Category: Happenings

Around The Web – DealNews.com

I don’t know about you but for the past few years, I have done most of my holiday shopping online. I also do most of my non-holiday shopping online but that’s neither here nor there. If you also like to shop the Internet then you might be interested in a site I just found out about today, which really would have been useful to know about last month.

The site is called DealNews.com and basically it lists hundreds of incredible deals to be found online. I’m not talking about crap that you would never want but good stuff like Mac’s for under $800 and Kensington iPod speakers for $54. I even saw a JVC Digital Camcorder for $200 with free shipping! They also have all sorts of stuff for your home and car and anything else you might be shopping for.

Have you heard of or used this site before? If so, what did you think?

Countdown To Closing

In just nine days, the better half and I will close on our first home. We are first time home buyers and will be making a rather large leap from a small one bedroom, no outdoor space, apartment in New York City to a 1500 square foot, 2 bedroom on 2 acres of land house in upstate New York.


With the exception of the light fixtures and downstairs family room, the house was gutted and refinished with the sole purpose of flipping. The soon-to-be previous owners never spent a night in the place as they went about the remodeling work over the past year or so. The end result is a move-in ready house with everything brand new, shinny and clean or as I like to look at it, a blank canvas.

Painting the walls will be the first of many steps we will undertake to turn this house into a home. I will be chronicling all of the work here so stay tuned in 2008!

Happenings: This Weekend

FRIDAY, December 7, 2007

Comfort and Joy: Paintings by Cathy Nichols and Marisa Haedike
Opening reception 5-9pm.
East Village Collective, 8 Old Forge Road
Woodstock, NY 12494
845-679-2174
eastvillagecollective.com

Art Exhibit: Hudson in Black & White
Photographs of Hudson by regional artists;
Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street,
Hudson, NY
822-8448
Time & Space

Out of the Shadows: Exhibition of photographs by Agi Clark
Photographs explore shadows that break loose from their source becoming abstract entities
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sun 12-5pm
Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren Street
Hudson, NY
822-1438
Hudson Opera House

2007 Winter Celebration at Lindenwald
The Martin Van Buren National Historic Site will celebrate the season with music, drama and special tours of President Van Buren’s mansion decorated and lighted for the season. The home and farm of eighth President will be aglow with the warm light and holiday greens that evening. On the inside, guests will be treated to the talents of the Kinderhook Garden Club whose members beautifully decorate the President’s home.
Admission to the house is free, but reservations for house tours are a must which are scheduled from 4:30pm – 8:30pm .
Reservations MUST be made by phone at 518-758-9689
Route 9H, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

SATURDAY, December 8, 2007

A Mexican Holiday
Holiday house tours discuss the holiday traditions Church would have witnessed on his annual winter trips and emphasizing paintings of and objects from Mexico.
Olana State Historic Site
Route 9G, south of Hudson;
10am-4pm; 828-0135
Olana.org

“Cyrano”
Copake Theatre Company presents Walking the dog Theater’s acclaimed production of the classic “Cyrano de Bergerac,” weekends from November 30 to December 9, at the Copake Grange
Empire Road, Copake, NY.
Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 3 & 8 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m.
Admission: adults $15 on Friday, $18 on Saturday and Sunday
seniors, $12 on Friday, $15 on Saturday and Sunday
Students, group (20 or more) and children’s rate, $12 all shows
Call 518-325-1234 for tickets or purchase them at Dad’s Copake Diner.
Copake Theatre Company

Christmas at Clermont
Clermont State Historic Site
off Route 9G, Clermont
11am-4pm
537-4240
Friends Of Clermont

Robert Selkowitz Studio Open House
11am -5pm
3024 Route 28, Ashokan, NY
(845)657-6982,
artfolks.com

SUNDAY, December 9, 2007

Christmas dinner-dance
Live music provided by the Mountain Tops. Delicious grand buffet dinner available for $20 or $6 for only live music and dancing. Children’s price $6.
2-7 PM
The German-American Club of Albany
32 Cherry Street, Albany, NY 12205
(518) 482-5845.
Times Union

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