Chronogram - May 2008

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Beacon Celebrating 5 Years in the Hudson Valley

Recent Installations

Tacita Dean Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage’s composition 4´33 ˝ with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007, 2008 May 17–September 1, 2008

Imi Knoebel 24 Farben–für Blinky (24 Colors–for Blinky), 1977 May 17, 2008 and ongoing

Ongoing Exhibitions

Agnes Martin Trajectories Through September 2008

Sol LeWitt Drawing Series . . .

Through September 2008

An-My Lê Trap Rock, 2006 Through September 2008

George Trakas Beacon Point October 27, 2007 and ongoing

Special Performances

Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street Beacon New York 12508 845 440 0100 www.diaart.org

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Merce Cunningham Dance Company Beacon Events Sunday, May 18, 2008, 2pm and 4:30pm Saturday, July 5, 2008, 3pm Sunday, July 6, 2008, 2pm and 4:30pm

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NEWS AND POLITICS

HOME AND GARDEN SUPPLEMENT

27 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

79 THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE GNOME

The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom: campaign finance deform, secret trials, and uncollected taxes.

Kelly Granger discovers the different types of garden decorations the Hudson Valley has to offer.

30 TALKING TURKEY Lorna Tychostup talks with ex-CIA Agent Bob Baer about Turkey’s recent incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan and the regional repercussions.

36 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart digs into the real start of the recession, seven years ago.

FICTION 38 HAPPY VALLEY

86 BEYOND GLASSES Lorrie Klosterman learns about the eyeball and ways to improve vision without glasses, contacts, or surgery.

BUSINESS SERVICES 72 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

82 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services.

91 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

Julien Levy, Vicente Wolf Photography Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art

A story by Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang which won honorable mention in our 2007 Literary Supplement.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE

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ARTS & CULTURE 46 PORTFOLIO The paintings and sculptures of Laura Moriarty.

48 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson visits the Philadelphia Museum of Art for centennial retrospectives of Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller.

51 MUSEUM AND GALLERY GUIDE 54 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles the Creative Music Studio.

The Brides Sofa City Sweetheart reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine Poor, On Tour, & Over 54 Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

Globetrotting You Are Here Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

58 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles author and runner Benjamin Cheever.

60 BOOK REVIEWS Susan Krawitz reviews Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas and Chosen Forever by Susan Richards.

Caitlin McDonnell reviews The Reserve by Russell Banks.

64 POETRY Poems by Laurie Byro, Theresa Edwards, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Naton Leslie, Piper Jaden Levine, Henry Lowengard, Michael Constantine McConnell, Kylie Miller, Darrell Morgan, John Scilipote, and Susan J. Storm.

Brian K. Mahoney finds tapas master Rich Reeve still creating revelatory small plates at Elephant wine bar in Kingtson.

128 PARTING SHOT An untitled woodcut from God’s Man by Lynd Ward.

THE FORECAST 105 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events.

(Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 105 Barrett Art Center’s national juried photography show Photoworks will be exhibited through through May 10 in Poughkeepsie.

110 The Merce Cunningham Dance Company will perform at Dia:Beacon on May 18.

112 The Marbletown Chamber Arts Festival will be held at SUNY Ulster in Stone Ridge May 23 through June 1.

115 The Millbrook Book Festival turns the page on May 16 and May 17.

119 Plugged In, a city-wide multimedia arts project in Hudson this month.

PLANET WAVES 122 WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? Eric Francis Coppolino examines the interlacing among self-esteem, sex, and relationships. Plus horoscopes.

A leg of jamon serrano on a jamonera in the kitchen at Elephant.

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Having never taken an art class, Laura Levine started painting as a hobby. While studying cultural anthropology at Harvard University, she spent most of her free time as the photo editor of the newspaper. After graduation, she continued taking pictures, photographing many musicians like James Brown, Madonna, and Joey Ramone on assignment for music magazines. Levine also directed a few music videos and worked on a ďŹ lm with REM. Her photographs appeared on magazine and album covers, as well as in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. After taking pictures throughout the ’80s, she stopped in the mid ’90s. “I was ready to move on and try new things, creatively,â€? says Levine.

After putting down the camera, Levine taught herself how to paint. “There’s much more freedom with painting,� says Levine. “You’re creating something from scratch.

I get more deeply involved in painting.â€? She will often take on one subject and create 10 to 20 pieces based on it. In keeping with the theme of music, she painted a series of music pioneers, which she developed and adapted into a sequence of books with author Holly George-Warren, the ďŹ rst of which was Shake Rattle and Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll (Houghton Miin, 2001).

Levine got the idea for the series of bird paintings from which Scarlet Tanager is from while looking out the window. “There were all these birds coming to the bird feeder,â€? says Levine. “I just started to paint all the birds I saw.â€? From there, she continued to make paintings of common birds in North America. Levine puts a great deal of eort into researching the birds, checking bird guides to make sure she has the birds’ regions and appearances right.

Levine owns a shop in Phoenicia dedicated to clutter. Filled with unusual antiques and random odd objects, her shop, Mystery Spot Antiques, is like a large yard sale, and she admits that she draws much of her inspiration for her work from yard sales.

Levine found the ’50s and ’60s trading stamps that are the background of the bird series at a yard sale in Kingston. “I’ve become addicted to them,â€? she says. “All the dierent colors and designs.â€? The stamps are the ďŹ rst object ever purchased at a yard sale to actually be integrated into her pieces. The bird paintings also represent the ďŹ rst time she has taken on a subject from nature; before, she had painted mostly human portraits.

Currently living in New York City, Levine is not done with birds. She plans to continue painting birds, and recently made a three-foot-by-three foot piece. “Tweet Suite: Birds of North America� by Laura Levine will be at Varga Gallery in Woodstock from May 22 through June 4. An opening reception will take place on May 24 from 6 to 9pm. (845) 679-4005; www.vargagallery.com. —Tara Quealy

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BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com VISUAL ARTS EDITOR Beth E. Wilson visualarts@chronogram.com EDITORIAL INTERN Tara Quealy tquealy@chronogram.com PROOFREADER Candy Martin CONTRIBUTORS Larry Beinhart, Jay Blotcher, Laurie Byro, Amber S. Clark, Eric Francis Coppolino, Theresa Edwards, Sylvia Mae Gorelick, Kelly Granger, Hillary Harvey, Maya Horowitz, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Gilbert King, Susan Krawitz, Erik Lawrence, Naton Leslie, Laura Levine, Piper Jaden Levine, Henry Lowengard, David Malachowski, Karen Matthews, Jennifer May, Michael Constantine McConnell, Caitlin McDonnell, Kylie Miller, Darrell Morgan, Sharon Nichols, Rhoodora Penaranda, Matt Petricone, Fionn Reilly, Mike Saporito, Jeremy Schwartz, John Scilipote, Sparrow, Susan J. Storm,Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson, Lynd Ward, Beth E. Wilson

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CALENDAR: To submit calendar listings, e-mail: events@chronogram.com Fax: (845) 334-8610. Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: May 15

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Out of Shape Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection

Laylah Ali, Untitled, 2001 Gouache on paper Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan © Laylah Ali

March 14 – June 8

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Screenings begin at 7:30 pm. Rain location: Taylor Hall, room 203 For more information call (845) 437-5391

May 8 / The Fly (1986) / Directed by David Cronenberg May 15 / Dead Ringers (1988) / Directed by David Cronenberg May 22 / Silence of the Lambs (1991) / Directed by Jonathan Demme May 29 / Being John Malkovich (1999) / Directed by Spike Jonze June 5 / Talk to Her (2002) / Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

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A Beef with Beef To the Editor: Re: “The Beef Over Downed Cows” by Lorrie Klosterman in the April issue of Chronogram: The egregious treatment of downed animals is just one of the many compelling reasons why consumers should boycott factory farms. Animal suffering, however, is not unique to this sector of the “food animal” industry.

I’ve cared for abused and neglected farm animals at Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY, for nearly a decade, and of the hundreds I’ve personally rehabilitated, many have come from small farms—debunking myths that local meat is a viable alternative to cruelty.

Case in point: Last month, we rescued 26 sheep from Red Barn Farm in Canaan, NY—one of those listed in the article [as an addendum at www.chronogram. com] as offering “beneficially raised” meat. These emaciated animals—many also injured, pregnant, and parasite ridden—were as far from “healthy” or “humanelyraised” as any of their factory-farmed counterparts.

So why exploit and kill at all when you can make a truly humane choice by going vegan?

Susie Coston, Farm Sanctuary National Shelter Director

Lorrie Klosterman responds: Thank you very much for alerting us to the animal abuse at Red Barn Farms; we have removed it from the website list of small farms as alternatives to factory farming. I agree that becoming vegan most directly and completely removes consumer demand for animal products and inhumane practices. I’m a longtime vegetarian, sometimes vegan, for both animal welfare and human health reasons.

In the article, however, I made a decision not to promote veganism overtly because many meat-eaters I’ve spoken to can’t imagine going without meat, and dismiss my views as irrelevant to them. I’m hoping that the carnivores among Chronogram’s readership will be disturbed and activated enough by what they read that they will get busy and demand an end to factory farming, at the least, because it is directly relevant to them, and seek farms that treat animals well throughout their lives, and slaughter them as humanely as possible.

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On April 18 of last year, Russell Sage graduate student Erin Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VW Beetle was vandalized while parked in Albany. The words â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fagâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;U R Gayâ&#x20AC;? were spray-painted on the hood and driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side of her car. (Davies is gay and sports a rainbow sticker on her car; the incident occurred on the 11th annual National Day of Silence.) Instead of erasing evidence of the hate crime, Davies chose to use the attack as a springboard for teaching tolerance, and went on a 58-day cross-country trip, meeting people along the way and filming her experiences. Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is currently in the process of editing down the 100 hours of footage she filmed, made possible in part by a $10,000 grant from Volkswagen USA. In late April, Davies had her car repainted as one resplendent rainbow sticker. Once the film of her experience is complete, Davies will tour the film festival circuit in the new incarnation of Fagbug.

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Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you clean the slurs off your car right away?

My insurance company told me I had to wait five days until they could get someone to come out and give me a quote. I wanted nothing to do with my car at first. But the day it happened, I was on my way to my part-time job. I attempted to drive it. People on the street were pointing and staring at me, and even laughing. I ran home and got another ride to work. I then got a rental and drove it for two days, but people stopped me to discuss what happened to my car. It became something that I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t escape, so I eventually decided to embrace it.

When did you decide to embark on a cross-country journey?

Two days after the incident, I drove my car to school and parked it in front of the Admissions building [on the Russell Sage campus]. Within an hour, over 50 phone calls were made to Public Safety and I was asked to move my car. I refused because I was on a public street. I got on the news that day and said I was going to drive it for one week to raise awareness, but a week turned into a year. The following day, a friend of mine from Baltimore called me and asked if I was okay after hearing what happened to my car. I told him about the huge reaction my school had and right away he had a vision for it. He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great you got on the news to raise awareness, but if you take it off now, the whole thing will be forgotten and no one will care about it.

You need to have the guts to drive it,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to leave it on and take it all around the country and document the response.â&#x20AC;? He bought me a website: Fagbug.com.

Were there places where you felt that you were not welcome?

I felt scared at various points during my journey. A rock was thrown in my back window and the living room window of where I was living in Tampa, Florida. When that happened, all the neighbors told me I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doing anything good for the GLBT community and that I should just get my car fixed. The woman I lived with at the time told me I had to cover my car up and get a car cover. I bought one out of fear but ended up throwing it away because it goes against what Fagbug is about.

Your style is one of polite confrontation. When people call you names, instead of responding with fear or anger, you somehow befriend them. How do you accomplish this?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to take a peaceful approach to Fagbug. Lots of people say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d shoot the person who did this or knock their skull open with a baseball bat. Driving my car as it is and sharing my story are enough. It totally goes against what the person who vandalized my car intended. Rather than bring me down, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m using it as a means of empowerment for myself and others. The further I can take this, the more I hope what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing reaches that person and makes them think twice the next time they have a spray-paint can in their hand. Also I doubt they knew who I was by writing fag on my car and I hope when the film gets done they actually watch it and learn a thing or two about me as a person so this can go from a faceless crime to someone they actually get to know and feel some sort of guilt. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a real person just like them.

I hope one day whoever does it comes forward. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to interview them. I would not press charges; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just like the chance to sit down and talk to them.

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Esteemed Reader But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ‘men Gang aft agley, An’lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy!

—Robert Burns, from his poem “To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough” Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: A friend left me a characteristically long-winded message. It was, “Hey Jason, it’s G. I’m really happy your message says that I have reached your voicemail, because otherwise I wouldn’t know that…Phew, if only life was that simple.

So, what about this idea: Let’s just say I’m 37, right? Which is about what your age is. And let’s just say we focus on a 13-year plan—it’s a long time—we can get a lot accomplished in 13 years—with the goal of retiring at 50, which is totally reasonable. But most people start planning that, like, when they’re 20, so we’re a little behind, but that’s OK. So, what can I do for the next 13 years with focus and attention, with the understanding that it’s worth kind of working at, because, you know, it will accomplish something? Because what I’m doing now is just kind of bopping around without a long-term plan. Also, we’re going to the spa this week. If you guys want to come that’d be great.”

I’ve listened to this message probably a dozen times, because there are a number of implicit questions in it (and because it’s funny—the suggestion of working hard toward a long-term goal followed by an invitation to the spa is at least a little comedic). For one, is 13 years truly a long time? At 37 I’ve almost completed three 13-year stints, each one shorter than the next. Time, as the “uniquely subjective phenomenon,” is not experienced at a constant pace. The years speed by at an ever-accelerating rate.

And then there’s the question of destiny. Are the stories of our lives already written in a book of time while we are left to helplessly fulfill a preset plot? And of course there’s the question of the larger world, and the unforeseen changes in economic, political, and social conditions. For instance, how many people who happened to live in Iraq had their personal plans laid to waste by the US invasion?

These questions have always prevented me from making long-term plans, along with the conviction that the best approach to fulfilling possible futures is the discipline of keeping the attention rooted in the moment, with faith that the next step will become apparent if I am present here and now.

That said, there are capacities, the development of which may actually constitute long-term goals, albeit inwardly, that more fully realize a person’s presence in the moment, and the corresponding ability to best realize outer-life goals. Capacities like: strength of attention; the ability to respond fully and authentically to what arises; exercising the value of being of service in the moment; and conscience.

For example, the other evening, after a lengthy, multicourse Passover Seder, replete with all four glasses of wine, I was asked to help bring an aged relative back to her nursing home. She has late-stage MS and is almost completely unable to move with her own volition. As we wheeled her down some steps on the way out to the car, the wheelchair hit the ground abruptly. She cried out in pain, uttering almost the first sound of the evening.The sound woke something up in me. I heard the human being inside her inert, useless body.

On the way to the home she vomited the bulk of the meal onto her shirt and the car seat. The smell of vomit filled the car, and when we arrived it was time to bring her in to her room to get cleaned up and go to bed. This meant that someone needed to lift her vomit-soaked body out of the car and into the wheelchair. As though by grace I found myself taking off my outer layer of finer clothes, and bending to pick her up.

“I’m so sorry…” She whispered. I looked into her eyes, which were filled with sadness. “Don’t worry,” I said. “It is wonderful to see you.” And I hugged her to my body, lifted her out of the car, and as gently as I could, placed her in her wheelchair.

Earlier that day I had taken my children, after much insistence on their part, for a ride on a gargantuan Ferris wheel overlooking Niagara Falls.Though pleasant, I count helping a puke-soaked old lady out of the car as the realer, and even preferable of the two experiences. It was a few moments of Real Life, responding to a present need and helping another human being in the moment.

So where is the balance between plans for the future and presence in the moment? Clearly both are vital. Since I am out of space, I leave the question to you, reader, should you wish to take it up.

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In the beginning of April, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the Lafayette Insurance Company was not liable for water damages due to the breaking of a New Orleans levee after Hurricane Katrina. The decision will most likely affect thousands of homeowners, since Lafayette’s and other insurer’s policies cover damage from wind but not flooding.

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t’s Bike Month once again, and I am reminded of certain realities regarding our lifestyle in this country: As of April 25 gas is $3.65 a gallon and shows no sign of downward movement. This is no Seventies-style “oil crisis,” no geopoliticking by the members of OPEC. This is no market fluctuation while we find untapped new reserves lurking in some heretofore unexplored locale, like beneath the Vatican. This is the last slow sip on the oil straw. And no admixture of biodiesel, solar, wind, ethanol, nuclear, or hydrogen is going to replace the dead dinosaurs we pour into our automobiles once their tombs are fully looted. (Unless we can figure a way to turn our own ancestors into black gold, and right quick. Soylent Gas is people!) When the oil dries up, human arrangements as they’re currently configured are going to change. We will drive our cars less. Not because gas is $10 a gallon—that won’t stop us—but because there won’t be any of it to be had by guns or money. (James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is a good primer on this topic).

