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Increase to bring Dutchess closer to neighbors There are 65 pre-K special-needs children in the Beacon City School District. But there are no physical therapists in Dutchess County who contract with the agencies that provide services for them. If a pre-K special education student in the district needs physical therapy, a parent or guardian must travel to Highland, across the river in Ulster County. "That is a barrier for many of our families," said Heather Chadwell Dennis, the assistant superintendent of pupil personnel services for the Beacon district. Dutchess County legislators voted unanimously on Monday (Aug. 10) to increase pay for preschool special education providers, a move meant to address the shortage. While public school districts in New York state coordinate services such as speech, occupational or physical therapy for special-needs students age 3 and up, the agencies or individuals who provide the services are contracted with and paid by the county where they work. The pay rate for providers in Dutchess — $60 for a typical half-hour session — has lagged for years behind neighboring counties (Ulster pays $80), leading providers to take better-paying opportunities elsewhere. The Legislature's vote increases the rate to $80 per half hour. "It's investing in our community and our kids," said Yvette Valdés Smith, the chair of the Legislature, whose district includes Ward 4 in Beacon. The increase will now go to County Executive Sue Serino for her signature. If she enacts the change, it will be retroactive to July 1. Sixty percent of the increased cost will be covered by the state. Another issue Chadwell Dennis has seen in Beacon is when a provider — who travels to the home, daycare facility or school to work with the child — only has time for one session when three children need services. In that case, the district will gather the children in a common space, such as a library, "because the provider can't get to three houses, but they can get to the library one time," she said. It's not an ideal scenario for the early-intervention services that educators say are critical for special-needs children to make gains in communication, thinking and social skills. The resolution was drafted by Legislator Emma Arnoff, who represents LaGrange, Pleasant Valley and Poughkeepsie and is the founder of The Sensory Space, a Poughkeepsie facility where children use sensory supports while participating in play therapy and psychotherapy. Superintendent Matt Landahl said during the Beacon school board's July 30 meeting that he was "elated" to see the increase on the table. Early intervention services for special-needs children provide "a life raft for families that are struggling with a really young child who is struggling," he said, calling it "a vitally important area" that has been overlooked.

National group to aid challenger Lisa Kaul A national Democratic Party organization seeking to restore the New York Senate's veto-proof majority has made it a priority to oust Rob Rolison, the incumbent Republican whose district includes Philipstown and Beacon. The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, which formed in 1992 to elect party members to state legislatures, this month named the District 39 campaign as one of six races it will support before the November election. The group is chaired by Andrea Stewart-Cousins, majority leader of the New York Senate. Lisa Kaul, who represents part of the Town of Poughkeepsie on the Dutchess County Legislature, won a three-candidate primary in June to face Rolison, a former Poughkeepsie mayor who is seeking a third, 2-year term. Democrats outnumber Republicans 41 to 22 in the Senate, but one more seat would restore a two-thirds supermajority that the party lost in the 2024 election. Combined with the supermajority in the Assembly, where Democrats hold 103 of the 150 seats, the party could override gubernatorial vetoes without Republican support. As of July 15, the Kaul campaign said it had $37,511 on hand, while the Rolison campaign reported $8,847. Funding from the DLCC will help "reach more voters across the Hudson Valley, have more conversations about the issues that matter to people and share my vision for finding solutions and delivering results in Albany," Kaul said on Tuesday (Aug. 4). Rolison defeated Julie Shiroishi, then chief of staff to Assembly Member Jonathan Jacobson, with 53 percent of the vote in 2022. Two years later, his victory over Yvette Valdés Smith, a Dutchess legislator who represents parts of Beacon and Fishkill, was much closer, at 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent. The DLCC last contributed money to New York state candidates in 2020, when it spent a total of $53,100 on five Senate races, according to the state Board of Elections. The recipients included Stewart-Cousins and state Sen. Pete Harckham, whose district includes part of eastern Putnam County. Harckham is one of three Democratic incumbents named among the DLCC's six priority races in 2026. The two other candidates are, like Kaul, challenging incumbent Republicans. Heather Williams, the DLCC's president, said that supermajorities in both the Senate and Assembly "will help Democrats continue to go on offense on redistricting and keep delivering for families." The Rolison campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Kaul is a native of India and Rhodes Scholar who moved to the U.S. in 2004. She spent five years as an administrator at Vassar College and served on the Arlington school board before defeating Republican Marc Pfeifer in 2023 to win a seat in the Legislature. She ran unopposed in 2025 for a second term and chairs the Environment Committee. In June, Kaul easily won the Democratic primary, garnering 62 percent of the vote to defeat Evan Menist, a member of the Poughkeepsie Common Council (30 percent) and Gay Lee, a former City of Newburgh council member (7 percent). "A strong Democratic majority means progress on affordability, healthcare, housing, reproductive freedom and climate resilience," said Kaul, adding that being a member of that majority means she could "bring state resources home to improve public transportation, build housing our families can afford, invest in infrastructure to keep our water clean and lower utility costs."

Condo development had been set for foreclosure sale A housing development twice halted by the city and ordered by a state judge to be sold to pay down debt is back on the Beacon Planning Board agenda. Eliza Street LLC, the owner of The Mews at Beacon, has hired a Newburgh architecture firm to see the project at 53 Eliza St. to completion, according to materials submitted for the board's Tuesday (Aug. 11) meeting. If that happens, it will be a remarkable turnaround for a project that appeared doomed. In February 2025, a lender, Insula Capital Group, filed a lawsuit in Dutchess County court demanding repayment of nearly $4.63 million from Qele "Charlie" Qelaj, whose project calls for nine loft-like condominiums two blocks from Main Street. The proposal received Planning Board approval in 2019, as well as variances to construct multi-family housing in a single-family zone and to construct nine units on a parcel where six were allowed. But by 2023, construction had stalled as Qelaj sought new financing. In its suit, Insula asked the court to force the sale of the property to pay the debt. There were additional money problems. In April 2025, the Building Department issued the first of two stop-work orders at the site when it said Qelaj could not renew a work permit because of unpaid property taxes. In the months that followed, Building Inspector Bryan Murphy said he allowed windows and doors to be installed to protect the property from the elements, but when further work commenced in April 2026, he issued a second order. Qelaj paid $175,000 in delinquent taxes earlier this year, city officials said. On the legal front, Judge Maria Rosa granted Insula's request for summary judgment in August 2025 and appointed an attorney who determined that Qelaj owed Insula $5.97 million plus costs and interest. The Mews were scheduled to be auctioned in March at the Dutchess County Courthouse in Poughkeepsie, but the sale did not take place. Instead, in an April 21 letter to Rosa, Insula attorneys said the sides had agreed to stay the sale. The agreement was not filed with the court, but the attorneys said the sale will be rescheduled if Qelaj defaults. Otherwise, upon compliance, Insula will drop the suit. In his letter to the Planning Board, Chris Berg of Fifth Street Architecture said he hopes to "see this project stabilized, completed and occupied by residents." But he acknowledged another setback. While authorizing a new work permit, Berg and Murphy — who was not the building inspector when the project was approved in 2019 — discovered that site drawings were never endorsed by the board after its approval. The project "should never have been issued a work permit, let alone subsequent renewals," Berg wrote. Qelaj, who is not the original applicant, is returning to the board seeking endorsement of the 2019 approval so he can proceed with construction, Berg said. He said that Qelaj will work with Murphy to "correct any deviations that have been noted from the original approval." Finally, Berg added that Fifth Street was not involved "in the initial planning or permitting of any portion of the project at 53 Eliza Street — we are simply assisting in getting this project back on track to completion."

