The Hudson Valley Chronic

You can say what you want about Gerald Celente, but you’ll have to admit that he predicted the present worldwide financial crisis, pretty much right on the nose. The Mid-Hudson region’s resident internationally-renowned talking head, Celente – and his organization, the Trends Research Institute – are once again swinging into high gear to regale the [...]

Debates between presidential candidates every four years are almost as eagerly awaited as a Super Bowl, the Olympics or the onset of March Madness, and when they are all over provide pretty much the same sense of anticlimactic letdown. This time around, due to the involvement of a flirty, Rapture-awaiting soccer MILF, it actually seemed [...]

It’s a quiet October night on the shore of the Hudson River in the northern reaches of Poughkeepsie. Waves lap gently against a floating dock populated by three antique wooden sailboats. A miniature village of pup tents is clustered in the lee of the Cornell Boathouse on the Marist College riverfront, each one enveloping a [...]