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news and politics

HOLIDAY gift guide

18 while you were sleeping

66 inspired gift ideas for the season

Student loan debt hits new highs, dispoable diaper recycling, and more.

19 beinhart’s body politic Larry Beinhart on how to profit in today's economic environment.

20 the house: grimm's fairy tale At home with Woodstock artist Calvin Grimm in his handmade house.

25 the garden: stretching the greens

Michelle Sutton explains how to grow salad eight months of the year.

28 the craft: Sourcing stone. By Greg Schoenfeld.

30 the question: What to do about basement flooding? By Greg Schoenfeld.

86 a compendium of providers to help you reach your wellness goals.

whole living guide 90 in search of sleep

32 warwick: warmhearted & pretty wonderful Fifty-five miles north of Manhattan, Warwick is a perfect home to commute from.

But with such beautiful scenery and so much to do, you'd never wnat to leave.

60 rondout valley: a brilliant patchwork

Wendy Kagan finds fresh perspectives for a culture that can't wind down.

Take a trip down the road most travelled from Kingston to Ellenville.

Bethany Saltman reminds us that real healing requires facing personal demons.

Community Resource Guide 78 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

82 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

93 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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92 flowers fall: minding our business

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72 planning a festive fete Lindsay Pietroluongo talks with party mavens for dos and don'ts for the big party.

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The four programs will consist of various combinations of the following dances: Duets, Merce Cunningham Sinatra Suite, Twyla Tharp The Garden of Villandry, Martha Clarke, Robert Barnett, Felix Blaska In the Upper Room, Twyla Tharp Known by Heart (“Junk”) Duet, Twyla Tharp New Ballet (world premiere), Demis Volpi Black Tuesday, Paul Taylor

Sosnoff Theater November 4–6, 2011 $55, 45, 35, 25

These performances have been underwritten by the Martin and Toni Sosnoff Foundation.

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120 parting shot Celestial Chord, a painting by Dana Wigdor.

46 portfolio: O+ Festival Paste-ups

A selection of guerilla art from the recent O+ Festival in Kingston.

Photos by Roy Gumpel.

48 Gallery & museum GUIDe 50 music Peter Aaron profiles protean singer/songwriter Sean Rowe.

52 nightlife highlights Ray Davies, Randi Russo, Rock 'n Roll Resort, Alash Ensemble, and more.

53 cd reviews Cheryl K. Symister-Masternson reviews Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

by David Rothenberg and Lewis Porter.

Robert Burke Warren reviews Wall Street Odyssey by Epigene.

Mike Eck reviews Missing by Richie Stearns.

54 books Poet and translator Jeffrey Yang takes Nina Shengold to his Tower of Babel.

56 book reviews A round-up of recent poetry releases by Hudson Valley poets.

Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews The Beginners by Rebecca Wolff.

58 Poetry

74 home shanti

Madhur Jaffrey talks to Peter Barrett at her Columbia County home.

77 FOOD & DRINK EVENTS FOR NOVEMBER

Terrapin Italian Wine Dinner, Benefit Dinner for RSK Farm, Iron Grad, and more.

the forecast 104 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 99 "Linking Connections, Building Connections" exhibit at the Dorsky Museum.

100 The Crystal Method plays an intimate show at Orient Lounge in Poughkeepsie.

103 The Feelies' reunion tour stops at Mass MoCA in North Adams.

104 Hudson Valley Orchidfest blooms in Chester on November 19.

105 Half Moon Theatre stages Mark Twain's "Is He Dead?" at Cunneen-Hackett.

106 The County Players go calypso in "Once Upon This Island."

113 Howard Fishman plays an eclectic "chef's choice" gig at The Falcon.

planet waves 114

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notes from #occupy Eric Francis Coppolino finds something precious at the Times Square Rally. horoscopes What do the stars have in store for us this month? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.

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Poems by Robert Calero, Ana Dooley, Deirdre Dowling, E Gironda, Jr., Roberta Gould, Robert Hurst, Kelly Lee, Hugh Mann, Checko Miller, Deb Shufelt, Jenna St. Pierre, Maryann Stafford, J. M. Toth. Edited by Phillip Levine.

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Red, White, and Blue El Camino tracy stuckey | oil on canvas | 60" x 54" | 2010 Tracy Stuckey’s monumental Red, White, and Blue El Camino captures the grandeur, commercial blight, and touristic culture of the Far West, a clashing matrix of elements that simultaneously celebrate, denigrate, and sentimentalize one of America’s seminal sources of mythology.Two women, one wearing garish Western garb, the other sporting a bikini—a kind of stateside archetypal fantasy figure herself—photograph a salesman in an Sioux headdress sitting cross-legged on his used-car lot. A red El Camino—one of many car models with a name evocative of the Old West—is parked beneath the lot’s fluttering red plastic flags, which frame a view of the desert and distant mountain range as grand as any in a classic Western, except for the contemporary city sprawled along the base.The light falls pitilessly on the concrete lot, casting the figures, with their dark, dwarfed shadows, into dramatic relief; it has the soulless cast of a florescent fixture, such as would illuminate a carpet store. The vague hammerhead shape rising over the cloud mass in the distance portends a possible storm. The car lot looks makeshift and provisional in the vast landscape, and the figures seem irreverent in their costumes of leisure, which satirize the rigors of the frontier, therefore strangely vulnerable. Despite the composition’s bright colors and the narrative’s inanity, there’s a sense of unease; somehow, the landscape retains its dignity, and one senses it’s not to be messed with.

Stuckey, a native of Florida, now lives in West Virginia, where he and his wife both teach art at West Virginia University. Previously, they spent six years in Albuquerque, attending graduate school at the University of New Mexico, and in 2007, while he was still living out West, Stuckey started his series of large-scale figurative paintings, trying to make sense of the Western landscape he’d come to love, along with his romantic notions of it.The paintings are about “my own personal experience of being a tourist and an outsider glimpsing the reality of the West,” Stuckey says. “How we play up the romantic notion of the West and the landscape and the people made for a perfect avenue for me as a figure painter to add narrative to my work. It’s about the reality versus the romanticism.”

Stuckey initially constructs his paintings from diverse images derived from various sources, pieced together on the computer into an image that he photoshops, then copies at a blown-up scale onto the canvas, often making adjustments. In Red, White, and Blue El Camino, the model for the salesman was a combination of Stuckey’s legs and a picture of Sitting Bull; his wife posed for the middle figure, wearing stuff culled from her closet, while the bikinied woman was a found image.

Stuckey continues to work on the series in his basement studio inWestVirginia. Besides the large narrative paintings, he has painted a series of male and female torsos as well as monumental images of meat, but for now, he’s still spellbound by Western themes, studying John Wayne and Sergio Leone films to better grasp the power of the widescreen.

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LETTERS Single Dumbest Passage Ever To the Editor: This morning, I picked up the October number of Chronogram and was assaulted by the single dumbest passage I have ever read in an American periodical. Congratulations.

In this piece by your “founder,” Jason Stern, we are told that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s September speech to the UN was a “refreshing dose of truthiness.” Notwithstanding the appalling bad grammar (“truthiness” is not a word), your willingness to praise and find common cause with one of the worst leaders in the world today is revealing. What it proves, if this needed further proof, is that there is an alliance between the extreme left and jihadis worldwide, based on their shared anti-American philosophy. Much of this nonsense stems from the pen of Noam Chomsky, easily the most idiotic and monochromatic thinker in the world today. To him, and those who follow him, an enemy of my enemy is my friend. Thus, any anti-American loon becomes worthy of support. To express warm feelings toward Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his remarkably hypocritical garbage at the UN simply defies logic, only inane ideology could foster such a thought.

Let’s start with whom precisely we are dealing with here.

According to Amnesty International’s 2010 report on Iran: “Iran remained one of the states with the highest rates of execution and one of very few still to execute juvenile offenders: at least 388 people were executed, including one by stoning and at least five juveniles.

Human rights defenders, including minority and women’s rights activists, lawyers and trade unionists, continued to face arbitrary arrest, harassment, prosecution and unfair trials throughout the year. Some were banned from traveling abroad.

Torture and other ill-treatment in pre-trial detention remained common, facilitated by the routine denial of access to lawyers by detainees and impunity for officials who perpetrate violations. Methods reported included severe beatings; confinement in tiny spaces; deprivation of light, food and water; and systematic denial of medical treatment.

At least 12 people were believed to have died in custody in 2009 apparently as a result of ill-treatment or lack of adequate medical care.

Sentences of flogging and judicial amputation were imposed and carried out. In February, the Supreme Court upheld a sentence in which acid would be dropped into the eyes of a man who had blinded a woman with the same liquid.

Iran maintained one of the highest rates of execution globally. At least 388 people were executed, including one man who was stoned to death and at least five juvenile offenders sentenced for crimes committed when they were aged under 18. At least 14 were executed in public.The actual totals were believed to be higher.”

And this person, this Ahmedinejad, this piece of wretched refuse, is worthy of praise in your periodical? You should be very ashamed of yourself, if you are capable of that emotion.

John Motavalli, Southbury, CT

Beinhart for President?

To the Editor: Thank you, Chronogram and Larry Beinhart, for expressing exactly what I have been wishing our (mostly) wonderful President Obama would say and do. Larry Beinhart’s article [“Entitlements vs. Investments,” 10/11] perfectly captures the wrong way the president is trying to do the right thing. Of course it’s about investing in America—why oh why does our president let the Tea Party brand our hard-earned (and paid for) safety nets entitlements?

I can’t say any of this any better than Larry Beinhart does, so I have posted his article on my Facebook page and urge everyone out there to save your October issue of Chronogram—copy the article—and send a copy to President Obama. This is the message our president needs to send!

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Esteemed Reader You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

—Buckminster Fuller Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Walking along Main Street in my hometown of New Paltz, I found the event I was looking for—the Occupy Wall Street gathering between Chase Bank and Starbucks.

There was a crowd of about 80 people gathered, some carrying signs. A man sat on top of a USPS mailbox with a guitar, and someone in the center of the group was leading a chant through the microphone, “We are the 99 percent!”

I was holding my two sons’ hands and we stayed on the periphery. “What are all these people doing here?”, the five-year-old asked. “They’re upset because they got robbed by the banks,” I told him. The boy thought for a minute. “Did the banks rob us?” he asked. “Yes,” I responded, “they robbed the whole earth.”

One placard simply said “10% of us own 90% of the wealth. How can this be correct?” This proportion seemed familiar. Where had I heard it before? And then I realized—it is about the proportion of the brain’s capacity we are said to make use of in our daily lives. Wow, I thought, this is a truly a microcosm. The as above, so below formula is playing out yet again.

Just as one-tenth of the population controls nine-tenths of the world’s resources, so too does a tiny proportion of our intelligence decide the fate of our whole being.

The Occupation has (at the time of this writing) spread to over 100 cities in the US and over 1,500 cities globally—there’s even an Occupy Poughkeepsie!—and it also seems on track to take root closest to home.

Here’s the latest: OccupyYourself!

The notion that the world is a mirror of our inner lives is not new.The old language was religious: “Man is made in the image of God” (I think it is safe to translate the word God as “the whole world”). In Arthur Koestler’s more modern holoarchic model, there are holons, each of which is the part which in itself is also a whole, a complete world within larger worlds. A human being is such a world unto herself.

In this direction, the Occupy Wall Street movement is on a firm footing as a unique holon, made up of its constituent holons. They are a leaderless organization guided by a Uls ter C ounty! method of consensus-based guidance called “people’s assembly” that facilitates collective decision making. In other words, they are creating a small society that exemplifies ARTS & CULTURE | WINE & CUISINE | RESORTS & LODGING | YEAR-ROUND FUN a truly representative model of human interaction. It is a model that addresses the needs and insights 100 percent of its participants; a world based on principles that address the whole, not just a tiny part Of course, in reality it is not a situation of 1 percent versus 99 percent. There is only 100 percent, and any attempt to evolve the totality needs to be premised on the understanding that no one is expendable. When we look at the corporate operators that EXPERIENCE THE STYLE OF ULSTER seem motivated by the basest, most self-serving impulses, we have to see that, though COUNTY THIS WINTER. STAY AT ONE OF OUR they endeavor to make the earth a wasteland, and most of humanity slaves, they are themselves slaves of the same system.

LUXURIOUS RESORTS, QUAINT LODGES Self-service is actually the highest impulse there is. But its loftiness depends on the scope of the sense of the meaning of self. When we see self limited to the consciousness OR COMFORTABLE INNS. FIND PLENTY contained within the notion of “me”, the setup is inevitably destructive to the rest of TO DO WITH CHALLENGING SLOPES AND myself, which we see as other. But when we understand that humanity, life on earth, and even the body and consciousness of the planet itself are all parts of a larger whole, HUNDREDS OF MILES OF TRAILS FOR CROSS then self-service is inevitably useful to all.

COUNTRY SKIING AND SNOWSHOEING. In this direction, John Donne’s now clichéd poem is worth reading again, in its entirety: THERE ARE ALSO ICE CLIFFS TO SCALE, No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; CHARMING TOWNS, HUNDREDS OF if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe RESTAURANTS, A RENOWNED WINE TRAIL is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine AND MUCH MORE. own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

We come back to the realization that integrating the neglected parts of ourselves is a means of integrating the world. We are the microcosm, and even a tiny transformation in our particular clod has a direct effect on the main of humanity.

Can we do what the one percent refuses to do? Can we be dangerously generous?

Can we put others’ wellbeing before personal gain? Can we put the quality of the process first, and trust the result will be the better for it? Can we be compassionate, even to our enemies? Can we occupy ourselves?

In our heart of hearts we know we can.

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ike 99 percent of native New Yorkers I'd never heard of Zuccotti Park before September 17 when hundreds of people converged on the downtown square.

Like much of the world’s population (seven billion of us by the time you read this), now I can’t get Zuccotti Park off my mind. At first, the reason had to do with a failure to understand what Occupy Wall Street was about. A private park named for a real estate mogul is being held hostage, but no demands are being issued. Despite comments from certain quarters that the protestors have no agenda, this much is clear: There is a burning dissatisfaction with the state of the economy, the unfair way the poor are saddled with the sins of rich bankers, and with capitalism itself. But there is nothing that can be delivered to make them go home. No policy action is demanded. No one is saying, “Create a million jobs and we’ll leave.” Or, “Tax the billionaires and we’ll go home and watch ‘Dancing with the Stars.’”

There is also no spokesperson for the group, and no talking points from which said phantom spokesperson might voice Occupy’s agenda to the world. Instead, the occupiers seem more interested in talking to each other and building consensus via the human microphone, an ingenious, person-powered amplification system. (Which at times, to be honest, can sound creepy and cultish as hundreds of people shout back what was just said by the primary speaker.)

The media and the pundits are unable to place the protests in a ready-made ideological package or narrowly define the protestors as modern-day hippies or would-be anarchists. The demographic range of protestors is wide: high schoolers with their parents, college students in school sweatshirts, men in business suits, mothers with baby carriages, celebrities, people with jobs, African drummers, the unemployed, and white-haired retirees are all in attendance. And, as per the standard media coverage of protests, distortions abound. Reuters erroneously reported as fact a rumor started

by Rush Limbaugh that George Soros had financed the initial stages of the Occupy movement through Canadian-based provocateurs Adbusters, who were involved from the beginning.

(Adbusters said it wished it had received money from Soros, though it had not.

Occupy is apparently a real grass roots movement, unlike another supposed populist front, the Tea Party, whose green grass was planted with money from David and Charles Koch. Another recipient of the Kochs’ largesse, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, was asked what he would say to the occupiers. “Don’t blame

Wall Street,” Cain said. “Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself. This is what I don’t understand about these demonstrations: What it is that they’re looking for.” Note to Herman Cain: With the unemployment rate at almost 20 percent for those under 25, what do you expect all these young grads to do? Delivering pies for Godfather’s Pizza is not going to be enough to help them get out from under their student loans [“While You Were Sleeping,” page 19].)

With the media unable to digest and regurgitate my news for me, I am in a bit of categorical limbo. Normally, protests gather around finite events—a World Trade Organization meeting, the run up to a war—make a fuss, then melt away. Occupy isn’t playing the protest game by the normal rules. Either Occupy Wall Street is a soon-tobe-forgotten carnival of direct democracy, or perhaps it’s the beginning of something, a process without rigid ends, a qualitative rather than quantitative politics that’s resonating for a reason deeper than rampant income inequality, corporate excesses, and a government rigged to protect them both. It’s an opting out of the system itself. OWS is saying, in effect, if Wall Street’s wealth expropriation is the problem, then here is our critique, but we don’t expect change to come through legislation. We’ll build another model entirely and see how far that takes us. This process represents a critical point about the movement: People are shifting from being passive, frustrated observers of politics to empowered players. Instead of waiting for leaders to do the right thing, people from all walks of life are taking part. Sounds crazy, right?

It reminds me of another group of civil resisters who had long standing grievances—high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of freedom of speech and other political freedoms, poor living conditions—in Tunisia. It only took 28 days from a young farmer named Mohammed Bouazizi setting himself on fire to the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. And now grass roots revolution is spreading across the Middle East.

That said, I don’t imagine a mass movement taking to the streets in the US and toppling a mailbox, let alone a government. After all, most of us 99 percenters would rather watch “Dancing with the Stars.” When we’re not, there’s still an opportunity to become part of this process that’s emerging from the Occupy movement. If Wall Street is the problem, then localism is one answer readily available to us. Buy locally.

Bank locally. Engage locally. Let’s continue to create real wealth in our communities.

What more do we have to lose? Think of what we have to gain.

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A survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation found that the average family insurance plan purchased through an employer now costs over $15,000 per year, a nine percent increase from last year. That’s more than double the average price 10 years ago, and more than the cost of a new Ford Fiesta. Some analysts believe insurance companies are getting their price hikes in now before a provision kicks in next year requiring them to justify any double-digit increase. And some of the rise in costs is likely coming from requirements already in effect, such as mammogram screenings and other preventive services. But meanwhile, employers are feeling the squeeze, with many citing the high cost of coverage as a deterrent to hiring. And increasingly, they’re passing the costs on to workers in the form of higher out-of-pocket costs. Half of all workers at small firms now pay annual deductibles of $1,000 or more.

Source: Slate Sixty-one percent of Americans approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, down from 64 percent last year according to a Gallup poll. This is the lowest level of support since 1972, the year the Supreme Court voided all existing state death penalty laws. Support peaked in the 1990s as concerns about crime rose.

The poll, conducted October 6-9, was taken shortly after the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, which generated widespread protests and extensive news coverage.

Source: Gallup

The United Nations released a report on October 10 detailing widespread prisoner abuse within the Afghan detention system. The report is the most comprehensive of its kind on how Afghan authorities treat prisoners, and is based on interviews over the past year with more than 300 suspects linked to the insurgency. It paints a devastating picture of abuse, citing evidence of “systematic torture” during interrogations by Afghan intelligence and police officials even as American and other Western backers provide training and pay for nearly the entire budget of the Afghan ministries running the detention centers. According to the report, detainees were hung by their hands and beaten with cables, and in some cases their genitals were twisted until the prisoners lost consciousness at sites run by the Afghan intelligence service and the Afghan National Police. The report does not assess whether American officials knew of the abuses. But such widespread use of torture in a detention system supported by American mentors and money raises serious questions about potential complicity of American officials and whether they benefited from information obtained from suspects who had been tortured.

Source: New York Times A Canadian company, Knowaste, plans to develop five recycling plants across the UK over the next four years that will convert disposable diapers into plastic products. Commercial waste operators will deliver to the first plant in West Bromwich waste from hospitals, nursing facilities, and child care centers. Knowaste CEO Roy Browne maintains that the plant will be able to annually recycle 36,000 tons of diapers and other absorbent hygiene products, including bedliners and incontinence aids, and use them to make plastic components such as roof tiles and commercial tubes.

Source: Sky News (UK) A handful of multinational security companies have been turning crackdowns on immigration into a multibillion-dollar global industry. In Britain, Australia, and the US, privatized detention for illegal immigrants is turning tidy profits for prison companies like Florida-based GEO Group, which controls 7,000 detention beds in the US. (The US has a total of 400,000 detentions annually, up from 280,000 in 2005; private companies now control nearly half of all detention beds, compared with only 8 percent in state and federal prisons.) GEO Group lost its Australia contract in 2003 amid a commission’s findings that detained children were subjected to cruel treatment. The ballooning of privatized detention has been accompanied by scathing inspection reports, lawsuits, and the documentation of widespread abuse and neglect, sometimes lethal. Human rights groups say detention has neither worked as a deterrent nor speeded deportation, as governments contend, and some worry about the creation of a “detention-industrial complex” with a momentum of its own.

Source: New York Times

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A Pennsylvania school board has signed a contract with a national advertising agency to allow advertisements in the 16 schools of the Pennsbury School District. Ultimately, 218 ads are to appear on walls and floors, and shrink-wrapped over lockers, lockerroom benches, even cafeteria tables. The ads must relate to health, education, nutrition, or student safety, and may not directly endorse products. They tout, among other things, reading and outdoor activities (Library of Congress and the Ad Council); organizational skills (Post-it Notes), and concussion awareness (Dick’s Sporting Goods).

The ads may generate as much as $424,000 for the school district, which faced a $6 million budgetary shortfall this year. Janet Miller, chief operating officer for School Media Inc., the Minneapolis-based agency that signed Pennsbury, said the deals are win-win. Schools get cash through less incendiary means than tax hikes, and “corporate leaders [get] a chance to stand up” and contribute to education, she said. “It’s America helping America.”

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer Worldwide meat production has tripled over the last four decades and increased 20 percent in just the last 10 years. Meanwhile, industrial countries are consuming growing amounts of meat, nearly double the quantity than in developing countries. Much of the vigorous growth in meat production is due to the rise of industrial animal agriculture, or factory farming,” said Danielle Nierenberg, Worldwatch senior researcher.

“Factory farms pollute the environment through the heavy use of inputs such as pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers used for feed production.” Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals. Mass quantities of antibiotics are used on livestock to reduce the impact of disease, contributing to antibiotic resistance in animals and humans alike. Eighty percent of all antibiotics sold worldwide in 2009 were used on livestock and poultry. Worldwide, per capita meat consumption increased from 41.3 kilograms in 2009 to 41.9 kilograms in 2010.

People in the developing world eat 32 kilograms of meat a year on average, compared to 80 kilograms per person in the industrial world.

Source: Worldwatch Institute According to an October report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, US students took out more than $100 billion in loans last year, a figure that will push the total amount of outstanding student debt above the $1-trillion mark this year for the first time. Americans now owe more in student loans than they do on their credit cards. Students are borrowing roughly twice what they did a decade ago, and total outstanding debt has doubled in the past five years alone. Full-time undergrads borrowed an average of $4,953 in 2010, a 63-percent jump from the previous decade.

“Students who borrow too much end up delaying life-cycle events such as buying a car, buying a home, getting married, [and] having children,” said Mark Kantrowitz, a publisher of FinAid.org. Nick Pardini, a finance grad student at Villanova who blogs about student loans, wrote: “It’s going to create a generation of wage slavery.”

Source: USA Today —Compiled by Brian K. Mahoney

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

How to Profit in Today’s Economic Environment How would you like to earn an extra $5,000 a year? Not just this year. Every year.

For how long? For life, the rest of your working life.

Think about your retirement. Do you want a pension? Would you like the money that you worked for to actually be there when the time comes?

What about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? You’ve been paying in, you have a right to have those investments pay off.

It’s a whole lot simpler and easier than you might expect.You want to know how easy? Just live in a state where there are unions.

You don’t have to belong to one. You don’t have to support them. All you have to do is have union members as your neighbors. When you do, the median income in your state—which presumably means your income, plus or minus—will be $5,000 more a year, every year, than someone who lives in one of those Rip Me Off States. (Yes, in common parlance they’re called Right to Work States, but like so much of our casual rhetoric, that’s sadly misleading. You have a right to work in every state. If you work for a company that has a union contract in a don’t-rip-me-off state, you have to pay union dues. That is, you have to pay for the services they perform. In a rip-me-off state you’re free to be a freeloader. Which, since you’re making $5,000 less than you should be making, you might need to do.)

It’s not just your pay scale and your personal benefits. The whole social contract takes a hit when unions are weak. In Rip Me Off States, an additional 21 percent don’t have health care, primary and secondary schools get about $1,700 less per student, and the poverty rate is 2.3 percent higher.

When unions go away, people die. Infant mortality is 17 percent higher.The rate of workplace deaths is 51 percent higher.

Most readers of this column already live in don’t-rip-me-off states. So you might think this issue doesn’t matter to you. Plus, you’re pissed at me because I didn’t show you how to make another five grand a year over and above the five grand a year more that you’re already making because of the unions.

If I’ve failed you on the greed side, let me hit you with fear!

Take away the unions—even if you’re not in one—and wages, salaries, health care, and pensions will go down. Your New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut pay will start sliding south to Arkansas numbers.

Unions are the sole, institutionalized counterweight to corporate interests on economic issues. They were significant players in the creation of Social Security and in saving it when it’s been under assault. They were crucial to the passage of Medicare, Medicaid, and civil rights legislation.

Back around 1970, America’s corporate interests, business leaders, and the political right got together—formally and informally—and decided to put a stop to unions in the private sector. And by gosh, they did. With Jimmy Carter in the White House and Democrats in control of the House and Senate, everyone expected new pro-labor legislation. Big Money had all the Republicans, they got some Democrats, and they stopped things cold.

Carter began deregulation in airlines, trucking, and the telephone company. This introduced competition to theses business sectors (a good thing, innovation and cheaper prices). It also brought competition to the workers.

The new start-ups were often nonunion (yes, boss, I’ll do it cheaper, with fewer work rules, without health care or pensions), which pushed everyone’s wages and benefits down.

Then came Reagan.There had been an informal social contract that if work-

ers went on strike they would not be fired and would return after an agreement was reached. The air traffic controllers went on strike. Reagan fired them. And replaced them with new people. A new trend had been established. It swept the nation. The strike was no longer a viable weapon. The strike was dead. From a history of labor unions by Gerald Friedman at EH.net, the home of the Economic History Association: “By the early 1980s, union avoidance had become an industry. Anti-union consultants and lawyers openly counseled employers how to use labor law to evade unions. Unfair labor practices in violation of the Wagner Act tripled in the 1970s. Over 10,000 workers a year were illegally discharged for union activity. By the 1990s, the unionization rate in the United States fell to under 14 percent, including only 9 percent of the private sector workers” (http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/friedman.unions.us).

About 36 percent of public sectors workers are in unions. Do you want public sector workers to be unionized? It’s in the vital self-interest of publicsector workers to support public services—to fight for clean water, sanitation, safety measures, police, education, public health, and a host of other things that allow society to function and that keep your world working safely and efficiently.

If it were up to the rich and radical right, everything would be privatized.

People with lots of money would retreat to gated communities, happy to leave all the rest to rack and ruin. If you if you think that’s an exaggeration, take a look at the result of white flight from the inner cities in the seventies and the retreat from all but the wealthiest communities today after the collapse of the housing bubble.

Unions support the social contract. They also, usually, support the Democratic Party. For both reasons, the Republicans, the big corporations, and the Radical Right are out to destroy them. Their strategy: Paint city sanitation workers and aides in public hospitals as overpaid, pampered leeches who get all kinds of benefits—health care and pensions, sick days, and grievance hearings—that private sector workers don’t get. So you should be furious, and instead of fighting for those benefits for yourself, you should take them away from teachers and firefighters!

Astonishingly, they have had some major successes.

Public service unions were born in Wisconsin. They have just been effectively abolished. The right to have public service unions in Ohio has effectively been abolished.

People are fighting back in both places. In Ohio a referendum may reverse the law. In Wisconsin, they are trying to recall the governor. But even if he’s replaced, pro-labor candidates have to take back the state senate and 11 seats in the house.

But enough about the poor hardworking folks of the Midwest. This column is about you, your greed (and mine), and your fears (and mine).

If the unions die, the 1 percent, the Wall Street hustlers and con men, the radical right and the Republican loons, are that much closer to taking it all.

Driving your salary down to increase corporate profits, looting your pension, and cutting your benefits. If they get hold of Social Security, they’ll turn it over to big banks and hedge funds. If they get hold of Medicare, they’ll it turn it over to private insurers and Big Pharma.

Support unions. They support you. (You may not have known that before, but you know it now.)

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The House

Grimm’s Fairy Tale

A Classic Woodstock Artist’s Dwelling

By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid Above: Calvin Grimm in his backyard. Three of his paintings are hung on the fence behind him; to Grimm’s right, a sculpture by Ezio Martinelli.

Opposite, clockwise from top left: The living room looking into the kitchen and upstairs to the bedroom; the bedroom looking down into the living room; the house viewed from the edge of the pond.

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n 1969, after receiving a $2,000 inheritance following the death of his father, young painter Calvin Grimm bought two pitched and scenic acres in Shady, a rural hamlet just west of Woodstock. Grimm had grown up on Long Island, but his maternal grandfather was Woodstock’s town pharmacist; during childhood, he often visited his widowed grandmother.

Grimm missed the muddy historic music festival; as rain was forecast, he needed to roof what has evolved into one of the area’s most tasteful and enduring folk-art houses.

“I was in my early 20s, and working with a carpentry crew in Woodstock, having studied art in Buffalo. I knew how hard my father had worked to leave me that money and I wanted the security that my own home would give me,” says Grimm.

Constructed as inexpensively as possible, Grimm’s house was also built sensibly and made to last. When building codes became more stringently enforced, Grimm got the paperwork approved, although he laughs when he says that he’d already “lived in it for years” by the time it was actually certified for occupancy.

Grimm’s home was featured in the best-selling Woodstock Handmade Houses (Random House, 1974), written by Robert Haney and David Ballantine, with photographs by Jonathan Elliott.The book captures the build-it-yourself design ethos of the artists’ colony.

Today, Grimm estimates he has about $60,000 in materials invested in his home. In 1970, he borrowed $500 to buy lumber, but otherwise, he’s paid cash for everything, including an addition built in 1996. Not counting the storage shed, it’s about 1,000 square feet with two bedrooms, two baths, and an office. Grimm recently added a small pool, where he swims in place wearing an anchoring belt. And for the most part, he’s done all the work himself. “The heat is oil-fired hot-water baseboard installed by Kosco over 20 years ago,” says Grimm. “I had previously cut and split all of my own wood” for a stove, he says. “I surrendered from that ordeal.”

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Walt Disney Co., it might be worth about a million dollars today. Given the costs of an equivalent rental for the same duration, and including what a fortuitous sale of the unique dwelling might fetch, he’s only down from that by about a third.

But of far greater value than strictly calculated financial returns, Grimm’s quirky castle has not only provided him with inspiring and solid shelter, but it’s also been the springboard for a creative and adventurous life. He’s often rented it out while he’s gone off exploring the wilderness; Grimm’s a former National Outdoor Leadership School instructor. An early tenant was noted American Buddhist Robert Thurman (father of Uma), who wrote his graduate thesis there while his house was being built. “Bob Thurman doesn’t have any of my work, but I have some of Uma’s,” says Grimm. “At the age of one she drew with crayons on a wall of my then-new house. It’s ensconced under several layers of paint now.”

Wood in the Blood On his father’s side, Grimm descends from a line of master craftsman woodworkers who built mahogany ballrooms and wood-paneled private libraries for the mansions of the Vanderbilts and Morgans on Long Island’s Gold Coast. In the Roaring Twenties, Grimm’s father built a racing schooner.

