MAIN STREET NEWS

This season of change, closing one chapter and opening another, is reflected in the current exhibition at Furnace Art on Paper Archive in Falls Village, CT.

Thus, seeing Clairo live in this new era was an absolute must. I scored two VIP tickets to her second of five residency shows at Webster Hall in New York City.

On Thursday, September 26 at 6:30pm, author and musician Franz Nicolay will be in conversation with fellow journalist and author Joe Hagan at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff, NY, to discuss the release of his new book, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music. 

Mad Rose Gallery’s new exhibition, “Hudson Valley Abstractions,” opened on August 30 and will run through October 6.

English artist TB Ward’s fourth solo show, Professional Human, opens at Upstream Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson on October 3. 

The Lowdown Drifters, a Texas-based band blending country, rock, and Americana, are releasing their second album, In Time, on October 25. 

For many years, I have slipped out of town for the occasional weekend of backpacking, sometimes staying out for several nights to extend the adventure, however limited that time was. With a span of eight or nine days at my disposal this year, I began to think more grandly about a backpacking epic: not enough time to complete any long trail, but enough time to attempt a pretty good chunk of The Long Trail, Vermont’s 273-mile route that runs from Williamstown, MA, to the Canadian border.

Blackcurrants might not be on the list of fruits you consume regularly, but did you know that they’re the most nutritious berry? Did you also know that blackcurrants were outlawed in the United States until 2003? They were deemed to be a potential threat to white pine, and as such, any kind of production with blackcurrants halted immediately.

In 1925, the world was all shiny and new again. The “War to End All Wars” had receded from the forefront of minds, and life could hardly be better for many, as the Roaring Twenties were in full swing.

Tyte Medispa founder, Lily Al-Nemri, is considered one of the pioneers of aesthetic medicine in the Hudson Valley.