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By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 - 9:22 pm
Adama Brown, a regular contributor to the Albany Project, announces that he's now the new editor and lead writer of another New York lefty politics blog, the recently launched RochesterPolitics.
Most of the coverage of RochesterPolitics will eventually... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 - 8:25 pm
[img_assist|nid=16147|title=Drag Directory|desc=Let your stilettos do the walking|link=none|align=left|width=231|height=210]Hazy about where you saw that fantastic Joan Rivers impersonator? Want to know who does the best Lady Gaga routine in the Tri-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Conan goes apple picking upstate with Mr. T.
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:51 am
Over at the Kingston Progressive blog, Ulster County legislator Mike Madsen is full of ire about the Supreme Court's stunning 5-4 decision yesterday striking down limits on corporate political campaigning.
Do you realize what WalMart is about to do to any... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 10:03 am
Market Market Cafe in Rosendale goes the extra mile for Sari Botton, who can't eat regular bread.
Today, I had a toasted, buttered slice with my soup and salad. I felt like standing up and showing everybody, “Look! I have toast!” (You’d probably have to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 11:09 pm
Seriously. They have a whole section called "HDYGTFAJ?"
Hotelier (er, motelier?) Greg Henderson breaks it down for Ready Made editor Katherine Sharpe:
I guess you could say that we’re re-creating the fantasies of our childhood. I always wanted to live in... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010 - 9:39 am
Ulla Kjarval, whose family runs Meredith's Spring Lake Farm, has a great editorial on the Civil Eats blog today. The topic: a proposed 72,000-cow CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) in New York State that if built, she writes, would be the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 8:56 pm
About Olive muses on Pete Seeger's old banjo head, currently up for auction on eBay to benefit development efforts in Haiti.
I have heard all sorts of wonderful tunes on this instrument. I have carried it from sloop to dock and slept next to it below... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 - 1:45 pm
Vera Farmiga, best known for her off-the-grid goat farm in the Catskills starring roles in Up In The Air and The Departed, had a gushy profile recently in the London Times.
You have already been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 - 11:53 am
NPR's All Things Considered has a terrific radio piece on the late Killian Mansfield, a masterful ukelele player from Woodstock who died of cancer last August at age 16. Mansfield's first and last album, Somewhere Else, was recorded last year.
Host Guy... Read more
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