But the Great Depression and World War II softened the luxury woodwork market. The family moved to a tract house in Hicksville and Grimm’s father sacrificed “a number of his creative directions” in order to provide for his family, eventually working for the Grumman Aircraft & Engineering Corp. Grumman was the chief contractor for the Apollo Lunar Module; the painter’s father, a master tool-and-die maker who had studied physics at Pratt Institute, worked on that supersecretive project. “But I saw his unhappiness,” says Grimm. “This house has kept me focused and kept me out of trouble, but it’s the gratitude aspect of it which is most important.

This is who I am. The authenticity of the place, and that I’ve kept hold of it for 43 years, it’s a miracle,” he says.

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Teamwork Made the Dream Work In 1969, when Calvin broke ground, he worked for a building crew which belonged to Dominique Vos, Milieu & Co. David Miller was the foreman. On weekends, the men assisted one another with their personal abodes. These efforts had the flavor of an oldfashioned barn raising.

The beams in Grimm’s house came from a barn which once stood on what is now Wilson State Park. Forms for the foundation’s cement piers were fabricated using plywood dismantled from an architecturally intricate sculpture Grimm had to sacrifice on grounds of penury. Next came the recycled barnbeams, which became the large “sills” upon which the floor joists were attached.

“It has never moved an inch!” exclaims Grimm. “Who needed a building code?”

Since the barn beams were all 30 feet long, that established the length of the house, and then “everything else fell into place,” he says.That’s also how Calvin’s painting process works.

“When one begins an abstract expressionist painting with the correct intuitive mark, the rest falls into place—sometimes with a great deal of editing, but that’s why this kind of painting is a record of it’s own existence,” says Grimm.

The skylight above Grimm’s bed came from the former domed showroom of the Johnson Ford Dealership in Kingston.The dome’s clear Plexiglas magnified the sunlight and radiated too much heat; it was replaced with black. Calvin bought the rejected sheets for $5 each. That’s how he was able to afford a 5’ x 7’ skylight that nevertheless took substantial ingenuity to weather-proof. “But it’s the only one like it,” he says.

“If I Sold This Place, I Could Never Buy It Back” In recent years, Grimm has been steadily selling his colorful paintings, and he is best known for his murals at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. His paintings range in price from $3,000 for a work on paper to $18,000 for a large canvas, usually sold directly to buyers who find him through existing collectors.

Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed public company, recently purchased three major works for its corporate offices in Dublin, California. The artist also maintains a web site, www.calvingrimm.com.

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In October, Jay Armour of Four Winds Farm in Gardiner transplants kale and swiss chard plants from the field into an unheated greenhouse.

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By Michelle Sutton Photographs by Larry Decker Eight Months of Salad I am feeling proud, bordering on smug, about the salad I am eating this month.

My fall crop of trout lettuce—so named for its showy pattern of burgundy flecks on bright green leaves—came from seed I harvested several months ago. I’d grown a spring crop of trout lettuce from seed that I bought from the Hudson Valley Seed Library (HVSL).

When my spring crop of trout lettuce produced little white seeds in the heat of summer, I shook the stalks into a bag to capture the seeds and then, on September 1, I sowed them for a fall crop. So there’ve been two generations of the beautiful speckled leaves this year, which feels like a coup that nature and I have pulled off, given the merciless weather. I interplanted arugula with the lettuce and theorize, perhaps naively, that that spicy crop has helped deter the resident woodchuck who dashed my salad dreams in the past.

Whereas I am new to the serious study of extending the window of greens growing, Jaimee Uhlenbrock, a retired SUNY art history professor, has been doing this for years, at home and in the New Paltz Gardens for Nutrition. Most years, she harvests lettuce for her Thanksgiving meal. She harvests spinach until almost that late, and kale even later. As secretary for the long-standing community garden, she sends out periodic encouragement to garden members to start earlier in the spring and grow later in the fall.

Her secrets include raised beds filled with good rich fluffy soil and the unconventional use of a wood plank to keep seeds in place and moist until they

germinate. (How they do so without light, I don’t know—but it works like gangbusters, people—I’ve seen it.) She grows many different heirloom and modern hybrid varieties this way.

“Before I used this method, I had such uneven germination,” she says. “The soil would dry out too fast or the seed and soil would wash away too easily.”

Now she sows swaths of lettuce and kale seed, covers them lightly with soil, pats them down, waters with the lightest touch, and covers with the board. As soon as she can see evidence of germination above the soil, the board comes off.

In the springtime, she plants lettuce and other greens just as soon as the soil can be worked in March—and this where raised beds give her an advantage, because the elevated soil in raised beds warms earlier than field soil. Lettuce seed is slower to germinate in very early spring than in the warm temps of summer. Uhlenbrock sows every two weeks until late September. By the time of Hurricanes Irene and Lee, which decimated the gardens, she was into her 15th planting. All the gourmet salad eating she and her partner Bob had done up to that point was a consolation.

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For fall greens, seed sowing timing is key. The HVSL’s Doug Muller points out a common misconception about fall greens growing. “To have fall or winter greens, you have to sow them in September,” he says. “Planting in October will give you baby greens only. If you plant in November, you won’t see any action 11/11 chronogram home 25

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(Left): Floating row cover cloth used in conjunction with bent conduit pipe at the Hudson Valley Seed Library.

(Middle): Plant lettuce seed in late August or early September for salads in November.

(Right): Hardy greens can be grown in unheated hoop houses (plastic greenhouses) well into the winter.

at all until February. They’ll just sit there—that’s fine if you want really early greens in March or April—but some people are disappointed when they read the packet and it says ‘50 days to maturity.’ That’s 50 days in the ideal conditions of spring, not the waning light and temperatures of fall.”

Muller and his partner Ken Greene grow greens in the field late into fall, then turn their attention to growing especially hardy greens like mustard and mache (pronounced “mosh”) in their unheated hoop house (plastic-sided greenhouse). Greene wishes that mustard greens had more appeal. “I think it’s off-putting to some Americans, too suggestive of condiments. For a while I was marketing mustard greens as ‘Spicy Library Lettuce,’ and sales improved! We put young leaves in sandwiches and salads … give it a try—we love it.”

I asked Greene what they eat for greens in January and February, when their unheated hoop house greens start to look weary (in March, the greens start to perk up again). He says, “We are so lucky to have winter markets and CSAs like Winter Sun in our region, where we can buy greens and support our fellow farmers.”

One of those compadres is Jay Armour of Four Winds Farm in Gardiner.

He has his own approach to greens season extension: digging up kale and Swiss chard plants in October and transplanting them to an unheated hoop house.

He picks greens until March or April when he needs the space for the new season’s crops. And then he goes one step further: “This past year we moved the kale back outside in early April, so the plants would produce seed, which I collected and gave to the Hudson Valley Seed Library,” he says. It’s all very Circle of Life.

You may not be ready to invest in a big plastic hoop house yet, but what can you do on a home scale?

Stick with the Outdoors Many of your hardier greens will overwinter and reseed if you don’t pull them out in the fall. Then there’s extremely late seeding, helped along with a little cover. Commenter Eileen Gunning on the HVSL blog says, “Every year, as a sort of ritual, I plant spinach seeds on Thanksgiving day.Yes, the ground is often frozen. I cover with a straw mulch. In early February, or whenever the snow starts to melt, I have a beautiful spinach harvest. In the 16 years I have been doing this, only one year—when we had only ice, no snow—did I not have spinach.”

Row Covers Floating row covers like Reemay are cloth products that “float” above the crops. Because they are so lightweight, they don’t need wire support to keep from crushing plants, you can leave them on all the time, and they allow light and water through their pores. Fabric row covers provide about four degrees of frost protection, which is often enough to extend the life of greens well past several light frosts in the fall and to protect crops early in the spring. Row covers are also often used as a barrier to insect predation.

Low Tunnels At the HVSL, Greene and Muller started out simply bending heavy-gauge wire into supports that they would throw sheets over, being sure to pull them off the coverings in the morning. They graduated to using low tunnels made of clear greenhouse plastic with sides that roll up. Plastic gives them many more degrees of frost protection than floating row covers or sheets. “Conduit is cheap,” Greene says, “so we make our own hoops with a bending tool.”

Cold Frames Cold frames insulate crops from too-cold air and soil temperatures and provide wind protection.There’s a great plan for a simple cold frame on the HVSL site, filed under “Seed Starting 101.” For about $120 in materials, you can build a long-lasting structure that you can use for seed starting but also to grow spinach, tatsoi, scallions, and mache through the winter.

Doug Muller says that when winter looms, “this stops many gardeners in their tracks, shifting their attention from sowing and transplanting and cultivating to harvesting and getting inside—quick. The wise gardener sees this impulse, honors it, and then—despite the increasing dark and cold—keeps on sowing.”

RESOURCES New Paltz Gardens for Nutrition www.gardensfornutrition.org Hudson Valley Seed Library www.seedlibrary.org Four Winds Farm http://users.bestweb.net/~fourwind/ Winter Sun Market www.wintersunfarms.com

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Take a stroll down Main Street in Hurley on a balmy day in July, and what you will witness is nothing short of a love affair.This is steadfast love, one that emanates through every facet of the Hudson Valley, solid and reliable. Each year, on Old Stone House Day, endearing tribute is paid to a partner that never talks back: the incredible stone that seems to go so perfectly with our region. Our history is inexorably bound to these homes, some of the oldest in the country.

In fact, one might say there is no older relationship in human history. Since the Stone Age, there have been those who took to the craft of stonemasonry, transforming rubble into not only function, but inspiring aesthetic masterpieces as well. And, over the last three centuries, the Mid-Hudson Valley has proven to be a wellspring of captivating stone with which those craftspeople can ply their trade. Sites like Woodstock’s Overlook Mountain once provided world-class bluestone that found itself not only adorning local backyards, but the sidewalks of early 19th-century Manhattan.The reliable, quartz-streaked Shawangunk Conglomerate stone that makes the Shawangunk Ridge a favorite for climbers can be also be found in a bevy of the various scintillating structures around the region.

Stonework is so singular a craft that even the business of providing masons the right material for their projects requires a practices eye. Since 2002, Sam Bradley’s Stone Resource has been a major provider of top-quality stone up and down the Hudson River. None of it quarried, all of Bradley’s stone is aboveground, weathered stone; about 60 percent comes directly from Stone Resources property in Amenia, though Bradley often travels as far as the Canadian border to select the ideal stone for a project. Over the course of the past decade, Bradley has developed not only his own special talent for understanding the medium, but a deep appreciation for the masons who create the work. “I can tell you who did the work from that particular craftsmanship,” says Bradley. “A lot of these folks are quality craftsman, but after awhile they are so good at what they do that they are absolutely artists. Great artists.”

The thrust of that art springs almost inexplicably from deep within that ancient harmony between man and stone, explains mason Keegan Thompson. Since opening his Stone Ridge-based Rock-N-Gardens company in 2005, Thompson has increasingly Winter! discovered that the proper stone simply presents itself when needed. “It becomes almost an unconscious thing, and it just makes sense,” Thompson says with a smile. “It’s just something natural, something right.”

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The Question What to do about basement flooding?

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The most ominous question for Hudson Valley residents of late has been this: Is it going to rain again today? The devastation caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, along with record rainfall, cannot be understated.Yet even if you have been fortunate enough to avoid the worst of the damage, the chances are unfortunately good that you may be looking at a confounding problem: water in the basement.

What once might have been thought to be job for a mop and a high-powered fan has, for many, escalated into a much more significant problem. But what to do, and who to ask? Why, speak to the basement experts, of course. Frank and Christine Villano, of Newburgh’s Basement Solutions of the Hudson Valley, have been exceptionally busy these last few months, solving these very issues. “You can’t just go to Home Depot and buy a Shop-Vac,” says Frank Villano with a knowing smile. Villano is a certified geotechnical and structural engineer, and brings a complete approach to what can be a very detrimental situation. Quick fixes, Villano explains, may be no fix at all. “Some people are bringing in a landscaper with a chainsaw, and that may cause more damage down the line, and much more cost,” adds Villano. He carefully assesses and manages each situation, and chooses from a variety of options.

So what are those solutions, exactly? According to Villano, the majority of their systems involve installing sump pumps—maintenance-free if done properly, Villano adds. A pipe is fixed through the basement floor, and the excess water is led cleanly to an established runoff; if necessary, a perimeter drain is created as well. Villano also insists that a battery backup for the pump is a necessity. “When do you need a battery backup most? During a storm, when the system is needed,” Villano points out.

Of equal significance, however, is addressing the structural anomalies that allowed the water access in the first place. Sometimes, the remedy can be as simple as modifying the gutters and leaders, or adding exterior drainage, making sure the water from your neighbor’s house isn’t directed into your own. Recent technological advancements also provide another, more comprehensive solution: high-pressure polyurethane foam can be injected behind walls and below floors, completely waterproofing the basement or crawl space and minimizing any risk of mold. In addition, the new foam solution— NSF-certified and guaranteed to have no negative, toxic consequences—enhances the solidity of the home’s foundation. “Now you’re improving the structure,” says Villano, “and not just solving the water problem.”

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The village of Warwick is the primary nerve center for the Warwick Valley, nestled just 55 miles from Manhattan, but sheltered by mountains and blue highways. “No four-lane road and two mountains to get over, but 40 percent of our residents do commute,” says Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce President Michael Johndrow. “I think that shows you how worth the drive it is. People come here for reasons that have everything to do with the camaraderie. When we won that ‘World’s Prettiest Small Village’ [a Communities in Bloom award], it was because the businesses, the residents, the schools, the hospital, the Scouts, the county dump guys—I mean, everyone got into it and ran with it. But that’s who lives here: doers. When this town wanted a railroad, they started one; when they wanted a newspaper, they started one. When they wanted a phone company, they started that, and they’re still here doing telecommunications. I feel so honored to live here.”

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Orange County’s rich Black Dirt region was once at the bottom of a vast lake. Original inhabitants called it “the Drowned Lands.”

Today, a good amount of it is called the Warwick Valley, and it is home to some of the finest growing soil on the continent, perhaps on the planet. Warwick’s roots lie in root veggies, and the results of long and intelligent nurture of the land are easy to see—as when a Mercedes pulls up at Paffenroth Gardens bearing regular customer Dan Kluger of ABC Kitchen, which won this year’s James Beard Foundation Award for “Best New Restaurant,” or when New York magazine features Alex Paffenroth as one of its “Farmers with Cult Followings.” Paffenroth Gardens is just one example. The Warwick Valley’s Black Dirt farmers are the core of what might be considered the New York City “foodshed,” and unlike the watershed, no government watchdog is charged with its safeguarding. But Warwick folks know. And when the Drowned Lands were drowned again in Hurricane Irene’s wake, Warwick stepped up. Within days, there was a website and a major party planned. “These people set themselves a goal of raising $25,000 and raised $70,000,” says Michael Johndrow, executive director of the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce. “In three weeks. Most groups would still be arguing about who got what seat at the table.”

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H ometo w n D o w n to w n Tamara Grapek jumped at the chance to relocate her young health food store to Warwick. “This is where I always wanted to be,” she says. “But when I first looked, there wasn’t one vacant spot. I watched and waited and grabbed the opportunity.” Grapek’s store, Ask Tamara, is now part of the scene, an unpretentious and cozy place to get supplements or goats milk or take five with the friendly proprietor. Under the Vitameatavegamin poster, Grpaek’s bulletin board is packed with the business cards of dozens upon dozens of her friends and neighbors, practitioners of a vast variety of arts and sciences. “This is an exceptional place to do business because people are so conscious of values like community and environment that translate into loyalty to local businesses,” says Grapek. “People help each other here.”

Home furnishings and décor, clothing boutiques, fine wines and liquors, exotic jewelry, dancewear, toys, lingerie, sculpture, stationery— retail is a lovingly practiced art in this town. And never more so than during the holiday season: the Warwick Merchants Guild is busily beautifying, plotting, and planning the annual Home for the Holidays extravaganza. In late November, shops get decorated and refreshments and entertainment dreamt up, the better to delight the kid in all of us. The celebration kicks off with an open house downtown the Sunday before Thanksgiving. There are horse-and-buggy rides, singing, and an Angel Tree that matches folks who could stand an extra gift this year with those who have the means to give one.

Even if you’re not a natural recreational shopper, Warwick will steal your heart. The village is handily compact and just bursting with loot.

You can scamper back and forth between the “miracle stones” and ecofriendly jewelry of Mima’s (butterfly wings set in sterling, anyone?) and the American and Canadian handblown glass and international jewelry across the way at Iriniri as many times as you’d like and not get tired; if you do, you’re never far from a cup of coffee and a place to sit.

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Some 40 eateries benefit from the region’s sophisticated palate and rich black soil; the village is ringed with orchards and wineries.

John O’Connell, proprietor of the Blarney Station Bar and Restaurant, has an Irish lilt and NYPD and NYFD patches decorating the place near the “Don’t worry, it’s only kinky the first time” sign. His waitress, Warwick native Heather Hansen, is writing a sweetly scathing book—a taxonomy of “Types of Guys” that has her male colleagues laughing and musing, “I’ve been that guy.” (“I wouldn’t trade Warwick for anywhere or anything,” she says.) Up on Main Street at Eddie’s Roadhouse you can get a range of microbrews on tap to wash down blissful comfort food. Both establishments and 10 of their fellow inns are gearing up for the Black Dirt Pub Crawl, a farm-relief fundraiser for the growers in the Pine Island zone.

Grapek fires off a list of family favorite things: the sushi at the Tokyo Plum House; Latin dancing, live jazz, and Puerto Rican cuisine at Coquito; Fratello’s (“unusual and delicious”) old school, family-style Italian cooking; and, the restorative qualities of the Foot Spa and Tea Bar, where reflexology treatments come with complimentary tea. “The businesses around here are people-friendly,” she says.

“There’s a lot of free fun you can have and you can find all kinds of bargains. Style Counsel, for example—its women’s clothes are wildly chic, but I find amazing deals.”

The Chamber of Commerce has 350 working artists among its members and a rich blend of everything else. “A hundred businesses come out for the small business expo, and 1,200 people came to see them,” Michael Johdrow marvels. “And when we do the Applefest (an early October event) 35,000 people stop by and 50 nonprofits make the bulk of their year’s income in that one day.”

“I think it’s partly because we’re a ways away from the big chains that the businesses thrive,” says Grapek. “And there’s such a huge, deep pool of talent on every level—musical, artistic, educational, leadership, cooking. Everybody blends. Friday nights at the open mike at the Café a la Mode, you see everybody, from the teenagers to the seniors, having a blast.”

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24 Main Street | Warwick, NY 10990 845.988.5080 | www.frazzleberries.com

No matter where you’re from, no matter where you’re headed, you’re always welcome at Iriniri.

High fashion for

women & teen girls at

Savvy Chic Consignment Boutique!!

Visit us at www.MySavvyChicBoutique.com 26 R.Reagan Blvd., Warwick,NY 10990 Merchant Square Shopping Center Call 988-CHIC (2442) No Appointment Necessary!

Open Monday-Saturday 11-6:00 Sundays Closed

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susan zavagli at pcasso

cathe linton at linton designs

robert newhard at akin’s pharmacy

george laurence at the eclectic eye

E du c at i o n & A r t i st ry Maybe it’s because they’re a well-educated bunch, these Warwick folks. The public school is lovingly supported and well thought of in the community. “E’lissa Jones plays violin from Charlie Daniels to Mozart and was voted best singer/ songwriter in the Hudson Valley in 2010. She teaches sixth grade orchestra. Those kids hear E’lissa. . .they get excited and stay that way,” Johndrow says, with a grin.

Kids can further that musical education at KidStrings, polishing their violin or classical guitar. The Acting Out Playhouse, housed in the basement of the elegant 1867

Clocktower building beneath Strazza Fine Art, teaches musical theater and improv—and even offers charm school. The Chosun Taekwondo Academy educates all ages and skill levels in traditional martial arts and yoga, The seminars and workshops at the College of Poetry welcome all skill levels, too. And, if you were looking to unify your field theory, the Utopian Direction gallery and bookstore would seem a promising place to start.

Education and artistry and prosperity notwithstanding, Warwick has a wholesome and grounded feel to it that can’t be faked. Johndrow and his assistant (who also organizes the

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Fratello invites you to come by for great food and great atmosphere

“Where Everybody is Treated Like Family.”

(845) 986-7898 22 Spring St, Warwick, NY

Open 7 days www. fratellobrickoven.com

bill & debbie lurato at peck’s wine & spirits

$10 off Monday - Thursday when you spend $50 or more (liquor not included)

An American Tavern & Grille A unique blend of new tastes, as well as old-favorites, all with a Roadhouse twist. Signature dishes include the IPA Chili, Marinated Flat-Iron Steak and our Half-Pound Angus Burger, along with our extremely popular, hand-cut French Fries.

Featuring only the best craft beer and boutique wines in the country.

Eddie’s is the realization of a dream that offers people a friendly gathering place to talk, laugh, eat and drink.

jacqueline sitro at jacqueline’s boutique

18 Main St, Warwick 845-986-7623 www.eddiesroadhouse.com

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town’s 900-family youth soccer league) work their promotional magic from a vintage train caboose with a portable toilet out back—when they’re not having a membership meeting at the nearby Renaissance Fair, just for fun, or out at a ribbon-cutting, that is. Treasure hunting at The Eclectic Eye, one finds glorious heaps of miscellany rubbing elbows with choice period pieces.

The music plays on the green for free. There’s a drive-in movie.

Up around the corner, Akin’s Pharmacy has been in the remedy business for 102 years—the other side of the remedy coin, one might say. But, because this is Warwick, there are common threads that transcend the basics, like attractively arranged shelves and a lovely clean smell. At Akin’s, handbills invite customers out to a cigar party, a walk against suicide, a motorcycle ride to heal breast cancer, a pet-blessing ceremony, Tango Under the Tent, and the “transreligious space” of Pacem In Terris.

Welcome to warm, wonderful Warwick. . . and enjoy the Warwickians. Coleen Johnson, minding Iriniri for the artist/ owners, says the job is a delight because of the quality of the merchandise and the quality of the folks. “I’ve been blessed to live here 20 years,” she says. “Raised five kids here, spent six years working on the school board. This community?

Awesome’s just the only word that fits.”

Serving the Warwick Valley region with award-winning edible works of art for 13 years!

ZAGAT® Survey Rated Excellent

Where it’s taste that counts!

Hudson Valley Magazine Best of the Hudson Valley CIA Restaurant Critics Panel Destination Restaurant

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39 Main Street, Warwick, NY 10990 845.986.4544

Your premier source for special occasion cakes —ZAGAT® Special Occasion Cakes • Petits Fours • Gourmet Cookies • Chocolates • Artisan Breads & Much More!

Two Locations: 23 Elm St, Warwick 845-986-8900 • 122 Windermere Ave, Greenwood Lake 845-595-6580 Chef Proprietor Jean-Claude & Annette Sanchez • www.Warwickinfo.net/Jean-Claude

Hudson Valley Closets give your kids some space

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Distinctive Cuisine

Served in a 233 Year Old Country Inn. Rustic and refined dining with emphasis on fresh locally grown ingredients. Located one mile north of the Village of Warwick.

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Come relax at The Sleepy Valley Inn Oversized whirlpool tubs Gas fireplace in rooms Full Gourmet Breakfast cooked to order

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Yesterdays

Join the Warwick Merchants for our Annual Holiday Open House

Fine Wine and Spirits

Sunday, November 20, 2011 from Noon to 5 pm

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Established 1984

Enjoy refreshments, music and more.

Celebrate this Holiday Season in our Historic Village, strolling our shops, dining in our restaurants, staying the weekend.

We offer a full menu 20 quality beers and ales on tap Delicious homemade desserts Open lunch and dinner Large selection of fine wine and spirits

Throughout the holiday season enjoy:

Free horse & buggy rides, strolling carolers, visits with Santa, and much more! Extended shopping hours Friday Evenings.

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Peck’S Wine & Spirits

1 Bank Street Warwick, NY 10990 (845) 986-9463 www.peckswines.com

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Mid-Hudson Valley Local Business – Global Network®

BNI is a professional referral organization. We develop qualified referrals for each other’s businesses. Imagine having a team of sales associates at your disposal.

Come learn more at our weekly meeting.

Noon on Thursdays at the Landmark Inn, Warwick.

Just $10.00 (includes $20.00 lunch!) RSVP one day in advance to: Mario Torchio (845) 334-8600 x106 or Michelle L. Dixon (845) 986-1177

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Enrollment is now open for here.

Tomorrow starts parent-child classes, ages 4-7.

Gloria’s Total Beauty Salon & Spa www.gtbsalon.com

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Iriniri (845) 469-7934

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KM Jewelry Designs www.kmjewelrydesigns.net Landmark Inn (845) 986-5444 Linton Designs (845) 987-9933 Luca Trattoria Pizzeria (845) 986-2002 Lycian Centre www.lyciancentre.com Newhard’s (845) 986-4544 Noble Pies www.noblepies.com Peck’s Wines & Spirits www.peckswine.com Pennings Farm Market & Orchards www.penningsfarmmarket.com Savvy Chic (845) 988-2442

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Warwick Bridal Trail www.warwickinfo.net/bridaltrail

Fine Authentic Persian Rugs Contemporary American Craft Distinct Lighting

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Pop-Up! The Magical World of Movable Books Nov. 12, 2011 - April 22, 2012

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Norman Rockwell and the Ghost of Dickens Nov. 19, 2011 - March 4, 2012

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Kate Macdowell, Safety, hand built porcelain, cone 6 glaze, plexiglass, 14" x 11" x 11", 2008. McDowell will speak about her work at SUNY New Paltz’s Lecture Center on November 9.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 505-6040.

“The Luminous Landscape 2011.” 14th annual invitational exhibition; solo exhibit: Arnold Levine.

Through November 12.

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915.

“Hudson Valley Landscapes.” Tracy Helgeson, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Laura von Rosk, Richard Maresca, and Edward Avedisian. November 3-December 11.

Opening Thursday, November 3, 6pm-8pm.

ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119.

“Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration.” Through November 12.

ARTVIEW GALLERY 14 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-0999.

“ArtEnsemble.” Susan Woods, Thomas Witte, Jeremy Foster-Fell, Clyde D. Finlay, Jeff Britton and poems from CC Arshagra. Through November 4.

“Portraits of an Artist.” The winter exhibit features works from M.E.D. Chatham Elementary School’s Second Grade Art Class. November 18-December 3.

Opening Friday, November 18, 6pm-8pm.

ASK ARTS CENTER 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.askforarts.org.

“A Juried Show of Work by Marist College Art Students.” November 5-26.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 5pm-8pm.

“What’s Cooking.” ASK artists’ paintings, graphic art, and photography will stir your taste buds while satisfying your hunger for delicious art. November 5-26.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 5pm-8pm.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Anything Goes!.” Members’ group show. Through December 9.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Migrations.” New Works by Lisa Zukowski. November 12-December 4.

Opening Saturday, November 12, 6pm-9pm.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

“Wabi Sabi.” Group show juried by Scott Balfe. Through November 5.

DARKSIDE RECORDS AND GALLERY 782 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 452-8010.

“Tea and Strumpets.” A vivid collection of paintings and photography inspired by Victorian ethics, haute fashion imagery, and french symbolist poetry by Kathleen Marie. November 19-December 18.

Opening Saturday, November 19, 6pm-9pm.

DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

“Pools of Baca.” Claudia Engel, watercolors. November 7-26.

Opening Saturday, November 26, 5pm-8pm.

FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894.

“TGIF Tiny Drawings.” Humorous cartoons created by Rob Shepperson which express the theme Thank God it’s Friday. November 3-30.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 1pm-5pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199.

“Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me.” November 12-February 11.

Opening Saturday, November 12, 5pm-9pm.

“September 11: Photography of Hale Gurland.” Through November 6.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

“The Hudson’s Seasons & Spans.” Works by photographer Ted Spiegel. Through March 4.

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

“A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum.” European drawings.

Through December 11.

BLACKBIRD ATTIC

GALERIE BMG

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS & ESTUARIES

442 MAIN STREET, BEACON 418-4840.

“Enveloped: Joanna Matuck.” Through November 11.

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

“Kamil Vojnar: Flying Blind.” Through November 28.

Brill gallery

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY

eclipse mill, studio 109, 243 union street, north adams, ma (413) 664-4353.

“Nadine’s Couples.” Full-sized oil portraits of gay and lesbian couples by Nadine Robbins. Through December 31.

“Monumental Vessels.” Six-foot high stoneware vessels by Steve Procter. Through December 31.

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398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400.

“Monsters, Myths & Masks: Personal Demons/Private Monsters.” Group show of incarnations from the poetic to the psychological. Through November 19.

“Old Devil.” A memorial exhibit of paintings, prints and drawings by Konnik. Through November 19.

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Portfolio

Conrad Kramer, Tip Table, 1930, Oil on composite board / Collection of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Gift of Aileen B. Cramer and Margot Cramer Taylor

Over Columbus Day weekend in October, the second annual O+ Festival took place in Uptown Kingston. The event is the brainchild of a group of artists and medical practitioners who wanted to create a barter system for musicians and artists (two groups generally without health insurance) to receive health care. Over 100 musicians performed at the festival, from rockers Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea to avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros. Visual artists also contributed work to O+, mostly in the form of pasteup paper versions of their work, which were plastered onto building exteriors across the streetscapes of Uptown Kingston. (Despite ongoing heavy rains, much of the paste-ups are still in viewable condition.) The photos on the previous spread are a small sampling of O+’s ephemeral guerilla public art project.

While the bands played, doctors, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, massage therapists, and other practitioners provided 272 total hours of free health care to 120 artists, musicians, and volunteers in a temporary clinic. A total of $42,500 worth of care was delivered, from dental fillings to acupuncture treatments. Patients were also offered an opportunity to register for care from the Institute for Family Health, which has residency programs in Kingston and Brooklyn, and offers ongoing care on a sliding scale.

For more information about the O Positive Festival: www.opositivefestival.org.

Paste-up Captions:

—Brian K. Mahoney

Top row: O+ Horde, featuring Jason Sebastian Russo, Paul Heath, Jon Edelhuber, Joe Concra; Paper Airplane, Joe Concra; Sniper, Denise Orzo; still from cut paper stop animation video Money Talks, Tona Wilson.

Middle row: still from cut paper stop animation video Money Talks, Tona Wilson; Please Share, Zed Lucienne, swirls with Sniper, Gabe Brown and Denise Brown; lady and gorilla, Samson Contompasis; girl with balloons, YEAAAH!!!.

Bottom row: head profiles, Denise Orzo; reptile mural detail, Geddes Jones Paulsen and Raudiel Sanudo; skulls, Mike Egan; shoe, Kevin Paulsen; Fu Dog, Bill Dunlap; Couple Feeding, Giselle Potter; Bird and Tires, Derrick McNab. The full list of contributing O Positive Festival paste-up artists: Jojo Ans, Laura Battle, Sadee Brathwaite, Gabe Brown, Joe Concra, Smason Contompasis, Paul Dillon, Bill Dunlap, Jon Edelhuber, Mike Egan, Chris Gonyea, Paul Heath, Scott Holloway, Kingston High School art students, Laura Johansen, Polly Law, Zed Lucienne, Derrick McNab, Joseph Mastroianni, Andy Milford, Denise Orzo, Geddes Jones Paulsen, Kevin Paulsen, Giselle Potter, Jason Sebastian Russo, Raudiel Sanudo, Benjamin Schikowitz, Bonnie Marie Smith, Mike So, Joy Taylor, Jim Toia, YEAAAH!!!, Tim Vermeulen, Ruth Wetzel, and Tona Wilson.