We’re fat. I mean, I’m not and you’re not, but somebody must be because obesity has been on the rise in the US for 40 years. In 1964, 13 percent of us were obese. Now 31 percent of us are obese and 63 percent of us are overweight. More to the point: Almost four million people in this country weigh over 300 pounds, over 400,000 people (men mostly) carry over 400 pounds.

The Surgeon General blames obesity for 300,000 deaths a year.

The twin issues of our gas consumption and our sedentary lifestyle come together neatly in a little bundle called Bike-to-Work Day. This year, it’s Friday, May 16. If you live within 10 miles of where you work, own a bicycle, and are reasonably healthy, you should do it. If not, then a) quit your job, your commute is too long, it’s killing you, it’s killing the planet; b) buy a bicycle—there are 10 new postings every day of bikes for sale on the Hudson Valley extension of Craig’s List; c) get fit, there’s still time (go slow) if you start now!

Think about it, but don’t think too long. Biking to work is not easy, admittedly. I ride the potholed streets of Kingston every day, where cyclists are a nuisance and drivers still haven’t grasped why it’s important to signal before you turn. Note to Kingston drivers: The reason you signal is because I am flying past in your blind spot and I will end up a mangle mess beneath your tires or across your hood if you don’t let me know when you’re turning!

But who said everything should be easy? The challenge is relishing the challenge.

—Brian K. Mahoney PS: There are a number of safe, group bicycle rides for charity planned over the course of the summer, including Family of Woodstock’s Tour de Family in Saugerties on May 18, High Meadow School’s Ride the Ridge in Stone Ridge on June 1, and the Great Hudson Valley Pedal, from Albany to New York City, August 12 through August 17. For more information, visit www.chronogram.com and read an expanded version of this column.

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Talking Turkey An Interview with Ex-CIA Agent Robert Baer

By Lorna Tychostup Little noticed by an American public already overwhelmed by the complexities of a never-ending war in Iraq, on February 22, Turkish military forces invaded the most stable part of Iraq—its northern, US-created autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. Turkey’s stated intention: to eradicate the so-called “terrorist” forces of Turkey’s homegrown Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Previously invaded on at least two dozen occasions—1995 and 1997 operations involved as many as 30,000 and 50,000 troops respectively—northern Iraq is no stranger to Turkish military incursions. They began in the mid 1980s in response to PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan’s decision to turn political activism into a Marxist-inspired guerilla war in an attempt to counter Turkey’s massive cultural repression of its Kurdish population.

Aimed at creating an independent “Kurdish state within Turkey” for Turkey’s 15 million (plus or minus a few million, depending on the source) Kurds, the PKK’s fight turned a large part of southeastern Turkey—home to a majority of Turkey’s Kurdish population—into a warzone during the 1980s and ’90s. As the Turkish military flooded the rural southeast, destroying villages, and forcing hundreds of thousands of Kurds to urban areas, the force of the war died down.

According to a 2005 Human Rights Watch report, there remain 378,000 internally displaced people—mainly Kurds—in Turkey. PKK fighters, which include many of the dislocated who have no alternative but to keep up the fight, continue to make deadly strikes within Turkey. They then flee across the Turkish-Iraqi border to camps located in the hinterlands of Qandil Mountain on Iraq’s border with Iran, part of a range that reaches north to the Turkish border. Estimates vary, but it has been reported that between 35,000 and 40,000 people—most of them Kurds—have been killed since the PKK began its fight for independence in 1984. Before his capture in 1999, Ocalan claimed he wanted to revert the PKK’s focus away from military and back to political activism.

As with most international conflicts, there is more than meets the eye in this most recent Turkish incursion—the first since the US ousted Saddam Hussein and took responsibility for the security of Iraq. While it can be said that PKK actions incited this latest foray, the question of ownership of Iraq’s third largest city of Kirkuk looms large in the minds not just of Iraqi Kurds, but of just about everyone else in the region, including Shiite factional leaders Moqtada al Sadr and Ayad Allawi, not to mention Iran and Syria. Since 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 5/08

2003, Kurds have been attempting to reclaim the oil-rich city that underwent a forced “Arabisation” program under Saddam’s regime. Turkey, as well as Iraq’s Shiite and Sunni Arabs, fear that Kurdish control of Kirkuk—its surrounding territory accounts for 40 percent of Iraq’s oil production and 70 percent of its natural gas production—will lead to an independent Kurdish state. Adding to concerns is the fact that the Kurdistan Regional Government has begun to act independently, signing oil exploration contracts with international entities. December’s constitutionally mandated referendum, predicted to cede the control of Kirkuk to the semiautonomous government of Kurdistan, suffered a last minute six-month delay, much to the ire of Iraqi Kurds, whose leaders, as early as 2005, began to incorporate thousands of Kurdish militia members into the Iraqi military with the assumed intention of eventually taking control of Kirkuk and securing the borders of an independent Kurdistan.

There is also the issue of Turkey’s European Union accession, and the internal political sparring between Turkey’s moderate Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Turkey’s secular guardians, the military. Erdogan’s 2003 election campaign pledged to address the concerns of EU accession critics who, among other grievances, continue to cite Turkey’s poor human rights record and its lack of civilian control over its military as stumbling blocks to EU membership. Since sweeping the elections, not only has Erdogan been supportive of expanding Kurdish rights, he is reportedly the first Turkish leader to admit that Turkey has made “mistakes” in dealing with its Kurdish population. While endearing him to more pious Islamist Kurds, who have added to his electoral base, Erdogan’s courting of Turkey’s Kurds has irritated the watchful eye of Turkey’s military—already alarmed by his Islamist agenda in an avowedly secular society.

In a September 12, 2007 article for Time, former CIA agent Robert Baer hinted at the possibility of yet another coup taking place in Turkey, where, since 1960, the Turkish military has staged four “soft” coups against civilian governments. Baer stated that since Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party swept last summer’s parliamentary elections, “the Turkish generals have been casting around for an excuse to take power.” Senior Editor Lorna Tychostup spoke with Baer by phone from Pakistan about Iraq, the Turkish incursion, and all things Kurdish. Baer’s latest book, The Devil You Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, will be published in September by Crown.

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In your Time magazine article, you raised some very interesting points regarding Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. What do you think was behind this latest Turkish incursion of Kurdistan in February?

The Turks, first of all, are tired of having their soldiers killed. They had specifically raised this issue before we invaded Iraq. That is, what [is the US] going to do to [prevent Turkish people from being killed].The White House said, “Don’t worry about it. We’ll keep a lid on Iraq.” Obviously, we didn’t. We couldn’t.

We completely mislead the Turks. So Turkey had to go into a country we’re nominally in charge of to clean it up, just as the Iranians might one day do.

“Clean up” the PKK? Yes, the PKK. Where does Kirkuk stand in all of this?

The Kurds in Northern Iraq want Kirkuk. They want the one million barrels a day of oil. They keep on pushing for a referendum. They want a couple of other fields as well. Simply, that’s the only thing that will sustain a Kurdish government or region. They’re afraid the Shiites will steal all the oil if they don’t seize Kirkuk.

Zalmay Khalilzad had come up with an oil-sharing plan immediately before he left his position as US ambassador to Iraq, where distribution of the oil would be based on population. Each governorate would be free to contract with oil companies and all profits would go to Baghdad to be divvied up among the governorates based on population figures. With no census taken in recent years in Iraq, from what I understand, the numbers of those who voted in Iraq’s first election were going to be used to determine this distribution of oil profits. The Sunnis put up a fuss. Obviously, they would not be appropriately represented because a majority of them did not vote, or chose not to vote.

Yeah, I know the plan. It’s never going to happen.

Why? Because the Shiites are never going to agree. They have been oppressed since 680 AD and they’ve been completely cut out of Iraq’s wealth since that day.

They may agree to anything, but they are going to completely cheat on the oil, whether they agree to a profit-sharing plan or not. I mean, it’s all a nice dream.

Right now the Iranians and the Shiites are stealing hundreds of thousands of barrels a day, which is in nobody’s plan. They are just doing it.

Where are they stealing the oil from?

They are stealing the oil from Basra, through the main terminals.They are tapping the pipelines. So the Shiites may say this is a good idea—sharing it—but that’s not the way they are acting.There is no one Shiite group in charge.The whole understanding of Iraq was destroyed with the state in [the invasion of] March 2003. It’s gone and the Iraqis will never agree to live in the same country under the same constitution. It will never happen.We can dream on for a hundred years. McCain says, “Stay a hundred years.” Fine. They still will never want to live together.

One would argue that to some degree they were living together before 2003.

That’s because Saddam forced them to live together. He would put people in acid baths if they revolted. It was a system based on total, complete repression; they didn’t willingly live together.

My experience in Iraq, from speaking to Sunni and Shiite people who lived across the street from each other, was that this schism wasn’t really an issue until the invasion of Iraq by the Coalition forces. In Baghdad and in certain areas, people got along. There was intermarriage between Sunni and Shiite.

Well, yeah, I know. But, see, that was the bourgeoisie who were intermarrying— the secular Iraqis. But secular Iraq is going away faster than we can even keep track of.You will never get the Sadrists in Sadr City to accept Sunni into Sadr City.The division, even before Samarra, was too deep between the Sunnis and the Shiites.

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So you would envision a three-state solution?

Yeah, but it’s going to be messy. Nothing is going to be complete.You’ve got a country with two million internal refugees. They are running from something.

They are not running from Americans.They are running from Sunni, and from Shiite and vice versa. An ecumenical, secular Iraq is done for and finished.

That’s a pretty intense assessment. I’d like to get to the issue of Kurdistan. Kurdistan has been a beacon of calm. I was there this summer. It is certainly nothing like the rest of Iraq. It was very safe; there was no visible presence of American soldiers. The Peshmerga provide security— That’s because there is virtually no intermixing. If you go to Erbil, if there are any Shiites there, or Sunni Arabs, their numbers are so insignificant that they don’t really matter even as a minority. Since 1991, Kurdistan has had the chance to coalesce into a sort of country—a de facto country. It’s much easier to unify the Kurds—the KDP and PUK [Kurdistan’s leading political parties]—than it is to unify the rest of Iraq.There’s a solution you can come up with, getting the Kurds to agree to a constitution of some sort and sharing the wealth.That’s very feasible, but of course it would be outside the boundary.The Kurds don’t want to be part of Iraq again.

“When it comes to Kurdistan and the Iraqi Kurd, the Turkish military calls the shots. And if the civilian government, if Erdogan were to oppose them, they would simply declare martial law.”

—Robert Baer The Kurds want their independence.They want to be a separate state.

That’s what I said.

Well, there’s a bit of a semantic difference. The Kurds have always wanted their independence since post-WWI, when the Ottoman Empire collapsed and they were promised a separate state via the Treaty of Sevres. When Ataturk wrested Turkish independence from the Allied forces and disposed of the Sultan, he demanded and got a new treaty. It incorporated the Kurdish population into what we know today as Turkey. Ataturk worked to diminish and eradicate their culture under a banner of Turkish nationalism— “One country one Turk, We’re all Turks.” Ever since, the Kurds have always wanted their independence. This is what the PKK has violently been trying to bring about. The referendum for Kirkuk was supposed to take place in December. It was canceled. You wrote about the potential of some kind of incursion back in September when Turkey was beating war drums. I’m just wondering, is it truly the PKK that Turkey is after? Or is it this fear of separatism that is driving them and, more importantly, a desire to control Kirkuk?

I think the Turks don’t want either one. They don’t want a Kurdish nation because a Kurdish nation will always be a source of instability for Turkey. They don’t want de facto or de jure Kurdish state in Iraq. It undermines their legitimacy over their own country. It would be a bad example for their Kurds who would say, “Well if the Iraqi Kurds got a Kurdish state, why can’t we?”

And the Kurds couldn’t have an independent state without the economic flow from Kirkuk?

They could, but they have irredentist claims to Kirkuk. They really believe it’s 32 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 5/08

theirs. Well, I don’t know if they really believe it, but they say it’s theirs. And they claim that there are more Kurds in Kirkuk than Arabs. So they say, “Lets do a referendum. We’re going to win the referendum. We’re going to get the oil. We’ll ship it out to Turkey, or to Jordan, or wherever and we become a viable state.” That, in itself, upsets [Turkey]. But, more immediately, what is upsetting them is this constant warfare on their border.

And within Turkey proper.

Yes, the violence goes everywhere. And so are the Iranians. The PJAK [in late April] said, “We’re going to start an offensive against Tehran.” PJAK is based in Northern Iraq. And the Iranians look at PJAK as part of the PKK. I mean they call it the PKK but it doesn’t matter what it is, that’s what they call it.

The Iranians and Turks actually met on Monday to discuss what to do about the Kurdish problem. The Iranian delegation flew to Ankara to discuss what to do about the PKK and the PJAK. [Editor’s note: According to its website, PJAK stands for the Free Life Party of Kurdistan, and is “in constant battle for the unity and freedom of the Iranian peoples” and supportive of “democratic values, to achieve a radical type of democracy and to be able to launch a system of democratic confederacy in eastern Kurdistan.” As the PKK’s Iranian Kurdish allies, wrote James Brandon, who is currently a senior research fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion in London, PJAK is “potentially one of Washington’s strongest hands against Iran if used in conjunction with nascent Azeri and Arab separatist movements. For these reasons, Ankara is unlikely to force the United States to choose between an increasing Islamic and Iran-allied Turkey and the secular Kurds.”]

I don’t want to belabor the Kirkuk issue, but one of my NYU professors, Jarret Brachman, the director of research at the United States West Point Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, mentioned last semester that military sources have said the fight for Kirkuk would be “to the death.” Turkey was included in this calculation. Turkey cites the fact of their Turkomen “brothers” living in Kirkuk as a reason for their concern. And they talk about the PKK. But in reality, there is a big trade issue that includes oil; there is the US relationship with Turkey, a NATO ally, and the need on the part of the US to use Turkish territory as a staging ground for oil and military supplies entering Iraq. Trade volume between Iraq and Turkey is expected to exceed $10 billion per year in 2009.

How does Turkey’s EU accession fit into all of this?

That’s the problem for Turkey. They can’t simply go into Diyarbakir and start killing Kurds randomly because they’ll never make it into the EU.They have to walk a fine line. On the other hand, if it comes down to joining the EU or the breaking up of Turkey, they will stop the breaking up of Turkey.

It has been reported that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has been negotiating with the PKK and the Kurdish population within Turkey. You alluded to this in your Time article.You suggested another military coup was in the air in Turkey, citing the fact that the Turkish armed forces chief, General Yasar Buyukanit, did not attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Abdullah Gul as one sign of this. Can you explain?

If the civilian government does not do something but go along with the military, and the situation gets worse, the Turkish military would declare martial law and suspend civilian government. Right now, Erdogan is basically okaying the attacks. The military is going to Erdogan and saying, “This is what we have to do.” And Erdogan is saying, “Yes, sir,” and saluting.

Yes, but previous to this incursion Erdogan was talking to the PKK in Turkey. They represent an Islamist electorate base for him. The EU made it clear, effectively telling Erdogan, “If you want entry to the EU, you’ve got to work out your issues with the Kurds. You can’t keep suppressing them. You have to address their grievances, allow them a level of freedom that they are not being allowed now.” Erdogan was talking with the Kurds. He was in negotiation with them. Based on what you said in the article, the military is opposed to this, his using his Islamist position— Well, the Turkish military thinks he is being naive. I was in northern Iraq in 1995. The PKK ambushed a Turkish Red Cross van, which was really TNIO— Turkish intelligence—and killed four of them. So, the Turkish military is not too excited about this. It will give [Erdogan’s government] a certain rope to

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go deal with the Kurds, to stop the Kurds from fighting. But, at the end of the day, the military wants a free hand to go into northern Iraq. When it comes to Kurdistan and the Iraqi Kurds, the Turkish military calls the shots. And if the civilian government, if Erdogan were to oppose them, they would simply declare martial law.

You mentioned there is a coup brewing.

It was. I haven’t followed it recently, but there was a series of…The military was unhappy about the elections. Now, where they actually have the nerve to go over the line, you’re going to have to wait for something to provoke this, something more to happen. It has been fairly quiet.

You also mentioned in the piece that there had been some support in Washington to have Ayad Allawi replace Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. I was in northern Iraq this summer in a room of Sunni and Shiite men from Baghdad [central] and southern Iraq watching TV. Iranian President Ahmadinejad was hosting Maliki and there they stood holding hands. Outraged, the men began shouting, “This is a sign that Iran owns us.” One turned to me, saying, “Why doesn’t your government remove Maliki? Why don’t they replace him and make someone like Ayad Allawi President? It doesn’t have to be him, but someone who will kill equally. Not kill because you are Sunni or Shiite, but because you are breaking the law.”

