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Art for Animals: When the Model Barks

Art lovers and other animals thronged Spencertown Academy on Sunday afternoon for a benefit to support local companion dogs.  The Academy walls were rich in canine portraiture by young, not-yet-established artists from Taconic Hills Central School, as well as by an astonishing array of art stars such as

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"1969: The Year of Gay Liberation" Exhibit Visits Locally

If you can't bring all of Columbia County to the New York Public Library, then bring an NYPL exhibition that is dear to your heart to Columbia County.  Thus was the reasoning behind Carey Maloney and Hermes Mallea's Saturday, October 24, showing at their Germantown house

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Food

Roasted Cauliflower with Spiced Breadcrumbs

Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food (Storey Publishing), says her husband who doesn't like cauliflower loved this recipes. "I cut it  into steak-like slabs, roasted until slightly brown to bring out its nutty flavor, then topped

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Migliorelli Farm--a Heavensent for Hudson

In 1933, when Angelo Migliorelli emigrated from the Lazio region of Italy to New York City, he brought along some broccoli raab seeds, which he soon planted on land he acquired in the Bronx.   He and his son Rocco farmed and peddled vegetables there until the mid-1960s, when Rocco

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Germain: Great Barrington's New House of Style

You wouldn't be surprised to find a loft-like store with a rural-zen aesthetic on Warren Street in Hudson, but in Great Barrington it feels like a world of wonder. "A woman came in this weekend and said, I feel like I'm in Brooklyn,

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Fall for Art Takes Millerton By Storm

Despite the heavy rains, every shop in Millerton was hopping on Saturday night for the first Fall for Art celebration, which promised 50 artists and 30 parties in 3 hours. At the Motorworks (left), which normally repairs vintage sports car, Alex Kramer had his friend Sophia Tarrasov hang her paintings

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FilmColumbia Festival-goers Celebrate

Despite the deluge, the Saturday night Sneak Preview, a George Clooney comedy, Up in the Air, was sold out, and after cineastes, including scores of visiting filmmakers, gathered at the Tracy Memorial Village Hall in Chatham to celebrate FilmColumbia Festival's tenth anniversary. Members of the documentary Axis of

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Community

Stealing Beauty: The Olana Viewshed Tour

You don't have to be erudite or sophisticated to be moved by a beautiful vista.  It's one form of beauty that everyone agrees upon.  Yet the notion of protecting a view that's comprised largely of private property, is new. On Saturday, October 24, The

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Carrie Haddad Packs the House

Most residents of Hudson, NY, are architecture buffs, which is why they migrate to this historic city and devote so much time to renovating and decorating their houses. And that's probably why Carrie Haddad Photographs, the gallery at 318 Warren Street, was jammed for the opening of  Architectural

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The Pastures: A Spa for Wellness Down on the Farm

A "spa day" does not mean what it once did for Bridget Ford Hughes.  A massage therapist who worked at Canyon Ranch for many years and travelled the globe as part of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger's entourage (which is how she ended up massaging Mick Jagger

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Baby Bok Choy Stir Fry

Mark Twain said cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education, but he might have been talking about bok choy, which I think of as cabbage that went to college in Asia. Baby Bok Choy, a variety of Chinese cabbage, offers eaters both silky mild greens with a subtle

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A Showcase: The Greening of the Hudson Valley & New England

This weekend, Herrington's, the local hardware chain, is hosting, Lean Toward Green, a showcase of environmentally responsible, home building products and systems that promise to make our houses more energy efficient and comfortable.  There will be special seminars on window replacement and insulation, where the tax incentives for

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