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NEWS AND POLITICS 25 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom.

26 WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE Tom Hodgkinson investigates the politics of the social-networking website Facebook.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart reminds us of Bill Clinton’s old slogan: “It’s the economy stupid.”

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 ART OF BUSINESS Kelley Granger enters the world of 21st-century mix tapes with Poughkeepsie-based web developers Mixaloo.

WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS 72 TO LOVE AND TO CHERISH Kelley Granger talks with local jewelers about choosing wedding jewelry.

78 THE WORDS OF A WEDDING Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis talks with couples who penned their own vows.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 84 URGENT-CARE CENTERS Lorrie Klosterman explains the interesting and useful niche between doctors’ offices and emergency rooms that urgent-care centers occupy.

88 INNER VISION: THE PATHWORK Lorrie Klosterman tells the story of a body of spiritual/psychological guidance that emerged from the Catskills in the 1970s, led by channel Eva Pierrakos.

BUSINESS SERVICES 62 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 80 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 91 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

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ARTS & CULTURE 37 PORTFOLIO Ion Zupcu’s elegant photographs of paper constructions.

46 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reviews upcoming shows at the Garrison Art Center and the Van Brunt Gallery.

43 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 46 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles local legend Levon Helm. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Bar Scott A Little Dream Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren. Mike & Ruthy The Honeymoon Agenda Reviewed by Peter Aaron. Von Robinson & His Own Universe Jostle It Reviewed by Jason Broome.

50 BOOKS Tobias Seamon profiles poet Barbara Louise Ungar.

58 FOOD & DRINK Brian K. Mahoney notices a little Brooklyn in Newburgh at Caffe Macchiato.

124 PARTING SHOT An untitled photograph by Paolo Pellegrin.

THE FORECAST 109 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 105 The Business of Being Born screens at SUNY New Paltz on February 1. 106 Oscar Strodl’s fiber portraits of Abe Lincoln at Incident Report in Hudson. 111 Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt play UPAC in Kingston on February 17. 112 The Samuel Dorsky Museum exhibits “Intimacies of Distant War” this month. 115 Upstate Films screens Pete Seeger biopic The Power of Song February 8 to 11.

52 BOOK REVIEWS Susan Krawitz reviews Hats and Eyeglasses by Martha Frankel. Hollis Seamon reviews Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard. Paul Grondahl reviews Shooting for the Moon by Bob Berman.

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PLANET WAVES 116 THE SPRINT TO 2012 Eric Francis Coppolino examines what the stars have in store. Plus horoscopes.

Poems by Tom Cherwin, Carolyn Corbett, Richard Donnelly, Millie Falcaro, Jen Holz, and Quincy R. Lehr.

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Tues., Feb. 5, 11 AM to 2 PM Drumlin Hall - AFRICAN MARKET Performance by the Poughkeepsie High School’s Alpha Gamma Rho Step Team Thurs., Feb. 7, 12:30 PM LYCEUM: Dr. Brian McAdoo, “Digital Underground: Geophysical Investigations of Race and Class in the Hudson Valley” Sat., Feb. 9, 11 AM FAMILY FESTIVAL: Sweet Potato and Such Tales, songs and dance celebrating AfricanAmerican heritage Sat., Feb. 9, 7 PM “A Raisin in the Sun” – 50th anniversary production Performance by Passing the Torch Through the Arts Sun., Feb. 10, 3 PM ANNUAL GOSPEL CONCERT Feb. 19 - Mar. 14 (Artists Reception: 2/ 21, 5-6 PM) Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery BLACK HISTORY MONTH EXHIBIT Wed., Feb. 20, 3 to 6 PM FILM - “The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela” A film by Thomas Allen Harris

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From realistic renderings to surrealist landscapes to her current abstract compositions, Joanne Klein’s style is in a constant state of evolution. “It’s a very natural process,” says Klein. “And I think for most artists, that’s what you’ll find. They allow themselves to let the work speak back to them, developing a vision that will change as they change as individuals. It’s a symbiotic process.” Influenced by abstract expressionist painter Hans Hoffman’s color sense and abstract artist Mark Rothko’s spirituality, Klein’s paintings are filled with highly saturated colors and geometric shapes. Her pieces are ultimately about spirituality and going beyond the every day world. “There is a sort of questioning aspect,” says Klein, who studied philosophy at Columbia. “What is reality? What is the truth behind what we see?” Klein’s work continues to evolve, becoming more abstract with color and geometry at the center or her compositions. “My work is starting to change right now,” says Klein. “I am going through an amazing period. My work is starting to deconstruct.” Deconstruction, reduction, and rebuilding are the dominant styles she uses to develop her work. Klein says it’s also important for her to look back at her artwork. “You can work on one painting for the rest of your life,” says Klein. “You think your finishing [a piece] then you see how you can change it, enhance it, improve on it.” Many times she finds herself returning to earlier paintings and reworking them. Not until Klein was out of her element and out of America all together did she start seriously painting. Moving to Israel at the age of 23, she bought some art supplies, leading to a realization that painting was what she wanted—and needed—to do. After living in NewYork City for many years she moved to the Hudson Valley in 1995. Klein currently resides in the Dutchess County town of Clinton Corners. Moving north helped her heighten her color sense—in particular, the inclusion of a lot more varieties of green in her paintings. Klein feels green has an incredible sense of peace and calmness. She is also part of an artist co-op known as GAS—an acronym for Gallery and Studio—with Franc Palaia, Michael Sibilia, Stacie Flint, Patrick Wing, Aaron Miller, Michael Asbill, and Jose Acosta. GAS, located at 196 Main Street in Poughkeepsie, is a multimedia gallery which presents exhibitions of a vast variety of contemporary art. It also holds musical performances, video and film screenings, as well as poetry slams. Klein’s work will be exhibited at the Sharada Gallery, 45 East Market Street in Rhinebeck, February 23 through March 31. She will have a solo exhibition at the GAS Gallery and Studio March 15-April 13. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 15, 5 to 7pm. For more information:www.sharadagallery.com or www.galleryandstudio.org. Portfolio: www.joanneklein.com. —Tara Quealy

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EDITORIAL INTERN Tara Quealy tquealy@chronogram.com PROOFREADER Candyce Martin-Lynch CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Millie Falcaro, Tom Cherwin, Amber S. Clark, Carolyn Corbett, Eric Francis Coppolino, DJ Wavy Davy, Richard Donnelly, Kelley Granger, Paul Grondahl, Hillary Harvey, Jen Holz, Teal Hutton, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Susan Krawitz, Quincy R. Lehr, Jennifer May, Sharon Nichols, Fionn Reilly, Hollis Seamon, Tobias Seamon, Nina Shengold, Sparrow, Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis, Robert Burke Warren, Beth E. Wilson,

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LOCAL LUMINARY TRICIA HAGGERTY-WENZ LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

“Do you mind taking the stairs? Elevators are too slow for me,” asks Tricia HaggertyWenz, executive director of Safe Harbors on the Hudson. A compact dynamo, she is leading me on a tour of the Cornerstone Residence, a building at the intersection of Broadway and Liberty Street in Newburgh with 116 units of supportive housing, 12 artist’s lofts, a professional gallery space (the Ann Street Gallery), and various amenities not often associated with affordable housing: a computer lab, a laundry room, a library. The building is spotless—Haggerty-Wenz will bend down to pick up scraps of paper from the floor throughout my tour—and scrupulous attention has been paid to the smallest details, from the tasteful furniture and art in the lobby to the paint job, which uses various warm shades of colors that are non-traditional for an “institution.” As we walk through the residence, Haggerty-Wenz greets every tenant by name, inquiring after a family member or asking if they’ll be attending a computer class later that day. Haggerty-Wenz formed Safe Harbors in 2000 and bought the 13,000-square-foot Hotel Newburgh in 2002 with a $3.1 million grant from the New York State Office of Temporary Disability and Assistance, a homeless housing assistance program. The complete gutting and rehabilitation of the dilapidated welfare hotel—where 88 people were living in squalor and drug dealers and prostitutes transacted business in the hallways—took two years, and cost $21 million, the second largest construction project in Newburgh’s history. Construction was completed in September 2006. Haggerty-Wenz cites a project her former sister-in-law, Roseanne Haggerty, spearheaded in Time Square in 1991 as inspiration. (Haggerty-Wenz and her then husband served as manual labor.) Haggerty’s organization, Common Ground, bought a fleabag hotel on 44th Street and rebuilt it into an attractive affordable housing residence that eventually drew retail clients like Ben and Jerry’s and Starbucks, and was in the vanguard of Times Square’s transformation. Safe Harbors, whose offices are housed in the Cornerstone Residence, has 25 full-time employees, most of whom directly serve the needs of tenants, from job counseling to conducting GED classes in the building’s computer lab. HaggertyWenz’s next project is restoring the vacant 800-seat Ritz Theater, adjacent to the Cornerstone Residence and owned by Safe Harbors, to its former glory. (Lucille Ball made her stage debut there in 1941.) All Haggerty-Wenz needs to do is raise $10 million for the rehabilitation. “I know I can do it,” she says. Given what Haggerty-Wenz has accomplished thus far, the project’s success seems assured. A fundraising concert by singer Levi Kreiss to benefit the restoration of the Ritz Theater will be held on February 23 at 7pm in the lobby of the theater. For tickets: (845) 562-6940; www.ticketweb.com. —Brian K. Mahoney

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eading The Rest Is Noise: Listening to theTwentieth Century by Alex Ross. An account of how classical music got from the late romanticism of Mahler to the tape loops of Steve Reich, Ross succinctly explains everything from the lives of composers under the regimes of Hitler and Stalin to Gershwin and Bernstein’s struggle to find both mainstream and pop acceptance in this country. As I know next to nothing about music theory, Ross’s extended descriptions of how music works, tracing the journey of a piece from a minor A and then through whole or half steps up or down an octave, left me befuddled, no closer to understanding why I can’t tell the difference between Schoenberg and Stravinsky. But Ross’s lyrical glosses on how music sounds were thrilling—poetry masquerading as criticism. Here Ross describes the ending of Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan: “an upward-scuttling scale in the violins, a quiet drumroll, hollow chords on scattered instruments, three thumps, and silence.” Losing the wiffle ball in the high grass on the summer solstice, a year-anda-half ago on the back side of the Shawangunk Ridge in High Falls. Twelve of us drinking wine, having a picnic, saying any absurdity that entered our heads—meaningless things you believe you’ll always have time for on the longest night of the year. The annual tradition of watching the sun go down, calling John in San Diego on his birthday, and waiting for the fireflies. Except now Pilar’s moved to Philadelphia to marry Peter, her English boyfriend, a veterinarian. And Megan and Joe live outside Albany currently, only an hour away, but we hardly ever see them. Ed and Fairlight moved to Colorado; I haven’t spoken to either of them in six months. Mark and Riddi are in Santa Cruz, Riddi having just birthed black-haired Isla Elizabeth. But it’s been long enough that I’m not sure if they were even there or not. Five of us tramped down the high grass for long two minutes looking for the ball, then gave up. Driving home from work one warm evening, window down in January, I spot a wiffle ball marooned in a mound of charcoal snow starred with gravel. Reading a profile of the photographer and model Lee Miller in the NewYorker by Judith Thurman. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, Miller would have turned 100 last April. (She died in 1977 of lung cancer.) Miller’s life and work cast a jagged shadow across the middle third of the 20th century. She was a lover of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and others as she saw fit, more like a man than a woman of her time in the exercise of sexual privilege. A drawing of Miller by Georges Lepape was featured on the cover of Vogue. She was one of the few women accredited as a war correspondent during World War II; her pitiless images of the concentration camps are among her best-known work. On April 30, 1945, the day after Dachau was liberated, Miller and Dave Scherman, who worked for Life, were among the first journalists to document the human wasteland that Nazi barbarism had created. Later that day, Scherman and

Miller finagled a stay in Hitler’s private apartment in Munich from the 45th Infantry Division. Scherman took Miller’s picture nude in Hitler’s bathtub, a photograph of the Führer resting against the back wall of the tub—just hours after documenting the crime of the century. Thurman calls it “a sensational moment of callous clowning.” I visited Auschwitz/Birkenau with my mother and sister five years ago. After a morning of touring the grounds at the former concentration camp sites, we drove on to Prague and checked into our hotel. After freshening up, we ate Indian food in a restaurant just off the Old Town square. I drank four or five bottles of pivo with the spicy vindaloo. In the morning, we walked across the Charles Bridge in a misting rain to visit the castle with the rest of the tourists. Discovering another expression for bad luck courtesy of Martha Frankel: hats and eyeglasses. It’s the title of her memoir about gambling and family (a review can be found on page 52). The term refers to what happens when a ship sinks, and all the cargo—human or otherwise—sinks along with it. What floats to the surface—hats and eyeglasses. Listening to Dylan’s “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. It’s the seventh song on the second disc of the I’m Not There soundtrack, sandwiched between “I Wanna BeYour Lover” byYo La Tengo and “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” by The Hold Steady. Hansard and Irglova, known for singing and starring in the wistful indie romance Once, unlock the song’s unalloyed, propulsive joy with their harmony in a way that Dylan’s weary drone never could. He wrote it, but they now own it. The type of hopeful, happy three minutes of music that makes me want to learn guitar, like Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York.” I play the song over and over in my car for days on end. The words make no logical sense—“Genghis Khan and his brother Don /could not keep from keeping on”; “Whoo-ee! Ride me high”—as one might expect from Dylan, but I shout along just the same to their intuitive logic. What is it about certain collections of sounds that possesses us, as if we suffered from a mania? Getting the news that Heath Ledger, who portrayed one of Dylan’s personas in I’m Not There, had been found dead in his apartment, at the age of 28. Whoo-ee! Ride me high Tomorrow’s the day My bride’s gonna come Oh, oh, are we gonna fly Down into the easy chair

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I despise Facebook.This enormously successful American business describes itself as “a social utility that connects you with the people around you.” But hang on. Why on God’s Earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of super-geeks in California? What was wrong with the pub? And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn’t it rather disconnect us, since instead of doing something enjoyable with such as talking and eating and dancing and drinking with my friends, I am merely sending them little ungrammatical notes and amusing photos in cyberspace while chained to my desk? A friend of mine recently told me that he had spent a Saturday night at home alone on Facebook, drinking at his desk.What a gloomy image. Far from connecting us, Facebook actually isolates us at our workstations. Facebook appeals to a kind of vanity and self-importance in us, too. If I put up a flattering picture of myself with a list of my favorite things, I can construct an artificial representation of who I am in order to get sex or approval. (“I like Facebook,” said another friend. “I got laid out of it.”) It also encourages a disturbing competitiveness around friendship: It seems that with friends today, quality counts for nothing and quantity is king. The more friends you have, the better you are.You are “popular,” in the sense of being much loved in high school. Witness the cover line on Dennis Publishing’s new Facebook magazine: “How To Double Your Friends List.” It seems, though, that I am very much alone in my hostility. At the time of writing Facebook claims 59 million active users, including 7 million in the UK, Facebook’s third-biggest customer after the US and Canada. That’s 59 million suckers, all of whom have volunteered their ID card information and consumer preferences to an American business they know nothing about. Right now, two million new people join each week. At the present rate of growth, Facebook will have more than 200 million active users by this time next year. And I would predict that, if anything, its rate of growth will accelerate over the coming months. As its spokesman, Chris Hughes, says, “It’s embedded itself to an extent where it’s hard to get rid of.” All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook forever. But there are more reasons to hate it. Many more. THE PAYPAL MAFIA Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought-out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don’t mind being bombarded 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

by ads for the world’s biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past. Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. There are only three board members on Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg, and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners (more on him later). Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook when Harvard students Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskowitz went to meet him in San Francisco in June 2004, soon after they had launched the site. Thiel now reportedly owns 7 percent of Facebook, which, at Facebook’s current valuation of $15 billion, would be worth more than $1 billion.There is much debate on who, exactly, the original co-founders of Facebook were, but, whoever they were, Zuckerberg is the only one left on the board, although Hughes and Moskowitz still work for the company. Thiel is widely regarded in Silicon Valley and in the US venture capital scene as a libertarian genius. He is the co-founder and CEO of the virtual banking system PayPal, which he sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion, taking $55 million for himself. He also runs a $4.5 billion hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management and a venture capital fund called Founders Fund. Bloomberg Markets magazine recently called him “one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the country.” He has made money by betting on rising oil prices and by correctly predicting that the dollar would weaken. He and his absurdly wealthy Silicon Valley friends have recently been labeled “The PayPal Mafia” by Fortune magazine, whose reporter also observed that Thiel has a uniformed butler and a $500,000 McLaren supercar. Thiel is also a chess master and intensely competitive. He has been known to sweep the chessmen off the table in a fury when losing. And he does not apologize for this hyper-competitiveness, saying, “Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.” But Thiel is more than just a clever and avaricious capitalist. He is a futurist philosopher and neocon activist. A philosophy graduate from Stanford, in 1998 he co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth, which is a detailed attack on liberalism and the multiculturalist ideology that dominated Stanford. He claimed that the “multiculture” led to a lessening of individual freedoms.While a student at Stanford, Thiel founded a right-wing journal, still up and running, called The Stanford Review; its motto: Fiat Lux (“Let there be light”). Thiel is a member of TheVanguard.Org, an Internet-based neoconservative pressure group that was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the web. Thiel calls himself “way libertarian.” The Vanguard is run by one Rod D. Martin, a philosopher-capitalist whom Thiel greatly admires. On the site, Thiel says, “Rod is one of our nation’s lead-

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ing minds in the creation of new and needed ideas for public policy. He possesses a more complete understanding of America than most executives have of their own businesses.” This little taster from their website will give you an idea of their vision for the world: “The Vanguard.org is an online community of Americans who believe in conservative values, the free market and limited government as the best means to bring hope and ever-increasing opportunity to everyone, especially the poorest among us.”Their aim is to promote policies that will “reshape America and the globe.” The Vanguard describes its politics as “Reaganite/ Thatcherite.” The chairman’s message says, “Today we’ll teach MoveOn, Hillary and the left-wing media some lessons they never imagined.” So Thiel’s politics are not in doubt. What about his philosophy? I listened to a podcast of an address Thiel gave about his ideas for the future. His philosophy, briefly, is this: Since the 17th century, certain enlightened thinkers have been taking the world away from the old-fashioned nature-bound life, and here he quotes Thomas Hobbes’s famous characterization of life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” and toward a new, virtual world where we have conquered nature. Value now exists in imaginary things. Thiel says that PayPal was motivated by this belief: that you can find value not in real manufactured objects, but in the relations between human beings. PayPal was a way of moving money around the world with no restriction. Bloomberg Markets puts it like this: “For Thiel, PayPal was all about freedom: It would enable people to skirt currency controls and move money around the globe.” Clearly, Facebook is another über-capitalist experiment: Can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries—and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.

So, by his own admission,Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls “nature,” and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer. The third board member of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, who put $12.7 million into Facebook in April 2005. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Now, these are the people who are really making things happen in America, because they invest in the new young talent, the Zuckerbergs and the like. Facebook’s most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, which put in the sum of $27.5 million. One of Greylock’s senior partners is Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What’s In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out its website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 the organization set up its own venture capital fund, InQ-Tel, which “identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions”. The US defense department and the CIA love technology because it makes spying easier. “We need to find new ways to deter new adversaries,” then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in 2003. “We need to make the leap into the information age, which is the critical foundation of our transformation efforts.” InQ-Tel’s first chairman was Gilman Louie, who served on the board of the NVCA with Breyer. Another key figure in the In-Q-Tel team is Anita K. Jones, former Director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense, and—with Breyer—board member of BBN Technologies. When she left the Department of Defense, Senator Chuck Robb paid her the following tribute: “She brought the technology and operational military communities together to design detailed plans to sustain US dominance on the battlefield into the next century.”

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THE SHEEP LOOK UP Thiel’s philosophical mentor is one René Girard of Stanford University, proponent of a theory of human behavior called mimetic desire. Girard reckons that people are essentially sheep-like and will copy one another without much reflection. The theory would also seem to be proved correct in the case of Thiel’s virtual worlds: The desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence, financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook. Girard is a regular at Thiel’s intellectual soirees. What you don’t hear about in Thiel’s philosophy, by the way, are oldfashioned real-world concepts such as art, beauty, love, pleasure, and truth. The Internet is immensely appealing to neocons such as Thiel because it promises a certain sort of freedom in human relations and in business, freedom from pesky national laws, national boundaries, and suchlike. The Internet opens up a world of free trade and laissez-faire expansion. Thiel also seems to approve of offshore tax havens, and claims that 40 percent of the world’s wealth resides in places such as Vanuatu, the Cayman Islands, Monaco, and Barbados. I think it’s fair to say that Thiel, like Rupert Murdoch, is against tax. He also likes the globalization of digital culture because it makes the banking overlords hard to attack: “You can’t have a workers’ revolution to take over a bank if the bank is in Vanuatu,” he says. If life in the past was nasty, brutish, and short, then in the future Thiel wants to make it much longer, and to this end he has also invested in a firm that is exploring life-extension technologies. He has pledged over $5 million to a Cambridge, UK-based gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey, who is searching for the key to immortality. Thiel is also on the board of advisers of something called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. From its fantastical website, the following: “The Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-thanhuman intelligence. There are several technologies heading in this direction: artificial intelligence, direct brain-computer interfaces, genetic engineering, different technologies which, if they reached a threshold level of sophistication, would enable the creation of smarter-than-human intelligence.” 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

SOCIAL CONSUMERISM Now, even if you don’t buy the idea that Facebook is some kind of extension of the American imperialist program crossed with a massive information-gathering tool, there is no way of denying that as a business, it is pure mega-genius. Some ’Net nerds have suggested that its $15 billion valuation is excessive, but I would argue that, if anything, that is too modest. Its scale really is dizzying, and the potential for growth is virtually limitless. “We want everyone to be able to use Facebook,” says the impersonal voice of Big Brother on the website. I’ll bet they do. It is Facebook’s enormous potential that led Microsoft to buy 1.6 percent for $240 million. A recent rumor says that Asian investor Lee KaShing, said to be the ninth richest man in the world, has bought .4 percent of Facebook for $60 million. The creators of the site need do very little, bar fiddling with the program. For the most part, they simply sit back and watch as millions of Facebook addicts voluntarily upload their ID details, photographs, and lists of their favorite consumer objects. Once in receipt of this vast database of human beings, Facebook then simply has to sell the information back to advertisers, or, as Zuckerberg puts it in a recent blog post, “to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web.” And, indeed, this is precisely what’s happening. On November 6 of last year, Facebook announced that 12 global brands had climbed on board. They included Coca-Cola, Blockbuster, Verizon, Sony Pictures, and Conde Nast. All trained in marketing bullshit of the highest order, their representatives made excited comments along the following lines:

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here is my ﬁrst monthly report to the Hudson Valley community on the work

of Sustainable Hudson Valley. SHV has two big goals: to help our communities deal with the climate crisis and, in the process, birth a creative, green economy of diverse, locally-controlled and highly successful businesses. And we have a great new problem: staying out in front of the amazing local initiatives that are coming to life.

While this work needs everyone, the formal leaders of our institutions, businesses and governments have a special responsibility and opportunity. So, to begin this action campaign, we are inviting CEO’s Pledges to reduce their carbon footprint and plan for unavoidable climate change impacts. We will track these on our website and provide regular feeds to the news media on commitments and progress being made.

On the green economy front, two major efforts are underway: education

These steps launch a season of direct positive action, building up to an

and training programs through the Green Design Resource Center at

April worthy of the name Earth ACTION Month.

Tech City; and the formation of a Green Products and Services Sourcing Network to make sure that Hudson Valley development projects make use of Hudson Valley green companies, beginning with the expansion of Stewart Airport.

Cool Kingston, our home town urban greening project, is organizing its 2008 events schedule along a corridor that we have informally renamed the Kingston Green Trail. Extending from the Ulster County Ofﬁce Building down to the Rondout waterfront, the Green Trail

On the climate front, we are using the largest teach-in in history, Focus

will receive our loving focus for education and action projects. So far

the Nation, as a springboard to raise the proﬁle of the Municipal

on the schedule will include: workshops on green roofs and urban

Climate Protection Partnership, formed last August at a summit of

permaculture, a “bike-friendly city” initiative, and a visit from a group

110 local leaders.

of state funding agencies to explore possible demonstration projects.

To ﬁnd out more, visit www.sustainhv.org.

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“With Facebook Ads, our brands can become a part of the way users communicate and interact on Facebook,” said Carol Kruse, vice president, global interactive marketing, the Coca-Cola Company. “We view this as an innovative way to cultivate relationships with millions of Facebook users by enabling them to interact with Blockbuster in convenient, relevant, and entertaining ways,” said Jim Keyes, Blockbuster chairman and CEO. “This is beyond creating advertising impressions. This is about Blockbuster participating in the community of the consumer so that, in return, consumers feel motivated to share the benefits of our brand with their friends.” “Share” is Facebook-speak for “advertise.” Sign up at Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advertisement for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends.We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships. Now, by comparison with Facebook, newspapers, for example, begin to look hopelessly outdated as a business model. A newspaper sells advertising space to businesses looking to sell stuff to their readers. But the system is far less sophisticated than Facebook for two reasons. One is that newspapers have to put up with the irksome expense of paying journalists to provide the content. Facebook gets its content for free. The other is that Facebook can target advertising with far greater precision than a newspaper. Admit on Facebook that your favorite film is This Is Spinal Tap, and when a Spinal Tap-esque movie comes out, you can be sure that the site will be sending ads your way. It’s true that Facebook recently got into hot water with its Beacon advertising program. Users were notified that one of their friends had made a purchase at certain online shops; 46,000 users felt that this level of advertising was intrusive, and signed a petition titled “Facebook! Stop invading my privacy!” to say so. Zuckerberg apologized on his company blog. He has written that they have now changed the system from “opt-out” to “opt-in.” But I suspect that this little rebellion about being so ruthlessly commodified will soon be forgotten: After all, there was a national outcry by the civil liberties movement when the idea of a police force was mooted in the UK in the mid 19th century. Furthermore, have you Facebook users ever actually read the privacy policy? It tells you that you don’t have much privacy. (See sidebar.) Facebook pretends to be about freedom, but isn’t it really more like an ideologically motivated virtual totalitarian regime with a population that will very soon exceed the UK’s? Thiel and the rest have created their own country, a country of consumers. TALKING CURE Now, you may, like Thiel and the other new masters of the cyberverse, find this social experiment tremendously exciting. Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of the 17th century sailed away to North America, a world where everyone is free to express themselves as they please, according to who is watching. National boundaries are a thing of the past and everyone cavorts together in freewheeling, virtual space. Nature has been conquered through man’s boundless ingenuity.Yes, and you may decide to send genius investor Thiel all your money, and certainly you’ll be waiting impatiently for the public flotation of the unstoppable Facebook. Or you might reflect that you don’t really want to be part of this heavily funded program to create an arid, global, virtual republic, where your own self and your relationships with your friends are converted into commodities on sale to giant global brands.You may decide that you don’t want to be part of this takeover bid for the world. For my own part, I am going to retreat from the whole thing, remain as unplugged as possible, and spend the time I save by not going on Facebook doing something useful, such as reading books. Why would I want to waste my time on Facebook when I still haven’t read Keats’s Endymion? And when there are seeds to be sown in my own back yard? I don’t want to retreat from nature, I want to reconnect with it. Damn air-conditioning! And if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology. It’s free, it’s easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: It’s called talking. This article originally appeared in the Guardian on January 14, 2008. Copyright Guardian UK 2008. 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

FACEBOOK’S PRIVACY POLICY Just for fun, try substituting the words “Big Brother” whenever you read the word “Facebook.” 1. We will advertise at you. “When you use Facebook, you may set up your personal proﬁle, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features.”