There has been an active attempt to get rid of Maliki on the part of many people in the Iraqi government—all sorts of ministers and the people who are pro-American have really tried. But they simply don’t have the votes.Then you have the whole problem of Moqtada al Sadr.You have Maliki fighting Moqtada al Sadr and then fighting the Shiite groups in Basra. New issues keep on coming up. There are still [a lot of] people in Washington who would like to put Ayad Allawi in because he is well liked. But he has no positive base in Iraq. [American Ambassador Ryan] Crocker is reluctant to go in and say, “Well, alright, you guys can put in Allawi.”

Some Middle East experts have suggested Moqtada al Sadr would be a good replacement for Maliki as prime minister of Iraq.

I think if Moqtada had enough votes he would just vote the US out [of Iraq].

He’s very much disliked by the Shiite bourgeoisie, he’s mistrusted by Sistani. [Once] in power, he would definitely attempt a social revolution. Maliki is basically an elitist. He was educated DAWA, he followed Mohammed Bakr Sadr. He comes from a different class of Shiite. So these people, and SCIRI, are trying to hold onto an old order. The oldest order is Allawi’s— Westernized, on Western payrolls, he is looked at as an agent of the British, sometimes of the Americans. He doesn’t stand a chance in a chaotic Iraq of having a popular base. Then you’ve got the older guys like Dr. Ibrahim alJaffari and Maliki who are feeling the pressure from Sadr. It’s a struggle of who is going to rule the country. I think that Sadr would probably kick us out if he became prime minister. In as much as he could force the vote and get people to follow him. [Editor’s note: Prime Minister Maliki’s conservative political party, DAWA, or the Islamic Call Party, was formerly a militant Shiite Islamist group.

DAWA shares the majority of seats in the Iraqi parliament with the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, SIIC, formerly known as SCIRI, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.]

Some sources explained to me that the recent fighting going on in Basra was more political party battling.Where Maliki was going in to try and weaken Moqtada’s base, or eliminate it, thus giving his DAWA party more clout in the south in the next general election.

What do you think about that?

If you are Shiite and you want a beating economic heart in Iraq, it’s the south, it’s Basra, and it’s the oil. So if Maliki ever hopes to extend his writ, he’s got to take Basra. He’s got to take it from Fadhila, and you’ve got hundreds of groups there—we don’t even know who they are. He needs to go there and own that city. Obviously, he couldn’t do it. He didn’t have the army to do it. Iraq is a mess. I will not be surprised if we stayed there for a hundred years. But it would be a very unfortunate experience for this country. [Editor’s note: Fadhila, also known as the Islamic Virtue Party, is supported mostly by poor Shiites in the south and is considered one of many rivals to Moqtada al Sadr’s powerbase.]

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In your Time article you also say that the irony is that the liberation of Iraq is undermining democracy in the region, not planting it.

Could you give some examples?

Basically, anytime there is chaos in the region it gives central governments the justification for repressing rights.You’ve got Iran, which since the invasion has become more conservative.There are more people going to jail, their religious [faction] is stronger.You’ve got Bahrain cracking down on their Shiites.You’ve got the Kuwaitis fighting every day in Kuwait one way or another, where the royal family [is trying] to suppress any dissent. Just like in this country, any time you have warfare or chaos, civil rights go out the window. It’s a human law and I don’t know of any place where it hasn’t [been that way], from the Spartans to the Greeks. Once you have this gaping wound on the borders of Iran and Turkey, and Syria even, in Kuwait, in Bahrain, and even Saudi Arabia, you have a tendency of people to not tolerate dissent and the drift toward democracy.

Do you have anything you want to add on the situation?

Look at it this way. PJAK is saying, “We are going to war with Tehran very soon.”

Now, whether they are or not doesn’t matter. But if you are in Tehran, you’re going to say, “Wait a minute.The Americans are supposed to be putting a lid on [Iraq] and turning it into a civilized nation. And yet you’ve got an admitted terrorist group ready to attack us.” And this will just keep on going to this edge of regional conflict. And if you get Turkey and Iran going into Iraq, let’s say, in some combined operation—this is a total speculation, I don’t know anything about this—what’s the world going to see? You’ve got Iran potentially invading Iraq, which they are capable of doing. All that needs to happen is for PJAK to set up a couple of car bombs in Tehran and the Iranians will go into [northern Iraq]. And then what do we do? We can’t send soldiers into the north to control them.The mountains are too high. Logistically, it’s impossible, we don’t have enough troops.

From what I gleaned from Turkish newspapers, people in Turkey were shocked their military went into northern Iraq—in February, no less, when weather conditions in the mountains are not optimal for operations—and then left a week later. It’s very difficult territory to be fighting in to begin with, despite the fact they reportedly had anywhere from thousands to a hundred thousand troops on the border. It seemed to me Turkey wasn’t that successful.

They can’t be.You can’t find those people [the PKK] in those mountains. They come across the border in small groups, they attack, and then they disappear into the villages. They are obviously protected by the Kurds there. The Turks are faced with the choice of these cosmetic incursions to make people feel better, or to go in in force. But, then, you are at war with Iraqi Kurds. Turkey is between a rock and a hard place.

We can call the PKK a terrorist organization. Other people might say that they are freedom fighters, because they want— Yeah, yeah, I won’t go near that. That’s a definition that— The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world that does not have its own state. Even though they continue to perpetrate violence, the PKK stance has changed from saying, “We want an independent state,” to “Well, its not so much that we want an independent state, but we want freedom within Turkey to speak our language, to have Kurdish programs on TV, to have basic human rights,” which they are not getting. And Erdogan’s government does seem to me to be trying to make some movement to address these grievances, the Turkish military says, “No. We are one Turkey.

We are all Turks. Assimilate or die.” The figures range, depending on what publication you read, that 30,000 to 40,000 people have died in this Turkish-Kurdish fighting over the last 30 years, most of them have Kurds. Do you see as a resolution in this region?

I don’t know if there is a resolution.

Don’t you think that addressing the human rights concerns— The problem is that Kurds aren’t Turks. They’re Indo-Europeans. They speak a different language, their grammatical structure is different, and they look different. And they just don’t want to live with Turks. How do you address this? I don’t ever foresee the Kurds being treated equally in Turkey. It’s a nice dream, but it’s not for now. So I don’t have a solution. I just deal with problems.

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The Green Trail has seed funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and from the Fund for Environment and Urban Life, including a challenge grant which must be matched by community contributions of money or materials. Matches might include installation of bike racks by businesses, tree plantings and facade improvements by residents or businesses, local food donations for grassroots fundraisers.

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DION OGUST

Commentary

Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

BUSH, BUSHIT, BOOM, AND BUST

Did you know there is an “official arbiter of when recessions begin”?

It’s called the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). It’s a “private, non-profit, non-partisan” organization. It boasts that 16 of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners in economics have been researchers there.

The president of NBER announced on March 15 that we are now officially in recession. He also mentioned that “it will last longer and be deeper than the last two recessions, which lasted only eight months from peak to trough. It could well be longer and deeper than the recession in the early 1980s that lasted 16 months.”

The reality—for ordinary people—is that the economy has actually been in recession since 2001. It began with an official recession. Which officially lasted but eight months. Then there was a “recovery.”

But it was a very peculiar recovery. It was a “jobless recovery.” The first ever.

Somehow the economy had recovered, but the US continued to lose jobs in the private sector. Employment increased in the public sector, and people in the National Guard called up to service in the War on Terror were counted as employed. But even with that added in, there was actual job loss for several years.

In Bush’s second term there was some job growth, but not enough to keep pace with the increase in population.

Yet, according to the media—the NewYork Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, CBS, MSNBC—the recovery was “robust.” Unemployment was low. Growth was high. And they sang this refrain at least through the end of 2007. Not only were jobs being lost, jobs were paying less. Median income was declining. Nor did it ever turn around. From 2001 to 2007, annual average family income went down by over $1,000.

“This has never happened before, at least not for as long as the government has been keeping records. In every other expansion since World War II, the buying power of most American families grew while the economy did.” (“Economic Scene: For Many, a Boom That Wasn’t” by David Leonhardt, the NewYork Times, April 9, 2008) There was another peculiarity, almost entirely unnoticed. The cost of living was going up. Medical care, higher education, gas, heating fuel, housing, and local taxes, all inescapable costs were going up. But the cost of living, as reported by economists, was going up a lot less, and, it was reported, inflation was low.

We’ve had two economies.There’s the one ordinary people live in.With declining wages, higher prices, and lowered expectations. The other was a boom in which the rich got much, much richer. How was that possible?

The administration determined to goose the economy by giving rich people more money by cutting their taxes without cutting the costs of government, indeed, while expanding government. The idea—and there are a lot of people who truly believe this—is that if you give rich people money, they will invest it in productive ways, expanding businesses or financing new ones, thereby creating more wealth and new and better jobs—all of which will generate new taxable wealth and so, in the end, more than pay for the deficits that are created.

The rich people, however, did not invest in new and exciting enterprises.

They skipped that part. They simply sold the money, which was a lot simpler.

That is, they put it in the “financial sector.”

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Suddenly, the financial sector—banks, investment companies, brokerages, insurance companies, real estate funds, hedge funds, and the like—had an influx of money. So they went out and sold it aggressively. That is, they made it easy to borrow.The government was hand in glove with them, keeping interest rates low and deregulating and ignoring regulations. They sold debt.

There was a real estate bubble. That should have been a warning sign. Real estate is a passive investment. It is a signal that there is a lot of money around with no productive place to go. No businesses expanding. No hot new industries. No genuine growth. The real estate bubble is now routinely described as the root of our current economic problems. That’s not true. It’s a symptom.

Here’s the root of the problem. The Bush boom was created by borrowing against our personal wealth and our nation’s wealth: • The national debt in 2001: $5.7 trillion • The national debt in January 2008: $9.2 trillion • Total consumer credit debt in 2001: $7.65 trillion • Total consumer credit debt in 2008: $12.8 trillion • Amount more Americans earned than spent in 2001: +2.3 percent • Amount less Americans are earning than spending in 2008: -0.5 percent • US budget surplus in 2000: +$236 billion • US budget deficit in 2007: -$354 billion • US trade deficit in 2000: $380 billion • US trade deficit in 2007: $759 billion —“State of the Union 2008: By the Numbers,” Reuters, 1/28/2008 The US economy “grew” by about 37 percent in the Bush years, about four trillion dollars.

Our national debt increased by three and a half trillion dollars. Our consumer debt increased by over five trillion dollars. In short, and in sum, it costs us at least eight and a half trillion dollars to “grow” the economy by four trillion.

Worse, that growth does not consist of new businesses, manufacturing jobs, improved infrastructure, better education, more opportunity, environmental improvements, alternative energy, or more consistent and affordable health care. The entire increase is a bubble, one that consists entirely of debt.

What’s really strange about this, as with so much that has happened in the Bush years, is that it has happened invisibly. Even now, the mainstream economists, the mainstream media, and our mainstream politicians seem completely oblivious.

Without some serious changes to the very fundamentals of how we handle our economy, it seems that some sort of serious crash is likely, perhaps inevitable.

Can the American theology of a pseudo free market magically change before that happens? Can reality enter the dialogue through an intellectual process? Or will reality have to kick us in the teeth before anyone wakes up?

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ong Kong, 1939. It’s December, and I’m born the fifth child of my parents, after two girls and two boys. One of my brothers will die young. But after his death, no one speaks of him any longer. My children will not know anything about him—except that he once existed and died at a tragic adolescent age while in military service for China. I am still a child.

My name is Sook-Yi. My family is rich.We have everything we want.We have servants.We live in a big house that overlooks Happy Valley Racetrack in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is now a colony of the British Empire. China lost the war. Our island was the booty. So it is the British, the gui-lo (“white devils”), who rule us. My father (whose large jowls make his future grandchildren describe him as a frog) is in the legal profession. He was a lawyer, but Chinese are no longer allowed to be lawyers, so he works as a translator for the British lawyers—bridging the culture and language gap of the two sides. It is a wide gap. My father’s position is very powerful. They depend on him. He is respected. So we do not feel the oppressiveness of the British like the other Chinese do.

My father travels all over the world for business, even to America. He brings back the latest technology to us. We, the Laus, are the first family in Hong Kong to own a vacuum cleaner! It is a marvel. My sisters and I are dropped off at school in a chauffeured automobile. It is a foreign-brand car.

Everyone at school looks at us when we arrive at the gates. We hold our heads high but we are not snobby.

My mother is very religious and she comes from a humble background.

She will not let us get proud. My mother and my father were married through a matchmaker.You see, my father’s family did not want their son to marry the kind of good-for-nothing girls my father liked. His mother thought them gold diggers, or lazy. Vain creatures. So she found my mother. My mother is a hard working woman. She is pious.Yes, she is older than my father, and, yes, she is of a different class, but she is trustworthy. Once my father’s mother gave her approval, the match was made. The wedding was held at our home and my mother has given my father five children so far. My youngest sister is still in her belly.

We have a happy family, although my mother does not like to dress up for all the fancy occasions my father loves. She does not like parties, or make up, or 38 FICTION CHRONOGRAM 5/08

booze. My father loves all that. He especially loves to dance and to gamble.They, my two eldest sisters and my parents, watch the horse races every weekend.

My father owns a racehorse and has a special box seat to watch. He never wins money, only loses, but it is worth the amusement. I am still too little, so I can only watch from the windows of our house, in my pajamas, with my brother.

I am a good girl at school. One of the popular girls. I am polite and do not cause trouble, not like my younger sister, the mischief-maker. She has just been born and is already giving my mother a heartache. She is a daddy’s girl. She will be sent to Australia when we reach high school, and there she will become pregnant and have to get an illegal abortion. But now we are still young girls, just children, and we think only of weekends on the beach with our cousins.

Big Cantonese feasts at the seafood restaurant on the river. We have a house that we go to on the weekends. My father joins us. We all laugh, and play, and my father showers us with gifts, clothes, toys, food. We are happy. Very happy.

I love my father.

Running along the beach. My feet drag in the sand. It is slow. The waves crash into my ankles, dragging up seaweed and other ocean debris to shore. My cousins are faster than me. They run ahead. I can’t catch up. Something washes up. It is big and bloated and ugly. A horrible waxy color. It smells. My cousins have stopped running. They look. I look. It is a man.

When I am 15, my father will leave us. He will pretend not to leave us but he will. My father will meet a woman, a dancing girl who works at a Shanghai nightclub. My father travels so much on business, he is all over China and the whole world all the time. He meets this woman who loves make up and dancing and is much younger than my older mother. He does not tell anyone at first. But the servants begin to talk. They know where he spends his time. The chauffeur, who is loyal to my mother, will tell her the truth. She will confront my father. He is caught.

In Hong Kong, in 1954, it is still legal to have many wives. My mother is First Wife; the other woman whose name I will never utter to my children is Concubine. But Concubine is a proud woman, boastful and vain.We are forced to attend their marriage. The marriage of this other woman to my father. After they exchange their vows, my mother must kiss this other woman’s hand. I can’t watch. I’m crying.

At first, the arrangement is two nights with Concubine and five nights with us. Soon it becomes three nights at her house and four nights with us. Then, it is only two nights at home with us, until finally I stop seeing my father altogether. He is no longer interested in his old family. He does not come home at all, and I never see him on weekends anymore either. He does not come to my school awards ceremonies or sports matches. He does not come to pick us up from anywhere. He stays over at the other woman’s house all the time—even if he never packed his things and took them with him.

I sometimes see him at the racetrack, in his box, but he is with her, looking so happy, like brand new. He does not even look up at the windows of his old house where his daughters still stand, their foreheads pressed up against the wide panes of glass.

The servants are the ones who tell us all the news of my father. He does not call or tell us anything. Concubine is pregnant. She will have a baby boy. That boy, the servants tell us (and they know because they bathe the baby), has a deformed penis. We giggle.

“It is fate,” my mother scoffs.

That baby boy will grow up to be a good-for-nothing man. He will live with his mother his entire life, never marrying or having his own children. He, like my father, likes gambling too much and squanders away his inheritance.

He never holds a job in his life. He has only one sister, who is nice, not mean like him. But she will not marry or have children either. She will work hard as a librarian her whole life, and then retire an old maid. They too will move to Canada after my brother and all of us do.

We will all go to Canada because Hong Kong has too much gossip. I will move to Toronto after I meet my husband. My sisters and mother will stay in Vancouver. My father and his new family will choose Alberta, where he will die of a heart attack when I am 47. I will cry a lot. Ho-Yin will try to comfort me. My children, who have English names and never meet their grandfather, will feel nothing from his loss.

