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Home of the Week: Inside a Stylish Upstate New York Hideaway That Exudes Bohemian Charm
After 12 years of ownership, fashion designer Keren Craig, the co-founder of the luxury womenswear brand Marchesa, and her husband, Piers North, are saying goodbye to their charming, boho-chic home in Upstate New York. The converted barn, looking like something from a magazine editorial, is set on 6.5 wooded acres in the rural hamlet of Accord, New York, part of the scenic greater Catskills region.Cher's Revamped Former Beverly Hills Home Hits the Market for $4.1 Million Built in 1920, the building is more than 100 years old, which certainly adds to its rustic allure. Craig and her husband, who were primarily based in the city...
Weather Buddies: 'Ollie'
This story originally appeared in the Morning Brief email newsletter. Sign up here to get more stories like this and weekday weather updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Ollie is a 20-year-old African gray parrot that lives in Shokan, New York. “Ollie is extremely intelligent, having an extensive...
Class of 2026 tree planting set for Arbor Day
Each year since 1868, Vassar College plants a tree to honor the class graduating that year. Each tree planted not only contributes to the college’s already robust arboretum, but also emphasizes the idea that each class occupies a permanent space on campus. The trees are a visual testament to the contributions of each class. To explore more information about the class trees, you can read about where each one is here.
Peter Shapiro to Manage Historic Bearsville Theater in Woodstock
Peter Shapiro has added another room to his ever-expanding portfolio of classic venues, inking a long-term lease to manage and program the historic Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY.Michael Lang, Woodstock Co-Creator, Dies at 77 Situated in the Hudson Valley’s bucolic Catskills region, the storied theater was built in 1989 to accompany the Bearsville Studios, where artists including Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones, REM and The Pretenders recorded with Bearsville leading artist manager/entrepreneur Albert Grossman. Shapiro will manage the venue through his firm Dayglo Presents, which owns and operates the Brooklyn Bowl in New York, Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Nashville, along with the...
God Street Wine to Return for New York-Area Run in 2024
This fall, groundbreaking jam quintet God Street Wine will return for a four-night run in and around its home state of New York. After a long history of hiatuses and reunions, the upcoming run is its first since a pair of benefit concerts in 2023 and an eight-show run before those in 2019, which also brought This Fine Town, the ensemble’s seventh studio album and its first full-length offering since 2000. The band joins forces once more this year to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its first major-label release–1994’s $1.99 Romances–with the run, a long-awaited digital release, and first-time vinyl pressings of three of its fan-favorite albums.
Documentary to spotlight a Black woman’s journey with Long COVID
Sign up for our Caribbean Life email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox!. Chimere L. Smith Sweeney has been living with Long COVID for four years now. In New York, COVID was not addressed until the middle of February 2020. Sweeney was a teacher for several years in Baltimore at that time. She now lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.
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