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CONTENTS 8/07 NEWS AND POLITICS 26 DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS Yossi Melman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reports on American/Israeli torture ties.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart explains how big money runs the marketplace of ideas.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 ELLENVILLE AWAKENS Brian Rubin examines Ellenville’s artistic renaissance.

38 ART OF BUSINESS Richard Rothbard of American Arts Marketing and Boxology discusses his success.

BEAUTY & FASHION SUPPLEMENT 80 SAVING FACE Kelley Granger explores nonsurgical, nonchemical alternatives for facial rejuvenation.

83 ECO STYLE Jennifer May reveals how fashionable it is to go organic.

EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 87 MUSIC TOGETHER Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis profiles a school that’s changing the world one song at a time.

91 CONFORMITY OR COOTIES? Aminy Ostfeld, Red Hook High School valedictorian, on the power of peer pressure.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 96 BEING FERTILE Lorrie Klosterman on the work of Julia Indichova, who helps women find the path to parenthood.

100 THE SERENDIPITY OF A BEAN SALAD How we focus our attention, Patricia Hasegawa finds, is the key to our creative energy.

BUSINESS SERVICES 66 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 92 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 102 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

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CONTENTS 8/07 ARTS & CULTURE 44 PORTFOLIO THOMAS JACK HILTON

Sarah Greer Mecklem on her reclaimed-material art.

46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reviews outdoor sculpture shows at Byrdcliffe and Art Omi.

49 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 52 MUSIC Peter Aaron talks to musician, composer, and TONTO inventor Malcolm Cecil. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Artie Traum Reviewed by Mike Jurkovic. Dead Unicorn Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz. Samuel Claiborne Reviewed by Peter Aaron.

56 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Daniel Pinkwater, author of The Neddiad and The Afterlife Diet.

58 BOOK REVIEWS Susan Krawitz and Nina Shengold round up the best summer reads for kids. Peter Lewis reviews the young-adult titles Way of Water by Lee Welles and Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin. Anne Pyburn reviews A Portrait of Pia by Marisabina Russo.

62 POETRY Poems by Deepak Kapur, Jonathan Greenhause, Stephanie Bishop, Jamie Manning, M. Eileen, Matthew Lippman, Curtiss Butler, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, and Seth Fraser.

64 FOOD & DRINK Ken Charney profiles Serge Madikians and Serevan in Amenia.

148 PARTING SHOT Norm Magnusson’s “On This Site Stood” at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

THE FORECAST 125 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 115 Jacob’s Pillow presents the American premier of the Henri Oguike Dance Company. 116 Kim Wozencraft talks with Way of the Peaceful Warrior author Dan Millman, who appears at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock this month. 119 The Arts Society of Kingston presents “Mothers of Invention,” a satirical stab at “frankenscience” foods. 127 Spraypainters showcase their work in Woodstock at the Varga Gallery’s “New York City Graffiti Art” exhibition. 128 Patrick Wadden, cofounder of Arm-of-the-Sea Theater in Saugerties, talks about their 7th Annual Esopus Creek Puppet Suite on August 24 and 25 at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park in Saugerties. 131 David Rothenberg discusses his fascination with the musical abilities of birds and bugs, which are the core of his upcoming workshop in Ghent, Sounds of the Wild. 132 Kelley Granger previews the best of the late-summer art events in Out of the Box. 135 Jodi Rothe’s “Martha Mitchell Calling,” a two-character play about Martha Mitchell’s role in Watergate, opens this month at Stageworks/Hudson.

PLANET WAVES 142 WHERE’S YOUR DATA? Eric Francis Coppolino with more on the SUNY New Paltz PCB and dioxin disaster. Plus horoscopes.

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LOCAL LUMINARY ANN DAVIS LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

She recently completed a study of measures of sprawl with Scenic Hudson and helped found Gateway for Entrepreneurial Tomorrows, a mentoring and consulting service for small business inner city start-ups. Davis is currently active in preservation of the Fall Kill, a Hudson River Tributary, a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, she has lived in Dutchess County since 1978, where she and her husband Bob McAulay raised their two children. —Brian K. Mahoney

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Dr. Ann Davis was the founding director of the Marist College Bureau of Economic Research, a position she held from 1990 through June 2005. In that capacity she produced the Quarterly Report of the Hudson Valley Economy, a widely quoted compilation of trends in the regional economy. Dr. Davis and Bureau reports have been quoted in the New York Times, Business Week, and US News and World Report, as well as regional newspapers, radio, and TV stations. Davis serves as an economic analyst for many for regional groups, including Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress, the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and the Dyson Foundation, among others.

Why do you choose to live in the Hudson Valley? I moved to the Hudson Valley from Boston to teach economics at Vassar College. I stayed because there is a county fair, just like my home town of Knoxville, Tennessee, a beautiful river, misty bluffs, wonderful people, and close (enough) to New York City, where my parents grew up. What’s the strangest thing in your fridge? It’s not so much the strangest thing in my fridge, as the oldest. My mother (and then my daughter) used to delight in finding items several years old (with proof of purchase seals to verify it) at the very back—and to point them out one by one, with great glee. You see, I am not the kind of housekeeper she was (or my daughter is). Who are you in awe of? Eric R. Kandel, professor at Columbia University, author of In Search of Memory, and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 2000. By conducting research on a snail’s neurons, Kandel was able to discover the basic mechanisms of short term and long term memory, relevant to humans as well. His autobiographical descriptions of his research, along with his migration from Vienna in 1939, formal education, and marriage, illustrate a dedicated father and husband, considerate colleague, and articulate spokesperson for the incredible advances in neurophysiology—including lately “neuroeconomics,” of all things. What do you sing along to in the car? I “float” on Mozart while driving, including the violin concertos, piano concertos, piano sonatas, and violin/piano sonatas. But then occasionally it is some basic Bach, like Air for the G String, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenberg concertos, or the double violin concerto. What are some of the things you’d like to see change about this area? What are some of the things you’d like to stay the same? I love the plethora of organizations in the Hudson Valley. There are multiple groups in every category, a wealth of civic virtue, boundless energy, and dedication. In business, there are, for example, Mid-Hudson Pattern for Progress, The Hudson Valley Economic Development Corporation, various chambers of commerce, the Council of Industry of Southeastern New York, and the Hudson Valley Technology Development Corporation, to name a few. Regarding environmental issues, there are Scenic Hudson, Clearwater, Riverkeeper, Sustainable Hudson Valley, the Environmental Consortium, the Hudson River Environmental Society, The Nature Conservancy, the Smart Growth Alliance, and Nature Network, among others. And, by the way, they should all work together, since scenic beauty is a powerful attraction for business and residential population, and economic wealth is useful for protection of natural resources. What must happen to give you the feeling that a day has been well lived? A daily, focused debriefing, if not also a walk, with my husband, Bob McAulay, is essential to peace, well-being, and the inner alignment of body and soul. What is usually your first thought in the morning? My first thoughts in the morning are usually: Where is the coffee? and What’s in the newspaper that I can use in class today?

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FEATURED CONTRIBUTORS Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis lives in enchanted Willow, where she teaches yoga and writes away. She holds a master’s of social work from Columbia University and a master’s of fine arts in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A Kripalu-certified yoga teacher, holistic health counselor, Reiki practitioner, actress, singer, former ashram resident, recovering proofreader and dog lover, Erika will be completing her first novel Bird Faces East any day now. Erika listens in on parents and children at “Music Together” on page 87.

Patricia Hasegawa is a certified integrative coach whose specialty is helping women pursue their creative ideas. She holds a Master’s of Divinity degree and her studies of comparative religious story and myth provide her unique insights into transforming emotional and mental blocks. Patricia founded and managed an Alaskan company that handcrafted and retailed her original art designs statewide for 10 years. Returning to the East Coast, she advised small and midsize businesses how to handle and leverage rapid growth. She lives in the Hudson Valley, where she coaches, writes, and is the mother of two. You can visit her website at www.patriciahasegawa.com. Patricia’s meditation on getting inside the creative flow appears on page 100.

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Brian Rubin, a teaching assistant and graduate student in the English department at SUNY New Paltz, is a regular contributor to the Ellenville Journal, covering arts and entertainment events and news for the area. He has also written two articles for the new entertainment magazine, Geek Monthly, to be published in the coming months. His short play “Around the Block” was published and produced at the Unison Arts Center by the Mohonk Mountain Stage Company in 2004, and produced off-off-Broadway by the RAT Theatre Company in 2005. He currently lives in New Paltz, and expects to graduate this fall. Brian’s assessment of Ellenville’s artistic renaissance appears on page 34.

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Message from the Jackal jessica houston | oil on canvas | 2007

Jessica Houston traveled to the Greek island of Paros in 1992 to study writing— and instead began an affair with art that has enraptured her since. “Once I started, I was so mesmerized,� Houston recounts. “I compare the feeling to falling in love, you’re just so swept up that you just can’t even stop yourself, you’re so seduced. That’s how I feel, that’s how my relationship with painting started.� It’s a relationship that flourished under the influence of the ancient world—jobs as art teacher and gallery supervisor led Houston to spend years abroad in multiple locales around Italy. Houston cofounded and instructed the international art workshop ARTE VITA in Florence, Venice, and rural Tuscany, where she combined the painting techniques of the old masters with a modern context. This idea seems synthesized through many of her works, which frequently juxtapose the youthfulness of bathing-suit-clad children with the solemn facial expressions common of Renaissance-era portraits. Weathering the Storm, which portrays five girls wearing swimsuits in the rain, is typical of this contrast and conveys Houston’s fascination with weather and water, other elements commonly depicted in her art. In the cover image, Message from the Jackal, Houston presents Anubis, the embalmer of Egyptian mythology who weighed the hearts of the dead on a scale against a feather to determine if their souls should be sent to the afterlife or destroyed. “For the Egyptians, art didn’t represent something, it actually was something: a palpable, very powerful presence, more than just a symbol,� Houston explains. “That’s part of my fascination with Egyptian art and part of the way that the jackal is in the painting. He’s not just a symbol; he’s a presence that goes beyond an image and evokes a bigger sense of time.� Houston explains that Message from the Jackal is about another kind of knowledge, one “that comes from a different sense of time and a different kind of listening to the world.� She says the girl in the painting is “privy to some kind of information, and because she’s a child it helps that communication happen.� Perhaps the jackal’s whisper is a sobering message—Houston says she was inspired by Elizabeth Kolbert’s book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and the endangerment of the monarch butterfly, which rests above the scale in the painting. Houston’s art is on view at the Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren Street, Hudson through August 12, along with works by Stevan Jennis, Jenny Nelson, Allyson Levy, and Lori Van Houten. (518) 8281915; www.carriehaddadgallery.com. —Kelley Granger

CHRONOGRAM SEEN PHOTOS: CAFE CHRONOGRAM, KINGSTON LATINO FESTIVAL BY THOMAS JACK HILTON; FLEISHER’S BY ELISSA JANE MASTEL; ROSENDALE STREET FESTIVAL BY JONATHAN ROOT

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community. Here's some of what we saw in July: CAFE CHRONOGRAM / KINGSTON LATINO FESTIVAL / FLEISHER’S OPENING / ROSENDALE STREET FESTIVAL

Clockwise from top left: At the July 21 Cafe Chronogram event at Muddy Cup coffeehouse in Hudson, Richard Deon, Mark Brown, Will Nixon, and Chronogram’s music editor, Peter Aaron; at the Kingston Latino Festival, Pablito Valentine of Chicago, Illinois; Energy Dance Company, part of the Center for Creative Education, at the Latino Festival; the staff of Fleisher’s at the opening of their new shop in Rhinebeck on July 15; The crowd and Carolyn Burgess from the creekside stage at the Rosendale Street Festival on July 21.

CHRONOGRAM SPONSORS IN AUGUST: CAFE CHRONOGRAM (8/04) WITH ERIC MINGUS, STUDIO STU, AND TERRY ROWLETT; HUDSON VALLLEY TOMATO FESTIVAL (8/19); ARTISTS’ SOAPBOX DERBY (8/19); CLUBHOUSE AT BEARSVILLE THEATER WITH DJs LEMAR SOULFLOWER, ANTHONY MOLINA, AND JUSTIN KASE (8/31). 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM 1919

LETTERS Hypocrisy, Crassness, and Unnecessary Distraction To the Editor: I enjoy Chronogram for so many reasons, including its support of the arts community, information about regional events, and featured literary works. At the same time, you never fail to include politically partisan articles demonizing the Bush administration or right-of-center viewpoints, thereby alienating readers like me who consider themselves moderate Republicans who believe in many of the issues you champion: resource conservation, artisanal food (small business), free expression, religious plurality (including atheism), and many others. Let’s agree: You are in business for profit, you accept monies from large advertisers (e.g. Nissan, a globalizer; Lay-Z-Boy, an eco-unfriendly polypolluter; large banks; etc.). If you were more true to your political agenda, you might simply stop taking in corporate ad monies, switch to nonprofit status and donate any excess profits to worthy charities. Yet you like it both ways, accepting support to your balance sheet from conservative interests while castigating Bush and the right on your front sheets. It’s your right to do so, and I defend it. However if you were more honest or evenhanded, you might choose to tone down the rhetoric or even better, include some alternate conservative views from the right. But my preference would be to read no political diatribes, either way, in the Chronogram. Have you asked yourself how these articles support your stated mission: “stimulating and supporting the creative and cultural life of our community”? Are the articles needed to appease or satisfy your left-of-center readers? Do you expand your readership by including them? Would you lose or gain readers by adding other viewpoints or banishing political articles from the Chronogram altogether since one wonders why they are there? (And there are so many other betterwritten, liberal, and left-leaning political magazines to choose from, which makes me wonder why you persist.) Are you simply preaching to the choir, and do you consciously enjoy alienating a segment of your readership? How do your advertisers and their employees (your lifeblood) view these articles? Have you sent them a survey asking, “As a financial supporter of Chronogram, do you favor seeing anti-Bush administration articles in Chronogram?” I am sure that many of them would reply that they are offensive and detract from the overall appeal of Chronogram. To me, there is hypocrisy, crassness, and unnecessary distraction in your approach, but I cannot argue with your apparent commercial success and the overall attractiveness of your magazine. So it seems your rather calculating formula works after all. But it’s bad karma and truly sucks—dry—the spirit of community and inclusiveness that Chronogram otherwise aspires to foster. David Freilich, Warwick

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS In the 6/07 issue, we published a profile of the Red Hook-based wedding, floral, and event design studio Stems Inc (“Better Blooms: Stems Inc.”). In the article, we quoted Stems Inc. owner Maggie Oyen at length about various techniques she uses in the handling and storage of flowers that diverge from mainstream floral industry standards, for example, never putting her flowers into a cooler for storage. (Kurt Schroeder, director of marketing and quality assurance for the Delaware Valley Floral Group, states that 33 degrees is the ideal temperature for floral storage, though tropical flowers should be kept between 55 and 60 degrees.) After speaking with a number of experts in the floral industry, we realize that while Stems may be using alternative floral storage practices, there is no damage done to flowers that are shipped and cared for via conventional means. The article implied this mistaken impression. Our apologies. In late June, we received a letter from Jim Reardon, owner of E.A. Coon Florist in Rhinebeck, in response to the Stems Inc. profile. Reardon’s letter is printed in its entirety at www.chronogram.com. Click on the “Hudson Valley” tab and click “View from the Top” to read Reardon’s letter. 20 CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: When my son was learning to walk we had an infestation of ants in our house. They crawled along the floors and over the counters, up the walls, and somehow found their way into the refrigerator. My son, who was just over a year old, was entranced by them. His speed of travel was about the same as the ants’, and he followed them as they crawled around the room. His first impulse was to step on the ants, or squish them between his little fingers. I stopped him and said: “The ants are beings, Asher.� He looked at me quizzically. “Beings?� he questioned in his pure, sweet voice. “Yes,� I said. “You are a being also. And so am I, and so is Mommy. Everything alive is a being. And we have to take care of all beings—be kind to them, and not hurt them.� He turned to something else, as though my little lecture had been lost on him. To my surprise he began to observe the ants from a distance, and when he couldn’t resist picking them up, he was careful, at least as careful as his new hands could be. I was startled by his receptivity to what might be considered a moral lesson. Rather, it was as though there was an awakening of an impulse that was larger than an ordinary ethical question. It appeared to me that he had gained a sense of compassion that can only come from recognizing that oneself and another share the same existence. I think we all have within us an original cognition that all life is one. But something impedes that knowledge and we must re-cognize that unity. It is knowledge that is intrinsic, but covered over by accretions of conditioning that make us forget what we know. Observing myself I see a multitude of obstacles to feeling compassion. Primarily I see fear—fear for my safety, fear that if I don’t take care of “number one� I will be abused or defeated. But there are certain ideas that ring true, and can help to reconnect with something innate. I find it helpful to consider the body as a model, which I first discovered in a book by Rodney Collin (a great but little-known book called The Theory of Celestial Influence). The body is made up of “beings� that live in various dimensions and scales of time. A red blood cell, for instance, has an independent existence within the “world� of the body. It is part of a population of billions of other red blood cells that live within the body at any given time. But each red blood cell lives for only about three months. In fact every cell in the body is replaced with a new one every seven years. So the body is really comprised of multitudes of “beings� that are born, live, and die continuously throughout its life. Based on this model, all life on the planet—plants, animals, and humans— comprise one great body of life. Each of us individually is but a part of a being on a scale so vast as to be incomprehensible. Our perspective is the same as an erythrocyte traversing the veins and arteries of our circulatory system. Assuming the cell has powers of comprehension, it would have no way of knowing its place in the world of the body. It might consult its scientist or mystics and receive answers in different terms. Some would say the body is god. Others would call it the universe. But none of these descriptions or explanations would provide the cell with an understanding of its world. With this model in mind we can be reminded of our position within the body of life on earth, and within the organ of humanity. Such a reminder might enable us to look at our fellow “cells� differently, and show us that we are all part of something much larger than ourselves. It might help us reconsider our martial impulses, and resist the urge to destroy not only other people, but the natural world in which we live and derive our sustenance. It might help us to become an influence of regeneration instead of destruction. It is sometimes helpful to know the etymology of a word to discover its deeper meaning. One such word is “consider.� Consider comes from com “with� + sideris “stars.� So to be considerate in this sense is to share the perspective of the stars—a very large perspective indeed. If we can hold such a perspective we might see clearly when our activities are destroying not just one another and our environment, but our own self. Such a view might enable us to become peaceful, or at the very least, as the Hippocratic oath cautions, to do no harm. But the knowledge of the unity of life doesn’t require theoretical models. If we relax enough, we can feel it. Sitting in a cafe finishing this missive, a startling demonstration occurs. A woman chases a fluttering moth around the room, trying to shoo it out the door. Behind her are two small children, watching. After some comical efforts they manage to guide the moth out the door. “She’s safe now!� the mother exclaimed. —Jason Stern

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CHRONOGRAM EDITOR BRIAN K. MAHONEY AND FELLOW AUDIENCE MEMBER MATT HARLE PERFORMING WITH THE WAU WAU SISTERS AT BARD’S SPIEGELTENT ON JULY 20.

wo women, dressed in iconic (and ironic) Catholic school girl costume—pleated black skirts (hemmed eight inches above the knee), white button-down shirts with red satin ties, striped tube socks, chunky heeled black shoes—stood side by side, clutching an open Bible. The cut of their skirts afforded a clear view of the performers’ thighs— chiseled, bulging musculature more commonly associated with professional cyclists and gymnasts than cabaret acts.Then the Night Ranger kicked in—Sister Christian oh the time has come—in all its mid-80s power-ballad glory, and the Wau Wau Sisters’ athletic circus of the risqué had begun. Before the final chorus had settled across the packed house at Bard’s Spiegeltent on that balmy July evening, the Sisters had stripped (each other) to their underwear in an acrobatic burlesque that was part Pilobolus, part hilarity, part Scores, part blasphemy. Communion wafers, cigarettes, and a chalice were all employed as props in a piece that ended with a profane reenactment of the crucifixion. The crowd hooted and roared. And that was just the opening number. The Sisters (Adrienne Truscott and Tanya Gagné) went on to play guitars and sing bawdy, yet never tawdry, tunes, sometimes seated on each other’s shoulders and in other, yogic configurations.They cracked one-liners lampooning their onstage personas—half sisters from a trailer park who had seen too much time in the back seat of a ’78 Buick with the local boys, and possibly each other—and performed a breathtaking pas de deux on the trapeze. Just before intermission, they coaxed a couple of male volunteers on to the stage. Now, who doesn’t know it’s a bad idea to get onstage with a seasoned performer (or two)? When the magician strolls into the audience looking for an assistant, or the hypnotists asks for a volunteer to turn into a clucking chicken, we slink down in our seats, hoping to be spared. But when I was asked to join the Wau Wau Sisters on stage, I bounded out of my seat without a second thought. We all cherish delusions about ourselves. One of mine: That I enjoy being onstage and that I’m possessed of the charisma of Tom Jones circa 1968. In fact, I have the stage presence of a sofa—stolid, unsmiling, praying someone will throw a duvet over me to hide my sorrowful stains—and I’m dreadfully fearful in the footlights. In other words, a near-perfect foil for the Wau Wau Sisters. After they dressed Matt and me in our cowgirl outfits (see grainy Polaroid), the four of us performed an acrobatic square dance, alternating between dosiedos and varieties of postures where the Sisters suspended Matt and me in the air by their feet and arms and vice-versa. (I wouldn’t doubt the Sister I performed with could bench press all 205 pounds of me.) All the while, between flashing wide smiles for the audience, my dancing partner kept asking me, “How are you doing?” with a concerned look on her face. I must have looked pale. Other than my lackluster dancing prowess, having had only a handful of peanuts and half a bottle of Chardonnay for dinner, and being a general neurotic mess onstage, I was fine. Just curious as to when they’d let me get off the stage.Wondering if I’d think better of it next time. Probably not—the lure of the spotlight is blinding.

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SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed.

According to information from the Apollo Moon landings, an abundance of helium 3, a rare gas that could be used to create pollution-free energy, exists in the moon’s soil. Plans to exploit this resource are already underway in the US and Russia, and include mining the gas and bringing it back to Earth. Jerry Kulcinski, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said the moon could become “the Persian Gulf of the 21st century.” One of the only opposing voices is Edgar Mitchell, a member of the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, who cautions that the moon is a “rich scientific destination” that we still need to study and explore. In another lunar exploitation, Dennis Hope of Nevada has claimed ownership of the moon through loopholes in the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, and has sold more than 400 million acres, earning him over $9 million. Property has been snapped up by the Hilton and Marriot hotel chains, celebrities, and even Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Hope additionally claims ownership of seven planets and their moons. Source: BBC News The Audubon Society released the State of the Birds Report for 2007, which draws upon 40 years of data collected by Audubon volunteers. The report shows that common bird species of the continental US are suffering a dramatic decline, with an overall 70 percent population drop from 17.6 million in 1967 to 5.35 million today. The society says that humans are to blame—encroaching development changes habitats, global warming affects breeding grounds, and pesticides and pollution kill food supplies. The northern bobwhite and evening grosbeak have suffered the largest loss, each with drops to around 80 percent. Source: The Audubon Society’s “A State of the Birds Report,” Summer 2007 A Queens man who was misidentified in a lineup and spent over two years in Rikers Island for armed robbery was released on May 21, and filed a $50 million lawsuit against city officials and the district attorney, Richard A. Brown, on June 15. The suit cites “prosecutorial misconduct” for failing to report existence of a videotape of the crime and a statement by the victim saying he was unable to see the perpetrator’s face. This is the 84th overturned criminal conviction in Queens courts due to prosecutorial misconduct. Source: The New York Times Fox News is being sued by Leon Levesque, a school superintendent in Maine, for a parody that was misrepresented as fact on the April 23 “Fox and Friends” show. The parody, written by Nicholas Plagman and posted on the Associated Content website, was based on a prank at Lewiston Middle School when a student threw ham on a table occupied by Muslim students, who believe pork is unclean. Plagman penned a satirical version of the story, embellishing quotes to make them more humorous and attributing them to the Associated Press, and posted it in the news section of Associated Content. Fox News found the story and ran it, assuming that it was legitimate because of the AP credentials. Levesque filed the suit for $75,000 after receiving threatening phone calls at home and a substantial amount of hate mail. Fox News issued a brief on-air retraction, after the episode in which anchors repeatedly told viewers they “were not making this up.” Source: Associated Content and The Boston Globe A study by the University of Michigan discovered a dramatic difference in life expectancy for men after the fall of communism and the Soviet Union switchover to capitalism. Between 1991 and 1994, the average male life span dropped by six years amid increases in physical hardship, suicide, and homicide. The study says that the level at which men are affected depends on how tough the transition to capitalism was and how rampant income inequality had become. Lead author Daniel Kruger said that more competition supports risky behaviors, which can end in fatal accidents. Economic and emotional stress surface physically through heart attacks, suicide, and murder. Romania, Estonia, Latvia, and Albania were the countries most affected during the first five years after the Soviet fall. The study showed a 9.3 percent deviation between male and female mortality rates, suggesting females were less vulnerable to the change. Source: Agence France Presse

On June 13, the latest Pew Global Attitudes Project poll was released, revealing significant drops in foreign opinions of the US. From 2005 to 2006, US approval percentages declined for nine out of eleven countries that provided information. The greatest decrease for the year was seen in Spain, which went from 41 percent to just 23 percent last year. Turkey remained at the bottom of the list, with only 12 percent of the population’s approval, while Japan topped the list with 63 percent. The poll also appraised citizen content with the states of their nations; only 29 percent of Americans compared to 81 percent of Chinese report satisfaction with their country, and a survey on the significance of global warming found a mere 19 percent of Americans believe it’s “a great deal,” the lowest of all 15 countries analyzed. The poll is directed by Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Organization in Washington, DC, a nonpartisan “fact tank” that supplies information about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the world. Source: The Pew Global Attitudes Project REUTERS/STRINGER

The 2007 Failed States Index cites Iraq as the second most unstable country out of 177 studied, moving from its 2006 position as fourth. The report considers facts compiled from global and regional sources and bases rankings on 12 indicators that include a legacy of vengeance, severe economic decline, and the rise of factionalized elites. Sudan tops the list as the most unstable country, with Norway and Finland respectively as first and second most secure. The US ranks at 160, making it the 18th most stable, sandwiched between Chile and Singapore. Source: The Fund for Peace, Failed States Index Scores 2007

Officials at the Pentagon confirmed that the Air Force had requested $7.5 million in 1994 to develop a chemical weapon that would turn enemy soldiers gay. Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, accessed records from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, and said the Pentagon repeatedly proposed the nonlethal weapon, and presented it to the highest scientific review body in the country for consideration. Hammond said that the proposition involved development of a chemical that by skin exposure or breathing would cause the enemy army to become “irresistably attractive to one another.” The military maintains that it discarded the plan. Gay citizens were perturbed by the suggestion, noting that its offensive to think that turning a person gay would make them an inefficient soldier. Among other absurd plans were the ideas to develop a bad-breath weapon to identify enemies, a chemical to attract angry wasps or rats toward enemy troops, and a bomb that would “simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.” Source: BBC News and CBS China revealed that a recent survey of domestically made and distributed food and consumer products found 20 percent to be substandard. Regulators discovered candied fruit with 63 times the legal amount of sweetener and copious amounts of additives and preservatives in children’s snacks, as well as fake human blood protein at hospitals, and foods contaminated with formaldehyde, industrial wax, and prohibited dyes. Officials said that China’s domestic goods were far more dangerous than their exports, but stated in their report that 80.9 percent of products in China met safety standards, a higher level than the previous year. They didn’t reveal much information on how hazardous the remaining 19.1 percent of products may be. The domestic inquiry takes place after increasing scrutiny of Chinese exports; recent troubles include high antibiotic residue in seafood, tainted pet food, faulty tires, and counterfeit toothpaste. Source: The New York Times The temperature in Alaska has risen an average of two to five degrees in different regions over the last few decades, spurring coastal erosion and melting permafrost. A study by the University of Alaska, Anchorage, estimates the cost of fixing and replacing infrastructure damaged due to climate change will rise 20 percent, or $6.1 billion, through 2030. The study accounted for 16,000 pieces of public infrastructure, but didn’t approximate costs for other potential consequences of warming—wildfires, harm to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and relocation of villages. Source: The New York Times —Compiled by Kelley Granger

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DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS Tales of American/Israeli Torture Ties By Yossi Melman, The Center for Public Integrity In May, 10 members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), working under the auspices of Center for Public Integrity, began the release of a series of articles, titled “Collateral Damage,” reporting on a yearlong investigation to assess “the impact of foreign lobbying and terrorism on post-9/11 US military training and assistance policies.” Highlighting almost 80 countries on four continents, the ICIJ discovered linkages between political pressure applied by a post-9/11 US, coercive lobbying by foreign governments who were the beneficiaries of assistance, and aid dollars that “have reshaped policies toward countries ranging from tiny Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, to Pakistan and Thailand in Asia, to Poland and Romania in Europe, even to Colombia.” As the investigation points out, billions of dollars of military aid have been given to countries whose horrible humanitarian rights offenses saw the US eliminate or restrict aid pre-9/11. Claiming that “neither the Defense Department nor Congress has done as much as it could to make sure the money was spent as intended, providing what one seasoned congressional aide described as ‘a blank check,’” the investigation also takes a look into claims of extraordinary rendition by CIA agents—the kidnapping of people in their own countries who are then transported to prisons in foreign countries “known for torturing prisoners.” All results of the ICIJ investigation can be found at the Center for Public Integrity website (www.publicintegrity.org), including extensive databases depicting country breakdowns of human rights violations of US recipients of military aid in 2005, and country-by-country breakdowns of US military aid recipients pre- and post-9/11. The following article highlights the US-Israel relationship. —Lorna Tychostup The King Hussein Bridge is the most direct route from Amman to Jerusalem, but it was not a trip Marwan Ibrahim Mahmoud Jabour wanted to make—he had no choice. It was September 2006, and Jabour, a 30-year-old Jordanian engineer who says he made the mistake of going to Afghanistan in a fruitless attempt to join the jihad, had spent the last two years as a US prisoner—possibly in Afghanistan but he wasn’t sure, since his captors had never revealed the location. According to a sworn affidavit he gave to an Israeli military court, he’d spent much of that time naked and alone in a tiny cell with a bucket to serve as a toilet, being subjected to loud music and hot or freezing temperatures, presumably to soften him up for interrogations that went on for as long as 14 straight hours. But now, apparently, the Americans were done with Jabour.They’d drugged him and sent him on a jet back to the Middle East. The trip was what is known in the US war on terror as an “extraordinary rendition,” the transfer of a terror suspect to a foreign country for interrogation—and sometimes torture, human rights activists charge—outside of any legal process. Jabour says he never faced a judge, a prosecutor, or a jury. When asked for comment on Jabour’s affidavit, the CIA cited its standing policy of not commenting on allegations of extraordinary rendition. Jabour found himself in the back seat of a car driven by Jordanian intelligence agents. At the other side of the King Hussein Bridge, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, they handed him over to Israeli intelligence agents. In his affidavit, Jabour said that one of the Israelis mocked him in greeting: “Welcome, Osama bin Laden. Where are you coming from?” Jabour’s case is the first documented instance of a terror suspect who was not linked to Hezbollah or Palestinian terror groups making his way from American hands to Israeli custody. That such a thing could happen should probably come 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

as no surprise, given the traditionally close cooperation between the United States and Israel on security matters. The controversial techniques Jabour says his American captors used were not concocted out of thin air; many were perfected and put into regular practice by the Israelis, who in the post-9/11 era have quietly become one of the world’s most important exporters of interrogation and counterterrorism methods decried by human rights groups as constituting torture and violating basic human rights. One of Israel’s “students,” the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has found, has been the United States. For its part, the United States reciprocates through continued massive military aid and assistance to Israel, thanks in no small part to strong Israeli lobbying of the US Congress. ICIJ’s database of foreign military assistance shows that Israeli governmental entities spent more than $30 million in the three years after September 11, 2001, on expenditures governed by the Foreign Agents Registration Act, including lobbying Congress and the executive branch. Since the late 1940s, the United States has given Israel nearly $50 billion in military assistance—financial aid and access to weaponry that has helped make the Israeli armed forces one of the most technologically sophisticated, powerful militaries on the planet. Since 9/11, Israel has remained the number one recipient of US military aid, pulling in more than $9 billion in the three years after the terrorist attacks. While other countries have been influenced by US aid, Israel has influenced its patron as well. In the post-9/11 world, the United States has turned to Israel for advice and training for urban combat against insurgents in Iraq and has borrowed controversial tactics that Israeli forces have used against Palestinians. In Iraq and elsewhere, the United States also has emulated Israel’s hard-nosed methods against terrorism, allegedly including the use of torture in interrogations. The growing closeness between the two intelligence services also raises the question of just how far Washington will go in the future in continuing to apply one of Israel’s most controversial anti-terrorism techniques: targeted killings. LEARNING FROM THE BEST Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, US intelligence officials have visited Tel Aviv to meet with their counterparts from Mossad, Israel’s version of the CIA, and Shabak (or Shin Bet), the Israeli counterintelligence and anti-terrorism agency, as well as the Aman, Israel’s military intelligence service, according to Israeli intelligence and diplomatic sources who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly with ICIJ. In addition to exchanging information on terrorist organizations with their Israeli hosts, the visitors are reported to have viewed presentations by special forces units of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli National Police describing methods and equipment employed by Israel in anti-terrorism operations. According to those same sources, other countries have also sent their own intelligence officials to learn from the Israeli experience and to be briefed and trained by their Israeli counterparts. Almost every week, the sources said, the Tel Aviv-based headquarters of Mossad, Shabak, and Aman host guests from South America, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, and South Asia, including countries such as Indonesia, which does not even have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Visitors also talk about ways to block the flow of financial funding from the

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PALESTINIAN PRISONERS IN THE ISRAELI JAIL OF SHIKMA IN THE CITY OF ASHKELON ON AUGUST 14, 2004. THE US HAS ADOPTED MANY CONTROVERSIAL ISRAELI INTERROGATION AND COUNTERTERRORISM METHODS SINCE 9/11.