After my father moves out, he also stops sending my mother money. At first he keeps up the bills, but like the time, the money soon stops coming. My mother rents out rooms in our house to support the costs. We have strangers living with us all the time. It is not our house anymore. So my brother goes to

Canada for university. He is brave, smart. He pays his own way. He will send for us all to come when he gets his papers.

I graduate from high school with honors. I enter Hong Kong University.

A male student, one year older than me, begins to ask me out for dates. He is persistent. His name is Ho-Yin. My mother likes him very much. He is studying to become a civil engineer. He comes from a working class family. His mother is a nurse and his father is a ferryboat operator. My mother urges me to stick with him. She warns, Marry a professional, Sook-Yi, not a spoiled businessman. A rich man will leave you because he will have the means. A professional will be able to support you but will not be vain. He will not be ambitious and pride will not destroy your family. Ho-Yin’s English name is Henry.

I feel very young for my age. Henry and I are moving to London, England.

It is his idea. He is filled with big ideas. He holds me very tight. We will get married in London. Without family or friends. Just the two of us and a local witness in Ealing Abbey. I make my own dress. I am now named Eva. It is the beginning of our new life. Henry is an engineer but he will become a big businessman. A real estate developer. He will become rich. Like my father. And Henry will leave me for another woman. Another woman who is the same age as his own daughter. He will meet her in Russia, on a business trip, after we have been married for 34 years, after we have raised four children together. But I do not know this yet. I am young. I do not know anything to come. I do not know the changes that will happen and how I will push him away. How he will push me away.

I never saw the end coming but I remember now that my grandmother never trusted Ho-Yin, warning me that a man with such big dreams, who adores me this much, will one day grow bored and find he can just as easily adore another woman with the same passion, chase after even bigger dreams. I do not listen. But I will tell this to my daughters when it all happens. When he leaves us. I will tell them things they do not want to hear. I will tell them too many things without thinking first, “These are my children.” I cannot help it. I am trapped. I am still a little girl. At my age.

Jennifer Wai-Lan Huang’s “Happy Valley” was chosen by juror Abigail Thomas for honorable mention in our 2007 Literary Supplement short story contest.

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Portfolio Laura Moriarty

Born and raised in Beacon, Laura Moriarty’s art has developed through her own, unique process as well. Not one to follow a well-worn path, early on she sensed that academic training would not accommodate her needs. She became an artist through an internship at Women’s Studio Workshop and tremendous dedication to her work. Starting as a paper- and printmaker, she moved into using encaustic (wax-based paint), developing most recently a unique body of work that builds up strange, colorfully striated forms that strain the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Thinking through categories provided by natural science—plate tectonics, geological processes, even the systematic mapping of archeological sites—Moriarty’s latest installations sprawl into enormous accretions of encaustic, reminiscent of fairy grottos or perhaps magical coral reefs.

Moriarty is busy these days, exhibiting in this month’s SiteLines art fair invitational exhibition, participating in a show at the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, and building a new studio, funded through a prestigious Pollock-Krasner Grant that she received last year. In addition to all that, she’s the Gallery Director for R&F Handmade Paints, organizing one of the more innovative exhibition programs in the area.

—Beth E. Wilson

LAURA MORIARTY ON HER WORK On not going to art school I wanted to go [to art school] at first, but I didn’t have much money, so I went to community college, and I was very turned off right away. Even at that level, it’s for people who have been groomed, to a certain degree. Everybody else is weeded out, and not encouraged. The head of the department told me that I should be a lawyer. There really wasn’t much more you could say to offend me. Can I have my money back, please?

I decided the best way to learn is to get out there and do it. So I sought out artists, rather than schools. I didn’t think I would learn in school. Almost all my artist friends have MFAs—I don’t think less of them because of that, but I have to say there’s a certain thing there that I just would never accept [for myself]. I’m very idealistic about that.

I did what I did from passion, and I identified myself as a different kind of artist. Early on, I was just knocking my head against the wall as an artist. I took some classes in drawing and painting with Franklin Alexander in Woodstock, who told me about Women’s Studio Workshop. He said you’re going

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Invented worlds to need a community, to be involved with people who have the same priorities and passions and interests. He had this gentle but powerful way of letting me know that I had some really important choices to make about how I wanted to live my life, what my priorities would be. The priority might not be a good-looking boyfriend.

So I went to WSW and asked how I could get involved. I trained as an apprentice papermaker for four years under Tatana Kellner, and that is where I learned. They really just let you grow. There was no meddling, no head games.

They really just let me go and didn’t judge me—there was a long time that I made not good work—and at a certain point, while I was making prints there, Ann [Kalmbach] just walked into the studio and said, “It’s time for you to have a show.” And that was it. I was just allowed to let the work come into its own. No one was telling me how to package it until there was something to package. It was a very unusual process. I am so grateful for it.

I began thinking a few years ago about creating a piece that could be site-specific, that could travel around to different places, and be experienced almost the way you would experience a dollhouse, or a botanical garden, or some other kind of created environment. It’s not a natural environment, but it’s a very curious environment for people.

And one which plays with human scale so that you get into it, move through it with your eyes, with your vision and your imagination, rather than your body. I made a pedestal that just sat on the floor, with a big cluster [of paint] sitting on it. It had pathways in it, and overhangs. It was very geologic, very much inspired by plate tectonics and all these things I’ve been thinking about in my work for a long time. The playfulness of the interaction with the people really got me excited.

We tend to compartmentalize nature, but I see it as just this big mess. Everything’s all put together. The way that it all breaks down is gorgeous, that’s where the beauty is. If I can help people contemplate that, that’s really intriguing.

CLOCKWISE FROM UPPER LEFT: 15 Piece Lustre Set, beeswax, tree resin, pigments and oil paint, with embedded super-magnets, 2005; Tower, beeswax, tree resin, and pigments, 2008; Trunks (detail), beeswax, tree resin, and pigments, mounted on wood panel, 2006; Furrow, monotype, 24” x 38”, 2007.

OPPOSITE: Nothing Big but the Difference, beeswax, tree resin, and pigments, 2007.

A moving target It’s always moving with me. I always think “This is it” when I catch on to something that I really like and enjoy about the work. I always think “I’m just going to do this for the rest of my life.” That will last a year or so, and then some sort of mutation slips in, to the point where I see the relationships, the mental leaps very clearly and logically, but other people are asking, “Where’s this coming from?”

they pretty much have to be ready to collapse. It seems like when I was putting them on the wall, I was imposing too much of that kind of business sense to the work, and with these, I think that may be the relationship to outsider art. I’ve said no— they’re fragile, that’s what they are. The folds and faults, that becomes the record, and the record is what it is. I fully expect that these will change. They will erode, and they do for me.

I almost think of myself as a trickster-scientist. Or a fictionalized scientist that’s working behind the scenes, and the pieces are just the evidence of my study. Like I’m proving my answers somehow. Even if it isn’t an answer. They’re open.

All those pretty things

Letting go You don’t want your work to fall apart. You want it to stay together, and be presentable, and all this stuff that means you’re a good, responsible businessperson. But I think that very recently I let go of that, and realized that it’s the fragility itself that I’m interested in. I want these things to look like they’re on the brink of collapse, and in order to look that way,

I think I’m becoming more interested in being able to articulate this work from an ecological perspective. It keeps me engaged in the work, to think who am I as a person, and how am I expressing those concerns in the thing that I’m most passionate about. For me, making pretty things has never been enough. I think the world is full of pretty things.

And even things, period. Part of this whole letting them break is being less attached to the thing, the precious object, and letting the parts be more important, the detritus. It’s about regeneration. It’s a different way to stay intellectually engaged

with the work, for myself—I’m not trying to preach that to other people, though. You know, [in an elevated voice], “My work speaks to the…” [laughter]. No, I definitely don’t see myself above it, I’m part of it. I’m as flawed as it is.

The day job I never said, “I’m going to be a gallery director when I grow up.” They pretty much had to drag me, kicking and screaming, into it. I always want to do “day job” as little as possible. That’s the goal. I want day jobs where I don’t have to hate what I’m doing, or call in sick, lie to people. R&F is so pro-artist, this is really a dream job for me. It’s an all-artist staff, so that’s fun. The company has a really nice gallery now, which is like a gift to the artists who show there. So that feels great. I can call people up and ask, “Would you like to show at R&F?” and there’s no hesitation, they just say “Yes!” I love having the opportunity to be kind to artists in a way that the system doesn’t necessarily allow. It’s great to feel that at least we can do this one little thing right.

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Lucid Dreaming COLLECTION MUSEO DOLORES OLMEDO PATIÑO, MEXICO CITY

BY BETH E. WILSON

A TALE OF TWO ARTISTS It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This past Easter Sunday, I had the chance to visit two exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, both of which I’d been looking forward to with great anticipation. Between the blockbuster Frida Kahlo show, and another featuring the photography of Lee Miller—both of whom celebrated centenaries in 2007—I was expecting an embarrassment of riches. In retrospect, it was an at times frustrating, at times downright disappointing, experience—but one that I would recommend to anyone interested in the work of these women anyway. (The Miller show will have just closed as this issue comes out; the Kahlo show continues through May 18. Both will then go on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this summer.)

As well known as Kahlo is today—especially since the striking bio-pic starring Salma Hayek in 2002—it’s still a rare thing to actually see much of her work. As a result, the prospect of seeing some 42 of her paintings seemed like it would be a real treat.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with these vigorously advertised blockbusters—it’s difficult to go anywhere in Philadelphia without encountering the world’s most famous unibrow—and despite a timed ticket system, the sheer mass of humanity within the walls of the exhibition made locating oxygen a challenge, let alone spending any time really looking at the work. (In the end, I concluded that the timed ticket scheme amounted to stamping the date and time the visitor arrived on the ticket, not actually regulating the number of people allowed in at any one time.)

It’s always an interesting exercise to encounter in person works that you’ve only seen in reproduction previously. For example, I was shocked to discover how large the famous Two Fridas painting was, each of the seated women approaching something like life size, even as most of her work was done on a much more intimate scale. I was struck by the intensity and power of some of her late still life paintings, which were done mostly as her health deteriorated near the end of her life. That these are less immediately popular—despite the strength of the works themselves—is testimony to the addictive power of celebrity, the primacy of personal charisma that draws the crowds to this exhibition to see their beloved “Frida.”

Kahlo is herself partly culpable in this cult of personality. It has much to do with the alluring myth that she helped to spin about herself, folding in the traumatic injuries she received while still a teenager in a terrible street car 48 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM 5/08

accident in Mexico City. (Impaled by a metal bar that exited via her vagina, Kahlo was to suffer almost constant pain, a series of more than 50 operations, and the inability to carry a pregnancy as a result.) Many of her paintings vividly portray the strong feelings and frustrations of her life, the infidelities of her husband, muralist Diego Rivera (who had an affair with Frida’s sister, among others), the miscarriages, and the richness of indigenous Mexican culture, always close to her heart.

The fact of the matter is that Frida herself played an active role in constructing her mythic persona, with a persistence that rivaled her dedication to the painting itself. “Frida” was perhaps her greatest creation, a performance piece that was first resurrected in Hayden Herrera’s 1983 biography (which reported all the flamboyant details of this persona, without however finding much critical distance from it). The rest is now history, as they say—the 1980s marked the birth of a new Frida industry, as Madonna emerged as a serious collector of her work, and her star went supernova. Not too surprisingly, the final gallery of the exhibition lets the crowd of visitors directly into a large, well-stocked gift shop, the walls painted deep blue just like her famous house (now a museum) in Mexico City.

Heading downstairs, I was confronted with an entirely reversed phenomenon. Tucked away in a set of subterranean galleries, “The Art of Lee Miller” was almost deserted. A series of immaculately framed photographs lined the dark grey walls, the exhibition was the very embodiment of museological restraint—in sharp relief to the wildness that characterized Miller’s life.

Born and raised in Poughkeepsie (which I guess helps make this something of a local story for us), Miller, like Kahlo, led a pretty spectacular life. Accidentally falling into an early career as a model for Vogue—she was a striking, blond beauty—she eventually went to Paris, where she served as a studio assistant, model, and lover to Man Ray, in the heart of the Surrealist circle.

Not one to let moss grow under her feet, a few years later she left Man to start her own studio in New York; two years later, she impetuously married an Egyptian businessman who’d fallen for her in Paris, moving to Cairo. Growing restless in that marriage, she reconnected with her Surrealist friends in Paris, meeting English painter Roland Penrose, eventually moving in with him in London. By that time, World War II was starting, and she eventually crafted a unique assignment for herself as the war correspondent photographer for, of all things, Vogue magazine. From the Blitz in London to zones of active combat

© LEE MILLER ARCHIVES, ENGLAND 2008

ABOVE: LEE MILLER, WOMEN WITH FIRE MASKS DOWNSHIRE HILL , LONDON, 1941 OPPOSITE: FRIDA KAHLO, MY NURSE AND I / MI NANA Y YO OIL ON METAL , 12" x 13.75",1937

after D-Day, through the liberation of Paris and on to the camps at Buchenwald and Dachau, she created a unique body of war work, shaped by a Surrealist sensibility possessed by no other photographer of the conflict.

All this is dutifully periodized and catalogued in the show, which features 140 pictures selected by esteemed photography curator Mark HaworthBooth. Despite the inclusion of two notorious photographs from her early Paris period—Miller asked a doctor friend to rescue the amputated breast of a mastectomy patient, which she photographed laid out on a plate, complete with table setting, a macabre Surrealist provocation seen here publicly for the first time—as an exhibition, it falls a bit flat.

While she was an excellent printer of her own work, having honed her darkroom chops working for Man Ray, the emphasis on vintage prints in the show skews many images toward smaller sizes, even contact prints in some cases. And the World War II work, which arguably represents her greatest achievement, is then given fairly short shrift, as she wasn’t printing her own negatives much then, but sending her films back to the London Vogue office to be produced for the magazine. And while there is a small case in the galleries presenting several issues of the magazine, the importance of the published context for her photographs (and the extensive writing she did to accompany them) is largely lost.

The excellent catalogue by Haworth-Booth should stand for some time as a benchmark summary of Miller’s career; unfortunately, the conservative strategy pursued in hanging the show (emphasizing the rare vintage prints, and the overly spare wall text, which did not explain the specific context of any of the images, despite what was obviously a very sensitive and informed selection of what to exhibit) ultimately failed to deliver on the promise of the scholarship of the catalogue.

These shows of these two women—one endlessly self-mythologizing, the other restlessly rebellious—illustrate opposite poles of the curatorial art. For Kahlo, it’s the pack-em-in ethos of the blockbuster exhibition (and all the better to set the gift shop registers ringing), while Miller’s work is left to languish in an overly dry, somewhat academic presentation. It makes me wonder— can’t there be some happy meeting point somewhere in the middle?

B R Y A N PERRIN MODERN AMERICAN DRUID and ARTIST Consultations Ritual Sacred Landscape Seasonal Altars Ceremonial Vestments Idolatry

www.bryanperrinstudio.com 845-657-5701

“FRIDA KAHLO” IS ON VIEW THROUGH MAY 18 AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, 26TH STREET AND THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY, PHILADELPHIA, PA. (215) 763-8100; WWW.PHILAMUSEUM.ORG.

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galleries & museums ANN STREET GALLERY

GALLERY 384

M GALLERY

140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 EXT. 119.

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

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

“100 A.D.” Solo exhibition of artist Michael Zansky.

May 10-June 7.

“(Ado/Obso)lesence.” Works by Emilie Baltz, Carrie Elston, Asya Reznikov and Emily Orling. Through June 14.

“Everybody Must Have Art.” Originals by new artists celebrating Spring’s arrival. Through May 13.

Opening Saturday, May 10, 6pm-9pm.

GALLERY AT DAVID DEW BRUNER DESIGN

“It’s About Light: Exploring the grand Hudson River Experiment with Contemporary Tools.” Vincent Bilotta. May 17-June 30.

ARTS UPSTAIRS

621 WARREN STREET, HUDSON DAVIDDEWBRUNER@MSN.COM.

60 MAIN ST., PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“Mail & Female.” Artist post cards and non-postal artwork of the feminine persuasion. Through May 31.

BARRETT ART CENTER

MILL STREET LOFT GALLERY

THE GALLERY AT R & F

455 MAPLE STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477.

84 TEN BROECK AVE, KINGSTON 331-3112.

“Exposure.” 2008 high school photography exhibition.

Through May 1.

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Rituals.” Works by Mary Jane Parker. Through May 24.

“Eire.” Photographs by Buck Lewis. Through May 10.

GAS

“Glimpse of Spring.” Works by Elisa Pritzker. Through May 7.

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE, (845) 486-4592.

BAU

“Mysterious Traveler.” Franc Palaia. Through May 11.

161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Birds and Bees.” Through May 4.

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

THE BEACON INSTITUTE 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600.

“Works of Leigh Wen.” Paintings. Through July 8.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO

“The Food Show.” Works by Gary Shankman. May 3-June 14.