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Editor's note: Beacon was created in 1913 from Matteawan and Fishkill Landing. Officials planned to set off $450 [about $14,000 today] in fireworks on July 4 from three canal boats anchored in the Hudson River. Five steam tugs owned by the New York & Eastern Transportation Co. were idle at the Newburgh docks for lack of business. John Hadfield, the 7-year-old son of Levi Hadfield, drowned in a well at Walsh's brewery in Matteawan. A tailor working at Fishkill Landing was walking along the railroad when he saw the southbound train coming toward him. He stepped onto the other track and was killed by a northbound train. The Highland Hospital in Matteawan planned an addition measuring 22 by 24 feet. Benjamin Ellsden, a newly hired police officer in Newark, New Jersey, and the brother of the Rev. Robert Ellsden of Matteawan, was shot and killed as he and his partner attempted to serve arrest warrants on three brothers accused of extortion. Robert Allen, 22, of Walpole, Massachusetts, drowned in the Hudson, while trying to swim across. His body was spotted by a ferry passenger. A mason working on the third floor of a new building at Groveville dropped a brick that hit another worker in the head, causing a serious injury. The First National Bank of Fishkill Landing installed an iron cresting around its counter. Because of the heat, a Matteawan judge held court outside, under the trees, with the jury sitting on a timber bench. A Fishkill Landing woman was arrested for using profane language. The Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad reported that, although it used a single track over 130 miles, it had not had a serious passenger injury or train collision in 30 years. William Kasher, 20, was swimming across Fishkill Creek at Glenham with Albert Shrayer, 11, on his back, when he became disabled by cramps, and both drowned. They were workers at the Stewart mills. William Ackerman was driving a wagon in Poughkeepsie with a passenger, Sarah Ackerman of Fishkill Landing, when he stopped to deliver a pot of butter. He put the reins on the dash to tie up the 4-year-old colt when it sprang, throwing Miss Ackerman and the butter into the road and running over Mr. Ackerman. The horse pulled the upside-down wagon until it struck the bridge. No one was seriously hurt. Members of the nativist Order of United American Mechanics Lodge No. 52 of Fishkill Landing participated in the Fourth of July parade in Newburgh, pulling a four-horse wagon with 13 young ladies. Another four-horse wagon contained girls from its Juvenile Temple, representing the states and territories of 1876. John McGinn of Fishkill Landing was arrested on charges that he stole soda crackers and canned corn from a merchant's storeroom. Martha Waddle was sentenced to Randall's Island for stealing $20 [$625] and jewelry from the home of Jacob Hawks. The Hudson River District Eclectic Medical Society held its annual meeting in Fishkill Landing. [Eclectic medicine combined conventional treatment with plant and herbal therapies.] A fire engine from Perseverance Co. No. 1, on loan to Fishkill Landing while one of its fire trucks was being repaired, returned to Poughkeepsie with thanks from city trustees. Several people prevented a distraught Rosetta Greenwood, 40, from throwing herself from Long Dock. She had earlier tried to strangle herself with a shawl. Entrants in the Newburgh Bay Regatta included, in the third class, the 18-foot Catboat Uno and 20-foot Catboat Thetis, both from Fishkill Landing. The Rev. Michael McGuire, assistant pastor at St. Joachim's, resigned as chaplain of the Beacon Kiwanis Club after Margaret Sanger, president of the American Birth Control League, spoke during its annual Ladies Day luncheon at the Holland Hotel. Sanger and her husband, J. Noah Slee, owned a summer home in Fishkill. McGuire complained: "Kiwanis teach unselfishness; she preaches selfishness at the expense even of God's laws in nature." While digging a cesspool on his 8-acre property at...

Longer lines, many new faces Fareground raised money in 2024 to buy a refrigerated box truck capable of holding 6,000 pounds of food for distribution to residents in Beacon, Fishkill, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls. A capacity that once seemed sufficient has been surmounted by a problem that continues to grow, and the Fishkill-based nonprofit has outgrown the truck, according to Jamie Levato, its executive director. "We are constantly having to bring in more and more food; storage is becoming a challenge and transport is becoming a challenge." Fareground is not alone in noting longer lines and new faces at every distribution. Dozens of representatives from food pantries across the Hudson Valley told the same story when they gathered Tuesday (July 28) at AME Zion Church in Newburgh to receive an update from the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, which distributes food to organizations in Dutchess, Putnam and 21 other counties. The food bank illustrated the extent of hunger in the Hudson Valley by sharing new statistics from Map the Meal Gap, a report compiled by Feeding America, a national hunger-relief organization. The most recent data, from 2024, documents the number of adults and children considered "food-insecure" because they lack access to enough to eat. In Dutchess, Putnam and the four other counties (Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster), 167,990 people were considered food-insecure in 2024, including 53,390 children (a 10 percent increase over the previous year). In Dutchess, an estimated 32,140 people (11 percent of the population) were food-insecure, and in Putnam, 8,430 (8.6 percent). Despite a small decrease from 2023, Dutchess has 10,730 more food-insecure residents than 2021 and Putnam, 3,200 more. Food pantries expect their lines to grow as the costs for food, energy, housing and necessities continue to rise. Those challenges are aggravated by federal cuts that began last year in programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. In 2025, the Regional Food Bank distributed 53.3 million pounds of food to pantries, more than any year in its nearly five decades of service, except for 2020, during the pandemic. That was despite losing 7 million pounds in cuts by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said Tom Nardacci, CEO of the Regional Food Bank. Nardacci said that people who have never visited a food pantry or "stood outside in the cold to hand out food" are "making decisions that aren't connected to reality." Here are a few local resources if you need food assistance. Beacon's Backyard Kitchen The group serves a hot breakfast at 12 Hanna Lane on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. and to-go lunch until 10:30 a.m. Beacon Farmers' Market The market doubles the value of federal food benefits from June to November. See beaconfarmersmarket.org/food-benefits. Common Ground Farm does the same at the market through its Greens4Greens program. Fareground The nonprofit serves a community meal on Friday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 50 Liberty St., in Beacon. Fishkill Food Pantry Operated by First Reformed Church of Fishkill and St. Mary Mother of the Church, Fishkill, at 1153 Main St., the pantry serves residents of the Highlands, including Beacon and Cold Spring. It is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon and Monday and Wednesday from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Call 845-896-4546 in the morning to make an appointment for that day. Proof of residency is required. Mutual Aid Beacon The group provides groceries on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 8:15 a.m. at Memorial Park. The first Wednesday is for seniors or households with a senior (age 60 and older), and the third (and fifth) Wednesday is open to everyone. Enter near Ron's Ice Cream. You can also walk up at 8 a.m. at the Beacon Recreation Center, 23 W. Center St. Philipstown Food Pantry The pantry at the First Presbyterian Church, 10 Aca...

