MEETINGS
+ ELLEN’S PICKS – WEEK OF APRIL 22, 2013
Calling
All Foodies
Its hard not to become food crazed if
you live in the middle of a food destination. Here in the Hudson Valley we have
such easy access to incredible locally-grown and produced food, and organizations
often use food to entice supporters to their good causes. No wonder our taste buds are so refined.
Just this week alone in Hudson:
Thursday – Dining
out for Life
– Eight restaurants/bars in Hudson feed you and contribute part of the tab to the
AIDS Council of Northeastern NYFriday – A cookbook sale in support of the Friends of the Hudson Area Library
Saturday – The Hudson Opera House annual Movable Feast (Eat well and make new friends!)
Saturday – Christ Church holds a Brownie Bake-off.
Next Monday – Hudson and Philmont chefs travel to the Berkshires as part of the Chef-X exchange project
Hudson boasts two
local food blogs—Susan Simon Says and Hungry in Hudson, in case you need more enticement.
Even
rock bands
take their names from food. A band
called Pony in the Pancake and another
called Schmear
will be playing at the Spotty Dog this week, while Acoustic
Rye
is appearing at Wunderbar.
Next week: The third annual Ramp
Festival
will be at the Basilica, the Hudson
Farmers’ Market
and
Holmquest farm stand both have grand openings, and
Blue Food
will be playing at Helsinki.
Yum!
MEETINGS
Tuesday, April
23
Columbia County Board of Supervisors County Government Committee
Meeting –
3:30 pm – 401 State Street
Hudson City School District Board of Directors Special Meeting re BOCES Budget
and Board Vote – 7 pm – Hudson High School Library, 215 Harry Howard Avenue
Wednesday, April
24
Hudson Development Corporation Board Meeting –12 noon – 1
North Front Street
Hudson Common Council Public Works Committee Meeting – 5:30 pm –
City Hall
Columbia County Board of Supervisors Public Works Committee
Meeting –
6 pm – 401 State Street
Hudson Common Council Legal Committee Meeting – 6:15 pm –
City Hall
Thursday, April
25
Columbia County Board of Supervisors Financial Review Committee
Meeting –
1 pm – 401 State Street
Columbia County Board of Supervisors Budget & Salary
Committee Meeting
followed by Salary Review Committee Meeting – 2:30 pm – 401 State Street
Hudson Community Development & Planning Agency Board Meeting – 6:30 pm –
City Hall
Friday, April 26
Hudson Historic Preservation Commission Meeting – 10 am – City
Hall
ELLEN’S PICKS
Tuesday, April 23
Helsinki Open Mic – Try out new material on the big Helsinki stage – Hosted by Cameron Melville and Ryder Cooley – Information at 828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.comm – Sign-up begins at 7 pm – Performance from 8 to11 pm – Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street
Trixie Starr hosts Match Game, the Hudson version of the
60s/70s television show – Trixie says: “…the most fun you are going to have in
Hudson, below 3rd, legally, on a Tuesday night.” – Information at 301-4398 – 8 to 10 pm – (pm)
Wine Bar, 119 Warren Street
Wednesday, April
24
Administrative Professionals’ Day Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clowns Sir Arthur Adventure and Dragon Seeker will preview the show Dragons, playing at the Times Union Center in May – The show is centered on the themes of heart, wisdom, courage, and strength – Information at 828-0017 or 828-3015 – 4:30 pm – Hudson Youth Center, 18 South Third Street
Eric Krasno – Super Funk
– with world-wide touring, notable recordings, and “…a resume that includes
opening spots for the Rolling Stones and the Dave Matthews Band, its little
wonder that KRAZ has developed a reputation as one of the most celebrated
soul-funk artists in the world.” – Information at www.helsinkihudson.com or 828-4800 – 8
pm – Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street
Thursday,
April 25
Tenth
Annual Dining Out For Life, a benefit for the AIDS
Council of Northeastern New York – Eight Hudson restaurants--Baba
Louie’s Sourdough Pizza Company, Ca’Mea Ristorante, Club Helsinki, Mexican
Radio, (pm) Wine Bar, Red Dot Restaurant and Bar, and Relish Hudson, plus
Crossroads Brewing Company in Athens--will donate a percentage of the price of
your meal to the AIDS Council to help people in the region who are living with HIV/AIDS
– The donation applies to both lunch and dinner, for those restaurants that are
open for lunch – Local ambassadors will
greet you at the restaurant and give you a chance to enter a drawing for
