Julia Reischel
Articles
Sep. 9, 2010
Although the once-a-year hipster-fest All Tomorrow's Parties ended on Sunday, videos from our correspondent to the event, Boston music writer Barry Thompson, are still trickling in. Above is Iggy and The Stooges playing "I Wanna be your Dog." Below, a... Read more
Sep. 9, 2010
The Times Herald-Record reports that those tentative plans to shutter the Daily Freeman's local printing press and mailroom are looking a lot less tentative:
The Daily Freeman newspaper has filed the required state and federal notices that the paper... Read more
Sep. 9, 2010
UPDATE 10:24pm: Local papers reported this afternoon that two Kingston 16-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the shooting, Eban Woullard and Brandon Jones. Here's the Times-Herald Record story; here's the Freeman's.
UPDATED 9:54am: A man was... Read more
Sep. 9, 2010
A crowd of several hundred protesters packed the lawn of Courthouse Square in Delhi yesterday to protest the Delaware County Board of Supervisors, which has been supportive of hydraulic fracturing, a form of gas drilling also known as fracking.
One by... Read more
Sep. 8, 2010
The Daily Mail has an excellent story about a lawsuit that was filed last week by the victim of July's monkey attack at the Kaaterskill Bed and Breakfast in Catskill. The case is amazing. It involves an American-dream-living and beauty-parlor-owning... Read more
Sep. 8, 2010
A man was airlifted to Albany Medical Center after being electrocuted at the Jewish BoyZone summer camp in the town of Jefferson last Thursday, according to officials at the Stamford Fire Department, the Schoharie County Sheriff's Office, and BoyZone's... Read more
Sep. 7, 2010
A crash involving multiple motorcycles and a car killed 40-year-old Mark S. Mackay yesterday afternoon near Minnewaska State Park, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office. The Times Herald-Record has the story
The sheriff's office said there were... Read more
Sep. 7, 2010
Did anyone else witness anything strange in the skies over Kingston on Sunday night? The Vike Factor, a blog that tracks reports of paranomal activity, received one intriguing report:
...at 9:02 PM EST myself and my girlfriend witnessed five bright... Read more
Sep. 7, 2010
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
Sep. 3, 2010
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
Sep. 2, 2010
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... Read more
Sep. 2, 2010
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
Sep. 2, 2010
There's another air quality alert in effect for most of the state of New York:
AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 11 PM EDT THURSDAY... THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HAS ISSUED AN AIR QUALITY HEALTH ADVISORY FOR THE... Read more
Sep. 2, 2010
Especially, a vacationing city-dweller named Marinka writes, after a cocktail. (Photo via Marinka's Posterous account. She also blogs as Motherhood in NYC.)
Sep. 1, 2010
The Village Voice's food critic, Robert Sietsema, appears to have vacationed in the Catskills last week. He posted three blog entries under the header Upstate Journal, in which he waxes enthusiastic about Bread Alone Bakery in Boiceville and proves savvy... Read more
Sep. 1, 2010
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
Sep. 1, 2010
Don't get your hopes up -- you've had your heart broken before. But this time it's different, the EPA says:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the last of the Hydraulic Fracturing Study Public Meetings for September 13 and 15, 2010,... Read more
Sep. 1, 2010
According to the Daily Mail, an unnamed indie film shot a nude scene in a waterfall on Kaaterskill Creek recently. Anybody get a peek?
Sep. 1, 2010
Or you might be in the shoes of two trustees of the Village of Walton, who have been making public apologies about the demolition of the Townsend Hose Company -- the Walton Hose Company #4 building at 87 Mead St. -- on August 17. That's the week of the... Read more