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Catskill Mountains

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Smörgås Chef Looking to Buy 150 New Chickens

    Morten Sohlberg, the Norwegian chef-owner of Smörgås Chef already sources pasture-raised meat and vegetables from his restaurant group's 150-acre farm in the Catskills. But lately, he's found that Blenheim Farm can't supply enough organic eggs to keep up with demand and wants to increase his chick ... More >>

  • Music

    May 16, 2012

    Turing Machine's Labor of Love

    The band finishes the record they started with their late drummer

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Water Wars: What's Up With The Upstate-Downstate Debate?

    The Times reports today on the "slow boil" over water issues now playing out between Upstate communities and New York City. Ulster County, for example, has been pissed at the City for years. The county says that it's unfairly had to endure "development bans, flooded basements and ruined crops" just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    10 Iconic Foods of New York City, and Where To Find Them

    ​Ultra-creamy New York cheesecake may be the world's richest dessert. Hotbed of culinary fusion, NYC is not only a repository of cuisines from around the globe, but the place where many important dishes originated, if not by pure invention, then as uniquely compelling adaptations of things t ... More >>

  • Theater

    February 15, 2012

    A Map of Virtue: Erin Courtney's New Play Puts Too Many Birds on It

    ​Ultra-creamy New York cheesecake may be the world's richest dessert. Hotbed of culinary fusion, NYC is not only a repository of cuisines from around the globe, but the place where many important dishes originated, if not by pure invention, then as uniquely compelling adaptations of things t ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2011

    NYE Guide: Wild Card

    Something different

  • Columns

    December 14, 2011
  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Our 10 Best Soups in NYC

    ​Polonia's borscht with meat dumplings is so good, you'll want to swim in it. Like the primordial ooze our ancestors crawled out of, soup is a nourishing, regenerative fluid. And when the weather turns cold, there's nothing more revivifying than a great potage - even coming out of a can, it ... More >>

  • Film

    October 19, 2011

    The Perils of Communal Living in Martha Marcy May Marlene

    ​Polonia's borscht with meat dumplings is so good, you'll want to swim in it. Like the primordial ooze our ancestors crawled out of, soup is a nourishing, regenerative fluid. And when the weather turns cold, there's nothing more revivifying than a great potage - even coming out of a can, it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Live: Portishead And Jeff Mangum Come Out Of The Shadows In Asbury Park

    All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror Asbury Park, NJ September 30-October 2 Better than: Your favorite worn-out band tee. Timelessness isn't a foresight. Most experiences can't predict their own longevity, and as much as any creator strives to avoid miring his or her work in a dated exterio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    At Least Two Animals Benefited From Hurricane Irene

    Not newborn Irene Hope, but close enough.​This week, a lost cat was adopted and a baby lamb was born, and we can all thank Hurricane Irene. Yeah, that Hurricane Irene, the one that is one of the top ten costliest storms in U.S. history, shut down the biggest transit system in the country for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Berrying in the Far Northern Catskills

    ​A brief bout of picking yields over four quarts of berries. July is peak berry season in the valley of Schoharie Creek, which runs north from Great Gorge to the town of Schoharie, New York, a distance of about 20 miles. As the rocky creek meanders and burbles through the valley between two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Live: Mötley Crüe And Poison Bring The Thrills To Nassau Coliseum

    ​ Mötley Crüe w/Poison, New York Dolls Nassau Coliseum Wednesday, July 20 Better than: Attending an 18-year high school reunion with a cash bar, albeit one mitigated by the DJ having a music library nearly identical to yours back in the day. An extremely partial list of pop-cultural event ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2011

    First Blueberries of the Season Appear in Abingdon Square Farmers' Market

    ​Sweet, sweeet blueberries, at $5 per pint. The first farmers' market blueberries appeared today at the Kernan Farms stall in the Abingdon Square farmers' market. How did they do it, a full month before the fruit usually appears?