Conrad Kramer, Tip Table, 1930, Oil on composite board / Collection of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum Gift of Aileen B. Cramer and Margot Cramer Taylor

Art and Health Aligning: O+ Festival

Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium

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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ

www.newpaltz.edu/museum Open Wed. – Sun. 11 am – 5 pm 845/257-3844

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ

www.newpaltz.edu/museum Open Wed. – Sun. 11 am – 5 pm 845/257-3844 Closed Wednesday, November 23 – Tuesday, November 29

Closed Wednesday, November 23 – Tuesday, November 29

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HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068.

“Holography: The Art of Shaping Light.” Through November 13.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“CIRCA 1986.” 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Through July 31.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.

“Paintings by Sara Jane Roszak.” Also showing Bruce Gagnier, Gillian Jagger, Jen P. Harris, Meg Carlon, Linda Mussmann, and Osamu Kobayashi. Through November 6.

“Victoria Palermo.” November 10-December 4.

Opening Saturday, November 12, 6pm-8pm.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250.

“Chip Fasciana.” Albany underground artist. Through November 19.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON www.kmoca.org.

“Recent Works by Eileen Hedley, Lora Shelley, Ezerd.” November 5-30.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 5pm-7pm.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER AVE, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

“Hybrid.” A group exhibition curated by Carol March. Through November 27.

THE LIVING ROOM 103 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 270-8210.

“Dana Wigdor: The Floating Verse.” November 4-December 11.

Opening Friday, November 4, 6pm-12am.

Greene County Council On The Arts MAIN STREET, CATSKILL www.greenearts.org.

“Masters On Main Street Round 3.” Through January 30.

MARINA GALLERY 153 MAIN, COLD SPRING 265-2204.

“Blocks & Posts.” Sculpture by James Murray. November 4-27.

Opening Friday, November 4, 6pm-8pm.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.

“Hudson River Towns.” Hardie Truesdale. Through November 29.

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MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“Journeys Between Earth and Sky.” Jennifer Axinn-Weiss. Through November 18.

“Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.” Through March 19.

MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK (800) 662-9463.

“Art in the Loft: Fall 2011.” Through November 13.

MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 82 KELLY STREET, RHINECLIFF 876-2903.

“Seven-Year Retrospective by Pam Krimsky .” November 4-30.

Opening Friday, November 4, 6pm-8pm.

MUROFF-KOTLER GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113.

“From Charkas to Glands.” Through November 13.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Hudson River Scapes.” Paintings by Ed Vermehren. Through November 7.

ROELIFF JANSON COMMUNITY LIBRARY 9091 ROUTE 22, HILLSDALE (518) 325-4101.

“Every Picture Tells a Story.” An exhibit of original illustrations for children’s books. Through November 22.

ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE info@roosarts.com.

“POP: Print Only Please.” Group exhibition featuring artists who work with various techniques of printmaking. Through November 12.

ROSENDALE CAFE 434 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 658-9048.

“An Exhibition of Photographs from Adirondack Style: Great Camps And Rustic Lodges.” By authors and photographers f-stop fitzgerald and Richard McCaffrey. November 1-30.

Opening Sunday, November 6, 2pm-4pm.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.

“Hudson Valley Artists: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty.” Through November 13.

“Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium.” Through December 11.

“Reading Objects 2011: SUNY New Paltz Responds to the Museum Collection.” November 12-11.

Opening Sunday, December 11, 8pm-12am.

SCOTT AND BOWNE FINE ART AND FURNISHINGS 27 NORTH MAIN ST. #1, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 592-0207.

“Trick or Treat? Art to Celebrate Halloween.” Works by local artists in a variety of media. Through November 6.

“Carefully Selected Estate Finds for the Holidays: Antique to Contemporary Art, Tabletop, Serving, & Barware.” November 12-January 15.

Opening Saturday, November 12, 11am-5pm.

STOREFRONT GALLERY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON www.TheStorefrontGallery.com.

“Framed: Near and Distant Views.” Drawings and paintings by Lynn Woods. November 5-26.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 5pm-8pm.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.

“Invitational: Greene County Council on the Arts.” Through January 30.

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Eric Sloane (1905-1985)

“autumn” 24" x 34" Oil on Masonite

Green river Gallery SincE 1975 SpEcializing in workS by Eric SloanE and amErican art of thE 19th and 20 th cEnturiES

part of the “Monsters, Myths, & Masks: Personal Demons/Private Monsters” group show at gcca’s catskill gallery.

TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381.

“Gut Feelings.” Watercolor & gouache paintings by Katharyn Laranger. Through November 16.

Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration group exhibition

ULSTER SAVINGS BANK 58 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5965 ext. 6701.

“Works by Dave Channon.” Through December 6.

Exhibition runs through November 12

UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER

Andrea Cote “Cathexis Series” Digital Image

68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Day of the Dead.” November 4-20.

Opening Friday, November 4, 5pm-7pm.

“Kazuma Oshita and Keiko Sono.” November 27-December 31.

Opening Sunday, November 27, 4pm-6pm.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

“Works by Stephen Derrickson.” Through November 14.

VASSAR COLLEGE’S JAMES W. PALMER GALLERY RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370.

“Through The Student Lens: Photographs of and by Vassar Students,1865-2011.” Through November 22.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Persistence of Imagery.” Mary Mugele Sealfon and Christina Pahucki. November 1-30.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 5pm-7pm.

(845) 784-1146

www.annstreetgallery.org facebook.com/ annstreetgallery

WHITE GALLERY 342 MAIN STREET, LAKEVILLE, CONNECTICUT (86) 435-1029.

“Abstract Visions from Italy.” Eduardo Giannattasio. Through November 27.

THE WHITE GALLERY 924 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 528-3631.

“Natures Influence.” Susan Bradley & Mari Skarp. Through November 27.

WOLFGANG GALLERY 40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446.

“Portrayal.” Oil paintings by Anna Weber. Through November 9.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940.

“Shakespeare and Other Subjects.” Prints and Drawings by Milton Glaser. Through January 2.

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.

THE YOGA HOUSE

November 1-26

Dark & Light

roslyn Fassett Paintings & Drawings Prince street gallery 530 west 25th street new York, n Y 626-230-0246 tues – sat 11am-6pm

57B CROWN STREET, KINGSTON 706-YOGA. “Paper Anniversary.” SUNY New Paltz’s Printmaking Club. November 5-30.

Opening Saturday, November 5, 6pm-8pm.

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Julie Chase, Moth Girl, embroidered photograph, 7” x 5”, 2011.

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

Music

FORCE OF NATURE Sean Rowe

By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly

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pinecone plummets, narrowly missing your music editor’s head. The same crisp October wind that shook it loose stirs up a swirl of dry, brown needles shed by the tall trees shading our chairs. Once in a while a car zips by on the road out front, totally oblivious to the natural drama playing out in Sean Rowe’s Wynantskill back yard—and the wild delicacies it has to offer.

“If I want it, I don’t have to go far to find it here,” says Rowe (rhymes with now). “Just looking around right now, I can see about 50 or 60 edible plants.

There’s a black walnut tree across the road, and I’ve been gathering nuts from it.” Plucking a specimen from a bucket filled with them, he demonstrates how to grind off its fleshy, green outer covering with the sole of his boot to reveal the rock-hard inner prize. “You have to use a hammer or something heavy to crack the nuts, they’re really tough. But they’re great roasted.”

In literature and film, it’s been said, there are four major types of plot conflict: man versus man; man versus nature; man versus society; man versus self.

To varying degrees all four appear to rage within the life and music of Rowe, a 37-year-old singer-songwriter endowed with an astonishing gift for darkly poetic, metaphor-packed narratives. “Surprise,” from Magic (2011, ANTI- Records), makes for a fine example: “My city shakes its head at my wilderness / My heart has built a mind for itself / I found a little shelter inside of a sickness / And I’ll be waiting for the icicles to melt.”

And then there’s the impossibly deep voice Rowe’s words are couched within: a cavernous baritone that easily engulfs those of two of his chief influences, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash. But, perhaps unexpectedly, if you’ve heard him sing, Rowe maintains it was some voices of a far higher range that made the earliest musical impact on him. “My parents always had pop albums on vinyl and 8-track, and the Beach Boys were my favorite,” he says. “The space they created with their music and their voices is just amazing. Growing up, listening to records wasn’t so much of an escape for me. It was more like a meditation.”

Rowe was raised mostly in the Troy area, where his family is deeply rooted.

“Everyone on my mom’s side played or sang, mostly just for fun,” he remembers. “I sang in my uncle’s church group for a while. One of my uncles was a pretty serious jazz pianist, but he gave it up to become a doctor. I’m the only one who’s ever really pursued music professionally, and my family’s been really supportive.” His father bought him a bass guitar when he was 12, and at first the aspiring musician wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. “At that point I hadn’t been exposed to enough music that really showed the role of the bass,” explains Rowe, adding, with a laugh, “I guess I thought it was just another kind of guitar, basically.” By 14 he’d also picked up the acoustic guitar and was soon playing, bass and singing in a succession of high school bands. “I was terrified of singing, it wasn’t something I wanted to do at first,” he explains. “I only really started because the singer in one of the bands I was in quit showing up for rehearsals.”

His interest in nature also began early on, thanks largely to the close proximity of the Catskills and Adirondacks and visits to natural history museums that sparked an obsession with Native American culture. “I would just go get lost in [the museums],” Rowe says. “I studied everything about Native American life and customs that I could.” At 18 he discovered Tom Brown Jr.’s guidebook The Tracker (Berkley Books, 1986), which led to his taking several demanding courses at Brown’s tracking, nature, and survivalist school in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens. He majored in natural resources at Ohio’s Hocking College, but a more profound wilderness learning experience would come in 2007, when he spent almost a month alone in the woods of Cherry Valley. With only a knife and the clothes on his back, Rowe lived for 24 days in a shelter built with his own hands from grass and pieces of scattered earth, subsisting on a regimen of nuts, plants, and “squirrels, chipmunks, mice, insects, whatever wandered into my trap. Surprisingly, some of that stuff isn’t bad—really good in some cases. Bitter greens are pretty vile tasting, but they’re incredibly nourishing. [The period] was probably the most powerful experience of my life. It was hard, but also really fun. I’d do it again if I could.”

While at Hocking he became a singing-and-songwriting machine. Spurred on by deepening connections to the music of Otis Redding and Bob Dylan, he worked up a clutch of songs that would later make it onto his studio recordings.

“Hearing Redding’s voice for the first time was a defining moment,” Rowe says.

“He was such a great singer, but with his songs it always feels like he’s on the same level as the listener; it’s conversational, he’s not out to deflate you emotionally. With Dylan it was another kind of revelation, because for me while

I was growing up ‘folk music’ had taken on a negative connotation. The only folk I’d heard was this washed-down stuff that people from my family’s church played. As great as his reputation as a lyricist is, I think Dylan’s still underrated.

So much of [Dylan’s art] is in how he chooses the words and in the way they flow in the song. And to me it’s a plus that he’s not a virtuosic singer, because it puts the focus on his words and makes him more real as a performer.”

After moving back to Troy, Rowe spent his mid-20s honing his solo-acoustic skills at local open mikes. In 2004 he made his debut with 27 (Independent), whose title is a semiserious reference to his having made it past the age of so many fallen artists (Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Kurt Cobain, et al.).

Although the disc elicited glowing press accolades and substantial college radio airplay, Rowe remains dismissive about it today. “I wrote most of those songs during a growing period, when I was still in Ohio,” he says. “Fans still ask for it, which is cool, but to me it was really just a stepping stone.” Nevertheless, the album helped Rowe get out-of-town shows and he hit the trail, gigging across the country and occasionally camping along the way.

By 2008 he was ready for round two, entering a recording studio located upstairs in the same Troy building where his grandfather had once run an Italian restaurant.The result was Magic, released the following year on Collar City Records. Like its predecessor, Magic differs from Rowe’s standard performance format in that it sports a fuller sound; live, he usually plays unaccompanied, often with tastefully utilized rhythm tracks. But whatever the presentation, it’s all about great songs. And on Magic there are many. Like the above-cited, image-cascading love paean “Surprise” and the ominous, “Sopranos” credits-ready “Old Black Dodge.” But perhaps the topper is “American,” a sad, scathing, and highly personal indictment of modernity. Swathed in a loping, deeply gray, and very Cohen-esque setting, Rowe’s wounded stanzas sear like electric shocks to the hearts of a populace both linked through and alienated by technology: “As his love slips away from his work and his home / He puts out the lights and jerks off alone / He’s married to a cancer / He counts on his Internet girl.”

Rowe toured even harder on Magic, making several jaunts to Europe and the UK, where he headlined and supported indie faves like Noah and the Whale.

By chance his manager ran into Andy Kaulkin, ANTI- Records’ president, at an airport and passed him a copy of the CD. It didn’t take Kaulkin long to get in touch, and the label signed him soon after, reissuing Magic ahead of more Rowe records to come. And with a roster that also includes such similarly dark, confessional songsmiths as Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, and Nick Cave, one couldn’t ask for a more perfect home. Along the way, Rowe’s also found an eager fan in iconic folk singer Greg Brown, whose songs have been covered

by Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Ani DiFranco, and others.

“I happened to hear Sean Rowe on the radio when I was poking around at home, and I immediately wrote down his name and ordered his record,” recalls Brown. “In the murky, longing tone of his voice and his writing is an unpinnabledownable deal that spoke to me, loud and clear. He sounds billy goat gruff, like a troll with a big soul. His songs fly up and off suddenly, like a wild turkey will, and leave your heart pounding as they go.”

As you’re reading this, Rowe himself is back on the wing, making hearts pound once again across mainland Europe, Ireland, England, and the US. He’s also gearing up for the birth of a son next month, getting ready to record album number three in early 2012, and more touring, possibly with a full backing band, in the spring. A former student of wild-food expert Samuel Thayer, Rowe also serves as an occasional guest instructor for wilderness survival and wild food-foraging workshops at Greenfield’s Kawing Crow Awareness Center, and blogs about nature and his music career for the Albany Times Union and his own website.

One of his postings, concerning wild strawberries, is titled “Never Take the Same Path Twice.” “So many times I will be wandering, walking through old fields or abandoned, wooded areas to just explore,” writes Rowe in the entry’s opening paragraph. “I try to keep my mind clear of appointments, deadlines, and all the other ‘gotta do this’ crap that stabs into my brain constantly. I look for spots that are off the beaten path. I try to make a point to take a route that I’ve never taken before. Or maybe I look in a direction that I don’t usually look. That’s when things get interesting. That’s when I bump into some of nature’s magic. It just happens.”

Sean Rowe will open for the Swell Season’s Marketa Irglova at the Bowery Ballroom in NewYork on November 30. Magic is out now on ANTI- Records. www.seanrowe.net.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Other Dimensions in Music November 5. Other Dimensions in Music has been accurately billed as an avant-jazz super group: Roy Campbell, Jr. on trumpet, flugelhorn, and flute; Daniel Carter on saxophones, clarinet, flute, and trumpet; William Parker on bass; and Charles Downs on drums.

The quintet closes out the first season of the—hopefully ongoing—new music series at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, and was formed in the late 1980s, becoming a mainstay at Tonic, the Knitting Factory, and similar New York venues. According to CMJ New Music Report, ODIM is “a generation’s masters at the very height of their powers.”

Indeed, free jazz doesn’t get much better than this. 7:30pm. $10, $15. Cold Spring.

(845) 265-5537; www.chapelofourlady.com.

Alash Ensemble

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November 12. Tuvan vocal and world-fusion group the Alash Ensemble, which visits the Rosendale Café this month, is named for the Alash River, which runs through the band’s homeland and has inspired many of its exotically evocative songs. The group’s four members have been steeped in traditional native music since childhood, learning their ancient techniques from their families and the region’s master throat singers. Alongside its horsehair fiddles and other indigenous Tuvan instruments, the ensemble has been known to work in guitar, accordion, and other Western implements to create a startling hybrid sound. (Mary Gauthier returns November 10; Cajun twosome the GreelySavoyDuo do-se-dos November 19.) 8pm. $10. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; www.rosendalecafe.com.

Randi Russo November 19. Singer-songwriter Randi Russo rose up through the ranks of the Lower East Side’s antifolk scene, and her sound is a more updated embodiment of that ’80s-born, equally folk- and punk-inspired movement. Swapping antifolk’s charter solo-acoustic template for distorted electric guitar and sometimes a full band, Russo, who swings up to hit the Living Room this month, gets frequent and favorable comparisons to Patti Smith and PJ Harvey—certainly no bad thing. Hip webzine Lucid Culture named her fourth and newest full-length, the darkly poetic Fragile Animal, the best album of 2011. 6pm. $10, $15. Cold Spring. (917) 806-1348; www.local845.com.

Ray Davies November 22. For the unaware—and, hopefully, there are very few of you out there—Ray Davies is the front man and predominant songwriter of the Kinks, perhaps the most underrated of the numerous British Invasion acts of the mid 1960s. Although infighting between Ray and his brother, lead guitarist Dave Davies, and a perceived “overly English” penchant for nostalgic melancholia may have kept them from the arena levels of the Rolling Stones and the Who, the Kinks cast the die for heavy metal and punk with hits like “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night” and blended pop with music hall and Romanticism on “Sunday Afternoon,” “Waterloo Sunset,” and other gems. The rock legend graces the Egg this month. (Lindsey Buckingham visits November 2; the Priests preside November 29.) 7:30pm. $39.50, $44.40. Albany. (518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org.

Rock n Roll Resort

The Hudson Valley’s Premiere Jazz and Blues Cafe 845-235-7098 21 Broadway, Kingston, ny Open mic hosted by Jimmy Eppard every Tuesday night 11/3 Bob Cage 11/4 Trio 11 11/6 Local Singer Songwriter Showcase 11/11 Sarah Kramer and Guthrie Lord 11/12 Scott Scharrard Bnad

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The Compact Bob Cage Todd Wolfe Mike Herman Black Dirt Flash Band

alash ensemble plays rosendale café on november 10.

© Strings of Autumn / Petra Hajská

November 25-27. You’d be forgiven for assuming the concert festival season ended with the declining temperatures and changing foliage of September. Not quite: The indoor Rock n Roll Resort, which takes place at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, promises such jam-a-riffic favorites as Deep Banana Blackout, Zach Deputy, Ian Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, the Ryan Montbleau Band, Caravan of Thieves, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Sauce, Sam Kininger, Brothers Past, Kung Fu, New Moon Revue (featuring Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship keyboardist Tom Constanten and Phish collaborator Gordon Stone), and many more. Room packages are available. Check website or call for ticket prices and set times. Kerhonkson. (413) 734-9496; www.rocknrollresort.com.

cd reviews David Rothenberg and Lewis Porter Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (2011, Terra Nova Music)

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all so exhilaratingly eclectic that a casual listener might miss the explorative curiosity within the 12 compositions of Expulsion of theTriumphant Beast by clarinetist David Rothenberg and pianist and keyboardist Dr. Lewis Porter.

From the free motion and whirling electronic sounds of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Available Lightâ&#x20AC;? to the version of Ornette Colemanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stark â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lonely Woman,â&#x20AC;? thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no one tune that pins the release down to call it this or that, which is what makes jazz and improvisational music ever-wondrous.The funk kicks in with â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Work in Newarkâ&#x20AC;? and the swaggering â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bennie M is Back,â&#x20AC;? with Rothenberg having a tough and throaty sound throughout. Porterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overflowing satchel of strategic riffs, twists, and turns pours onto the keys of his piano and Roland Fantom X7 keyboard, and his time with Badal Roy in the quartet Dharma Jazz rubs off in the metallic-sounding pulsations of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rubber Band Man.â&#x20AC;?

Stephen Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s melancholy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hard Times Come Again No Moreâ&#x20AC;? finishes the release.

Putnam Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rothenberg and Westchester Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Porter will perform at the Falcon in Marlboro on December 8 (Porter does double duty that evening with Dharma Jazz, which opens the show). Rothenberg will be at the Inquiring Mind bookstore in Saugerties on November 12 for the presentation of his third book, Survival of the Beautiful. An author and a philosopher-naturalist, he says that â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is more music in the animal world than there is language.â&#x20AC;? A well-noted educator, Porter is an author as well (see 2000â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s John Coltrane: His Life and Music). www.davidrothenberg.net. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

Epigene A Wall Street Odyssey (2011, Independent)

Although Woodstockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Epigeneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sean Bigler and Bonnie Lykesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;first conceived this epic, double-CD, 24-song rock opera in 2005, it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have arrived at a more opportune time; not since the Depression has the image of Wall Street been so tarnished in the public eye. Folks are ripe for a compelling story in this conflict-rich milieu and Epigene delivers, big-time, with audacious music and a lush illustrated book. The hero of this three-part tale is investment banker Yossarian, whose soul-crushing work drives him to addiction and, ultimately, complete mental collapse and homelessness. Saved by his hippie brother,Yossarian heals and becomes enlightened at an ecovillage in Upstate NewYork, then heads back to Manhattan to try to convince the urban dwellers theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re puppets in an encroaching fascist dystopia.

Musically, this is Wagnerian stuff, propelled mostly by Bigler, who wrote, recorded, and produced A Wall Street Odyssey at home in a contained electrical storm of devotion, ambition, and top-notch musicianship. Biglerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rare soaring tenor recalls front men of yore like Ian Gillan, Brad Delp, and Peter Gabriel, and his sonic palette stretches far and wide. This is ballsy, textured, musical storytelling, with exhilarating derring-do in both literary and musical execution; the fraught drama spins out in time signature-shifting prog, anthemic rock, and woodsy folk. And just when you think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re listening to a take-no-prisoners â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s LP, Bigler throws in found sound and the creepy rhythm of computers. If you like your rock bold, this is an odyssey youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll relish. www.epigenemusic.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Robert Burke Warren

Richie Stearns Missing (2010, Independent)

There wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a better autumn record this year than Richie Stearnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Missing. Stearns, the tenor guitar and banjo mastermind behind northern New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tradbending Horseflies, may live where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grey, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made a record of rustic browns, muted oranges, and dissipated yellows. Missing sounds like dusk. The guest list here is top notch, with contributions from multiinstrumentalists Dirk Powell and Carrie Rodriguez, among others. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illegal in most municipalities to review a Stearns project without using the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;eclectic,â&#x20AC;? but Missing makes it easy, bouncing from the twangy reggae of Peter Toshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downpressor Manâ&#x20AC;? to the floating â&#x20AC;&#x153;banjo feedbackâ&#x20AC;? of the traditional â&#x20AC;&#x153;Train on the Island.â&#x20AC;? The opening â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh My Little Darlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? with Rodriguezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gorgeously spooky harmonies and Stearnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keening fiddle, demands repeat play for the entire length of long night rides on lonely roads.

Where Missing stumbles, late in its length, is with the pairing of Trent Reznorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hurtâ&#x20AC;? and Jim Reevesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Have to Go.â&#x20AC;? Both have already been performed so iconically, by Johnny Cash and the similarly venturesome Ry Cooder, as to be rendered moot here.

But Stearnsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark, weird â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Are My Sunshineâ&#x20AC;? and the sheer ache (not to mention the meteorological counterpoint) of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cold Cold Rainâ&#x20AC;? more than make up for the latter.

The oddball coversâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m So Depressedâ&#x20AC;? by the ultimate outsider one-man band, Abner Jayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will attract music geeks to Missing, but it is originals like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire Burningâ&#x20AC;? and the gentle â&#x20AC;&#x153;More Than the Windâ&#x20AC;? that will hook them. www.richiestearns.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael Eck

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ENDLESS CONNECTION Jeffrey Yangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Planetary Poetics

By Nina Shengold Photograph by Roy Gumpel

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hat alchemy goes into making a poet? Though every writer’s cauldron is idiosyncratic, certain binding ingredients recur: an unusual childhood, a teenage infatuation with Romantic verse, an abiding passion for language and music. And then there’s the unpredictable quicksilver element—perhaps a short stint on a deep-sea research vessel.

Poet Jeffrey Yang made his debut with a literal splash. His first collection, An Aquarium (Graywolf Press, 2008), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, is an alphabetical sequence of 55 poems. Though the organizing principle is a marine bestiary, the creatures between Abalone and Zooxanthellae include not just Barnacle, Clownfish, and Dolphin, but Google, Intelligent Design, US, and Vishnu; clearly Yang’s aquarium has bigger fish to fry.

Graywolf just released his second collection, Vanishing-Line, an equally brilliant suite of seven longer poems on a staggering range of topics, both historical and personal. It’s a densely textured work, its magisterial sweep more suggestive of an elder statesman contemplating mortality than the cheerful 36-year-old who comes to the door in a slate-gray shirt, jeans, and well-worn cotton slippers.

Yang’s bright smile is framed by a minimalist goatee; he wears a string bracelet around one wrist, and could easily pass for a graduate student.

He lives with his wife and two children in a suburban neighborhood near Beacon’s Main Street. Set back from the road, the house is fringed by a row of lateseason tomato plants and a small koi pond.Yang’s writing studio is an outbuilding constructed by the former owner as a carpentry workshop, which seems apt: Beautiful things are built here. Walls that once sported hammers and power tools are now lined with overstuffed bookcases. Loose books lie in front of shelved ones in untidy piles, pages bristling with paper scraps and small yellow Post-it notes.

Several shelves are devoted to books published by New Directions, where Yang is an editor. The window above his desk frames a breathtaking view of Mount Beacon. Today its peak is obscured by low-hanging mists, clouds curling through trees in a way that suggests Japanese inkwash paintings.

Yang puts in four days a week as an editor, two in New York and two at home.

He writes “Fridays, evenings, and other odd scraps of time,” juggling his own poetry with translation projects. Despite the time stresses, he finds that “editing, poetry, and translation feed into each other in a way that’s positive. As an editor, you have to love to read. Careful reading feeds into writing. And translation is the best thing you can do to teach yourself to write.You need to look at language very, very carefully, thinking about every choice you make.You really have to be attuned to what the author is trying to do—grammatically, linguistically, stylistically. It teaches you by slowing down your reading.”

Though the NewYork Times Book Review called An Aquarium “a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel,” Yang’s conversation comes from a much more accessible level. His discourse is sprinkled with GenX locutions like “sort of,” “you know,” and a questioning, upward inflection; it’s almost as if he’s abashed by his own erudition, reflexively downshifting to Marianne Moore’s “plain American which dogs and cats can read.”

Not that his verse courts obscurity. “I’m definitely not trying to write something difficult or pretentious. A lot of what I hope is that the music carries the meanings. There’s complexity and simplicity,” Yang says, citing “an Eastern tradition in Japanese and Chinese poetry and arts, especially those influenced by Buddhism: They’re so simple, but a metaphor for everything. Like a circle painting.”

Still, even a moderately well-educated reader may be intimidated byVanishingLine’s thicket of literary, historical, and cross-cultural references, not to mention the subtle geometry of the book’s structure.Yang’s work rewards careful rereading and pondering, and perhaps a few trips to the OED. From “Two Spanish Poems”: Memory upon memory of stone wood, tapia, stucco.

linked star dado, spandrels lead to frieze each form follows its intention,

each carving a hidden glory Vanishing-Line took shape over a 10-year period. “The concept was always the same, but it expanded and contracted over the years,” Yang explains. He came across the title phrase in Alexander García Düttmann’s Between Cultures, from which he drew the book’s epigraph. Its many possible meanings resonated with

him; he enumerates “poetic lines, horizon line, lines of thinking, lineage, blood lines” as some of the things that may vanish.

The opening and closing poems, “Throne” and “Yennecott,” sift through layers of vertical history, calling to vanished cultures in old and new worlds. “Elegy for Ling” honors a family member who took her own life, and “Lyric Suite” was inspired by the death of Yang’s grandmother, who lived with his family during his high school years. Its title comes from an Alban Berg composition, which, Yang says, “shaped the whole book.”

Another poem, “Tide Table,” riffs on a film installation by South African artist William Kentridge. Yang was mesmerized by Kentridge’s stop-motion charcoal drawings: “what he draws, what he erases.” In a bibliographical afterword to Vanishing-Line, he reflects, “This seepage of works into work feels as natural as tar bubbling up in a field—sometimes drawn out through seeking, often unconscious or dreamt, always enigmatic, the way words transform souls into words, word bound to word.” Some lines later, he writes, “Poetry looking back and ahead could be said to have preceded the weblink as endless connection into world-information.”

Yang’s writing process is one of accretion: “First a line, or an idea.A line that turns into an idea, or an idea that turns into a line.” He writes by hand on scraps of paper, or in the margins and blank back pages of books he’s reading, often on the train. “You’re talking to the book—it’s almost like marginalia, the thoughts that come out,” he says of this habit. Next the scraps “migrate to the computer,” where he runs through many drafts, often leaving off for long stretches and coming back fresh.

Yang grew up in Escondido, “this sort of weird place” outside San Diego. His parents emigrated from Taiwan in the1960s (the family was doubly displaced, having left mainland China in 1948). They spoke Chinese at home until Yang and his siblings “rebelled against it in high school.” The elder Yangs weren’t especially literary, though “they always wanted us to learn” and often gave books as gifts; Yang’s father, an engineer, liked to read wuxia (martial arts knight-errant tales).

Though Yang started reading poetry in high school, his major in college was marine biology. After graduation, he worked at the Scripps Institute Aquarium, feeding fish, cleaning tanks, and monitoring animals. Later he spent four months as a lab assistant on a research vessel above the Galapagos Rift, studying an unusual ecosystem caused by underwater sulfur smokers. He spent most of his time “cutting up animals”—mostly long tube worms—for molecular research, which bothered him. “They were so beautiful,” he says ruefully. The expedition spent two months at sea, then made a four-day supply run (“our cook ditched us in Acapulco,” Yang laughs) and returned for two more months, during which Yang kept a journal and read Moby-Dick. Did this launch his writing career?

“I never thought of writing as a career.” He shrugs. “I always assumed I would be doing something else.” He spent a year teaching English in China, then moved to New York, where he studied at NYU and started working at New Directions’ front desk. He’s been there for 11 years, moving up through the ranks to his current title of editor-at-large. “Working at the press is amazing. I get to help bring all these books into the world,” he says, beaming.

Yang’s translation of incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies is forthcoming from Graywolf in April; the Dalai Lama just sent in a foreword. In 2009, a year before Liu won the Nobel,Yang translated some of his poems for a journal published by PEN. Larry Siems, director of PEN’s Freedom to Write project, met with Liu’s wife Liu Xia and brought back two manuscripts: a volume of poems exchanged as prison letters by husband and wife, and the June Fourth Elegies, commemorating those killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

There’s a great deal of buzz about this bilingual publication, since Liu’s poetry, long censored in China, is hard to find in any language.Yang notes that he’s better known as an activist, essayist, and cultural critic—“You really can’t talk about human rights activism without talking about him.” But aside from the handful of poems on PEN’s website, information about Liu’s poetry is largely secondhand.

What is it like from a literary standpoint?