Opening Saturday, May 3, 5pm-7pm.

“Sculpture on Main.” May 3-June 14.

Opening Saturday, May 3, 5pm-7pm.

54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244.

“Botanicals, Still Life & Land Journeys 2008.” Annual student watercolor workshop showcase. Through May 31.

“i Against i.” Chris Bors. Through May 4.

HERMITAGE

CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

12 TIORONDA AVENUE, BEACON 765-1650.

59 TINKER ST., WOODSTOCK 679-9957.

“The Auerhahn Press: 1958-1965.” Dave Haselwood’s Press featuring selected books, broadsides and printed ephemera.

Through May 4.

“Stories in Color and Pattern.” Paintings by Roberta Meyerson.

May 15-June 9.

Opening Saturday, May 17, 5pm-7pm.

“Angelina/Angelino.” Drawings by Hedina Christiner.

Through May 4.

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

“SUNY Ulster Student Show.” Through May 21.

NICOLE FIACCO GALLERY 506 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090.

“Griffin’s Cat and Other Stories.” Recent work by Ken Polinskie.

Through May 31.

NO SPACE GALLERY 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 339-3600.

“Where Water Meets Water.” Swimming hole photographs by James Fossett. Through May 3.

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

“Barbara Warren.” Surrealist oil paintings. Through May 3.

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

DRAWING ROOM

155 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0214.

THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227.

“Cadence.” Patricia Gravett and Barbara Willner. May 2-26.

Opening Sunday, May 4, 3pm-5pm.

“Works by Chris Jones.” May 18-June 30.

ORANGE HALL GALLERY

Opening Sunday, May 18, 4pm-6pm.

ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790.

HUDSON VALLEY GALLERY

“A Change of Art: 4th Annual Student Art Show.”

246 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON (845) 534-5278.

Through May 5.

“Enlightened Views.” Recent paintings by Robert Trondsen.

May 31-June 29.

ORIOLE 9

Opening Saturday, May 31, 5pm-8pm.

“Works by Chris Gonyea and Vince Serbin.” Through May 23.

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

JAMES COX GALLERY

PEARLDADDY GALLERY

“Objects, In and Out.” Contemporary works by Leslie Law. May 2-31.

4666 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-7608.

183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169.

“Tongue and Chic.” The Art of Leslie Bender. Through May 31.

“Lou Patrou: Limited Edition Ultrachrome Prints.”

3743 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-4466.

“Art Inside the Box.” Denny Dillon. Through June 1.

EMILY HOYSTRADT GALLERY 209 CLINTON AVENUE, KINGSTON 399-0035.

“The Photography of Dotty Haines.” May 3-31.

Opening Saturday, May 3, 5pm-7pm.

FLAT IRON GALLERY

Opening Saturday, May 3, 4pm-7pm.

17 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK (845) 679-5763.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

Through May 8.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS BEACON GALLERY

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

143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199.

“Paintings by Larry Brown.” Through May 18.

“The Best Medicine.” Paintings and sculpture by Edie Nadelhaft.

May 10-July 6.

“Vanishing Giants- Elephants of Asia.”

Works by Palani Mohan. Through May 4.

“Works by Ben Butler.” Sculpture and large monoprints.

May 22-June 15.

Opening Saturday, May 10, 6pm-9pm.

RESERVOIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Opening Saturday, May 24, 6pm-8pm.

ROUTE 28, ASHOKAN 657-5107.

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE (845) 486-4592.

KENT ART ASSOCIATION

“Seeking the Sacred.” Through May 3.

“Mysterious Traveler.” Works by Franc Palaia. Through May 11.

21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-3989.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY

GAS

“Jose Acosta Art Extravaganza.” May 17-June 15.

Opening Saturday, May 17, 5pm-9pm.

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

“Bokeh.” Works by Jeri Eisenberg. Through May 19.

“Josephine Sacabo.” Photographs from “Nocturnes” and “Geometry of Echoes.” May 23-June 30.

“Kent Art Association Spring Juried Show.” Through May 26.

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880.

“Edges of Light.” Photographs by Robert Rodriguez, Jr.

LICHTENSTEIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Through May 5.

28 RENNE AVENUE, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 499-9348.

ROSE GALLERY FINE ART

“Berkshire Art Association Annual College Fellowship Art Show.” Work by 13 college art students from or studying in the Berkshires. Through May 17.

museums & galleries

Opening Saturday, May 10, 6pm-9pm.

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

MOUNT BEACON FINE ART

Opening Thursday, May 29, 5pm-12am.

“Modernism: On and Off the Grid.” May 11-25.

DEBORAH DAVIS FINE ART

Opening Friday, May 23, 5pm-7pm.

“Future Voices 3.” May 29-June 13.

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

“Photography Now.” Group show. Through June 1.

“Todd Poteet: The Tie That Binds.” Paintings and prints, large and small snapshots of daily life. May 23-June 17.

469 MAIN STREET, BEACON GONORTHGALLERY@ HOTMAIL.COM. “Aftermath.” Erik Hanson. May 10-June 1.

“Doppelganger.” Works by Cornelia Hediger. Through June 1.

“Juxtapositions.” Painting and printmaking May 23-June 17.

GO NORTH GALLERY

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES

Opening Sunday, May 11, 1pm-4pm.

Opening Saturday, May 17, 6pm-8pm.

“David Roth: Paintings.” Through May 24.

444 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6128.

“Outside In.” Solo exhibition of garden sculpture by Hope Konecny. Through May 31.

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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Discerning Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Howard Greenberg.â&#x20AC;? Through June 22. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beat and Beyond: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg.â&#x20AC;? Through June 22.

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(IRING (AAKON TO FRAME YOUR ART

â&#x20AC;&#x153;BFA Thesis Exhibition II.â&#x20AC;? May 2-6.

Opening Friday, May 2, 6pm-8pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Defining Art: Recent Acquisitions 2005-2007.â&#x20AC;? Work by Abbott, Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Chia, Nice, Oliveira, Rauschenberg. Through August 31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MFA Thesis Exhibition I.â&#x20AC;? May 9-16.

Opening Friday, May 9, 6pm-8pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MFA Thesis Exhibition II.â&#x20AC;? May 16-20.

Opening Friday, May 16, 6pm-8pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reading Objects 2008.â&#x20AC;? Works from the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection with texts created by University faculty and staff. Through August 31.

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SAND LAKE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2880 NY 43, AVERILL PARK (518) 674-2007. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flower Paintings by Carol Bonivitacola.â&#x20AC;? Through May 14.

SHELLEY K GALLERY 110 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-5250. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Perfect Ten.â&#x20AC;? 10 women interpret Hudson Valley landscape. May 10-June 8.

Opening Saturday, May 10, 5pm-8pm.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. â&#x20AC;&#x153;H2O.â&#x20AC;? An exhibit of works by twenty artists. Through May 18.

Private Art Instruction at

Mount Beacon Fine Art Group and Individual classes Personalized Lesson Plans for all skill levels Classes by appointment

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Budding Visions.â&#x20AC;? Through June 22.

68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Veneration/Fleeting.â&#x20AC;? Photography and carbon wall drawing installation by John Ferro. May 2-18.

(845) 765 - 0214 155 Main St. Beacon www.mountbeaconfineart.com

Opening Friday, May 2, 5pm-7pm.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paintings by Jerry Teters.â&#x20AC;? May 2-31.

museums & galleries

UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER

Oil painting - Acrylic painting - Drawing - Pastels Crafts - Colored Pencils

Opening Friday, May 2, 5pm-7pm.

UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD GALLERY 247 LARK STREET, ALBANY (518) 426-3501. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dream Wheelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;An Artistic Celebration of the Bicycle.â&#x20AC;? Taliah Lempert. May 2-23.

Opening Friday, May 2, 6pm-9pm.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tweet Suite: Birds of North America.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Laura Levine. May 22-June 4.

Opening Saturday, May 24, 6pm-9pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Outskirts.â&#x20AC;? Through May 4.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL 100 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 689-0613. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some Day in May.â&#x20AC;? Exhibit with Mary Evelyn Whitehill and Dennis Fanton. May 1-30.

Opening Saturday, May 3, 5pm-8pm.

WARREN STREET HUDSON WWW.HUDSONPLUGGEDIN.COM. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Plugged In.â&#x20AC;? Exhibition of new media works. May 17-31.

Opening Saturday, May 17, 6pm-10pm.

THE WEST POINT CLASS OF 1929 GALLERY AT EISENHOWER HALL 655 PITCHER ROAD, WEST POINT WWW.HUDSONHIGHLANDSPHOTOWORKSHOP.ORG. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Focus.â&#x20AC;? Hudson Highlands Photo Workshop membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; works. Through June 6.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 15 LAWRENCE HALL DRIVE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 597-2429. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Julie Mehretu: City Sitings.â&#x20AC;? Through July 27.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Scenes: Life in the City.â&#x20AC;? Through June 30.

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Music

BY PETER AARON

AUDIO ENGINEER TED ORR AND CREATIVE MUSIC STUDIO FOUNDER KARL BERGER WITH SOME OF THE NEARLY 400 ARCHIVAL TAPES AWAITING DIGITIZATION.

SOUND FROM SILENCE The Creative Music Studio Photo by Fionn Reilly

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ar back in the woods of West Hurley is a one-time Borscht Belt motel complex that now serves as a facility offering children’s programs in dance, music, and theater. Underneath the carport of the large central building, moms in minivans stop to drop their kids off for weekly rehearsals. Inside the temple like structure, little girls in ballet tights do stretching exercises and get into giggling contests with their male classmates as they warm up for lessons. Bustling instructors do their best to coral the students’ attention and get the program underway.

Behind the hubbub, though, there’s a silently echoing presence, an invisibly imposing backdrop. Stand in the temple-like main space, and ghostly electric vibrations rise up through the soles of your feet until they float through the roof of your skull, rustling the air just outside your ears. Long ago, artistic events of a much different kind happened in this space, on these grounds.

Events that forever reshaped the spheres of jazz, experimental, and world music; events that continue to resonate loudly today.

Twenty-four years ago, this place was the last official incarnation of the renowned Creative Music Studio, an institution begun in 1971 by composer,

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vibraphonist, and pianist Karl Berger, his wife, vocalist Ingrid Sertso, and jazz legend Ornette Coleman as a haven for the intimate study of improvised music. The collective energy of the incredible names who taught, studied, and performed here—Cecil Taylor, Donald Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Lee Konitz, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Giuffre, Carla Bley, Babatunde Olatunji, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and many others—is hot enough to melt the needle right off the meter. The musicians and students lived side by side for weeks, sometimes months, at a time in the guest rooms and cabins. They collaborated on music outside of the classroom, ate meals together, socialized, and gave free outdoor concerts in the surrounding towns and on the old athletic field across the road. As former student Robert E. Sweet describes it in his 1996 book on the retreat, Music Universe, Music Mind (Arborville Publishing), CMS, which closed due to lack of funding in 1986, sounds like it was pretty much heaven on Earth for jazz lovers.

“It was a very special place,” says Berger in his Woodstock dining room today. “There was music everywhere. It wasn’t really a school, with all of those dusty old music teachers pushing exercises and charts. It was more like a

workshop, where you had people like Braxton and [Miles Davis bassist] Dave Holland coming in fresh off the road to teach and play with the students. And we would record everything. ‘Practice, record, listen’—that was the process.

Every Monday night we’d have listening sessions, where we would go back and study the tapes we’d made the week before.”

It’s these very tapes of classroom sessions, along with those of numerous CMS-related concerts, that make up the nearly 400 audio and video archival recordings slated for digitization by engineer Ted Orr and eventual release by the Creative Music Foundation, a group set up by Berger, Sertso, and the Planet Arts label to preserve CMS’s recorded legacy. To raise the $120,000 needed for this mammoth effort, the foundation is drawing on funding from grants, private contributions, and benefit concerts like the one that will take place this month in Woodstock. “In the 1970s and ’80s, the music industry dictated what artists could play on their records,” explains Berger. “But when these same musicians were at CMS they could play whatever they wanted to play. So there are whole bodies of work by these artists that consist of music that was only done in the moment, music that is not represented on the records they made at the time. [The archive project] is a way to rewrite that history.”

Berger’s own history begins in his childhood home of Heidelberg, Germany, where he was born Karlhanns Berger in 1935. “[Heidelberg] is a beautiful place,” he says. “The American forces wanted it for their post-war headquarters, so they didn’t bomb it up too badly.” When the military bases moved in, with them came weekend jazz clubs that featured visiting US artists. “It was like growing up in New York, getting to meet and play with all of these amazing musicians,” Berger recalls.

One amazing musician Berger met at the time was Sertso, who hailed from Munich. Among other commonalities, the two shared a love of the revolutionary new free music of Ornette Coleman, and when they learned that frequent Coleman sideman Donald Cherry was performing in Paris they quickly lit out for the European jazz mecca. In a stroke of made-forTV scripting, the driven Berger met Cherry the day the couple arrived and was playing in the trumpeter’s band the next night. Sertso and Berger soon forged a deep alliance with Cherry, who introduced them to Buddhism and in 1966 brought them to New York, where they found steady work in the clubs and in another, perhaps unexpected, area: the public school system. In a program called Young Audiences, which also included John Coltrane bassist Reggie Workman and saxophone innovator Sam Rivers, Berger played for sixth-graders and demonstrated improvisation by working off melodies the students supplied. Next, after hearing that the iconic composer John Cage (a future CMS guest instructor, coincidentally) was about to give up his position teaching “chance composition” at the New School of Social Research, Berger conceived a course on improvisation, pitched it in a letter to the college, and was accepted as a teacher. He taught the course for five semesters, an experience that by 1971 led him to a new mission. “[The New School class] and the Young Audiences program had shown me there was so much untapped creative potential in the students,” Berger says.

“But it wasn’t being addressed in the educational system at all. [The system] was only about the material aspects [of music]—just the notes, ensemble playing, copying solos, all that. But then, as now, [the system] fails to foster personal creativity when it wants to unfold and flourish.” He and others discussed the concept of starting an organization to do just that, one they wanted to call the Creative Music Foundation. Berger approached Coleman for help, and the saxophonist readily agreed to be a cofounder. “If it wasn’t for Ornette, we wouldn’t have done any of this,” says Berger, stressing the importance of Coleman’s encouragement.

So with the blessing and support of the father of free jazz in hand, Berger went looking for a place to begin holding classes. Early on, he realized it couldn’t be in New York. “[Improvised] music really has to start from silence,” Berger explains. “Of course, people play it in New York and other cities, but when you are just learning it’s best not to have all the noise and distractions of the city around you.” Alto saxophonist Marion Brown introduced Berger and Sertso to Woodstock, and the couple and their two children moved into the converted barn on Witchtree Road that became the Creative Music Studio’s first official site. Through word of mouth and the odd ad in magazines like Coda and Down Beat, CMS’s reputation as a vital center of unique musical

study quickly grew, drawing students from around the world. Its facilities also expanded: In addition to the rented barn, workshops were soon being held at an old Lutheran camp in Mount Tremper, and student accommodations were set up in the nearby Ashwood House.

One of the students at this time was bassist John Lindberg, who came to study in 1975 at the age of 16 from a farm town in Michigan. “I had discovered this music pretty early on, and then I found out that [Art Ensemble of Chicago saxophonist] Roscoe Mitchell lived nearby,” says Lindberg. “I started taking lessons from him and it became apparent that I needed to get out of there and do something with the music. He suggested I go and study at CMS and hooked me up with [Berger]. It was an incredible time, and even though most students only came to study for short periods, there are so many musicians that are still connected because of CMS.” Indeed, one such lasting connection is between Lindberg and guitarist and former CMS guiding artist James Emery; after meeting at the center over 30 years ago, the two still perform together in the acclaimed String Trio of New York.

Another key aspect of the CMS legacy is its widely being regarded as the birthplace of world jazz, the cross-pollination and improvisational/compositional expansion of the world’s musical traditions—a phenomena due in no small part to the influx of students and artists from Europe, Canada, South America, India, Turkey, Africa, and East Asia who brought their many indigenous styles with them, eager to share. “Practically everyone that has been significant in exploring [non-Western music] passed through CMS at some point,” says reed player Steve Gorn. But with the ever-growing number of participants, CMS was eventually forced to look for still larger, more accessible environs.

It found them in 1976 in the form of Oehler’s Mountain Lodge in West Hurley, which consisted of a main lodge, office space, practice rooms, a huge kitchen and dining room, a large performance hall, a bar, two motel buildings, several cabins, and even a swimming pool. After working out a leaseto-own agreement with the owners, CMS soon entered into what is now regarded as its golden period, from about 1978 to 1981. During this time, a band featuring Berger and other CMS artists performed at Carnegie Hall, the organization was written up in The New York Times and other high-profile publications, and the facility regularly hosted well-attended concerts featuring such names as Carlos Santana, Allen Ginsberg, and Pat Metheny. Off-site area concerts were also held and with grant money the group started the quarterly journal Outlook and Musicmobile, a community outreach program that brought audience-specific music (everything from jazz-rock to classical) to local schools and convalescent homes.

