Unexpected Oasis   Eclectic Nina is a welcome addition to Middletown’s burgeoning downtown   By Anitra Brown   Middletown’s center of commerce long ago shifted from the old downtown to a sprawling collection of malls ...

Dancing in the Dark   From the paso doble to the Peabody, ballroom dancing is alive and well in the Hudson Valley, as our footloose writer discovered   By Graham Blackburn   I  raised my ...

All through the Night   A minute-by-minute look at what¡¯s going on while most of us are sound asleep     7:55 p.m. Sunset     7:57 p.m. Streetlights go on, triggered by photoelectric ¡°eyes¡± ...

Clubbed In need of a little night music? Here¡¯s a roundup of some of the Valley¡¯s hippest, most happening venues       By Steve Hopkins It¡¯s a Saturday night, in the summer of 2004, ...

Night Patrol   Shadowing a Poughkeepsie policeman on the midnight shift yields lots of surprises   by Reed Sparling     It¡¯s 12:23 a.m. We haven¡¯t been on duty for more than five minutes when ...