“Very intense, bare-boned, concise,” Yang reports. “It’s not the most subtle poetry, but it can’t be separated from the context of what he’s writing about and where he’s writing from. It’s a poetry of witness.”

Yang can now add another Nobelist to his international resume: Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, whose complete poems he acquired and edited for New Directions, just won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jeffrey Yang folds his legs onto his chair, gazing out at fog-shrouded Mount Beacon. “The way we write is who we are and what we see,” he says. “It goes back so far and crosses different cultures. A lot of what we write comes out of long traditions.You’re not lonely; you’re communing with all these great voices.” And adding your own, in an endless connection.

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2011 poetry ROUNDUP

Recently released books by Hudson Valley poets, reviewed by Lee Gould, Djelloul Marbrook, and Nina Shengold

Freedom Hill

Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits

L.S. Asekoff

Molly McGlennen

Triquarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2011, $16.95

Salt Publishing, 2011, $15.95

“Can you hear me? Now? Now? Now?” Thus begins Asekoff’s brilliant verse novella, a dramatic one-way “phonologue” with Louis, the poet’s mentor-namesake. The witty 60-year-old professor riffs energetically—often savagely—on millennial America. “I began my essay,” he writes, “on the all-American fast food—blood…” Informed by wide reading and a surreal sensibility, this beautifully-crafted comedy of manners moves from rural Maryland to Manhattan’s art world and finally to a hospital where, recovering from a stroke, Louis relearns language, finding consolation in “the visible into the invisible” flights of birds “…like something that has migrated and then found its way home.” A masterpiece! —LG

McGlennen’s title belies the grandeur and tragedy of these diverse and deft lyrics about Native Americans. The author, who is part Anishinaabe, is, like her subjects, rooted in their majestic respect for the ordinary. Our First People never needed William Carlos Williams to celebrate what a consumer society quickly churns into junk. “I have been told the secrets of never having a home,” begins “Columbus Day”–words that could have been spoken by Chief Joseph or Black Elk. These poems are elegiac and heart-rending. —DM

The Still Position Barbara Blatner New York Quarterly Books, 2010, $14.95

Blatner addresses her dying mother in a verse memoir of unflinching physicality: In these vivid imagistic poems, we see the weakening mother become a swamped skiff, “little fish,” “birdbody.” Narrow and jagged, the poems on the page suggest the skeletal mother, the breathless, anguished daughter. But rawness is countered by natural beauty, family bonds, laughter.

The shadowy mountains, the lawn’s “mauvey” butterflies, the newly antlered buck offer consolation, while the mother’s lively dialogue charms: “Give me Pavarotti/or nothing!” she crows.

Her last words to her squabbling adult offspring? “Don’t be an ass!” Good advice, redemptive poetry. —LG

You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake Anna Moschovakis Coffee House Press, 2011, $16

Moschovakis’ prizewinning second collection presents poems that are precise, yet surprising in the liberties they take, the paths they follow, the tangents they explore. We witness Louis XV’s extravagant hunting expedition: “The carcasses came home in bags/the nobles came home drunk…” Is this 1755, or 2011? Short lines poised in white space and sentence-stanzas linked by logical word-bridges calmly interrogate our ways of life. Are we the wasteful wilderness backpackers told: “The canoe turned over is/a house,” then warned, “The island turned over/is a canoe”? These wise poems are warm, often funny, linguistically lively, and beautiful. —LG

verbal paradise, preverbs George Quasha Zasterle Press/Small Press Distribution, 2011, $15

Crush Test Dennis Doherty Codhill Press, 2010, $16

Doherty builds poems like a bower bird, gleaning linguistic trinkets from such unlikely sources as an AP news headline (“Mystery Blob Found Near Dawn of Time”) or the title poem’s discarded carton, with its braggart “Edge Crush Test (40 Pounds).” He sings the body electric in language both startling and muscular, from the ecstatic recollection of “the god-gathered elate bodysurf lift” to the blunt “Mud and sex are wet smut and there’s a lot/you can make with them, like bodies and bowls.”

“This is no confessional,” Doherty warns, but his poems court intimate knowledge. —NS

Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie Joshua Harmon The University of Akron Press, 2010, $14.95

“Spleen” has at least five meanings in French and English, and Vassar professor Harmon explores them all, keeping Charles Baudelaire’s Le Spleen de Paris in mind, while describing the ineffable loneliness of a hard-luck city: “The house shudders in wind/like living with my girlfriend.” Harmon’s poetics is as varied and informed as his observations are piercing, aching, and sometimes chilling. Saying the unimpeachable thing is Harmon’s authority. —DM

English owes its magisterial authority to poets like George Quasha. He finds its frontiers and surveys them. But he is concerned with more than the aeronautics of words—he choreographs their dance with his ideas. “When a poem is all here it is living its future now./A line is an age./Any word carries untold emptiness equal to what it says.” These three lines reveal verbal paradise as a fireworks of verb and ideation, the verb acting as the fuse for stunning meditations. There is a kind of mathematical glory in Quasha’s poems. —DM

What Focus Is Matthew J. Spireng Word Press, 2011, $18

A sniper’s memory and a sense of reconnaissance pervade Matthew Spireng’s poems, but haunting ideation distinguishes them. In “Recognition” he writes, “Remember, before we met/I always dreamed I was you.” How better to say this familiar sensation? Spireng is a poet of place, space, and creatureliness-the book begins with a drowning horse and ends with a pigeon attending a poetry festival. The rhetoric is evolved and informed, inarguably appropriate to the task, even if it’s to describe poet Marge Piercy’s twiddly toes. —DM

Charlotte BrontË, You Ruined my Life Barbara Louise Ungar

Uncertainties Robert Kelly Station Hill, 2011, $15.95

Composing a book’s worth of poems in unpunctuated two-line stanzas may seem a bit like trying to dance in a straitjacket, but the polymathically perverse Kelly finds freedom in constraint. Call-and-response lines of mysterious beauty (“some say there are no animals at all/men die in India from the tiger claws of dreams”) and quirky humor (“Go milk that cloud of one more morning/language is breakfast but what’s for lunch”) etch themselves on the imagination like cross-country ski tracks. —NS

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The Word Works, 2011, $15

Ungar’s far-reaching third collection treats, in various ways, failed love: “I put my head inside an alligator’s/jaws to touch tongues.” Thus she depicts the sexy but withholding “brute”-husband from whom she journeys. Ungar pulls love’s “rusted hook” through research into literature and pop culture. We meet Jane Eyre, Barbie, Rembrandt’s Lucretia, and—when love appears—Dante’s Beatrice.

The ways society suppresses women are detailed in the horrifying “The Brank”—the shrew’s helmet that lacerated the tongue—and “Mo’ Bad Names for Women” (“…ho hooker harlot streetwalker slapper…”) Although heartwrenching and sometimes angry, the poems are witty and always musical. —LG

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The Beginners Rebecca Wolff

Riverhead Books, 2011, $26.95

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inger Pritt, the rueful heroine of award-winning poet (National Poetry Series; Barnard Women Poets Prize) Rebecca Wolff’s lyrical début novel, is a peculiar 15-yearold. “Introspective” and day-dreamy, a good student (who has skipped a grade) among the teenage “louts” of ho-hum Wick, Massachusetts, she reads Jane Austen, Gore Vidal, and tomes about magic. At local diner Top Hat, she works as a cook and raids the boss’s porn stash. But still possessing “a child’s native capacity for belief—some call it naïveté,” Ginger and her 17-year-old best friend Cherry Endicott spend their free time playing castles and kingdoms near an abandoned woolen mill. Cherry renounces make-believe for “talk about boys,” just as sophisticated, thirty-something Theo and Raquel Motherwell settle in the New England village. A gothic romance of sexual awakening thus unfolds as the portal to Ginger’s childhood slams shut.

A snippet of graffiti places Ginger’s retrospective narration sometime in the mid-1980s, recognizably void of cell phones and helicopter parents. But time feels deliberately indeterminate, in keeping with the town’s eerie history, echoed by the Motherwells’ uncertain origins. PhD students (perhaps masquerading), the loquacious newcomers fascinate Ginger, a frequent visitor to their ramshackle house, where witty, adult banter dominates. “Raquel spoke, all the time, in language calculated to impress. It was huge, and smelled of the future.” Wolff’s dialogue is spot-on: When discussing Salem’s witch trials the presumed researcher enumerates “factors that contributed to this sweep of spiritual executions.” The most compelling conversations center around sex, including Theo’s disquisition on Marquis de Sade. In contrast, Ginger’s work-weary parents remain tight-lipped, in part from private grief; a discussion of birth control between mother and daughter transpires in a few clipped sentences.

Nothing much else happens in the community, aside from holiday fireworks and parades. For kicks, youngsters trespass where “three towns live underwater” at the reservoir. The narrator declares of this recurring setting (possibly based on the real-life Quabbin Reservoir, near Ware, Massachusetts), “Now, this is what I call supernatural: times that float in recollection but are history till we reanimate them with powerful imagination.” Details of the reservoir’s construction are relayed as a high school essay, penned by Ginger’s older brother Jack. Such plot devices recall Nathaniel Hawthorne’s definition of romance-writer territory, “somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and Imaginary may meet.”

Wick (think “witch”) in fact summons Salem, where Wolff’s ancestor and namesake Rebecca Nurse was hanged for witchcraft in 1692; her story is reformulated in The Beginners. A bit of Hester Prynne also resides in Ginger Pritt, a bit of devil in her seducer. Macabre sex replaces black magic throughout the latter-day tale.

Founder of the avant-garde literary journal Fence, Wolff sidesteps straightforward storytelling to focus on the language of imagination and unconsciousness, explored through dream sequences, diary entries, strange disappearances, and unexplained lapses of time. Of Raquel, she writes, “Was it the realm of her imagination, into which she vanished?” Beautifully crafted descriptions likewise permeate. “There is nothing like firelight, flickering on a troubled face or on the glossy jacket of a book on a shelf, to bring a room into sharp focus,” observes Ginger. Elsewhere, crows perched on a cupola appear “wicked, in their hunched postures of silhouetted predation.” Sky assumes “a telling quietude” as “a whitewash of clouds obscured the sun and cast a flat, smooth, cooler light.” Emboldened by a risk-taking poet’s eye, scenes and circumstances resonate long after you close the book.

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THE CHRONOGRAM POETS Sunday, November 27 at 4pm Kleinert/James Arts Center 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock Celebrate our annual poetry issue with brief readings by poets featured in this month’s books section.

Featured Poets: L.S. Asekoff Molly McGlennen Barbara Blatner Anna Moschovakis Dennis Doherty George Quasha Lee Gould Matthew J. Spireng Robert Kelly Pauline Uchmanowicz Djelloul Marbrook Barbara Louise Ungar hosted by Nina Shengold This event is free and open to the public.

REFRESHMENTS SERVED. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Sponsored by

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our December issue is November 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first).

Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.

Moon Poem

What is Poetry?

The moon has kissed the stars so tenderly. The moon is climbing the sky like a panda on bamboo. The moon has beautiful dances of moonlight. The moon is as round as a soccer ball.

Prose is prose.

And poetry is everything else.

—p

If I were to go to the moon, I would love it and never come back.

I would be stuck there like glue, and be quiet as a mouse.

—Ana Dooley (9 years old)

The Last Stand

Bending

Observation

Wearing a pale green suit She stood beside her battered bag And fingering her beads She remembered her boy’s bony knee.

To endure the wind a tree’s roots remain firm,

But branches,

to survive,

understand bending.

Tonight I saw a firefly blink briefly.

I had to look twice. I thought they had all died.

She freed a foot from her narrow shoe And placed it on the hard wood floor Feeling the cold seep through she said ‘My son has gone to park the car’.

Two hours passed like the fluttering of flying bats No one saw a slip dip Or a run climb softly up her leg Or how the candles lit his face when he was four.

—Deirdre Dowling

Wanting to Fish

—Checko Miller

A Brief Meeting Never could an envelope Be licked and stamped Sent through the US postal Service all the way to the State of California It must be kept as it was

The color, the size, the weight and the height The long or the short? The heavy or light?

What kind of hook? And what kind of knot?

Do I fish on the bottom? Or fish on the top?

And the bait, I don’t know

What should I use?

Or maybe a lure is what I should choose And what if I catch one?

What would I do?

Keep it and eat it

Or let it go loose?

And so in the end, I am resolved To not fish at all, there’s too much involved —Hugh Mann 60 poetry ChronograM 11/11

Not all is lost.

I once saw you smile at a spider web.

And you are happy when it rains.

—Jenna St. Pierre

—Deb Shufelt

That’s The Way Love Is

Too Late

I want to fish, but I can not It’s been so long that I forgot Many decisions herein are found The rod, the reel, the line that’s wound

Walking with you has become a chore.

I notice the subtleties of moonlight on the leaves overhead but all you see are buildings, power lines or plastic bags. I examine your mouth or eyes for confirmation of wonder but lately, all you do is scream.

The crab you think the tide has churned up for your delectation has no body You crack its shell and sand pours out What’s hollow was heavy with promise when you found it and carried it home ignorant that the gulls had feasted first —Roberta Gould

Her breath— Her breath— Her breath—

was sour with warm beer in the morning when she kissed me Aaahhhhhhhhhh…

Pale slope of her breast

Let me witness Your shoulder blades Permit me To Adorn your interior With all that

I know

This morning We are vapor

Her breath— Her breath— Her breath—

was sour with warm beer in the morning when she kissed me —Robert Calero

While You Were Sleeping

Ode To My Jeep

Drawing Blinds

While you were sleeping,

I called up an ex-lover and got back

on good terms. I then redialed and told

her I slept with her sister.

Everyone wants me to trade my old girl in She’s a gas guzzler She’s ugly, I mean, are you really going to park that beast next to my smooth BMW? Her spray paint might rub off and stain our image She’s a hillbilly Jeep She’s rusted and rutted and holey

Lovers begin to mimic one another: speaking each other’s words so as to sound familiar, the homage of imitation.

I’ve heard it for myself—

While you were sleeping,

I told Sylvia Plath to kill

herself. She did.

While you were sleeping,

I watched four suedeheads surrender to

a ghostly cavalcade, letting their mannequin esque bodies drop like bags of skin.

While you were sleeping,

I shot H with Jesus and told him I

didn’t care for his father. I wondered

even if He believed in Himself.

While you were sleeping,

I got drunk with ol’ Buk

and told him he was just a shittier copy

of Fante. He called me a cunt and

threw a lazy, drunken punch.

While you were sleeping,

I broke into Nerval’s

apartment and put Thibualt, his pet

lobster, into a serious and peaceful

pot of boiling water. The screams

were delightful. I left Nerval the blue

silk ribbon of a leash on my finished

dinner plate.

While you were sleeping,

I noticed a naked tree performing a

ballet up high on the balding mountain.

The birds joined in and crooned a

Rachmaninoff classic.

While you were sleeping,

I let the opium angels kindly

touch my face and rub their fingers

thru my wild head of hair. I floated—

immaculate.

While you were sleeping,

I met Breton in a Paris

cafe for espresso. We smoked cigarettes.

We talked about blue acrylic cups.

I was Nadja.

While you were sleeping,

I stroked Oscar Wilde’s hard Dandy

cock. Sorry.

—J. M. Toth

Holy indeed, my old girl It’s just us now The longest most intimate relationship I ever had to anyone or anything How could I let you go?

You helped me escape and also contained me I am the turtle meat, you are the shell Inside are secret screams and rantings and prayers that you’ll never disclose My old girl, my confidante old faithful friend You move me carry me hide me You were my homeless shelter Indian blanket in the back and enough food and water for a week Holy indeed A church A sanctuary My big red four wheel They say you’re losing your looks, babe, but you’re a stunner to me Let’s holler “Road Trip!” and drive to the end of the land We haven’t smelled salty air in over ten years I’ll stop often You can rest and I’ll make car sandwiches on your hood There at the edge of the world where rubber meets sea glass and mud babies the lighthouse will decide our next destination and if goodbyes or hellos are the order of the day Holy Holy Holy —Maryann Stafford

the hawk’s screech re-sounded through the blue jay’s thinner throat; he’s an amateur impersonator, only relaying the sound of the message, not the spirit: seizing, talons tearing up a carcass.

Trapped in the beak of remembrance, I find myself drawing up the blinds, talking to the day much like you did when you still moved, my voice full of sound—seizing— but no spirit.

—William Hurst

Early Flight cold wet morning a blue heron stands still near still water reaches up with great grey wings and flies away the sky taut and new.

—E Gironda, Jr.

Appleseeds of Dissent I learned of Johnny As a quirky man Obsessed with apples, For a hat, a saucepan.

Learning’s long arc Bears different fruits, Johnny’s quirks had Method for roots.

His apples were not For bites, pies or cans, They made good hard cider Out of reach of tax plans.

—Kelly Lee 11/11 ChronograM poetry 61

rondout valley

a brilliant patchwork

by Anne Pyburn photos by David Morris Cunningham

Driving west over the Shawangunk Ridge on Route 44/55, the rock formations and forestscapes open up and fall away and you can suddenly see for miles over rolling acres speckled with civilization, straight on to the majestic Catskills standing guard to the north. You’re looking at the Rondout Valley—come take a closer look.

sam’s point

HIGH TALE-ING IT That the Rondout Valley’s fertile farmlands, mountain backdrops, and historical wealth remain largely unspoiled is no accident. The courage and savvy of the early farming families led to an inheritance of open spaces that current residents know they can’t take for granted; working together with the Open Space Institute, they’ve made sure that their birthright of beauty will welcome their grandchildren and yours.

Some efforts, like the Three Farms Project, focus on preserving the lush growing land while making sure that farmers can survive while resisting development pressure. Others, like the acquisition of Sam’s Point and the addition of the Frederick W. I. Lundy estate to the Sundown Wild Forest, preserve natural ecosystems and open up stunning natural playgrounds.

Throughout most of the nineteenth century, the Delaware & Hudson Canal shaped local lives, carrying coal from Pennsylvania up to the mouth of the Rondout Creek at the Hudson River. The Five Locks Walk, maintained by the D&H Canal Society in High Falls and open to visitors year round, is a wonderful place to get a feel for the days when bucolic Accord was bustling Port Jackson and captains of industry depended on Rondout Valley canawlers to make it all work.

Local history buffs are tireless, preserving a one-room schoolhouse here and a historic train depot there. Come see. Bring your camera.

You’ll be glad you did.

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Namaste Sacred Healing Center www.namasteSHC.com

The Country Inn www.krumville.com

The Ridge Gym www.theridgegym.com

ellenville public library & museum www.eplm.org

town of rochester www.townofrochester.net

ellenville/wawarsing chamber of commerce www.ewcoc.com

rondout valley www.rondoutvalley.org

High Falls Cafe www.highfallscafe.com

Soundscape (845) 626-4038

High Meadow School www.highmeadowschool.org

stone ridge library www.stoneridgelibrary.org

Hole in the Wall (845) 210-7086

suny ulster www.sunyulster.edu

Hudson Valley Seed Library www.seedlibrary.com

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Mary Collins Real Estate www.marycollinsrealestate.com

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Yoga on Duck Pond (845) 687-4836

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good soil worked

by good people Jen Redmond relocated to the Rondout Valley in 2003. “I fell in love with everything about it here,” she says. A real estate agent for Prudential Nutshell and purveyor of fine beverages at Stone Ridge Wine and Spirits in between her volunteer service to the Rondout Valley Growers Association (RVGA) and involvement in local animal rescue efforts, Redmond says a drive along the Route 209 corridor is one of her favorite ways to spend a free afternoon.

“That corridor is some of the most fertile farmland in the country, and local farmers do magic with it,” she says. “I like to wander the different farms—Barthel’s has about six different kinds of local cider,

kelder’s farm

Kelder’s has that giant garden gnome, Davenport’s has amazing baked goods. These are old farming families, and they know all kinds of local lore and stories.” All through the valley, you’ll find herbalists and equestrians, maple syrup gatherers and free-range meats, fresh baked goods, and fruit smoothies. The RVGA website offers the latest on what’s available when; meats, grains, herbs, and dairy are available year round. If you plan on looking for a holiday tree, the Rondout Valley offers five options: Barthel’s Farm Market, Bell’s Christmas Trees, Kelder’s Farm, Marshall’s Tree Farm, and Stover’s Christmas Tree Farm. “Farm stands offer all kinds of gift basket possibilities, and when you buy there you’re helping to ensure that the amazing gift of open space and fresh food remain available to all of us,” Redmond points out.

www.rondoutvalleygrowers.org

saunderskill farms

marcus guiliano at aroma thyme bistro

daniel dor at bodacious bagels

rebekah underhill & samantha simmons at jack & luna’s

shadowland theatre

lounge and linger

stone ridge healing arts

ryan fitzgerald at the high falls food co-op

nectar

richard murphy at the egg’s nest

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QUIRKY TREASURES At the southern end of the valley is Ellenville, quirky and indomitable.

Ever wonder where they make pogo sticks? Ellenville. It’s the premiere hang gliding center in the northeastern United States and home to the Shadowland Theatre, producing top-quality plays in a refurbished vaudeville hall. Up the mountain, you’ll find Sam’s Point Preserve; at over 2,200 feet, it’s the highest spot in the Shawangunk range and home to a surrealistic micro-ecosystem of dwarf pines. Down in the valley below, Aroma Thyme Bistro serves Zagat-rated and much-loved organic eats. Stop at Cohen’s Bakery for a loaf of the outstanding raisin pumpernickel they’ve been perfecting for nearly a century.

Heading north, you’ll find yourself in the hamlet of Kerhonkson among more quirky treasures: Barra and Trumbore, stone fabricators who can create just about anything, and Helena’s Specialty Pierogies, considered addictive by those in the know. Stop at the Outpost Barbecue for succulent pulled pork or brisket, or venture a little way up the mountainside for “contemporary country” fare at Oscar.

This part of the countryside was once the northeastern-most corner of the Borscht Belt, and the Granit Hotel of Accord its glittering outpost. There’s not a lot of Borsch Belt left, but the Granit is reborn as the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, where you can go grab a workout, a swim, and a Jacuzzi-soak for a reasonable price. Accord is home to Skate Time 209, a roller rink and indoor skateboard park that radiates exuberance: Teens love the Battles of the Bands, little ones and parents love the birthday parties, and everybody loves the way the owners, the Bernardos, treat them like guests in a giant living room that just happens to have very eccentric furnishings.

There are lots of artistic and green-thinking residents shaken and stirred into the mix, but the Rondout Valley hasn’t become gentrified into homogenization. Organic CSAs and artists’ studios flourish amidst old-school gin mills and Friday night dirt track racing at the Accord Speedway. It’s real here, and aiming to stay that way. “Passionate, eclectic, creative, kind, artistic, community-minded souls choose to make Rondout Valley their home,” says longtime transplant Pamela Longley, an artist and paralegal. “Some have long-standing roots, others take root—and the combination creates a diverse patchwork of genuine folks who deeply love and appreciate where we live. It’s easy to strike up a conversation with your neighbors.” Accord-Kerhonkson. com, the unofficial guide to the hamlets, lists contact info for three dozen area artists, a dandy resource if you’d like to combine online browsing, local shopping, and unique gifts: Barbara Klar’s sparkling Clear Metals jewelry, hand-forged iron from Jonathan Nedbor’s smithy, exquisite ceramics, oils, and photographs that capture the Rondout Valley’s mind-stroking beauties.

Off 209, up in the hills of Krumville, the Country Inn has been serving a vast variety of brews for decades; Draft magazine has called them one of the best hundred beer bars in America, but hey, they knew that. They’ve got free live music on Friday nights, and a outdoor fire pit to gather ‘round when the band’s on break.

Another unique Rondout Valley enterprise, the Catskill Native Nursery, is an 1860s homestead turned font of great gardening ideas.

They’ve got over 600 species of plants: So many great things grow here, after all, some of which become medicinal magic at the Accord Acupuncture and Herb Shoppe.

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Join us for the holiday factory sale Wed. Dec. 7th to Sun. Dec. 11th, 9-6 daily. Prices are marked at or below wholesale. Also featuring other local manufacturers!

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Find yourself here.

Drive down a long allé of century-old cedars, past the adorable guest house and pottery studio, round the bend, and let the pastoral scene take your breath away. Open vistas as far as the eye can see, stone wall-lined pastures, rolling meadows graced by a significant clerestory barn, and just beyond sits the exquisitely classic farmhouse enveloped by mature shade trees and tenderly cared-for gardens. Walk through the Currier & Ives seasons surrounding you – a natural stream-fed pond, fruit trees, quiet picnic places, peaceful trails for walking, a tranquil pool for cooling, hills for sledding, and cozy fireplaces for warming – all combine to complete the picture of this idyllic sanctuary. The property is truly a world apart, yet a mere 2 minutes to Stone Ridge and 2 hours to New York City. This secluded 70-acre estate is a one-of-a-kind property you will never want to leave. $1,700,000

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The hamlet of High Falls is a laid-back community where artistry thrives.

There’s the Egg’s Nest, famous for addictive burgers and quesadillas and quirky décor, and the High Falls Café— more great food and some of the jamminist live performances around. At The Last Bite, you’ll find soups, sandwiches, and flights of fancy with a Goth twist.

High Falls has unique shops: Lounge, whose furniture selection has been elevated to a fine art aimed at a custom fit, and Linger, an apothecary of fragrant bath and body products and soothing gifts.

Nectar, a mix of Fair Trade imports from around the world and right around the corner, reflects owner Jenny Wonderling’s philosophy: “Behind each object, there should be a story or a visceral memory, and not merely a purchase.” Across the street from Nectar, the High Falls Food Cooperative meets the sustainable eating needs of nearly 500 members and the local public. “It feels good just to walk in the door,” says an online reviewer. The versatile folk at the Northern Spy Café take equal pride in their duck comfit, their “free-range” tofu wings, and their hospitality. “What I love is, there could be five people at the bar from all over, who’ve never met,” says Redmond, who also happens to be a Northern Spy mixologist extraordinaire, “and by the end of the evening everyone’s in the conversation, we’re solving all kinds of problems.”

Chance conversations among friends lead to art exhibits, inventive good works, epic poems and new recipes. Over cold microbrews at HopHeads, Jane Simos’s cozy WiFi café where you can also enjoy espresso and French pastry, local lads Jeff Martino and Brian Clogg discovered a shared passion for handcrafting artisanal beverage and created an original organic wine from local berries, cinnamon, and mint; eventually, they hope to market it and their Shawangunk Mountain Mead.

In the next hamlet north, Stone Ridge. Marbletown Multi Arts (MaMa) hosts the Nowist Society, outstanding live performances, and life-changing lessons. Stone Ridge doesn’t have just any old hardware store or computer shop; it has a Rock-n-Roll Hardware Store and Alan’s Affordable Computers, where the owner’s on a long-term mission to make sure that needy folk don’t get technologically left behind. Jack and Luna’s Café, a Hudson Valley magazine “Best Of” winner for coffee and soup, hosts top-shelf live jazz. Stone Ridge has no shortage of good eats: The Momiji Sushi Bar, Ming Moon Chinese, Bodacious Bagels, and Benny’s Pizzeria are all local favorites.

Many of the wonders of the Rondout Valley aren’t on any map or for sale for any price. The area is laced with waterfalls and caves, tiny historic cemeteries, secret swimming holes, and afterhours jam sessions. Becoming familiar with local café society may lead to an introduction to these mysteries, but be warned: They won’t be judging you on style, but by the smile in your eyes.

Thanksgiving Eve Reunite with Family and Friends

It’s the night before Turkey-day and there is nothing better than hooking up with old friends at American Glory Restaurant for a night of dancing and good times.

Joe and Big Sammy are moving all the furniture out and turning the ole house into another 2 story slamming dance party! Come on down and party all night.

We have the Absolut & Jack Daniels shot girls, with s all kinds of swag, and we will be serving $4 Absolut & Jack Daniels drinks all night.

• On the main stage at 8pm More Than Real • Upstairs at 11pm Dj Zeffi Zef will be spinning the latest club mixes So, come on down, grab some drinks and catch up with old friends. Who knows? Maybe you’ll even make a few new ones.

Cover charge is $6. A portion of the $6 cover charge will be donated to Hudson’s Salvation Army.

Our hope is to raise enough dough to put turkeys on the table for those in need.

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he term “holiday party” translates to “office party” in my mind, conjuring up images of a long-winded Sunday night when everyone is either bored out of their minds or making fools of themselves t. Luckily, festive parties that aren’t thrown by your supervisors tend to be a lot less stale. A well-executed holiday affair leaves your walls reverberating with the laughter and hyper conversation of parties past.

Create the Mood When it comes to planning your own holiday party, start at the beginning. And by beginning, I mean three weeks early. Write lists upon lists of menu choices, recipes, groceries, decorations, table settings, guests, songs. Pick items up as the days pass by instead of having one massive shopping trip looming.

Holiday celebrations already have an obvious theme, but it’s not necessary to outfit your home with red-nosed reindeer or Star of David images. “Themes can be fun, but if that’s an overwhelming thought, just pulling together a color palette for your table will look beautiful,” party planning neophyte Patricia Anne says. Annie Nast, another amateur planner, takes the minimalist approach to themes as well. “I think that it is important to have a theme or inspiration for each party. It can be as simple as a color theme, an ingredient, a person. Just something to look to when creating the mood,” she says.

Nast suggests using unique serving platters, bowls, and pedestals when decorating the dinner or buffet table to make even the simplest foods look enticing. Also, use silverware instead of plasticware, or at least invest in heavy-duty disposable forks and knives. “I once ended up eating two tines off a plastic fork along with my delicious baked clams,” Nast recalls.

The Velvet Rope Who has the honor of being included on the guest list? Never stick with the same exact guest list from party to party. Invite people from different social groups—asking only your work colleagues isn’t a soiree, it’s a meeting; only inviting your inner social group is a club, not a celebration. Tip: Only invite people whose events you’ll be happy to attend in return. Otherwise, you’ll both be stuck in the vicious “I have to invite her, she invited me” circle.

Clarity of Invitation When you’re ready, send out invitations that aren’t perplexing. “Late afternoon cocktail hour” is vague. “Party begins at 5pm, dinner at 7” is not. Include dress recommendations in the invitation as well. Holiday parties are typically “Festive Dress,” unless you’re throwing a New Year’s Day brunch where everyone is required to show up in pajamas.

Let the Chocolate Speak for Itself Classical music is the background choice of most traditional Christmas parties. If Mozart’s a little too stiff for you, explore the modern classical music of Stravinsky, Messiaen, Feldman, or Reich.

DJ Dave Leonard of JTD Productions explains just how important music choice is. “If equipment fails and music stops, it is very noticeable. If it’s too loud, it can interfere with communication. If you’re playing the wrong genre for your crowd at any given time, it’s a disaster,” he warns. But relax,your main goal is to know your crowd and choose music they’ll like. My favorite piece of Leonard’s advice is, “Don’t try to compete with chocolate.” When food is served, lower the music and let the spread be the center of attention.

Most Parties Aren’t About the Food Now on to that scene-stealing meal you’ll be serving…

A good rule of thumb is that easy food equals more time with guests and less time cursing at kitchen appliances. Assemble food instead of cooking everything from scratch—your nearest and dearest won’t have more fun at your feast if they know you kneaded, rolled, and cut the pasta yourself. “If it’s a ‘mill around and circulate’ type of party that’s offering a buffet, selections should be kept to bite-size. Even the best-tasting food can’t be enjoyed if it’s not manageable,” Nast suggests. She also

warns against ordering or making everything. Instead, mix-and-match homemade dishes with prepared ones. “Delicious is delicious, and guests want to see their hostess,” Nast says. “No one’s going to notice if the bread was baked in your kitchen or the bakery’s.”

