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49 AGELESS EDUCATION: LIFELONG LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
Kansas abortion clinics close, adoptions by gay couples increase, and more.
Zan Strumfeld explores interest-based adventures for adults including Flying Trapeze Club, Fleisher's Butchery Classes, and HoneyBee Lives Beekeeping.
21 beinhart’s body politic: WHERE THE STUPID IS GATHERED Larry Beinhart is baffled by current economics.
whole living guide
FEATURE
96 sit and be happy: the mood-boosting power of meditation
22 FEATHERHEADS: THE PIGEON RACERS OF THE CATSKILLS
Jana Martin dives into the remarkable world of competing pigeons.
Wendy Kagan shares healthy ways to calm you down from relaxation enthusiasts Corinne Mol, Clark Strand, and Lisa Matkin.
98 flowers fall: taking the attachment parenting challenge PART 2
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22 the mysteries of saugerties
Jeff Blum's 1965 ranch-style home in Blue Mountain. By Jennifer Farley.
33 the garden Michelle Sutton sits down with The Phantom Gardener founder. 36 the craft Ronnie Citron-Fink finds wood furniture at Sawkille Co. 39 the question Gregory Schoenfeld on Don Lloyd's geothermal options.
community pages Healing, eating, and shopping in this 24-karat city.
70 rhinebeck: mighty all righty
95 mass exodus
Peter Aaron's rundown of hiking on the Ashuwillticook Rail, resting at the historic Morgan House Inn, and visiting Herman Melville's home in the mountains.
Sustainability and sassiness in the Northeast corner of Dutchess County.
85 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 90 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 99 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.
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BERKSHIRES travel guide
Community Resource Guide
40 hudson: a real sparkler
Bethany Saltman returns from her 10th wedding anniversary trip to Italy— Azalea's response to the separation surprises her mother.
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Chatham's ArtView gallery director Sharon March, with My Suite by painter Joseph Zemann.
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Die Liebe der Danae (The Love of Danae) By Richard Strauss American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Directed by Kevin Newbury Production design by Rafael Viñoly and Mimi Lien Sung in German, with English supertitles A Mozartean blend of comedy, romance, and drama on the themes of transformation and accepting life’s changes, Die Liebe der Danae is brilliantly illuminated by Strauss’s celebrated orchestral mastery.
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Saturday, August 13 program two
Sunday, August 14
Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York PHOTO: Jean Sibelius at his house “Ainola” in Järvenpää, Finland, 1907. ©akg-images
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Sibelius
Berlin and Vienna: The Artist as a Young Man
Chamber works by Sibelius, Goldmark, Fuchs, Busoni
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Kalevala: Myth and the Birth of a Nation
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White Nights—Dark Mornings: Creativity, Depression, and Addiction
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To the Finland Station: Sibelius and Russia
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Sibelius and Kajanus
Chamber works by Sibelius, Grieg, Peterson-Berger, Delius
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Chamber works by Sibelius, Bruckner, Atterberg, Kilpinen
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Chamber works by Sibelius, Grieg, Grainger, Ravel, Kuula
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Finnish Modern
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The Heritage of Symbolism
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Nostalgia and the Challenge of Modernity
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Silence and Influence
Chamber works by Sibelius, Melartin, Madetoja, Merikanto
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Sibelius and Raitio
Chamber works by Sibelius, Strauss, Respighi
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Sibelius, Barber, Vaughan Williams
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60 music Peter Aaron shows the twelve strings of guitarist Alexander Turnquist.
83 FOOD & DRINK EVENTS FOR AUGUST
62 nightlife highlights Joan Osborne, The Left Banke, and the High Peaks Music Festival.
63 cd reviews Jason Broome reviews The Kids We Used to Be by Phineas and the Lonely Leaves. Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews Something Quiet by Bob Gluck. Sharon Nichols reviews Strange Sweethearts by Sarah Underhill.
64 books Nina Shengold reveals the literary palette of Djelloul Marbrook.
66 book reviews Anne Pyburn reviews Sand Queen by Helen Benedict and An African Affair by Nina Darnton. Gregory Schoenfeld reviews Bullpen Diaries by Charley Rosen and Baseball in the Garden of Eden by John Thorn.
56 Poetry Poems by Guy R. Beining, Marc Cioffi, Margaret Craig, Tony Criscimagna, M. Hotvedt, Nathan Hunt, Heidi Hutner, R. L. Kennedy, Rubin Cash Kirschner, Tony Pena, Diana Regal, Noel Sloboda, Richard Tornello, Sara Walsh-Esposito, Matthew Lyndon Wells. Edited by Phillip Levine.
128 parting shot
A Seat at the Table, Hudson Valley RibFest, Wild Blueberry and Huckleberry Festival, Wine Festival at Bethel Woods.
the forecast 106 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 105 Folk rock singer/songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield at Belleayre Music Festival. 108 BRAWL arm wrestling ladies kick ass at Bridgewater Grill in Kingston. 109 Bard College's Spiegeltent wraps up this month with cabaret, circus, and Klezmer. 110 The second annual Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice begins. 112 Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theater & Song's ninth season. 113 Strange, Kozmic Experience exhibit of Woodstock at Bethel Woods Museum. 118 The Woodstock Playhouse finishes their summer stock season with "Hair." 119 "Vanishing Art: An Intimate Festival of What May Be" exhibit opens. 120 The first-ever Bon-Odori Music & Dance Festival in New Paltz. 121 Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" is performed in a Bearsville home.
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SPACE SHUTTLE LANDS ON ANOTHER WORLD Eric Francis Coppolino relects on the media, global crisis, and our interests. horoscopes What do the stars have in store for us this month? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
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Valentine peter brandt | archival matte heavyweight inkjet print | 1999 Photographer Peter Brandt can’t help but look up when he’s walking the streets of a major city. The abstract views of the buildings shout out at him, needing to be photographed. “What I’m really trying to do is highlight the genius of the architectural design. Architects don’t get enough credit for their art. Every building should have a plaque at the bottom giving the architect credit, like a signature on a painting,” says Brandt. The German-born, Montreal-raised photographer began taking photos when his father gave him a Kodak twin-lens box camera. From there, Brandt shot for his high school yearbook and established his own studio at 23. He started shooting for big corporate accounts like Avon and then became the official Canadian Playboy photographer for four years. Brandt then worked in the advertising and fashion industries. In 2008, after 45 years as a commercial photographer, Brandt decided to retire, pursuing his idea of abstract art through architectural photography. Many architectural photographers shoot the sectional views of buildings, focusing on different angular designs. Brandt decided to abstract his shots one step further: to paint over his photographs. Using Photoshop, he splashes color into the windows, outlines of the building, or wherever he wants to emphasize the architecture. The cover photo, Valentine, is part of Brandt’s “Mirrored” series. “Some buildings have really strong, graphic lines. What if I were to double, quadruple that?” he says. He took a photo of a sectional view of the Gateway Building in Secaucus, NJ, added pink to the elevators, and then mirrored it. Hoping the architect would buy a print, Brandt sent the photo to him right around Valentine’s Day, slipping it into a card. Instead, the architect called and asked Brandt to take commercial photos of the building. Brandt declined. “This was a moment when I was expressing my own artistic desires. I could have gotten a job out of it, but that’s not what I was after,” he says. Brant lived in Manhattan for 27 years and has shot architecture in Miami, London, Las Vegas, and Montreal. He moved to Bearsville in 2008 after building a house from scratch that he’s been designing since 1991. “Mirrored,” an exhibition of photographs by Peter Brandt, will be on display through August 31 at the Carnegie Hall branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Portfolio: www.peterbrandt.com. —Zan Strumfeld
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Local Luminary: Bob Berman The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life was shown to me in Woodstock—yet it was on the edge of our galaxy. Some time back in the mid-’90s, I put my eye to the lens of Bob Berman’s massive telescope and the universe was opened to me in a way it had never been before. One of the most well-known and widely read astronomers in the world, Berman is a regular contributor to Astronomy magazine, Discover magazine, and The Old Farmer’s Almanac. He’s appeared on “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “Late Night with David Letterman,” and NPR, and he’s the author of five books on astronomy, with his sixth coming out this summer. In 1976, Berman founded the Catskill Astronomical Society and began running the summer astronomy program at Yellowstone National Park in 1988. He is director of the Storm King Observatory in Cornwall, and of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock. In August, Berman will again teach a series of astronomy classes for the public in Woodstock on Friday evenings. You can’t help but love his friendly, dry wit and his ability to explain complex ideas in a way that anyone can understand. In addition to his upcoming classes, he’s also planning an Australian outback tour in 2012 to view a total solar eclipse; in the past he has lead aurora and eclipse expeditions as far away as the Arctic and Antarctic. For more information: www.skymanbob.com. —Sharon Nichols
When did you know you wanted to become an astronomer? Do you believe in destiny? My first recollection of life was being wheeled in a stroller or carriage and looking up at the starry night sky. I had no language yet. It’s my earliest memory. I’ve always been in love with the night sky. As a teenager, I memorized the name, spectral class, and distance of every named star in the heavens, just for fun. Are you a spiritual person, perhaps an agnostic or pantheist? Big question. I am not an agnostic. Closer to a pantheist, in that I see it all as a single entity with unfathomable underlying intelligence. Fifteen years ago, you showed me an astonishing galaxy, M13. Do you have a favorite? Yes, M13 is stunning. It’s a globular cluster on the fringes of our own galaxy, not a separate external galaxy. I have many favorites. That’s one of them. Tell us about the upcoming total solar eclipse in Australia’s outback and what you’re planning for yourself and the public. This will be the seventh total solar eclipse for me. So far, I’ve been very lucky with weather. I hope our group is blessed with clear weather for this one, too. It will be a hoot, with many other activities in the days before and after, including stargazing from the legendary dark skies of the outback. Do you think there are other intelligent life forms out there? Do you think they have visited our planet? Why or why not? There must be lots of life in the universe, not to mention the very real possibility that the universe itself is alive. As for visiting us in the past, who knows? It does seem very unlikely that we are being visited nowadays, since a) astronomers never seem to see UFOs; b) in this era when everyone has a camera on their cell phone, there is not a single clear, sharp image of one (they’re always blurry or shaky); and c) if these aliens do not want to “come out of the closet” and announce themselves by, say, landing on the White House lawn, and instead wish to keep themselves hidden, they are nonetheless spotted here and there by some farmer in Kansas or group of teens in Roswell—that kind of thing. It seems too suspiciously incompetent that these aliens are unable to keep themselves better hidden, but instead keep getting spotted like cat burglars. Applying Occam’s
Razor, I doubt very much that UFOs are alien spacecraft. Of course, I could be an alien trying to throw you off the track. Do you think the universe runs on order or chaos? I see the universe as perfect. That would mean that even the chaos is exquisitely designed to produce stunning consequences. What is the most-talked-about new discovery in the field of astronomy right now? We’re still reeling from the 1998 discovery that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-faster rate, indicating the existence of some sort of mysterious antigravity force which we call dark energy. Also, increasing data is pointing to the universe being infinite, both in content and in extent. This is a big change from our earlier longstanding models. Your sixth book is coming out this year, is that right? Can you tell us what it’s about and how it’s relevant at the present time? It’s The Sun’s Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet [Little, Brown and Company]. So far, the reviews have been wonderful. The release date is July 13. It’s about the history of the fascinating people and their life stories, of those who gave us our sun knowledge through the centuries. Also how the sun can kill us (through melanoma) but also can save our lives (through Vitamin D generation). It’s about sun phenoms like rainbows, the aurora, total eclipses, and so much more. Everything about the sun is either amazing or useful, and this is designed as “summer reading,” a beach book for nonscientists. How long have you been teaching the classes like the ones coming up in August? What can people expect? I used to teach college physics and astronomy courses at Marymount College. But since 1975, I’ve also given local classes for area residents, to share the universe with people here. About 3,000 people have taken them over the years. A good number of famous people, too. I’m so tempted to name-drop, but I won’t. It’s nontechnical but is not dummied down. Even smart kids (ages eight and up) can enjoy the visuals. Lots of visuals and demos of things like light and color, and also a field trip to the observatory. By the end, participants will have finally understood relativity, quantum mechanics, the stars and constellations, and lots of cool stuff.
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Esteemed Reader So far as I can see, the idea of a local economy rests upon only two principles: neighborhood and subsistence. In a viable neighborhood, neighbors ask themselves what they can do or provide for one another, and they find answers that they and their place can afford. —Wendell Berry Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: “Hi, Daddy.” The words were spoken quietly, from the back seat. We were hurtling along Route 32 going north. I had been thinking. Or perhaps the state was more akin to dreaming—one thought associating with the next like ice crystals forming, randomly, never in a straight line. Images of a writer friend who wrote a book about the sirens’ song...Odysseus’ craving for experience ingeniously indulged with ropes and the beeswax-packed ears of his sailors…masts and trees…tree is the root-word of truth…what is truth? And then in a moment, perhaps triggered by the word, or a ray of sunlight alighting on a part of the brain, thought stopped. Suddenly I was in the car, the sky and trees whizzing by, the sounds of the engine and wheels and wind, aware of my children sitting behind me in their car-seats—I was having a spontaneous in-body experience. And that was when he said it: “Hi, Daddy,” as though he noticed I had been away, and then returned. I share this anecdote in the context, believe it or not, of what I would call local economy. In 1972 Gregory Bateson wrote a book called Steps to An Ecology of Mind. Like many great books the title is an expression of the message of the whole tome, that ecology in every arena arises with a careful cultivation of the vast mind-space between our own ears. In this direction, the title of this missive might be Steps to a Local, Living Economy, with the basis that a living economy begins at home. As the father of Hermeticism, Hermes Trismegistus put it, As Above, So Below. The word economy has its roots in ancient greek and literally means to “manage a household.” The household may be any microcosm of relationships; eg, a family, a community, nation, or planetary world. It is the place we live, the world we inhabit, and the system through which our creative and productive output flows. The currency that courses through the economy may take many forms. One symbol of this value is money—“legal tender”—the fiat notes we all know have no intrinsic worth, but have value because we agree they have value. In the old days they could be converted to gold, but no longer. And as a consensus valuation money is useful, but also destructive, because it is pure quantity, a commodity, denuded of all the other qualitative factors that are essential to human fulfillment; e.g., money can’t buy me love. A local, living economy—the economy of our immediate community—traffics in more diverse currency. It is the stuff of all the work we do in our lives—creative, spiritual, social, environmental—not just the work we do for money. A local, living economy transcends the usual conception of personal property and ownership and addresses the resources we truly share. For instance, when I was in Europe a few years ago I was amazed at the vastness of the public spaces. The parks were enormous and in great use. Returning home I felt claustrophobic within the preponderance of private property that is off limits to all but its owners. Of course there are many fine local and national examples of public space to be grateful for like our historic sites, parklands and preserves, and a recent seemingly miraculous accomplishment which is the Walkway Over the Hudson, but the Europeans are ahead. We live in an area that is rich in collective, grassroots wealth. In the Hudson Valley our community output of arts and music, environmental organizations, social awareness and support, and locally-owned, independent business activity is immense. These are our treasure, our collective wealth, and the place to continue to invest not just our money, but ourselves. Of course money, as a consensus-defined measure of value, plays a vital role in a local, living economy. We have the opportunity to be buffered from the insanity of macro-economics which is concerned with generating a quantity of illusory value, at the expense of real, qualitative value. In our locale we can place our money where the real value manifests—keeping it in local banks where it will be lent back to our neighbors, spending it in locally-owned businesses where it will be circulated back into the local economic ecosystem, buying locally-grown food from local farms that isn’t shipped from thousands of miles away, and supporting local cultural and environmental not-for-profits. And when we do our work for money, it should be work that nourishes our being; so that our being may generously overflow to our friends and neighbors, family and community. At it’s root a local, living economy is based on the presence we bring to relationships—“Hi, Daddy”—and the promises that we make and keep to one another. —Jason Stern
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ummer gallops away now. But wait, that metaphor isn’t exactly right. Too much in the way of the heavy sound of hoofbeats, a missed opportunity, the rear end of an animal. That only partially captures the fleeting feeling of the weeks leading up to Labor Day. Perhaps it should be: Summer canters on, or, summer trots along. Summer is in full effect, its slow parade zigzagging like a fez-wearing Shriner in a mini car. August is the month of picnics, lawn games, pool parties. For if you don’t slow down now, you might find yourself breathless straight through New Year’s. But if you feel like hustling, there’s still a bevy of stuff to do in August. Here’s a Top 10 list (in no particular order) of what I’m racing toward this month, inclusive of an event I wish was still happening: Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice August 4-7 The second year of this world-class singing event, organized by internationally renowned vocalists, has the cozy vibe of a small town affair that’s brought off with professional éclat. It’s got gospel, opera in the park, socially conscious sing-alongs, and performers for the kids like Uncle Rock, also known as Chronogram contributor Robert Burke Warren. www.phoeniciavoicefest.com Saugerties Artists Studio Tour August 13 & 14 Cultural Czar in Exile Mikhail Horowitz tells me that this tour—caveat lector: Mik’s studio is included on the program—is the bomb. Not in quite those words. In its ninth year, the tour takes art appreciation out of the (sometimes quite sterile) gallery/museum context and back into the domain of the art makers in their native habitats. (In addition, Czar Mik will be performing with his partner in satire, Gilles Malkine, at the Woodstock Fringe Festival on August 20 and 21.) www.saugertiesarttour.com Warrior Dash August 13 & 14 Unfortunately, by the time you read this (after August 1), registration will be closed. But perhaps you want to venture out to Windham Mountain to watch hundreds of semi-crazed competitors jump over fires, swim through mud, climb a cargo net, and scale stone walls while running a 5K. Plus, the race is followed by a huge party with beer, bands, and food. www.warriordash.com Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Through September 4 The master thespians performing under the big tent on the grounds of Boscobel in Garrison finally tackle the Bard’s magnum opus, “Hamlet,” this summer. I’m curious to see if HVSF does as well with tragedy as it does with comedy. Added bonus: Garrison Art Center’s annual outdoor contemporary sculpture exhibition, “Current,” is installed on the grounds of Boscobel through October 10. Bard Music Festival August 12-14, 19-21 Dismissed as second-rate by critics during his lifetime, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), also enjoyed a great degree of popular success, and he was among the most loved composers in the US in the 1930s. Sibelius’ bombastic Romanticism was out of step with the
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emergence of modernism, and yet his music is still widely played today. The Finnish composer enjoys two weekends of concerts and lectures in his honor at Bard College. www.fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf Esopus Creek Puppet Suite August 12 & 13 Arm-of-the-Sea Theater’s annual spectacle on its home turf in Saugerties (Tina Chorvas Park) always looks to current events for its themes. This year’s production is “La Cosecha” (The Harvest), about an undocumented immigrant named Cesar who tangles with the coyote who smuggled him across the border. www.armofthesea.org Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana Duo August 28 If you’re unfamiliar with Bard Mehldau, buy his Art of the Trio albums today. His intimate and lyrical treatments of American Songbook standards (“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”) and contemporary pop and rock (Radiohead’s “Exit Music for a Film”) have taken jazz piano in an exciting and accessible direction. This show pairs him with young drumming phenom Mark Guiliana. www.liveatthefalcon.com Wildcat Epic 100 August 13-14 I’m something of an avid mountain biker, but I’m not ready for this race: two days, 50 miles each day, up and down and around again in the Shawangunks Mountains outside New Paltz, through the Mohonk Preserve, Minnewaska State Park, and surrounding trails. But on Sunday, there’s a single-day, 25-mile option that is tough enough to challenge the intermediate cyclist without crushing them. www.wildcatepicevents.com Terrapin New York State Beer Fest August 6 Twenty-four craft brewers from across the state serve up their finest beverages (over 100 varieties) at Terrapin Catering in Staatsburg. Participating breweries include Saranac, Captain Lawrence, Keegan Ales, and Ommegang, among many others. www.terrapinrestaurant.com/beerfest The Missing Derby This month will mark the first time in 17 years there will be no Artists’ Soapbox Derby held on the third Sunday in August. George Donskoj and Nancy Donskoj and an army of volunteers pulled together the kinetic sculpture parade with a can-do attitude that was inspiring in a way specific to a DIY community event. Year after year artists and nonartists, adults and children built ingenious creations to roll down lower Broadway in Kingston past a cheering crowd of thousands. Sadly, the Derby had become too much for George and Nancy to coordinate, and no organization was able to take up the mantle of organizing the event in time for this year. Plans are supposedly in the works to resurrect the Derby in 2012. (Mayan calendar car anyone?) Chronogram was a sponsor of the Derby for many of its 16 years, and we fervently hope we get the chance to be involved with it again. Much gratitude to George and Nancy and everyone who’s been involved in producing this local marvel. Summer’s not the same without it.
Chronogram Open Word (August 6) Chronogram poetry editor Phillip Levine hosts an open mike at Beahive Kingston with featured readers Dayl Wise, Alison Koffler, and Susan Hoover. www.chronogram.com Vanaver Caravan at PS21 in Chatham (August 6) The renowned dance troupe brings its "Earthbeat" program to PS21 in Chatham. www.ps21chatham.org Hudson Music Fest (August 12-14) Three days of music all over Hudson, with stages and
concerts inside and out. www.hudsonmusicfest.com 140 Characters Conference (August 23) This event at Seven21 Media Center in Kingston will explore how social media operates outside the big cities and the ways in which it permeates the everyday life of the rural cities of our area. http://hv.140conf.com Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Through August 28) The world's top dancers perform each summer incaption Becket, Massachusetts. www.powerhouse.vassar.edu
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According to census data, adoptions by gay couples have increased 11 percent since 2000. Since same-sex couples cannot marry in most states, adopted children don’t have the rights and protections given to children of heterosexual parents. The process is a state-by-state decision. It is illegal for same-sex couples to adopt in Utah and Mississippi. In Arizona, social workers are required by law to give preference to heterosexual couples for adoption. There are currently 115,000 children waiting for adoption. Source: New York Times On June 9, an unemployed 59-year-old walked into a bank in North Carolina. He slipped a note to the teller that said he was robbing the bank of one dollar. He then waited for police to come arrest him—in order to receive health care in jail. James Verone, charged with larceny, has a growth on his chest, a problem with his foot, two ruptured disks, and no health insurance. Source: Huffington Post New research from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine found that the psychoactive chemical in magic mushrooms may have lasting spiritual and medical benefits. The researchers said they figured out just the right amount of hallucinogen psilocybin to give to the adults volunteered during their experiment. Fourteen months later, 94 percent of the volunteers said it was one of their top five most meaningful experiences—39 percent said it was the most meaningful. Participants said they felt they understood themselves better and had an overall spiritual experience. Even their relatives and friends reported the volunteers were happier and calmer. Professor Roland Griffiths said he and his colleagues are looking to see if psilocybin could ease fear and anxiety for cancer patients or others facing death. Source: Time On June 22, the Power NY Act was passed. The law lets customers pay off their energy-efficient charges through their monthly electric bills. The on-bill financing legislation supposedly will cut carbon emissions, lower utility bills for working families, create 14,000 living-wage jobs, and more. On-bill gives access to energy-saving retrofits to moderate-income property owners. It also allows NYSERDA, New York State’s energy authority, to raise $5 billion in private investment in the state’s energy economy. Source: TreeHugger On June 27, the Supreme Court rejected the law banning the sale of violent video games to minors in California. The law never took effect because lower courts in 2005 and 2007 said it violated free speech rights. In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional. “For better or worse, our society has long regarded many depictions of killing and maiming as suitable features of popular entertainment, including entertainment that is widely available to minors,” said Justice Samuel Alito. Regulations are now left up to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, which assigns ratings for each game. The federal obscenity law only applies to sexual conduct. However, many games mix sex and violence. An ad for Duke Nukem Forever reads, “This game has bazookas. Both types,” with half-naked schoolgirls by the hero’s feet. “The court’s tougher line on sex parallels the movie industry’s voluntary ratings system, which is much quicker to give a rare NC-17 rating for sex than for violence—but the industry has not done much to explain its double standard, either,” said Time writer Adam Cohen. Source: Salon, The Wrap The US is falling behind in the world of “green” technologies. Many European countries like Japan and China have pushed for carbon-reducing technologies, including a rapid growth in solar and wind power industries. Out of the three largest wind farm operations in the US, only one, NextEra, is American. US homes are also failing to save energy: “The United States was a nearly untouched market with 120 million homes, most of them very energy-inefficient,” said Bill Rumble, the commercial director of The Mark Group, a British home-insulation company that specializes in cutting energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions. They have recently set up an office in Philadelphia. European countries have issued tighter energy-efficiency standards for their appliances and machinery and are developing innovative designs to use less energy. California is the only US state to use these standards. Source: New York Times
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On June 30, Kansas granted a license allowing only one of the three abortion clinics in the state to continue operating. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and MidMissouri has “the highest standards of patient care and has rigorous safety procedures in place,” said Planned Parenthood president Peter B. Brownlie. The license comes with regulations—size of rooms, stocking of emergency equipment, ties to hospitals, and medication and blood supplies. The organization described the requirements as “unnecessarily onerous.” South Dakota and Mississippi are the only other states in the nation with one abortion clinic. In an attempt to shut down the other two clinics, US District Judge Carlos Murguia temporarily blocked the state from imposing the new licensing restrictions on July 1. One of the two clinics, Aid for Women in Kansas City, can open its doors until further notice. Source: New York Times While participating in a motorcycle helmet protest on July 2, a man was killed when he went over the handlebars of his motorcycle and hit his head. When Parish, NY, resident Philip A. Contos, 55, hit his brakes of his 1983 Harley Davidson motorcycle, the bike fishtailed and went out of control. He was pronounced dead at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. According to the State Police, Contos would have survived if he had been wearing a Department of Transportation-approved helmet. Source: The Post-Standard Based on data available as of April 1, a preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010 found that top American executives’ paychecks are growing. The median pay for top executives at 200 big companies was $10.8 million in 2010—a 23 percent increase since the 2008 recession. “Pay skyrocketed last year because many companies brought back cash bonuses,” said Aaron Boyd, head of research at Equilar. Some of the highest-paid executives were those in the media. Philippe P. Dauman, the chief executive of Viacom, was the highest-paid executive last year, earning $84.5 million. Source: New York Times —Compiled by Zan Strumfeld
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Where the Stupid is Gathered
Good God, another economics article. I would so much rather be making juvenile rhymes about penises, porn, and adultery. Skewering the James Bond fantasies of the oxymorons in the intelligence community. Replying to the foam boiling up from my Tea Party friends. But economics it is, because economics is our current crisis (makes you long for the good old days when we were invading random foreign countries for no good reason but were still securely wealthy). Economics is where the political action is. And most of all, because that’s where the most stupid is gathered. Stupid is rushing to our economic debate like flies to fresh corpses, like ants to your picnic, and fast-food restaurants to our land of strip malls. Okay, a quick trip down memory lane. Kids and young adults, anyone under 25, ask your parents, because I know it wasn’t covered in school. Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981. He cut income taxes, especially income taxes for rich people. He raised Social Security taxes, which have a cap on them, so rich people don’t pay after a certain point, thereby shifting the tax burden from the rich to regular people. It also marks the point where the income of the rich really took off but median income flattened out. He had two recessions, high unemployment at the start of his first term and again at the end of his second. His budgets created massive deficits, the biggest ever until then. Plus there was a fiscal bubble. It imploded in the biggest set of bank failures since the Great Depression. It required a gigantic bank bailout. That period is known as “Morning in America.” It’s why Reagan has become the official saint of the Republican Party. George H. W. Bush—that’s Bush the Elder—made a pledge, in earthy, everyman language, during his campaign, “Read my lips: No new taxes!” Fortunately for America, he had a residual streak of sanity and he raised taxes. It reduced the deficits and the recession he inherited from Reagan bottomed out. Unfortunately for him, this was heresy. Republicans abandoned both Bush and his readable lips. In 1993, Bill Clinton came into office. He raised taxes even more. The economy really took off. Employment soared! The stock market soared! The deficit shrunk and turned into a surplus! Then came George W. Bush (known as “W,” “the Younger,” “the Lesser,” and “the Bush with a codpiece”). He cut taxes. Kaboom! Instant recession. The markets kept going down. There were no new jobs. The surplus disappeared and became a deficit! What could we do? Reverse course? Go back to the Clinton policies? Hell, no! It was full speed ahead! More tax cuts! Especially for the rich. This created a two-track economy. On the lower decks, the recession never quite went away. But up on top there was a party! It was boom time. Actually, it was bubble time! Real estate bubbles, bank bubbles, derivatives bubbles, insurance fiddle bubbles! The rich got superrich. Then the bubbles popped! Kaboom! Boom! Boom! Fizzle, fizzle, fizzle! Big, superhuge bailout, quick, before the whole world economy collapsed. There it is. Quick and simple. The prescription for ending the Great Recession, creating jobs—and, while we’re at it, ending the deficits—is simple and straightforward. It happened right before your eyes. Raise taxes and increase government spending.
To the great relief of many, we elected the Un-Bush. This guy was supposed to be smart, sensible, capable of seeing reality over theology! He surrounded himself with really smart people. Well, people with degrees from top schools and professorships and experience at the highest levels of government. And here’s where it really got strange. Let me introduce you to Christina D. Romer, head of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors. A Berkeley professor, Romer is one of the preeminent macroeconomists in the country, specializing in the Great Depression. The Wall Street Journal reported that Romer is “so well-regarded [that] many economists cheered that the Obama administration is going for the top minds in the field rather than those who adhere most closely to party lines.” Romer, along with her husband, David, authored a paper titled “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks.” It invents new classifications. Endogenous vs. Exogenous Tax Changes. Based on the Greek roots of the words, they should mean tax changes generated from within and from without. But they don’t. The paper has one of the coolest equations, like, ever! 12
∆lnYt = a + ∑bi∆Tt−i + e t, i= 0
No, I have no idea what it means. But I can absolutely assure you that if the Romers plug selected economic data into that equation it will prove that raising taxes hurts the economy! Who you gonna believe? An equation by a married pair of Berkeley economists, or your lying eyes? As chief of the Council of Economic Advisors, Romer got to design Obama’s save the economy package. Guess what? The biggest component was tax cuts, the thing that got us here in the first place. It’s not often that a social scientist gets to put their theories into action. Surprise, it worked just like the Reagan and Bush tax cuts. The rich, the big corporations, and the banks got richer. The rest of us were made poorer, and no jobs were created. By the way, Romer regards herself as sort of a liberal. This is not Tea Party wacky. It’s not Republican theology-above-reality. It’s not media we-only-quote-‘em-we-don’t-know-nothin’-ourselves kind of stupid. This is ultraspecial, ultraelite, PhD stupid. So here we are. We have an economic crisis brought about by something very simple: the Bush tax cuts. Seasoned and spiced with deregulation and few other things. But the meat in the dish—or, if you prefer vegan metaphors, the beans—are the Bush tax cuts. It is a manufactured crisis. It is easy to fix. Dump the Bush tax cuts. Go back to the Clinton rates. It worked before. Created jobs, turned the big, scary deficit monster into a nice, warm, reassuring surplus, lifted the stock market to new heights. But no! Instead, more tax cuts! Cut spending! Cut government jobs! Attack Social Security! Kill Medicare! Threaten to destroy the faith and credit of the US government. Stupid rules! All hail Stupid! 8/11 ChronograM 21
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The Pigeon Racers of the Catskills By Jana Martin Photographs by Roy Gumpel
liberation, watkins glen race, april 30.
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t is late morning on Saturday, April 30, the first race of Old Bird pigeon racing season, a 150-mile short course that starts in Watkins Glen and heads east back to the Hudson Valley. Somewhere, hundreds of pigeons are on the wing: white, gray, striped, checkered, silver, red, chocolate brown, and slate. They weigh from 10 to 14 ounces apiece and can fly average speeds, depending on the wind, of over 50 miles an hour. They have eyesight so sharp, they can spot a specific treetop from pin high in the sky, and an athletic ability to precisely maneuver with the shift of a feather. They trace back to distinguished European families with names like Mueleman and Janssen, though they have existed, and have been genetically bred to fly faster and farther since ancient Egypt. Each wears an ID band on its leg with initials and a unique number, like AU2009NCC323, which stands for the American Racing Pigeon Union, born 2009, Northern Catskills Club (NCC), number 323. That happens to be the band of the pigeon that will win this race. These are homing pigeons—homers, as the featherheads say, the racehorses of the sky. They share a bred-in-the-feather hunger for flying (even when they don’t have to, they’ll fly, eating up the sky and swooping around for the heck of it) and the unshakeable instinct to fly home. Occasionally, feathered champions with rare blood and big wins fetch up to $100,000 at auction. And the progeny of top families are known by their ancestor’s names or band numbers—a Black Widow son, a 2379 daughter. “This here is a 2379 bird,” says Peter Miller, a flyer based outside Woodstock, holding up a sleek gray and black-striped bird (a color known as bluebar). 2379 was Miller’s foundation hen, a bluebar out of a finely bred hen he imported from England. First, 2379 won two races in the same season. Then she helped create a dynasty of winners for breeders around the country, not to mention Miller and his grandson, Kyle Warren, owner of great-grandson 323, today’s winner. 22 feature ChronograM 8/11
In Europe, pigeon racing is a family pastime. The sport is so popular in Belgium and Holland that hundreds of clubs packed with members send birds across the sky. Not here. Three local clubs share the cost of trailering their birds each racing season: Mid-Valley Racing Club, Dutchess County Racing Pigeon Club, and the one I’ve been getting to know, Northern Catskills Club. NCC’s youngest members are 13 and 30; the rest are in their 50s to 70s, and there are about 15 members. Some also fly fancy, one-loft races like the Indiana Futurity or the Sun City (South Africa) Million: bigmoney races, where, for an entrance fee, you send your young birds to live and train in the same loft with all their young bird colleagues. When it’s time, they’ll all race back to that loft against one another. But club races are local pigeon racing’s bread and butter. The pigeons all leave from the same place but fly back home to their own lofts, the variations in distance factored in to tally the winner. When two birds make it home to their respective lofts at the same time, the bird whose loft is farther from the starting point wins it. A bird can win by a second after crossing hundreds of miles across the sky. The night before the Watkins Glen race, Miller took me up to the NCC clubhouse in Cairo for shipping night, when the birds are brought up to the club and loaded onto the special trailer. A former apple-picker’s dorm, the clubhouse is a humble white clapboard shack with a giant, faded pigeon painted over the door. Inside it smells of dust and time, the walls adorned with charts and maps from the precomputer days. There are plain tables and chairs scattered around. A stack of green-painted shipping crates, six feet long and two feet wide, line the back walls. A few flyers are there, waiting to get started. “We bought this place in the 1970s for $500,” explained Miller, who added that the funds came from auctioning off a founding member’s birds after he died. Talk turned to the old guys: Pop Neskie, enabler of the clubhouse, Rudy
top left: Flyer Peter Miller holds the egg of one of his breeding pairs. Bottom left: Homing pigeon at 15 days old. top right: Young bird aviary at Millertime Loft. upper middle right: The eye of racing hen 2010 NCC 106 of Levi Loft. lower middle right: Wing of a grizzle cockbird, Levi Loft. lower right: NCC Racing Pigeon Club, Cairo.
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“Here we go,” said Costa. The flyers took turns expounding, agreeing, refuting. All agreed a long-bodied, long-feathered pigeon is a better distance racer, and that certain flight feathers on a pigeon’s wing are so critical that if a pigeon is molting them, leave him home. Some believe you can tell a good pigeon by staring at its eye through a jeweler’s loupe, and there are pigeon flyers that’ve been doing this religiously all their lives. “They live or die by the eye sign,” said Gaffney. “Oh sure. Fuggetaboutit. Me, I watch the state of mind. Are they sharp? Ready to go like a boxer, hopping around?” “Go ahead and watch them hop,” Walter Sidga, an eye-sign proponent, said. It costs thousands a year to maintain a pigeon loft. Many local flyers do it on pensions or modest retirements from working a trade or owning a small business. Miller (who likes his beer and named his loft Millertime) worked for the Ulster County Highway Department. Ed Donne (Crabapple Loft, Shady) is a retired US Navy Seabee; Phil Massaro (Iron Mountain Loft, Germantown) is a surveyor. Retired or not, they spend hours a day tending the birds: cleaning the coops, feeding special (always secret) recipes of feed and supplements (probiotics, tinctures, essences, powders, vitamins), raising babies, vaccinating for an increasing spectrum of diseases that can fell a race team. They’ll take young birds on early morning training tosses, driving 50 miles to give the youngsters wing time. They sit in their coops with the birds, planning out their next breeding season, the next racing season: “old birds” season is 10 races from April to June that range from 150 to 500 miles (raced from Wallbridge, Ohio); young birds (birds under the age of one) race shorter distances in the fall. They’ll breed through the winter for a new crop of babies, which start as fragile, pearl-white eggs and hatch in 18 days into fuzz-covered yellow blurs with enormous, clueless eyes and absurdly long, dinosaur-looking beaks. I got to hold one, its heart drumming into my palm. In four months it will be flying 100 miles.
millertime loft cockbirds before being shipped to the watkins glen race.