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Marilyn Maye Is A-Maye-Zing

    ​Marilyn Maye is an old-time standards singer who's sort of Helen Lawson meets Anita O'Day, but with a unique sound and an individual spin. The 80-something singer--enjoying a career renaissance as the queen of cabaret--has a voice as sharp as a tool and a personality that's currently lightin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Jeffrey Chodorow and Kutsher's May Open Tribeca Deli

    Summer love, schmaltz herring.​ Kutsher's, the sprawling Borscht Belt resort that was the inspiration for Dirty Dancing, may be coming to Tribeca.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Tajeme Sylvester, 31, Shot Dead in Brooklyn

    ​At about 5:45 p.m. Monday, Brooklyn South cops responding to a "male shot" at 60 Summit Street in Red Hook found 31-year-old Tajeme Sylvester shot in the head and body. He was dead at the scene. Cops listed Sylvester's address as Sackett Road in Rock Hill, which is up in the Catskills.But a Faceb ... More >>

  • Film

    October 20, 2010

    25 Years of Larry Fessenden

    ​At about 5:45 p.m. Monday, Brooklyn South cops responding to a "male shot" at 60 Summit Street in Red Hook found 31-year-old Tajeme Sylvester shot in the head and body. He was dead at the scene. Cops listed Sylvester's address as Sackett Road in Rock Hill, which is up in the Catskills.But a Faceb ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2010

    What Can You Do With Ramps? Here Are Four Suggestions

    ​For a change, Mountain Sweet Berry Farm had enough wild ramps to go around this weekend. Ramps--also known as Allium tricoccum or wild leeks--are one of the most pungent plants known to humankind. They're found wild in the forest beginning in early April, sometimes extending into early May. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Yes In My Backyard: Download Naam's "Skyling Slip"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Diane Suarez​Brooklyn kraut-metal crushers Naam take the trippiest part of your favorite Hawkwind song and stretch it like space-taffy into hypnotic, riff-driven mush. Recorded at an abandoned dairy ... More >>

  • Film

    September 1, 2009

    Tickling Leo Adds to Holocaust Film Grammar of Succeeding Generations

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Diane Suarez​Brooklyn kraut-metal crushers Naam take the trippiest part of your favorite Hawkwind song and stretch it like space-taffy into hypnotic, riff-driven mush. Recorded at an abandoned dairy ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2009

    An Oral History of All Tomorrow's Parties

    In honor of next weekend's fete upstate, some wistful reminiscences and trash talk

  • Film

    August 25, 2009

    Taking Woodstock Recycles 60's Tropes

    Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

  • Dance

    May 13, 2009

    Summer Guide: Mount Tremper Arts Festival

    Downtown HEADS for the hills!

  • Voice Choices

    January 7, 2009

    SKI BUNNY

    Steal a car, and hit the discounted slopes

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    I, Locavore -- Part One

    Steal a car, and hit the discounted slopes

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008
  • Music

    September 23, 2008

    ATP Rocks the Catskills

    Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

  • Film

    April 29, 2008

    Mister Lonely: Harmony Korine's Moody Neverland

    A former enfant terrible, now singular and sincere

  • Music

    July 31, 2007

    Back in the World

    Roswell Rudd's triumphant return to braying trombone excellence

  • Books

    May 22, 2007

    Roll, Sushi, Roll!

    Sasha Issenberg serves up the raw facts on the global economy of a favorite meal

  • NYC Life

    May 8, 2007

    Stuck in the City—and Lovin' It

    Four cool adventures for three hot months

  • Columns

    September 26, 2006

    NY Mirror

    Four cool adventures for three hot months

  • Music

    October 25, 2005

    Art Folk

    Trombonist Roswell Rudd and conservatory-trained Mongol singer Badma Khanda meet halfway

  • People

    June 7, 2005

    Hot Spot

    Trombonist Roswell Rudd and conservatory-trained Mongol singer Badma Khanda meet halfway

  • Books

    March 22, 2005

    Books

    Trombonist Roswell Rudd and conservatory-trained Mongol singer Badma Khanda meet halfway

  • Film

    September 23, 2003

    The Young and the Damned

    Woody Allen Courts a New Demographic; A Cross-Cultural Musical Flirts With Disaster

  • NYC Life

    May 6, 2003

    Outlet Pass

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Theater

    March 25, 2003

    Theater

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Theater

    December 24, 2002

    Homeland Insecurity

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Music

    September 10, 2002

    Music

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Dining

    June 11, 2002

    Hot Heroes

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Art

    December 11, 2001

    Nailing Failing

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Film

    October 31, 2000

    Couples Therapy

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • Books

    June 20, 2000

    Loving the Enema

    The Travails and Triumphs of Woodbury Common

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Passion Fish

    In New York's Turbulent Harbors, the Striped Bass Are Biting Again

  • Books

    May 4, 1999

    Voice Authors

    In New York's Turbulent Harbors, the Striped Bass Are Biting Again

  • Film

    March 23, 1999

    A Walk on the Moon

    In New York's Turbulent Harbors, the Striped Bass Are Biting Again

  • News

    August 25, 1998

    The River Wild

    Exploring Manhattan's Hudson Coast before a park plan paves it over

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