Back in March, when longtime Kingston resident and culinary chef Diane Reeder first saw images of the unprovoked war Ukraine was enduring, she was, like so many others around the world, deeply troubled. “I was thinking about a family leaving their home and having to live in a subway underground and never knowing where or even if they’re gonna be able to return home,” says Reeder, owner of Kingston Candy Bar on Wall Street. “Their only other option is to flee. Then they’re showing up in a new place with nothing because they couldn’t even grab their things. It’s always…
When Theory Wellness opened up shop in Great Barrington in 2019, it became the first recreational (adult-use) cannabis dispensary in Berkshire County. Unlike most businesses that opened a year before…
Back in early 2020, before the sky fell, my then girlfriend (now fiancée) and I were bound for a rental shaded by palm trees—until a series of furloughs upended our…
My husband and I are total tennis freaks, so it’s not surprising that we found ourselves, one pre-pandemic weekend, at a place aptly named Total Tennis in Saugerties, NY. A…
Personally, I’ve always had a passion for roller skating. My uncle, a former roller derby skater for the famed San Francisco Bay Area Bombers, was a huge inspiration to me…