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✨ WIN A $10,000 H**E GODDESS MAKEOVER ✨Ladies, your future self is going to write you a thank-you note.One wildly lucky ...
08/23/2026

✨ WIN A $10,000 H**E GODDESS MAKEOVER ✨

Ladies, your future self is going to write you a thank-you note.

One wildly lucky woman is winning a completely customized $10,000 H**E Goddess Makeover at H**e Med Spa—and no, that extra zero is not a typo.

Imagine walking into H**E with your whole wish list and $10,000 to work with. This is not one treatment with a bow on it. H**E’s providers will sit down with the winner, talk through their goals, and create an aesthetic plan specifically for them. Depending on what makes sense, that could include laser treatments, microneedling, Botox® or Dysport®, filler, biostimulators, medical-grade skincare, or a carefully planned combination.

The winner can redeem the experience at H**E Medical Spa in Fishkill, Latham, or Saratoga Springs. Three gorgeous locations. One absolutely enormous prize.

Want to know what makes H**E different, and what your own experience could look like even if you don’t win? Follow the link in our bio to read our full feature on H**E Medical Spa.

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The winner will be announced Sunday, August 30th, only by HVHAPPENINGS | Sharing NY's Best Places. We will never ask for payment or credit-card information.

The prize must be redeemed within six months and is nontransferable. The final treatment plan will be based on H**E’s consultation, provider recommendations, and medical candidacy.

Good luck. Your future self has never rooted harder for you. ✨

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Somewhere in Boonville late Saturday afternoon, a woman will leave the fairgrounds as a world champion after three hours...
08/21/2026

Somewhere in Boonville late Saturday afternoon, a woman will leave the fairgrounds as a world champion after three hours of axe throwing, log rolling, crosscut sawing, chopping and chainsaws.

This is not a metaphor for making it through August. It is the World’s Open Lumberjill Championship, and I cannot think of a better reason to point the car toward Oneida County.

The official event list keeps going long after most of us would have quietly put the axe down: one- and two-woman crosscut, bow sawing, horizontal log chopping, speed chopping and fire building. These women are serious competitors, and one of them will leave as the World’s Open Champion Lumberjill.

I have a soft spot for traditions that refuse to become museum pieces. This championship is part of the 79th annual NYS Woodsmen’s Field Days, an event that began in 1948 to honor New York’s forestry industry. Nearly eight decades later, that history is still loud enough to require ear protection.

📍 Boonville-Oneida County Fairgrounds
8181 NY-294, Boonville

🪓 Saturday, August 22
⏰ Lumberjill Championship: 3–6 p.m.
🚪 Gates open at 8 a.m.
🚗 Free parking
🌧 Rain or shine

Check woodsmensfielddays.com for current admission information. Pets are not permitted in the event or seating areas, except for service animals.

Save this for Saturday and send it to the woman in your life who has been waiting for a socially acceptable reason to throw an axe.

Photo: NYS Woodsmen’s Field Days website. Photographer credit and usage confirmation pending.

Some music festivals arrive with barricades, corporate logos and a ticket price that requires a small financial summit. ...
08/20/2026

Some music festivals arrive with barricades, corporate logos and a ticket price that requires a small financial summit. Big Lawn arrives at a farm brewery with 10 artists, a communal craft table, falafel and pay-what-you-can tickets starting at $1.

The DIY festival returns to Plan Bee Farm Brewery this Saturday, August 22, for its sixth year. The lineup moves through indie, rock and rap, bringing Hudson Valley and New York City artists together for a day built, at its core, as a community space for q***r people and the open-minded humans who want to support one another.

This year’s lineup includes Dassi Rosenkrantz, Starling Annie, Luzmila Taylor, Kate Prascher, Blair Baldwin, Sarah Anjali, Elbi Lewes, Eevie Echoes and The Locations, Gracie Lou and Summer Fling.

The first set begins at 1:30 p.m. A free Songwriters Workshop with Blair Lamb and Poroyé runs from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. under the pavilion. The workshop is open to everyone and does not require a festival ticket, though advance signup is required through Big Lawn’s website.

This year also brings a communal craft corner. Guests are encouraged to bring paper, crayons, markers, stickers, knitting materials and other craft scraps for the table—which means the miscellaneous art-supply bag you have been moving from closet to closet has finally found its purpose.

