DON’T LOOK AT ME: Over My Dead Body Part 2 By Krista Madsen Remember 100 years ago (a few weeks) when I went on a death bender and gathered all my living wills and dying docs? Well I have more to say on the matter, since I’ve been in a dark yet hopeful place w... More »
What the Constitution Means to Me (July 5 – July 27) & Ian McKellen’s Acting Shakespeare(August 2 – August 24) Rivertowns Playhouse, the professional secular theater company of Irvington Presbyterian Church, proudly presents its fourth annual Summer Festival S... More »
By Barrett Seaman– The Village of Dobbs Ferry got some “very exciting news” this week from New York Forward, the state‘s dispenser of community grants: $4.5 million earmarked for municipal improvements designed to “invigorate and enliven downtowns” throughout ... More »
By W.B. King– Following his sci-fi novel Deep Past (2019), author Eugene Linden has picked up where he left off with Resurrecting Bart (2025). The idea for the former book, he told The Hudson Independent, grew out of a ponderance: “If natural selection could p... More »
I SWEAR TO GOD: For F*’s sake, Part II By Krista Madsen I’ve noticed I’ve been swearing more lately, and that I’m not alone. That maybe I’m swearing more because I’m drinking from the same global zeitgeist-spigot that has everyone else swearing more. Gone is a... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— Time is running out for sponsors and artists to register to participate in what has become a much- anticipated annual tradition in Irvington. The Bulldog Gallery, a public art installation along Main Street in the village, is returning for a ... More »
By W.B. King — Leaders of the free world, titans of industry and notorious gangsters often share a common interest—subscribing to the philosophies of Italian renaissance provocateur Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli. “Not many people know that wise guys, esp... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A 2020 Dobbs Ferry High School graduate has been nominated for the Television Academy Foundation’s 44th College Television Awards. Erika Totoro, who majored in animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which she graduated from last... More »
AMERICA THE ODDITORIUM: Oh beautiful for spacious skies and penis bones By Krista Madsen Desperately seeking some comic relief, I thought I’d turn a word we’ve heard (or thought we heard) from Trump in his earliest campaign era of 2015 (our salad days when we ... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker— When artist Kersten Harries was cleaning out the house she had just bought on Anderson Avenue in Sleepy Hollow, she found a closet full of postal supplies, including 450 Tyvek (priority mail) envelopes that stocked the former own... More »
By W.B. King– Even before dropping the needle on the seminal blues-rock album Super Session in 1968, a then 13-year-old Jimmy Vivino was aware of Stephen Stills and his astounding work with The Buffalo Springfield. He was also atuned the harmonious prowess of ... More »
WORLD-BUILD (& -BURN): Seeing red in the Handmaid’s Tale By Krista Madsen A new Handmaid’s Tale season, the sixth and last, is set for sometime Spring 2025—should we make it that far. Meanwhile, are we already inhabiting this perverted hellscape? Will it be to... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— The Village of Tarrytown, in partnership with The Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow Farmers Market (The TaSH), will be recognizing Black History Month with a celebration of food, culture and community on Saturday, February 8 at the TaSH Farmer’s Ma... More »
County Executive (and candidate) Ken Jenkins dropped by Tarrytown’s Warner Library to take in the Black History Month Art Exhibit there. With Jenkins are local artists Ron Brown, Donald Whitely and Ella Hall. The exhibit runs until February 28th. More »
By Shana Liebman– When the new Irvington Theater Commission (which I co-chair with Jessica Arinella) got together after the theater’s grand reopening, the only sensible topic of conversation was: What kind of surreal hell is happening in Los Angeles? The still... More »
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE GNOME: In your garden or abroad By Krista Madsen I interrupt my plan to dig into Yellowjacket’s cannibalistic tendencies, no joke, to try to get into the mood of the season, refrain from eating any people, and share some holiday cheer alr... More »
By Susan Treiman— It took an ordinary birdfeeder, a camera, and weeks of COVID isolation to bring rivertowns’ winged wildlife to Grand Central Terminal, thanks to local photographer Rory Mulligan. The 40-Year-old Hastings-on Hudson printmaker and arts professo... More »
PLANCHETTE: Communing with the living and the dead By Krista Madsen I’ve never felt like I could achieve fluency in a second language when—especially as a writer—I could spend my life trying to master the first. There are so many words left to learn! Case in p... More »
By Rick Pezzullo— A production company will be filming in the Crest neighborhood of Tarrytown for two days this week. Filming of Poker Face, a drama on the Peacock network, is scheduled to take place on Tues., Dec 17 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Wed., Dec 18 f... More »