Curators Marina Chao & Adam Ryan (CPW) join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss the inaugural Upstate Photography Biennial and the curatorial process behind this major contemporary photography exhibition. Chao, Ryan, and Wolf explore how CPW develops exhibitions with both the local community and broader audience in mind, building meaningful public engagement, and what artists can do to establish and sustain relationships with photography and arts organizations. https://cpw.org Marina Chao has previously held curatorial positions at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As assistant curator at ICP she organized the exhibition Multiply, Identify, Her (2018) and contributed to the publication Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (Aperture and ICP, 2018). She was awarded a 2019 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for a project exploring the intersections of image, language, and technology. Adam Ryan is a photography specialist and curator based in Poughkeepsie, New York. He gained experience working at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he focused on the museum's permanent collection of photographs, while also managing its Collection Study Center. He collaborated on multiple exhibitions such as Japanese Photography from Post War to Now, Selections from the Sack Photographic Trust, and Nothing Stable Under Heaven. Before that, he worked in the Photography Department of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his primary focus was a major retrospective on the work of renowned artist Duane Michals – Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals. As a student, he learned photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and continued into graduate school at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. https://www.adamgilesryan.com

Kris and David are back to discuss the week that was March 15-21, 1993, the last of our “backlog” shows. Topics of discussion include:WCW's tour of the UK and Ireland, where they changed the WCW World Heavyweight Title twice in a week with Big Van Vader flipping the belt back and forth, plus why this really didn't get talked about much on TV.Ric Flair goes “Up Close” with Eric Bischoff on TV, talking about his return to WCW and Barry Windham being NWA World Heavyweighht Champion.The Cole Twins get a fan club.The Big Bossman returns to All Japan while Hulk Hogan is on his way to New Japan.New Japan's faction warfare and how fun that was.The birth of Michinoku Pro Wrestling.The three major promotions in Mexico receive their David Awards.Chuck Wepner shows up at a New Jersey indie show to referee the most 1993 New Jersey indie match you could possibly think of.Arn Anderson works three house shows in SMW the same week that Chris Candido makes his debut as The Avenger.Kevin Sullivan brutalizes W*ING Kanemura on SMW TV in a famously gruesome moment.Bert Prentice sings live on Memphis TV. Sort of.Eddie Gilbert cuts a shoot promo about his position in the USWA and is basically done with the promotion as a result in true Eddie fashion.Vince McMahon misses Monday Night Raw's first visit to Poughkeepsie to receive the Michael Landon Award, so Rob Bartlett joins Gorilla Monsoon as Bobby Heenan “Not Vince McMahon,” and that doesn't go too well.All this and so much more on a damn fun episode of BTS!Timestamps:0:00:00 WCW0:57:20 Int'l: AJPW, NJPW, FMW, Michinoku Pro debut show, NOW, PWC, W*ING, AJW, JWP, LLPW, Dino Bravo funeral, AAA, CMLL, Juan Herrera, Arena Naucalpan, UWA, & Tijuana1:46:53 Classic Commercial Break1:55:05 Halftime2:40:18 Other USA: WIN, IWF (Mansfield), UWS/Chuck Wepner, WWWA (PA), NGWA, SMW, USA (AL), USWA, GWF, Big D, CWUSA, & Wrestling Fury/MidwestWA4:02:49 WWFTo support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows!If you're looking for the best deal on a VPN service—short for Virtual Private Network, it helps you get around regional restrictions as well as browse the internet more securely—then Private Internet Access is what you've been looking for. Not only will using our link help support Between The Sheets, but you'll get a special discount, with prices as low as $1.98/month if you go with a 40 month subscription. With numerous great features and even a TV-specific Android app to make streaming easier, there is no better choice if you're looking to subscribe to My AEW and other region-locked services.For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Kris and David are back to discuss the week that was March 15-21, 1993, the last of our “backlog” shows. Topics of discussion include:WCW's tour of the UK and Ireland, where they changed the WCW World Heavyweight Title twice in a week with Big Van Vader flipping the belt back and forth, plus why this really didn't get talked about much on TV.Ric Flair goes “Up Close” with Eric Bischoff on TV, talking about his return to WCW and Barry Windham being NWA World Heavyweighht Champion.The Cole Twins get a fan club.The Big Bossman returns to All Japan while Hulk Hogan is on his way to New Japan.New Japan's faction warfare and how fun that was.The birth of Michinoku Pro Wrestling.The three major promotions in Mexico receive their David Awards.Chuck Wepner shows up at a New Jersey indie show to referee the most 1993 New Jersey indie match you could possibly think of.Arn Anderson works three house shows in SMW the same week that Chris Candido makes his debut as The Avenger.Kevin Sullivan brutalizes W*ING Kanemura on SMW TV in a famously gruesome moment.Bert Prentice sings live on Memphis TV. Sort of.Eddie Gilbert cuts a shoot promo about his position in the USWA and is basically done with the promotion as a result in true Eddie fashion.Vince McMahon misses Monday Night Raw's first visit to Poughkeepsie to receive the Michael Landon Award, so Rob Bartlett joins Gorilla Monsoon as Bobby Heenan “Not Vince McMahon,” and that doesn't go too well.All this and so much more on a damn fun episode of BTS!Timestamps:0:00:00 WCW0:57:20 Int'l: AJPW, NJPW, FMW, Michinoku Pro debut show, NOW, PWC, W*ING, AJW, JWP, LLPW, Dino Bravo funeral, AAA, CMLL, Juan Herrera, Arena Naucalpan, UWA, & Tijuana1:46:53 Classic Commercial Break1:55:05 Halftime2:40:18 Other USA: WIN, IWF (Mansfield), UWS/Chuck Wepner, WWWA (PA), NGWA, SMW, USA (AL), USWA, GWF, Big D, CWUSA, & Wrestling Fury/MidwestWA4:02:49 WWFTo support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows!If you're looking for the best deal on a VPN service—short for Virtual Private Network, it helps you get around regional restrictions as well as browse the internet more securely—then Private Internet Access is what you've been looking for. Not only will using our link help support Between The Sheets, but you'll get a special discount, with prices as low as $1.98/month if you go with a 40 month subscription. With numerous great features and even a TV-specific Android app to make streaming easier, there is no better choice if you're looking to subscribe to My AEW and other region-locked services.For the best in both current and classic indie wrestling streaming, make sure to check out IndependentWrestling.tv and use coupon code BTSPOD for a free 5 day trial! (You can also go directly to TinyURL.com/IWTVsheets to sign up that way.) If you convert to a paid subscriber, we get a kickback for referring you, allowing you to support both the show and the indie scene.To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Here’s the audio from the July 8th, 2026 Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests Sam Rebelein & Victor Manibo, recorded live at the KGB Bar. Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​ Sam Rebelein Sam Rebelein writes and teaches in Poughkeepsie, NY. His fiction has appeared in PseudoPod, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow’s prestigious Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His first three books (The Poorly Made and Other Things, Galloway's Gospel, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated novel Edenville) are all set in the fictional world of Renfield County. His sci-fi horror chapbook Meatship is also available from Rapture Publishing. For more about Sam’s work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94. & Victor Manibo Victor Manibo is a Filipino novelist living in New York. He is the author of the science fiction novels The Sleepless and Escape Velocity, and the crime thriller Dead Note. His first horror novel, The Villa, Once Beloved, is out now from Erewhon Books. Aside from his books, he also spins fantastical tales in his career as a lawyer. Find him online at victormanibo.com and on most social media platforms @victormanibo.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Stephen Haff, an educator who teaches drama and humanities at Poughkeepsie Day School in Poughkeepsie; Anna Markowitz, executive director of Communities for Local Power and a former White House Advance Lead; Justin Patch, an associate professor of music at Vassar College, who studies music in American politics; sound studies; East Asian art music; and music in the African diaspora; and Dr. Karin Reidl, a professor of Government at Dutchess Community College and president of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley.