Just don’t get Nast started on potluck parties. “When I ask guests to bring dessert, a box of Dunkin Donuts is not what I have in mind. Hint: If you are asked to bring a dessert and have never made one before, please, please, please find a good bakery and buy a pie!” Point taken.

As for alcohol, Nast recommends having an assortment of wine and imported beer instead of expecting to make everyone’s cocktail to their specifications. “Unless you have a volunteer, experienced bartender, a nice cocktail or two works fine,” she says.

Party Poopers Welcome Instead of kicking guests out as soon as they’ve taken their last bite, Nast suggests moving to another part of the house. “By that time, people are comfortable with each other and probably ready for some relaxing conversation or whatever you have planned,” she says. Nast suggests having an activity ready—icebreakers are great for the people who haven’t gotten a chance to talk to one another yet. Make sure everyone knows that the activity isn’t mandatory—take it from me, the girl who starts to faint at the mere mention of Pictionary. Believe me, I remember every gathering and host who insisted I play, and then whined that I was a “party pooper” when I didn’t. Don’t ruin the party for your guests by putting them on the spot—it’s not the time to take your friend, co-worker, or cousin’s new boyfriend out of their comfort zone.

Complexity is the Enemy of Fun To ensure that your fete will go off without a hitch, take a good, long look in the mirror and be honest with yourself—if you’re a terrible cook, have the party catered. If you only like whiny emo music, ask a more eclectic friend to put together an iTunes playlist. The point of any party isn’t to show off how well you do every single thing—it’s to get together with friends, celebrate and create memories. They’ll forgive you if send e-vites instead of trying to handwrite calligraphy on every invitation. Also, work with what you have. Don’t let your eyes be bigger than your stove. Or fridge. “Two turkeys for dinner, not just one!” sounds like a great idea until you realize that turkey takes approximately three years to cook and, regardless, your oven barely fits one, and then what about all of those other side courses? A good party doesn’t have to be a complicated party.

You can also view holiday festivities with an alternative eye. Why stress about an 11-course Christmas Eve dinner when you can throw a late afternoon cocktail party and kick everyone out before mealtime? Or, serve “open house” buffet-style food that still tastes delicious even at room temperature. Think baked Virginia ham, cranberry sauce, and an assortment of cheeses and specialty breads.

Peace of Mind Exhale. Smiling friends are arriving. Perfectly coordinated table settings are in place.

Background music is in harmony with guest preferences. Scrumptious, piece-of-cake cuisine is ready to be served.Take it from Dave Leonard, who says, “My focus is primarily peace of mind. Having all the details covered and being prepared and able to adapt allows for a successful event. I am more focused on how I show up and then the results take care of themselves.” Nobody likes a stressed-out, complaining, snippy host.

My favorite party-gone-wrong story? Nast was attending the main course portion of a progressive dinner at a neighbor’s house. As everyone loaded into the dining room, they found a dead grouse lying in the middle of the table. It had crashed through the window, creating a disgusting Medieval Feast for guests.

The moral of the story is, one lemon of a party doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try, try again. Read any entertaining book from the big names and you’ll see that they, too, have thrown a few duds in their lives. Just like your junior high years, it probably wasn’t as bad as you remember.

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Beyond Indian Cuisine with Madhur Jaffrey

By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

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ttaining the highest level of accomplishment in any discipline is a difficult task. Achieving world renown in two different fields is almost unheard of, and yet Madhur Jaffrey has done so, in both film and food, breaking down barriers between cultures and cuisines for more than 50 years. She has been active since the inception of the modern culinary renaissance, teaching three generations of people around the world how to make South Asian cooking part of their regular repertoire. And she is beloved: Her writing is elegant, her recipes work, and her voice is without pretense or artifice. Petite and polite, with piercing dark eyes, at 78 she still has the regal features and poise that helped make her a movie star. And she’s working as hard as ever; she recently wrapped a film with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken (A Late Quartet) and is working on a new book.

She has a strong connection to the Hudson Valley. After settling in New York City in the late 1960s, Jaffrey and her husband, the violinist Sanford Allen, became acquainted with this region through their close friends James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. The legendary director-producer couple had a house in Claverack. “Years ago, they were out of town, so we borrowed their house for three months,” says Jaffrey. “It’s so lovely, this whole area, so we started looking around.” They eventually found an old house, built in the 1790s, in Columbia County. “It was too near the road, but we never found anything nicer. And since it had once been a tavern, it seemed right.” Later, they bought the property next door and expanded the yard and gardens. She and Allen divide their time evenly between the city and country houses. The spacious interior is elegant yet homey, with each room painted or papered in a different saturated hue or pattern. The furniture is eclectic, including many periods and styles, and it harmonizes nicely with the many photographs, masks, statues, and other objects she has gathered in a lifetime of traveling the world. Jaffrey says she has no use for interior decorators, and the house makes that abundantly clear. It’s ready for its close-up in a much fancier magazine than this.

Outside, Jaffrey tends lots of flowers, a vegetable garden, and several patches of fruit (raspberries, blueberries, apples) and plans to add trellises of grapes and hardy kiwis next year. The exterior shows the same aesthetic as the interior: elegant and tidy, but with plenty of room for asymmetry and moments of lavish beauty. Each object or plant is afforded enough room to be appreciated; there’s no clutter inside or out. The garden is modest but filled with a wide variety of greens, beans, squash, tomatoes, and roots, with herbs tucked in between.

She shows it off with obvious enthusiasm, saying: “I believe in getting things from the earth and cooking for yourself. It’s so easy to grow things.” The garden dictates her meals, which very often are not Indian: “Whatever is there, we use, regardless of what kind of food. Last night we had pasta with broccoli and globe zucchini from the garden.” Jaffrey mentions the zucchini several times, as well as parsnips and salsify, when discussing her favorites. (She either boils and dresses salsify like an artichoke or cuts the long roots into sections and roasts them until tender).

The back stone terrace boasts an array of potted peppers that the garden couldn’t accommodate. Jaffrey dries pepper seeds, brings them back from her travels, and plants them. A recent find is a habañero type that has all of the fruity perfume typical to the variety but without the fiery heat. Shiso is another favorite: “It’s great with cucumber. I get sushi sometimes with cucumber and ume and shiso and sesame, so I made a salad out of the same things, using a bit of ume paste in the dressing.” She freezes lots of thick tomato sauce for winter, and stores potatoes and onions in the cellar, though she expresses frustration that she can’t seem to keep them from sprouting prematurely. And she acknowledges that during the winter she doesn’t eat much local food, since her garden is bare.

Speaking more about her cooking style, Jaffrey says: “I’ll pick something and decide what to do with it because an idea strikes me, and of course every recipe started that way. Somebody put things together, and they worked, and it entered the repertoire.” She mostly cooks by feel, she says, though she does sometimes use cookbooks: “With Marcella [Hazan] or Julia [Child], initially I use the recipes. I’ll make it their way once, and then I might decide to change it some.” It’s fitting that she uses only their first names, since she belongs in their iconic company, having demystified Indian cooking for Americans as they did Italian and French.

Something Jaffrey lamented in her first book (An Introduction To Indian Cooking, 1973) was the sameness of Indian restaurants around the country; the menus were generic and did not represent the vast regional diversity of the subcontinent’s many cuisines. Today, she says, “It’s beginning to change, but

only in big cities. Something is needed, something real. I have waited for this revolution, but it hasn’t happened yet.” Britain’s long history with India explains the huge popularity of the food in the UK, but “America as a whole has not embraced Indian food like they have with Chinese, or with sushi. It’s happening with some people, because my books do sell. But with Asian foods, I think many people prefer to go out to eat.” So she is still working to help people cook more South Asian food at home, emphasizing that an average meal isn’t complicated at all: “They have a rice or a bread, one or two vegetables, some yogurt, pickles or chutneys, maybe meat or dal.That will be it, not a hundred things. People would say ‘We love it, but it’s so complicated.’ That’s why I wrote the book [At Home with Madhur Jaffrey, 2010]. I tried to get the authentic taste but make it simpler.”

For anyone keen to take the plunge, Jaffrey recommends buying a small coffee grinder. She has a red one for spices—the one for her husband’s coffee is white—and says, “They don’t take up any space, and it just takes a minute to grind spices before cooking.” Custom grinding allows for infinite variations, and revelatory flavors: “Spices have oils that can become rancid after they’re ground.

Something like coriander turns to sawdust so quickly.” Even curry powder, which Jaffrey gently maligns as something invented solely for export, still has its function: she uses a bit along with fresh-ground spices to make mulligatawny soup, which as an Anglo-Indian hybrid ironically requires that inauthentic flavor in order to be truly authentic. She offers another example of how the fake can become real over time: “Indians living in Japan yearn for that awful curry sauce they have there [it’s a popular flavor for ramen and snacks] and bring packets with them back to India or the UK.” After over 30 books and six James Beard awards, Jaffrey explains the challenges that come with being identified so closely with one tradition. “I would be happy to write about Russian, Italian, or French food. But nobody will let me.

I did not put myself in that pigeonhole. I was put in it. I have been fighting it forever.”This struggle parallels the difficulties throughout her acting career landing film or stage roles that fell outside of where people thought she belonged.

“If I said I want to do an Italian book, [my publisher] would laugh at me. It is frustrating. But I’m an optimistic person, so I say ‘OK, if I can’t do that, what can I do?’” She won’t reveal the subject of the next book, saying only “I don’t like to bore myself. I had to find something new and different even though it’s the same old thing in some ways.” Her key is curiosity: “What can I do that will excite me, make me explore a new area? That’s what I look for. I love to learn, I love to travel, researching something new, finding new angles: How can I do this better, how do they do it?” After a pause, she corrects herself, smiling: “I don’t love traveling, but I love being places.”

Talking with Jaffrey for any length of time, one realizes that globalization is not a new notion; wars, invasions, and migrations have always shaped societies.

Colonialism brought peoples together—usually disastrously—but it did result in all sorts of hybrid food and culture throughout the centuries. Jaffrey thinks it “utterly interesting” how ingredients and dishes have traveled and evolved through history. “I do find that people are doing things without realizing that they’re borrowing from someone else. Think of chili pepper: It’s from the New World, yet think how easily it’s used throughout South and Southeast Asia. Also, corn: people on an Indonesian island do a ‘native’ corn dance. I asked them where it comes from, they say, ‘We’ve always done it; our ancient ancestors did it.’ But of course, they didn’t have corn back then. It’s the same in Northwest India, where they eat cornbread, or in Northern Italy with polenta; they took the new ingredients and made them their own.”

The same hybridization is happening on different terms now, with more equality, but the result is the same. Culture and cuisine have always been mutable, though the curve of change has steepened dramatically in recent years.

Jaffrey has no problem with innovation, but not just for its own sake. “Young cooks borrow eagerly, but often indiscriminately, I might add. In the hands of good chef with a good palate, anything is possible. But there are many not-sogood chefs. This means trouble; mixing ingredients doesn’t work if the palate is not there.” In general, she doesn’t love much of the cutting-edge cooking that’s so dominant right now: “I can’t say that I crave that food. My grandson is 19, and he is much more excited than I am. For a young person, these new frontiers are fascinating. For me, the proof is in the taste, and I haven’t eaten anything that has bowled me over. I like home food. I like the generosity, the simplicity. That’s where my heart is.”

Peter Barrett cooks Indian food and more and blogs about it at www.acookblog.com.

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Pig-to-Pork Butchery Class November 6 Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston is at the cutting edge of the local-sustainable-meat movement. In addition to the recent opening of their new store in Park Slope, they’re continuing to offer master classes in butchery skills. In this one-day pig-topork butchery class, students will follow a pig from pasture to plate with one of Fleisher’s master butchers. Witness proper slaughter techniques and butchering demonstrations, take part in actual butchering, and finish their day with a feast of seasonal pork stew and fresh farmers market veggies. 8:30am–6:30pm, $300 (includes three meals and all materials). www.fleishers.com.

Italian Wine Dinner November 8-10 Continuing its monthly wine dinner series, Terrapin Restaurant in Rhinebeck hosts three evenings of meals paired with Italian wines.

Chef/owner Josh Kroner returns to his Italian roots for a four-course Italian feast. To start, a choice of insalata di fagioli con guanciale (borlotti, cannellini, and green bean salad with pork), or Frittata (oven-dried Roma tomatoes, arugula and goat cheese), or tortellini en brodo (Parmesan and Romano cheese tortellini in vegetable broth with escarole). The appetizers will be paired with two wines: Banfi San Angelo Pinot Grigio 2010; Saratori di Verona Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie 2010. Entree choices: lasagna di zucca al quattro formagi (pumpkin pasta with four cheese sauce), or spalla di maiale brasato al vino rosso (red wine braised pork shoulder with creamy polenta) or risotto alla Milanese (saffron risotto with beef bone marrow).

The entrees will be paired with a Banfi Rosso di Montalcino 2009 and a Banfi Chianti Classico 2007. Panna cotta limone, made with Meyer lemon and Grappa-macerated Mission figs will be paired with Movendo Moscato for dessert. $49. www.terrapinrestaurant.com.

Hardcore Tapas elephant 310 Wall Street Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 Tues - Sat 5-10pm www.elephantwinebar.com Photo: Jennifer May

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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store

Fresh foods made on our farm!

Certified organic, artisan breads, pastries, cheese, yogurt, raw milk, sauerkrauts and more!

Bakeries Jean-Claude’s Artisan Bakery & Dessert Café 23 Elm Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-8900 122 Windermere Ave, Greenwood Lake, NY (845) 595-6580 www.Warwickinfo.net/Jean-Claude

Cafés Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii 1571 Rt. 9, Wappingers Falls, NY www.badasscoffee.com

Bistro-to-Go

Caffe a la Mode One Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY, (845) 986-1223

High Falls Café Corner of Mohonk Rd. & Rt. 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-2699 www.highfallscafe.com

The Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm 989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY (518) 239-6234 www.heather-ridge-farm.com Great lunches right on the farm! Enjoy views of the Catskill Mountains from shaded picnic tables or eat inside our 1820s farmhouse. Our own grassfed meats and pastured poultry lovingly prepared with local organic produce and cheeses. Café and farm store open Saturdays and Sundays, Mem. Day through Col. Day Weekends. Menu and schedule on website.

“Soup Kitchen” Saturdays, Nov-April.

The Sugar Shack Café 46 Main Street, Suite 2, Warwick, NY (845) 986-0177

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.

79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

Restaurants American Glory BBQ 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 grilled burgers, steaks and fish, 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 BBQ is smoked on site using local wood.

Baba Louie’s Woodfired Sourdough Pizza 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 gluten-free and vegan options available everyday!

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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.

Delis Jack’s Meats & Deli

1.5 miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit

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1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-8411 www.babycakescafe.com

Bistro Lilly 134 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-2810 www.bistrolilly.com

Brasserie 292 Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-0292 www.brasserie292.com

Bull and Buddha 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

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A casual, elegant bistro in downtown Goshen serving fresh and delicious fare.

★★★★!– Times Herald-Record (Jan. 14, 2011)

Lunch Dinner

Tues-Fri: 11:30am-2:30pm Tues-Thurs: 5-9pm Fri & Sat: 5-9:30pm

134 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.bistrolilly.com

Reservations accepted.

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845.294.2810

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18 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.goshengourmetcafe.com

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CHINA JAPAN KOREA INDONESIA Open 7 days  Open during the Holidays Lunch and Dinner Reserve your Holiday Parties ROUTE 300 NEWBURGH, NY (845) 564-3848 YOBORESTAURANT.COM

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Visit our website to see the Thanksgiving Day menu Book your Holiday Parties open Tuesday - Saturday 5pm-9pm 120 North Road • Highland • NY Tel. 845.691.9883 www.thewould.com

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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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Osaka 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 www.osakarestaurant.net

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Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 16 years. For more information and menus, go to osakarestaurant.net.

Elephant

Sushi Village

333 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-0005 www.camearestaurant.com

Eddie’s Roadhouse 18 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7623

310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com

Fetch Bar & Grill 48 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 987-8200 www.fetchbarandgrill.com

Fratello 22 Spring Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7898 www.fratellobrickoven.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 27 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-5561 www.howellsdeli.com

Karma Lounge 201 Main Street, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 473-4294 www.karmalounge.us

Karma Road Organic Café 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. GlutenFree aplenty! Steps from the Rail-Trail in historic downtown. Open 8am-8pm, 7 days. Find us on Facebook!

Kavos 4 North Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473 4976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com

LaBella Pizza Bistro 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.

Landmark Inn 566 Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com

Luca Trattoria Pizzeria ShopRite Plaza, 153 Rte 94 South, Warwick, NY (845) 986-2002

Matchbox Café 6242 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3911

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.

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro

Enjoy Thai cooking

by Real Thai Chefs

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 Artist’s Palate

“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)

307 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-8074 www.theartistspalate.biz

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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.

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The Would Restaurant

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120 North Road, Highland, NY (845)691-9883 www.thewould.com

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Toad Holly Pub 713 Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-2097 www.toadhollypub.com

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Towne Crier Café Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com

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

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Howell’s Cafe

26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com

Tavern at Highlands Country Club 955 Route 9D ˙ Garrison, NY www.highlandscountryclub.net Reservations: 845.424.3254 ˙ ext. 16

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business directory Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com

Diamond Mills 25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

Women’s Studio Workshop

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

www.wsworkshop.org

Dutchess County Arts Council (845) 454-3222 www.artsmidhudson.org artsmidhudson.org

Green River Gallery

Eclectic Eye 16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com

Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com

Appliances Firescapes 445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845)863-0013 www.firescapesny.com

Architecture Irace Architecture Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.IraceArchitecture.com

North River Architecture 3650 Main St., 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 facebook.com/annstreetgallery Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration: A group of contemporary artists whose work is inspired the theme of the human form runs through to Saturday, November 12, 2011.

This thematic grouping of artists, offers the opportunity to compare and contrast works of different styles and mediums inspired through a variety of approaches using human form as an inspiration for their work. Artists featured: Gulgun Aliriza, Andrea Cote, Rebecca Darlington, Kaya Deckelbaum, Marsha Gregory, Erica Harris, Joetta Maue, Meridith McNeal, Theresa Pfarr, Jacquelyn Schiffman, Jackie Skrzynski, Tracy Stuckey, Mallory Wetherell, and John Yost.

Back Door Studio 9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services

1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311

Clove Branch Discount Muffler & Brake

Lady Audrey’s Gallery

1122 Route 82, Hopewell Jct., NY (845) 221-9898

52 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1303 http://ladyaudreysgallery.com

Mark Gruber Gallery

Antiques

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Country Gallery

New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Banks Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com

Beauty

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45

The Stylist’s Chair, Ltd.

45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org

321 Main St. , Cornwall, NY 845 534- 3117 toniminuta@yahoo.com

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.

At the Stylist’s Chair, we offer avant guard hair coloring and hair designing. Our commitment to quality and great customer service is of the upmost importance. We assess each clients facial structure and hair texture to give each individual a style and color that best suits them. We specialize in hair color, hair designing, body waves, special occation updos, all foiling techniques and waxing

Beverages

Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-4100 www.nrm.org

Art Supplies Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Rhinebeck & New Paltz, NY www.rhinebeckart.com

White Barn Farm 815 Albany Post Road, New Paltz, NY (914) 456-6040 www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com

Artisans

(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 Mirabai of Woodstock

Brenda Hall (860) 480-1021 www.facebook.com/HNLwoodworking HnlWoodworking@gmail.com

23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com

153 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (917) 414-2171 www.james-h-murray.com

KF Packie Wood Sculpture (413) 281-0591 www.kfpackie.com spotteddogwf@gmail.com

Pet Lovers Studio Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6033 www.petloversstudio.com

Roslyn Fassett Prince Street Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, NY

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Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com

Four Seasons Insulators 445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845)863-1484 www.fourseasonsinsulatorsinc.com

H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com

Herrington’s Hillsdale, NY (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY (518) 828-9431 Chatham, NY (518) 392-9201 (800) 453-1311 www.herringtons.com

Kitchen Cabinet Company 17 Van Kleeck Drive, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 471-6480 www.kitchencabinetco.com

N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com

Stone Resource Inc.

Esotec

HnL Woodworking

James Murray at Marina Gallery

Building Services & Supplies

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.

Northshire Bookstore Manchester Center, VT (800) 437-3700 www.northshire.com

Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

3417 Route 343, Amenia, NY (860) 209-7015 http://stoneresourceinc.com

WaterFurnace (800) GEO-SAVE www.waterfurnace.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 de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657

Style Counsel 19 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-9588 www.stylecounsel.net

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

Consignment Shops Encore Inc. Consign for a Cause Cornwall Plaza, 45 Quaker Avenue, Suite 100, Cornwall (845) 458-8313 www.encoreconsign4acause.cmo encore@consign4acause.com

Past N’ Perfect 1629 Main Street (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.

Consulting BNI Mid-Hudson Valley www.bnihudsonvalley.com

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.

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 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!

Pennings Farm Market & Orchards

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.

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.

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Top Shelf Jewelry 206 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-4661 info@topshelfjewelryinc.com

Iriniri Designs 20 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 469-7934 98 Main Street, Nyack, NY (845) 353-4245

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IN SEARCH of SLEEP

Fresh perspectives for a culture that can’t wind down by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola

I

’ve been on the lookout for a good night’s sleep since I was 10 years old.

It was a bout of perfectionism over a fifth-grade science project that first threw my delicate dream rhythms off balance. On the eve of my bat mitzvah, my father kindly slipped me a Valium—cut precisely in half for a makeshift child’s dose. I indulged in some pint-sized handwringing over sleeplessness, but by the time I got to college I had fully embraced my wakeful nature. Insomnia was in fact my secret superpower: Needing less sleep than others meant that I could study well into the night. I graduated with high honors, a bouquet of awards, and bags under my eyes. After two babies, an insurmountable sleep debt began its steady climb. Perhaps my weaker adult metabolism couldn’t handle the deficit, because navigating life after a bad night felt like stumbling through heavy fog. Sleep was the new sex—and I wasn’t getting enough.

I know I’m not alone in my quest for that sweet elixir: more Zs. As many as 30 to 40 percent of Americans experience occasional sleeplessness, according to the American Sleep Association.The number of chronic insomniacs is smaller, estimated at 10 percent. Yet even the average, easy sleepers among us are not getting as much shut-eye as they used to. In 1960—when most television stations went off the air at midnight and the Internet and cell phones didn’t yet exist—a National Cancer Society survey found that most people reported an average of 8½ hours of sleep a night. Today, surveys peg the average sleep time to be a Spartan 6½ to 7 hours.

Sleep is simply not fashionable in the 21st century. In these days of digital stimulation, omnipresent Starbucks, and overpacked schedules, it’s more likely that we’ll boast of how little sleep we need and how much we’ve accomplished than regale our friends with tales of long, luxurious stretches of unconsciousness. Bill Clinton is a poster boy of the “short sleeper,” claiming to need only four or five hours of slumber a night; likewise for other world-dominators like Martha Stewart, Margaret Thatcher, and Condoleezza Rice.Yet is there a health price to pay for short-changing our biological needs? Is there hope for the sleepchallenged among us—whether we’re night owls by nature, suffering from true sleep disorders, or simply conforming to a highly caffeinated societal norm? My snooze-deprived mind buzzing with questions, I call a sleep doctor for answers.

In fact, I call three—and all are too busy to call me back. Sign of the times?

ogy Laboratory at the Hospital at University of Pennsylvania, Dinges performs sleep studies for the likes of the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the Department of Defense. For the past 15 years, you might say that he’s been hosting a continuous sleepover party in his lab, with one crucial ingredient in short supply: sleep. “We probably study more healthy people undergoing chronic partial sleep loss than any other laboratory in the world,” says Dinges.

In a 2004 study, Dinges and his team assigned subjects to three different groups: Some slept four hours, others slept six hours, and a lucky control group slept eight hours a night. Over a two-week period, each group was tested for its ability to sustain attention and cognitive function. It came as no surprise that the eight-hour group sailed through beautifully and the fourhour group bombed the tests. Yet the six-hour group fared equally badly. In fact, they performed as poorly as those who, in another Dinges study, had skipped sleep for 24 hours—a similar cognitive state to being legally drunk.

Even more interesting, the subjects seemed unaware of their impairment, reporting that they felt mentally clear and “good to go.” With chronic partial sleep loss, says Dinges, “We’ve seen that there’s a systematic deterioration in alertness and cognitive function, but not everyone is affected equally.”

Dinges explains that, yes, those rare, high-achieving short-sleepers really do exist, though they are poor judges of their own ability to thrive on little sleep. “Everyone will eventually become impaired on less sleep, but some can go further.”

These days, Dinges and his team are looking at another issue: How much recovery, and what kind of recovery, do we need to offset the consequences of chronic partial sleep loss? “We’re trying to understand the effects of a lifestyle that lots of people live in reducing their sleep during the workweek and attempting to recover on the weekend,” says Dinges. “We’ve found that the more sleep you get in the recovery period, the more recovery of cognitive systems occurs. But you don’t quite get back to normal on every measure of brain function.” Thinking of all the sleep I’ve lost over the years, my heart sinks to hear this news. “You don’t ever get it back?” I ask fearfully. “Well,” he says, “we don’t really know that yet.”

Your Brain on Less Sleep While I can’t seem to get a small-town sleep doctor on the phone to save my life, one of the world’s preeminent sleep researchers—Dr. David Dinges— returns my call almost immediately. As the head of the Sleep and Chronobiol-

Paging Dr. Shut-Eye Meanwhile, I’m still trying to get a sleep doctor on the phone. At times it seems as likely as having tea with the president. “She is just bombarded with patients right now,” says one receptionist about the doctor who directs a

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local hospital’s sleep center. I’m used to having trouble reaching doctors these days. But a sleep doctor? This isn’t life or death stuff. Or is it? According to Dinges, when average sleep dips below seven hours, there’s a higher risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke, all related to increased mortality.

Okay, now I’m motivated. Redoubling my efforts to find a sleep doctor and get some advice, I finally connect with Dr. Mohammed Aziz, medical director of the sleep lab at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Fishkill. While Dinges looks at healthy, middle-of-the-road sleepers for his studies, Aziz sees patients who present a number of sleep disorders, from restless leg syndrome to narcolepsy. The most common issue is obstructive sleep apnea, in which the back part of the tongue repeatedly falls and closes off the breathing passages. People with this issue, related to snoring, can experience as many as 40 or 50 unconscious wake-ups an hour as the brain rouses just long enough to clear the airways. Side effects can include weight gain and sexual dysfunction, since poor-quality sleep can affect testosterone levels. Disorders like this can also threaten marriages. “I had one couple that had been sleeping in different bedrooms for the past three years and was on the verge of divorce,” says Aziz, who explained that a lack of sleep had left both partners irritable, anxious, and unable to get along. “They were actually sent to me by a marriage counselor,” says Aziz, who may well have saved more than one relationship in the course of his career.

When it comes to insomnia, Aziz says he often has to dig deeper to find an underlying cause. Factors can include depression, medication side effects, other sleep disorders, and ultimately, lifestyle. “The biggest pillar of the disorder is something called sleep hygiene,” says Aziz. Keeping good sleep hygiene means conforming to a long list of no-nos, including no coffee or tea after 3pm, no rigorous exercise at night, no alcohol, and no TV in the bedroom.

It’s a strict plan, and the term “sleep hygiene” seems unfortunate, making me think that the Sand Man won’t come if you don’t smell good. And besides, what if insomnia is just a natural nocturnal rhythm for some of us and there really is no underlying cause? What if it’s our secret superpower? What then?

Spirit in the Dark For Clark Strand, a writer and meditation teacher based in Woodstock, insomnia is not just a superpower: It’s a chance to connect to the Divine. In the mid 1990s, when he was in his late 30s, Strand developed what doctors call “sleep fragmentation.” He would fall asleep without trouble yet he would

wake in the night and not be able to drift off again for one to two hours. “I just assumed I was anxious,” says Strand, who noticed that his sleep was fragmenting at exactly the same time every night. “My doctor couldn’t explain that,” he says. Thus began a 10-year quest by Strand to understand his nocturnal awakenings. He read studies about research subjects who experienced fragmented sleep naturally when they were taken off electric light. And, a Buddhist by training, he read volumes of spiritual texts that revealed something curious: Every religious tradition has some form of what Strand calls the Hour of God—rising in the night for spiritual practice. “In Judaism it’s Tikkun Chatzot (midnight prayer), in Islam it’s Tahajjud, and in Buddhism it’s Ushitora Gongyo,” says Strand. “In Christianity they call it the Night Office. It goes back to Paleolithic times. This is how people naturally slept—there’s a first and second sleep of the night. Once I found this, my struggles with insomnia were over and my nights of meditative bliss had begun.”

Strand believes that insomnia is often wrongly pathologized, with a “multimillion dollar hoax” of a sleeping-pill industry to support it. “Some people suffer from genuine sleep disorders,” says Strand, “and I’m glad there are doctors and specialists who can treat them. But for people like myself, who simply wake up for two hours in the middle of the night, they’re waking up not because something is wrong with them, but because something is right.”

In his meditation courses, Strand helps people find their own practice for wee-hour wake-ups, calling them “a nightly meditation retreat for everyone on Earth.” He notes that many practitioners need to go to bed an hour or two earlier to make up for the lost sleep, but when they wake in the night they no longer have to experience torment and frustration. “Sometimes people break down and cry when they hear me talk about this, because they’ve suffered from insomnia for years. They say, ‘I’ve been looking at it all wrong. Now I feel happy and at peace.’”

As I listen to Strand wax lyrically about a life lived in rhythm with the stars, I’m sure that he is right. Whatever your religion—whether it’s chanting mantras, studying for exams, or painting stilllifes—the nighttime hours offer a luminous opportunity to awake to your own personhood and connect to your heart’s desire. But remembering Dinges’ warnings about cognitive decline and the health issues related to short sleeping, and Aziz’s stories of life-enhancing transformation after proper sleep is restored, I feel more protective than ever of those blissfully comatose bedtime hours. I’m ready to adopt Strand’s rapturous manifesto as my own. But first, I think I’ll have a little nap.

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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

Minding Our Business T and I are scheduled to offer a retreat, along with other senior lay students/ parents, on the practice of parenting at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn, the city center of Zen Mountain Monastery. And I agreed to lead a discussion about parenting after being approached by a lovely new mom in Woodstock, and owner of Illuminated Baby, which will happen soon after. Oy. As readers of this column can attest, I am not in much of a position to be doling out advice on how to be calm, cool, or collected. But even more than that, can talking (and/or reading) about Buddhism really help us be better parents, or might it just add to the list of things we should be doing?

The web is full of sites, articles, and blogs about how to “Use Buddhist Teachings for Better Parenting,” with subtitles such as “Learning to be a Calm, Compassionate Parent with Buddhist Teachings.”

Here are some tips from one I found: Buddhism Teaches Compassionate Parenting If one just takes a minute to breathe, calm down, and react [sic], life with children will be happier and easier.

Learn How to Parent Mindfully from Buddhist Practices By being mindful, it is possible to pay more attention to what a child is really trying to say and to enjoy the small pleasures and details of a child’s life and convey the message that one’s children are truly valued and loved.