Zidz, a phenomenal flyer who, before he died, distributed his birds and coops in advance to keep his legacy in the sky. Past and present are bound together in this sport, same as the men and the birds. At six the clubhouse started to fill up. Members filed in with their pigeon crates, set them down, took a breath. It’s a laborious process, entering the birds. Each has its leg band scanned into a racing computer made in Belgium and is then passed into the shipping crates, males and females separate. A gentle assembly line of men and birds formed, the birds docile and wide-eyed with their chests against the men’s chests, the men talking softly to the birds: “Oh, you hush”; and to one another: “Nice handling bird”—a compliment to a flyer with fit birds.You can’t shortcut in this game, and you can’t cheat an entry or a result, since upon its return, the bird’s band will be scanned by the antenna that’s placed at the threshold to the loft, and everything, from the bird’s call number to the second it passes the antenna—when it clocks—is recorded. But you can win or lose by a foot; by seconds. Pigeon speed is measured in yards per minute. And just because a bird comes home doesn’t mean it’s finished the race. “You can have a great race right until your pigeon won’t go into the coop and beep that computer,” explained Joe Costa, a retired union painter whose Ranch Loft is based in Red Hook. “You lose in the yard.” The birds loaded and settling into the shipping crates, we sat around, waiting for the trailer to show up, sipping cream soda from the clubhouse fridge. I asked how birds know where they’re going. “You mean navigate?” asked Costa. Turns out, pigeon navigation is still a mystery, but there are two main theories: 1) Pigeons have large deposits of iron in their brains that react to the Earth’s magnetic fields. 2) They just happen to be acutely aware of the changing position of the sun in relation to their home. “But there’s more to it, you know, the psychological, emotional,” said Jimmy Gaffney, a big-voiced Irishman from East Harlem known for his outlandish outfits: chunky gold jewelry, tweed cap, fancy leather jacket, sweatpants held up with suspenders. His loft has 400 birds and he fusses over them all. 24 feature ChronograM 8/11
The males are cocks, or cockbirds. When a flyer is deciding which cock and hen to breed together, it’s called mating them up. A hen about to lay is coming down on eggs. The night a hen is about to lay, a flyer is alert as a midwife, and may run an elaborate bait and switch involving wooden eggs to save the real ones from freezing if it’s a cold night. Foster parents, used to spare older parents the energy drain of feeding both babies (pigeons lay two in a clutch), are called pumpers. “You put babies under pumpers if you want another set from your golden pair,” Warren added, meaning if you want your best pair to be able to rest up and breed again. “There are so many tricks you could spend a lifetime learning them and still not think you know anything,” said Costa. “Cause you don’t,” joked Sigda. Everyone has their golden pair, who pass on their intelligence, strength, endurance, grit, heart; who mark their descendants with a particular stamp. Everyone has their favorites. Mickey Gramoski had a silver cockbird who won a 500 mile race at around eight years old. Well kept, a bird can live up to 20 years, but to race at eight is remarkable. “That was 484,” Gramowski said, “and now I’ve got champions from his grandchildren.” Tom Sit, whose loft is in Kingston near his restaurant, Eng’s, has a line of pigeons tracing back to 1983, when he started racing here. Sitting in a booth at the restaurant, surrounded by 200 gleaming pigeon trophies, he showed me his first record book. Sit thumbed through the soft pages. “Ah,” he said, pointing to a row of numbers. “755 and 754. They were Jansenns. Incredible birds. I’m still wining races with that blood.” He showed me the big trophies in the display case in Eng’s front hall, a whole dynasty of Janssen blood, proudly commemorated behind glass. “My wife tells me, ‘You’re crazy!’ She gets so jealous. ‘Pigeons are your first love!’ she says. But she’s right.” By the time the pigeon trailer pulled up to the clubhouse, driven by a strapping young man with red eyes and a massive black Ford pickup, it was 10 pm. There were just a few flyers left, those with enough energy and strength to load the big crates. They made sure the driver had water for the birds, checked that the louver doors were locked safely in place, and sent him out into the night. When he got to the designated race station, a set of GPS coordinates that placed him in the parking lot of the Watkins Glen racetrack, he slept ‘til dawn, when his cell phone rang. “How is it out there?” the race secretary asked him. “Pretty clear,” he said. “Not too much cover, clouds breaking up nice.” If a sky is socked in with fog, you have to wait until it clears, since pigeons have to see to fly. If there’s a thunderstorm on the radar, you have to gamble on sending the birds through it or waiting it out—a severe storm can force birds to detour or even go to ground.You want a smooth liberation, as the release of the birds is called. Not too much headwind. Maybe a tailwind. No rain. A chance to stretch out and enjoy the flight. This morning was like that. Near perfect. “Make it 7:30 then,” the race secretary said. At 7:31, the driver put down his breakfast sandwich, walked back to the trailer
Walter Sidga gets his race birds ready to ship for the Watkins Glen race; kyle Warren with his birds in Levi Loft.
and flipped the lever. The louvered doors flipped open. In a whoosh of feathers and rocketing bodies, 500 birds flapped out of their crates and took over the sky. They circled, orienting themselves, drawing together, then headed east. Back at the lofts, cell phones buzzed with news that the birds were up. The collective blood pressure of this group of men rose up together, ready to meet the birds. 9:15 am. Scattered from Carmel to Durham, Red Hook to Roxbury, some 35 men are sitting in their lawn chairs in their yards. They have their faces trained on the big blue sky, looking westward, their hands on their cell phones. They have a drink with them: coffee, soda, beer. They have little wooden crates at their feet, in which sit white birds with sweet black eyes—birds that, released out of the crate at just the right time, will catch the eye of the homers as they come in and lead them right to the coop. The men have worn composition notebooks that they keep checking, a calculator they tap on. A few, if they trained their birds to the can, as it’s called, have coffee cans filled with Spanish peanuts: When a bird trained to the can hears that shake, it hustles into the coop for that peanut reward. The men scan the trees for how the leaves are blowing, scan the clouds for prevailing winds. Maybe someone’s wife is sitting with him, maybe not: She’s in the house, shaking her head at her husband for this crazy obsession like she has every springtime Saturday for about 40 years, watching him watch the sky. One man calls the other: “Got any?” “Not yet,” the other says. “What time you reckon?” “Maybe 10, maybe after.” 10:15 am. I’m sitting out in the yard with Kyle Warren, who has his eyes trained on the sky, waiting for those birds. If you wonder where this relentless occupation began, you might look at their childhoods. At eight, Gaffney stole pigeons off the wall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and raised them on his fire escape; at five, Miller, in Bay Ridge, was surrounded by neighbors and family raising birds on the roof. At
nine, in China, Sit told his uncle he liked pigeons and received two as a gift. Donne inherited not only his uncle’s love of the birds but also his house and loft. At four, Warren would let his grandfather’s prize racing birds out of the coop to watch them fly. Scrappy, mischievous kids, fixated with creatures that can escape into the sky. Miller had a simpler answer. “Pigeons get in your blood,” he said. If Warren stares hard enough, maybe he can pull the birds right out of the clouds. Factoring the morning’s healthy west wind, he taps on the calculator, excited. “They could fly 55 miles an hour, more,” he says. He starts at the sight of what look like pigeons overhead, but they’re mourning doves. “You get jumpy,” he says, and shrugs. Someone calls: No one has birds, but if they come home in the next 10 minutes, they will be going nearly 60 miles an hour, a fast, fun race, and that would be a great way to start this season. 10:23. A pair of pigeons, definitely pigeons, appear from the west, flying side by side in rhythmic symmetry, wing to wing. As soon as we can tell they’re bluebars, Warren knows who they are: 323 and 177, brothers born a year apart out of his golden pair.We watch them pull their wings into perfect, muscular Ws, coming down in a classic daredevil dive. There are birds that dive so steeply you can hear the air howl through their feathers, and at the last minute they pull up like a Top Gun pilot and shoot across the landing board. But these birds are having too good a time. As they near the coop, they spread their wings and land softly on the roof. I think of what Costa said about losing a race in the yard. But Warren is unphased. He picks up the coffee can of peanuts and shakes it, crooning. “Hey there, hey buddies, come on now,” like he has since the birds were babies. The morning is silent except for the sound of the can, his words. The brothers cock their heads, listening. Then they hop down onto the landing board and head inside. We hear one beep, then two: They’ve both clocked. Warren takes his first full breath of the morning. “See that? I bet they flew together the whole way, egging each other on. That’s why they came so fast.” He shakes his head. “I love my birds,” he says. And he sits back down to watch the sky, and welcome the rest of his pigeons back home. 8/11 ChronograM feature 25
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can’t afford to follow through on my ideas for bringing this house into maximum 2011 efficiency,” says kitchen-design specialist Jeff Blum, 45. “But the dreams will keep coming.” Jeff resides primarily in a 1,600 square-foot loft in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where he has lived for two decades. In 2004, with money inherited from his father, Blum paid $180,000 for a 1965 two-bedroom, one-bath ranch-style tract-house on half an acre in Saugerties’ Blue Mountain section. Although he’s finessed every inch of the petite swankienda—adding a cedar deck—it’s worth about that much today. Far from a tragedy, but less than a thrilling investment. Thus after seven years, Blum’s love affair with his mod turquoise ranch has cooled. He’d bought thinking it would be his starter country place. He also imagined that adding a dose of upstate suburbia would change his personal life in a way which hasn’t yet materialized. He was introduced to the area via his Brooklyn landlord, who owns a mansion on Albany Avenue in Kingston. As a design professional, Blum finds it gnawingly irritating he can’t justify radically renovating the original kitchen and bathroom, which are neutral, inoffensive, and clean-lined. “I just look at those angled pulls on the kitchen cabinets and think what I could do if only I had the money,” he says. The Evanston, Illinois native has also discovered he hates kayaking—“you can’t move your legs and there’s so many insects”—but loves to barbecue sausages marinated in beer that he buys at Smoke House of the Catskills. In a sign of the times, Blum’s abandoned his former preoccupation with canvassing estate sales and low-end antiques stores for the name-dropper gems
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of mid-century modern art and furniture that fill both residences. Bargains are only slightly less scarce than deep-pocketed buyers. Myriad people scavenge for items to resell on eBay, and certain television shows have elevated owners’ valuation expectations, he said. “I’m not going to pick the low-end,” he says. “I’ve always been one for go big or go home.” Kitchen Design Work Has Slowed As the owner of SixZero6 Design, Jeff’s known for designing kitchens considered an aid to seduction. But that niche contracted sharply three years ago. In 2008, Blum was halfway through creating a fantasy kitchen for a Wall Street executive when Lehman Brothers collapsed. The client went from insisting on the best of everything to requiring make-a-case-for-it approval of Blum’s tightwad purchase of a fixture costing $200 at a sample sale. “It’s frustrating. I make houses pretty. That’s really what I do best,” he says. Blum’s still getting work, and job budgets—$70,000 to $200,000—are the same, if pace is slow. People just aren’t pouring money into their apartments the way they used to. Bruin Drive As Memory Lane Blum’s proud of the now-tall birch tree he planted in the front yard as a novice homeowner, and he still digs the time-warp vibe of the middle-class family neighborhood. It reminds him of his happy childhood in Evanston, where his family owned a formal colonial. His father’s best friend, a dermatologist, had a sprawling
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modern place with lots of glass, which Blum loved, but his mother regarded as “awful.” Bruin Drive—just off Harry Wells Road in West Saugerties—is littlechanged for almost 50 years, when the McLaughlin clan built four kit houses, of which Blum’s is one. Their family compound launched the neighborhood’s development into a miniature Levittown. Half-acre lots contribute to a uniform look yet site the houses fairly closely together. And the kids who played basketball outside when Blum bought the house grew up. “Nothing is like I imagined it would be,” confides Blum. “I built a nest and nobody came.” In reality, many people have come. They’ve just been tenants. Blum’s stories about his experiences owning, sharing, and renting the house channel a Neil Simon comedy. He’s known as “the bachelor” on a very provincial street. Nothing he does goes unnoticed. Ever the perfectionist, Blum’s discovered his neighbors don’t share his opinions on yard clutter or leaving the television on all night with the windows open. Tenants Showed Blum How To Enjoy His House Comically candid about midlife angst, Blum’s current agita with owning a weekend place is shared by many New Yorkers, who bought when they were relatively flush and real-estate prices were climbing. Mostly, Blum’s just tired of the carrying costs associated with “responsibly” owning a proper suburban home on a “Leave It To Beaver” street. What seemed like an affordable and easy-care entry-level getaway in 2004 today feels a burden. He’s not a deferred-maintenance sort of guy. To make ends meet, Blum has a roommate in Brooklyn and rents his Saugerties place to select tenants. For two summers, he leased the whole house to an Argentinian couple with whom he became quite friendly. Right now, he’s renting a bedroom to a personal trainer at a local gym. Blum comes up sporadically. “Lots of interesting people have passed through,” said Blum. “It took strangers to show me the way to just enjoy the house.” The house feels much more spacious than its 1,000 square-foot mainfloor footprint. Unlike many ranch houses, this one’s filled with light, thanks to a dramatic front corner with 16 windows. The exterior paint has crackled into an artisanal patina. There’s an above-ground pool. The basement and garage conceal “ugly” tools and supplies. Outside, there’s a wrap-around stacked-slab marble planter and chimney. A huge boulder juts dramatically from the front lawn, forming a uniquely Catskills backdrop to the mailbox, which stills reads McLaughlin. Champagne Taste On A Poland Spring Budget Even if Blum had the money, taking home improvements to the next level wouldn’t make sense in the current market. While he can’t sell his place at a profit right now, it’s quite appealing as an affordable rental. So Blum’s in better shape than many who bought speculatively. Fluent in the decorative vernacular of the cheap fix that isn’t a misstep, Blum’s painted and patched every room to photogenic perfection except for the bathroom, which still features the original wallpaper, ornate but Urban Outfitters groovy. In the den—Blum’s favorite room since it’s wholly updated—he installed a black slate floor and covered the acoustic-tile ceiling with thin strips of cedar closet-planking. Cheerfully oddball furniture in patterned lime and lemon lend the den a Doris Day perkiness. He’s glad he splurged on topquality audio-visual equipment at the outset. Since polyurethane yellows with age, the next improvement Jeff plans is to sand down the kitchen cabinets and blanch them to a birch-like finish. He’ll add some glass, too. “But what you learn about owning a home is that vinyl windows make sense,” says Blum, relieved he did not buy a rundown $39,000 six-bedroom in Newburgh, an earlier scheme. Blum claims he’d now be happier with an off-the-grid—except for cable television—one-room “shack” in the outright wilderness, outfitted with statement pieces meticulously curated from his collection. Blum’s large abstract canvases were painted by Lee Reynolds, a prolific commercial artist of the 1960s. The wicker sofa is a rare Harvey Probber style. The credenza, with travertine marble insets in an argyle pattern, is Mastercraft before the company was absorbed by Baker. 30 home ChronograM 8/11
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The Phantom Gardener at Home…and at the Crossroads by Michelle Sutton Photographs by Larry Decker Phantom Junctures Norbert Lazar, who goes by “Norb,” has faced several major watersheds in the life of his business. First he founded The Phantom Gardener in 1982 with a clever concept: building and maintaining organic vegetable and fruit gardens for Hudson Valley weekenders such that produce appeared on the clients’ tables every Friday. Lazar and eventual partner Gary Ocean moved like “phantom gardeners” through the properties on the weekdays. Some clients pressed Lazar and Ocean to do their ornamental gardens as well, so the next big event was founding their organic garden center, The Phantom Gardener, in 1992 in Rhinebeck. This allowed them to provide better-quality plants and materials for their landscaping clients. Lazar and Ocean would switch off handling the garden center and landscaping arms of the business. The garden center has always sold strictly organic products; you won’t find any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides there—highly unusual in the “green” industry. In 2001, Lazar came to a crossroads when Ocean decided to leave the business, and Lazar bought him out. His wife, Pamela Neimeth, became his partner. “Pam has helped immeasurably in the organization and efficiency of the business, and has helped clarify the direction we are headed in,” Lazar says. This forced another major change: “I realized I couldn’t do both the garden center and the landscaping, so I let the latter gradually go,” Lazar says. Doing so has allowed him to focus on the garden center business and his ongoing and burgeoning interest in sustainability education. Lazar and Phantom are approaching another major watershed: He’s envisioning moving from his home in Milan to the Phantom Gardener grounds and, partnering
with sustainable energy companies, building a home and landscape that serve to teach as well as giving a tired Lazar a chance to focus his energies. “During the growing season, I’m home maybe one day a week,” he says. This is enough time to weed and mow (Lazar loves his rechargeable electric mower) but not to develop any kind of sustainable landscape, filled with natives and edibles as Lazar envisions. If he and Pam moved to the Rhinebeck site, they could simplify. He’s already made one major step in this direction by putting in an extensive, attractively designed and fenced vegetable garden on The Phantom Gardener grounds. The Grower at Home At home Lazar has amassed a collection of interesting and beautiful specimen plants and functional groundcovers. He is passionate about native plants, but he is not a native plants purist. His plant choices at home are a mixture of natives and non-natives that require little care. “If they don’t make it, they leave the premises in one way or another,” he says. In this way, he can really speak to customers about what plants are truly sustainable given the myriad challenges they face in a given site. The challenges of Lazar’s home property include deer browse, deep shade by sugar maples, dry areas underneath the maples, and extremely wet areas in lowland parts of the property. He also has needed screening plants to provide privacy. Lazar practices the “right plant, right place” approach, key to success in any planting situation. In “right plant, right place,” one makes a careful study of the site conditions before choosing plant material. 8/11 chronogram home 33
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To provide screening between his property and the road, he put in five doublefile viburnum shrubs (Viburnum tomentosum var. plicatum) about 20 years ago, when they were one-foot-tall bare-root seedlings. They’re now a 15-foot-tall informal hedge and provide three-season interest: lovely tiers of white flowers in spring, handsome red berries in summer, and burgundy fall foliage. Also, they are deer resistant and don’t attract the dreaded viburnum leaf beetle. Doublefile viburnum is native to Japan and China. By contrast Lazar’s favorite individual specimen plant on the property is a native fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus), planted around the same time as the viburnums and also nearly 15 feet tall. The fringetree has wispy white flowers in spring, handsome dark green foliage and blue fruits in summer, and attractive yellow fall color. “I sell fringetree all day at Phantom, I love it so much,” Lazar says. “It’s underutilized.” What to do in the dry shade beneath the canopy of the sugar maples? Groundcover purple dragon (Lamium maculatum) and false lamium (Lamiastrum galeobdolon Herman’s Pride) are members of the mint family that form gorgeous carpets under Lazar’s maples. In the wetter areas, he’s embraced chameleon plant (Houttynia cordifolia), which is undaunted by the constant wetness. These three groundcovers are plants that can spread mildly to moderately aggressively, but Lazar feels they serve important functions: They cover the ground, protecting the soil, and they eliminate the need to weed, mow, or mulch, all of which take energy (human or fossil fuel) resources. And on Lazar’s large (10-acre) property, these plants can flourish without impinging on neighbors. Also, they generally come up to their natural edge, when they reach the limit of their tolerance to moisture or dry soils. The home landscape is also where Lazar has tried out trees and shrubs he wants to sell at the garden center, to glean firsthand growing insights. For instance, he’s
planted hydrangeas in varying degrees of shade to see just how much they can take and still bloom prolifically. His hedge of Annabelle hydrangea is in moderately deep shade yet still throws big, puffy, creamy white blooms like mad. Annabelle is not unusual by any stretch—it’s widely available—but that doesn’t make it any less a treasure in Lazar’s mind, because it is such a lovely workhorse. Finally Lazar shows us a magnolia, not currently in flower but handsome, with its big dark green leaves. He planted it in 1990, when his younger daughter Cass was born. In terms of sentiment, this is the tree that Lazar will most miss when he relocates to the Phantom site. An Evolving Mission Lazar wants to continue to sell plants, because he loves introducing people to worthies like the doublefile viburnum, fringetree, and Annabelle hydrangea. But the call of education, especially around sustainability, is getting stronger. A big component of sustainable landscapes is moving toward the edible. “Food is becoming more and more on people’s minds,” he says. “It’s amazing how many people come into the store wanting to put in their first vegetable garden. It’s hard to tell someone how to do a vegetable garden in 10 minutes. I want them to have success. I’m hoping the education center will be a way to educate people more thoroughly, so they can have success growing food crops.” Lazar recommends people start with The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy. He is also a fan of local garden expert Lee Reich, whose books include Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden. He says that Mother Earth News is also a terrific source of organic gardening information. You can always ask Lazar—or his wife Pam Neimeth, or any of the knowledgeable staff—questions at Phantom. Soon, the superfit ad in his 50s will be taking on a more profound teaching role, and our region’s sustainability movement will be the better for it. 8/11 chronogram home 35
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Well-crafted objects enhance the experience of creating a home. The furniture and home décor items of Sawkille Co. are simplistically refined in their celebration of Hudson Valley artisan crafts. The Sawkille showroom in Rhinebeck draws visitors into a comfort zone that comes from an uncluttered space. The warmth of the handmade solid wood furnishings, with their downto-earth style, conveys an airy and primitive aesthetic. The modern rusticity of the Sawkille’s handcrafted conceptual pieces are beautifully functional, and honestly durable. Large handcrafted wood dining tables created by co-owner Jonah Meyer mingle with hand-forged wall hooks crafted by Tivoli artist John Corcoran. Inspired wall art complements the showroom’s casual and curated displays, giving each piece the breathing space and consideration it deserves. “We design and build work that will improve with time and use. We hope to add something lovely to an environment that you cultivate, to inspire and nurture yourself or someone you know,” says Jonah Meyer. Meyer implements traditional wood joinery and finishing techniques with his adept handwork that seamlessly blends the mixed local woods with finely detailed industrial metalwork. His time-honored woodworking skills combine classically formed furniture, creating heirloom quality pieces with an understated elegance. Each table, chair, and storage unit is a functional work of art. Meyer calls this style “Farmhouse Modern.” He explains, “I’m attracted to old, finely crafted American furniture, and I like supermodern. I steal from both disciplines.” As a RISD-schooled multidimensional artist, Meyer moved to the Catskills where he continued to create art—pottery and sculpture. Along with his wife and business partner, Tara Delisio, Meyer first opened a showroom outside of Woodstock that displayed small-production designs. Delisio, who grew up in Woodstock, runs the website and a delightful accompanying blog that provides a peek into the lifestyle of Sawkille’s inner world. Some might consider Sawkille Co. a showroom, and others may approach the space as a gallery. But Meyer says, “I’m not in the business of selling art, and this is not a gallery.” While Meyer’s furnishings command center stage at Sawkille, there’s a collaborative artistry at work as well. The careful curation of handmade objects from other fine Hudson Valley artisans blends well with Meyer’s larger hardwood pieces create a cohesive shopping experience. Drawing from the rich heritage of the Hudson Valley, Sawkille embodies many of the touchstones of sustainable living. All of the wood is local and the furnishings are finished and hand rubbed using beeswax or Danish oil. Lowimpact elements give Sawkille a green edge. A local potter is provided sawdust to fuel his firings, and leftover stumps of waste trees are upcycled into gorgeous seats or tables. These zero-waste essentials are the types of monuments to eco-friendly living that companies should aspire to. —Ronnie Citron-Fink Sawkille Co., Rhinebeck, (800) 876-2228; www.sawkille.com
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Eighty-eight-year-old Don Lloyd wears the kind of Cheshire cat smile that can often be found on those who know they have, in some significant way, beaten the proverbial system. Perhaps it is because, on this sweltering July day, his house is deliciously cool; maybe it’s just the extra $2,500 he puts in his pocket each year that has him feeling upbeat. Either way, Lloyd—a retired engineer who has become a herald for the virtues of geothermal energy solutions—has one clear message to share: Hey, folks, this stuff really works. Lloyd’s Germantown home is a testament to how increasingly viable sustainable energy alternatives are becoming. His book The Smart Guide to Geothermal: How to Harvest Earth’s Free Energy for Heating and Cooling (PixyJack Press, 2011) offers an opportunity for both consumers and contractors to skip the extensive research he himself had to do, and move directly to awareness. In 2006, when Lloyd and his wife began the process of selling the lovingly restored 8,000-square-foot Rensselaer County schoolhouse they called home (the complete story of which is recounted in Lloyd’s first book, the memoir Snake Mountain Trilogy), they were first introduced to the idea of borrowing power from the earth rather than remaining shackled to exploding oil prices. Finding a dearth of readily available information on the subject, Lloyd focused his considerable ability toward understanding whether a concept so seemingly simple and efficient was actually a feasible one. What Lloyd found was that not only homeowners lacked access to the necessary information about geothermal options: Architects and builders also shied away from implementing technology that they did not understand. In actuality, he discovered, the basis of the idea is surprisingly clear. The Earth itself acts as a natural source of thermal energy; in NewYork State, for example, the below-ground temperature remains at a constant of about 50 degrees, regardless of the season. Using a heat pump—technology not so drastically different than that which has powered our kitchen refrigerators since the 1940s—that energy can be transferred from a subterranean water source into home heating. The water is then carried back underground to be reheated, as it were, and the process continues. For cooling, the process is reversed: The heat from inside your home is transferred to the water, which is then cooled again by the earth. No mess, no fuss, no fuel bill, and a drastically reduced carbon footprint. “I love to look out my window to see the oil trucks pass by,” Lloyd says with a gleam, “and not stop here.” Fortunately, Lloyd is not the only one who has been working on bringing sustainable energy choices to the forefront. Since his system was finished in 2007, the federal government has implemented a 30 percent tax credit for geothermal system installation as well as other energy-efficient home upgrades. In New York, incentives, options, and information can be found at www.nyserda.org. Don Lloyd will be lecturing on geothermal options at the Germantown Library on Sunday, August 7, from 2 to 5pm.
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by Anne Pyburn
A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure. And anyone looking to understand the metamorphic process that produces a solidly successful and enormously delightful small city from the pressures of the late 20th century might do well to begin in Hudson. At midcentury, the onetime whaling port’s Diamond Street was its primary claim to fame. Packed solidly with brothels and gambling dens, the two-squaremile city attracted plenty of customers—for all of the wrong reasons. Notoriety overbalanced practicality, and Governor Thomas E. Dewey sent in the state troopers to clean up the town in 1951.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to the contrary, second acts in American lives often outshine the first acts. After a fitful low spell that came in the wake of the raids, Hudson could be said to be proceeding into at least Act IV, and the audience continues to be utterly rapt. Teeming with entrepreneurial life and creative energy, today Hudson sparkles with world-class retail and dining, a vibrant art and music scene, hundreds of beautifully preserved historic buildings, all in a 24-karat natural setting—an urban gem that Budget Travel rightly deemed “One of the coolest small towns in the USA.”
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•ONE & ONLY OLANA• This part of Columbia County is where Hudson River School painter Frederic Church sited his Persian-style, Moorish-inspired estate, Olana, and made its grounds a work of art. Paintings by Church as well as other period artists are included in daily tours. “Olana is very much part of Hudson. The Church family went to church on Warren Street,” says Sara Griffen, president of the Olana Partnership. “We’re constantly referring visitors to the B&Bs and restaurants in the city, and we try to maintain a resonant resource. We do everything from educational programming to fun stuff like OlanaReggae, movie nights, parties everyone can afford. I like to steal that old line, ‘We ain’t just paint.’ You can go hiking or birding and we’ve reopened more of the vistas, so people can wander through this lush, grand landscape the way Church created it.”
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•ANTIQUING & BOUTIQUING• “The antique dealers and artists were already a cohesive group when we got here in 2000,” says Windle Davis, who operates The Inn At Hudson with husband Dini Lamott (aka drag queen Musty Chiffon). “We moved here from LA, mostly because it was beautiful. We found a very creative and concerned bunch and you could’ve fit that bunch into a restaurant.” (They often did, notably at the still-thriving Red Dot.) Today, there’s a connected downtown crowd of hundreds of people and the upscale boutiques almost outnumber the antique dealers—the original urban pioneers who started to put Hudson on the map a couple of decades ago as a mecca for decorative arts, antiques, and collectibles. The Hudson Antiques Dealers Association, representing over 80 local businesses, purrs on its website of the city’s nine walkable blocks of premiere destination enjoyment and offers a block-by-block breakdown, the better to plan your wanderings. Warren Street, the center of the business district, is a miracle mile of retail stores and restaurants, pubs and performance spaces, antique shops and art galleries, with exhibition openings happening year round. As one Madison Avenue decorator was heard to say, “When I can’t get to Paris, I go to Hudson.”
Like streams joining forces to become a mighty river, the entrepreneurial energy just keeps gaining momentum. Take Mary Vaughn Williams and her husband Rudy Huston, world travelers and adventurers. When the couple was ready to choose a physical location to retail their passion for batik and Balinese treasure, they chose Hudson. White Rice, their Warren Street store, is a treasure trove of Asian-inspired clothing, home furnishings, and antiques. Marine Corps vet and artist Michael Molinski grew up in the area and returned in 2005, opening his studio, Photographic Solution, downtown. He recommends the entrepreneurial life in Hudson: “It might not be instant gratification, but it will be one of the best experiences of your life, and Hudson will be there to help you every step of the way.” There’s a spirit of cooperation that’s key to Hudson’s journey from the bad old days of lust to what today can fairly be described as true and epic love. The Hudson Business Coalition, the Hudson Development Corporation, and Belo3rd, all lively groups, can be located via www.gotohudson.net, one of several fascinating virtual communities that keep the city’s intelligentsia connected.
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•EAT IT UP>>hudson dines• A casual Internet check reveals upwards of 70 listings within the city for stellar edibles and a Wordpress blog, Hungry in Hudson, devoted to chroniclaing the eating scene. Tea and coffee shops, a simple yet savory sandwich or slice—these are easy to find. Then there are the offerings that constitute destinations in themselves: Tortillaville, the Mexican chuckwagon at 347 Warren Street that peddles what the New York Daily News rates as “the most satisfying taco this side of Mexico.” Mexican Radio, where Mexican comfort food, margaritas, and hospitality blossom into a steady stream of “best of” accolades spanning 15 years and still improving, as the farm-to-table trend grows and thrives. The wood-fired pizza at Baba Louie’s, the classic regional Italian at
Vico, and the down-home BBQ at American Glory are other local faves. The Inn at Hudson proudly offers locally brewed Strongtree coffees and bread from Loaf to its guests. There’s a classic diner opening in the middle of the 700 block that will feature fresh local ingredients. Swoon Kitchenbar smokes all of their own bacon. LePerche Bakery has a bread oven from France. The Loaf bakery has hearth-baked bread. It used to be open only in the winter, and in the summer the space was an ice cream stand named Lick. But Loaf became so popular that, when Lick opened back up, they moved Loaf up the street to Swallow, a popular coffee shop. In Hudson, it seems businesses not only don’t want to leave, they’re happy to move over to make room for more.
•DAY & NIGHT LIGHTS•
When the sun sets behind the river’s other shore, more good times in Hudson are just getting started; buildings that used to work hard all day now play hard long into the night. The Hudson Opera House has remade the 1855 city hall building into an arts center with a rich array of cultural offerings; art openings and gallery walks are plentiful throughout the city. New venues keep evolving. The Basilica Hudson, a reclaimed factory just steps from the train station, is a performance and art space where Patti Smith played before the place even had bathrooms. Time and Space Limited, a reclaimed warehouse, has showcased live theater, movies, and art since 1991. Helsinki Hudson, another reclaimed factory, is now an acoustically designed, threelevel, live-event theater and music venue. Rock bands, drag queens, puppeteers, opera singers from Italy, comedians…discos and poetry…jazz and heavy metal—like so many aspects of this proudly reimagined town, the nightlife is meant to be explored and experienced. In August (12-14), Hudson will show the world why some are beginning to call it “music town.” The first annual Hudson Music Festival will include jazz brunches, buskers on street corners, dueling DJs, dance parties, country bands, classical music concerts, singer/songwriter contests, New Age music and oldtime Dixieland, salsa and soul—music day and night, indoors and out. 8/11 ChronograM hudson 45
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The glittering gem that is Upstate’s Downtown has a setting worthy of its dazzle in some of the most stunning countryside of the Hudson Valley. Ghent, just a pretty 20-minute drive inland along Route 66, is where you’ll find the Hawthorne Valley Association’s educational programs and farm store—and the Omi International Arts Center, guided by its vision that “creative work is a vehicle for knowledge and understanding that transcends political and cultural boundaries.” In Ghent you’ll also find Ghent Wood Products and Countryside Woodcraft, purveyors of fine lumber and furniture that are worth the trip. Ten more minutes along the same scenic country road bring the visitor to Chatham, where one can combine state-of-the-art wellness services from Chatham Holistic Healing Arts, where founder Lynn Van Allen will custom-design you a personal wellness program; 11 different healing modalities are available, along with yoga instruction, films, and lectures devoted to every aspect of balancing one’s existence. The associated art gallery, along with Chatham’s ArtView Gallery (currently showing “Perspective: A Photography Show”), make this an outstanding afternoon art excursion. “People used to look for a place to stay outside the city, then come in during the day for antiquing and shopping, with, maybe, side trips in the area,” Windle Davis observes. “That’s turned around. People come in and stay right in town.” A decade ago, there was one B&B. Now there are 11.
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American Glory www.americanglory.com Artview Gallery www.artviewgalleryny.com Baba Louies www.babalouiessourdoughpizzacompany.com Basilica www. Bodhi Holistic Spa www.bodhistudio.com Ca’ Mea 518-822-0005 Columbia Land Conservancy www.clctrust.org Countryside Woodcraft (518) 392-8400 Dakota (518) 392-3222 De Marchin www.demarchin.com Discipline Park (518) 828-1161 Five and Diamond (518) 828-4140 Ghent Wood Products www.ghentwoodproducts.com Hawthorne Valley Associates www.hawthornevalleyassociation.org Herrington’s www.herringtons.com Hudson & Laight Gallery www.hudsonandlaight.com Hudson Music Fest www.hudsonmusicfest.com Hudson Opera House www.hudsonoperahouse.org Hudson River Tattoo www.hudsonrivertattoo.com Hudson Valley Bounty www.hudsonvalleybounty.com Hudson Vintage (518) 828-7484 Julia Wilson Chiropractor (518) 567-3184 Kinderhook Farm www.kinderhookfarm.com Look Apparel and Accessories www.lookhudson.com Mexican Radio www.mexrad.com Mod Restaurant www.modhudson.com Musica www.goodmusica.com Olana State Historic Site Partnership www.olana.org Red Dot (518) 828-3657 The Second Show www.thesecondshow.com Sideshow Clothing Co. (518) 828-2810 Strongtree Organic Roasters www.strongtreecoffee.com Tortillaville www.tortillaville.com White Rice (518) 697-3500
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Three days of music all over Hudson, NY... Inside/Outside/Daytime/Nighttime in the Restaurants/Galleries/Streets/Parks August 12,13,14
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Lifelong Learning Opportunities By Zan Strumfeld beekeeper Chris harp teaching a workshop at The Pfeiffer Center for Biodynamic Agriculture in Chestnut Ridge.
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s we start to get older, there are two roads we can take: the “this-is-it” road, where we more or less give up on personal growth, or the “try-new-things” path, where we and our (current and as yet unrealized) interests blossom. It’s difficult to have the motivation to push yourself on the more adventurous path. But just because high school and college are over, it doesn’t mean your education has to be. There are endless exciting ways to keep your mind and body fresh, and you can continuously shop in the learning marketplace. Luckily, the Hudson Valley area has some of the best places to take on new experiences. How to Bee a Honey Lover Enjoy the sweet taste of honey? Become a beekeeper! Get to the root of your love and see how honeybees do their busy work at HoneybeeLives. Organic beekeeper and bee doctor Chris Harp cares for bees in a nonconventional way, showing how you can help make the bees’ lives healthier. With a 90 percent decrease of feral colonies in the past 20 years, honeybees are more fragile than ever. Through a series of classes, beekeeping amateurs can learn how to interact with the bees and recognize any problems early on. In Intro to Organic Beekeeping, students learn the basic requirements and responsibilities as first-time beekeepers. Harp and co-founder Grai Rice also teach informational sessions for children and the general public. Don’t worry—protective veils and gloves are available, but Harp says you can take them off when you feel comfortable. HoneybeeLives will offer a beekeeping lecture on August 21, as well as classes throughout the year in New Paltz. (845) 255-6113; www.honeybeelives.org. Reading the Right Cards Grab your deck of tarot cards and head on down to Tarot on the Hudson with Rachel Pollack. Although you can always make an appointment to get your cards read, why not try to master it yourself? Pollack hosts various classes throughout the year, taking innovative approaches to reading tarot cards, including tarot poker. In the past, Pollack has hosted a Tarot for Writers class, inspiring stories for authors by looking at the cards. Mixed-level students are welcome for all classes: Tarot card newcomers can learn from the more experienced readers. Pollack teaches the art of reading but students also read the cards to each other, creating a community-based atmosphere.
