Volume II No. 7

Damned if I do; damned if I don’t


Steve Hopkins • December 1st, 2009

I know it’s the holidays and everything, so you’ll have to forgive me, o Lord, for failing to believe in you. If you indeed created me and my ilk, then you probably have some understanding of the dilemma that led to this impasse. For what was created when I hit the bedpan was a hard-wired [...]

Deck the Walls

When times are tough, the tough buy ... Art!


Steve Hopkins • December 1st, 2009

During times like these when people hang onto every dollar in their wallet long enough to develop a relationship, the issue of spending of money on holiday gifts acquires an almost Malthusian sense of gravity. Even as most of us are sharply reducing our spending this year, there is a palpable sense that we’re trying [...]

Project Retail

An innovative fashion outlet turns heads in New Paltz


Steve Hopkins • December 1st, 2009

With New York City, a global fashion hub, just a train hop away and sucking most of the homegrown talent into its voracious maw, the Mid-Hudson region is not known as ground zero in the fashion industry — despite the fact that Donna Karan and quite a few other international arbiters of style live at [...]