📍 Plan Bee Farm Brewery, PlanBeeFarmBrewery
115 Underhill Road, Poughkeepsie
🗓 Saturday, August 22
🎵 First set at 1:30 p.m.
🎟 $20 general admission; pay what you can from $1
👧 Children 12 and under are free
🍴 Hudson Valley Falafel, 2–7 p.m.; Caboose On The Loose ice cream, 3–7 p.m.
🚗 Ample on-site parking; an attendant will direct arrivals

Save this for Saturday and send it to somebody whose ideal afternoon includes live music, a farm brewery and a lawn large enough to put Big in the festival name.

Which artist are you coming to see?

Cover photo: Big Lawn performance © Isabella Snider.

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Poughkeepsie has apparently decided regular cucumbers are no longer pulling their weight.The Eastdale Village Pickle Fes...
08/19/2026

Poughkeepsie has apparently decided regular cucumbers are no longer pulling their weight.The Eastdale Village Pickle Festival returns this Saturday, August 22, and it has expanded well beyond a few jars on a folding table. More than 80 vendors and 10 bands across two stages are expected, along with pickle-inspired food and drinks, adoptable dogs, pickle trivia, a photo booth, a “Pickle Therapy” display and an indoor pickle flash-tattoo pop-up. In other words, the pickle has become a programming department.

Admission and parking are free, and the festival runs from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., rain or shine. An optional $10 festival passport comes with 20 raffle tickets; finish the participating stops and return it for 10 more. A portion of festival proceeds will support the participating animal shelters, so this may be the first time a pickle tattoo can be defended as civic-minded behavior.

📍 Eastdale Village, Poughkeepsie
🗓 Saturday, August 22
⏰ 10:30 a.m.–9 p.m.
💰 Free admission and parking; optional $10 passport
🚗 Overflow parking: 900 Dutchess Turnpike. Noon–6 p.m. is expected to be busiest, so arriving early is encouraged.

Save this for Saturday and send it to the friend who considers pickle flash tattoos a perfectly reasonable weekend plan.

What are you trying first: the pickle food, the puppy or the permanent brine-based decision?

Photo from a previous Eastdale Village Pickle Festival © Evolved Media.

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Beacon has a traffic light sitting directly in the middle of an intersection.Not hanging above it.Not tucked onto a corn...
08/18/2026

Beacon has a traffic light sitting directly in the middle of an intersection.Not hanging above it.

Not tucked onto a corner.Right in the road, where drivers have been trying not to hit it for nearly a century.

The Dummy Light at Main and East Main is the last survivor of Beacon’s original group of mid-intersection traffic signals from 1926 and 1927. The devices were designed to replace the police officers who had previously stood in the road directing cars, trolleys, wagons and pedestrians.

Beacon’s first one began operating at Fishkill Avenue and Main Street on October 30, 1926. It worked so well that the mayor asked to install another near the East Main railroad crossing that December.

That second location became the light Beacon still has today.

The others did not fare as well.

Some were removed because trucks and buses could not get around them. Others were declared hazards. At least one was wrecked by a car when it was only a week old.

The East Main light somehow survived long enough to stop being ordinary traffic equipment and become a local personality.

In 2007, when city officials considered removing or relocating it for safety reasons, dozens of residents showed up to defend it.

The city listened.

Drivers have continued hitting it. City workers have continued repairing it. After it was accidentally damaged during roadwork, Beacon’s Department of Public Works restored it again.

The light fixture itself is now a newer LED replacement, but the strange little Beacon ritual remains the same:

Put a traffic light in the road.
Watch somebody hit it.
Fix it.
Defend it.
Repeat for nearly a century.

The exact activation date of the surviving East Main signal has not been confirmed, so we are not declaring its official 100th birthday just yet.

But Beacon is already celebrating the thing that matters more.

It is still there.

Photos: Courtesy Beacon Historical Society

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For the past several years, one of the largest collections of recorded music in the world has been sitting quietly in St...
08/17/2026

For the past several years, one of the largest collections of recorded music in the world has been sitting quietly in Staatsburg. More than three million recordings.

And there is a decent chance most of us had no idea it was there.

The ARChive of Contemporary Music — ARC — landed here during the pandemic because it needed something New York City had stopped giving it:

Room. A ridiculous amount of room.

