Stable Gate Winery is run by certified sommelier Val Feldman, who brings her four generations of family catering and experiences in Tuscany and Napa to her work. Val works with seasonal herbs to create a rotation of drinks, such as meads, wines, and vermouth. Stable Gate Winery offers drinks and food Friday to Sunday, Earth Day to Halloween, in addition to being a venue for public events and private party rentals. Sina Basila Hickey spoke with Val in the bridal sweet of a two hundred year old barn.

https://www.stablegatewinery.com/ *It's recommended to check website or call before stopping by due to wedding bookings.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

First, Mark Dunlea interviews the keynote speaker of this year’s Kateri Peace Conference, Mary Gleason

Then, Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry reports on the Underground Railroad Education Center’s youth summer projects.

After that, H Bosh Jr interviews Paul Kane, known as "Albany's Batman," for an inspiring conversation about resilience, leadership, and the power of community.

Finally, Erin Blanding interviews Dr. Anne-Maria Makhulu for her series People’s Science.

Host: Sina Basila Hickey, Engineer: Zilpa Oduor

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Greg Creft gets to sit down with local Capital Region comic, Ethan Wilder, where we discuss his humble beginnings working at the Saratoga Comedy Works, to his now four year run on stage.

On Tuesday, August 11, State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, the lead sponsor of the bill for a one-year moratorium on data centers, held a press conference along with community groups to announce the New York Fights AI Data Centers statewide tour from August 22 to August 30. The Senator will be visiting 13 sites with active or proposed data centers across New York State to hear the concerns from impacted communities and advocate for Governor Hochul to sign the state bill, which is stronger than the one-year moratorium the Governor recently issued by Executive Order. We hear from Senator Gonzalez and Eric Weltman of Food and Water Watch, Mark Dunlea of PAUSE talking about the Thurs. Aug. 27 event at Albany City Hall, as well as the Senator’s response to several questions from the media.

Food historian Brittney Belz who is also the chair of Union College's Theater and Dance Department gives demonstrations around the Capital District teaching modern cooks recipes and kitchen habits from the 18th century. She sees this as a way to learn about colonial life by living it, but this is more than an educational exercise. As we worry these days about food safety and healthy eating and preventing food waste -- there are lessons for us from our farming ancestors about food preservation and organic growing. You can hear her full talk on the podcast Beyond the Brink with Rosemary Armao, but here's a segment to give you a glimpse into past kitchens.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine,

First, Mark Dunlea talks to members of the No Kings Collective Albany about the developers of Kenwood Commons presentation to the Albany Neighborhood Association Council.

Then, we hear from our Rensselaer Summer Youth Employees about their experience in this county program.

Later on, we have a story of what the lack of legal abortion access can do to society.

After that, Greg Creft joins us in the studio to highlight comedian Ethan Wilder.

Finally, in this week’s Next Up to the Mic, Thom Francis features the work of Dan Wilcox.

Co-hosts: Justin Hurley and Lavender

This week on Next Up to the Mic, we’re returning to August 12, 2019, to hear Dan Wilcox read two poems at “The Past in Poetry” reading held at the Olde English Pub in Albany in collaboration with Historic Cherry Hill.

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Historic Cherry Hill preserves more than two centuries of Albany history, using family papers, photographs, personal belongings, and the stories of the people who lived and worked there to connect the present with the past. The Past in Poetry invited local poets to do something similar—exploring history through memory, imagination, family, and place.

For this episode, we’re featuring Albany poet Dan Wilcox.

Dan has been a fixture in the Capital Region poetry community for decades. He hosts the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany and is a member of the poetry performance group 3 Guys from Albany. He’s also a photographer and longtime documentarian of the local poetry scene, joking that he has "the world’s largest collection of photographs of unknown poets."

His work has appeared in Chronogram, Poetica, Post Traumatic Press, and numerous small-press journals and anthologies. He also publishes poetry through his own A.P.D. imprint, and his chapbook boundless abodes of Albany reflects his longstanding connection to the city and its people.

At “The Past in Poetry,” Dan approached history from two different directions. In “Therese’s Balcony,” he blends an imagined past with fantasy. Then, in “Where Were the Professors,” he turns his attention to a history he knows firsthand—the early days of Albany’s poetry scene.

Dan hasn’t simply written about Albany’s poetry community. For decades, he has been part of it, photographed it, published it, hosted it, and helped preserve its history.

Weaving A Tapestry of Renewal, Resilience and Transformation is the theme of the 28th Kateri Peace Conference, taking place on Sat. August 15 at the Kateri Shrine in Fonda. We are living through a time in our collective history when great and overwhelming confusion and debilitating fear often result in the temptation to withdraw, surrendering hope and our ability to act. This year’s Kateri Peace Conference offers a day of community and healing, coming together to share grief, anger, and confusion yet also our strength, joy, and cohesion, realizing our communal connections, ability to transform and grow. Keynote speaker Mary Gleason talks with Mark Dunlea about "Work That Reconnects" with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

On Saturday, August 08, 2026, Hudson Mohawk Magazine Network Roaming Labor Correspondent Willie Terry covered the Albany Underground Railroad Education Center “Summer Youth Projects” presentations. In this labor segment, Willie interviewed Jordan Johnson, Imogen George, Neville, and Shema Biefait of the Food Funders about their game project.