Tarot on the Hudson will have a class looking at Pollack’s collection of rare and unusual decks and how to read them on August 13 from 1 to 5pm at Starr Library in Rhinebeck. Pollack and tarot reader Mary Greer will teach a five-day class, August 1-5, at the Omega Institute. (845) 876-5797; www.rachelpollack.com. Planting the Seed A farmer’s life can be the life for you, even if just for the day.The Learning Center at the 400-acre Hawthorne Valley Farm can help fulfill your farm-loving dreams. Strap on your overalls and try out the number of sustainable agriculture workshops and activities offered throughout the year. Enjoy cheese? A cheese appreciation workshop on September 17 will let you devour and learn about cheeses from around the world. Try your hands at a fiber arts class, learning to spin, weave, dye, and felt. Follow the seasonal rhythms of the farm—in the fall, see how farmers plant and sow grain for the next year’s harvest, and in the winter, learn how to keep the farm nourished. Or, simply spend the day on the farm with the kids, connecting with the land and animals. Hawthorne Valley lets you choose your agenda for the day: brush and milk a cow, feed the goats and pigs, harvest food, make a traditional craft using materials from the farm, cook a meal, or even watch the Cow Parade. If you’re feeling hungry, try A Taste of the Farm, a full farm tour with sampling of the farm’s vegetables, yogurts, baked goods, and cheeses. Hawthorne Valley Farm has year-round classes, workshops, and tours. (518) 672-7500; www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org. Stretch Your Body and Mind Slip into a meditative state at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Running over 800 multilevel programs a year, Kripalu offers that refreshing relaxation you’ve been searching for in your monotonous schedule. Try Retreat and Renewal, a two-night minimum stay that lets you pick a schedule from a variety of outdoor activities, workshops, and yoga and movement classes. Or go just for the day for an experiential, educational class, or even to take a kayak out for a calming ride. Health and nutritional talks and programs are also available for positive lifestyle changes in your day-to-day lives. If you’re feeling extra-flexible, Kripalu also has comprehensive yoga teacher training with 200- and 500-hour certifications. (Continued on p. 53)
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Kripalu has year-round programs, workshops, and classes. (866) 200-5203; www.kripalu.org. Hold on Tight Fulfill your circus dreams with the Flying Trapeze Club in New Paltz. During two-hour beginner-friendly courses, students, ages four and up, can learn about aerial awareness from experienced trapeze artists. Students are strapped in with a safety harness and are guided 20 feet through the air. It’s all about trust and control, and swinging through the air might be the best emotional, mental, and physical workout of your life. Classes range from four to 10 people, so don’t worry, you’ll get plenty of air time. And, although there’s no official program yet, Flying Trapeze Club is willing to train any instructor-hopefuls. Flying Trapeze Club in New Paltz offers classes five days a week. A trapeze performance is planned for late August; check the website for details. (845) 255-4375; www.trapezeclub.org. Choosing the Best Option Feeling anxious or depressed? Recently experience a loss? Want to sharpen your parenting skills? The Option Institute in Sheffield, Massachusetts, has helped thousands overcome issues through support and experiential workshops. The institute offers weekend, weekly, and monthly options to better your mind and health. Try the Happiness Option Weekend, where you can learn positive ways to react in any situation, improve self-esteem and confidence, stop self-criticism, and more.You won’t ever sit in your seat to hear a lecture; the classes are all about participation and group dynamic. During your stay, you can also hike on the Appalachian Trail next door, or see who’s playing at Tanglewood. The Option Institue has year-long programs on a number of levels and specific criteria. (800) 714-2779; www.option.org. Classy Meat Tie up your apron and head on down to Fleisher’s Grass-Fed & Organic Meats in Kingston for two separate butchery courses. Butchery 101 is an introductory five-day master class with hands-on butchering where you’ll learn basic knife skills and safety techniques. Pig and lamb carving workshops as well as cooking demos and taste tests will keep you occupied. You’ll even take a field trip to a farm for a chicken slaughter with optional hands-on participation. Fleisher’s also teaches important sustainability methods so you can be the best butcher you can be. After you’ve learned the methods, Fleisher’s provides a set of knives for you to take home. Pig to Pork is a one-day master class in slaughter and butchery techniques, including three meals and materials. Begin the day by observing a slaughter at a family-owned farm and then enjoy a locally sourced meal made by the Fleisher’s staff. Owner Joshua Applestone and another instructor will lead a butchery demonstration, and then students will try their hands at sausage making. Butchery 101 will be August 28 to September 1 from 9am to 5pm. (845) 338-6666; www.fleishers.com. University of Life In 1977, Dr. Stephen Rechtschaffen and Elizabeth Lesser founded a “university of life” in Rhinebeck to focus on the importance of health, wellness, and personal growth. Over 23,000 guests flock every year to the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies for workshops, retreats, and conferences. Guests can choose from six categories of learning, such as health and healing and sustainable living. There are daily open classes of yoga, tai chi, and meditation. Need to de-stress? From April to October, sign up for Omega Rest & Rejuvenation Retreats to reconnect with nature and yourself on the 195-acre campus. Guests can also enjoy kayaking, canoeing, boating, tennis, and more along the Omega campus. The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies has over 350 classes a year. August events include: A Celebration of Poetry, August 14-19, with poets Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Mark Doty, and Marie Howe; and Design By Nature: Preserving Life’s Essentials, August 19-21, with speakers Erin Brockovitch and Josh Fox, director of the documentary Gasland. (800) 944-1001; www.eomega.org. Serenity and Tranquility The Catskill Mountains is the home to many spiritual centers, including Blue Deer Center, Ananda Ashram, and Menla Mountain Retreat, perfect for a refreshing escape from the fast-moving world. Breathe in the mountain air and hide away in the sanctuary of the calming trees. Blue Deer Center in Margaretville focuses on how its guests can live in harmony and reconnect with the natural world. The center offers experiential classes, but guests can call to come to the land for their own healing experience. Monroe’s Ananda Ashram offers yoga retreats with vegetarian meals, classical Indian music and dance, and Sanskrit classes. Menla Mountain Retreat is in a 320-acre valley in Phoenicia and brings healing, health, and happiness into one setting. Menla has hiking, yoga, and cleansing practices. Blue Deer Center classes include Introduction to Plant Spirit Medicine, August 19-21, and Replenish Your Heart, August 26-28. (845) 586-3225; www. bluedeer.org. Ananda Ashram has weekly events and weekend classes. (845) 782-5575; www.anandaashram.org. Menla Mountain House programs include Challenge Your Body, Mind, & Spirit, September 8-11, and The How of Sustainable Health & Happiness, November 11-13. (845) 688-6897; www.menlamountain.org.
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Put New Paltz on your Calendar STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ www.newpaltz.edu/fpa 845.257.3860 THEATRE THREE SISTERS October 13-23 NEW PLAY SERIES November 4-6
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THE DORSKY MUSEUM Exhibitions, museum tours, gallery talks, music
MUSIC Amy Chang, Lust Caution, 2009 Oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist
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VISIT STORM KING ART CENTER Over 500 acres of pristine fields, gentle hills, and woodlands provide a spectacular setting for more than 100 large-scale masterworks of sculpture. Explore the landscape and art on foot, by accessible tram, or on a rented bicycle. Enjoy fresh seasonal fare, coffee, and more at Storm King CafĂŠ.
Special anniversary exhibitions now on view. Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, NY 10953 For GPS, use 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, NY 12553
www.stormkingartcenter.org 845 534-3115 Ursula von Rydingsvard, LUBA, 20092010, Cedar, cast bronze and graphite. 17.5' x 59" x 59", Lent by the artist, courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson
arts & culture august 2011
Linear Flow, a watercolor on paper by Bill Pangburn, on exhibit through September 11 at BCB ART in hudson.
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color study no. 18 (yellow), a photograph by Meredith Heuer from the dutchess county arts council exhibit “Art in the Loft: Summer 2011,” an exhibition and sale of fine art at Millbrook Vineyards and Winery through August 28.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES
CCS BARD HESSEL MUSEUM
22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 505-6040. “Christie Scheele: Fullness of Time: Celebrating a Twelve-Year Gallery Partnership.” Through September 11.
BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598 “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977.” Through October 31. “If you lived here, you’d be home by now.” Through December 16.
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CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK
104 ann street, newburgh 784-1146. Breaking Boundaries: Contemporary Ceramics.” August 13-September 10. Opening Saturday, August 13, 6pm-9pm.
59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Becoming Muses.” Through August 28. “Camp Visiting Day.” Group show. Through August 28.
THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY
COLUMBIA COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY
702 FREEDOM PLAINS ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334. “Oil Paintings by Rose Stock.” Through August 31.
209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Food for Thought.” Interpretations and thoughts about food expressed through art in this multimedia show celebrating the joy of bounty and connection to food. Through September 16.
ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Shandaken Art Studio Tour Studio Show.” Through August 13.
ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Passages.” Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein. August 6-27. “Through the Lens.” Members’ photography exhibition. August 6-27. Both shows open Saturday, August 6, 5pm-8pm.
BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Tom Holmes: Frozen in Frost.” Works in stone, metal, wood, light, ice, and water. Through August 7. “Perfectly Imperfect.” Michael Gaydos, Works on Paper and Catherine Welshman and Catherine Welshman, New Gouache Paintings. August 13-September 4. Opening Saturday, August 13, 6pm-9pm.
DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100. “Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977.” Through October 31. “Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action.” Through February 13, 2012. “Imi Knoebel: 24 Colors—for Blinky, 1977.” Ongoing. “Sol LeWitt: Drawing Series...” Ongoing.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Connecting with Nature.” Melissa Fischer, watercolors. August 6-29. Opening Saturday, August 6, 5pm-8pm.
ELLENVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 40 CENTER STREET, ELLENVILLE 647-1497. “My Backyard...A Pictorial.” Photographs by Pat Peters. Through September 1.
BCB ART GALLERY
FOVEA EXHIBITIONS
116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “New Works by Bill Pangburn.” Through September 11. “New Works by Renee Magnati.” Through September 11.
143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199. “Children of the Cheyenne Nation.” Through September 4.
BECKET ARTS CENTER OF THE HILLTOWNS
12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Leah Macdonald: Soliloquy.” Through August 15. “Lynn Bianchi: Continuum.” August 19-September 26. Opening Saturday, August 20, 5pm-7pm.
12 BROOKER HILL ROAD, BECKET, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 623-6635. “Nature Walk.” Recent oil paintings by Susan Sommer. Through August 15.
CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY
GALERIE BMG
38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Michelle Spark: Paintings and X-Ray Drawings.” Also featuring Lucinda Knaus: Recent Paintings. Through August 15.
THE GALLERY AT PRUDENTIAL NUTSHELL REALTY
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
GALLERY ON THE GREEN
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Interior/Exterior.” Stephen Walling, Patty Neal, Scott Foster and Joseph Maresca. Through August 14.
7 ARCH STREET, PAWLING 855-3900. “Figure Drawings 2004-2011.” Demonstrations and drawings by Carol Heft. Through August 20.
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3056 RT. 213 E. & RT. 209, STONE RIDGE 687-2200. “Horse Eye to Eye.” Pat Travis, pastel drawings, Connie Fiedler, oils. Through September 10.
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1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY 12546 • 518 789-3311 open Saturday 10-5, Sunday 12-5, or by appointment Just 5 3/4 miles North of Millerton
GARRISON ART CENTER AT BOSCOBEL BOSCOBEL RESTORATION, GARRISON 424-3960. “Current 2011: Summer Sculpture Exhibition.” Through October 10.
GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Big Wide World.” Juried group show of multi-media works inspired by nature, the elements, earth, science, and traditional landscapes. Through August 20.
HAMMERTOWN 6422 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-1450. “Impressions and Reflections.” Paintings by Suzanne C. Ouellette. Through September 5.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Luminous Landscapes.” Jane Bloodgood-Abrams. August 6-31. Opening Saturday, August 6, 5pm-7pm.
HEALING ART GALLERY ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ELLENVILLE 647-6400 ext. 286. “Expansion Series 2011.” Mixed media assemblage of recent works by Diane Boisvert. Through September 9.
HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON 831-4988. “Beacon Perspectives.” Group photography show. Through August 7.
HUDSON AND LAIGHT GALLERY 437 WARREN STEET, HUDSON (518) 828-1700. “New Paintings by Stephen Brook, Shira Toren & Brooke Larsen.” Ongoing. Opening Saturday, August 20, 6pm-8pm.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Three at the Beach.” Artists’ interpretation of the liquid experience; Gail Robinson, Kerry Law, Khara Gilvey. Through August 6.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Warren Street.” Photographs by David Franck. Through August 14. “Pre (History).” Maureen Cummins and Quinn Cummins-Lune. August 20-September 24. Opening Saturday, August 20, 6pm-8pm.
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JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Bruce Gagnier.” Through August 14. “Ben Butler: On Making.” Sculpture. August 18-September 11. “Christopher Walsh: Paintings.” August 18-September 11. “Daisy Craddock: New Work.” Through August 14. “Peter McCaffrey: Markings.” August 18-September 11. “Ruth Lauer Manenti: Paper Blankets, Glasses and Bandages.” Through August 14. “Susan Chrysler White: Ying and Yang.” August 18-September 11. “Works by Fran O’Neill, Kristin Locashio and Jenny Snider.” August 18-September 11. Opening Saturday, August 20, 6pm-8pm.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
SkinFlower Cosmic Arts
16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “New York Comic Book Art Show.” Through August 6.
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “The Medium and the Message.” Digital art. Through September 4.
LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “World Illuminations.” Photographs by Jillian Brown; landscapes near and far illuminating a fresh world view. August 22-September 22. Opening Sunday, August 28, 5pm-7pm.
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845~688~3166 www.skinflower.org Tattoos & art appreciation in a genial atmosphere!
THE SAMUEL MORSE HISTORIC SITE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “Earth, River, Sky.” Landscape paintings of the Hudson Valley by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams. Through August 14.
LONG DOCK BEACON BEACON 471-7477. “The Great Hudson River Exhibition.” Through September 4.
M GALLERY 350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-2189. “Small Works: Anonymous!” Original 4x6 works. August 6-19. Opening Saturday, August 6, 3pm-7pm.
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MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK (800) 662-9463. “Art in the Loft: Summer 2011.” Arlene Becker, Bill Bonecutter, and Meredith Heuer. Through August 28.
MOUNT LEBANON SHAKER VILLAGE 202 SHAKER RD, NEW LEBANON (518) 794-9100. “Freshet: Uncovering the Shaker Waterworks at Mount Lebanon.” Through August 31.
MOUNT TREMPER ARTS 647 S. PLANK ROAD, MOUNT TREMPER 688-9893. “Productive Steps.” Through August 21.
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5720 STATE ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “FARM: Agricultural Life of the Hudson Valley.” Photographer Brandt Bolding. Through October 30.
ORIOLE 9 17 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-8117. “Photography of Egypt/Eternal Light.” Sarite Sanders, with paintings by Adah Frank. Through August 9.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Beacon Perspectives.” Group photography show. Through August 7.
Breaking Boundaries: VANISHING ART
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AN INTIMATE Artist FESTIVAL Reception: Saturday, August 13 OF WHAT MAY 6:00-9:00 pmBE Exhibition runs AUGUST 24 –28th, 2011 August 13 through September 10 Jesse Ring TV Dream Stand, Glazed Ceramic
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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium.� August 16-December 11. Opening Saturday, September 17, 5pm-7pm.
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93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.TheStorefrontGallery.com. “Dancing Ground of the Sun.� Paintings by Lynne Friedman. August 6-27. Opening Saturday, August 6, 5pm-8pm.
TEAM LOVE RAVENHOUSE GALLERY 11 CHURCH STREET, NEW PALTZ www.tl-rh.com. “Endangered, Radioactive, and Thriving.� Abigail Dillen: Reports From Chernobyl Eco-Preserve. Through August 19.
THADDEUS KWIAT PROJECTS 1536 ROUTE 212, STUDIO #C, SAUGERTIES (917) 456-7496. “Anthony Krauss.� Small works for larger installations. August 27-September 18. Opening Saturday, August 27, 4pm-7pm. “Works by Laura Gurton.� Through August 21.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Invitational: Greene County Council on the Arts.� Through January 30.
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TK GALLERY 441 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 697-0909. “Ken Kraus: Color.� Proceeds to benefit Hudson Opera House youth activities. Through August 30.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “Beneath the Surface.� The question “What lies below?� is explored from various angles. Through August 7.
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10 main street, new paltz 255-1559. “Closet of Nothing.� Glassine paper clothing by Kate Hamilton. Through August 15.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “New Paintings by Mike Jaroszko and Thomas Doyle.� August 1-30. Opening Saturday, August 6, 5pm-7pm.
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK 876-4818. “Modern Art & the Romantic Landscape.� Through October 31.
WOLFGANG GALLERY 40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446. “Sympathy for the Devil.� John D Wolf and son, John A Wolf. Through August 10.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Beth Humphrey Solo Show.� Through August 21. “Cats and Caricatures.� Peggy Bacon. Through October 9. “July Group Show.� Juried by Amy Lipton. Through August 21. “Small Works Group Show.� Juried by Thomas Sarrantonio. Through August 21. “Youth Exhibition Space: Talking Houses Project.� Through August 21.
WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Quick, Down and Dirty.� Focus on outdoor furniture & landscape/garden accessory constructions, many of them site specific. Through November 6.
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27 NORTH MAIN ST. #1, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 592-0207. “The Four Seasons of the Field.� George Wittman. Through September 5.
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Twelve Strings Transcendent
Alexander Turnquist
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ome titles are too perfect. Take “Amongst a Swarm of Hummingbirds,” the opening track on Alexander Turnquist’s 2007 album, Faint at the Loudest Hour (VHF Records). Chiming cascades of fingerpicked notes swell and crest while a distinct melodic theme—sometimes audible, sometimes merely implied—glides and darts above, below, and straight through what the Hudson-based guitarist himself well describes as “amorphous flutter.” And then, roughly halfway through the piece, just before the 4:50 mark, things go from hypnotic to unhinged, as a segment of hazy, disintegrating electronic drones kicks in and expands. The piece finally fades to reveal the bare sound of Turnquist’s impossibly fleet picking fingers slowing down to bring everything in for a gentle landing. “My dad has some hummingbird feeders at his house,” says the soft-spoken 12-string specialist. “Hummingbirds are really amazing to watch, the most incredibly rapid wing movement. So that’s what [the track] made me think of. The title definitely fits, I think. [Choosing titles for his instrumental works] isn’t the same for every piece. They’re not always completely literal. Sometimes they do come from something real-life, like that one, but sometimes they come from a fictional thing—a book, or maybe a journal rambling. Sometimes I come up with the title before I come up with the music. And sometimes it has more than one meaning. Like ‘Waiting at the Departure Gate’ [the 16-minute centerpiece of Turnquist’s newest VHF release, Hallway of Mirrors]. That came from me seeing off my brother, who was moving to Brazil. So besides the literal thing of just being at the gate at the airport, it’s a metaphor for someone starting a new phase of life. But it also ended up being a tribute to Jack Rose, who had just passed when I came up with the tune.” Rose, who died in 2009 of a heart attack at only 38, is the figurehead of a recent wave of young, forward-thinking guitarists descended from 1960s and ’70s Eastern-tinged, folk-based players like Loe Kottke, Robbie Basho, Bert Jansch, Sandy Bull, Davy Graham, Woodstock’s Peter Walker, and, casting the largest shadow, the great John Fahey. But Turnquist insists that, unlike in the cases of many of his peers—who include James Blackshaw, Eric Carbonera, Ben Chasny, Mike Tamburo, and Cian Nugent—the pervasive Fahey wasn’t an influence at first. “Every new acoustic instrumental guitarist gets compared to John Fahey,” groans Turnquist. “But I’d never heard him until after I’d started making records and writers were mentioning him in my reviews. Philip Glass and the first few George Winston records and the other early stuff on Windham Hill Records, before [the label] turned into New Age water-fountain music—that was what inspired me the most.” Such unexpected touchstones give Turnquist the orchestrated, idiosyncratic style that makes him his own man as a player and composer. As with some of his new-generation compatriots, his recordings often feature additional instruments and prepared samples and other experimental noise elements. At only 23, he has a technique so mind-bogglingly advanced it dwarfs that of guitarists who’ve been playing for decades. “When I first heard Alexander, what entranced me was the way he was using the droning aspects of the guitar to get all of these amazing, singing overtones going,” says Foster Reed, who recently folded his trailblazing New Albion label to move into presenting live events (a series last month at the Stone in New York featured an evening of Turnquist performing new works accompanied by pianist Liam Singer, vibraphonist Matthew O’Koren, and violinist Christopher Tignor). “He’s a very curious musician and he has this gift for being able to create a strong narrative, which makes his music more listenable than a lot of similar music. In my era we were rebelling against serialism by drawing on rock and jazz and all of this other music that was outside the contemporary classical or ‘new music’ realm. To me, what Alexander and these other young guys are doing is neat because they were already born into that sensibility.” Turnquist himself was born and raised in Idaho. Before he came along, his father, singer-songwriter Brian Turnquist, played guitar in the Martian Sand Band, the region’s answer to the Mothers of Invention. “They dressed up like wizards and toured in a purple-and-green school bus that my mom decorated,” says the junior player. “They never made a record, but I’m hoping some tapes turn up someday that could be released. I’ve also been pushing my dad to get a record of his own songs out.” Alexander started learning to play from his father at age six, spellbound by the household’s Malcom Dalglish and Leo Kottke albums. “I got fed up with my high school peers who played guitar,” recalls Turnquist, who doesn’t sing and,
unusually for a teenage musician, never aspired to be in a band. “They were just sitting around downloading tabs off the Web, so they could learn to play Dashboard Confessional or John Mayer songs to impress girls. I wanted to take the guitar seriously, to focus all of my energy on it.” As with so many musicians, guidance from the local independent record shop—in Turnquist’s case, the Sound Exchange in Boise—was pivotal. “[The employees] had an idea of what kind of music I liked, so they’d play me new stuff that came in and then I’d order it,” Turnquist says. “That’s how I heard people like [electronic artist] Tim Hecker and all of these contemporary composers and ambient musicians when I was 16. It got me thinking about making ambient music with acoustic instruments.” He cut a few homemade CDs and left for San Francisco to study under Grammy-nominated fingerstyle player Alex de Grassi, before moving once again to North Carolina, where he recorded Faint at the Loudest Hour, his official debut.With Turnquist on six-string, 12-string, and lap steel guitars, plus vibes, piano, and sampling, the beautifully hypnotic six-track suite turned many a critical head, gaining high marks from the likes of Pitchfork and MOJO, the latter praising its “filmic beauty [and] chilly pastoralism.” Apneic (Kning Disk, also 2007) followed, and by the release of As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color (VHF, 2008), a record comprised of three meandering, dreamlike pieces 10 to nearly 20 minutes in length, the searching artist had landed in Hudson, drawn by the close community of progressive musicians connected to the Spotty Dog Books & Ale. (Between tours of Europe and the US, Turnquist tends bar at the café/ bookstore/music venue).The entirely acoustic Hallway of Mirrors was recorded locally with engineers Bram Tobey and Henry Hirsch (Lenny Kravitz, Joan Osbourne) at Waterfront Studio, and is absolutely breathtaking in its use of clear-ringing, sustained harmonic overtones. “The sustain pedals on the piano and the vibraphone were down the entire time we were recording,” notes Turnquist. A video for the majestic title track recently premiered on the IFC network’s website. Hallway of Mirrors opens with the piece “Running Toward” and closes with one called “Running From.” Listening to his patient, seriously meditative music, the fact that Turnquist is an avid distance runner seems only natural. “A lot of times when I’m working on writing something I’ll put it on my iPod and listen to it while I’m running,” says the composer, also a visual artist whose sculptures and photographs have shown in Hudson galleries and whose stark images grace the packaging of his albums. “It helps me to work stuff out. Some of the parts in the songs for me evoke the feeling I get when I have what’s called a runner’s high.” Watching Turnquist play solo is a high in itself, a time-stopping miracle from which one emerges blissfully dazed, as though coming into the light from some watery womb. When the music’s in full flight, conjured by his mind and the long acrylic nails the guitarist has worn on his picking fingers since age 17 (“I took a lot of shit back then, living in Idaho.”), it’s hard to fathom that you’re listening to one person play the guitar. Throughout the performance, Turnquist’s recurring melodic motifs sweep gracefully across the high and low registers as he simultaneously weaves lacy patterns of haunting filigree. At the end of the set, it takes some doing to snap one’s jaw back in place. “With Alex’s playing I love the tonalities he chooses to focus on, and the way his playing can get so close to being arrhythmic without ever falling into that,” says Brooklyn’s Will Stratton, a daunting fingerstyle guitarist in his own right and an acclaimed, folk-based singer-songwriter. “He draws more on the contemporary classical tradition—Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, John Cage—and it’s great hearing that filtered through his music, but he does it in his own way. Anybody interested in hearing something they haven’t heard before should listen to Alex. I guarantee they won’t be disappointed.” Immersed as he is in his instrument, how, exactly, does Turnquist manage to still keep the guitar interesting? “I guess I always try to do new things, especially if they’re things I struggle with,” he says, adding that lately he’s been experimenting with new tunings and pieces using only pure harmonics. “But it’s still about trying to make something that’s beautiful and puts you in a different state of mind.” Alexander Turnquist will play with Shana Falana at Market Market in Rosendale on August 13. Hallway of Mirrors is out now onVHF Records. www.alexanderturnquist.com. 8/11 ChronograM music 61
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
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August 6. In the mid ‘90s you just couldn’t turn on MTV or mainstream radio without hearing Joan Osborne’s smash “One of Us.� The hit was inescapable, topping the US singles chart for two weeks and leading to Grammy nominations for the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter. A Lilith Fair favorite, Osborne, who plays this rare small-room date at the Bull and Buddha lounge, recently completed a new album with local producer Henry Hirsch (Lenny Kravitz). It would seem safe to predict she’ll be trying out some new tunes as well as revisiting some old faves. 8pm. $40. Poughkeepsie. (845) 337-4848; www.bullandbuddha.com.
Nioka Workman/Hui Cox Project August 6. Touted as “an engaging electro-acoustic blend of world rhythms, jazz, and rock,� the Nioka Workman/Hui Cox Project features ace drummer John Bollinger and here graces the divine setting of the 1833-built Chapel of Our Lady Restoration. Guitarist Cox has worked with Cab Calloway, Odetta, Wilson Pickett, Stanley Turrentine, Digable Planets, the Temptations, and the Four Tops; cellist Workman’s resume includes stints with the Uptown String Quartet, Cooper-Moore, Anthony Davis, Anthony Braxton, Greg Osby, and others. (Tenor Viktor Antipenko and pianist Eugene Sirotkine duet August 21.) 7pm. $10, $15. Cold Spring. (845) 265-5537; www.chapelrestoration.org.
Jake Holmes at the John Street Jam August 13. Beacon folksinger Jake Holmes is best known for his harrowing 1967 “Dazed and Confused,� a song Jimmy Page heard him play when he opened for Page’s band, the Yardbirds. Later, when Page formed Led Zeppelin, he kept the title, came up with some new lyrics, altered the melody a tad, and—voila!—instant hard rock classic. Luckily, Holmes has since been able to pay his bills via jingles for Dr. Pepper (“Be a Pepper�) and the US Army (“Be All That You Can Be�). He plays the Dutch Arms Chapel’s John Street Jam this month with Zach Hurd, Remy de Laroque, Dan Strauss, Marty Koppel, Lynn Hollyfield, Brianne Chasanoff, and Sarah Bowman. 7pm. $5. Saugerties. (845) 943-6720; www.johnstreetjam.net.
The Left Banke August 20. The Left Banke, arguably, invented Baroque rock with 1967’s gloriously sublime and immortal hits, “Walk Away Renee� and “Pretty Ballerina.� As with the Gandalf albums mentioned here last month, the band’s long-out-of-print debut LP, which includes those two strings-and-harpsichord-laced gems, has been reissued by Coxsackie’s Sundazed Music. Although original singer Michael Brown has deigned not to partake, it’s still hard not to look forward to this Bearsville Theater reunion. (Three of a Perfect Pair, featuring King Crimson’s Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Pat Mastelotto, holds court August 25; Steve Earle returns September 2.) 8pm. $25. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; www.bearsvilletheater.com.
High Peaks Music Festival August 27-September 4. This Labor Day weekend at the Catskill Mountain Foundation offers an immersion in classical music via the world-renowned artistry of cellist Yehuda Hanani, pianists James Tocco and Vassily Primakov, violinist Shmuel Ashkenazi, and the Lyric Piano Quartet performing Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Paganini, Rachmaninoff, and more. In addition to daily master classes in cello, violin, and piano that are open to the public, the event promises workshops, discussions, and lectures, and films about music and musicians. See website for event schedule and ticket prices. Hunter. (518) 263-2000; www.catskillmtn.org/events/high-peaks-music-festival.
the left banke play the bearsville theater on august 20.
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cd reviews Phineas and the Lonely Leaves The Kids We Used to Be (2010, Independent)
If The Kids We Used to Be was a photo, it would be a faded black-and-white Polaroid taken by the obstinately precious indie darling Conor Oberst, caged in a patinaed frame, meticulously stained by the wistful alt-country of Ryan Adams. Such is the province of Hudson Valleybred Timothy Feeney, who writes the songs, sings, and plays the acoustic guitar. Phineas and the Lonely Leaves are not as lo-fi as Oberst’s Bright Eyes, and in these days of Garage Band-y basement recordings lost on MySpace, it is rare to find such a wonderfully recorded, performed, and produced self-released album. Navigating the chasm between indie folk and adult-album alternative, engineer and producer Adam Rourke and Feeney have great ears and the ability to grasp and follow through on a complete and articulate artistic vision. Rarer still, in a musicscape of EPs and iTunes singles, this is a true album; rock opera-like, with well-defined themes flowing seamlessly, determined and easy like the Hudson Valley streams surrounding the memories and emotions of the music. Treasures are awaiting, down the road and around the bend. While less specificity might garner broader appeal, summering Upstate New Yorkers will revel in the provincial references. The quaint vocals and subject matter bring a mostly endearing and valued immediacy to the song structures. Anyone who has been a teenager and experienced the newness and excitement of up-late freedoms on hot summer nights, of burgeoning dreams and adolescent innocence lost, and sex, cars, and beer will face-plant into the bliss and ache of nostalgia. www.lonelyleaves.com. —Jason Broome
Bob Gluck Something Quiet (2011, FMR Records)
If everyone had as full an existence as that of Bob Gluck—pianist, composer, author, activist, educator, and rabbi—there’d be no time for war. Serenity would arrest the souls of men, and the focus would shift to making things that work in our lives. Ah, well. But Something Quiet does work as something as quiet as it is evocative, as delicate as it is complex. Gluck’s approach to composing here (all but one piece are originals) is daring. “October Song” has an energy that he, soprano saxophonist Joe Giardullo, and bassist Christopher Dean Sullivan instinctively play into, instead of enslaving to and letting dissipate. “Going Away” has a casualness about it that pulls your ear away from its tonal angularity, while Giardullo and Sullivan’s contrapuntal lines are connective and complimentary. Maybe it is Gluck’s calling into different vocations (designing electronic musical systems for live performances and installations is yet another) that inform his adventurous execution in composing and at the keyboard, as in “Still Waters.” The trio gives Herbie Hancock’s “Dolphin Dance” a slightly more subdued but no less spirited rendering of the original. (Gluck’s forthcoming book, You’ll Know WhenYou Get There: Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band [University of Chicago Press], is about that group’s early ‘70s heyday.) Gluck’s life is full but not done. The Albany resident performs internationally as well as at home, and continues to embrace a collaborative spirit with nonmusicians that surely nets an eclectic fanbase, one that will listen out for Something Quiet. www.electricsongs.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
Sarah Underhill Strange Sweethearts (2010, Independent)
In Gaelic, banshanachie means “woman bard,” which is an alter ego of local Irish singer Sarah Underhill, who has amassed a vast repertoire of Celtic folk songs since learning to sing from her mother. With a voice that is clear as a bell and captivatingly charming, she’s been entertaining local audiences since her stint as an engineer and “Sloop Singer” on the sailing vessel Clearwater in the ’80s. A regular performer of Irish, Scottish, and Northern English pub music with guitarist and mandolinist Ian Worpole at the Rosendale Cafe, she can also be found at New World Home Cooking’s Monday night Celtic jam session in Saugerties. Underhill’s newly released 18-track CD, Strange Sweethearts, is a heartfelt collection of mostly traditional Celtic songs, and finds her joined by a dozen players that include Worpole, bassist Robert Bard, and fiddler Laurie Kirby, and guitarist David Bernz, plus others on banjo, flute, mandola, bodhran, and vocals. The album opens with the jaunty, guitar-and-mandolin-based “Bonelace Weaver,” a traditional 17th-century song highlighting courtship and dedicated labor. “Adieu to Old Ireland” is an aching a capella ballad filled with longing for the narrator’s birthplace and childhood in Belfast. The rousing and jiggable “Nelly Bly” features banjo and fiddle, while Underhill’s own “From the Prison” is a guitar-backed tale in which a mother tells her child about the inhabitants of a Hudson Valley prison. www.sarahunderhill.pbwiki.com. —Sharon Nichols
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f his books didn’t make it abundantly clear, Djelloul Marbrook’s driving directions to Germantown testify to his painterly eye and generous heart. “Our house is a pewter-blue English farmhouse surrounded by arbor vitae. Welcome!” he writes. Inside, his wife Marilyn sets out an edible still-life: platters of cut figs, ripe brie, grapes. There are paintings on every wall. A few are by Hudson Valley artists Chris Metze and Jenny Nelson, or by Marbrook’s aunt, Irene Rice Pereira, but most were painted by his mother, Juanita Guccione. Both Pereira and Guccione were well-regarded 20th-century artists; their work graces the covers of Marbrook’s art-infused poetry collections, Brushstrokes and Glances (Deerbrook Editions, 2010) and Far from Algiers (Kent State University Press, 2008). It’s a complex legacy, as Marbrook’s poem “My mother’s paintings” attests: My hopes are lost in my mother’s paintings: streets of cards, titanic women, eclipse: lost in the pungent art of their creation, covered over by brush and palette knife. Who cares about them in that neighborhood? Not even I do.They embarrass me, they were so ill-made and quaint, but I hear them whimpering in the night. I am, God help me, the husband of this work and must take better care of it than I took of the hopes that haunt it; now let them glisten in museums. A conversation with Marbrook unfurls like a Mobius strip, twisting between life and art. By anyone’s lights, he has played many roles: outcast son of a renegade mother, Columbia student, Hell’s Kitchen bagman, seafarer, hard-drinking journalist, autodidact—and, at 73, award-winning poet. When Far from Algiers won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judge Toi Derricotte wrote, “How honored I am—how lucky—to have been able to choose this superb first book by Djelloul Marbrook that honors a lifetime of hidden achievement.” Marbrook’s origins were cloaked—even from him—in a cloud of myth. In 1930, art student and model Juanita Rice went to France to study painting. Finding the Parisian vie bohème too expensive, she traveled by tramp steamer to North Africa and spent four years painting among the Ouled Nail Bedouin tribe in eastern Algeria. “Unlike European orientalist artists—Delacroix, Matisse—she didn’t paint Arabs as exotics,” says Marbrook. “She lived with them.” Her adventures included accompanying a camel train across the Libyan desert on what proved to be a gun-running expedition, and falling in love with a wealthy Bedouin who died in a hunting accident—or so she claimed when she returned to New York in 1935 with his infant son Djelloul. “She lied like hell,” Marbrook says bluntly. It would be decades before her fiction unraveled. In 1991, while exhibiting Guccione’s early paintings in Algeria, Marbrook learned that his missing father (who lived until 1978, leaving a widow and three other children) was Ben Aissa ben Mabrouk, the young lover of a wealthy Scotswoman who’d taken Juanita in when she was ill. “That’s how my mother repaid her kindness,” Marbrook says, shaking his head. “I look back on her as a lawless terrorist. The combination of beauty and talent—she felt licensed to act in ways most of us wouldn’t think to, or want to.” Back in New York, Juanita taught painting at Cooper Union, worked on WPA murals with Diego Rivera, and hung out with refugee French surrealists. Motherhood, it seems, was on a drop-in basis.Young Djelloul was raised primarily by his grandmother and aunts, and when he grew closer to them than his mother, she packed him off to boarding school at age five.The English-run Christian Science school was academically rigorous, but riddled with bullying and sexual abuse. Respite came in the summers, when Juanita and other New York artists migrated to Woodstock’s Rodney Farm, a cluster of rustic cabins on Jones Quarry Road. Marbrook recalls idyllic days riding his bike through the complex, posing for the Greenwood sisters, and meeting such local artists as Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Philip Guston. He soon found a new father figure. As he was playing outside Juanita’s New York apartment, landlord Dominick Guccione asked, “Whose kid are you?” The seven-yearold boasted, “My mother’s an artist.” The memory makes Marbrook smile. “He knew who she was—she owed him a lot of rent.” Guccione took him for ice cream, and eventually Juanita married him, despite a 30-year age difference. He was wealthy, and bought her a cottage in Woodstock “right behind Buzzy Tischler’s—I see it when I get my teeth cleaned,” says Marbrook. Guccione’s presence opened other new worlds. A childhood friend of “Lucky” Luciano, he knew many underworld figures. As a teen, Marbrook spent three turbulent years with his mother and stepfather; she kicked him out on his 18th birthday. By then,
he was attending Columbia, juggling part-time jobs at a theatre district newsstand (where Marlon Brando stiffed him for change), at the Ziegfeld’s orangeade concession, and as a bagman for a hatcheck operation in Village nightclubs. “The girls were highend hookers—that’s where the real money was,” he says. Marbrook made his rounds “dressed like Joe College, twills and tweeds and a necktie—you can’t look like a New York dude or the cops’ll spot you. I’d collect the money and take it to a guy named Jack Rosen. One day he lays this lunch bag on me and says, ‘Watch this for me.’ I look inside and it’s uncut heroin.” Spooked, Marbrook hid it in an alley. Rosen beat him up, breaking several ribs before stepping out. Marbrook struggled to the phone and called Vito Genovese, identifying himself as Dom Guccione’s son. Within minutes, two of Genovese’s men were dispatched. (“Look what you did to this nice Italian kid on the floor. Was that a nice thing to do?” the Algerian-American author recalls hearing one of them say as they stuffed Rosen into a metal trash can and rolled him into the street.) Marbrook’s novella Saraceno riffs on these experiences. An unusually erudite and contemplative Mafia tale, it was printed by Open Book Press in 2006, but the publisher folded before distributing it. Marbrook reports a lively Internet trade in review copies, and Ulster Country publisher Brent Robison just released an e-book edition. (For someone who came of age in typewriter days, Marbrook is remarkably fluent in new media, generating a widely read blog and YouTube book trailers.) Caught between Columbia and Hell’s Kitchen, estranged from his mother, and drinking too much, Marbrook snapped. He dropped out of college, joining the Navy. “But if you asked me what I did, I wouldn’t say ‘I’m a bosun’s mate,’ I’d say ‘I write poetry,’” he asserts. After five years at sea, he started writing for the Providence Journal, where an editor whitewashed his byline to “Del Marbrook.” (He still uses that nickname among friends, but reclaimed his Arabic name for creative work.) He went on to editing jobs at the Elmira Star-Gazette, Baltimore Sun,Winston-Salem Journal (where he met Marilyn), and Washington Star. He also became, by his own account, “a full-blown alcoholic,” given to quitting jobs in fits of righteous indignation. He even quit writing poems, judging his work dishonest and over-cerebral. Though he never stopped studying poetry, Marbrook didn’t write it again until 2001. After 9/11, shaken by the attacks and xenophobic backlash, he started walking the streets as a way of reaffirming his love for New York. “I was taking notes, writing down impressions—after all, I’m a newspaper man,” he explains. At one point he noticed he’d written a page in octameter. He sat on a park bench, poring over his notes. “I found all kinds of internal rhymes and assonances,” he marvels. “My whole midlife had been spent not writing poetry. But this was not only poetry, but definitely not the poetry I wrote as a young man. The voice was quite vernacular, more conversational, more confident.” These poems launched Far from Algiers. Though not overtly about 9/11, they’re suffused with imagery of displacement and foreignness. “I am a highly skilled outsider,” he writes in “Sinistral.” Marbook still writes outdoors, often strolling along the railroad tracks by the Hudson River with a blue spiral-bound notebook. “I’m very pleine-aire. I don’t think well indoors,” he says. A notable exception is museums. Many poems in Brushstrokes and Glances include attributions to places where they were composed (the Brooklyn Museum, the Met, the Frick, MoMa); artists from Caravaggio to Lucian Freud put in appearances. So does a fictional painter named Artemisia Cavelli. Marbrook’s latest novella, Artemisia’s Wolf (Prakash Books, 2011), also takes place in the art world. Artemisia, an ebullient young painter, was struck by lightning while hiking in the Catskills. Regaining consciousness in a hospital room, she finds she’s been joined by a white wolf that most other people can’t see. Inhibitions and memories loosened, she must relearn her own story, a twisting saga of sexual liaisons and professional betrayals. “I was motivated by what I see to be the predicament of women in the arts,” Marbrook says of his feminist fable. “My aunt Irene’s work is in every major museum in the world. It’s also in the basement.” Glinting with poetic phrases (“her pomegranate heartiness”), Artemisia’s Wolf burrows deep into its characters’ psyches. “My books are probably lightly plotted because I don’t think we lead plotted lives,” Marbrook says. “I’m interested in people’s inner nature, and I’m especially interested in people who follow their nature come hell or high water.” He’s currently writing a long narrative poem about Woodstock’s ill-fated Overlook Mountain Hotel, which he calls “a story of virulent anti-Semitism—Alf Evers kind of whitewashed it.” As with Artemisia and Saraceno, he has an insider’s perspective: After Guccione died, Juanita married Wilbert Newgold, whose family built the Mountain Hotel and Colony Café. She lived to 95, leaving no will and a messy estate for her dutiful son to clean up, just as he once rescued dozens of her mud-streaked canvasses found floating in the Colony’s flooded basement. One senses Djelloul Marbrook will never run out of stories to fill his notebooks. But if the art of words doesn’t suffice, he has other options. “I still fantasize, at this late stage in life, about learning to draw,” he says. As his own story proves, it’s never too late. 8/11 ChronograM books 65
SHORT TAKES The tide is high, the horses are running, and your shrink’s on vacation. Savor these summer pleasures by local authors. The Wild Rose Jennifer Donnelly Hyperion, 2011, $25.99
At 640 pages, the conclusion of Donnelly’s epic trilogy may be better suited to bedside than beach bag, but don’t count on getting much sleep. This compulsively readable historical saga opens in London in 1914, picking up threads from The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose and weaving them into a spellbinding tapestry. Reading 8/20 at 7:30pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
Carpe Diem Michael Perkins Bushwhack Books, 2011, $14.95
Award-winning poet and Walking Woodstock author Perkins has taken his title’s advice for 40 years, writing agile and eloquent lines that pluck poetry from daily life. “I believe in what I wake to,” he writes in “Credo,” one of 26 new poems joining selections from six prior collections. Booksigning party 8/14 at 3pm in the Kleinert/James Arts Center, co-sponsored by Golden Notebook and Bushwhack Books.
