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Summer Wedding Look Book — 2013

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Our Spring into Summer Look Book includes our favorite local and faraway vendors.

We put this series together to give you an idea how our space looks with a peppering of wedding details. We encourage you to style-out your ideal wedding using anything that inspires you!

—Our featured vendors include the talented folks at Foxy and Winston, by way of Red Hook, who created one-of-a-kind menus and RSVP cards. Jane Buck, the founder and creator of Foxy and Winston is a total gem to work with and you must stop by her Van Brunt Street storefront in Red Hook to take a look at her twee marvels and to say hello to her adorable shop dog, a rescue Beagle named Hope.

—Flowers by Seed to Fruit added romantic whimsy with their inspired arrangements. Seed to Fruit is on our sister Main Street in Beacon and is also female-owned and operated by Nicole Mora, a life-long gardener with over 10 years experience in gardening and design.

Pictured with Buddha & our record player!

—Roquette Catering, operated by the ladies of Home/Made Cafe in Brooklyn, let us use vases, glasses, plates and the like. Roquette Catering has worked with clients like The Foundry, The Tobacco Warehouse, and weddings galore. Their farm-to-table feel coupled with romantic touches make for a lovely and personal night of yum!

—Van Brunt Still House Whiskey lent us some marvelous bottles which we were happy to taste test. Another Brooklyn staple, Van Brunt Still House is a new whiskey and booze distiller that has been featured in The New York Times and Paste Magazine. They’ll be hosting tours of their space all summer and offering tastings of their amazing small-batch products.

 

Juan Rosado Antiques, right next door, gave us furniture, table linens and so much support.

The lovely Patricia at Pomarosa provided us with a stunning wedding gown that created magic in the air!

Our friend Stacey Wesselman brought over an amazing gift basket full of products from her shop just down the street, Cold Spring Apothecary.

On site to help us was the talented team of Eye Patch Pictures headed up by Mikal Evans. Thanks big-time!

We’ve got tons more inspiration images in our on-site resource guide and if you need more pictures of the space in action just email us.

Book your 2013/2014 festivities today!

Marika Blossfeldt: Smart Food

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Join us on Thursday, January 10 at 7:30 for an evening of intelligent talk about intelligent eating with author and holistic health expert Marika Blossfeldt. The event is free, and kicks off an upcoming Wellness Workshop that Marika will be leading at our space. Start the New Year right! (Click the image for all the details.)

The Coolest Wedding Event Ever!

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Everyone who gets married faces the same dilemma: how do you plan the event so it is special. Unique. Reflecting who you are and what you value, while respecting all those wonderful/absurd traditions (something blue?) that can make the whole enterprise such a blast. It’s your wedding (goddammit!); why should it look just like someone else’s? For a few years now, the good people at Lovesick have been coming to the rescue of grooms and brides everywhere. They organize a very smart, very cool wedding show—heavy on the kinds of ideas one would usually expect to hear about only by word-of-mouth. They describe it as “an elite array of local talent, unique wedding ideas, hand-crafted, and eco-friendly goods, appealing to indie-minded couples.” As a unique, hand-crafted, eco-friendly wedding venue and event space appealing to indie-minded couples (whoever they are), The Living Room is proud to have been invited to the upcoming Lovesick Expo. Come see us and talk about your wedding. Or your non-wedding. We’ll be there, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on January 12. And we promise we’ll only suggest you wear white if you want to.

New Year’s on Main Street

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Cathryn and Nathalie have been conspiring for months, running back and forth between their next-door businesses, and now we all know why: Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill and The Living Room will be co-hosting a joint New Year’s Eve extravaganza! Call it “a dinner dance in two locations.” Call it a moveable feast. Call it just plain fun. But don’t miss out. Tickets are on sale now. Dinner at Cathryn’s, $75/person. Dancing at The Living Room, $25/person. Or both (you know you want to) for $95. Please call (845) 265-5582 to make your reservation. We all look forward to seeing you, as we ring in 2013, together.