September 28th, 2017. Poughkeepsie, New York. In the early morning hours, Nikki Addimando stepped out of her car and told a police officer that she had been in a fight with her boyfriend and shot him in self defense. Christopher Grover was found dead in the couple's apartment. The investigation would show that Nikki had been abused by Grover for years leading up to the shooting, but would this save her from a conviction?Connect With Us Website: genwhypod.com Instagram: @generationwhypodcast Facebook: facebook.com/thegenerationwhypodcast TikTok: @genwhypod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thegenerationwhypodcastSupport the Show For special episodes, outtakes, and more from Justin & Aaron, visit: patreon.com/generationwhyAudible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Generation Why ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.Privacy Policy See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this lively “Mike Smith Squared” conversation on Trail 103.3, host Mike Smith welcomes Mike Smith of the Missoula PaddleHeads for a behind-the-scenes look at life inside Ogren Park. What starts as a humorous “battle of the Mike Smiths” quickly turns into a deep dive into the energy, creativity, and community impact driving Missoula's hometown baseball team.Mike Smith (Missoula PaddleHeads) shares his journey from producing radio in New York's Poughkeepsie market to finding a long-term home in Missoula, where he now helps shape the PaddleHeads' marketing and game-day experience. He breaks down what goes into building themed nights like Star Wars Night and the upcoming Super Hero Night, a special evening in partnership with the Brain Injury Alliance. The night features players wearing custom superhero-themed jerseys designed to support awareness and recovery efforts for brain injury survivors, with a live jersey auction where fans can bid to take home game-worn jerseys straight from the players' backs. The evening also includes appearances from fan-favorite superheroes like Batman, Supergirl, and Ghost Spider, along with interactive ballpark entertainment and family-friendly activities encouraging fans of all ages to dress up and join the fun.The conversation also highlights the ballpark's food innovations, community partnerships, and inclusive programming, from Pride Night and Women in Sports Night to military appreciation events,showing how the PaddleHeads have become more than just baseball. They're a summer staple built around connection, entertainment, and local pride.With fireworks nights, drone shows, giveaways, and an always-packed schedule, this episode captures the full scope of what makes a PaddleHeads game a must-attend Missoula experience.Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the ballpark, this episode brings you straight into the heart of the action,where baseball meets community, and every night tells a different story.

We'll discuss a special event coming to New York's Hudson Valley—The Promised One Passion Play at Living Water Church in Poughkeepsie. Our guests include Dr. Jim Whitmore, longtime director of the Memphis and Mid-America Passion Plays; Dana Duncan Vansteenbergh, whose late husband, Pastor Derek Duncan, founded Living Water Church; and Pastor Anthony Patton, Lead Pastor of Living Water Church, who will portray Jesus in this year's production starting June 18-20, 2026.

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

Francis Anderson quit running the day his little brother beat him.Poker was different.That one stuck.Francis grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, in a competitive family. Road races on the weekends. Soccer. School. A normal path.Then college happened.University of Albany. Accounting major. Study room poker games. $5 and $10 buy-ins.And then Jamie Gold won the 2006 WSOP Main Event.For a lot of people, Moneymaker was the moment.For Francis?It was Jamie Gold talking people into doing the wrong thing for $12 million.From there, poker got serious fast.He started playing online, driving to Turning Stone, grinding $150 nightlies with a tiny bankroll, and building a network through PocketFives and AOL Instant Messenger.Then he satellited into the Sunday Brawl, got 7th for around $10K, and told his mom he was dropping out of college.As one does.In this episode of The Table 1 Podcast, Francis joins Art Parmann and Justin Young to talk through the full ride: ♠️ Finding poker during the Jamie Gold WSOP era ♥️ Dropping out after a Sunday Brawl score ♦️ Black Friday and the Costa Rica online poker migration ♣️ Grinding with David Peters and seeing elite work ethic up close ♠️ Moving to Vegas with a tiny bankroll ♥️ Getting crushed, going nearly broke, and rebuilding ♦️ Wearing a cowboy hat and mask to disguise himself in the Monster Stack ♣️ Turning a $5K bankroll into a massive WSOP score ♠️ Winning the $800 Independence Day event for $500K ♥️ Becoming Main Event chip leader the next day ♦️ Back-to-back WPT final tables ♣️ Why he still shows up early for $800s and $1KsThis one is a real grinder story.Not overnight success.Not one heater.A decade-plus of moving countries, rebuilding bankrolls, firing bullets, getting better, and showing up again the next day.Sometimes in a cowboy hat.

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Curtis Dozier's The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate (Yale University Press, 2026) explores how white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics.It is difficult to ignore the resurgence of white nationalist movements in the United States, many of which employ symbols and slogans from Greco-Roman antiquity. A long-established neo-Nazi website incorporates an image of the Parthenon into its logo, and rioters wore Spartan helmets in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These juxtapositions may appear incongruous to people who associate the ancient world with enlightened political ideals and sophisticated philosophical inquiry. But, as Dozier points out in this thought-provoking book, it's hard to imagine a historical period better suited to rhetorical use by white nationalists. Indeed, some of the most widely admired voices from ancient literature and philosophy endorsed ideas that modern white supremacists promote, and the social and political realities of the ancient world provide models for political systems that white supremacists would like to establish today. Part introduction to contemporary white nationalist thought, part exploration of ancient racism and xenophobia, and part intellectual history of the political entanglements of academic study of the past, this book reveals that contemporary white nationalist intellectuals know much more about history than many people assume—and they deploy this knowledge with disturbing success. Curtis Dozier is associate professor of Greek and Roman studies at Vassar College. He is the director of the internationally recognized website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, which documents appropriations of Greco-Roman antiquity by hate groups. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Saratoga's final run as host of the Belmont Stakes is in the books. While attendance was down, wagering went up to nearly $200 million. New York State is one step away from banning so-called surveillance pricing. An abandoned psychiatric hospital in Poughkeepsie caught fire again Monday. Get the latest news from the Times Union here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's edition of The Update Journal, we return to the CBS drama because apparently yesterday's “60 Minutes” story was not finished — it was just buffering. Scott Pelley gets fired, CBS somehow looks at one of the most respected journalists in the building and says, “You know what this newsroom needs? Less alarm system,” and Knicks coverage is partly responsible for why we had to circle back like a subway train skipping your stop.Then, Dunkin' enters its new $6 Meal Deal era, where breakfast has officially been wrapped, folded, and placed into witness protection until August 12th. The old deal is gone, the wraps are here, and somewhere a hash brown is asking if it needs a lawyer.And finally, The Last Word brings us The Calm Before the Real Summer Storm — that brief, suspicious window where summer is technically here, but the full heat, humidity, schedule chaos, and “why am I sweating indoors?” phase hasn't fully attacked yet. Enjoy the breeze while it lasts. It has terms and conditions.In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a massive fire tore through multiple buildings of a historic psychiatric facility in the Hudson Valley, wild footage shows. The blaze erupted at the abandoned Hudson River Psychiatric Center in Poughkeepsie, which was established in 1867 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 after closing years earlier, according to Pix 11.This nut didn't fall too far from the tree. Teflon Don John Gotti's grandson is back in cuffs for allegedly slapping and choking his gal pal – just days before he was due to start serving a prison sentence for stealing COVID relief funds.And out in the American West in Los Angeles, after a tough first term framed by the most destructive wildfire in city history and an ongoing struggle with widespread homelessness, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to a November runoff as she fights to stay in City Hall against challengers from both ends of the political spectrum.

Leander Schaerlaeckens joins JD live from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to discuss his book  "The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts"Join us on Substack! 