2. You can’t delete anything. “When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.”

3. Anyone can glance at your intimate confessions. “We cannot and do not guarantee that user content you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your user content.”

4. Our marketing proﬁle of you will be unbeatable. “Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.”

5. Opting out doesn’t mean opting out. “Facebook reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary e-mail notiﬁcations.”

6. The CIA may look at the stuff when it feels like it. “By using Facebook, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good-faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents, or government agencies.”

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Commentary

Beinhart’s Body Politic

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID It’s official. Talk of recession. We might or might not be in one. If we’re not in one, one might or might not be coming. But we are officially talking about it. Most of the talk is warm and reassuring. Which is a good trick, considering the subject. According to NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the NewYork Times, the economy is just fine and dandy, it just needs a few twitches and tweaks. Monetary policy! That’s the answer! The Fed will cut the interest rate. George Bush will come in with a new stimulus package (tax cuts, tax cuts, make my tax cuts permanent!) and Nancy Pelosi (the Queen of Effective Politics) will come out with her version (tax cuts, tax cuts!). And it will be fixed. The general public is much more concerned.We were concerned even before this talk of recession. Why do regular folks feel different than the pros? Because they live in different economies. The politicians, the pundits, and the economists live in, or serve the people who live in, a world that’s awash with money. Trillions of dollars are floating around, growing and growing. But the average person makes about $75 dollars less a week than back in 1973 (source: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense [and Stick You With the Bill] by David Cay Johnston). The price of gas and heating oil has doubled in the Bush years, medical costs have gone up about 80 percent, education costs more, local taxes are up, pensions have disappeared, Social Security is threatened, and, worst of all, we don’t expect our children to do better than we have done. The Bush Administration inherited an incredibly wealthy country with a very sound economy. They looked upon it with the mentality of oil men. They saw a great big puddle of money that could be pumped into the pockets of themselves, their friends, and their contributors. They dressed their policies in the clothing of freemarket ideology so that it would look respectable— sensible and even idealistic—when it went on TV. They needed to change that wealth into cash. 32 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

They could not, for the most part, literally sell off our assets. Besides, that’s old fashioned. What they did instead, was borrow against them. Taxes were cut, primarily for the wealthy and in ways that favored unearned income (dividends, capital gains, inherited money) over earned income, that stuff you have to work for. Meanwhile, they spent lavishly. Insofar as possible, spending was directed to favored businesses: pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking and financial services, and, of course, big oil, for whom they spent a trillion dollars to take over an oil-rich nation. While this made certain people very rich, it also created a huge debt. The debt is owed by other people. The nation as a whole. Us. The theory under which these policies were sold is that the rich are the investor class. (Conservative columnist Bob Novak calls them “the most creative class.”) The more money they have, the more they will invest in new businesses. That creates wealth and new, better jobs. Everyone prospers and the nation grows stronger. That’s not what happened. The economy, as measured by the GDP (gross domestic product, the sum of all transactions) did “grow” by 35 percent. That’s what the White House and the tame media all talk about. Corporate profits hit record highs. If the economy grew and profits were high, we would expect that the value of America’s businesses would have grown. One way to get a picture of that is to look at the stock market, which displays the market value of the country’s top, publicly traded companies. For example, in the Clinton years, the Dow Jones Average increased by 325 percent.That’s wall-to-wall, after the dot-com bubble burst. After seven years of Bush, the Dow Jones is up a mere 10 percent. Adjusted for inflation, that’s flat, or even a loss. Median income (what the average person earns), is down. Job creation in the private sector has barely kept pace with population growth. If the “growth” in the economy didn’t create more value in our businesses, did not raise our in-

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comes, did not create new jobs—where is it? There is a magic number called the M3. The M3 money supply measures all the money in circulation. The M3, already growing fast, took off like a rocket. Conspiracy theorists will be delighted that the Fed stopped publishing the M3 in 2006. But if the trajectory is followed, it is clear that it accounts for the growth in the US economy. Probably all of it. Or damn near. The only thing that grew was the amount of money. The moral of the story is that throwing more money to rich people—especially when there’s already lots around—does not improve the economy. The rich don’t know what to do with it. They just put it in real estate. The most passive, unproductive investment imaginable. Can it be fixed? If we regard the economy as a social institution and a source of America’s strength, then the answer is yes. It requires raising taxes, especially on the wealthy and on corporations, balancing the budget, getting rid of excess privatization, creating energy independence, and investing in both physical and social infrastructure. To do that we have to switch—in the upper echelons of politics, punditry, media, and economists— from blind worship of the mythical free markets to the practicalities of socially conscious regulation. Or the people have to rise up with a great cry of “This is ridiculous, do something sensible.” The last time that happened, it took a market crash and the Great Depression to get us there. Back when Clinton the Husband ran against Bush the Elder, he had a sign over his desk to remind him what the campaign had to concentrate on. It said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The Republican candidates all think the economy is hunky-dory and promise more of the same. But at least one of the Democrats should stop being a corporate whore in search of campaign donations long enough to get hold of a crayon and piece of cardboard and remake Bill’s old sign. But none have yet. “It’s the economy, stupid.”

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ART OF BUSINESS

DOT-COM DJ Mixaloo By Kelley Granger photos by Matt Petricone

The hall in Poughkeepsie’s Dooley Plaza is lined with relics of a bygone time. A newspaper clipping from a 1907 issue of the Putnam Hall Chronicle is matted and suspended in a frame. A battered pack of Beechnut Brands chewing gum and a package of Philip Morris & Co. cigarettes dangle in a shadow box. A timeworn plaque for J. D. Johnson Co., the pipe, valve, and fitting company that once operated here, still dominates the wall across from the entrance. It’s not the type of environment you’d expect to find cutting-edge technology, but the historic plaza by the train track is home to the developers of Mixaloo, a new web application that has brought a jazzier version of the mixtape into the 21st century. Perhaps this is not surprising, considering that CEO and founder Mark Stutzman isn’t quite what you’d expect for a techie, either. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, he was an English literature major and used to pound out loud, aggressive sets as the drummer in his band, Poureurik, with local guitar legend Johnnie Wang. Stutzman says he was lucky to get involved in the Internet boom as early as he did. After college in 1994, IBM hired him to work on one of its first Internet-commerce projects. After his stint there, Stutzman spent a few years as CEO and chief technology officer for Bolt.com, an online community for teens that boasted millions of users at its peak. Then, in 2000, Stutzman departed to found Digital Variant, a full-service interactive marketing firm specializing in social networking sites that has done work for companies from Comedy Central to Smithsonian magazine. By late 2006, Stutzman was dreaming up his next venture—Mixaloo. “I’ve always been thinking about ways to marry my passion for music and my passion and skills online,” Stutzman says. “When I first started thinking about Mixaloo, I was really trying to think about how musicians can take advantage of this new viral social landscape to better market their products.” The application, which allows users to create customized playlists and personalize the mixes with names (example: Stutzman’s mix titled “Rockin’ the Suburbs,” a compilation of Nirvana, Ben Folds Five, Genesis, and of course, 34 COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK CHRONOGRAM 2/08

Primus), was originally envisioned as a promotion solution for independent musicians. Stutzman says he quickly realized that the site’s success would depend on its ability to offer big-name music as well. The idea continued to take shape quickly over the course of a year, beginning in late 2006. With the help of cofounder Mark Peabody and investors, a private test site was running less than a year later and a public beta site was introduced in December 2007. In that short amount of time, Stutzman and his team had procured three-anda-half-million songs through deals with major record labels and made them available for users on the site to create modern-day mixtapes. This agreement allows users to download anything from Alan Jackson to Fergie to Zebrahead. “It was a challenge,” Stutzman says of getting the record labels to make a deal. “There’s not a lot of companies who are actually doing what we’re doing. Labels have never really been fans of custom compilations, which is really what this is. But I think they recognize there’s a couple of things that Mixaloo’s doing right.” In the midst of an illegal download crisis for labels, Mixaloo proposed a unique concept that would profit everyone involved. “We proactively started discussions with the labels to do it right from the get-go,” Stutzman says. “We’re giving a legal way to share music on people’s profiles, with their friends, wherever else. And the second thing is it’s all about driving sales. It’s all about actually selling these tracks.” The sales aspect is what makes Mixaloo definitively different from other music sites and applications. Users who create mixes are given the option to promote them on a variety of social-networking sites. Once published there, other users browsing the profile can listen to 30-second clips of each song and opt to purchase the mix. When someone buys the compilation, Mixaloo splits the profits with the user who created it 50/50. As you create a mix, the application automatically tallies your earnings potential for you to see. A 10-to15-song mix will generally earn a user about $1.50 to $2 per sale. “What really ends up happening is, we get away from this paradigm of the music store, the one place you go to get all your music,” Stutzman says. “Now

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Mixaloo is building this vast distribution network where the fans of the music, the ones who are most passionate about it, are actually promoting it. And they’re promoting it to their friends, so it becomes a trusted source.” Mixaloo has set up a payment system through PayPal, and a user must reach an earnings threshold of $20 to receive compensation. “At the end of the year, we’ll pay out everyone anyway,” Stutzman says. “At the end of the fiscal year, if we owe you two bucks, that two dollars is going to get paid out.Twenty dollars is the threshold for the monthly automated schedule. We wanted to make it a reasonable number so we weren’t cutting checks for one dollar.” Users also earn Mixaloo points, which are redeemable for everything from Mixaloo gear to mp3 players and flash drives. Still, some users have expressed distress in blogs, like one on MySpace that accuses Mixaloo of defeating the purpose of a mixtape, which has traditionally been given as a gift, by charging money for the download. “Twenty years ago a mix tape was something that you made and gave to your friends,” Stutzman says. “The definition of friends has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Now on your Myspace page you might have 3,000 friends. Now, that doesn’t mean that you would burn a CD for 3,000 of your closest friends and send it out to them for nothing. It does mean that this is a great way to share it with people and introduce them to the music you’re into.” Plus, traditional mix tapes have never really been legal. “I get the comment that mix tapes are supposed to be free,” Stutzman says. “But unfortunately, sharing music in the current environment is illegal and it’s what all of the labels are battling. So we give people a way to share music in a legal way.” This innovative blend of music, social networking, and a rewards system caught the eye of Mashable, one of the leading online voices of the tech community. “Mashable actually named us one of the seven coolest web apps for 2007, which is just awesome for us,” Stutzman says. Mashable’s Open Web Awards, where users cast the votes for winners, ranked Mixaloo as a finalist

among more established sites like Pandora and Last.fm. “That’s pretty extraordinary for a site that’s been live for three weeks,” Stutzman says. Mashable’s Stan Schroeder wrote that “mixtapes are retro in an undeniably cool way, and Mixaloo comes as near to the concept of a mixtape as possible.” Just a month after launching its public beta, Mixaloo has registered more than 137,000 users, and has been encouraging users to give feedback so that they can better tailor the site to consumer needs. Stutzman says there is no shortage of ideas. “We’re planning on turning Mixaloo into more of a destination site, more of a full-blown community, finding folks that are similar to you based on the music you listen to,” Stutzman says. With users spending an average of 20 to 25 minutes selecting tracks to create their mixes, Mixaloo will be continually upgrading its offerings. “Our goal here is not to compete with social networks,” Stutzman says. “But we already do, and we’re going to have a lot more people active on the site building their mixes. So it’s only logical to give them more on the site around the music.” Stutzman says the Mixaloo team of six full-time workers and one parttimer (as well as “cherry-picked” Marist interns, three of which eventually joined the team) is a youthful, driven group. “Everyone is totally into Mixaloo,” Stutzman says. “It’s kind of hard not to be excited about a project like Mixaloo, because no matter who you are you’re into music. And software developers tend to be into music more than most people. Our challenge is always prioritizing the work, but there’s no lack of direction for Mixaloo.There are so many great ideas out there.” It’s free to register as a user at the Mixaloo website, where you can create your mixes, listen to clips of artists and publish your mix to social-networking sites. Independent musicians who would like their music to be available on the site should opt for digital distribution on partner sites like CDBaby and The Orchard. www.mixaloo.com. 2/08 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35

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Portfolio Ion Zupcu

Visitors to Ion Zupcu’s home and studio in Hopewell Junction are greeted by a series of intimate portraits of Zupcu’s daughter Christina—a series he began when she was four, interrupted by his emigration to the US from Romania in 1991, but which became an annual ritual when she rejoined him here at age 11. The careful attention to detail, immaculate gelatin-silver printing, and very organized, aesthetically sensitive approach to his subject evident in this series are qualities that carry over to all of his ﬁne art work as well, including his most recent series, Works on Paper. Inspired by the paper models Christina was making a few years ago in her architectural studies, Zupcu began photographing tiny, carefully folded and lit bits of paper—the largest

actual subject is no more than one inch across—using his square-format Hasselblad camera. Enlarged to 15-by-15-inch prints, the play of light and shadow in these images takes on an unexpected power, creating abstractions that at times seem like the photographic rival of the slashed canvases of Lucio Fontana. This newest series of Zupcu’s work has now been published by Park Island Press in a beautifully produced book, Ion Zupcu: Works on Paper, which is available at the Merritt Bookstores, or through the photographer’s website, www.ionzupcu.ro. As this goes to press, Clamp Art gallery is planning a solo show of his work in New York City, set to open in late March. —Beth E. Wilson

ION ZUPCU ON HIS WORK Drawn to the square

Works on paper

The seduction of sepia

I use photography to express my drawings. I don’t have any knowledge about painting, and I don’t know how to make big drawings, so what I was doing was very small drawings, just trying to get down the masses, get to an idea about how just a simple line will respond within a square, based on the format of my camera. I use photography to give life to that drawing. It’s not what we all know about photography; it’s a bit different.

Two of my galleries helped [in] producing the book. One of them just kept asking that I should have a book of my works on paper. At that point, the ﬁrst half was already done, and then I did the design for the book, and realized there weren’t that many photographs for it, just 20 images.

I was using sepia tone on the previous works I had been doing. When this came [work on paper series], I did the ﬁrst half with the sepia. For the newer part I felt I needed a cool tone, so black-and-white worked better. I’ve been perceived as a sepia-tone photographer. It has a romantic sense. It has an older, sort of vintage look. I’ve always thought that people got tired of it, but now I had this new body of work coming out, and now people keep asking, “Why isn’t it sepia?” They love sepia, actually. But I don’t see the new images as being sepia at all. Why? Because most of them are on the dark side, believe it or not, most of them were photographed on a black background, black paper. And then through exposure, some parts are becoming lighter. If that was toned sepia, that would turn into very dark, very dramatic images. Which is not my intention. My intention is just the shape.

If you try the spiral [one of the images in the book], starting from other parts of the square, it’s not going to end up as beautiful as from there. The square is a very challenging format. It’s a very balanced size. Whatever you put within the square, there are other forces that you have to ﬁght. Don’t get it too balanced, or formal, which I’ve been told I was [doing] at one point. I’ve had many ﬁghts with the square.

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I knew that I had about six months in front of me, and I decided to do another body of work based on works on paper, too. I made a schedule of my life: every day, from 8 to 12 or 1, I was to be in the studio and just shoot. From 1 to 5 I was doing drawings, from 5 to later that night I was processing the ﬁlm. So after six months, I came up with 20 images [to add to the book]. [The second series of photographs are] a response to great artists, whose work I admire. For example, [pointing to the image Woman in his book], this is a response to Willem de Kooning’s Women. I cannot reproduce the ugly woman, but at least I can use the title and respond to that title differently.

Above: (Clockwise from top left) Birds in Moonlight, 2007; March 8, 2004; Large Number of Hopes, 2007; March 6, 2004. Opposite:Turn, 2006 Western promises

A good pencil

I was exposed to Western music and art and everything else way before I came here. Radio Free Europe, which was on 24 hours a day, had music, art, politics, everything. So I was exposed to Western music, I knew all about jazz in the 1970s, probably as good as you. It’s my favorite kind [of music].

I haven’t done much with digital [in my fine art photography]. I use digital now for my commercial work, but I’m just not interested at this point [in using it for the fine art work]. I don’t care about what Canon and Nikon are delivering to people. I’m not about buying cameras and equipment. When you switch to something else, it could take years. If you’re going from a square [format] to a rectangle, that takes sometimes at least a year to get used to that shape. You’re editing, and whatever you decide to have in that image should get into that square. So you’re framing things that you have in your mind that fit in a square. And all of a sudden, you decide to frame everything that you have in your mind in a rectangle. I’m not about that. I’m more concerned about getting creative than in trying to figure out how to format with the technology that they’re using these days. Good photography is not about the camera. It’s about the eye, and what my thoughts are. The camera doesn’t say anything.

The US is my favorite country. I’ve been a citizen for the past two years. I can’t wait to vote now. It’s my first [presidential] election. We don’t just happen to be here. We really respect and love this country. When I came here, I discovered ICP [the International Center for Photography in Manhattan], AIPAD [the major fine art photography fair], and that’s what photography was doing. I always felt like I had something to say. Even now, there’s only one or two galleries in Romania that have photography. When I left my country in 1991, there were no galleries there for photography. You can’t make a living as a fine art photographer there. There’s much more opportunity here.

The equipment is like a pencil. You get used to this pencil, it writes well—wonderful, just keep it. Don’t change it. If you have to change, you have to change up here [pointing toward his head], you have to be creative. I would like to see totally different things than other people, I hope. That’s what I love about this job, being creative. Photographic memory With the early images in the book, it’s a diary of who I am at those different times of my life when I was taking photographs. The circle, it’s just March 6, 2004. It’s when I took that photograph. It doesn’t need a title. Being abstract, it shouldn’t have a title, it should be untitled. That’s the beauty of photography. Photography creates memory. Without memory we’re not living. That’s why we know who we are, because of memory. It doesn’t have smell, it doesn’t have anything. So it’s just memory. A photograph—that’s time. A slice of time.

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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON

DRAWN TOGETHER Drawing has traditionally served as a jumping-off point for what was to be the “real” work, the fully realized/finished painting or sculpture that succeeded its sketchy preliminary rendition. In the hands of a master draftsman such as Ingres in the 19th century, drawings could be drop-dead gorgeous, minutely detailed works in their own right, although always still playing second fiddle to classically finished oil painting. But beginning with the Impressionists, the old academic worldview began to crack, and the painted sketch began to stand on its own as an autonomous work of art. By the early 20th century, drawing (and its scissor-sister, collage) made a strong bid for significance—understanding early Cubism would be impossible without all those analytic pasted newsprint-and-charcoal experiments by Braque and Picasso. In more recent years, in the wake of postmodernism’s Cuisinart of culture (throw in one part high art, one part mass culture, and hit “pulse”), the old guard modernist distinctions between (and insistence on) specific media have given way to what the theorist Rosalind Krauss has called the “post-medium condition.” A great deal of contemporary art practice has become fluid, transient, and organized around performance or social engagement with the viewer, by whatever means necessary—sculpture, painting, video, creating your own chocolate factory, you name it. In the midst of this free-for-all, drawing has emerged, with a certain irony, as the preeminent medium of nonmedium-specific art. Perhaps because its uses have historically been so elastic, it has found ways to stretch out and embrace possibilities that something as stringently codified as painting has had a harder time doing. Perhaps it’s because in this current moment of flux, of feeling inbetween (historically, artistically, you name it), the tentative associations of the medium have a special resonance. Against this backdrop appears the current show at Garrison Art Center, “Drawing Revealed,” curated by Susan English and Jaanika Peerna. (Especially 40 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM 2/08

refreshing in this context is the fact that neither of these artists has included her own work in the exhibition—a frequent, if dicey, potentially conflict-laden practice of late.) The artists included in the show memorably chart the enormous territory embraced now by the term “drawing.” Painter Laura Battle has created a significant body of work in graphite on gray paper, networks of geometrically generated lines that seem to pulse with a delicate energy impossible to capture in reproduction.This work is an important adjunct to her painting practice, yet provides distinctly different opportunities for her to pursue—these are not preparatory sketches in any traditional sense, but freestanding, independent (and gorgeous) works in their own right. Charlotte Schulz takes the concept of the finished drawing even further— once a painter, she’s now all but abandoned that medium in favor of creating obsessively detailed, dreamlike architectural spaces in charcoal. The details of these locations are at once very specific, yet at crucial junctures a bit blurred, or indistinct, and emptied of human presence, which allows the viewer to slip him/herself into the scene, as though taking on the dream space of someone else’s unconscious, to uncanny effect. At the other end of the scale from Schulz is Thomas Huber, a painter who documents his working process here in a wall installation of sketches, notations, doodles and scraps, ultimately building toward the idea of his abstracted paintings, which are built through layering and collage. Here drawing serves as staging ground for work in another medium, although the emphasis on process, and the concept of presenting that process as an installation provide the contemporary twist. Jeesoo Lee, a recent SUNY New Paltz graduate (and winner of the prestigious Thayer Fellowship) also shows drawings intended as preparatory work for her paintings—here she uses thread and tiny strips of paper to create what are actually small maquettes for her ambitious, sculptural paintings. (Her MFA thesis show consisted of a gigantic, multipart collage/painting that devoured the enormous back wall of the Dorsky Museum’s Chandler space.)

ABOVE: KINGSTON RECLAMATION REFORMATION ACT, SIMON DRAPER, PAINTED DOOR AND SHUTTER PANELS, 2007 OPPOSITE: UNTITLED, JAQ BELCHER TRADAK, HANDCUT PAPER, 2005

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Mount Beacon Fine Art The very concept of drawing is interrogated by other artists in the show— rather than employ “normal” means such as pencil or charcoal to make lines on paper, Jaq Belcher cuts repeated forms into white paper, prying the edges up to create elegant formal patterns of light and shadow. Line is transposed into the concept of the cut, a brilliant fusion of drawing and collage. Nancy Bauch takes a different direction altogether. A ceramicist, she collects and intricately arranges found objects on a table in her workshop, something she considers to be her “sketchbook.” She describes her process—predicated on her admitted inability to draw in the traditional sense—in a documentary video prepared by the curators, which presents the artists in their studios, speaking directly to their varying approaches and aesthetic philosophies. The video is a great accompaniment to the show, and ought to go far in explaining to the public what otherwise might seem a bit perplexing in this unconventional exhibition. While Susan English’s work is not included in the Garrison show that she curated, it does make an appearance in Beacon this month, where gallerist Carl Van Brunt has managed to conjure up another intriguingly curated group show, which in its own way is as unconventional as the Garrison drawing exhibition. “Little Big Things” successfully manages to balance Buddhist consciousness with market practicality, along the way presenting a number of critically interesting artists. The press release for the show begins by contrasting the physical size of Richard Serra’s Dia sculptures with the vastness of the universe on a cosmic scale—they really are but “specks of dust on a speck of dust in a far corner of our galaxy”—and draws attention (or should I say “mindfulness”?) to the importance and scale of ideas in consciousness. In keeping with this overarching concept, the show presents small works by a range of artists—from the immaculate, dreamy landscapes of Colin Barclay to the crudely executed, neoprimitive, film-referencing, cartoonish paintings of Scott Daniel Ellison. One of my sentimental favorites here has to be Simon Draper’s installation, Kingston Reclamation Reformation Act, which consists of the door/shutter panels from his shed installation in the 2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial (which I curated). Draper continues to extend his recycling aesthetic by turning previous works of art into new ones, reclaiming the past and imaginatively and pragmatically using it to question the inviolability—and subliminal wastefulness— of traditional cycles of artistic production and consumption. Now, there’s a little big idea I can fully endorse. “DRAWING REVEALED,” CURATED BY SUSAN ENGLISH AND JAANIKA PEERNA, ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 17 AT GARRISON ART CENTER, 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON. (845) 424-3960; WWW.GARRISONARTCENTER.ORG “LITTLE BIG THINGS,” ON VIEW THROUGH FEBRUARY 25 AT VAN BRUNT GALLERY, 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON. (845) 838-2995; WWW.VANBRUNTGALLERY.COM.

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Freedom and Opportunity, John Gould, illustration for billboard, 1949 From the collection of Bethlehem Art Gallery, Salisbury Mills

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MARIST COLLEGE ART GALLERY

125 WASHINGTON AVENUE, ALBANY (518) 463-5502.

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.

1399 NORTH ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 575-3000X3182.

“Horsing Around.” 19th century cast-iron hitching posts. Through May 25.

“G.A.S. + 3.” A group show. Through February 10.

“Carole Robb.” Through February 21.

GALERIE BMG

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.

“The Boudoir Project.” Charise Isis. Through February 18.

“Nudes and Foods.” Group show. Through March 12.

Opening Friday, February 1, 5:30pm-7pm.

ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN ST., PHOENICIA 688-2142.

THE GALLERY AT R&F

“Reality Show.” Group show. Through February 29.