Sandy Benefit

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The storm surge from Sandy was four feet when it reached Cold Spring, and most of the Lower Village was badly flooded. In Red Hook, Brooklyn, another scenic shore-side community down the river a bit, the surge was nearly fourteen feet when it came over the seawall and rolled up the main drag. Most of the low-lying neighborhood was underwater and there are big stretches of it still without power weeks after the storm. People are in trouble and businesses are wondering if they’ll ever reopen. Let’s show them a little trans-Hudson, sister-city love. The Red Hook Initiative has taken the lead in helping residents get back on their feet, and Restore Red Hook is looking out for the dozens of stores and restaurants that got washed out by the storm. All proceeds from the epic Stephen Clair/Higher Animals show this Saturday, November 17, will go to those two groups. So help us make the world suck a little less for some good people. Plus, with Beacon’s #1 rock impresario joining forces with the best thing to come out of Cold Spring since the Parrott Gun, the music won’t be too bad either. Doors open at 7:00. $10, $5 for students. Thanks!

New Hudson: Second Nature

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Details from work by the four artists

Art lovers! Make your plans now to stop by The Living Room.

From October 12 through October 21, our space will be taken over by Van Brunt Projects, the current evolution of Carl Van Brunt and Suzanne Ball’s celebrated gallery up the river in Beacon. We’re thrilled to host them, and we’ve given them the run of the place. There will be art in the storefront, art in the main space, art on our gallery wall, and even a video installation in the intimate Sky Room.

And the show is going to be kick-ass—easily the highlight of the fall season in town. New Hudson: Second Nature is ostensibly a show of “local artists.” But when local includes the world-renowned Starn Brothers, Michael Zelehoski (whose mindbending wood pieces New York Magazine placed at the intersection of “highbrow” and “brilliant”), the amazingly versatile Kathy Feighery and the pioneering digital art of Carl Van Brunt himself, the word starts to mean something very different.

The opening reception will be October 12 from 6:00 to 9:00, and there’s a closing party on October 20. The catch-it-while-you-can gallery is open 12:00 to 6:00 every day in between. Come check it out! As Suzanne and Carl wrote about the show, “What is most important in this art, like what is most important in Nature, can’t be easily verbalized. You’ve got to see it, you’ve got to directly know it, it’s got to be Second Nature to you.”

PRESS: Music and Dancing and Weddings and…

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We got some nice press this week in The Paper, a weekly put out by philipstown.info, one of two active newspapers in our little town. They spent a lot of column inches plugging our upcoming show on September 8, but also wrote a bit about what’s happening at The Living Room in general:

The 1,500-square-foot space has lent itself to a variety of uses, from wedding receptions to cocktail parties for local nonprofits, a film screening by a “local auteur” (name not revealed), as well as to the very popular dance parties where the crowds trailing out onto Main Street have, on occasion, given Cold Spring a taste of nightlife not usually experienced in these quiet streets.

See the whole story here: “Brooklyn Indie Music Migrates North to The Living Room”

 

Brooklyn Folk in Cold Spring!

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Cold Spring loves its musicians—the village is full of folksy strummers, singer-songwriters and bluesy crooners. But there’s also that other musical town down the river. On September 8 we invite you to welcome two like-minded Brooklyn acts to our Main Street space. Little Silver makes sweet, smart music at the intersection of the countrified and the urbane. Swear and Shake, featuring Hudson Valley vocal legend Kari Spieler, played at our opening concert last summer. They’ll be back to show off their own buzz-worthy brand of neo-post-folk. Or whatever we’re calling it these days. Just come and listen. Doors open at 7:30. Ten bucks will get you in.

 

 

 

 

Dance Party!!!

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It hasn’t been the coldest or snowiest winter, but you’re still entitled to your cabin fever. And we’re still committed to curing it. So join us on Saturday, March 17, for our first Dance Party. David Rothenberg will be spinning/mixing/making-other-danceable-noises with his special guest, the mysterious UmruX5. 70s disco, 80s pop, 90s hip hop and current dance floor favorites are rumored to be in the mix. No green beer provided, but please BYO. Doors open at 8:00 pm and close…whenever. $10 all you can move.

FOUND: the art of Marlana Filannino

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We knew Marlana from around town. We knew she was a musician, playing venues on Main Street and farther afield. We knew she was an actress, performing in musical and nonmusical theater. We did not know that, when she went home to Carmel, up the road, over the hills, she spent her time making art—collage on found objects with a strong whiff of the Byzantine. Her work reminds us of a comment our sculpture teacher once made: “There’s a naive quality to your work that I find very precious, and I think you should pamper that.” The show opens February 16 at 6:30 and runs through March 25.