Green Door Magazine - Issues - Volume 1 No 3 Winter 2011

GREEN DOOR ISSUES

Volume 1 No 3 - Winter 2011

Our winter issue features a talk with Catskillians They Might Be Giants, celebrating 30 years in music. We also take a little trip to Jeffersonville to talk with artist Trey Speegle (Anthropologie) about his paint-by-numbers. Find the best local skiing, learn about fracking, and more.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ThEY MIGHT BE GIANTS MIGHT BE CATSKILLIANS

In 1982, I was a seventh grader at Weber Junior High School in the Port Washington suburb of Long Island, the year John Flansburgh and John Linnel formed They Might Be Giants. A new radio station called WLIR was starting to play an exciting new music called “New Wave” – a style and spirit mainstream radio stations would not touch. “Alternative” music in the early eighties was truly alternative, before people considered Pearl Jam alternative and IFC mainstreamed alternative. READ THE ARTICLE

ARTIST TREY SPEEGLE'S NUMBERS GAME

Drive through the quaint town of Jeffersonville, NY, turn into Peck’s Market parking lot and you will behold an unexpected sight- an 8’ x 18’ paint-by-numbers mural by artist and local resident Trey Speegle. You might expect a quilt pattern or carved bear sculpture, but not a large-scale pop art piece juxtaposed against the rural backdrop of Sullivan County. READ THE ARTICLE

TAY HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Nini has artfully designed all the interior vignettes and spaces. She has a keen eye for the eclectic and can easily mix styles and periods. Discarded period landscape paintings from antique shops are mixed with clean modern touches, a country chic lime cupboard, and hints of her Persian culture – golds, purples, oranges, and ornate metal work you want to rub your fingers over. READ THE ARTICLE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GREETINGS

Winter Don’t Wonderland READ THE ARTICLE

FOLK

They Might Be Giants READ THE ARTICLE

INTERIORS

Tay Home Away From Home: An exquisite trip around a Tea Bar in Andes, New York. READ THE ARTICLE

ART

Trey Speegle: It’s a numbers game when it comes to making art. READ THE ARTICLE

KIDS

Holiday Gifting READ THE ARTICLE

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