The Joke’s On Me Laurie Boris 4RV Books, 2011, $18.99
In this endearing debut novel, a California refugee in crisis returns to Woodstock to find the family home where her mother once ran a respectable inn infested by nude yoginis. Worse yet, true love lurks. Boris’s long strange trip to the home front is moving and fun. Reading 8/19 at 7:30pm at Oriole9, Woodstock, sponsored by Golden Notebook.
Six Weeks in Saratoga Brendan O’Meara Excelsior Editions, 2011, $24.95
Anyone who loves horse-racing loves an inside tip. Going behind the scenes of three-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra’s 2009 triumph, when she won the coveted Horse of the Year over the great mare Zenyatta, Saratoga sportswriter O’Meara makes her story gallop and gleam. Appearing 8/10 at 1pm & 8/11 at 10am at the National Museum of Racing & Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs.
Look at Flower Robert Dunn Coral Press, 2011, $14
Blurbs by Commander Cody and Wavy Gravy, cover art by Fillmore designer Johnny Myers...the wayback machine to the Summer of Love doesn’t get more authentic. As Oregon runaway Cynda “Flower” Evans free-ranges from HaightAsbury to a Montana lumberjacks’ camp to a high-flying commune called Old Bison, Woodstock-based music novelist Dunn finds his groove.
Joy’s Recipes for Living Younger...Longer! Joy Gross Epigraph, 2011, $19.95
Among life’s shorter lists: octogenarian skydivers. The aptly named Joy, a longtime vegetarian and co-founder of Hyde Park’s famous Pawling Health Manor, practices what she preaches. Shun junk food, embrace an alkaline plant-based diet, drink chlorophyll-rich green juices daily, and you too may be jumping from planes in your eighties!
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Sand Queen
An African Affair
Helen Benedict
Nina Darnton
Soho Press, 2011, $25
Viking, 2011, $25.95
T
he con job that keeps the vast majority of humans carrying on business as usual while accepting that war is somehow necessary has been exposed by sages, poets, and novelists for centuries. Some of these works of art have been direct hits: “Lysistrata,” Johnny Got His Gun. And now we have Sand Queen. In writing what might be the first major woman’s war story and alternating points of view between opposing sides, Columbia professor Helen Benedict has created something enormously fresh and immediate on this sadly ancient topic. Benedict authored The Lonely Soldier, a nonfiction study on the experience of women in Iraq. The lonely soldier got such a grip on Benedict’s sensibilities that she created a work of fiction to tell the intertwined stories of Kate and Naema. Kate is US Army and Naema an Iraqi medical student, and both have fallen down the black hole of war. The darkness keeps getting darker, both women struggling for their lives and sanity in a welter of violence and doomed love. The story, informed by such extensive research, teaches about gender in the military, conditions in Iraq, the nightmare seedlings that bloom into PTSD. The tenacity of the human spirit and the degradation to which it’s brought amid the wasteland of warfare are eloquently rendered, moment by breathless moment; Benedict’s work aims straight for center body mass and unerringly slams it home, capturing the evil miasma of utter futility that consumes intelligent soldiers. The rape of Mother Africa, perpetuated by the same greed-ridden impulses that drive bad juju around the world, is a lesser-known head of the same hydra. Perhaps that’s because the masters are still succeeding in utilizing warring factions against one another so neatly that they scarcely need to show their faces. Lindsay, the heroine of New Paltz resident Nina Darnton’s An African Affair, is an American journalist with a burning desire to catch a glimpse of those faces. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, during a time of upheaval, Lindsay scores an interview with the president, a nasty thugpuppet on his way out. Opposition figures still have very short life expectancies, and the political turmoil and dope money flying around make her intrepid efforts to suss out the real story extremely dangerous. An amoral mercenary group, Solutions, Inc., seems to be instrumental in much of the worst mischief; a blond CIA operative named Vickie may be the closest thing around to a good guy in this tangled web. Lindsay begins dating a handsome but elusive art dealer who adds his own complications. A journalist who lived in Africa for five years, Darnton conveys the overall sense of danger and futility well, but we never quite get why Lindsay’s obsessed with Mr. Art Dealer or how it really feels to be kidnapped. Darnton has an intelligent gaze, a great heart, and a story to tell here, but hasn’t quite found her natural voice as a novelist. One hopes she’ll keep trying. The stories of women on the front lines need so desperately to be told. —Anne Pyburn Helen Benedict will read 9/10 at 2pm at the Hudson Opera House with actor Nicole Quinn; also 10/6 at Golden Notebook, Woodstock, and 10/30 at Inquiring Minds, Saugerties.
Experience Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Bullpen Diaries
John Thorn
Charley Rosen
Simon and Schuster, 2011, $26.00
Harper, 2011, $25.99
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he time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America.” —James Baldwin, “The Discovery Of What It Means To Be An American,” 1959
Baldwin’s most valuable contribution may well be his heartfelt perspective on how we, as Americans, are consistently locked in a desperate battle for self-definition. Still a young country, we have a decidedly adolescent need to proclaim who we are, and what we value. An immense portion of that American identity rests in institutions that we claim as our own, almost as a calling card to the rest of the world. Who would we be without Motown, Detroit steel, or Hollywood? None among these, however, receives the kind of reverence we bestow upon our “national pastime”: baseball. The story of baseball is very much the American story, born of heroic strength, skill, and of course that legendary “good-old American ingenuity.” Baseball seems, at times, more a secular religion than a game. With painstaking devotion, Saugerties resident John Thorn’s Baseball in the Garden of Eden delves into a dangerous task in any religious history: separating the myth from the fact. Thorn is Major League Baseball’s official historian, and that credibility is essential here, as this detailed tract proves very clearly that the genesis of baseball, as we have come to learn it, is far from accurate. Everything that is baseball—from Abner Doubleday’s Cooperstown brainstorm in 1839 to the game’s identity as a purely American invention—is a carefully constructed series of fictions, designed to bolster baseball’s powerful presence in America’s narrative. Focusing primarily upon the 19th century, Thorn dissects a plethora of conflicting documentation. He offers irrefutable proof that baseball was played in the US long before 1839; and that, contrary to nativist claims held as fervently today as 150 years ago, its roots can be traced back as far as ancient Egypt. If baseball is America’s Olympus, the New York Yankees franchise is its Zeus. A juggernaut of epic lore and success, the Yankees are both passionately loved and despised, but—like the all-father—impossible to ignore. Charley Rosen’s Bullpen Diaries is undeniably a labor of love. Rosen’s discourse is an insight into the details of the 2010 Yankees season: a compendium of statistics, analyses, and a focus on the unique role of the relief pitcher (particularly Hall-of-Famebound current closer, Mariano Rivera), along with a healthy dose of Yankee lore and tidbits from former stars. Rosen is primarily a basketball man—an NBA analyst for FoxSports, he has coached with the legendary Phil Jackson, as well as at Bard College and SUNY New Paltz. But he grew up in the shadow of the Bronx’s Yankee Stadium, and his outright passion for the game of baseball, and the Yankees themselves, is infectious. You don’t need to be a baseball fanatic in order to enjoy these books; to appreciate the juxtaposition of story and history is enough. Thorn’s assertion that “baseball is an odyssey in which a protagonist braves the perils between bases before ultimately coming home, like Ulysses,” is the stuff that moves readers, especially American ones. —Gregory Schoenfeld
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our September issue is August 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
that wasn’t a monologue you just weren’t listening —p
Did did not do did it still did it Don’t need to do don’t want to do need to do but didn’t Don’t like to do —Rubin Cash Kirschner (6½ years)
Freak Snow
The Clouds, Gathering
Hot
In an ash urn the velvet bodies of bees adjourn. Cold heat in a fern. How long can a star like that burn?
The grass drowning at the bank of the creek— heavy rains.
hot like a saturday night special a ten dollar pistol hot like you know that tv you’re buying off the back of the truck is hot like she is like only she can be hot like it keeps me up at night just thinking of her hot like true fire real burning sulphurous white hot burning a house right down to the ground into ashes and cinders hot like when the dance floor peaks and asses be shaking hot like summertime the beads of sweat on your forehead hot like the sun hot like you’d have to be mad to pursue her because just one kiss will set you ablaze and then there will be only her hot like her and you will burn
All that’s left is fur. Sweet green spears spur. Pussy willows purr. Dandelions defer. There’s a garden hose in her mink. The daffodils on her gown stink. Piss is the rain they drink. She says so with a blink. Morse code is an ugly toad. Butterfly in chrysalis mode. Turtle in the road. Love’s pitiless goad. Night’s…night’s oars row. Morning tied with a pink bow. The bee glen quieted in snow. Fresh red nail polish on a toe.
Heron, are your legs long enough to keep your tailfeathers dry? The empty fox burrow turns to mud. Where have your pups gone, mama fox? Bright yellow— a newborn chick shivers with dew. I wonder, do you know what kind of world you’ve been born into? —Nathan Hunt
Callback
Gloria Zook, 1929-2011 —Tony Criscimagna
Nothing to lose at the walk-in but time—
Rorschach Cookies
recognition now raises the stakes and tickles your sole,
To two cups of coarsely milled abject failure Add a like amount of bitter tears. Add a teaspoon of biting sarcasm And a dash of nightmarish sweat. Knead for ten minutes in a state of angst. Let rise in a room filled with regrets until sullen. Drop onto a cookie pan greased with anger. Bake for 20 minutes in the hell of recrimination. Let cool by a sea of rejection Serve with black humor.
an exquisite stone under your rolling heel, threatening to throw you off balance as you spin like a twister before stone shadows. You can’t pick out words in roughly traded whispers
—R. L. Kennedy drowned out by a pounding in the back of your head against a secret door you hope might be unlocked. —Noel Sloboda 68 poetry ChronograM 8/11
—Matthew Lyndon Wells
The day has settled blue between the birds and trees, and twilight arrives as a waiter: expectant, with an air of ready indifference. This twilight knows nothing of the night; the waiter in blue cannot feel the weight of red in the burning ember of the dying day. His apron of blue begins to fray, and wilts to purple shade as darkness drops in static grain. —Marc Cioffi
Long Island Sound
Shards
The same swans waiting Year after year, tall, long black beaked We are still walking Each time the sky is different Orange, ridged in black My arms floating He prances up through the grass Steps back in that moment Criss-crossing the sand He looks for me
So thirty-five years from now You’ll meet me at the airport We’ll go to lunch in your city And I’ll pick up the check to show you how well I’ve done.
You said she lay in your arms Wind flowing through the promise of Beautiful white breasts Your hand across her small oval stone Slices of blue on light That crease and cause the fusion Then, it all passes Vanishing into the future of pregnancy and birth Apocalypse Others, tossing their sex into each other’s nets Year after year, successfully loving Successfully married couples, coupling While the feeble fail Skimming small waves Licking the edge of sand Licking the broken oar A dark cloud rises —Heidi Hutner
Making History Madelaine flips over each tarot card Like a blackjack marathon Till she finds the one that fits The finer details of her fable. Temperance, strength, and the high priestess All worthy of her essence But the deck lacks the guarantee Of fulfilled dreams and desires. She returns opened cartons of crystal balls Time and time again to the Seers shoppe For lousy reception even with rabbit ears, Arguing with sages and soothsayers About the missives of misfortune. The mystics rally in their defense Raging that the royal road As ridden by Madelaine Does not lead outward to divinity But rather inward to cartography Of how she became the means Rather than the end. —Tony Pena
This is after we stripped the woodwork This is after the acid and the West Side Highway This is after the Bicentennial parade We dance in Denver on St. Patrick’s Day. Your daughter will buy me a beer My daughter will cry on the phone. I want you to, don’t want you to kiss me. I’m not as single as you are, and the years have turned to miles.
snow pushes into icy waterfalls. the sky is a bone white boulder. elbows in branches fold. there are no foreseeable tops to anything, winter refuses to brush its teeth. —Guy R. Beining
First Place
—Margaret Craig
Splashdown Near the wave-pool the asphalt sparkles hot. I grab your hand, which you wrench free, bounding ahead, “Come on Mom!”— “The yellow pirate-ship-slide!” I squint and crane my neck, catching you standing in line, behind the girl with the “Rainbow Day Camp” T-shirt. “Mom!” So, I lift my arm, waving. You adjust your goggles, make a Superman gesture, wait, then plunge down head-first. Bursting up, gulping air, you grin, goggles akimbo. I watch you looking, finding, then yelling “Fast!” I nod, taking a deep breath, watching you disappear among suits and spray, thankful we keep an eye on each other. —Sara Walsh-Esposito
Out the Window Geese flying honking Humans jogging chatting From my office
word halter .035 (the quarreling stones became an avalanche.)
My hair looks nice it’s different kept my figure you said and i’m thinking what of it? do you want to talk about something else? or are you just going to talk about what turned you on in the first place? —M. Hotvedt
For E. (Whoever You May Be). Does the world sit silent Before you begin, A world that waits Without any wind? Sound stillness to suppose Of what has here been, And you’ll take in Your thoughts are the wind. —Diana Regal
the same.
—Richard Tornello
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RHINEBECK Mighty All Righty
by Anne Pyburn photos by David Morris Cunningham the beekman arms
Rhinebeck epitomizes a blend of comfort and class. It’s unsurprising that this corner of Dutchess County was chosen for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, probably as a place where everyone would feel at home and have a lovely time. That same warm, well-bred welcome tinged with hip is available even to those who don’t arrive by limo, year round: The Rhinebeck vibes are what attracted the bold-face names, and not the other way around.
•The Greatest Show Off Earth• The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome has one of the world’s finest collections of flying pioneer, WWI, and Lindbergh era airplanes. Started by pilot, showman, and dreamer Cole Palen over a half century ago, it’s a unique airfield out in a cow pasture setting that’s a step-back in time where daredevil air shows, thrilling open-cockpit biplane rides, special events, and a modest but amazing little aviation museum can be enjoyed from mid-June to mid-October.
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•CLASSY & SASSY•
The walkable and bustling center of town is a shopping destination unlike any other in the Hudson Valley, busy and friendly and genteel. A dozen different independent retailers, for example, offer clothing—from the lush boutique ambiance of places like Winter Sun Summer Moon and Workers and Dreamers to the comfortably updated old-school feel of the Rhinebeck Department Store. Along with its classics, Rhinebeck supports the independent Northern Dutchess Pharmacy, and Williams Lumber maintains a hardware store, big-box competition be damned. And there’s always room for newborn flights of fancy like Bumble and Hive, the nifty little “emporium for the soul” offering home goods and jewelry in a cunning courtyard setting. But Rhinebeck doesn’t just have a downtown shopping district, it has Montgomery Row, a premiere commercial destination offering health services, shopping galore, and Gigi Trattoria, a four-star Mediterranean restaurant. The 2003 expansion that added another 27,000 square feet of shopping and dining was named “Best New Development in Dutchess County” by the Dutchess County Planning Federation. Rhinebeck is a wonderful place to eat out. Classic steakhouse dining adventures such as the Beekman Tavern and the Belvedere Mansion coexist happily with the nouveau-traditional vibe of Terrapin, the organic treats of Bread Alone, the Garden Street Café, and a good selection of Asian cuisine. You’ll find good, reasonable Thai food at Aroi Thai, Japanese at Osaka and Edo Sushi, and Chinese at the Mill House Panda and at China Rose in Rhinecliff. Italian and French are also easy to find. Not all small towns as rich in tradition as Rhinebeck are also blessed with funk; some places seem to think the two are mutually exclusive. Not Rhinebeck, where funk is its own tradition: The nonprofit Upstate Films has been doing its avant-garde cinema thing for 30 years, the family-run Oblong Books and Music has a booming schedule of author events, and a diverse and community-minded radio station, WKZE, knits the community together and joins it with the wider world with efforts ranging from the musical to the educational and civic-minded. Rhinebeck’s like that, a thoroughbred of a town with trophy cases full of accolades and blue ribbons and a pedigree long as your arm— spirited, but friendly and well-mannered enough to take your five-yearold on a pony ride. There’s a gentility here that you can feel, an urbanity that transcends classification, in which posthippie granola babes and Daughters of the American Revolution work side by side on civic issues and rub elbows at the farmers’ market on Sunday afternoons.
erica choy, lila pague, catleen kelly, sharon stevens, and clara woolner at winter sun summer moon
patricia seabrook, doreen johnson, and holly raal (owners) at bumble and hive
samantha chuck, john pavnovic, and rosmary liss at terrapin
marco penarrieta, kong an chen, jassica liu, vicky liu, steven ou, michael tun, and sarah vivas osaka
carlos newcomb at hudson valley clean energy
marla walker, owner at wing and clover
michaela sweeney and nicole cassarino at breezy hill market
suzanna hermans at oblong books
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Doing things right is just the Rhinebeck way. Take higher education. Two complementary and world-class institutions call the immediate area home: Bard College, whose aweinspiring Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Performing Arts Center is an international showplace and just one of the many benefits to locals. Nearby Omega Institute for Holistic Studies has been bringing in educators in every imaginable healing and wisdom tradition since 1977. Omega’s Center for Sustainable Living is the first green building in America to achieve both LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certifications. Health care is another realm in which Rhinebeck excels. The Rhinebeck Health Center offers a range of alternative treatment for illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and thyroid conditions. Northern Dutchess Hospital, with just 68 beds, maintains a wide range of specialties and community wellness programs; its maternity and orthopedic centers are consistently given five-star ratings by the independent rating association HealthGrades. And while parents-tobe are availing themselves of the birth center that’s been winning raves for decades, they can stop by for classes, services, or goodies from Rhinebeck’s maternity boutique, Waddle and Swaddle. That’s Rhinebeck. Classy? Always. Pretentious? Not.
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Rhinebeck is home to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, which this month welcomes the Hudson Valley’s largest and liveliest county fair featuring national acts—this year’s features, among others, Travis Tritt and Chubby Checker—a giant midway, and plenty of downhome agricultural displays. In between county fairs, the Fairgrounds provides a venue for giant flea markets, car show swap meets, antique extravaganzas, juried crafts shows, and a growing favorite, the Sheep and Wool Festival in October. Nearby, the villages of Red Hook and Tivoli beckon with handfuls of great places to grab a bite. There are the Historic Village Diner and Me Oh My Pie Shop, Taste Budd’s Chocolate & Café and Rusty’s Farm Fresh, to name but a few in Red Hook. Tivoli and Rhinebeck both have their own Osaka Japanese Restaurant. Santa Fe Restaurant in Tivoli and Max’s Memphis BBQ in Red Hook are kindred eateries, brought to town by the same owners. Local chefs emphasize creativity with fresh local ingredients, from farm-totable. If you’ve got culinary aspirations of your own, hit Red Hook’s farms for ingredients, then head back into Rhinebeck for a stop at Bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy or Warren’s Kitchen and Cutlery to be certain you’ve got the right tools for the job. This town wasn’t born yesterday. With a recorded history dating back to the Hudson Valley’s earliest settlement and more than 400 historic sites on the National Historic Register, Rhinebeck expertly showcases treasures like Wilderstein—an exquisite Queen Anne mansion landscaped by the renowned Calvert Vaux, with interiors virtually untouched since 1888 and an outdoor sculpture garden. Red Hook and nearby Tivoli are also rich in well-preserved history, oozing with charm, and extremely walkable, great destinations for an afternoon wander.
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local weekly paper folded and began a blog on Wordpress, the Rhinebeck Community Forum, devoted to the doings of “the finest village/town in the Hudson Valley.” “I mean, we all know about the great architecture, the history, the shopping, the food. But, it’s the class, diversity, and community spirit that make this town more than the sum of its parts. Omega brings mindfulness, Bard brings great concerts—what more could a human being need?” Kayaks and sailboats share the harbor with motor launches, a tour boat and a passing tanker. On the shore, the whistle of the incoming train briefly overshadows the infectious dance beat wafting from the Rhinecliff Hotel’s vibrant inn. Friends sit in small groups, laughing and talking; families of all sorts make their way to the water’s edge to watch a young fisherman reel in his catch while a Labrador high-dives exuberantly after a Frisbee. It’s a summer evening on Rhinebeck’s waterfront, and all’s well with the world. Max’s Memphis www.maxsbbq.com Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. www.mhvs.org Northern Dutchess Botanical www.ndbgonline.com Northern Dutchess Hardwoods www.ndhardwoods.com Northern Dutchess Hospital www.health-quest.org/ndh Oblong Books www.oblongbooks.com Omega Institute www.eomega.org Osaka Restaurant (845) 876-7338 Panzur www.panzur.com PKBrown Woodworking www.pkbrownwoodworking.com Rhinebeck Chamber of Commerce (845) 876-5904 Rhinebeck Eye Care www.rhinebeckeyecare.com Ruge’s Subaru www.rugesubaru.com Rusty’s Farm Fresh www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com Santa Fe Restaurant www.santafetivoli.com Tangent Theater Company www.tangent-arts.org Tarot on the Hudson www.rachelpollack.com Terrapin www.terrapinrestaurant.com Third Eye Associates Ltd. www.thirdeyeassociates.com Upstate Films www.upstatefilms.org Warren Kitchen www.warrenkitchentools.com Williams Lumber www.williamslumber.com
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Summer Reading from Hudson Valley Cookbook Authors By Peter Barrett
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n the dog days of summer, no tote bag is properly full without a book. Spies, vampires, and thrones are fun, of course, but some of us prefer cookbooks for our hammock-bound perusal. If “voracious” can modify reading as well as eating, then locavores should be pleased indeed with the current crop of food-related books by local authors, including three very useful cookbooks, a thought-provoking book on butchery, and a memoir about earning a degree at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park. Despite the vast number of books on the subject, Italian Cooking at Home (Wiley) by Gianni Scappin, Alberto Vanoli, and Steven Kolpan—all professors at the CIA—is a welcome addition to the genre. Italian cooking is soulful, simple food, and this book does a thorough job of unpacking the alchemy that a few choice ingredients can undergo when handled with love and respect.The authors are to be commended for their work describing authentic, unpretentious food from all over the country and offering detailed instructions on how to achieve it. Some red sauce joints of old are still with us, but a new generation of cooks has gotten us accustomed to eating a much wider variety of Italian dishes, and this book is a fine place to start for people looking to broaden their repertoire at home, where innovation is always a steeper climb. Any book that provides a recipe for spaghetti cacio e pepe or bucatini alla carbonara is trying earnestly to communicate the humble fundaments of the cuisine and should be celebrated, and it should go without saying that when there are but six ingredients in a dish—as in the carbonara—the quality of those ingredients matters a great deal. Try making it with pastured eggs and homemade guanciale and see if it doesn’t change your life. Francesco Tonelli’s photographs are evocative and tactile, lovingly capturing oil glistening on seductively convoluted pasta and bubbles of brown butter sparkling on sage leaves in a way that inspires both hunger and an urge to conjure them oneself. The wine notes are a bit brief, though, and given Kolpan’s seemingly infinite 80 food & drink ChronograM 8/11
expertise, more from him fleshing out certain regions or producers would have been most welcome. Unlike Italian, Indian food can seem dauntingly complicated to the uninitiated. Besides the fact that the subcontinent is a vast geographical area containing dozens of diverse regional cuisines, the food at restaurants doesn’t offer many clues to the curious cook; the sauces are often complex and hard to reverse engineer. With that in mind, and calling upon a lifetime of cooking and travel experience, legendary actor and writer Madhur Jaffrey—who has a home in Columbia County—has published At Home with Madhur Jaffrey (Knopf), which includes recipes from all over the region (including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) that don’t require a lot of time to prepare. Understanding how busy we all are, she condenses the multiple steps in traditional South Asian cooking without sacrificing flavor, making for dishes that are as easy to prepare as any weeknight standard. Like Italian Cooking, Jaffrey’s book offers an excellent and accessible tool for home cooks seeking to expand their range beyond the curried chicken or chickpeas that many of us have in regular rotation. Because the recipes are so easy to make, there’s plenty of incentive to try many of them and thus breed the sort of familiarity that allows one to break free of recipes altogether. What At Home with Madhur Jaffrey makes abundantly clear is that only a handful of easily obtained spices stand between you and authentic-tasting South Asian food; apart from those spices, pretty much everything else required can be sourced locally, meaning you can take advantage of the best that farm and garden have to offer. And because the recipes originate from so many different regions, there’s more of an open-source quality to the book, which fits in well with the culinary aesthetic of today. Since making an entire Indian meal might seem like a lot of work, Jaffrey also encourages combining her recipes with other things that we already enjoy making. Her clear goal is to have this book transform our relationship with the cuisines of
left to right: brodette di pesce, trenette al pesto, both from italian cooking at home ; Marika Blossfeldt’s tomato soup, from essential nourishment. opposite: a collection of salts, from the butcher’s guide to well-raised meat.
South Asia, moving them firmly into the realm of our everyday routines. All the food was made by her and photographed in her home to underscore the ease of it all. It’s the sort of deceptively simple book that only someone very accomplished can write. Marika Blossfeldt is a holistic health coach and yoga teacher who divides her time between Beacon and Estonia. After studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, in 2006 she began offering summer wellness workshops at her farm in Estonia. Eventually, with the help of her niece, she wrote down the recipes that retreat participants had been enjoying and asking for. In 2009, the first edition was self-published in Estonian, and promptly became a bestseller in that country. The proceeds from that book funded the publishing this year of the English version, Essential Nourishment (Delicious Nutrition). It’s a cookbook, but with substantial sections on nutrition and wellness that make it a practical guide for clean living and eating. In an age of countless fad diets and media hype, this is a calm, balanced alternative that is worth seeking out. Where Italian and Indian foods carry the weight of certain expectations, Blossfeldt’s food is simply food, made from the best seasonal ingredients available, without any particular regional accent besides the climate in which the produce is grown. As such, it offers a potent inspiration for anyone seeking to let the produce speak for itself, especially during our fecund summers. Over the last seven years, Josh and Jessica Applestone have built Fleisher’s in Kingston from a neighborhood secret to a nationally known name that is synonymous with ethically raised animals, helping to inspire and train the new generation of young butchers around the country. Their book, A Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat (Clarkson Potter; co-written with Alexandra Zissu and beautifully photographed by our own Jennifer May) tells their unorthodox story—Josh was a longtime vegan when they opened—and offers an insider’s perspective on the many complex issues surrounding proper animal farming, slaughter, and consumption. There’s a wealth of technical information for those interested in breaking down an animal at home, as well as recipes highlighting less well known cuts that savvy carnivores know make for superlative and sustainable eating like beef shanks, pork cheeks, and the faux hanger steak. For those interested in charcuterie, there are instructions for curing prosciutto and bresaola, as well as a section on making fresh sausages. The tone is conversational, but the subject is serious. It should be required reading for all meat eaters; besides being a useful tool in the kitchen, above all it is a handbook for conscious carnivory.
There is no place for factory-farmed animals in an ethical diet, and this book makes no bones about it. Apart from butchers, chefs have never been a more important part of our popular culture; they’re TV stars and celebrities in their own right, and many people who like to cook dream about becoming the next famous name. But the realities of cooking school and working as a professional are not so romantic. Jonathan Dixon enrolled at the CIA in response to a midlife crisis of sorts, and his Beaten, Seared, and Sauced (Clarkson Potter) is a thorough and honest telling of his time spent earning a degree there. Insightfully writing in a frank and humble voice, Dixon describes the many travails of working his way through the program. He begins the book thinking that he wants to work in a restaurant kitchen, and ends knowing that he doesn’t, but his love of cooking has remained intact and deepened into the expertise that he enrolled to attain, combined with a hard-earned self-knowledge that bodes well for his future culinary and literary endeavors. An interesting aspect of the narrative focuses on the issue of teaching styles among the faculty. Essentially dividing them into two camps, the ruthless drill sergeants and the patient mentors, by the end of the book Dixon has come down firmly on the side of the latter, finding no educational benefit to the spittle-flecked invective of the former. One wonders, though, if his age and perspective place him apart from many of his peers, for whom the CIA is college; is it possible that being berated helps some of them learn to focus and find discipline in a very tough field? Like Anthony Bourdain before him, Dixon has done aspiring chefs a real favor by laying bare the realities of a world that appears very different from the outside. Books discussed in this article: A Butcher’s Guide toWell-Raised Meat by Joshua and Jessica Applestone and Alexandra Zissu; Clarkson Potter, $27.50 At Home with Madhur Jaffrey by Madhur Jaffrey; Knopf, $35 Beaten, Seared, and Sauced by Jonathan Dixon; Clarkson Potter, $24 Essential Nourishment by Marika Blossfeldt; Delicious Nutrition, $34.99 Italian Cooking at Home by Gianni Scappin, Alberto Vanoli, and Steven Kolpan; Wiley, $34.95 Peter Barrett writes more prolifically about home cooking than most cookbook authors. See for yourself at www.acookblog.com. 8/11 ChronograM food & drink 81
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Food & Drink Events for August A Seat at the Table
August 6. Grab a chair in the fields of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project Fields for their second annual farm dinner. Enjoy a fivecourse meal, with produce direct from the field, prepared by Sara Lukasiewicz of Red Devon in Bangall. Cheese, donated by Sprout Creek Farm and Coach Farm, will be passed out with heirloom tomato bruschetta during the first hour of the event. Salads, including cucumber cantaloupe with mint and Coach Farm’s aged goat cheese in a summer herb vinaigrette, will get your ready for the main entrees, served family style. Try the marinated and grilled sirloin from Meadowview Farms with peppers and onions. Leave room for the sautéed green zucchini and yellow squash, with basil and heirloom tomatoes. Dessert will be just as local: Hudson Valley whipped cream on lemon polenta cake, donated by Wild Hive. Although full-bellies at the dinner are a-must, one of its main mission is to improve the access of locally grown and healthier foods for Poughkeepsie’s education and food justice programs. 4-8pm. Poughkeepsie Farm Project Fields. $155. (845) 473-1415; www.farmproject.org.
Hudson Valley RibFest
August 20 and 21. Organized by the Highland Rotary Club, the 2011 Hudson Valley RibFest celebrates its seventh year for two days of rib-loving paradise with a food festival and a BBQ contest. Want to be the Grand Champion of RibFest? This year, 70 teams will cook ribs to compete for the title and $11,000 in prize money. New England Barbecue Society and Kansas City Barbeque Society will each have their own contests, where winners can advance to the national finals in Kansas City. The food festival portion can be enjoyed by the whole family, with plenty to choose from including hot dogs, roasted sweet corn, fudge, and jerk shrimp. Entertainment includes live music, a cooking demonstration, and a children’s area with games and a climbing wall. Saturday, 11am-10pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm, at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz. $4 presale at Hannaford Supermarket; $5 gate; children 12 and under free. (845) 306-4381; www.hudsonvalleyribfest.org.
