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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 »
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 »
I’M MOVING TO THE CLOUD: An accumulation of cumulus By Krista Madsen I enjoy a work mass email in which the IT department announces something mundane to all employees@ such as, the other day, subject line: “MUNIS Moving to the Cloud,” and I can subvert this to... More »
By Krista Madsen This birthday of mine last week was a special one. Not because I reached any milestone age, or was feted like a rock star, but because it involved activities both simple—playing Clue with my girls, getting help fitting a few pieces into an eve... More »
By Tom Pedulla— Sleepy Hollow resident Larry Doyle was in the right place at the right time when he ventured to Belmont Park with friends to watch horse racing for the first time. The year was 1973 and Secretariat was vying for the Triple Crown in the Belmont ... More »