Being an Accepting and Understanding Parent Each individual is a Buddha and one must respect and accept that uniqueness.

Being a Responsible, Loving Buddhist Parent By setting good examples of responsibility and being loving towards others, parents can help children imbibe these important values.

Who could argue with such sound advice? Of course each individual is a Buddha who deserves to be respected. But what does that mean when the Buddha in front of you is flopping around in the bed, covers transformed into a cave, whining about being tired, and you have exactly 20 minutes to get said Buddha out of said bed, clothed, fed, teeth brushed, and out the door for her ride to kindergarten? And the reason for the rush is that you let her sleep in because she was on the brink of getting sick and as much as you love and respect her, you also know that her illness during this week filled with your deadlines would be treacherous, to say the least.

Responsible, maybe, but not very loving. You try to be patient, respecting her position, even paying attention to the small details of the wind rustling in the trees outside, try to hear what your little Buddha is truly saying; is there a message beneath that plea to just sleep one more minute, mama, please? You try to breathe. In fact, you do, breathe. But the sound of your own inner voice, screeching with irritation, reciting your list of things to do (in order to be respectable person in the world) wins out. And you growl at the little Buddha.

Buddhism teaches many things, but as far as I can tell it is all geared toward finding in ourselves what the Buddha called “an awakened heart,” which is also called “bodhichitta.” As Pema Chodron says, “This is a place as vulnerable and tender as an open wound.” And unfortunately, this is what we have to move into in order to become mindful. Learning to calm down, even breathe and notice is of course part of it all, but the only way to get there is to do the first, hardest thing: Don’t 92 whole living ChronograM 11/11

try to change anything. Be, totally. Every aspect. Don’t add to my experience of the moment, regardless of how painful it is or how lame I think it is/I am.

As my teacher Daido Roshi used to say, “Really trust yourself.” Not to do the right thing or have the correct answer but to simply “do what you’re doing while you’re doing it,” another of his favorite teachings. Does this then mean that when I am growling, just growl? Maybe so. Chances are I will “make a better choice,” as we encourage our kids to do, when I am not adding so many layers to my own experience, getting caught up in what psychotherapist Karen Horney calls “the tyranny of the shoulds,” and just giving all my mean-animal sounds their moment of truth, even when they stay, as they hopefully do more and more, on the inside, and not shared with others. When I am truly apprehending the moment, whines, irritation, and all, that’s mindfulness, and over time, mindfulness definitely leads to less irritation. But there are no shortcuts.

I recently came across a lovely piece written by a Buddhist professor and practitioner from Sri Lanka named Lily de Silva called “Interpersonal Relations and Vipassana Meditation.” In it she writes, “Though essentially a social animal, the human being practically lives alone in a private world of his own, constructed by his sense experience.” Isn’t that the truth!? And it is that sense experience that we need to fully, totally contact in each and every moment.

Our senses, our bodies contracting, smelling, tasting, thinking—regardless of the content or our beliefs about that content—that is mindfulness. Without minding ourselves, meticulously, we can only be an “accepting and understanding parent” when we feel accepting and understanding.

She continues, referring to a teaching of the Buddha called The Sakkapanhna Sutta, “Though people wish and make pious resolutions to live in harmony with one another without enmity and aggression, without recourse to weapons against one another, they in fact live in disharmony, harbouring anger and illwill against one another, sometimes resorting to weapons to terrorize and kill one another. What is the reason for this paradoxical situation that in spite of wanting to live in harmony, they cannot do so?” This is one of my favorite questions. It is too easy to say how we want to behave toward our kids, our loved ones, even those we don’t like. But unless we actually see what the Buddha calls “unwholesome emotions” we will never be able to take the next step, which is to refrain from expressing them.

Buddhism is an incredible tradition that offers insanely detailed tools for seeing through our strong feelings, the various places in the mind we store them, the six realms of existence in which we meet and manifest them, the unfathomably myriad ways we can express our negative views, and concrete paths that lead to living a wholesome life in service to others. The Buddha saw for himself the cosmic nature of all things, the way everything arises, dissipates, and, unless unflinchingly clarified, arises again, in accord with karma and circumstance. This is heavy duty stuff that takes years and years to grok, to put into practice and to integrate. I am so grateful that I have a teacher and a sangha to help me along the way because it’s really hard!

Pema Chodron writes, “Many of us prefer practices that will not cause discomfort, and at the same time we want to be healed. But bodhichitta training doesn’t work that way.” There is no way to heal what ails us without meeting it first, really taking care of our most personal business, face to face, heart to heart.

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New Paltz Community Acupuncture

Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac.

$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford) Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info

Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com

Acupuncture Bluestone Acupuncture, PLLC 44 West Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7860 www.bluestoneacupuncture.com

Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAc 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com 10 years in Rosendale - new name and location! Specializing in the treatment of chronic and acute pain, fertility and gynecological issues, pregnancy support, digestive issues, and addictions and other emotional issues.

Private treatment rooms. Sliding scale, nofault, many insurances.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060

New Paltz Community Acupuncture‚ Amy Benac, L Ac 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $25-$40 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford). As a community-style practice, treatments occur in a semi-private, soothing space with several people receiving treatment at the same time. This allows for frequent, affordable sessions while providing high quality care. Pain management, relaxation,

Port Ewen Acupuncture Center, Beverly Halley, LAc 232 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-2964 Why suffer needlessly? Affordable treatments in a community acupuncture setting. Offering a sliding scale of $15-$35 per treatment. Acute and chronic conditions, smoking cessation, stress-related conditions, preventive medicine.

25 years’ experience using needle and nonneedle techniques.

SearchLight Medical 2345 Route 52, Suite 1F, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 592-4310 www.searchlightmedical.com

21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz TEL: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT

Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training

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25 Harrington St, New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 255-7502

Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

Whole Family Medicine 521 B Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 594-6822 www.wholefamilymedicine.com contact@wholefamilymedicine.com

Alexander Technique Institute for Music and Health Rhinebeck & Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5871 www.judithmuir.com.com

Aromatherapy

• Integrating Talk & Body-Centered Therapy • IMAGO Couples Relationship Counseling • Blended Family Counseling • Integrated Kabbalistic Healing • Exceptional Marriage Mentoring (couple to couple)

Irene HumbacH, LcSW, Pc Office in Poughkeepsie (845) 485-5933

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 (845) 338-2965 joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy.

Art Therapy Deep Clay Art and Therapy New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions. 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.

Claudine Craig Ph.D., LMHC, CASAC Psychological Counseling children, adolescents, adults individuals, couples and families depression, anxiety, stress and anger issues, eating disorders, drug/alcohol challenges, trauma evaluations and psychological testing

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Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica.

ART® is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up.

ART® works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART® doctors are trained in over 500 hands-on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART® doctors attend yearly continuing education and recertification by ART®.

headaches, TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, fertility, muscle tension, cancer support, immune support, asthma, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.

Astrology

Roya Karbakhsh, MD Adult ,Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Claudine Craig, PhD, LMHC, CASAC New Paltz, NY (917) 324 5595

Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

IONE‚ Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org

Body & Skin Care

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.

Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Essence MediSpa, LLC‚ Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com

Healing Mind Psychiatric Care

Diagnostic evaluation • Psychopharmacology Consultation • Psychotherapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Child Consultation • Couples & Family Therapy • Children Play Therapy Stress Reduction Skills • Mindfulness • Coherent Breathing

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Saturday appointments available ANNOUNCING NEW OFFICE IN RHINEBECK 8 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY

NEW PALTZ 222 Main Street, New Paltz, NY

phone: 845.255.1117• fax: 845.255.1190 • web: www.nphealingarts.com

CranioSacral Therapy

Kathy’s Skin Care

Michele Tomasicchio, Holistic Health Practitioner

23 Livingston St, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 464-0290 Kathyskincare@hotmail.com

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com

Made with Love (845) 674-3715 (845) 338-2967 Handcrafted skin care products using natural ingredients, pure essential oils and phthalatefree fragrance oils. No parabens, petroleum or carcinogenic chemicals are used.

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Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley

Holistic Orthodontics‚ Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD

166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com

Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC ‚Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release

www.anandaashram.org Daily Hatha Yoga Classes & 200 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings

Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist.

In

addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call Dr. Ness today.

Counseling Claudia Coenen, MTP, CT

13 Sapphire Road, Monroe, NY 10950 ~ 845.782.5575

(914) 475-9695 www.thekarunaproject.com claudia@thekarunaproject.com

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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.

I believe in expansion and gentle forces.

Too much pressure squeezes out essential 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.

Fitness Trainers Mountainview Studio 20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0901 www.mtnviewstudio.com mtviewstudio@gmail.com

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.webs.com lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes—Herbal Wellness Guide, offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their

holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual's specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.

Holistic Health John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.

Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net 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.

Quantum Herbal Products (845) 246-1344 www.quanumherbalproducs.com

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.

Hospitals Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org

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“ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.”

—Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT

Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez

New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302

See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events

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.

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

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Susan Spiegel Solovay Hudson Valley and Great Barrington, (917) 881-0072 www.HypnoCoachNY.com healingwithhypno@fairpoint.net

heal cracked, chapped lips making them smoochable and tasty.

Dessert for your lips without the calories.

Integrated Kabbalistic Healing (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.

Massage Therapy Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Vesa Byrnes, LMT 7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling? Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.

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“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.”

—Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now

Dr. Kristen Jemiolo

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

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in a safe and supportive environment we create an individualized program tailored to Re-oRient • Re-balance • Re-eneRgize your mind • body • spirit • emotions • nutrition. contact me for a free 45 min. health history consultation.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal

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Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling

Vassar Brothers Medical Center

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.

Maternal Massage & Fitness, Heather Kading, LMT, CIMI (914) 456-9051 www.mamafithv.com maternalmassagefitness@gmail.com Heather specializes in pre-/postnatal massage and fitness. Being a mom herself, Heather understand what women experience as they go through their pregnancies and beyond.

She can also develop a customized fitness plan to help you prepare for the marathon of labor and how to lose your mummy tummy after having the baby.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Optometrists Rhinebeck Eye Care 454 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (845) 828-0215 6805 Route 9, Rhinebeck NY (845) 876-2222 www.drsmadiganandgibbons.com

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts

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Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

The Mother-Daughter Connection a parenting support group

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.

Pharmacies

(518) 398-0051 www.newenglandpatientresources.net

(845) 706-0229 for more information www.itsagirlthinginfo.com

Valley Endovascular Associates

Featuring individual sessions, workshops, inspirational talks.

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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.

Healing Mind Psychiatric Care 8 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY 222 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1117 www.nphealingarts.com

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com

Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings • New Paltz, NY Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW

Offering companionship and inspiration on your life’s journey back to wholeness.

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.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well

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Specializing in loss, transition, death and life changes

Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023

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One Webster Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5352 www.endovasulartherapy.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 Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

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 Parenting, Mindful Eating and Spirited Midlife Women. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation. Newsletter sign up on website.

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Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7502

Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com 20+ years of experience successfully treating adults, couples, families, children and adolescents through verbal body-centered psychotherapy, Rosen Method Bodywork, Play

Therapy and Imago Relationship Therapy. I can guide you from feeling stuck, and experiencing painful symptoms, to blossoming into your genuine self...a place of ease.

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.

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Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

Always There Home Care

Satya Yoga Center

(845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org

Rhinebeck and Catskill, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogacenter.us

Resorts & Spas Aspects Gallery Inn 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

Foot Spa & Tea Bar

Giannetta Salon and Spa 1158 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 831-2421 www.gianettasalonandspa.com

The Hot Spot at Signature Fitness www.hotspotkingston.com

Yoga Nude in Albany Albany County, NY (518) 577-8172 www.yoganudeinalbany.com yoganudeinalbany@yahoo.como Transcend body & mind. Transcend societal & religious negativity around the body.

Experience your sensual self with naked bodies flowing in movement ignited by their ujjaji breathes. Private sessions for couples or individuals.

13 Sapphire Road, Monroe, NY (845) 782-5575

Yoga Way

1285 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 231-4041 www.jalspa.com

985 Route 376 at Brookmeade Plaza Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 yogaway@earthlink.net www.yogaway.info

751 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5852 www.marleneweber.com

Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Advancing the Science and Practice of Contemplative Teaching and Learning, November 4-6: educators will gather to examine mindfulness practices in the classroom, with the goal of improving the lives of children, teachers and families.

Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

Tarot Tarot-on-the-Hudson‚ Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 www.rachelpollack.com rachel@rachelpollack.com

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At Kripalu, we invite you to breathe—to intentionally pause the ongoing demands of life, bring your attention inward, and rediscover your authentic nature. Conscious engagement with the breath connects you with the intelligence and power of the life force within and around you. Whenever you are faced with a challenge—on the yoga mat, in a relationship, at work, or with your health—you can draw on a deep sense of ease, purpose, and mastery to create positive change.

We call it the yoga of life.

Yoga Way is celebrating its 10th year of Service!

Open House-Grand Opening Sunday November 13th from 4:00-7:00. Join us in our new yoga home for refreshments, door prizes and activities. Classical yoga—taught in a way that is both practical and accessible for every stage of life. Ongoing classes for adults and special short-series programs offered for meditation, prenatal, babies, toddlers and kids. Introductory workshops will be offered in November on Saturday the 5th and again on Saturday the 19th.

Call to reserve your space! Affiliate of Lakulish Yoga LLC. Jahnvi Formisano, Director.

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Yoga on Duck Pond (845) 687-4836 www.yogaonduckpond.com A dynamic yet subtle approach to yoga based on the premise that we develop habitual patterns of movement that can effectively be changed by bringing unconscious movement into conscious awareness. Only then can we explore new combinations of ways to move. Learn how to experience yoga poses comfortably and beneficially, from the inside out, without strain or struggle. When we slow down, we can sense and feel more clearly and comfortably how we move. Experience a style of yoga that is dynamic, rejuvenating, empowering and transformational. Donna Nisha Cohen, RYT, with over 30 years experience. Classes daily. Privates available.

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KaKe Art, Mr. Apples, from the series "Scene Around Rosendale," 2008, Women's Studio Workshop collection.

Group Gape “The artists in many of the collections lived and breathed their work,” observes Ariel Shanberg, co-curator of “Linking Collections, Building Connections” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, until December 11. The show celebrates a new collaboration between the Dorsky and several local arts institutions: the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Women’s Studio Workshop, the Woodstock Artists Association, and the Byrdcliffe Guild. “Linking Collections” includes furniture, pottery, video, installations, books, paintings, photographs, sketches, prints, and a deck of cards depicting Catholic saints.

The story begins with the founding of the Byrdcliffe Colony at Woodstock in 1902. The pottery and drawings by founders Ralph Whitehead and his wife Jane are competent but lugubrious. In a photo of Hervey White from 1920, however, an impish smile signals a new tonality that still exists in the Hudson Valley today: a crusading silliness. (White broke away from Byrdcliffe to found the radical Maverick Art Colony.) The curators, in fact, imbibe some of that impishness, dividing the show into eight sections to view these collections through sometimes whimsical lenses. One wall contains the most successful artistic tribute to Kingston ever mounted, including a view of a firehouse so vivid, symmetrical, and charmed that I was tempted to steal it for my bedroom (Firehouse [Kingston, New York] by Karl Fortress, from 1940).

Art in the Hudson Valley has always been a way of creating communities. “We didn’t want to start putting up on the walls who was having flings with whom, but in the section that we called ‘Circles of Affiliation: The Cramer Family,’ if you look at who’s hanging around in whose studio, and whose children are named after whom, and which guy keeps on dressing like a woman at all the Byrdcliffe parties, there’s a story here that’s pretty easy to figure out!” observes co-curator Brian Wallace.

Though “Linking Collections” is a history lesson, it also emphasizes the continuity of the local arts scene. Indeed, one of the best pieces was created this year: 162 Artists who have made books at WSW between 1979 and 2010 by Barbara Leoff Burge, a series of 15 panels inscribed in Gregg shorthand, listing artists involved with the Women’s Studio Workshop. The viewer cannot “read” this stenographic writing (unless specially trained) but may appreciate the beauty of its Arabic-like loops and twirls.

Perhaps the greatest Hudson Valley art heritage is in printmaking. A painstaking but democratic medium, it fits our local artists, who have time to sit under an elm tree slowly producing an etching—and the final product is affordable to almost anyone. Lovely prints

by Ernest Frazier, Milton Glaser, Peggy Bacon, Richard Pantell, George Bellows, and Doris Lee appear at the Dorsky.

“There’s a long-standing tradition of innovativeness and exploration, synthesizing global dialogue with a sense of the local,” Shanberg says of Hudson Valley art. He mentions Philip Guston, who broke from the orthodoxies of New York City abstract painting while living part-time in Woodstock. Guston is represented by a small gem, My Coffee Cup (1973), showing a butterfly alighted on a coffee cup, both lurid red. A butterfly and a coffee cup: nature and civilization.

Another dialogue between the avant-garde and nature appears in an installation by Peter Iannarelli, This Land Is Your Land and This Land Is My Land (2007). (Notice the influence of folk music in the title.) This work arranges Hudson Valley soil on two identical Plexiglass tables, a literal kind of “nature painting.”

“Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Consortium Collections” will appear at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz until December 11. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum.

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TUESDAY 1 Art Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Body / Mind / Spirit Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Community Acupuncture 3pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Yoga Sutras 7:15pm-8pm. Chanting and study with Shawn. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

High Frequency Channeling 8pm. Transmission of Christ Consciousness. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes The Luminous Landscape in Watercolor 2pm-5pm. With Betsy Jacaruso. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Upstart Blues Allstars 8:30pm. Blues. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Spoken Word Emancipations in Context: Liberalism and Nationalism 5:15pm-6:30pm. Rebecca Edwards, Eloise Ellery Professor of History. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5670.

Migration of the Northern Saw Whet Owl 6:30pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7414.

"Education Under Siege: Race, Poverty, and the Mania of Testing in our Public Schools 5:30pm. Jonathon Kozol. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie.

437-5370.

Spoken Word

Theater

The Outdoors

Daniel Estabrook, Photographer 7pm. Using 19th century techniques to make contemporary art. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3830.

THURSDAY 3 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Hudson Valley Landscapes 6pm-8pm. Tracy Helgeson, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Laura von Rosk, Richard Maresca, and Edward Avedisian.

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.

Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

The Lost Frontier of America 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$25. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $20/$12 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Workshops

Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Crystal Method Pioneering American electronica duo The Crystal Method will play an intimate gig at Orient nightclub in Poughkeepsie on November 12. The Grammy-nominated duo of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland formed in Los Angeles in 1993, achieving early success with their platinumselling album Vegas, and blazing a trail of relentless rhythms, subterranean synthesizer moans, and echoing whirs.

The group doesn’t have a signature sound as much as a curiosity to experiment with beats and various genres. The Crystal Method has recorded with Scott Weiland, Matisyahu, and recently with R&B icon Martha Reeves (of Martha and the Vandellas) for the upcoming documentary film Re:Generation. The duo’s music has been part of the soundtrack for the television series “Bones” for years and also has appeared in numerous films, video games and advertisements Tickets are $30. (845) 337-4848; www.orientpoughkeepise.com.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Innisfree Plus 8pm. $8/$6 seniors, faculty and staff/$3 students.

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Residency 8pm. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Theater Private Loves 6:30pm. Direction by Shelley Wyant, starring Joe Bongiorno, Kimberly Kay, Lisa Kelley, Anna Remet, Michael Stern, and David Eisenstadt. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Workshops Why Am I So Tired?

6:30pm. Explore common, overlooked reasons for chronic fatigue. Dr. Kemp will offer tips on energyboosting lifestyle changes. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Writers Workshops lead

by Iris Litt. $15/$60 series. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 2 Art Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.

Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong Classes 5pm-6pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Private Astrological Readings 11:30am-6:30pm. $90/60 minutes. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Each cell of the body is visualized as a boundless universe full of colorful healing lights and energies. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events

Improv for Performance 7pm-9:30pm. 6-week class with MopCo. $125.

Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Smashing History: 150 Years of LGBTIQA Vassar Call for times. Conference that celebrates the accomplishments of prominent Vassar alumnae/i who have distinguished themselves in service to LGBTIQA communities. Panels, lectures, workshops, exhibits, and performances. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Check Mates Chess Club 4:30pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

40-plus Hudson Valley Singles Mixer 6pm-8pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.

Events

Film

Classes

United Friends Observer Society Support Group 7:30pm. $2. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Walker Valley.

744-3143.

Film The Guard Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Dance in America 8pm. Choreography by George Balanchine: "Tzigane," Andante from "Divertimento No. 15," and "The Four Temperaments," with guest commentator/artist, Merrill Ashley. Kenyon Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jazz Wednesdays 8pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

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The Guard Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm-8:30pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Music Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Angel Band 7pm. Opening: Casey Erdman. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Open Mike 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Thursday Jazz 8pm-11pm. Joel Newton, guitar; Don Falzone, bass.

The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com.

Aging Gracefully 6:30pm. Learn about NDH's Center for Healthy Aging and the resources to help you feel young at heart. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.

FRIDAY 4 Art Day of the Dead 5pm-7pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Seven-Year Retrospective by Pam Krimsky 6pm-8pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Blocks & Posts 6pm-8pm. Sculpture by James Murray. Marina Gallery, Cold Spring. 265-2204.

Dana Wigdor: The Floating Verse 6pm-12am. The Living Room, Cold Spring. 270-8210.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am-11am. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Private Angelic Channeling 11:30am. $125/90 minutes. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Dynamic Flow Yoga with Elizabeth 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15/$50 4 classes. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Community Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Craniosacral Studies 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Lea Garnier. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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.

Dance American Ballet Theater 8pm. $25-$55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Roxane Butterfly Worldbeat Ensemble 8pm. Tap dancing. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Events Woodstock Riding Club Annual Dinner Call for times. Show Champions from this year's shows are celebrated and given awards. Kingston. 247-0546.

A Night At The Headquarters 5pm-8pm. Join the night watchman on his rounds. $4.

Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Film The Guard Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Alien 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Music Eisteddfod 2011 Traditional music festival honors Andy Cohen. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. www.folkfestny.org.

The Harvest Band Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. Opening: Sam Reider's Tres Amigos. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Cupcakes 7pm. Acoustic. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Kim and Reggie Harris 7:30pm. Folk. $15. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 496-9696.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring Thomas Earl and Petey-Boy, followed by open mike. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Hubble 8pm. With It's Not Night It's Space. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Kris Kristofferson 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Mr. Breakdown 8pm. Party band. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Seth Glier 8:30pm. With special guest Kiriaki Bozas. $20/$15 in advance. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Greencards 9pm. Bluegrass. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Spoken Word Jerry Seinfeld 7pm. Comedy. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Non-Duality with Scott Kiloby 7pm-9pm. $25. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

Paul Russel 7pm. Author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov.

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Theater Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Dracula 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8.

Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118.

The Lost Frontier of America 8pm. Walking the Dog Theater. $15-$25. Space 360, Hudson. (518) 697-3360.

New-Play Reading Series 8pm. Two new short plays by Bradley Diuguid. $6.

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Workshops Imagination 101 Writing for comic books, graphic novels and animation with J.M. DeMatteis. Interface Healing, Kingston. imaginationworkshops@gmail.com.

SATURDAY 5 Art TGIF Tiny Drawings 1pm-5pm. Humorous cartoons created by Rob Shepperson which express the theme Thank God it's Friday. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Recent Works by Eileen Hedley, Lora Shelley, Ezerd 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

Caren Canier: Journey in Egypt 5pm-7pm. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Persistence of Imagery." Mary Mugele Sealfon and Christina Pahucki 5pm-7pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Framed: Near and Distant Views 5pm-8pm. Drawings and paintings by Lynn Woods.

Storefront Gallery, Kingston. www.TheStorefrontGallery.com.

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Unitarian Church, 320 sawkill rd, Kingston, nY

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A Juried Show of Marist College Art Students 5pm-8pm. ASK, Kingston. www.askforarts.org.

What's Cooking 5pm-8pm. ASK artists' paintings, graphic art, and photography will stir your taste buds while satisfying your hunger for delicious art. ASK, Kingston. www.askforarts.org.

Paper Anniversary 6pm-8pm. SUNY New Paltz's Printmaking Club.

The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-YOGA.

Kids

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Non-Duality with Scott Kiloby Call for times. $70 2 session/$120 4 sessions.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.

Qi Gong with Lorraine Hughes 9am-10am. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Reflexology Day 10am-4:30pm. $45. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Vinyasa Yoga 12:30pm-3pm. Connecting movement with breath with Sara Smith. $35. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Hilalayan Singing Bowls Practical Training 3:30pm-5:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 4pm-6pm. $5. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Tandem Yoga: Balancing Earth & Sky 4pm-5:30pm. $10. The Yoga House, Kingston.

706-YOGA.

Classes Landscape Design Clinic 9am-5pm. With Walt Cudnohufsky, hands-on workshop/ traveling field study. $125. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Dance Dance Movies Commission 2010-2011 Premieres 7pm. Screening, talk and installation. $6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Mid Hudson Larreynaga Sister City Benefit Dance 7:30pm. Music by Cuboricua. $20. Church of Messiah Parish, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.

Postcards from Mexico with Dance Monks 8pm. Day of the Dead celebration. $25/$20. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

American Ballet Theater 8pm. $25-$55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ's. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Events A Celebration of India 10am-4pm. Indian cuisine, music and crafts. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.

Campus Walking Tour 10am. Led by Colton Johnson, Dean Emeritus of the College and Professor Emeritus of English. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7400.

Fair Trade Bazaar 11am-5pm. The Aula, Poughkeepsie. patla@hvc.rr.com.

Legacy Farm Cohousing Informational Meeting 12pm-2:30pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 339-2526.

Red Wine and Chocolate 12pm-5pm. Side-by-side tasting of our two favorite food groups. Whitecliff Winery, Gardiner. 255-4613.

Sip and Sign Holiday Book Signing 1pm-4pm. Featuring 15 local authors. Millbrook Vineyards, Millbrook. 677-8383 ex.11.

Edmonston House Tour 2pm-3pm. Visit this Revolutionary War headquarters and meet General Horatio Gates, who was none too happy to be billeted in this house. Edmonston House, New Windsor. 561-1765 ext. 22.

Grand Opening Open House 2pm-5pm. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

255-1725.

A Night At The Headquarters 5pm-8pm. Join the night watchman on his rounds. $4.

Washington's Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.

KaGrand Opening Reception 5pm-8pm. Karmabee, Kingston. 443-3358.

3rd Annual Harvest Celebration & Auction 7pm-10pm. Live and silent auctions, live music, hors d'oeuvre, wine. All proceeds to benefit Common Ground Farm. $20. St. Luke's Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Beacon. 231-4424.

Seventh Annual Vampyre Ball 9pm. Gothic and Industrial Kaos with DJ Occulere, black attire mandatory. $5. The Rondout Music Lounge, Kingston. 340-0220.

Film Edge of Survival 5pm. An award-winning film about world hunger by Barbara Gordon. $10/$5 members. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

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Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Magic and Illusion with Leon Etienne 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Masters of Illusion 7pm. $19.50-$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Abigail Washburn Call for times. Opening: Mike and Ruthy. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Backbeat5 Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Met Live in HD: Wagner's Siegfried 12pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

In Color 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Vosilla Sessions Presents: A Funds-For-Relief-Raiser 1pm. Villa Vosilla Resort, Tannersville. (585) 746-6393.

Senior Recital: Christopher Connors 4pm. Jazz guitar. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

The Cupcakes 7pm. Acoustic. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Himilayan Singing Bowls Meditation Concert 7pm-8:30pm. With special guest Lumena. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Fleurine 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Gretchen Parlato, Gerald Clayton Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Other Dimensions in Music 7:30pm. Jazz. $15/$10. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.

Sanctuary- Iron Maiden Tribute 7:30pm. Hard, metal. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Spuyten Duyvil 7:30pm. $12/$10 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501.

Tim Siciliano Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter 8pm. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Bryan Gordon 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers Present "King Arthur" 8pm. $20/$15 seniors/$7 youths and students. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

Marshall Tucker Band 8pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Royal Khaos 8pm. Reggae with documentary. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

The Mothers of Intention 8pm. Frank Zappa Tribute Band. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Vassar College Women's Chorus 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Under the Radar Concert 8pm. String Surprise with James Ilgenfritz and Al Margolis. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Trummors 8pm. With Cokeweed + Above Ground Episodes. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Kenny White 8:30pm. With special guest David Temple. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Abigail Washburn 9pm. Singer/songwriter. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

In The Pocket 10pm. Covers. Michael's Sports Bar, Fishkill. 896-5766.

Spoken Word The Secret Life of Bees 1pm-3pm. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Phillip Levine hosts this poetry/prose/ performance event. Featured artists: Cate McNider and Jeffrey Davis. Sub-hosted by Cheryl Rice + Guy Reed.

Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 246-8565.

Theater Criss-Crosisng Border: The Panama Suitcase Show 11am. Arm of the Sea Puppet Theater. $6. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Poe's Last Mystery 7:30pm. Written and directed by Frank and Irene Marquette. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale.

658-8989.

Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Dracula 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

New-Play Reading Series 8pm. Two new short plays by Bradley Diuguid. $6.

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Workshops Kiln Formed Glass - Fusing and Slumping Call for times. With Jeep Johnson. $145/$125 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Portraiture Weekend Workshop for 2D and 3D Artists Saturday-Sunday. 9:30am-2:30pm. $180/$160 members. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Chainsaw Safety and Operation 10am-12pm. $27/$22. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

SUNDAY 6 Art ARTlandish 1pm-4pm. Create art in the landscape. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

An Exhibition of Photographs From Adirondack Style: Great Camps And Rustic Lodges 2pm-4pm. By authors and photographers f-stop fitzgerald and Richard McCaffrey. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Body / Mind / Spirit Non-Duality with Scott Kiloby Call for times. $70 2 session/$120 4 sessions.

Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Intro to Yoga with Shawn 1pm-2pm. $15/$50 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Maitri 3pm-4:30pm. Cultivating loving kindness with Jeffrey Mann. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Classes Master Class with Dance Monks 9am-11am. $20/$15 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dance American Ballet Theater 1pm. $25-$55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Swing Dance to DJ'd Music 5:30pm-8pm. Beginner's lesson 6:00-6:30. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

Events Fair Trade Bazaar 10am-2pm. The Aula, Poughkeepsie. patla@hvc.rr.com.

Legacy Farm CoHousing Open Meeting 10:30am-1pm. Come and see how we are planning a safe, sustainable, old fashioned community where neighbors know and care for neighbors and the environment. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. www.legacyfarmcohousing.com.

Red Wine and Chocolate 11am-4pm. Side-by-side tasting of our two favorite food groups. Whitecliff Winery, Gardiner. 255-4613.

Young Artist Talent Search 11:30am. Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. (607) 229-6087.

Crafty Fall Fiesta 4pm. To benefit Corazon de Dahlia's Community Development Center in Peru. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Women's Studio Workshop Annual Gala 4pm-8pm. Honoring Carolee Schneemann and Elizabeth Merena. Reception, dinner, auction. $100 gala/$250 VIP. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 658-9133.

Film The Guard Call for times. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Race to Nowhere 1pm. $5. Crandell Theatre, Chatham. (518) 766-5892.