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August 13. The Ellenville/Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce presents an all-day berry extravaganza. The day begins with a blueberry pancake breakfast until 11am and then a blueberry bake sale. Save your appetite for the blueberry pie judging contest at noon, where Marc Fried, one of the founders of the festival, will be a judge. Over 200 vendors and businesses, like Family of Ellenville and Huckleberry Hats, will be there in between bites. Award-winning restaurant Aroma Thyme Bistro will have banana whip with blueberries and blueberry crisp. Plus, there’s children’s entertainment, including Pickles the Clown and live music on two stages featuring Bob Lusk, The Carl Richards Band, and more. Rain or shine. 9am-4pm on Canal Street and Liberty Square, Ellenville. (845) 647-4620.
Wine Festival at Bethel Woods
August 28. Finger Lakes and Hudson Valley wineries share their specialties at this annual tasty festival overlooking the beauty of Bethel Woods. The more than 15 wineries include New Paltz’s Adair Vineyards, Wurtsboro’s BashaKill Vineyards, and Dundee’s Fulkerson Winery, all offering bottles for sampling and sale. Attendees can also try a sample of wine from the vine. Check out specialty foods and craft vendors from Ballards Honey and Dutch Desserts to Sisteria Designs and Catmaid Wearable Art. Live music and two short wine seminars explaining colors, aromas, and more will be featured throughout the day. 11am-4pm at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Rain or shine. $10 tasting fee with complementary wine glass; $5 general admission, designated drivers. After the wine fest, jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli and vocalist Jessica Molaskey will perform with the New York Pops at 7pm. $18.50-$78 for NY Pops. (800) 745-3000; www.bethelwoodscenter.org. —Zan Strumfeld 8/11 ChronograM food & drink 83
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319 MAIN ST POUGHKEEPSIE, NY | 845.337.4848 BULLANDBUDDHA.COM | FIND US ON FACEBOOK!
lunch, dinner & catering available
Poughkeepsie’s 1st Gastropub! Inside & Courtyard seating. Upscale Tapas style plates, Signature Drinks, Craft Beers, Wine Bar. Live Blues & BBQ every Sunday, rain or shine. 202 main st poughkeepsie, ny 845-473-4294 www.karmalounge.us
The CraftedKup TEA & COFFEEHOUSE 44 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 845-483-7070 www.craftedkup.com
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tues – fri : 4pm to 2am sat & sun : 12pm to 2am full menu served until closing
Your Neighborhood Coffeehouse A great place to be!
All You Can Eat* MONDAY - THURSDAY
$19.95 Adults $9.95 Kids 8 & under Hours of Operation Monday to Friday 7am to 8pm Saturday 8am to 8pm Sunday 8am to 5pm
FRIDAY - SUNDAY
$21.95 Adults $10.95 Kids 8 & under * Order must include combination of sushi, sashimi and roll.
26 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY • 845.471.5245 • www.sushivillagepok.com
tastings directory Bakeries The Alternative Baker 407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 www.lemoncakes.com 100% all butter scratch, full-service, smallbatch, made-by-hand bakery. Best known for our scones, sticky buns, Belgian hot chocolate, sandwiches (Goat Cheese Special is still winning awards) & all vegan soups. Plus varied treats: vegan, wheat, gluten, dairy or sugar-free. Wedding cakes too. Lemon Cakes shipped nationwide and for local corporate gift giving. Closed Tues/Wed but open 7 AM for the best egg sandwiches ever!
Cafes Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
grilled burgers, steaks and several fish options, along with an assortment of fresh salads, several vegetarian options, and numerous side dishes like collard greens, cheese grits, garlic mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cornbread, and creamy ole country coleslaw. All menu items are prepared fresh daily and all The Q is smoked on-site using fruit wood.
The Artist’s Palate 307 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-8074 www.theartistspalate.biz Installed in a building once occupied by a Golden Era clothing store, M. Schwartz, The Artist’s Palate restaurant has brought back life to Main Street in Poughkeepsie. Designers have reworked the interior space of the 70-seat dining room to combine cosmopolitan elegance with an edgy industrial accent. Like the décor, the menu showcases innovation: An extensive array of wines, handcrafted beers and unique cocktails complement our revolving seasonal menu.
Baba Louie’s Woodfired Sourdough Pizza
Strongtree Organic Roasters
Bistro Lilly
Brody’s Best Cafe & Juice Bar 159 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 615-1118
Crafted Kup
60 South Front Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-8778 www.strongtreecoffee.com
134 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-2810 www.bistrolilly.com
Twisted Foods
Bull and Buddha
446 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-9121
Catering Terrapin Catering 5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available. Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.
Delis Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Restaurants A Tavola 46 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1426 www.atavolany.com
Amedeos Brick Oven Pizzeria 476 Lauer Road, Lagrangeville, NY www.amadeosbrickovenpizzeria.com (845) 454-4563
American Glory Restaurant 342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com American Glory is a restaurant specializing in “legendary wood smoked regional BBQ of the United States, and classic American comfort foods.” In addition to the extensive BBQ fare, the menu includes a wide selection of sandwiches,
319 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-4848 www.bullandbuddha.com Bull and Buddha restaurant fuses an urban interior with exotic design elements of the East nestled in Poughkeepsie’s revitalized downtown. Served under the watchful eye of a hand-carved two-ton Buddha, the Asian-themed menu reflects the bounty and diversity of the Hudson Valley: an inspired dining experience in a chic yet casual setting. Upstairs is Orient, Hudson Valley’s newest and most elegant Ultra Lounge. Orient sets a new standard for destination nightlife and an experience once unavailable outside of Manhattan’s Meat Packing district.
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Ca’ Mea 333 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-0005 www.camearestaurant.com
Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!
Golden Buddha Thai Cuisine 985 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055
Gomen Kudasai ‚Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking 215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811
Gunk Haus 387 South Street, Highland, NY (845) 833-0866 www.gunkhaus.com
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44 Raymond Avenue #1, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-7070 www.craftedkup.com
517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155, , 34 Depot Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 499-2400 www.BabaLouiesPizza.com Handcrafted with fresh, all natural ingredients. Italian brick-oven woodfired pizzas made with sourdough crust & fresh mozzarella. Choose from our creative signature pizzas or build your own! Heaping salads with fresh greens, house made soup, pasta specials, lunchtime sandwiches & ciabatta panini. Family friendly! Delicious glutenfree and vegan options available everyday!
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The Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of
healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.
Local apples, fresh, sweet corn & so much more!
Every Saturday through November 19th 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Rain or Shine
Crafts on John Street 1st & 3rd Saturdays Healthy Eating Series 2nd & 4th Saturdays Storytelling Series 3rd Saturday
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Refined Comfort Food Tavern at Highlands Country Club 955 Route 9D ˙ Garrison, NY www.highlandscountryclub.net Reservations: 845.424.3254 ˙ ext. 16
Valley Restaurant at The Garrison 2015 Route 9 ˙ Garrison, NY www.thegarrison.com Reservations: 845.424.3604 ˙ ext. 25
A casual, elegant bistro in downtown Goshen serving fresh and delicious fare.
★★★★!– Times Herald-Record (Jan. 14, 2011)
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134 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.bistrolilly.com
Reservations accepted. Wine • Beer
845.294.2810
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Serving Healthy Food & Real Juice eat in or take out 159 W. Main Street, Goshen NY 10924 (845) 615-1118
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Pretzel Rolls & More..... A fun place to have Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch/Snack.... Rumor has it that we have the Best Chicken Salad..... Visit us on Facebook All homemade and delicious Open Thurs-Mon 6am-6pm & Tues 8am-4pm • 845.658.9121 • 446 Main St, Rosendale
Every day, enjoy 5% off any 6 bottles of wine, 10% off any 12 bottles of wine
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On Tuesdays receive 8% off any purchase, 13% off any 6 bottles of wine, 18% off any 12 bottles of wine
Open 7 days
215 Huguenot St., New Paltz (845) 255-7888 RockAndRye.com Follow us on Facebook
For information on our upcoming wine school, e-mail us at ingoodtaste@verizon.net
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194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 845-255-2633 Featuring: Whole Grain Crust • Soy Cheese Pizza • Local Organic Ingredients
Serving More Than Just Great Pizza: Bistro Appetizers • Gourmet Entrees • Paninis Subs • Delicious Desserts & More! www.labellapizzabistro.com
Catering available
authentic rustic Italian cuisine • local ingredients New Paltz’s most exciting new restaurant
www.atavolany.com
Every Thursday Happy Hour 5:30-7:30, $5 draft beers and cocktail specials! Monday is Industry night 10% off for all industry folks. dinner: thurs-mon 5:30-10:30 extended lounge hours: 4:30-midnight fri & sat call or email for reservations : 845-255-1426 atavolany@gmail.com
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79 Main Street New Paltz
Local Organic Grass-Fed Beef • Lamb • Goat • Veal • Pork • Chicken • Wild Salmon
N H ~ N A ~ N P Custom Cut • Home Cooking Delicatessen Nitrate-Free Bacon • Pork Roasts • Beef Roasts Bone-in or Boneless Ham: smoked or fresh Local Organic Beef • Exotic Meats (Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich) • Wild Fish
La Petite Cuisine
Serving breakfast and lunch in a quaint atmosphere
46 Main Street New Paltz serving fresh baked bread and handmade pastas on mismatched hudson valley farm tables in a warm and inviting setting.
Open 7 Days 845-255-2244
sweet & savory crepes croque monsieurs paninis salads espresso & cafe au lait outdoor dining during the spring, summer and fall Located in the historical district of Warwick 20 Railroad Avenue 845.988.0988 www.lapetitecuisine.biz
Howell’s Cafe
Suruchi — A Fine Taste of India
27 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-5561 www.howellsdeli.com
5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com
Karma Lounge 201 Main Street, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 473-4294 www.karmalounge.us
Karma Road Organic Cafe 11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255 1099 www.karmaroad.net info@karmaroad.com Winner of “Best Vegetarian Restaurant in the Hudson Valley” 2010. Friendly, casual breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, juices and award-winning smoothies for a delicious, healthy alternative to standard fare. Gluten-Free aplenty! Steps from the Rail-Trail in historic downtown. Open 8am8pm, 7 days. Find us on Facebook!
Kavos 4 North Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473 4976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com
La Petite Cuisine 20 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 988-0988 www.lapetitecuisine.biz
LaBella Pizza Bistro
Max’s Memphis Barbeque Red Hook, NY (845) 758-MAXS www.maxsbbq.com
Mexican Radio 9 Cleveland Place, New York, NY 537 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-7770 www.mexrad.com pmljs@ecoipm.com Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A great place for parties!
Mod Restaurant 20 S Front Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1880 www.modhudson.com
Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given 4.5 stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.
Panzur 69 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-1071 www.panzur.com
Red Dot Restaurant & Bar 321 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-3657
Rock & Rye Tavern 215 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7888 www.rockandrye.com
Rusty’s Farm Fresh 5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-8000 www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com
Santa Fe Restaurant Tivoli, NY (845) 757-4100 www.santafetivoli.com
26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com Sushi Village serves authentic, great tasting Japanese food and sushi with friendly service and great prices. Located near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sushi Village offers all-youcan-eat sushi and lunch specials.
Tavern at Highland Country Club 955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254 ext 16 www.highlandscountryclub.net
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.
The Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845) 452-9600 www.ciachef.edu/restaurants American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of the Americas; Apple Pie Bakery Café, sumptuous baked goods and café cuisine; Escoffier Restaurant, culinary traditions of France with a contemporary touch; Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, seasonal ingredients and authentic dishes of Italy; and St. Andrew’s Café, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.
Enjoy Thai cooking by Real Thai Chefs “Golden Buddha Restaurant gets Rave Reviews!” ~Poughkeepsie Journal 7/10
Sun & tues-Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm Fri & Sat 11:30am-10:30pm Let our family Closed Mon serve yours 985 Main St, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055
On Route 52, only 1/2 mile from I-84 exit 12 Next to the beverage store, directly across from Chase bank (cvs plaza)
Cooking classes now in progress - call for reservations serving beer and wine
visit www.goldenbuddhathai.com Have a smart phone? Check out our menu!
Toad Holly Pub 713 Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-2097 www.toadhollypub.com Toad Holly Pub Offers International Cuisine with Backwoods of the World recipes that’s why Gastronomical Pleasures are us. We offer Catering in house and all of our menu is available To Go! Check out our European Style Bar, Happy Hour Daily, and Drink Specials. Come Dine with us.
EAT HEALTHY & ENJOY EVERY MOUTHFUL.
Tortillaville 347 Warren Street, Hudson, NY www.tortillaville.com
Towne Crier Cafe Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com
CHINA JAPAN KOREA INDONESIA Open 7 days Lunch and Dinner Reservations accepted ROUTE 300 NEWBURGH, NY (845) 564-3848 YOBORESTAURANT.COM
Vanderbilt House 161 Main Street, Philmont, NY (518) 672-9993 www.Vanderbilt-House.com info@vanderbilt-house.com
My family invites your family to dine at
Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com
Wine & Liquor Brewery Ommegang 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown, NY (607) 544-1800 www.ommegang.com
Check out our new spring & summer dinner menu
New look,old feel,same great food! HOURS: Mon. 7am-4pm, Tues.-Sat. 7am-9pm, Sun. Closed
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194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com LaBella Pizza Bistro voted Best Pizza in The Hudson Valley. We serve more than just great pizza, including catering for any occasion. Our dishes feature LOCALLY GROWN organic produce! We offer a healthy WHOLE GRAIN PIZZA CRUST! Vegan Pizza is now available as well.
Sushi Village
business directory Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com
The New York House 110 Center St., Sharon Springs, NY (518) 369-2164 www.thenewyorkhouse.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Animal Sanctuaries Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Willow, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
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Eclectic Eye
Artview Gallery 14 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-0999 www.artviewgalleryny.com
Back Door Studio 9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com
Barrett Art Center 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2550 www.barrettartcenter.org
Brill Gallery 243 Union Street, North Adams, MA (800) 294-2811 www.brillgallery109.com
Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA (413) 458-2303 www.clarkart.edu
Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com
Green River Gallery
Fed On Lights Antiques
Hudson & Laight Gallery
1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311
Corner of Market & Livingston Streets, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8444 www.fedonlights.com
437 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1700 www.hudsonandlaight.com
Orange County Flea Market
52 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1303 http://ladyaudreysgallery.com
100 Carpenter Avenue, Middletown, NY (845) 282-4055 www.ocfleamarkets.com
Scott and Bowne 27 North Main Street #1, Kent, CT (860) 592-0207 www.scottandbowne.com info@scottandbowne.com
Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com
Architecture Marlys Hann Architect 161 Main Street, Andes, NY (845) 676-3858 www.marlyshann.com
North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com
Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 784-1146 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@annstreetgallery.org Breaking Boundaries: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics: A group exhibition of contemporary ceramics scheduled for Saturday, August 13, 2011 opening with an Artist Reception 6-9 pm. This exhibit explores the creativity of contemporary ceramic artists who wish to elevate awareness of the ceramic arts, explore the possibilities of working with clay, while charting new ground in which they break through boundaries imposed by the art establishment. Artists features: Dylan Beck, Maureen Burns-Bowie, Bryan Czibesz, Carole Epp, Raymond W. Gonzalez , Doug Herren, Priscilla Hollingsworth , Liz Howe, Roxanne Jackson , Calder Kamin, Debbie Kupinsky ,Julie Malen, Wendy Olson, Vince Palacios, Jesse Ring, Benjamin Schulman, John Williams, Alyssa Wood , Jennifer Woodin, Jindra Viková and Matthew Ziemke
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Lady Audrey’s Gallery
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org
Scott and Bowne 27 North Main Street #1, Kent, CT (860) 592-0207 www.scottandbowne.com info@scottandbowne.com
Seven Pillars New Lebanon, NY (518) 794-8777 www.sevenpillarshouse.org
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Updraft Studios (845) 440-7208 www.updraftstudios.co
Vivo Fine Art 105-A Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, NY www.vivofineart.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500
Ruge’s Subaru 6444 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com
Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst. com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
Bookstores Golden Notebook 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY www.goldennotebook.com
Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Oblong Books & Music 6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9) Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Cabinet Designers
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Ghent Wood Products
483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com
Kitchen Cabinet Company
17 Van Kleeck Drive, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 471-6480 www.kitchencabinetco.com
L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
New England Solar and Green Solutions, Inc. 55 North Street, Williamstown, MA (413) 458-4966 www.nesolarandgreen.com
Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings
19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com
Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock. NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories Christina Faraj — The Bra Fit Expert www.thebrafitexpert.com
Dakota 228 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-9704 25 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3222
de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Hudson Valley Outfitters 63 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-0221 www.hudsonvalleyoutfitters.com
Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com
Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com
Computer Repair All Computer Services 158 Vineyard Ave, Highland, NY (845) 834-2351 www.ACSguys.com Is your computer running slow or infected? We can fix that!! We do web design, remote assistance as well as computer networking. We can also repair cracked screens as well as charging ports. We offer a FREE DIAGNOSIS. Ask about our membership program for only $20 a month.
Consignment Shops Past N’ Perfect 1629 Main St. (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us
Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com
customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy. And so much more!
Equestrian Services Con-Tack Panorama Drive, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-4442 www.con-tack.com con-tack@webjogger.net
Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com
Events Art Studio Views Northern Dutchess County, NY www.artsnortherndutchess.org/asv
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc Katonah, NY (914) 232-1252 www.caramoor.org
Hudson Music Festival www.hudsonmusicfest.com
Olana State Historic Site Partnership (518) 828-0135 www.olana.org www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com
West Point Band (845) 938-2617 www.westpointband.com
Woodstock Shakespeare Festival Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4007 www.birdonacliff.org
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 518-672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5. A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic bakery and dairy. Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: 518-672-7500 x 231.
Hudson Valley Bounty (518) 392-9696 www.hudsonvalleybounty.com
Kingston Farmers’ Market Wall Street, Uptown Kingston, NY (845) 853-8512 www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org
Mother Earth’s Store House 1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible
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Farms Kelder’s Farm 5755 Rte 209, Kerhonkson, NY www.kelderfarm.com
Kinderhook Farm Ghent, NY (518) 929-3076 www.kinderhookfarm.com
Financial Advisors JSA Financial Group 7 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1923 www.jsafinancial.com jeff@jsafinancial.com We are an independent financial firm that has been helping people establish & maintain their long-term financial goals through all aspects of Financial Planning. We also offer our clients the option to utilize socially responsible investments. Securities & Advisory Services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network® Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.
Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
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1955 South Road Poughkeepsie, NY 1955 South Road 845.297.1684 Poughkeepsie, NY 845.297.1684
Gardening & Garden Supplies Deer Defeat (518) 755-1086 www.deerdefeat.com mail@deerdefeat.com
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Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com
Graphic Design
Adams Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
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Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com
Hair Salons A William Anthony Salon 29 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-4950 www.wasalon.net
Allure 12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620
Dazzles Salon & Day Spa 2722 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, (845) 297-5900, 738 Route 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill, (845) 897-5100, NY www.dazzlessalon.com
Home Furnishings & Decor Asia Barong Route 7/199 Stockbridge Road Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-5091 www.asiabarong.com
Bumble and Hive In the Courtyard at 43 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2625
Colors Home 14 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7111 www.colorshome.com
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Kitchenwares
Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
Nest Egg County Store 84 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5851 www.nesteggshop.com
Silken Wool 36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.com
Tender Land Home 64 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-7213 www.tenderlandhome.com
The Futon Store Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933 www.thefutonstore.com
Countryside Woodcraft 2368 Route 66, Chatham, NY (518) 392-8400 Lawrence@countrysidewoodcraft.com
Hudson Valley Finds 41 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3020 www.hudsonvalleyfinds.com
JS Woodcraft (845) 706-0911 jswoodcraft@gmail.com
PKBrown Woodworking Tivoli, NY (845) 943-0952 www.pkbrownwoodworking.com www.etsy.com/shop/pkbrownwoodworking
Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com
Landscaping Coral Acres, Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634
Garden Gate Landscape Design Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-5198 www.gardendgateny.com
Lawyers & Mediators Jane Cottrell (917) 575-4424 www.janecottrell.com Mediation is the best opportunity for the parties, not courts or juries, to control the outcome of a dispute. Experienced lawyer and mediator certified in US and UK. Choice of mediation techniques. Landlord/tenant, debtor/creditor, commercial/business, wills/trusts, arts/ creative, employment. Free consultation.
Law Offices of Michel Haggerty 37 West Market, Rhinebeck, NY (845)876-3300 www.haggertylawoffices.com
Schneider, Pfahl & Rahm, LLP Woodstock: (845) 679-9868 New York City: (212) 629-7744 www.schneiderpfahl.com
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
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Basement Solutions of the Hudson Valley (845) 564-0461 www.basementshv.com
Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com
William Wallace Construction (845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
Home Organization Hudson Valley Closets www.hudsonvalleyclosets.com
Interior Design
Civil Wedding Officiant
10 Circular Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 471-3282 jodem54@aol.com Joining Hands and Hearts since 2003 92 business directory ChronograM 8/11
At the Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8153 www.woodstockaikido.com A traditional United States Aikido Federation affiliated dojo situated in the Byrdcliffe artist community in Woodstock, NY. We have the extreme privilege of training under Harvey Konigsberg, Shihan.
Moving & Storage Hudson Power Movers (845) 380-2203 www.hudsonpowermovers.com
Musical Instruments Imperial Guitar & Soundworks
Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1040 www.downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com Down Under Faux is the creation of Muriel Calderon, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire.
99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
DragonSearch Available for private charter, sightseeing, dinner cruises, brunches,weddings, business functions, special events
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Internet Services
Jodé Susan Millman
Martial Arts
(845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Hummingbird Jewelers 23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com
Musica 17 N. 4th Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1045 www.goodmusica.com
Organizations Country Wisdom News (845) 616-7834 www.countrywisdomnews.com Subscribe to Country Wisdom News, Ulster County’s newest source for good news ‚Äî age old and modern thoughts on food, the land, and the home. An annual subscription is $35. Send checks to PO Box 444, Accord, NY, 12404.
Needle Arts Guild of the Historic Hudson Valley (845) 549-3323 http://nacientneedle.wordpress.com
US Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch www.greenupstateny.org hvbranchcoordinator@gmail.com
Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Eisenhower Hall Theatre - USMA
Woodstock Framing Gallery
West Point, NY www.ikehall.com
31 Mill HIll Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6003
Falcon Music & Art Productions 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1438 www.hudsonoperhouse.com
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org
Maverick Concerts 120 Mavervick Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8217 www.MaverickConcerts.org
Pools & Spas Foxx Pools by Charles Burger 3730 Rte. 9W, Highland, NY (845) 691-6795
Ne Jame Pools, Ltd. (845) 677-7665 www.nejamepools.com
Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com
Real Estate
Tangent Theater Company Tivoli, NY (845) 230-7020 www.tangent-arts.org
The Living Room 103 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 270-8210 www.coldspringlivingroom.com
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
The Second Show, Inc. 519 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2990 www.thesecondshow.com 10 Main Street, Suite 322, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-9300 www.vanavercaravan.org
WAMC, The Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 518-465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8281 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal hands-on boarding and supervised playgroups. 40x40 fenced play area. Four 5x10 kennels in insulated kennel room with windows, mats and classical music . Major morning activity. Walks every two hours. Homemade food and yummy treats.
Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7995 www.photosensualis.com
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over
275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
Patty Curry (845) 687-0232 x108 www.pattycurry.com patty@westwoodrealty.com
Schools Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Center for the Digital Arts / Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu
Center For Veterinary Care Millbrook
New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews
680 New York 343, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8800 www.centerforveterinarycare.com
Wild Earth Wilderness School New Paltz / High Falls area, 845-256-9830 www.wildearthprograms.org info@wildearthprograms.org Wild Earth, a not-for-profit located in the Shawangunk Ridge region of the Hudson Valley, offers and supports experiences in nature that are inspiring, educational and fun, while renewing and deepening connections with ourselves, others and the Earth. Our programs, which draw on a broad spectrum of teachings from indigenous cultures to modern natural sciences, offer adventure and fun, primitive skills and crafts, awareness games, and story and song, facilitated by multi-generational mentors.
Shoes
Video Production BRAVE Hudson Valley / New York City www.bravenyc.com
Vineyards Stoutridge Vineyard 10 Ann Kaley Lane, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7620 http://www.stoutridge.com/
Web Design icuPublish PO Box 145, Glenham, NY (914) 213-2225 www.icupublish.com mtodd@icupublish.com
Pegasus Comfort Footwear New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0788 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com
Specialty Food Shops
Weddings
Edible Arrangements
HudsonValleyWeddings.com
900 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY 10 IBM Road Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY EdibleArrangements.com
120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWedding.com www.HudsonValleyBaby.com www.HudsonValleyBabies.com www.HudsonValleyChildren.com www.same-sexweddings.com www.hudsonvalleysame-sexweddings.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of weddingrelated professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or e-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.
Go-Go Pops 64 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 806-5600 www.Go-GoPops.com
Immortal Elixir Beverage Corporation www.gotcottonmouth.com info@gotcottonmouth.com
Stained Glass DC Studios
Hawk Meadow Montessori School
21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200 www.dcstudiosllc.com info@dcstudiosllc.com
488 Freedom Plains Road, LaGrange, NY (845) 223-3783 www.hawkmeadowmontessori.com
Hudson River Tattoo
Jode Millman
724 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-5182 www.hudsonrivertattoo.com hudsonrivertattoo@gmail.com Custom tattoo parlor with friendly cozy environment. 18 years experience as professional tattoo artist with wide range of skill in any style. Preference towards American traditional clean bold TATTOOS!
10 Circular Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-3282 jodem54@aol.com
Indian Mountain School 211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org admissions@indianmountain.org
Mount Saint Mary College 330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-3225 www.msmc.edu
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Tattoos
SkinFlower Tattoo Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-3166 www.skinflower.org
Tourism
Mountain Scout Survival School www.mtscoutsurvival.com mt.scoutsurvival@gmail.com
New York Military Academy
Hudson Cruises (518) 822-1014 www.hudsoncruises.com
78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org admissions@nyma.org New York Military Academy is an important part of America’s independent school heritage. Today, we offer a rigorous global curriculum for students who actively seek to be set apart for excellence in a structured program that enables them to enter college inspired, engaged, and ready for the future.
Town Tinker Tube Rental
Oakwood Friends School
Ulster Tutors
22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-4200 www.OakwoodFriends.org SummerCamp@OakwoodFriends.org
Orange-Ulster Boces (845) 781-6715 ext 2 www.uoboces.org
Randolph School Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org
Bridge Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5553 www.towntinker.com
ROOTS & WINGS / Rev Puja Thomson P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies puja@rootsnwings.com Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that uniquely expresses your commitment, whether you are blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic traditions, are forging your own or share a common heritage. Puja’s calm presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch. “Positive, professional, loving, focused and experienced.”
Wine & Liquor
Ulster County Tourism
In Good Taste
10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 340-3566 www.ulstertourism.info
45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net
Tutoring
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Mid-Hudson Valley, NY (845) 514-9927 www.UlsterTutors.com admin@ulstertutors.com. Private Tutoring & Mentoring Relationships: Standardized Test Prep - SAT/ACT/SSAT, Regents, HS/College Mathematics, Physics & Natural Sciences, English Reading/Writing, Music Theory and Instrumentation, Field Studies, Critical & Creative Intellectual Development. Competitive rates from highly skilled educators. Serving the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Learn Photoshop — Stephen Blauweiss Kingston, NY (845) 338-0331 www.ASKforArts.org
Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org
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Veterinary Care
SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts
Pissarro’s People Through October 2
Detail of Apple Harvest, 1888, by Camille Pissarro. Dallas Museum of Art, Munger Fund
A fresh look at one of the masters of French Impressionism
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Massachusetts 413 458 2303
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Ice Age to the
'LJLWDO $JH The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios on view June 11 through October 31
From sketch to screen, see the animazing art behind the movies, Ice Age, Robots, and Rio, oh my!
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Mass Exodus By Peter Aaron
The Mount, the estate of author edith wharton, in lenox, massachusetts, is open through october 31.
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uly’s Chronogram served up a rundown of some of the wealth of alluring activities and attractions to be found in Western Massachusetts. But that hand-picked sampling was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg; hence, this bonus compendium of a few of the many other fabulous Berkshires to-do’s that we didn’t quite have room for last time. August is the peak month to get out and enjoy the abundant wonders of this beautiful region, so make sure to visit some of the winning spots we’ve lined up below. If you’ve got your hiking shoes on, the Berkshire Hills boast some of the most spectacular nature locations on the East Coast. The Ashuwillticook Rail Trail, which runs through Lanesborough, Cheshire, and Adams, is a former railroad corridor converted into a 10-foot wide paved, universally accessible recreation path with outstanding views of the adjacent Hoosic Mountains. Middlefield has Glendale Falls, whose trails parallel one of the state’s highest waterfalls. And if you’d like to get those hiking shoes off the ground, check out Berkshire East Canopy Tours, in Charlemont, which has been named one of the top 10 zip lines in the US and includes two half-mile-long lines that soar 200 feet overhead. Nature inspired many of the famous literary figures who’ve lived in the Berkshires, and several of their historic homes are open to the public today. Foremost among these authors is Herman Melville, whose house in Pittsfield, dubbed Arrowhead, has stunning views of Mount Greylock—which, according to legend, reminded the novelist of a whale. The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Lenox estate, is a cultural and literary center that regularly hosts exhibits and events, in addition to tours of the majestic house and its grounds. Just across the state line in Austerlitz, NewYork, is Steeplechase, the picturesque retreat of poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay. The area has a wealth of museums, as well. Lee is home to the family-perfect Animagic Museum, which celebrates the dazzling world of film animation and special effects via work by local artists and interactive programs. The Clark, in Williamstown, opened in 1955 and is an intimate, worlds-class museum. Its current exhibits feature the works of French Impressionist Camille Pisarro, a survey of French and British Romantic landscape painters, and large sculptures by El Anatsui. Local to the Clark is the annual Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now in its 57th year, the acclaimed series finishes up this month with “She Stoops to Conquer” (through August 7), “Touch(ed)” (August 3-14), “Ten Cents a Dance” (August 11-28), and “You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce” (August 16-21). The Berkshire Fringe Festival (through August 15), held in Great Barrington on the campus of Simon’s Rock College and at other venues, is a 21-day festival of emerging voices in theater, dance, music, and film.
