Face Stockholm makes Rhinebeck blush

Swedish cosmetics company Face Stockholm, which operates its United States headquarters in Hudson in Columbia County, has opened one of its antique-filled boutiques in Rhinebeck.

Face Stockholm's NYC locations feature professional makeup artists to assist buyers.

The Rhinebeck store is located in the former Rhinebeck Hardware on East Market Street.

Hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. I can't wait to check it out.

For more info, call 845-876-2200.

Director chats about 'ecological time bomb'

Chris Metzler will discuss his documentary, "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea," after a 3:10 p.m. screening Sunday at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck.

This is another in a long line of environmentally charged movies that Upstate has featured this year.

It's always fun to attend screenings that are accompanied by a talk with the director in such an intimate setting. Audience members' questions are usually intelligent and the director's comments are often quite candid.

Admission is $7.50.

Not a bad way to spend a Friday

One-woman punk rock band The Laura Pepitone Show is headlining the New York State Beer Expo at Terrapin Catering, located at Dinsmore Golf Course on Route 9 in Staatsburg.

The $25 entrance fee includes all the beer and food you can eat and entertainment by Pepitone, Johnnie Wang and The Meg Johnson Band.

The expo takes place Friday from 5 to 10 p.m.

For more information, call 845-876-3330.

R.I.P. Jane

Jane magazine, the follow-up to Sassy a.k.a. "the greatest teen magazine of all time," has folded.

I stopped subscribing to Jane in early 2001, after discovering the much more Sassy-like Bust magazine.

But it was still my go-to purchase at the newstand in the train station and airport.

Jane's demise is a loss for young women who want more than just beauty ads and "how to please your man" articles from their magazine.

But like Jane, maybe we're a dying breed of the 1990s too ...

Sip and spit, but don't get sloshed

Apparently, the Hamptons crowd has moved the party to the North Fork wineries, prompting some to bar buses, limos and bachelorette parties.

Thank goodness the wine scene in the Hudson Valley is sedate by Long Island standards.

I attended last year's Bounty of the Hudson at Adair in New Paltz. The crowd skewed fairly young, but the oenophiles-in-training were there to sip, not to get sloshed. (Poughkeepsie Journal photo by Michael Sibilia)

This year's Bounty takes place July 28 and 29 at Brotherhood in Washingtonville.

One rep from a winery in the Finger Lakes told me she enjoys coming to the area for festivals like the Hudson Valley Wine & Food Fest because "it is a wonderful atmosphere of people who appreciate wine."

For a local primer, check out the Wine Goddess blog.

Here's to us.

I got your Spiegeltent menu here

No interest in cooking tonight? Head to Bard's Spiegeltent every Thursday-Sunday evening now through Aug. 19.

From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., choose from a menu of summer foods, including local beef burgers, grilled house-made sausage, falafel with grilled pita and berry shortcake, plus Millbrook wines and Magic Hat beers.

Click here for the full Spiegeltent menu.

Eat and drink outside on picnic tables or inside in the cabaret atmosphere of the Belgian palace of mirrors.

The photo is by Poughkeepsie Journal photographer Lee Ferris. To view a gallery of his Spiegeltent photographs, click here.

The Spiegeltent is back!

Get ready for seven weeks of cabaret, cool music and clubbing inside the Spiegeltent on the Bard College campus in Annandale.

Pick up a copy of this Friday's Enjoy! for my preview of the cabaret offerings at SummerScape.

For a full schedule, click here.

Also, if you are headed to the tent Friday night, be sure to say hi to Chrissie of Odd Couple fame and me. We will be taping a video about the Spiegeltent scene for use on the PoJo Web site.