Wishbone

Published 3d ago

WISHBONE: If you break it, it’s yours By Krista Madsen BONE BREAK Since I like process more than products, I’m the kind of slow housemaker who not only roasts the poultry but then boils the remains to create stock, making a whole event of picking out the tiny ... More »

Your Holiday Stop-Shopping Guide

Published 6d ago

YOUR HOLIDAY STOP-SHOPPING GUIDE: QVC presidency & the Black Out By Krista Madsen Do you speak billionaire? Neither do I! But I think I get the gist.* This pre-holiday season, the loudest action we the wee people of the 99% might take to get some attention i... More »

Murderabilia

Published 2w ago

MURDERABILIA: Blood money By Krista Madsen Since the marketing world insists we pump up the jam on our holiday shopping, here’s my warped version. Once I wrote about the women who love convicted serial killers, but now I want to explore the equally dubious rea... More »

Nope

Published 3w ago

NOPE: A very positive expression By Krista Madsen Saying no, I once wrote, creates space for better yeses. Inspired by this broken brick I found on the beach, I talked about developing the muscle of naysaying in terms of protecting my free time, navigating dat... More »

Howl

Published 4w ago

HOWL: A lunatic compendium By Krista Madsen I am a proud Radical Left Lunatic but also just your garden variety lunatic in the truest, most original sense of the term, one who gets all loony over the moon. Will Dowd, cartoonist for The Boston Globe who writes ... More »

Tarry

Published 1m ago

TARRY: Linger here with me By Krista Madsen At my latest Show and Tell, my neighbor shared the most romantic piece of paper I’ve ever seen. Jared told his story, at the very end of the night after the designated speakers, as a sort of postscript, sitting in a ... More »

Playing Dead

Published 1m ago

PLAYING DEAD: “The back door of the world” By Krista Madsen In my recent essay on a low brow/high brow photographic stunt known as Horsemanning, where you and a friend play the roles of Head and Beheaded (a la Headless Horseman), it was striking to me to note ... More »

Brains! Part 2

Published 2m ago

BRAINS! PART 2: How would you like that sliced? By Krista Madsen As may be forever seared in your mind, last week I overshared about the recent excision of a mole on my scalp resembling a little brain, which I did worry might be the site of my concentrated sup... More »

Brains!

Published 2m ago

BRAINS! Going Presi-mental in a two-part series By Krista Madsen OUT, DAMNED SPOT! This is going to be gross. When you’re burning through the final embers of your First Amendment rights, and it’s Sleepy Holloween season, you might as well both delight and disg... More »

Halloween Happenings: The Full 2025 Rivertowns Schedule

Published 2m ago

In the month leading up to Halloween, there are dozens of events, activities, entertainment and downright scary stuff going on. To help readers decide where to go, The Hudson Independent offers a comprehensive calendar, starting this weekend: SLEEPY HOLLOW Oct... More »

Fear of Fear

Published 2m ago

FEAR OF FEAR: Trigger alert! By Krista Madsen I’m afraid of everything. Why be selective when you can just have a generalized low-level anxiety on autoplay all day no matter the lack of apex predators lunging for a kill from the perfume aisle of the FiveBelow ... More »

New High On Beekman Avenue

Published 2m ago

By Barrett Seaman– Anybody with concerns about the legality of Quality High, the new cannabis dispensary in Sleepy Hollow, need look no further than the New York State license plastered on the front window—and the shop’s location, right across Beekman Avenue f... More »

Horsemanning

Published 2m ago

HORSEMANNING: And other nouns that become verbs By Krista Madsen Well, it’s Halloween in the Hollow, which you can more efficiently call Holloween. Not a day, not a week, but a season spanning September to November, when the tourists tick up 1,000 notches, par... More »

Autumn Is Here—And With It Halloween-Hungry Hordes

Published 2m ago

By Barrett Seaman– Looking back over his 17 years working for Sleepy Hollow, Village Administrator Anthony Giaccio recalls a simpler time when the fall hayride was “something out of the high school,” when Historic Hudson Valley put on a modest “Legends” progra... More »

Death by Selfie

Published 3m ago

DEATH BY SELFIE: The falls of Kaaterskill By Krista Madsen Ascending the steep stairs along the Kaaterskill waterfall with an infant in a carrier on my back and a two-year-old toddling felt like a tremendous achievement at the time. Especially when later our f... More »

Alien Upgrade

Published 3m ago

ALIEN UPGRADE: Beam up your homemakers! By Krista Madsen I’m a homemaker, and I don’t mean a housewife (I was terrible at that) or a working stay-at-home-mom (also awful, but at least it earns an acronym: WSAHM), rather one who makes homes. I am not an archite... More »

On the Face of Things

Published 3m ago

ON THE FACE OF THINGS: Life is a pattern and the pattern creeps By Krista Madsen I see dead people. But it’s not what you think. I see dead people being creepy. I see living faces blowing raspberries. I see animals of every species, extinct through whimsical. ... More »

Injected Lips = Mega Trucks

Published 3m ago

INJECTED LIPS=MEGA TRUCKS: The supersizing of American gender By Krista Madsen So, Middle America (which lives in the midst of us in Anywhereville, really) is uneasy about trans and queer people. Maybe because folks between or beyond standard definitions confu... More »

Blue Light District

Published 4m ago

BLUE LIGHT DISTRICT: Sleepless in Cyberville By Krista Madsen We are a culture of junkies. We will do anything to avoid silence, solitude, darkness, even if it means benumbing ourselves with dependency on noise, distractions and…disorienting, unwelcome infusio... More »

The Villages

Published 4m ago

THE VILLAGES: Some kind of heaven? By Krista Madsen Every community is a sort of bubble with their own distinct shared identity, but especially those who achieve this on purpose with gates. These quintessentially American neighborhoods with house after house (... More »