United States, Europe, and Latin America to Palestinian militants. “Under the disguise of donating money to Palestinian charity, contributions are channeled to terrorist groups in Gaza and [the] West Bank,” says a senior Israeli official dealing with terrorist issues at Israel’s National Security Council. “Before 9/11, it was hard for us to persuade governments that money raised in mosques in their respective countries found its way to buy weapons and explosives in the Palestinian areas which eventually was turned against innocent Israelis. In the last two to three years, we find more attention to our claims and readiness to cooperate. On several occasions we provided names of charities and bank accounts in the UK, Italy, Paraguay, Argentina, and a few other countries, and the security services there followed accordingly and took action. Offices were raided, documents confiscated, and in some rare cases accounts were frozen.” Additionally, at least twice a year delegates from various branches of the Israeli intelligence community visit the United States to exchange information and engage in brainstorming sessions with their US counterparts.These discussions are “frank, open, and intimate,” according to an Israeli intelligence source who has been involved. Due in part to these exchanges of ideas, the United States has been able to copy and learn from Israeli counterterrorist methods. Although Israel certainly did not invent techniques such as clandestine kidnapping or the use of stress positions during interrogation, it was one of the first countries to employ those techniques as part of a broader counterterrorism campaign. EICHMANN CASE A PRECEDENT The CIA’s abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Osama Nasr (also known as Abu Omar) as he walked to a Milan mosque in 2003, for example, had a famous precedent—the 1960 Mossad operation that tracked, cornered, and abducted Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “He [Eichmann] passed our car, which was parked on the margin,” Rafi Eitan,

the Mossad officer in charge of the operation, recounted in an interview with ICIJ. “One member of our team,Tzvi Malchin, was shadowing and closing in on him. It all took a few seconds.Tzvi jumped on him. Both of them fell down into a ditch. Tzvi grabbed him. We opened the door, and Tzvi put him inside.” The parallels with the 2003 Abu Omar abduction are striking, where, according to Italian prosecutors investigating the involvement of 26 Americans, Omar was grabbed off the street by CIA agents and thrown into a waiting van. Just as the detainees of CIA “extraordinary renditions” are reported to have been hidden at secret prisons and transported across borders in clandestine flights, Eichmann was taken to a safe house in the Argentine capital, interrogated, sedated, and dressed in the uniform of a crew member of El Al, Israel’s national airline. He then was driven to the airport, forced to board an Israeli aircraft and flown to Israel for trial, according to Eitan and other published accounts of the operation. Eichmann was later convicted and put to death. Twenty-six years later, the Mossad conducted a similar operation. According to interviews with relatives and Israeli intelligence officials involved in the operation, in the fall of 1986, the agency acted against Mordechai Vanunu, an Israeli technician who worked at Israel’s secret nuclear reactor in Dimona. Vanunu was fired, left the country, and then revealed to the (London) Sunday Times that Israel had produced in Dimona sufficient plutonium to manufacture 200 nuclear bombs. The Israeli government instructed the Mossad to abduct Vanunu and bring him to justice in Israel. Mossad teams tracked Vanunu in London, where a female agent seduced him and persuaded him to accompany her to a “love nest” in Rome. There he was kidnapped by other Mossad operatives, sedated, and taken by force to a yacht that sailed to a rendezvous off the Italian coast with an Israel naval boat manned by cadets. “In the middle of the sailing we were told to put anchor off the Italian coast,” according to the recollections of the Israeli cadets relayed to ICIJ by 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM NEWS & POLITICS 27

Israeli intelligence sources. “We didn’t bother to ask why.We were only cadet officers who hoped to be soon commissioned. After three days, I believe, a yacht arrived near us at the middle of the night. We were all asked to stay in our cabins—only a few officers were allowed to be on the deck. Only a few days later by word of mouth and rumors spreading around, we found out that a group of people, mostly male and a few females in civilian clothes, had boarded our ship.They stayed throughout the remaining sail in their cabins. A few weeks later when the government announced that Vanunu was captured, we understood that we were the ship which was ferrying him.” When the boat reached Israeli soil, Vanunu was interrogated, charged, and convicted of treason, espionage, and unauthorized disclosure of secrets in a closed trial. He served 18 years in prison. Despite the strong similarities between Israeli abductions and those carried out by the CIA after 9/11, one important distinction remains: Eichmann and Vanunu were eventually put on trial (Vanunu behind closed doors, with only the verdict made public), whereas Jabour and his fellow “ghost” detainees by the United States have rarely been subject to official legal proceedings—or legal protections. SIMILAR TECHNIQUES When the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, the close US-Israeli relationship became even more pronounced. US forces soon found themselves in a bloody, protracted struggle against non-uniformed Iraqi insurgents in Iraqi cities and villages, a conflict that bears eerie parallels to Israel’s battles with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. American forces knew where to turn for advice. According to American and British newspapers, US soldiers journeyed to Israel to train in a mockup of an Arab town that the Israeli army has used to prepare for urban warfare in the occupied territories, and the Israeli Defense Forces sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to help train US special forces for counterinsurgency operations. Not surprisingly, US forces in Iraq began using an array of tactics previously employed by the Israelis in the occupied territories.When US Marines conducted house-to-house searches for insurgents, they used portable battering rams to knock holes through interior walls as a way of avoiding booby-trapped doors— one of the classic urban warfare tactics borrowed from the Israelis. US forces also began demolishing houses and buildings used by insurgents, mimicking the controversial Israeli practice of using bulldozers to take down the homes of Palestinian militants or their families. And, as the Israelis had done, the Americans cordoned off villages and neighborhoods suspected of harboring insurgents and set up armed checkpoints through which Iraqis were forced to pass. “I see no difference between us and the Palestinians,” an Iraqi man named Tariq told the NewYork Times in 2003. “We didn’t expect anything like this after Saddam fell.” The US Army officer formerly in charge of the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison, Col. Janis Karpinski, told BBC radio in 2004 that during a visit to a US intelligence center in Baghdad, she met an Israeli who was involved in interrogating Iraqi prisoners. “I asked him what did he do there, was he an interpreter? He was clearly from the Middle East,” said Karpinski, who was demoted from her previous rank of brigadier general after the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. “He said, ‘Well, I do some of the interrogation here. I speak Arabic but I’m not an Arab. I’m from Israel.’” The Israeli government has strongly denied that any of its own interrogators were working with the Americans in Iraq, as has Virginia-based CACI, the large American defense contractor that performed interrogations at Abu Ghraib. However, some of the techniques used by American interrogators—such as putting hoods on prisoners and subjecting them to loud music, and forcing them to remain in painful physical positions—bear discomforting similarities to controversial techniques Israeli intelligence has used for decades. Beginning with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Israeli intelligence agencies—mainly the Shabak—have interrogated Arab and Palestinian terrorism suspects. For years, Shabak interrogators used brutal methods that included sleep deprivation, hanging subjects from walls, and threats of sexual 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

assault. Rough treatment of interrogation subjects essentially was legal. Even after a 1987 special inquiry commission led by former Israeli Supreme Court Judge Moshe Landau found that Israeli interrogators not only used torture to compel confessions, but also were instructed by superiors to lie about it to the courts, it recommended that interrogators be allowed to continue “moderate physical pressure” on suspects who might have information about an impending terrorist attack. In a 1999 ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court described in detail some of the methods used by Israeli interrogators. One particularly violent practice was the “forceful shaking of the suspect’s upper torso, back and forth, repeatedly, in a manner which causes the neck and head to dangle and vacillate rapidly.” The court noted that “the shaking method is likely to cause serious brain damage, harm the spinal cord, cause the suspect to lose consciousness, vomit and urinate uncontrollably, and suffer serious headaches.” Another technique was the “shabach” position, in which a prisoner would be left between interrogations in a small chair with his arms tied, in a position that “causes serious muscle pain in the arms, the neck and headaches.” Interrogators also covered the subject’s head with a sack and played “powerfully loud music” in the room. The Israeli Supreme Court decided that such practices were illegal. But Israeli human rights activists contend that the ban was never fully enforced and that Israeli interrogators sometimes continue to mistreat prisoners today. For example, a Palestinian government official who was arrested and held by the Israelis for six weeks in the summer of 2005 later said that interrogators had left him tied for six to seven hours straight in the “shabach” position. “It caused a lot of pain in my neck,” Palestinian Minister of Labor Mohammed Barghouthi told The Christian Science Monitor. “But the psychological pain is much worse.” COMING HOME Marwan Ibrahim Mahmoud Jabour said in his sworn affidavit that he would find himself subjected to similar—but even more intense—mistreatment by US interrogators before he ended up on Israel’s doorstep. In Jabour’s sworn affidavit, he presents himself as little more than a would-be jihadist. In subsequent interviews with human rights groups and the Washington Post, he acknowledges having facilitated transportation and assistance for al Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan into Pakistan after the 2001 US invasion; a US counterterrorism official described him as “an all-around bad guy” who had contact with senior al-Qaeda officials. The offspring of Palestinian refugees, he spent his youth in Jordan and Saudi Arabia before moving to Pakistan in the 1990s to study computer engineering. While in Pakistan, he found religion, and a few years later he tried to answer the call of Saudi religious leaders who were urging followers to take up jihad against the Russians in Chechnya. Jabour managed to make his way to Kabul, where he got a few months of rudimentary firearms instruction in a camp operated by the Taliban before being told that the Chechens didn’t really want any more Arab fighters. He returned to Pakistan and got married. A couple of years later, after the September 11 attacks led to the US invasion of Afghanistan, he again felt the call—not to fight for al-Qaeda, but “to protect Afghanistan as a Muslim country.” Jabour went to Afghanistan and tried to join a group of Arab fighters, but when the Taliban deserted them on the front line, he decided to go home again without firing a shot. Jabour made the mistake of befriending an assortment of wounded, destitute ex-comrades who wandered into Pakistan after the conflict, his affidavit goes on. In 2004, he says, Pakistani intelligence agents forced him and a friend into a car, put hoods on their heads and took them to a facility in Lahore where Jabour was beaten and tortured for several days before his captors handed him over to the Americans. He then describes a haze of sedative injections and a jet ride. Jabour found himself in a nameless facility where he says men in black uniforms and masks stripped off Jabour’s clothes, bound him, and put him in a tiny cell with a bucket for a toilet. He remained naked and bound for three months, with a video camera suspended from the ceiling watching his every move. Outside, large speakers played jet engine noises. According to Jabour’s affidavit, a US interrogator told him that “whenever you hear this sound, you will remember why you are here”—a reference to the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. After interrogators questioned Jabour, he related, they would throw him

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back in his cell, tie him in various uncomfortable positions and then subject him to loud noises and music, sometimes for up to four days at a time. “I would scream for them to stop…and I would tell them I was going to talk,” he says. On other occasions, he says in the affidavit, interrogators tied a rope to his handcuffs and lifted him up for several minutes at a time or squeezed him in a tiny closet that had breathing holes punched in the door (he would later tell human rights advocates and journalists that he was threatened only with being put in the closet). By the time a year had passed, the affidavit goes on, the severity of Jabour’s treatment eased somewhat. He was still subjected to interrogations, but he was in a larger cell and his captors let him out occasionally to watch documentary films on DVD or to take books out of the facility’s library, which had thousands of books in Arabic and other languages. Eventually, they gave him a drawing pad and an electronic chessboard. By then, apparently, the United States had decided that Jabour either had no more useful information to offer or was too small of a catch to bother keeping in custody. In July 2006, a clerk at the facility suddenly told Jabour that he was about to be transferred. “Where to?” Jabour asked. The American, the affidavit says, told him he didn’t know.The next day, guards came to Jabour’s cell, bound him in chains, taped cotton over his eyes and put plugs in his ears. He says he was driven to an airport, loaded on another jet and injected with something that made him lose consciousness. After the jet landed hours later, Jabour reports that he was carried into a building. When his blindfold was removed, he was in a room with portraits of King Hussein and King Abdullah on the wall. Jabour was back in Jordan, the land of his birth. Jordanian agents began questioning him, he says, but the sessions were less brutal. “The interrogators told me they know everything I’ve been through,” he says. For the first time, he was allowed to meet with a Red Cross representative. He also was allowed to see his parents and other relatives. But instead of releasing Jabour, the Jordanians turned the former US prisoner over to the Israelis. While US interrogators reportedly have used the threat of rendition to Israel to frighten captives into talking, Jabour says that 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

after a humiliating initial search (in which he was stripped and forced to squat several times), the Israelis didn’t treat him quite as roughly as the Americans had. He relates that he was questioned by a Shabak interrogator named Levi, who talked to him roughly a dozen times, three to four hours each time. Levi had Jabour tell his life story, while Levi took notes on a computer. None of the questions had anything to do with Israel or its national security, Jabour recalled in the affidavit. Even so, Jabour was held without charges and was not allowed to see an attorney for the first month of his Israeli captivity.Then, in late September 2006, he finally got a chance to speak with Nizar Mahajna, a lawyer for the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, an Israeli human rights organization, who happened to run into Jabour in the Kishon Prison where Jabour’s military court hearing was taking place. “I’m not one of them,” Mahajna quotes Jabour as telling him, meaning that he was not a Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza. “Do you have time for me?” “He seemed very frightened,” the attorney would later recall. In October 2006, Israeli security sources told ICIJ that Jabour most likely would be charged with membership in a terrorist organization, unauthorized military training, and posing a threat to state security. But apparently, over the next several weeks, Israeli officials changed their minds and decided that the former US prisoner was not so much of a threat after all. In November 2006, the day before a military court was scheduled to consider extending his remand, authorities simply released him to relatives in Gaza. Reprinted by permission of the Center for Public Integrity. www.publicintegrity.org Visit Chronogram.com for links to resources Visit on www.chronogram.com human trafficking and the organizations that form the vanguard of the anti-trafficking FOR LINKS TO OTHER ARTICLES IN THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC movement. INTEGRITY’S SERIES ON THE INFLUENCE OF MILITARY AID AND FOREIGN LOBBYING ON US FOREIGN POLICY.

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Beinhart’s Body Politic

MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS The “marketplace of ideas” is an economic metaphor. Though he didn’t use the exact phrase, the concept is generally credited to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The case was Abrams v. US (1919).The defendants had produced and given out leaflets that criticized the American attack on Russia in strident and colorful terms, and called for a general strike. An amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 had made it a crime to criticize the American government. Holmes wrote: The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. While that experiment is part of our system I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. It is worth noting that his opinion was a dissent. It should make us aware that American governments can make free political speech a crime and that certain Supreme Courts will support them. Most of us would automatically think that it wouldn’t happen today. Perhaps not. But if we rephrased such a law in terms of contemporary fears, say one that makes speech that could be construed as material support for terrorism, it becomes plausible. How would this court stand in regard to the marketplace of ideas? Boldly, like Holmes? Or like the 1917 majority? Last year the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was passed, which stripped “unlawful enemy combatants” of the right to habeas corpus, a right far older, better established, and less threatening than that of free speech. An appeals court upheld the law.The current Supreme Court let the decision stand. It has recently reversed itself and agreed to hear the case. It’s worth watching. There have been two recent free speech cases. In one, the Supreme Court ruled that a high school principal has a right to tear down a sign held up on a public street near a school function that said “Bong Hits for Jesus.” Part of their reasoning was that it advocated illegal drug use (as opposed to advocating the use of Zoloft, Lunesta, and Cialis), an opinion so unfashionable as to have no legitimacy, no protected right to enter the market. At the same time, the justices struck down a portion of the McCain-Feingold law that limited campaign spending on advertising by corporations and unions. Essentially they ruled on their gut feeling that a corporation with enough money to buy television time has unlimited free speech rights—certainly more rights than an individual with a homemade poster. This reveals an additional truth about Holmes’s idea. One that went so unremarked as to be invisible. It is that ideas are not merely in a metaphorical marketplace, they’re in an actual marketplace. This is because in 1917 Big Money was not explicitly in the idea business. They are now. In a big way. We can actually mark when it happened. It was 1934, in reaction to the New Deal. Back then the Big Money was in making things and the most important business association was the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Appalled by Social Security, public works, government regulating business and protecting unions, NAM explicitly committed to going on a public relations offensive. They had a simple, basic message: Government is bad and business is good. All government-run operations are needless boondoggles. Since they have the force of law they are a form of oppression. Though we vote for legislators who pass the tax laws, once that happens, we are required to pay for them. Which is 32 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

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oppression. Taxes are, therefore, evil. Free-market capitalism is a more creative, productive, and efficient solution, and produces more good for more people. Indeed, it has produced everything that’s good in America. And it’s what makes America better than anywhere else. Since it leaves us the “choice” to buy or not, it represents freedom. Buying makes us happy! And buying is good! NAM was very successful. Indeed, all of us have those ideas in our heads.The vast majority of us believe them at least to some degree, and many of us believe them completely. And there is a certain amount of truth to them. But there are untruths too. The unnamed, and largely untrackable, Big Money and big business people who run the game know that quite well. Notice that the campaign was selective. The obvious exception is defense spending. That defense spending should be unlimited and is almost beyond questioning. Military force protects business interests. More subtly, notice that free public education, paid for by taxes, was left out of the attack. (Until recently, as anti-tax ideology took on its own life, integration caused white resentment, and right-wing religion began to fight secular thought.) This is because an educated workforce is good for business. It represents a gigantic invisible subsidy.What would it cost free enterprise to teach its work force how to read, reason, and do sums? There has never been an attack on building roads and a lot of other infrastructure. That’s because the government takes money from us, through taxes, and spends it through private business.Which makes business happy. And it provides an invisible subsidy for developers, for the places we go to shop, for the employers who need us to get to our jobs and need the roads to get their supplies and deliver their products. The health care debate is a perfect example of how money changes the metaphor in a “real” market. If ideas alone were battling it out in a metaphoric marketplace, where reason v. reason would determine the result, we would go directly to a tax-based national health care system. All such systems in other industrialized countries produce better health care at half or less of what we spend. Everything that opponents say is wrong with such systems—bureaucracy, waiting time, rationing of care, lack of choice—already exists in the hodgepodge, for-profit system we have now. Private insurance companies, HMOs, and other health care corporations have the same imperative as any other business, take in as much money as possible, spend as little on the product as possible.With their overheads, profits, advertising, PR, and lobbying, they add the extra, nonproductive costs that make our system more expensive than any other. Additionally, when employers pay for health care, that makes them noncompetitive with businesses in countries where they don’t. The case is so clear and compelling that reason might actually win over the years of propaganda that Big Money has been pumping out. But there is one additional twist in the marketplace. For such an idea to be put in place, politicians have to embrace it. To win in politics in America today requires vast sums of money. All the Republicans running for president, and all the Democrats (except Dennis Kucinich who has no money and is therefore treated as someone who can’t win, which means that he can’t) support the basics of the health care system we have now. In the marketplace of ideas the power of Big Money is kicking ass and rationality is down for the count.

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estled in the shadow of the great, green ridge, the streets of the village of Ellenville are often deserted. When you walk in its downtown area, Canal Street and Center Street, and stop into its many homegrown businesses, like Matthews Pharmacy or Cohen’s Bakery, people are more than happy to help you find what you’re looking for and direct you toward a favorite hiking trail or watering hole. But if you continue walking for a bit longer, you’ll start to notice the many vacant storefronts, whose dilapidated façades complement not only the gaping absence of life on the inside, but also the utter lack of foot traffic on the streets. Most of the time, Ellenville may as well be a ghost town. This fact is so widely regarded that, on July 15, the opening reception for this year’s “10x10x10” art event was attended with excited refrains of, “Look at all the people in the streets!” In truth, there were certainly more people in town on the overcast Sunday than usual, but one could just as easily say that the number of people matched that of New Paltz’s Main Street on a lousy day. The diverse community is incredibly vibrant and committed, a core of individuals working hard to keep the village running and ready for people to come and take advantage of what it has to offer. Like our inner organs that keep working while we sleep, Ellenville’s residents are making sure the town will be ready when its turn comes to wake up and rejoin the rest of the Hudson Valley. Trying to get a read on Ellenville is as difficult as getting a read on a sleeping man: On the surface it seems like little is happening, but underneath there’s a flurry of activity keeping things alive. In a lot of ways, the town of Ellenville shouldn’t really exist right now. Amid the many transformations it’s undergone since its purchase by Louis Bevier in 1711—from agrarian beginnings to becoming a stop along the

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D&H Canal, a major resort destination in the Hudson Valley, and, until recently, a center for manufacturing in New York State—just what the people in Ellenville stick around for can be difficult to ascertain. Ellenville’s vital statistics serve as a numerical reflection of its empty streets. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 4,130, the median household income is $27,474, and 23.4 percent of the population struggle below the poverty line. Compare that to Saugerties, another Ulster County village that is similar in size. With a somewhat larger population of 4,955, its median household income is $35,525, and 12.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line in 2000. For more recent statistics, Brian Schug, Ellenville’s building code enforcement officer, says that of the approximately 1,570 structures in the village, 860 are rentals, and he estimates that between 60 and 70 percent of those rentals fall under section eight housing, compared to his estimate of around Saugerties’s 30 percent of section eight rentals. Village Manager Elliott Auerbach describes 2000’s census numbers to be inaccurate in the wake of Manhattan residents’ northern migration post 9/11, but Schug’s statistics are up to the minute. According to those people who are keeping Ellenville’s blood pumping, it’s time to find a new way to try and wake their village up. And the Ellenville Area Arts Alliance, or EA3, is hoping to be the solution. Headed by Cragsmoor’s Judy Sigunick, EA3 is trying to dress the village in a new set of clothes, portraying it as a burgeoning artists’ community. Complete with newly rezoned rental spaces downtown to attract artists to set up lofts, a slew of visual arts events lined up throughout the year, and the forthcoming Ellenville Arts and Ceramics Center, which is waiting for additional funding to pave the way for its opening, the village seems to

ABOVE: INSTALLATION BY DEBORAH MASTERS IN THE ELLENVILLE FLORIST ON CANAL STREET; OPPOSITE (LEFT TO RIGHT): JO-ANN BRODY, KARLOS CARCAMO, MICHAEL ASBILL, MONICA D. CHURCH, STUART BIGLEY, JUDY SIGUNICK, AND DEBORAH MASTERS; SIGUNICK CURATED THE “10X10X10” SHOW FEATURING WORK BY THE SEATED ARTISTS.

be making some headway in its redefinition. Sigunick’s salaried position as EA3’s head was created in an effort to keep this momentum going, and so far it is the only job that’s been created through this focus on the arts. As of this writing, one of the last remaining industrial facilities, the aluminum manufacturer Hydro, is the latest in a line of manufacturers to abandon the area, having just announced an end to all Ellenville operations, resulting in a loss of more than 300 jobs. Sigunick’s appointment as the village’s director of visual arts comes as a result of not only her volunteer work coordinating last year’s inaugural “10x10x10” exhibit, but also her decade’s worth of experience as a Hudson Valley visual artist, creating the Poorhouse Memorial for the Ulster County Fairgrounds, the cement rhino in Rosendale, and the whale in Poughkeepsie’s Wayras Park. “I’m very committed to bringing a kind of level playing field between the artists, the businesses, and the civic leaders,” says Sigunick of why she’s agreed to take on this position in addition to her busy schedule as a public artist. While much of the push to make Ellenville over through the arts may be motivated by economic revitalization and the potential selling of real estate, Sigunick is adamant that the arts won’t simply be used as a means to an end. This means creating art events that appeal to everyone, from civic leaders and business owners to the artists themselves, all while trying to improve the quality of life of the average Ellenville villager. This improvement, however, isn’t entirely quantifiable, leading to some hesitation and cynicism on the parts of residents and artists alike. However, all those in attendance on July 15 were enthusiastic about all they saw and the potential the current activities of EA3 holds for their village’s future.

This year’s “10x10x10” looks to improve on the formula that was crafted last year, an event loosely based on a similar undertaking in Pittsfield, MA, called the Storefront Artist Project, in which artists were given empty storefronts to create art and use as open studios that the public could view The goal was to attract tourists and more art-centric businesses, a strategy which, according to Pittsfield’s Director of Cultural Development Megan Whilden, has helped transform the city into a hotspot for the region’s arts. “10x10x10” is similar in that it gives 10 selected artists from 10 nearby areas the opportunity to install displays of their work in storefronts, both occupied and empty. If you ask some of the village’s residents about last year, this opportunity may have been taken too far in some cases. One display, by sculptor Huma Bhabha, was removed by the artist from Cohen’s Bakery amid complaints of indecency. (The uproar seemed overblown given the sculpture’s desexed anatomy—a genderless mannequin posterior perched on a mushroom shape atop a wooden base—and Cohen’s owner Bill Tochterman’s support of the piece.) Performance artist Eeo Stubblefield created a visceral display featuring her protest of the war in Iraq, a topic that consumed her every waking hour, and inspired local filmmaker John Hazard to create a short documentary, No Time for Beauty: Eeo’s Choice, screened at the June 24 Arts Council meeting at Ellenville’s Shadowland Theater. Stubblefield’s performance piece included hundreds of graphic images of maimed Iraqis, predominantly children, representational straw effigies of civilian casualties, and a parade of women, including Stubblefield herself, dressed in burqas and singing songs of protest. While Stubblefield’s piece didn’t cause any outright controversy as Bhabha’s piece did, it added some much needed life to Ellenville’s barren streets, suddenly abuzz with activity and talk. 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: MARKET STREET IN THE HEART OF ELLENVILLE; AROMA THYME BISTRO; DETAIL OF AN INSTALLATION BY KARLOS CARCAMO OF WAPPINGERS FALLS.

This year Sigunick is hoping to recapture much of the life of last year’s event with less of the concerned whispering. Part of the criteria for this year’s display stipulates that each artist be in some way actively involved with their communities, like Peekskill Arts Council Member Jo-Ann Brody and cocurator of Beacon’s Go North Gallery Karlos Carcamo, whose piece features upside-down, dilapidated dollhouses suspended over empty bullet casings. The piece draws attention to how buildings and homes can become neglected, completely turning the way we view them on its head. The village has also had its first takers for artist loft space this past June; Russ and Monica Dansky, owners of a fabric dying business called Colorworks, took advantage of the rezoned space behind R.J. Realty. Fed up with trying to run their business in Middletown, the Cragsmoor couple decided that Ellenville had a great opportunity waiting for them in regards to low rent and location. Businesses that don’t focus on the arts also stand to gain if the revitalization initiative succeeds. “It’s been a positive experience because it brings new faces around,” says Ray Matthews, owner of Matthews Pharmacy. “It brings new faces on the street, who see my store, and some of them come in. Has it generated any new revenue for me? Probably not,” he says, adding the hopeful “yet.” Shadowland Theatre’s Artistic Director Brendan Burke says, “The arts are economic stimulus,” referring to how the arts can act as a magnet for tourists and other businesses to set up shop. He would know—the Shadowland is one of Ellenville’s most important artistic successes, bringing up to 750 people each weekend and producing plays such as this summer’s “Natural History,” featuring Tony award winner Michele Pawk. “Would Aroma Thyme even have been opened if the Shadowland didn’t exist?” he asks, alluding to Ellenville’s other attraction for out-of-towners, the Aroma Thyme Bistro right down the street from the theater. Burke shares Matthews’s view that New York state doesn’t seem to be a vi-

able home for manufacturing, and he thinks that maybe the arts will help ignite a new kind of growth in Ellenville. “As a community of artists, they’re doing their best for their town, and doing positive things, creating positive events, and creative vibes for their town. Is it going to be a cure-all? I can’t imagine it will be. Will it help a lot? Probably.” Sigunick, despite her efforts, agrees that while she’s going to do everything she can for Ellenville through art, she can’t solve all of its problems. “The one thing that we can’t bring is jobs,” she says. Holly Houghtaling, Ellenville Chamber of Commerce president, assures that while the arts are a large part of saving Ellenville, they’re not putting all of their eggs in one finely decorated basket. “I see there being a strong focus on arts, but there’s also a strong focus on trying to regain a major employer to come into the area to fill the place of Hydro. The powers that be are definitely doing everything to try and get and solicit some business into the area,” though what business that could be remains unclear. Can focusing on the arts be enough to reinvigorate the village, prevent more businesses vacating, and actually bring more businesses in? Village Manager Auerbach thinks so. “What we’re going to see in the next 12 to 24 months is not just one or two or three artists or artist-related businesses coming in, but probably a dozen to two dozen. We’ve got a dance studio coming in on the corner of Market and Center streets as we speak, the Ellenville Arts and Ceramics Studio’s coming in. We have another couple who are very close to relocating a gallery and cafe into the community, and another restaurant opening up.” Even with the successes so far, the village has a long way to go. According to an optimistic Burke, the sleeping Ellenville has already begun to stir, saying, “I think that what this arts movement has done is brought people within the community out of their houses and back onto the Ellenville bandwagon. And they were always here, but I don’t think they were organized or interested for whatever reason. I think this unified them and brought them out.” 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 37

THE ART OF BUSINESS

THE POSSIBLE DREAM Artist and Impresario Richard Rothbard by Andrea Birnbaum photos by Hillary Harvey

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ll of the regulars at the Rhinebeck Crafts Festival in the late 1970s would joke about it. They’d laugh and say, “With all the great artists that don’t make it in, someone should start a show for all the rejects.” Artist Richard Rothbard, one of the ones who did get in, has both a sharp sense of humor and an intuitive knack for business. He knew it was nothing to laugh about. In 1980, Rothbard invested $500, rented a tent, and signed on 50 exhibitors to sell their wares in the parking lot across the street from the festival. More than 1,000 people showed up that first year, and Rothbard continued what became known as “the other show” for 13 years. He’s proud of the high standard he’s maintained and that he’s done it while keeping his integrity intact. It’s more than just business to him; he’s wholly devoted to promoting the arts and supporting his artists in whatever way he can. American Art Marketing produces fine art and crafts shows across the country, and has come to specialize in finding new markets that are ripe for a fair. For instance, the Berkshires, with its summer crowds, local artists, and scenic locale, seemed like a natural venue, yet most organizers had stayed away because they feared there wasn’t enough of a residential base to support it. Rothbard picked the busiest weekend of the summer—the July Fourth holiday—and had 10,000 visitors the first year. The show is now in its sixth year, and attendance is just as strong. Rothbard has also launched shows in Danbury, Connecticut, and Westfield, New Jersey.

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“It all has to do with your tolerance for risk,” says Rothbard. “How successful will you be? You don’t know until you do it. I’ve managed to take risks that weren’t as risky as others might think. With knowledge, you can have an understanding of what you’re up against.” Rothbard isn’t exactly modest, but he gives the real credit to the artists. “Artists are entrepreneurs, they’re the greatest kind of entrepreneur. They take raw material and make it into something useful, something beautiful. Do they know how successful a piece will be?” This year, live glassblowing and woodworking demonstrations were added to the roster at the Berkshire Crafts Festival. In his true entrepreneurial spirit, Rothbard is always testing how he can improve each show. With live entertainment, food vendors, and other added attractions, Rothbard hopes to bring in larger crowds. In particular, he notices a lack of children at the shows. This troubles him, but not for financial reasons. He explains, “Parents should be bringing kids to these shows. Kids should meet artists, talk to them. If you have a child that has any artistic interests at all, it can open up so many doors for them.” And, he adds, “most shows are free for kids.” Adventures in marketing Rothbard and his wife, Joanna, who is also an artist, manage American Art Marketing out of their rustic home in the Orange County town of Slate Hill. The offices, warehouse, and workshop also serve the Rothbards’ two other businesses—American Craftsmen Galleries, the last surviving crafts gallery

ABOVE LEFT: A PIECE OF MAPLE FROM RICHARD ROTHBARD’S WOODPILE, READY FOR CARVING. ABOVE RIGHT: ONE OF ROTHBARD’S BOXES WITH A “KEY,” CUT-OUT DESIGN. OPPOSITE: RICHARD ROTHBARD IN HIS SLATE HILL WORKSHOP.

in Manhattan; and Boxology, Richard’s own artworks, which he describes as “poetry, psychology, and philosophy in wood.” On a given day, Rothbard does everything from checking e-mails to checking warehouse orders to pricing merchandise to designing ads. Joanna primarily works with internal operations—tracking data, supervising staff, managing computer systems, and buying for the galleries. They work seven days a week, traveling to Manhattan two to three times every week. Rothbard admits they survive thanks to gyrotonics and pilates classes once a week and taking vacations in the slow periods. Through years of experience, they’ve learned not to get as stressed as in their earlier days together. “It’s become a matter of extreme organization, and hiring the right people,” he explains. “Some of our employees have been with us for 20 years or more.” Rothbard has also developed extensive systems of reporting, so he can keep track of exactly which artists are selling and how much as well as provide triple and quadruple checks for quality control. When you own your own business, he says, “you’re responsible for everything that happens, and everything that doesn’t happen. Of course, things are going to go wrong and that’s not your fault—unless you screwed up.” Rothbard is frank about his adventures in business, admitting to learning the ropes as he went along. An art fair in Indianapolis, for instance, never took off for reasons he attributes to listening to the wrong people and having a weak marketing plan. In other locations, his shows were eventually overcast by

larger, glitzier shows that followed on their coattails. When it comes to the gallery, Rothbard says, “We had no way of knowing it would be a home run, that we’d be so successful, so fast.”With locations in Rockefeller Center,Times Square, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts, American Craftsmen Galleries represents more than 500 artists.The couple purchases more than $1 million in crafts annually, and sales have remained steady. Prices on the objets d’art vary greatly, with pieces ranging from jewelry and furniture to ceramics and glassware. The celebrity roster of customers includes regulars like Andrew Lloyd Weber, Bill Clinton, who’s stopped in to buy perfume bottles on several occasions for Hillary, and even Oprah, who owns one of Richard’s boxes. “I’m at the gallery a lot of the time,” says Rothbard. “It makes a big difference. When people are spending money like that, they want to know you.” He continues, “It’s the same thing at the shows. I tell the people that aren’t selling, ‘You have to be there yourself, to talk to people and get them to trust you.’ It’s about them knowing who you are, and it’s also about the business of selling.” Building trust Across the board, Rothbard maintains a reputation for integrity and quality work. “We try to set the bar higher,” he says. When referring to the jury selection process for the art fairs, he says he takes into consideration not only his own standards but also that of the other exhibitors. “You have to take them into account,” he says. “We treat the artists as business equals.” This practice 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 39

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of building trust-based relationships with artists has proven to be a great asset, and the trust has been reciprocal. “A successful show gives us instant credit,” he explains. “If we’re responsible for the $50,000 an artist makes, they’re eager to support us with the gallery.” Oftentimes, he says, it’s gone even further than that. “We’ve helped many artists who couldn’t stay in business. We did what was necessary to keep the craftspeople who were supplying us in business.” Boxology is the business that is closest to Rothbard’s heart, and it’s easy to see why. He describes the handcrafted music, jewelry, and puzzle boxes as an evolution in his woodworking, which he began in 1967. He uses a variety of exotic woods, like bubinga, a finely textured, reddish-brown African rosewood, and bocote, a golden brown hardwood from Mexico and Central America. One, in the shape of a piano is made from maple burl with a natural, freeform edge. Delicately carved hands serve as the handle, and when opened a small, velvet-lined compartment is exposed. For those who choose to have the boxes customized, a song of their liking can be played when the box is opened. In addition to being exquisite, most of the boxes also tell a story, either a scene from history or of someone’s life. Adam and Eve, for instance, in all their innocence, or Alice in Wonderland, her story unfolding in layers as the drawers of the box are opened. Rothbard admits he’s unlikely to give up any of the businesses any time soon, even though he’s achieved a comfortable level of financial success. He wonders what he would do with his time if he wasn’t working, and points out that many people look forward to retirement in order to try the kinds of ventures he’s been at all his life. “We’re not millionaires. When you take risks, there are losses. It’s expensive, living today. We also like to take vacations and travel a lot. I’m an artist and a gallery owner and a show promoter,” he says, trying to sum up all that he does. “It’s work but it’s not work. It’s the impossible dream.” Richard Rothbard’s wooden box creations can be seen at www.boxology.com.

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Portfolio SARAH GREER MECKLEM

Sarah Greer Mecklem is an artist whose life and career have always been intricately intertwined with the history and—more importantly—the experience of the Hudson Valley. Born in Kingston, she is the daughter of Austin Mecklem and Marianne Appel, two major figures from the Woodstock artistic community of yore, a magical scene that provided the backdrop for her early childhood. After the death of her father, Appel eventually moved Sarah and her sister Pixie to New York, in search of work to support them. Having grown up in the city and attended Cooper Union, Mecklem tends to express the dual influences of the country and the city in her work, which embraces natural beauty and ecological concerns while bringing an urban edge to those issues. Crossing Paths: Smoke

Rings, currently installed in “Paths: Real and Imagined,” the Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Show, involves collecting cigarette butts left behind in the forest by thoughtless nature seekers and tacking them in decorative patterns to the trunks of trees, simultaneously calling attention to them and making them beautiful. A companion piece, Compromise, uses discarded bottle caps in a similar fashion as part of the Kingston Sculpture Biennial 2007. Ever the socially engaged artist, Mecklem runs the Art Garage at Waryas House in Poughkeepsie, providing art therapy for developmentally disabled men who also suffer from substance abuse. —Beth E. Wilson

SARAH GREER MECKLEM ON HER WORK Growing up “Woodstock” I thought everybody’s family were artists. When I came home from the Montessori nursery school, I had to draw. I would get home and break out the pencils—not just No. 2s but also the HB leads, the soft ones, and every other thing. So my earliest artistic sensations were about the quality of lines in pencil drawings. I remember loving sharp pencils. And my parents were in the studio, hanging out with friends like Reginald Wilson, or we’d go visit Ed and Jenny Chavez. I remember playing in Anton Refugier’s studio, and posing for him as a child (which my sister did, too). That’s what I thought people did. It was the rare person who ran a drycleaning shop, or whatever. So what I guess many people would think were unusual things were just fun memories for me. I remember going to some of the festivals—at one, there was a playground merry-go-round (the kind you have to push), made with huge driftwood creatures, spinning around. There was one festival at Andy Lee Memorial Field, when I was six or

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seven, where I became the temporary tattoo marquee. Julio de Diego (and a couple of other artists) painted pictures all over me, and I marched around with a top hat and high heels, wearing a bikini bottom, to advertise the tattoos they were making. Working artists/artists working Back then, artists didn’t have two jobs. My parents could support the family by doing occasional design jobs, and sometimes some teaching, but the rest of their time was spent making their art. I remember spending a year in Buffalo when they taught at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and we came back when I was four—my father died a year and a half later. My mother was a young widow, raising two kids, and managed to hold it together for about three years up here. But she basically stopped painting. She went after some design jobs, and started working for Bill Baird’s marionette studio. It was hard for her in such a small community—my

sister and I wound up living at the Peter Pan Farm for two years, where they took care of families of kids at risk. Not quite a foster home, but a place for some support. It was run by Art Vos and his wife. In Holland, they’d been known for hiding Jewish children during the war. They had six kids of their own, plus a bunch of us. I think at one point there were 18 children there. It was about as wonderful an experience of that sort that anybody can have. (But, of course, I can also trace all my psychological problems back to that period!) Returning to the mountain The Overlook Mountain project was the beginning of my engagement of the outdoors as a source. The pivotal thing was going up there after [many] years (I had been there as a child when it was still intact), only to find when I came back that the roof was gone, the inside was gone, and there were all these trees growing in the rooms I’d explored as a kid. The idea that nature would move right back in when

Clockwise from top left: Smoke Signals, bottle caps and cigarette butts, 2000; Triptych, found materials and salvaged wood, 2004; Urban Smoke Signals, cigarette butts on billboard, 2001; Smoke Ring, found materials and wood-burned drawing, 2000. human efforts had failed struck a real note for me. First I started cleaning up a bit, trying to help the trees grow. People would come through and ask me what it had been, so I met with Alf Evers to get the real information. Through all this I had the idea to install photographs there to tell the story of the hotel. I received photographs from Alf and text and images from old brochures and articles, which I enlarged and installed in the ruins. I couldn’t do it at the scale I wanted (I had to carry everything in because you couldn’t even drive up there), and as I cleaned up I found debris to make assemblages and reliquaries that honored the hotel and its demise. People often ask me why I didn’t laminate or do something else to the images. The concept of putting the photographs up there unprotected was that they would continue to be exposed to the same elements as the building itself. That is also a conscious process in my work, letting it go. I’ve been documenting the decay, and collaging back into those images with photographs I’ve been taking. I’d like to do a swan song up there, but whether that will happen next is another issue.