It's 1940 and Gaby's parents and sister succumb to Typhus after staying in France to care for Gaby and Sabine's dying grandmother. The war is in full swing and Gaby can't get home to Poughkeepsie, NY. Her aunt lives in Ireland, which stayed neutral during WWII, so she heads there. But the aunt has just died, and 18-year-old Gaby makes her way to the remote manor of her aunt's husband's relatives, where she's hired as a servant. In a different reality, 17-year-old Sabine is the sister who survived. She also finds her way to Ireland, but Germany has invaded, so she's in hiding. Then Sabine gets to the same remote manor where for one hour at dusk, a mystical time according to Irish legend, she and Gaby meet and talk. We Meet Apart (Regal House Publishing, 2026) is about family, resilience, and survival in the face of war, death, and the world of ghosts. Martha Conway grew up in northern Ohio and earned her B.A. in English and History from Vassar College. She received a master's in English: Creative Writing, from San Francisco State University. Her previous novels include The Underground River, which was a New York Times Book Editor's Choice, and Thieving Forest, which won the North American Book Award for Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, Carolina Quarterly, Missouri Review, Folio, and other journals. She is a recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship, and she teaches creative writing for Stanford University's Writing Certificate program. When Martha is not writing or reading, she's playing at being a flaneuse—a city stroller—or traveling to Italy to see Roman ruins with her husband, a former archeologist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

It's 1940 and Gaby's parents and sister succumb to Typhus after staying in France to care for Gaby and Sabine's dying grandmother. The war is in full swing and Gaby can't get home to Poughkeepsie, NY. Her aunt lives in Ireland, which stayed neutral during WWII, so she heads there. But the aunt has just died, and 18-year-old Gaby makes her way to the remote manor of her aunt's husband's relatives, where she's hired as a servant. In a different reality, 17-year-old Sabine is the sister who survived. She also finds her way to Ireland, but Germany has invaded, so she's in hiding. Then Sabine gets to the same remote manor where for one hour at dusk, a mystical time according to Irish legend, she and Gaby meet and talk. We Meet Apart (Regal House Publishing, 2026) is about family, resilience, and survival in the face of war, death, and the world of ghosts. Martha Conway grew up in northern Ohio and earned her B.A. in English and History from Vassar College. She received a master's in English: Creative Writing, from San Francisco State University. Her previous novels include The Underground River, which was a New York Times Book Editor's Choice, and Thieving Forest, which won the North American Book Award for Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, Carolina Quarterly, Missouri Review, Folio, and other journals. She is a recipient of a California Arts Council fellowship, and she teaches creative writing for Stanford University's Writing Certificate program. When Martha is not writing or reading, she's playing at being a flaneuse—a city stroller—or traveling to Italy to see Roman ruins with her husband, a former archeologist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

"I want to underline my own belief that art must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition to it—otherwise life would become impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence." ― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986) The Cold War Cinema team is joined by guest Taylor R. Genovese to discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature film, Ivan's Childhood (1962), a Soviet masterpiece about the Great Patriotic War and prime example of Thaw–era cinema. Taylor R. Genovese is an assistant professor of philosophy at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has also been a filmmaker and photographer for over a decade. His multimodal and transdisciplinary research focuses on Marxism, historical memory, and borderlands. He is also an editor and board member at Iskra Books, a nonprofit scholarly publisher that releases original works of revolutionary theory, history, ecology, and art.  In this episode we discuss:  Andrei Tarkovsky's life and career The historical and political context of Ivan's Childhood Tarkovsky's aesthetic vision and theological concerns How the concept of "toska" shapes the sensibilities of the literary and cinematic arts in the Slavic world, including in Tarkovsky's films. The moving image representation of trauma and transcendence in Ivan's Childhood. The poetry of Andrei's father, Arseny Tarkovsky, and its influence on the filmmaker. The Soviet astethetics of Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), as articulated in his book Art and the Working Class, which Genovese translated from the Russian in 2022. To purchase the book (or download a free PDF), click this link.   _____________________ We love to give book or film recommendations on the podcast, so here are ours for this episode:  Taylor recommends the films Come and See (1985, dir. Elem Klimov) and Dead Man's Letters (1986, dir. Konstantin Lopushanskiy). Paul recommends a film and a record: Sergei Eisenstein's Strike (1925) and U2's War (1983). Tony recommends the book Freudianism: A Marxist Critique, by Valentin Voloshinov, and the new essay "The Enchanted Biopolitics of Dark Cosmism" by our guest Taylor R. Genovese. Jason recommends the film Kes (1969, dir. Ken Loach) _____________________ Like and subscribe to Cold War Cinema, and don't forget to leave us a review! Want to continue the conversation? Drop us a line at any time at coldwarcinemapod@gmail.com. To stay up to date on Cold War Cinema, follow along at coldwarcinema.com, or find us online on Bluesky @coldwarcinema.com or on X at @Cold_War_Cinema.  For more from your hosts: Follow Taylor uses the handle @trgenovese on X, Instagram, and Letterboxd. Information on his scholarship and visual art can be found on his website at taylorgenovese.com. Follow Jason on Bluesky at @JasonChristian.bsky.social, on X at @JasonAChristian, or on Letterboxed at @exilemagic.  Follow Anthony on Bluesky at @tonyjballas.bsky.social, on X at @tonyjballas. Follow Paul on Bluesky at @ptklein.com, or on Letterboxed at @ptklein. Paul also writes about movies at www.howotreadmovies.com  _____________________ Logo by Jason Christian  Theme music by DYAD (Charles Ballas and Jeremy Averitt).  Happy listening!

Lastar Gorton, Beacon's new Ward 1 city council rep, is tired of watching families be forced out of the city because their paychecks can't cover the rent or a mortgage down payment.   Lastar grew up in Beacon, and she has watched waves of lifelong Beaconites leave as the cost of housing rises, while developers have erected dozens of mostly luxury condo buildings. That includes her uncle, who was forced to leave his longtime apartment and move away from Beacon after his wife passed, despite expressing interest in buying the building he lived in. His offer, which would have easily bought the place just a few years ago, was slightly under the highest bid.   In this interview, she makes the case that Beacon hasn't done enough to resist real estate market forces that have already forced many longtime community members to move to Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and other nearby cities and towns. And she outlines what she believes it will take to create a wave of truly affordable construction in Beacon — as opposed to the "below market rate" units that are sometimes passed off as affordable.  There's plenty of other great stuff in this episode too, including on traffic, a community center, the TOD development and more.  If you like what you hear, please share it with a friend, and subscribe to our newsletter at Beaconites.com  

Rhinebeck Bank President and CEO Matthew Smith joins Travillian Next for a candid conversation about leading a 160-year-old community bank into its next chapter. Six months into the role at the $1.3 billion publicly traded bank in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matt shares how he is thinking about balancing 1950s-style community service with 2026 technology, building a culture of diversity of thought, and setting the strategic direction for the next 3 to 5 years.Matt brings a tech-forward background from Sterling, Webster, and the world of banking as a service into a traditional community bank, and the conversation is one other CEOs and boards should be paying attention to. It covers the opportunity cost of standing still, open architecture and the fast follower strategy, how Rhinebeck is competing against megabanks, fintechs, and big-box retailers all at once, and the talent profile community banks need to hire for now: experience design, enterprise architecture, payments innovation, data science, and AI fluency.Matt also walks through Rhinebeck's second step conversion, what it unlocks for capital and M&A, and offers direct advice for aspiring community bank CEOs and the boards thinking about hiring them. Whether you lead a bank, sit on a board, or are building your career toward the C-suite, this is a practical conversation about the new wave of community banking leadership.

