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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art CenterThe artist Marina Abramovic has selected the architect Rem Koolhaas’s firm, OMA, to design her new performance art center in upstate New York. |
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The New York Cork Report 2011 Wines of the Year FinalistsCongratulations to Hudson-Chatham Winery and Tousey Winery! This is the third year of our New York Cork Report “Wines of the Year” program and over the past several weeks, my colleagues Bryan Calandrelli and Evan Dawson, and I have been tasting, re-tasting and re-re-tasting dozens of wines to , narrow and hone our lists of finalists 2011 Wines of the Year. Read more about it here |
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Locavore Pour: Harvest SpiritsWalking into the shop at Harvest Spirits up in the Hudson Valley feels like stepping into a mad scientist’s laboratory. At one end of the room sits a tank big enough to swim in, surrounded by a maze of pipes and smaller tanks. One wall is lined with oak barrels, each decorated with a different, and often mysterious, symbol. Behind the sales counter, which is crowded with bottles of spirits to sample, stands a row of shelves filled with jars of poisonous-looking mixtures. Read the labels—wormwood, bacon, cilantro, dill pickle, frozen beer—and you might wonder if you really want to buy anything at all here. Welcome to one of New York State’s newest—and most innovative—distilleries. Harvest Spirits is the brainchild of 38-year-old Derek Grout, whose family has owned Golden Harvest Farms and its attendant farm stand since his city-slicker grandparents moved up to Valatie from Queens more than 50 years ago and became apple growers. Read more about it here |
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Hudson Valley Chosen as 2012 Top Spot to Visit in U.S.Lonely Planet, a leading travel web site, has named the Hudson Valley as the #2 pick for the top ten places to visit in the United States. Editors at the site annually “carve out a list of what’s new, interesting, and in some cases likely to be overlooked by travelers both domestic and international.” Mary Kay Vrba, president of Hudson Valley Tourism, Inc. stated, “We’re honored that Lonely Planet chose our region as a hot spot destination in the United States. They’ve provided us with a new audience, and we’re ready to welcome them to the valley.” Read more about it here |
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Hudson grows as a musician-friendly townThe skinny guy in the fedora sipping a Maker’s Mark might seem an unlikely resident of this small town. Just recently he was talking bourbon with the bartender at Mexican Radio and less than a week later — on New Year’s Eve — he was in Las Vegas, playing bass next to Axl Rose when Guns ‘n Roses took the stage in front of tens of thousands of people. Tommy Stinson has toured the world many times as the bassist in Guns ‘n Roses. He’s been a bona fide rock legend since he was a teenager when his first band, The Replacements, put out “Let it Be,” which was named as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. You’d expect a guy like that to be in New York or Los Angeles, where he lived for more than a decade. But he was quite happy to move his family to Hudson, a town that has moved beyond a quaint row of antique shops to become a musical mecca, one that attracts artists of international prestige. Read more about it here: |
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Germantown .... Best Places to live in NY - NY Daily NewsGermantown just got a jolt. The charming upstate New York hamlet with an art-conscious citizenry will get a variety store this spring. The brainchild of Otto Leuschel (pictured above), a former Whole Foods exec who opened Otto’s Market on Main St. three years back, Germantown Variety will sell beauty supplies, hardware and household necessities such as corkscrews and frying pans… Read more about it here |
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Café Le Perche Restaurant….Hudson Valley MagazineOn August 1, 2010, Allan Chapin stopped for lunch at a cafe in Le Perche, northern France, and tasted what he calls the baguette that changed his life. Chapin, an investment banker who has a home in Claverack, had purchased an 1830s building on Hudson’s main street, and was thinking of opening a bakery-café there. “But I didn’t know a damn thing about baking,” he says. “Then here I am in Le Perche eating this bread and I said, ‘This is what I have to do.’ ” Read more about it here |
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Grazin’ Hudson ... ChronogramJust as most marriages depend on a firm grasp of football trivia, diner food relies on our enduring national appetite for affordable, comforting fare. It’s not normally a cuisine that we associate with the sort of refinement (and price tag) that often attends the farm-to-table label. And while the upper echelons of the market drive food trends that eventually become ubiquitous (sun-dried tomatoes, anyone?) it’s vitally important that local eating be inexpensive and demotic enough for all to partake. Enter Grazin’, a diner with impeccable locavore credentials. Read more about it here |
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The Knox TrailDuring the winter of 1775–1776, Colonel Henry Knox left Boston, marched to New York’s Fort Ticonderoga, and—with a team of men and oxen—hauled more than 50 tons of cannons and other arms back to Boston’s Dorchester Heights. The threat of these cannons firing on British ships in Boston Harbor led to the British evacuation of Boston, a major victory for the fledging Continental Army. In 1926New York and Massachusetts began installing commemorative markers that traced the so-called “Knox Trail” at locations in the two states… Read more about it here |