MASSMOCA

84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112.

“Works by Jose Acosta.” Through February 29.

“A Pattern of Connections.” New installation by Lorrie Fredette. February 2-March 22.

87 MARSHALL STREET, NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 662-2111.

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

Opening Saturday, February 2, 5pm-7pm.

“Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture and Paintings.” Through December 1, 2008.

Group show: Hennessey, English, Weis, Wulf. Through March 2.

GARRISON ARTS CENTER

“Eastern Standard.” Western artists in China. February 2-March 31.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES

23 GARRISON LANDING, GARRISON-ON-HUDSON 424-3960.

Opening Saturday, February 2, 4:30pm-5:30pm.

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

“Paintings by Grey Zeien.” February 23-March 25.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL

“Photography by Bill Dane.” February 23-March 25.

6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.

Opening Saturday, February 23, 3pm-5pm.

“Styles And Subjects.” Solo exhibition of paintings by Karl Volk. February 1-March 25.

GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY

Opening Friday, February 22, 5:30pm-7:30pm.

“Keith Edmier 1991-2007.” Through February 3.

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Made in Woodstock IV.” Work by CPW artists-in-residence. Through March 30. “Shadows.” Solo exhibition of work by Jared Handelsman. Through March 30.

THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER AT SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 320-4175. “Valerie Fanarjian: Left Behind.” Sewn assemblages and ephemera on paper. Through February 22. Opening Wednesday, February 6, 5:30pm.

398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “The Devil in the Details.” Works by Giovanna Lepore. Through March 1.

MUDDY CUP

“Drawn to the Edge.” Show about drawing in every media. Through March 1.

“The Senior Project 8.” Drawings, paintings, photos, and sculpture by the 8 senior high school students. Through March 28.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY

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

SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113.

“Lascaux to Time Square.” Works by Patrick J. Wallace. Through February 23.

“Design Dialogues.” Including architecture, print, furniture, exhibition and industrial design. February 2-29.

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

EAST VILLAGE COLLECTIVE

“Paintings by Kim Uchiyama.” Through February 24.

8 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2174. “Comfort and Joy.” Paintings by Cathy Nichols & Marisa Haedike. Through February 1.

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“Pastels by Constance Alexander.” Through February 27.

94 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 569-4997.

“Double Blind: Lebanon Conflict 2006.” Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin and Scott Anderson. Through March 2.

Opening Wednesday, February 6, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

“Saul Steinberg: Illuminations.” A retrospective exhibit. Through February 24.

Opening Saturday, February 2, 3pm-5pm.

VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227.

“John Fleming Gould.” The legacy of an illustrator and family. Through February 29.

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

305 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-1378.

Opening Saturday, February 2, 6pm-8pm.

143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER

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PALMER GALLERY VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Senior Project 8.” 8th Art Institute’s student senior projects. Through February 8.

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

OPEN SPACE GALLERY

“Every Now and Then.” February 16-March 31.

510 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0731.

Opening Saturday, February 16, 6pm-8:30pm.

“Limited Run.” The print and ‘zine show. Through February 2.

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

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judith Peck: All About People.â&#x20AC;? Sculpture in bronze. Februrary 9- March 2.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intimacies of Distant War.â&#x20AC;? February 8-April 13. Opening Friday, February 8, 6pm-8pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sculpture by Grace Bakst Wapner.â&#x20AC;? Through March 16. Opening Friday, February 8, 6pm-8pm.

SHARADA GALLERY 45 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 876-4828. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Joanne Klein: Abstractions.â&#x20AC;? February 23-March 31.

TERENCHIN FINE ART 462 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 945-1808. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Critical Mass.â&#x20AC;? Works by Frank Faulkner. Through February 16.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Erotica Show.â&#x20AC;? February 1-29. Opening Saturday, February 2, 6pm-9pm.

VAN BRUNT GALLERY 460 MAIN STREET, BEACON (518) 838-2995. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Little Big Things.â&#x20AC;? Group show. Through February 25.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The January Invitational.â&#x20AC;? Through February 3.

ZAHRA GALLERY 496 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-6311. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recent Works by Matt Simone.â&#x20AC;? February 2-29. Opening Saturday, February 9, 6pm-10pm.

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Music photo by Fionn Reilly

BY PETER AARON

RAMBLE ON Levon Helm

t’s the smile. That’s what really gets you. Almost as much as the incredible songs. Or the fluid, flawless musicianship. Or even the coarse, honey-ladled grit of the voice. The smile is wide, full, bright. It floods the big, log-walled room with pure, dazzling luminescence, like a signal that the angels are about to appear from on high. And the smile is contagious, finding itself mirrored across the faces of everyone else in the space—the audience, the musicians, even the scrambling, focused soundmen. The smile belongs to Levon Helm, one of this country’s most precious cultural treasures, who tonight at one of the Midnight Ramble sessions that take place a few times a month at the erstwhile Band member’s Woodstock home and studio is doing exactly what he was put—and kept—on this Earth to do: make great American music. Some of the greatest American music that ever was, in fact. And anyone who knows about the difficult life valleys Helm, 68, has triumphed over in the last few years, and about the glorious heights he’s now experiencing through his career’s ongoing renaissance, can’t help but be awed by the deep portent of the man’s seemingly insurmountable grin. Which probably just makes them smile all the more themselves, really. “Well, sir, when you have everything taken away, you’re just so glad to get it back. Which is what I’ve been so very fortunate enough to do,” says the humble but hearty native Arkansan. “It just makes playing so much more joyful. Every opportunity to play just means so much more than the last one.” Helm’s years with The Band are well chronicled elsewhere, perhaps no better than in his 1993 autobiography This Wheel’s on Fire. In the book he talks about the lean, vagabond times of the group’s early period, when the members were “living the music.” But since those days, his life has echoed the music in other, more catastrophic ways, ways that recall the tragedy-laced folk ballads of his Southern youth. The first blow came in 1986, 10 years after The Band’s demise, when Helm’s good friend and band mate, pianist Richard Manuel, took his own life. Next, in 1991, a fire at the beloved “barn” studio Helm had built in 1976 burned the structure almost to the ground. And when Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1996 it looked as though, if the disease didn’t kill him, the voice of the man who sang lead and played drums and mandolin on “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Rag Mama Rag,” and other classics would be silenced forever.

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But the heartbreak didn’t end there: In 1999, Band bassist Rick Danko passed away at the age of 56. With limited funds thanks largely to unfairly structured royalty deals and unable to do the film and voiceover work that had helped to pay the bills, Helm found himself in the precarious position of having to balance the costs of rebuilding his home and workplace with those of the medications and procedures needed to save his voice—and his life. Understandably, he chose to put most of his available cash into the latter. And, after surgery and 28 intensive radiation treatments at Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan, not only has Helm beaten the cancer but his voice has regained “about 70 percent” of its famed knotty-pine majesty. “It still might take a notion to go south on me some nights, but it’s getting better than it was,” he says. When told that in some ways he sounds even better than he does on some of his older records, that even Tom Waits might be happy to have the same level of gruff character in his voice, the singer laughs. “Yeah, well on some gigs I wish mine had a little less character, thank you!” But with Helm’s health back in the fold, there was still the mortgage company to satisfy. While in recovery mode he needed to get his voice back in shape and pay down his debts, but touring was out of the question. So instead of taking the show to the fans, he took a stroke of inspiration from the freewheeling rent parties of his childhood and invited the fans to come hang out at his house. Since 2004, Helm has opened part of his home to the public for the now famous and intimate “parlor sessions” known as his Midnight Rambles. Facilitated by a large crew that calls itself Team Levon, the medicine showlike events sell out weeks in advance and have featured surprise guest appearances by Dr. John, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Nick Lowe, Allen Toussaint, and others. Tonight, however, before Helm gets to do all of his pickin’, poundin’, and grinnin’, before he and his band—singer-guitarists Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, bassist Michael Merritt, horn men Steven Bernstein, Jay Collins, and Erik Lawrence, keyboardist Brian Mitchell, and Helm’s daughter, Olabelle vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm, as well as a cast of guest players—are ready to Ramble, there’s quite a bit of behind-the-scenes lead-up action that goes on.Two hours earlier, after following the long and winding driveway to the studio and being checked in at the gate, one enters the downstairs reception area, which is populated

snacks and beverages, which will be generously amended to by the many arriving Ramble-goers who bring store-bought and homemade food to share. From here, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a straight zip through a short hallway lined with framed photos, posters, and newspaper and magazine articles and up the stairs into the main studio. Despite the rows of folding chairs and the preponderance of instruments and sound gear set up in the stage area at the opposite end, the space feels more like a massive living room than a recording studio, thanks to its high ceiling and tall stone hearth. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect setting for the music of Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s band, a rich, earthy blend of the best elements of rhythm and blues, country, soul, jazz, gospel, and rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll.The heartbreaking harmonies of Williams, Amy Helm, and frequent Bob Dylan side man Campbell are moving enough, but watching the leader belt out the leads and drive it all with such unbounded zeal is the real joy, bringing to mind the words of Ronnie Hawkins, Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-Band leader in rockabilly legends Ronnie and the Hawks: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Levon played more drums with less licks than any drummer in the world. And he could make it sound right.â&#x20AC;? It sure sounds right tonight. Really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s safe to say that music just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any better. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just being around Levon elicits your truest self, musically and otherwise,â&#x20AC;? says Williams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so utterly sincere, he just makes everybody feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the only person in the room.â&#x20AC;? And despite the magnitude of the operation, the big guest stars, and the packed houses, Helm and company still manage to keep it all down-home at the sessions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No matter how big things get, we never want the Ramble to turn into some big, impersonal machine,â&#x20AC;? says Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager, Barbara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, who oversees the events and works for the Ulster County Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office by day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ramble is an extension of Levon [himself], and we try to never lose sight of that.â&#x20AC;? From out of the Ramble sessions has come the shockingly great Dirt Farmer (Vanguard Records), Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first solo studio album in 25 years. Produced by Campbell and Amy Helm, the record is dedicated to Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents and marks a return to the old-time tunes they raised him on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tough times can make you more reflective, and make you long for better and simpler times,â&#x20AC;? says Helm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I guess thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what led me back to those songs, which were already old when I heard them as a boy. I wanted to get back to the community feeling the music used to have.â&#x20AC;? But no matter what tangents Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music has taken over the years, it always boils down to the blues. So even though Dirt Farmer revisits country-folk chestnuts like the traditionals â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Girl I Left Behind,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Blind Child,â&#x20AC;? and the Carter Familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Single Girl, Married Girl,â&#x20AC;? a steady, undeniable blues feeling runs throughout. (And the down-and-dirty reading of J. B. Lenoirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feelinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Good,â&#x20AC;? with its refrain of â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the money in the world spent on feelinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; good,â&#x20AC;? must certainly hit home in light of the cost of prescription meds and radiation treatments.) â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, the blues are the ABCs of music,â&#x20AC;? maintains Helm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you can play a Louis Jordan tune right, you can go on and play pretty much anything else from there.â&#x20AC;? Dirt Farmer has been nominated for a Grammy (for Best Traditional Folk Album), and, in a curious coincidence, The Band is being presented with a Grammy for Lifetime Achievement this month in Los Angeles. Helm is also about to be a grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the second time in the space of just a few months. Not only is Amy due in March, but Muddy and Lucy, Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved hounds, gave birth to a litter of eight pups in December. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d already had Muddy for about three years when I was down in Louisiana to shoot some scenes for The Electric Mist, a movie that Tommy Lee Jones is directing,â&#x20AC;? Helm recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lucy was a stray that the makeup girl found in the road, and when we brought her back to the set Muddy and her just really took a liking to each other.â&#x20AC;? In addition to the forthcoming The Electric Mist, Helm has acted in Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) and in Coal Minerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daughter (1980), The Right Stuff (1983), Fire Down Below (1997), Feeling Minnesota (1996), and a full resumeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of other notable films. Renewed health, a great new album, a new movie, newborn puppies, a grandchild and possible multiple Grammys on the wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not hard to see why Helm is smiling as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being interviewed. But when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on stage, making that great, great music, the smile just seems to twinkle a little bit more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been said that music is the language of heaven,â&#x20AC;? Helm says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I believe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right.â&#x20AC;? And tonight, under the bright, full moon and the warm, wooden eaves of Helmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio, one gets the strong feeling that someone in heaven is indeed listening. And smiling. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midnight Ramble sessions take place at Levon Helm Studios inWoodstock on February 2 and 23.The Levon Helm Band performs at the Beacon Theater in NewYork on March 7 and 8. www.levonhelm.com.

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COMMANDER CODY/PROFESSOR LOUIE & THE CROWMATIX February 8. George “Commander Cody” Frayne quit teaching art at Wisconsin State University in 1969 and headed west to California, where the ﬁrst Lost Planet Airmen band was signed to a record deal after nightly gigs at a Berkeley bar called Mandrake’s. Many hits later (“Smoke That Cigarette,” “Hot Rod Lincoln,” “Down to Seeds and Stems Again”) the Commander makes another highly anticipated landing in the region, this time sharing the bill with Woodstock’s tireless roots rockers Professor Louie & the Crowmatix. This show is guaranteed to be hotter than a revved-up carburetor. (House-rockin’ favorite Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson returns on February 16 and Roomful of Blues tears it up on February 23.) 9pm. $30, $35. Pawling. (845) 855-1300. www.townecrier.com.

THE REGULATORS/THE VAN TRAVIS BAND February 9. Calling all sweethearts: If you’re looking for an old-fashioned, rock ’n’ roll Valentine’s dance, then St. Mary’s Hall in downtown Kingston has just your cup of cherry cola. And the Ponckhockie neighborhood, with its corner stores and quiet side streets, is a bit of time warp, anyway. The Regulators deliver danceable classics with a “twist” or two. Guitar man Van Travis and his band serve up a smorgasbord of rock and country, from Van Morrison to the Eagles. 6pm. $25, includes buffet dinner, beer, and soft drinks. Kingston. (845) 338-3972.

BIG BANG JAZZ GANG February 17. Anyone who’s felt the overwhelming wall of sound from a full big band knows the addictive allure of that rush. At Keegan Ales, saxman/bandleader David CasT brings a new swing with the Big Bang Jazz Gang, a 15-piece ensemble that channels the charts of Mingus, Monk, Ellington, and other modern masters. The band features a high-powered lineup of musicians (sometimes including Neil Alexander on keyboards and Matt Finck on guitar), from New York and all around the Hudson Valley. The three craft-brewed Keegan beers on tap, plus a pub food menu, will keep this party jumpin’ for joy. 7pm. No cover. Kingston. (845) 331-2739. www.keeganales.com.

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February 23. 2008 marks 25 years of Lea Boss’s Upstate Reggae productions in the Hudson Valley, and her ﬁrst show every year is a Bob Marley tribute concert during the Tuff Gong’s birthday month. This time around the Colony Cafe hosts the celebration, which features award-winning New England roots reggae band Crucial Massive, along with an open-mike tribute and rare reggae video on the big screen. (The ﬁrst 50 people will also receive a special gift.) Cyber-Rastas can check the band’s irie sound at www.myspace.com/crucialmassive. 8pm. Call for ticket prices. Woodstock. (845) 6793382. www.reggaewoodstock.us.

THE HOLMES BROTHERS February 23. The Harlem-based Holmes Brothers bear the standard of New York’s urban blues, not an easy feat when you’re surrounded by hip-hop beats. For 25 years the Brothers have led the charge down Bleecker Street and into the city’s other blues bars, and have recently graduated to being elder statesmen; check their beautiful new gospel-tinged CD State of Grace (Alligator Records) and you’ll no doubt agree. Highlights on the album include covers of “If I Had a Boat” by Lyle Lovett and Elvis Costello’s Nick Lowe-penned classic “(What’s So Funny ’Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?” This show is about as soulful as it gets. (Zydeco legend Buckwheat Zydeco returns on February 15 and John Hammond growls again on February 26.) 9pm. $25. Great Barrington. (413) 528-3394. www.clubhelsinkionline.com.

BILL COSBY March 2. When the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) scores, it scores big (who else saw Don Rickles back in ‘02?). Not that you need many excuses to visit this 80-year-old diamond in the rough of midtown Kingston, with its breathtakingly restored interior and comfy new seats, as new director Chris Silva (also of Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon) has booked new life into the former vaudeville house. Cosby’s many television personas notwithstanding, he built his career on stand-up comedy, and this is a rare opportunity to hear an American master in an intimate setting. Besides, he’s been really saucy lately, so these two shows are almost guaranteed to shake the chandelier. 3pm and 7pm. $40 to $85. Kingston. (845) 339-6088. www.upac.org. THE HOLMES BROTHERS PLAY CLUB HELSINKI FEBRUARY 23.

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MIKE & RUTHY THE HONEYMOON AGENDA HUMBLE ABODE, 2008

When most newlyweds take their honeymoons, they jet off to some sunny, all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean. Not the Mammals’ Michael and Ruth Ungar Merenda. After receiving the wedding gift of recording time from producer Jose Ayerve, the young couple opted to spend their postnuptials at home in West Hurley making their first album as a duo. Be elated they did: This simply beautiful, organically crafted (and well-titled) session references the Mammals’ neo-string band tack and folk roots (fiddler and guitarist Ruthy is the daughter of famed fiddler Jay Ungar) and also brings a trough of more contemporary influences (brilliant covers of Tom Waits, Etta James, Bob Dylan, even Hella’s Aaron Ross). This disc is a 40-minute expression of love, one that works on several levels. There’s the obvious tier of the couple’s love for each other: the near whisper of guitarist/banjoist Mike’s “All the Time” or Ruthy’s vocal caressing of the Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” which almost makes us blush and find somewhere else to be. Then there’s the duo’s amorous reverence for the folk tradition, which to them mandates reinventing—not coddling—the classics; Mike’s arrangement of “I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail” overflows with dirty Neil Young guitars. But peel back another layer to find a love for the act of music-making itself and the warming hearth it represents for these folk-reared kids; Ruthy’s stepmom, Molly Mason, contributes bass to “Beg and Borrow,” the romping ode of an artist scraping by. Here’s hoping the couple’s anniversaries yield more records this good. www.mikeandruthy.com. —Peter Aaron

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T first thing that strikes you about Wappingers Falls’s The Von Robinson & His Own Universe is the sugar-coated V ppolish of the sound. A beautiful drum spectrum, honeyddripping doo-wops, and just the right mix of electronic bbleeps dance around the acoustic and electric guitars, ppiano, and bass. Next, you notice Robinson’s voice. If yyou are an Elvis Costello fan, you might be assured by tthe familiarities or perhaps disappointed by the simillarities; the resemblance is a bit uncanny, considering tthe vocal inflections, tone, and word placement in the m melody. I think indie pop could use more Elvis and less S fj Stevens, S i d Pl Sufjan so I was iintrigued. Plus, given enough listens and a live show or two, I doubt it would matter. The lyrics are smart, a bit cryptic for the mainstream, but indie kids will love it. There is sufficient social and political subversion for the budding Bush basher, but it is elusive enough for an apathetic scenester who is more worried about retro haircuts than corporate-dominated democracy. Bottom line: This is sugary-slick indie rock that is hard not to like. Its only offense is its lack of offensiveness. The music pulls you in enough to seek a connection. The irony in the presentation is clever, and it works, but a nugget of personal connection to Robinson himself would be nice. The lyrical resistance to impersonal corporate-dominated American culture has left me wondering why I can’t have more personality from the artist, not the artist as corporation. www.vonrobinson.com. —Jason Broome

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Books

ORIGINS Barbara Louise Ungar mines the motherlode By Tobias Seamon photo by Jennifer May

hen the poet Barbara Louise Ungar heard that her collection The Origin of the Milky Way had won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, her reaction was similar to how she felt six years earlier when told she was pregnant: “Heaven. I thought, I’m going to be happy for the rest of my life, because I got what I want.” Chronicled with honesty, wit, elegance, and verve in The Origin of the Milky Way, the experience of motherhood proved to be heaven and then some. Ungar was a late arrival to motherhood. Author of the previous collection of poetry Thrift and a frequent reader at the Tinker Street Café when she lived in Woodstock in the 1990s, she’s currently a tenured professor of English at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. Some years ago, she was told by a fertility clinic that hers was a “hopeless case.” After learning that the clinic’s diagnosis was premature, to say the least, Ungar described herself as “the most ecstatic pregnant woman ever.” The timing of her pregnancy could not have been more fortuitous, as it turned out. Having already taken a sabbatical to write, Ungar had the time to “spiral inwards” and truly meditate on the panorama of physical and emotional changes she underwent during pregnancy. The results might be surprising, however, for anyone who imagines that The Origin of the MilkyWay is a series of serene ruminations on the blessings of motherhood. Rather, a primal form of terror is part and parcel of Origin, which is divided into four sections. These sections—ranging from mythos-inflected “Annunciations” through the bluesy musings of “Fourth Trimester” and the edgy observations of “Feast,” where she comments on raising a child in a time of war—document the full process of pregnancy and the birth of her son Izaak, followed by the great afterwards of trying to write with an infant on the hip. “The most frightening thing was the thought, I’ll never be alone again,” says Ungar of the prenatal period. Beyond fears of the actual childbirth, awareness of the child growing within her was also a form of becoming a “body in constant use.” This bodily unease is given wicked expression in the short poem “Quickening,” where the flutter from the growing fetus makes the mother aware, “There’s some / body else / in here / with you.” Such is the stuff of midnight creature features, though the newfound awareness of a child growing within isn’t all terrifying by any stretch. Lustrous wonder is given equal measure throughout Origin as well, as in the lovely “Prenatal Yoga” when Ungar reflects on advice from a stretching class: “Your spine is a river of light / the teacher says. / Let your heart bow / to your baby’s heart.” Such casual artistry of language is part of what makes Origin such a compelling volume. Flowing throughout are images of water, liquidity, rivers, and oceans. Aside from the fact that Ungar’s water 50 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

broke while swimming—given sublime treatment in the piece “Pool”—the title poem of The Origin of the Milky Way comes from a Tintoretto painting depicting the myth of Juno’s spilled breast milk forming the Milky Way. Asked about the veritable flood of watery images, Ungar seems surprised. “It wasn’t intentional. Of course, there’s amniotic fluid and all that, but that seems too simplistic an explanation. Maybe it’s because I associate physical affection from a parent from when my father held me in the water and taught me how to swim. Even though we are Jewish, being raised in Minnesota gave our family some of those old-fashioned Lutheran concerns for distance and propriety. I’m one of three sisters, and being taught to swim was one of the few times my father was able to show physical affection to us girls without being worried how it would appear.” Her family impacted Origin in other ways as well. Ungar says that her mother, an avid reader, once complained that she wasn’t “intelligent enough to understand your poems” due to all the references to Greek legends and characters. Not words any poet wants to hear, and while the collection certainly contains myth-oriented pieces, Ungar says she kept her mother’s comment in mind while composing Origin. The collection reflects her concern, and her combination of plain spoken, at times rock’n’roll, sensibility with the mythic and philosophical makes for a well-rounded yet subtle narration. This is especially true in the “Fourth Trimester” section, where the struggles of dealing with an infant come to the fore. In the harrowing piece “Crying,” Ungar address the simultaneous weeping of mother and child: “This world hurts. If I wanted / to spare you, I should never / have brought you here. /Your crying flays me.” The poem “Postpartum Blues” is just as powerful, beginning with a litany of maternal exhaustion: “I’ve had four hours of sleep. / My head aches. I slipped / on the ice & sprained my knee. / I’m reduced to formula in my coffee.” These blues conclude with a mordantly humorous reference to Sylvia Plath: “Multiply by two, / add a cheating love, then / frozen pipes: now you know / why Sylvia stuck her head in the oven.” Asked about some of the ideas underlying “Postpartum Blues,” Ungar explains. “In everything I’ve read about Sylvia Plath, and that dreadful movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, where her infant and toddler simply appear as cute window dressing now and then, no one mentions that simply having one infant or toddler can drive the healthiest person to feeling suicidal, not to mention having two of them, and to be broke, in the middle of winter, and trying to write at the same time.” Faced with similar writing difficulties, Ungar taught herself to compose poems entirely in her head while caring for Izaak, and then “running to write everything down as soon as he took a nap.” Adding to the difficulties of “spiraling down” is

any new mother’s sleeplessness. “If you’re nursing, you’re up at two hour intervals around the clock, nursing for 45 minutes, then back to sleep, if you’re lucky, for an hour before being awakened again, with a diaper change each time. You quickly turn into Macbeth, or Lady Macbeth, from sleep deprivation, and this also affects the writing process.” If writing The Origin of the Milky Way sounds difficult, the collection’s path toward publication was only slightly less arduous. Confident that she had a strong collection, Ungar focused almost entirely submitting the full manuscript to publishers than in sending individual pieces out to journals and magazines.The following succession of near misses might have broken any poet’s spirit. According to Ungar, over a period of three years, The Origin of the Milky Way was twice named a finalist at Marsh Hawk Press, received second place at Blue Light Press, and was a semi-finalist at Sarabande Books, the University of Wisconsin, Perugia Press, Elixir Press, and for the Anthony Hecht Prize with the Waywiser Press. Her first full-length collection, Thrift, underwent a similar ordeal, being named a contest finalist or semifinalist an astounding 23 times before finding a publisher. Prestigious close calls like these are enough to break any artist’s spirit, and Ungar admits that doubts began to creep in. “I started to feel like I’d been cursed by a professor in grad school. A piece of mine got second place for an award, and the professor told me, ‘Get used to it.Whatever happens in grad school is the way it’ll be for the rest of your life.’” Thankfully, the professor was no more prescient than the fertility clinic, and as Ungar’s wonderful poem “Tanka” expresses, “It’s not labor./I can stand it.” Her endurance finally paid off when the editor of Gival Press called to let her know the collection had received Gival’s 2006 award with publication planned for late 2007. Proving that nothing succeeds like success, since then Origin has belatedly received first place at another contest, giving Ungar the rare pleasure for a poet to inform a publisher too late, already taken. Ungar’s hoping to do as many readings as she can in support of The Origin of the Milky Way, but booking appearances and arranging travel isn’t easy with a young son either. Whatever the worries of being a parent and its impact on the artistic life, though, Barbara Ungar describes motherhood in terms as luminous as the collection itself. “I understand how women can become afraid their lives are eclipsed by having a child, but for me it’s been heaven. I’ve been to parties. I’ve been to movies. I’ve traveled around the world. I’ve done all that. This is what I want.” Barbara Louise Ungar will read at the oodstock Poetry Society gathering on March 8 at 2pm at Woodstock Town Hall. For more information:wwww.woodstockpoetry.com or www.barbaraungar.com.

