In the middle of Greenport, at 407 Middle Road, less than ten minutes from Warren Street in Hudson, you’ll find a sign for Rachael Que Vargas’ Firebowls – and Designer Clothes. Opened this past summer, Rachael offers discounts on designer clothes which include brands from Comme des Garçons, Hermès, Yves St. Laurent, and many others….
Cozy, Consistent Cornerstones
A Trio of Women-Owned Bookstores and the Role they Play in our Community When Kristi Gibson first opened Magpie Bookshop in Catskill just over ten years ago, it was, from her point of view, an act of necessity. “The entire county didn’t have a bookstore at that point,” she remembers, “and I felt like I…
Frederic Church’s Rarely Seen Memorial Landscape Paintings Debut at Olana State Historic Site in New Exhibition, Afterglow
Afterglow Considers How Landscapes Provide Reflection and Healing The Olana Partnership announced today that this season’s special exhibition Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory will open May 12 in the Sharp Family Gallery at Olana State Historic Site. Afterglow brings together for the first time a series of intimate memorial landscapes painted by Church, 19th-century America’s foremost landscape painter,…