Rhinebeck

Food Comics: Lucy Knisley's New Recipe-Packed Memoir

Lucy Knisley's first autobiographical book, French Milk, told the story of a mother-daughter holiday in Paris with writing, illustration, and photography. Her second, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen is just as personal, recounting Knisley's childhood in Manhattan through her graduation from art schoo ... More >>

Owsley, LSD King and Grateful Dead Soundman, Was a Foodie

Owsley "Bear" Stanley was the self-taught master chemist who produced much of the acid used to popularize the psychedelic chemical in California in the mid-60s, which was partly chronicled in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). His LSD made the scene in other acid-fueled events of th ... More >>

Q&A: Zeena Parkins On Being A Dancing Bear, Working With Björk, And Her New Band The Adorables

The Brooklyn-based harpist Zeena Parkins doesn't follow rules. Whether she's playing with Björk, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori or John Zorn, her harp rarely sounds like a harp. Instead, it's soaked in digital surrealism and alien mystery—exquisitely dripping, cosmically pinging or wildly feedback ... More >>

Sweet and Sad Takes 9/11 to Brunch

Richard Nelson's Apple family chews over America

That Hopey Changey Thing Takes Aim at the Liberal Intelligentsia

Richard Nelson's politics play leads off this season's Public Theater Lab

The Chelsea Clinton Wedding Lacked Oprah, Other Promised Famous People

​Even adults think their parents are a little lame. Sure, most grown people come to terms with their adolescent authority angst, but even little Malia and Sasha will probably never think Daddy is as ice cold as the rest of the world does. So what must Chelsea Clinton think about Bill and Hilla ... More >>

Rich Woman Marrying Rich Man in Expensive Ceremony with Famous Guests

​This week, a Stanford undergrad created a website called Wedding Credential that catalogs keywords used in New York Times wedding announcements. ""People like to make fun of 'elites' but also to read about themselves and I think the wedding section sort of provides a bit of both," he told the ... More >>

Bill Clinton Cannot Resist Showing His Face in Rhinebeck

AP​Days -- even hours -- before his daughter's "wedding of the millenium," and despite various official and informal vows of secrecy, our former Prez and Chelsea's pop showed up on the streets of Rhinebeck. And the crowds went wild. Bill, we dare say this does not bode well for "not upstaging ... More >>

Cone of Silence Placed Upon Entire Town Regarding Chelsea Clinton Wedding

via New York Times​The New York Times has a cute little piece on how the folks of Rhinebeck, New York -- widely believed to be the location of Chelsea Clinton's July 31 wedding -- have been rudely shushed by confidentiality agreements about anything having to do with the Clinton-Mezvinsky nupt ... More >>

Chelsea Clinton's Wedding Is Turning Brooklyn Teacher's Big Day Into Hell

via Yahoo Shine​Who should we feel worse for: Chelsea Clinton, who's trying to have a normal wedding as the public speculates about every detail, or Emn Haddad-Friedman, a Brooklyn teacher scheduled to marry on the same day and in the same town where Clinton is widely rumored to be tying the k ... More >>

Her Crowning Glory

Urban shaman Donna Henes makes royal mischief

Healing Science

Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

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The Cancellation of a Favorite Antiques Show