Eat. Drink. Live.
What a magical place. I can’t believe this is our first time here. We met Katie and Tom — and Otis, of course — for a nice morning of wandering around. Sea change. This thing is so cool. Sea Change, […]
lohudfood said farewell to Megan with an appropriate send-off at Dunne’s Pub in White Plains. (Here’s Megan’s farewell column: lohudfood says farewell to Megan.) Somehow Brum, who was next to Carucha, did not make it into this photo?! It’s been […]
A few friends from our staff took to the lanes Wednesday night, at the (newish) Bowlmor in White Plains. It was a lot of fun! Even though I didn’t do so well!
With the weather being so stinking hot, Ed and I have taken to walking inside the building instead of outside. One of the discoveries we’ve made along its hallways is this super-cool painting. We think it’s original to the IBM […]
Another hot day, and this one raining. So instead of the pool, we head to an attraction: the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Jellyfish! Sharks! Stingrays! And some very cool frogs, too. First step, the seal show! Then, off to pet […]
Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now, Boscobel’s summer 2016 exhibit, pitted modern 21rst-century Hudson Valley furniture designers against the classic 19th century Federalist architecture — all within the same space. The home was moved from its original location in Cortlandt […]
I usually do my walks on the rail trail, but the river was calling me today. Beautiful day. Cat’s point. I just love where we live.
Oysters at Crave Fish Bar on the Upper West, then to a performance of Taming of the Shrew in Central Park!
An exciting new brewery is coming to Rockland County: Industrial Arts Brewing Company. Jeff O’Neil, former brewer for Peekskill Brewery, is the owner and brewmaster, and he’s getting ready to do some very, very creative things. He’s moving into a […]
An inspiring way to start your day: to hear stories from people who volunteer and make change in our community. The annual Volunteer Spirits Awards Breakfast, held at the Marriott in Tarrytown. Karen, Mary and Traci: Gary and me: Breakfast! […]
The Steve Martin-Edie Brickell musical Bright Star was quiet and delightful. A little rushed at the end — let’s wrap it up, people! — but I agreed with Charles Isherwood of the New York Times who thought the ending rather […]
After some coffee and a bit of relaxing on Saturday morning, we decided upon a serendipitous trip to the Hudson Highlands Museum to see their opening day for maple sugaring! Here is their super-cool playground, which has all natural structures: The […]
Out for a walk on the rail-trail and I looked down: Looks like a heart to me. Happy Valentine’s Day, a little late.
Technically, we’ve taken Sam to the Natural History Museum before. But she was such a wee babe — six weeks old, when she went along with her cousins Mae and Jane — she slept the entire time. Not so this […]
With a free day on my hands — a bonus vacation day thrown in at the last minute — I made sure to go to the Picasso Sculpture show I’d been promising myself for months I would see. What a […]
To get to know some of the places we cover a little better, it was arranged that editors take a tour of Indian Point. It made for an early morning commute that took me across one of the most beautiful spans […]
I’m young, scrappy and hungry.
We had such a fun time going to Rockefeller Center last New Year’s Day that we decided to repeat the experience. Burgers at Bill’s, then a trip to the tree — and we even threw in St. Patrick’s Cathedral this […]
A couple of big Broadway fans head to a classic, Fiddler on the Roof, starring one of my favorite stage actors, Danny Burstein. Les dorkages:
Sam has been practicing the Nutcracker ballet all semester, so we thought it would be fun to take her to see a children’s version in the city. An hour long version by the New York Theatre Ballet at the Florence […]
The annual Messiah sing at Grace Church. And Brandon being silly onstage:
What a lucky girl am I. Because of a story for Arrive magazine, I got to see Hamilton again. The experience was completely different from the first one. The first time, I tried not to read too much about the […]
The lohud coffee chat is picking up steam, if you’ll pardon the pun. We had a nice turnout this November Friday at Jane Cafe in Pearl River. And the coffee was very good!
I’d always pictured a salon as being in a room with lots of couches, velvet curtains and a hookah. Gertrude Stein, Paris, Picasso. That kind of stuff. Questlove’s Food Salon was not that. It was a cocktail party with delicious […]
Another fabulous and fun Nyack Halloween Parade! The pope, Cruella deVille, and lots of spooky ghouls and goblins of all kinds!
The Blaze! Where 10,000 pumpkins light up the night and spook you out! We had the chance to catch it this year — first time since 2010! — and Sam just adored it. (Truth be told, so did we.) Van […]
There’s nothing like a Hudson Valley sunset in the fall. Here we are mid-October and we’re already setting some records. A view from the TZ Bridge: Don’t worry, I was stuck in traffic.
One morning, I drove Irene to work. On my way out, this was my view. I texted Irene a couple of hours later: whenever you feel frustrated at work, just remember how lucky you are to work in such a […]
We were astonished to find such a treasure not even 20 minutes away. The restored carousel, the meandering trails (with really cool signage!); the views! Bear Mountain Inn and the Bear Mountain State Park are once again on our radar. […]
One afternoon commute I had a particularly close-up look at the big crane moving the girders around on the bridge construction.
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