Music Cuddle Magic Call for times. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Matt Jordan's All Star Jazz Band 9am-1pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Jazz at the Falls 11am. Larry Balestra, Jeff Otis & Charlie Knicely. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jeff Otis & Larry Balestra 11am. Jazz. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD 12pm. Mozart's Don Giovanni. $18/$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Whispering Tree 12pm. Folk. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Vassar Poets in Song 2pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers Present "King Arthur" 3pm. $20/$15 seniors/$7 youths and students. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 384-6660.

The 5 Creations 3pm. 50's and 60's rock. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines 6pm. Folk. $20. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones 6:30pm. $49.50/$39.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Garrin Benfield 6:30pm. Freestyle acoustic rock. $20/$15. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Spoken Word Sunday Author Series: Jim Heron 3pm. Heron tells the 6,000 year-old history of an extraordinary 64 acres on the eastern edge of the Hudson River, The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600.

Theater Poe's Last Mystery 1pm. Written and directed by Frank and Irene Marquette. $12.50/$10 students. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

New-Play Reading Series 1pm. Two new short plays by Bradley Diuguid. $6.

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Proof 2pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 2pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Dracula 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Rhythms of Ecstasy 1pm-3pm. Drumming workshop with Rosemarie Ceraso. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

MONDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit Reflexology Sessions Call for times. $45. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Healing energy is created through smiling within to your internal organs and visualizing lights of various colors. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Zumba 6pm-7pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 members series.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Women Healing Circle 6:30pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Kids The Princess and the Pea Call for times. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Spoken Word Conversation with Merrill Brockway 7:30pm. producer and director of the “Dance in America.” Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

TUESDAY 8 Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 3pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Classes The Luminous Landscape in Watercolor 2pm-5pm. With Betsy Jacaruso. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Events Italian Wine Dinner Call for times. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

Kids Election Day Fun 2pm. Cast your ballot for your favorite exhibit. MidHudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Residency 8pm. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

music the feelies at mass moca john baumgartner The Feelies sound-check at Maxwell's, Hoboken, New Jersey, mid-1980s.

Hoboken Hits the Housatonic Although strands of it are apparent in that of the many subsequent acts they inspired, the sound of the Feelies remains unmistakable: nervous, twitchy tempos topped with skewed solos and highly contagious pop hooks. The band, which formed at the dawn of punk and plays MassMOCA this month, also stood out early on for its idiosyncratic use of clean, jangling guitars.

“We were trying to forge something different than the regular ‘punk’ sound,” says Glenn Mercer, who co-founded the group in Haledon, New Jersey, with his fellow singerguitarist Bill Million in 1976. “We tried to stay from using a lot of [guitar] distortion and barre chords, which was what most other bands on the scene were using.”

The approach, combined with Million’s and Mercer’s considerable songwriting skills, won the Feelies swift acclaim as they made forays into Manhattan for gigs at CBGB and other key venues. After adding second drummer Anton Fier (Lounge Lizards, Golden Palominos), the group cut a 1978 single for the seminal UK label Stiff Records, which two years later released its debut album, Crazy Rhythms. One of the most influential LPs of the last 30 years, the disc was a resounding hit with critics and made a deep impression on followers like R.E.M., Pavement, Sebadoh, and others.

The Feelies are most identified with the tightly knit neighborhood scene centering around Hoboken club Maxwell’s, home at that time to other similarly mid 60s-inspired guitar bands like the Bongos and the Individuals (both of whom have members now residing in our region, coincidentally). “There was a real sense of community,” remembers Mercer. “We were all listening to a lot of ’60s music—the Velvet Underground, the Byrds, the Who—and a lot of ’50s music as well.”

The group split not long after Crazy Rhythms’s release, with Mercer and Million going on to perform in a series of shorter-lived projects. But after a few years the pair reactivated the Feelies as a five-piece with original drummer Dave Weckerman on percussion, bassist Brenda Sauter, and drummer Stanley Demeski to record 1986’s folk-leaning The Good Earth (Coyote Records; produced by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck). The band signed with A&M Records for 1988’s Only Life and 1991’s Time for a Witness, and in the years hence have maintained an on/off existence, with most members playing with other acts (most notably, Demeski with Luna).

Things are decidedly back on for the Feelies these days. In 2008 the group reconvened for two sold-out shows at old haunt Maxwell’s and to open for devotees Sonic Youth, and the following year performed at Carnegie Hall in an R.E.M. tribute concert, at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in Monticello (playing Crazy Rhythms in its entirety), and locally at the Bearsville Theater. The quintet also recorded its first new album in 20 years, the superb, appropriately titled Here Before (Bar/None Records).

“Bill lives in Florida and Brenda’s in Pennsylvania, so we don’t get together that often,” explains Mercer, who, like Weckerman and Demeski still lives in the New Jersey area. “But when we do we make the most of our time. It’s still fun, so why not do it?”

The Feelies will perform at MassMOCA’s Hunter Center in North Adams, Massachusetts, on November 11 at 8pm. Tickets are $22, $26, and $18 for students.

(413) 662-2111; www.massmoca.org.

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Faculty Jazz 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

WEDNESDAY 9

Kids

Body / Mind / Spirit

Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

The How of Sustainable Health and Happiness Call for times. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia.

688-6897.

Community Acupuncture 9am-11am. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Dynamic Flow Yoga with Elizabeth 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15/$50 4 classes. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Community Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Medical Intuitive Connection 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Qi Gong Classes 5pm-6pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Learn how to overcome painful states of mind and experience joy. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Heart Opening Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Matinees and Music: Big Band Tribute 2pm. Seniors' concert. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Howard Fishman 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Malcolm Cecil Audio Recording and Production, Part II 7pm. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Tim O'Brien 7:30pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Compania Flamenca Jose Porcel 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Open Mike 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Thursday Jazz 8pm-11pm. Rob Scheps, soprano sax & flute; John Stowell, guitar. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com.

Events Italian Wine Dinner Call for times. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

Wine Dinner 6:30pm. Panzur Restaurant, Tivoli. 757-1071.

Kids The Princess and the Pea Call for times. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Joe Bonamassa 8pm. Blues singer/songwriter. $51/$61/$71. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Jazz Wednesdays 8pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger of The Doors 8pm. $35.50-$79.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Upstart Blues Allstars 8:30pm. Blues. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Spoken Word Art Lecture: Kate McDowell, Ceramist 7pm. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz.

257-3830.

The History of Ulster County Bluestone 7pm. Slides and archival images with Peter Roberts of Friends of Historic Kingston. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Permaculture, Ecology & Biodynamics: Design Ideas for your Home & Garden 7:30pm. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THURSDAY 10 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Each cell of the body is visualized as a boundless universe full of colorful healing lights and energies. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Full Moon Meditation and Guided Relaxation 7:30pm-8:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Dance Moscow Ballet's 2011 Great Russian Nutcracker 7:30pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Events Italian Wine Dinner Call for times. Terrapin Restaurant, Rhinebeck. 876-3330.

Check Mates Chess Club 4:30pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm-8:30pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

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Orchidfest Black Meadow Flora, an orchid grower and purveyor in Chester, will be the location of the first Hudson Valley Orchidfest. Festivities will include a free demo on the selection and care of orchids, three door prizes of Black Meadow Flora orchids, informal tours of the greenhouses, and a limitedseating repotting workshop at 3PM. There will also be a thousands of plants for sale.

In addition to the more commonly available orchid species such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya, Black Meadow also offers less known varieties including Dendrobium, Miltonia, Odontglossum, Oncidium and Paphiodedilum. Advance registration is required for both the free demo and the repotting workshop. There is a $15 registration fee for the repotting workshop, which includes free potting media for up to two plants for participants who choose to bring their own orchids. November 19, 11am-4:30pm. (845) 469-5055l; www.blackmeadowflora.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.

Dance Moscow Ballet's 2011 Great Russian Nutcracker 7:30pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Poor Dog Group: Dionysia 8pm. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

Margaret C. Bridge of Black Meadow Flora

Spoken Word

Vince Durango's Just For Fun 8pm. One-man show of songs, poetry, stories and more. $15. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

NEWvember Play Festival 8pm. A showcase of original plays by promising playwrights to be held at their Carpenter Shop. $10/$30 festival. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Sole Reading: Reflexology for the Soul 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

FRIDAY 11 Art Dream Boxes 6pm-8pm. Gallery One Eleven, Kingston. 514-2923.

DNA Nanotechnology: Applications and Advances 5pm. Nadrian C. Seeman, Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry at New York University.

Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. 758-7235.

Hudson River Loft Reading Series 7-9pm. Sean Doyle, Daniel Nester, Chloe Caldwell, and others read. Musica, Hudson. cocomonet@gmail.com.

Theater Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Lewis Gardner's Wheels 7:30pm. $10. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Herb Marks Freelance: That Tramp May be a Lady 8pm. Air Pirates Radio Theater. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Dracula 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet 8pm. $15-$45. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Love & Madness, or Falling In Love Can Be Hell 8pm. An original performance piece. Rokeby Mansion, Annandale-on-Hudson. caitpjohnson@gmail.com.

NEWvember Play Festival 8pm. A showcase of original plays by promising playwrights to be held at their Carpenter Shop. $10/$30 festival. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

SATURDAY 12

Zydeco Dance 8pm-11pm. Music by Li'l Anne & Hot Cayenne. Beginners lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Theater

Spoken Word

Art

Mary Gauthier 8pm. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

NERFA Folk DJ Showcase 10pm. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.

Not the Boys Less, But the Girls More: Black Women and Higher Education after Reconstruction 5:15pm-6:30pm. Quincy T. Mills, Assistant Professor of History. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5670.

Malcolm Cecil 7pm. An overview of what is involved in producing and engineering a professional high quality audio recording.

Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. (984) 568-7526.

Janna Levin: The Third Culture 7:30pm. Leading conceptual physicist discusses science/art crossover. Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.

Acoustic Alchemy 8:30pm. $50/$45. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Saints of Swing Chamber Trio 8:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Events

Kids Jonathan's Story Theater 10am. This interactive storytelling session features giants, dragons and local legends. $5. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Music Becca Stevens 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

John Hiatt and the Combo 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Rob Morsberger and Amelia White 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.

In The Pocket 8pm. Covers. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

2nd Friday Jams with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Anna Polonsky and Orion Weiss 8pm. Piano recital. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Mary Gauthier with Tania Elizabeth 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Keith Newman & Robert Leitner 8pm. Acoustic. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

Stephen Bluhm 8pm. With Head Womb. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Mary Gauthier with Tania Elizabeth 8pm. $25. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.

Reality Check 8pm-8pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Shawn Colvin 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Kirsten DeHaan 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Carefully Selected Estate Finds for the Holidays: Antique to Contemporary Art, Tabletop, Serving, & Barware 11am-5pm. Scott and Bowne Fine Art and Furnishings, Kent, CT. (860) 592-0207.

Gays in the Military: How America Thanked Me 5pm-9pm. Fovea, Beacon. 765-2199.

Victoria Palermo 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

Celebration of the Season: Art & Photography Celebrating Beauty of Life 6pm-9pm. Local art & photography showcasing nature and beauty in people and our surroundings. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Migrations 6pm-9pm. New Works by Lisa Zukowski. Bau, Beacon.

440-7584.

Body / Mind / Spirit Tantra in Beacon...Living Principles of Tantra 11am-4pm. Arabella Champaq. $45. Beacon. www.meetup.com/Tantra-in-Beacon.

Energy Cultivation, Body Preparation and Shaping 11am-5pm. For healing and personal power: Hawks Brother Kirouana Paddaquahum. $65. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Keeping the Heart Open and Nourished 12pm-1pm. With Kara Lukowski. $15. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

VortexHealing: Divine Energy Through the Magic of Merlin 6:30pm-8:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker 2pm. $27.50-$68. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Hudson Valley Bellydance Stars 7:30pm. Featuring Sarah Jezebel, Angelique, Ayleeza, and Elizabeth Muise. With Boom Boom Shake, musical guests, and student performances. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Jay Ungar's Annual Birthday Contradance 8pm. David Kayneroor with music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason. $10/$9/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Poor Dog Group: Dionysia 8pm. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy.

(518) 276-3921.

Swing Dance 8pm-10:30pm. Lesson 7:30pm-8pm. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.

Events Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring Desserts from the Garden.

Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512.

THEATER "is he dead?" at half moon theatre

jen kiaba Geoffrey Tarson, as the painter Jean-François Millet (in disguise as his widowed twin sister) with Darrell James as the villain, Andre, in the Half Moon Theatre production of "Is He Dead?"

Ten Yards of Belgian Lace Never Hurt a Man A starving artist fakes his own death and then pretends to be the deceased’s own sister.

The latest cinematic yukfest by Judd Apatow or an episode of TV’s “Happy Endings”?

Even better. Despite the modern plotline, the theater piece “Is He Dead?” was written more than a century ago and found among the papers of Mark Twain. The farce was staged on Broadway in 2007, adapted by David Ives, a playwright with a flair for the mordantly absurd. A local production, performed by the Half Moon Theatre company, arrives this month in Poughkeepsie.

The plot, which echoes Manhattan’s backbiting art scene, actually takes place in 1846 France. The epitome of the starving painter, Jean-François Millet is convinced by fellow bohemians that dead artists sell better to a fickle public. Faking one’s death and then returning secretly to witness the outcome? Twain utilized the same plot device in the funeral scene in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, indicating he was not above stealing from himself. The drag twist, however, was not Twain’s prescient gender-politics invention; Ives grafted it onto the story, additionally crafting such piquant lines as “Ten yards of Belgian lace and a wedding dress never hurt a man.”

Half Moon, a coterie of professional actors with New York and Los Angeles credentials, held a reading of the Twain-Ives play at last year’s Millbrook Book Festival. An exuberant audience response convinced Molly Renfroe Katz, Half Moon’s executive director, to mount the play this autumn. “’Is He Dead?,’ because of its large cast size, opulent costume requirements and ample set, is ambitious for any company, but very ambitious for us: a small, five-yearold company, with no paid staff,” Katz says. “But we felt so strongly about the writing, the humor, and about the play’s ability to appeal to all ages, that we were compelled to rise to the challenge of producing it.

Already a celebrated man of letters, Twain wrote “Is He Dead?” by way of a personal challenge, says the show’s director, Paul Kassel, associate professor in SUNY New Paltz’s Department of Theatre Arts. “Apparently, Twain thought he could write a play and wanted to try. Like a lot of things Twain tried, he seemed to be at least partially inspired by the money he might make on it. It has a lot of the ingredients common to farces at the time (esp. Charley’s Aunt), which were vastly popular and huge moneymakers.” However, the text was “almost unproduceable” until Ives reworked it, Kassel says.

While cross-dressing can be staged for easy laughs—and this play relentlessly endeavors to extract such a reaction, proffering identity mix-ups and door-slamming frenzy—Ives has greater ambitions. The plot device of Millet’s visiting “sister”—whose presence puzzles the artist’s grieving girlfriend, Marie Leroux—affords equally sobering observations about personal identity, says Kassel.

“The play is about how we see things—the world, ourselves, others—and how our perspective can blind us to what’s around us,” he says. “But there is also a clear depiction of poverty and pain, and the palette is dark and, arguably, gloomy.”

Playing both Millet and his putative sister is Half Moon co-founder Geoffrey Tarson.

Veteran New York actor Darrell James plays Andre, the avaricious landlord. The cast includes Stanley Beadle, George Conrad, Nicole Carroll, Michael Frohnhoefer, Ryan Katzer, Amy Lemon Olson, Barbara Rankin, Diana Stahl, and Frank Trezza.

“Is He Dead” will be staged by Half Moon Theatre November 10 through November 26 at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie. (888) 71-TICKETS; www.halfmoontheatre.org.

—Jay Blotcher

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39th Annual Holiday Handcraft Fair 10am-4pm. Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-4015.

Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. Featuring Diane Diachishin and Frank Tetler. $6/$5 members. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 978-5620.

Vince Durango's Just For Fun 8pm. One-man show of songs, poetry, stories and more. $15. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Kids Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 12pm-1pm. For non-walkers. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 1:15pm-2:15pm. Toddlers through age 3. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Music Kat Webb 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Senior Recital: Daryl Duran 4pm. Flute. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

World War III Tour 5:15pm. Hollywood Undead and Asking Alexandria. $28.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Arturo O'Farrill 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Electronic Music Night 8pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Alash Ensemble 8pm. Tuvan throat singing. $10. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Keith Newman & Robert Leitner 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Kelleigh McKenzie & Robert Burke Warren 8pm. $10. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Reality Check 8pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Vassar College Choir 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Uncle Rock's Grown Up Performance 8pm. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

The Drive 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Bryan Gordon 8:30pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Patty Larkin 8:30pm. Folk. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

The Lexy Grey Band 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Crystal Method 10pm. American electronic music duo. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

the Outdoors Full Moon Ecology Walk Sights and sounds of nature at dusk. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5443.

Spoken Word Conserving Our Native Pollinators 10:30am-12pm. $22/$18 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Arcadia Publishing Day 1pm-5pm. Featuring readings and signings by William H. Ewen Jr. and Steve Ladin . Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.

The Future Meets the Past: Sustainable Gardening Practices 1pm-3pm. $35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Symposium on Region-Specific Art and Museum Practice 2pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844.

Picnic with Poets 4pm. Charles Coe and Berkshire poets Michelle Gillett and Leslie Harrison. The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts.

(413) 551-5111.

David Rothenberg 7pm. Author of The Survival of the Beautiful. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Fall Reading Series 7pm-10pm. Eleven diverse authors will read fiction, poetry, essays and excerpts from their books hosted by Chloe Cadwell. $5 donation. Musica, Hudson. (518) 828-1045.

Theater The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 11am. By Hampstead Stage Company. $9/$7 children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

A Dinner to Die For 6:30pm. Dinner theater. $50. Charlotte's, Millbrook.

677-5888.

Lewis Gardner's Wheels 7:30pm. $10. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

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Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Dracula 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Proof 8pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet 8pm. $15-$45. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Los Tres Balceneros: Rap City of the West 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Love & Madness, or Falling In Love Can Be Hell 8pm. An original performance piece. Rokeby Mansion, Annandale-on-Hudson. caitpjohnson@gmail.com.

NEWvember Play Festival 8pm. A showcase of original plays by promising playwrights to be held at their Carpenter Shop. $10/$30 festival. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.

The Air Pirates Radio Theater 8pm. $20. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Music

The Outdoors

Marty Elkins Quartet 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Kurt Henry Band 11am. Singer/songwriter. Mezzaluna Café, Saugerties.

246-5306.

Nova Columbo 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Vassar College Madrigal Singers 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Bill Maher 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

California Guitar Trio 7:30pm. With the Montreal Guitar Trio. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Guided Night Sky Observations 7pm. Observe stars and planets with the unaided eye.

The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Spoken Word Sunday Author Series: Thomas Locker 4pm. Locker shares radiant depictions of his home river region with his book Hudson, Story of a River. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon. 838-1600.

Theater Is He Dead?

2pm. Half Moon Theater. $20/$18 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Proof 2pm. $10. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

TUESDAY 15 Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 3pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Using Mind, Emotions and Spirit to Help the Body Heal 6pm-7pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. Archangel Metatron and master teachers. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. www.mytrueplace.com.

Classes The Luminous Landscape in Watercolor 2pm-5pm. With Betsy Jacaruso. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Music

Once Upon This Island County Players opens its 54th season with a staging Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s calypso-flavored musical “Once Upon This Island.” Combing elements of “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Little Mermaid,” the play tells the story of a Caribbean island where the residents must overcome the shadow of their colonial past and a girl makes the ultimate sacrifice for the boy she loves.

Directed and choreographed by Jennifer Turoff, the play stars Jasmin Rogers and Brad Moody as the class-crossed lovers.

Originally staged Off-Broadway in 1990, the London production of Once Upon This Island won and Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 1994. The shows runs November 4-19. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. $20/$17.

(845) 298-1491; www.countyplayers.org.

Workshops Planning for Agriculture Call for times. Workshop for municipal board members and volunteers. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 392-5252 ext. 208.

Becoming a Writer 10:30am. Sandra Kitt. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Sound Healing with Tuning Forks 2pm-4pm. Dr. John Beaulieu. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

SUNDAY 13 Art ARTlandish 1pm-4pm. Create art in the landscape. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Body / Mind / Spirit Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10 donation. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Intro to Yoga with Shawn 1pm-2pm. $15/$50 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Crystal Sound Energy Healing 7pm-9pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Catskill Ballet Theatre Mini-Golf Fundraiser 12pm-5pm. Play mini-golf holes at various businesses in Kingston. Kingston, Kingston. www.catskillballet.org.

The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Grand Opening Open House 4pm-7pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Haitian Peoples Support Project Benefit 5pm-8pm. Featuring Haitian art and live music. The Cafeteria, New Paltz. 633-8287.

Kids Kore's Kids Klub: Eclectic Paganism 9am-12pm. Ages 5-12. Akasha's Journey, Wassiac.

729-8999.

Pinocchio 2pm. The National Marionette Series. $6/$4 students and seniors. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Dracula 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 3pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

NEWvember Play Festival 6pm. A showcase of original plays by promising playwrights to be held at their Carpenter Shop. $10/$30 festival. The Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. 230-7020.

Workshops Herbal Wisdom Medicine Circle 12pm-2:30pm. Explore the healing properties of herbs. $45. The Living Room, Cold Spring. 270-8210.

MONDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Healing energy is created through smiling within to your internal organs and visualizing lights of various colors. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Zumba 6pm-7pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 members series.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup Group 7pm-8:30pm. Explore the vast reaches of human potential. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Goethean Explorations of Light, Darkness and Color 2pm. 4 sessions. $100-$160. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Kids Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman 7pm. $15. Philipstown, Cold Spring. 809-5584.

The Residency 8pm. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

The Symphonic Band 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Workshops Make a Menorah Workshop 5:30pm-8pm. $115/$95 members. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Writers Workshops lead

by Iris Litt. $15/$60 series. Call for location. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong Classes 5pm-6pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Spirit Communication Circle Meetup Group 7pm-8:30pm. Psychic enrichment circle with Adam F. Bernstein. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. Clairvoyant counseling with Rev. Betsy Stang. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Holistic Eye Care 7:30pm-9:30pm. $15/$10 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Chuck Johnson 7pm. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Jazz Wednesdays 8pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Upstart Blues Allstars 8:30pm. Blues. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

THURSDAY 17 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Each cell of the body is visualized as a boundless universe full of colorful healing lights and energies. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Check Mates Chess Club 4:30pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm-8:30pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Mike Ferrio & Ana Egge 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Malcolm Cecil Evening of Acoustic Music 7pm. $8. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

In the Mood 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Open Mike 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Student Composers' Concert 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Thursday Jazz 8pm-11pm. Rob Scheps, soprano sax & flute; John Stowell, guitar. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com.

Spoken Word Vassar Graduates and Progressive Reform: Julia Lathrop, Josephine Roche, Julia Stimson 5:15pm-6:30pm. Panel discussion. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5670.

Simplicity Parenting 7pm. With Kim John Payne, M.Ed. $10. Mountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033.

Kodi Kids Benefit 7pm. KJ Denhert, Deanna Kirk, Peter Einhorn and guests perform to benefit African kids. Unitarian Church, Kingston. 246-2195.

Film Before Stonewall 7pm. Film and discussion. Film chronicles cultural repression of sexual identity before the Stonewall. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 569-8965.

Music The Differents Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Eddie Bert 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Asleep at the Wheel 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Venture Lift Album Release Show 8pm. With World Lines + DJ Lunar Moss. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Mark Donato 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Fat City 8pm. Blues. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Peter Tork with James Lee Stanley 8:30pm. $30?$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Spoken Word The Organic Home Orchard 1pm-4pm. Michael Phillips, Lost Nation Orchards, lecture/field study/book signing. $45. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

Erica Heller 6pm. Author Yossarian Slept Here. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Yellowstone Wildlife: Charting New Paths Forward 7pm. Mike Clark of Greater Yellowstone Coalition speaks. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5443.

Theater Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Theater Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

SATURDAY 19 Art Tea and Strumpets 6pm-9pm. A vivid collection of paintings and photography inspired by Victorian ethics, haute fashion imagery, and french symbolist poetry by Kathleen Marie. Darkside Records and Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 452-8010.

Tom Blake and Patty Tyrol Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Workshops

Body / Mind / Spirit

Free Photoshop Demonstration 7:30pm. 90-minute demonstration by HV Photoshop.

Topics will include: masking, layers, and color correction. BEAHIVE, Kingston.

Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Qi Gong with Lorraine Hughes 9am-10am. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Reflexology Clinic 10am-4:30pm. $45. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:30am-1:30pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Chanting Peace 12pm-1pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Calling Heaven's Energies to Earth 2pm-6pm. $55/$45. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

FRIDAY 18 Art Portraits of an Artist 6pm-8pm. The winter exhibit features works from M.E.D. Chatham Elementary School's Second Grade Art Class. Artview Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-0999.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am-11am. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Dynamic Flow Yoga with Elizabeth 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15/$50 4 classes. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Community Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Transformation with Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-8:30pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow healing. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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.

Events Antique Fair and Auction 10am-5pm. Emerson Resort, Mt. Tremper. 688-5966.

Dance Annual Contradance Party to Jumpstart the Holidays 7pm-10:30pm. 3-5PM 'Follow the Leader' dances, $8 Kathy Anderson; 5-7pm jam and potluck. $15. St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-2am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music spun by eclectic DJ's. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.

Events 40th Annual Regina Coeli Santa's Express Art & Craft Fair 9am-3pm. $2/children free. Regina Coeli School, Hyde Park. 229-8589.

Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring chef demos of the Thanksgiving Harvest. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston.

853-8512.

Dutchess County Arts Council Fine Art & Craft Market 10am-5pm. $5/$4. Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, Poughkeepsie. www.artsmidhuson.org.

Antique Fair and Auction 10am-5pm. Auction at 3pm. Emerson Resort, Mt. Tremper. 688-5966.

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Community Sing 5pm. With potluck dinner and crafts. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern.

Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Fuzzy Lollipop 11am. Silly, sweet interactive musical performances for children of all ages. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Family Free Time and Museum Late Night 5pm-8pm. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Starlab Planetarium Show 6pm. Enter an inflatable planetarium and explore the night time sky. $4. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Create Vital Health: By Being in Sync with Seasonal Transition 1pm-4pm. Exploration of the Chinese Five Element System. $45. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Healing Through the Voice 2pm-4pm. With Danielle Woerner. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Star Wisdom 2pm-4pm. Cygnus Gateway Empowerment, Transmission & Journey with Adam Deion. $25/$20.

Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Tao Study Group 4pm-6pm. Ageless wisdom for living in the modern world with Stephen Sharkey. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

New Moon Class 6:30pm-7:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Music

Dance

Kids

4 Guys in Disguise Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Ron Renninger 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Senior Recital Ryan Layman 4pm. Music for solo piano, strings, and winds. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 6pm. Country. $25. Poughkeepsie Elks Lodge, Poughkeepsie. 454-6660.

Randi Russo 6pm. Honest, provocative, anti-folk garage rock, both raw and refined. $15/$10 in advance/$5 teens. The Living Room, Cold Spring. 270-8210.

Jaimeo Brown 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Betty LaVette, Les McCann & Javon Jackson 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Frenchy and the Punk 8pm. $5. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Crooked Still 8pm. Acoustic music, mixing old time, bluegrass, folk and original songs. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Love Raise Your Voice 8pm. Music faculty and guests. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

GreelySavoyDuo 8pm. Traditional Cajun fiddlers. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic II Cliburn Winner 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Bwana 8pm. With Belltone Suicide + Egg. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Livingston Taylor 8:30pm. With Buzz Turner. $45/$40. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Outdoors Late Autumn Hike 2pm-3pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Spoken Word Elizabeth Cunningham 7pm. Launch party for Red-Robed Priestess. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Theater Pocahantas' Vision Quest 11am. By Kit's Interactive Theater. $9/$7 children.

Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Lucy 7:30pm. By Damien Atkins. Powerful play about an autistic 13 year old girl, her family, and their challenges will be presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $18/$15 students and seniors. St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-8800.

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. $21/$16 members. Poetic comedy. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 8pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops Tiny Gardens: Build a Terrarium Garden 10am-12pm. $45. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

SUNDAY 20 Art ARTlandish 1pm-4pm. Create art in the landscape. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

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West Coast Swing Dance 7pm-9pm. Workshop 5:30-6:30. Beginner's lesson 6:30-7. $12 workshop/$8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.

Events Antique Fair and Auction 10am-5pm. Emerson Resort, Mt. Tremper. 688-5966.

Dutchess County Arts Council Fine Art & Craft Market 11am-4pm. $5/$4. Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, Poughkeepsie. www.artsmidhuson.org.

Berkshire Mountain Area Polyamory Network Potluck, Discussion, and Mixer 12pm-4:30pm. Discussion topic: Making peace with jealousy. New Lebenon, New Lebanon. tara.shaktima@gmail.com.

The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Kids Dan Zanes & Friends 3pm. Family show. $15. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Music Akie Bermiss 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Jazz at the Falls 11am. Featuring Eddie Diehl & Lou Pappas. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Encore Presentation: Met Live in HD 1pm. Glass's Satyagraha. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Joe Tobin 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Hoot for a Hurricane Benefit 2pm. Musical performances to benefit Catskill communities. $20. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 594-4412.

Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Collegium Musicum Ensemble for Early Music 3pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.

James O'Malley 4pm. Folk/traditional. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

The Lark String Quartet 4pm. Pre-concert talk at 3:30pm. Church of Messiah Parish, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckmusic.org.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm-6pm. $6/$5. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Sam Bush Band 7:30pm. Acoustic. $29.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Theater Is He Dead?

2pm. Half Moon Theater. $20/$18 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls 3pm. WAM Theater. $25/$15 students. Barrington Stage Two, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 236-8888.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Healing energy is created through smiling within to your internal organs and visualizing lights of various colors. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Zumba 6pm-7pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 members series.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Film Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan 7pm. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Kids Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

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Community Acupuncture 3pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. Merkaba activation. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Community Acupuncture 9am-11am. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Dynamic Flow Yoga with Elizabeth 4:30pm-5:45pm. $15/$50 4 classes. Studio 208, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-1208.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

Bright Shadows and Dark Radiance: The Chod Practice 7pm-9pm. With Dr. Craig Lennon, Psychologist.

A psychospiritual journey incorporating Shamanic elements of Buddhist Chod, hypnosis, and shadow psychology. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

November ember 10–26, 2011

Classes

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Ray Davies 7:30pm. Lead singer and songwriter of the legendary British rock band The Kinks. $39.50-$49.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

The Residency 8pm. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WEDNESDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong Classes 5pm-6pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

New Moon Sound Healing 6pm-7pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Jazz Wednesdays 8pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Upstart Blues Allstars 8:30pm. Blues. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

THURSDAY 24

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Boundless Healing Meditation 6pm-7pm. Each cell of the body is visualized as a boundless universe full of colorful healing lights and energies. Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz.

633-6300.

Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Check Mates Chess Club 4:30pm. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.

Kids Kids' Yoga 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 5-10. $60 series. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Towne Crier Open Mike 7pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Open Mike 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Theater Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Adapted by David Ives, Directed by Paul Kassel

Dance Swing Dance to The Metropolitan Hot Club 8:30pm-11:30pm. Beginner's lesson 8:00-8:30. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

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Events Rock n Roll Resort Call for times. Live music, classes, and activities all weekend. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.