Reduce/Reuse… I like making trash into treasure, straw into gold. I’m very much nonmaterial. When I moved up from the city, I consolidated two studios, and I was amazed at how much stuff I had. I decided then to focus on working with reclaimed materials—wood lathed from renovating my house, not buying any new art supplies if I could help it. I resist the temptation to add things to the world. When I was out hiking so much [during the Overlook project], I kept finding cigarette butts in the woods, where people had dropped them. I would wind up with cigarette butts in my pocket and didn’t want to just throw them out. People may take the Smoke Signals work as punitive, but it’s not—this is what we do to our environment. Whatever that message is, whatever the response is, the role of an artist is to create beauty and create an aesthetic environment and so on, but it’s also to make people look at things in a new way, a different way. Sometimes it’s through beauty, sometimes through adversarial imagery, to help people understand in

a new light. So in that way [as an artist] you’re teaching in a subtler way, not didactically or pedagogically. “The Men” Through a whole series of unexpected circumstances, I wound up as the arts therapist at Waryas House in Poughkeepsie, which is a residential facility for developmentally disabled men who are also dealing with substance abuse. I established the Art Garage there, and I’ve been there for 12 years now. The people I work with at Waryas House aren’t necessarily people who’ve chosen to make art—often there’s resistance from the beginning. It’s a challenge to help them find meaning in the most minimal creative effort, and to find their own possibility for artistic expression and communication. Some of them carry on with it beyond the program, and I’m amazed at how many of them really do become engaged in the art making. They love coming to the Art Garage after a while. It becomes a haven for them.

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Lucid Dreaming

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BY BETH E. WILSON

WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE YOU ARE Art can beckon us on many different journeys—go to a museum like the Met, and you’re time traveling, pack up (as I’m doing now) and run off to Europe to see the big art shows and you’re frequent-flyer traveling, or just encounter an interesting work, wherever it is, and let your mind do the walking. I recently did a fair bit of driving in search of a connection between two outdoor summer sculpture shows in the area, only to fi nd that the distance between them could not have been greater. “Bivouac,” on view at The Fields at Omi International Arts Center, takes a witty, somewhat arch approach to art, inventiveness, and imagined survivalism in the Columbia County outback, while “Paths: Real and Imagined,” at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, gravitates toward an archetypal/metaphorical reading of its stated theme. Space travel—or at least a 1950s sci-fi vision of crash landing and attempting to survive on a distant planet—seems to be one of the leading concepts in “Bivouac,” curated by Max Goldfarb at Art Omi. (The most literal contribution in this respect is Kahn/Selesnick’s Apollo Lunar Rover Crash, crumpled bits of metal trailing from a shredded red re-entry parachute hanging overhead from a tree.) One of the meadows in The Fields’ bucolic rural landscape is now littered with an array of variously assembled junk, salvaged and ingeniously reused bits of wood, metal, and plastic that form improvised shelters and other survivalist responses to the environment. Near the entrance to the field, Mary Mattingly’s Mach II presents a disarmingly mangled vehicle that appears to have spent itself reaching the speed of its title, now cobbled together with a bleached animal skull at its prow and a plastic bubble containing an impenetrable tangle of gauges, wires, and odd bits of things. Such bricolage has become a discernable trend in the art world in recent years, tracing its lineage back to the work of Judy Pfaff. In this case, Mattingly plays on the welter of independent references evoked by her materials to build an almost Mad Max-like dystopian narrative in the piece—a theme picked up throughout the exhibition. 46 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

Michael Cataldi’s Prop ingeniously devises an impromptu shelter by raising what appears to be a broad pup tent of sod (actually supported by a panel of steel wire mesh), using a simple stick to hold open an aperture in the earth. One of the stronger works in the exhibition, he manages to move beyond the intellectually hip take on lost utopias that tends to mark some of the show’s other contributors, drawing power quite literally from a primordial engagement with the Earth itself. The downside of “Bivouac” for me is what might be the chief selling point for others—a strong sense of city cynicism (and that intellectually hip attitude) that marks much of this show, as an exercise in primarily conceptual engagement, an abstracted idea of what isolation in “the country” might actually mean. Matthew Lusk’s series of suspended tent structures, parked arbitrarily in the center of the field, are described by curator Max Goldfarb as “minimalist sculptural constructions catalyzing surprising conceptual synapses.” I’m not sure exactly what that means—nor do I think I’m supposed to. Such etiolated conceptualism simply raises the white flag for the artist to have anything meaningful to communicate. Perhaps it’s symptomatic of the larger cultural malaise we’ve gotten ourselves into, but I’m still looking for something deeper, more resonant. Both geographically and conceptually, Byrdcliffe’s “Paths: Real and Imagined” could hardly be farther away from the intellectualism of “Bivouac.” Curator Nancy Azara invited 29 mostly regionally-based artists to engage the concept of the path—a symbolically freighted idea, to say the least—as understood in any of its various dimensions or connotations. Given the many dirt roads, wooded pathways and trails that honeycomb the Byrdcliffe colony, it comes as a bit of a disappointment that almost the entire show can be seen in a drive-by along Upper Byrdcliffe Road. Any number of previous Byrdcliffe summer shows have made better use of the property, and, given the organizing principle of this exhibition, it’s a real opportunity lost. What better way to respond to the

G. Steve Jordan MOHONK IMAGES GALLERY

Water Street Market, 10 Main St, New Paltz, NY 845 255 6800 www.gstevejordan.com

ABOVE: TIME/PATH (DETAIL), NANCY AZARA, CARVED CEDAR WITH WHITE STAIN, 2007; OPPOSITE: PROP, MICHAEL CATALDI, INSTALLATION, 2007

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idea of fi nding/following a path than to invite the viewer to literally engage in one, especially in such a naturally and historically rich environment? As a result, the paths named in the title are primarily imagined, many of them along the lines of archetypal imagery a la Joseph Campbell and C.G. Jung. From Azara’s own totemic, carved wood Time/Path, to the gilded, snaky forms of Roman Hrab’s Endless Squiggle Elements, references to collective-unconscious imagery abounds. The most successful works in the show, however, move beyond simply summoning archetypes, and insinuate themselves more deeply into the landscape (whether real or imagined). Stella Chasteen’s Still Water, Woods sets beautifully iridescent, flat ceramic plates into a shallow, meandering drainage culvert just in front of the Villetta, pointing out the path of the water, and heightening the viewer’s perception of color, light, and the idea of water in the process. The showstopper, however, is Gillian Jagger’s Deer Path (The Other Ones). Strung from a rafter in the Old Kiln Shed, a series of chains is held taught by a spike driven into the ground just outside the shed’s large opening. Suspended along the chains is a cascading series of hollow, cast deer bodies—obviously carcasses, like those you’d see lashed to the front of a truck during deer season. The piece is so powerful largely because Jagger breaks through what can often become the feel-good, New Age-y “Circle of Life” deployment of Jungian archetype to confront us with what those deep ideas of life and death really mean. It’s a place where purely intellectual engagements with survival or with symbolic meaning, or whatever, open onto the possibility of an encounter with the real. Now that sounds like the start of a genuine journey.

AUGUST 2007

Mary Ellen Mark - Saturday 08.04 Connie Imboden - Saturday 08.11 Platon - Friday 08.17 Ron Haviv - Saturday 08.18 Eikoh Hosoe - Friday 08.24 Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb - Saturday 08.25 PHOTOGRAPHY TALKS

IN THE CPW MAIN GALLERY - 8PM Admission $7 / $5 Members, Students & Seniors If travelling from afar, please call ahead to confirm event.

“BIVOUAC,” A GROUP EXHIBITION, IS ON VIEW THROUGH THE FALL AT THE FIELDS SCULPTURE PARK AT ART OMI INTERNATIONAL ART CENTER IN GHENT. (518) 392-2181; WWW.ARTOMI.ORG. “PATHS: REAL AND IMAGINED,” THE 2007 BYRDCLIFFE OUTDOOR SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, IS ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 8 AT THE BYRDCLIFFE COLONY IN WOODSTOCK. (845) 679-2079; WWW.WOODSTOCKGUILD.ORG.

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galleries & museums ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

GALERIE BMG

198 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-0522.

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

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTCK 679-0227.

“Regional Neo-Expressionist & Pattern Paintings.” Genre paintings and mixed media by Bernard Greenwald and Vera Kaplan. Through September 8.

“Group Show.” Works by Jessica Houston, Stevan Jennis, Jenny Nelson, and Allyson Levy. Through August 12.

“Brigitte Carnochan: Painted Photographs.” Through September 3.

ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM

CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION FINE CRAFTS AND ART GALLERY

G.A.S. GALLERY AND PERFORMANCE SPACE

258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519.

7950 MAIN STREET, HUNTER (518) 263-2060.

“Arturo Herrera: Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps.” Through September 2.

“Hues, Hews, Yews & You.” Sculptures and paintings by Elena Agostinis. Through August 12.

“Illumination.” Works by Michael Somoroff. Through October 14. “North America.” Paintings by Neil Jenny. Through September 3. “On This Site Stood.” Historical markers by Norm Magnusson. Through August 12. “Studies in Segmented Form.” Works by Mary Judge. Through September 3. “50,000 Beds.” Group Show. Through September 3.

Opening August 4, 5pm-8pm. 106 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5552.

“Round and About.” Sculpture and assemblage by Fay Wood. Through August 5.

“Rough Beauty.” Photography by Dave Anderson. Through August 18.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213.

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

“Cat’n Around Catskill.” Street art project. Through August 4. “Dynamic Patterns and Colors.” Works by Molly Pomerance. Through August 4.

“Collaborations Exhibit.” Through August 4.

“On the Road.” Group art exhibition of works that feature cars and other vehicles, street signage and road maps. August 11-Spetember 29.

DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ART

Opening August 11, 5pm-7pm.

510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1890.

“Luminous Horizons.” Paintings by Yale Epstein. August 2-August 27.

“Johanne Renbeck.” August 11-September 29. Opening August 11, 5pm-7pm.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“Earthly Delights.” Through August 12.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER

DESIGN PRINCIPLES FRAMESHOP AND GALLERY

GCCA MOUNTAINTOP GALLERY

3555 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-2700.

5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM. (518) 734-3104.

“Summer Blossoms.” Oils, pastels, and monoprints by Mindy Wright. Through August 25.

“Seen the Glory.” Group exhibition of artworks inspired by the Civil War, slavery and related 19th century life. August 4-September 23.

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“Art Institute of Mill Street Loft - Alumni Artists.” Works by Leigh Bromer, Nate Gorgen, Jessica Montrose. Through August 18.

384 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 947-6732.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

THE ART INSTITUTE OF MILL STREET LOFT 455 MAPLES STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

GALLERY 384 “Flashpoint.” Recent work by Gail Gregg. Through September 1.

7392 SOUTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK 758-8708.

“Reverence.” Work of 33 internationally renowned artists from 13 countries. Through September 30.

“Summer Invitational.” Group show of paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, glass and functional works. August 4-September 9.

THE CATSKILLS GALLERY

59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

THE ARTS CENTER OF THE GREATER HUDSON VALLEY

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.

24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136.

“When Worlds Collage.” Works by Yura Adams, Stevan Jennis, Barry Gerso and D. Jack Solomon. August 4-September 30.

DIA: BEACON

Opening August 18, 6pm-8pm.

“Drawing Series.” 14 key works from Sol LeWitt. Through September 10.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Flowers and Birds.” Paintings and sculpture by Elia Gurna and James P. Quinn. Through August 5. “Vivian Altman: New Paintings.” Abstract works. August 11September 2. Opening August 11, 6pm-9pm.

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100.

“An-My Le: Trap Rock, 2006.” Photography exhibit. Through September 10.

GO NORTH GALLERY 469 MAIN STREET, BEACON WWW.GONORTHGALLERY.BLOGSPOT.COM.

“Out of Line.” August 4-August 26. Opening August 4, 6pm-9pm.

EAST VILLAGE COLLECTIVE

HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART

8 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2174.

BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“Emotions in Paint.” Works by Nathalie van Mulken. Through August 7.

“Feelings.” Work of British artist Martin Creed. Through September 16.

“Children of Darfur.” Phtographs by Ron Haviv. August 11-30. BCB ART

Opening and artist talk August 17, 5-7pm.

“Recent Landscapes.” Works by Bill Sullivan. Through August 5.

FIELDSTONE GALLERY 100 BROTHERHOOD PLAZA, WASHINGTONVILLE 496-3661.

BE GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS 687-0660.

“Metaphysics of Man and Dogs.” New works by Jennifer Hicks. Through August 6.

“Inspiration in Imagery.” Photographs by Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop. August 30-Spetember 10.

“Grid of the Community.” August 25-September 22. Opening August 25, 6pm-12am

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199.

54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.

“New Works by Gabe Brown and Erin Butler.” Through August 18.

Opening August 31, 6pm-8pm.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.

116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539.

“It Is Our War.” Photographs that tell three stories from the Iraq War. Through August 31.

“Botanicals, Hudson River Valley Landscapes & Landmark Paintings.” Watercolor by Betsy Jacaruso. Through September 30.

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.

“Size Matters: XS.” Recent small-scale paintings. Through November 10. “First Look II.” Works by 16 art students from around the country. Through September 30.

FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-7404.

BRIK “Cowgirls2.” August 4-September 9.

“Hudson River School Trilogy.” A Focused Collection, Drawings From Dia, and Selections From the Permanent Collection. August 17-October 21.

Opening Saturday, August 4, 6pm-9pm

Opening September 7, 5:30pm.

473 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0145.

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

“Paintings by Priscilla Derven.” August 16-September 9. “Aletheia, 2007.” Works by Jon Isherwood. Through August 12.

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KASTEN FINE ART

R&F HANDMADE PAINTS

46 CASTLE STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA (413) 274-6029.

84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112.

Michael Zelehoski and Ani Kasten. August 17-October1. Opening August 18, 5pm-7:30pm.

“Encaustic Works 2007.” Group show. August 4-Spetember 29. Opening August 4, 5pm-8pm.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 103 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON WWW.KMOCA.ORG.

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Color and Light.” Landscapes by Linda Puiatti. Through August 6.

“Earthscapes.” Arial photography by Paul Joffe. August 4-August 25.

“30 Days in the Life of Women Artists.” Works by six women in many genres. August 11September 3.

Opening August 4, 5pm-7pm.

Opening August 11, 5pm-8pm.

KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

34 TINKER AVENUE, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.

SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858.

2007 Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit. “Paths: Real and Imagined” group show. Through October 8.

“A Designed Life: Arts and Crafts of Byrdcliffe.” Through December 9. “Interpreting Utopia.” Through October 7. “The Uncanny Valley.” Works by Hudson Valley artists. Through September 9.

LIMNER GALLERY 123 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-2343.

“Animal Farm.” Slowinski’s visions of man and beast. Through August 31. M GALLERY

ST. MARGARET’S GALLERY ROUTE 9, RED HOOK 471-7477.

Works by Rob LaColla and Jessica Bottalico through August 22.

350 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-0380.

“Attempting Grace.” Paintings by Jimmie James. Through August 8.

STORM KING ART CENTER OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

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NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.

“The Hudson River Valley: The Artists View.” Through September 4.

Outdoor sculpture park. Special exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois. Through November 15.

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

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL

“Small Works.” Through August 19.

6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.

“5 Dispatches From The Hungry Synapse.” 22 digital C prints by Dan Morse. Through August 26.

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482.

“Healing Waters.” Paintings and sculpture. Through August 23.

MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY 24 SHARON ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT. (860) 435-0898.

UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER

“New Works by Judith Belzer, Joe Goodwin, Kit White.” August 25-October 7.

“9th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Through October 31.

68 MOUNTAINREST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.

Opening August 25, 5pm-7pm. VAN BRUNT GALLERY MUDDY CUP 305 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

“Art Institute of Mill Street Loft - Alumni Artists.” Works by Whitney Flanigan and Tina Spataro. Through August 22.

460 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2995.

“New Paintings by Richard Butler.” Through August 6.

WALLKILL RIVER ART GALLERY 357 OLD FORGE HILL, NEW WINDSOR 689-0613.

NEWBURGH FREE LIBRARY 124 GRAND STREET, NEWBURGH 563-3619.

“Photography By Ramona Torres.” Film and digital media. August 1-August 31.

“Joyful Views.” Orange County through the eyes of Shawn Dell Joyce. August 1-31. Opening Sunday, August 12, 3pm-6pm.

WHITECLIFF VINEYARDS OPEN STUDIO

331 MCKINSTRY ROAD, GARDINER 255-4613.

402 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-9531.

“Up Here and Down There.” Photographic images by Tom Ligamari. Through October 31.

“Playing Outside.” Recent works by Julie Chase and Dina Bursztyn. August 23-October 20. Opening Thursday, August 23, 6pm-9pm

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

PEARL GALLERY 3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888.

“Redefining Evolution.” Paintings and sculpture. Through August 12. “The Muse and the Effigy.” Photography of Linda Law and Brian Leighton, sculpture of Anthony Krauss. August 18-August 31. Opening August 18, 6pm-9pm.

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“A Family Curse.” Retrospective of the Angelochs and Summers of Woodstock. Through August 19. “Semblance & Spirit: Portraits by Woodstock Artists.” Through October 7. “Vol.1.” Photographs by Rick Gilbert. August 11-August 26. Opening August 11, 4pm-6pm.

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Music

BY PETER AARON

ABOVE AND OPPOSITE: MALCOLM CECIL INSIDE TONTO, THE WORLD’S LARGEST ANALOG SYNTHESIZER.

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tanding in front of his Saugerties home in a pair of pristine white overalls and waving frantically at your lost music editor, Malcolm Cecil looks like some kind of mad lab technician. In fact, with his thick, curly hair—also a pure shade of white—he looks like an older version of another Englishman with a cult following: TV’s Doctor Who. Cecil (“In England it’s pronounced ‘Sess-il,’ but I’m an American now so I’ll also answer to ‘See-sil’”) leads the way inside and through the red shag-carpeted living room, a sunny space lined with bulging bookcases and populated with statuettes of Buddah and Hindu deities, Tibetan bells and singing bowls, and a formidable, wall-hanging collection of ceremonial swords and daggers. Then it’s out the back door and past the shed that houses his artist-wife Poli Cecil’s workspace, which is filled with her brightly hued paintings and sculptures. Finally, the spry 70-year-old is standing at the door of his personal studio, a converted barn with a newly sided exterior and a tall-pitched roof. He turns the key, enters, and flicks a light switch. In one corner of the enormous room is a dark overstuffed sofa, the walls behind it dotted with framed gold records and certificates; a lone shelf holds a Grammy Award. Bookending the couch are two of the musician-producer’s upright basses and taking up the remainder of this half of the chamber are some older tape decks and the usual modern, computer-assisted gear. But dominating the far end of the sanctum is something else—a series of large, gracefully curving wooden cabinets linked closely to form a semicircle. Cecil steps behind the edifice, the clicking of another switch is heard, and the massive machine comes to life. With its loosely hanging patch cords and dozens of randomly blinking lights, the futuristic structure looks like something Lt. Uhuru, rather than Cecil, should be sitting in front of. With his fingers on one of the contraption’s several keyboard units, he starts to play, and a deeply 52 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

MALCOLM CECIL funky, soul-saturated motif fills the room and rattles the floor. The sound is unmistakable, and it should be: This is TONTO (an acronym for The Original New Timbral Orchestra), which, at a height of five feet and occupying 300 square feet, is the world’s largest analog synthesizer and the very one played by Stevie Wonder on such hits as “Living for the City,” “Higher Ground,” and “Superstition.” Cecil began its ongoing construction in 1968 with fellow engineer-producer Bob Margouleff. “TONTO will always be a work in progress,” Cecil explains. “It was designed to be able to incorporate whatever new technology came down the line.” In actuality, the machine is comprised of several standard-sized Moog, ARP, and Oberheim synthesizers and various sequencers and other units, all connected so as to be played from a single keyboard; hence the “Orchestra” part of its name. (For a great vintage clip of Wonder playing “Living for the City” on TONTO with technical assistance from Cecil and Margouleff, visit YouTube and search for “TONTO & Stevie Wonder.”) Ask Cecil about his long and fascinating life and be prepared for an answer to match it. He was born into a musical family in northwest London’s Cricklewood district. “My grandfather was an American from the Bronx, and he played the organ for silent films in a Times Square cinema. He was wounded in World War I and ended up in London, where he met my grandmother,” Cecil recounts. “My mother was the musical director of a gypsy band and she played violin, piano, and accordion. My father managed the band.” He found his own release in music early on. Sort of. “I had a piano teacher when I was very young, but she was very mean and I hated her,” Cecil chuckles. “So I never bothered to practice playing or reading music. Later on, of course, I saw that the girls would really gather ’round if you played music. I decided to give it a go on the bass.”

Around the time Cecil took up the bass, he joined the Royal Air Force and found himself stationed near Newcastle as a radar operator, a position that fueled his growing interest in electronics. (“Throughout my career, I’ve always tried to balance the technical stuff with the musical stuff,” he explains.) During his time off base, Cecil began performing and ran the nearby Downbeat Club with future Jimi Hendrix co-manager Mike Jeffries. (In one of the many other Forest Gump-like moments to come, Cecil made a live recording of Monday-night filler act The Animals, which the band used to get its first record deal; later on, he would also make live test recordings of The Who during that band’s teethcutting residency at London’s Marquee.) After leaving the RAF in 1960, Cecil moved back to London, where he became the house bassist at jazz club Ronnie Scott’s. At the legendary venue, he started to make his name as a first-call UK jazz musician, backing up visiting US greats like J.J. Johnson, Stan Getz, Roland Kirk, Sonny Stitt, and others. In 1964, Cecil got a gig as principal bassist for the BBC Radio Orchestra, working for the venerable broadcaster during the day and in the clubs at night. Unfortunately, in 1967 his relentless schedule and hard-partying lifestyle led to a collapsed lung, which made playing his unwieldy instrument too difficult and forced him to give up his Ronnie Scott’s slot to, coincidentally, another future Saugerties resident: Dave Holland. Thankfully, Cecil’s RAF experience protected him from being let go by the government-run BBC, which simply reassigned him to its engineering department. In 1968, after undergoing a lung operation and playing in South Africa, Cecil immigrated to the US, where he toured as the bassist for torch singer Laine Kazan. But it would be some time before he could become a citizen, and the country’s then-strict musician’s union laws limiting the work of foreign players had him continuously looking over his shoulder. He took a job maintaining the equipment at busy New York studio Media Sound. It was there that he met Margouleff. “Bob had one of the early Moog synthesizers and had it set up in the studio,” Cecil recalls. “We started working together and hit on the idea of hooking a couple of Moogs and some other things together, and trying it all out with some original compositions. One day, Herbie Mann was recording downstairs. He’d just been given some money by Atlantic Records to start his own label, Embryo, and since he knew me from my Ronnie Scott’s days, he stopped up to say hello. I played him some of what Bob and I had recorded and he just flipped out. He asked if we wanted to be one of Embryo’s first acts.” Christening their “group” Tonto’s Expanding Head Band (“The name was Bob’s idea—this was the psychedelic period, and he was always quite the businessman”), Cecil and Margouleff released the LP Zero Time in 1971. To call the record groundbreaking would be a woeful understatement. Comprised of six lengthy, infinitely trippy tracks (sample titles: “Aurora,” “Jetsex,” “Cybernaut”) that arc between lulling ambience and percolating motion, Zero Time sounds like nothing else from its day—or any day, for that matter. (The band released a second LP, It’s About Time, in 1975. Used copies of TONTO Rides Again, a 1996 CD reissue of both albums, have commanded as much as $800 online; Cecil recently rereleased TONTO Rides Again himself, remastered and with extra material, as simply Tonto’s Expanding Head Band.) “The sounds [Cecil and Margouleff] made were neither kitschy, funny, nor imitative,” writes Cornell professor Trevor Pinch in Analog Days (Harvard University Press, 2002), a book on synthesizer pioneers he co-authored with Frank Trocco. “The soundscape they built pushed the machine and their consciousness to the maximum limits. As they migrated inward, the machine helped them move outward. Musicians came to the instrument and found a willing partner.” One of these musicians was Wonder, who had been turned on to Zero Time by mutual friend Ronnie Blanco, yet another bass-playing future Saugerties resident. “One afternoon in 1971, there was a knock on my door,” Cecil says. “I opened it and it was Ronnie and Stevie Wonder, who had a copy of my album under his arm. He asked if he could check out TONTO, so we went down to the studio and played a bit. Pretty soon after that we started recording—and didn’t stop for four years.” And over those years, 1971 to 1974, the partnership, now ensconced in New York’s Electric Lady Studios, produced the landmark, million-selling albums Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale, records that dramatically and indelibly reshaped pop and soul music through their blend-

ing of Wonder’s gospel roots and au courant psychedelic obsessions with the TONTO team’s electronic innovations. “It was just one flowing trip,” Cecil recalls in Analog Days, “with just the three of us [Wonder, Cecil, and Margouleff] in the studio.” While this trip netted Cecil and Margouleff a Grammy Award for their engineering of Innervisions as well as two other Grammy nominations, diminishing production credits eventually saw their association with Wonder come to a close. But during and after the Wonder years, Cecil remained busy, making hit records with a slew of other artists in the 1970s and ’80s: the Isley Brothers, Steven Stills, Billy Preston, the Jackson Five, Little Feat, Bobby Womack, T. Rex, Jeff Beck, Weather Report. For much of the latter decade, Cecil, his family, and TONTO lived in the Los Angeles area, where Cecil and his creation found lucrative work in the film industry, recording the soundtrack of the first Star Trek feature and other movies. But something was missing in his life. “I’d been doing all this work on other people’s music for years, but I hadn’t really been playing any myself,” he says. “On my birthday in 1992, I got a call from John Halliwell, the saxophonist in Supertramp, who was my neighbor. He said he knew it was my birthday because he saw my bio in Grove’s Dictionary of Jazz, and he asked if I wanted to jam. I told him I’d stopped playing years before, but he said that I couldn’t stop if I was in Grove’s!,” Cecil laughs. “That got me playing the bass again.” So how, then, did he end up in Saugerties? Like most of his life’s journey, the route was an unplanned, circuitous one. “Poli and I had moved back to New York in the late ’90s, after I’d taken a job with TVT Records, for whom I was recording [poet-musician-activist] Gil Scott-Heron,” Cecil says. “Then TVT went bankrupt, owing me and a lot of other people money. Luckily, we knew that if we were going to be in the city we had to have an upstate getaway and we’d bought this place.” The Cecils became full-time Saugertesians in 2002. Since then, the reenergized instrumentalist and composer has been involved in a number of live and recording projects, playing in solo and group settings at area venues like Woodstock’s Colony Cafe and Kleinert/James Arts Center, the latter of which has featured his newest ensemble, Superstrings, a jazz-ethnic-folk fusion duo comprised of Cecil and Russian violinist Valeri Glava. But if TONTO once held the future, what does the future now hold for TONTO? Any chance of dragging the beast out for another live performance? Unfortunately not much of one, as the instrument’s sheer mass makes moving it an extremely difficult and cost-prohibitive proposition. Thanks to recent technology, however, Cecil has been able to give “Virtual TONOTO” concerts using digital samples taken directly from the source; in fact, last year he headlined at England’s Big Chill festival with just such a presentation. But that doesn’t mean that the TONTO mothership is destined to hide in a barn for the rest of eternity. After all, life, like TONTO, is full of surprises. “As long as I’ve learned something new every day,” Cecil says, “then I know I’m making progress.” Superstrings, featuring Malcolm Cecil and Valeri Glava, will perform at the Kleinert/James Arts Center in Woodstock on August 25. www.myspace.com/tontosexpandingheadband.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ WAVY DAVY for your listening pleasure.

SMITTY’S QUARRY JAZZ FESTIVAL August 2-5. Sculpture garden Opus 40 is the site for this unique jazz festival being held in homage to producer Jeffrey Smith’s father, Wilbur “Smitty” Smith, a legendary Ulster County cowboy who owned Smitty’s Dude Ranch in High Falls for 30 years. The festival’s excellent lineup includes violinist Regina Carter, tenor saxman Ernie Watts, the Pete Levin Quartet with Tony Levin, the Kingston High School Jazz Ensemble, documentaries by Gary Key, and a workshop by Teri Roiger and John Menegon. 3:30pm. $45, $25. Saugerties. (845) 633-8311; www.trilox.org.

TRIO LOCO August 4. Loungemeister, bassist, and MC without peer Studio Stu and his band, Trio Loco (also featuring Mark Dzuiba on guitar and Dean Sharp on percussion), fly into Bard College’s Spiegeltent for an afternoon of merry music and mirth. The same evening, Stu brings his custom-made Studivarious washtub bass across the bridge to the Muddy Cup in Kingston for Cafe Chronogram at 8pm with painter Terry Rowlett and spoken-word artist and fellow bassist Eric (son of Charles) Mingus. Now that’s a two-bass hit! 3:30pm. Free. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; www.studiostu.biz.

NEWBURGH JAZZ SERIES August 9-30. Impresario Aquenetta Wright, co-owner of the River Art Emporium, is producing this impressive jazz series with co-sponsorship from the city of Newburgh. Concerts happen at Newburgh Landing on the Hudson River every Wednesday and Thursday in August. Scheduled shows feature the Saints of Swing (August 9), Betty MacDonald (August 22), Ernie Colon’s Soul Latin Jazz Ensemble (August 23), and Newburgh’s own Chris Sullivan (August 29). For more on the Newburgh waterfront’s revival, visit Wright’s informative website, www.ferrygodmother.com. 6:30pm. Free. Newburgh. (845) 926-8868; www.newburghjazzseries.com.

DAVE MASON August 10. WDST Radio Woodstock welcomes Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason to the Bearsville Theater as part of the station’s Heineken Summer Concert Series. Mason founded Traffic with Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, played acoustic guitar on Jimi Hendrix’s recording of “All Along the Watchtower,” and worked with the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, and George Harrison. He’s also known as the composer of “Feelin’ Alright,” a huge hit for both Traffic and Joe Cocker. Brooklyn-based artist Ryan Scott will open the show. (On August 25, Upstate Reggae presents legends The Skatalites in a performance dedicated to late Woodstock drummer Winston Grennan.) 8pm. $45, $35. Bearsville. (845) 670-7600; www.wdst.com.

SARAH PERROTTA/TODD GIUDICE August 11. Expect to taste the cream of Hudson Valley singer-songwriters when Perrotta and Giudice share the Chthonic Clash coffeehouse stage. Perrotta, the former singer of Outloud Dreamer, is ready to drop her second album, The Well, which features guest appearances by Tony Levin and Garth Hudson and was recorded at Leopard Studio in Stone Ridge. WKZE radio host Frank Matheis says, “Todd Giudice has a fire and determination in his songs that compel attention.” 8pm. $5. Beacon. (845) 831-0359; www.myspace.com/sarahperrottaband.

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CD REVIEWS ARTIE TRAUM THIEF OF TIME ROARING STREAM RECORDS, 2007

G Given the melodic crispness and vitality of Artie Traum’s pplaying on his widely acclaimed instrumental recordiings, notably 2004’s Acoustic Jazz Guitar, 2001’s The Last R Romantic, and 2000’s Letters from Joubee, one could easily o overlook his masterful songwriting abilities. And with his L Lovett-like, comfortable-as-an-old-shirt vocals, and Lyle p picking style that breezes from Greenwich Village through B Birdland to the Catskills, it’s easy to understand why. Opening with the effervescent “Bonnie Jean� (hey, S Steely Dan, give Traum a call) the groove never stops. T not moving i to the h bossa b i track or the Brazilian bop of “Back in the Sugarcane.� Try nova title With help from bassist Tony Levin, Traum’s take on the traditional “Cuckoo Bird� gets an especially percolating treatment. “Last Tree In The Bronx,� “Halifax,� and “That Secret Place� (the first and former co-written with Wendy Waldman) only serve to magnify Traum’s longstanding reputation for being a musical storyteller of the highest caliber. Given an irrepressible vibe by producer Waldman, Traum’s all-star local band—Levin, drummer Gary Burke, pianist Warren Bernhardt and special guests like John Sebastian —lead us on an invigorating tour of Americana.

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PINKWATER Story by Nina Shengold Photos by Jennifer May

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aniel Pinkwater has written a hundred books, give or take. The man who coined the monikers Clarence Yojimbo, Lance Hergeschleimer, and Flipping Hades Terwilliger seems undecided about his own name, sometimes billing himself as D. Manus Pinkwater. Here is a tasting of bios from some of his book jackets: “D. Manus Pinkwater was born in Tennessee. He went to school, traveled all over the world, and wound up in Hoboken, New Jersey.”—Lizard Music, 1976 “Daniel Pinkwater was completely unknown until the early 1940s. Then he was born. Even then he continued to be known to a very few. In recent years, however, he has become so wellknown that to add further facts would be to gild the lily. Suffice it to say that he is never mistaken for anyone else.”—The Snarkout Boys & the Baconburg Horror, 1984 “Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to learn how to do it for 50 years. He thinks The Neddiad is his best book so far—but he always says that.”—The Neddiad, 2007 All of the above may be true. Or not. Facts tend to soften and morph in the wildly imaginative atmosphere of Pinkwater’s universe.