Unfortunately, massive debt coupled with grant-crushing Reaganomics would eventually spell doom for the utopian West Hurley location. After it was forced to close in the summer of 1984, Berger and Sertso valiantly kept a diminished CMS going for another two years at smaller private sites before focusing on touring as performer-educators. The couple plans upcoming programs in Germany and Turkey, but at the moment it’s the preservation and dissemination of the recordings that are the immediate focus. “At the discretion of the [recorded] artists, selections will be made available in CD and DVD compilations to the CMS network of artists and contributors and a supporting membership program, as well as to educational institutions and dedicated radio hosts,” says Berger, adding that plans are also underway to house the digitized archives at Columbia University.

“I was very inexperienced about business, but, at the same time, I had an absolute drive about doing it,” says Berger of his years with CMS. “From the very beginning, we didn’t have the money. But it always came from somewhere. [CMS] ran on pure idealism, it didn’t run on money.” Unfortunately, however, Berger admits, the bills do always have to be paid. But since his and Sertso’s idealism is still in abundance, would they ever consider resurrecting CMS if the cash was there?

“Absolutely,” says Berger, clearly excited at the prospect. “If someone came in with the financing, we would definitely do it again. Music education has turned more conservative in recent years, and we need CMS now more than ever.”

Different Music, a festival benefiting the Creative Music Foundation, will take place on May 3 and 4 at the Colony Cafe inWoodstock. Artists set to perform include the CMS Orchestra conducted by Karl Berger, Futu Futu, Marilyn Crispell, Ingrid Sertso, John Lindberg,The Blob, Ben Perowsky, Sylvain Leroux, and others. www.creativemusicstudio.org.

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

OPEN MIKE AND VINYL SHOWCASE May 5. This great blend of live and recorded music (open stage and soundtrack) hosted

by VYXN and DJ Streetcream (awesome name, dude) focuses on musical exploration.

The audience members are encouraged to sign up and express their musical talents, plus there will be a live DJ all night to cue up cuts from the Colony’s own catalog of obscure records. Aspiring DJs: Please submit a record at the beginning of the night to be included in the mix. 10pm. Free. Woodstock. (845) 679-5342. www.myspace.com/colonycafe.

BAIRD HERSEY AND PRANA May 9. When Himalayan spirituality hits the mainstream, watch the cultural fireworks fly.

Olympic torch notwithstanding, run as fast as you can to Barnes & Noble in Kingston to catch this CD release performance (for Gathering in the Light, featuring Krishna Das) by Baird’s balladeers, who bring throat singing and kirtan music straight outta Woodstock to the heart of malltopia on Rt. 9W. Corporate-setting irony aside, kudos to the B&N manager who had the foresight to book such an enlightening performance. 7pm. Free. Kingston.

(845) 336-0590. www.pranasound.com.

THE WOOD BROTHERS May 9. The Wood Brothers are vocalist and guitarist Oliver Wood of Atlanta-based blues band King Johnson, and upright bassist Chris Wood of Medeski, Martin & Wood.

(Catch MMW with guitar guru John Scofield at WDST’s Mountain Jam on June 1.) On their second album, Loaded (2008, Blue Note), the bros collaborate for the first time on writing material, and producer John Medeski also plays keyboards on several tracks.

The duo, working at a studio near Woodstock, opened up the sessions to other musicians and singers, including Pieta Brown (who opens the show tonight), steel guitarist Darick Campbell, violinists David Mansfield and Jennifer Choi, cellist David Eggar, drummers Billy Martin and Kenny Wolleson, and percussionist Donnie McCormick. Let’s see who’s in attendance at this Bearsville Theater presentation. 8pm. $17. Bearsville.

(845) 679-4406. www.bearsvilletheater.com.

SATURDAY SOIREE WITH HELEN AVAKIAN May 10. Only recently has your humble scribe been uplifted to the inspired food of Marcus Guiliano and his wife Jamie and family. In its modest environs on Canal Street in Ellenville, the Aroma Thyme Bistro has quickly garnered a strongly devoted following.

Helen Avakian who brings one of the Hudson Valley’s most beautiful voices, plus her guitar talent and deep folk repertoire, promises “spontaneous sets with requests from the music menu at the hippest spot in Ellenville.” Aroma Thyme offers tasty organic fare from vegan to free-range meat and seafood. 7pm. No cover with dinner. Ellenville.

(845) 647-3000. www.aromathymebistro.com.

THE DANGLING SUCCESS May 10. Catch The Dangling Success’s smokin’ smooth-jazz sound on the band’s MySpace page (where I found it) and set the stand-alone player on “groove” while you carry on with your online activities. This highly professional Dutchess-based quartet mixes the sounds of Grover Washington Jr., Jeff Lorber, and Pat Metheny with funky originals for a gig at upscale Mexican eatery La Puerta Azul. When the band’s “Dr. Sax” is standing on chairs in the audience or dancing with the crowd while ripping out a solo, it’s quite a fiesta, indeed. 7pm. No cover with dinner. Millbrook. (845) 677-2985. www.myspace.com/thedanglingsuccess.

ROSWELL RUDD’S TROMBONE SHOUT BAND May 28. Kerhonkson trombone king Rudd squeezes out the most innovative ensembles, whether it’s the Mongolian Buryat Band or his MALIcool project. Rudd is also partial to helping student musicians, and his guest sidemen for this rare local appearance are Rondout Valley High School alums trumpeter Greg Glassman and guitarist Matt Finck, who will sit in with his world-class Trombone Shout Band. And if that’s still not enough for you, the bill also includes Renee Bailey and David Winograd from the Saints of Swing, the Rondout Valley High School Jazz Band, and the RVHS Chorus. 7pm. Free. Accord.

(845) 687-2400. www.rondout.k12.ny.us.

THE WOOD BROTHERS PLAY BEARSVILLE THEATER MAY 9.

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CD REVIEWS THE BRIDES SOFA CITY SWEETHEART 2007, DISMAL ABYSMAL RECORDINGS

M Merchants of the new wave, The Brides stick sstaunchly to the conviction that tetchy, insistent rrhythms, insouciant vocals, and smart lyrics never ggo out of style, and on the four-pieceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second fullllength disc, the band makes a convincing case.

Julia Ghouliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keyboards form the bedrock of a ddriving but controlled sound that at times threatens to eexplode into full-bore rock-attack mode and prefers tto percolate in noirish shadows at others.Guitarist Corey Gorey handles most of the lead vocals, and his vvoice has an intelligent, biting quality reminiscent of a i C ll D W FFriend keeps the pulse rate high with a tom-tom heavy young El Elvis Costello.

Drummer D D.W. sound. Bass player Greg Jaw artfully weaves his lines into the dense sonic backdrop.

Produced by the band and Jacques Cohen, the disc conveys a tight, claustrophobic feeling, the lyrical themes pushing against the shackles of societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;conformity, materialism, and expectations: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This expanse of scalp could be carpeted, these cockeyed windows refitted / This hump molehilled down from mountain size / Spiritual bankruptcy is the least problematic suffering / Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotta buy everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the world wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let someone like me free-pass by,â&#x20AC;? sings Gorey on the new wave/disco opener â&#x20AC;&#x153;Needs and Luxuries.â&#x20AC;? The band effectively uses call and response in many songs, lending a girl-group-by-way-of-Blondie flourish to the proceedings, and the band favors the groove over the hook, using driving repetition to insinuate the music into the listenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brain. Those with a jones for late-1970s-style edginess will definitely be sated. www.thebrides.net. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jeremy Schwartz

MIKHAIL HOROWITZ & GILLES MALKINE POOR, ON TOUR & OVER 54 2007, NO HELP HERE PRODUCTIONS

S Stand-up satirist Mikhail Horowitz and deft musiccian Gilles Malkine have been cracking up cerebral aaudiences since the 1980s with their piquant, politiccal meanderings. Their latest recording does not fall ffar from their previous work; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s every bit as spry, iingenious, and criminally funny. Employing various m musical styles from rap and hip-hop to blues and bbop, Horowitz and Malkine continue to regurgitate lliterature and philosophy with their trademark merccurial mojo. Horowitz takes on harmonica, kazoo, aand recorder with Malkine on guitar and dumbek, aand both literary clowns can be blamed for vocals and lyrics lyrics. Nine guest artists surrender to the duoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s irreverence on Poor, On Tour, & Over 54 (the obvious sequel to their last disc, Live, Jive & Over 45), and no topic is off limits, be it Irish Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, same-sex marriage, The Lord of the Rings, beat poets, Zen monks, the Taliban, or Condoleeza Rice. Recorded live at various Hudson Valley locations including the Rosendale Theater and Unison in New Paltz, the sound quality is the only thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacking, but this does not go unexplained in the liner notes. In fact, an entire page of the accompanying booklet is hilariously dedicated to the CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aural shortcomings, including an invitation to listen hard for â&#x20AC;&#x153;the dull thud of each apple, tomato, and cantaloupe as it splatters upon the stage.â&#x20AC;? The duo will perform at Marbletown Multiarts in Stone Ridge on May 24 at 9pm. www.mikandgilles.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sharon Nichols

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Globetrottingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sYou Are Here documents a meeting by d design.

Brought together on the suggestion of a mutua friend, reed player Steve Gorn, percussionist Brian al M Melick, and bassist John Davey, whose artistic inclinat tions have led them to perform, compose, and teach t elements of Western and non-Western music and the h matched their talents with musicians like banjohave i Bela Fleck, jazz pianist Mike Holober and singerist s songwriter Paul Simon, have transduced elastic ene to notes and tones on their first release as a trio. ergy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be, Here, Nowâ&#x20AC;? opens like a recitative, with a s shimmering cascade of metal followed by the hollowclarinet The Th tune then lopes against the steadfast underpinning sounding musings of Gorn on clarinet. of Daveyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bass line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fair Tradeâ&#x20AC;? is a short ripple with a bouncy flair, enhanced by Gornâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rustled melody on bansuri flute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Udubambuâ&#x20AC;? exemplifies the deft fingerwork of Melick on udo drum, which throbs as Gorn plays the role of dervish on flute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kafi,â&#x20AC;? written by vibist Karl Berger, has a cavernous feel to it. Much of the space is parted open by the plaintive, contrapuntal dialogue between Gorn and Davey.

The weight behind the 11 compositions of You Are Here is no weight at all. Gorn, Melick, and Davey provide space and quiet when needed but instinctively allow a measured amount of depth. www.stevegorn.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

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Books

GREAT STRIDES Benjamin Cheever Goes the Distance

by Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May

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hen Benjamin Cheever set his sights on the Boston Marathon, an elite event requiring a qualification time of under three hours in another accredited marathon, he finished the NewYork Marathon in 2:59:33. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My father celebrated my acceptance by taking the whole family to spend the eve of the Boston Marathon at the Ritz Carlton,â&#x20AC;? Cheever writes in his recently published Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete (Rodale Books).

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The year was 1979. After conquering the notoriously hilly Boston course in 3:02:02, an exuberant Cheever returned to an empty hotel room. The phone rang and rang: first the Associated Press, then UPI, asking to speak to John.

Benjamin writes, “I drew a bath. My father came into the hotel room and then into the bathroom. ‘You finished the marathon?’ he asked. I nodded. ‘And you won the Pulitzer Prize.’”

The novelist son of John Cheever may have some big shoes to fill, but he’s certainly fleeter of foot. Though the elder Cheever was an ardent walker and bicyclist—“We share an interest in rudimentary forms of transportation,” he once told his son—he never ran 26.2 miles with a number pinned to his chest.

After their shared win in Boston, John Cheever wrote to a friend, “Ben came in gallantly under three hours which is considered winning and when I returned to the hotel he was sitting in the bathtub, holding in his teeth a wire from the Pulitzer Prize Committee.”

“He’d chopped three minutes off my time,” Cheever notes with amusement. (He’d also added the telegram between the teeth; the Pulitzer winner couldn’t resist a good fictional detail.)

Running and writing might seem like entirely different endeavors, one making extreme demands on the body and one on the mind, but Cheever sees them as kindred pursuits. “Writing and long-distance running both respond to stamina and application,” he asserts. “If you write two hours a day for ten years, you’re a writer.” And if you log 1,500 miles a year, as Cheever has done for over three decades, you’re definitely a runner. With Strides, he has brought these two passions together. The result is a joy to read.

Cheever has chosen Pleasantville’s Dragonfly Cafe for an interview, partly because its sidewalk tables allow him to bring his beloved dog, The Schnoodle.

Clearly the man and his schnoodle are regulars—everyone from the Moroccan barrista to a local designer stops by to tell stories about them. Cheever, who seems at once pleased and abashed by the flow of attention, is dressed in a navy blazer, blue button-down shirt, tan chinos, and New Balance sneakers: Westchester classic with a bit of extra bounce. Articulate and gracious, with a frequent laugh that crinkles his eyes to inverted half-moons, he’s clearly a man who relishes good conversation. He’s hosted a literary talk show on cable station PCTV, called “On Writing,” for several years, with on-camera guests including Frank McCourt, Alan Furst, Da Chen, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Rafael Yglesias—“my friends, my sister, my mom...” There’s that laugh again.

And there’s that family. Cheever’s sister Susan is a prolific memoirist and novelist; their mother, Mary, a poet. The third Cheever sibling, law professor Fred, is also a skilled writer. “I grew up in a household in which writing was revered, which is both good and bad,” Cheever says. Though he worked as a journalist and magazine editor for many years, he didn’t feel ready to think of himself as an author. (He still prefers “writer,” noting wryly that “author” adds nothing but grandiosity, “like calling yourself an attorney instead of a lawyer.”)

His first book project was editing his father’s letters for publication, a task many sons would find daunting. Though John Cheever was uncommonly frank about many things, including his alcoholism and many affairs with women, his journals and letters also recorded his secret life as an active bisexual.

“The experience of reading them was revelatory, and often uncomfortable,” says Cheever, whose introduction to The Letters of John Cheever is titled “The Man I Thought I Knew.” Though he told his family he wanted his journals published posthumously, John Cheever urged them to throw his letters away, saying that “Saving a letter is like trying to preserve a kiss.” Describing himself as an obedient son, Benjamin Cheever nonetheless felt that his father’s letters deserved publication, and that “his duality was essential to who he was as a man, as a writer. And as a father.”

Cheever pauses to stroke his dog’s head. “He thought of himself as very different, extraordinary, simultaneously blessed and cursed, both by being a writer and by his bisexuality. He put on a mask every day.” John Cheever’s letters and journals (over a million words) also revealed how hard he’d struggled to become a writer, and that even after achieving critical and popular acclaim, he continued to face rejection and financial hardship. For his son, who’d grown up thinking of literary achievement as a God-given gift, this was a revelation. “I realized that success as a writer is more about desire and stamina than what you’re given,” he says.

So the editor started to write. He published his first novel, The Plagiarist, in 1992, following up with The Partisan. Both won glowing reviews for

their wit and acuity. “I thought I was made,” Cheever says dryly. But as he’d learned from his father’s journals, literary stardom is fickle. When he finished his third novel, the mordantly funny social satire Famous After Death, nobody wanted to publish it.

Cheever found himself at loose ends. His wife, NewYork Times film critic Janet Maslin, earned a good living, but being a stay-at-home husband and father to two teenage sons made him feel idle and gnawed at his self-esteem. This being the crash-and-burn ’90s, he started to see his reflection in downsized executives, middle-aged men who were forced to reenter the workforce in any way they could manage. He decided to write about downsizing—from the inside.

“Instead of interviewing people about their troubles, I thought I’d share theirs with them and see what they said to a colleague,” he writes in the introduction to Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy, in which he describes his five years in the entry-level workplace. Cheever took jobs as a sidewalk Santa and Halloween spook; as a salesman at CompUSA, Nobody Beats the Wiz, and a car dealership; as a fast-food sandwich maker nicknamed by colleagues “Slow G” (for grandpa); and a fearful security guard.

Like everything he writes, the book is extraordinarily funny, but also sounds deeper notes. In chronicling the indignities of the workplace, Cheever somehow extols the dignity of work itself. It’s telling that even after he landed a publisher for Famous After Death—and for Selling Ben Cheever—he kept showing up for day jobs.

After publishing his fourth novel, The Good Nanny, Cheever turned to a subject close to his heart. He’d started jogging as a senior editor at Readers’ Digest (gleefully skewered in The Plagiarist) and eventually started writing for Runner’sWorld. “I was in the awkward spot of a man starting to observe a sport he’d been participating in on an almost-daily basis since 1978. I felt a little like a trout who has taken up fly-fishing,” he writes in Strides.