Matryoshka You move in me as I in earth’s strange atmosphere, as her blue-green ball spins in the expanding darkness— within me, you cannot fathom me, as I can’t see the globe I tread, but feel her warmth, her motions rocking me to sleep, her rest in which I wake, and she never dreams in whose body she sleeps, turning— like Matryoshka dolls, the next nesting in the last, we grow and do not know how or who is holding us, yet we are held.

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SHORT TAKES From Ground Zero to Baghdad, CBGB to AARP, Gaia-Sophia to Grendel, Hudson Valley authors tell it like it is in these nonﬁction gems.

Hats and Eyeglasses: A Family Love Aﬀair with Gambling

MISS YOU, PAT: COLLECTED MEMORIES OF NY’S BRAVEST OF THE MIS

Martha Frankel

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t may have been genetic destiny that brought Martha Frankel to gambling addiction, but it was love for her family that pulled her out of it. Gambling surrounded her from birth, offered up in a potent cocktail of affection and camaraderie. Every Friday was game night, meaning mah-jongg for her mother’s friends, while their husbands played poker in the next room. Presiding over them was “The Pencil,” Frankel’s father, a genial, adoring CPA. Her mother’s game was gossipy, treat-filled, and stocked with child-spoiling “aunties,” but it was dull stuff compared to the poker room. The men would show Martha their cards and utter obscure pronouncements like “I’ve got hats and eyeglasses,” meaning their ship was sinking, and these would soon be the only things left floating on the water. Frankel’s father taught her to bet the ponies, count backwards from 99 by sevens, and told her she was smart enough to be an astronaut. When he died, just before she started high school, her world fell apart. She drifted for a while through college and a bad marriage, then wound up in Woodstock, where she met Steve Heller, a gambling-immune woodcrafter who was the antithesis of everyone she’d grown up with. Frankel discovered a talent for entertainment journalism, interviewing stars for Details and Cosmopolitan. She started researching a screenplay about poker, joining a local Wednesday night game where she learned the good, the bad, and the down and dirty. Soon, she was holding her own against the all-male group, and then she started beating them. The screenplay was shelved, and she played poker wherever she could find people holding cards, from crowded Atlantic City casinos to hole-in-the-wall LA cardhouses. She was obsessed but not truly addicted. Then she discovered online poker. You can invent an entirely new identity online; you can play in your pajamas; you can gamble any time of day or night, and you never have to stop. And, as Frankel quickly discovered, you can also lose your shirt. Filled with dreams of hitting it big, she became an acolyte of a site called Paradise Poker, only to find that she’d actually logged into hell. She lost enormous sums, then bet bigger ones in an attempt to make it up. She played while she should have been working, distancing friends, relatives, even her husband, as she scrambled to beat an unbeatable system. Frankel eventually went to a Gambler’s Anonymous meeting, but found thin solace among the down-at-the-heels horse race and sport betting addicts. “I stand up, thank them all, and wish them good luck. A hysterical little screech escapes me—wishing a table full of compulsive gamblers good luck does not seem smart. I practically run to my car. I feel better, superior. And worse, frighteningly inferior.” Hats and Eyeglasses is a sparkling, sharp-witted, insightful book told in colorful, unsparing prose. Frankel’s writing is riveting, and trots along at a gum-smacking pace. And, because of her eye for the absurd and gift of perfect phraseology, it also may be the funniest addiction memoir you’ll ever read. It was the unconditional love of Frankel’s mother that finally penetrated her dense cloud of self-loathing. Writing this book was a way to tell her friends and family how deeply she’d journeyed into the rabbit hole. And while it would be wrong to wish anything like poker hell on her again, one can’t help hoping she’s got a few more skeletons to write out of her closet. Frankel will read at a number of locations this month. www.marthafrankel.com.

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A quilt of reminiscences of 9/11 hero “Patty” Brown— firefi r ghter, yoga practitioner, ex-drinker, Golden Gloves contender, co Broadway musical fan—stitched together by his hi former fiancee. Prompted by a collage tribute in Grand C Central Station, Watts’ book packs an emotional punch, re reminding us how many lives one man can touch. Reading aand candlelight yoga class at the Yoga Coop, Garrison Spa, 2 2/24 at 6:30pm. Call (845) 224-9909 to preregister. THE FIGHTING 69TH: ONE REMARKABLE NATIONAL GUARD’S TH JOURNEY FROM GROUND ZERO TO BAGHDAD JOU SEAN MICHAEL FLYNN SEA VIKING, 2007, $25.95 VIK

Fo Founded in the Civil War era, NYC’s celebrated “Fighting Irish” National Guard unit slid into deep disgrace by the 1990s. Na But the multiethnic 69th rose to the challenges of Ground Bu Zero crisis control and, later, deployment in Iraq. Red Hook Ze High School graduate, author, and National Guard company H ccommander Flynn tells a gritty, tough inside story. Reading at a Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, 2/16 at 7:30 pm. PUNK 365 PU HOLLY GEORGE-WARREN, FOREWORD BY RICHARD HELL HO HARRY N. ABRAMS, INC., 2007, $29.95 HA

P Phoenicia music maven and Gene Autry biographer George-Warren trades her spurs for Doc Martens in G this slammin’ photo tribute to ‘70s and ‘80s punk. th A year of sneers from Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, the Ramones, Debbie Harry, the B52s, Elvis Costello, the Ram Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Buzzcocks, X, Black Flag, and more, including Chronogram music editor Peter Aaron’s riff on the Bad Brains. FEAR AND LOATHING IN BOCA RATON FEA STEVEN LEWIS STE QUILL DRIVER BOOKS, 2008, $14.95 QU

A big-hearted comic manifesto for graybeard Woodstockers who’ve rambled from the Aquarian ‘60s to the sexagenarian w sixties with their senses of humor intact. New Paltz’s Lewis six delivers the goods on vintage sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll with de cchapter titles like “Still Getting It On After All These Years,” “Ganga For Gramps,” and “The Gray Album.” “G

GREEN HERMETICISM: ALCHEMY AND ECOLOGY GRE PETER LAMBORN WILSON, CHRISTOPHER BAMFORD, KEVIN TOWNLEY PET INTR INTRODUCTION BY PIR ZIA INAYAT-KHAN LINDISFARNE BOOKS, 2007, $20 LIN

A 2003 conference in New Paltz, “The Sacred Theory of the Earth,” gave rise to this impassioned collection of essays th seeking “a sacred theory of earth” with roots in the hermeticse Romantic tradition of 18th-century visionary Novalis. A mindRo bending be exploration of such topics as the alchemical nature of concrete (including Rosendale cement), shamanistic animal a transformation, and Original Light. “IF YOU TURNED INTO A MONSTER” TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PLAY: A BO BODY-CENTERED APPROACH TO PLAY THERAPY DEN DENNIS MCCARTHY JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS, 2007, $29.95 JES

In clear and accessible language, Kingston-based therapist McCarthy describes how he empowers troubled children M through sandplay, movement, and permission to draw, name, th and claim the monster within: “When the child makes a an drawing, tells a story, or makes a scene in the sandbox, we d have before us in symbolic form the closest glimpse possible h oof the human psyche.” An illuminating read.

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Like You’d Understand, Anyway Jim Shepard Knopf, , 

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im Shepard’s collection of 11 short stories, a National Book Award Finalist, is a catalog of catastrophe. Simply listing some of the situations in the collection is enough to bring on a bout of angst: Twelve doomed men trek across the endless Australian desert; a young Roman soldier watches as Britons breach the defenses of Hadrian’s Wall; the Greek writer Aeschylus prepares to fight in the Battle of Marathon; the chief executioner of the French Revolution goes about his inherited calling; yetis stalk a group of Third Reich-sponsored explorers in Tibet. And then there’s the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, an earthquake, a tidal wave, high school football, and summer camp. If you’re thinking that football and summer camp are less terrifying than Chernobyl, Shepard will make you think again. Are we having fun yet? Amazingly enough, we are. Though focusing on disasters, the stories themselves are triumphs: darkly funny, deeply intelligent, and unforgettable. Shepard’s characters are sharply and sympathetically developed, never mere pawns of historical forces. They debate with Fate and with each other. They put up a mighty fight. They contemplate and comment. Every story is narrated in the first person by an utterly unique character, each an obsessive observer. Here is the leader of the fatal Australian fiasco, the man who decided to carry a whaleboat to the center of the continent, certain he would discover an inland sea: “A close, humid day called forth innumerable insects. Mander-Jones bitten on the scalp by a centipede in his hat. The dogs killed a fine specimen of something that had been following us, but in the ensuing scuffle they tore off its head.” Aeschylus, surveying the enemy: “Medes, Egyptians, Dacians, Illyrians…. They wear trousers. Boots dyed purple or red. Quilted linen tunics. Cuirasses with metalwork like the meshings of a net.” A supervisor at Chernobyl: “No one working at the station, we were told, was wearing protective clothing. The workers were drinking vodka, they said, to decontaminate. Everyone had lost track of everyone. It was the Russian story.” In a literary climate that almost demands that stories within a collection be linked—or a “novel-in-stories”—Shepard defies the trend, creating a collection marked by great diversity in geography, time period, and nationality. But there are underlying patterns here that deepen the humanity of the book. Many stories center on families with one dead or missing son out of several others. These sons share fierce fathers; there is both abiding love and rivalry between brothers. An image reinforced by the cover art, which features two wrestlers whose bodies are indistinguishable from each other, brothers here are eternal opponents, inseparable in their lifelong embrace. Aeschylus, awaiting battle, remembers how he trailed his older brother everywhere: “Our eyes met like bones jarred in sockets. ‘What did I want?’ he’d demand.” Over and over, brothers ask that question of each other. There is, of course, no satisfactory answer. The author of six novels, including Love and Hydrogen, and two previous collections of stories, Shepard lives and teaches in Williamstown, Massachusetts. His latest, Like You’d Understand, Anyway, is a profound and disturbing book, full of dark delights. A book to re-read and to treasure. —Hollis Seamon

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our March issue is February 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.

all the people i was gonna be when i grew up they’re still here —p

THEY SET YOUR BODY ON FIRE For Paul Charles Barone, 1957-2007 It went something like this: You are sitting there with a forkful of salad in your mouth Telling me about the guy you met at Artie’s The other night Over a plate of spaghetti. The guy who wouldn’t stop talking to you. The guy whose tears you watched Drop into his gin and tonic As he told you about his son Who died unexpectedly last week. And then, A couple of months later, Like some crazy bad dream, You call your friend the chiropractor in the middle of the night, And you tell him that you’re not feeling yourself. Something’s not right. And so he calls 911. And the ambulance Arrives to your tall stooping house on Lucas Avenue. And they strap you in and screech you up to the hospital on the hill, Right across the street from the graveyard. And the hospital on the hill gives you a CAT scan. And then they speed you, sirens screaming under the stars, To Sloan-Kettering. And after Sloan heaves you into their MR f—ing I machine, After they saw open your skull and insert 2 shunts into your brain, The doctors at the most prestigious cancer hospital in the world Tell your family and friends, All of them gathered around your bed waiting— (You are there too of course, in your back-less blue robe), The Sloan-Kettering doctors say something like: We’re so sorry. But there’s nothing we can do. And then they go and call the Hospice people. And when I walk into your room a couple of days later You start weeping. You see me, and your whole body bursts into Niagara Falls. And you look at me. You look at me in a way you have never looked at me. And you say, With the Frankenstein stitches laced across your scalp, you say, I think I am going to cry for the rest of my life. And then the Death Specialists ambulance you back To the hospital on the hill. By the graveyard. This time you’re placed in The Hospice Wing. The Hopeless Wing. And, a couple of days later, I visit you again. This time you’ve had a shave and a bath And your earth-angel-wife, Sherry (who has not left your side), Has helped you ﬂoss and brush your teeth. And now, suddenly, you are getting better. You’re smiling again. There’s been this miracle. We all knew you could never die. Not now. Not like this. And I am sitting in a chair next to your bed. And you look at me. And inside your eyes I see the whole cosmos on ﬁre. And you take my hands. And you say, in your beautiful Bogart voice, You say, I’ve been to the other side. I’ve seen worlds.

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And then. Two weeks later. You die. Just like that. Boom. You’re gone. Forever. And I wonder. Sitting here. In the middle of the night. Sitting here, In the middle of life, Only about eleven blocks from your empty house Where the For Sale sign stands staked into your front lawn like a scarecrow. I wonder, What is it like on the other side? What does it feel like, Paul Barone? The holy sublime The burning divine The undreamed of thing Beyond your skin Beyond your eyes Beyond the sky What is it like? —Carolyn Corbett

THE NEWS COMES EVERY MORNING Another day in waiting rooms. The doctor eyes the suture, Then bills you for a thousand bucks—says, “Think about the future.” The nurses smell of Calvin Klein, the waiting room of whiskey. We stagger into taxicabs, our faces green and frisky. I gave my love a cherry, and it floated in the cocktail. We chatted till the bars were closed and broke it off by e-mail. I gave my love a dining set. I gave my love a chicken. She smothered it in flour and eggs, and so our waistlines thicken. The news comes every morning, and the news is always bad. The men on television smirk while slowly going mad. A rumor spreads by radio, infecting like a virus Till counter-rumors put it down. It rises like Osiris, Twice as strong and tough as hell in its present incarnation. I listened in a groggy haze, and then I switched the station. We gave up dreams of second cars, of porches and cyclone fences, Of farting out the aftermath of coffee and cheese blintzes, Of jobs downtown and mortgages on houses in the valley— All for a lurid fantasy of blowjobs in an alley. The news comes every morning, but the morning’s history Like pyramids, trench warfare, and the “new economy.” William Montgomery went to work, then blew his monthly paycheck On a Nudie Cohen outfit made of sequins and white spandex. Katie saw him and laughed so hard she gurgled through the bourbon She sipped while she was driving home in her new gray Suburban. You can crack equations; you can calculate the function And end up scanning horoscopes for a distant star’s conjunction. You can buy insurance; you can keep away from matches; But still, one day the lightning strikes and burns the place to ashes. —Quincy R. Lehr

TO JL, AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER See him safely across. Buoyed in light, Bobbing along in a raging sea of fear, This one will not be lost. He rides on the love of his companions. Lend him courage, faith. Arm him with The protection of fearlessness. Yours. Only a few things are impervious. Love is one of them. Regret devours. Eats away at flesh. Do not let it. Sadness tears away at our hearts. Wind, ripping off our coats. Say no. There is no escape from suffering. Death stalks us all our lives. But there is a remedy. Call it resurrection. Call it refusal. Call it love. Call it clearly, for all to hear, A jewel that sings from the heart. Breath in your faith, let it spill over Your shoulders and out into the universe. If you have no faith, breath compassion. Compassion lights the darkest way, Calms the ocean of doubt. Love still conquers all. —Jen Holz

MY INNER POLONIUS’S ADVICE TO MY INNER LAERTES AT THE DAWN OF A NEW ROMANCE My blessing with thee! And these few precepts In thy memory See thou inscribe: This above all— To thine own self be true. But be discreet in its display, Given thy long list Of shortcomings. And these few things as well: Be in the now, But never forget thee or deny— Indeed be ever school-ed by— The annals of aﬀairs gone awry That whirl wrathfully in thy wake; Be objective, But not so removed That thou failst to be ready Should her temperature soar And her petticoat plummet; But prithee, till that plummy day, Neither embargo her nor a lecher be; Have a sense of self And stay centered, Yet (though paradox it may seem) Be not self-centered; Be strong, But not controlling; Be ever discerning, But never disdaining; Be supportive, But collude not In self-deception; Be frequently light, But never lightweight (Not that, conversely, she’s Looking for Mr. Gabardine);

Be vulnerable, But not needy; Be impulsive, But not stupid (To wit: Shower thy Be-sweated caresses And sopping kisses Lavishly upon her, But keep thy drool In a private tub); When couply chewing, Whether it be the fat Or the bone of contention, Never leave the table With thy mouths still full; Let thy head have A voice equal to hers At all mediations, But let thy heart Do the listening; Wear that heart As openly as thou darest— But nobly on thy chest, Like a golden medal, Not showily on thy sleeve, Like a gaudy cuﬀ link.

on bridge. Occupants must remain. In their vehicle.

But hark: She beckons! Thy opportunities abound, And my importunities Must but bore. So, To put the c on the arc: If to thine own self And she to her own Thou both be true, And if each the other’s self Holds in honest esteem, It must follow— As the knight the dame, The dame the knight— Thou canst not then Be false to one another.

—Millie Falcaro

—Tom Cherwin

SUICIDE DOORS on bridge. Occupants must remain. In their vehicles makes wide right. Turns left. lane must turn Left. turn allowed on arrow right turn allowed on Green arrow. through traffic use right Lane. for slow-moving Vehicles not allowed on. soft shoulder yield to oncoming. Traffic ahead. No turn. On red drug-free zone no. Parking. on opposite sides of the street yield. To pedestrians have right. Of way. Pedestrians and bicycles. Prohibited reduced speed. Ahead twenty miles per hour Emergency. Stopping only. Speed limit forty five radar. enforced keep left. Right. Need help. No? Stopping

—Beth Balousek

A ROOM WITH THREE WALLS The living room is covered in a cream shag carpet, One wall of four walls has no wall. The room’s edge, sheer fall, waiting rock, drenched sea. My dead father phones, he suggests dinner, he is laughing in a way he once could. “How am I,” his voice changes to a woman I don’t know.

DON’T SEND how was I to know they want your stuff so you send it out and this one stated uplifting poems heartfelt dreams encouraging stories wanted for spirit based publication so I rummaged like a fussy old lady through the closet of my poems and sent one a true one about two girls in love and how on consecutive days at the Flour City Café I watched them fight break up fight and fall in love again and sending it off I felt it all felt my eyes well up thought I’d been too hard on myself this is real after all and then their e-mail came back just an hour later saying Mr. Donnelly do not send us any more of your filth ever again —Richard Donnelly

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Food & Drink

Italy (via Brooklyn) in Newburgh CAFFÉ MACCHIATO By Brian K. Mahoney photographs by Jennifer May

wo blocks south of Broadway on Liberty Street, across from the Washington’s Headquarters historic site, Caffè Macchiato is sited in a somewhat inauspicious location. The neighborhood is on the uptick from the general economic desolation that infects Newburgh’s Broadway corridor, but slowly—Liberty Street is only a few blocks from the Hudson, yet it is far removed from the sanitized restaurant row now thriving on the waterfront. While some progress can be seen in the area, Caffè Macchiato is still sitting in the heart of a city awaiting its renaissance. Co-owner Edwine Seymour confesses that part of the overall experience that he and Barbara Ballarini, his wife and partner, are trying to engineer at Macchiato is to “transport people away from being in Newburgh.” That said, the caffè’s continued survival since it opened in March 2005 is a hopeful testament to the possibility of what Newburgh might become—if it attracts more adventurous souls like novice restaurateurs Ballarini and Seymour. The caffè’s location doesn’t seem to hurt business. On the numerous times I’ve visited Macchiato it’s been abuzz with activity—steam hissing as milk froths for cappuccino; patrons bussing each other’s cheeks in animated greetings; the filterbasket arm of the espresso machine thumping another used cone of grounds into the trash; a young woman stopping in for a coffee to go and a croissant, the waiter asking after her boyfriend’s recent camera purchase. The vibe is deep neighborhood: People come in and plunk themselves down at the mismatched tables and wait for the cheerful, unhurried staff to take their order. And everyone knows Ines, a born charmer, Ballrini and Seymour’s five-yearold daughter. The 30 seats have nearly always been full when I’ve eaten at Macchiato, filled with nattily yet casually dressed folks who would not look out of place promenading in Williamsburg. This is perhaps not surprising, given that Ballarini and Seymour moved up from Brooklyn to open the caffè a little over three years ago. Having first searched in Manhattan and Brooklyn for an affordable spot for their

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business, then Beacon, the couple settled on their Newburgh location almost as soon as they spied the narrow storefront. “We just moved in not knowing anything about the neighborhood,” says Ballarini. They spent four months restoring the space with Ballarini’s father Sandro, a carpenter. He flew over from Italy to help his daughter and son-in-law construct the interior, building a dark-stained wooden bar that takes up most of one side of the room, topped with display cases for the caffè’s lauded pastries. The final, wonderfully quirky touch is the bathroom, painted a bright, warm blue and filled with foot-tall religious votives. Ballarini and Seymour, both immigrants to the US—she’s from Italy, he’s from Haiti—met in Brooklyn through mutual friends eight years ago. At the time, both were working as journalists—Ballarini writing for an Italian newspaper, Seymour working as a photographer. The couple, who had little restaurant experience, claim they’ve always loved to cook and eat.They would create meals for 15 to 20 friends on a regular basis in their Brooklyn apartment. (Ballarini is the cook; Seymour the pastry chef.) According to Ballarini, friends would often ask, “When are you going to open your own place?” Caffè Macchiato bills itself as a “touch of Italy.” To Ballarini, who lived in Italy until she was 30, invoking the land of her birth is not a marketing ploy but a badge of authenticity. For starters: “Fettucine Alfredo is not from Italy. It is an American invention,” says Ballarini. You won’t see it on the menu at Macchiato. Ballarini sources many of the prepared foods she serves from Italy. This includes cheese (provolone, parmesan, mascarpone, mozzarella), meat (bresaola, prosciutto, sopresetta, capicola), olive oil, and all the caffè’s coffee, which is roasted in Italy. Ballarini is also at pains to make a distinction between the idea of American restaurant and the Italian caffè. “A caffè is not a restaurant,” she says. By this Ballarini means, that, as in Italy, Caffè Macchiato has a limited menu, and should be viewed as a something closer to a cross between a bar and a coffeehouse than a destination for fine dining or a four-course meal.

ABOVE: WAITER JOSE CAPUCCINO LAUGHS WITH A CUSTOMER DURING THE SATURDAY BRUNCH RUSH. OPPOSITE: CO-OWNER EDWINE SEYMOUR FIXES CAFE LATTE; CAFFÈ MACCHIATO IS LOCATED ACROSS FROM WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS; HUSBAND-AND-WIFE TEAM EDWINE SEYMOUR AND BARBARA BALLARINI, WITH THEIR DAUGHTER INES.

This doesn’t mean you won’t find substantial fare at Caffè Macchiato. Their menu travels the spectrum from simple pastries like croissants, cinnamon rolls, and muffins (all made in-house daily by Seymour) to panini, egg frittata, and daily soup and pasta specials, like mushroom ravioli and spinach gnoochi. On weekends, a more elaborate brunch menu is offered, featuring a rotation of crepes, pancakes, and waffles, as well as heartier pastas like black ravioli made from squid ink and stuffed with seafood, in a light grape tomato sauce. The menu is limited, but the food achieves an elegant simplicity with its focus on quality ingredients— local in season; Macchiato maintains relationships with many area farmers—prepared in a food-forward manner, allowing each element to speak for itself. The baked eggs have been a consistent standout dish. A slight derivation on a traditional Italian breakfast, two eggs are layered with eggplant, parmesan cheese, and a light tomato sauce in a crock and cooked until hard; served bubbling with molten sauce and cheese, its a savory halfway house between the unctuous mush of eggplant parmigiana and the austerity of hard-boiled eggs. Each forkful is thick, slick, gooey, and salty, a revelation on a cold winter morning. Panini are also a good choice at Macchiato. In summer, an unprepossessing tomato and mozzarella sandwich was a distillation of the season in five-ingredients: baguette, cheese, fruit, extra-virgin olive oil, and pesto. More recently, a roast pork panini deftly played the slow-cooked meat—its fibers ribboning apart in my mouth—against a sweet mango chutney on a hearty ciabatta that took the very idea of the sandwich to another level. The caffè also serves a number of cold meat panini, all of which are prepared with more devotion than you will encounter at your local deli, and still not outrageously expensive at $7.50. On a cold day, a good choice is the soup and half-sandwich combo for $8.00. I enjoyed a chicken squash soup in early January that married the squash’s lush vegetal quality to a rustic chicken soup, enhancing both. And then, of course, the are the desserts, which was how I had first heard about Macchiato—someone had said that a little place in Newburgh was making

world-class tiramisu. (Full disclosure: Lacking a sweet tooth myself, I employ a panel of dessert tasters who humbly suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fondants on my behalf. All of the opinions expressed about Caffè Macchiato’s pastries belong to them.) The tiramisu is slightly crunchy with cocoa on top, then creamy with mascarpone, but a creaminess holding an unexpected definition, and finally lady fingers that are espresso-soaked, not a sopping espresso sponge. After tasting the tiramisu, one of my dining companions commented, “This makes me believe I’ve been eating bad tiramisu my whole life.” Suffice to say, it’s the caffè’s best seller. A close second, according to the panel, is the cappuccino mousse, which layers a cloudlike fluff of cappuccino (“It’s like drinking a cappuccino!” exclaimed one taster) over a super-saturated center of chocolate cake, providing a fitting textural interplay. As for myself, I found the cranberry and pistachio biscotti perfectly suitable for dunking in an astringent double espresso. Caffè Macchiato is open for breakfast and lunch on weekdays; both are served all day. Panini range in price from $7.25 to $8.00. Egg dishes are all between $6.75 and $7.75. Salads are from $6 (mixed greens) to $8.25 (Bresaola served with parmesan cheese and truffle oil). On weekends, the regular menu is augmented by a brunch specials, ranging in price from $5 (grilled croissant with ham and cheese), to $12.50 (potato gnocchi in butter-sage sauce). Pastries and desserts are available from biscotti ($1.50) to tiramisu ($4.50). A half dozen Italian table wines are available by the glass for $5 to $7. A wine brule (hot spiced wine) is $5. Proseco, Italian sparkling wine, is $5 a glass. Bottles of Italian beer—Peroni and Moretti—are $5. And of course, a bevy of caffeinated beverages are available—from hot cocoa made with actual chocolate ($3) to Vietnamese coffee, made with condensed milk ($3.25) to espresso ($2), cappuccino ($3), and cold coffee shakes ($3.75). Caffè Macchiato, 99 Liberty Street, Newburgh. (845) 565-4616. OpenTuesday through Friday, 10am to 4pm; Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 4pm. Closed Monday. Caffè Macchiato does not take reservations and accepts cash only. www.caffemachiatonewburgh.com. 2/08 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 59

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NATURAL FOOD MARKETS Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 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.