For another kind of fringe in Great Barrington, there’s Karen Allen-Fiber Arts, a shop opened by the Raiders of the Lost Ark actress to market her line of high-quality knitted garments. Rubiner’s Cheesemongers and Grocers, also in Great Barrington, offers a dizzying array of exotic and locally made cheeses, meats, pastas, coffees, and breads. Williamstown’s Wild Oats Market, a natural foods co-op that began in a church basement in 1975, is today a supermarketsized storefront with a bakery, salad bar, and takeout counter. Diners desiring a sumptuous sit-down meal enjoy organic eatery Nudel, in Lenox, a creative pasta bar that draws heavily on the bounty of Berkshire County farms and producers. Once Upon a Table is a charming, low-key bistro in Stockbridge beloved for its intimate atmosphere and fresh, local cuisine. North Adams’s Gramercy Bistro, on the grounds of the MassMOCA arts center, offers fine dining emphasizing local ingredients and exquisite custom cakes and desserts, while the same town’s Elf Parlor is a coffeehouse/hangout revered for cutting-edge live music. Time to rest? The historic Morgan House Inn, in Lee, has operated as an inn and casual restaurant since 1855 and played host to Ulysses S. Grant, Bernard Shaw, and Grover Cleveland. For ultra-elegant accommodations, Lenox has the Wheatleigh Hotel, a grand 1893 estate with 19 rooms, a restaurant, and spaces for special events. RESOURCES Ashuwillticook Rail Trail www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/asrt.htm Glendale Falls www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit/pioneer-valley/glendale-falls.html Berkshire East Canopy Tours www.berkshireeast.com Arrowhead www.mobydick.org The Mount www.edithwharton.org Steepletop www.millaysociety.org The Clark www.clarkart.edu Animagic Museum www.mambor.com/animagic/museum.htm Williamstown Theatre Festival www.wtfestival.org Berkshire Fringe www.berkshirefringe.org Karen Allen-Fiber Arts www.karenallen-fiberarts.com Rubiner’s Cheesemongers and Grocers www.rubiners.com Wild Oats Market www.wildoats.coop Nudel www.nudelrestaurant.com Once Upon a Table www.onceuponatablebistro.com Gramercy Bistro www.gramercybistro.com Morgan House Inn www.morganhouseinn.com Wheatleigh Hotel www.wheatleigh.com 8/11 ChronograM berkshire travel guide 95
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SIT AND BE HAPPY The Mood-Boosting Power of Meditation by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola
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n the late 1980s, Corinne Mol was a highly accomplished college student with a plum job editing the student newspaper. But she wasn’t happy. “I was overworked, overachieving, and overthinking,” says the 48-year-old Shady resident, who was also plagued by stress-induced insomnia and depression. Desperate for change, she signed up for a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat and hitchhiked seven hours to get there. Mol knew nothing about meditation but found herself in a silent, monklike immersion, waking at 4am and sitting for up to 10 hours a day. It was hard: Her back hurt and she craved movement. Yet, as the days passed, she felt calmer, learning to let her thoughts go and drop into the present moment. Mol took intense pleasure in the smallest things: food, nature, her own breath. She recalls with a laugh, “When it was over and we were able to break silence, the first thing I said was, ‘Wow, that was better than drugs.’” Science Says It Works Scientists have been studying the benefits of meditation for over 30 years, and the news only gets better. Herbert Benson pioneered the field in the 1970s, when he turned his attention to a group of Transcendental Meditation practitioners and found that the body responded to meditation with a drop in heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure, and metabolic rate—all antidotes to the body’s stress response. But new research goes further still, showing that meditation can actually change the shape of the brain and rewire it for the better. A recent review of 52 studies on people who practice mindfulness meditation found heightened activity in brain areas associated with attention and concentration. And in January of this year, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital reported that subjects who practiced mindfulness meditation for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had increases in gray-matter density in the hippocampus and other brain regions associated with memory, self-awareness, and empathy, and decreases in gray-matter density in the amygdala, the center of anxiety and stress. Yet all of this white-coat science pales next to the hands-on experience of dedicated meditators themselves, who will let you in on a secret: They have found a way to be happy. “People come to meditation because they don’t want to suffer anymore,” says Mol, who went on to attend several more retreats after college and eventually started to teach Taoist meditation alongside a complementary focus on Qi-Gong. For Mol, meditation was her respite from a mind that couldn’t turn off. Now she helps her clients develop inner resources so they don’t feel tossed around by the whims of their emotions and reactions. “The negative, critical inner voice loses its power, and the mind becomes gentler with itself and the world,” says Mol. “You learn how to be present with whatever happens, gaining spaciousness and a greater relaxation into life. It’s 96 whole living ChronograM 8/11
about self-acceptance: You wake up to who you really are, discovering that contentment and compassion are your natural state. Self-acceptance can then blossom into self-love and a love of life, however it arrives.” Sitting Styles The Beatles did it. Al Gore does it, and so does Richard Gere. Nearly every spiritual tradition from Buddhism to Judaism to Christianity offers some form of meditation somewhere in its doctrines or teachings. It was The Beatles who almost single-handedly imported Transcendental Meditation to the West after their famous 1968 trip to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in India. Based on ancient Vedic philosophy,Transcendental Meditation involves meditating on a mantra and bringing the attention back to this core phrase whenever the mind wanders. Mindfulness meditation—the subject of so many of recent studies—came into fashion in the 1990s thanks to Jon Kabat-Zinn, a medical doctor and student of Zen Buddhism who has made a life’s work out of integrating the two practices. You can credit Kabat-Zinn, author of two best-selling books, with making “mindfulness” a household word among the progressive set. The word suggests complete engagement with the present moment, which may seem elusive but becomes accessible through practice. Meditators begin with quiet sitting and a focus on the breath, and then move on to watch every thought as it comes and goes, whether it’s worry, fear, discomfort, hope, or bliss. When thoughts arise, they’re not suppressed or judged but simply noted and observed, and the breath is an ever-present anchor. Also rooted in Buddhism, Vipassana (or insight) meditation has quietly revolutionized the lives of practitioners since the time of Buddha. A Burmese teacher named S. N. Goenka has helped Vipassana spread in the West by opening a series of retreat centers, including one in the Berkshires, in Shelburne, Massachusetts. Retreats are free, including room and board; first-time retreaters are not even permitted to make a donation. The 10-day course is rigorous, with 10 hours a day of meditation that explores the connection between mind and body through attention to the breath and bodily sensations. “At first you feel the pains in your body more, but then you learn to relax around the pain and it lessens,” says Mol. “The mental pain of resisting it dissipates as well.You learn to stop resisting life—and life itself becomes less painful.” Choosing a Path You can do it on a zafu cushion or on a simple mat. You can do it in yoga’s pretzel-legged lotus pose, or you can prop yourself up in a straight-backed chair.You can do it in nature, walking, with a focus on your body in each slow step. Some meditations fill the imagination with vivid Technicolor dream-
scapes while others aim to leave it as blank as an empty film screen. There are meditations to satisfy the most sacred and the most secular of mindsets. Clark Strand—a Woodstock-based meditation teacher, former Zen Buddhist monk, and author of spiritual books—has studied in seven or eight traditions and has explored several meditation techniques within each one. He draws from this wealth of experience to help groups of students find their own personal practice. “I don’t teach or favor any single modality because each person is predisposed towards a certain kind of practice already, oftentimes without realizing it,” says Strand. “The last thing I want to do is introduce an element of conformity that makes certain people feel comfortable but alienates others.” Strand compares his teaching style to the 12-step movement, which favors a spiritual but not a religious approach. “I invite people to explore the possibility of having a practice in their lives. The only important thing is that they have one—and that it works for them.” Strand’s own practice has evolved over the years into what he calls Green Meditation, a deep meditation practiced for up to two hours at natural waking points in the middle of the night. Green Meditation grew out of his experience with insomnia and sleep fragmentation, which Strand chooses to redefine as “the hour of God”—an ideal time to practice. He meets with a meditation group every Thursday evening in Woodstock, and he’ll be leading a Green Meditation workshop and retreat October 2-7 at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck. “My goal is to help each person find a connection to the numinous or the spiritual, which is natural for everyone,” says Strand. Meditation or Medication Once you have a practice established, it can become a sanctuary—a place to work through whatever life brings. That’s how it is for Lisa Matkin, a nationally known yoga and meditation teacher based in Garrison and New York City. Matkin started meditating two decades ago after a bout of drug and alcohol addiction in her 20s. At the time, the tall blonde beauty was working as a model in New York City and also struggling with eating disorders. Through therapy Matkin was able to move past her addictions, but it was the meditation that really helped clear her food issues. “Eventually, I gave up my loathing of the physical body because meditation tapped me into my spiritual body,” says Matkin. “I found a love there for myself. I found wisdom, rather than using my intellect. I stopped feeling stupid, I stopped feeling ugly, I stopped feeling like I wasn’t enough. Through meditation you remember who you really are and what you came here to do, and that’s a beautiful thing.” Even when a meditation practice is going well, life happens and obstacles can come up. After the birth of her first child,Tatiana, over nine years ago, Mat-
kin developed severe postpartum depression. Her doctor suggested that she take medication, but Matkin said, “Wait. Let me try going deeper into my practice.” She chose meditation—along with daily yoga and a strong “wise women” support network—over antidepressants, but she knew she had to change the way she was approaching it. “There are two ways to go with meditation. I was using it to get out of my feelings, but I had to go in and face them,” says Matkin. After developing more intimacy with herself through practice, and also sharing the process with her support network, the layers of shame lifted—and so did the depression. “If I hadn’t had a practice already in place, I would never have gotten through it without drugs.” But meditation is not a cure-all. Matkin, who works with many addicts and trauma victims, cautions against tossing the prescriptions too fast. “If you need medication, take it. If you don’t have a meditation practice already, you’ll be putting too much pressure on it to heal yourself.Western medicine has its place. In the meantime, build your practice.You can wean yourself off meds, but that has to be done with an expert.These drugs are doing some pretty intense things to the brain. And so is the meditation.” Take a Seat To reap the healing fruits of meditation, it’s imperative to commit to a regular practice. Some begin by trying out a meditation group like Strand’s that meets locally. Others prefer the type of boot-camp immersion you find at the Vipassana centers, which help students build a mature, deep practice relatively quickly. Guided sessions are available as audio downloads online—including a Cleansing Meditation created by Matkin exclusively to accompany this article at www.chronogram.com. Matkin will also be teaching a Moving Meditations workshop that blends meditation, yoga, and pranayama (breath work) at The Matkin Yoga Garrison Studio on August 12 from 7 to 9:30pm. “Meditation is counterintuitive, right?” says Matkin. “I’ve got a ton of stuff that I’m worried about; I’ve got a million things to do. So I’m supposed to sit and do nothing?” She laughs. “Meditation is about learning to pause and listen. It’s a wonderful way to get past your willfulness—that ego-driven, fearful self—and to find your highest wisdom.” Corinne Mol (845) 679-5472 Clark Strand (845) 514-0037; clarkstrand@aol.com Lisa Matkin (917) 733-8779; www.matkinyoga.com A Cleansing Meditation created by Lisa Matkin exclusively for Chronogram readers is embedded with this article at www.chronogram.com. 8/11 ChronograM whole living 97
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
Taking the Attachment Parenting Challenge: A Week in Italy! Part 2
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ast month I wrote about how T and I had planned a mommy-and-daddy-only trip to Italy for our 10th wedding anniversary. Azalea was to stay with T’s parents, who love her like crazy and the feeling is mutual. She wouldn’t be left with a random babysitter who answered an ad like some people (from Michigan, named Bethany), and yet, we felt sad to be without her for a whole week, and, reading the cues she was putting out in her special fiveyear-old way—for instance, saying, Please don’t leave me—we were genuinely afraid we might be making a big mistake. Might we, in the words of attachmentparenting unschooler Naomi Aldort, create “marks for life” by inflicting upon her “even one premature experience” of being separated from me, her mom? (In keeping with the often biblically influenced tenor of attachment parenting advocates—psst: Dr. Sears and his wife Martha are born-again Christians—Ms. Aldort rarely mentions fathers.) Setting aside the fire-and-brimstone tone in describing what might happen if a child is unplugged from her “power source,” as Ms. Aldort refers to mothers, T and I had our own genuine concerns. But we went. And now we’re back! And I am happy to say, we all lived to tell about it. The first few minutes were excruciating for me. After saying good-bye, Azalea’s sad little kiss-blowing face burned in my mind, I cried. Wondered if we should be doing this. Too late! T said, rightly. So we went. To the airport, waiting in lines, sitting at the gate. (Alone….conversation, thoughts meandering….) Nine hours on the plane (Talking, reading, sleeping). Finding the train to Rome from the airport, then just getting on the train.Walking from Rome’s Termini station to our cute little room, which actually stayed really tidy. The first cappuccino we bought, the taste of that creamy foam in the little ceramic cup, no to-go containers anywhere! Famished, our first meal, a salad with corn, tuna, shredded carrots, romaine, mushrooms from a little fast-foodish place. Unbelievably delicious, fresh, fruity olive oil, balsamic, salt, and pepper. Did I miss Azalea and want her to try the light, oily focaccia, cut with scissors? To see all the fancy ladies in their high heels? To hear the sound of Italian, all those vowels, the song of such a juicy, relaxed place? Heck, yes. And did I miss her like mad? The entire time, actually. But it was also quite delightful to experience it all on my own, with T, simply, with so little confusion or interruption or explaining. Just two people in the world. Meanwhile, Azalea was being chauffeured to various beaches, restaurants, pools, and homes with a collection of her favorite admirers. We Skyped with her every day, around midnight Italy time (after our oh-so-civilized dinner). She always looked totally comfortable on her grandparents’ laps, fiddling with their bodies the way she does with mine. That hurt to see, but I knew it was a good sign. She often seemed a little distant, even wanting to go because they 98 whole living ChronograM 8/11
were on their way to someplace fun. I worried that she was mad at us, but I also figured that would be very natural, and that we would deal with it when we came back. It was pretty clear that she was not suffering in any terribly acute way. Even so, I fully expected, upon our return, a cold shoulder and/or a meltdown, at the very least, and a complete disruption of our family flow, at worst. However, none of the above has happened. We arrived back to Jean and Pop-Pop’s in the evening. She was just really happy to see us. She gave us big, relaxed hugs, told us all about everything, seemed happy as a clam. And then we all slept together, then drove home to our blue house in the Catskills the next morning. Driving up here, I kept waiting for the shoe to drop, but instead, she took a nap. We’ve been home for a week now. While I hope to never be as sure of anything as Ms. Aldort is about, apparently most things, I feel pretty clear that I am very glad we went. By ourselves. Ten years of marriage is a long time, and five years of marriage with a child in the mix feels even longer. T and I needed the time together to regroup, to have some conversations that just can’t happen as we’re dropping off to sleep or brushing our teeth or cooking or cleaning or hiking with our beloved Azalea. Or planning for the future, which includes our lives together as parents of this spectacular human being. I know that the attachment parenting folks mean well. And that “separation anxiety” is real. But from a Buddhist perspective, being on the same continent, in the same bed, strapped skin to skin with the power source 24/7 is no guarantee of intimacy. Separating is something we do in our minds and hearts, in the viscera of our internal organs, in the tiny hairs along our arms.We separate from our lives, from the people we love, and from ourselves because we think we can. And we suffer from the hell of that futile effort, and the confusion that ensues. Are there tried-and-true real-life methods that make small mammals develop into happy big ones? Like being close, and receiving lots and lots of loving attention? Of course. And maybe our leaving for a week is a larger, deeper rupture for Azaela than I think and I am just rationalizing my own wants over what is best for her. Anything’s possible. Including the notion that the activity of attaching is not necessarily the same as being intimate. Since we have come home, Azalea has expressed, again, very directly, her need to know that we are not leaving her again. When we have been in the house together, she’s called out, every few minutes, Mama?Where are you? And I answer, Here! In the kitchen! Clearly, she feels nervous, or hurt, probably pissed off. But starting yesterday, the routine changed. Instead of calling out for my whereabouts, she started calling out, again, every few minutes, Mama? I love you! And I answered, from the other side of the doorway, I love you, too. And boy, do I. And I am so glad she is asking a hundred times a day, so I can tell her everything she needs to know about my love for her.
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blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plaque and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.
(845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com.
CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.
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Kara Lukowski, CAS, PKS, E-RYT 243 Fair St, Kingston, NY 845-633-0278 www.karalukowski.com kara@karalukowski.com Kara Lukowski is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist who helps clients with disorders of digestion, weight, circulation, skin, reproduction, chronic fatigue, emotional instability and more. Offering one-on-one counseling with supportive guidance you will receive a personalized nutrition plan, lifestyle recommendations, custom organic herbal formulas, aromatherapy, yoga therapy and body therapies.
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Nancy is an intuitive healer, spiritual counselor and long time yoga teacher. Would you like to relieve stress, anxiety, fear, pain and increase your vitality, joy, balance and connect to one's True Self? Nancy guides one to release blocked or stuck energy that shows up as disease/illness/anxiety/discomfort/fear and supports one to open to greater self-acceptance, integration and wholeness.
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Hospitals Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-ofthe-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals. With the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley, other specialized programs include: The Family Birth Place, Wound Healing Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, Cardiology Services and Stroke Center.
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Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change your outlook. Gain control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
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Hands On Massage & Wellness, Inc. — Heather Kading, LMT, CIMI 258 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-6820 www.hands-on-massage.org handsonmassagewellness@yahoo.com Heather specializes in prenatal/postpartum massage. Recently having her first child, she understand what a woman experiences physically, mentally and emotionally when pregnant and/or caring for a newborn. Heather is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, so she can teach you how to bond with your new bundle of joy. She also teaches women how to prepare for the marathon of labor and how to lose their mummy tummies. Heather and the other therapist also specialize in pain & stress management and sports massage. Ask about our monthly massage memberships.
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Vassar Brothers Medical Center
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Jesse Scherer LMT New Paltz, Kingston and NYC (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com Jesse delivers sessions based on the clients individualized needs, addressing injury rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage. Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision, Jesse supports the body’s natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage. Some Insurances Accepted.
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(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.
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Optometrists Rhinebeck Eye Care 454 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (845) 828-0215, 6805 Route 9, Rhinebeck NY (845) 876-2222 www.drsmadiganandgibbons.com
Organizations Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc.
WOMAN OF THE STARS
38 East Market Street, 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-2626 rsvp.mhvs.org rsvp@mhvs.org, info@mhvs.org
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The Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. works to promote the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, educating the community about the benefits of a plant-based diet and showing how to change to a more healthful, crueltyfree lifestyle. Members and friends participate in talks, potlucks, a youth group, and other activities; and get discounts at participating stores and restaurants.
Egyptian Mystery Teachings August 28th, Kingston, NY
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Northern Dutchess Medical Building 91 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-TOES (8637) www.RhinebeckFootCare.com
Pilates Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semiprivate apparatus sessions available.
Psychics
(845) 679-5336
Private Counseling * Women’s Circles * Ministerial Studies with IONE
John L Zboinski DPM
Joan Apter
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Physicians
Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy D Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023 Offering therapy for individuals and couples, adults and adolescents. Insight-oriented approach with focus on understanding patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with life satisfaction and growth. Licensed psychologist with doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of post-doctoral training and certification in psychoanalytic work with adults, young adults, and adolescents. Located across the street from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, LCSW New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229
Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com
Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well
Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful
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Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP
Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Tsoknyi Rinpoche with Sharon Salzberg: Celebrating Compassion, September 16 – 22, and Gelek Rimpoche: The Healing Practice of the Medicine Buddha, October 7 – 10. Retreat Centers
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Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com
Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com 25 years experience providing individual and group psychotherapy and inter-modal expressive arts therapy. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and “Dreamfigures� a clay art therapy group for women.
Reflexology Soul 2 Sole Reflexology — Arlene Spool
Relief from Stress & Tension. Relaxing foot or hand massage, Raindrop Technique or Reiki Session; private Green healing space or yours! (‘Sole Traveler’). My clients report relief from stress, carpal tunnel, circulation, insomnia, toxins, radiation & chemo side effects + balance; more energy. Sessions start $32.
Residential Care Always There Home Care (845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org
Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com
Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
Giannetta Salon and Spa 1158 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 831-2421 www.gianettasalonandspa.com
Retreat Centers Blue Deer Center 1155 County Route 6, Margaretville, NY (845) 586-3225 www.bluedeer.org Established in 2005, Blue Deer Center is America’s leading shamanic retreat center providing intimate retreats of indigenous ancestral traditions from around the world. Upcoming programs include Plant Spirit MedicineSM trainings, traditional Huichol healing, Celtic, Sufi, Xhosa (South African) and Native American retreats. Discover your sacred song!
Peace Village (518) 589-5000 www.peace-village.org
Spiritual Flowing Spirit Healing
The Mother-Daughter Connection a parenting support group
A support group for women raising teenage daughters
Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings • New Paltz, NY Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW (845) 706-0229 for more information www.itsagirlthinginfo.com
33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com
Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com
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Team Northrup Contact Theresa Haney, 845-489-4745 www.teamnorthrupNYC.com theresahaney@teamnorthrup.com We are a league of entrepreneurial men and women from all over the world, who are aligned with the work of women’s wellness pioneer, world-renowned author, and one of the country’s most respected authorities on women’s health, Dr. Christiane Northrup. Team Northrup was founded in 2002 by Dr. Northrup, daughter Kate Northrup Moller and sister Penny Northrup Kirk. We are all independent associates with our product partner, USANA Health Sciences, which makes the highest quality supplements, skin-care and weight management products manufactured to pharmaceutical standards available. Dr. Northrup has used these products and has recommended them in her books and to her patients for the past sixteen years. As members we have an affiliation with the authors of The Healthy Home; Simple truths to protect your family from hidden household dangers by Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz, Vanguard Press, 2011.
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Yoga Society of New York — Ananda Ashram 13 Sapphire Road, Monroe, NY (845) 782-5575
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Jessica Lea Mayfield performs at the Belleayre Music Festival on August 27.
Black Cloud, Black Keys, Blue Skies One could say the Northeastern Ohio town of Kent and its larger neighbor, Akron, have been shrouded beneath a black cloud since May 4, 1970, the day four Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War were shot by National Guard troops. But if there’s been an upside to the tragedy, it’s that in the years since from underneath the pall has come some high-quality, dark-hued music. Starting with Devo (whose members were Kent State students at the time of the shootings), Human Switchboard, and the Bizarros, the Kent-Akron axis eventually gave us the Grammy-winning Black Keys. And now the region’s latest offering, Jessica Lea Mayfield, who will play the Belleayre Music Festival on August 27, arrives with her own brand of bittersweet rustbelt bleakness. Like the old-time ballads that inform her sound, the 21-year-old folk-rock singersongwriter’s Kent connections are complex and deeply layered. Born and raised in the town, Mayfield began performing at age eight with her family’s bluegrass band, One Way Rider, which toured in a 1956 bus previously used by the likes of Bill Monroe, Kitty Wells, and Ernest Tubb. When she was 11, her older brother showed her a few chords on the guitar and she started on her way down the songwriting road, initially drawing inspiration from radio rock, instead of the plaintive country folk she’s best known for. “As a kid, I went through this phase of rebelling and listening to rock bands,” Mayfield explains. “I loved the Foo Fighters. So I have this mixture of bluegrass and all different types of music. The manner in which I write my songs was really inspired by playing bluegrass music and playing bluegrass festivals. Sometimes you will hear a bluegrass song that’s upbeat in tempo but really sad in reality.”
Mayfield got her solo-performer start via open mikes and a Monday-night residency at a local pizza/gyro joint, and recorded her 2007 debut EP, White Lies (Chittlin’ Records), in her brother’s bedroom. Though only 100 copies were issued, one of them made its way to Black Keys front man Dan Auerbach. Riveted by the then-teenage Mayfield’s moving songs and wounded, world-weary voice, Auerbach immediately reached out to her via MySpace about producing a follow-up. So came 2008’s With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (Polymer Sounds), an achingly reflective set that also features the playing of Auerbach and Dr. Dog’s Scott McMicken and Frank McElroy. The release was named Best Album of the Year by Blurt, which also cited the singer as Best New Artist. Mayfield’s newest Polymer Sounds offering is Tell Me, again produced by Auerbach. The sound on Tell Me is wider and closer to rock than country, but, nonetheless, its richer, more atmospheric approach—all organ swells and reverb-guitar twang—fits the singer’s moody narratives like a pair of Roy Orbison Wayfarers. Even the Auerbach-penned, chugging, deceptively titled “Blue Skies Again” paints the kind of lonesome landscape Mayfield seems resigned to: “It’s not easy to pretend / I can see blue skies again.” Still, weather permitting, when she arrives Mayfield should have no trouble seeing the blue skies above Belleayre Mountain. Jessica Lea Mayfield will open for the Punch Brothers (featuring ex-Nickel Creek member Chris Thile) at the Belleayre Music Festival in Highmount on August 27 at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and $50. (800) 942-6904; www.belleayremusic.org. —Peter Aaron
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MONDAY 1 Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Music, Rhythm, & Movement 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $40, 30 min/$75, 60 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Learn to Meditate, Raja Yoga Meditation 6:30pm-7:30pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Women's Healing Circle 6:30pm-8pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218. Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Community Yoga 8pm. Designed for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed evening practice. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Classes Hunter Stone Carving Seminar Call for times. Through Saturday, August 6. Learn the ancient art of stone carving. Town of Hunter municipal ground on Rt 23A, Tannersville. (518) 989-6356. Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Music African Saabar Dance with Karim Bangoura 6pm-7pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Lo Faber and Aaron Maxwell 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Spoken Word Meeting of Dutchess Peace 7pm-8:30pm. Planning anti-war and anti-recruitment activities. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.
Theater The Erotics of Doubt 8pm. Berkshire Fringe Fest. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Workshops Workshops in Ukrainian Folk Arts Call for times. Folk singing for kids. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Objects & You: A Theater Workshop Through August 5. For 7-11 year olds, led by Concrete Temple Theater. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Preparing Your Child for Success in School: Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence 6pm-8pm. 4 weekly sessions though August 22. Mental Health America, Poughkeepsie. 473-2500 ext. 1309.
TUESDAY 2 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $40, 30 min/$75, 60 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Pounds Off Weight Loss Group 7pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Pilates Boot Camp 7:30pm. Strong fluid movement for a toned summer body. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks, $69/mother daughter, $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 6pm-8pm. $2. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Ulster County Fair 4pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
Ulster County Fair 10pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Unplugged Game Night 5pm-6:30pm. More than 2 dozen new and classic board and card games. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
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Ulster County Fair 10pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
3rd Annual Black Dirt Feast 6pm-9pm. 5-course al fresco meal. $95. Scheuermann Farms & Greenhouse, Warwick. 258-4221.
Film Leningrad Cowboys Go America 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Face 7pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Music
Our Man 8:45pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Die Liebe der Danae Call for times. Richard Strauss (1864-1949). $30/$60/ $70/$90. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Boys Boxing 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 7 and up. $15. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
2011 Festival of Contemporary Music Call for times. $11. Tanglewood, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-1600.
Music
Mother Fletcher 6pm-9pm. Bongo Roots. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. hudsonwatermusic.com.
Army 42nd Infantry Division Band Concert 5pm. Geo. Freer Park Beach, Kingston. infotech@hvc.rr.com. Greg Melnick 6pm. Flamenco guitarist. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Open Mike 7pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com. Women's Drum Circle 7pm-8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. 6 local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Little Feat 8pm. $65 reserved/$45. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Tanglewood on Parade 8:30pm. Boston Syphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Tanglewood, Lenox, MA. (413) 637-1600. Keith Pray's Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tess' Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.
The Outdoors Tuesday Evening Hudson River Paddle 6pm-8pm. Long Dock Beacon, Beacon. 473-4440.
Theater Hamlet 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Workshops Project Support & Conduit Artist Grant Workshops 6pm-8pm. Greene & Columbia County Councils on the Arts. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. gcca@greenearts.org.
WEDNESDAY 3 Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong 8:45am-9:30am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Pilates for Seniors 12pm. $12-$13. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Belly Flow with Perizad 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $115 series/$15 class/$90 series members/ $12 class members. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner. 255-0919. Zumba 6pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Zumba with Cat Schoch 5:30pm-6:30pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Dance Folkloric Latin Dance 4:30pm-5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events 2nd Annual LGBT Weekend OUT Call for times. Photography exhibit, music, theater, films, performances. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-0745.
Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Wii Wednesdays 5pm-6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Film
Return of the Pi Clowns 9:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Kids
Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers’ Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.
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Our Man 8pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Kids' Open Mike 7pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Grades 3-6. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Theater The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Workshops Action/Abstract Painting: Exploring Personal Expression 10am. Thursday, August 4, 4pm. $170/$150 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Cloggin Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Swing Dance Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
THURSDAY 4 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Private Astrological Readings 11:30am-6:30pm. $90, 60 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Yamuna Body Rolling Class 4:15pm-5:15pm. Stretch and massage muscles. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Pilates Fusion Mat Class 5:30pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Feeling Great No Matter What 6:30pm-8pm. Feel great, even when facing challenges and stressful situations. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting and conversation on excess and green living in the mind, body, spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation for Beginners 6:30pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771. Zumba Fitness Class 6:30pm. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Yin Yoga Class 6:45pm. Slow moving, floor poses held for 1-3 minutes to promote joint mobility and soft tissue oxygenation. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Adult Shekere Class for Beginner 7pm-8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. Clairvoyant channeling with Rev. Betsy Stang. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Events Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Musical performances, recitals, poetry. Check for specific events and times. Phoenicia. 586-3588. Margaretville Hospital Open House 10am-4pm. Tour the facility including new private patient rooms, emergency department, radiology, PT/OT, and others. Margaretville Hospital, Margaretville. 586-2631.
Kids Mad Science Machines 1pm. Ages 3-6. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Kids Djembe Class with Amadou Diallo 8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.
Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Francesca Tanksley 8pm-12pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com. Hope Debates 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Singer-songwriter Sarah Fimm 8pm. Spotlight on song series. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 679-2730 ext. 10. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds 8pm. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Eddie Fingerhut 9pm. Singer/songwriter followed by open mike. The Pivo Lounge, Catskill. (518) 943-1528. Setting Sun 9pm. Jazz. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Theater The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Bitter Sweet 8pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
Workshops Cloggin Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Swing Dance Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
FRIDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling 11:30am. $125, 90 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Feel Great No Matter What 6:30pm-8pm. It's possible to feel great even when facing challenges and stressful situations. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. New Moon Projective Dream Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Restorative Yoga Class 7pm. Unwind with simple floor postures that promote flexibility and well-being. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Zumba 7pm. $5. Roundout Valley Resort, Accord. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Basic Oil Painting 10am-1pm. $170/$150 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance Dancing Under the Stars 8pm. Music by Berkshire Bop Society. Lesson at 7:30pm. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
FREE PUBLIC EVENTS An Environmental Vision for the Future Friday, August 26 at 7 p.m.
Peter Kareiva, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, will talk about how to quantify nature’s assets and how to move conservation from a special interest to the people’s choice. A positive vision for a better future. Auditorium doors open at 6:30 p.m. Space is limited.
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Explore the Grand Canyon through science and music. This special event will feature insight from Cary Institute aquatic ecologist Emma Rosi-Marshall, original music by solo cellist Rhonda Rider, and a closing reception. Auditorium doors open at 6:30 p.m. Space is limited.
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AUGUST 2 Dear Lemon Lima Q &A w/ director Suzi Yoonessia 7:15 pm AUGUST 9 Bicycle Dreams, fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes Association $10/7pm AUGUST 13 Actors & Writers, Staged reading: Hard-Headed Women By Donation | 8:00 AUGUST 14 DANCE FILM SUNDAYS: Riverdance plus live performance from Solas An Lae, School of American Irish Dance $10/$5 students | 2 pm AUGUST 20 Redwing Blackbird Puppet Theater presents The Happy Prince $5 | 3 pm AUGUST 30 SHAKESPEARE IN CINEMA: Love’s Labour’s Lost , Globe Theater $6 | 5:30 PM JULY 31 CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING: Megamind $3 | 4 pm NIGHTLY FILMS INCLUDING: INCEDIES, X-MEN, THE TRIP, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 Please make a donation today! We need your help now to make our final payment for the purchase of the theater. www.rosendaletheatre.org 408 MAIN ST, ROS ENDALE, N Y 12472 | 845-658-8989
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Image Arts from the Perspective of Spiritual Reality Call for times. Conference. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. 822.1050 Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Musical performances, recitals, poetry. Check for specific events and times. Phoenicia. 586-3588. On Earth 'Tis a Heaven: Shaker Spiritual Life Tour 2pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Chatham Farmers’ Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/greenmarket.cfm. Friday Night Food for the Arts Barbecues 7pm. Artists share work with audience members in an intimate, informal setting. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893. 2011 Summer Brawl 9pm. Broads' Regional Arm Wrestling League to benefit Phillies Bridge Farm Project. $1-$100. Bridgewater Bar and Grill, Kingston. 340-4272. Ulster County Fair 10pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
Film Return of the Pi Clowns 3:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Our Man 7pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Face 8:45pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Music Steve Earle and the Dukes and Duchesses Call for times. Featuring Allison Moorer. $40. Ommegang Brewery, Cooperstown. (800) 544-1809. Americana Festival 5pm. Ommegang Brewery, Cooperstown. (800) 544-1809. Darrelle London, Bill Kelly, and Lyn Hardy 6:30pm-9pm. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-5306. Children's Concert 7pm. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Die Liebe der Danae 7pm. Richard Strauss (1864-1949). $30/$60/$70/$90. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Jonah Smith Band 7pm. Opening act: The Knox Sisters. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Reggae with DJ Ted-B 7:30pm. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Selena Gomez & The Scene 8pm. $19.95-$99.95. Museum at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring progressive folk rock duo Diviner and singer-songwriter-guitarist TJay. Followed by open mike. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. Ravi Coltrane Quartet 8pm. Jazz. $36. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 1344. Renee Rosnes Quartet 8pm. Jazz. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Bernstein Bard Trio 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Exactly Not 8:30pm. Rock. Frank Guido's Port of Call, Catskill. (518) 943-5088. Red Dirt Road 8:30pm. Bob Stump & The Blue Mountain Band. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Lia Ices 9pm. Experimental pop. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Trio 11 with Harvey Sorgen 9pm. Grand opening. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com. The Blues Dogs 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Readings by John Yau, Patricia Milder, and additional writers from The Brooklyn Rail 7pm. Followed by port and poetry. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Theater Godspell 8pm. $24/$22 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234.
Reflexology 10am-4pm. Treatment uses acupressure and massage, focusing on hands and feet. $45/45 min. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 11am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Around the World in 80 Days 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Chapter & Verses 8pm. A one-person show by Memrie Innerarity. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. Chortle Combat 8pm. The Mop & Bucket Co. improv. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theater, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Community Playback Theater 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Community Playback Theater, Highland. 691-4118. Dinner with Friends 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. Lays the groundwork for postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to this classical yoga practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Psychic Saturday 12pm-5pm. With Suzy Meszoly and Adam Bernstein. $30/20 minutes. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes
Film New Kingston Film Festival Music, food, independent films, meet the filmmakers. Presbyterian Church, New Kingston. www.newkingstonfilmfestival.com. Return of the Pi Clowns 3:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Face 7pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Our Man 8:45pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Music
Dance
John Keller 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
Kuumba African Dance and Drum 11am-1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. The Vanaver Caravan 8pm. Dance and world music. $25/$20 members/$10 students. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Young People's Concert: Elizabeth Mitchell and Family 11am. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Woodstock Concert on the Green 1pm-6pm. Billy Mitchell, Trummors, David Kraai & Amy Laber, Rat Boy Jr., The Bergkamp Brothers, Esquela, Kyle Esposito. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. 679-3224. 2011 International Jazz Festival 3pm-8pm. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Music Omi Concert of New Music 5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568. Terry Blaine, Mark Shane, & Matt Hoffman 6pm-7:30pm. St. John's Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252. Amernet String Quartet 6:30pm. With special guest artist Yehuda Hanani, cello. Music Mountain, Falls Village. (860) 824-7126. The Hui Cox/Nioka Workman Project 7:30pm. Jazz. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org. Mo Morgen 7:30pm. Jazz and blues. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340.
2011 Summer BRAWL The lovely but oh-so-tough-ladies of the Broad's Regional Arm Wrestling League (BRAWL) present a night of theatrics and competitive sport. See confident and sassy gals like Bunny Bruiser and Trixie TwoGuns tussle to support the Phillies Bridge Farm Project, a nonprofit, educational farm in New Paltz. Since 2009, BRAWL has raised over $10,000 for local nonprofits like Hope's Fund and Grace Smith Shelter. So bring your big bills to bet on these ass-kicking and inspiring women. August 5. 8pm. Bridgewater Grill, Kingston. www.hudsonvalleybrawl.com. Workshops Beginner Chess 10:30am-12pm. Ages 5-10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Cloggin Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 5:30pm-6:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Swing Dance Workshop with Vanaver Caravan 6:30pm-7:30pm. $15/$40 series of 3. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
SATURDAY 6 Art Summer Craft Fair Featuring Hudson Valley Etsy 11am-6pm. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348. Small Works: Anonymous! 3pm-7pm. Original 4x6 works. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-2189. New Paintings by Mike Jaroszko and Thomas Doyle 4pm-7pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Connecting with Nature 5pm-8pm. Melissa Fischer, watercolors. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Dancing Ground of the Sun 5pm-8pm. Paintings by Lynne Friedman. Storefront Gallery, Kingston. www.thestorefrontgallery.com. Passages 5pm-8pm. Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Through the Lens 5pm-8pm. Members' photography exhibition. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Skoler Gallery 6pm. New art gallery's grand opening. Ellenville. (646) 325-5527.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2am. Barefoot, smoke, drug, and alcohol free. $7/$3 teens and seniors. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. www.freestylefrolic.org. Gala Argentine Tango 8:30pm. Starting with a beginners lesson. Spiegeltent, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7412.
Events Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Musical performances, recitals, poetry. Check for specific events and times. Phoenicia. 586-3588. Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring Crafts on John Street. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. 5th Annual Batavia Kill Stream Festival 10am-4:30pm. Celebrating Catskills' streams through stewardship activities, educational, interactive displays, guided walks, music, and Arm of the Sea theater. Country Suite Bed and Breakfast, Ashland. (518) 589-6871. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Ann Street Market and Family Fun Day 11am-7pm. Flea market, arts & crafts and food vendors, live music, activities for the kids, and much more. Ann Street and Liberty Street, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext.110.
Bitter Sweet 3pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Anusara Yoga Class 9am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
Terrapin's New York State Craft BeerFest 2pm-8pm. $39/$35 in advance/$19 DD. Terrapin Catering, Staatsburg. 889-8831.
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Ulster County Fair 10pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
Zumba with Alicia Bailey 10:30am-11:30am. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
photo: Jonathan Hubschman www.makarion.com
Events
Premik Russell Tubbs 7:30pm. Jazz. Bean Runner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Reggae with DJ Ted-B 7:30pm. Bean Runner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Cuboricua Salsa Band 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Don Byron Ivey-Divey Trio 8pm. Jazz. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Jimmy Cobb's "So What Band" 8pm. The Music of Miles Davis: Celebrating 50 Years of King of Blues. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344. Joan Osborne 8pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546. The People's Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Ukrainian Soprano Sophia 8pm. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Cherish The Ladies 8:30pm. Celtic. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Eric Erickson 8:30pm. Acoustic. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. The Dylan Emmet Band 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Grey Horizon Band 9pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com. The Sundown Band 9:30pm. Southern rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
The Outdoors Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Spoken Word Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring Addison Goodson. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085. Reading and Discussion with Glenn Kreisberg 7pm. Editor of Lost Knowledge of the Ancients- A Grahan Hancock Reader. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Performance as Language with Aynsley Vandenbroucke and Jibade-Khalil Huffman 8pm. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Theater Godspell 8pm. $24/$22 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Disney's Aladdin by Kids on Stage 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Face 8pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
A Walk On The Moon 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Bitter Sweet 8pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Kids
Chapter & Verse 8pm. A one-person show by Memrie Innerarity. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. The Comedy of Errors 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $49. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Dinner with Friends 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234.
Workshops Novel Writing with Eileen Charbonneau 10am-5pm. $100. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
DROP TV Summer 2011 Production 10am-5pm. Learn the media production skills necessary to create and produce DROP TV, an award winning, globally-broadcasted show. Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480.
Chapter & Verse 5pm. A one-person show by Memrie Innerarity. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. Hamlet 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Bitter Sweet 7pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Music The Davis Heckendon Quartet 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Hot SummerTime Jazz Brunch with Elaine Rachlin 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. 2011 International Jazz Festival 1pm-7pm. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Colorado String Quartet 3pm. With special guest artist Melvin Chen. Music Mountain, Falls Village. (860) 824-7126. A Violinist's Compass 3pm. $75. info@berkshirebach.org. Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center. www.woodstocksbirds.org.
MONDAY 8 Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Community Yoga 8pm. Designed for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed evening practice. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Classes Life Drawing with Model 10am-1pm. $12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events Phoenicia Festival of the Voice Call for times. Musical performances, recitals, poetry. Check for specific events and times. Phoenicia. 586-3588. Tour of the Catskills Call for times. Weekend-long bike race. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
Spiegeltent Another season of cabaret, drag excesses, music, and circus acts wraps up at Bard College's Spiegeltent this month. “My criteria is sophisticated, fun with a wink,” says Dublin-based arts promoter, publicist, and Spiegelmaestro Nik Quaife. Tango night returns August 6 with dance demonstrations by world-renowned performers. London's Guardian says jazz singer and stand-up comic Lea Delaria, performing August 5, “talks like a coffee grinder, and sounds like a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and a Broadway diva.” The Fishtank Ensemble (pictured) bring gypsies to the stage on August 18. Spiegelclub offers a dance floor and late-night bar Friday and Saturday nights. Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays. $5-25. Through August 21. Bard College. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu/spiegeltent. CD Release Party: Heartstrings 4pm. Suzie Brown and Lizanne Knott . BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Franz Liszt and His World 4pm. Jon Nakamatsu, Piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Events
Melissa Frabotta 6pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Bird and Butterfly Garden Open House 12pm-2pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
AJ Roach 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $12/$10 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501.
All About Butterflies 2pm-3pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
Patti Rothberg 7:30pm. With Zoe Jobe. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
Film
Traditional Japanese Dance & Music Festival 1pm-9pm. Traditional regional dances and folk music, food vendors, and games. Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. 255-8811.
Opera Talk with James Bagwell 5pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Summer Hours/L’Heure d’été 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Theater
Kids
Living History Performance 1:30pm. $9/$7/$5. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
Godspell 3pm. $24/$22 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Attic Access Tour 2pm. From basements to attics, the All Access Tour offers the chance peek into the rarely seen areas of the Village. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Terra Firma Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.railroadplayhouse.wordpress.com.
Block Party Summer Arts Program for Children 9am-Friday, August 12, 3:30pm. Visual art, dance, and music for ages 7-12. $300. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Film New Kingston Film Festival Music, food, independent films, meet the filmmakers. Presbyterian Church, New Kingston. www.newkingstonfilmfestival.com.
Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 6pm-8pm. $2. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Rebecca Martin and Larry Grenedier Call for times. Jazz benefit for Kingston Cares, a program of Family of Woodstock. Stella May Gallery Theater, Kingston. 331-7955.
Spoken Word
Ulster County Fair 10pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. www.ulstercountyfair.com.
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Music
Face 8pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Classes
Boys Boxing 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 7 and up. $15. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Gallery Tour with Kevin Cook 2pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844.
Emotional Freedom Technique 1pm-3pm. $15/$10 in advance. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Pilates Boot Camp 7:30pm. Strong fluid movement for a toned summer body. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Kids
Art
CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.