ARC says it has cataloged about 170,000 of its 45s since moving upstate and is only about halfway done.

Then founder Bob George casually tells us ARC has more than 300 Jimi Hendrix LPs.

Three hundred.

Hendrix released only a handful of commercial LPs during his lifetime, so naturally my first question was: Bob. Why. 😂

Turns out, this is exactly why archives exist.

Different countries released different versions. Covers changed. Track orders changed. There are alternate pressings, bootlegs and counterfeits that look almost identical until somebody who knows tells you they absolutely are not.

My highly scientific translation of ARC’s philosophy: no, we do not already have that one. Please stop throwing music history away.

Now they’re leaving the Hudson Valley.

ARC bought a permanent building in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and George expects the move to take roughly a year. The new home should give ARC room for exhibitions, research and public programs.

And this is the part that bugs me.

We had this here.

George says people in Dutchess County treated ARC well. But when we asked whether meaningful regional support ever materialized to keep it here, his answer was essentially no.

So Ridgefield gets the permanent home.

And we have about a year to realize what the hell has been sitting here before the trucks start rolling.

Three million records sounds like a funny number until you start asking why anyone keeps 300 Hendrix albums, why 170,000 cataloged singles is only half the job, and what we lose when an archive like this packs up.

Full story is live now at 👉👉👉HVHappenings.com.
Link in bio.

📍 Staatsburg, NY
📸 Bob George / ARChive of Contemporary Music

can have four bodysuits in progress under one roof while, in the next room, a first-time client is carefully guided thr...
08/16/2026

can have four bodysuits in progress under one roof while, in the next room, a first-time client is carefully guided through every step.

That tells you almost everything about this Wappingers Falls studio.

Founder Brian Faulk built Acala as an artist-led collective where five resident tattooers bring more than 80 years of combined experience without surrendering what makes their work their own.

Brian’s Japanese-inspired tattoos blend Buddhist imagery, traditional foundations, and a Western illustrative eye. Many large compositions are drawn directly onto the body so they move with the wearer.

Carolina Villalón specializes in cosmetic and restorative tattooing, including ar**la tattooing for breast cancer survivors and clients who have undergone mastectomy, reconstruction, or gender-affirming top surgery. Her work also spans American traditional, illustrative, and minimalist styles.

Jason Carpino specializes in sacred geometry, dotwork, ornamental patternwork, and blackwork. Jason June draws from Japanese Irezumi, traditional Americana, mysticism, and esoteric symbolism. Your appointment might even include a tarot reading.

Maxwell Shoberg creates large-scale black-and-grey realism and biomechanical work with bold foundations, negative space, and long-term readability.

Each artist works from a private, curated room, but ideas and techniques move throughout the collective. Manager Krystal Catale, K. Catale, keeps the whole machine moving, supporting the artists, the studio, and every client who walks through the door.

First tattoo or fourth, bodysuit, small piece or years-long composition, the same care applies. And if Acala is not the right fit, they will recommend another local artist. The right tattoo matters more than keeping every project in-house.

Booking is “by appointment or chance.”

2 Chelsea Ridge Mall, Floor 2, Wappingers Falls
Call or text: 845-314-2680
acalatattoocollective.com

ARTISTS:
Brian Faulk
Carolina Villalón • NY Tattoo Artist
Jason Carpino | Polygon Tattoo
Jason June | RITUAL by Jason June
Max Shoberg

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Woodstock is about to tear into the road that runs straight through the middle of town.Route 212 through Woodstock is he...
08/15/2026

Woodstock is about to tear into the road that runs straight through the middle of town.

Route 212 through Woodstock is headed for four bridge replacements, new sidewalks and years of construction, with work expected to start in 2027 and stretch into 2029.

And if you know Woodstock, you know this isn’t just a road.

It’s Tinker Street. Shops, restaurants, deliveries, parking, tourists wandering into traffic, locals trying to get somewhere, and businesses that somehow still have to function while the street around them gets rebuilt.

The bridges need replacing. The sidewalks are part of the plan. The project is moving forward.

The bigger question is what happens to Main Street while all of that is happening.

Because rebuilding Woodstock is one thing.

Keeping Woodstock alive while you do it is another.

We dug into what’s actually decided, what still isn’t, and what the next few years could mean for the heart of town.

Full story is live now at HVHappenings.com. Link in bio.

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