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In a warm and inviting Bistro located on Historic Main Street in the Village of Catskill Yael/Keith Chef/Owners are serving down to earth foods with flavors from around the Mediterranean. Wine and Beer Menu available. Wed-Sat Dinner, Sat-Sun Brunch.

Catamount Banquet Center (845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event. The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount’s spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces 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 us or visit us online.

Emerson Organic Spa Café (845) 688-2828 Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Madeto-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asianinspired design of the Café. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck 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.

Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven & brewed locally!

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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.

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RESTAURANTS Bear Creek Restaurant and Recreational Park Corner of Rt 23 A and Rt 214 Hunter, NY (518) 263-3839 www.bearcreekrestaurant.com Bear Creek’s menu ranges from various smoked BBQ delights to entrees like Pan Seared Ahi Tuna and Cedar Planked Salmon. Whether it’s a great burger, steak or maybe a novel goat cheese, pear and apple salad, Bear Creek offers an action filled venue along with fine cuisine at family prices. 64

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232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com 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.

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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!

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

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

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

Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375 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.

Terrapin 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com Welcome to Terrapin - Restaurant/Bistro/Bar/Catering - where eating is believing! We are passionately committed to providing our guests with a delightfully unique dining experience. As a Hudson Valley dining destination, we strive to consistently provide you with the freshest, highest quality food; celebrating the robust local bounty. Whether a quiet dinner for two or large family gathering, our staff is dedicated to creating a personalized experience served in a warm, yet elegant environment. From kitchen to table, our holistic approach to the dining experience compels us to be uncompromising in the quality of our product. Join us in celebration of food, family, and friends. We look forward to serving you soon.

The Phoenix 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-7700 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa. The area’s newest restaurant compliments the Silk Road design of the adjacent Inn. Chef Ross Fraser uses local ingredients and infuses spices from the Orient and India to create unique, mouthwatering dishes. Two dining rooms, a large bar area, and an expansive deck overlooking the Esopus Creek make the Phoenix a true Catskills dining destination. Tavern and children’s menu available. Open daily.

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CHOOSING WEDDING JEWELRY TO ADORE FOR A LIFETIME By Kelley Granger

hen Ray Tomaselli popped the question to his girlfriend, Helen Bird, she knew what she was getting. It would be the rose-cut Indian diamond in a 22K gold setting of her dreams. But before Tomaselli proposed, he wanted to make sure he got it right. “Ray said, ‘Is it okay if I ask for your help with the ring?’” Bird says. “I said,‘I hope you do!’” Working with Shelley King of Shelley K Gallery in Saugerties, Bird detailed her vision and was thrilled with the results. “I had an idea in my head of what I wanted,” says Bird. “She interpreted it and it came out exactly right.” Being delighted with an engagement ring—as well as the rest of the wedding-day jewelry—is something everyone desires. After all, the most durable and valuable keepsakes from your wedding should arguably be your jewelry, and nothing could be more symbolic. For this reason, it’s often a purchase that comes with much anxiety. Three local jewelers—King, Bruce Lubman of Rhinebeck’s Hummingbird Jewelers, and Jocelyn Klastow of Zimmer Brothers in Poughkeepsie—weighed in with some advice for prospective prenuptial patrons, resounding that no matter how unusual your taste or how petite your budget, there are pieces than will make you feel like a million bucks. SOMETHING OLD A current trend in wedding jewelry is taking a classic cue from the past. “For several years now I’ve seen great interest in antique style and actual antique settings, mostly from the period known as Edwardian to Art Deco,” Lubman

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says. “The first 30 years of the 20th century, I believe, were the highest state of the jeweler’s art in the past 100 years.” According to Lubman, this period included a tremendous attention to detail and intricate techniques like hand engraving and bead setting. Zimmer Brothers offers a range of estate and antique jewelry that is constantly changing. You can find a beautiful piece like an elegant, rectangular 14K white gold filigree pendant with a .5ct diamond in the center that is estimated to have been made in 1925. If you can’t find a piece you like, Hummingbird represents 45 individual designers who can accommodate custom requests and often specialize in the techniques of traditional jewelers. “While this is a process,” Lubman says, “it’s one that leads to a unique statement of the client and the artist working together to create a one-of-a-kind-piece. What could be more significant with an engagement ring or wedding band than one that you have actually helped to create?” SOMETHING NEW If antiques styles are not your forte, one of the many selections of modern diamond adornments might be. The Hearts on Fire collection at Zimmer Brothers is a breathtaking offering of engagement rings, wedding bands, necklaces, and more. Hearts on Fire, which dubs itself “the world’s most perfectly cut diamond” is indeed a stunning combination of precision and brilliancy. “The simplest styles are still the most popular,” Klastow says, and this is evident in the choice of solitaires, like the princess-cut platinum engagement ring she shows. Slightly more

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elaborate is their private label’s square solitaire in 18K white gold and platinum, which has a micropavé, or .5 ct of tiny diamonds, down the sides of the ring. For what Klastow calls a “modern, architectural look” ask to see the Michael Bondanza collection. Bondanza’s pieces are bold and arching, like Madison, a round center diamond with two diamonds on the side and a vaulted shank. At Hummingbird, customers can purchase Polar Bear diamonds, which he calls the “greenest” diamond sold. Although he says all stones at Hummingbird are conflict-free, these diamonds are mined, cut, polished, and lab certified in Canada. “Indigenous people in the Northwest territories are employed on all levels of production and management,” Lubman says, “and the environmental impact is closely monitored by the Canadian government. For those people who are still leery of South African diamonds this is a perfect alternative.” (Lubman warns against boycotting South African diamonds altogether, though. “Twelve million people are employed in the diamond industry there and in some countries, like Botswana, they have been very successful in achieving a much higher standard of living than in surrounding countries,” he says.) The Polar Bear line sells a diamond named Polar Ice, which, similar to the Hearts on Fire diamond, is certified by the American Gem Society as a triple-0 make, which means perfect symmetry, proportions, and polish. Get something totally new by custom designing a piece at the Shelley K Gallery. King works with a variety of talented designers that can turn any vision into reality. One example is the unique engagement ring that designer Wei Zheng painstakingly brought to life for a customer. The man’s girlfriend

was Native American, and he scribbled the outline of her totem, a dragonfly, on a cocktail napkin and brought it to King. Zheng then spent the next eight weeks creating an 18K white gold replica of the sketch set with moonstone and sunstone. “I think people want meaning now,” King says. “They don’t want something that 900 other people have.” Apparently so, because in six months of business King has already commissioned more than a dozen custom wedding and engagement rings. SOMETHING BORROWED Shelley K designed a special collection of rings using material lent from an aging barn. King recycled scrap nails from a 100-year-old Massachusetts barn that belonged to her husband’s family and fashioned them into rings, lining them with 18K gold. After 10 years of marriage, she melted her husband’s wedding band down and created a new one with one of the barn’s nails, lining it with his old ring. King says the style, which is bulky and rustic, is not for everyone, but there’s something special about these pieces. “You can see the hand-forged marks in them,” she says. Women’s versions include settings with the nontraditional diamonds that King favors, in colors like orange, yellow, and cognac. If you’ve “borrowed” a piece of family jewelry that doesn’t quite reflect your style, consider altering it. At Hummingbird, they can tweak your piece or completely revamp it. “We restore, redesign, or recycle family heirlooms,” Lubman says. “Sometimes it’s simply a matter of designing a new piece around a stone from a family piece. Other times, when there is great sentimental value but no continued on page 77 2/08 CHRONOGRAM WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS 73

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attachment to design, we have actually used the metal, usually gold, in the casting of a new ring. Basically, if it can be done, we can do it.” Zimmer Brothers keeps pendants and earrings stocked from the Toby Pomeroy Eclipse collection of reclaimed gold. Pomeroy was one of the first in the industry to make jewelry solely out of reclaimed materials in response to the negative tolls of precious-metal mining. The collection is 14K gold hammered elliptical pendants and earrings that would make a contemporary choice for wedding jewelry. SOMETHING BLUE OR PINK, OR YELLOW… Klastow says one of the biggest trends is the use of unconventional stones, and although diamonds remain the most popular, she has sold colorful stones like amethysts and sapphires for engagement rings. Zimmer Brothers’ private label jewelry collection includes an elegant, antique-looking, round center diamond ring with sapphire baguettes and an engraved 18K white gold band. Lubman agrees with this trend. “Engagement rings with colored stone centers, particularly blue, yellow, and pink sapphires and natural, fancy-color diamonds, are growing in popularity,” Lubman says. “Unusual side stones in colored diamonds or other colored gems such as trapezoids, half-moons, shields, or trillions make for a more unique statement in a three-stone ring.” At the Shelley K Gallery, colored stones are plentiful. King recommends as a less conventional pick for a wedding ring—an 18K gold band set with pearls on each side and a large pink tourmaline stone center by designer Barbara Zucker. “People are choosing sentiment over tradition,” King says. “Instead of your regular one-carat diamond ring, they’re using a pearl or sapphire.” AND SOMETHING ON A BUDGET “Sometimes you think you can’t afford a custom ring, but often you can,” King says. “Don’t be afraid to say, ‘My budget is $4,000 and I want a one-carat diamond. Or my budget is $500.You’re gonna find something here.” If you want an artsy, funky look you can choose lamp-work glass beads from Blanche and Guy, available at Shelley K. “They’re handmade and one-of-a-kind,” King says. “And you’re supporting a local artist.” The beads start at $12. Zimmer Brothers also carries Swarovski crystal jewelry, which is an affordable option for a bride. “A lot of bridal dresses have Swarovski crystals on them,” Klastow says. An elegant teardrop necklace with a pavé ball and pavé crystals and matching earrings could match your gown perfectly for just $150. CHOOSING YOUR JEWELER For such a momentous occasion, it’s important to be working with the right people. Klastow recommends working with a full-service jeweler who is a member of the American Gem Society and is committed to the Kimberley process. Both Hummingbird and Zimmer Brothers adhere to the process, which requires that diamonds are certified as “conflict-free.” At the Shelley K Gallery, King says she avoids buying such diamonds by purchasing from India and using antique stones. Lubman suggests finding someone who will educate you and listen to your needs. “This purchase is probably one of the most difficult and most meaningful you will make, so make sure you love what you chose,” Lubman says. “For me, being a part of this process is the most enjoyable and satisfying thing that I do in my store.” ZIMMER BROTHERS 39 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 (845) 454-6360 www.zimmerbrothers.com SHELLEY K GALLERY 65 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY 12477 (845) 853-5414 www.shelleykgallery.com HUMMINGBIRD JEWELERS 20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com

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the words of a wedding on the creation of original vows By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis JEFF DAVIS AND HILLARY THING, RECITING MARRIAGE VOWS THAT THEY WROTE, AT THEIR HOME IN ACCORD.

On January 13, 2001, Gretchen Hein stood by a reflective pond in front of 100 friends and family at a state park in Tallahassee, Florida. The early morning sky had been dim and the air icy, but when Hein stepped out of the house with her fiancé Marty Klein at her side, the clouds shifted. By the time she got to addressing their clan, the Southern sun had determined to give its wintry all. She spoke from a pool of light as she welcomed the wedding guests. “I invite you to be open to transformation,” Hein said, “because we will all leave here different than we arrived.You are invited to be part of the transformation that Marty and I have decided to embark upon. Thank you for coming, thank you for sharing of yourselves.” Hein is a Kripalu-certified yoga teacher who owns Namaste Yoga in Woodstock. Her husband, a writer of plays and nonfiction, is the author of Blindsighted: One Man’s Journey from Sight to Insight.They met at a re-evaluation counseling workshop in Atlanta, and, as romantic liaisons between teachers in that community are discouraged, decided to leave their leadership positions in order to pursue the strong and alluring connection between them. Marriage was a way to deepen that connection. It was not something they wanted another individual to do to them. They wanted to do it together, and so they opted to pen their own vows. “It helped us clarify where we were going,” Klein explains, “and what we wanted to have happen.” Her three children from a previous marriage spoke on that January day as well. Each espoused one of the three uppermost qualities the couple sought to enhance their union: clarity, creativity, and passion. The bride and groom recited poems by Marcus Aurelius and Amy Friedman. Knitting poetic verse into matrimonial ceremonies is a common undertaking. When betrothed couples approach interfaith minister Sharami Kerr of West Shokan for input on their ceremonies, she often sends them to the bookstore, recommending, among other anthologies, a volume called Weddings from the Heart by Daphne Rose Kingma. It includes readings along with descriptions of traditional wedding customs from around the world. Couples can mix, match, and create services that suit their unique characters. Kerr describes a wedding during which she read the E. E. Cummings poem “I Carry Your Heart”; the couple received English and Hebrew blessings under a chuppah (a canopy used in Jewish weddings); sage and a feather were used to welcome the four directions; and the versatile duo recited their self-made vows, after which a close friend serenaded their amalgamation. They satisfied Jewish and Wicca customs, while adding personal splash. For Kat and Benny Murello, who own Murello Plumbing in Wappingers Falls, covering all bases on their wedding day meant including loved ones who had died. Kat is an actress who had moved without enthusiasm from Manhattan to the Hudson Valley to live with her sister 10 years ago. Meeting Benny made her urban desertion worthwhile. They were ardent companions for months be78 WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS CHRONOGRAM 2/08

fore he asked her to be his girlfriend, and the next day he moved in.The original plan for their wedding was that it be outdoors and small, held at night under the stars. Family wanted something different, and the young couple found themselves walking down an aisle in broad daylight under the dome of a Presbyterian church. There were 250 guests looking on. Neither Kat nor Benny is religious, but they did see a deeper meaning in their ritual. They created a table where names of the beloved deceased could be placed, including Kat’s father and Benny’s grandparents. Married guests were encouraged to bring framed photos of their weddings. The Murellos composed vows with a slant toward sustaining passion and promising a union that would endure past death. “We are soul mates,” Kat says, eyes aglow with sincerity. “It goes beyond death. We used the term ‘eternity’ as often as possible.” Kat’s earnest words could be accompanied by the transcendent notes of the harp that interfaith minister Ilfra Halley of Woodstock plays as she speaks of her work with couples seeking to make their ceremonies their own. “Planning a wedding with a couple is always a collaboration. I listen very deeply to what they say and what they want. It is about weaving a tapestry of both the bride and groom sharing with each other and me to create something that resonates with their beings and their vision.” The threads of Violet Snow and Sparrow’s wedding tapestry were humorous, literary, and stripped of sentiment, though not of spirit. The Phoeniciabased writers met in a poetry workshop at St. Mark’s Church in 1985. Their desire to marry four years later was based on a wish to start a family. A five-foottall female rabbi married them in a synagogue that had been banished from its original place of residence and forced to share space with a church on Bennett Avenue in Washington Heights. Cloths were thrown over the Christian ornaments for the duration of the Jewish-inspired service. Sparrow and Snow offered themselves to each other in sickness and health, for rich or for poor, from the movies to the delicatessen. It was important to them in forming their words that they create something new. “We’re poets.We just figured we had to.You don’t want to be too traditional when you’re a poet,” Snow says. Her tone, like the description of her wedding day, flutters with levity. The poem Sparrow read on that occasion was likewise buoyant, titled “The Who’s Last Tour” and written by Ted Berrigan, the departed husband of the teacher who led the workshop where the bohemian bride and groom first encountered each other. “Who’s going to be your man, love, who’s gonna be yr man?” the poem asks, answering, “Why, I am. Don’tcha know? Why, I am.” I am. I carry your heart. I do. There are as many words to link two lives as there are pairs to seek those words out, and, as the betrothed create new formulations, may it be that they also create new possibilities for the multisyllabic language of marriage.

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

Kris Fox Latham, NY (518) 782-1270 or (800) 391-5272

Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings is a full service flooring store from consultation/design to installation. We will take you “every step of the way.” We can ship flooring anywhere in the United States! Call or e-mail for an extremely competitive price quote today!

Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD 317 Kyserike Road, High Falls, NY (845) 687-7676 2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-2324 www.williamslumber.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!

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

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

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

CLOTHING Pegasus Comfort Footwear 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock and New Paltz, NY (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com 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.

College Pathways - the Capital District’s answer to Sensible College Planning. Specializing in Financial Aid, College Selection, Timeline Management, PSAT and SAT Prep and Essay Writing for College Applications. If your child is a high school sophomore or junior, don’t delay contact us today!

COMPUTERS Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net Webjogger is a local company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. We have a great solution for small businesses IT including symmetrical High Speed Internet, Offsite On-line Data Backup and Storage, Collaborative Archived Email, Web Hosting and Domain Registration, Server Collocation and Management, and IT support by phone or on sight, with nice discounts for bundled services. We’re big enough to have what you need and small enough to make it work for your individual needs. Many local companies swear by us, not at us! We also do high end routing and switching and Gigabit Wireless connectivity for local hospitals and radiology labs.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past ‘n’ Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, 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 in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939

Boutique & Salon

Our hair studio provides the best in creative and corrective hair color, highlighting and styling for both men & women

Featuring such world-class lines as Thymes, Caswell Massey, Claus Porto, Jack Black, Laco House, Musgo Real, & Purology Haircare products

11 SOUTH 6TH ST. HUDSON, NY 12534 518.828.2690

Susan Oristaglio PHOTOGRAPHY

Natural Candid Photos that tell the story of your wedding day

908.432.0540 www.susanophoto.com

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CARPETS & RUGS

Clothing & accessories for women & children. Furniture & home furnishings. With an Asian sensibility. Open 7 days.

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Stri ng Theory Sam ue l Ba rber, A dagi o for Stri ngs J. S. Bach, Brande nburg Concerto no. 3 i n g maj or Brian Fe nne l l y, “ Sig ol” for Stri ngs (world premi ere) Le op ol d Hof m ann, Concerto for Vi oli n and Cello in g m ajor. M adalyn and Ci cely Parnas, soloi sts 8:00 pm, friday, february 29, 2008 ~ olin hall, bard college 8:00 pm, saturday, march 1, 2008 ~ pointe of praise family life center, kingston 3:00 pm, sunday, march 2, 2008 ~ bearsville theater, woodstock

Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

CRAFTS Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

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DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warm-ups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

DOG BOARDING Dog Love, LLC 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com 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.

FAUX FINISHES

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DownUnderFaux Red Hook, NY (845) 759 1040 www.downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com DOWN UNDER FAUX is the creation of MURIEL CALDERON, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your Designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire. See color display ad.

Faux Intentions (845) 532-3067 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 exhilaration 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.

FENG SHUI Feng Shui Solutions 72 North Slope Road, Shokan, NY (845) 231-0801 fengshuisolutions@hotmail.com Discover the richness of the ancient principles of Feng Shui applied to modern life and enjoy a more harmonious and balanced existence. Our consultations are aimed at improving family relationships, health and prosperity; clearing negative energy from any space; improving business viability and selecting or designing the perfect home or office.

GRAPHIC DESIGN piintheskydesign (845) 750-5261 piintheskydesign@france-menk.com Have a slice of pi with your editorial and advertising needs. National clients.

Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Owners Ronny and Michael Widener are committed to providing an inspired and diverse collection of jewelry, accessories, and artwork for your pleasure.

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.

Women’s work 65 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5299 www.womensworkbw.com

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Enabling women to live their chosen/desired way of life through the fair trade of baskets, beads, batiks and beauty products. Exclusive importer of Maiden Botswana Marula Oil, specializing in San Bushman Art & Ostrich Eggshell Beaded Jewelry.

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES KITCHENWARES Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium — a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have more than 1000 different styles and sizes in stock. We encourage you to take advantage of our in-store sharpening and engraving services.

MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com 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.

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Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 32 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable housesitting for your pets.

PHOTOGRAPHY China Jorrin Photography (917) 449-5020 www.chinajorrin.com 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.

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

MUSIC Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 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.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 wguild@ulster.net

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir.

David Arner (845) 339-7437 I am a classically trained avant-garde jazz pianist and composer, teaching since 1976. I teach beginners, professionals, children and adults. Every student is different, so how and what I teach varies accordingly. My mission is to encourage creativity, understanding and technical advancement no matter what your level is. See display ad.

NURSERIES JEWELRY, FINE ART, & GIFTS

Lehman-Loeb Art Center / Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu

Catskill Native Nursery 607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com

PIANO Adam’s Piano (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com 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 www.adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos!

PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY Fishkill: (845) 896-6291 Kingston: (845) 331-6700 Catskill: (518) 947-2010 info@nssupply.com Don’t settle for less, benefit from the best! At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at a competitive price. Our experienced sales professionals will help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. With many convenient locations, stop by and see why service at N&S Supply is second to none!

PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason—to delight 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.

SCHOOLS

WEDDING INVITATIONS

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Maria Ferguson, Aesthetics School 256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSAesthetics.com info@hvsaesthetics.com

Paper Presence 296 Main St. Beacon, NY (845) 849-2443

Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Rosanna Tudisco, Massage School 72 Vineyard Avenue, Highland, NY (845) 691-2547 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com info@hvsmassagetherapy.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

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

SUNROOMS

Hudson Valley Sunrooms has been selling and installing Four Seasons Sunrooms since 1984. We offer sales, skilled installation and service, as well as experienced 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.

TREE SERVICE & LANDSCAPING Midavies Tree Service (845) 658-9507 www.midaviestreeservice.com For all your tree care needs. We are a small personalized business dedicated to our customers and their trees. Free estimates and consultations.

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WEDDINGS Catamount Banquet Center (845) 688-2444 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort and Spa, the Catamount is an ideal, quiet location to host a wedding or other special event. The Emerson’s in-house event planner handles all the details, making each occasion unique with stunning views, creative cuisine, and impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount’s spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces 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 us or visit us online.

WRITING SERVICES CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.CenterToPage.com 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 Muse facilitator training. Workshops: Woodstock, Taos, & elsewhere. Jeff Davis, Director.

WRITING WORKSHOPS Emerging Writer’s Studio (845) 688-7328 http://www.emergingwriters.us/

Coding skills + design sensibility makes Curious Minds Media the right choice for your next project. We are the region’s premiere provider of new media services.

Weekly workshops, e-courses, manuscript consultation, and private mentoring for writers of fiction and memoir. Deepen awareness of craft, release your voice, and write the stories that are meant for you. Come join a supportive community of writers! Workshops: Phoenicia and beyond. Led by writer/teacher Nanci Panuccio, M.F.A.

ICU Publish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com

Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 khamherstwriters@aol.com

ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized consultation and training for both Mac and PC’s, Web design and publishing with customized data base driven websites created with the artist in mind. Limitededition book publishing, artist’s books, portfolios, dummys, proposals, business reports, manuscript editing, off-site or onsite freelance editing available.

Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.

Curious Minds Media Inc. (888) 227-1645 www.curiousm.com

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Four Seasons Sunrooms Beacon: (845) 838-1235 Kingston: (845) 339-1787 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

Distinctive Stationery. Unique custom wedding invitations. Choose from our selection of traditional to trendy invitation packages or let us help you design the look that is personally yours. See our latest albums featuring pocket folders, self-mailers and contemporary designs. We also carry bridal or shower gifts and accessories plus lovely gift wrap and ribbons.

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URGENT centers

care A niche between doctor’s office and emergency room Walk-in medical services may be in your neighborhood already, or soon will be, as consumers fuel the growth in urgent-care medicine.

by lorrie klosterman illustrations by annie internicola

ne Saturday Carol Sprague had the unfortunate mishap of tripping over an item in her house, and coming down hard. When she put out a hand to break her fall, a sudden pain unlike anything she’d ever experienced seared through her shoulder. Something was definitely wrong. After a few minutes of steeling her will to get up in spite of the pain, she went to the phone and called a neighbor for help. Fortunately, there was a walk-in emergency medical facility, EmUrgentCare, just a few minutes away in West Coxsackie. “Everybody around here says that’s where you go if you get hurt,” Sprague recounts. “When I got there, I gave them my insurance card, answered some questions, and waited maybe 20 minutes. Then I had an exam and x-rays. They found that I had dislocated my shoulder, and had a hairline fracture of the greater tuberosity [a knob for muscle attachment] of the humerus.” The doctor was able to put the shoulder back in alignment, fit her with a sling, and give her a referral for a primary care physician (she was new to the area). “Then I went home and took some Advil,” she says. In the following days Sprague visited the primary care physician and an orthopedic surgeon; the injury gradually healed with patience, care, and physical therapy. Sprague was glad she didn’t have to travel to the nearest medical facility, in Albany, at the time of the accident. “You need someplace to go that’s not a million miles away,” she says. “I suppose I could have called an ambulance, but I didn’t want to do that. And not everybody has an emergency that needs an ambulance. EmUrgentCare did an excellent job. I have no complaints. And they’re very nice people,” she says of physicians Stephen Hassett and Alison Spear. “They sponsor a lot of things in the area. They are very giving to the community.” 84 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 2/08

URGENT-CARE CENTERS EMERGE Walk-in medical facilities known as urgent-care centers have been around a long time. First emerging in the US in the late 1970s, the nascent sector of medical services grew slowly at first, and even experienced a backslide in the early 1990s. But the concept took hold again and rallied, and today, there are thousands of centers spread across all but a few states. About half of them are in retail shopping centers; most others are freestanding buildings; a few are in hospitals. Some are multioffice chains, others are single businesses. Many are started by experienced physicians seeking a respite from years of a demanding family practice or the intense schedule of the hospital emergency room. The surge in urgent-care centers is directly related to a dearth of affordable, consumer-friendly options for medical treatment on short notice. They are open nearly every day of the year and typically for 12-14 hours a day on weekdays; a bit less on weekends and holidays. They offer more services than a typical primary care doctor’s office, but fewer than an emergency room. Folks walk in with cuts, broken bones, torn tendons, sore throats, ear infections, mysterious symptoms, and other manner of malaise. Besides a medical exam and a variety of medical procedures like suturing, centers are set up to take x-rays, perform diagnostic tests, prescribe from a selection of prepackaged pharmaceuticals, and much more. “Our overall goal is to create a one-stop shop for most minor illness and injuries—whether injured at work, home, or play,” says Todd Martin, executive vice president of Emergency One, which has a facility in Kingston and another in Hyde Park. Emergency One was founded by Dr. Ferdinand Anderson, an emergency room doctor who has served as medical director and chairman

of the emergency departments at The Kingston Hospital, Ellenville Hospital, Margaretville Hospital, and Benedictine Hospital. “Our providers are board certified in either emergency medicine, internal medicine, or family practice,” says Martin, “and all of them have previous emergency room or urgent-care experience.” That makes the center ready and equipped for just about any medical challenge. “We differentiate our services from the emergency room this way: If it’s a matter of life or [losing a] limb, to go the emergency room; otherwise, come to us.”