a trip to the Bahamas – Information on participating restaurants at www.aidscouncil.org – Reservations are necessary
Hudson Pride Foundation and Mexican Radio team up to add
a Pre-dinner Happy Hour to the Dining Out for Life fundraising
event, with rainbow margaritas and bocas at the bar, and music by DJ Lisa –
Information at 828-7770 – 5 to 7 pm – Mexican Radio, 537 Warren Street
Diabetic Support Group Meeting – To discuss diabetic strategies
and issues, and to share fellowship – Meetings generally last one hour – Questions
by e-mail to peter.pehrson@yahoo.com
or call 478-3660 – 6 pm – Hudson Chautauqua, 49A Eighth Street (between
Columbia & Warren Streets)
Professor Louie & The Crowmatix – This Woodstock
quintet originally was formed by…Professor Louie for his co-productions for the
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame group, The Band.” Enjoy a night of rompin’ stompin’ roots
rock, sweet ballads and roadhouse blues…” – Information at 828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com or 828-4800 - 8 pm - Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street www.helsinkihudson.com
Cardboard
and Schmear
– Cardboard is “an energetic, melodic garage-rock band based in Brooklyn.” – For
information on Schmear, go to http://schmear.bandcamp.com/ – Information at 671-6006 or www.thespottydog.com – 8 pm – Spotty Dog
Books & Ale, 440 Warren Street
Thursday-Sunday,
April 25-28
Films
at TSL:>A Place at the Table – This documentary “shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all…”
>Herman’s House – “What kind of house does a man who has lived in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?”
>Bert Stern: Original Mad Man – “…a revealing look at the career of original ‘bad-boy’ photographer and cultural icon Bert Stern”
>Schedule at 822-8100 or www.timeandspace.org – Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street
Friday, April 26
Exposition Auction – English,
Continental, and American furniture, decorations and art – On line catalogue at
www.stairgalleries.com –
Information at 751-1000 – Previews Monday through Thursday from 10 am to 5 pm,
Friday from 10 am, Auction starts at 6 pm – Stair Galleries, 549 Warren Street
Friday Night Tastings ––Eminence Road Farm Winery, a new winery
in Long Eddy, NY in the Catskills, sources organic grapes from the Finger
Lakes, and makes wine in a natural style, using only indigenous yeasts and low
intervention – Jennifer and Andrew, the owners/winemakers, will be on hand to
introduce the wine – Information at 828-6411 – 5 to 7 pm, Hudson Wine
Merchants, 341 Warren Street
Spencer Day’s CD Release Party for The Mystery of You – “Filled with stylistic nuances that range from
smoky noir to Latin jazz to surf guitar to Middle Eastern and Asian melodies.”
This singer-songwriter’s long line of credits includes appearances at the San
Francisco Jazz Festival, Town Hall and Joe’s Pub in NYC, the Kennedy Center in
DC, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Tanglewood Jazz
Festival – Visit www.spencerday.com – Information
at www.helsinkihudson.com or
828-4800 – 9 pm – Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street
Friday-Saturday,
April 26-27
Colossal Cookbook Sale – sponsored by the Friends
of the Hudson Area Library – A large, eclectic collection of vintage, new and
used cookbooks will be offered at discounted prices –
Special guest Susan Simon, cookbook author, columnist, blogger, and professional
caterer, will be on hand to answer questions about cooking, recipes and
ingredients – The Book Room’s usual assortment of used books for sale will also
be available – Information at 828-1792 or www.hudsonarealibrary
– Friday from 1 to 4 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm – Side door, Hudson Area
Library, 400 State Street
Friday-Sunday,
April 26-28
Upstage Productions takes the musical
comedy Nunsense
on the road for the weekend – Call for reservations and times – Friday at The
Vanderbilt Restaurant at 7 pm (672-9993), Saturday at Blue Store Restaurant at
6:30 pm (537-6658), and a 1:30 pm matinee on Sunday at Pegasus Restaurant
(731-9200)
Saturday, April 27
Recruit NY – The City of
Hudson Fire Department, along with many other fire companies in the region,
holds an open house and recruitment drive as part of National Volunteer Week –
Visitors can take a tour of the central station and apparatus, try on
firefighter gear, see demonstrations of equipment. and learn the requirements
and obligations of being a volunteer – Information at www.hudsonfire.com – 8 am to 12 noon –
Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street
HD screening of the
Metropolitan Opera production of George Frederic Handel’s Giulio Cesare
– Reservations at 822-8448 or www.timeandspace.org
– 12 noon –Time & Space Limited, 434
Columbia Street
Slow Art Day – Part of a global effort to focus on art and the
art of seeing by looking at art slowly and sharing your experience with others
– Participants will visit five sculptures in The Fields and enjoy a special
Slow Food menu at CafĂ© Omi – Information at www.artomi.org
– 12 noon – Visitors Center, Omi International Arts Center, 1405 Route 22,
Ghent
In
observance of National Poetry Month, Peter Bergman, Executive
Director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society in Austerlitz, will read Edna
St. Vincent Millay’s poetry in the library’s History Room, which houses a
number of her books in its collection – To learn more about Millay’s life, her
poems and plays, visit www.millaysociety.org
– Information at 828-1792 or www.hudsonarealibrary.org
– 1 pm – History Room, Hudson Area Library, 400 State Street
Poetry
Reading/Book Signing – John Fitzpatrick, author of Moving to Completion, will speak on communing with animals
and “an energy of oneness between nature’s spirit and the creative human
spirit.” Fitzpatrick lives in the Hudson
Valley. His work has been published in
many journals in the U.S. – Information
at 697-0909 – 3 pm – TK Home and Garden, 441 Warren Street
Author’s
Lecture – Margaret Roach, first gardening editor of Martha Stewart Living magazine, and author of the blog, A Way to Garden, blends personal stories
with nuts-and-bolts gardening smarts that make her Hudson Valley garden a
visual treat all year round. – Ms. Roach will discuss her new book, The
Backyard Parables,
focusing on “Non-stop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days.” Part of the Distinguished Authors’
Lecture Series
presented by the Columbia County Historical Society – Information and
reservations at 758-9265 or by e-mail to
cchs@cchsny.org – 3 pm Lecture at
Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad Street, Kinderhook, followed by a
reception at the Nathan Wild House, Valatie
Community Conversation – Neighbor to Neighbor: Victor Navasky in
conversation with Peter Biskind about Navasky’s new book, The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and their Enduring Power
– Reception and book signing to follow – Information and reservations at
392-3693 – 4 pm – Spencertown Academy Arts Center, 790 Route 203, Spencertown
Brownie Bake-off – If you have a favorite brownie recipe or start
with a mix, join one of two contests—“From Scratch” or “Mix with Mojo”—to
compete for city-wide bragging rights – Contestants must bring two pans (9 x
13) of un-cut brownies to the church by 4 pm – The public then tastes and
chooses the winners – “Brownies” may be chocolate, butterscotch or blondies –
Ice cream, coffee, milk, and water will also be available for the tasters –
Proceeds will benefit Christ Church outreach programs – Information at 828-1329
– 4 to 6 pm – Christ Church Episcopal, Parish Hall, 431 Union Street (corner of
East Court Street)
Exhibition Opening – Jake
Berthot: Works on Paper and The Enamel Drawings – Berthot says: “With a spackling knife I laid
down a sheet of enamel on paper. Then,
like a blind man, the painter could by touch feel his way through a familiar
yet unknown terrain. In feeling I gain
sight, marking and scraping into the surface until the work arrives at a found
phenomenological oneness that is a wholeness, an expressive merger of mark and
material….” – On display through May 19 – Information at 828-5907 or www.johndavisgallery.com – 6 to 8 pm –
John Davis Gallery, 362 ½ Warren Street
19th Annual Movable Feast to benefit the ongoing programs and restoration of the Hudson Opera House – Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at the Opera House, dinner at private homes, dessert back at the Opera House – Raffle: one winner gets 15 gift certificates for meals at area restaurants – Raffle tickets available at the Feast or in advance at the Opera House – Information and reservations at 822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org –6:30 pm – Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street
Pony in the Pancake, Christina Abbott, and Bear
Grass
– Pony is a “five-piece psychedelic surf rock band from Albany”– Abbott “has
been making music under various monikers and projects over the years, but her