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Daniel and Jill Pinkwater live in a 19th-century farmhouse in Hyde Park, hidden from the road by rambling hedges. Jill—redheaded, salty, and vigorous—opens the door of a black-and-white-tiled kitchen. A calico cat blinks on a rug in one corner, next to a wall lined with cookbooks and onions. There’s a wooden Dutch door at the foot of the stairs, against which two dogs hurl themselves, barking and yodeling. Daniel Pinkwater’s voice—instantly recognizable to NPR listeners—resonates down the stairwell as he appears, a Hitchcockian silhouette dressed in top-to-toe black with a dusting of pet hair. He lets the dogs free. Lulu, an elegant Inuit sled dog, bays and sings, wagging her tail. The gruffer bark comes from an aging retriever, Maxine. Jill herds them outside as Daniel strolls to the kitchen table, plants himself in a chair, and cheerfully tells the photographer, “I’m not doing a thing you say, so just snap away.” He takes out a pipe he will light and relight during infrequent gaps in his hour-long discourse. He’s a great raconteur, shaping stories with consummate timing. When he lands a punchline, he opens his eyes very wide and leans forward, flashing a snaggle-toothed grin. “I give a good interview, don’t I?,” he says at one point. Pinkwater’s kitchen table is piled high with children’s books, some of the approximately 3,000 he receives yearly from publishers vying for one of his monthly review slots on NPR’s “Weekend Edition.” Jill, also an author and illustrator, culls most of these as library donations, leaving the rest for her husband’s discerning eye. “Fifty percent are a waste of trees,” he asserts, “Which is to say fifty percent of them aren’t.” Besides books well-adapted to radio, Pinkwater looks for narrative skill. “Many picture books are a showcase for beautiful drawings, but they’re not kid-friendly. There’s no door for a kid to go through.” The doors into Pinkwater’s own books are many and varied, and kids hurtle through them with glee, romping from picture books like The Big Orange Splot to more complex stories like The Hoboken Chicken Emergency and Borgel. He’s also written a handful of books for adults: the 1995 novel The Afterlife Diet, which paints the great beyond as a tacky Catskills resort for dead fat people; the dog-training guide Superpuppy, co-authored with Jill and in print for two decades; and several volumes of essays, including Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories. “Memoir” may be the wrong word for a book that features a sled dog who speaks fluent Yiddish, but it spins many tales from Pinkwater’s childhood, including a trip on the Super Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles with his parents, his mortified half-sister, several cages of parakeets, and a Zenith portable radio. The Wentworthstein family in The Neddiad makes the same voyage, right down to the parakeets. But where the fictional Neddie’s father is a benevolent shoelace mogul, Uncle Boris’s kinsmen were “Jewish thugs.” Pinkwater writes, “I have a photograph of my father and his brothers in those days.They are manicured and pomaded, holding whangee canes and kidskin gloves, wearing flash neckties, and staring into the camera with the expression of cape buffalo contemplating a tourist.” Pinkwater told an interviewer for the online magazine Fat?So! (www.fatso. com) that he was raised by his elder half-brother and half-sister, who’d “acquired human values” at an orphanage where their ex-chorus girl mother had parked them for a few years because it was convenient. “My actual biological parents were straight out of the Pleistocene.” The family surname was minted on Ellis Island, probably an amalgam of Pinchus and Wasser. Philip Pinkwater was a rag man by trade, with a thick Yiddish accent. “My father took me to his office when I was little,” Pinkwater recalls. “I’d sit at his desk and play with the things in his desk drawer. He had two blackjacks. I asked why there were two. ‘Deh black vun is vit deh gray suit, deh brown vun vit deh blue suit.’” Born in Memphis, Daniel grew up in Chicago, with several sojourns in Hollywood, where he attended a military school filled with children of movie stars and studio executives. His best friend was Sean Flynn, son of Errol; another classmate’s father worked for the Clyde Beatty circus, and invited him to dinner with the Faceless Man and the Fat Lady. All this found its way into The Neddiad, perhaps the most widely accessible novel on Earth. Pinkwater made a groundbreaking decision to serialize it online, one chapter each week, starting nearly a year before publication. Unhappy with the marketing of his last two books, Looking for Bobowicz and The Artsy-Smartsy Club, he took matters into his own hands with The Neddiad. “I didn’t want to wait two years to have nobody read it. I wanted to have nobody read it now.” Pinkwater was the first prominent author to serialize free of charge. (Some, including Stephen King, have released chapters on a pay-per-download basis,

and aspiring authors may serialize to build buzz, but this was the first time a book already in the publication pipeline was previewed this way.) It seems an especially appropriate strategy for a novel that celebrates the golden age of movie serials and radio drama. Long before Pinkwater started airing commentaries on “All Things Considered” (in 1987) and hosting “Chinwag Theatre” (1998-2002), he had a yen for broadcasting. At 17, he and some friends talked a Chicago TV station into letting them produce a variety show, “The Magic Toyshop with Uncle Otto.” “I was Uncle Otto, of course—the advantage to being Orson Welles is you get to give yourself the lead.” Pinkwater attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, where he spent most of his time acting, smoking, and joking. One day, his father appeared in his dorm room. Channeling his dad, Pinkwater’s voice turns to gravel: “So I looked around, deh kids here is crazy. I talked to deh dean, I said, ‘Gimme two veeks, I’ll get dis place in shape for you.’” (The shell-shocked dean apparently reported, “He would’ve, too.”) Threatened with expulsion unless he stuck to something, Pinkwater majored in art. After three years apprenticing with a Chicago sculptor, he decided to crash New York’s art world. His mentor’s parting words? “You’re not going to be a sculptor, you know.” Even worse, he told Pinkwater what he would be: a writer. “Since I’m nine, everyone’s telling me I’ll be a writer,” he complains. “I didn’t want to be a writer. It’s a sissy occupation. I wanted to do things where you attack big stones.” Artistic success eluded him. He taught art at a school for troubled teens and traveled to Tanzania. Back in NewYork, he met an editor at a party who needed artwork for a book of African folktales for children. She also needed a writer; Pinkwater wore both hats. Even after this first publication, “I didn’t think I was a writer. I thought I was a beatnik working a scam.” In 1969, he married a fellow artist and teacher, Jill Schutz. They moved to Hoboken, where they lived for 12 years, eventually buying a loft building with an indescribably filthy restaurant downstairs. After its demise, the Pinkwaters, who’d joined the obedience-training circuit with an incorrigible Malamute, used the space for a dog-training program. After years of dealing with canine and human eccentrics, they wrote Superpuppy: How to Choose, Raise and Train the Best Possible Dog For You. Its success paved the move to Hyde Park, where the animal population swelled to include an Icelandic horse and 11 cats. They’re currently planning a cat book—“There isn’t as much to know, but we know it”—and often collaborate as author and illustrator. “I basically do my thing and then hand it over to Jill,” says Daniel. “I get to make suggestions and she gets to top them.” Of his writing process, he claims, “I don’t know what I’m doing. My books are all flawed. I don’t outline, I don’t rewrite, and I don’t allow editing. I hand it in, it goes to the copy editor, and God have mercy on all our souls.” He finds picture books hardest, noting that while novels permit digression, “A picture book is just like a poem. Every syllable has to make sense or the whole thing collapses.” He creates stories for children by writing “something that would have delighted me at that age.” Asked about his books’ tendency to levitate into fantasy realms, he says, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just see myself as a reporter of the everyday,” adding that a friend once called him “a weird magnet.” “A unique magnet,” Jill corrects. Daniel Pinkwater shrugs, unimpressed. “Everyone has the same life, they just don’t notice it.”

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT STORY CONTEST Chronogram’s 2007 short story contest is open to all writers who live in the Hudson Valley, Capital Region, and the Berkshires. Acclaimed author Abigail Thomas (A Three Dog Life, Safekeeping) will be the guest judge. The winning story will be published in the November Literary Supplement, with a cash prize of $150. Stories must be no more than 4,000 words and previously unpublished; all rights will remain with the author after first publication. Send your best work (one story per author, please) to fiction@chronogram.com or Chronogram Fiction Contest, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401. DEADLINE: AUGUST 25 COMING NEXT MONTH: Literary Supplement Humor Contest guidelines

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SUMMER READING ROUNDUP FOR KIDS Edited by Susan Krawitz and Nina Shengold Harry who? Put down that broomstick and savor this bumper crop of new children’s books by Hudson Valley authors.

PICTURE BOOKS

POETRY BAD BEARS GO VISITING BA

TH ABCS OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES THE AN BEYOND: DELICIOUS ALPHABET POEMS AND PL FOOD, FACTS AND FUN FOR EVERYONE PLUS

DANIEL PINKWATER, ILLUSTRATED BY JILL PINKWATER DA HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, APRIL 2007, $16 HOU

Po bear Larry visits zoo buddies Irving and Muktuk for an Polar impromptu session of cheating at cards, eating cake with fish, im and volleyball. Deciding that “visits are nice,” Irving and Muktuk an drop in on a suburban family for a fun-filled evening that ends dr with an utterly cheerful arrest. Jill Pinkwater is the Rembrandt w oof ursine expressiveness.

STEVE CHARNEY & DAVID GOLDBECK, ST IL ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARIA BURGALETA LARSON CERES PRESS, JUNE 2007, $16.95 CE

“ “Two Books in One!” trumpets the colorful ccover, and this cornucopia of alphabet rhymes, kkid-friendly recipes, food facts, and family activities demonstrates hybrid vigor vigor. Rad Radio ventriloquist Charney’s read-aloud vegan poems (from “Applesauce” to “Zucchini”) are tasty appetizers to health-food maven Goldbeck’s multicourse banquet of food lore.

CAMP BABYMOUSE CA JENNIFER L. HOLM AND MATTHEW HOLM JE

TRAILBLAZERS: POEMS OF EXPLORATION TRA

RANDOM HOUSE, MAY 2007, $5.99 RAN

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Ba Babymouse is thrilled about summer camp until she hits Susie Skunk with a roasted marshmallow, tips over the canoe, and accidentally wi sets the woods on fire. This is manga for the middle grades, the sixth se b book in a charming series by Hudson resident Matthew Holm and h his Newbery Honor-winning sister, Jennifer.

GREENWILLOW BOOKS, MARCH 2007, $16.99 GRE

“A well-brought-up girl was I. But just being une fille was not my cup of tea.” Katz, whose Once Around the wa Sun was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Book, offers an Su expansive view of explorers and exploring. Stalwarts like ex Vasco de Gama join Adam and Eve, astronaut Michael Va Collins, and Annie Smith Peck, the first woman to climb C the Matterhorn wearing pants. School librarians and th inquisitive kids will love this book. in

FABIAN ESCAPES FA WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MCCARTY WR HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, MAY 2007, $16.99 HE

H Hondo the dog likes to nap and let the baby dress him up, while Fabian the cat would rather sneak out for a walk on the wild Fa side. This sequel to Caldecott Honor-winning Hondo and Fabian si features fuzzily adorable illustrations and whimsical text. Perfect fe read-aloud fare from Rhinebeck author McCarty. re

YOUNG ADULT GIRL OVERBOARD GIR AIMEE FERRIS AIM PUFFIN, MAY 2007, $6.99 PUF

M FRIEND IS SAD MY TODAY I WILL FLY! TO WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY MO WILLEMS W HYPERION BOOKS FOR CHILDREN, APRIL 2007, $8.99 EACH HY

W When Piggie decides he’s going to fly, Gerald tries to talk him out of it. And when Gerald is sad, Piggie tries to ta ccheer him up. Comforting tales with a comic twist, these books b k llaunch h a new easy-reader series by the Caldecott Honor-winning writer/illustrator of Knuffle Bunny and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

Th ninth offering in the SASS (Students Across the Seven The Seas) series mixes teen fantasy—a sojourn on a Caribbean Se research vessel with an irresistible Aussie rafting guide—with re a genuine sense of place. Woodstocker Ferris knows her reefs, aand makes the romance of marine biology as alluring as the hottie from Down Under. h

IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY IT’ NED VIZZINI NE MIRAMAX BOOKS, MAY 2007, $8.99 MIR

RAINSTORM RA WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY BARBARA LEHMAN WR HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, APRIL 2007, $16 HO

On a rainy day with nothing to do, a lonely boy finds a mysterious key. It unlocks a secret passageway to an island with a lighthouse, ke a sunny beach, and, best of all, kids to play with. Entirely wordless aand graphically striking, a fitting successor to the Claverack artist’s aw award-winning The Red Book and Museum Trip.

A 15-year-old overachiever cracks under pressure, calls a suicide hotline, and checks himself into a hospital that dumps him into the adult psychiatric wing. Downer? Hardly. du Vizzini’s pitch-perfect voice makes this saga of teenage Vi depression and recovery both realistic and unexpectedly d hilarious. A great read for older teens. h

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WRITTEN BY ELIZABETH CODY KIMMEL, ILLUSTRATED BY WR

HARPERCOLLINS, APRIL 2007, $15.99 HAR

RO ROBERT NEUBECKER

As if there’s not enough teenage angst looking at your pores, try being Joseph, a Korean adopted by an out-and-out Italian family in the ‘burbs. Niskayuna author Kent deftly uses both fa chopsticks and garlic bread to serve funny and wise words ch about identity, change, and place. ab

DUTTON CHILDREN’S BOOKS, JULY 2007, $16.99 DU

Em Emma’s mother drives racecars, and Elizabeth’s father hunts UFOs. But another child’s father has the coolest job of all: He changes light B bulbs—on the antenna of the Empire State Building. Step-by-step bu illustrations illuminate a very big adventure atop one of the world’s ill tallest buildings. ta

UPCOMING BOOKS FROM REGIONAL CHILDREN’S AUTHORS:

Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy by Matthew Reinhart (Scholastic, 10/07)

Big Slick by Eric Luper (Farrar. Strauss and Giroux, 9/07)

’Tis the Season: Main Street by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic, 10/07)

Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara by James Gurney (Andrews McMeel, 10/07)

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire (Candlewick, 9/07)

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READ LOCAL READ GLOBAL Elizabeth Cunningham grew up and lives still in the Hudson Valley. She is descended from nine generations of Episcopal ministers. Her religious background, the magic of fairytales, and the numinous experience of nature continue to inform her work. Her creation is the Celtic Mary Magdalen, Maeve, who tells her own unorthodox version of the story of Jesus, their relationship and the scriptures. The paperback is now available and makes a great summer read!

PHOTOGRAPHERS’ FELLOWSHIP FUND Two $1,000 fellowships available to area photographers

2007 Juror: Howard Greenberg

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2006 RECIPIENT TANYA MARCUSE

Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Their discussions focus on the evolution of the mind, the role of psychedelics, skepticism, the psychic powers of animals, the structure of time, the life of the heavens, the nature of God, and transformations of consciousness.

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Way of Water

Welcome to Camden Falls

Lee Welles

Ann M. Martin

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ate, often enough, arrives as a beanball. Down you go, a crumple in the dirt. Then, through the pain and vapors, you see a hissing curveball coming your way. That’s when life gets interesting. Just so for the main characters in two alluring new young-adult titles by upstate New Yorkers: Way of Water by Lee Welles and Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann M. Martin. The central characters in both books have lost their parents, a beanball of the most concussive order. Dazed and hurting, they are rudely uprooted by the following curve and packed off to challenging parts unknown, where weighty ethical issues will be dropped in their 10-year-old laps. Miho’s relocation is profoundly disorienting, from her parents’ marine-research vessel on America’s West Coast to Nagoya, Japan, where her anguished, chain-smoking, company man of an uncle lives. But counterpoint to Nagoya’s industrial stink are the salty breezes of Goza, a seaside village to which Miho and her uncle repair on the Japanese day of the dead. (Welles’s book is rich in Japanese cultural and artistic heritage.) Miho finds her calling, learning the ways of the ocean through deep communion, entering its flow state, and getting to work. An otter—sweet and serious, a manifestation of the Earth goddess, Gaia—will serve as her mentor and guide. Miho’s job and Welles’s message are bell-clear:The ocean, font of life, needs protecting from the ignorant and/or greedy humans who are busy trashing the habitat through pollution, bottom trawling, and the ritualistic hunt and commercial slaughter of its great minds, the cetaceans. Welles’s story, the second in the Gaia Girls series, operates as a cautionary environmental tale and an enveloping fantasy. It works because her otherworldly undersea realm is not so much concocted as discovered: Miho’s talking with the dolphins is lucidly imagined, Gaia’s words have a runic simplicity, and the fabric of the fantasy is never torn, even when riding the ping of a whale’s song. While Way of Water is a crash course in moral duty, Welcome to Camden Falls also presents an ethical task: how to conduct yourself for the greater good. Martin, whose Babysitters Club series burned like prairie fire through the ranks of young adult readers, fashions a quaint village to soften 10-year-old Flora and her younger sister’s landing; a tidy, inclusive Massachusetts mill town, not without its crabby shopkeeper and bratty teenagers to provide Flora’s ethical test. The book’s as cozy as a cat. Orphaned and aching, Flora nonetheless has a heart-gladdening grandmother, and her new homeplace is blanket-secure. Although Flora must grapple with numbing anxieties, others in town have crosses to bear: crippling injuries, Alzheimer’s, Down’s syndrome, scant incomes. Martin slowly moves through the story’s gears, conjuring the landscape, making introductions (this is the first of the author’s Main Street series), unfolding memories, fattening a dirty secret. One neat trick, “a peek in the windows,� allows readers to steal glances into the everyday home life of Camden Falls. The harmony of this environment, as with the ocean in Way of Water, is vulnerable, and a bad apple is spreading rot. Flora helps excise the fungus by simply doing the right thing, mindful of everyone’s best interests. Well, duh, Flora’s sister might say. But empathy and understanding are rare birds. Like orphans—like us all—they respond to nurturing. —Peter Lewis

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hen first we meet Pia, she’s carrying a lot on her shoulders. Mom is loving, but something of a serial dater; big brother Mario’s intended college career has been seriously disrupted by schizophrenia. Her best friend is starting to seem alarmingly shallow, and the boy she likes is dating the meanest girl in school. But there is a mystery in Pia’s life. She has never known her father; beyond that, she’s never known just why she didn’t know him. Amid the emotional chaos that comes with being bright, sensitive, and 13, she turns to the mystery factor in hopes it will change everything: In the basement of her New York apartment, she digs up her father’s address and writes him a letter. This leads to an invitation to visit Italy, which sends her mom into a dither. There are indeed mysteries here, and brave-hearted Pia will keep pushing until she puts the clues together. Meanwhile, life is unfolding in every direction at once: Mom’s new boyfriend may be the real thing, for a change. And despite Pia’s fear and embarrassment over his illness, Mario’s poetry reading turns out to be a magical occasion at which she makes a new friend who isn’t shallow at all. Putnam County author Russo has a fine sense of the pace of everyday life among unconventional people. We can feel the stories and emotions of the others—Mom and her new love, Greg; Mario; even Pia’s best friend—as they weave around Pia’s universe in ways she barely takes in, so enmeshed is she in her dream of the unknown father. In Italy, while being carted to every tourist attraction that her father— who turns out to be a mere mortal—can think of, Pia’s world enlarges almost against her will as she seeks to discern what happened between the two people who gave her life. The cute boy back home doesn’t look quite so hot in comparison to the young Italians she glimpses. She’s eating strange foods, hearing a new language, having her artistic sensibilities stretched by masters—all while striving to convince the adults that they can, for heaven’s sake, just talk to her and tell her the story of her own beginning. In all of it, she attains not perfection, but progress. When her father offers her a completely different life, the one she was feeling so discontented with turns out to be very dear, indeed. Back in New York, it seems nothing has changed, and yet everything has. None of the problems have disappeared, but Pia’s strengthening spirit sheds a light in which they become less overwhelming. Pia’s story is at once very particular and eminently accessible to young teens. The characters and their dilemmas are drawn with loving detail and the book’s lack of simple resolutions rings of real life. There’s no talking down to the reader: Life in Pia’s world is not for sissies. Nobody, it turns out, can offer her what she originally hoped to find when she found Dad. But there are moments, great and small, that begin to be enough in themselves. She cuts off her trademark long hair. She draws a self-portrait. The cute boy? Not worth the bother. The shallow friend? She’ll grow up. Or she won’t. Award-winning author/illustrator Russo has crafted a wonderful coming-of-age tale. —Anne Pyburn CHRONOGRAM PUBLISHES REVIEWS OF BOOKS BY LOCAL AUTHORS. SEND US YOUR RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK FOR CONSIDERATION. 314 WALL STREET, KINGSTON, NY 12401

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our September issue is August 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

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A PERFECT MATCH

LULLABY FOR LETTING GO

REPEAT.

She was sitting, circumspect and demure Flanked by her relatives. The boy on the sofa opposite her, too flanked by his cousins Side glanced at her occasionally Trying to make up his mind.

Preface With the practical Slaughter of the past, A smooth lullaby can be crooned; One that secures and Lets the child transcend The dark waters that Have swallowed her down.

He’s a pretty good dancer for a two-year-old. We like to kick up our heels (his soft and new) and boogie along (to) the Arc of Time. It’s his favorite song. Correction: It’s my favorite song. But he doesn’t really have a choice now does he? ’Cause I control the stereo, and I am sick of songs that swim above the rest of us, spouting morals like Baby Beluga.

A well educated girl, she Was perplexed at this circus of a get-together. How can two strangers Be one for the whole life, she thought. She also cast a quick look at the boy. Her mother’s words echoed in her mind. “Marriage is all about adjustment and sacrifice The more you assert your individuality The more inflated your ego becomes Inflated egos lead to divorce.” She was trying to fathom the hidden truth in this advice When she was told to serve tea to the guests (to test her skill at serving things) Then she was asked various questions by the boy’s relatives (to make sure that she could hear and speak) After some time, the boy and girl were told to sit separately. A marked improvement, an effect of modern times, she chuckled. She forced her lips to converse with the strange youth. He also was nervous and cautious. At least, an element of surprise is here, she felt titillated. Soon after, as expected, they returned to their respective places. Both of them faced the questioning eyes of their respective relatives. She smirked unpleasantly at the irony of the situation. We are just pawns in this important decision of our lives. After about an hour, it was all over. The guests departed, leaving behind an assurance of a phone call. Her fate was pending once again. Her parents once again wore a smug smile. The guests were happy with our hospitality This will be a perfect match, they said. —Deepak Kapur

I. My earliest memory: My father leaving, One hand raised in frozen farewell While his legs move under him In slow procession away from the door. This image caught— Entangled like a dream inside a dream— Is false. False because it never happened. False because it was conjured by A two-year-old mind, Straining to have One Defining Moment By which to live her life. II. The truth: My father did leave, but not like that. He left in stages with no clear edges. Like a water color masterpiece, He hung weightless in midair. The past is relentless. Seeping out of unseen pores, It is placed before us Dangling with awkward grace And we spend our lives Escaping The one Defining Moment In hopes that it will vanish, Only to find that we are Never very far from The original Wound. —Jamie Manning

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He has the brightest eyes. That’s what people say when I show them pictures. You should see them when they’re closed, I think. Tongue-tied and toddling. Tufts of feathery hair blooming to the beat. We cut the carpet in the living room. Sunlight refracting through tiny fingerprint mazes, frenzied lyrics spilling over hysterical beats. Again, he says. So I skip backward one more time, eyeing every sharp angle in the room. —Stephanie Bishop

NO ONE I talk to no one When no one is here And when no one is here I talk. —Seth Fraser

ON YET ANOTHER BIRTHDAY

NO MORE BEES

my prized microcassette i keep stashed away in my dresser drawer but for this day each year when i take it out of its velvet-lined box to play and replay my father’s message promising he’ll return my call soon as possible

My wife tells me there are no more bees. My wife tells me the cell phones have killed all the bees. I want to stick my head into a patch of daffodils and do whatever the bees do to pollinate the earth. I want to buzz around, be the king bee, the fat bastard with all the yellow stripes and octagon eyes.

—Ruth Sabath Rosenthal

ARSON BAPTISM Burn me fresh. Fresh and new. —M. Eileen

IN THE SECOND WORLD Youdidn’thear?sheasks assheplacespastriesonthetable hereyes staringintomine,mine staringintonowhere asshetellsme Edgargo triedtoenditall withsleepingpillsandbeer,they foundhimpassedoutatthecurbside tookhimto theemergencyroom&pumpedhisstomach Whatelse?Iask. Shesays Lucas isinUruguaywithhisgirlfriend,trying hishandatwriting andsays hehasathousandnewideaseachmorning, he wishesyouwouldvisitmoreoften,shesaysas shewipesthecrumbs fromherlipsandsays,Ourgroup’sdisbandedsinceyouleft shewhispers herfingerstracing thecoffeecup. What’slifelikeinYanquilandia?sheasks andItellher LessthanIexpected. Iwas hopingI’dfitinmore but Idon’tnow. I’mlearningtoacceptit. You learntoliveinseparateworlds,separate &similar then everythingturnsintoone. Inonemoment, everythingiscrushedinto onlyonechoice only:Here. Thisiswhereyoulive. Thisishow themorningshappen, &how cricketssinginthesummer. WhenIreturned,Itellher,Iaskedthesamequestions, butwhenIaskthem theysay: Mark diedofaheartattack andtheydon’tknowwhy, and Jono gotmarried&didn’tinviteyoutohisbachelor’sparty. Pete droveoffabridgeon astormynightinCostaRica. There’sno difference,it’sjust adifferentsurrounding,different names&backgrounds.Intime thetwoworldsgrowmoreandmore similar, nolongerseparate,nolonger amystery, andyourlifegoeson likeitalwayshas. —Jonathan Greenhause

When I ask God to make me a bee, he says, “You think one bee can change the entire demise of human existence all by itself?” I scream at him in that browning seersucker suit, “Damn right you rusty old sonofabitch. Now, work your magic.” He says, “What are you gonna do for me?” I say, “I’m gonna honey up the trees, the lakes, the magic wands of industry that have lost the sweet.” “No,” he says, “I’m talking sacrifice.” When he laughs I run outside in my J.Crew shorts and kill my brother with a fork. “You happy now?” And he is. And he makes me a bee, the king buzzard and I buzz all night long and all morning long and all summer back into spring so that by December I have saved the planet and earned the right to tell you to get off your cell so I can sit on my fat ass for fifteen minutes and lament for my brother who I did not bury. —Matthew Lippman

LUNCH Three sleek crows turn above a garden patch. One wheels, rising to the peak of the tool shed, While the others dive into the stalks of a batch Of corn and peck at the silk for kernel and worm. Aluminum pie pans clatter against the wellhead, And a faded straw man stands above the row, But his figure is well known to the sentry crow Who does not even bother to raise the alarm. Just the other side of the fence, a yard cat hides In the ditch along side the dirt road and paws The tall grass. The bird up yonder gives up two “Caws” And the others take flight till the threat subsides. The cat pretends indifference, watches a bee buzz, Imagines he’s eating crow, but he never does. —Curtiss Butler 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM POETRY 63

Food & Drink

Mediterranean Oasis SEREVAN IN AMENIA by Ken Charney photographs by Jennifer May

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erevan, in spirit, culinary charm, and humble nature, is more than a restaurant, a place to eat. It is an integral piece of the community, a spoke in the grand wheel of the Hudson Valley. The beauty and distinctiveness of Serevan lies in its historical charm and architectural finesse—living, breathing entities that have been gently cultivated by an Armenian from Tehran, chef and proprietor Serge Madikians. Serevan’s location in Amenia (which is derived from the Latin word amoena, meaning “pleasing to the eye”) is quintessentially picturesque farm country: rolling green hills, horse farms by the dozen, and far removed from strip malls. Serevan is housed in a former farmhouse that was built in the 1880s. Over the years, it’s been a bar, a brothel (what establishment of a certain age hasn’t?), the scene of an unresolved murder (ditto previous comment), and more recently, an Italian restaurant. When Madikians came onto the scene, he transformed the dwelling and grounds into a lush, gastronomical oasis. Windows were replaced, the entrance relocated, and the surrounding walls reinforced. Inside, some of the original floors and overhead beams were exposed and refurbished. The walls were painted in colors that kept history and nature in mind—a rich Sherwood green and a warm, deep Van Deusen blue—and adorned with local artwork. On each table are small potted herbs, and baskets of fresh rosemary hang from the walls of the open kitchen; both are utilized for cooking. In the restaurant’s main dining room, not unlike a typical living room, the fireplace mantle is full of family photos, including Madikians’s grandfather, a particularly strong source of inspiration and strength for him. The elder Madikians survived the Armenian genocide, an escape to Iran, two political imprisonments, and still managed to start a family. With other family members in 1937, he opened Café Naderi, which is still in the family and was recently declared a historic site by the Iranian government. Outdoors, tables are set up on a charming patio, screened off from the road by a variety of plants and herbs, including smoke bushes and red cabbage, Japanese willow, verbena, and several types of edible flowers. In the back, the flower,

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herb, and vegetable garden includes (to name a few) Persian tarragon, thyme, curry, oregano, pineapple sage, pineapple mint, Thai basil, shiso, five kinds of cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, nasturtiums, squash blossoms, zucchini, and Swiss chard. To understand Serevan is to understand the elements of Madikians’s garden, and how it addresses the cycles of nature—a process that ultimately instills in him a sense of humility and, at the same time, gratification. “The closeness I feel with the earth, my own vegetables and their needs, really compels me to understand, respect, and better appreciate them.” Madikians believes his job is “to have a visceral dialectic with the ingredients.” In other words, to “listen to the ingredients rather than imposing my will on them. They will tell you what they want.” This all makes perfect sense when you consider Madikians’s collaboration with local farmers and understanding of how farmers operate within natural constraints. Madikians is cognizant of “how [farmers] have to work with the forces of nature to be able to produce their own harvests.” Combine this with his apprenticeship with some of the best chefs in the world, including David Bouley and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, his background in music, his education in history, philosophy, and dance, and you can understand how his holistic view of creating beautiful food has brought him to where he is today.

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he California- and New York City-schooled student of urban planning and economics made his way to the Hudson Valley after attending the French Culinary Institute in Manhattan and working at celebrated venues like Jean Georges, Monkey Bar, Bouley Bakery, and Danube, eventually taking the executive chef job at Chez es Saada. Additional stints followed in both New York City and California until the spring of 2002, when he became executive chef at Main Street Bovina in the Catskills. Subsequently, Madikians stayed at, and visited several towns in the Hudson Valley and further upstate, looking for a place that would enable him to be part of, and closer to, the cycle of life—before

ABOVE (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT): THE BAR AT SEREVAN; MADIKIANS CUTS A GARNISH FROM THE TINIEST LEAVES OF THAI BASIL; HANGING POTS OF ROSEMARY ARE BROUGHT INSIDE AT NIGHT AND FORM A LIVING SCREEN BETWEEN THE OPEN KITCHEN AND THE BACK DINING ROOM; VEGETABLE TERRINE WITH A SCATTERING OF FRESHLY PICKED HERBS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS; OPPOSITE: SERGE MADIKIANS GREETS DINERS ON SEREVAN’S PATIO, FILLED WITH HERBS FOR THE RESTAURANT, INCLUDING LEMON THYME, PINEAPPLE MINT, SPEARMINT, LEMONGRASS, AND LAVENDER.

finding Amenia, which “spoke to him” unlike anywhere else he had been. Though educated, experienced, and urbane, it was as if Madikians had begun anew. The abundance and cycles of nature that only the country could provide ignited his deepest artistic sensibilities, and so Serevan, named for a bird found on the Ile de France in the 18th century, was born. Dinner at Serevan is an affair. Madikians walks around to each and every table, talking, listening, accommodating requests. He bobs and weaves between the kitchen’s hot and cold stations, joining and assisting his young but well-trained staff, including sous chef Ian Wright, as they attend to a full house of guests. Or maybe Madikians is inspecting plates—wiping, adjusting, garnishing, making each one just right; or he’s pairing a wine with a guest’s meal. Then, on their way out, diners make a point of saying good-bye, and all are wished well “until the next time.” It’s Madikians’s philosophy that patrons and staff are like family and should be treated accordingly. The dishes at Serevan are greatly influenced by Mediterranean, Persian, and Moroccan elements. Madikians impressed on me his attraction to “the dance” of sweet, sour, and salty taste combinations that create an exquisitely balanced sensation for the palate. Entrees often include dried, grilled, roasted, or pureed fruits or vegetables; many fresh herbs like tarragon, several kinds of mint, dill, thyme; preserved lemons; limes; couscous; lentils; free-range meats; and freshly caught seafood. As with all the best cuisines of the world, Serevan’s food is not based on complexity. It’s quality. Use the best, the freshest, and make it yourself; keep it local and seasonal, and the result is simply good food. At Serevan, each dish has a wide range of appeal. The menu, while keeping some favorites on hand, changes weekly—consistently making accommodations for the cycles of the season and supply of ingredients. Take a look at this small sampling: Couscous crusted Chatham cod with arugula, seared watermelon, and fresh mint. Ground lamb tart, spinach puree, harissa (Moroccan hot sauce), and curried labne (yogurt cheese). Poached shrimp, fresh oysters, roasted corn, spicy watermelon, and organic micro greens. Organic yogurt soup, barley, black currants, fresh herbs, and curry oil. Warm squid salad with capers, Granny Smith apples, cauliflower, and fresh dill. For starters, I tried an organic roasted red beet salad with orange sections, pistachios and pistachio oil, arugula, and Greek feta, as well as chilled green pea

soup with pineapple mint, tarragon, chanterelles, and mussels, splashed with Aleppo chile pepper oil. The pea soup was delicious, and I wish I didn’t have to say it like this, but it really was minty fresh. It also had a nutty, musky flavor; it was creamy, buttery, and salty, which carried the flavor of the sweet mussels perfectly. The beet salad was sweet and enjoyable. The scarlet hue of the beets, the brilliant color of the orange sections, combined with the greens and tangy feta were a clever combination of flavors and colors. For entrees I sampled a lamb stew with lime, dates, fresh herbs, and basmati rice as well as the couscous-crusted Chatham cod. The lamb was deftly done, combining the tender and sweet of the meat in a rich, cinnamon-infused base with a zing of lime. The rice was delicate and delightfully prepared. The cod was incredibly moist, encased beautifully in a crunchy couscous blanket. The peppery arugula played nicely against the sweetness of the watermelon—which tastes more like a tomato when grilled. All the desserts at Serevan are house made. I had what only could be had: the chocolate apricot sticky toffee cake with chocolate caramel sauce and orange ice cream. Yes, it was that good. I also tried the flourless pistachio chocolate cake with pistachio ice cream. It probably would have been wiser to go with a fruit-type dessert to contrast the richness of the toffee cake, but nonetheless, it was delish—moist and dense but not too heavy. And the creamy pistachio ice cream was the perfect match. If he’s not growing it in his own garden, Madikians makes a concerted effort to buy seasonally—and organically when possible—from several local farmers, for his greens, vegetables, herbs, meats, and poultry. Some of them include Miglioreli Farms in Tivoli, Madrose in Smithfield Valley, and Sky and McEnroe farms, both in Millerton. And of course, there are the excursions to the city twice a week for specialty items and fish from the market. Though not outrageous, Serevan is not inexpensive. Entrees run from the mid $20 range to $36; appetizers $8 to $12. Desserts are $7. There is a full bar and a compelling selection of reasonably priced wines, mostly French and Italian, which Madikians finds conducive to, and reflective of, his artesian, classic, Old World style of cooking. Serevan, 6 Autumn Lane, Amenia, is open for dinner Thursday through Monday, 5 to 10pm. (845) 373-9800; www.serevan.com. 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM FOOD & DRINK 65

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BAKERIES The Alternative Baker “The Village Baker of the Rondout.” 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, Scones, Muffins, Breads, Focaccia, Tartes, Tortes, Seasonal Desserts featuring local produce, plus Sugar-free, Wheat-free, Dairy-free, Vegan, Gluten-free, and Organic Treats! Cakes and Wedding Cakes by Special Order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30 2-pound bundts. Open Thursday-Monday 8am-6pm; Sunday 8am-4pm. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Well Worth The Trip! 35 Broadway, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5517 or (800) 399-3589. www. lemoncakes.com.

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Claudia’s Kitchen Personalized celebrations and weddings, using fresh local ingredients to create delicious and elegant menus. Homemade artisanal breads, Hudson Valley cheese, fabulous appetizers, meat and vegetarian entrees, out-ofthis-world desserts. Claudia works one on one to custom design your menu, your party, your wedding or special event. (845) 868-7338 or (914) 475-9695. www.claudiascatering.com.

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Fresh Company At our kitchen in the Hudson Highlands, we gather great local and imported ingredients for events of all sizes and pocketbooks, from grand affairs to drop-off parties. True to our name, we emphasize the freshest, finest ingredients, because great food is the spark that ignites a convivial gathering. Our style is reflected in meals that encourage hospitality and leisure at the table, the elemental enjoyment of eating and drinking well. Garrison, New York. (845) 4248204. www.FreshCompany.net.

Pad Thai Catering Delicious, affordable, and authentic Thai cuisine served with authentic Thai hospitality to your group of six or more. Lunch or dinner served in your home by Chef & Owner Nuch Chaweewan. Please call for prices and information. (845) 687-2334.

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Come home to fresh, delicious, gourmet meals cooked in your own kitchen by your own personal chef. Chef Elisa Winter (formerly of Mother Earth’s Storehouse and a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Cookery School) does the meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, storing, and clean up. Dinner time is pure pleasure instead of a chore. Special care for those managing diabetes, celiac, allergies. Extra special care for elders. Licensed, insured, and ServSafe certified. www.orderplease.com. (845) 594-7415.

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Bobolink Dairy & Bakeyard features raw milk cheeses made from the milk of our own grass-fed cows. We also make rustic breads on the farm in a single-chamber, woodfired oven designed by Alan Scott. Also available are free range eggs and pasture raised beef. Set on a 200-acre farm in the hills of Vernon, you can see pastured animals and taste food as it should be! Bobolink LLC, 42 Meadowburn Road, Vernon, NJ. For class schedule, directions, and mail order visit www.cowsoutside.com. (973) 764-4888.

Lighting the Way for a Healthier World...Located in the heart of historic Beacon at 348 Main Street. Featuring organic prepared foods, deli and juice bar as well as organic and regional produce, meats and cheeses. Newly opened in Aug. ‘05, proprietors L.T. & Kitty Sherpa are dedicated to serving the Hudson Valley with a complete selection of products that are good for you and good for the planet, including an extensive alternative health dept. Nutritionist on staff. 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-1288.

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The Hudson Valley’s best farmers bringing you farm-fresh vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, honey, bread, flowers, jam, pickles, herbs and much more. Free live music every week. Tastings and special events all season long. Municipal Parking Lot on East Market St. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com.

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Fresh pasta made locally. Large variety of ravioli, tortellini, pastas, and sauces at the factory outlet. We manufacture and deliver our excellent selection of pastas to fine restaurants, gourmet shops, and caterers throughout the Hudson Valley. Call for our full product list and samples. Located on Route 28W between Kingston and Woodstock. Route 28W. (845) 331-9130. www.labellapasta.com.

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with two fire places and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call (845) 6882444. www.emersonresort.com.

events in our private dining room. You can enjoy live music featuring the area’s hottest bands on Friday and Saturday night. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 743 Route 28 (3.5 miles from NYS Thruway Exit 19.), Kingston, NY. (845) 338-2424. www.hickoryrestaurant.com.

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Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or, for enjoying in the Asian-inspired design of the Café. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wraparound sun deck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock. Call (845) 688-2828.

Is it any wonder that Joyous Café is the most exciting new eating experience in Kingston? Whether it’s Breakfast, Lunch, or Sunday Brunch, the wonderfully prepared food and attentive service are outstanding. Open Monday through Friday 8am-4pm. Sunday Brunch 9am-2pm. Serving Dinner evenings of UPAC events. 608 Broadway, in The Heart of Broadway Theater Square, Kingston, NY. (845) 3349441. www.joyouscafe.com.

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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 & brewed locally! 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 256-1700.