VITAL STATS ON THE URGENT-CARE MODEL If you haven’t heard of urgent-care centers, and many people haven’t, here are some reassuring statistics compiled by the National Association for Ambulatory Care (NAAC) about urgent-care centers across the nation: • 100 percent of centers are licensed to practice medicine by the state in which they are located. • 97 percent of centers have a fulltime staff of physician(s) and other medical personnel. • Urgent-care physicians must be licensed to practice medicine, just as other practicing doctors are. • Nonphysician medical staff include licensed RNs, LPNs, medical assistants, lab technologists, x-ray technologists, physical therapists, and others. • 95 percent of centers are open seven days each week, typically for 12-14 hours a day. The American Medical Association has given its nod to the urgent care sector by establishing a code for physicians to self-designate their specialty as “urgent-care medicine,” and a new postgraduate curriculum in urgent care is offered for MDs through collaborations of two medical schools (Case West-

ern Reserve University and the University of Illinois) and practicing urgent care physicians. Professional organizations support the sector: most prominent are the NAAC, birthed in 1973, and the Urgent Care Association of America (UCAA), which together sponsor online networks, accreditation, national conferences, online and printed versions of newsletters and the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, and more. Clearly, this is a robust arena of medicine that is here to stay.

CONSUMER APPEAL Being able to see a doctor after work hours (sometimes, until midnight), on weekends, and even on many holidays, is rapidly gaining converts to the urgent-care sector. And the centers are truly a walk-in service: a referral from a primary care physician is not usually necessary (online databases allow access to a patient’s medical records, if the primary care physician’s office participates in such a service). “The trend we are seeing,” says Martin, “is that individuals are very, very busy, and they want healthcare services available to them on their own time. We serve that niche for the community, and it’s been very well received.” In addition, Martin points out, urgent-care centers make it possible for people to get a problem checked out that they might otherwise ignore. “When you have deadlines at work, and you’re taking the kids to practice, and both parents are working, you wait until you are really in a lot of pain or very ill to seek a physician,” he says of the usual doctor’s office option. And while that office may be willing to fit in a patient’s emergency during office hours, doing so strains both the medical office and the patience of others who have waited weeks or months for their appointment. Urgent care administrators know that customer satisfaction is their bread and butter. At Emergency One, says Martin, “we track the total pa2/08 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING 85

tient duration time—the time from when they check in to check out— ily, which can be deducted from a checking account or credit card. Patients and modulate our staffing patterns accordingly. And we constantly solicit can sign up at their first visit if they have a permanent New York state address feedback through surveys. (When is the last time you were asked to fill out (it’s not for seasonal visitors). The benefits of membership are discounted a satisfaction survey at your doctor’s office or emergency room?) A recent services: $69 for a doctor visit and 20 percent discount on laboratory services national survey, conducted by the National Headache Foundation, asked or procedures. Members can also get sports or school physicals for $25, flu people who sought help for migraine headaches about their experiences shots for $20, and physical therapy visits for $45. What’s more, the Wellat emergency rooms and urgent-care centers. At the centers, two-thirds ness Access Card is accepted nationwide by thousands of doctors, specialists, of people waited less than an hour for treatment, 58 percent said their hospitals, pharmacies, dentists, vision care providers, hearing services, and diagnosis was clearly explained, and 43 percent were given a clear home- more, which offer a 10-60 percent discount off their services. (An online care plan before leaving. By comparison, search page allows you to find particitwo-thirds of people visiting emergency pating businesses by zip code.) rooms waited more than an hour, 38 perthere are folks who have mediBeing able to see a doctor after cal Then, cent received a well-explained diagnosis, insurance already. Many insurance and 17 percent were given a home-care plans (but not all) now cover urgent care work hours (sometimes, until plan. In addition, 67 percent of urgentvisits, and consider them an office setcare visitors said they were treated poting. So the patient pays a doctor’s office midnight), on weekends, and litely and respectfully, compared to only copay—typically a third to quarter of 38 percent who said so about their emerthe price of an emergency room copay. even on holidays, is rapidly gency room experience. Tests and other services are also covered Another angle to consumer appeal gaining converts to the urgent- as one’s existing health plan stipulates. is ambiance. The founders of FirstCare COMMUNITY AND WORKWalk-In Medical Center in Highland care sector. And urgent-care PLACE SERVICES intentionally designed their center so Urgent-care centers also provide nonethat customers would feel relaxed from centers are truly a walk-in mergency, ongoing medical services for the moment they walk in, says Dr. Steservice: no referral is needed companies, unions, and public agencies, phen Weinman. He and his father, also a from schools and fire departments to doctor, and Weinman’s sister, an emerfrom a primary-care physician. major corporations. This occupational gency room assistant, created a spa-like health niche amounts to a significant setting to banish any sense of a typical A typical doctor may be willing portion of a center’s workload—35 peremergency room. “It’s difficult to begin cent at Emergency One, for instance. the healing process in the ER because to fit in a patient’s emergency These services are things like employee it’s noisy, busy, and people are uptight,” physicals, workers compensation injury Weinman says, speaking from 15 years’ during office hours, but doing management, drug testing, DOT and experience as an ER doctor. “There are OSHA medical screenings, physical a thousand details that went into giving so strains both the office and therapy, injury prevention programs our center a completely different feel, other educational trainings, and from the open airy spaces, to the waterthe patience of others who have and much more. With a unique position in a fall, the artwork, the colors—it took us community, urgent-care centers proactwo months just to find chairs that are waited for an appointment. tively court collaborative relationships beautiful, functional, and comfortable.” with employers to design customized The center has a children’s room where programs and services. Emergency decorations of tropical fish hang from the ceiling and large-screen TVs in every room that show tropical fish or birds. One tailors employee assistance programs to provide health-related trainThere’s WiFi, and a coffee/tea bar in the waiting area. And Weinman refused ing, and even offers counseling for stress, grief, substance abuse, marital to install those sliding glass windows that separate nurses from patients in and family issues—whatever a business or agency needs to best support its most medical offices (to meet patient privacy laws). “They form a barrier,” workers. Emergency One’s Sports and Industrial Physical Therapy Center says Weinman. “Instead, we’ve trained our staff not to talk about patients and was developed in response to an identified need for sports and occupational their problems where others can hear.” Weinman also selected and trained health services in the Hudson Valley, and offers comprehensive programs his staff to be warm and caring, because “customers are sick, they don’t want such as evaluations of the musculo-skeletal system, gait analysis, return-toto be there. So we want to be sure our staff are smiling and happy. We have work programs, and ergonomics education. The center usually can schedule a good time.” That’s not a comment most folks laud on their emergency patients for evaluation within 24 hours, or even the same day. It’s no secret that the urgent-care sector, as it continues to flourish, stands room visits. to impact more than individual patients’ pocketbooks. The health insurance PAYMENT OPTIONS industry recognizes that most of the populace—roughly 85 percent—is As monthly health insurance premiums range into a staggering four-digit healthy most of the time, according to its analysis of medical insurance uspayout, people who once had medical coverage are increasingly opting out. age patterns. Yet it is those same people (and sometimes their employers) When they need care, tapping into the conventional medical network is a who are funding the current medical insurance system. Their monthly prehigh-priced, out-of-pocket luxury. So walk-in centers are a godsend. They miums create a billion-dollar pool, which is paid out mostly to cover the aren’t necessarily cheap: a typical consultation with a doctor runs $130 to skyrocketing costs of care for the chronically and seriously ill. The healthy $180; tests or procedures are additional. But it’s cheaper than an emergency group, by contrast, needs only episodic medical care, which is just what room. And urgent-care centers are an option for people who are visiting from urgent-care centers are designed for. As the standard paradigm of health out of the area, and whose insurance doesn’t cover them. insurance or managed care gets ever more expensive, healthy people are For local folks, urgent-care centers offer affordable memberships or pay- pulling their dollars from the pool and choosing new approaches like the ment plans—another facet of customer appeal. For instance, Emergency One centers. It remains to be seen just how what’s best for the individual will offers the Wellness Access Card, a membership plan with a one-time registra- have a hand in reshaping a beleaguered health insurance industry, but the tion fee of $10 and monthly fee of $21.95 for an individual, $39.95 for a fam- transition is underway. 86 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 2/08

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In the early 1970s, a wooded valley in Phoenicia became home to a thriving community of seekers delving into The Pathwork, a body of spiritual/ psychological guidance transmitted from a spiritual entity known as The Guide. The entity’s channel was Eva Pierrakos, a charismatic woman born in Vienna in 1915; her father, Austrian novelist Jacob Wassermann, was one of Europe’s literary elite and comrade to Herman Hesse and Thomas Mann. “Eva was extraordinarily bright, inquisitive, vivacious, and affable,” recalls Richard Bachrach, a spiritual and energetics counselor in Bearsville, and a student of The Pathwork from 1974 to 1994. He had met Pierrakos in New York City in the 1970s, where she had immigrated after escaping the ravages of war in Europe. Pierrakos had been receiving information from The Guide since 1957. “In her early 30s she started doing automatic writing,” explains Bachrach. “That’s when a person goes into a deeply introspective mode, puts pen to paper, and writes in an inspired process that really feels as though it bypasses any kind of conscious volition. That was a precursor to her becoming a trance medium for The Guide.” Pierrakos transmitted a collection of 258 “lectures” from The Guide over two decades, until her death in 1979. The lectures reveal insights that both novice and experienced seekers call profoundly life-changing.Today’s International Pathwork Foundation describes them as a “roadmap to self-responsibility, self-knowledge, and true self-acceptance. The lectures cover the wide spectrum of our human journey, from our struggles with self-doubt, self-hatred, and fear of inadequacy to the barriers we put up to relating with others, and, ultimately, with what we each know as God. The lectures teach that vital life-energy, feelings, and insight are often buried under misconceptions about the nature of reality.They point the way to genuine love of self, others, and the divine.” An essential teaching of The Guide was that we must not ignore or gloss over the dark sides we tend to hide from or deny. “The lectures say, ‘Look in the mirror, speak what you’re afraid of, dialogue with it, tolerate it,’” explains Bachrach. “The Pathwork stresses self-responsibility—to say what you are really feeling, and create a viable way to deal with that. They’re very down-toearth, in terms of psychological and behavioral tools to do that.” A longstanding 88 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 2/08

tradition in The Pathwork is Helpership, by which experienced pathworkers mentor newer seekers in real-life applications of the material—something at which Pierrakos herself was quite masterful, according to Bachrach. The resident community in Phoenicia wasThe Pathwork’s epicenter. Bert and Moira Shaw of Bearsville were there “from the very early days,” says Bert. “Eva’s dream was to have a center to do intensives.That led to our finding the center in Phoenicia. I negotiated to buy the property, and was the director for 15 years.” Moira was the first member of what developed into the first training group— the beginning of a vibrant heritage, ongoing today, in which small groups meet regularly to pore over the lectures to discuss and discover their wisdom. “I just loved the material,” says Moira, who has been instrumental in maintaining the lectures as Pierrakos transmitted them, and in making their messages accessible to everyone, including children, through her own writings and teachings. Bachrach and his wife Judi moved to the community and became central to its leadership for nearly a decade. “In the 1970s, The Pathwork went from an organization of about 50 people to 300 in the New York region alone. The resident community at its peak had about 46 people, with 150 to 160 on the weekends.” He describes a host of remarkable people drawn to the community—“major folks in the feminist movement and in theater and film, and John Pierrakos [Eva’s husband], who founded the Bioenergetic Institute and brought in a lot of people who were learning Core Energetics. They came from all over the world, big groups from Holland, Venezuela, Italy, Mexico. There was this beautiful hunger for purification, but without needing to isolate oneself. It wasn’t a life of renunciation. It strove to make ordinary life rich and full of spiritual experiences. The context was community, and immersion, and the extraordinary convergence of a spiritual and psychological healing process.” But with Pierrakos’s death, the community was stricken. Says Bachrach, “We were habituated to a monthly infusion from Eva, where we would sit around her, and she would go into trance, and we would get a new lecture. It was like transmission in the Buddhist tradition—sitting with someone you believe to be an intermediary between the physical and astral plane of reality. You get used to that being a source of nourishment.” With that era over, a difficult transition jostled the community in different directions; the Phoenicia

center remained for some years but has since disbanded. But the imprint of the Phoenicia Pathwork Center endures for those who experienced it, many of whom are now counselors or spiritual mentors carrying on aspects of the work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Pathwork remains a deeply held part of our heritage,â&#x20AC;? says Bert. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The core tenets of that work lie at the heart of our spiritual and professional work to this day.â&#x20AC;? Moira got personally involved in restoring lectures that have been edited and changed over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Editing had been done to make them more userfriendly, but I felt it was taking out the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;spiritual vibration.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; For instance, editors wanted to put in the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;painâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to replace â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unpleasure.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But there is a clear distinction between those words. When we resist unpleasuresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ordinary struggles of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we create pain. So, I was part of a group who undertook the job of copyediting all of the lectures back to the originals.â&#x20AC;? She has produced a CD-ROM of the work in its entirety. Moira was inspired even more deeply by that immersion in the material. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It opened my channel, and illuminated the teachings in a new way,â&#x20AC;? she says. This is now the â&#x20AC;&#x153;50-50 Workâ&#x20AC;? that she and Bert teach, for which she has developed a collection of exercises and questions for study to accompany key Pathwork lectures. The term 50-50 refers to accepting that not everything in life is dualisticâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not 100 percent good or bad, successful or a failure. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all a lifeor-death matter, as we may often feel emotionally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about accepting life on its terms,â&#x20AC;? says Bert, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and not glossing over that we have two willsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the lower self that says no to life and to growing up and loving, and the divine self that says yes to those. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a process of becoming undefended, of choosing to connect with oneself, merging with your divine self and going out into the world with that connection.â&#x20AC;? The Shaws share the 50-50 insights all over the world through counseling, workshops, and business consultations; they also train 5050 helpers in an intensive mentorship fashion. A recent group of graduates (self-named The Group of Six) has just completed its six-year training. New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional Pathwork organization regularly holds classes, based on the lectures in their original format, in New York City as well as in the Phoenicia area (but not at the site of the earlier community). The organization gives public presentations, introductory weekend workshops that focus on a few lectures at a time, and monthly small-group meetings that commit to meet for a few months or a year. In addition, its staff will connect anybody wishing to explore The Pathwork in mentorship fashion with an experienced helper, several of whom live in our region. There is also a residential group forming, to begin studying in April at a location in Pennsylvania (contact New York Pathwork for details). You can also learn more about The Pathwork by reading books and online newsletters, visiting websites of international and regional organizations, and visiting one of the residential communities listed by the Pathwork Foundation. Plus, here in the embrace of the Catskills, ask your neighbors. Chances are that some of them know The Pathwork, and may even be among its founding explorers who continue to share their lessons of loving self-acceptance. RESOURCES International Pathwork Foundation: www.pathwork.org New York Region Pathwork: www.pathworkny.org (212) 580-7069 (New York); (845) 688-2211 (Phoenicia)

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FULL RANGE OF HOLISTIC, ALTERNATIVE AND TRADITIONAL SERVICES Dean Bloch md, board certified ob-gyn, holistic medicine, licensed acupuncturist Suzanne Berger certified nurse midwife r Julie Denney certified nurse midwife Jeanne Valentine-Chase ÄşÄľĹ Ä˝Ĺ&#x20AC;Ĺ? Ĺ&#x201A;Ĺ&#x160;Ĺ&#x2021;Ĺ&#x2C6;Äš Ĺ&#x201E;Ĺ&#x2021;ÄľÄˇĹ&#x2030;Ä˝Ĺ&#x2030;Ä˝Ĺ&#x192;Ĺ&#x201A;ÄšĹ&#x2021; r Mary Riley certified childbirth educator Christine Herde Ĺ Ä¸ ÄśĹ&#x192;ÄľĹ&#x2021;Ä¸ ÄˇÄšĹ&#x2021;Ĺ&#x2030;Ä˝ÄşÄ˝ÄšÄ¸ Ĺ&#x192;Äś ÄťĹ?Ĺ&#x201A; r Carrie Andress ms, licensed acupuncturist

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Two New Yoga Classes! with Nita (from YogaMonkey) Lunchtime Yoga Mondays, 12:15â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1:30 pm Gentle Vinyasa Fridays, 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7:00 pm

Special New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Benefit Class with Sondra

www.nourishingwisdom.com Hollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cooking Classes have been inspiring people to cook since 1999, and will inspire you too! We use seasonal, organic ingredients including produce from local farms. At the end of each class we sit around the table to enjoy a delicious feast. So come on your own or grab a friend, and join us for a great class that is sure to spark creativity in your kitchen! Visit us online or call for a list of upcoming classes.

The Center For Advanced Dentistry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry. com Setting the standard for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes old-school care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18. Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706

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403 Warren, 3rd Floor, Hudson, NY 518-828-1034 www.sadhanayogahudson.com

Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS (845) 454-8025 www.NYfaceMD.com Dr. Abraham is Double Board Certified and a Clinical Instructor in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive techniques (Botoxâ&#x201E;˘, Restylaneâ&#x201E;˘, Thermageâ&#x201E;˘, Thread Lifts, Lifestyle Lifts, IPL Laser Hair, and Vein Treatments), and specializes in rhinoplasty. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and NYC with affiliated MediSpas.

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www.tischlerdental.com With over 35 years experience, Tischler Dental is the leading team of dental care experts in the area. Dr. Michael Tischler is currently one of only two Board Certified Implant Dentists in the Hudson Valley Region of NYS and one of only 300 dentists in the world to have achieved this honor. Sedation dentistry, acupuncture with dental treatment, dental implant surgery, cosmetic makeover procedures and gum surgery are just a few of the many unique services Tischler Dental offers. Their practice philosophy is that each modality of dental treatment is performed by the practitioner that is best trained in that area. Working as a team, they deliver ideal dental care.

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IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of MaĂĽt, Inc.

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GENTLEYOGA JENNIFER HUNDERFUND, RYT, lmt Thursdays, 5:30–6:30pm — Standing postures and stretching Fridays, 12–1pm — Core strengthening and hip openers Drop-in rate: $12. Monthly rate: $40

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

Therapeutic massage annie serrante, lmt, lmsw 25 years experience Gift Certificates available. 255-3337 ext. 1 Students and Senior Citizens discounts available

REIKI AND ANGELIC HEALING JENNA FIORISSI, Reiki Master

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THE PERFECT TIME TO CLEANSE AFTER ALL THAT HOLIDAY CHEER

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sharing the gift she received with others. Give your loved ones the gift of health for the holidays with a gift certificate for hypnosis. Stop Smoking. Lose Weight. Improve Athletic Performance. Overcome Phobias. A perfect chance to guarantee your New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resolutions! Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. New Paltz/Kingston, NY

Body Language â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jerome Downey 7 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 224-9173 www.bodylanguage.com Body Language is a personal fitness training studio offering personalized exercise plans, nutritional counseling, education for longevity, diet, correct posture, balance, pain management, stress relief, and healthy solutions for fatigue, chronic back pain, osteoporosis, and arthritis. You deserve a better body.

(845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stressrelated illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology.

JEWISH MYSTICISM & KABBALAH

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Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC

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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.

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HOLISTIC HEALTH John M. Carroll, Healer Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given 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.

Meditation instruction, classes in Jewish mysticism, individual spiritual direction sessions, distinctive and creative lifecycle ceremonies (including Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nai Mitzvah and Jewish and interfaith weddings). Chazzan Michaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;el offers his services as Cantor, ritual officiant, teacher, tutor, and certified spiritual director (Lev Shomea).

LIFE COACHING Jessica Thayer, LLC (800) 291-5576

HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 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. Margaret A. Cribbin Certified Hypnotherapist 658 Aaron Court, Kingston, NY (845) 430-8249 Over 20 years ago, Margaret stopped smoking through hypnosis. Now she is

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(518) 678-3154 Conscious Body â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ellen Ronis McCallum L.M.T. 426 Main Street Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Offering deep, sensitive and eclectic Massage therapy with over 22 years of experience as a licensed Massage Therapist working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques included: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage). Hot Stone Massage and aromatherapy are also offered. Gift certificates available. Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net

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womanway@gmail.com Since the 1970s Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth. She is an expert in preserving 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. Certified Nurse Midwife & NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.

NUTRITION COUNSELING Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Director of Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition (845) 687-9666 www.nourishingwisdom.com In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes, teaching tangible ways to incorporate nourishing foods into your life. Shopping trips to natural food stores and local farms are part of our work together, as well as telephone classes and retreats. For the most effective and supportive nutrition counseling you will ever experience, call us or visit us online. Long- distance telephone clients welcome. Jill Malden, RD, LMSW 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 489-4732 Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life! Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN 7 Innis Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2398 www.Nutrition-wise.com Creating Wellness for individuals and businesses. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Health Fairs for Businesses wanting to improve employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; productivity. Providing help with Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions, Weight loss, Digestive support, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health, and Pediatric Nutrition. Many insurances accepted. Offices in New Paltz and Kingston. Call (845) 255-2398 for an appointment.

MIDWIFERY OSTEOPATHY Catskill Mountain Midwifery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Home Birth Services (845) 687-BABY 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. 96

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Applied Osteopathy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, (845) 876-1700 3457 Main St, Stone Ridge, (845) 687-7589 257 Main Street, New Paltz, (845) 256-9884 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

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Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York

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A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - itâ&#x20AC;&#x203A;s not all talk!

Conscious Body is dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind and a vibrant spirit. Come visit our beautiful new studio where perceptive, knowledgeable and experienced instructors will help you achieve your goals, no matter your age or physical abilities. For more information, call 845-658-8400 or visit our website at www.consciousbodyonline.com

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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. For more information call or visit the website.

Moving Body

Relationships are tough.

276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715 www.themovingbody.com Pilates of New Paltz 12 North Chestnut St., New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0559 www.pilatesnewpaltz.com This studio offers 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 pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accommodate any schedule.

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Poughkeepsie, NY

Psychically Speaking

(845) 485-7168

www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com 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 one’s life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.

PSYCHOLOGISTS Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D.

Patricia Lee Rode, M.A. CCC-SLP speech language pathologist Rhinebeck/NYC

646.729.6633 Offering a holistic approach to children and adults with speech language developmental delays and neurological disorders. Specializing in autistic spectrum disorders, PDD, ADHD, auditory and phonological processing, apraxia, selective mutism and memory dysfunction. Individual and Social Skills Groups.

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Dr. Jemiolo is board certified in Family Practice and certified by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She has 25 years experience in patient care. She offers group sessions in meditation as well as individual treatment of stress-related illness. Sessions are designed to teach self-help tools based on mindfulness based stress reduction, guided imagery, Twelve Steps, Reiki and Qigong. Her individual practice combines traditional medical practice with an integrative approach in an effort to decrease dependency on medication.

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(845) 380-0023 Women’s Care Center Rhinebeck: (845) 876-2496 Kingston: (845) 338-5575 Empowerment through information. Located in Rhinebeck and Kingston. Massage and acupuncture available. Gynecology - treating our patients through the most up-to-date medical and surgical technologies available, combined with alternative therapies. Obstetrics - working with you to create the birth experience you desire. Many insurances accepted. Evening hours available.

Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-graduate candidate for certification in adult psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunity available for intensive, supervised psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction for appropriate individual. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Peter M. del Rosario, PhD 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (914) 262-8595

PILATES Conscious Body 426 Main Street Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com

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.

Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind and a vibrant spirit. We are perceptive, experienced and certified instructors who would love to help you achieve your goals whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus and mat classes available. Visit our studio on Main Street in Rosendale.

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Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls, and

Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC 845-255-8039 deepclay@mac.com www.deepclay.com

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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. Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing selfdefeating 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.

Bryan Perrin Studio (845) 657-5701 Bryan Perrin is a Modern American Druid and fine artist. An ordained Druid priest, he leads seasonal and other rituals and offers divinatory consultations. In addition to watercolors and sculptures, Bryan creates custom idolatry, personal altars and handmade ceremonial vestments. Experience the Art of Ritual and the Ritual of Art.

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There is a Silk Road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa. A place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more well-known treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. Day spa appointments available.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory. Jamie O’Neil, LCSW-R Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie, NY

Judy Swallow, MA, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy. Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW — Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511x304 Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or longterm work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative hurdles. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale.

REIKI The Sanctuary — Reiki

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Patricia Lee Rode, M.A. CCC-SLP (646) 729-6633 Speech Language Pathologist with ten years experience providing diagnostic/therapeutic services for children/ adults with speech/language delays and neurological disorders. Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, Apraxia, memory and language related disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T., and Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/Rhinebeck.

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Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments. Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch. Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver. 100

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(845) 679-7979 www.meatfreezone.org The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet’s precious resources, improve and protect one’s health, and stop the senseless slaughter of over 50 billion animals a year...is to Go Vegan. What could make you feel better about yourself than knowing you are helping the planet, your own health, and the lives of countless animals all at the same time? If the idea is daunting and seems undoable to you, then let your personal Vegan Lifestyle Coach take you through steps A to Z. Whether you’re a cattle rancher eating meat three times a day or a lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it’s a process that can be fun, easy, and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance, and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach.

