Making Hollywood Magic in Peekskill

Take one empty warehouse with leaky walls at the Hat Factory in Peekskill, build it out into a sound-proofed, acoustically pleasing audio space, fill it with stages, control and editing […] Read more »

New Leadership at Phelps

Beata Mastalerz’s new job would give anyone pause for thought. In her role as the new executive director at Phelps Hospital, she is responsible for day-to-day management, steering growth, and […] Read more »

Sowing Creative Oats – RiverArts Supports Local Artists

As readers of River Journal have long known, our River Towns enjoy a rich artistic population. Writers, painters, musicians and other talented folk exist in all our neighborhoods, and there’s […] Read more »

Local Dancers Take Center Stage in WBC’s Nutcracker

It wouldn’t be Christmas in the River Towns without the Westchester Ballet Company’s annual production of The Nutcracker.   But this year’s Nutcracker breaks several molds for the Ossining-based, non-profit youth […] Read more »

Irvington Author’s Fire and Flood Examines Climate Crisis 

The American Meteorological Society, composed of the 13,000 weather men and women who deliver our daily weather predictions, has picked its book of the year: Fire and Flood by Eugene […] Read more »

The River Runs Through It

Martin Munroe’s roots run deep into the soil of Sleepy Hollow, or North Tarrytown as it was called when he grew up there. Both sets of his grandparents arrived in […] Read more »

Daisy Jopling Dreams Big – Music with a Greater Purpose

Don’t Miss Daisy Live at the Tarrytown Music Hall on Oct 29. Use the QR code for information and tickets. British-born classical/rock violinist, composer and improviser Daisy Jopling lives in […] Read more »

In the Darkness, a Little Light – Local Volunteers of All Ages Needed!

Creatures of romance and fairy tale, celebrated by the Japanese and mentioned in Dante’s Inferno, fireflies – or glowworms, or lightning bugs – are one of nature’s miracles, not to […] Read more »

From the Forest to the Jungle – How The Lion King Changed My Life

  There’s a man who volunteers with the Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department and EMS team who has been nominated for 14 Tony Awards, and has won two of them – for […] Read more »

The Art of the Do-Able 

Although only seven months into the job, the Rev. Patricia Calahan, the new pastor at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, is already fulfilling her hopes for change.  “Shifting the […] Read more »