Show Notes:On this week's episode, Sam Rebelein came on to tell me how he fell in love with horror movies and how he got into writing horror. He's the author of the Edenville books which take place in a fictional town in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. He told me what fascinates him the most in horror movies, what his writing process is, and his personal favorite horror authors. He also told me one of his favorite scary stories from the Hudson Valley, the spooky stuff there is to do in October in Poughkeepsie, and his personal full moon rituals and so much more!Sam's Socials: Website: https://www.srebelein.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebelsam94/?hl=enBuy Sam's Books: https://www.srebelein.com/edenville Who's There? Socials:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whostherepc.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whostherepcTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/whostherepcLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/thatgirlallison/ Email: whostherepc@gmail.com Website: https://www.whostherepodcast.com Join the Email List: https://mailchi.mp/4a109b94d3bc/newsletter-signup 

What are eels? And why are some eels electric? We head to Poughkeepsie, New York to learn about eels with Chris Bowser, Hudson River estuary educator with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Plus we learn about electric eels. Electric eels have captured the imagination of many people, but they're not actually considered eels by the scientific community. They're a type of knife fish, more closely related to catfish and carp. But they are electric! So we'll tackle why they're electric and how they create electricity. David de Santana, of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, tells us what it's like to study electric eels in the Amazon.Download our learning guides: PDF | Google Slide | Transcript

It's Friday, May 15th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Vietnamese Communists arrest four Christians On May 12th, Vietnamese Communist authorities arrested four clergy and lay leaders accused of sharing documentation of human rights abuses online, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The group was also indicted for associating with Dr Nguyễn Đình Thắng, the president of Boat People SOS, a Vietnamese-American human rights group, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in absentia in April on false terrorism charges for his alleged role in the 2023 Dak Lak uprising.  While two of the four were released, the others remain behind bars. Psalm 23:4 says, “Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You, [God], are with me; Your rod and staff, they comfort me.” China's Jinping warns Trump about Taiwan On May 14th, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned U.S. President Donald Trump that the two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue was not handled properly, reports the Associated Press. The exchange at a highly anticipated summit in Beijing underscored just how far apart Trump and Jinping remain on thorny issues, including the war in Iran, trade disputes and Washington's relations with Taiwan, which is self-ruled but which China claims as part of its territory. The pair met for about two hours behind closed doors at the Great Hall of the People after an elaborate welcome ceremony featuring booming cannons, a band playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and China's national anthem, and hundreds of school children waving flowers and American and Chinese flags. President Trump's opening remarks were optimistic. TRUMP: “President Xi, I want to thank you very much. We've had a fantastic relationship. We've gotten along. When there were difficulties, we worked it out. I would call you, and you would call me, and whenever we had a problem, people don't know, whenever we had a problem, we worked it out very quickly. “I have such respect for China, the job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader. Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway, because it's true. I only say the truth. “And I just want to say on behalf of all of the great delegation that we have. We have the greatest businessmen. Every single one of them. We asked the top 30 in the world. Every single one of them said, ‘Yes,' and they look forward to trade and doing business. It's going to be totally reciprocal on our behalf. It's an honor to be with you. “It's an honor to be your friend. The relationship between China and the USA is going to be better than ever before.” Trump's pick for Federal Reserve Chairman confirmed President Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve won Senate confirmation on May 13th, just in time to officially take over as the leader of the central bank, reports National Public Radio. Trump is hoping Kevin Warsh can lead the Fed into much lower interest rates — but the president could be frustrated by persistent inflation. Warsh was confirmed on a 54-45 vote, mostly along party lines. Prior to the vote, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, spoke from the Senate floor and shared an overview of Kevin Warsh's biography and questioned why the Democrats have objected to his nomination. THUNE: “He credits his knowledge of the real economy to growing up in upstate New York, where his dad ran a children's clothing store and manufacturing company. From Shaker High School, he went on to Stanford University and then Harvard Law School. He then started a career on Wall Street, but he shifted to public service, joining the Bush administration's economic policy team in 2002. “Four years later, President Bush nominated him to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. At age 35, Kevin Warsh was unanimously confirmed here in the Senate and became the youngest governor in the history of the Federal Reserve. Being the youngest person to take a seat in the Federal Reserve's boardroom is impressive enough, but Kevin Warsh didn't just take a seat. He was a key player during the time he was on the board. “Kevin Warsh seems to have just the profile of a Federal Reserve Chairman, yet Democrats oppose his nomination. For the first time in its history, the Banking Committee reported out a nominee for Fed chairman on a party line vote because every single Democrat opposed Mr. Warsh's nomination, and actually only one Democrat was even present for the vote. “The other 10 Democrats on the Banking Committee didn't even bother to show up for it. I wish I could say I'm surprised, but this is just how bad Trump Derangement Syndrome has gotten on the other side of the aisle. Democrats won't say so, but that's what it is.” Kevin Warsh has argued there's room to lower rates, but he also promised to use his own judgment in setting monetary policy — and not to take orders from the White House. Warsh denied charges from Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts that he would be Trump's "sock puppet." Warsh will replace Jerome Powell, who has led the Fed since 2018. Although Trump appointed Powell to the job, he has relentlessly criticized the outgoing Fed chairman for not moving more aggressively to lower borrowing costs. Powell's term as chairman ends today. In a break with tradition, Powell will remain on the Fed's governing board for a period of time after stepping down as chairman. That's unusual since Fed chairs typically leave the central bank when their term as the head is done. But Powell is determined to safeguard the institution from political pressure. He has vowed to keep a low profile and not overshadow Warsh. But Powell will continue to have a vote on the 12-member committee that sets interest rates. Missionary John Vassar commissioned as evangelist And finally, on May 15, 1850, John Vassar—often referred to as "Uncle" John—was formally commissioned as an evangelist for the American Tract Society of New York. Following a distinct conversion experience at the age of 28, Vassar left his family's prominent brewing business in Poughkeepsie, New York, to dedicate his life to soul-winning.  As an agent for the American Tract Society, he traveled extensively, selling and distributing Christian literature. Known for his intense earnestness, he was described as a "living fire" who would ask everyone he met about their relationship with Christ. He became one of the most powerful personal evangelists of the 19th century.  Isaiah 52:7 says, “How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!'” Later in John Vassar's career, in 1863, he was commissioned to work among soldiers during the Civil War. Upon being captured, he famously asked Confederate General Jeb Stuart, "General, do you love Jesus?" Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, May 15th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Send us Fan MailAir Date:  May 11, 2026 on 91.3FM WVKR-In The Field Radio is recapping Rolling Loud Orlando. It's the festival's first time hitting the city and Erin Boogie & Rapz have thoughts. Shout out to Fergie Baby for putting it down for New York! The two break down the lineup, which leaned heavy on newer artists, discuss the festival's move from Miami to Orlando, and get into the challenges Rolling Loud has faced in New York.In The News:Kid Cudi cut MIA from his tour and she had something to say about it.Julio Foolio's mom took to Instagram to celebrate the sentencing of her son's killers.Lil Tjay blessed a woman singing on the sidewalk with some cash.Cardi B & Stefon Diggs are sparking reconciliation rumors. Are they back together?Following their VERZUZ battle, French Montana & Rick Ross dropped "Smoking Pt. 2" featuring Max B. The track will appear on Wave Gods 2: Cosmo Brothers, dropping May 22nd.Local #FYP: Poughkeepsie's own Velous lands on an Apple Music Editorial Playlist — Velous: The Songwriters. The playlist features tracks he wrote for Chris Brown, J. Cole, and Kanye West. Dancehall superstar Skippa is coming to Poughkeepsie on June 20th. And somebody in the area bought a $1 million Powerball ticket. Sir, where are you?! Unfiltered & Unqualified is jam packed this week. Should a listener follow up on an unanswered text. Are you double texting or blocking? Is one or two dates a week too much? And a female listener finds a screenshot of her friend's bikini pics on her boyfriend's phone. Boogie & Rapz help her work through it… and it does NOT go the way you think. Press play and get in the field!Support the showFollow In the Field Radio here.Follow Erin Boogie here.Follow Rapz here.In the Field Radio intro by Foreign Dre and produced by Rich Morri$

