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Mary Stuart Masterson  She’s not just a local; actor Mary Stuart Masterson is a local who cares about bringing women, minorities and veterans into the film industry and breaking barriers as she did portraying Idgie in Fried Green Tomatoes—and for this writer, her portrayal of drummer Watts in Some Kind Of Wonderful really butters my popcorn. She pays it forward as the founder of Stockade Works, a Hudson Valley-based local crew training and mentorship program and Upriver Studios, a woman-led sustainable production facility in the Hudson Valley, which opened in 2020. When asked what people get wrong about her, the…

Like so many of you I’m sure, I have a somewhat complicated relationship with food, though I mostly refer to it as an evolving friendship instead. Since I was a…