THE 12534

Christmas At The Lighthouse

2011-12-21T01:34:00.001-05:00

What Becomes A Legend Most?

2011-12-12T17:52:00.007-05:00

Broccoli.

The Artist Is Tanning

2011-12-04T09:30:00.005-05:00

... at Art Basel.

Close Cover Before Striking

2011-11-20T21:20:00.008-05:00

Seen at the Pier Show.

11-11-11

2011-11-11T00:06:00.002-05:00

Ready for the revolution?

The Generosity Of Redmond

2011-11-06T13:21:00.000-05:00

Impresssions

2011-11-05T06:39:00.000-04:00

Below, detail of a painting by Perry Cooney.

A Minimalist Loft In Greenwich Village

2011-11-02T06:10:00.002-04:00

Colleagues visiting the apartment have noticed its resemblance to the Chipotle restaurants — particularly elements like the walnut architectural volume, which recalls the freestanding plywood forms at Chipotle. Both were built by Digifabshop, in Hudson, N.Y.

In The Belfry

2011-10-31T06:31:00.000-04:00

Sunday School

2011-10-30T21:44:00.002-04:00

Local Waterfront Revitalization Program

2011-09-26T11:16:00.001-04:00

We Are Going To The Fair To-Day

2011-08-29T11:43:00.000-04:00

Remembrance Of Things Past

2011-08-08T12:10:00.007-04:00

Dinner tonight is at Trattoria del Glicine,
high above Lake Como.
A dinner guest,
a young Lombard,
states in conversation,
"Hudson? I've been there.
Many shops."

Gracie & Crew at Bank of America

2011-06-04T11:05:00.009-04:00

(image via http://hasaposse.tumblr.com/)

Memorial Day

2011-05-30T01:00:00.001-04:00

Our Banner in the Sky, 1863, Frederic Edwin Church

Thought For The Day

2011-05-29T01:00:00.001-04:00

Opening Memorial Day Weekend

2011-05-28T01:10:00.004-04:00

Red Chair on Warren
606 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534
518-828-1158
www.redchair-antiques.com

Say Hi To The High Season

2011-05-27T01:00:00.016-04:00

...and HELLO TORTILLAVILLE - reopening today, Friday May 27th!

The Glorious Hudson River

2011-05-26T00:21:00.011-04:00

Hitch a free ride
to Manhattan on the
historic 1931 fireboat John J. Harvey tomorrow, Friday, May 27th. Departures from Kingston, Poughkeepsie and
Cold Spring.

Department of Random Thoughts: Greene County is a sponsor of the John J. Harvey, bringing the boat north from New York City to dock in Kingston and offer education programs and free river passage. If the City of Hudson could find a local sponsor, it's easy to imagine the benefit to our Museum of Firefighting, our local education, and our local tourism as well - imagine the boatloads of antiquing butt pirates taking advantage of a gorgeous free ride to or from the 12534. It would be a public relations win-win-win for all.

She Spays 'Em

2011-05-25T01:00:00.009-04:00

Club Helsinki hosts Animalkind
(a Hudson institution)
tonight at their 10th Annual Art
for Animalkind Benefit,
hosted by the unneuterable
Ms. Musty Chiffon
(a Hudson institution -
who should be living
in an institution.)

Thought For The Day

2011-05-24T11:49:00.003-04:00

One Off

2011-05-23T11:16:00.000-04:00

Car Show

2011-05-22T11:05:00.003-04:00

BeLo3rd and Ca'Mea are sponsoring a car show today on Warren Street.

Rapture

2011-05-21T10:50:00.002-04:00

Nice Rubber

2011-05-20T21:11:00.002-04:00

Old Enough To Drink Legally

2011-05-15T00:06:00.001-04:00

Time Out

2011-05-14T11:19:00.002-04:00

This Columbia County town’s main drag, Warren Street, is packed with more than 40 antique shops...

Cinco De Mayo

2011-05-05T08:40:00.000-04:00

Good Friday

2011-04-22T12:37:00.001-04:00

Reflections

2011-04-21T01:00:00.002-04:00

Tonight, Thursday, April 21st at 7:00 pm, Glenn Ligon will be joined at the Whitney Museum by exhibition curator Scott Rothkopf and art historian Huey Copeland for a dialogue on the joys, fears, and implications of a midcareer show.

Glenn Ligon, Self-Portrait, 1996, Silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas, collection of the artist © Glenn Ligon

Spread Love

2011-04-08T13:11:00.001-04:00

City Hall Place, Then And Now

2011-04-06T20:49:00.001-04:00

America

2011-03-10T09:36:00.005-05:00

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA
opens today at
the Whitney Museum
and runs until June 5, 2011.