roots and strengths remain steeped in songwriting and unique vocals.” Bear
Grass, also from Albany, is “an amalgam of awesome” and “has been rocking faces
and soothing wounds since mid 2012.” – Information at 671-6006 or www.thespottydog.com – 8 pm – Spotty Dog
Books & Ale, 440 Warren Street
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret – The
Bindlestiffs provide a stage for the
world’s best circus, sideshow, vaudeville, burlesque and boyesque, and physical
comedy performers – The lineup includes Ringmistress Philomena,
your skillful guide to the entertainment journey; Mr. Pennygraff, gentleman,
prop manipulator, and swallower of dangerous objects; Amy G, international
Variete star and physical comedienne; Jan Damm, world traveling acrobalance
artist and clown; Rose Bonjo, contortionist and aerialist; and Robert Cowie,
musical maestro who provides live original musical accompaniment –
Attendees in costume or circus makeup
get a discount at the door –This show is for mature audiences only! –
Information at 828-4800 or www.helsinkihudson.com
– 9 pm – Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street
Live Music at the Wunderbar – Acoustic Rye performs – Information
at 828-0555 – 10 pm – Wunderbar & Bistro, 744 Warren Street
Saturday-Sunday,
April 27-28
Sean’s Run Weekend – This annual event is in its twelfth
year and has expanded to two days – Saturday: Zumbathon, Super Saturday Run for Special
Needs Kids, and Sean’s Run Bike Rides – Sunday: Prevention Education Expo,
Battle of the Belts, Meghan’s Mile Youth Race/ Community Walk, and the 5K run –
Schedule, locations and entry form at www.seansrun.com
– Information at 672-4757 – Chatham Elementary School and Chatham High School, and
other locations, Chatham
Sunday, April 28
Hudson Wedding Showcase – Presented by Columbia County Chamber
of Commerce and Destination Bride – Engagement photos, hair and makeup trials,
virtual venue tour of Columbia County sites, wedding planning seminar,
demonstrations on fashion, hair and makeup styling; stationery design, and
floral design; fashion show produced by Angela’s Bridal – Information at 828-4417
– 9 am to 4 pm – Basilica Industria, 110 South Front Street
Exhibition
Preview of Albert Bierstadt in
New York & New England – Exhibition on view
from May 1 to November 3 – Information at www.thomascole.org
or 943-7465 – Curator’s talk by Annette Blaugrund at 2 pm, reception and open house
from 3 to 4 pm – Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 218 Spring Street,
Catskill
Film
Screening – Filmmaker John Feldman will screen his film, The Little Plant that Could IS BACK – Screening
will be followed by a discussion – The 25-minute long documentary is the story
of the Stuyvesant Falls hydro-electric plant, a renewable energy resource built
in 1900 which was brought back on line thanks to the efforts of the community
and engineer Jim Besha – Information at 766-3211 – 3 pm – North Chatham
Library, 4287 Route 203, North Chatham
Troy Children’s Chorus performs – Part of the Adventures
in Music series –
Information at 325-4101 or www.roejanlibrary.org
– 3 pm – Roeliff-Jansen Community Library, 9091 Route 22, Copake (1 mile south
of intersection of Routes 22 and 23)
The
Persephone Project
– Director Carol Rusoff will hold an Orientation Session for an
improvised performance based on the Greek myth, to be produced by
http: hudson teen theatre project – Teens and young adults interested in
all aspects of theatre production are invited to learn about preparation for
this production –Will include discussion about auditioning, casting, rehearsal
schedule, contracts, rehearsal methods, and family volunteerism – The Project
will start rehearsals in May for June performances – No previous theatre
experience required – Information at 822-1438 or www.hudsonoperahouse.org –4 pm –
Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street
Monday, April 29
Song Circle Jam – All welcome – Information at 828-2210 or
contact Marilyn at liveoriginalmusic@hotmail.com
Every Monday night – 7 to 9 pm – Red
Dot, 319 Warren Street
WKZE 98.1 presents The Monday Showcase -- Blue Food with special guest Neil Alexander
– The band started in 1989 to focus on the music of Pee Wee Ellis, musical
director for James Brown and Van Morrison – No cover! – Information at www.helsinkihudson.com or 828-4800 – 8
pm – Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street
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