Pounds Off Weight Loss Group 7pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Fiddler On the Roof 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
SUNDAY 7
Shivinanda Style Yoga 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Film
Clearing & Charging Your Energy Field 2pm-6pm. $55/$45. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Unplugged Game Night 5pm-6:30pm. More than 2 dozen new and classic board and card games. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Project Support & Conduit Artist Grant Workshops 10am-12pm. Greene & Columbia County Councils on the Arts. Columbia Council Council on the Arts Gallery, Hudson. gcca@greenearts.org.
Legacy Russell 2pm-5pm. Sommerkampf, Piermont. 398-0706.
TUESDAY 9 Art
The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 1pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. The Andrews Brothers 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Dinner with Friends 2pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Hair 2pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
Return of the Pi Clowns 3:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
First Looks: George Wolf Reily 3pm. Staged reading of a play. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Our Man 6pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Music African Saabar Dance with Karim Bangoura 6pm-7pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Wool & Grant 7pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Doug Yoel Trio 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Workshops Hudson Valley Fiction Writers Workshop 7pm. Join a community of writers to discuss and practice the craft of writing and to critique works in progress in. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. worldseats@aol.com. Woodstock Psychic Wisdom: Monthly Psychic Development Workshop 7pm-8:30pm. With medium Adam Bernstein. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dale Fisher 6pm. Acoustic. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Open Mike 7pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com. Women's Drum Circle 7pm-8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.
Workshops Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir, or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 each. Call for location. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 10 Art Brooklyn-Kingston Exchange Project 6pm-8pm. Curated by Meir Gal. Gallery One Eleven, Kingston. 514-2923.
Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong 8:45am-9:30am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Pilates for Seniors 12pm. $12-$13. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Belly Flow with Perizad 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $115 series/$15 class/$90 series members/$12 class members. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner. 255-0919. Zumba 6pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Medical Intuitive Connection 7pm-8:30pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Releasing Old Stuff: An EFT Meridian Tapping Workshop 7pm-9pm. Dr. Carol Robin. Interface Healing, Kingston. 657-7545. Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Zumba with Cat Schoch 5:30pm-6:30pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
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Dance
Film
Jodi Melnick's Fanfare 8:15pm. $24.50-$37.50. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Meditation Group 7pm. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Comic Tales of Tragic Heartbreak 9:30pm. Soul, jazz, r&b, cabaret. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
What Happened to Billy Viola? 8:45pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Zumba 7pm. $5. Rondout Valley Resort, Accord. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
Reddan Brothers Band 9:30pm. Rock. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
Kids
Classes
Theater
Time Capsule Closing Party 1pm. Make your own time capsule, music by Uncle Rock. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers’ Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com. Wii Wednesdays 5pm-6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Film La Cage aux Folles 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. What Happened to Billy Viola? 8pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Kids Djembe Class with Amadou Diallo 8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.
Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Basic Oil Painting 10am-1pm. $170/$150 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance
Kids
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Dancing Over the Hudson 5:30pm-8:30pm. The Vanaver Caravan Dance Company. Walkway Over the Hudson, Highland. 256-9300.
Kid's Poetry Corner 3:45pm-4:30pm. Phillip, Piper & Friends. Woodstock Farm Festival, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com.
Joe Gil and the Trio Of Terror 6:30pm. Newburgh Ferry Landing, Newburgh. www.newburghjazzseries.com.
Jodi Melnick's Fanfare 8:15pm. $24.50-$37.50. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29.
Music
Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Events
Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde 6pm-9pm. Yukari Roja. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. www.hudsonwatermusic.com.
Mojo Myles Mancuso Band 7pm. Opening act: Zumbi Zumbi. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
On Earth 'Tis a Heaven: Shaker Spiritual Life Tour 2pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Bob Cage and Jimmy Malthaner 8pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com.
Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Grades 3-6. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Hair 2pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
THURSDAY 11 Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice Musical artists echo through the Catskills at this second annual festival. Underneath the stars, Steven White directs Mozart's “Don Giovanni” at the park on August 6. Leading gospel and Broadway star Rozz Morehead returns by popular demand on August 4. The six hands of pianists Babette Hierholzer, Sylvia Buccelli, and Justin Kolb take flight on August 5 and 6. Celebrated soprano Lauren Flanigan joins emerging opera singers at the Voices of Distinction performance on August 5. The Power of Song concert and workshop will expose students on how to be active with socially conscious music; proceeds for the workshop go to the Clearwater Festival. Films like The Voice Teacher and lectures will run throughout the festival. Ralph and Ralph, Uncle Rock, and The Paper Planets will keep the kids entertained at this family-friendly festival. August 4 through 7. Phoenicia. (845) 586-3588; www.phoeniciavoicefest.com.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Rick Z, Karl Frizzell, and Margaret McGovern 7pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.
Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Francesca Tanksley 8pm-12pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com.
The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.
Connor Kennedy 9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Yamuna Body Rolling Class 4:15pm-5:15pm. Stretch and massage muscles. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Pilates Fusion Mat Class 5:30pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting and conversation on excess and green living in the mind, body, spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. It's Cool to be Kind 6:30pm-8pm. Learn the secret and the benefits of staying cool inside and out. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Spoken Word
What Happened to Billy Viola? 6pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Hamlet 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Dinner with Friends 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
Jodi Melnick's Fanfare 8:15pm. $24.50-$37.50. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29.
Berkshire Fringe's 7th Annual Gala Celebration 6pm. Featuring Propocalypse. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Theater
Yin Yoga Class 6:45pm. Slow moving, floor poses held for 1-3 minutes to promote joint mobility and soft tissue oxygenation. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Vanaver Caravan Dance Company 7pm. Choreographed by Dance Monks, Mirah, and Rodrigo. Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz. 256-9300.
Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/greenmarket.cfm.
Friday Night Food for the Arts Barbecues 7pm. Artists share work with audience members in an intimate, informal setting. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Bitter Sweet 8pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Dance
Chatham Farmers’ Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.
Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Joined in support of human rights for Palestinians and an end to the US's aggressive policies in the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.
Zumba Fitness Class 6:30pm. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Guided Meditation: Riding the Bliss 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
FRIDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit Anusara Yoga Class 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Film
Return of the Pi Clowns 7:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Eat Drink Man Woman 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Music Jazzstock Festival 8pm. Featuring John Abercrombie Quartet. $15. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Jean Sibelius: National Symbol, International Iconoclast 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. $30-$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Red Stick Ramblers 8pm. Traditional Cajun, western swing, blues, and old-school jazz. $20. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Doug Marcus Trio 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. The New Riders Of The Purple Sage 8:30pm. Classic rock. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Events
Kids & Parents Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
In The Pocket 9pm. Covers/dance music. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
WeMustBe 9pm. $10. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
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The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Chortle Combat 8pm. The Mop & Bucket Co. improv. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theater, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Live music through an allegorical work of mask and puppet theater. $5/$10/$25. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. www.armofthesea.org.
Bitter Sweet 3pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Art
As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Dinner with Friends 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
Theater
Goat Hill Poets 8pm. 7 poets offer group readings. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
American Heretic 5pm. Joe Raiola returns to Woodstock with his provocative comedy. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
The Comedy of Errors 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Spoken Word
The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Bitter Sweet 3pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Finding Elvis & Moonbite 8pm. Mindy Pfeffer and Ariana Johns present their new plays. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
Workshops Beginner Chess 10:30am-12pm. Ages 5-10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
SATURDAY 13 Art Ninth Annual Saugerties Art Tour 10am-6pm. Independent artists studios in the Town of Saugerties. Self-guided tour. www.saugertiesarttour.com. Perfectly Imperfect 6pm-9pm. Michael Gaydos, Works on Paper and Catherine Welshman, New Gouache Paintings. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.
Body / Mind / Spirit Anusara Yoga Class 9am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 11am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 12pm-1pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 12:15pm-1:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Chakra Garden Meditation By Eileen MacAvery Kane. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.
Classes Zumba with Alicia Bailey 10:30am-11:30am. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Cooking Class: Voluptuous Veggies 12pm-3pm. Learn 3 savory recipes. $30/$50 couple. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Dance Berkshire Dance Collective: Cultivating Community through Music and Dance 7:30pm-11pm. Guided warm up with featured artists followed by free-form dancing to DJ'd music. Sruti Berkshire Yoga Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 329-4933. Sleeping Beauty 7:30pm-9:15pm. Performed by Ajkun Ballet Theater. $19-$29. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Melinda Ring: X 8pm. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893. Jodi Melnick's Fanfare 8:15pm. $24.50-$37.50. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29.
Events Warrior Dash Call for times. 5 kilometer foot race over obstacles. Windham Mountain, Windham. (518) 734-4300. Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring Kids Can Cook Too and other kids activities. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. 6th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow 10am-7pm. $8/$5/children free. Mount Greylock, Lanesboro, MA. (413) 443-2481. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. The Wildcat Epic 100 10am. 2-day, 100-mile biking experience, with shorter ride options. www.wildcatepicevents.com. Butterfly Festival 11am-3pm. Butterfly tent, children's activities and crafts, food, demons. NYSDEC Stony Kill Environmental Education Center, Wappingers Falls. kimberly8edwards@gmail.com. Hillsdale Historic House Tour 11am-3pm. A look at 5 historic houses in a farming area of the town. $35. Call for location. www.hillsdaleny.com/housetour. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Mohegan Colony's 11th Annual Storytelling/ Music Festival Event 12:30pm-10:30pm. Workshop with Bob Reiser, storytellers, musical performances. $20/$15/$10. Historic Colony, Crompond. (914) 528-5830. A Revolutionary Camp at Night 7pm-9pm. Experience by candlelight the dramatic last days of the encampment at New Windsor. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.
Film Return of the Pi Clowns 7:30pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Screening Ras Cuba 8pm. Documentary in Spanish with English subtitles. Tas Kafe, Beacon. 522-1510. What Happened to Billy Viola? 8:45pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Music Dog on Fleas 11am. Children's music. $9/$7 children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Woodstock Concert on the Green 1pm-6pm. Marji Zintz, Don Sparks, Ian CHarles Steven Capozzola, E.G.O., Les Bicyclettes Blanches, Naked. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. 679-3224. Berlin and Vienna: The Artist as a Young Man 1:30pm. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. $35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Extreme Latin 2pm. Percussionist Samuel Torres, pianist Cristina Altamura, Lorenzo Di Bella. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070. The Whiskey Boys 6:30pm. Country. Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut. (860) 824-7126. Thunder Ridge 7pm. Summer Sunset Concert Series sponsored by Millbrook Arts Group. Thorne Building, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org. Winard Harper 7pm. Opening act: Sam Reider's Tres. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. John Street Jam 7:30pm. 8 local singer/songwriters. $5. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. johnstreetjam.net. Reggae with DJ Ted-B 7:30pm. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Annual Fundraising Concert 8pm. In memory of the 85th birthday of the institution's founder, Ihor Sonevytsky. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479. Clint Black 8pm. Country. $25-$76. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344.
Pianist Peter Serkin 8pm. Windham Chamber Music Festival. $25/$20 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 263-5165. Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.
Belleayre Mountain Rt. 28, Highmount, NY (800) 942-6904, ext. 1344 e-m: festival@catskill.net www.belleayremusic.org
Woodstock Guitar Festival 8pm. Featuring Johnny A. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. John Hall 8:30pm. With special guest Carolann Solebello. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Zach Deputy 9pm. Dance music. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Jon Cobert & the Guise 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Reality Check 10pm. Classic rock. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005. Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Blues. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.
Jul. 29 8pm
Belleayre Jazz Club
KJ Denhert
The Outdoors Garden Conservancy's Open Days Program 10am-4pm. Explore two private gardens. Hyland/Wente Garden, Millerton. www.opendaysprogram.org. Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Full Moon Hike 8pm-9pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.
Spoken Word Northeast Poetry Center's Distinguished Visiting Poet Kirpal Gordon Call for times. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 986-6165. Why Did He Fall Silent?: The Public and Private Sibelius 10am-12pm. Panel discussion. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Artist Talk: Gabriela Rangel on Bruce Nauman 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Book Signing with Victoria St. George 2pm-4pm. Author of the children's book Barnyard Bandits. Barner Books, New Paltz. 255-2635.
Jul. 30 8pm Aug. 5 8pm
Aug. 6 8pm
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring poets Donald Lev and Linda Lerner. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
Dance Salon 5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568. The Evolution of Film Editing From Early to Contemporary Cinema 7pm. Presented by filmmaker and editor Josh Apter. $10. Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487.
Theater Audition: The Diary of Anne Frank Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
American Heretic 5pm. Joe Raiola returns to Woodstock with his provocative comedy. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. The Andrews Brothers 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Dinner with Friends 8pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. Esopus Creek Puppet Suite 8pm. Live music through an allegorical work of mask and puppet theater. $5/$10/$25. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. www.armofthesea.org.
Kalevala: Myth and the Birth of a Nation 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. $30-$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Finding Elvis & Moonbite 8pm. Mindy Pfeffer and Ariana Johns present their new plays. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Pianist Bill Charlap 8pm. Jazz. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Hair 8pm. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.
Belleayre Jazz Club
Ravi Coltrane Quartet Music of Miles Davis — Jimmy Cobb’s “So What Band” Larris Willis, Vince Herring, Buster Williams, Javon Jackson & Eddie Henderson
Kirpal Gordon and his Speak-Spake-Spoke Jazz Band 4pm. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.
Bitter Sweet 3pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Global Noize
featuring:
Jester Jim 3pm. Sponsored by the Starr Library. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
First Looks: Mel Green 2pm. Staged reading of a play. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Belleayre Jazz Club
Aug. 13 8pm Aug. 20 8pm
Country Music Superstar
Clint Black
Pop & Country Hit-Maker
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Aug. 27 8pm
Punch Brothers
Sept. 3 8pm
Banjo Wizard/Original Band
with special guest
Jessica Lea Mayfield Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
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Hamlet 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $49. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Greg Westhoff's Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Workshops
To the Finland Station: Sibelius and Russia 5:30pm. Pre-concert talk at 5pm. $25-$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Community Yoga 8pm. Designed for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed evening practice. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Create a Mini Hobby Horse Family Craft Workshop 10:30am-12pm. Harness Racing Museum, Goshen. 294-6330. Communicating Compassionately with Yourself and Others: Creating Relationships and a World where Everyone's Needs Can Be Met 1pm-5pm. Inspired by non-violent communication and the work of Marshall Rosenberg; facilitated by Roberta Wall. $50-$100. Everybody's Yoga, LaGrangeville. 592-4110.
SUNDAY 14 Art 9th Annual Saugerties Art Tour 10am-6pm. Independent artists studios in the Town of Saugerties. Self-guided tour. www.saugertiesarttour.com.
Body / Mind / Spirit Shivinanda Style Yoga 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Full Moon Crystal Sound Healing 4pm-5pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Clannad's Moya Brennan 7:30pm. From Ireland. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Classes
John Hiatt and the Combo 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches concert series. $34.50/$44.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Steve Forbert 8pm. Rock. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Film
Spoken Word
Radio Days 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Presentation by Lisa Melville 3pm-5pm. Author of The Grace Muder Case. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Return of the Pi Clowns 8pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175.
Imaginary Girls 4pm. Nova Ren Suma. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Music
Theater Audition: The Diary of Anne Frank Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 1pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234.
African Saabar Dance with Karim Bangoura 6pm-7pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. The Chris Bergson Band 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Jodi Melnick's Fanfare 2:15pm. $24.50-$37.50. Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29. Southern Dance Party 8pm. Squares & Contras with Kathy Anderson calling, music by Jay, Molly, and Friends followed by Cajun dancing with The Red Stick Ramblers. $15. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
Events 6th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow 10am-6pm. $8/$5/children free. Mount Greylock, Lanesboro, MA. (413) 443-2481. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Attic Access Tour 2pm. From basements to attics, the All Access Tour offers the chance peek into the rarely seen areas of the Village. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org. Bethel Woods Music & Arts Festival 6:30pm. Featured are Tommy James & The Shondells, Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Family Stone with special guests. $15-$69. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Film What Happened to Billy Viola? 7pm. Berkshire Fringe. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Fanny and Alexander 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Kids Check Mates Chess Club 4:30pm. Ages 7-18. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
Music Professor Louie and the Cromatix Call for times. Opening: Evan & Lesley. Hill-Hold Farm Museum, Goshen. 674-5568. White Nights/Dark Mornings: Creativity, Depression, and Addiction 10am. $30. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Jazz with Perry Beekman 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Aurora Borealis: Nature and Music in Finland and Scandinavia 1:30pm. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. $35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Kids Boys Boxing 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 7 and up. $15. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Music Tony Penn 6pm. Acoustic folk rock. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Audition: The Diary of Anne Frank Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. 6 local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Theater
Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theater & Song Woodstock Fringe kicks off its ninth season with six plays and musical performances this summer. Ariana Johns and Mindy Pfeffer, the 2011 Woodstock Fringe Playwrights/Producers in residence, will premiere their one-act plays, “Finding Elvis” and “Moonbite.” Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine (pictured), present their latest stairical swipe at recieved pieities, “Too Small to Fail.” Obie Award winner Memrie Innerarity will have her world premiere of “Chapter & Verses,” telling stories from a Mississippi childhood. Plus, don't miss the free “First Looks” series of staged readings of new plays like Mel Green's “Marker.” General admission, $20; children 12 and under, $10; fringe pass, $75. Through August 21. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. (845) 810-0123; www.woodstockfringe.org.
TUESDAY 16
The Andrews Brothers 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Dinner with Friends 2pm. River Valley Rep. $30/$25 students and seniors/$22 groups. Nelly Goletti Theater, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. Bitter Sweet 3pm. Noel Coward (1899-1973). $55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. A Chorus Line 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Chapter & Verse 5pm. A one-person show by Memrie Innerarity. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Dance for a Variable Population Fitness Class 9:30am-10:30am. Naomi Goldberg. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. Group channeling with Margaret Doner. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Pounds Off Weight Loss Group 7pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Around the World in 80 Days 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Pilates Boot Camp 7:30pm. Strong fluid movement for a toned summer body. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
American Heretic 7pm. Joe Raiola returns to Woodstock with his provocative comedy. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Classes
MONDAY 15 Body / Mind / Spirit
5th Annual Hudson Jazz Concert 3pm. $10/$8 members/students free. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Justin Kolb, Piano 3pm. Beethoven, arr. Franz Liszt: Symphony No.5 in C Minor. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Dance for a Variable Population Fitness Class 9:30am-10:30am. Naomi Goldberg. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.woodstocksbirds.org.
Dance for a Variable Population Workshop 11am-12:30pm. Week-long, daily workshop Naomi Goldberg. $125/$100 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Amernet String Quartet with Justin Kolb, Piano 4pm. Beethoven, arr. Franz Liszt: Symphony No.5 in C Minor. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Zumba 6:30pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
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Flamenco 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Open Mike 7pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com.
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Dance
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story 6:30pm. Expert panel on the history of baseball moderated by Doug Grunther of WDST Radio Woodstock. Fundraiser for Temple Emanuel Brotherhood. $21/$18 in advance. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Theater
Classes Life Drawing with Model 10am-1pm. $12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Film
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 6pm-8pm. $2. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events
My Emperors New Clothes Call for times. Children's play by the Teen program. $6/$5 in advance. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Hamlet 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
WEDNESDAY 17 Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong 8:45am-9:30am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Dance for a Variable Population Fitness Class 9:30am-10:30am. Naomi Goldberg. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Pilates for Seniors 12pm. $12-$13. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Diabetes Support Group Meeting 4:30pm-5:30pm. Topic: Taking Control with Bob Braun. The Kingston Hospital Diabetes Education Center, Kingston. 334-4249. Belly Flow with Perizad 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Zumba 6pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $115 series/$15 class/$90 series members/$12 class members. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner. 255-0919. Group Full Moon Meditation for World Service 7pm. Lifebridge Sancturary, Rosendale. 338-6418. The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup 7pm-8:30pm. Psychic enrichment circle. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Zumba with Cat Schoch 5:30pm-6:30pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers’ Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com. Wii Wednesdays 5pm-6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Music Arborea 6pm-9pm. With Szelrozsa. Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Hudson. www.hudsonwatermusic.com.
Spoken Word Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Grades 3-6. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
THURSDAY 18
Blood Drive 9:30am-3:30pm. Kingston Hospital, Kingston. 334-2866.
Art
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Unplugged Game Night 5pm-6:30pm. More than 2 dozen new and classic board and card games. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
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Clockwise from left: Artifacts from the "Strange Kosmik Experience" exhibit at Bethel Woods: Concert poster for Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Shrine Auditorium, February 10, 1968; from the collection of David Swartz. Concert poster, The Doors at Whiskey a Go Go, 1967; from the collection of David Swartz. Drawing of Janis Joplin by R. Crumb; courtesy of Fantality Corporation.
Peace, Love, and Traffic Jams “How do you sell sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll to children?” As the director of the Museum at Bethel Woods—the site of the original Woodstock— Wade Lawrence needed an answer to his own million-dollar question. “We knew we’d have the baby boomers; we were worried about the young kids.” A test tour with high school students eased his mind. Instead of being detached and disinterested, a few of the teenagers wondered why Jimi Hendrix’s white guitar wasn’t present. Lawrence was shocked—he didn’t expect them to know who Hendrix was, let alone the iconic guitar he played at Woodstock. The answer to his question became clear: “You don’t [need to sell it]. It’s history. It’s our recent history, what we’re still living with today.” The 1960s, which were much more than tripping hippies and free love, sells itself. The museum’s newest exhibit, “Strange, Kozmic Experience,” was shipped from the West Coast’s GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live. Originally, the exhibit was going to travel to Manhattan, but Bob Santelli, director of the GRAMMY and a Bethel Woods consultant, decided it was better suited for the 1960s-centric museum. “We had the connections even before we opened, but I think any new museum has to establish themselves before they get street cred. The biggies are coming to us now—we don’t have to beg and plead.” While the GRAMMY provided all of the memorabilia, photographs, and recordings, Lawrence had free reign to design the exhibit how he wanted. “We stayed true to the original intent of the GRAMMY, but it definitely has our mark on it too.” Another reason to check out the exhibit? This is the first time it’s been anywhere but Los Angeles.
While the Museum at Bethel Woods primarily focuses on the societal impact of Woodstock and what it was like to be in the audience (“The mud, the rain, the traffic jams…”), “Strange, Kozmic Experience” focuses specifically on The Doors, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. The exhibit is a scavenger hunt of 1960s gems and rarities: The Doors’ Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY and Robby Krieger’s Les Paul guitar; a tiny, framed pen-and-ink drawing on acid blotter paper of Janis Joplin by cartoonist Robert Crumb and hand-written letters from the singer to her parents, apologizing for being out of touch and so busy lately; Hendrix’s lime green, surprisingly small polyester suit, complete with bell bottoms, a tie-dyed dress shirt, and his bolero vest—“You look at it and you know you’re looking at Jimi,” Lawrence says. Also on display are memorabilia from the artists’ blues influences, like Muddy Waters, Odetta, and B. B. King; archival footage and talk show interviews; and a section on the music festival culture of the ‘60s. “The music really was rooted in the blues,” Lawrence says. Showcased are B. B. King’s pink chrysanthemum-covered tuxedo coat, a Monterey Pop Festival poster, Life magazine’s special Woodstock edition, and a tattered T-shirt with a crooked Woodstock logo ironed on. Lawrence calls the shirt “high art on a low scale.” Since there wasn’t any official merchandise on sale during Woodstock, the shirt’s provenance is a minimystery. “Strange, Kozmic Experience” is on display at the Bethel Woods Museum in Bethel through October 30. Tickets are $15 for adults. (845) 583-2079; www.bethelwoodscenter.org. —Lindsay Pietroluongo 8/11 ChronograM forecast 113
Dance for a Variable Population Fitness Class 9:30am-10:30am. Naomi Goldberg. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Pilates Fusion Mat Class 5:30pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting and conversation on excess and green living in the mind, body, spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Strong Mind, Strong Heart 6:30pm-8pm. A strong mind leads to a healthy and loving heart. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Zumba Fitness Class 6:30pm. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Yin Yoga Class 6:45pm. Slow moving, floor poses held for 1-3 minutes to promote joint mobility and soft tissue oxygenation. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Kids Kids Djembe Class with Amadou Diallo 8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.
Music Warwick Valley Jazz Festival Check for specific locations and events. The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival, Warwick. www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com. Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
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Theater My Emperors New Clothes Call for times. Children's play by the Teen program. $6/$5 in advance. On the Wharf Theater, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. First Looks: Ric Siler and Jerry McGee 8pm. Staged reading of three plays. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Introductory Workshop for Dreamfigures, A Clay Therapy Group for Women 7pm-9pm. Led by Michelle Rhodes LCSW, Board Certified Art Therapist. Call for location. 255-8039.
FRIDAY 19
Events Design by Nature: Preserving Life's Essentials, Bread, Water, and Shelter Call for times. $275. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001. Architecture, Design, and Finnish Identity Symposium 10am-3pm. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. 758-7235. On Earth 'Tis a Heaven: Shaker Spiritual Life Tour 2pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/greenmarket.cfm. Chatham Farmers’ Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Community Fire 7pm. Free. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Friday Night Food for the Arts Barbecues 7pm. Artists share work with audience members in an intimate, informal setting. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Film Finnish Short Films 4:30pm. Part of the Bard Music Festival. Weis Cinema, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7087.
Music
Tom Freund & Friends 7pm. Opening act: Tanager. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. (845) 236-7970. The Nenad Bach Band 7:30pm. Classic rock. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Brother Joscephus and the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Nordic Purity, Aryan Fantasies, and Music 8pm. Pre-concert talk at 7:30pm. $25-$55. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Blue Food 9pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com. Dub Is A Weapon 9pm. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The GreyHounds 9pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Exactly Not 10pm. Classic rock. The Inn at Leeds, Leeds. (518) 943-9820. The Lifesize Gorgeous Cocktails 10pm. Rock. The Sunset House, Peekskill. (914) 734-4192.
Theater As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Body / Mind / Spirit
A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Plant Spirit Medicine Call for times. Workshops designed to listen to the wisdom of the plant spirits. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.
The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234.
Anusara Yoga Class 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
A Shot in the Dark 8pm. A comedy by Marcel Achar, murder mystery. $35/$25 seniors/$15 students. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070.
Dance for a Variable Population Fitness Class 9:30am-10:30am. Naomi Goldberg. $15. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Transformation with Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-8:30pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow healing. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Zumba 7pm. $5. Roundout Valley Resort, Accord. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
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SummerDance Solas an Lae. 54 Elizabeth Street, Red Hook. www.solasanlae.com.
Battlefield Band 6:30pm. From Scotland. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Workshops
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Dance
E.J. Strickland Quintet 7pm. Opening act: O'Farrill Brothers Band. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Dan Brothers Band 9pm. Blues, soul. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
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Warwick Valley Jazz Festival Check for specific locations and events. The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival, Warwick. www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com.
Jeffrey Gaines 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
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Annie & the Hedonists 6:30pm-8:30pm. Acoustic blues, jazz, swing, old time, and bluegrass. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Jason Crosby and Megan Palmer 8pm. Spotlight on song series. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 679-2730 ext. 10.
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Classes
Chortle Combat 8pm. The Mop & Bucket Co. improv. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theater, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. Finding Elvis & Moonbite 8pm. Mindy Pfeffer and Ariana Johns present their new plays. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. Hamlet 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org.
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The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
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The Zoo Story 8pm. Tangent Theater Company. $10. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.
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Art Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition Art and farm festival. Neversink Farm, Claryville. www.neversinkfarm.com/the_events.html.
The Galvanized Jazz Band 6:30pm. $30/$27 in advance/children free. Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut. (860) 824-7126.
aHa! Art Walk 11am-6pm. Shows and events at 7 galleries and studios. Housatonic, MA. www.housatonicartists.org.
Greg Osby 7pm. Opening act: The Chad McLoughlin Jazz Trio. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Luminous Landscapes 5pm-7pm. Jane Bloodgood-Abrams. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700.
Michelle LeBlanc Trio 7pm-10pm. Featuring the legendary Bill Crow on bass and piano great Hiroshi Yamasaki. Division Street Grill, Peekskill. (914) 739-6380.
Lynn Bianchi: Continuum 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. Beacon Artist Book 6pm-9pm. Book launch party and live music tapas. $8 for non-artists. 440-7208. Pre (History) 6pm-8pm. Maureen Cummins and Quinn CumminsLune. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. 7 New Exhibit Openings 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. New Works by Stephen Brook, Shira Toren, and Brooke Larsen 6pm-8pm. Hudson & Laight Gallery, Hudson, New Mexico. (518) 828-1700.
Plant Spirit Medicine Call for times. Workshops designed to listen to the wisdom of the plant spirits. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Aug 17–21
300 + free & ticketed events • schedule online
413.243.0745 • jacobspillow.org
Photos Lois Greenfield, Deen van Meer, and Steve Murez
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Stones of New Consciousness Connection 9:30am-9pm. With Robert Simmons, co-Author of "The Book of Stones." $111/$88 early reg. Crystal Connection, Wurtsboro. events@crystalconnectioncenter.com. Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz. 616-1219.
Jeff Allen Quartet 7:30pm. Jazz. $7. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Jim Palermo and Tom Hanford 7:30pm. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340. The Doc Marshalls 8pm. Cajun honky-tonk. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Heritage of Symbolism 8pm. Pre-concert talk: Anne-Marie Reynolds at 7pm. $30-$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Mary Chapin Carpenter 8pm. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344. Pete Santora and The Left Banke 8pm. Rock. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Uri Caine 8pm. Jazz. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Professor Louie & The Crowmatix 8:30pm. With special guest Chris Cassone. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Chris Smither 9pm. Folk. $25. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Helen Avakian 9pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Market Market, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 11am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
The Left Banke 9pm. $25. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. Lays the groundwork for postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to this classical yoga practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
The Outdoors
The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Classes
Kingston Paddle Pals 10am. Kayak between Kingston and Esopus Lighthouses. Sleightsburgh Park, Esopus. 331-0676.
Zumba with Alicia Bailey 10:30am-11:30am. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Dance
Theater
Dances for a Variable Population Performance 8pm. $25/$20 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Audition: Dracula Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Storytelling Series with Janet Carter. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. Hurley Corn Festival & Encampment of the Third Ulster County Militia 10am-4pm. Craft vendors, children's activities, demos, cooking contests. $3/children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Jornada del Muerto 6pm. Walking in this world fundraiser to benefit ASK. Featuring Joanna Munley, and special guests, in the multimedia musical performance Jornada del Muerto, inspired by the first atomic bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. $10. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Kids Zumba for Kids with Alicia Bailey 9:30am-10:30am. 6-week session. $72. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Music Warwick Valley Jazz Festival Call for times. Check for specific locations and events. The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival, Warwick. www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com.
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David Kraai & Amy Laber 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Finnish Modern 1:30pm. Pre-concert talk: Veijo Murtomäki at 1pm. $35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Body / Mind / Spirit
“ Two-plus months, more than 300 total dance-related events, companies traveling from all over the globe:
From the Nordic Folk 10am. Performance with commentary by Daniel Grimley. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Seussical, Jr. by Kids on Stage 11am. $9/$7 children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Finding Elvis & Moonbite 3pm. Mindy Pfeffer and Ariana Johns present their new plays. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. Around the World in 80 Days 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $49. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. A Shot in the Dark 8pm. A comedy by Marcel Achar, murder mystery. $35/$25 seniors/$15 students. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070. Tica Maroo Space Cadet: Is This the Beginning 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. $20. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. Too Small to Fail 8pm. Mikhail Horiwitz and Gilles Malkine perform. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123. Untitled Feminist Multimedia Technology Show 8pm. Young Jean Lee's Theater Company. $20. Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper. 688-9893.
Art aHa! Art Walk 11am-6pm. Shows and events at 7 galleries and studios. Housatonic, Housatonic, MA. www.housatonicartists.org.
Body / Mind / Spirit Plant Spirit Medicine Call for times. Workshops designed to listen to the wisdom of the plant spirits. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Shivinanda Style Yoga 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Meditation for World Peace 6:30pm-7:30pm. Peace Village Fair, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Dance West Coast Swing/California Mix Dance 5:30pm-8pm. Beginners' lesson 6:30-7;intermediate workshop: 5:30-6:30 (separate admission $12). $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. (914) 475-0803.
Events Pedal for the People: Ride to End Homelessness 8:30am. 25- and 50-mile bike rides sponsored by Family of Woodstock. $25. Family of Woodstock Inc., Woodstock. 331-7080 ext 152. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Rail Trail Ramble 1pm-6pm. Fundraiser for Track the Trestle. Music, BBQ, swimming, games, guided walk. $8-$25. Williams Lake, Rosendale. trackthetrestle.org. Attic Access Tour 2pm. From basements to attics, the All Access Tour offers the chance peek into the rarely seen areas of the Village. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Hay Fever 2pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org.
A Survey of Opera 2pm. Celebrating Italy's 150th anniversary of unification. $35/$25 seniors/$15 students. Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, Round Top. (518) 622-0070. The Zoo Story 3pm. Tangent Theater Company. $10. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.
The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Too Small to Fail 5pm. Mikhail Horiwitz and Gilles Malkine perform. Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song. Byrdcliffe Theatre, Woodstock. 810-0123.
Meeting Your Power Animal 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 22 Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Community Yoga 8pm. Designed for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed evening practice. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Classes
Commander Cody Call for times. Opening: Dan Brother Band. Hill-Hold Farm Museum, Goshen. 674-5568.
Music
Silence and Influence 4:30pm. Pre-concert talk: Christopher H. Gibbs at 3:30pm. $30-$75. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Robin O'Herin 6pm-8pm. Acoustic blues and gospel musician with a hint of Appalachian mountain music. Otis Town Hall Gazebo, Otis. (413) 269-7416. The Bobs 7:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Neil Sedaka 7:30pm. Featuring the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. $19-$79.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Spoken Word Sibelius and the 20th Century 10am-2pm. Panel disussion. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
Theater Audition: Dracula Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Life on the Home Front 9am. Learn about life on the home-front during the Civil War. James Vanderpoel House, Kinderhook. (518) 758-9265.
Concert for the Friends of Maverick 4pm. Zuill Bailey, cello, Navah Perlman, piano Brahms and Liszt: Music for Cello and Piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
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Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.woodstocksbirds.org.
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Workshops
Warwick Valley Jazz Festival Check for specific locations and events. The Warwick Valley Jazz Festival, Warwick. www.warwickvalleyjazzfest.com.
Nostalgia and the Challenge of Modernity 1:30pm. Pre-concert talk: Richard Wilson at 1pm. $30. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.
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A Chorus Line 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Music
Joe Tobin 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
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Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Jazz with Bernstein Bard Trio 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.
MUSIC AND HISTORY PLAY ON.
The Ladies Man 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
The Saints of Swing Call for times. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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Theater Audition: Dracula Call for times. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Pounds Off Weight Loss Group 7pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
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Pilates Boot Camp 7:30pm. Strong fluid movement for a toned summer body. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
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Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 6pm-8pm. $2. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Events Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.
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Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Pilates Fusion Mat Class 5:30pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Unplugged Game Night 5pm-6:30pm. More than 2 dozen new and classic board and card games. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting and conversation on excess and green living in the mind, body, spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Film
Today I Will Be My Authentic Self 6:30pm-8pm. Palenville Branch Library, Palenville. (518) 678-3357.
Anchors Aweigh 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Kids Boys Boxing 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 7 and up. $15. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Music Vito Petroccitto 6pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Open Mike 7pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com.
Zumba Fitness Class 6:30pm. $7. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Yin Yoga Class 6:45pm. Slow moving, floor poses held for 1-3 minutes to promote joint mobility and soft tissue oxygenation. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Workshops Angelic Channeling Practice Session 7pm-9pm. Channeling tune-up with Margaret Doner. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
FRIDAY 26 Body / Mind / Spirit Replenish Your Heart: Reconnecting to Divine Rhythm Call for times. Program to quiet your mind and reconnect with the rhythm of life. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Anusara Yoga Class 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Events
Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.
Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
Meditation Group 7pm. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Theater The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
“Hair” at the Woodstock Playhouse What better place to perform “Hair” than right in the heart of Woodstock? After being closed for 25 years, the Woodstock Playhouse reopened this summer with a season of musical revivals: “Anything Goes,” “A Chorus Line.” The hippie culture explodes with color and music for the Woodstock Playhouse's final show of the summer stock season, “Hair.” Sing along with the showstoppers “Aquarius,” “I Got Life,” and “Sodomy.” Kenny Francoeur, Tim Fuchs, and Casey Gill lead the show; Sidney Wright directs. Tickets, $32/$36/$40. August 4 through 13. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. (845) 679-6900; www.woodstockplayhouse.org.
Workshops Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir, or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 each. Call for location. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates for Seniors 12pm. $12-$13. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Belly Flow with Perizad 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $115 series/$15 class/$90 series members/$12 class members. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner. 255-0919. Zumba 6pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Zumba with Cat Schoch 5:30pm-6:30pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Events Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com. Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com. Wii Wednesdays 5pm-6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Music Lucky Peterson 7pm. Opening act: Doug Yoel. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Baseball Project 8pm. $30/$20 standing. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Open Mic Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess' Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.