Startling Sight

2011-02-24T09:17:00.004-05:00

Are those two words, installed in such a prominent manner,
meant to shock?
“Shock,” repeated
Mr. Ligon, a bit surprised
at the question.
“It’s not provocative,
it’s Gertrude Stein.”

We Call It Maize

2011-02-22T15:46:00.000-05:00

From Catskill With Love

2011-02-14T03:45:00.000-05:00

Hudson. High.

2011-01-27T20:17:00.018-05:00

Can anyone explain to us
Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties'
fascination with underage drinking in Hudson?
Please? Ignoring our historic tradition of vice
in Hudson is a little akin to, say, vinyl siding.
And why the focus on entrapment of local businesses?
Perhaps the funds would be better spent dealing
with the damp rot issues at the corner
of East Allen and East Court Streets.

3D Film Of Salvador Dali’s Life Planned,Alan Cumming To Star

2011-01-26T19:56:00.006-05:00

Somewhere, perhaps in a cave
lined with turn of the
century doll heads,
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
have gotten together to
drink, weep, and scream,
“Why didn’t we think of that?!”

Photo: Roger Higgins,
New York World-Telegram,
Library of Congress Collection

Eponymy

2011-01-23T14:40:00.005-05:00

This label, circa 1920s/30s, was made for brooms
produced by Baltimore's Atlantic-Southwestern Broom Company.

I Have A Dream

2011-01-17T01:00:00.001-05:00

Marché Aux Puces

2011-01-09T21:55:00.017-05:00

The Dog Days Of Winter

2011-01-05T21:00:00.007-05:00

Glencadia comments...
Hey, I have a new blog
about local politics, fyi...
see you around.
Will

http://sunshineonthehudson.blogspot.com/

Brand Extension

2011-01-03T18:44:00.002-05:00

Bonne Année

2011-01-01T18:42:00.000-05:00

Dec 29

2010-12-29T14:30:00.000-05:00

Unto Us A Child Is Born

2010-12-25T02:46:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas Hudson

2010-12-24T20:30:00.001-05:00

Yes Virginia

2010-12-24T00:30:00.006-05:00

Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun it's so."
Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon
wrote this letter to the editor
of The New York Sun in 1897.

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

(Francis Pharcellus Church)

More than a century later this remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any newspaper in the English language. Virginia O’Hanlon went on to graduate from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts degree at age 21. The following year she received her Master’s from Columbia, and in 1912 she began teaching in the New York City school system, later becoming a principal. After 47 years, she retired as an educator. Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas died on May 13, 1971, at the age of 81, in a nursing home in Valatie, and is buried in the North Chatham Cemetery in North Chatham.

Le Monde

2010-12-23T15:33:00.013-05:00

The spotlight was shining on her at last, and Kirsten E. Gillibrand,
the oft-overshadowed junior senator from New York, did not hold back.

In The Gloaming

2010-12-22T02:35:00.001-05:00

The purchase agreement would also contain a provision wherein the warehouse would revert back to city ownership if the building is not completed within two years of receiving all necessary permits and approvals for construction.

The city would be responsible for all closing costs on the building.

Who Cares About

2010-12-21T02:13:00.000-05:00

The work of artist
Nico Vascellari...

It's Cold Outside

2010-12-20T06:41:00.001-05:00

Ephemerous

2010-12-13T15:39:00.003-05:00

I Don't Cook During the Week

2010-12-07T16:16:00.002-05:00

The star of the hit
The Good Wife
tells her costar
Alan Cumming why
sometimes it's good
to be bad...

Some Fine Day I Mean To Write You A Letter

2010-12-06T15:23:00.003-05:00

Rural Redux

2010-12-03T15:46:00.001-05:00

Obscure Post

2010-11-29T15:54:00.000-05:00

Stately Home Awaits The Return Of A Political Son

2010-11-04T07:57:00.004-04:00

It is perhaps the most spectacular perk of the governor’s job: a 40-room Victorian mansion, with a full-time domestic staff, on six rolling acres above the Hudson River.

What Did You Get

2010-10-31T02:00:00.001-04:00

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-31T01:00:00.000-04:00

AwesomeHalloweenFacts

2010-10-30T06:38:00.009-04:00

Apple bobbing, the game of floating apples in water and trying to remove
them using just your mouth, was originally done with squirrel heads in sewage.
In 1887 this was discontinued when it was decided that the process,
no matter how fun and delicious, was cruel and demeaning to squirrels

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-30T01:00:00.000-04:00

This Is Going To Be My Foundation

2010-10-21T07:16:00.000-04:00

A film by Howard Silver.

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-21T01:00:00.000-04:00

Small-Town Girl

2010-10-20T03:25:00.001-04:00

“Hudson is a microcosm,” say Gillibrand, “which is why I like it. It’s got a lot of the richness and culture and diversity of other parts of the state—but all in one little place.”

Mayor Bloomberg
endorses her
stunning looks.