YOGA All Sport Fishkill Health & Fitness Club 17 Old Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-5678 allsportfishkill.com All Sport Fishkill offers a variety of yoga classes for all levels. Our classes help members reduce stress, lose weight, and improve their fitness levels. All yoga classes are free with club membership. Please call 896-5678 for more information. Jai Ma Yoga Center New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 Offering a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week, from Gentle/Restorative Yoga to Advanced. Meditation classes free to all enrolled. Chanting Friday evenings. New expanded studio space. Private consultations and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions available. Gina Bassinette, RYT & Ami Hirschstein, RYT, Owners.

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Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center

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It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully the love and the abundance of God’s universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions.

Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building. We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week. There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up.

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(845) 876-7600 Offering a variety of approaches, both short and long term to help you regain a sense of personal control, meaning, and connections in your life. Specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, abuse, addictions, loss, eating disorders, and relationship/communication difficulties. Serving individuals and couples; adults and adolescents.

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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, and teens.

Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

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

www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and post-natal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna and organic Yoga clothing.

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PAULO NETTO A still from The Business of Being Born: Midwife Melanie Comer (right) and a nurse assist in a natural childbirth.

MAKING BABIES On an average day in the United States, more than 11,000 babies are born. Nearly 10,000 of those births take place in a hospital, where they are attended by an obstetrician and within arm’s reach of the latest in medical equipment and procedures available to birthing women. Less than one percent of children in the US are born at home in the care of a midwife. What was once normal everywhere, and is still widely accepted in Europe, has become startlingly uncommon here. And as the disparity between nature and technology becomes increasingly dramatic, so do the ways in which women in the US are examining their choices and having their babies. For most, the idea of a woman giving birth outside of a hospital is imprudent at best and, more likely, recklessly dangerous. But for a growing number of people, pregnancy and childbirth are viewed as natural as breathing, a process to be honored and trusted, not treated as a medical emergency. This stark contrast—along with the raw economics of maternal care and some surprising truths about just how safe hospitals are making birthing for women and babies—are central themes in filmmaker Abby Epstein’s most recent documentary, The Business of Being Born. In reality, and despite our nearly blind faith in medical technology, the US ranks second to last in infant mortality among developed nations, according to Save the Children (April 2006). Further, among the five countries with the lowest infant mortality rates—Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, and Norway—midwives cared for seven out of every ten of birthing women. Perhaps more disturbing is the rate at which medical doctors are now performing Cesarean sections and why: 29.1 percent of all live births in 2004 were delivered by C-section, up 40 percent in just the last 10 years, and in one survey 82 percent of physicians said they performed a C-section to avoid a negligence claim. The film shines a light on the very personal, very contentious province of childbirth and navigates moviegoers through the past and present state of obstetrics and the bigbusiness mechanism that includes insurance companies, hospitals, and even policy makers. This mechanism, asserts Epstein, continues to “discourage choice and even infringe on parents’ intimate rites, ultimately obstructing the powerful natural connection between mother and newborn child.”

Along the way, Epstein and executive producer Ricki Lake introduce us to OB/GYNs, professional midwives and labor coaches, hospital nurses, medical anthropologists, and public health officials, and ask: Why has the medical model of birth gone unchallenged for so long? Why do so few American women seek the care of midwives, which, according to statistics, are safer and less expensive than hospital obstetrical care? And, most importantly, what are the basic needs of women in labor? What they present in response is a thread of information and viewpoints to which many childbearing women don’t normally have access. The film’s real impact, however, is in the personal stories of the women it follows, allowing the viewer to bear witness to something that few people ever see: natural, safe home births; images of women having their babies on their own terms, without drama or trauma. In this way, Epstein and Lake become subjects of their own documentary, sharing their experiences as they explore their own birthing choices. On February 1 at 6:30pm, Maternal-Infant Services Network of Sullivan, Orange, and Ulster Counties, Inc. will host a special benefit screening of The Business of Being Born in SUNY New Paltz’s Lecture Center 100. “I feel so passionately about women’s choices in childbirth that I would show this movie over and over again if I could,” says Liz Pickett, the event’s organizer and MaternalInfant Services Network’s perinatal health educator. “People need to understand that they have choices. It’s good to know that these things exist. In other countries midwifery is a primary care system, and it works.” Following the film, there will be a question-and-answer session with a panel of experts, including Ira Jaffee, MD; Daniel Perkes, MD (Life Care OBGYN); Susanrachel Condon, CNM; Vicki Hedley, LCCE, CD (DONA), PCD (DONA); Mavis Gewant, CCE; and Elan Vital McAllister, president of Choices in Childbirth. Admission is $12 in advance or $15 at the door. To register online, visit www.misn-ny.org, click on the JustGive button on the homepage, and write “BOBB.” when completing the form. www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com or www.misn-ny.org. —Teal Hutton 2/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST

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Golden Lincoln (detail), Oscar Strodl, wool, thread, yarn, 2005.

The Woolly Emancipator In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 199th birthday, four portraits of the great leader by Oscar Strodl will be shown at Incident Report in Hudson. These portraits are not painted, but composed of wool, yarn and thread. In several cases, the background is canvas or felt sewed over and over again with various colored threads on a sewing machine, creating a vibrating field reminiscent of Van Gogh’s landscapes. Strodl explained the origin of his work with fibers: “I was at the Josée Bienvenue Gallery in New York, and the gallery director advised me to just stop and look at art for a month. So that’s in the city; I come back to the country, and trying to be compliant, I went out and got a sewing machine, and decided to fix all my jeans. And it took a day before I was ‘painting’ on the sewing machine!” This was in 2005. Since then, Strodl discovered the yearly roving wool festival in Rhinebeck, where he lives. Roving wool is natural sheep wool which has been cleaned and dyed, but not transformed into yarn. “It’s in its nappy state; it sort of looks like big bags of colored cotton candy,” Strodl explains. He has dozens of jars of dyed wool, which he combines like paints. In the same way that tiny pixels of color create an image in a photograph or on TV, subtle combinations of wool fibers make an image. “For example, I’m trying to have a black that’s more vibrant than just black, so I will use a really dark turquoise, a really dark red, and a dark Army green, let’s say. And that minor, minor contradiction—even though you’re not aware of it—is going to create a much more luscious, intense black,” says Strodl.

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These complexities within the image reflect Strodl’s view of Lincoln: “What interests me in Lincoln is that he’s so described by contradiction. He has this incredibly masculine side, in which he’s an amazing wrestler, he’s chopping wood, he has a really, really rustic look. And then he has this other side where he’s openly melancholy; he has a [male] bed partner, and when the guy leaves, he’s tragically sad. And that fullness of contradiction is a great symbol for our country.” Incident Report is a viewing station founded in July, 2007 by three artists who live in Hudson. It emphasizes the work of young, local painters and sculptors, as well as international artists. The exhibit is viewable 24 hours a day in the window of a storefront at 348 Warren St. “It’s particularly nice at night because the windows are lit,” says Nancy Shaver, one of the Incident Report curators. Each show also appears on a website. For those intimidated by the aggressively white walls of art galleries and baleful looks of gallerists, a viewing station is perfect. Lincoln allowed the public into his office every day around noon. The president would often surprise a visitor with the hearty greeting: “Well, friend, what can I do for you?” Now the public is invited to see Lincoln, constructed of yarn, thread and roving wool, at any hour in Hudson, New York. Oscar Strodl’s portraits of Lincoln will be shown at Incident Report, 348 Warren St, Hudson, and on www.incidentreport.info, starting February 18 and will remain until March 31. —Sparrow

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LET THERE BE LOVE. Elegant evening of music & romance. Ten area singers performing jazz standards. Chocolates & Champagne.

2/15/08 7:30PM

NYFA (New York Funk Alliance) Valentine Dance Party. All your favorite Funk and R&B Classics. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about Love. Ruperto IďŹ l, Ricky Woodard, Mike Schirmer, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dutchess of Funkâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Alana Orr.

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SOUL PURPOSE. Stretch out Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with one more dance party. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old Skoolâ&#x20AC;? R&B blast from the past â&#x20AC;&#x201C; complete with big sound horn section.

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Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

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Painting with Acrylics 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Janet Baskerville’s Altered State of Mind 7pm-9pm. Making your own Altered journals and Artist Trading Cards. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

DANCE Mardi Gras Celebration with Cleoma’s Ghost 6pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

FILM Screening of The Business of Being Born 6:30pm. Benefit for Maternal-Infant Services Network of Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties Inc. $15/$12/$10. Lecture Center 100, SUNY New Paltz. 928-7448x13. Honeydripper 7:30pm. Screening of John Sayles film. $5. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

MUSIC American Symphony Orchestra 8m. Debussy, Copland, Scriabin, Dukas. $20/$30/$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. An Evening with Robbie Dupree 8pm. With David Sancious, Larry Hoppen, Leslie Smith, Rick Chudacoff and Peter Bunetta. $25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Holmes Brothers 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

SPOKEN WORD Focus the Nation Call for times. Teach-in on global warming issues. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7180. Old Lesbians Organizing for Change 6:30pm-8:30pm. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 331-5300. Riverine Book Signing and Reading 7pm-9pm. Inspired Books and Gifts, Kingston. 331-0644.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. 389 Broadway, Kingston. 658-8319.

KIDS Kidtopia 11am. Music for kids. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. Incredible Larry 11am. Circus performance. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. The People’s Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Debussy, Copland, Scriabin, Dukas. $20/$30/$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Blueberry Call for times. Featuring Gwen Snyder. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Gospel Show and Award Day 1pm-4pm. Featuring the Ulster County Community Choir & The Bruderhof Community Choir. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. The Locks 7pm. Griffin’s Corners Cafe, Fleischmanns. 254-6300. Four Nations Ensemble 8pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. Hellfire 8pm. Jim Loucks. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Encore! 9pm. Dorraine Scofield, JB Hunt, Larry Balestra. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Johnny A. 9pm. With special guest Jeffery Braun. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

THEATER

Spent Bastards 9pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Steve Schultz 9pm. Solo/acoustic rock & soul. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

Harvey the White Rabbit 8pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Rock ‘n Blue Angels Band 10pm. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. The Crucible 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Tom Topor’s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

SATURDAY 2 ART Design Dialogues 3pm-5pm. Including architecture, print, furniture, exhibition and industrial design. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113 Installation by Jeremy Holmes 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org. A Pattern of Connections 5pm-7pm. New installation by Lorrie Fredette. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112. Paintings by Kim Uchiyama 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Lost Polaroids - Gerald Dearing Call for time. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Works by Dan McCormack E-mail for time. Go North Gallery, Beacon. gonorthgallery@hotmail.com. Erotica Show 6pm-9pm. Tivoli Artists’ Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Imbolc: The Breaking of the Ice 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

CLASSES

White Knuckle Rodeo and the Blue Suede Bombers 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Ski, Snowshoe, or Hike: Awosting Falls 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Cross Country Ski or Hike 10am. James Baird State Park, Pleasant Valley. 452-9086.

SPOKEN WORD Jeff Montany’s “A Maze Zing” book signing 12pm-4pm. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595. Black History: A Celebration Through Word and Song 4pm-6pm. $7/$4 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172. Time To Talk: The Coming Permanent Energy Crisis 8pm. With James Howard Kuntsler. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

THEATER Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965. Harvey the White Rabbit 8pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Tom Topor’s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

CLASSES

THEATER

Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Madame Butterfly 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

WORKSHOPS

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Beautiful Easy Gardens with Larry Sombke. 2pm-4pm. $19/$10 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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WEDNESDAY 6

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9:00pm. Beginner lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

MUSIC

CLASSES Basics of Islam 2pm-3:30pm. $40. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

Elly Wininger and Elise Pittelman 2pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Qigong for Weight Loss: Swimming Dragon 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart 3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Organ Recital and Choral Evensong 4:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

Jazz Jam 6:30pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

Pastel Techniques 7pm-7pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Gertrude’s Nose 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD H. Daniel Peck 2pm. James Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Cole: Anger and Attachment in Landscape. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

THEATER Anatomy of a Murder 1pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965. Harvey the White Rabbit 1pm. $15/$10 students and seniors. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Picnic 1pm. $12-$15. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Madame Butterfly 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Crucible 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Author of Start Where You Are. Call for location. 876-1176.

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

KIDS Sudbury School Information Meeting 7pm-8pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.

MUSIC Jay and Molly Old Time Jam 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Open Mike 10:30pm. All acts welcome. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

SPOKEN WORD Queering Childhood 5pm. Karl Bryant. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933. Poetry Night 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3614.

THEATER Madame Butterfly 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Sandy Scarano Victorian Valentine 6pm-8pm. $25. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

CLASSES

THURSDAY 7

Botanicals, Hudson River Landscapes & Historic Landmark Paintings Call for times. Watercolors and oil by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. Exploring the Impressionist Style 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

ART The Artists’ Way Call for times. Guided journey through the workbook. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Author of Start Where You Are. Call for location. 876-1176.

Color Harmony 7pm-9pm. Focus on the use of color in painting. $160. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

CLASSES

KIDS

Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193. Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Full Circle Tai Chi & Qigong 6pm-7pm. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

MUSIC

Bluegrass Clubhouse 8pm. $5. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

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

Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Crucible 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS

Janet Baskerville’s Altered Valentine 6pm-8pm. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

TUESDAY 5

Open Mike at the Center 7:30pm-9:30pm. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 331-5300.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

SPOKEN WORD

Spirit Readings 12pm-6pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Beacon Art Salon Meeting 7pm-8:30pm. Chthonic Clash Coffeehouse, Beacon. 831-0359.

CLASSES

Professor ‘Goes Ape’ in Cameroon 7pm. Travelogue with Siri Carlisle. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Modern Dance Classes 5:30pm-7pm. $14/$12 per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Thai Yoga Massage 2:30pm. Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz, New Paltz. 430-7402.

Tai Chi Chuan Course for Beginners 6pm-7pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

THEATER Madame Butterfly 7:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

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Intimacies of Distant War 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Dog on Fleas 2pm. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Sculpture by Grace Bakst Wapner 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

MUSIC

CLASSES Painting with Acrylics 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Janet Baskervilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Altered State of Mind 7pm-9pm. Making your own Altered journals and Artist Trading Cards. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

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Bill Kirchen and Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods 9pm. $30/$35. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

EVENTS

Four Guys in Disguise 9pm. Rock. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Winter Weekend Call for times. Hikes, workshops, music, dance. $35-$120. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Pieces of Three 9pm. Featuring Joey Eppard and Tom Benton. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

David Kraai with Chris Ragucci & Jon Stern 7pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Locks 9pm. East Side Bar, Walden. 778-2039.

SPOKEN WORD World Poetry Cafe 7pm-9pm. Featuring Five Snapshots of Claudia Lars, Beloved Poet of El Salvador. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

THEATER Madame Butterfly 8pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

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The Crucible 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Tom Toporâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clowns 7pm. Performance by 5th graders from W.W. Smith Humanities Magnet School. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. A Celebration of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sonnets 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Sons of Brooklyn 8pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

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Long Neck Band 9:30pm. Juniorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 486-9237. Backburners 10pm. American modern rock. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Mills Mansion to Norrie Point 10am. 2 hour hike/walk. Call for location. 658-3902. Singles and Sociables Snowshoe/Hike: Castle Point 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Post Traumatic Press 2007. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. A Trek and Climb in New Guinea 6pm-7:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Salon Reading 7pm-8:30pm. Local writers. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

THEATER A Celebration of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sonnets 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Madame Butterfly 4pm/8:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Sons of Brooklyn 8pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. The Crucible 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Tom Toporâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

SUNDAY 10 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT A Sharing of Breaths: An Eastern Approach to Illness & Dying 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Was That a Gift from God? 2pm-3pm. ECK worship service. Unitarian Center Sanctuary, Kingston. (800) 749-7791.

CLASSES

Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

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Hiroaki Honshuku 8pm. Jazz flute. Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 235-7186.

DJ Dance Party 10pm. $7. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen 9pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

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Love Songs and More 7pm. Elly Wininger, Elise Pittelman, Whitman and Pantell, Paul McMahon. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Let There Be Love 8pm. Jazz standards & original compositions. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

MUSIC architectural salvage

German Lieder 4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

DANCE

Chinese New Year Dinner 7pm. $50. St. James Church Library, Chatham. (518) 567-1115.

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Swinging 60s Dance Party 8pm. For teens, by the Vanaver Caravanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Dance Company. $8-$10. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

EVENTS

Addy: An American Girl Story 3pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

MUSIC Pedja Muzijevic Call for times. Piano. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

First Annual Gala Dinner Call for times. LGBTQ Center, Kingston. 331-5300.

Met Opera: Romeo et Juliette 1pm. Live, surround-sound, HD transmission of the Metropolitan Opera. $22/$15. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

One-Day Book Sale 10am-4pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

Rex Fowler 2pm. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Friends of the Kingston Library Used Book Sale 10am-3pm. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Jazz Jam 6:30pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

MUSIC LYLE LOVETT & JOHN HIATT IMAGE PROVIDED

Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt will perform on February 17 at UPAC in Kingston.

American Masters Two lanky 50-something guys walk into a bar. A salad bar. Because, as the more extroverted of the two says, “I used to drink a lot in those days, you see / Yeah, that’s the way the wind blows / These days the only bar I ever see / Has got lettuce and tomatoes.” That’s singer-songwriter-barnstorming-performer John Hiatt, who has the unique distinction of having put music and words into the mouths of vocalists ranging from Iggy Pop to Willie Nelson to Paula Abdul. His quietly charismatic companion wears an enigmatic cat-who-swallowed–thecanary smile on his distinctively chiseled face, a visage recognizable from Robert Altman movies and paparazzi photos featuring his ex-wife Julia Roberts. Of this short-lived marriage, he notes, “The preacher asked her / And she said ‘I do’ / The preacher asked me / And she said ‘Yes he does too’ / And the preacher said ‘I pronounce you 99 to life / Son she’s no lady she’s your wife.’” That’s Lyle Lovett, four-time-Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-rancher-actor. Lovett has the unique distinction of being the only musician on the Lost Highway label to have had his leg crushed by a bull. (Lovett was trying to help his uncle, on the family farm in Texas; he made a full recovery.) These interesting gentlemen, two of our most acclaimed songsmiths, are at the top of their game, having released some of their best material in the last few years. They

are bringing all of the above and more to UPAC in Kingston for a special stripped-down acoustic duo performance on February 17. Valentine’s Day will have just passed, so if women are present in the aforementioned salad bar, you may well hear the pithy Lovett say, “I can’t believe what I see / How could you be alone? / Come sit down right beside me / And make yourself at home.” Hiatt isn’t quite so subtle: “I’m talking to a tight red sweater / I’m feelin’ like Eddie Vedder / Only twice as cool when she starts winkin’ / I’m just so easily led when the little head does the thinkin.” Over the course of 35 years, Hiatt has released 19 albums. Lovett has issued 12 since 1986. They’ve been on various labels, and folks have run themselves ragged trying to categorize the music; Hiatt has good-naturedly shared LP, cassette, CD, and DVD racks with folkies, rockers, and bluesmen. Laid-back Lovett has made no qualms about hobnobbing with Western swing, jazz, soul, and Nashvegas. Each has left in his wake devoted listeners who categorize them not by any specific style, but by “L” and “H.” Suffice to say: They know what they’re doing. And if you know what you’re doing, you should go hang out with them at UPAC. John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett will perform on Sunday, February 17, at 7pm at UPAC in Kingston. (845) 473-2072; www.bardavon.org. —Robert Burke Warren 2/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST

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ART INTIMACIES OF DISTANT WAR

Daniel Heyman’s transcript/portraits of victims of detainee abuse will exhibited this month as part of the “Intimacies of Distant War” exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum on the SUNY New Paltz campus.

STILL LIFE WITH TORTURE Daniel Heyman made his first trip to the Mid East to interview former Abu Ghraib detainees in March 2006. In Istanbul, and on later trips to Amman, Jordan, over the past two years, Heyman sat in on interviews conducted by a legal team headed by human rights lawyer Susan Burke. Burke and her lawyers are bringing a civil lawsuit on behalf of 267 detainees against defense contractors CACI and Titan, who worked with the US Army at Abu Ghraib. While seated in a room with the attorneys listening to the victims of human-rights abuses recount their experiences, Heyman would sketch or paint both a portrait of the speaker as well as part of his or her testimony, creating works of spare, visceral immediacy. “When I was in the interviews, I was painting as fast as I could,” Heyman says. “My goal is to bring back their words and let them speak for themselves. There’s no editing.” Heyman has interviewed 25 former detainees to date and plans to return to Istanbul in April for more interviews to continue creating this body of work, which currently resides in 14 different public collections, including that of the Library of Congress and

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Vassar College. “I want to use the work to bring to the American public a side of the war that is not widely seen—what it’s like to be a victim.” Heyman will show 18 of his transcript/portraits as part of the exhibition “Intimacies of Distant War,” which opens this month at the Samuel Dorsky Museum. “Intimacies,” curated by Brian Wallace, examines artistic reactions to far-flung conflict through present and past work by Lida Abdul (video/audio installation), Leon Golub (painting), Mark Hogancamp (photographs), An-My Le (film installation), Steve Mumford (watercolor sketches), Yoko Ono (wearable sculpture), and Carolee Schneemann (film). “Intimacies of Distant War” will be exhibited at the Dorsky Museum from February 8 through April 13. An opening reception will be held on February 8 from 6 to 8pm. Heyman and Burke will give a talk about their experiences working with detainees on March 3 at 7pm in Lecture Center 108 on the SUNY New Paltz campus. (845) 257-3844; www.newpaltz.edu/museum. —Brian K. Mahoney

SPOKEN WORD

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

Rondout Remembered: Working on the Water 2pm. Stories and photos on industries in the Rondout. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.

FILM

THEATER

The Mission 7:15pm. Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, Middletown. 341-4891.

Madame Butterfly 2:30pm. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

MUSIC

Picnic 2pm. $12-$15. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. The Crucible 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Sons of Brooklyn 2pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Tom Toporâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nuts 2pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

MONDAY 11 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Author of Start Where You Are. Call for location. 876-1176.

Acoustic Open Mike 8pm. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. Open Mike 10:30pm. All acts welcome. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THURSDAY 14 CLASSES Full Circle Tai Chi & Qigong 6pm-7pm. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

FILM Tony and Tinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wedding Movie Screening 7pm. With director and Reverend Debra. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Bluegrass Clubhouse 8pm. $5. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

CLASSES

Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

Botanicals, Hudson River Valley Landscapes & Historic Landmark Paintings Call for times. Watercolors and oil by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244.

Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Exploring the Impressionist Style 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Live Jazz Dance & Music 7:30pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

SPOKEN WORD

Color Harmony 7pm-9pm. Focus on the use of color in painting. $160. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

KIDS Culinary Arts Workshops 3:30pm-5:30pm. Ages 12 and up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Ron Whiteurs & Eugenia Macer-Story 7:30pm. Featured poets followed by open reading. The Bohemian Book Bin, Kingston. 331-6713.

Janet Baskervilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Altered State of Mind 7pm-9pm. Making your own Altered journals and Artist Trading Cards. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

DANCE

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Past Life Regression 7pm-9pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

CLASSES Modern Dance Classes 5:30pm-7pm. $14/$12 per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Tai Chi Chuan Course for Beginners 6pm-7pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WORKSHOPS Financial Workshop: Estate & Retirement Planning 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619.

WEDNESDAY 13 CLASSES Professional Pastel Call for times. $80. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Basics of Islam 2pm-3:30pm. $40. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076. Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. Qigong for Weight Loss: Swimming Dragon 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

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Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

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A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

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Second Sunday Songwriters Series 7pm-9pm. Chris Merenda, Chris Victor, DB Leonard . $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Trinity Irish Dance 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

MUSIC Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. New York Funk Alliance 8pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Woodstock MusicWorks Monthly Showcase 8pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Steve Schultz 9pm. Cubbyhole Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 483-7584.

SPOKEN WORD Robert Kalman 7:30pm. Discussing The Women Kept Looking at Us. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

THEATER A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Sons of Brooklyn 8pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Tom Toporâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. The Crucible 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 16 ART Anime Orange 1pm-4pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3638. Every Now and Then 6:30pm-8:30pm. M Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-0380.

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DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. 389 Broadway, Kingston. 658-8319.

The Crucible 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 18

KIDS

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Kidtopia 11am. Kids’ music. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949.

Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Author of Start Where You Are. Call for location. 876-1176.

MUSIC

Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. The Band 7pm. Dance to covers. $12. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Cafe Chronogram 8pm-10pm. Music by Mark Donato, spoken word by Matthew J. Spireng, art by Chris Gonyea. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881. The Quando Swing 8pm. Classic jazz with Rosemary Loar. $15/$12 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

CLASSES Botanicals, Hudson River Valley Landscapes & Historic Landmark Paintings Call for times. Watercolors and oil by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193. Color Harmony 7pm-9pm. Focus on the use of color in painting. $160. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

KIDS

Soul Purpose 8pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Reality Check 8pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Luther Guitar Junior Johnson and the Magic Rockers 9pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned 10pm. $5. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Sonando 10pm. Latin. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Cross Country Ski in Fahnestock State Park 9am. Meet at Holiday Inn, Fishkill. 454-4428. Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Millbrook Mountain 9:30am-3:30am. $9 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

TUESDAY 19 CLASSES Modern Dance Classes 5:30pm-7pm. $14/$12 per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Tai Chi Chuan Course for Beginners 6pm-7pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. Basic Fashion Sewing 7pm-9:30pm. $139. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

FILM

THEATER

The Father 8pm. Russian film screening. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515.

A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

SPOKEN WORD

Sons of Brooklyn 8pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279. The Crucible 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Discussion with Rev. Bruce Chilton Call for times. Author of Abraham’s Curse. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

WORKSHOPS Explore Past-Lives 6pm-9pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Tom Topor’s Nuts 8pm. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Capital Steps 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

SUNDAY 17 CLASSES Atelier: Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

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Beyond Band Aids: A First Aid Class for Kids 10am-12pm. $9 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

EVENTS

MUSIC

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

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MUSIC Open Mike 10:30pm. All acts welcome. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THURSDAY 21

Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt 7pm. Acoustic. $40-$80. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

ART

THE OUTDOORS

Artists’ Circle Call for times. Bring works for round table discussion by peers. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Rock Rift 10am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Sons of Brooklyn 2pm. An original musical by Joe Dowd. $12/$10 members, seniors and students. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

MUSIC Bluegrass Clubhouse 8pm. $5. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

FILM THE POWER OF SONG ROBERT KRONES

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A still from The Power of Song: Pete Seeger performing in California in the 1950s.

