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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 7, 2010 - 9:25 am
UPDATED 9:40am: I've been punked. Update below.
I've been quietly following the satirical stylings of anonymous Shandaken blogger Helena Handbasket (er, that's a pseudonym) for months now. Her blog, All That is Wrong With Shandaken, is a sort of local... Read more
By wateradmin on Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 - 11:54 pm
Barry Thompson, a Boston-based music writer, has been filing dispatches from the music festival All Tomorrow's Parties throughout the weekend. Above, the band whose name the New York Times refuses to print plays "Twice Born." (Warning: We printed it, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 - 3:48 pm
As if we hadn't had enough mysterious propane leaks around here lately: In the wee hours of Saturday, in the middle of a sold-out Labor Day weekend at Mohonk Mountain House, the hotel's gatehouse blew up. It's a miracle nobody was hurt, the Freeman... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Sep. 5, 2010 - 10:18 pm
Barry Thompson, a Boston-based music writer, is filing dispatches from the music festival All Tomorrow's Parties throughout the weekend. It's totally not his fault all the bands here have F-bombs in their names. Above, Shellac performing at Kutsher's... Read more
By Simona David on Friday, Sep. 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
Kristen Wyckoff, the chair of the Gilboa Museum, stands next to one of Gilboa's prehistoric tree stumps. Photo by Simona David.
In the 1850s, a Gilboa minister named Samuel Lockwood, an amateur naturalist, found a sandstone cast of an ancient tree trunk... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 3, 2010 - 10:19 am
Governor David Paterson made good on his promise to appoint a new treasurer in Greene County yesterday, thereby overriding the treasurer that the Greene County legislature picked in July. The Daily Mail reports that both Paterson and county officials are... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Guess who painted this? Hint: She's not human.
The excrutiatingly fabulous among us already know what they're doing this weekend: they're attending All Tomorrow's Parties, the hipsterrific music festival at Kutsher's in Monticello this weekend. We've sent... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Sep. 2, 2010 - 11:25 am
Two companies that sell baby monitors are duking it out in court over the kinds of allegations usually associated with mobsters. Bainbridge-based BabySafe USA has been suing Pennsylvania-based Babysense in Chenango County court for months, charging that... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Linda Norris, a Treadwell consultant who advises museums on making their exhibits user-friendly and interactive, attended a homegrown Delaware County festival called CockStock a few weeks back. Amongst the singing and outdoor attractions staged in Bovina... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 9:19 am
The chairman of the board of the Greene Country Industrial Development Agency has resigned in the midst of a scandal over the $175,000 bonus the IDA gave to its executive director last year. According to today's story in the Daily Mail, Paul Slutzky's... Read more
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