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Taking the CBD cure: A month-long experiment with the plant medicine everyone’s on

UPDATE: The 2018 Farm Bill, which fully legalizes hemp and removes it from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), was signed into law on Dec. 20, 2018. This means you’ll be seeing even more CBD products derived from hemp, and... Read More
Introducing BB Notebooks, a Brooklyn Based and Idlewild Co. collab

This season, Brooklyn Based is introducing a brand-new gift: a limited run of custom notebooks designed by Idlewild Co. Whether you like to carry around a notebook to jot down ideas, write your “Morning Pages” à la Julia Cameron or... Read More
Around the world in Brooklyn’s specialty food markets

Here we are in the final stretch of 2018, just over the election hurdle, swiftly careening into the holiday season. A time ripe with celebration and sharing, along with the looming possibilities of awkward familial discussions concerning the current... Read More
A weekend in Kingston, the Hudson Valley’s creative capital

Kingston: the first capital of New York State. Burned by the British. The former home of a hulking IBM campus. Sounds…dusty, right? Indeed, Kingston has been a sleepy town since the IBM campus—which operated from the 1950s to the... Read More
Hudson Valley weddings are all the rage. Here’s what one will cost you

According to The Knot’s most recent Real Weddings Study, the average Westchester/Hudson Valley wedding in 2017 cost $55,357, making it the fourth most expensive place to get married in the United States after Manhattan, New Jersey and Long Island.... Read More