Kyoto Sushi. 337 Washington Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 339-1128.

Best authentic sushi in the Hudson Valley! Superb Japanese sushi chefs serve the best authentic sushi with extended dining area. Sit at the counter or tables and enjoy all your favorites from chicken Teriyaki and Udon to Yellowtail and special rolls. Eat-in, take-out, and private room are available. 7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY. (845) 758-4333. www.hana-sushi.com.

Hickory BBQ Smokehouse Located on historic Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock, Hickory offers diners Hudson Valley’s finest barbecue and smokehouse cuisine such as ribs, pulled pork, smoked beef, fish and free-range chicken. Whether enjoying your meal by the fireplace in Hickory’s three-star dining room or sipping a cocktail at the wood bar, Hickory’s staff is trained to make you feel as comfortable as you would at home. Hickory also features several vegetarian options, steaks, homemade desserts, happy hour specials, a complete take-out menu, and catering and special

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Luna 61 Best Vegetarian Restaurant. Hudson Valley Magazine. Food is simply delicious, four stars. Poughkeepsie Journal. Imagine spicy Thai noodles, delicate spring rolls, and the best banana cream pie you’ve ever eaten. Join the Culinary Revolution. Dutchess Magazine. Luna 61 is relaxed and funky, candlelit tables, cozy, and romantic. Organic wine and beer. 55 Broadway, Tivoli, New York. (845) 758-0061. www.luna61.com.

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Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the mountains and coast of Peru. Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available. 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY. (845) 562-6478. www.machupicchurest.com.

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Main Course Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley. 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-2600. www.maincourserestaurant.com.

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More ways to prepare and enjoy hot or cold beverages. From traditional to high-tech, in various sizes and shapes, and from all over the world. Coffee and tea makers that drip, press and squeeze the smoothest and most robust flavors from their magical sources. Espresso and Cappuccino made on stove-top, or superautomatic. Pots, cups and thermal glass to serve and sip. Even a unique selection of exotic beans and teas. It’s all a very serious business and we know it—we too live it.

Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant Mariner’s Harbor Restaurant is casual waterfront dining at its best. Patio Dining on the water in the historic Rondout district of Kingston, Mariner’s has for years taken regional awards for their high quality of cuisine and service at affordable prices. Serving the freshest seafood and raw bar, Angus steaks and a wide variety of time tested classics, Mariner’s now offers new and even more healthy menu choices like fresh local produce, organic wild salmon, grass-fed beef and vegetarian dishes. From intimate dinners for two to large gatherings, a meal at Mariner’s is more than just eating out. Our friendly ambiance and recently refurbished décor, and our not to be outdone waterfront location make dining at Mariner’s Harbor a treat for the palette and the senses. Party and in-house catering menu available. Open Tuesdays – Sundays for lunch and dinner, open on Mondays at 4 pm for dinner. Find our menu and schedule of special events online at www.marinersharbor.com. Mariner’s Harbor, 1 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 340 -8051.

Marion Nestled inside the beautiful compounds of the Woodstock Lodge, near Woodstock. 20 Country Club Lane, Woodstock, NY. (845) 6793213. www.MarionsCountry Kitchen.com.

Mexican Radio Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A Great Place for Parties! Hudson, NY and 9 Cleveland Place, NYC. (212) 3430140. 537 Warren Street, Hudson, New York. (518) 828-7770. pmljs@ ecoipm.com. www.mexrad.com.

and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted. 49 Main Street, in the Village of New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0162.

Osaka Restaurant Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli. (845) 757-5055. 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278.

Plaza Diner Established 1969. One of the finest family restaurants in the area. Extensive selection of entrees and daily specials, plus children’s menu. Everything prepared fresh daily. Private room for parties and conferences up to 50 people. Open 24/7. Exit 18 off NYS Thruway. 27 New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-1030.

Soul Dog Featuring a variety of hot dogs, including preservative-free and vegetarian hot dogs, chili, soup, sides, desserts & many gluten-free items prepared in-house. Redefining the hot dog experience! 107 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 454-3254.

Sukhothai Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available. 516-518 Main St., Beacon, New York. (845) 790-5375.

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When you have a hunger that only Mexican food can satisfy, visit Monster Taco. With fresh food, reasonable prices, and a funky atmosphere. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY. (845) 4523375. www.monster-taco.com.

Neko Sushi & Restaurant Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi & Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls

The French Corner Chef Jacques Qualin, former NY Times critically acclaimed chef of Le Perigord in NYC, impresses with his innovative style of cuisine which cleverly combines ingredients typical of his native Franche-Comt. Routes 213 West and 209, Stone Ridge, NY. (845) 687-0810. www. frcorner.com.

Wasabi Japanese Restaurant Wasabi Japanese Restaurant. 807 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. (518) 822-1888.

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ABOVE: PATRICK FERGUSON DEMONSTRATES THE USE OF LED PHOTOMODULATION THERAPY WITH “GENTLE WAVES” AVAILABLE AT THE HUDSON VALLEY SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AESTHETICS; JANE C. MORRISON PRACTICES AN ANTI-AGING EXERCISE AIMED AT SMOOTHING THE FOREHEAD AT A PEACEFUL PLACE IN CLIFTON PARK; MARY KUNTZ OF ONE ROOF IN SARATOGA SPRINGS USES MICROCURRENT REJUVENATION AS AN ANTI-AGING FACIAL TECHNIQUE.

SAVING FACE NATURAL ALTERNATIVES FOR FACIAL REJUVENATION by Kelley Granger Photographs by Anne Dunn As we age, the desire to restore our skin to a youthful, healthy-looking state is natural—but all too often, the options are not. The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented surge in the popularity of surgical and chemical cosmetic procedures. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the US counted over four million Botox injections, one million chemical peels, and over 100,000 facelifts in 2006. These procedures can carry risk of infection, can require lengthy recovery times, and can be disruptive to the body: Botox treatments inject a paralyzing toxin; Phenol, a poisonous substance used for deep chemical peels, eats away at the skin; and facelifts slice skin and pull it back, trimming fat and cutting off excess flesh before restitching or stapling. Such methods are pursued to address the results of the natural aging process, which can be exacerbated by external factors (sun exposure, smoking, alcohol). Both aging and environmental stressors diminish the production of collagen, a protein that provides the skin’s support and structure, and elastin, which allows the skin to resume its shape after muscle movement or stretching. The muscles of the face can become weak, and inadequate circulation can cause stagnation of blood and lymph (the fluid of the immune system that removes bacteria). Skin becomes less firm, loses its contour, grows puffy, and wrinkles and fi ne lines appear as a result. There are alternatives for those who are seeking a more holistic approach to facial rejuvenation and want to forgo the dramatic change a scalpel promises for a more natural and subtle improvement. The boom of the spa- and wellness-centered industries, paired with a steadily increasing confidence in the effectiveness of acupuncture, has created a range of less invasive options that aid the body in restoring itself. Facial acupuncture “The thing about Chinese medicine is that it’s a really holistic medicine in the truest sense,” says Jipala Reicher-Kagan of Transpersonal Acupuncture in Kingston. “With facial acupuncture, not only are you addressing the symptom, the lines, or the puffy eyes, you’re addressing the internal issue that’s also causing that and tonifying the body at the same time.” Acupuncture is based on the theory that meridians, energy (chi) pathways 80 BEAUTY & FASHION CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

that run through the body, can be accessed at different acupoints. The insertion of needles into these points stimulates energy and eliminates blockages, which can cause imbalance. “In Chinese medicine, they believe an imbalance in the body will create symptoms. Even acne, puffy eyes, dark circles—all of that would be considered to be some type of internal problem,” says Reicher-Kagan. Ed Kuntz, an acupuncturist at One Roof Holistic Center in Saratoga Springs, begins with a consultation and interview. “I do a diagnosis according to traditional diagnostic methods, which is taking the radial pulses on both wrists, looking at the tongue [the color and coating gives practitioners insight into overall health], and asking certain questions about general health and habits, sleep, appetite, energy level, and digestion, and taking a brief medical history,” he says. After evaluation, thin needles are placed into acupoints and indicated areas of concern, like wrinkles. Both Kuntz and Reicher-Kagan place needles into other parts of the body for balancing. “A fair amount of needles are used in the face and for that reason you have to have a good amount of needles in the body to ground the treatment,” Reicher-Kagan says. During a session she uses at least 20 needles in the face that are slightly curved, shorter, and thinner than normal acupuncture needles. The entire treatment will run about an hour to an hour and a half, and can treat wrinkles, sunspots, acne, rosacea, dark circles, and droopy eyelids. An individual interested in facial acupuncture should be willing to make a commitment to a schedule of sessions to see optimal results. Kuntz says that everybody is different, but most people will see improvement by the sixth appointment. Reicher-Kagan recommends 10 to 12 treatments; she says the seventh session is the “peak,” when the most changes are seen; subsequent visits help to cement them. Facial exercise “Facial exercise has been used for thousands of years,” Peggi Perrone, founder of About Face in Clifton Park, explains. “It has its roots in yoga, where it’s used as part of the tradition of detoxifying and bringing blood flow and energy to the entire body, which includes the head and face.” Perrone’s services at About Face include private or classroom instruction in 20

different facial exercises, hand-picked for their effectiveness during her 16 years of research and practice. Clients can choose the full four-week program and learn exercises for the whole face, or have an individualized session that concentrates on exercises for specific problem areas, like the cheeks, neck, or eyes. “The reason most women come to me is because they’re concerned with gravity’s effect on their face, where it’s actually starting to droop and look haggard,” Perrone says. She cites the numerous benefits of facial exercise—it strengthens and tones muscles in the face, it reduces puffi ness by stimulating the lymph and circulatory systems and flushing out toxins, it increases collagen production to diminish fi ne lines and wrinkles, and it creates a healthier complexion by boosting blood and oxygen flow to the skin. “Anyone who believes in the benefit of working out your arms, legs, and back would understand why working out your facial muscles will have the same benefit,” Perrone says. “There’s an analogy I use when people wonder about the connection between muscle and skin: Your face is like a bed. Your muscles are the mattress and your skin is the sheets. If your mattress is saggy, you can put tighter new sheets on, but the foundation is still going to be soft. You need to get a new mattress.” This is why skincare and facials will only go so far. “A lot of estheticians focus on health of the skin, restoring collagen and elastin, which is great, but they’re not addressing what’s under your skin— your muscles.” Perrone’s program consists of exercises that use the hands and fi ngers for resistance while muscles are contracted and held for a few seconds before release. The exercises take about 20 minutes to complete, and for the best results Perrone prescribes repeating them twice a day for four weeks. After the first month, a maintenance schedule of once or twice a day for a couple of days a week can be implemented. Perrone was hooked on facial exercise after trying it almost two decades ago when she saw her stressed, fatigued face responding after just one week. She says that, depending on your age, you can see results in as little as five days to one month when following the program conscientiously. For issues like puffi ness caused by poor circulation of blood and lymph, you can see results after just one session. Light therapy Maria Ferguson, founder of the Hudson Valley School of Advanced Aesthetics Skin Care in New Paltz and an esthetician for 32 years, offers the GentleWaves LED (Light-Emitting Diode) photomodulation system at her clinic. A noninvasive option for treating a variety of facial conditions, it is the only instrument approved by the FDA for medical claims relating to cosmetic improvements and treatment of sun-damaged skin. According to Light BioScience, the manufacturer, the machine uses lowlevel, nonthermal, pulsating LED lights to treat skin conditions caused by aging, stress, smoking, alcohol, pollution, and the sun. The light emissions trigger the skin’s natural rejuvenation process and penetrate the epidermis to reach the deeper skin layers, where collagen production is stimulated. It’s been proven to minimize fi ne lines, wrinkles, pores, freckles, age spots, and redness, resulting in softer, smoother, more radiant skin. A session is simple—the client arrives without any cosmetics on and sits or lies on a table. Rectangular, curved light panels are placed near the face and turned on for the duration of the session. The whole procedure takes less than a minute; clinical studies have proven that it only takes 35 seconds for the light to permeate the skin layers and maximize collagen creation. Ferguson also offers Versaclear, a therapy that uses different colored lights to help with different conditions. “The blue light is good for acne treatments. It works on just the epidermis of the skin,” she says. “The red light goes deeper into the skin, and that rejuvenates the activity in the deeper layer, where collagen is.” The Versaclear light treatment takes 20 minutes to complete. Light therapy requires a number of sessions to see results.“The light treatment requires one or two treatments a week for up to eight weeks, then once a month for maintenance,” Ferguson says. “You’re not going to see immediate results. It’s going for tightening effects, which you’ll see over time.” Clients will generally start to notice changes after the third session. Microcurrent facials Developed by an acupuncturist, the microcurrent machine esthetician Mary

Kuntz (and wife of Ed) uses at One Roof Holistic Center addresses facial concerns based on the model of Chinese medicine. “We’re working on the meridians in the face and clearing what in Chinese medicine causes aging—stagnant chi,” she says. “We’re getting the chi, or the energy, to circulate.” A typical treatment involves applying an aloe-like gel to the face to allow a handpiece to glide over the skin and conduct the currents. The esthetician controls the intensity of the electrical impulse and can customize the level for sensitive clients, although there is generally no discomfort. “When people think ‘electricity,’ they think of their muscles twitching. It doesn’t twitch the muscles,” she explains. “It feels like a light, tingling sensation. There’s no pain involved.” The machine’s microcurrents mimic the body’s own electrical current and help to regenerate cellular metabolism—eliminating waste and toxins, and regenerating collagen and elastin production to improve tone and firmness. Kuntz notes that the currents will minimize wrinkles and fine lines but will not affect some conditions of aging, like sunspots or other hyperpigmentation. She says depending on age, some clients see a difference after the first session, but that the results and their duration depend highly on lifestyle choices. “I had a client I’d work on and she’d go back to use a tanning bed,” Kuntz says. “If people smoke or don’t eat right, the change won’t last long. This is for more of a health-conscious type of client who doesn’t want to do Botox, doesn’t want a facelift, doesn’t want Juvederm [a wrinkle-filler], or to inject collagen. This is a more holistic approach—for someone who lives a healthy lifestyle, the results are better.” A client should expect to make maintenance visits to sustain the effects of the treatment. Kuntz recommends a session every three to four weeks for upkeep. Realistic expectations Dr. John Noonan is a plastic surgeon at Albany’s Plastic Surgery Group, which offers traditional cosmetic surgery options like facelifts and newer alternatives like BBL photo-rejuventation therapy. “When people are looking at rejuvenation there are a lot of things to consider—how much of an improvement they want to make, how much time they want to devote to obtaining it, and how much they want to devote financially to obtaining it,” he says. “You put all those three together and try to figure out, ‘What’s the best thing for me?’” These noninvasive options can necessitate multiple visits to render noticeable results, and maintenance thereafter. But the benefits should outweigh any delays in pronounced change—they can be effective, pain-free, and costefficient alternatives to surgery or chemicals, with no recovery time, side effects, or aftercare. But Dr. Noonan warns that some conditions can’t be improved without surgery. “The more advanced the skin damage or droopiness, the more you’re tending toward surgical intervention,” he says. “For real sagging skin—like some people who have that basset hound look, with their lower lids drooping— that needs major revamping, and that’s surgery.” Remember that no treatment is a permanent cure-all. Aim to prevent further signs of aging and help maintain the effects of a treatment by living a more skin-conscious life: Protect your skin from the sun, eat foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants, and choose healthy skincare products to cleanse and moisturize. RESOURCES: About Face at A Peaceful Place Peggi Perrone; 1733 Route 9, Clifton Park; (518) 605-0608; www.aboutfaceexercise.com Hudson Valley School of Advanced Aesthetics Skin Care Maria Ferguson; 256 Main St., New Paltz; (845) 255-0013; www.hvsaesthetics.com One Roof Holistic Health Center Ed and Mary Kuntz; 58 Henry St., Saratoga Springs; (845) 581-3180; www.oneroofsaratoga.com Jipala Reicher-Kagan Transpersonal Acupuncture; 14 Elizabeth St., Kingston (845) 340-8625; www.transpersonalacupuncture.com Dr. John Noonan The Plastic Surgery Group; 1365 Washington Ave., Albany (518) 438-0505; www.theplasticsurgerygroup.net

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by Jennifer May Tesnakis takes another stance in the movement: Eko Logic items are made from recycled fibers. “If by ‘organic’ you mean ‘sustainable,’ then, absolutely, we are organic. By not using chemicals, our footprint is quite small,” says Tesnakis. She quotes a study that found reusing garments in the manufacturing process cuts energy consumption by more than 97 percent. To date, Ekologic estimates it has reclaimed over seven tons of used garments. Each Eko Logic creation is hand cut and hand stitched from choice bits of fabric sorted from hundreds of pounds of recycled cashmere and cotton. The current women’s line, the Bubble series, includes miniskirts and tank and tube tops of ruched recycled cotton. For men, there are T-shirts—each one made from several—which look very much like geometric art pieces. Tesnakis came to fashion by way of textile design. “One day, I fell in love with creating things out of old sweaters. I started exploring with felting and dyeing and it was always exciting. I never got bored,” she says. She started an accessories line and loved the feeling of recycling, which she describes as empowering her creativity and individuality. She will not reveal her sources, but says all of her materials come from within a radius of a couple of hundred miles. “That’s another aspect to what I do. All the money to buy materials stays in the community,” she says. Eko Logic has been featured in the Village Voice, the New York Times, and Jane, among other publications, and its one-of-a-kind pieces are in demand by boutiques as far away as San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Japan. Regionally, check out Kosa in Hudson, Fire Opal in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and the Departure Museum Shop at the Albany Airport for Eko Logic clothing. For a more casual look, try the organic cotton line by Eileen Fisher— available at the Vlada Boutique in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Vlada also stocks linen items by the upstate New York firm FLAX. Linen is harvested from the flax plant and is the strongest of the vegetable fibers—two to three times stronger than cotton—and, like hemp, it’s naturally insect-resistant. FLAX avoids plastic buttons and instead uses Corozo buttons, made from the nuts of a South American palm tree and harvested by indigenous peoples. Linen is lint-free and softens as it is worn and washed, so it actually improves with age. “You pick pieces you will have in your wardrobe for years and years, because they don’t wear out,” says Vlada’s manager, Jessi Nolet. Considering it takes roughly one-third of a pound of chemical pesticides and fertilizers to grow enough cotton for just one T-shirt, the standard American uniform is a powerful place to start your wardrobe update. Look for organic Ts by Earth Creations, which feature graphic prints made from natural clay dyes and bright, low-impact dyes. Earth Creations items can be found in regional shops including Omega Bookstore in Rhinebeck and White Rice in Hudson. Get hip. Go organic—one tank top at a time. RESOURCES: Hip-E-Living 65 Tinker St., Woodstock; (845) 679-2158 Eko Logic 444 River St., Troy; (518) 274-0813; www.ekologic.com Vlada Boutique 17 Elm St., Stockbridge; (413) 298-3656; www.vladaboutique.com Omega Bookstore 150 Lake Dr., Rhinebeck; (845) 266-4222; www.eomega.org White Rice 531 Warren St., Hudson; (518) 697-3500; www.white-rice.com Departure Museum Shop at the Albany Airport Albany International Airport, 737 Albany-Shaker Rd., Albany; (518) 242-2540 KOSA 23 Warren St., Hudson; (518) 828-6620

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CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE SONG AT A TIME MUSIC TOGETHER By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis Photos by Hillary Harvey

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n the West African country of Ghana there is no word for performance. The act of sharing music is instead called play. Children spend their days crafting elaborate clapping and singing games and their nights watching adults offer traditional songs to each other. Drumming is common. Singing accompanies most daily activities. Thus, play is everywhere, traditions are carried forward, and children learn how to cooperate and solve dilemmas. Music generates togetherness. Not so in our modern society. Unlike many indigenous cultures and our own previous generations, most of us do not build music-making and dance into our existence. And because musical skill is something that must be coaxed from a child, many people have grown up feeling they can’t carry a tune or keep time to a beat. They feel that music is something for the exceptionally gifted to make, while they pay to take in its mystery. Music has become something we consume rather than something we create. The truth is that making music and exploring movement is for everyone. It’s not about performance; it’s about expression, celebration, growth, fun, emotional honesty, and community. This is the spirit behind the groundbreaking, internationally recognized program called Music Together. In a time when music education budgets are among the first to be slashed in public schools despite empirical evidence supporting their value, Music Together nurtures children from infancy through kindergarten, cultivating their musical development with care, dedication, and joy. There are classes geared to specific age groups and mixed classes as well. Parents participate with their sons and daughters; adults and kids sing, dance, chant, and play instruments together, and leave with recordings and songbooks so that they may recreate these magical moments at home. Specially trained teachers, exposed to the latest research in early childhood music development, facilitate with enthusiasm and sensitivity, encouraging the native ability in all human beings to make music and dance. They believe this ability to be as natural as walking and talking. Callie Hershey is a new teacher at Mid-Hudson Valley Music Together. When her daughter Reina was 15 months old, they attended their first Music

Together class, and Hershey was blown away. She had been teaching elementary school for 10 years, but she had never seen a program do so much to unite parents and children in open, cheerful exploration. “Your child thinks your voice is the most beautiful voice in the world,” she says. Former classical opera singer Carol Jurs, director of Music Box Arts in Albany, would likely agree. For her, watching these interactions is one of the greatest rewards of teaching. She observes, “You see the wonderful connection between parents and children, and how music secures that bond, deepens that bond.” “Supporting the emotional experience of music is the most important reason to teach,” says Kelleigh McKenzie, director of Mid-Hudson Music Together. She is granting families a new way to communicate. Children are respected and their caretakers empowered. Parents get to watch children learn, and through this they discover what enhances this process and what undermines it for their child. In the end, they are the real students. They are the role models for their children, the ones who will weave the richness of music and dance into their family’s everyday life.

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his fall, Music Together will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The organization has just moved into its new international headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey: a 13,000-square-foot, 150-person facility, with a special dance floor, large community room, grand piano, state-of-the-art sound system, and environmentally friendly geothermal heating and cooling system. Considering the group’s humble roots, this is a great achievement. Kenneth K. Guilmartin established the Center for Music and Young Children (CMYC) using the royalties generated from a copyrighted version of the original song “Happy Birthday to You.” It had been written by two sisters from Kentucky, kindergarten teachers Patty and Mildred Hill. Guilmartin’s grandfather, a music publisher, had helped the Hills to set up a fund; all proceeds from their original classic were funneled to early childhood music education. By 1987 CMYC had expanded, and Guilmartin joined with Lili Levinowitz to 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM EDUCATION 87

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OPPOSITE: A CATSKILL MOUNTAIN MUSIC TOGETHER CLASS ENGAGES IN A GROUP SING-ALONG. ABOVE: MIRANDA HAYDN, THE DIRECTOR OF CATSKILL MOUNTAIN MUSIC TOGETHER, AND ONE OF HER CLASSES AT ASK ARTS IN KINGSTON.

create the materials used for the first Music Together classes. While it is true that schoolchildren who learn music tend to do better in math and that the College Entrance Board has found that high school seniors who have studied music appreciation score roughly 60 points higher on the verbal and 40 points higher on the math section of the SATs, such academic statistics were not Guilmartin and Levinowitz’s primary motivation. They looked instead to psychologist Howard Gardner’s work that supported music as its own separate human intelligence and focused on the learning theorist Edwin Gordon’s evidence that all people have at least average musical aptitude. They noticed that this aptitude had been stunted in many children because it was not being nurtured during those crucial years of development before grade school. This was devastating to them, and they wanted to work toward changing it. “The music in and of itself is worth it,” says Stone Ridge resident Susan Hoffman, staff writer and editor of Music Together’s national newsletter PlayAlong. “So much is learned through music: rhythm, meter, melody, tonality. There’s lots of information in the simplest song or chant. We teach body awareness. We stimulate emotional intelligence. Music is a uniquely coordinating experience, connecting eye, ear, voice, brain, heart, and the kinesthetic self. It is the essence of being human. We are on a mission to change the world, one song at a time.” With Music Together classes now offered in over 14 countries and across the US, they seem to be well on their way. Guilmartin and Levinowitz continue to collaborate, offering original music for instruction that is pitched in the right range for children’s voices (slightly higher than adults), in a full assortment of tonalities and meters. Instrumental play-alongs, rhythmic chants, and songs with thought-provoking lyrics make Music Together classrooms around the world reverberate with wonder and feeling.

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allie Hershey’s daughter, Reina, is now three years old. She prefers to hold back at first in class, blossoming when the instruments come out. A four-year-old girl in Miranda Hadyn’s Catskill Mountain Music Together class is emboldened enough to offer a unique rhythm pattern to her peers, who echo it back to her, inspiring her younger sister to attempt such leadership. She is less capable than her older sibling, but she laughs off her frustrated effort. She has watched what can be done, and is confident that she is heading in the same direction. So it is that children react in a variety of ways within the classroom. Outside the classroom, they show the impact of the Music Together experience through how they express themselves and relate to others. Lucas has been tak-

ing class since he was three months old. His mother, Christine, reports of her 10-month-old, “We can be in the grocery store and if he is upset, I can sing a song from class and he starts to smile and calms right down. He loves to rock back and forth when he hears music, and loves to play his maracas. I have to say he always shakes them with a beat, too!” Lily has learned how to walk and how to dance at the same time. Four-year-old Elizabeth, introduced to Music Together at six months, was able to comfort a little girl who began to cry after her mother dropped her off for a play date. Elizabeth sang her “They Always Come Back,” Music Together’s song about separation anxiety. Parents frequently report that they have rediscovered the delight of creating music. They thought they were tone-deaf or inept dancers, and have been able to release this self-judgment and have fun with their children. Whole families are transformed, and, with them, the teachers. Before fi nding the program, Kelleigh McKenzie was a singer and songwriter plagued by a mysterious ailment that numbed her hands and prevented her from playing guitar. A friend told her that she didn’t need to play to teach Music Together classes, and she decided to investigate. Eight years later, McKenzie reports that working with children has changed her life. She has come full circle. The feeling in her hands has been restored, and she is back on stage. As Jurs states, “Music makes everything we do better.” Like the people of Ghana, those involved in Music Together—administrators, teachers, parents, and children—have made music a way of life. It is not performance, it is play, and it enriches all they do. Guilmartin writes, “In this new millennium we will see a return to balance created by the reawakening, rediscovery, and creation of aesthetics, philosophies, traditions, and rituals that support participation. Stimulated by the music-making of their parents and caregivers, children will be able to develop the basic music competence that is their birthright. Guided by skilled and joyful early childhood music practitioners, the musically active family will be at the heart of this renaissance.” Callie Hershey laughs as she shares what might serve as a powerful motto for such a renaissance. “You can sing,” she says, “and you must.” RESOURCES: Catskill Mountain Music Together Miranda Haydn; (845) 657-2600. Bearsville, Saugerties, Red Hook, and Kingston. Mid-Hudson Valley Music Together Kelleigh McKenzie; (845) 658-3655. New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, and Stone Ridge. Music Box Arts Carol Jurs; (518) 393-9580. Classes in the Capital Region. For more information, visit www.musictogether.com.

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CONFORMITY OR COOTIES? REFLECTIONS OF A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE By Aminy Ostfeld

I spent kindergarten and fi rst grade in a Montessori school where kids of all races and backgrounds played together. We were each assigned different books to read and different math problems to do, based on our skill levels. The boy who knew how to tell time before his classmates was treated as a hero, just like the girl who could draw beautiful pictures. Overall, we were not only expected to be unique, we were encouraged to be. When I moved to a public school in second grade, though, I noticed a very different atmosphere. My classmates generally ate the same lunches, watched the same TV programs, and played the same games. Teachers didn’t notice that kids who were different from the norm were shunned, called rude names, or believed to have “cooties.” The ones with mental or physical handicaps were ridiculed most frequently and most harshly, until they formed a separate group that didn’t play or even have conversations with the rest of us. But disabilities weren’t the only causes of teasing and name-calling—any obvious difference was enough. For me, growing up in a progressive household in a conservative town was a recipe for being teased. When I told classmates I was a vegetarian, they called me weird, and the containers of refried beans I brought to school didn’t help my social status either. After I could no longer stand the disgusted looks my classmates gave my food, my mother consented to letting me take white bread and cheese sandwiches (organic, of course) in Ziploc bags like they did. Proud that I played creative games instead of watching TV, I once admitted to my friends that I had never seen “Blue’s Clues.” They, who watched it on a regular basis, were shocked and disapproving. So I started watching TV. Elementary school felt like a competition to fi nd who could be teased the least, who could be the most normal. At the same time, though, we played games where the winner stood out and was admired. Teachers taught us our multiplication tables by holding contests to see who could do them the fastest. Gym class consisted largely of running races and playing dodge ball, and kids who lost these games were often ridiculed. As the years went by, though, it became clear that kids who often won were criticized as well. For example, my fourth-grade classmates, including my friends, loathed me for winning the weekly spelling bee every week. Their complaints were answered when my teacher changed the rules so that I couldn’t win, earning applause for the girl who did win and teasing for me who came in second. A friend of mine, who does extremely well in school, was asked by a teacher if she could name some of the Supreme Court justices. She recited all nine names with ease. Her classmates rolled their eyes. Later, a helpful classmate gave her the simple advice, “You should have pretended you didn’t know them.” School seemed like a lose-lose situation: We were encouraged to compete, but we weren’t encouraged to win all the time. What did I do, then? I stopped trying. My new goal was to be average, to

be unnoticed. I intentionally didn’t study for tests, hoping I would be able to face the same uncertainty about the answers the other kids faced, and maybe I would not be able to get many of the answers right. I didn’t raise my hand in class because if I did I would answer the question right and appear a know-itall. I didn’t take the most challenging classes in middle school because I didn’t want to be seen as the type of person to take those classes. This new strategy seemed perfect. For a few years, I was able to disappear into the crowd, and I still kept my grades high enough that my parents didn’t comment. Recently, though, my mother admitted that she had been annoyed with my conformist strategy. Not experiencing what I did in public school, she couldn’t understand how anyone could be that concerned about fitting in. Most of all, she didn’t support the idea of trying to appear less capable. She hoped fervently that I would realize what I was doing, but she let me realize it on my own. I certainly did realize it on my own, and I now have a completely different philosophy on school. How could someone know an answer and not say it? If someone could get the highest grade in class with a few more minutes of study, why not do it? It seems now like competing to be the best one can be is the only sensible thing to do. What changed? In high school I started taking honors classes, where my classmates were all good students and my grades didn’t stand out as much. I became friends with my honors classmates and felt comfortable trying to do my best, because they did too. Finally, my classmates and I began to understand that it’s better to express and develop our talents than to try to conform. All of our talents, from soccer skills to math skills, began to earn us respect. I look back fondly on my time in public school. This is in part because the years I remember most (the most recent ones) have been fun. But it is also because in public school I learned more than just how to multiply three times six and how to spell “threshold.” I eventually also learned how to compete and how to want to compete, skills important in a society that promotes survival of the fittest. While I criticize the encouragement of competition among young children and of students who make fun of those who stand out—both losers and winners—I support competition among high school students, who can use it to motivate themselves to do their best. Finally, as a girl who gave up watching TV and started bringing salads to school for lunch, I think it’s important to respect, from an early age, the differences among students. I hope that in the future, the public school system will try harder to cater to students’ individual needs, so that they don’t have to wait until high school to appreciate their talents. Aminy Ostfeld graduated from Red Hook High School as the valedictorian of the Class of 2007. She currently lives in Red Hook and will be attending Brown University in the fall. 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM EDUCATION 91

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River Stone Antiques & Design Center Featuring 10,000 square feet of elegant booths and showcases of fine antiques, mid-century furniture and decorative accessories in the newly renovated historic Stone Building. In addition there is River Stone Arts, a spectacular 10,000-square-foot gallery of sculpture, paintings and mixed media installations with new shows regularly. 37 West Broad Street, Haverstraw, NY. Hours 11-6 Fri-Sun. For information contact: (845) 786-8600 (River Stone Antiques), (917) 532-3090 (River Stone Arts).

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Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists. Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work. 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 838-2995. www.vanbruntgallery.com.

ART SUPPLIES Beacon Art Supply A source for locals and tourists selling art and designrelated gifts, specialty papers, kids stuff, note cards, books & journals in addition to art supplies. Papers. Paint. Gifts. Canvas. Crayons &Then Some. Create Something! Open daily 12-6, Thurs until 8 pm, closed Tues. 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY. (845) 440-7904. www.beaconartsupply.com.

Catskill Art & Office Supply Traditional fine art materials, studio furnishings, office products, journals, cards, maps, and gifts. Creative services, too, at all three locations: photo processing, custom printing, rubber stamps, color copies, custom picture framing, and full-color digital output. Pushing the envelope and creative spirit for over 20 years. Woodstock (845) 679-2251; Kingston (845) 331-7780; Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250.

Manny’s Art Since 1962, big city selection and small town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, custom picture framing, bookmaking supplies, and the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store. 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-9902.

Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-9957. Info@cpw.org.

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

The Pearl Gallery The Pearl Fine Decorative Arts Gallery specializes in handcrafted furniture and sculpture by local artists and renowned 20th-century designers. The gallery also offers African and Native American Art, handmade jewelry, and hand-blown glass. Among other items featured are exceptional 20th-century prints, lithographs, and 92

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Pure spring water from a natural artesian spring located in the Catskill Mountains. The spring delivers water at 42 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. The water is filtered under high pressure through fine white sand. Hot and cold dispensers available. Weekly delivery. (845) 331-0504.

BICYCLE SALES / RENTALS / SERVICE Overlook Mountain Bikes 93 Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498. (845) 679-2122. Open everyday except Tuesday, 10-6, 11-5 on Sunday. Brands: Kona, Giant, Marin, Scott, Seven Cycles, Intense Cycles, Vicious Cycles, Mondonico/Torelli. Friendly, Integral sales repairs, and rentals. Professional bicycle fitting on site. Come check out Woodstock for the day and see for yourself why Overlook Mountain Bikes was voted Best Bicycle Shop in the Hudson Valley in 2006!

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/interpretation available. 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY. (845) 6792100. www.mirabai.com.

BUILDING SUPPLIES Williams Lumber & Home Centers

Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery. 84 Ten Broeck Ave., Kingston, NY. (845) 3313112. www.rfpaints.com.

The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today! www.williamslumber.com. 317 Kyserike Road, High Falls, NY 12440. (845) 687-7676. 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. (845) 876-WOOD. 3679 Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 851-3641.

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Custom Automated Watering Systems for gardens and lawns. Gives you controlled watering where you want it and when you need it. Perfect for time saving and water savings that is more important that ever. These systems are ideal for weekend homeowners and people

Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows,

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$20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx. 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-5311.

chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY. (845) 331-3859. www.craftspeople.us.

CUSTOM HOME DESIGNERS CINEMA Upstate Films Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck, NY. 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2515.

CLEANING Merry Maids One thing you can count on when the rest of the afternoon has let you down. (845) 297-1009.

Atlantic Custom Homes Atlantic Custom Homes is an independent distributor of Lindal Cedar Homes, the world’s largest manufacturer of quality cedar homes. Lindal is known around the world for their signature post and beam home designs, quality building materials and detailed craftsmanship. We believe that your home should be a realization of your wishes. We take the time to explore them with you, and to develop your design in accordance with those wishes, your budget and your property. (845) 265-2636.

DOG BOARDING CLOTHING Pegasus Comfort Footwear Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Ecco and Uggs and lots more. Open 7 days a week - or shop online at PegasusShoes.com. 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock and New Paltz, NY. (845) 6792373. www.PegasusShoes.com.

Clothing & accessories for women & children. Furniture & home furnishings. With an Asian sensibility. 531 Warren Street Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500. Open 7 days.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past N’ Perfect A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes and accessories, and a unique variety of high quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise from casual to chic; contemporary to vintage; all sizes accepted. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Conveniently located at 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. (845) 635-3115. www.pastnperfect.com.

The Present Perfect Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers. 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-2939.

CRAFTS Crafts People 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 & 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind

Personal Hands-On Boarding and Daycare tailored to your dog’s individual needs. Your dog’s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area. Homemade food and healthy treats. 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-8254. www. dogloveplaygroups.com.

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FARMS Blackberry Hill Farm Growing and producing beautiful luxury fleeces and yarns from the beautiful llamas, alpacas, sheep and angora rabbits that are cared for on our family farm.The Llama Garden is a year round, hands-on program that entertains and educates children about llamas and other fiber producing animals. Includes story-telling, animal husbandry, a history of llamas, and crafting a project with llama and sheep fiber to take home. Join a day or weekend retreat of fiber animals and knit, crochet, spin or felt. Springtime brings lambing and shearing and the beginnings of the greenhouse, specializing in herb and perennial plants. Summer is a full schedule of farmers’ markets and fairs. Relax in the flourishing gardens, which provide peace, beauty and comfort. During Fall, we prepare the farm for winter and attend the New York State Sheep & Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY, in October and several holiday fairs and boutiques throughout December. Winter is the time for woodstoves, baking and the holidays. From February to March, we harvest and cook maple sap down to the syrup at the Sugar Shack. We invite you to join our retreats and enjoy many activities in knitting, crocheting, elting and spinning classes and other workshops. Participate in a typical day of a working fiber farm‚ or just relax. Allow us to treat you to a great day sitting by the beautiful garden, spending time with the animals or

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keeping warm by the fire. All retreat programs include a nutritional midday meal and snack, using homegrown, local and organic products. Blackberry Hill Farm, A Wooly Nice Place to Be! 156 Bells Pond Road, Hudson, NY 12534. (518) 851-7661. bhf@taconic.net. www. blackberryhillfarm.org.