Kids Starlab Planetarium Show 10am. Enter an inflatable planetarium and explore the night time sky. $4. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589.

Music Maria Hickey Band Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Wiyos 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Breakaway with Robin Baker 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Featuring Murali Coryell. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

NOVEMBER 5 Arm-of-the-Sea Theater: Criss-Crossing Borders ~The Panama Suitcase

Show $6 | 11am

NOVEMBER 5 LIVE THEATER: Poe’s Last Mystery $15 | 7:30 pm NOVEMBER 6 LIVE THEATER: Poe’s Last Mystery $12.50/$10 students | 2 pm NOVEMBER 12 DANCE FILM SUNDAYS: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle $10/$6 students | 2 pm NOVEMBER 20 OPERA IN CINEMA: Puccini’s La Rondine $20 | 2 pm NOVEMBER 29 DOCUMENTARY: THE GREENHORNS $6 | 7:15 pm NIGHTLY FILMS: The Guard (11/2-6), Mozart’s Daughter (11/7-10), The Debt (11/11-17),

Magic Trip (11/18-20), Higher Ground (11/21-24), Moneyball (11/25-12/1)

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8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Swing Dance Workshops 6:30pm-8pm. Introduction to Jive: 6:30-7:15; Intermediate patterns: 7:15-8:00. $15/$20 both.

Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

SATURDAY 26

Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

By Mark Twain

Art Pools of Baca 5pm8-pm Claudia Engel, watercolors. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Salon 2011: Holiday Exhibition and Sale Annual non-juried exhibition and sale of members' small works under 24" in any dimension. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

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Body / Mind / Spirit Restorative Yoga 12pm-2pm. With Shawn. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Restorative and Sound Healing Yoga 5:30pm-7:30pm. Lea and Philippe Garnier. $35. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Events Phoenicia Turkey Trot 9am. To benefit Phoenicia Library rebuilding efforts. $10/$20 family. Phoenicia, Phoenicia. 688-7064.

Native American Thanksgiving Prayer for our Ancestors 8pm. Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Kids Saturday Children's Art Workshops 11am-1pm. Ages 5-12. $12. The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Thanksgiving Weekend Magic Show 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music Steve Black2 Call for times. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park.

229-8277.

Floral Terrace 4pm. Rock. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Messiah Sing-in 4pm. Berkshire Bach Society. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866.

Jane Monheit & Mark O'Connor 8pm. $60/$90/$120. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

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Sax Life 8pm. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Keith Newman: Bleeker Street Blues 8:30pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Mary Fahl 8:30pm-2pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling.

855-1300.

Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Blues. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

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Break-Through Industry Showcase and Workshops Actors, dancers, singers, models. Clarion Hotel, Poughkeepsie. www.break-throughtalent.com/events.htm.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Is He Dead?

8pm. Half Moon Theater. $25/$20 students and seniors.

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

SUNDAY 27 Art ARTlandish 1pm-4pm. Create art in the landscape. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

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Sacred Chanting 10:30am-12pm. $10 donation. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-4pm. With June Brought. The recording of our soul imprint revealed . $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kazuma Oshita and Keiko Sono 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup Group 4:30pm-6:30pm. Give and receive psychic readings and energy healings. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events The Woodstock Chess Club 2pm-4pm. Woodstock Golf Course Pub & Restaurant, Woodstock. 679-2914.

Golden Dragon Acrobats 3pm. $22/$15 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Music Joe Carozza Quartet 10am-2pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Grass Fed 3pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.

The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller 4:30pm. By Chip Davis. $34-$72. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Dark Star Orchestra 8pm. $40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

spoken word The Chronogram Poets 4pm. Annual poetry issue celebration with over a dozen poets. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. www.chronogram.com.

Theater Break-Through Industry Showcase and Workshops Actors, dancers, singers, models. Clarion Hotel, Poughkeepsie. www.break-throughtalent.com/events.htm.

The Man Who Came to Dinner 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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Healing Smile Meditation 1pm-2pm. Healing energy is created through smiling within to your internal organs and visualizing lights.

Synergistic Wellness Center, New Paltz. 633-6300.

Zumba 6pm-7pm. $12/$10 members/$50/$40 members series.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

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Scenes from Shakespeare's Othello 4:45pm. Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg, Bard College.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Kids Kids' Music Class 4pm-5pm. Singing, jamming and creative songmaking with Ruthy Ungar and Uncle Rock. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. 679-2162.

Theater Joggle with ArtCrime 8pm. Improvising group featuring Mitch Elrod, Paul Geluso, and Mike Lopez. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

TUESDAY 29 Art Franz Marc: A Painter in Search of the Being of Animals 7:30pm. Craig Holdrege will discuss and show slides of the work of early 20th century painter Franz Marc. $10. 11 Maple Avenue, Philmont. (518) 672-0116.

Guatemalan Forced Migration A photo documentary by Manuel Gil and Oscar Gil. Vassar College's James W. Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Body / Mind / Spirit Community Acupuncture 3pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. The Divine DNA Hybridization. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Film The Greenhorns 7:15pm. $10. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Jazz Ensembles I 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Residency 8pm. $3. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston.

338-8700.

Workshops Make a Menorah Workshop 5:30pm-8pm. $115/$95 members. Barrett Clay Works, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

WEDNESDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong Classes 5pm-6pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Beginners Mind Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000.

Message Circle: Delivering Messages from the Other Side 7pm-8:30pm. With Adam Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Carbon Leaf 7:30pm. Eclectic mix of folk-rock, Americana, Celtic, bluegrass, rock and pop. $25/$20. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.

Karaoke with Kandy 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Jazz Wednesdays 8pm. Featuring Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allan Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.

Alice Cooper 8pm. $24.50-$49.50. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

SLP Presents Chris Cornell 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Upstart Blues Allstars 8:30pm. Blues. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

The Outdoors Wednesday Wandering at Schor 10am-11:30am. Schor Conservation Area, Canaan.

(518) 392-5252 ext. 202.

Spoken Word Art Lecture: Timothy Goodman, Multidisciplinary Designer 7pm. SUNY New Paltz Lecture Center 102, New Paltz.

257-3830.

Swinging High: Tales of Adventure 7pm-8:45pm. Stories from with Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi and Janet Carter. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties.

246-5775.

Theater Fat Ram: An Adaptation of The Second Shepherds Play 8pm. $18/$16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Workshops Wreaths from the Wild 1pm-3pm. $45/$35 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.

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FREE PUBLIC EVENTS Full Moon Ecology Walk Saturday, November 12 at 6:30 p.m.

Join Cary Institute educators for an evening moonlight exploration.

Guests will be treated to the sights and sounds of nature at dusk. Look and listen for owls and other forestdwelling animals while enjoying the crisp fall air. The walk will begin at our main campus parking area. Register online at http://caryfullmoonwalk. eventbrite.com.

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Saturday, November 26

Sinterklaas is launched in Kingston, after an afternoon of activities, and arrives in Rhinecliff.

Sunday, November 27

The Village Tree Lighting. Festivities begin at 3:00 in the Rhinebeck Savings Bank parking lot with a Children’s Parade at dusk followed immediately by the tree lighting. Please bring non-perishable food items for our local food pantry.

Saturday, December 3

Sinterklaas activities begin at 10:00 am at various locations in the Village of Rhinebeck. Starlight Parade line-up at dusk.

Please call 845-876-5904 or visit www.rhinebeckchamber.com and www.sinterklaasrhinebeck.com for more information

Yellowstone Wildlife: Charting New Paths Forward Friday, November 18 at 7 p.m.

Mike Clark, Executive Director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, will talk about some of Yellowstone’s most iconic wildlife, and discuss how climate change, shrinking habitat, and politics are shaping its future. The lecture will be held in our auditorium. Space is limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is located at 2801 Sharon Tpk. (Route 44) in Millbrook, N.Y.

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music howard fishman at the falcon JACK VARTOOGIAN Howard Fishman plays The Falcon in Marlboro on November 10.

The Sound of Rusty Farm Implements Two intriguing aspects of Howard Fishman’s upcoming date at The Falcon on November 10. First, the venerable venue’s “pay-what-you-will” door policy, which embraces individual agency. Second, Fishman’s reluctance to let anyone know in advance which of his various musical pursuits will be the focus—requiring an unusual amount of trust from a prospective audience.

“My shows are ‘chef’s choice,’” the affable singer-guitarist-composer-bandleader says from his Brooklyn apartment. “The people that keep coming back are comfortable with me serving up whatever I’m serving up.”

The chutzpah! But be advised: It’s a good thing. Lots of folks keep coming back. (Go early for dinner. It will not, however, be cooked by Fishman.) In a world of paralyzing choice, trusting Fishman is a grand idea; regardless of which particular musical menu he sort of follows, this guy captivates, on CD and especially live. Fishman draws at will from 10 eclectic CDs from the last 12 years that veer from rollicking New Orleans raveups to Hoagy Carmichael chestnuts to singer-songwriter confessionals to a brilliant, funked-up rendition of Wall of Voodoo’s 1983 classic “Mexican Radio.” The sounds cover a lot of terrain, unified at the center by Fishman, around whose rabbinical charisma everything swirls. Fishman’s voice, like his attitude, is paradoxical in that it gives pleasure while reducing expectations; his Waits-Cohen-Reed croon, accurately described as “a rusty farm implement,” is suffused with authority, passion, and yeoman charm.

When asked why he employs such a broad sonic palette, Fishman, who also painted the covers for his last three CDs, says: “I just don’t like to limit myself. Genres are like tubes of paint, different flavors you throw in to make a picture; in and of themselves

they’re not that interesting.”

When I inquire which of his various ensembles he’ll be bringing to The Falcon, he chuckles, “I can’t answer that.” It doesn’t matter anyway, apparently. One of Fishman’s gifts is his mettle as a leader; of the stellar musicians he employs, he says: “The people I play with are malleable. I can push them in any direction.”

The cojones! Well. . . Fishman’s been around and frankly, whatever it is, he’s got this.

In addition to an early life as a Eugene O’Neill obsessive, theater director, and actor, Fishman has busked on New Orleans streets and Brooklyn subway platforms, toured Romania (releasing a song cycle about it), and wowed audiences from the Algonquin Oak Room in Manhattan to Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre to Le Petit Journal in Paris.

I double dog dare anyone to heckle him. In any language.

There are precious few acts on the touring circuit today who, at the drop of a porkpie hat, can whip out anything from a rollicking gumbo-flavored rendition of “Down by the Riverside,” to a Tin Pan Alley standard to a deeply personal, fuzz-bass infused breakup song. And there are even fewer venues as classy and warm as Marlboro’s musicians mecca The Falcon, where art and commerce harmoniously coexist and the whateveryou-can-afford policy actually pays off. Once you make the decision of how much to donate for Fishman’s set, you can surrender to venue and artist, both of whom will repay your trust with quality and pleasant surprise.

Howard Fishman will perform at The Falcon in Marlboro on Thursday, November 10 at 7pm. (845) 236-7970; www.liveatthefalcon.com.

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Planet Waves by eric francis coppolino

Notes from #Occupy: Looking for Common Ground

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n October 15, I went to the big rally in Times Square that was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Around the world in an estimated 1,500 other cities, similar protests were happening. This was one day after Mayor Michael Bloomberg wisely chose to not clear out the movement’s base camp in Zuccotti Park, in New York’s financial district. I arrived a little early, wondering what would happen. By 5pm, the stated time of the protest, Broadway was packed from 42nd Street north up to 47th Street. A small ocean of friendly, sincere people had come out to make their presence known to the world—not to celebrate New Year’s Eve but rather to state their objection to greed.

For many years, we have all watched the injustices mount against the American people. I’ve long wondered when we were going to hear an objection, and this event was something of a miracle. A decade of war, years of economic decline, jobs being shipped overseas, people with enormous college debt unable to find work—the silence was deafening and disturbing. Suddenly I was standing in Times Square, surrounded by people aware of the problem and choosing to join together as one voice. As the crowd gathered, the news ticker above ABC studios delivered the message, “Occupy Wall Street Goes Worldwide.”

Notably, this was the first coordinated day of global action since the F-15 protests against the Iraq war on February 15, 2003—just over eight-and-a-half years ago. I’m not sure what is more amazing—that the F-15 protests happened at all, or that they didn’t continue. But they put on the record, before the fact, the public’s objection to an invasion that went horribly on every account. The current movement is happening in a different era of history, presumably for a different reason. In 2003, the economy was still riding from bubble to bubble, and objecting to a war was seen as a political statement that could be seen as unpatriotic.

In 2011, we have another situation on our hands, one requiring neither prescience or an especially sensitive moral compass. There are millions of people for whom the economic system is not working. The real unemployment rate is closer to 20 percent, poverty rates are increasing, and one in five Americans is having trouble feeding their family. Then we see headlines about huge banks that took bailouts reaping profits, giving bonuses to top executives, and laying off workers. You don’t need to be an economist to understand this is a problem.

Every day, we are told that tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans will lead to more jobs, and after a decade of those tax cuts the economy is where it is today. The people who create these problems, making huge profits, are nervous. They know that everyone else is starting to figure out what happened, and understanding has a way of rippling out, once it gets rolling. And it is now rolling: awareness and a movement of people 114 planet waves ChronograM 11/11

who are at least willing to get off the couch and step out from behind their computer and get together and discover that they are not alone.

Mainstream news outlets may keep portraying Occupy Wall Street as a movement of confused, unwashed people. For the moment, at least, we can tell the story ourselves.

There is now an alternative media that is so far-reaching it would have been incomprehensible 20 years ago when I was writing for In These Times and Sierra magazine. When two dozen people get arrested at a Citibank branch for trying to close their accounts, the video goes viral within hours. That both informs many more people than would have heard the story otherwise, and puts significant pressure on the bigger news outlets to at least acknowledge what happened.

This is a very special moment we are in. When I say that we must use it wisely, I mean that we all have something precious and useful in our hands, something that many, many people recognize, however dimly, belongs to all of us.

Set Your Watch: It’s Time for Uranus Square Pluto A few times at the protest I was asked what I do, and I said that I’m the editor of an astrology website. In answer to, “Is this in the astrology?” I said yes—it’s the Uranus-Pluto cycle. It’s the same cycle that was going off in the 1960s. I know I’ve explained this a few times. It’s not easy for everyone to understand. We are now entering an extended peak of this cycle, and at the moment we have many options for how we use this energy.

Uranus (the faster of the two planets, orbiting the Sun once in just over 84 years) has the themes of sudden upheaval, surprises, invention, and forward thinking. When Uranus gets into the picture, events proceed quickly. The best advice any astrologer can give is to expect the unexpected, and work with it rather than against it. Pluto (the slower of the two planets, taking 251 years to go around the Sun) takes anything it touches deeper. In the psyche it’s related to the drive to make contact with one’s soul, as well as profound transformations. In society, Pluto can represent control dramas as well as profound restructuring of cultural institutions: for example, the government, banks, corporations and the empire itself.

Put these two planets together and amazing things happen. Uranus and Pluto will make a big aspect every 40 to 50 years or so, which is like a shakeup of the accumulated material, outdated ideas, stuck institutions and stuck people. It’s almost always a revolutionary era.

It’s astonishing how dependable this particular cycle really is. Perhaps the most famous time frame associated with Uranus-Pluto is that of the French Revolution.

Uranus and Pluto were opposite one another (literally, on opposite sides of the Sun) from 1787 through 1798, closely overlapping the revolutionary era of 1789 through

the late 1790s. This revolution was not all fun and games. The accumulated outrage both at centuries of repression by the monarchy and the church came busting out violently. It did not end well; in many ways, the opportunity was squandered. After a brief period of a constitutional republic, by late 1804 France had an emperor, in the person of Napoleon I. Another famous period was the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of 1848-1849. This was the peak of a wide-reaching wave of change that culminated with revolutions spreading across Europe faster than the mail could travel, including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Dresden, Baden, Prague, Rome, and Milan. Astrologer-historian Richard Tarnas describes this as “the sudden eruption of a collective revolutionary impulse affecting an entire continent with mass insurrections, the emergence of radical political and social movements, revolts for nationalist independence, and the abrupt overthrow of governments.”

Then there was the conjunction of the 1960s, which had a similar revolutionary spirit. This was expressed in student uprisings, stunning advances in art, music and technology, the antiwar movement, the environmental movement, the Moon landing, and Woodstock—to name a few events we think of that happened during a concentrated time in history. John F. Kennedy was assassinated, which was a kind of revolution, and Richard Nixon both came to power and was finally thrown out of office as the conjunction waned. That also had the feeling of a revolution. After a brief period of collectivism, we then embarked on a 30 year phase where politics and nearly every other facet of public life swung toward corporate power, social regression, and military domination of the world.

It’s fair to say that Uranus-Pluto aspects are amazing while they last, and then the end result is a gamble. It’s easy to throw out the stodgy old jerks who were oppressing you; it’s hard to build a new world. What world we are going to build is exactly what we need to be thinking about right now. What we would do if we had the power to make changes is something we need to be not just pondering but putting into action right now.

Beyond Left and Right One of the first things I think is essential is going beyond the usual left/right, liberal/ conservative storyline. We all have human needs, and yet many people are stuck to their old tales of why things are wrong. If so-called liberals and conservatives would listen to one another, they would discover plenty of common ground—especially on economic issues, which are the core theme of these protests. This is going to be as challenging for many people as a lifelong Catholic going to Jewish services every Saturday.

And certain facts (such as about the actual current distribution of wealth) are going to need to enter the picture.

As Matt Taibbi, one of my favorite journalists, wrote October 17 in his blog at Rolling Stone, “What nobody is comfortable with is a movement in which virtually the entire spectrum of middle class and poor Americans is on the same page, railing against incestuous political and financial corruption on Wall Street and in Washington. The reality is that Occupy Wall Street and the millions of middle Americans who make up the Tea Party are natural allies and should be on the same page about most of the key issues, and that’s a story our media won’t want to or know how to handle.”

Yet it’s essential that we who care unify against our common enemy and for the common good. This is not easy for people who are programmed to be divisive and divided. For this to happen, I think two things are necessary. One is that the person or group with the greater understanding has to work to reach for the common ideas that underlie the problems we all agree are real. This is evolutionary work. You could say that it’s the Pluto side of the equation. Pluto represents the need for all of us to go deep and therefore reach a place there is more likely to be mutual understanding. If we own our shadow material—our fear, guilt, anger, and related emotions—we will be less likely to project those feelings onto others, and therefore less likely to blame them.

There’s also something here about taking personal responsibility for that aspect of the problem that was caused by individual greed—such as the many people who used their home as an ATM, or who got their mortgage by lying about their income.

Taking this on the level of personal responsibility in order to actually do something new: not only to let go of the patterns of the past, but, to create new patterns that are fundamentally different. You could say that instead of working this out as a cultural game of left versus right, we each need to get the left and right hemispheres of our brains talking to eachother.

Our tendencies to divide against ourselves and hence against one another can seem intractable. They involve cultural and family patterns, emotional patterns and ideas about relationships, and I believe all these things are rooted in our DNA and what some call karma. That is to say that in addition to any revolutionary activity, for the revolution to stick, we need to do some deep healing work and understand how we got to where we needed a revolution in the first place. Fortunately, there are a lot of people who have been doing that deep healing work for many years. You may be one of them. And as the revolution spills out into the streets, we will need to guide it into the hearts and souls of those who would be free.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries

(March 20-April 19)

This month, your ruling planet Mars enters Virgo, where it will be for about nine months. This involves Mars retrograde, which is a long process—but this is especially long for Mars to stay in one sign. This is an extended opportunity to rethink three things. One is your idea of work. Next is your idea of your health. Last is your idea of well-being. You may be filled with the inspiration to start fixing your life, and embarking on every conceivable self-improvement plan. I suggest you start with evaluating how you evaluate things. Your mind tends to be impetuous and you have a way of snapping to judgments, then sorting out whether you were right or wrong the next day or the next week. Even then, you’re trying to apply some logic, and the time has arrived to figure out just what that logic is. By that I mean, what is your concept of “better”?

What is your idea of “fair”? How do you discern whether you’re coming from your mind or your emotions when you make a decision? Mars retrograde is going to put you in a position to review many, many facts of your life, and many past decisions you’ve made—and how they impact you.

I suggest you begin this process well in advance. But while you’re doing that, notice how you size up those decisions. This is a process of becoming conscious even as you observe how conscious you were when you decided certain things.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)

You have a right to be picky about who and what you want, but if that is true, you may as well be specific. You have a tendency to tell yourself what you don’t want rather than to affirm what you actually want. The two sides of this equation—negating things and affirming things—are not equivalent values. Yes and no are both important, but yes implies making a choice, which is a commitment, and then following through on it. This, in turn, calls for a deeper level of self-awareness, and also knowing that you will live with your decision. One more point: If you say no to something, that implies that you’re keeping your other options open.

If you say yes, you are in theory passing by those other options (which is not usually true but many people believe it is). Much of your hesitancy comes from this one notion. In any event, I suggest you consider all of your options and choose consciously from among them, affirming what you want. Know good fortune when you have it, and know good times when you’re in them. It may be little comfort to say things can always be worse, but it takes an open heart to know that you’re taking care of yourself, and that others have your best interests at heart. Sooner or later, we all must learn that life is not about survival, even contrary to what plenty of people with a wine cellar would tell you.

Gemini

(May 20-June 21)

What do you have in common with your father? Said another way, the question your astrology is asking now and for the foreseeable future is, do you feel safe? Do you have any sense of the protection that your father and the space he provided was somewhere you could be yourself? Or is that space tainted by some sense of narrowness, threat, or judgment? I suggest you consider this for a while, because the answer to your question will tell you about your relationship to all men, and give you a clue as to your ideas of relationships between women and men. I believe that trust is the fundamental value in any relationship, and this relates directly to whether there is the sense of a safe container. What you may discover is that any threat to your safety lurks within your own consciousness. But these thought forms don’t just end up in our minds and emotions by accident; they are put there by others, sometimes intentionally, and sometimes just because that’s how things are done around the parts where you grew up. Now is the time to review your tendency to be self-critical, and to count the cost of any such habit. You may notice a little surge in narrow or judgmental thought patterns, and I suggest you stalk them till you understand from whence they come. It’s actually not your material; it’s ancestral residue, and once you’re aware of that fact, you’re free to cast it off.

Cancer

(June 21-July 22)

Though your sign has a reputation for being emotionally driven, you have a knack for deep and original thought. However, I suggest you not push that too far at the moment, or get too carried away. Beware of mental obsessions and thoughts that think themselves. Rather, when working out problems or developing ideas, check in with your intuition and emotional process regularly. An unusual development in your solar chart suggests that you might have a tendency to overthink, when the solution or central concept to any circumstance you might face is likely to be intuitive or even obvious. There are two likely sources of distraction. One is conformity. It’s harder than most people think to do what you actually want rather than what everyone else thinks you should do. If someone is giving you heavy-handed “advice,” check their motives. Second, watch your tendency to be defensive, including knowing more about what you don’t want than what you do want. You often cast this as pragmatism, when in fact the more pragmatic approach is to keep your fields of desire wide open. Now is the time to stretch into what you want, and to give yourself the freedom to dream. Doing this, you might have the feeling of remembering old dreams, which will have more life in them than you might imagine. A broad-minded approach to life is your path to making those dreams real, which is why staying open is the way to get where you are going. And you’re definitely going somewhere.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes

Leo (July 22-August 23)

You are laying the groundwork for some major advances in your professional life, and in your financial life. At the moment, developments may not seem to be going as fast or according to the plan you thought you were working with. No need to worry about that; you are in “the build tracks” phase of making the railroad, rather than the “make the trains run on time” phase.

That translates to cultivating your vision of what you want to do. What is your idea of the pinnacle of success? It might not be the one you saw in a movie or a TV commercial. It’s likely to be original, and you’re at a peak of that originality right now. I would phase the question like this: what would you do if you had no fear at all of being seen as different? What would you do if you had full authority over your life? These are two different issues, but they’re related. If we had any concept of how many good ideas go nowhere because the person with the idea is afraid of being seen as weird. Even if they have faith in their concept, it’s still possible to get caught in this trap.

As for money, monetizing anything—a talent, a project, a company—is usually best accomplished using a business plan. I suggest that your business plan has three characteristics: that it be fairly meticulous, subject to adjustment, and designed for the long run.

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Virgo (August 23-September 22)

This month brings the beginning of a significant transitional phase in your life. This is something akin to when one of the slow-moving planets arrives in your sign, indicating a major transition in your experience of yourself. I would place the time frame at approximately nine months. I would describe the point of orientation as assertiveness. This is the ability to be clear and project your intentions and desires into the world, which begins with being able to recognize them and exist with them being actual factors you honor in your life. I recognize that you’ve been in a process of doing this for a while; you may trace it back years, with a big change over the past year or so. But most of these developments have been spurred by others: partners, healers, people setting an example for you, and the occasional pain in the ass who would try to make your life difficult but who actually ends up making you stronger. One thing you will learn during this time in your life is to be specific. Goals and ideas you explicitly state have several properties, one of which is that you can evaluate them directly. Another is you can begin to focus your energy on making them happen. I recognize there is something to be said for “going with the flow,” and at the moment this is what the flow is suggesting. Don’t worry about being perfect or getting it right. Focus your mind and get started.

Libra (September 22-October 23)

I would love to see statistics on what people fear in the privacy of their minds versus how rarely those things actually happen. We live in an age when many people are stalked by anxiety, and most of it is useless.

You may be one of them, at least at times, and you may know many such people. The answer does not involve meds—it must involve cultivating awareness and deep healing. Letting go of fear is about reaching an understanding with oneself about existence, especially in this volatile time of history. This is a dependable theme as Saturn moves through its last year in your birth sign. This is the final stretch of your journey of “coming to terms with yourself” that Saturn’s presence indicates, what may feel like a last major step into adult maturity. There will be others—but what you’re going through now is like a platform that you will build on for the rest of your life. I suggest you be blatantly honest with yourself about fear and its effects. I mean fear in any form, from the subtlest anxiety to seemingly grand concerns about not being worthy enough for something or someone. I am talking about gaining an understanding of fear on an existential level, and working it through fully—so that you emerge as a more confident, self-directed person. It is possible to live in a way that is affirmative rather than defensive. It’s possible to feel safe, even on this planet, but that requires a commitment.

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Scorpio (October 23-November 22)

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they must reconsider the notion of “friend.” This is a word used casually, lately reduced to a button and a statistic. I was going to say that a person is fortunate to have just a few friends in life; it’s worth remembering that there are many people who feel they have no friends, nobody they truly trust or can confide in. This is not an excuse for considering those who are in any way unsupportive, lacking in trust or who do not treat you with equanimity as friends. You will be in a pruning process over the next few seasons, when it will be natural and necessary to cull the people in your life and determine who is who. This will have a tendency to set you free to be who you are, since often, it is the expectations and past perceptions that others have of us that prevent us from expressing our true identity. If you ever find yourself in a position where being authentic means you’re unpopular, be grateful of that. Consider it a moment of clarity. The more truly you resonate with your inner being, the more likely you are to see and feel the presence of people you truly resonate with. There is a difference between antagonizing and not being afraid to be unpopular. It’s a fine line—but it’s definitely one you can see and feel. You have nothing to prove, only the right to exist as you are.

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Capricorn (December 22-January 20)

Now is the time to create your long-term financial strategy. Remember that any strategy is an approach, and it will change over time. I’m talking about developing a game plan, and then revising it continuously. This month and indeed the rest of the year present you with opportunities and the frame of mind to initiate this in a new way. I’m aware the world around you may be populated with negative or even dreadful people, wondering all about “what if”. There’s ongoing talk of recession, economic collapse, and all the usual paranoia.

Your job is to either ignore this or see the opportunity in the midst of it. The world’s most precious resource—people—needs to be something you focus on consciously and select with the mastery of a gem cutter who can see what’s inside a stone before cutting it open. Steer clear of people who are scared or obsessive about negative outcomes. Make friends with people who think in clear terms and see your potential, and their potential, for what it is. Most of all, know what you’re envisioning. Be clear what you want to create, and how you would improve the world if you had the opportunity to do so. You may face an ongoing temptation to create something in response to the prevailing negativity of the culture. Sure, plenty can go wrong. That’s always been true. Your most significant challenge is to design your vision from a wholly positive stream of thought and feeling.

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(November 22-December 22)

Can you make a decision based on doubt? Doubt is excellent for raising questions, reducing the number of possibilities and negating weak concepts. But ultimately one must use some other conceptual tool to make an affirmative choice. You seem to run into a self-judgment issue when you assert your authority. It’s as if you judge yourself for doing the one thing you need to do in order to move forward. While events of the next three weeks do more to raise questions than provide ready answers, you have some time to work out the puzzle of what it means to be in charge of your life. Part of what you’re working out is your tendency to want to control certain details at the same time you’re such a big-picture thinker. In truth, a skilled artist must learn to paint with a wide brush as well as a fine one. A skilled thinker must learn to think in principle and concept, as well as to attend to the smaller points that any real discussion will bring up. The key to making progress is keeping the two orders of reality in the context of one another. Seeing accurately is a matter of perspective, and this is what you are learning right now. In solving any problem or making any plan, I suggest you proceed from the general to the specific. Start with a broad goal, then refine it into something workable. Look at the general trend of your life, then focus on the specific areas you want to develop.

(January 20-February 19)

It’s difficult for most people to connect their most precious personal talents to the money they earn. In truth this represents one of the deepest splits in our psyches—and if we follow it down, I believe that, ultimately, it points directly to the question: Do you have a right to exist? True, it would help many smalltime enterprises if people were more willing to spend their money on things they believe in. It would help if we believed that what “does good” must come to them as a charity. But more to the point, those who dare to do what they believe in must get over their insecurities and see the connection between any potential lack of self-esteem and their financial struggle. This elusive thing known as “doing what you want to do” in life involves actual self-mastery. That’s another way of saying being in harmony with yourself, and utilizing your psychic and intellectual resources toward your own ends—and, notably, not against them. You have a number of seemingly different goals at the moment. I suggest you determine what they have in common and work closely with that especially precious piece of information. Try to notice what motivates each of your seemingly different objectives and draw strength from that deeper ground. Look inside of everything, for its content on every level.

You are in the last stage of preparation before embarking on what I would describe as a period of achievement. So prepare yourself well.

Pisces

(February 19-March 20)

Have you ever had that experience of thinking, Everything is going well, except for this one thing. It might be something you’re worried about, it might be a potential problem, it might be an actual problem. But for many people, there is always something. I believe that the art of life involves being able to coexist with those fears or with negative situations and not have that mess up the rest of what you’re doing, or affect what you want to do. You are in a moment of incredible potential right now, and yet there seems to be something on your mind, something that is potentially troubling your faith. I assure you that your faith is stronger than whatever this thing is—than any anxiety or concern. “This thing,” by the way, is more likely to involve a collective matter than an individual one. You may be picking up on the fears or paralysis of others. You may be noticing the ways that others work against their own cause or live by the sword of controversy and contention. In a sense you are breaking consensus by believing in yourself. Distinguish yourself by openly coexisting peacefully with others, and by being willing to see the potential of your own talent. I suggest, therefore, that you cast aside any distraction, leave people to their petty dramas, and boldly proceed with your ideas. Don’t wait for any external “opportunity” to do so. Life itself is that opportunity, and today it is all yours.

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Dana Wigdor, Celestial Chord, oil on canvas, 30” x 30”, 2004

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