Theater Around the World in 80 Days 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
THURSDAY 25 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.
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Kids Art Studio: Hudson Ecology 9:30am-11:30am. Ages 7-12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Zumba 7pm. $5. Roundout Valley Resort, Accord. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
Roy Book Binder 8pm. $20. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. Rhett Tyler Band 8:30pm. With special guest Ruby Hogg. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Taraf Taschengreifer Duo 8:30pm-11pm. Stylings of traditional Klezmer, Russian folk, Gypsy jazz. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Fat City 9pm. Blues. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700. Punch Brothers 9pm. String band. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Theater As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Chortle Combat 8pm. The Mop & Bucket Co. improv. $14/$6 students and seniors. Proctor's Theater, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204. English Language Premiere of Stringdberg's Mr. Bengt's Wife 8pm. Pre-play discussion at 7pm. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Zoo Story 8pm. Tangent Theater Company. $10. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.
SATURDAY 27 Art Anthony Krauss 4pm-7pm. Small works for larger installations. Thaddeus Kwiat Project, Saugerties. (917) 456-7496.
Body / Mind / Spirit Replenish Your Heart: Reconnecting to Divine Rhythm Call for times. Program to quiet your mind and reconnect with the rhythm of life. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Anusara Yoga Class 9am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic 10am-4:30pm. $60/45 min. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. jenniferlee1433@aol.com.
Classes
Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class 11am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Monarch Butterflies 10am-11am. Knee-High Naturalist Summer Program, ages 3-6. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan. (518) 392-5252 ext. 210.
Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.
Chakra & Yoga Balancing 2pm-4:30pm. Go into the meaning behind each chakra and learn a gentle yoga sequence. $35. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Kids Djembe Class with Amadou Diallo 8pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136.
Basic Oil Painting 10am-1pm. $170/$150 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Kirtan 7pm. Open to the divine through chant with Mandala band. $15. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
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Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Swing Dance to Girl Howdy Beginners' lesson: 8-8:30 (East Coast Swing), workshop: Texas Two Step with Bary Koffler 6:30-8, $15. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Zumba with Alicia Bailey 10:30am-11:30am. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Nailed Shutt and Free Shrimp Band. 6:30pm-8:30pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Three Of A Perfect Pair 8pm. Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, & Pat Mastelotto. $30/$25. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mike Miz & Billy Rogan 8pm. Acoustic. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Winter Wars 9pm. Indie. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Spoken Word Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. Joined in support of human rights for Palestinians and an end to the US's aggressive policies in the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.
Theater Hamlet 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Dancing Under the Stars 8pm. Music by Berkshire Bop Society. Lesson at 7:30pm. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. Friday Night Swing Dance 8pm-10:30pm. Berkshire Bop Society. Lesson at 7:30. $10/$8. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Events Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com. On Earth 'Tis a Heaven: Shaker Spiritual Life Tour 2pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Chatham Farmers’ Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner. org/greenmarket.cfm.
Music Bluestock Festival Music festival. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.bluestock.com. This Old Ghost 7:30pm. Folk, traditional. Bean Runner Café Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Events Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Healthy Eating Series with Tons of Tomatoes. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pakatakan Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. The 49th Annual Bazaar & Chicken BBQ 10am. BBQ at 3:30pm. $13 BBQ/$8 children BBQ. Church of the Ascension Parish Hall, West Park. 384-6723. Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com. Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
festival vanishing art
fred johnson
yuval ron
robert kelly
carolee schneemann pir zia inayat-khan
robin becker
george quasha
phong bui
david levi strauss
christopher bamford
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dorothea rockburne
Vanishing Art: An Intimate Festival of What May Be will take place at Abode of the Message in New Lebanon August 24-28.
Everything Vanishes “The artist is the archetype of the 21st century,” says Deepa Patel of the Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. Seven Pillars will sponsor “Vanishing Art: An Intimate Festival of What May Be” at the Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, August 24-28. The title comes from a series of “poetic actions” Peter Lamborn Wilson has conducted around the Hudson Valley: artworks that literally vanish after being created. In a cemetery in West Park, for example, Wilson erected a tombstone made of ice for Mary Cragin, one of the founders of the Oneida Community, the 19th-century free-love commune. (Cragin’s actual tombstone has disappeared.) This festival will also feature artists and poets: Robert Kelly, Carolee Schneemann, Dorothea Rockburne, Wendy Tremayne, Bisan Toron, Phong Bui, George Quasha, Charles Stein, and others. Each day of the gathering, Wilson will perform a work of “vanishing art,” one for each of the four alchemical elements: earth, air, fire, water. Wilson, Christopher Bamford, and Pir Zia Inayat-Khan invented “Green Hermeticism,” a philosophy combining the practice of alchemy with the ideals of environmentalism. Bamford, editor-in-chief of SteinerBooks, will begin the gathering with an introduction to art as a mystic practice. Much of the four-day event will be given to dance and music performances, poetry readings, and interviews with artists. There will also be “art contemplations,” led like meditations. “It’s a celebration of what is trying to come to birth through art,” Bamford notes. Carolee Schneemann, the eminent performance artist, has lived in a French Huguenot house outside New Paltz for 40 years. Built as a farmhouse in 1750, the structure has deeply influenced Schneemann’s art. “All my work comes from this house,” she says. Schneemann will recount “personal, elusive, paranormal events that have happened
here around the house and in the woods.” These stories illustrate her “personal iconography”—the higher meaning she creates from daily life. “Vanishing Art” will present a wide array of artists. Phong Bui is the influential publisher of the Brooklyn Rail, as well as a professor and installation artist. Poet Robert Kelly has been teaching at Bard College for 50 years and has published more than 50 books. Syrian-born Bisan Toron is a vocal improviser. Dorothea Rockburne is an abstract painter inspired by mathematics and astronomy. Wendy Tremayne is an activist and performance artist who invented the Swap-O-Rama-Rama, an anticonsumerist bazaar. “The act of art, the experience of art, is inherently a spiritual activity,” observes Jennifer Alia Wittman, executive director of Seven Pillars. “We are moving in the direction, we believe, of a return to art—not just what you would typically deem as art, but everything as art. We are all artists, if we want to be. We are all poets, if we want to be.” Most artists attempt to make works of eternal beauty, to be treasured by rich people with exquisite taste. “Vanishing art” questions these assumptions. “In a certain sense, all art vanishes,” Bamford notes. “Everything vanishes. Beauty vanishes.” But when art vanishes, what remains? The viewer remains, and so does the artist, but without a comforting object between them. “Vanishing art” attempts to save artworks from being swallowed up in the vast American entertainment industry. Part of the mission of “Vanishing Art” is to generate a manifesto—or antimanifesto, “because manifestos are a dime a dozen,” Bamford asserts—about the future goals of art. Vanishing Art: An Intimate Festival of What May Be will take place at Abode of the Message in New Lebanon, August 24-28. (518) 794-8777; www.sevenpillarshouse.org. —Sparrow
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An Evening at Twin Maple Farm 5pm. Enjoy champagne, cheese, gourmet dinner, and idyllic scenery. Experience an intimate performance by Esopus Musicalia. $125. Twin Maple Farm, Ghent. www.clctrust.org/twin-maple.
The Zoo Story 8pm. Tangent Theater Company. $10. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.
SUNDAY 28
Film The Thief of Bagdad 7:30pm. Outdoor film series. $5. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.
Kids 4th Annual Sleepover 6:30pm. Ages 6-11. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
Music John Esposito Trio Call for times. Jazz. Stella May Gallery Theater, Kingston. 331-7955. 2nd Annual Reggae-Soca Splash 6pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Mahler's Ghosts 6pm. Nancy Allen Lundy, soprano, Philip Cutlip, baritone, Babette Hierholzer, piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Gunsmoke 6:30pm. Country. Music Mountain, Falls Village, Connecticut. (860) 824-7126. Vinnie Bo & The Final Touch 7pm. Summer Sunset Concert Series sponsored by Millbrook Arts Group. Thorne Building, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org.
Art World Illuminations 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Jillian Brown; landscapes near and far illuminating a fresh world view. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.
Body / Mind / Spirit Replenish Your Heart: Reconnecting to Divine Rhythm Call for times. Program to quiet your mind and reconnect with the rhythm of life. $295. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Shivinanda Style Yoga 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Akashic Record Reveled 2pm-4pm. June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Robbie Fulks 7pm. $20. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143. Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana Duo 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Spoken Word Words Words Words 3pm. Conor Grennan, Mihai Grunfeld, and Susan Rogers. Maple Grove Restoration, Poughkeepsie. 471-9651.
Theater A Chorus Line 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Hay Fever 2pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org. The Ladies Man 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Zoo Story 3pm. Tangent Theater Company. $10. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org.
Badfinger 9pm. $40. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Creation 9pm. Covers. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005. Voodelic 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
The Outdoors Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Spoken Word Artist Talk: Andria Hickey on Louise Lawler 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Theater Air Pirates Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. Seussical, Jr. by Kids on Stage 11am. $9/$7 children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. To Fuel the Fire 3pm-7pm. Arm-of-the-Sea Theater. $15/$12 members/$5 children. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. Air Pirates Radio Theater 8pm. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. A Chorus Line 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Comedy of Errors Closing Night Party 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $60. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Bon-Odori Music & Dance Festival Ancient Japanese tradition comes to New Paltz with the first-ever Bon-Odori Music & Dance Festival: The Next Steps to World Peace. Obon, the Buddhist custom of remembering and reconnecting with deceased family members, is celebrated with an afternoon and evening full of dance, food, and culture. With a 360-degree stage in Hasbrouck Park, people will dance on and around the stage. The festival has martial arts demonstrations by Aikido of Kripplebush and others, as well as musical performances by Sara Milonovich & Daisycutter. Vendors include Earthgoods, Synergy Systems, falafel from Big Cheese, and Japanese noodles and sushi from Gomen-Kudasai. In addition to the food and dancing, the festival plans to promote safer and greener living as well as stopping nuclear actions. Free. August 7. Rain date, August 14. 1-9pm. New Paltz. (845) 255-8811; www.newyorkbudokai.net. Dance Dance Showing 2pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.
Hamlet 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $42 general admission/$35.70 for seniors and students/$29.40 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
Events
MONDAY 29
Dutchess County Fair 10am-10pm. Food, rides, vendors, agriculture. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.dutchessfair.com.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 10am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055.
Active Seniors Program 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Wine Festival 11am-4pm. $10/$5. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Living History Performance 1:30pm. $9/$7/$5. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172. Attic Access Tour 2pm. From basements to attics, the All Access Tour offers the chance peek into the rarely seen areas of the Village. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137. Guided Walking Tour 2pm. Old Main Street. $3/children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121. Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org.
New Moon Sound Healing 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Community Yoga 8pm. Designed for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed evening practice. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.
Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Workshops Individual Artist Grant Seminars 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. gcca@greenearts.org.
TUESDAY 30
Music
Art
Leon Redbone Call for times. Opening: King C and the Slippermen. Hill-Hold Farm Museum, Goshen. 674-5568.
Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Jazz with Blue Gardenia 11:30am-2:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.
Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org.
Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.woodstocksbirds.org.
The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Shanghai Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
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Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.woodstockultimate.org. Unplugged Game Night 5pm-6:30pm. More than 2 dozen new and classic board and card games. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells 8pm. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Kids
Open Mike 7pm. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. parkerharmonica@gmail.com.
Terry Champlin and Friends 8pm. Acoustic. $10/$6 seniors and children. Hyde Park Free Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
Peter Sando 8:30pm. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.
Kuumba Latin Fever 6pm-8pm. $2. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Stevie Nicks 8pm. $25/$165. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Kenny White 8:30pm. With special guest David Temple. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Dance
The Perry Beekman Trio 6pm. Jazz. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Singer Songwriter Robbie Fulks 8pm. Benefit for MaMa. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.
John Schrader Band 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. American Glory, Hudson. (518) 822-1234.
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Music
The Punch Brothers 8pm. With special guest Jessica Lea Mayfield. $25. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344.
Eric Erickson 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Classes
Boys Boxing 3:30pm-4:30pm. Ages 7 and up. $15. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Eric Harland, Julian Lage, & Taylor Eigsti 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Violinist Solomia Soroka and Pianist Arthur Greene 8pm. Grazhda Concert Hall, Jewett. (518) 989-6479.
Pilates Boot Camp 7:30pm. Strong fluid movement for a toned summer body. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
From the Archive: Discovering Elizabeth Bishop Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
Body / Mind / Spirit Pounds Off Weight Loss Group 7pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. 6 local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WEDNESDAY 31 Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates for Seniors 12pm. $12-$13. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Belly Flow with Perizad 5:30pm-6:30pm. $10. TRANSnDANCEnDRUM Center, Rosendale. 658-4136. Yoga at the Pavilion 6pm-7:15pm. $115 series/$15 class/$90 series members/$12 class members. Mohonk Preserve, Gardiner. 255-0919. Zumba 6pm. $10. MaMa, Stone Ridge. jenniferlee1433@aol.com. Message Circle: Delivering Messages from the Other Side 7pm-8:30pm. With Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.
Classes Zumba with Cat Schoch 5:30pm-6:30pm. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers’ Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.woodstockfarmfestival.com. Wii Wednesdays 5pm-6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
Film A Battle of the Sexes Call for times. A Falcon screening in cooperation with The Woodstock Film Festival. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Music Kristy Lee 8pm. Bluegrass with reggae instrumental jamming, classic rock, country, and even a capella segments. Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Theater The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $36 general admission/$30.60 for seniors and students/$25.20 for children 5-12. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575.
theater hay fever image provided From left to right: Jess Crandall, Audrey Rapoport, Robert Lloyd, John Gazzale will perform a site-specific version of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" in Woodstock this month.
Fever Pitch While there is no evidence that playwright Noel Coward ever ventured into the MidHudson Valley, he created the perfect farce about the Valley weekender. To be fair, Coward’s 1924 play “Hay Fever” was inspired by a friend from the London theater. But if you’ve ever watched your neighbors from Manhattan putter around the garden in $200 designer jeans or swan around the farmer’s market, you know the entertainment value of city folk in country environs. So did Coward; “Hay Fever” concerns the Bliss family, self-absorbed folk capable of transforming a mere breakfast into an Elizabethan tragedy. When each of the four members—Judith, David, Sorel, and Simon—invites a guest to their country home without telling the others, chaos predictably ensues. While the comedy was originally situated in Cookham, Berkshire, a new staging of “Hay Fever” transfers the action to the Mid-Hudson Valley, literally. Shauna Kanter, artistic director of the Manhattan-based VOICETheatre company, will stage what she calls “a comedy of bad manners” in her Bearsville home. Audience members will be placed on the perimeter of the action. When an actor exits the scene, he walks through a door, not through the wings. VOICETheatre is no stranger to site-specific productions. The company, assembled in 1988, launched its inaugural show in a warehouse in Paris. “After freezing our petuddies off,” said Kanter, the show transferred to the venerable New York venue La MaMa Experimental Theater Company. VOICETheatre has since performed contemporary and classic works in Germany, London, Scotland, Poland, the Middle East and throughout the United States. “Hay Fever” will play nine performances during a three-week period. The setting for the play is a 1945 house situated two miles from the center of Woodstock. Kanter has updated the setting of the 1920s story to the late 1950s.
“Because Woodstock has long been a place where people have come to escape the city and frolic,” said Kanter, who directs this show, “Hay Fever not only fits the environment of Woodstock but [also] the Bliss family, a family mostly made up of artists could easily live in Woodstock.” While the audience—the living room can accommodate 29—will stay seated, they will be able to follow the entirety of the action. Most scenes will occur in the living room, with some spilling into adjacent rooms and outside areas still visible to the theatergoers. “Hay Fever” features Robert Lloyd, a veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company who appeared in the groundbreaking “Marat/Sade” on Broadway; Joris Pieters, an international actor whose New York stage roles include “Jack Straw in Guantanamo”; Jessica Candall, whose recent roles include a staging at La MaMa E.T.C. and a reading at The Public Theater; award-winning Los Angeles actor-comedian Audrey Rapoport; Chicago actor Christa S. Trinler; indie film actor Adam Hardin; Barefoot Theatre Company member John Gazzale; and Kimberly Kay, a longtime stage and TV actor best known regionally for her stints on local radio. While blocking this show presents logistical challenges, neither Kanter nor her company found preparation overwhelming. “Site-specific work is a joy for the director and the actors—if all the elements in the site serve the play,” she said. Moreover, many of the cast are living in Kanter’s house during the engagement, allowing ample time to become acquainted with their hyper-realistic stage. Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever,” will be performed by VOICETheatre August 19 through September 4. Friday, Saturday at 8pm; Sunday at 2pm. Admission $20; seniors/students $17. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. Reservations: (845) 679-0154. www.voicetheatre.org —Jay Blotcher 8/11 ChronograM forecast 121
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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino
Space Shuttle Lands on Another World Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 21, 2011. This was the last Space Shuttle mission, ending a 30-year era of space history.
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hen the space shuttle Atlantis glided majestically through the early morning darkness and touched down at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, it landed on a different planet than the one Columbia first took off from in April 1981. Atlantis landed on a hotter, more crowded planet, one engulfed in economic and ideological crisis. Even if we could afford it, it’s doubtful the religion-obsessed, antiscience, antiprogress politicians who dominate our current moment could muster the vision to develop something so ambitious—which may be a good thing. We hail the shuttle mission as a technological achievement, yet Atlantis is an appropriate name for a spacecraft returning to a world that cannot handle the power or responsibility of its own technology. The last shuttle returned to Earth entering through a more radioactive atmosphere, with its air and oceans contaminated by a vast diversity of persistent toxins. It’s true that by 1981 the environmental situation was at a critical level, yet in three decades that crisis has grown exponentially. The number of chemicals being produced, and the amount, is unconscionable; the amount of plastic going into the oceans; the dumping of solvents into the oceans to break down the millions of gallons of crude oil that are spilled every year. Storms, extremes of temperature, melting ice caps, hurricanes, tornado supercells, earthquakes, and famines are more frequent, to the point where they now seem commonplace. In 1981, most people did not know what the word tsunami meant. They didn’t learn it studying for the spelling bee. Many municipal water supplies are contaminated by the mood-altering drugs used to quell what is in truth a mass-epidemic psychological crisis. In 1981, there were 500,000 people in prison in the US. Today, there are 2.5 million. The world population has not quite doubled in that same time, from 4.5 billion in 1981 to 6.75 billion today. There is less fresh water left, as water tables are pumped dry for irrigation and animal production. Hydrofracking now contaminates otherwise good water supplies in communities eager to profit from our energy-hungry world. Today’s cars still run on the same basic principle as the Model A—an explosion of carbon fuel inside a cylinder. In 1981, the national debt of the United States was about a trillion dollars; today, it’s $14 trillion. Much of that money has gone for military purposes. Since 1981 (just a few years after we pulled out of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), the United States 122 planet waves ChronograM 8/11
has fought in or been responsible for wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua, East Timor, Iraq, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq (again), and Libya. The world is still rigged with nuclear bombs. Since the fall of the Soviet empire, many have gone missing. There are hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste piling up with nowhere to go. The end of the 30-year shuttle mission marks a phase in the history of human space exploration, but it also marks a distinct phase in history overall. In the early 1980s, the Republican movement began its merger with the Christian movement, turning churches into political clubhouses and morphing the fundamentalist agenda with our supposed national priorities. That blend of agendas has resulted in the adoption of 80 state laws designed to restrict abortion rights in 2011 alone, all of which are based on religious ideology that amounts to a war on women. In the spring of 1981, when Columbia took off, US schools—under the direction of the Reagan administration, with help from the Heritage Foundation—began a program of abstinence-only indoctrination. This created generations of young people whose most dependable source of sex education is now pornography. The first articles about AIDS appeared in the New York Times in the spring of 1981. The number of people living with HIV increased every year until 2009. We are in a moment when we need the most enlightened leaders, with the broadest vision and sense of the future, yet we seem to have precisely the opposite: those driven by narrowness, fear, and ideological obsession. As I write, the United States is being backed against its debt limit by politicians who either don’t understand the concept of default, or who are too caught in their own apocalyptic visions to spare a rational thought for the safety of the world economy. While I am describing the world’s problems, which are really our problems, let’s add one more. During July, we in the United States finally caught wind of what was happening to the news media throughout the English-speaking world (and much of Europe and Asia). It was being metastasized by a company called News Corp, which subverted the primary mission of the press—to inform people—with a vast criminal enterprise funded and driven by a propaganda machine. Worse, it appears that Rupert Murdoch & Co. used the information they had to run a kind of blackmail operation that led many people to stay quiet about what they were really up to. Yet there are many layers of the issue that most people have yet to hear about, such as Murdoch’s role in building up the climate change denial movement. That Murdoch has fallen on hard times is some of the best news in these 30 years since Columbia first took off, a rare moment of transparency and an actual negative result of evil deeds
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befalling the one who was responsible. Yet the power vacuum that may be created by Murdoch’s fall is not automatically an improvement in our condition; two other things have to happen. The first is that many people have to take on an increased role in accumulating and distributing valid, relevant information. The second is that many more people have to be interested in hearing about it. World crisis puts people into crisis, which has a way of eating their time and energy and making us less available to participate in change. In the 1960s the youth that participated in the anti-war and environmental movements were not working three jobs. Today the affluent ones who might be available often find themselves being entertained to death. T. S. Eliot observed in 1936 that “human kind cannot bear very much reality,” though now we have more to bear than ever. Throughout history, most people have balked at exerting their influence on the greater scheme, and it doesn’t help that we’re consistently brainwashed to believe that having an influence is impossible. It would be far easier for people to have an influence were that actually our agenda. Even when we’re working three jobs, we find the time to do at least some of the things that are important to us. If we opened up to the necessities at hand, we might be motivated to do something about them. So while humanity has not been capable of dealing with very much reality—and Eliot was describing a very long span of time in that poem—it does not help when people are driven into psychological, emotional, and spiritual crisis that paralyzes them further. We are right to wonder how the people of the world are ever going to deal with the problems we face. Obviously we cannot leave it to our “leaders,” who in the United States are obsessed with collective death and wrapping the female body in barbed wire, and who in the UK are getting drunk with corrupt newspaper reporters, the police, and convicted private investigators. Because the global crisis depends on individual crisis as a power source, and as a way of blocking solutions, then it’s clear that working to heal ourselves is a crucial step in any wide-scale solution. If we as individuals don’t feel better, and less overwhelmed, then there’s no way we can take on the challenges of the world. If we’re so busy fighting ourselves, and obsessing over petty sins, and demanding that certain people not get to go to the doctor when they need to, we’re obviously not joining together to do something about the problems we perceive. Therefore, working on individual healing is a necessary prerequisite to planetary healing. That, however, can be a trap of its own. I have met many, many well-meaning people who do all kinds of things to make themselves “better” people who still cannot muster the willpower to take on something larger than their own life. I know many people obsessed with spirituality, yoga, taking ayahuasca, attending self-improvement workshops (and so on) but who rarely participate in anything more than that. This has always mystified me, but maybe I’m a little naïve. Self-indulgence presents a trap, and it’s often wrapped in the cloak of self-improvement. Participation takes time, energy, effort, and often requires personal resources. You don’t usually get an expense account working as an activist. You have to figure out how to get to the demonstration, or how to fund your project. On one significant level this is a question of one’s agenda. If you want to do something, usually you will figure out a way. If you have a goal that takes more than one person, it’s usually pretty easy to find others with the same goal—if you want to. And this brings us back to the purpose of civilization itself. The first cuneiform writing was not created to publish romances or News of the World. It was developed so that one generation could pass the instructions for growing crops down to the next. We created writing not for personal expression but to ensure collective survival. Next time you see a cookbook, remember that’s from the oldest genre of literature. What we seem to lack in our moment of history is the notion that there’s an intersection between individual needs and collective needs. If we put some of our individual energy into a collective pool, we’ll be able to accomplish more and take care of many more people. Here, we can divine something from the current political agenda of no taxes / no social safety net / no care for the future. This agenda defies the notion of civilization itself: that if we need to stand up to the elements, if we need to make buildings to stay warm and dry, we simply must recognize that collective necessities have everything in common with individual necessities. If we can get clear about that, we would understand that the reason we improve ourselves, and individuate, is specifically to expand into a collective experience. Most people don’t sit hour after hour and learn guitar chords merely for themselves or for the sake of doing it; eventually, you want to play music for others. So when you take yoga and journey into the underworld and do five-day workshop intensives or read books about growing whole, ask yourself why you’re doing it, and remember—there actually is a reason. Action is the fruit of knowledge. If we study the moment when the shuttle Atlantis landed on Earth for the last time, we can learn a lot. The thing we need to search for the most carefully is a central idea: the one that will tell us about our common interests. In terms of all the basics and many of the flourishes of life, we’re all in this together.
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We have yet to account for how individual emotional turmoil ripples into the world around us, affecting everyone and everything. One step in the evolution of humanity is each of us learning to handle our emotions. I have an old friend who believes that everyone—everyone—needs anger management training. The movement of Mars this month, through one of the most sensitive angles of your solar chart, suggests that you want to be a master of your emotions rather than a slave to them. In all sincerity, both are possible; the more probable of the two will depend on what you want. This is all about what you want, and by that I don’t mean a new surfboard—I mean your definition of happiness. Let’s start with your domestic life: What is your idea of a home that sustains you? What energy do you put out, and what do you take back in? What is it that makes you feel safe? Notice whether events that unfold this month are like or unlike what you want. Notice how you conduct yourself with others; notice what is motivating you as carefully as you can. While you’re observing, I will say this: There is little use for anger, except when expressed as a matter of fact, with the intention of awareness and healing. We all get angry. We have a lot to be angry about, and rage is driving most of the world’s biggest problems. Make sure you use the stuff constructively.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) I know that lots of political movements the past few decades have tried to claim pride as a good thing, as something healthy. In a sense it is, if you think of it as an alternative to shame. But I’m not sure that it is. Pride seems to be more of a form of insulation against the complexity of emotion. This would count for both the emotion of “proudness” and one’s pride being hurt. They’re really not that different. One of the strongest qualities of your astrology this month involves an investigation of emotions that seem loud and bold on the surface, but are in truth sublime and intricate on a deeper level. Yet to discover this, you will need to ask yourself certain questions, and be content, for a while, that you don’t have the answers. Part of having a strong mind is being able to live with mystery for a while. This thing we call the “ego” loves to rush in with an answer, before questioning much of anything, and your charts are rather packed with that right now. Yet just below the answer is a question. To get to there, you will need to follow your curiosity: for example, about why you feel a certain way, or why your reactions to certain people, events, and emotions are so strong. The questions may lead to more questions for a while. That’s a good sign. Be as patient as you can be under the extremely restless astrology of August. There is a beautiful moment when understanding will come.
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When seeking money, remember your ethics. When working for advancement in your career, remember your ethics. I say these things knowing we live in a world where the concept of ethics seems outmoded and even useless. I assure you, it’s not. Whatever the current trend in thought, no matter how popular, useful, and effective it may be to forego questions of authenticity or matters of right and wrong, there is such a thing as karma. We are all subject to it. I don’t think you’re an unethical person; rather, I see a spell of astrology where the ends might seem to justify the means. They do not. How you go about something, from the specific methods you use, to the motivation that drives you, is every bit as meaningful as what you accomplish. Indeed, the two are so closely related as to be the same thing: if you notice you’re being driven by some form of ambition, you might want to check your goal and make sure that it’s really something you want. For an extended phase of your life, you are being granted a mantle of power. You have an aura of authority, and that connotes responsibility. I suggest you live like your telephone is tapped and like you’re being followed around by a television crew. Live as if you are actually accountable for your actions. You are. You are also accountable for the constructive, creative, and sincere deeds to your credit, but on that particular theme, I suggest you let others do the talking.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You will need to watch your tendency toward what some call passive aggression during the next few weeks. There’s nothing passive about aggression in any form, but it can wear many disguises and have many motives. One motive would be insecurity. The planets this month are a setup for attempting to convert an extra-fiery temperament mixed with lack of confidence into conflict, which would be a purely self-destructive combination. The way to recast this into a creative equation is to be in contact with your desires, also with your sense of entitlement. They are two different things, though typically experienced as one. The first thing to do is sort them out. It’s absolutely vital that you be in touch with your desires; that you discover what you want. And it’s equally vital that you experience desire itself as a source of pleasure, without resorting to a sense of entitlement. Of its own, wanting is healthy—especially if you can find in your desire the authentic need to share and nourish others. Yet when you retreat into obsession with having, with achieving or with conquering, or with a drive for getting attention at any cost, that can turn negative fairly quickly. Therefore I would say, give what you want to receive. Get in contact with your deepest desires, and express them in a way that is generous and loving. Be especially kind to women; that means listening, in the first instance, and offering your support in gentle ways, with no strings attached.
Planet Waves Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) We all have those moments when an idea seems to manifest instantly into reality, and for many people they seem to be coming closer together. This is likely to be true for you during the next few weeks. We may not know how this process works, but it may be enough to say that thought is creative on many different levels. The first thing to do is to create a space within your mind and your emotions where you feel safe. You can give yourself reasons, or you can stretch into an inner spot that requires no particular rationales. Once you know you’re safe, then fear is a moot point. And from there, it’s possible to apply an abundance of newly liberated energy into creative ideas. I don’t just mean art; I mean ideas for creating the world around you that works for you and your family or loved ones. Every situation you encounter has a positive solution, and is an opportunity for expanding your consciousness. Notice how every one of those encounters is a passing phase, but the thing that remains consistent is you exploring the flow of existence. The world is full of threats; we all know this. And I don’t think there is a person walking the face of the planet who has not noticed how powerful love is, and I mean by the results they got at least once. Yet the mental balance between love and fear can be a delicate balance; we decide which way to go from thought to thought, and moment to moment.
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VIRGO (August 23-September 22) The human psyche seems to be arranged in layers. Those who have endeavored to address any significant personal issue have observed something like this. When you go into one layer and explore in a sincere way, you eventually come to another layer, and another. All healing processes work like this: the different attributes of a situation can be experienced as some form of physical, then emotional, then spiritual, which are arranged like the skins of an onion. The deeper we go, the more we can experience this elusive thing we call self-awareness. Mercury beginning its retrograde in your sign on August 2 will take you deeper into yourself than you’ve gone in a while. You will have the opportunity to go past the surface layer of your ideas about yourself, closer into the core material. You have an invitation to challenge every stereotype about Virgo, whether it’s true or not. When you journey toward your own core, past the busy, questioning layer of your mind, you experience something akin to pure heat. When you get to this layer, you might recognize that everything you were told about yourself as a kid was true but only so far. It would seem that your primary impulse is creative rather than service, expressive rather than passive, passionate rather than intellectual. As Mercury retrogrades into Leo through most of August, you will have access to that original core of your psyche—the vibrant, fearless child. While you’re there, light the fire of your adult mind. Don’t just remember what you learn; become that person you once were and in truth always were.
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The planets say that this is truly an extraordinary month for you on two accounts, which are closely related. One is an opportunity to be the vibrant socialite we know you are. Libra is one of the most laidback signs, but you’re turning into an honorary redhead with a shock of vibrant hair and an aura to match. The second is that you get to make some wishes with the actual prospect of them coming true. Perhaps wishes is a little too passive of a word, but “goals” is a little too business-like. What I mean is discovering in your heart what you want, feeling the pleasure of that and knowing that you’re creating it in that moment. Make contact with your most cherished desires. Most of those involve the pleasure of developing your talent and expressing your brilliance. You have the opportunity to let go of many negative messages from your past; indeed, to transcend nearly all of the typical childhood conditioning about being “less than,” or needing to tone it down so you would not threaten your early caregivers. By now you’re familiar with what some of those messages were and how they have influenced you. You’re also familiar with the potency in you that burns karma, turning it into creative fire. I often describe Libra as the human blow torch. If there was ever a moment when that was true, that would be now. Though I rarely give dates in my horoscopes, I’m looking at an amazing chart that says pay attention on August 16 and the few days surrounding it.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You’re embarking on an odyssey this month. This may involve actual travel to an exotic place that feels like your spiritual home, or the astrology may be referring to an emotional and spiritual journey into some extraordinary inner territory. A third possibility is that you’re taking a ride in a time machine that is giving you a hint what the next three to five years will be about. Whether one or more of these is true, or something else entirely, there are profound encounters in your chart that promise to stretch your capabilities, including your ability to relate to people. There is an element of mastery that will be required from you, however. You are in the zone where your desires directly influence and indeed have an impact on the spheres of others. Some people will be engaging and welcoming. Others will be less thrilled that you’re so confident in yourself. One vital lesson from what you experience is not taking the responses of others so personally. That said, if you notice (as objectively as you can) what those responses are, you will be able to determine your best, most creative points of contact. Another lesson is being bold enough to really, truly understand in your heart and soul that you are loved. This is not something to take advantage of, in the negative sense, but rather to remember, and feel, and work with in the most creative ways you can. People can see you for who you are, at the same time you’re able to bring forth the best of who you are.
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Someone needs to point out how much energy is consumed when we have to deal with the insecurity of others. Even if you only count the direct results of those who make every move based on their lack of confidence in themselves, that’s a lot of energy. Then there are people who build empires based on their lack of faith in themselves, who become petty tyrants, who spend their lives judging others, and far worse. You may need a strategy for such people this month, and the first element in that plan would be recognizing the phenomenon when you see it. The first sign is when you notice difficulty—in any communication process, in negotiations, in the flow of events. This may not be mere circumstance, and though you may not be experiencing intentional acts of disruption, check this factor of insecurity in those you’re addressing. Once you’ve figured out that someone is coming from a weak place and therefore overcompensating by being disruptive or exerting unnecessary authority, the key is to not get caught up in it. At the worst, the phase will pass, as long as you don’t complicate the issue in any way. For the most part, you can feel confident going about your business on the policy that you don’t need permission from others to live your life. You may think you’re pretty good at that one and usually you are, but not always. So this month, you will get to master a new level of the game of independence and freedom.
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I read recently that Ray Bradbury wrote the original draft of Fahrenheit 451 on public typewriters that cost a dime for every half hour. He didn’t have a lot of money and had to work swiftly, even a bit furiously. He invested a little over $9 in dimes to write the original 25,000-word manuscript. The result became one of the most enduring works of 20th-century science fiction. Your astrology has this feeling to it this month. You seem to be in line for some kind of creative or professional project that you do under adverse conditions but which benefit from the challenges and the pressure. These situations are not always comfortable at the time; there are some deadline junkies who love those conditions, and I don’t think there’s anyone who hasn’t noticed that constraints around time, space, or resources can have a positive effect on the outcome. Therefore, I suggest you not complain about the demands of whatever you have to do or how much time you have, or be especially fretful if things don’t work out as planned. Rather, apply yourself to the goal and, more importantly, to the process, and get to work. Count on extending your talent right out to the edge of whatever boundary you’re in. Stay close to your purpose and remember, a committee of one gets things done. One other point: Mercury is retrograde (or close to it) just about clear through August. That suggests that you will need to think differently, think your way, and count on the odd chance.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) It’s time to make peace with the truth, as you’ve established it over a long time, about whether your family is a help or a hindrance. Working as an astrologer for as long as I have, I’ve heard many stories of people and their relationships to their families. There seem to be three basic configurations. One involves those who are unconscious of their situation, and who are often under the thrall of the expectations of their parents, no matter how old they are. Another involves people who have made what’s sometimes known as “the break” and have declared their independence in a way that is both physical and energetic. Another common pattern is people who are outcast by their families, which can be devastating or is considered well and good enough because they have nothing in common with them. I suggest you evaluate your situation, and acknowledge what you want. I don’t mean what you want that would please someone else. I don’t mean what would require you to compromise any important personal value. I mean what you know would work for you. It’s true that you may need to transcend guilt and a sense of obligation. It’s possible that you will find yourself in the position of starting over. It’s a beautiful thing that in the current version of Western society, we distinguish the concepts family of origin and family of choice. The truth is, you choose in either case. Choose on the basis of what is truly right for you.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) You have a lot of pent-up energy: Your charts suggest you’re like a battery of sexual energy in particular. That also means creative energy, which is the basic life force that fuels all of existence. Consider for a moment what a stretch it is for many people to relate that which is creative and that which is erotic. Perhaps the confusion arises from the many ways in which our culture denatures the creative process in total, buries it in deception and tends to choke off the curiosity that leads directly to expression in every form. Curiosity, too, is a vital factor that often has to be explained. If you would allow yourself to be absolutely curious, about anything you liked, well, where exactly would you go with it? Anyway, at the moment you have a lot of energy, and it’s sitting in a kind of a container. You could view that as repressed, or you could view that as saved up for just the right moment. Indeed, a diversity of such moments are on their way. The question I suggest you work with involves how you release your energy. One big explosion is obviously not a healthy option. I suggest you look for situations that feel appropriate, constructive, and healthy. You obviously have patience and the ability to stay self-contained, so use that to your advantage. You also want the right connection. That’s likely to feel like the intersection of curiosity and a place where you feel yourself open up with no effort. You arrive, you start to unfold, you crave the unknown. 126 planet waves ChronograM 8/11
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