The book is an exuberant blend of memoir, sports reportage, and history.

Cheever details the marathon’s origins in ancient Greece and some of its exotic offshoots, like the Medoc Marathon in Bordeaux, where fine wines are offered at water stations. He goes on training runs with world champions in Kenya and ground troops in Baghdad. John Cheever makes several appearances, exhorting his clumsy son, “For Christ’s sake, stop apologizing,” when he drops a softball. (“I’m sorry,” poor Ben replies automatically.) Adult Benjamin observes, “Walking is safe. Running is more satisfying. This is a vast oversimplification, but I would argue that I get from running what my father got from walking and gin.”

Cheever also describes running with his own sons, and calls his wife getting her shoes out to run on his 59th birthday, “my best present.” Running, he writes, is a literal cut to the chase: “It’s a family axiom that while running, the brain doesn’t get enough oxygen to sustain a falsehood.”

“Running and conversation are a twofer—you’re getting the exercise, but you’re also getting an amazing level of intimacy. People tell me things on long runs,” he reports with a knowing smile. “Mile five is the equivalent of 3am at a bar.”

Cheever looks at his watch, a high-tech runner’s gadget. For some time after John Cheever’s death in 1987, Benjamin took to wearing his father’s gold Rolex. “It’s a motion watch, and he didn’t know how to set it when it stopped—he would take the train into New York and go to the Rolex company—so he wore it all the time. He used to sleep naked in what had been my sister’s bedroom, so sometimes at night you’d see this naked man with a gold Rolex darting across the hall to the bathroom.” He smiles with affection, recalling the image, then adds that he now keeps the gold watch in a safety deposit box. Benjamin Cheever, it seems, has made peace with a heritage that is both weighty and precious, and he’s got his own race to run. In Strides, he describes the post marathon high: “I noticed that the mass of humanity has a post-race murmur very like recordings I’ve heard of whale songs. It’s as if we’re a single organism, not a sophisticated one either, maybe a giant sponge. We seemed more tide than crowd....These were my people. I adored them all. I caught the sharp smell of excrement in the air. We were packed so tightly that if I’d died, my corpse would have been carried for yards, like a cork in the ocean. I crushed a paper cup under my shoe.We gimped along in our silvery capes. ‘Good race,’ we told each other. The air was thick and had substance to it, as if the runners had been set in aspic. I was hurting. I was ecstatic. I was serene. I was wide, wide awake, but also deep in the folds of an ancient dream.”

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SHORT TAKES Buy local, read global. Six area authors invite you across the universe: London, Shanghai, czarist Russia, Neanderthal think tanks, the ItaloCuban Catskills, and the wilds of Yankee Stadium.

THE WINTER ROSE JENNIFER DONNELLY JEN

Thinking About Memoir

Chosen Forever

Abigail Thomas

Susan Richards

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Cle Cleavage, magenta silk, and an ivory rose. Tivoli author Donnelly’s addictive page-turner is a dream au read for lovers of epic romance. Idealistic physician re India Selwyn-Jones falls for a hardscrabble gangster In with unforeseen depths in a story that sweeps from w ggritty Victorian London across several oceans.

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Na National Geographic photographer Guariglia offers an idiosyncratic portrait of a city in frantic transition, detailing neon-lit skyscrapers, rubble and ruins, and all de manner of foodstuffs. The “Style” section celebrates m the Chinese penchant for perforated loafers, sandals th worn with socks, and pajamas as streetwear. w Appearing at the Millbrook Festival 5/17.

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Ete Eternally ill-fated thief John Dortmunder hits lucky 13 in this hilariously twisted caper. When he’s blackmailed into an impossible heist—lifting a bejewelled czarist in chess ch set from an maximum-security underground bank ba vault—there’s nowhere to go but off the deep end. e Columbia County grandmaster Westlake is at the top to of his game, as usual.

AW AWAKE AT THE WHEEL: GETTING YOUR GREAT IDEAS ROLLING (IN AN UPHILL WORLD) RO MITCHELL LEWIS DITKOFF MIT MORGAN JAMES PUBLISHING, 2008, $23.95 MO

Th “idea guru” behind Idea Champions, Face the The Music, M and the Breakthrough Café teaches anyone with entrepreneurial en or creative dreams how to get behind the th wheel (which, Ditkoff says, was actualized nearly 30,000 3 years ago by a Neanderthal do-it-yourselfer, possibly p one like his spokescaveman Og).

PA PANINI EXPRESS: 70 DELICIOUS RECIPES HOT OFF THE PRESS DANIEL LEADER AND LAUREN CHATTMAN DAN THE TAUNTON PRESS, 2008, $18.95 TH

Yo You’ve sprung for that Williams-Sonoma panini press. What can you make besides grilled cheese pr with ridges? Bread Alone’s Leader and Chattman w marry artisan breads with mouthwatering fillings m to create stellar sandwiches like Tuscan Chicken with Artichokes and White Beans, Caesar Shrimp w aand Arugula, and the Catskills Cubano.

BEN BENCHCLEARING: BASEBALL’S GREATEST FIGHTS AN AND RIOTS SPIKE VRUSHO SPIK THE LYONS PRESS, MARCH 2008, $16.95

Ad donnybrook runs through it. Rhinebeck resident Spike Vrusho (who sounds as if he could de scrap with the best of them) chronicles the sc greatest rhubarbs in baseball history—Marichal gr vs. Roseboro, Rose vs. Harrelson—as well as vs fan riots and clubhouse slugfests. Naturally, fa Billy Martin has a chapter all to himself.

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f, as Oscar Wilde once said, memory is the diary that we all carry about with us, then memoir is this inner record made tangible. More and more of us are choosing to share these personal musings with the world, often with great enthusiasm but varying degrees of success. Fortunately, two masters of memoir have recently upped this genre’s literary ante; one to offer advice on doing it, the other to show how it is done.

Memoir writing, claims Woodstock resident Abigail Thomas, isn’t about remembering things in perfect Kodachrome— but it is about nearly everything else. Thomas has published two memoirs, Safekeeping and the critically acclaimed A Three Dog Life. If memoir, as she states in her intro, is the story of how we got from here to there, then how best to release that story is the work of this intimate, consummately inspiring book.

Thomas is a stellar guide. She begins with the basics of getting started, and moves right through to the grittiness of getting real. She addresses the darkest concerns of the memoirist-to-be: What if you can’t remember anything?

What if your memoir upsets your loved ones? Why on earth should you do this at all?

Her prose is colorful and deeply revealing, and the exercises she provides leave no emotional stone unturned. Write two pages in which someone keeps his temper in check. Two pages of how you spent your allowance. Two pages of what waits in ambush. Remembering feeling is important, she advises. So is color and scent. Structure, however, is not, nor is chronology. What does concern her, and passionately, is emotional truth.

Truth concerns fellow Woodstocker Susan Richards as well. In Chosen Forever, the sequel to her New York Times bestseller Chosen By a Horse, Richards opens her life once again to share her struggles, lessons, and surprising joys.

Chosen Forever is a rare thing, the story of what happened next. The book chronicles the aftermath of the publication of Richards’ first memoir, which could have been named the little book that could. Horse sold beyond all expectation, and propelled her on a New England book tour that became equal parts slog-through-hell and magical odyssey.

A former alcoholic who, as a child, had been shunted from relative to relative, she’d pushed away all reminders of her former life, including friends and family. But she connected with them again at bookstores in Boston, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, which, to her surprise, helped her reclaim long discarded parts of herself as well. And at her second reading, she met a man so moved by her book that he went up to her and cradled her head in his hand. He told her his name. “Dennis Stock?” she said in surprise.

“24 years ago, I bought my house from you.”

A friend told Richards early in the game that publishing a book wouldn’t change her life. That friend was dead wrong. Though Richards’s prose is still fluid and funny here, it is decidedly more mellow. It’s the voice of Ella, who’s no longer sweeping cinders, but sitting at last inside the pumpkin carriage, noting with awe and wonder as the mice around her turn to footmen and horses. And yes, there’s even a wedding.

“I cannot resist connecting the dots in my life,” Susan Richards writes. Abigail Thomas would unreservedly approve. Memoir, she says, is “a way to figure out how you got to be who you are.”

Abigail Thomas will read at Woodstock’s Golden Notebook, May 9 at 5pm and Catskill Mountain Foundation in Hunter on May 17 at 2pm.

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The Reserve Russell Banks Harper, , .

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here is much to be said about Russell Banks’s new novel, The Reserve, which, like most of his novels, is set near his home in upstate New York. Luc Sante praised it in the New York Times Book Review; his colleague Michiko Kakutani called it a clichéd potboiler. Two things seem certain: Banks clearly had a hell of a good time writing it, and it is sinfully fun to read.

Where his earlier novels (The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, Rule of the Bone) tend to focus on the lives of contemporary working-class small-town Americans, The Reserve takes place on a secluded privately owned estate in the Adirondacks at the cusp of the second world war. Banks has said that he wrote it in part out of his conflicted feelings about these estates, which protect nature but restrict it for the rich, and in part out of hearing local folklore about a politically radical, handsome artist who wrote illustrated books documenting his travels and romantic conquests. Hence he created his Hemingwayesque hero, Justin Groves. (It may have been difficult to think of Russell Banks in the past without evoking Hemingway, but The Reserve seals the deal.)

The Reserve may well be a potboiler, but what could be more enjoyable than a well-written potboiler? True, in many ways the characters are stock: a manipulative, tragically beautiful femme fatale with father issues; the dashing libertarian artist; his sturdy wife; a sad, non-verbal hired guide who’s good with his hands. They’re all sleeping with one another in a Midsummer Night’s Dream configuration that would give Desperate Housewives a run for its money. But the plot takes some interesting turns and lends the characters moments of self-revelation that elevate it beyond its Hollywood gloss. Justin Groves is as confused as a boy when the world as he knows it falls apart, upon learning that the adulterous roles are reversed in his marriage: “As long as he knew that he was the one who lied, who kept secrets and generated elaborate deceptions, then he knew who he was and how that man behaved. As long as he believed that Alicia never lied or kept secrets or deceived him, he knew who she was and how she behaved.”

Vanessa Cole is perhaps the most clichéd at the outset, with her “scarlet” lipstick, “luminous” skin, and troubled past. (Kakutani mentions Angelina Jolie; in fact, I don’t think I’ve read a review of this book that doesn’t cast the roles.) But the moments in which Banks’ omniscient narration slants toward her interior life and conflicted grief at her father’s death are perhaps the strongest in the book. An incestuous dynamic is suggested, but we are never sure how much is in Vanessa’s troubled imagination and how much is real. This is not new territory for Banks—The Sweet Hereafter includes a long section in the first-person perspective of a 16-year-old girl who has an incestuous relationship with her father. In both novels, the depth and sensitivity with which Banks (a father of daughters himself) portrays a uniquely feminine experience is impressive.

This perspicacity is where The Reserve departs from the limitations of the potboiler. Banks fuses his period piece with a retroactive evolution of understanding between men and women: what haunts and informs our passionate entanglements.

—Caitlin McDonnell 62 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 5/08

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POETRY

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she makes me want to play with my food

The condor can lift the sun.

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—Piper Jaden Levine (3¾ years)

THE NEW YORKER POEM

TRAMP POEM

SUICIDE

Start out with something provocative yet innocuous like having a drink then getting into bed.

Juxtapositions like dogs, cats, white clouds, black clouds or an oxymoron like forgotten memories works well too.

If it’s somewhat plaintive or nostalgic, that’s good.

Even better, something purporting to be universal – how about treachery or the nature of women?

This man in dark glasses was walking on a downward sloping sidewalk towards me and I was sitting on this old bench. And my heart jumped with the staggering possibility that he was blind—I don’t believe he was—but he was a lean man and was wearing a blue plaid shirt. I guess I was just terribly taken with him—as a character and we were in a pleasant little town where I felt like a foreigner.

And as he approached he took a puff from a fat cigar and I believe that really impressed me or struck me or something and as he passed my bench on the narrow sidewalk and FOX news drifted out of a pizza shop and Nina Simone sang a song in my mind it occurred to me that the smell of that cigar smoke would blow across me in a moment or so and I waited for it and noticed the bald spot on the top of his head and feared for a second that the smell would not reach me after all but then, as it happened—it did, with the wind and it was very thick and divine and foreign (like myself) and then my lip practically bled from being bitten.

I hope I die in the rain so my blood will wash into soil. And, God, I hope you are not real, that sleep can not be unnerved by harps or pitchforks. I doubt

Follow your opening by slipping into something a bit more obscure. Write about attics or islands or anything dark—dubious childhood calamities provide excellent fodder. So does prison, poverty and evil tyrants. Psychological trauma is highly effective as long as you don’t actually say you’re writing about psychological trauma Next, insert an enigma. It’s best if it sounds simple but upon reflection becomes incomprehensible like the obscure shroud of nocturne gleaming.

The New Yorker reader will invariably project their own interpretation over whatever you write and think themselves clever and erudite for figuring it out.

In lieu of an enigma, place a preposition at the end of a line. Then italicize it.

Just before wrapping things up add some irony.

Death is an excellent source of irony. So is stupidity.

Also, anything to do with bureaucracy. The opposite sex as a source of irony no longer works on either coast and in some parts of Minnesota. Stick with death.

—Sylvia Mae Gorelick

Finally, round things out with an epiphany.

Rhetorical questions are good—even if they have nothing to do with the rest of the poem.

Or, make an obvious connection to the enigma, in effect chastising the reader for being a total illiterate idiot if they hadn’t gotten it the first time.

PORTRAIT OF MY FIANCÉ IN BLACK GLOVES (1909)

Most importantly sign your poem with a familiar name.

This should be the least obscure thing on the page.

If your first name is more complicated than Thomas, Paul or Meghan you’d best use an initial. Last names like O’Rourke, Williams, or Warren are good. Unpronounceable or foreign-sounding names are only acceptable if you’ve been persecuted, wrongly imprisoned or have suffered astounding horrors, or better yet, death at the hands of the evil tyrant mentioned in the second stanza.

like a greedy sea fern: I sleep badly that night.

Marc, you are right. Impasto cannot cure me of this fear. I look over my shoulder at the moon,

—John Scilipote

I look for you through windows, in moving crowds. My eyes become needles and sew the impossible onto this. This. I hope I rot in sunlight, that civilizations of multiple-legged kings earn history under my ribs. I hope red worms eat my eyes, wriggle through my last dream. I hope they remember why breathing feels so good.

—Michael Constantine McConnell

A gentle breeze flows The branches rustle slowly Then silence resumes A great river flows To become a gentle pond Then I rush once more I am a hunter We are mysterious folk I own my forest —Kylie Miller (age 10)

The gypsy is missing a finger and when she takes my hand into hers the stub that was hacked off at the knuckle, brushes against mine and writhes

a yellow drooling eye, a hag’s broken tooth.

My dress absorbs all the heavenly light off that accusing finger as I watch it change and turn into a bone.

Finally, I say “no more” to the posing, but you are all but finished. “Impasto”, I spit at you again.

“Spread the paint thick and use the knife I have taken to carrying.” You say I simply like the word: “imposter” and refuse to take direction from me.

At the appointed hour, I arrive wearing my favorite pair of black gloves. The soft leather is broken in and pliant just the way a woman gives herself to a man.

Just as the gypsy said I would succumb to you, Love.

—Laurie Byro

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feathered angels into the most perverted fantasies. Their doll parts melt against forked tongues. Sometimes I hurt in painless places. Clouds appear as halos of scorn.

THE DANCER’S DAUGHTER For MP The dancer is expecting and she hopes her fourteen-year-old daughter will approve.

The young girl anticipates the baby as you would a root canal, knowing some poignant, sizzling nerve will disappear, and with it childhood yanked twice from the womb.

Her mother might pirouette about this, but the new baby is all counterweight and bulk-throb, and daughter is lead-footed, an acrobat. Badly choreographed, this new flourish is a sheer betrayal, the second violin leaping in front in the third movement, tripping her when all she wanted was backbeat, pause for effect.

—Naton Leslie

FOUND POEM

BENDING

ON YOUR OWN

Bottom of basement stairs, open-slatted steps where only deep air understands my questions. She sits on my lap; I’m in jean overalls, yellow sauce-stained shirt, and sneakers. She wants me to be a boy, touch beneath her shirt; I do because she says to. There’s no sense in the dark dampness she breathes, kissing me, moving my hand across her rubbery back, able to bend into cartwheels, flips, and hand springs. I fade into her damp air, carry her back with me in dreams: I’m always a boy; mud sucks me into roots of trees falling quickly across the backyard. Limbs bending loudly, lonely, no air for safety. I’m always a boy on the stairs in my dreams, her brown hair between my teeth, and she feels it.

