Joan Vos MacDonald
I'm a journalist and author.
I write about the creative mind, health, food, history, travel, the Hudson Valley, and Korean pop culture.
PROJECTS
hvmag.com
Making Soulful Music and Specialty Coffee in Kingston
As core members of the band The Hipstones, Mark Palmer and Anthea White have made music together for years. These days they’re also making coffee in midtown Kingston.
drugtopics.com
FDA-Mandated Biosimilar Names Are Confusing
The FDA naming guidelines for biosimilars are designed to level the playing field, so that patients will not discriminate against the less pricey, often as effective, biosimilar version of another drug. But the guidelines have prompted confusion, which pharmacists worry could lead to mistakes in dispensing.
chronogram.com
Kimchee Harvest Kitchen Responds to the Seasons
When Chef Toko Harada worked at the Brooklyn-based restaurant Eat, she was impressed by the quality of organic vegetables delivered there by Madalyn Warren of East Branch Farms in Roxbury, NY.
chinachannel.org
Bringing Crazy Rich Asians to the Big Screen
Joan Vos MacDonald talks to best-selling author Kevin Kwan: When Kevin Kwan wrote the novel Crazy Rich Asians, he had no idea he might change Hollywood.
hvmag.com
A Former Kingston Bakery Celebrates Immigrant Culture
The new museum honors local history and the Hudson Valley's international roots.
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Kingston's Tech Scene Welcomes New Growth
The riverside town is fast becoming an unofficial hub for all things tech in the Hudson Valley.
drugtopics.com
Will 340B Cuts Affect Clinical Outcomes?
On January 1, 2018, CMS enacted significant cuts to the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which offers discounts on brand name drugs to help compensate eligible hospitals for treating a disproportionate amount of uninsured or underinsured patients.
mental_floss
10 Dubious Victorian Cures From the First Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
In his work Of the Epidemics, the Greek physician Hippocrates encouraged doctors to “have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.” Yet the history of medicine has been an exercise in trial and error, with remedies sometimes proving more dangerous than the disease.
hvmag.com
Fishkill and Its Role in the Revolution
The Dutchess County area — and a hilltop mansion here — was a source of shelter and supplies for our Colonial soldiers.
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Steve Carell Will Play a Kingston Resident in This Upcoming Film
The new Robert Zemeckis movie brings to life the riveting story of a Hudson Valley artist.
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A High Falls Filmmaker Preserves Her Father's Legacy
Filmmaker Hanna Sawka was only two years old when her family became stateless. Her prize-winning artist and architect father, Jan Sawka, was a Polish citizen exhibiting in Paris when he learned that his art, critical of the Communist government, would result in his forced return to Poland.
chinachannel.org
Redeeming Empress Gi
In the year 1331, the 16-year-old girl who would one day become Empress Gi arrived in the Yuan capital of Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing) among hundreds of young men and women sent as human tributes from Korea.
hvmag.com
3 New Restaurants Are Spicing Up Kingston's Food Scene
The Stockade District continues to welcome exciting eateries to its ever-expanding lineup.
Playboy
Welcome to Amsterdam After Dark
The modern world often suggests that adults get serious and stop partying—that they grow up. Mirik Milan, however, isn’t so interested in appealing to societal expectations.
Instead, Milan focuses on the role partying plays in fostering healthy, vibrant cities.
hvmag.com
Kingston's Past Lives on in This Vintage Antique Shop
When Sandy Balla first saw the 40,000-square-foot industrial building that her husband Stan Zaborski wanted to buy, she said, “Do we really need this much space?”
“Oh, we need it,” said Zaborski. “Don’t worry. We’ll fill it.”