FAUX FINISHES Faux Intentions

MARKETING Chillmedia North A full-service integrated marketing, publicity and viral guerrilla tactical company for the Hudson River Valley and beyond. (845) 750-5789. empress@ chillmedianorth.com.

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Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhiliration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away. (845) 532-3067.

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MOVING & STORAGE

Mac’s Agway in Red Hook/ New Paltz Agway

Allways Moving & Storage

We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children. This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web at www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com. (845) 331-0100.

32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets. (845) 687-0330. www.pussyfootlodge.com.

PHOTOGRAPHY China Jorrin Photography A Hudson Valley based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability. (917) 449-5020. www.chinajorrin.com.

France Menk Photography Events / Portraits / Advertising / Fine Art. Private instruction in the art of photography: for all levels of experience. (845) 750-5261. iam@france-menk.com. www.france-menk.com.

Michael Gold Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-

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Specializing in all your lawn and garden needs. We carry topsoil, peat moss, fertilizers and organics, grass seed, shavings, straw, fencing, pet food, bird seed, bird houses, and more. Mac’s Agway, 68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, NY. (845) 876-1559; New Paltz Agway, 145 Route 32N, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-0050.

Phantom Gardener At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products and books. We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us! Rhinebeck, NY. (845) 876-8606. www. thephantomgardener.com.

Accurate - Free Estimates. 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY. (845) 339-5676. www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com.

MUSIC Burt’s Electronics Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs. 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY. (845) 331-5011.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (845) 338-5984. www.deeplistening.org.

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 34 Tinker St. Woodstock NY. (845) 679-2079. wguild@ ulster.net.

HOME DECOR Nectar Fairtrade Items & Unique Gifts from Around the World. (845) 687-2870, Rt. 213. High Falls. www. nectarimports.com.

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music

wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed. The Corporate Image Studios, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-5255. www.michaelgoldsphotos.com and click on to the “Headshots” page.

PIANO Adam’s Piano Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos! (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com.

Piano Clearing House of Westchester Piano Clearing House. 8 John Walsh Blvd. Suite 318A, Peekskill, NY. (914) 788-8090. www.pianoclearinghouse.com.

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Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir (845) 677-5871. www.cpdmusic.com.

N & S Supply. 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY. (845) 896-

HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING

NURSERIES

PRINTING SERVICES

Hearth n Home

Catskill Native Nursery

Take what you’re good at and marry it to your passion. That’s how we created Hearth n Home. Our vision — a holistic business that addresses all aspects of making your house a home; repairs/upkeep to additions/ renovations; fantastic dinner parties to a quiet evening at home with loved ones. www.hnhgateway.com.

New York Press Direct

We sell North American perennials, shrubs, trees & fruits. Native plants are a natural choice for woodland, meadow, and wetland gardens—and the flower borders around your house. Native plants are ornamental, easy to maintain and provide food and habitat for birds, butterflies, bees—and yourself.

At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason—to delight

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Robert George Design Group

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Landscape, construction, consulting, design, masonry, project management. woodstockbob@aol.com. (845) 679-1095.

(845) 437-5902. Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY. befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu.

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our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information. (845) 896-0894.

SCHOOLS Brendon Montessori School Brendon Montessori School is an independent, coeducational day school for children from 18 months

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483 Rte 217, Hudson, NY. (518) 672-7021. meltzlumber.com.

The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-petplant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for

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addresses the intellectual, social, emotional and physical

Call (845) 223-3783 for a tour or more information.

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care

specializes in sites for a competitive

Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers. Aesthetics School: Maria Ferguson (845) 2550013. 256 Main St., New Paltz, NY. info@hvsaesthetics.com. www. HVSAesthetics.com. Massage School: Rosanna Tudisco (845) 691-2547. 72 Vineyard Ave., Highland, NY. info@ hvsmassagetherapy.com. www. HVSMassageTherapy.com.

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online marketplace. Game Face sites Optimization) and ROI (Return On Investment). Hosting for web design beyondboxweb.com. (845) 750-6554. gamefacewebdesign.com.

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Catamount Banquet Center the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event.

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WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Invite your muse to visit every day. Author & workshop leader with 19 years’ experience offers writers truthful, compassionate guidance. Nonfiction & fiction book proposal & manuscript consultations, editing, rewriting. Coaching relationships. Yoga As

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Hudson Valley Sunrooms has been selling and installing Four Seasons Sunrooms since 1984. We offer sales, skilled installation and service, as well as exprienced consultation on residential and commercial sunroom projects. We welcome you to visit our showroom located just south of Kingston on Route 9W. We provide free in-home estimates. Call us at Kingston: (845) 339-1787 Beacon: (845) 8381235. Visit our website at: www.hvsk. fourseasonssunrooms.com.

For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized business dedicated to our customers and their trees. Free estimates and consultations. (845) 6589507. www.midaviestreeservice.com.

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Call Vinny Sciullo at (845) 206-7256 for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our Gift Shop at www.mistersnacks.com.

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clients is $120/year. (845) 750-6204.

Also Bannerman Island Cruise Tours on The Pride of the Hudson $18 Adults $17 Senior Citizens/Children (4–11) Advanced Reservations Call Lyne at:

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2007 Kayak Fundraising Tours Hudson Valley Outfitters Call: 265–0221 Storm King Adventure Tours Call: 845–534–7800 Tours operated under special arrangement with NYSOPRHP

Woodstock, Taos, & elsewhere. Jeff Davis, Director. Accord, NY. (845) 6799441. www.CenterToPage.com.

WRITING WORKSHOPS Wallkill Valley Writers Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are

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whole living guide

BEING FERTILE

AN EMPOWERING PATH TO PARENTHOOD

DON’T LET AN INFERTILITY DIAGNOSIS STEAL YOUR ABILITY TO CREATE LIFE. INSTEAD, LET IT SPUR YOU TO DISCOVER THE MOST CREATIVE, WHOLE, HEALTHY PERSON YOU CAN BE—AND YOU MAY WELL MAKE A BABY IN THE PROCESS.

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f you’re trying to navigate the emotional and physical battering of infertility’s rough waters, come ashore. The Fertile Female, Julia Indichova’s most recent book, is a verdant island of tranquility and hope. Indichova survived those waters herself years ago; her first book, Inconceivable, recounts her travails in search of motherhood. That search included standard pharmacological and technological interventions (just shy of in vitro fertilization)—to no avail. Instead of pregnancy, she got a diagnosis that her personal biochemistry would never support baby-making. But through her days of panic and despair, she continued to explore alternative approaches that might turn things around: excellent food choices, herbal support, exercise, spiritual discovery, emotional clearing, and other tactics that would “at the least,” she says, “give me the healthiest body I ever had.” And she trusted, for the first time ever, that she might know best how to discover what her body needed, and cultivated faith in her inner wisdom. Now living in Woodstock with her husband and two daughters—both conceived without medical intervention—Indichova has compiled what worked for her into books, a CD, workshops, and supportive phone circles. She has done so not to be a self-promoting guru, but out of compassion for others. From across the US, Canada, and Europe, people call and write in distress after medical interventions have failed; they also call and write in ecstasy to tell her of children conceived after implementing her strategies. Those strategies have been endorsed by leading specialists in reproductive endocrinology. Indichova never imagined such a role for herself. A child of Holocaust survivors living in a small Czechoslovakian community, this humble woman has spent many years making the best of a difficult personal and cultural history. She emigrated to New York City at age 20 and worked as an actress, dancer, director, producer, and teacher of English to non-native speakers at Columbia University. During that time, her journey

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to become pregnant evolved. When she succeeded, word spread. “I found myself on the phone a lot,” she recalls of the people who sought her counsel. She had to help. Starting with support circles in her Manhattan apartment, today Indichova continues a support circle in the city and holds phone-support circles of international scope. She also has developed a seven-hour intensive workshop, The Fertile Heart Approach to Conception, which she offers locally in Woodstock at the Fertile Heart Studio—“a pretty, healthy place where I could teach.”

MEDICINE AND MIRACLES Indichova is clear to not denounce medical technology when needed. “It is undeniably a powerful tool,” she says. “But because it is, we must be very conscious about how we use technology. If you do an in vitro cycle, my hope is that you do it once—not seven or even dozens of times.” She has seen couples try medical intervention over and over, driving themselves deeper into despair each time it doesn’t work. And she also doesn’t promise a baby if you follow her guidelines—a promise many fertility books or gurus make, only to disappoint. “When we are lured into thinking that this or that thing will do it for us,” she explains, “and that all we need to do is yoga every day, or meditate, or drink wheat grass, we reinforce the false notion that we are less than a miracle.” Instead, The Fertile Heart tools are meant to guide people in choosing the remedies and practices that match each person’s temperament. She also believes we each are part of the great Oneness; miracles, magic, and deep wisdom are always with us. Some of us are out of practice experiencing those, or believing in them. Indichova teaches how to regain faith, not only for the chance of creating a new being, but to first birth a happier, more receptive self, as if our own life depended on it. During that process, a baby may come.

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If you still don’t conceive a baby, don’t berate yourself. “We are cocreators of our lives,” says Indichova, “but cocreators only. Saying that our actions can make a difference doesn’t mean we’re omnipotent. Our lives have been shaped by countless forces, and we always do the best we can. To paraphrase a famous line of Winston Churchill’s: Never, never, never, never, never blame yourself. Never! You’d be giving yourself too much credit.” Sometimes parenthood means adopting, and people who have followed Indichova’s guidance know that that is a miracle, too.

INCONCEIVABLE TO FERTILE The Fertile Female explores physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual areas of one’s life that deserve attention in preparation for a new life, whether yours or a baby’s. With abundant exercises and supportive explanation and stories from clients, Indichova teaches imagery, dreamwork, listening to and supporting the physical self through words and movement, nourishment through healthful foods, and even recipes. Her experiential one-day workshops teach these, too, as well as chants that are “gorgeous tools in softening the heart—an important piece of the process.” Besides being specific and practical, the techniques nurture a deep trust in oneself and one’s body. Many women in the course of trying to conceive have lost that, if they ever had it. They feel helpless and powerless, to put it mildly, especially when handed medical diagnoses imbued with defeating language: “incompetent cervix”, “premature ovarian failure”, “advanced maternal age”, “hostile mucus”. These are not words to empower. “There is a palpable desperation when you want to get pregnant and can’t,” says Mariann Durkin, who attended a workshop at Indichova’s Fertile Heart studio after a dozen years of trying to get pregnant. “It’s a want beyond anything. The desperation drives you. You go places you don’t think you would go.” She says it was wonderful at the workshop to be among women who felt the same. “We all had that common thread—that deep ache, as I call it.” Durkin heard about the workshop some months earlier from a friend. “I had just turned 40. Biologically, I felt my opportunity was waning. I was really in this zone, saying to myself, I’m either going to give this [getting pregnant] one more shot, or get on with my life.” Durkin started researching Indichova’s approach. “I got her book, logged onto her website, read things that different people had written.” Durkin found she was already doing a lot of things “right,” by Indichova’s reckoning, to prepare herself for a healthy pregnancy, and no medical test had ever uncovered a reason she couldn’t get pregnant. Durkin then arranged a consultation with Indichova in person. “The shift happened when I spoke to her in the spring,” Durkin recalls. “I liked Julia energetically; she was very open to listening. She posed a lot of questions, and I really thought about them.” Durkin considered trying in vitro, but realized she just couldn’t “commit to that level of medical intervention, of drugs in my body, stress on my marriage, and the financial burden.” Instead, a few months later, she went to Indichova’s workshop. There she learned, among other things, to trust her body. “I had always felt as though my body was letting me down,” Durkin says. “Why couldn’t it just work like normal? The guided imagery with the CD was really helpful to shift me into a more gentle place, accepting that this is the body that I have, it’s a healthy body, and it just may not ovulate every 30 days. For the first time, I listened to my body at a deep level, as a close friend. It was very powerful.” Her body gave her a healthy baby; the timing indicates she had conceived between her consultation with Julia and the workshop.

HOW DO YOU SPELL OVUM? Indichova sees each of us as a delicious mixture of flesh, intellect, mystery, and passion, all ignited with currents of energy—something she calls the Holy Human Loaf. Fertility is influenced by all its ingredients, not just the biological ones. “What’s totally fascinating to me,” she says, “is when psychiatrists and psychologists come to the workshops. Their work is about how important it is to know ourselves, and about the heart. But when we talk about the idea of the Holy Human Loaf—how every morsel of that loaf plays a role [in biology and fertility]—on a practical experiential level, even for them it’s new.” Indichova speaks of three aspects we each carry in our hearts that contribute to the loaf: the orphan(s), the visionary, and the ultimate mom. Serendipi-

tously, the first letters of each word—o from orphan, v from visionary, and um from ultimate mom—together spell ovum. “That is certainly not something I manipulated!” says Indichova in wonderment. Through her exercises, especially in meditation, imagery, and dreamwork, these aspects can become as allies for fertility. How? Using orphans as an example, Indichova explains. “The orphans are the parts of us that are terrified of all kinds of things. They have been wounded in various battles and still have shrapnel lodged in the body that we don’t know about. Longing for a child comes from such a deep place that it’s also the place where all these forgotten orphans lie. So they get stirred up.” For many women, orphans that need attention seem to be blocking pregnancy. One of Indichova’s goals is to help women, as she herself learned, to be skillful at recognizing those orphans and taking care of them in a loving fashion so they don’t impede the fertility journey. Denise Kunisch of Warwick had been trying to conceive for nearly three years and was just beginning to research in vitro options when she came across Inconceivable. “I was very drawn to it. It was a hopeful story, which I was really looking for,” Kunisch says. “It clicked with so many things I believed in.” She carefully followed many aspects of Indichova’s protocol: “Yoga, wheat grass, organic foods, no sugar, very little meat—and organic and grass-fed when I did eat it. I felt fantastic, both physically and emotionally.” But she didn’t get pregnant. “There was nothing physically wrong with me or my husband that anybody could find,” she says. “The doctors had told me I was pretty much done—I was 36 years old. I decided to do IVF because I fell back into desperation.” But that didn’t work, either. Kunisch hadn’t yet explored one area of Indichova’s approach: the emotional aspect. “I thought, ‘How important could it be?’” Yet she knew something lingered there. “As a child, it seemed like being a mother was really awful. My parents were divorced when I was two, and my mom, with three children, was very unhappy and stressed out,” she says. “So I think subconsciously that was very significant in my difficulties.” Through using imagery exercises in the book and attending The Fertile Heart workshop, Kunisch came to understand that her mother had experienced a bad childhood, too, and could forgive her. What’s more, she says, “I was able to separate my experience from my mother’s, and realize how different my life is. I have a wonderful husband, a fantastic relationship, and a peaceful home. She never had that.” A month after the workshop, Kunisch became pregnant (as we go to print, she will be a mom at any moment).

EMBRACING THE MYSTERY Quoting philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, Indichova rejoices that “Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” So it is for fertility, in Indichova’s view (and opposite the approach of medical fertility intervention, which seeks a problem and prescribes a fix). “One of the incredible gifts of being faced with an allegedly insurmountable diagnosis of infertility is that it finally brought me to faith,” she says. “I had taken a lot of workshops without finding it. Now I have a closer experience of what faith is, and I live from that place.” This is not faith in any particular god, but in one’s inner wisdom and own miraculous self. It’s about creating a fertile life in myriad ways. “There is no assignment more gorgeous,” Indichova stresses, “than to ponder what it is that creates life.” Workshop attendees and clients concur that Indichova’s approach is about turning a very difficult, painful situation into a positive one. Indichova delights that doctors admit that fertility and pregnancy are mysterious. “All the physicians and reproductive endocrinologists I’ve interviewed speak about the fact that there is so much they don’t understand,” she says. “To me, it’s really good news that there is so much that obviously is unexplainable. There’s a huge opportunity with this particular challenge in people’s lives, and in our culture generally, to bring us back to reverence for creation.” In addition, people seeking a baby will find a welcome, much-needed community among others doing the same. “I congratulate everyone who wants a baby and finds themselves in the midst of searching,” Indichova says. “We form a beautiful community, where looking at truth is an essential piece. I’m so grateful to everyone for doing this work with me.” To learn more about Julia Indichova and about The Fertile Heart Approach to Conception workshops, low-cost phone support circles, and circles hosted by women under Indichova’s guidance, call (845) 679-5469 or visit www.fertileheart.com. 8/07 CHRONOGRAM.COM WHOLE LIVING 99

THE SERENDIPITY OF A BEAN SALAD ATTENTION MANAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY BY PATRICIA HASEGAWA ILLUSTRATION BY JASON CRING

It was the last thing I expected to do. There I was, standing in the foyer of my home with my husband and two children, in a circle, holding hands. Earlier in the day I had debated whether we should go on a family outing or stay home and clean the house. I had even taken a moment to visualize the joy of spending a splendid day together outdoors. But then I realized we would be returning to a messy, disorganized house. I wondered how I would feel if we spent the day cleaning instead, and started the week with an orderly home environment. Which vision was empowering? My picture of a smooth Monday morning, with no last minute search for misplaced items, which leaves me stressed, was indeed empowering. A clean home won out. 100 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

So, there I stood with a timer in my hand, announcing 15 minutes of silent clean-up. I had never heard of silent clean-up, but the thought jumped into my head and I grabbed it. The plan was to move through the house putting things back in their proper “homes,” and if you picked up someone else’s things you were to bring them to that person’s room. Thankfully, I didn’t have to explain the object of this game nor the benefit. My children didn’t care—the novelty of the silence enticed them. We started, moving with a quiet purpose, everyone picking up the ruins of some other day’s play and activity. At the end of the 15 minutes, my son confidently informed us that we needed another 15 minutes of silence so each person could clean up the items

that had arrived in their bedrooms. So we did another round. And another. Two hours later, there was my home, more organized and cleaner than I had seen it in weeks—and everyone had participated. I was thrilled as I walked past the living room, its rug free of toys, and I joyfully gazed at my sewing table with absolutely nothing on it. I was basking in that buoyant feeling of virtuous cleanliness. I went back to my room to attend to some final items, and several minutes later headed for the kitchen to make dinner. Passing the living room again, I stopped in my tracks. The sewing table was now veiled in linen fabric, crowned with a wooden toy. The linen was anchored to the floor with my sewing scrap basket, a bag of recycled papers, and various other objects. And where were my children? Inside this fort vigorously discussing where some item should be placed! I was struck. There it stood, like a signpost: the abundant flow of creative energy. Loud and clear it spoke. “The creative process uses every opportunity to create.” It doesn’t wait for the right time. It doesn’t fit into some nice comfortable idea of what creating is. It doesn’t keep a schedule. It is constantly flowing, constantly moving; it is a wave. My children were inside that creative flow. They didn’t seek it out or work hard to find it, as we adults often do, but simply had an idea and acted on it. There was no good or bad value judgment attached to the idea. To them it was just their play—what most children do if they are given the time and environment. The open space we had created by cleaning was simply an invitation for creative energy to create something else. Why was I surprised? But I was. The juxtaposition between the clean empty space and my children’s play had opened my eyes. I realized we often want to incorporate creativity into our lives, like it is something that we have to get. Yet, it is a state of consciousness—always available; flowing, rushing onward. That signpost begged questions: How aware could I be in shifting my consciousness so that I could access the inherent flow of creativity? Isn’t the ability to shift consciousness itself a creative act that makes of our daily lives a living art form? What open space internally or externally could I generate to be attuned to creative energies moving within me? I contemplated the wanderings of my creative self from the young person who went to art school, so many years ago, to my busy life now as mother, spouse, and coach. It seemed I would need more unstructured, unscheduled time to get in touch with my creativity these days. Then an avalanche of thoughts about time flooded in: saving time, having time, making time, time management. But maybe, I mused, what I really need is attention management. Shifting consciousness has little to do with time. Days later I was sitting with my daughter, who was eating bean salad at a grocery store’s dining area. She was eating one bean at a time. Clearly, I was going to be there a while. What to do with my attention? I could easily allow myself to get frustrated; I had limited time and a lot of shopping to do. I could focus on that, but I didn’t want to rush her lunch. We hurry enough, I told myself. Instead I asked myself, How can I be open, here and now? I began to focus on my surroundings, observing the people around us. Who were they? What were their stories? Who was that older man flirting with an older woman with no smile on her made-up face? How did the people who walked by treat those they loved? Did any of my fellow shoppers still have their dreams? And for those timeless minutes, I was lost in the richness of wondering. I left that lunch table astounded. We adults search so hard to be creative, and to enjoy the feelings of freedom and aliveness it is supposed to provide. Oftentimes, we think we will only be able to enjoy that if we have or make more free time. Yet I had chosen to focus my attention, to genuinely wonder, to spin story plots—and by doing so, accessed the realm of the creative. I conjured an experience of wonderment for myself that day. I had chosen to let my daughter eat her lunch in peace, and had taken those few moments during a shopping trip to consciously create. Nowadays, instead of thinking about how much time I have or don’t have, I notice the quality of my attention and my openness. I truly believe that creativity is a level of consciousness, and like all states of reality, is available to us at any time—if we allow ourselves to enter it. Time, that thing we are always trying to control and find more of, I see, is truly a capricious illusion that dominates our thoughts. Those experiences with my children confirmed for me that what we are looking for dwells within. For when we permit ourselves to be open, to see from different perspectives than we usually do, we are drawn into the creative flow and have access to new possibilities. It is in that playful place we allow ourselves the luxury to know nothing and see everything.

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EQUINE FACILITATED HEALING

initiated. Building on my success with smoking cessation in 1978, I have continued to help clients with weight

Ada Citron, Taoist Counselor and Instructor

loss, pain, childbirth, stress, insom-

EquisessionsÂŽ with Ada, a life-long rider, are therapeutically oriented, equine facilitated encounters based on the Epona Method from The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov. Riding is involved in later sessions. This year Ada will present an all day pre-conference workshop for Region 1 of NARHA, the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, on Chi Kung as a tool for mounted equine facilitated healing work. She will also present, for the second time, her Chi Kung for Horse People at the conference itself. (845) 339-0589. www.adacitron.com.

almost any behavior you can think

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing

of. Small reinforcement groups and brief phone coaching sessions are available. Lake Katrine, NY. (845)3364646 info@callthehypnotist.com, www.callthehypnotist.com.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential. Hyde Park, NY. (845) 876-6753.

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. 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

HOLISTIC HEALTH

ity. Other issues. Change your outlook.

John M. Carroll, Healer

Certified Hypnotist, two years training;

John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the Godgiven gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer. Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation. Kingston, NY. (845) 338-8420.

broad base in Psychology. New Paltz/

Omega Institute welcomes the local community as we celebrate 30 years of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for an evening event on our Rhinebeck campus or sign up for a women’s only Saturday workshop with holistic fitness expert Sierra Bender. www.eomega.org or (800) 944-1001.

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JEWISH MYSTICISM/ KABBALAH Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance. 6 session Introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. (845) 485-5933.

THE SANCTUARY A Place for Healing

5 ACADEMY STREET NEW PALTZ

845.255.3337

www.newpaltzsanctuary.com

Counseling & Psychotherapy

ARiella Morris, LCSW-R EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness. Body-Centered and Talk Therapy for Trauma, Abuse, Relationships, Accidents, Illness/Surgery & the hurts of life. (Sliding scale) 853-3325

counseling & RESTORATIVE yoga

Nancy Denicolo, Lic. MHC, RYT Womens Relaxation Workshops - July 7th & August 25th - 9:30-11:30 Movement r Breath r Deep Relaxation Playful & Transforming Saturday Mornings $25/class or $40/series www.omamaworks.com 926-2086

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Rev. Denise Meyer, BS, RMT Reiki Shares, Attunements, Private and Group Classes 255-3337 ext 2 Reiki 1 classes now forming.

Jeanne Asma, LCSWR Psychotherapist & Life Coach

Therapeutic massage

Certified Life Coach & Psychotherapist. I specialize in helping people

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Hypnosis Works with Frayda Kafka CHT

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their lives. Life coaching is a dyhelp you acheive the life you dream Poughkeepsie area office or phone appointments available. (845) 462-

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A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment (845) 255-3337

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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problemn solver and become a vision creator. Rhinebeck, NYU. (845) 876-2194. Shirley@findingthecourage.com. www.findingthecourage.com.

MASSAGE THERAPY Ada Citron, LMT

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Affinity Healing Arts - Alice Madurhi Velky, LMT, RYT A holistic approach to chronic pain, stress and imbalance. Deeply effective, intuitive and client-centered bodywork blends traditional Swedish/deep tissue massage with aromatherapy, crystal healing and Reiki energy balancing. Registered & certified Therapeutic & Integral Yoga instructor; workshops include Stress Management, Yogic Lifestyle, Reiki. Call (845)797-4124 for an appointment or visit www.AfinityHealingArts.com for more info. Your path to wellness begins here.

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Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, specializes in Integrative Massage - incorporation of various healing modalities: Swedish, Myofascial Deep Tissue, Craniosacral, and stretching to facilitate the body’s healing process. A session may include all or just one modality. No fault accepted. Gift certificates available. By appointment only. 243 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4832.

Joan Apter Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter. (845) 108

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Michelle Renar L.M.T Custom Massage therapy for all body types and conditions. Modalities include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy massage using the purest grades of essential oils. Come enjoy a therapeutic touch tailored to your specific needs. Gift Certificates available. Appointment only. 224 Fair Street Kingston NY, (914) 388-5007.

Violet Alchemy Dona Ho Lightsey, LMT, IET Master Instructor. 44 S. Ohioville Rd. New Paltz. (845) 883-7899. www.violetalchemyhealing.com.

MEDITATION Zen Mountain Monastery Offering year-round retreats geared to all levels of experience: introductions to Zen meditation and practice; programs exploring Zen arts, Buddhist studies, and social action; and intensive meditation retreats. South Plank Road, Mt. Tremper, NY. (845) 688-2228.

MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery Home Birth Services Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected. Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup. (845) 687-BABY.

Homebirth and Gynecology Practice of Judy Joffee, CNM This practice offers a unique and exquisite opportunity for woman care in a powerfully compassionate and sacred manner. I offer complete prenatal care focused toward homebirth. For the nonpregnant woman, individualized gynecological care, counseling, and self-determination await you. Also offering school, work, and general physicals for all ages. Call for consultation. (845) 255-2096.

Jennifer Houston, Midwife Since the 1970s Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth. She is expert in perserving natural birth and has attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe and supportive pregnancy & birth care in their homes. Certifed Nurse Midwife

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& NYS licensed with excellent medical backup. Contact Jenna at (518) 6783154. womanway@gmail.com.

Applied Osteopathy - Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO.

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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians

Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC Director of Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition

specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As

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philosophy and hands-on treatment

specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional

programs include cooking classes,

of our predecessors. We have studied

teaching tangible ways to incorpo-

with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman,

rate nourishing foods into your life.

DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie

Shopping trips to natural food stores

Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year

and local farms are part of our work

residency in Osteopathic Manipula-

together, as well as telephone classes

tion. We treat newborns, children, and

and retreats. For the most effective and

adults. 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge,

supportive nutrition counseling you will

(845) 687-7589. 138 Market Street,

ever experience, call (845) 687-9666 or

Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700. 257 Main

visit ww.nourishingwisdom.com. Long

Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884. By

distance telephone clients welcome.

Appointment. For more information call

Jill Malden, RD, CSW

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Prominent Nutritionist specializing in

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eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental

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treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level,

Women’s Care Center

cravings, concentration, energy level,

Empowerment through information. Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston.

Recover from your eating issues and

Massage and acupuncture available.

enjoy a full life! 1 Water Street, New

Gynecology - treating our patients

Paltz, NY. (845) 489-4732.

through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available,

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combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create

Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN

the birth experience you desire. Many

Creating Wellness for individuals and

insurances accepted. Evening hours

businesses. Nutrition counseling:

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Acupuncture

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available. Rhinebeck (845) 876-2496;

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Nutrition. Corporate Wellness fairs,

Beacon Pilates

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assessments, classes and programs

A fully equipped classical studio that

for businesses wanting to improve

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employee productivity. Offices in New

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Paltz and Kingston. (845) 255-2398

NY. (845) 831-0360. www.beacon-

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Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions,

Thai Yoga Massage Dance Classes

Acupuncture

Kingston (845) 338-5575.

tive solutions to enhance well-being.

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PILATES Pilates of New Paltz / Core Pilates Studio These studios offer caring, experienced and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the classical pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accomodate any schedule. Pilates of New Paltz: (845) 255-0559; Core Pilates in Poughkeepsie: (845) 452-8018.

The Moving Body www.themovingbody.com. 276 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY. (845) 679-7715.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-graduate candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Psychotherapeutic work with adults and adolescents. Opportunity currently available for intensive, supervised psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction for appropriate individual. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. (845) 380-0023.

Peter M. del Rosario, PhD Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/ physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/lesbian issues. Free initial consult. 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY. (914) 262-8595.

PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents

Debra Budnik, CSW-R 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. New Paltz, NY. (845) 255-4218.

Deep Clay Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC. Short term counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy. Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma and dissociative disorders. Women’s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, teens. (845) 255-8039 deepclay@ mac.com. www.deepclay.com.

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Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of ones life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone. Visit www.pyshicallyspeaking.com. Call (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 or email gail@psychicallyspeaking.com.

and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted. New Paltz, NY. (845) 706-0229.

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

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THE HENRY OGUIKE DANCE COMPANY WILL MAKE ITS AMERICAN DEBUT AT JACOB’S PILLOW ON AUGUST 15.

Henri Oguike inspires superlatives.

kind of piece that needs to be at the Pillow,” said Baff, whose musical tastes run to

The London-based choreographer has been dubbed the “classiest,” “most

the exotic. Like others who have seen Oguike’s company, Baff rhapsodized about

musically astute,” and “most versatile” dancemaker in Britain by England’s persnickety

his dancers—strong soloists who are rigorous in their ensemble work. Lyndsey

critics.

Winship of the British Ballet-Dance Magazine praised the performers’ individuality:

For all the accolades, Oguike remains largely unknown in America, a circumstance

“Charlotte Eatock is slight and precise while Nuno Silva is tall and muscular, with a

that’s sure to end this summer. Ella Baff, executive director of Jacob’s Pillow Dance

giant leap to match," he wrote. "Sarita Piotrowski has more attack than most, really

Festival, is putting the considerable weight of her world-famous summer dance festival

swiping the air and seeming to get there almost before the beat.”

behind Oguike, hosting his ensemble for a week of performances in the storied Ted

Oguike’s international soul is undoubtedly a product of his Nigerian/Welsh

Shawn Theater in Becket, Massachusetts. The booking is a ringing endorsement of

background. He was raised in Nigeria with his father until age 10, then settled with

the choreographer’s exhilarating and intense dance inventiveness.

his mother in Wales. There, as a teen, he spent his free time breakdancing in clubs.

“I’m looking for unique voices,” says Baff, who watches hundreds of dances

His first formal training in dance came in college. He was a founding member of the

during the off-season. “Henri’s works are very vigorous and physical. You wonder

Richard Alston Dance Company in 1994, but has said he never considered himself

how his dancers get through to the end of the performance.”

“a real dancer.” When his performing career was cut short by a torn Achilles heel,

Critics and audiences alike respond to the way Oguike returns dance to its

he went into choreography. He established his company in 1999, and was soon

musical roots. His attitude toward dance as an expression of music is a no-no

collecting raves and awards from the English dance world. In a review of Oguike

to most European post-moderns, whose emphasis is on conceptual movement

for Ballet-Dance Magazine, Winship managed to restrain his enthusiasm for the

over passionate musicality. His inspirations run from Shostakovich, Scarlatti, and

choreographer, but only slightly.

Vivaldi to contemporary composers like Steve Martland. Yet Oguike differs from

“Oguike is a real talent, who will no doubt continue to explore and experiment with

musically minded American moderns as well. His bold combinations often have

steps and scores,” the critic wrote. “The work might not always reach choreographic

as much to do with street movement as with the stage athleticism of a Mark Morris

perfection but that’s no reason to feel guilty about enjoying it so much.”

or Paul Taylor. “Second Signal,” a piece planned specifically for Jacob’s Pillow, is set to live taiko drumming, the boisterous, propulsive percussion style of Japan. “This is the

The Henry Oguike Dance Company will appear at Jacob’s Pillow August 15 through 19. (413) 243-0745; www.jacobspillow.org. —Wendy Liberatore

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IMAGES PROVIDED LEFT: AUTHOR AND ATHLETE DAN MILLMAN WILL SPEAK AT THE BEARSVILLE THEATER ON AUGUST 9. RIGHT: NICK NOLTE AS SOCRATES IN PEACEFUL WARRIOR.

PEACEFUL HEART, WARRIOR SPIRIT Dan Millman, former world-champion athlete, university coach, martial arts

I went through a phase with a guru, where it was all about devotion and surrender, a

instructor, and college professor is perhaps best known for his multimillion-selling

way of life, and reaching the divine through this guru. And I went through a phase of

autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which was recently adapted into

working with somebody I call The Warrior Priest, and I learned some very practical

a feature film starring Nick Nolte. In addition to his writing, Millman travels the world,

things that influenced my books. And then finally I met someone I call The Sage, and

leading seminars and giving talks about what it means to be a peaceful warrior.

this brought me back to every day reality, back to earth.

Two weeks before Millman was to fly to Yugoslavia to compete in the 1966 World Gymnastics Championships as a potential Olympian, he was severely injured in a

Is that to say that that your life has gone from the physical, as a champion

motorcycle accident. Doctors said the odds were against his ever returning to

gymnast, to the spiritual, as you searched for enlightenment, and now has

gymnastics. Not only did he return, a little more than a year later he and his team took

returned to a focus on the physical again?

the national collegiate championships. He was co-captain of the NCAA championship

Not in the sense of saying that everyone has to be an athlete. Athletics is a form of

team and was inducted into the Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

voluntary adversity used to help us develop ourselves in various ways. Most athletes

He went on to teach athletics at Stanford University and Oberlin College, while

do learn valuable lessons for living, but they don’t know what they know, because

continuing his explorations of spirituality and enlightenment. His journey, with several

they’re so focused on scores and points and winning and losing that they don’t realize

different mentors along the way, led him to develop a singular approach to leading a

the lessons they’ve learned about life. They do learn these lessons more consciously

meaningful and fulfilled life.

in the East, for instance in Japan, where they have words that end in -do: judo, kendo, —Kim Wozencraft

aikido. “Do” means way, and sport is a way of learning about life. Our sport, as peaceful warriors, is daily life. It has events, and the events are money and relationships and

Kim Wozencraft: Peaceful Warrior was a phenomenon. What brought you to

health and functioning in life, so I get into elements dealing with all of these. Practical,

the task of writing the novel?

commonsense things that help us deal with the art of living.

It came out of a desire to teach. I realized one day that as I improved myself it was only one person, but if I could influence other people, that could make my life more

What do you see as the focus of your speeches and seminars?

meaningful. I started teaching what I knew, which was gymnastics, and that evolved over

I like to think of myself in part as a deprogrammer. Most of us have been programmed

time as my interests changed. I went from a talent for sports to a talent for living, and my

(and we don’t realize it) by idealistic notions that don’t serve us well. I try to provide

goal was to share what I had learned, but not all the metaphysical gobbledy-gook and

a clear map for the territory of daily life. I try to remind people of what they know at

cultural entrapment that goes with some of the esoteric manuals I had studied over the

deeper levels but might have forgotten. I’m not here for people to trust me, I’m here to

years. So I started writing. It took many shapes, and finally I decided to base it around

help them trust themselves. For example, my book, Everyday Enlightenment, includes

this old guy I met in a gas station. I called him Socrates. I’d read a couple of Castanada’s

this passage:

books, but didn’t want my story to be out in the desert with all these terms—that’s not

“To progress toward your goals, please choose one of the following methods:

very universal, how many people can go out in the desert and meet a shaman?—so

“(1) You can find a way to quiet your mind, create empowering beliefs and positive

Socrates became the perfect way to convey the story. There was a cosmic vibe for sure,

self-talk, find your focus and affirm you power to free your emotions and visualize

and I did meet him in a gas station at about three in the morning. I didn’t know how to

positive outcomes so that you can develop the confidence to generate the courage

write a book, really. I mean I went to Berkley, I wasn’t dumb, but I’d never really studied

to find the determination to make the commitment to feel sufficiently motivated to do

writing much, so I based it on autobiographical material: first person narrative, some of

whatever it is you need to do.

it’s fiction, some of it’s just straightforward reporting of what happened to me.

