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BULLY PULPIT: And the mighty meek By Krista Madsen The launch of the final season of Stranger Things after a multi-year delay (and the marriage of its former child star Eleven to the son of Jon Bon Jovi) was a hugely anticipated event in my extended household ... More »
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: 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 »
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: 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 »
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: 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 »
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: 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 »
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 »
