MILLERTON — The Moviehouse in Millerton has reopened as a completely digital theater.Not only will the facility now be showing 3D movies, but the equipment upgrade will allow many other new features.Robert and Carol Sadlon, owners of The Moviehouse, said a new library server and operating software allows movies to be loaded and programmed up to two weeks in advance.“The server talks to our scheduling software and sends the right movies to the right theaters according to our schedule, so it’s all automatic now,” Richard Sadlon said.This automation will allow The Moviehouse to further extend its customer service.“If all goes right, all we have to do is sell tickets, sell concessions, greet customers and close the doors when the movie starts,” he said.The Sadlons are nurturing the facility as a cultural center for the community.“Everything is going to bits and bytes. If you want to stay in business as a theater, you have to go digital,” Carol Sadlon said.“We made the commitment early, and it’s really a commitment to Millerton. The town deserves a digital theatre. It’s going to be better picture, better quality, better sound, as well as all the other things that digital offers to a theater, including digital 3D,” Richard Sadlon said.Along with the enhanced audio and visual experience, the upgrade also allows the theater to show alternative content.“This is the very exciting part about our content. It’s going to become much more diverse,” Carol Sadlon said.The Moviehouse will now be able to show live feeds of both The Metropolitan Opera from New York and National Theatre Live from London, England.“We will be able to show the Metropolitan Opera live from Lincoln Center. It’s filmed on several cameras, so you will get to see behind the scenes and interviews. It’s such an enhanced experience,” Richard Sadlon said.Both venues are often sold out, but The Moviehouse will provide an opportunity to view these prestigious shows.“Not everyone can get down to New York or take a weekend and fly to London. This is bringing the arts to Millerton. It’s also a lot more to see than sitting in an audience because a director is taking you places you would not be able to see if you were sitting in your seat at Lincoln Center,” he said.The Moviehouse is also extending its hours.“We will now have matinees every day, which will show a lot of this alternative content. It’s interesting for us because the feeds are live, so the event time in London or New York will dictate the times we need to accommodate the shows. It’s all very new and very exciting,” Carol Sadlon said.For more information, including showtimes, visit www.themoviehouse.net or call 518-789-0022.
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Greg Fricke and James Boehmer, co-owners of Peggy Mercury in Kent, recently launched their first fashion line, “Imaginary Concerts.”
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Fricke and Boehmer are not there to stock their shelves with the same products customers find at standard makeup retailers. They’re there to help customers find what works for them. That usually means asking customers about themselves and learning about their beauty habits, skin, style and the way they like to present themselves. Fricke and Boehmer believe it’s their job to help customers bring out the qualities that suit them and determine what works best for their look.
So much of the Peggy Mercury world is about emboldening people to become more creative, and possibly bolder, versions of themselves. Some of this comes through the store’s creative collaborations with artists, designers and stylists.
It’s part of an ethos that encourages them and their friends to use the shop as a kind of laboratory, trying out new creative experiments without knowing how they might turn out. Whether in fashion, painting, fiber arts or photography, the projects almost always turn out marvelously.
A line of sterling silver charms they sell started as a small project by their friend Nolan Percival. In the beginning, the pieces were for close friends and loved ones. But Boehmer and Fricke encouraged Percival to get a little more serious about the project and create a whole line for the store. Today, it’s one of their top-selling collections.
Classic styles, bold colors, and creative concerts make up the “Imaginary Concerts” line at Peggy Mercury.Provided
“Imaginary Concerts” has the duo taking their own advice.
The project started as a way for Boehmer to connect with his mother, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Taking old concert shirts from his own collection, Boehmer and his mother began cutting out the graphics with the idea that they would make a quilt together. Unfortunately, she died before they could complete the project in 2025. The pieces, which were ready for production, were put on the back burner as Boehmer and Fricke dealt with their loss and the whirlwind of projects that never seemed to cease at Peggy Mercury.
But the harsh winter of 2026 presented an opportunity to take some time and focus on themselves. Part of that meant revisiting and redefining the concert T-shirt project. This time, instead of looking to the warmth and comfort of a quilt, they turned to another passion — fashion.
Taking a page from their own book, they wanted to create something that felt comfortable to them. They took two disparate loves — one rooted in simple preppy style, with clean lines and classic silhouettes, and the other in the nitty gritty worlds of punk rock and pop — and blended them together to create something entirely new. Pulling from the staples of vintage Brooks Brothers and Charvet collections, they applied the graphic elements with bold stitching reminiscent of punk jackets of the ‘70s and ‘80s, but with a much more sophisticated air.
But the remixing isn’t just the pairing of prep and punk. The pieces are not canon. They take liberties with the realities of concert tours, combining one band’s dates with another band’s logos, mixing them all up until the reality is lost and imagination is the only truth.
Shirts from Peggy Mercury’s first fashion line, “Imaginary Concerts,” hang on display.Provided
Adding to the mix is an element of perpetual creativity. Art can be messy, both figuratively and literally, and many of Fricke and Boehmer’s artist friends carry evidence of their work on them at all times. As a nod to these tireless creatives, the duo added haphazard splashes of bright color, giving the line an even more distinctive feel.
For them, “Imaginary Concerts” passes the “Peggy Test.” The mythical Peggy Mercury is a fictional figurehead for the company, a character who thrives on creativity and change. The name, much like the clothing line, is a mixture of interests: Mercury is a planet, a deity and an elusive, transformative element, while Peggy is the wonderfully stylish and boundary-pushing Peggy Guggenheim.
Everything Fricke and Boehmer put in their store has to pass this test: Would Peggy Mercury approve? For their first collection, the answer is a resounding yes.
Peggy Mercury is at 9 Maple St., Unit 2, Kent.
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