How Medical Marijuana Company Etain Is Increasing Access to Plant-Based Care Medical marijuana has an exclusive reputation, but Hillary Peckham thinks it s high time to send it packing. There s such a large population that could benefit from cannabis, says Peckham, who is the COO of Etain, the Westchester-based medical marijuana company she founded with her mother Amy and sister Keeley. They just don t know how accessible it actually is, she says. While Peckham acknowledges New York State s medical marijuana program was pretty restrictive when it launched in 2015, it now includes broader categories like chronic pain, which covers symptoms like constant knee or low back pain and migraines. Marijuana is also an alternative for those who are turned off to more standard pharmaceuticals that might have negative impacts on their health, she says.
Sarah Rich as Rosie in #Like, which was filmed in Bearsville. British-born, New-York-based writer-director-producer Sarah Pirozek splits her time between Brooklyn and Bearsville the latter is the moody setting for her noir-feminist, indie thriller
#Like. The film released in 2019 and shown recently at the Woodstock Film Festival, is Pirozek s feature debut, though she s no stranger to directing. Since film school, Pirozek has directed documentaries, music videos, and commercials, but always wanted to make narrative feature films. I was put on this Earth to tell stories about women, she tells me during our phone conversation.
#Like, a step toward that, is written, directed, and produced by Pirozek. It follows Rosie (Sarah Rich), a teen mourning the first anniversary of her younger sister s suicide, as she attempts to find the man whose online abuse led to her death. When the police refuse to help, she dec
To call 2020 tough for the wedding business is an obvious understatement. According to
Wedding Report, there were 2.13 million weddings in the US in 2019. In 2020, there were 1.1 million, with slashed budgets and drastically reduced guest lists. It was the safe, right, and loving path, but it s been an uphill one for those whose livelihoods depend on bringing people together to celebrate. When the pandemic abates, wedding vendors still standing can expect a flood of pent-up demand, which may create something of a bottleneck as it collides with postponements. In the spring [of 2020], 80 percent of our events rescheduled to 2021, says Charlotte Guernsey, co-owner at Lambs Hill, an intimate venue in Beacon with sweeping views of the river. A couple of them downsized and kept their dates. Seeing what was going on in the industry, we then created a new package called the Mini-Micro to accommodate those who still wanted to get married but really just wanted a ceremony and a
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It was a sad day when chef Francesco Buitoni hung up his apron and closed the doors of his beloved Red Hook eatery. For nearly 15 years, Mercato showcased the fresh, bright flavors of Buitoni s native Rome in delicious, deceptively simple dishes. But the seventh-generation pasta maker and two-time James Beard nominee is not done in the kitchen. Days before lockdown, he opened Giobatta Alimentari in Tivoli, an Italian restaurant and provisions market. The menu features warming soups, delightfully dressed salads, antipasto, half a dozen handmade pastas, and two to three fish and meat mains. In a refreshing break from avant-garde experimentalists, Buitoni s strength is not in breaking the mold but in perfecting the classics. Recognizable menu items will comfort you a Genovese basil pesto over linguine, a traditional meat ragu bolognese served with pappardelle while the unfamiliar depth of flavor rouses you from your culinary slumber.
Thank you for coming and welcome to the Donald J. Trump Freedom Museum and Patriot Theme ParkTM! My name is Natasha and I ll be your guide. Here we tell the triumphal story of a humble man of modest means, a self-made man, who battled skeptics, doubters, haters, socialists, those with pre-existing conditions, Crooked Hilary, fake news, that POW loser John McCain, Antifa, world leaders who laughed behind his back, and the Deep State on his way to making America great again! And fantastic ratings! Not to mention sparking a heroic patriot uprising on January 6, 2021 in protest of a rigged election, stolen from our dear leader by Sleepy Creepy Joe. This second American Revolution, destined to restore real democracy, is being violently suppressed by the Deep State to this very day. Red-blooded Americans have been censored and driven underground into little spider holes, like terrorists. Won t you help a patriot move out of his mother s basement by donating to our Freedom Fighters Fund tod