This podcast interview featured Glenn Macken, an electrician by trade and accomplished actor who has appeared in numerous theater productions including "A Few Good Men," "Guys and Dolls," and "1776." Glenn shared his journey into magic starting at age 11 with Houdini movies and library books, eventually joining the Society of American Magicians (SAM) Assembly #35 in Poughkeepsie where he met notable magicians like Walter Gibson and Jeff McBride. He explained how his theater career began when Jeff suggested he join community theater to build confidence, leading to roles in shows like "Forever Plaid" and working alongside Broadway performers. Glenn discussed his acting training in voice, dance, and Meisner Method techniques, and described his experience with Broadway auditions including meeting Richard Kiley. The conversation covered his dual passions for magic and theater, his extensive experience in set design and construction, and a humorous story about accidentally cutting John Barrymore's ear during a fencing scene in "I Hate Hamlet."wesiseli.comPatreon.com/wes_iseli

Before she was Kate Winslet, Lee Miller was a groundbreaking surrealist photography artist and photojournalist. You probably know the famous photograph of her in Hitler's abandoned bathtub, washing the mud from Dachau off, hours after she had witnessed (and photographed) the liberation of the concentration camp.  Join Hannah and Nicola for Season 4 (we're back, baby!) as they discuss how a model from Poughkeepsie became a war correspondent for fashion magazine Vogue and ended up taking some of the most important photos of the Holocaust. Women of War is written and recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present, and any First Nations listeners today. Sovereignty was never ceded.  This episode contains mentions of sexual abuse and rape, suicide, atrocities committed by the Nazis in WWII, the Holocaust, and surrealist art. Listener discretion is advised. It may not be suitable for all listeners. Statements made within this podcast are ours alone and do not reflect the views of our employers.    

Send us Fan MailHappy Cinco De Mayo from In The Field Radio!  The #FYP stays local as Justin Bieber was spotted dropping by the Millbrook Diner. Plus, we've got an update on the "Malice at the Palace" incident that went down at the Palace Diner. Poughkeepsie never misses. After Ice Spice was caught tussling at McDonald's, she's officially been announced as the face of a Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich commercial. Only in hip-hop.The D4VD case is moving forward and new details are surfacing. Celeste Rivas Hernandez's death certificate has been updated and it now states "unknown" as to whether she was pregnant at the time of death. Does this point to motive? Time will tell.French Montana and Rick Ross are squaring off in VERZUZ. Who would YOU want to see battle it out? Slide in the DMs at @inthefieldradio and let them know.Release Roundup covers what's on the way from Drake, Lucki, Latto, and JPEGMAFIA. Who are you most excited for?Unfiltered & Unqualified gets heated this week as Boogie & Rapz debate where the line is between being a gentleman and being taken advantage of and when do you understand it's the wrong person? Then a listener asks if her friend likes her because he loves making her laugh. Rapz says yes. Erin is clearly terrible at taking hints. Press play and get in the field!Support the showFollow In the Field Radio here.Follow Erin Boogie here.Follow Rapz here.In the Field Radio intro by Foreign Dre and produced by Rich Morri$

May 4, 2026- Empire State Passengers Association Executive Director Steve Strauss makes the case for Metro North to offer train service north of Poughkeepsie and discusses how it could be implemented.

Send us Fan MailAir Date:  April 27, 2026 on 91.3FM WVKR-Erin Boogie was outside this past week and Rapz finally got a quiet weekend, but the headlines definitely didn't slow down. Boogie & Rapz are back to break it all down on In The Field Radio.Megan Thee Stallion & Klay Thompson split. The duo debates Meg's image, the cheating allegations against Klay, and what this all means for the Houston rapper going forward. Where do you stand?The White House Correspondents' Dinner got a little chaotic. And a word of advice, beware of anyone with three first names.The Baddies Brunch at The Academy went left during Natalie Nunn's performance. Are Poughkeepsie Baddies auditions next? Then the Palace Diner served up dinner AND a show after a fight broke out in the dining room. Poughkeepsie is keeping the #FYP local and it's been lit. Unfiltered & Unqualified gets serious this week as Boogie & Rapz help a listener navigate the big step of moving in with their significant other. The second round of advice addresses a couple that is debating if they should even be together. Real talk, no filter.Chrisean Rock picks up her first celebrity boxing win.The release date for Drake's ICEMAN has finally been revealed. Where does this rank among Drake's rollouts? Slide in the DMs and let them know at @inthefieldradio.Press play and get in the field.Support the showFollow In the Field Radio here.Follow Erin Boogie here.Follow Rapz here.In the Field Radio intro by Foreign Dre and produced by Rich Morri$

This Week in Horror History for April 27–May 3 dives into a packed week of horror movie history, horror release date anniversaries, cult horror films, monster movies, vampire cinema, Stephen King adaptations, teen witch horror, found-footage horror, fake true crime, and killer-plant sci-fi horror — from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956), The Hunger (1983), Creepshow 2 (1987), and The Craft (1996) to this week's Deep-Cut Spotlight, The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007). If you love classic horror movies, '80s horror, '90s horror, gothic vampire films, anthology horror, cult classics, scary movie anniversaries, horror trivia, and hidden horror gems worth revisiting, this episode is built for you.Inside this episode:April 27, 1956 — Godzilla, King of the Monsters!: the American cut that helped turn Japan's atomic monster into a worldwide horror icon, reshaping Gojira for U.S. audiences and introducing countless viewers to Godzilla's radioactive roar, city-smashing spectacle, and nuclear-age creature-feature terror.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Criterion Channel and Cinemax channels; rentable on Apple TV.April 29, 1983 — The Hunger: Tony Scott's stylish vampire cult film, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon in a cold, glamorous nightmare about immortality, obsession, desire, aging, and the terrible fine print of living forever.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi and Hoopla; rentable on Amazon Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 1, 1987 — Creepshow 2: Stephen King and George Romero return to EC Comics-style anthology horror with “Old Chief Wood'nhead,” “The Raft,” and “The Hitchhiker,” delivering revenge horror, lake terror, roadside dread, comic-book punishment, and one of the nastiest killer-blob sequences of the decade.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video, Prime Video with Ads, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Prime Video Free with Ads; rentable on Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home.May 3, 1996 — The Craft: the definitive '90s teen witch horror classic, starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True, turning pain, power, outsider identity, high school revenge, black-lipstick rebellion, and occult coming-of-age horror into one of the most enduring cult favorites of the decade.Where to watch (U.S., this week): rentable on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, and Plex.Deep-Cut Spotlight — April 27, 2007: The Poughkeepsie Tapes: a fake true-crime found-footage nightmare that premiered at Tribeca, vanished into distribution limbo, leaked into horror fandom, and built its reputation like a cursed tape passed hand to hand. If you're fascinated by disturbing horror movies, mockumentary horror, serial-killer fiction, faux-documentary dread, and movies that feel like evidence you were never supposed to see, this one still has a nasty little legend around it.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Prime Video; free with ads on Tubi and the Roku Channel.Birthday Roll: Lisa Wilcox, Carolyn Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kirsten Dunst.Weekly Recommendation — The Day of the Triffids (1963): a pulpy sci-fi horror killer-plant apocalypse where spring turns predatory, a meteor shower blinds much of humanity, and the natural world starts moving in for the kill. It's perfect for fans of classic creature features, British apocalypse horror, killer plants, survival sci-fi, and vintage horror oddities.Where to watch (U.S., this week): Tubi, Roku Channel, and Plex.From Godzilla's radioactive monster-movie legacy and The Hunger's gothic vampire glamour to Creepshow 2's Stephen King anthology horror, The Craft's teen witch cult status, The Poughkeepsie Tapes' found-footage true-crime dread, and The Day of the Triffids' killer-plant apocalypse, this episode tracks how one week between April and May delivered a wildly varied run of horror history. Follow the Weekly Spooky feed for more horror podcasts, scary stories, horror movie discussion, cult horror recommendations, spooky deep dives, release date anniversaries, horror trivia, and genre history every week.