The Power of Seeger In his 1971 novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Earnest J. Gaines crafted from hot ash, inspiration, and bitter history a literary icon: a 110-year-old woman, born into antebellum slavery and still alive to witness the fitful rise of the 1960s civil rights movement. In Pittman, the author found a mighty symbol of the American black experience. Musician-activist Pete Seeger, 88, has occupied a similar world for almost as many decades as Pittman. Since the 1930s, he has strummed banjos, marched against war, and stood down bigots. The arc of his life story is indivisible with the saga of American leftist politics. The elegiac film that honors this man and his role in history—Pete Seeger: The Power of Song—plays at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck the second week of this month. Born to a musicologist and musician, Seeger seems to have derived his genuine wonderment of people from his father, whose mission to bring Bach and Beethoven to the masses led him throughout early-20th-century America, still a beehive of rural redoubts and isolated worlds. Already a master of ukulele and banjo by his teens, young Seeger was soon a son of Harvard and, due to an incessant search for truth, also a member of the Young Communists League. This was well before the demonization of Reds, and Seeger joined simply because he agreed with their antiracism, pro-union stance. This gesture of college idealism would have enduring consequences. In swift succession, spiked by a whirl of photos, film clips, and interviews, we see the highlights of an astounding life: Seeger gathers the songs of the poor, comes to understand the social ills indivisible from such compositions, rides the rails with Woody Guthrie, joins The Almanac Singers, marries his beloved Toshi in 1943 and then, as a member of The Weavers in the 50s, becomes a huge act on the strength of a b-side cover the Leadbelly gem “Goodnight Irene.” And then the blacklisting begins—and we’re not even halfway through his expansive life. A production of the American Masters PBS series, this documentary betrays its made-for-TV roots from the start: Seeger’s eight-plus decades are laid down with speed and economy (in a compact 93 minutes that covers wide-ranging ground while leaving the viewer famished for more). Past worlds are conjured and moral victories recounted. But while your mouth will slacken with genuine awe, you will realize that The Power of Song serves up more in the way of whats than wherefores. When Seeger finds his way to Beacon and builds a homestead on the banks of the Hudson in 1949, we’re still puzzling what fire propels him. The pair’s several children recount the challenges of growing up in the woods but their reminiscences stop short of complaints. Seeger himself is notoriously humble and deeds, rather than introspection, are his lifeblood. Aching to understand a man’s motivation does not undermine his obvious greatness. One can’t help wondering whether another film—one which didn’t list Toshi Seeger as a co-producer—might have asked tougher questions in order to shed greater light on the complex man behind the mighty saint. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, directed by Jim Brown and featuring Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, and Bruce Springsteen will be screened February 8 to 11 at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck. (845) 876-2515; www.upstatefilms.com.

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A Celebration of

Great Cheeses, Fine Wines, and Culinary Talent from the Hudson Valley

A beneﬁt for:

Tickets: $40 Columbia County Chamber of Commerce: (518) 828-4417 (Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm) Verdigris Art & Tea: (518) 828-3139

www.hudsonvalleycheesefestival.com Additional information please phone: (917) 597 9865

supporting local farmers and communities

Sunday, February 17, 2008 President’s Day holiday weekend Time: 2-5 p.m.

Event Location: Deﬀebach Gallery 135 Warren St, downtown Hudson, NY 12534

Patron Sponsors:

Sponsors: Chatham Brewery, Chronogram, Coach Farm, Fleisher’s Grass-Fed & Organic Meats, Hawthorne Valley Farm, Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, Olde Hudson Specialties, Ronnybrook Farm Dairy, Sprout Creek Farm Restaurants: da/ba, Gigi Trattoria, Local 111, Mexican Radio, Red Dot, Swoon Kitchenbar, The Red Barn, Vico Restaurant & Bar

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Denise Jordan Finley with Daniel Pagdon 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

The Locks 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

THEATER

Long Neck Band 10pm. The Dubliner, Poughkeepsie. 454-7322.

A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

THE OUTDOORS

The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

FRIDAY 22 ART Styles And Subjects 5:30pm-7:30pm. Solo exhibition of paintings by Karl Volk. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.

CLASSES Janet Baskerville’s Altered State of Mind 7pm-9pm. Making your own Altered journals and Artist Trading Cards. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Duck Pond 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Gallery Talk 1pm. Bettina Funcke on Joseph Beuys. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

THEATER A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331. Ancestral Voices 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC

The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

WORKSHOPS

The Providers 8pm. Cozzy’s Cafe Trattoria, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7800. Ellis Paul 9pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Rhodes 9pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881. Four Guys in Disguise 9:30pm. Rock. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

THEATER The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Ancestral Voices 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Leave No Trace Workshop 9:30am-12:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Eckhart Tolle Silent Meetings Call for times. Videos, meditation, and dialogue. Call for location. 687-8687. Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel 2pm-3pm. Discover the spiritual truth in your life through the teachings of Eckankar. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.

Kingston Kayak Festival 2008 10am-5pm. Kayaks, canoes, outdoor gear demos. Tech City, Kingston. 340-0552. 3rd Annual Starr Library Benefit 6pm-8:30pm. Piano music, wine and champagne, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction. $65. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

KIDS Kidtopia 11am. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949. Moove and Groove 12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

The Providers 8pm. Blues. Crooked Lake House, Averill Park. (518) 674-3894. Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804. Levi Kreis 5:30pm. Benefit for the Ritz Theater. $35. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. City Lights/Rural Utopia 6pm. Urban and pastoral music. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Girlz do Griffins 7pm. Ellie Wininger and the Girlz. Griffin’s Corners Cafe, Fleischmanns. 254-6300.

Basic Fashion Sewing 7pm-9:30pm. $139. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

FILM Like Water for Chocolate 7:15pm. Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, Middletown. 341-4891.

MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Institute for Ecosystem Studies Greenhouse Walk Call for times. IES, Millbrook. 454-4206. Lone and Rocky Catskills Hike Call for times. Difficult 10 miles. Call for location. 657-7057.

Explore Past-Lives 12pm-3pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. An Astronomer’s View of the Night Sky 7pm. Newburgh Free Academy, Newburgh. 563-3619.

WEDNESDAY 27 CLASSES Professional Pastel Call for times. $80. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Basics of Islam 2pm-3:30pm. $40. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 565-2076.

EVENTS

Pretty Fire 3pm. One-woman play. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619. The Medal 3pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 25 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Botanicals, Hudson River Valley Landscapes & Historic Landmark Paintings Call for times. Watercolors and oil by Betsy Jacaruso. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193. Color Harmony 7pm-9pm. Focus on the use of color in painting. $160. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

FILM Monday Night Movie 6:45pm. Celebration of Black History Month. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3619.

The Sad Little Stars 9pm. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

THEATER The Vagina Monologues 8pm. W/Melissa Leo, Bar Scott, Kimberly Kay. Benefit performance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 331-4199. The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 1 DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. 389 Broadway, Kingston. 658-8319.

KIDS Sudbury School Information Meeting 7pm-9pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002.

MUSIC The People’s Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Ulster County Choral Music Festival 4pm. $5/$3 seniors. SUNY Ulster Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. Point of Praise, Kingston. 246-7045. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 9pm. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424. Marc Black Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

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

THE OUTDOORS

MUSIC

Singles and Sociables: Rhododendron Dog Walk 1pm-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Open Mike 10:30pm. All acts welcome. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THEATER

THURSDAY 28

THEATER A Raisin in the Sun Call for times. $20/$15 members. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

String Theory 8pm. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. $17/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 246-7045.

WORKSHOPS

Precious Metal Clay, Fine Silver Jewelry 6pm-9pm. $92. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

CLASSES MUSIC

The Providers 8pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

MUSIC

THE OUTDOORS

EVENTS

Tai Chi Chuan Course for Beginners 6pm-7pm. Poughkeepsie High School, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Qigong for Weight Loss: Swimming Dragon 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

CLASSES

Traditional Dances of India 8pm. Sonal Bhatt. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Sarah Perrotta Band 8pm. $10. Performing Arts Center, Stone Ridge. 626-4507.

Atelier: Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Jazz Jam 6:30pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

DANCE

Modern Dance Classes 5:30pm-7pm. $14/$12 per class. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES

Grey Zeien & Bill Dane Opening 3pm-5pm. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

SAT Preparation 11:30am. $199. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

Tai Chi Chuan for Beginners 6pm-7pm. $100. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

ART

MUSIC

CLASSES

SUNDAY 24

Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Classical piano concert. $12 /$10 seniors/ students/children free. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-7802.

SATURDAY 23

TUESDAY 26

ART Writers’ Circle Call for times. Bring works-in-progress to share with peers. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Mohonk Preserve Guyot Hill Ski or Hike 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

The Vagina Monologues 8pm. W/Melissa Leo, Bar Scott, Kimberly Kay. Benefit performance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 331-4199. The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SUNDAY 2

CLASSES

Full Circle Tai Chi & Qigong 6pm-7pm. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067.

Atelier: Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

MUSIC

DANCE

Mike Quick Trio 8pm. Blues jam. The Corner Stage, Middletown. 342-4804.

Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9:00pm. Beginner lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

Acoustic Thursdays 6pm. Hosted by Kurt Henry & Shequila Tequila. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

EVENTS

Bluegrass Clubhouse 8pm. $5. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. John Schrader Band 9pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

27th Annual Antique Toy & Train Show 10am-3pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181.

MUSIC

THEATER

Simone Dinnerstein Call for times. Piano. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

The Medal 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. String Theory. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

WORKSHOPS

THE OUTDOORS

Photography Workshop 7pm. Elliott Landy artist-in-residence. $8. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Castle Point. 9:30am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

FRIDAY 29

KIDS

SPOKEN WORD

Woodstock Tribute To Bob Marley 8pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Robert Cray Band 8pm-1am. $44.50 /$41.50 seniors and student/$39.50 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Janet Baskerville’s Altered State of Mind 7pm-9pm. Making your own Altered journals and Artist Trading Cards. The Handmade Gallery, Montgomery. 820-2595.

Roomful of Blues 9pm. $40/$35. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

SPOKEN WORD

FILM

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Open Mike Call for times. Poetry/prose/performance. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

You Can’t Take It With You Call for times. Shandaken Theatrical Society Theater, Phoenicia. 688-2279.

The Medal 2:00pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Steve Schultz 9pm. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. 486-1378.

CLASSES

Bill Cosby 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Robert Titus 2pm. The Hudson River School of Rocks. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

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Planet Waves EMIL ALZAMORA

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

THE SPRINT TO 2012

he astrology of 2008 puts us onto the final approach to 2012. Turn on your radar, buckle up, chuck the ginger ale, and drop your landing gear: the Age of Technology is approaching the runway. The year 2012 has been tossed around as something special since Jose Arguelles created the Harmonic Convergence in 1987. With that event, he called attention to the Mayan Long Count, a calendar of approximately 1.87 million days used by the Maya in what is now Mexico and Guatemala. Something called the 13th baktun ends on December 21, 2012, concluding a 5,125-year cycle. Notably, this cycle predates the Maya, themselves, whose mathematicians dealt in very long spans of time extending before and after their own existence. More recently, author John Major Jenkins proposed an astronomical theory for why the Mayans chose our particular era for the cycle to end. He suggests that it involves the alignment of the position of the winter solstice Sun with the dark band that runs through the center of the Milky Way galaxy (called the Road to Xibalba). Due to the precession effect (that is, the very slow wobble of the Earth on its axis), the winter solstice point gets a little earlier every year (ad-

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vancing a bit more than a degree per century). The same is true for the first day of all the seasons. The precession effect is usually used to measure the astrological/astronomical age. We are familiar with the concept from the Age of Aquarius theme, wherein the Aries Point (the first degree of the Western zodiac or the first day of spring), is moving into the constellation Aquarius. Jenkins asks a very good question. Maybe it’s not the constellation that the Aries Point is in that’s the true marker of our cosmic alignment, as we usually think. Maybe it’s the point 90 degrees away, where Capricorn begins. Maybe that’s where we need to be looking for information about an accurate calculation of the cosmic epoch. Most Planet Waves readers are familiar with the Aries Point and its astonishing connections between personal and global events. Jenkins proposes that we have one of the cardinal points (the first degrees of the cardinal signs Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) aligning with something tangible: the dark band running through the Galactic Core. Notably, it is the last of the four points, involving Capricorn—the sign of corporations, government, and the structure of society. All of the 2012 theories, whether friendly, cataclysmic or both (most are not so friendly,

by the way), involve changes to the structure of society, whatever else they may touch upon. This is a cool theory. It helps explain why the Aries Point (which is shorthand for all four of the cardinal points or the four directions) is so hot these days. It actually (in his theory) involves the Capricorn Point aligning with this dark band in the center of the galaxy, which then brings in the Aries Point. When events focus on the Aries Point, we get an idea of why it’s so dependably connected to events that ripple through the lives of millions, and which we tend to feel so personally (an example of an Aries Point event was September 11, 2001). Jenkins’s theory provides a comprehensible link between Western and Mayan astrology, something that has been lacking throughout this whole discussion. Some astrologers have looked at that 2012 chart and claimed it contains nothing special; hence, 2012 cannot be that important. (Just because someone does not understand a chart does not mean it does not have meaningful information.) Enter: Pluto in Capricorn What has not been discussed so widely are outer planet movements leading up to that date. The first of them—and perhaps the most significant—is Pluto entering Capricorn, a process that begins in about two weeks. That is another way of saying that Pluto is aligning with the position of the winter solstice Sun; that is the first degree of Capricorn. This places it on one of the cardinal points, as well as in aspect to the other three. Obviously, Pluto in Capricorn is going to have a profound effect on the structure of society: on all Capricorn institutions, from corporations to the government to the banking system. True, this will affect individuals, but individuals tend to learn faster than groups and companies. We will all go through a series of individual initiations, but the key to some form of success here will be awareness about group initiation. There are some companies, institutions, and governments that will do very well—the ones that can loosen up their structures, both physical and ideological, and flex with the changes. These will surprise you—when you hear the story of something that seemed stuffy and old suddenly becoming a progressive leader of some kind. Indeed, Pluto in Capricorn is all about leadership. It is about building and acting on the vision that has been developing during the years of Pluto in Sagittarius (1995-present). Pluto’s ingress to Capricorn is attended by some interesting Mars transits. At the time of the ingress in late January, Mars is in a loose (but significant) opposition—in the process of making three exact ones. The third contact is March 7. So we get Mars and Pluto working the solstice points (from Cancer and Capricorn), which feels a little like flint on a piece of iron. Then, shortly after Pluto ingresses Capricorn to stay (no more retrogrades into Sagittarius), Mars makes an exact conjunction to Pluto around the winter 2008 solstice. So we get a lot of personal fire (of Mars) added to the cosmic and hormonal fire (of Pluto) aspecting the 2012 region of the sky. Lunar Nodes in the Middle Fixed Signs The Aries Point usually involves the cardinal signs. But something called Uranian astrology says that 135 degrees away from the cardinal points, we have the middle of the fixed signs. This is the sesquiquadrate aspect, which is described as a trigger aspect. A 45-degree aspect works in a similar way. The lunar nodes are now working their way backwards through Leo and Aquarius. The annular eclipse on February 7, 2008, falls right in the middle of Aquarius, setting off the Aries Point from 45 degrees away in Aquarius. Saturn in Libra 2009-12 Here is an exciting one. Saturn has just entered Virgo, so we’re not quite ready to be thinking about Saturn arriving in Libra—but it’s not so far away. Saturn arrives there for the first time on Oct. 29, 2009; that is, late next year. A planet entering one of the cardinal signs puts it into direct contact with the Aries Point and the Capricorn solstice point—in this case, directly opposite. Pluto is still in very early Capricorn at that point, which means we have a Saturn-Pluto square aspecting the Aries Point and the Cap solstice point. This will be positively thrilling, all the more so

because Saturn is the ruler of Capricorn and has extraordinary power in Libra (it is said to be “exalted” in this sign). This is a turning point, one that will call attention to the overall theme of the Pluto in Capricorn era. It is a kind of catch-up point. The Saturn-Pluto trine (involving the earthy signs) does not necessarily mean that the two energies are not going to combine in some volatile or provocative ways— trines can be incredibly influential. But the Saturn-Pluto square is a dimension shift, one that will emphasize a major shift in structure of some kind. What we generally fail to recognize when we look at changes in society is that society is all about the relationships that people have with one another. We are good at pretending that our relationships with our coworkers has nothing to do with the relationships between companies or nations, but these things are holographic models of one another. With Saturn in Libra involved, we need to consider how the structure of our personal relationships relates to Capricorn—the structure of society. Marriage, for example, is primarily an economic structure, based in law, not emotions. Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn is—among other things— about feeling the connection between our relationships and the structure of society. The Changes of 2010 In 2010, there are three changes that mark a watershed. The first is that Saturn continues its ingress to Libra, retrograding back to Virgo and then making a final ingress in July. This means that the Saturn-Pluto square unfolds throughout this year. Second, Chiron ingresses Pisces. The last time Chiron ingressed Pisces was on the day past the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, commencing the `60s. Chiron will have spent about six years in Aquarius, a very different energy. Chiron, a potent focus of awareness, will be shifting from the most airy air sign to the most watery water sign—a difference we will be able to feel. Then for the most interesting change of the year, Uranus begins its ingress to Aries, going right over the Aries Point. Uranus is the planet of revolution, invention, disruption, and forward-thinking. Contact with the Aries Point strongly implies some kind of cultural revolution. In other words, the natives will be getting restless. The Uranus-Pluto Square of 2012-15 All of this is just a warm up, believe it or not. The grand finale is the Uranus-Pluto square of 2012-15. That is to say, Pluto will be in early Capricorn and Uranus will be in early Aries. That is a 90-degree relationship, and by mid-2012, it is exact. Most meetings between the outer planets make three exact contacts over about nine months. Somewhat incredibly, the Uranus-Pluto square beginning in 2012 makes seven exact contacts through 2015—something that I have never seen or heard of before with any outer-planet aspect. In other words, the two planets will remain in exact square for three years. Based on his story of the history of the Western world, Richard Tarnas in his book, Cosmos and Psyche, has demonstrated that quadrature alignments of Uranus and Pluto—the conjunction, squares and opposition—are times of social upheaval, progress, and even revolution. This is indeed one of the most predictable combinations of planets, and one of the most powerfully focused on actual progress. The `60s, a time of artistic, social, and economic process, is perhaps the best and fortunately most memorable expressions of this aspect. Though there was more to the `60s than this, the alchemy of that time was typical of what happens nearly every time these two planets align. Based on the historical data he presents in his book, Tarnas gives this aspect a window of action that begins this year. So it is part of that final approach to 2012. Yet based on this highly unusual event of Uranus square Pluto, 2012 itself seems to be a beginning rather than an ending—a time when we will finally see something vaguely equivalent of power to the people. The only problem is, the people are going to have a reason to revolt. The years immediately ahead of us do not appear to be a time of equity and harmony, but rather a time of corporations and governments consolidating their power, even as they collapse under their own weight. 2/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 119

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 20-April 19) If you experience a social injury or insult of some kind, consider the gift that it gives you. There is one, as long as you’re willing to find it. You can do that, rather than feel emotionally injured. The opportunity could be about learning to understand your vulnerabilities. And here is the razor’s edge. To be close to people, we need to be vulnerable, but that is different than hypersensitive. Anyone who is sensitive is open to both pleasure and pain. Anyone who is hypersensitive is basically vulnerable only to pain. That should be a pretty good incentive to make a sane decision. Meanwhile, bear one crucial thing in mind—your feelings are currently extremely powerful transmitters. People are going to feel you, and they are going to respond. When two or more are gathered, be mindful what you project onto one another. Or for that matter, what you project onto the world when you are alone.

TAURUS

(April 19-May 20)

An unusual professional opportunity may arrive in the form of doing something pro bono—specifically to assist someone else. Money is not the issue in this particular experience; rather, all you need to focus on is opening up your inner channel and allowing your creativity to flow. The flow is what you are after; allowing your true creative energy into the environment. Regarding another aspect of your work, there is a commitment involved, though you’ve already made it. There is also money involved, but it emerges not through any one endeavor but more through the sharing of resources in a long-term experience. The keynote here is that everyone’s horizons will expand, not just those of one individual involved. Honor that one idea and you are in for some pleasant surprises.

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) Mercury has made its way into Aquarius, and this means adventure. If you can’t get on an airplane or the Space Shuttle, try taking a road trip of at least two hours and one overnight. You may be busy, but this will help you focus your ideas and clear your head. If you think a kid is holding you back, take the kid along too. What you need is movement, the expansion of your geographic horizons, which will key right into the expansion of your psychological horizons. I guess in a pinch, getting together with some good friends and tripping will suffice. But after a rather close and stuffy experience of someone or something the past few weeks, you really seem to need some fresh air and the sound of tires humming beneath your feet.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) It would help if you would get yourself out of the house, out of your shell, and into the mood to take some chances with people. You like to think of yourself as cautious by nature, but we both know that’s only a small aspect of who you are, and certainly not the dominant aspect of your character. Now, if you choose to take a chance, be mindful that any interaction with others you don’t know can bristle you the wrong way. You don’t need to wear your raincoat or a suit of psychic armor, but do be mindful of the fact that you’re open and receptive. If you choose who to be receptive to—mainly by whom you notice feels you—the possibilities for unusual pleasure, exotic dalliances, and the kind of stuff you only read about in Kama Sutra books is possible. www.planetwaves.net 120 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 2/08

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LEO (July 22-August 23) There must be a lot going on. That feels like a statement from my first year of writing horoscopes, looking at a chart with seven planets piled up in one house—your opposite house, Aquarius—perplexedly wondering what on Earth is going on. This is your house of relationships. Has a whole mob arrived for the weekend? Have you been stumping in the New Hampshire primaries? Have you opened a charm school? Have you gone to Utah and become polygamous? Are you contemplating all of the above? The key is to not let any of this distract you from what work you are so intent on completing. There is someone else around who can play host or hostess while you take care of the important stuff. You don’t need to dive into the social scene. Making the occasional cameo appearance will suffice.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Keep track of how your body feels. This is the Big Yoga of this lifetime for you. Virgos are some of the smartest people around, but they generally need to be dunked under water to have their body speak to them; I refer to the Virgo Moon as well. But your body is talking and if you listen, you will see that it’s making sense. There is a long-range healing issue that is ready to cough up some of its secrets, and reveal the truth of its being. This will surprise you in its simplicity, transcending your other complicated theories about what has been going on for you. It will surprise you in its complexity, being so connected to many other subjects of your life. Just listen to yourself for the next few days, listen to your fingers, toes, nose, and pantyhose. If you do, you’ll hear whispers of many subtle truths that have, in recent weeks and seasons, slipped through your hands.

LIBRA (September 22-October 23) How is your home improvement project coming? Now is the time to knock down walls, pull down old curtains, pull up old rugs, clean out closets, and generally get the show on the road. Perhaps rent a Dumpster or get a deluxe ticket to the local transfer station. Don’t worry if you lack the plan or the funds to finish the job—start with starting the job and you will clear the energy sufficiently to let the funds, the plan and the time come in. I see the image of making things not only bigger from the inside, but substantially better. This astrology lasts throughout the year, but the coming week or so (preferably this weekend) is unusually magnificent for starting projects that get greater-than-possible results. The issue is precisely one of how you use, arrange, organize, and work within physical space. Try making some small adjustment and see what happens.

SCORPIO

(October 23-November 22)

A loved one may seem like he or she is on an adventure; and if it happens to be with someone else, take the chance to do all that introspective stuff that you know you need to do. If it happens to be with you, make sure you get some time to yourself the next couple of weeks (and I extend this idea to all who are born under Mars-ruled signs, including Aries and Capricorn). We are in the final weeks of a rare Mars retrograde. There is something deep in your psyche that is striving to heal itself, to mend and join with itself. It is surely possible to do that in a sexual context with another person, but the more meaningful journey at this point will be allowing the hemispheres of your own mind to mend and heal into one unity. You need to see the opposite viewpoints you have about yourself, review your agreements with yourself, and see yourself from both sides of the mirror. www.planetwaves.net 2/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 121

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You may not feel like you need to do any financial restructuring, but in a few weeks it will be obvious why this will benefit you. But closer to the point is some deep question that has arisen where your values are concerned. You seem to be caught in a maze where you feel certain things at certain times, and then you turn a corner and it’s as if all those things were suddenly no longer true. You might value the quest for perfectly unnecessary real estate (or purchases) one minute and unmitigated altruism the next. The two seem to have no meeting place, and worse, they may be at odds. Plus, at the moment you have so many ideas about life it’s impossible to tell what is really true, what is meaningful, and what is real. I suggest you dance with the confusion for a while. Soon enough, you will discover an organizing principle around which to make your decisions about what counts and what doesn’t.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) This must be an intense moment of anticipation for you: If it’s not, meditate and tune in, because the planets are moving, in particular, Pluto. The world is vibrating with the approaching shift of Pluto into your birth sign. Even the slugs on the political slime trail in New Hampshire and Iowa have been talking about change, change, change. For you, this is a moment of release from a kind of vacuum that you don’t necessarily know you’ve been in. You are likely to discover that the spell breaks and you can suddenly feel yourself existing, living, breathing, and changing. But not quite yet...the moment has not arrived. The planets depict you in your chrysalis, stirring to life, but not quite at the moment of cracking open the case and emerging in your new form. Yet it is only a matter of days, and you know one thing at least—after so many changes, you are still alive.

AQUARIUS

(January 20-February 19)

By now, you know how complex you are and how comfortable you are being that way. What has been added to the mix lately is Mercury, which has added the ability to communicate your thoughts and notions. What is soon to arrive is your ability to feel other people’s responses to you. Notice, you are glowing like a halogen lamp—not just on the visible spectrum but also on many of the invisible ones, the ones that people like to call psychic or supernatural, but which are every bit as natural as a tree or a dog. Navigate carefully, and use your awareness to sense the influence and impact that you have on others. Watch their faces and feel their emotions. You will learn a lot about them, and even more about yourself.

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Parting Shot

untitled, Paolo Pellegrin, 2006, courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery and Fovea Exhibitions

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