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…
March Madness in Hudson, New York
Hello Hudson – This little website had multiple server issues this week. They took up too much time and I was not able to create more content. Quel dommage. But, hopefully, the website is quicker now. I always update the event listings, first. The goal is to push out the newsletter Friday afternoon. Most events…
Real Estate Market Update: Hudson NY
Trixie’s List asked two of our real estate advertisers, Anthony D’Argenzio from This Old Hudson Team at Houlihan Lawrence and Kylah Campeta from Nicole Vidor Real Estate, their opinions on the Hudson real estate market. Anthony D’Argenzio:This Old Hudson Team at Houlihan Lawrence Kylah Campeta: Nicole Vidor Real Estate How have Hudson real estate sales…
Oakdale Plunge This Weekend in Hudson, New York
Hudson. Hudson. Hudson. I think I keep sane(ish) is by getting out of town once in a while. I run around a small city in upstate New York in a wig and a dress baking cookies and writing a blog while serving on the City Council. However, I think I’m one of the saner individuals…
Tales from the Front Lines – Rope-dropping at Disney World
I know what you’re thinking. Trixie, we haven’t seen you at the Farmers’ Market, where are you? Before the season is in full swing, I like to take a break and go on vacation and start the busy time of year with a fresh perspective. I enjoy Florida and Disney World in Orlando. I save…
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…
Leap Year in Hudson, New York
Which stores/restaurants are open every day of the week in Hudson? I’ve put together a list. The first in this series is Olde Hudson – open every day of the week, and almost every day of the year! Lunchtime at Olde Hudson Read more about Olde Hudson, here. Someone asked me what was MY favorite…
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…
Presidents’ Weekend in Hudson, New York
How do you make a Gen-Xer happy? Easy. Give them a FREE Ms. Pac-Man video game machine – now at the Wash-Rite on Fairview! I know, I should probably not announce it. You’ll run out there to do laundry and play video games. I lost to the ghosts in under five minutes. My Ms. Pac-Man…
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….