One lucky band gets it

Freeman intern and local scene music guru Ethan Barnett is going to feature a young local band on July 4.

Here's the catch. You're going to vote on the band that he will cover. Barnett has compiled a list of up-and-coming groups, featuring indie music, hip-hop, punk, rock and hard rock.

Voting ends June 26. Make your vote count.





If you are unfamiliar with them, check out their MySpace profiles, listen to their music - and vote.

* Battle Ave. Tea Club

* Set Sail

* Nightmares For A Week

* Dusk

* Problems

* Through The Facade

* Our Only Reason

* The Paper Planets

* Above & Beyond Music

* Taxi To Alaska

Mid-Hudson Valley blogging-heads

Your indispensable source for useless knowledge. Here's the latest pulse:

* Kingston Alderman Bill Reynolds doesn't know how to spell "and" in his announcement that city greenbacks for the Andretta Pool and Kingston Point Beach have been restored. That's good news. Once again, you'll be able to swim in other people's pee. WIN!

* Legislative Barbie (?) Brittany Turner needs an explanation about why Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Progressives suck (I'm badly paraphrasing, obviously. She said "WTF").

* The Ulster County Development Corp. advances a seminar that will tackle the question, "How can we give our Main Streets the best chance for success?" Here's an idea: Don't put it in Newburgh.

* Also, the UCDC mentioned that the Mohonk Mountain House was featured on the "Today Show," not today. It's a great trip if you live in New York City! Oh, yeah, but you don't.

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* Kingston Main Street Manager Nancy Donskoj want's you to check your teeth and eyes.

* The Kingston Neighborhood Watch met on Tuesday and decided to take a hike.

* Uber photographer Jen Kiaba talks about how to get some freebies, for $15

* Mid-Hudson music follower Ethan Barnett writes a sentence using "Onderrock," "Dusk," "Seminal Stain," "Very Important Businessmen" and "Loud Youth."


* Bistro-to-Go talks about grilled vegetables, which would look even more delicious if they were next to a dead chicken.

* The Kingston Digital Corridor is drinking again.

This week in blogdom-land-place-stuff-WHAAAA?

* Ulster County Legislator Michael Madsen talks about the Hudson Landing and probably needs a reminder that he's not in the Kingston Common Council anymore.

* Ulster County Legislator Mike Sweeney has a post that can be summarized in one word, "No."

* Kingston Alderwoman Andi-Turco Levin says that the city's planning board, "gave away the store." This being Kingston, I bet the store was a pharmacy.

* Kingston Alderman Bill Reynolds touts the bike racks on Broadway, and then posts this photo of people not using them.



I've got a better one:

FAIL!

* Also by Reynolds: CATS ATTACK!

WIN!

* The Ulster County Development Corporation likes booze.

* The UCDC also notes that The New York Times wrote about Rosendale (in April, you guys!) and the Walkway Over The Hudson on Monday. Unrelated attraction (as in, not in Ulster and not quite an "attraction"): the Newburgh gangs story by the Times on Tuesday - and FBI raids today.

* Kingston Main Street Manager Nancy Donskoj reminds you that Kingston is a destination. Also good for Kingston: Not being called Newburgh.

* The Kingston Neighborhood Watch IS WATCHING YOU! The group also has a new writer, Allison Teetsel, who - spoiler alert! - writes.

* KingstonCitizens.org talks about very foreign concepts called "taxes" and "voting." Strange stuff.

* In a moving post, Claudia D'Arcy shared that she did not quite enjoy Mother's Day and needed one more card, hopefully not like this one:



* Jen Kiaba talks about ... HER CAT!

* Ethan Barnett posts a video of a band with a name I can't pronounce. For the record, I also can't pronounce "juice." I'm told it sounds like "jews," which sounds pretty weird. Example: "Who drank my jews?"

* Bistro-to-go has a Popeye moment.

* Something's rotten in the state of Hudson Valley Gardens online.

* At the Farmer's Market shares a recipe for Rhubarb Ginger Syrup, not to be confused with high-fructose corn syrup.

* Over at Dragon Search, a blog about how to blog (Hint: don't write about how to blog); an online marketing post about peanuts; the successful UCDC tourism conference not being so successful; and hoking up (not in that way).

* Kingston Digital Corridor's Alex Brown talks about "common grounds" and drops the name of a crazy person who works at the Freeman.

Thursday blog bits

* Ulster Legislator Michael Madsen offers his thoughts on former State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's sentencing, which will happen at any moment now, because that's an obvious issue of great importance for the Ulster County Legislature . Also, water, in bottles. Who knew?

* Ulster County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach continues his amazing maverick campaign which consists of linking to other people's stories.

* New featured blogger and Ulster County Legislator Mike Sweeney does a copy-and-paste job. Don't know how he does it.

* Kingston Alderwoman Andi Turco-Levin talks about Healthy Kingston for Kids. Here's an idea: High-fructose corn syrup!

* The unbiased Ulster County Development Corp. declares that the Ulster County Development Corp. toursim conference was a success.

* Kingston Main Street manager Nancy Doskoy catalogues the many venues in the city that feature music. Not mentioned, Snapper's Magges.

* Cool photographer Jen Kiaba takes Cool photos.

* New featured blogger and current Freeman intern Ethan Barnett finds The Last Of Our Kind. Spoiler alert: They're not the last of our kind.

* Over at Bistro To Go, it's time for Tabouli a food I can't cook nor pronounce.

* Hudson Valley Gardens was going to write about seeds, but figured it's easier to link to another blog about seeds.

* Over at Dragon Search, spiders (icky), social media fitness (fat?), something called the Google, and social media's cost per square foot, hopefully without spiders.