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-20T01:00:00.000-04:00

Guest Blogger

2010-10-19T20:01:00.013-04:00

Hey kiddos!

Thank you carl palladino for the hospitality and the twenty and putting me on that human services van that dropped me off in catskill this morning and thank you unkle bill who gave me a ride acroos the van winkell and let me tell you i dont know how i got there but buffalo sure is a lovely place to spend a septemmber.

Now kiddos this is serious there is an election coming up on toosday november the too and we all need to vote for the ante probihition party because i found one of those foreign newpapers at the train station.

Miss christian davis is running the ante probihition party on the reefer and hooker platfoorm and heree is what the new york times said yesterday in the train station and she also wants to let fairys marry which sounds real pretty.

She is a luvely young lady and you know i dont use that term loosly and i know from loosly running for govvernor you should vote for.

Albany governor debate verges on farce; even cursory discussion of issues was interrupted by random one-liners... Ms. Davis suggested that her experience running an escort service made her the candidate best prepared to reform the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “The key difference between the M.T.A. and my former escort agency is I operated one set of books and I offered on-time and reliable service,” Ms. Davis said to laughter and applause.

She is clearly the ideel cadnidate for our flair city even thow she is a libbertarian and i have mixed feelings about immigrants.

Wacth this video below ware she speaks artuiclattly for the the state and also the city of hudson and and how we need to come together as a community and have a real good time of it and use our natural resources which she clearly has a lot of.

She says the peeple running albany are imbesils and lordy shes right and we need madam govvernor thats what we need.

So kiddos vote november too for the ante probihition party because if they get 50000 votes or soemthing she gets to run again or we all go to gamble at niagara falls or soemthing.

Can I bum a kool off ya?

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-19T09:36:00.000-04:00

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-18T21:34:00.000-04:00

Circus Maximus

2010-10-18T08:00:00.002-04:00

Hudson Is The New Halloween

2010-10-17T21:13:00.000-04:00

Hello Bessie

2010-10-15T21:09:00.000-04:00

Favorite Spaces

2010-10-14T11:14:00.000-04:00

Madhur Jaffrey, 77, actress, cookbook author, Columbia County, N.Y.
"When we were kids we lived in Delhi," says Jaffrey, who now resides in a restored 1790s tavern...

More Frailer Than The Flowers,These Precious Hours

2010-10-13T17:16:00.015-04:00

For Paula Sullivan Superti, 1962-2010.

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… that you really are strong, and you really do have worth. - Veronica A. Shoffstall

A memorial celebration of Paula's life and spirit will be held on Sunday, October 24th
from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm at Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 12534.
Please RSVP to Sarah Sweeny, sarah@sweenyarchitects.com, and also let her know
if you'd like to say a few words.

Sylvia's Smokin' Hot Son

2010-10-05T18:57:00.000-04:00

Actor Adrien Brody throws himself headlong into his roles — suffering the depravations of his characters and unerringly coming up with a winning performance.

September/October 2010
Cigar Aficionado,
cover portrait by Blake Little

They That Go Down To The Sea In Ships,That Do Business In Great Waters

2010-10-04T21:18:00.000-04:00

Festival

2010-10-03T01:00:00.001-04:00

John Ashbery is one
of a group of writers
from The New Yorker
reading from their work
this afternoon at the
Director's Guild Theatre.

Day Without A Name

2010-10-02T01:00:00.005-04:00

New paintings by Patricia Iglesias, and photographs by Christina Hejtmanek,
opening reception tonight, October 2nd, from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
Gallery 135, 135 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534.

Astray, 2007/9, c-print by Christina Hejtmanek

A Hudson Valley Home With Eclectic Decor

2010-10-01T19:06:00.004-04:00

The interior design of
stylist Peter Frank's house
is a mad mix of antique
and modern furniture.
Check out the pictures of his
quirky decorating style...

Random

2010-09-30T13:23:00.004-04:00

Ruth Reichl has landed a job at Random House...

Gourmet's
bitter aftertaste:
Gourmet Live.

Auburn

2010-09-28T13:22:00.000-04:00

Autumn

2010-09-22T16:39:00.002-04:00

This Space For Writing.Seriously. We Mean It.This Space For Writing.

2010-09-21T22:39:00.001-04:00

Shine On

2010-09-20T08:59:00.000-04:00

Apparitions

2010-09-13T13:31:00.012-04:00

Recently, Mark Orton commented:

Without being more self-serving than expected of a craven gallery owner, we are wondering here at the Davis Orton Gallery about Mr. (Adrien) Brody's future whereabouts on Saturday Oct. 2nd. Why? His mother, Sylvia Plachy, has an opening reception for her photography show "Apparitions" at our gallery that evening. Here's hoping for Mr. Brody and Ms. Plachy appearing in the "Witnessed on Warren" series as a duo.