“(2) Or you can just do it.” What people can expect in my talks is first of all what a peaceful warrior is, and not

Has your philosophy as portrayed in Way of the Peaceful Warrior changed or

only that, but why they are peaceful warriors in training and how that applies to facing

evolved over the years? What are you focusing on now in your work?

our fears, living in the present moment, and achieving balance.

I’ve been around long enough to have gone through some life phases. I went through a

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phase working with one mentor, The Professor, and it was all about a school of certain

Dan Millman will speak at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock on Thursday, August

techniques and practices. If you practiced these, it would lead to enlightenment. There

9, at 7:30pm. Tickets are $40 in advance, $45 at the door, and can be purchased

were some very good techniques and practices, but pretty soon they were coming

at Mirabai of Woodstock, online at www.bearsvilletheater.com, or by calling JTD

out of my ears. And after doing the advanced training, I realized that the techniques

Productions at (845) 679-8652. The weekend of August 10 through August 12,

weren’t the answer. You know, if you do meditation, it’s like doing pushups, you get

Millman will lead a Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit workshop at the Omega Institute in

certain benefits. But people tend to put the various techniques up on pedestals. Then

Rhinebeck. Information at www.peacefulwarrior.com or www.eomega.org.

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Among her gallery are Mary Queen, an unctuous commentator suggesting Larry King in drag; Louise, a cold-blooded, smiling Martha Stewart doppelganger and junk-food fan; Tina, a TV personality whose teeth are capped and her breasts enhanced; Jackie the potato farmer; and Darla the corporate climber. The show premiered last year at the New York Fringe Festival. After Kingston, Poe will move on to a Canadian engagement. While the show may not be the propaganda that whole-food advocates seek, Poe offers provocation as well as entertainment. “I would like for it to really spur a good conversation over coffee and pie after the show,� she says. Whether that pie is organic or GMO is your choice. Or maybe not. “Mothers of Invention,� written and performed by Laura Poe, will be staged on August 18 at 8pm at ASK (Arts Society of Kingston) Arts Center. (845) 338-0331; www.askforarts.org.

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Prosperity Ritual 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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17th Annual Deep Listening Retreat

Festival Parade Puppets

Call for times. $725/$950 indoor accommodations. Lifebridge Sanctuary, High Falls. 338-5984.

On the Hudson Jung Seminar Series Call for times. Type vs. archetype: conflict or confluence? Belvedere Mansion, Rhinebeck. 256-0191.

1pm-3pm. Create giant puppets; for all ages. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Basic Digital Photography 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY. 563-3619.

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

CLASSES Drawing and Painting Skills 9am-4:30pm. Week-long sessions for ages 11-14. $300/ week. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced and the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

EVENTS Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Kent Sidewalk Festival

EVENTS 26th Annual Cairo Market Days 9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Call for times. Live music and family activities. Call for location. Kent, CT. (860) 927-1463.

Sizzlin’ Singles Skate Session 6:30pm-9:30pm. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

KIDS Get a Clue Story Time Call for times. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge.

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687-7023.

The Miser Summer Theater Workshop

MUSIC

Call for times. Ages 14-18, culminates in theater performance. Walking the Dog Theater Estate, Germantown. (518) 392-2084.

Wayfinder Experience 8am-4pm. Ages 8-16. $325/$350. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Farm Camp 8am-2pm. Ages 6-11. $190/$170 Unison members. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 255-1559.

Kids’ Drop-In Activity Call for times. Historic craft activity and a related cooking project. $10/$8. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Preschool Story Time 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Smitty’s 2007 Quarry Jazz Festival 12pm-5pm. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400.

Russel Oliver 12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

The Ringing Strings 7pm. Scottish fiddling. $5/$10 family. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Music in the Park 7pm-9pm. Swing by Saints of Swing. Dutchmen’s Landing on the Hudson River, Catskill. (518) 943-0989.

Bob Cage 7:30pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

MUSIC Newburgh Jazz Series 2007 6:30pm-8:30pm. Live jazz performance. Hudson Bay Waterfront, Newburgh. 568-0198.

Taste Budd’s Hardscrabble Jam 7:15pm. Acoustic jam. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Celtic Jam Session 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Open Mike

Celtic Music 8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.

SPOKEN WORD The Real Islam: Peace Beyond Politics 6pm. DVD, discussion and chanting. Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

Separation & Divorce Support Group 6:40pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

Poetry Night

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Adult Nature Walks

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

12pm-2pm. 2-mile walk. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 331-1682 ext. 132.

SPOKEN WORD

7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY. 563-3619.

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Author’s Night

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7:30pm. Learn about psychological types with Jungian scholars. Oblong Books and Music. 876-0500.

Richard III

THEATER As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Random Writing Call for times. $100. Four Wednesday workshops with poet Cheryl A. Rice. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. 339-8686.

Preparing for Grades Seven and Eight 8:30am-5:30pm. Professional development workshop. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

2007 Music Omi International Musicians Residency Program Call for times. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Introduction to Sign 10:30am. Sign language workshop. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Hudson Community Book Group 5:30pm-7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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8:30am-5:30pm. Professional development workshop. Sunbridge College, Chestnut Ridge. 425-0055.

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Sufi Zikr

12pm-2pm. Cook French and Italian food with Chef Matthew Locricchio. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

5:45pm. Healing chant. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

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Pine Bush Farmers Market

Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Casting for Recovery

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Call for times. Retreat for women who have suffered from breast cancer. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Riverside Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market

FILM

Millerton Greenscape Market

La Vie En Rose 7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Portrait of legendary French icon Edith Piaf. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820. 10am-2pm. Methodist Church, Millerton. (518) 789-4926.

Tannersville Crazy Race and Festival 11am-4pm. Home-made racers, vendors, food, entertainment. Main Street, Tannersville. (518) 589-5765.

Ulster County Day

MUSIC Campfire Sounds Call for times. Folk festival. $7/$18 to camp. Wave Farm, Acra. (518) 622-2598.

Smitty’s 2007 Quarry Jazz Festival 12pm-7pm. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400.

The Passion of Purcell 7pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7425.

$2 Goat 8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Afterglow 9pm. Rock. Gully’s, Newburgh. 565-0077.

Tempest 9pm. Celtic. $17.50. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Off Hour Rockers 9:30pm-1am. Rock. Pazzos Italian Grill, Montgomery. 457-4078.

SPOKEN WORD Edith Wharton Night 7:30pm. Author of the Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

THEATER A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

11am-4pm. Free tours for Ulster County residents. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

Steamboat Days 12pm-5pm. Demos, steamboat rides, entertainment, music. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

Wine and Restaurant Tasting 2pm-7pm. Benefits the Ryan McElroy Children’s Cancer Foundation. Clinton Vineyards, Clinton Corners. 855-0211.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 6877023.

FILM Show Business: The Road to Broadway 5:15pm. $7/$5 members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

La Vie En Rose 7pm. $7/$5 members. Portrait of legendary French icon Edith Piaf. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

KIDS Guided World Peace Nature Walk 9am. For children and families. World Peace Sanctuary, Wassaic. 877-6093.

Steve Charney’s Family Fun 11am. $25. Magician, ventriloquist, radio programmer, author, musician and songwriter. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

7pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Cinderella

As You Like It

11am. By Kids on Stage. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

Let’s Go See Some Shakespeare! 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

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8pm. Personal stories told by audience members are brought to life by improv troupe. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

MUSIC Adema Call for times. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Hotel Cafe at Belleayre - Snuffy Fest II 5pm-11pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 9426904 ext. 406.

Maverick Concert Series

SATURDAY 4 ART Art Bus

6pm. Featuring Tokyo String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Dave Brubeck Quartet 6:30pm. Jazz. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

6:30pm. $1. Tour to Kingston art galleries with live music. Downtown Visitors’ Center, Kingston. 339-6925.

Benefit Concert for Norm Wennet

Seen the Glory Opening Reception

Judy Garland Live!

2pm-4pm. Art focused on Civil War period. GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-3104.

8pm. $25. Featuring cabaret artist Tommy Femia. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Earthscapes

John Gorka

5pm-7pm. Arial photography by Paul Joffe. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingstin. www.kmoca. org.

8pm. Singer/songwriter. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Out of line

8pm. Blues. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

6pm-9pm. Go North Gallery, Beacon. www. gonorthgallery.blogspot.com.

Cowgirls2 6pm-9pm. BRIK, Catskill. (518) 943-0145.

7:30pm. $10. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul

Eric Erickson 8pm. Joshua’s Java Lounge, Woodstock. 679-5533.

Abdullah Ibrahim

CLASSES

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Life Drawing

Megagroup the Great Sataan

10am-1pm. The workshop allows artists to work independently. $10-$75. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

9pm. $5. Metal. Snapper Magee’s, Kingston. 339-3888.

Something Automatic 10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

DANCE

Anthill Mob

Freestyle Frolic Summer Dance Series

10pm. Covers. Bleachers Sports Pub, Hyde Park. 4524575.

8:30pm-2:30am. Non-smoking, non-alcohol barefoot dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8540.

Saturday Evening Ballroom Dance Social

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7:30pm-11:30pm. Light refreshments served. $10 per person. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Mohonk Preserve Hike Call for times. Moderate difficulty. Plaza Diner, New Paltz. 471-1168.

EVENTS

SPOKEN WORD

Bard SummerScape

Crispell Family Association

Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Call for times. Annual meetings. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

EDITOR'S PICK GRAFFITI ART AT VARGA Flint Generelli THE GRAFFITI ART OF FLINT AND TRACY 168 ON AN ABANDONED TRAIN IN STATEN ISLAND, CIRCA 1982.

The Writing on the Wall Graffiti is a Latin word, points out Carlo McCormick, senior editor of Paper magazine. Obviously, it is not a recent phenomenon. “Historically, some people would claim that the early cave paintings are essentially prototypical forms of graffiti,” observes McCormick. “In other words, this kind of mark-making is perhaps older than civilization—as old as culture.” And now graffiti art is coming to the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, beginning August 11. This is apparently the first graffiti art show in the Hudson Valley. Artists LSD-OM, Zephyr, Flint, Kr.One, Team, and Whisper are confirmed, and Revolt is a possibility. As a postwar phenomenon, graffiti parallels the rise of street toughs and gangs. Its present form began in the late sixties, and became known as part of hip hop culture by the mid '70s. “Most people who walk through a big city, they don’t really notice graffiti,” says McCormick. “They just read it as urban noise. They don’t realize that there’s this whole legion of kids around the world who actually know the whole history of these writers.” Graffiti writers of the '60s wrote with black Magic Markers, in clearly printed letters. They also used their real names. Later, graffiti would incorporate spray paint and pseudonyms, then cartoon characters, and, finally, elements of Cubism for a technique known as Wild Style. By 1983, only a bow-tied curmudgeon could deny that some graffiti was beautiful. The artists’ goal was to achieve ubiquity—to be everywhere at once. (This was called “getting fame.”) Of course, working-class teenagers rarely thought beyond the city in which they lived. Braving the dangers of the police and train yards, a citywide community of “writers” developed. (Interestingly, graffiti artists always refer to themselves as “writers.") Flint was one of the earliest graffiti artists, beginning in 1969. Raised in BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Flint invented catch phrases such as “For Those Who Dare” and “Bad Not Evil,” which later inspired the writings of SAMO, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first pseudonym, which he shared with his friend Al Diaz. In 1973, Flint began photographing examples of the artform. Some of his photos will appear in the show. LSD-OM is the only writer who lives locally. An early member of the Non Stop Action crew, he sees the origin of graffiti as a revolt against President Nixon and the Vietnam War. The art world recognized graffiti with a show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1974; the exhibit led to the book The Faith of Graffiti, which features an introduction by Norman Mailer. Nonetheless, these artists never had true institutional sanction. Nowadays some major graffiti artists work for record companies or design T-shirts and other streetwear. Varga’s landlady has given artists permission to paint the former stained-glass windows on the Tinker Street Cinema next door, creating an installation evoking the Church of Saint Julio 204. (“Julio 204” was the first graffiti I saw on the walls of my neighborhood in Manhattan in 1969.) A panel discussion with Carlo McCormick, High Times editor Steven Hager, and many of the artists will be held on September 8 at 3pm. “New York City Graffiti Art” will be on view at the Varga Gallery in Woodstock from August 11 through September 9. (845) 679-4005; www.vargagallery.com. —Sparrow

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EDITOR'S PICK ARM OF THE SEA THEATER

THE DEER PEOPLE DISCOVER AN INTRUDER, FROM ARM-OF-THE-SEA THEATER’S 2007 ESOPUS CREEK PUPPET SUITE, TO BE PERFORMED ON AUGUST 24 AND 25 IN SAUGERTIES.

Shared Enchantment Patrick Wadden and Marlena Marallo founded the Arm-of-the-Sea theater company in 1982. The troupe’s first show, “Mr. Avarice and the Great Pumpkin of the World,” was performed at Clearwater’s Pumpkin Festival that same year. Based in Saugerties, the not-for-profit group combines puppetry, masks, paintings, dance, and live music to illuminate the New York City watershed (“City That Drinks the Mountain Sky”), migrant farm labor (“La Cosecha”/“The Harvest”), and to enact colorful folktales. Arm-of-the-Sea appears in community centers, parks, and museums around the country, as well as in Latin America. In honor of its 25th anniversary, the company will perform 25 free shows in venues ranging from Lakeville, Connecticut to Detroit, Michigan. On August 24 and 25 from 7 to 11pm (raindate August 26), Arm-of-the-Sea will present its seventh annual “Esopus Creek Puppet Suite” at Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park in Saugerties. The six-piece Big Sky Ensemble will accompany Arm-of-the-Sea, performing original music by Dean Jones. This festival will also include the Energy Dance Company, the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston, and puppeteer Grian MacGregor presenting an updated staging of the “The Crone Chronicles.” For more information, call (845) 246-7873 or visit www.armofthesea.org. —Sparrow Sparrow: What are you creating at the moment? Patrick Wadden: The show we’re working on, the “Esopus Creek Puppet Suite,” is inspired by the work of an evolutionary microbiologist named Lynn Margulis. That’s someone we’ve been reading this spring, and we’re exploring how life on Earth got to be this immense, dazzling, astounding complexity. Margulis has been working in the realm of microbes—the so-called “simple” beings who were the primary residents of the Earth for about two billion years! Microbes figured out most of the metabolic pathways, most of the structures, and everything else has been built on that. So instead of Alice Through the Looking Glass, it’s Alice Through the Microscope. That exploration takes place as a play within a play, or, I should say, a circus within a play. The circus is carried on by these characters called the Bio-Illuminarians. They’re the guides through the doors of perception. And who they’re guiding is Rip Van Twinkle, this scientist and artist. Are there books by Lynn Margulis? Oh, there are lots of books. There’s Microcosmos, Acquiring Genomes, Garden of Microbial Delights, Five Kingdoms. She’s been very prolific. Symbiotic Planet is another one. So you’ve been reading a lot of these? Yeah, we have them all here. And then we add our own spin to it. It’s just a starting point. We’re not trying to render it. Over the years, you’ve been drawn into the study of biology, I’ve noticed. A lot of our shows explore the interrelations between the human and the nonhuman. As puppet theater, we’re not stuck in just the dimensions of an actor. We can have actors

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that represent the soil; we can represent anything we want. It’s not like a movie, where you need to find an actual firehouse if you want to show a firehouse. Right. This is a symbolic visual language. It’s all made by hand, pretty basic materials: fabric, bamboo, papier-mâchè. And who physically paints and builds it? Well, Marlena Marallo is really the driving visual artist behind it. But we both make things. And puppets can certainly be very large and very small. Yes, that’s one of the great freedoms of the medium, to play with scale. In fact, the main character, Rip Van Twinkle, has five different manifestations, ranging from 15 inches high to 10 feet tall. As he goes through different dimensions. Right. So the same way Rip Van Winkle disappears for 20 years, Twinkle disappears into the world of tininess. Yes. And also deep time. Not just into the microworld, but also into the realm of the past, when that’s all there was. The microbes are ancient beings. If they reproduce by dividing, essentially they’re all eternal. That’s a fascinating insight, because biological death isn’t a reality until you get more complicated beings. Individual bacteria can be killed, of course, but by dividing, dividing, dividing—it’s not death as we know it. And they can exchange genetic material with almost any other microbe. The line of what defines a species is not clear. I like the way that you pursue your own curiosity. You have a respect for your own curiosity. There aren’t a lot of perks to being an artist in this culture, but that’s one of them. I mean, that’s kind of the basis of it; doing your own search. For me, there’s an element of problem solving in your theater. You lead the audience into a magical world to contemplate some problem: the watershed, militarism, microbes. Well, yes, it’s a shared dream. It doesn’t last forever, but live theater is shared enchantment. And I notice a lot of your pieces are 50 minutes long, like a therapy session. [Laughs.] Is that [how long] a therapy session is? That’s funny. I never knew that.

MONDAY 6

Reading with Steven Cleaver 7:30pm. Author of Saving Erasmus. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Mary Ellen Mark

KIDS

8pm. “The World Observed.” $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Farm Camp

THEATER

Sprouts Summer Program

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

10am-11:45am, through August 10. For ages 3-7. Art, music, theater, and dance workshops. Hunter Mountain Learning Center, Hunter. 943-3400.

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Cripple of Inishmaan 7pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Jailbird Opera

9am-2pm. Ages 6-11. $190/$170 Unison members. Phillies Bridge Farm, Gardiner. 256-9108.

THEATER Auditions for Missoula Children’s Theatre 3pm. The Wizard of Oz. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

3pm-5pm. Hand puppet performance of opera written by inmates. Former Ulster County Jail, Kingston.

TUESDAY 7

The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Richard III 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group Call for times. St. James Church Library, Chatham. 339-4673.

WORKSHOP

CLASSES

Life Drawing

Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class

10am-1pm. $75/$60 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

DANCE

SUNDAY 5 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Spirit Readings with a Psychic Medium Call for times. Receive messages from spirit guides. $40/$75. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group 11am-12:15pm. The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing, New Paltz. 255-3337.

Capoeira Angola

EVENTS 26th Annual Cairo Market Days 9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Newburgh Night Out 6pm. Music, entertainment, community activities. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY. 563-3619.

Bard SummerScape

MUSIC

Beacon Year-Round Farmers Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Comic J.T. Habersaat 8pm. $5. Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, Kingston. (845) 338-3881.

Family Fun Day

THE OUTDOORS

2pm-3:30pm. For ages 5-10 and their families. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

Birding Nature Walk

Scrabble Group 6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

MUSIC Dorraine Scofield 2pm. Singer/songwriter. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

11am-1pm. At the Columbia County Soil & Water Conservation District. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

WEDNESDAY 8

3pm. Featuring Saint Lawrence String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

7pm. $60/car. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. 339-6088.

THE OUTDOORS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group Call for times. Catskill Community Center, Catskill. (518) 943-4950.

Catskills by Foot - For Women Only

CLASSES

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Flying Trapeze Lessons

THEATER

Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

EVENTS

Call for times. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Bard SummerScape

Jailbird Opera 12pm-2pm. Hand puppet performance of opera written by inmates. Former Ulster County Jail, Kingston.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

26th Annual Cairo Market Days 9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939. 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

As You Like It

KIDS

6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

Preschool Story Time

Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping 11am-1pm. $25. For novices, gardeners and wannabeekeepers. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Clear Your Home, Clear Your Life 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.

MUSIC STUDIO STU

Nursing Information Sessions

7pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS

PAINTINGS TERRY ROWLETT

THEATER

Maverick Concert Series

Kenny Loggins with The Hudson Valley Philharmonic

SPOKEN WORD & MUSIC ERIC MINGUS

6pm-8pm. A regional Brazilian form of self-defense and dance. $8/class. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

EVENTS Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

cafe

10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MUDDY CUP 516 broadway kingston saturday august 4TH 8PM free www.chronogram.com

Kids’ Drop-In Activity Call for times. Historic craft activity and a related cooking project. $10/$8. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

MUSIC Newburgh Jazz Series 2007 6:30pm-8:30pm. Live jazz performance. Hudson Bay Waterfront, Newburgh. 568-0198.

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Taste Budd’s Hardscrabble Jam 7:15pm. Acoustic jam. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Celtic Jam Session 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Open Mike 9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 8287303.

THE OUTDOORS

Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

FILM La Vie En Rose 7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Portrait of legendary French icon Edith Piaf. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Birding Nature Walk

MUSIC

11am-1pm. At the Columbia County Soil & Water Conservation District. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Dave Mason

THEATER

Folktales from Around the World

As You Like It

11am. Bill Cliff blends stories with songs. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Affording College 3pm-4pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (800) 724-0833 ext. 5058.

THURSDAY 9

Call for times. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Class of 1967 Waterfront Music Festival 7pm-10pm. With performances by members of the class of ’67. TR Gallo Waterfront Park, Kingston. 331-5331.

Steve Schultz’s CD Release Party 8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Steve Forbert 8:30pm-1am. $22.50. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

SPOKEN WORD

BODY/MIND/SPIRIT

Flirting in Cars

Sufi Zikr

7:30pm. A reading of Alisa Kwitney’s witty and romantic novel. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

5:45pm. Healing chant. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

THEATER

CLASSES

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Festival Parade Puppets

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

1pm-3pm. Create giant puppets; for all ages. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

hours: mon-sat 10-5 sundays 12-5 www.homeasianantiques.com rte. 23 south egremont, ma. 413.528.5383

EVENTS

7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Cripple of Inishmaan 7pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

EVENTS

Richard III

Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

SATURDAY 11

Sizzlin’ Singles Skate Session 6:30pm-9:30pm. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

KIDS

ART

Get a Clue Story Time

Saugerties Artists Studio Tour

Call for times. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

10am-5pm. A free, self-guided tour of participating artists’ studios. Call for locations. 246-7493.

MUSIC

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Eric Hepp

Female Spirit in Action

12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Mr. E aka Greg Englesson

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6pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

CLASSES

Live Jazz

Life Drawing

7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

Celtic Music

DANCE Argentine Tango Milonga

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8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. 7pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

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8pm-12am. Light refreshments served. $10 per person. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

EVENTS 14th Annual Call to Peace Festival

As You Like It

11am-3pm. Music, food, children’s activities, and more. The World Peace Sanctuary, Wassaic. 877-6093.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Pine Bush Farmers Market

WORKSHOPS Affording College 12pm-1pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. (800) 724-0833 ext. 5058.

Introduction to Sign 10:30am. Sign language workshop. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

FRIDAY 10 ART Vol. 1. 4pm-6pm. Photographs by Rick Gilbert. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

30 Days in the Life of Women Artists 5pm-7pm. Works by six women in many genres. RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon. 838-2880.

Vivian Altman: New Paintings 6pm-9pm. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.

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10am-1pm. The workshop allows artists to work independently. $10-$75. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.

THEATER

Art Fest ’07

Call for times. Holistic fitness workshop for women. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

10am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kids’ activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Riverside Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

Millerton Greenscape Market 10am-2pm. Methodist Church, Millerton. (518) 789-4926.

4th Annual Folk Festival and Tomato Festival 11am-6pm. Live music, food, entertainment, workshops. Town Field, Highland. 229-0170.

Hudson Valley Poets Fest ‘07 12-dusk. Open mike and featured artists. Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale. 658-9900.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

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Conference Highlights

Critical Perspectives on LGBT Aging LGBTQ Youth: Pride and Prejudice Police/Transgender Encounters

David Rothenberg leads a “Sounds of the Wild” workshop in Ghent on August 11.

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"One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race."

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In the early morning during this season, a lone bird begins singing outside the bedroom window of my cottage in the woods. Within a few minutes, another bird joins in to make it a duet. Soon after, a choir of birds slowly builds, dozens joining in the grand explosive opera. Every day it’s the same. Sometimes I listen. Other times, I bury my head under the pillows. “Birdsong is the oldest music we know,” says composer and nature sound maven David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing. “It’s been around for millions of years, longer than human beings. And we still don’t understand what it’s about. We can talk about what it’s for, but we haven’t thought much about how it’s put together. Why these particular structures? Why these particular forms? No one’s really studied the dawn chorus of birds. You’d think there’d be a large amount of literature about this, but there isn’t. There are theories but no good explanation for why birds sing at dawn rather than other times of day.” Perhaps science doesn’t take the topic seriously, but Rothenberg Birdsong is the oldest music has devoted his career to listening we know. It's been around to nature in a musical way. This for 25 years or more. month, in “Sounds of the Wild,” a workshop at the Nature Institute in Ghent, Rothenberg will lead participants out into the field and guide them in listening to nature’s sounds at different times of day and in different habitats. He calls upon the works of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who spent a lifetime interested in changing science into something more organic, declaring that it should be more about engaging the senses and paying attention. “He was onto something,” says Rothenberg. “There’s a more holistic way of doing science.” In Rothenberg’s upcoming workshop he will teach participants how to listen. “Not just to try to figure out everything you hear, but to think about the more musical aspects; how all of the sounds fit together, and to study the soundscape,” he explains. “Listening is about forgetting the name of the thing we hear. We don’t just want to name it. Then you stop listening.” Once a jazz musician, Rothenberg eventually started playing live music with birds. But he doesn’t stop with our feathered friends. He’s also into bugs. One of his favorites? The variety of katydid known as the slightly musical conehead. “We’ll be hearing a lot of insects in August,” he says. “But what are these bugs? Why are they making these sounds? In a way, the interaction between insects singing together is much better understood than with birds. It’s believed that the different species of birds don’t listen to each other, but bugs do. They’re much more like little machines; they’re simpler organisms. The temperature goes up, the bug changes what it does. He hears a certain rhythm and he responds. They’re much more reliable because they’re simpler. Bugs will cooperate.” “Sounds of the Wild” takes place on August 11 from 9am to 5pm and on August 12 from 9am to noon at the Nature Institute in Ghent. (518) 672-0116; www.natureinstitute.org. —Sharon Nichols

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OUTSIDE THE BOX Clive Barnes, former theater critic for the New York Times, once said, “Television is the first

Angel,” showing August 9, 10, 17, and 18 at Bard’s Spiegeltent. Rux, who combines

truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by

elements of rap and slam poetry, enlisted jazz composer Deirdre Murray to create the

what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.” Luckily, it seems

music for the opera, which Bard commissioned through a Rockefeller grant. Rux uses a

what people in the Hudson Valley want are a variety of cultural options—music, food,

Weimar-era traveling circus set for the opera, primed to perform under the hand-hewn,

theater, art—evident by the ongoing success of the following events.

mirror-lined pavilion that is the Bard Spiegeltent. www.fishercenter.bard.edu. —Kelley Granger Iron-fisted Baton The New York Times has described renowned pianist Vladimir Feltsman’s style as

Art on the Move

offering “a ferocious brand of pianism and considerable interpretive audacity,” and the

Kingston’s 13th Annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby on the Rondout is all about hybrids. No,

Seattle Times has called him “the iron fist in the velvet glove.” A Russian who debuted

not fuel-efficient soapboxes. The August 19 derby is a contest crossbreed born of the

with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11, he went on to play at such esteemed locations

traditional soapbox derby and a sculpture exhibition. The point is not to develop the

as Carnegie Hall. As SUNY New Paltz’s distinguished chair of professor of piano, he

fastest creation, but the most imaginative and well engineered. Last year, 36 participants

mentors a group of international students through a grueling piano boot-camp that

drew over 7,000 fans and brought an array of original ideas to fruition; broomsticks,

culminates with the Jacob Flier Piano Competition. On August 3, the winning pianist will

giant tortoises, and prehistoric-looking skeletons all crossed the finish line. This year

perform a yet-to-be-announced piano concerto and Feltsman will conduct the Hudson

performances include the Energy Dance Group, which could present any combo of

Valley Philharmonic for the conclusion of the PianoSummer Music Festival, the Symphony

hip-hop, breakdance, reggae, and jazz moves, as well as the musical group Trio Loco,

Gala. Performances include Elgar’s “Fragment from Enigma Variations, No.9 ‘Nimrod,’”

known for their unique spins on classic jazz which they dub “jazz unstandards.”

and Prokofiev’s “Symphony No. 5 in B flat Major, Op. 100.” www.newpaltz.edu/piano.

www.artistsoapboxderby.com. Putting Artists on the Map Vintage Painting

The Saugerties Studio Tour returns this year with over 20 artists opening their creative

Italians—lovers of food, wine, and merrymaking—can be credited with the invention of

workspaces to the public on August 11 and 12. An artist’s reception and gallery show

the Vinarelli, an Umbrian harvest celebration and art festival. Not only are Vinarelli dinners

will be held August 10 at Opus 40, and allows tour-takers the opportunity to meet artists

composed of locally derived ingredients but they also include—attention, art-loving

before stopping by their studios. The tour itself is self-designed and is not guided; a map

oenophiles—toasting with the latest vintage and watercolor painting with wine. If a trip

highlighting participating artists’ studios is available at multiple locations listed on the

to Torgiano, Italy is not in the budget for this year, savor flavors and unique pieces at the

event’s website. The studios encompass a range of mediums—mixed-media collages

Woodstock School of Art’s second annual Vinarelli. This year they welcome the return

by Loel Barr, metal sculptures by Michael Ciccone, photography by Virginia Luppino,

of Gianni Scappin, former owner of Gigi’s Trattoria in Rhinebeck, as chef. Guests can

ceramics by Jemerick Art Pottery, and more. www.saugertiesarttour.com.

look forward to sampling Scappin’s creations, whether the asparagus-parmesan cheese tartlet of cocktail hour or his summer vegetarian lasagna with smoked scamorza entree.

Fringe Benefits

Millbrook Vineyards wine will be decanted and bottles will feature commemorative labels

For the fifth year, the professional performing arts organization Woodstock Fringe is

designed by painters Eric Angleoch and Chris Debrosky. Twenty-five Hudson Valley

presenting their Festival of Theater and Song. The event runs August 5 to September

artists will be attending the Vinarelli, including Staats Fasoldt, Janet Walsh, and Richard

2, boasting 32 performances including plays, concerts of song, readings, and cabaret,

Segalman. The Vinarelli will close with a live auction of their work.

many of which are first-time presentations. The festival will begin with a fundraiser for

www.woodstockschoolofart.org.

the Fringe, an encore of last year’s hit, Michael Fosberg’s one-man show “Incognito.” Wallace Norman, the producing artistic director of the organization, says one of their

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mainstage events will be the showing of Alice Austen’s play “Backwards,” which he says

Born in Africa in 1721, Angelo Soliman was a significant figure in black history—he was a

is certain to have a life beyond Woodstock theater. Norman himself penned “Oh Virgil! A

close friend of Mozart (who based the Moorish character Monostatos, of the opera “The

Theatrical Portrait,” after receiving a grant from the Virgil Thomson Foundation to write a

Magic Flute,” on Soliman), husband of a widow of one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s generals,

play based on the life of the great composer. Other theater pieces include the East Coast

and later grandfather to a Viennese aristocrat. Celebrated novelist, poet, playwright,

premiere of Debra Ehrhardt’s “Jamaica Farewell,” MAD Magazine editor Joe Raiola’s

and musician Carl Hancock Rux crafted the story of Soliman’s life, death, and ghastly

satirical “Almost Obscene,” and “Greetings from Yorkville,” a two-character musical by

postmortem display in the Imperial Library of Vienna into the opera “The Blackamoor

Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki. www.woodstockfringe.org.

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As You Like It

La Vie En Rose

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

5pm. $7/$5 members. Portrait of legendary French icon Edith Piaf. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Catskill High School Student Films 7pm. Schwerpunkt Studios, Hudson. 657-5100.

Show Business: The Road to Broadway 8pm. $7/$5 members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

KIDS Cinderella 11am. By Kids on Stage. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

8pm. Presented by Hudson Opera Theater. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 661-0544.

WORKSHOPS Sounds of the Wild 9am. Auditory exploration of local woodland, wetland, and meadow. $120. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $75/$60 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MUSIC

SUNDAY 12

Music in the Era of Queen Victoria Call for times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

ART

Jazz and Blues Concert

Saugerties Artists Studio Tour

4pm-7pm. Featuring five different performers. Downtown Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

10am-5pm. A free, self-guided tour of participating artists’ studios. Call for locations. 246-7493.

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8pm. Pop, soft rock. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Orrin Star Call for times. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Legends of Music Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Twilight Concert Series 6pm-8pm. Featuring Rebecca Coupe Franks and her Groovemobile. Town of Rochester Park, Accord. 687-7540.

Maverick Concert Series

EVENTS Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Southern Week Call for times. Old time, Appalachian, Cajun, zydeco classes and dances. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers’ Market

HippieFest

Hudson Valley Poets Fest ‘07

John Street Jam 7:30pm-8pm. Featuring the Cover Girls. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. www.chrisdepalma.com.

DS168 8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Ethel 8pm. String quartet. $20/$17 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868.

Sarah Perrotta and Todd Giudice 8pm. $5. Chthonic Clash Coffee House, Beacon. 831-0359.

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028. 12-dusk. Open mike and featured artists. Widow Jane Mine, Rosendale. 658-9900.

Beacon Sloop Corn Festival

Candlelight Tour 1pm-2pm. $10. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

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FILM Show Business: The Road to Broadway 5pm. $7/$5 members. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Maverick Concert Series

Open Book

3pm. Featuring Shanghai Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

8pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

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Dave Mallett

5:30pm. The Bandstand, Cold Spring. 278-PARC ext. 287.

9pm. Singer/songwriter. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

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9pm. Rock. $30. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

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12pm-6pm. Live music, sailing, refreshments. Beacon Waterfront. 542-0721.

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3pm-6pm. Joyce’s “Joyful Views,� plein air paintings of Orange County sites. The Wallkill River Art Gallery, New Windsor. 689-0613.

6pm. Featuring Livia Sohn, violin, Natalie Zhu, piano. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217. 7pm. Classic rock. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

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Five Rivers In Five Days Call for times. Fly fishing in the Catskills. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Cloudnyne 9:30pm. Motown, R&B. Silo Ridge Country Club, Amenia. 373-7000.

Slam Allen 10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

SPOKEN WORD The Last Mrs. Astor 7:30pm. A reading of Frances Kiernan’s biography of a pioneer of philanthropy and luminary of New York society. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

It Is Our War

SPOKEN WORD Pathwork Spiritual Lecture Reading/Discussion 10:30am. Pig Hill Inn, Cold Spring. 265-9247.

THEATER The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

5pm. Panel discussion on media, military and censorship, followed by slideshow. Fovea Exhibitions Beacon Gallery, Beacon. 765-2199.

2pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Beauty in Darkness

Call for times. Presented by Hudson Opera Theater. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 661-0544.

8pm. Connie Imboden. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER

Richard III 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Princes of Serendip 8pm. Opera. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0123.

The Wizard of Oz Call for times. Missoula Children’s Theatre. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

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MONDAY 13 BODY/MIND/SPIRIT All 6 Directions: Exploring the Medicine Wheel 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.

EVENTS Scrabble Group

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FILM Get a Clue @ the Movies 6:45pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY. 563-3619.

Sprouts Summer Program 10am-11:45am, through August 17. For ages 3-7. Art, music, theater and dance workshops. Hunter Mountain Learning Center, Hunter. 943-3400.

TUESDAY 14

6:30pm-8pm. Jazz. Pazzos Italian Grill, Montgomery.

26th Annual Cairo Market Days

Flying Trapeze Lessons

457-4078.

Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

Taste Budd’s Hardscrabble Jam

SPOKEN WORD Denning’s Point: A Hudson River History from 4000 BC to the 21st Century 7pm. $5 non-members. Slideshow presentation. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

THEATER ASK Playwright’s Lab

Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group

6pm. New play readings. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

CLASSES Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

DANCE Capoeira Angola 6pm-8pm. A regional Brazilian form of self-defense and

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT 11am-12:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

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EVENTS 9am-2am. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

KIDS

WEDNESDAY 15

dance. $8/class. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Collage and Painting 1pm-3pm. For teens. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

How to Raise a Money-Smart Child 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

EVENTS 26th Annual Cairo Market Days

7:15pm. Acoustic jam. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Celtic Jam Session

9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking,

Nursing Information Sessions

Open Mike

3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

KIDS Preschool Story Time 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Kids’ Drop-In Activity

Saugerties. 246-0900.

9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

THEATER As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel

Call for times. Historic craft activity and a related cooking project. $10/$8. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

MUSIC

Collage and Painting

Newburgh Jazz Series 2007

1pm-3pm. For teens. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

6:30pm-8:30pm. Live jazz performance. Hudson Bay

(518) 822-1438.

