Photography by Mike Ruiz There’s this thing that Taylor Schilling does when she hears an interesting question or agrees wholeheartedly with something someone is saying that’s quite revealing and refreshing.…

With big hotel chains, you know what to expect and there’s a certain comfort in that. But outside of urban centers, name recognition is harder to come by. In its…

Photography by Danielle Cohen There are entrances, then there are Robert Hartwell entrances. A dozen emojis couldn’t paint the proper picture. Toward the end of what was, in hindsight, the…

When you pull off Route 9 in Hyde Park, NY—home to the Culinary Institute of America and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s historic estate—you probably aren’t expecting to walk into one of…

I finally got around to reading T.C. Boyle’s Worlds End. A satirical, 480-page romp through the early colonial days of the Hudson Valley through the late 1960s chronicling generations of…

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…

When the world shut down due to pandemic, Americans hit the road. Domestic outdoor travel, with its abundance of fresh air and built-in social distancing, became the de facto form…

Over my three-decade career in wine, I’ve hosted thousands of tastings, tours and dinners. Literally. One story I love to recount in front of an audience is an email I…

For decades, residents of Columbia, Greene and surrounding counties have faced a frustrating reality when it comes to healthcare. Options were limited, wait times were long and many found themselves…