The simple fact about this region is: the more you look, the more you find. Like its bountiful nature and cultural history, the music of the mountains is diverse, expansive and never-ending. It’s true Hudson suffered a major loss when Helsinki closed in 2020 due to the pandemic. The beloved BSP Lounge across the river in Kingston suffered a similar fate and, in the Berkshires, The Mission in Pittsfield and HiLo in North Adams both permanently shut up shop.   But for every venue to close, it seems like two new ones open. We counted more than 70 live music…

Photography by Anne Day Longtime New York City media executive Andy Plesser opened his Lakeville, CT home he shares with his wife, Manhattan radiologist Kathy Plesser, to capture a moment…

Last summer, I went camping in Phoenicia with my six-year-old daughter Penelope and her mother.  We’d migrated here from Lake Tahoe after getting divorced and priced out of our housing…