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CASSANDRA IN A PARTY DRESS This fall marks the 35th anniversary of the fabled break-in at a Washington, DC, hotel on the Potomac known as The Watergate. The success of “Nixon/Frost” on Broadway suggests America is keen to revisit this debacle. Among the monochromatic sourpusses in ill-fitting suits that comprised Nixon’s stooges—H. R. Halderman, John Ehrlichman, John Dean, and Jeb Magruder—Martha Mitchell was a burst of color, a larger-than-life player in the drama that eventually brought down a president. A wealthy daughter of Arkansas tradition, Mitchell was married to Attorney General John Mitchell, a New York lawyer and Democrat who she wooed over to the Grand Old Party. How she coped with the scandal as it metastasized is the subject of “Martha Mitchell Calling,” to be performed this month by Stageworks in Hudson.

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A mint julep with a sprig of hemlock, Martha Beall Mitchell was known for her coruscating gift of gab. But her unbridled Southern charm barely camouflaged a sly intelligence that was neither expected nor tolerated in Washington wives. When her husband was accused of a major role in the crime, this Cassandra in a party dress began calling Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein—often in the middle of the night and while deep in her cups—to proclaim his innocence. (Woodward and Bernstein had reported on the $250,000 worth of hush money Mitchell had authorized for the Watergate “plumbers” in the Washington Post.) The two-character play, a blend of political drama and comedy, had its debut in 2006 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. Annette Miller, who created the title role, returns for this engagement as the mouth who roared.

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Children’s Tent Networking Tent Silent Auction

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THURSDAY 16 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group Call for times. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

Sufi Zikr 5:45pm. Healing chant. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

SPOKEN WORD Autism Through the Life Span Call for times. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Kids’ Author David Goldbeck Author of The ABC’s of Fruits and Vegetables. Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie: 10am; Newburgh: 1pm; Kingston: 4pm. 679-5573.

The Creative Portrait 8pm. Platon. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

EVENTS Bard SummerScape

THEATER The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Sizzlin’ Singles Skate Session

I Do! I Do!

6:30pm-9:30pm. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

As You Like It

MUSIC

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

Celtic Music 8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock . 679-2470.

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WORKSHOPS Painting in Pastel Call for times. Focus on composition, value and color. $120. Red Eft Gallery, Wurtsboro. 888-2519.

Separation & Divorce Support Group

SATURDAY 18

6:30pm-8:30pm. For women. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. 679-2235.

History of Bannerman’s Castle 7pm. Slide show by authors Thom Johnson and Barbara Gottlock Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY. 563-3619.

THEATER A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

When Worlds Collage 6pm-8pm. Works by Yura Adams, Stevan Jennis, Barry Gerson and D. Jack Solomon. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.

The Muse & The Effigy 6pm-9pm. Opening reception for new exhibit featuring Linda Law, Brian Leighton, Anthony Krauss. The Pearl, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.

Richard III

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FRIDAY 17 BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Into Great Silence

7pm-8pm. Through August 20. Includes 4 juices and 1 vegetable broth per day. Beacon healing Collective, Beacon. 231-2470.

Into Great Silence 7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Meditative journey inside a Carthusian monastery. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

CLASSES

EVENTS

10am-1pm. The workshop allows artists to work independently. $10-$75. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

MUSIC The Roches Call for times. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

No Brakes Bluegrass Band 7:30pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Woodstock Summer Bash Double Bill 7:30pm. Professor Louie and the Crowmatix and Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen. $25/$20 in advance. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Jump Beat

Life Drawing

DANCE Freestyle Frolic Summer Dance Series 8:30pm-2:30am. Non-smoking, non-alcohol barefoot dancing. $7/$3 teens and seniors/children free. Center for Symbolic Studies, Tillson. 658-8540.

West Coast Swing Dance Social 7pm-8pm, free lesson. 8pm-12am, dance. Light refreshments served. $10 per person. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

EVENTS 38th Annual Fine Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960.

Bard SummerScape

8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Kate Power, Steve Einhorn, Sarah Perrotta and Naked

Pine Bush Farmers’ Market

8pm. $10. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.

10am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists and kids’ activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

Arlo Guthrie & Richie Havens

Kingston Farmers’ Market

8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Big Kahuna 8pm. Dance music. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Donald Harrison Quartet

9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Riverside Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Millerton Greenscape Market

Open Mike

Hurley Corn Festival

8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Geoff Achison 8:30pm. Guitar. $12.50. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

The Woodstock Revue 9pm. $10. Music from many bands and genres. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

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Summer 3-Day Juice Cleanse

7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Meditative journey inside a Carthusian monastery. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Bard SummerScape

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8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

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10am-2pm. Methodist Church, Millerton. (518) 789-4926. 10am-4pm. $3. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.

38th Annual Fine Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-5pm. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960.

Feather’s Dance: Nature Craft “Trunk Show” 11am-7pm. $15/$20. Mirabai, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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Wall Street – Uptown Kingston

Saturdays

May ‘til November 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain or Shine

Family Fun on Huguenot Street

Candlelight Tours

3pm-4:30pm. Tour the Abraham Hasbrouck House. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

7pm-8:30pm. $7. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club

MUSIC

10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

Maverick Concert Series

KIDS Jack and the Beanstalk 11am. Presented by Goowins Balloowins. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Sylvia Markson’s Magic Trunk Show 11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Maverick Concert Series

3pm. Works for flute, guitar, and piano. Reformed Church of Saugerties, Saugerties. 246-6004.

Will Hawkins 5:30pm. The Bandstand, Cold Spring. 278-PARC ext. 287. 7pm. Esplanade orchestra. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

11am. Young People’s Concert. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

THE OUTDOORS

Experimental World Music

Five Mountains In Five Days

5pm. Musicians from the 2007 Music Omi International Musicians Residency Program. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.

Call for times. Hiking the Catskills peaks. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

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THEATER

Maverick Concert Series 8pm. Featuring Steve Gorn and Friends. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul

I Do! I Do!

8pm. Blues. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon

6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

8pm. Acoustic. Hyde Park Free Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.

For info call Dream Weavers at 845.338.4552 or visit www.kingstonfarmersmarketny.com

Benefit Concert for Lt. Alex Wilson

Boston Pops

MUSIC

8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Browse the Uptown stores & galleries, visit our fine restaurants & cafés and enjoy the atmosphere of one of America’s oldest cities.

3pm. Featuring Trio Solisti. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

As You Like It

White Knuckle Rodeo

MONDAY 20

10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS

EVENTS

Easy Hike to Top Cottage

Scrabble Group

10am. Eleanor Roosevelt’s Val-Kill, Hyde Park. 452-9086.

SPOKEN WORD International Photojournalism 8pm. Ron Haviv. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER Let’s Go See Some Shakespeare!

6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

KIDS Skateboard Camp Call for times. $250 full-day/$220 half-day. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

Sprouts Summer Program 10am-11:45am, through August 24. For ages 3-7. Art, music, theater and dance workshops. Hunter Mountain Learning Center, Hunter. 943-3400.

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

SPOKEN WORD

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Lucy DiPaola Institute for Professional Development

8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Call for times. Featuring Jonathon Kozol. $299-$399. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3562.

Mother of Invention 8pm. Written & performed by Laura Poe. $10. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

WORKSHOPS Arts Community Grants Application Workshop 10am-3pm. Arts in Orange, Middletown. 956-0005.

I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Richard III

TUESDAY 21

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $75/$60 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

CLASSES Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

DANCE 58 Main St. New Paltz

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ART WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS EVERY SUNDAY

DANCE

6pm-8pm. A regional Brazilian form of self-defense and dance. $8/class. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

Swing Dance Jam

EVENTS

6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032.

“COMIC BOOK ART” 2:30–4:30pm with Gerry Acerno, Marvel Comic Book Artist. FUN ART PROJECTS FOR KIDS 3–5 PM WEEKDAYS THECHILDRENSARTWORKSHOP.COM 845–255–7990

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26th Annual Cairo Market Days

EVENTS

9am-2am. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Grand Wine Luncheon

SPOKEN WORD

12pm. 5-course lunch paired with wines. $125. Oak Summit Vineyard, Millbrook. 677-9522.

38th Annual Fine Arts and Crafts Fair

“DRAWING & PAINTING THE LANDSCAPE” 12–2pm with Nancy Catandella, MFA

Capoeira Angola

10am-5pm. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960.

Bard SummerScape Call for times. Check website for specific events and times. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers’ Market

Mudd Poets’ Poetry Series 7pm-10pm. Featured poets followed by open mike. $2. Mudd Puddle Cafe, New Paltz. 255-3436.

WORKSHOPS Wearable Works of Art 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

13th Annual Artists’ Soapbox Derby 1pm. Lower Broadway, Kingston. (800) 331-1518.

Hudson Valley Tomato Festival 2007 4pm-7pm. Celebration of artesian producers and culinary talent. $50. Gigi Market, Red Hook. (518) 537-3640.

WEDNESDAY 22 CLASSES Flying Trapeze Lessons Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced

& the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

DANCE

EVENTS 26th Annual Cairo Market Days

8:30pm-11:30pm. Music by The Big Joe Fitz All Star Review. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

KIDS

Nursing Information Sessions

Colonial Overnights

3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

Swing Dance

DiGuiseppe Architecture / Interior Design

5pm-10am. Children ages 8 to 14. $35/$32. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

MUSIC

KIDS Preschool Story Time

Trace Adkins and Gary Allan

10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Kids’ Drop-In Activity

Evil Giraffes on Mars

Call for times. Historic craft activity and a related cooking project. $10/$8. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

MUSIC

Al Stewart

Newburgh Jazz Series 2007

9pm. Singer/songwriter. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

6:30pm-8:30pm. Live jazz performance. Hudson Bay Waterfront, Newburgh. 568-0198.

Taste Budd’s Hardscrabble Jam 7:15pm. Acoustic jam. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

David Kraai 8pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

SPOKEN WORD The Nude 8pm. Eikoh Hosoe. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Celtic Jam Session 7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

THEATER Princess of the Nile

Open Mike 9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

11m. $12/$10 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

THEATER As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

9 Parts of Desire

I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Brecht on Brecht

7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

WORKSHOPS

Our 2007 Esopus Creek Puppet Suite

Wearable Works of Art

Call for times. Arm of the Sea giant puppet show. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873.

10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

As You Like It 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

THURSDAY 23 BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Sufi Zikr 5:45pm. Healing chant. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style 7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

ART New Works by Judith Belzer, Joe Goodwin, Kit White 5pm-7pm. Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-0898.

Grid of The Community 6pm-12am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

CLASSES Life Drawing

Sizzlin’ Singles Skate Session 6:30pm-9:30pm. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

10am-1pm. The workshop allows artists to work independently. $10-$75. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MUSIC

DANCE

Terry Earles

Saturday Evening Ballroom Dance Social

Live Jazz 7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

Music in the Park

7:30pm-11:30pm. Light refreshments served. $10 per person. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.

Snappy Dance Theatre 8pm. $25. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 6794101.

7pm-9pm. Blues by Folding Sky. Dutchmen’s Landing on the Hudson River, Catskill. (518) 943-0989.

EVENTS

Celtic Music

The Shawangunk Mountain Wild Blueberry and Huckleberry Festival

8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.

THEATER Brecht on Brecht Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

As You Like It 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

Princess of the Nile 7pm. $12/$10 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

FRIDAY 24 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Breast Cancer Options Peer Support Group Call for times. Greenport Town Hall, Hudson. (518) 828-4656.

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SATURDAY 25

EVENTS

12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Sensitive Historic Renovations Hudson Valley Inspired Architecture • Luxurious Interiors

9am-5pm. Sponsored by the Ellenville-Wawarsing Chamber of Commerce. Ellenville. 647-4620.

Blood Drive 8am. Walker Valley Fire House, Walker Valley. 744-4756.

Pine Bush Farmers’ Market 10am-2pm. Fresh produce, music, artists, and kids’ activities. Call for location. 744-6763.

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

New Paltz 4th Saturday 1pm-8pm; Parade, live bands, kids activities. 8pm12am; live music and art openings. The Muddy Cup and 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.

Riverside Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

Antique Fire Engine Muster 10am-3pm. The Volunteer Firemen’s Hall and Museum of Kingston, Kingston. 331-4481.

Millerton Greenscape Market

For additional festival info call 845-647-4620 www.wawarsingny.net

10am-2pm. Methodist Church, Millerton. (518) 789-4926.

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Woodstock Vinarelli 6pm-10pm. Wine, food, art. $125/$50. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club 10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

KIDS Princess of the Nile 11am. Cinderella tale retold in Ancient Egypt. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Stretch and Stride: Yoga And Hiking In The Catskills

BODY/MIND/SPIRIT

Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Sufi Zikr

THEATER

5:45pm. Healing chant. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

I Do! I Do!

CLASSES

2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Princess of the Nile

MUSIC Los Lobos 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Livingston Taylor 8pm. $25. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101.

Qantara

Belly Dance Classes: Tribal Fusion Style

8pm. Simon Shaheen and his ensemble. $20/$17 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 734-3868.

MUSIC

3pm. $12/$10 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

7:30pm-9pm. Learn Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. www.barushkadance.com.

The Skatalites

The Merry Wives of Windsor

EVENTS

8pm. World premiere of Final Alice. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Sizzlin’ Singles Skate Session

Sixties Cabaret

Call for times. Reggae. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

Animals

Brecht on Brecht

6:30pm-9:30pm. SkateTime 209, Accord. 626-7971.

Maverick Concert Series

2pm-8pm. Artists playing on the theme of animals. $10. Wave Farm, Acra. (518) 622-2598.

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

MUSIC

8:30pm. Unique view of the musical, political, cultural, and social changes of that decade. Thompson House Resort, Windham. (518) 734-4510.

Maverick Concert Series

As You Like It

Reverend Kenneth Walsh

Xoch

6pm. Featuring Rossetti String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

12:15pm-12:45pm. Organ recital. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Music in the Park

The Trapps

MONDAY 27

8pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-BREW.

Artie Traum

EVENTS

Best of Ailey II

6pm-8pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

7pm. The Emerson, Woodstock. 679-7500.

Scrabble Group

TUESDAY 28

Eric Erikson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Gargerelli 8:30pm. Musical comedy. $25 dinner and show/$12.50 show. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

CLASSES

10pm. Latin. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS

EVENTS

9am. Moderate paddle and swimming. McDonald’s, Wappingers Falls. 297-5126.

26th Annual Cairo Market Days

SPOKEN WORD

8pm. Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

WEDNESDAY 29

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

I Do! I Do!

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

Fly Me to the Moon Call for times. Presented by Boston Musical Theater. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

FRIDAY 31

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

As You Like It

Nursing Information Sessions 3pm. Information sessions about nursing degree program that will cover the application process. Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge. 687-5261.

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

KIDS

Brecht on Brecht

10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

Kids’ Drop-In Activity

WORKSHOPS Life Drawing 10am-1pm. $75/$60 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

SUNDAY 26 EVENTS Beacon Year-Round Farmers’ Market 10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

Olde Hurley Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $3. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

MUSIC Break & Beats: A Family Concert 1pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

Maverick Concert Series

Preschool Story Time

Call for times. Historic craft activity and a related cooking project. $10/$8. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

MUSIC 10pm. Cafe international dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

THEATER I Do! I Do! 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7:30pm-10:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

East of the Breed 8pm. Featuring Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Open Mike 9pm. Sign up at 8pm. Stray Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-7303.

5:30pm. The Bandstand, Cold Spring.

Brecht on Brecht Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

THEATER Brecht on Brecht

SATURDAY 1 EVENTS

Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. 331-7517.

Riverside Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market 9:30am-1:30pm. Fresh produce, arts and crafts, vendors and music. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 622-9820.

Stone Ridge Library Knitting Club

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

I Do! I Do! 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

9 Parts of Desire 2pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

Highlights from the Footlights 3pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Let’s Go See Some Shakespeare! 5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

As You Like It 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

10am-12pm. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

MONDAY 3

FILM Woodstock Museum 8th Annual Film Festival Call for times. Film screenings and workshops. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 246-0600.

MUSIC Big Kahuna

KIDS

12:30pm. Covers. Barton Orchards, Poughquag. 227-2306.

The Great All-American Audience Participation Magic Show

EVENTS

As You Like It

5:30pm. The Bandstand, Cold Spring.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

9 Parts of Desire

9am. For children and families. World Peace Sanctuary, Wassaic. 877-6093.

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The Greyhounds

Toland Brothers

7:30pm. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667.

MUSIC

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

THEATER

7:30pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Call for times. Film screenings and workshops. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 246-0600.

Call for times. With Linda Lavin. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

3pm. Featuring Amernet String Quartet. Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Lynyrd Skynrd

Woodstock Museum 8th Annual Film Festival

As You Like It

10am-6pm. The nation’s finest juried artists and craftspeople. $8/$7 seniors/$4.50 children. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 679-8087.

Celtic Jam Session

10am-6pm. The nation’s finest juried artists and craftspeople. $8/$7 seniors/$4.50 children. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 679-8087.

FILM

Big Kahuna

Newburgh Jazz Series 2007

7:15pm. Acoustic jam. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Beacon Year-Round Farmers’ Market

Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair

Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair

Taste Budd’s Hardscrabble Jam

EVENTS

2pm-3:30pm. For ages 5-10 and their families. Locust Lawn, Gardiner. 255-1889.

MUSIC 6:30pm-8:30pm. Live jazz performance. Hudson Bay Waterfront, Newburgh. 568-0198.

SUNDAY 2

Family Fun Day

Princess of the Nile

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Call for times. An uncluttered evening of Brecht’s work. Quimby Theatre, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 657-6697.

Call for times. Film screenings and workshops. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 246-0600.

Call for times. Ages 4 years and up, for the experienced & the beginner. Center for Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8540.

9am-2pm. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Brecht on Brecht

10am-4pm. Beacon Train Station, Beacon. 597-5028.

7:30pm. $7/$5 members. Life and legacy of Chin Peng. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

26th Annual Cairo Market Days

8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

Woodstock Museum 8th Annual Film Festival

The Last Communist

Call for times. Arm of the Sea giant puppet show. Tina Chorvas Waterfront Park, Saugerties. 246-7873.

As You Like It

FILM

Flying Trapeze Lessons

EVENTS

8pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-9575.

CLASSES

Our 2007 Esopus Creek Puppet Suite

Highlights from the Footlights

As You Like It

THEATER 11am. $12/$10 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Let’s Go See Some Shakespeare!

I Do! I Do!

9am-2am. Vendors display a wide variety of items. Cairo Elementary School, Cairo. (518) 622-3939.

Personal Photojournalism and the Glass Between Us

8pm. Dan Estabrook. $7/$5. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

THEATER

Brecht on Brecht

Let’s do the Swaddle

Visual Alchemy

5pm. $5. Presented by Bird on a Cliff Theater. Comeau Property, Woodstock. 247-4007.

8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

6pm-8pm. A regional Brazilian form of self-defense and dance. $8/class. Capoeira Studio, Peekskill. (914) 382-8765.

SPOKEN WORD

9pm. $8. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Call for times. $14. Madhuri Yoga Spa, New Paltz. 797-4124.

Capoeira Angola

Sonando

8:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock . 679-2470.

Integral Yoga Hatha I Beginners Class

DANCE

9pm. Acoustic. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 4837584.

THEATER

Celtic Music The Five Points Band

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 8pm. Blues. Rhinebeck Cantina Grille, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

7pm-9pm. Rock by Steppin’ Out. Dutchmen’s Landing on the Hudson River, Catskill. (518) 943-0989.

Live Jazz

8pm. Singer/songwriter. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. 8pm. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 406.

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THE OUTDOORS

Guided World Peace Nature Walk

Woodstock-New Paltz Art and Crafts Fair 10am-4pm. The nation’s finest juried artists and craftspeople. $8/$7 seniors/$4.50 children. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 679-8087.

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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

WHERE’S YOUR DATA? “Nobody wants to hear that there’s no way to say it’s safe.” So said Edward Horn, director of the Division of Environmental Health Assessment for the New York State Department of Health, in an interview last month. Perhaps the most candid comment I’d ever heard from a state official in 16 years of covering the PCB and dioxin disaster at SUNY New Paltz, Horn at least understands one thing: When you live in one of the four dorms affected by 1991 transformer explosions and fires—Bliss, Capen, Gage, and Scudder Halls—you are living in a place where there is contamination. After more than $50 million spent on testing and cleaning so far, the question is whether students will be exposed to that contamination, and, if so, how it will affect them. This has been debated through the spring and summer by campus leaders, community organizers, and county and state officials from a variety of different agencies, including the SUNY New Paltz administration and its remediation contractor, Clean Harbors. The result of all these meetings: There will be no additional tests of the dorms before they reopen on August 21. The college may put together a summary of what happened so that it can respond to queries from students and parents, but that is unlikely to include a warning about the safety of the buildings or lack thereof. College officials consistently tell parents that the buildings are safe but do not mention that cleanup plans specifically granted permission not only to leave “acceptable” levels of contamination, but also that these levels could kill a certain number of students. No scientific study can definitively state that there is a safe level of exposure to the toxins. This is to say, where there is exposure, there will be an effect somewhere in the population. It is difficult, if not impossible, to precisely predict where or when. Even at barely measurable and ever-tinier levels, these chemicals are known to disrupt the body’s hormones, suppress the immune system, cause birth defects, and in study after study are shown to be potent cancer accelerators. What does “ever-tinier” mean? Fifteen years ago, Greenpeace dioxin expert Fred Munson said that as little as one part per billion of dioxin lodged in the human body was probably dangerous. This is called the body burden. Today it’s known that the current average body burden of about 10 parts per trillion (100 times less than the old estimate) will cause cancer in up to 10 percent of the population. No company has ever produced dioxin as a consumer product. Dioxins, usually considered far more toxic than PCBs, are created not only when PCBs burn or decompose with use, but were also present as contaminants in original products new from the factory. PCBs were widely manufactured for more than five decades. Though listed as a “probable human carcinogen,” PCBs are one of the few chemicals ever to be banned by name by Congress, under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. That was more than 30 years ago, but PCBs were so widely used and so environmentally persistent that they remain a health concern, turning up in places like farmed salmon, meat and dairy products—and college dorms. Dioxins and PCBs are bioaccumulative. Each dose adds to what is already there. They also affect the children of those exposed. According to a new study from the Netherlands that followed mother-child pairs for 15 years, children of dioxin exposure victims typi142 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

cally show problems by age 8. These include measurable delays in puberty, such as breast development and first ejaculation, as well as other developmental issues. Dioxin exposure in the father has also been linked to childhood vaginal cancer in their daughters. “Most students are planning to have families. Exposure in the dorms is not a good idea. Dioxins tend to bioaccumulate and so do PCBs,” says Erik Janssen, the executive director of Department of Planet Earth, an environmental group that focuses on dioxin. While state officials point to reams of test results saying levels of toxins in the dormitories are, at worst, within the state’s acceptable limits, the other side of the story is what areas were not tested. That means no data exists for certain locations and therefore the toxin levels are unknown. Untested areas include the heating systems in Capen, Gage, and Scudder halls; exhaust vents in Capen Hall; electrical conduits in Capen and Gage; and many other areas. Vents in Gage Hall were first sampled in 1994, two years after the building was reoccupied by 370 students, and were found to have been contaminated throughout. They were cleaned to “arm’s length,” but recent independent testing done for this column indicated that contamination levels in the Gage vents are close to their original, pre-cleanup levels. There is no follow-up testing of ventilation ducts in the places where they were worked on, and there has been neither testing nor cleanup of the vents in Capen Hall at any time. One problem being discussed by state officials and community leaders is that testing and cleanup programs were inconsistent from building to building. For example, after the heat system was discovered to be a pathway of contamination in Bliss Hall, tests were never performed on the similar heat systems in the other three dorms, all of which fogged over with greasy PCB- and dioxin-laden smoke. In Bliss Hall, contamination was discovered to have moved through what are called pipe chases—spaces and gaps in the building where hot water pipes are routed to student rooms. In the summer of 1992, a simulation test in Bliss Residence Hall using a smoke bomb revealed that fumes moved from the transformer vault directly to radiators. When radiators were tested for contamination, it was found, and the radiators were cleaned using Tide detergent. While that cleaning is unlikely to have addressed the issue thoroughly, the radiators in Capen, Gage, and Scudder Halls were neither tested nor cleaned prior to the buildings being reoccupied. A decade and a half later, Horn concedes that “it’s a very reasonable hypothesis” that smoke followed the pipe chases in all four dormitories like it did in Bliss Hall. But in recent weeks he has repeatedly said he’s opposed to testing the radiators for contamination. Instead, Horn proposed in at least one meeting with students and my phone call with him that the state’s money would be better spent on merely cleaning the buildings. For instance, instead of remediating the radiators with a testing and cleanup project, conducted with full protective gear (as is customary where PCBs and dioxins are involved), Horn suggested that janitors could simply remove dust from the radiators. “The way to keep exposure down is to wash the radiator fins,” he said. Currently, the college is vacuuming out the radiators in the dorms, but this is supposedly not related

to the PCB cleanup. Horn said state officials had complaints about the heat not working last winter and decided it would help to vacuum out the radiators, which is likely to have disturbed and redistributed contamination hidden there. For this and other reasons, Ward Stone, a toxicologist for the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), questioned the wisdom of not conducting tests for toxins prior to cleaning the heat. “If you’re cleaning up something, what is it you’re cleaning up?� Stone asked in June. “If there was a fire involving PCBs with data on the buildings, including our own data, you have to know what you’re cleaning up.� Stone, one of the state’s most vocal environmental advocates, assisted in 1993 and 1994 with determining that the ventilation ducts in Gage Hall were indeed a pathway of contamination in that building. That the vents were contaminated was long denied by those involved in the cleanup. With the revelation of one contaminated vent above a kitchen stove, the Ulster County Department of Health conducted an impromptu testing program, in which it confirmed that the entire ventilation system was contaminated. It then ordered an “arm’s-length cleanup� of the vents just days before students returned. Dean Palen, commissioner of the Ulster County Department of Health, wrote a letter reauthorizing the use of Gage Hall on August 11, 1994 to then-college president Alice Chandler. In his letter, he promised to clean the rest of the vents during the next student break. That additional cleanup was never done. When I went back a decade later and tested the same vent outlet that led to the Gage Hall cleanup, located in a kitchen lounge above the stove, the PCB level was back up to 80 percent, as high as the original, precleanup level. Questioned about this last month, Horn proposed that contamination deeper within the vents had spread outward toward the vent entrances, as it will typically do along a smooth, metal surface. But he did not feel this represented a health threat to students. “If there is a negligible possibility that somebody can be exposed to a chemical, this is not going to be considered a public health concern,� he said, adding, “I could never understand why anybody was concerned about the insides of vents.� In a June 22 meeting with community members, Horn suggested that areas in buildings that students were unlikely to have contact with could have toxin levels higher than the state’s cleanup criteria or maximum allowable levels. Those areas might include heaters, ventilation ducts, pipe chases and the interiors of floors and walls. We agreed to call his theory the “route of exposure theory�—which is to say, if no theory exists for how students might get exposed from a contaminated area such as inside a ventilation duct or radiator, then it’s not considered a public health concern. Yet state health officials have done no studies on the behavior of students to see what exposure routes might be possible, and students are not given warnings. For example, even if a hot radiator is not emitting PCBs under normal conditions, what happens when a student is keeping a pot of water on the grates to humidify the room, and the water spills? Likewise, nobody knows for certain how many students sleep with their heads close to the radiators and whether that makes a difference. Likewise, the pipe chases “will be a reservoir [of contamination] and will remain so,� Horn said, but “are not a concern to the students.� “There’s a million and one ways to get exposed,� Janssen countered. “It all attaches to dust. You can track it around. You just don’t want this stuff in the same building, particularly with students, who are going to have children.� PCBs or dioxins absorbed by a woman in her dormitory will be passed on to her child during gestation or when she is breast feeding. But the effects might be too subtle to notice and would be unlikely to be connected with exposure at New Paltz. I asked Susan Zimet, a member of the Ulster County Legislature, whether it was acceptable to her to have the dorms reopening in August without additional testing. “We all have different standards of what we think is acceptable and nonacceptable. I go to one extreme, and other people have different standards.� “I am trying to work with the students to do the best that we can to get to the bottom of this issue,� Zimet said. “And I’ll keep working to get some comfort level on the issue. My basic feeling is, let’s do the tests and let’s put this to bed once and for all. But nothing’s that damned simple when it comes to government.� The college president, Stephen Poskanzer, declined to comment. Eric Gullickson, a college spokesman, said, “The college, along with the New York State Department of Health and the Ulster County Health Department, is confident that our residence halls are safe. Unfortunately, the author of this article has a history of misrepresenting the facts regarding the PCB contamination and cleanup on campus 16 years ago and continues to employ fear-mongering tactics creating unnecessary alarm among students and their parents.� In May at a public forum, the campus physician, Dr. Peter Haughton, said that PCBs were not that harmful because they are used in cooking oil. He was mistakenly referring to the Yusho incident, a mass PCB and dioxin contamination involving rice bran oil in Japan in 1968 that poisoned thousands of people and their unborn children. 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You are not splitting in two. It is, however, true that you are rapidly approaching a branching of the roads where you will get to choose between a life that is predominantly dictated by your social life, and one that is nourished and sustained by your increasing creative passion. What divides the two is less about “what you want to be doing with your life” and more about your willingness to take the kind of risks that change you. When it comes to friends, you may want to choose from among those who are distinctly unafraid to stand out; who refuse to conform to what others expect of them, and who insist on honesty as a way of life; and who define themselves by their ability to change rather than to stay the same. This is what you are learning and these are the kinds of teachers and companions who will be the most supportive of you at this time. You may feel concerned about how meaningful your friends who may not fit this description are; but I propose it’s now time for them to come to you, rather than you going to them.

TAURUS (April 21-May 21) In these days and weeks, you may find yourself alternating between the utmost confidence and paralyzing insecurity. Because you like your world to make sense, the division may be more unsettling to you than it would be to others. Let’s add a few paradoxes to the equation while we’re swimming in the midst of some provocative astrology. You may be squirming around wondering whether your ideas about the past really are better than all the revolutionary things you’ve decided to embrace the past couple of years, while at the same time you may in these very days feel confronted by just how limiting and confining those old ideas are. Yet in an odd way, while they offer security and stability, you know that you need to set the foundations of your life on stronger ground than your predecessors have ever done. By now you know that there is one component of strong that you can sum up as durable, and another that you can sum up as flexible. Events this month will go a long way toward conspiring you to work both sides of the equation.

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You may feel forced into a decision you are not ready to make, but I propose there are a few potential distortions you need to check out before you overreact. One, to what extent are you getting caught in the unspoken beliefs of others? This is another way of asking who is setting the terms of reality. Somebody always defines the framework of what is possible. You need to know who it is. Second, what happens when you turn up the energy on your point of view? Does the space you’re in get larger or smaller? Last, in what direction is time flowing? This is another way of asking what constitutes progress. You may feel like you are swimming upstream in a very fast current, and as a result, getting nowhere. But this is actually an illusion created by your experience of one particular relationship. The solution to all of these issues is clear thinking and open discussion. But when the time comes to talk, I suggest you understate your case. The person you’re addressing actually knows what’s up; all you need to do is remind them that you know too.

CANCER (June 23-July 23) You are in an excellent process of defining what is important to you. A review that began as a kind of personal inventory earlier this summer has evolved into a careful look at your values system, your attitudes toward money, and what you have learned in the past couple of not-so-easy years of Saturn transiting your adjoining sign Leo. (For two years before that, Saturn was in your birth sign, which brought many similar challenges and points of inner growth and confrontation.) This month is the time to prepare the final report, which will be preceded by your current retrospective exploration. Keep your focus on the past as much as possible. Keep asking the question, How did I get here? See if you can identify key decision points that led to turning points that got you where you are today. Through this process, you will find the present, where you can ask the most important question in the universe: Where am I, and what am I doing here? www.planetwaves.net

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LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) Subtler events and ideas than you may imagine will determine the course of your life, though some extraordinary developments are in the offing. You’re often in the position of being the person who holds the bottom line on reality, who is responsible for being a grounded adult and for setting the terms of what is real and what is not. This puts close partners into the role of what may at times seem like unrealistic dreamer, and at others seem like informed visionary. You do an excellent job of setting the limits that make progress possible. You may want to consider a role reversal, and put your imagination to work. Certainly, circumstances of your life are providing a sense of confinement that is (on our particular planet) excellent fertilizer for the imagination—perhaps one of the few that actually works. You’re holding in your hands vital information about what it means to be stuck, and you’re on the threshold of discovering how you and the people closest to you can get brilliantly unstuck.

VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sep. 23) One of the great Virgo secrets is how overwhelmed you can feel at times, and how you then ride that energy and break through to new universes of your life. This month promises to turn your inner reality into Bondi Beach of the mind, where you will surf the massive cosmic waves for days and weeks on end. You have learned in recent years that fear is basically the illusion created by responding to your abundant creative potential with negativity. It’s a kind of psychic drag created by resisting your natural strength. It helps of course if you can see the positive potential of your creative power. As long as you let go of your past mental habits that is surprisingly easy, and that, in turn, is facilitated simply by noticing what they are. At a certain point, the quest to maintain self-awareness gives way to creative breakthroughs, which in the coming month or two seem poised to come as a series of developments that carry you further from any phase of your life that you remember, or for that matter that you have forgotten.

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LIBRA (Sep. 24-Oct. 23) All I can say about your planets this month is that the words “highly unlikely� come to mind, along with “unusual propitious meeting� and “retrograding into the future.� “Highly unlikely� refers to someone highly unlikely to be your friend coming through in an extreme pinch; “unusual propitious meeting� is like the Odd Couple to the 100th power, but in the form of a beneficial encounter that you simply could not predict, potentially with someone who you have viewed as an adversary at a less mature time in your life. “Retrograding into the future� could mean that what seems to be a setback of some kind turns out to be a development that alters your life path in a truly positive way. In any event, your friends are your most precious resource right now, and one character who shows up in the current act of your life will be highly influential in helping you wiggle into your special niche in society: both social and economic. It is always the combination of long planning, the goodwill of your friends, and dumb luck that makes that happen, and you have all three going for you right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) You may not be sure whether a partner or close associate is thwarting your professional aspirations, or helping you in a backwards kind of way, but you’ll feel better if you remind yourself that you’re the boss. As the boss, you can afford to give others some slack to do what they do, whether they do it well or poorly, and whether you understand it (at the moment) or not. This is to say, you may not actually comprehend the nature of soon-to-unfold developments, or be able to assess their impact, but you would be wise to observe with more emphasis than on taking action. You may be tempted to respond as if you’re standing idly by; you are not. Rather, under this scenario, you would be waiting for your opportune moment. Meanwhile, consider for a moment how you may be perceived by certain key individuals, or one in particular: as vastly larger than life, but as a kind of powerful friend in need of their special contribution to your work or reputation. You may think this is ridiculous, and yet they may be right. Give it a little time. www.planetwaves.net

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) You are not, as I have said, the “struggle with faith” type, but you seem to be processing something these days in your relationship to that entity known as God or, if you prefer, your higher self. The questions seem to be about who is more committed to whom, or should be; something about free giving and receiving of gifts; but more to the point, the role of divinity or spirituality in human love. One thing that warrants mention is that nearly all schools of religious thought stay in business because they elevate something over human experience, and usually that something is abstract. Even those who have an alive, active, and creative relationship with spirit can get caught up in the teachings of schools of thought that say it’s more important than something that could be described as ordinary, physical, or humanly nourishing. I would issue a word of caution about any and all ideas that propose there is something better than we can have as people—human beings having a human experience. And usually there is a hidden agenda.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) You are right to be questioning commitments that you have made to others, but notice that they are finally questioning the commitments they have to you—and the chances are, discovering they have at least a debt of gratitude to you. It may go further than that, and this would be a good time to collect old bills and reckon emotional accounts. Remember, you have the prerogative to forgive old debts, though I suggest you do so consciously and verbally. There’s a gift in this for everyone; debts take up energy. If, in particular, you are feeling sexually blocked, try unblocking your money. Rearrange your commitments, negotiate with people you owe money to, or let go of the ones who owe you something. Do a thorough review of any relationship where sex and money are both a factor involved in the commitment structure. Turn over rocks on unspoken promises, ungrounded expectations, or situations where something is linked with something else when it has no business being so.

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PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Two questions for you this month: What would you do if you were really free, and what would you do if you could focus on what matters the most? There seems to be an intersection approaching where the two probability fields intersect. Looked at one way, it’s a narrowing of the path of your life; looked at another way, you have an opportunity to arrange your priorities, particularly where key relationships are concerned. For way too long, many things that don’t really matter to you have taken exceptional amounts of your emotional energy and material resources. It has been a long time since you went into command mode on your most important life situations, physical circumstances, and professional commitments, and such a moment is arriving fast. You can go a long way toward preparing yourself by knowing what matters long before anyone asks you or expects you to put your feelings, credibility, or cash on the line. Make sure the people you care about know you care about them, and make sure you put the question to anyone with whom you are experiencing doubt. www.planetwaves.net 146 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM.COM 8/07

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 18

special event

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Seven weeks of cultural delight!

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Tickets are $25 to $55. Panels and symposia are free.

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