Call for Submissions! Send u your short films for inclusion in the one-night-only Spotty Dog Occasional International Short Film Festival! Submission deadline: Tuesday, October 1st, 5pm. Festival Date: Sunday, October 9th, 7-10PM at the Spotty Dog. IMPORTANT: There have been email issues. If you've already submitted or asked a question using email, please redirect your response to: spottydogfilmfestival@gmail.com. Thank you! Guidelines: - Submit a copy of your piece in a format that can be projected digitally. - Include the title, length, and your name. - Also include any kind of blurb about yourself or your piece that we can include in the printed program (these may be edited for clarity and length). - Your contact information. - Films should be under ten minutes in length. - Films should be made by you and should be made int he past two years. - Subject matter is wide open: can be fine art, narrative, highbrow or lowbrow. There are no limitations. Don't have a film? Well, you have about seven weeks to make something. Get to work! Have fun and good luck!

Join us for an evening of lovely music. Lindsay Clark a songwriter / multi-instrumentalist based in Portland, OR, originally from the small gold rush town of Nevada City, CA. Inspiration from classical, folk, bluegrass, dad's records. She is a lover of nature and sound who grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. __ Emily ritz has been creating otherworldly celestial soul music for years as a fixture in the Bay Area music scene since she moved there in 2006. Inspired by the lush landscape of northern California and magic of the pacific ocean, Emily's songs have a multi textural feel and unique structure that often mirrors the cycles of nature. The native New Yorker left for California right after high school to study painting and film making at California College of the Arts. Embraced by the music community in SF, Emily found her place there as a performer. She continued to tour and put out albums with the Bay as her home base long after graduating from college. Her previous projects include Honeycomb, DRMS, and her more recent band with Kacey Johansing, Yesway. Since her move back East to Hudson NY, Emily has been performing under her own name for the first time. Refreshed and energized by her new environment, Emily's music is constantly evolving. Her songs are moving in a new direction though her sound is still very much influenced by her time in California. With a heavy delay on her electric guitar, odd time signatures and intricate guitar picking underneath powerful and dreamy vocals, you can expect a compelling live performance. Emily will be recording her first solo record summer 2016.

Come celebrate our 1 year anniversary! Volume is a FREE reading & music series featuring prose, poetry and a short DJ set. Find us every second Saturday at 7:00 pm at The Spotty Dog Books and Ale in Hudson, NY. D. Foy is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Made to Break, and Patricide, which launches in October. His work has appeared in many magazines and in the books Laundromat and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. Courtney Elizabeth Mauk is the author of three novels: Orion's Daughters, Spark, and The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things, which comes out in October. She lives in New York City with her husband and young son. Alex Mar is a writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Believer, New York Magazine, Elle, Tin House, The Oxford American, and others. Her first book, Witches of America, has its paperback release in October. Followed by book signing and DJ Mike McGuire. There are rumors of cake. "Two Hudson writers seem to have found a new formula, turning the traditional reading into a party celebrating the best in new lit." --Jamie Larson, Rural Intelligence.

Yes, we're doing it again. It's the sort-of-annual one-night-only Spotty Dog Occasional International Short Film Festival! Festival Date: Sunday, October 9th, 7-10PM at the Spotty Dog. (Submission deadline: Tuesday, October 1st, 5pm.) Local and non-local filmmakers join us to show their short films. Highbrow and Lowbrow combined with alcohol and good cheer. Space will be limited, so arrive on time and join us!

Amy Rigby established herself as a solo artist in 1996 with debut album Diary Of A Mod Housewife, but had already been writing and performing her honest, intelligent and instantly-memorable songs for years as a member of early NYC alt-country band Last Roundup and girl group the Shams. Over the last two decades she has toured the US, UK and Europe and released four more acclaimed solo albums, as well as three duo records with her husband Wreckless Eric. This fall, Diary Of A Mod Housewife will be released on vinyl for the first time and Amy is touring to revisit the classics and play new songs from her upcoming solo album due out next year. "Her whimsical, often autobiographical songs are masterful. Funny and enticing, she is up there with the likes of Paul Simon and Randy Newman." --New York Times "Rigby's solo debut remains a classic." Chicago Tribune

Stop in the Spotty Dog Friday night around 7:30 & catch the witches as they scare up some fun on Warren Street in support of the Humane Society during the first annual Witches Crawl. We will have witch's brew available (mulled wine) and on special for anyone crawling that night. ***Registration is at 6:30PM at The Hudson Brewing Company (on Front Street across from the Amtrak Station) for $20, all of which benefits the local Humane Society.

Hey there Hudson! 2016 HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT AND PARADE The 2016 Hudson Halloween Festivities will take place on SCHEDULE Sunday, October 30 2:00 to 4:00 Trick or Treat at Hudson Businesses on Warren Street! Look for the orange whale (shown) to find participating businesses. 4:00 Gather at 7th Street Park for Parade 4:05 Parade Kickoff to Hudson Youth Center Bring the Family! See you there!