Greetings, fellow food lovers! In deciding to launch the Hudson Valley Chronic at the dawn of the Great Recession as the local journalism firmament was crumbling around me, I had to make some hard choices. Number one, in order to give the paper a fighting chance, I had to commit to resisting the impetus to [...]
Volume II No. 4
My Name is ‘I Hate You,’ and I’ll be Your Server
Harry Seitz • July 1st, 2009
I’ve worked in several restaurants throughout my life, and there are two things that have always remained consistent: The customer is always an asshole; If the customers knew how the food was handled, they would never eat in any restaurant ever again. One thing that patrons have to understand about waiters is that we don’t [...]
On the Waterfront
Plucky Poughkeepsie perseveres through thick and thin
Steve Hopkins • July 1st, 2009
More than 11 years ago, I penned an article for the now-defunct Taconic Press lifestyle imprint, Dutchess Magazine, attempting to give voice to a sense of hope I’d detected in dozens of people attempting to bring life to the City of Poughkeepsie. There was a fair amount of history in the article as well. Today, [...]
Show and Tell
Burlesque rises again as New Paltz-based troupe takes to the boards
Steve Hopkins • July 1st, 2009
A traveling college-based performing troupe called Alpha Psi Ecdysia is busily re-introducing the nearly lost art of burlesque to audiences from New Paltz to New York City and beyond. The group, led by a long-term student code-named Lucida Sans (a moniker she shares with an obscure printing font), is nearing 50 strong these days and [...]