Avish Parashar - What can improv teach us on how to crush apathy in our businesses?Are you stuck in a cycle of “yes, but” thinking that keeps your business from growing? What if the real challenge to change isn't resistance, but apathy? How can embracing improv's “yes, and” mindset empower your team, crush burnout, and spark creativity? In this episode, I explore how recognizing and shifting your mindset can transform engagement in your business, with insights from improv and practical steps for moving from passive acceptance to genuine excitement—even in the face of overwhelm or uncertainty.Listen to this new episode for practical ideas to spot hidden apathy, empower your people, and use “yes, and” to fuel meaningful change and creativity in your business.About Avish:Avish Parashar, originally from Poughkeepsie, New York and now based in Philadelphia, started in theater but quickly pivoted to improv in college, launching a career that led him to found Polywumpus Improv Comedy. Through that experience, he discovered that the principles of improv translate directly to navigating real-world change. Today, he's a keynote speaker and author who helps leaders and teams embrace uncertainty, boost creativity, and shift from apathy to engagement using the “Yes, And” mindset. Blending humor, audience interaction, and practical tools, Avish empowers organizations to turn change into opportunity, with a core message that the real barrier isn't resistance—it's apathy—and that growth comes from saying “Yes, And” to what's next.Website: https://www.AvishParashar.comBook URL: https://avishparashar.com/say-yes-and-to-change/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avishparashar/If you have any questions about anything in this, or any of my podcasts, or have a suggestion for a topic or guest, please reach out directly to me at Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com or visit my website Podcast.AlanBerg.com Please be sure to subscribe to this podcast and leave a review (thanks, it really does make a difference). If you want to get notifications of new episodes and upcoming workshops and webinars, you can sign up at www.ConnectWithAlanBerg.com  View the full transcript on Alan's site: httpsAI For The Real World - A Practical Guide to AI for Wedding & Event Pros is your easy way to learn how to harness the power of AI, no matter which AI tools you use. Get Yours Today at www.ShopAlanBerg.com  I'm Alan Berg. Thanks for listening. If you have any questions about this or if you'd like to suggest other topics for "The Wedding Business Solutions Podcast" please let me know. My email is Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com. Look forward to seeing you on the next episode. Thanks. Listen to this and all episodes on Apple Podcast, YouTube or your favorite app/site: Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/weddingbusinesssolutions YouTube: www.WeddingBusinessSolutionsPodcast.tv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sGsuB8 Stitcher:  http://bit.ly/wbsstitcher Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/wbsgoogle iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/31C9Mic Pandora: http://bit.ly/wbspandora ©2025 Wedding Business Solutions LLC & AlanBerg.com 

Let's go bean-to-bar.In this episode of Cidiot,® Mat Zucker dives into the world of world-class indulgence right here in the Hudson Valley. Joining the show is Bryan Graham, the award-winning chocolatier and co-founder of Fruition Chocolate Works.From his roots in the Catskills to the kitchens of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Bryan shares his journey of building a bean-to-bar empire. We talk about the "American craft chocolate movement," why milk chocolate is making a massive comeback, and the surprising truth about where those cacao beans actually come from.In this episode, you'll learn:The Fruit Factor: Why your favorite chocolate bar actually starts as a tropical fruit seed.Local Collaborations: How Fruition incorporates Hudson Valley flavors, from West Wind Orchard raspberries to Tuthilltown Distillery bourbon.The Tasting Notes: What to look for in a high-quality bar (and why "cocoa" vs. "cacao" isn't as scary as it sounds).Inside the Shop: The scoop on Fruition's locations in Shokan, Poughkeepsie, and their new pop-up in Cambridge, MA.Whether you're a dark chocolate purist or a fan of "adult chocolate milk," this episode is a sweet celebration of local craft.Special Offer for Cidiot ListenersFruition Chocolate Works is offering 20% off for the Cidiot community! Use code CIDIOT20 at checkout.Shop Online: Fruition Chocolate WorksIn-Person: Visit the retail stores in Shokan (Route 28), Poughkeepsie (Eastdale Village), or the pop-up on 1316 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA. (Limit one use per customer. Valid online and in-store. For a limited time.)Links & Resources:Fruition Chocolate Works: fruitionchocolate.comAlleyway Ice Cream: Mentioned in the episode for their local collaboration - https://alleywayicecream.com/Stockade Tavern: Home of the legendary (and exclusive) Jalapeno Corn Nut snack - https://www.stockadetavern.com/Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe to Cidiot on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, or Goodpods and leave us a review!Special thanks to guest editor Brett Barry of Silver Hollow Audio, and host of Kaatscast: The Catskills Podcast.©2026 Mat Zucker Communications. Cidiot® is a registered trademark.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York Robert Brigham, Lawyer, negotiator, and advisor to companies, nonprofits, law firms, and business leaders; Founder of the strategy consulting firm The Azara Group and author of “Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won't Tell You” Fatimah Gilliam, Executive Director of Communities for Local Power and former White House Advance Lead Anna Markowitz, and Former Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.

In this episode of Cidiot®, we explore the literal "connective tissue" of our region: the bridges. Host Mat Zucker is joined by Chris Steber, Public Information Officer for the New York State Bridge Authority, to discuss the five major vehicular crossings—from the "grand-daddy" Bear Mountain Bridge to the Rip Van Winkle.  We dive into the fascinating history of these landmarks, including why Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed the first attempt at a northern bridge, the "engineering epic" of the Mid-Hudson Bridge construction, and the mystery of why the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge doesn't actually land in Rhinecliff or Kingston.The episode also highlights a truly unique marriage of infrastructure and art: Bridge Music. Composer Joseph Bertolozzi transformed the Mid-Hudson Bridge into a massive percussion instrument by recording the sounds of its cables and railings. If you're walking the bridge between April and October, look for the listening stations at each tower to hear the bridge's own soundtrack!Episode Highlights & Resources:Engineering History: Insights into the Bear Mountain Bridge Centennial Page and archival 1924 Fox Newsreel Footage of Bear Mountain Bridge of its construction. (Note: This footage was provided courtesy of the Moving Image Research Collection at the University of South Carolina.)Local Lore: The story of Monsignor Joseph Sheahan, the Poughkeepsie priest who campaigned for the Mid-Hudson Bridge, and the 1930 Universal Newsreel showing its grand opening.Chris's Recommendations: Explore the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College or the "hidden gem" gardens at Wethersfield Estate & Garden. Special Thanks: A huge thank you to Joseph Bertolozzi for his generous permission to feature his music in this episode. We also want to extend gratitude to guest editor Brett Barry of Silver Hollow Audio and host of Kaatscast: The Catskills Podcast, for his expert help in bringing this story to life.©2026 Mat Zucker Communications. Cidiot® is a registered trademark.

Dana from Poughkeepsie, NY, called in to ask Mark whether Trump is using distractions, such as the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother, to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Larry from Cranford, NJ, called in to discuss the alleged incident involving Aitolia's son, who reportedly had his leg blown off.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dana from Poughkeepsie, NY, called in to ask Mark whether Trump is using distractions, such as the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother, to divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files. Larry from Cranford, NJ, called in to discuss the alleged incident involving Aitolia's son, who reportedly had his leg blown off.

*Skip the Foreplay at around 14:00 (this is a rough guesstimation due to ad placement by AI and not human beings) In 1985, 55-year-old first grade teacher, JoAnn Nichols vanished without a trace from her home in Poughkeepsie New York. Her husband telling those who loved Joann that she was depressed and either walked away from her life and him or committed suicide. For 27 years, no one knew the truth. Until 2013, when a basement renovation uncovered something buried behind a false wall. Had JoAnn never left Poughkeepsie? Or even her home on Vassar Road? In this episode we unravel the decades long mystery, the suspicious story that never quite added up, and the haunting discovery that came far too late for justice. Some secrets don't stay buried. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.