As usual, you’re long overdue and down to your last shred of leeway. We’re mired in the weeds of the plan, while you’ve gone missing again, no doubt, mulling your options and plotting out new points of leverage.

Time Warner Cable mailing (1993) In a city of a thousand stories, cable TV has time to tell them all.

10:45pm: CNN Thought Provoking and Analytical.

Barbara was helping Jerry pack for his business trip to Chicago.

It was his fifth trip this year.

Even after 25 years of marriage they still fought right before he went away.

This way they didn’t have to admit how much they hated being alone.

They stopped fighting and listened to the news report about Bosnia.

3:51pm: THE CARTOON NETWORK Home to the Top Toon Stars.

Grandma was watching Michael and Denise.

After Michael wrote on Denise’s homework with a red crayon he acted silly just like that dog on TV. They all laughed.

They loved Droopy.

9:32am: HEADLINE NEWS A Whole Day’s News Every Half Hour.

Like usual the alarm didn’t go off.

Allison jumped in the shower then threw on her blue suit.

She didn’t care if anyone noticed the wrinkles.

She checked the ticker.

She checked her watch.

She’d be right on time.

4:12pm: TBS A Great Place for entertainment.

Scott was practicing his swing with a 9 iron in his living room.

When he was a kid the things he loved to do were go golfing with his Dad, watch a James Bond movie and look at the pictures in National Geographic.

He still does.

—Theresa Edwards

It would amuse you that I drew the short straw again and prowl the back streets searching for clues, wondering if you’ve finally found your niche or made that one exceptional blunder that will draw you back to a dark corner somewhere.

Or maybe you’ve skipped the preliminaries altogether and had another one of those big revelations, waiting for us to solve the puzzle and sweep up the crumbs.

I’m wondering what sustains you these days. My guess is you’re having the time of your life, too distracted to send an update, flying about like some superstar, fashionably incognito, banking on our devotion back here in the trenches.

—Darrell Morgan

THE UNDERACHIEVER Inspired by crisis motivated by catastrophe Moved not by the hurricane warning but more the urgency at hand of sifting through the rubble afterward Born void of a compass void of direction an innate propensity for knocking d s o l w l n a w because the illusion of forward progress exists only in a constant state of rebuilding.

VAN GOGH BROODS OVER HIS REAPER IN THE WHEAT FIELDS AT ST. REMY They have said it: I am insolent because I confront the sun face to face. There it is: I am a lunatic. The townspeople, none of them my neighbors in Arles, declared me a “public menace.”

Let the madness convulse in me then.

Make me the visionary, the oracle. But heroism or martyrdom—the devil take it. It’s idiotic for me to begin to play a role.

I try to be cheerful, but my nerves are stripped to their very roots. Difficult to understand.

When the storm clouds pass, I am upright as a gorgeous day, steaming, arching. I drag the lovers out— red with green, blue with orange, yellow with violet —and I sound the vibration of their kindred tones.

My black flaming cypresses against the poppies’ vermilion. The red pulsing ochre and coronal green suns of a starry night.

The fields are ready for reaping.

I am thinking of a golden crown to the cinnamon gold of the wheat. A flaring sapphire sun to break these swirling yellow-greens and violets. It’s a study in yellows: yellow dahlias, yellow wheat, yellow like the aureole burst of my sunflowers.

At any given moment in your life, cable TV can make an impact.

I’m thinking of a grim reaper with his scythe.

But I trace a smile on him instead; He is only doing what I do— fighting like a devil in the heat, fighting to the end of his task, gleaning the sweep of mastered lives beneath a glorious sun. In the distance, I look out to the slope with its twisted rocks and broken ivy-smothered trees. It is enough to make me dazed from ecstasy. And here I am, gazing out at a reaper in the field through the iron bars of my cell.

—Henry Lowengard

—Rhodora Penaranda

—Susan J. Storm

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Food & Drink

Punk Tapas

By Brian K. Mahoney Photo by Amber S. Clark

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ptown Kingston is in a bit of a slump. Retail businesses have been especially hard hit, with vacant storefronts sprouting like so many daffodils. The bagel shop closed less than a month after it opened.

Hickory BBQ, which took over a prosperous luncheonette from Jane’s Ice Cream, is gone. The billiard hall that never was is a glass mausoleum for two dozen pool tables. The city closed the Chinese restaurant with the 1950s “Chop Suey” sign for code violations. The parking garage at the corner of Wall and North Front Streets—always an eyesore, but a useful place to park— is ringed with a six-foot high chain-link fence and is being torn down.

Still, there are some encouraging signs that people haven’t lost faith in the possibility of Uptown Kingston entirely. One of them is the persistence of Elephant.

Elephant, which celebrated its one-year anniversary in late April, is the brainchild of Rich Reeve and his wife Maya Karrol, former owners of Brady’s Public House in Poughkeepsie. More recently the chef at 23 Broadway (late, lamented), Reeve has brought the passion for tapas he debuted there to his latest endeavor, giving it a decidedly punk edge.

First, don’t call it a restaurant. Elephant is a wine bar that serves modern European tapas, according to Reeve, who is emphatic on this point.

Second, don’t expect jazz. Reeve is emphatic on this point too. (Punk is a lifestyle, and nothing if not in your face. Take a look in the open kitchen at Reeve’s shaved head and tattoos.) The music, spun from a turntable behind the bar, leans loudly and heavily on punk and New Wave vinyl, though Edith Piaf or a side from the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar can sometimes be heard. “If you’re going out for a quiet, romantic dinner, we’re probably not the place,” says Reeve.

Third, Elephant embodies the DIY (do it yourself) punk ethos. Reeve ap68 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 5/08

prenticed with two carpenter friends to renovate the narrow storefront, formerly a tcotchke shop, into an eatery.The bar, stools, banquette, and tables were all built from scratch. The walls were plastered and stenciled by artist friends.

Instead of installing a commercial stove and ventilation system, an investment in the tens of thousands of dollars, Reeve made a virtue of necessity, planning a tapas menu around his limitations. “One day I sat down and came up with 444 dishes I could do without a stove or a grill,” says Reeve.This restriction has eliminated certain traditional Spanish tapas that need frying or baking—croquetas, for example—but it’s no liability; Reeve’s food dazzles with just a hot plate, a toaster oven, a panini machine, and a barbecue grill. (A note on the “444 dishes”: Reeve switches up his tapas array quite often; some of the food mentioned in this article will most likely have changed by the time you read this.)

The food at Elephant challenges, as much a provocation as a culinary accomplishment. On Valentine’s Day this year, Reeve introduced a dish of sautéed beef heart with caramelized onions, as a prank of sorts, but it’s remained on the specials board ever since. Texture-wise, the heart walks the fine line between liver’s sponginess and steak’s sinewy grace, managing a surprising tenderness that’s coupled with a mellow beefiness and a tiny whiff of organ gaminess. And because it’s a small plate, if you don’t like it, just leave it and order something else; it won’t ruin your meal, and heck, it’s only $8.

As you might guess, Elephant is no haven for vegetarians (much like Spain).

Asparagus is served with a sunny-side up egg on top, runny and gooey on the semi-bitter spears tossed in truffle oil.Think of Elephant as adventure eating for jaded palates. The belly of this beast is on the menu, served with clams, sofrito, and thin Spanish noodles. The dish is an homage to the mountain-sea cuisine of

THE BAR AT ELEPHANT IN UPTOWN KINGSTON.

Eastern Spain—the chewy, salty pork belly and briny clams clash at first, then establish a nuanced détente. The Chinatown steamed dumplings with blood sausage in ginger broth is along the same lines, the imported morcillo sausage’s metallic tang cut by the sweet note of the broth, infused with honey and soy.

A few personal favorites: One half of the “duck two ways” is messy-chunky duck rillettes on toast points; the other is a soft-boiled pickled egg on French lentils tossed in a light vinaigrette. (Reeve uses locally raised duck eggs, which, flavor-wise versus factory-framed chicken eggs, is like comparing Mozart to Madonna, or, better yet, The Clash to Green Day. It’s not just a matter of taste, but of subtly and complexity as well.) The steak tartare, made from ground filet mignon, is one of the least ambitious dishes on the menu and stays true to its classic preparation—Reeve substitutes hard-boiled for raw egg for a twist— but why mess with perfection? The snail toasts with bacon, mushrooms, leeks, and sherry cream are a close approximation of snail bisque, the snails a chewy vehicle for the sauce. The mixed swine-and-cheese plate is a sturdy standby to start: Try Reeve’s country pâté (the most recent incarnation a gooey chicken liver terrine) or the jamón serrano with some sheep’s milk Manchego.

The wine list reflects Elephant’s outsider philosophy, showcasing little known grapes—verdejo, grillo, mencia—from lesser-known appellations that bring quality to a lower price point. Reeve describes Elephant’s “ABC” credo: “Anything but Chardonnay, Chianti, or Cabernet.” The Can Feixes, Blanc Seleccio (2006), for instance, is a little known Catalonian white made primarily from parellada grapes that has a delicate lemon aroma with a fruity body and stony aftertaste, as if someone dropped pebbles in a decent Sauvignon Blanc.

The small, 20-bottle list is focused on the southern Mediterranean, with every

wine available by the glass, and no bottle over $40. “We wanted to make [the list] good, but poundable,” says Reeve, who chose wines not only for their ease of quaffing but also for their ability to play nice with the bright, quick flavors of his food.You won’t find any buxom Californian reds or buttery oaked whites at Elephant. The list is as iconoclastic as Elephant itself.

“What’s the point of trying to please everybody?” asks Reeve. “We can’t fit them in here anyway.”

ELEPHANT 310 Wall Street, Kingston (845) 339-9310; www.elephantwinebar.com Hours Open from 3 to 10pm Tuesday through Thursday. Open from 3pm to midnight Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Atmosphere The intimate railroad-storefront space is a wood-ribbed hipster cave. The music, leaning heavily on Punk and New Wave, can be loud. A festive community clubhouse for the under-50 set.

Recommended Dishes Roasted marrow bones, chorizo and chocolate, whipped salt cod crostini, duck two ways with French lentils, blood sausage dumplings in ginger broth, pork belly and clams, snail toasts, boquerones with salsa verde, sauteed steak heart.

Wine/Beer A small, smart wine list consisting of little known grapes and producers from Spain, Italy, and France. Red or white sangria.

One rotating draft beer, a half-dozen craft beers in the bottle. No hard liquor.

Price Range Tapas vary in price from $4 to $12; panini, $7; specials from $12 to $25.

Credit Cards Visa and Mastercard Reservations Elephant does not take reservations.

Wheelchair access Entrance, dining room, and restroom are on street level.

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tastings directory BAKERIES Bread Alone Cafe E. Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-3108, Route 28, Boiceville, NY, (845) 657-3328 (headquarters), Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY, (845) 679-2108 Bread Alone Café offers fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations.

baked goods, herbal remedies, prepared foods, honey, jams, condiments, olive oil and more. Weekly special events bring an festive and educational air to the rain or shine venue. Crafts on John join the Market on1st Saturdays, June - September. Free parking and proximity to NYS Thruway (Exit 19) Saturdays May 24 until Nov 22.

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The Alternative Baker 407 Main St. (Across from the Cinema) ROSENDALE, NY 12472-0022 845.658.3355 www.lemoncakes.com 100% Scratch Bakery. Stickybuns, scones, muffins, breads, focaccia, tarts, tortes, seasonal desserts featuring local produce, plus sugar-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, and organic treats! Cakes and wedding cakes by special order. We ship our Lemon Cakes nationwide, $30 2-pound bundts. NEW HOURS: 7 DAYS A WEEK, 7 AM TO 7 PM.

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1633 Glasco Turnpike, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8519 www.bluemountainbistro.com On- and off-premise catering. Sophisticated Zagat-rated food and atmosphere in a rustic country setting, wide plank floors, rough hewn beams and a stunning zinc bar. Chefowner Erickson.

COOKING CLASSES Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.

DELIS Rossi’s Deli 45 South Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0654 www.rossideli.com Fine Italian Deli. Combining traditional Italian staples with constant experimentation, this bustling family deli has been wowing customers for 30 years. An everevolving daily menu - with imported meats and cheeses and freshly baked breads and deserts - helps keep this place packed.

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FARMER’S MARKETS Kingston’s Farmer’s Market Historic Wall Street, Uptown Kingston, NY www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com Creating a Harmony of History, Community and Farmland with the BEST of the Hudson Valley Over thirty vendors bring certified organic, and traditionally grown farm fresh fruits, vegetables, field-cut fresh flowers and plants, hand made mozzarella and assorted cheeses, meats, poultry, eggs, fresh and dried herbs, artisan breads and sweet

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

HOME COOKED MEALS Lagusta’s Luscious (845) 255-8VEG www.lagustasluscious.com Lagusta’s Luscious brings heartbreakingly delicious, sophisticated weekly meal deliveries of handmade vegetarian food that meat-and-potatoes people love too to the Hudson Valley and NYC. We are passionate about creating political food—locally grown organic produce, fair wages, environmentally sustainable business practices—that tastes just as good as that served at the finest restaurants. Let us end weeknight meal boredom forever.

RESTAURANTS Aroi Thai 55 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1114 www.aroirestaurant.com Aroi means ‘delicious’ in Thai; and delicious it is. David Thompson writes in ‘Thai Food,’ “Thai food creates a locus of flavor within each dish through its components, producing a complexity that can be dazzling.” And Aroi illustrates his description faithfully.The wine list is spare and perfectly paired to the flavors of Thai cuisine. Some selections are familiar and some are off the beaten track; all compliment the food. Enter a little clapboard house with a treed, outdoor patio, and be in an oasis of muted green walls, fabric lamps, birch chairs and coral table runners; a perfect backdrop to the colors of the food. Thai artifacts and fabrics hang as the works of art they are. Each room is flooded with light and, for chilly evenings, has a working fireplace. Aroi is open seven days a week for dinner from 5 - 9; and Thursday through Monday for lunch from 11:30 - 3.

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.

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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.

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!

The Egg’s Nest (845) 687-7255 http://www.theeggsnest.com/ Where Good Friends Meet. Located on Route 213 in the center of High Falls, NY, The Egg’s Nest is noted for its eclectic décor, unusual menu and friendly, casual atmosphere. The Egg’s Nest offers creative cuisine with a southwestern flair, unique overstuffed sandwiches, vegetarian dishes, burgers, homemade desserts and “Nest” Breads. Dinner specials start every night at 5:00pm and a cocktail lounge is also offered. The Egg’s Nest is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner, 11:30am11:00pm Sunday-Thursday and 11:30am to midnight on Friday and Saturday. We accept cash and personal checks, with an ATM on premises.

EMERSON 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.

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!

Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub Visit www.catskillmtlodge.com (518) 678-3101 for reservations.

Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub offers fine food and drink at reasonable prices. Open 7 days for breakfast and lunch and on weekends for dinner. The fireplace pub boast 13 taps and a great winelist.

Main Course 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.

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, NY, (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 preservative-free 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.

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11:00 Native American Fruits for the Home Garden with author and gardening consultant Dr. Lee Reich 12:30 Trees: For Beauty, Shade, Nourishment & Future Generations with Francis Groeters, Ecologist, owner of Catskill Native Nursery 2:00 The Full Circle Garden: Seed Saving for the Backyard Garden with KenGreene, co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library Tomatothon! - Grown in a pesticide free greenhouse with organic methods. Wonderful varieties of heirloom & disease resistant tomatoes.

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Did you know that home and garden pesticide use can increase the risk of childhood leukemia by almost seven times? Or that even at relatively low levels, pesticides may increase an individual’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease by 70%?

19 of the 30 commonly used lawn-pesticides are linked to cancer, 13 to birth defects, 21 with reproductive effects, 15 with neurotoxicity, 26 with liver or kidney damage, 27 are sensitizers and/or irritants, and 11 have the potential to disrupt the endocrine system.

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THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE GNOME ALTERNATIVE GARDEN DECORATION

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arden gnomes and pink flamingos may be cute in theory, but they fall short when it comes to artisanal appeal and functionality. Luckily, you don’t have to rely on the big garden centers and other plastic purveyors for your garden ornamentation. The Hudson Valley is home to a variety of artists that handcraft unique objects for your garden—from totems to trellises—that will make heads turn more often than your neighbor’s row of bent-over wooden ladies.

ALL FIRED UP Some of the most interesting outdoor ornamentation in the Hudson Valley comes out of Stephen Fabrico’s Rosendale studio. Though he makes a range of ceramic items, Fabrico is probably best known for his massive totems made of high-fired stoneware, work that was inspired by a Boy Scout totem from 1946 that stands on his property.

“They have a mystical meaning,” Fabrico says. “If you look at totems from the Pacific Northwest, they were carved as icons and there’s something about them. I didn’t start out to make totems, but something about them clicked in my work.”

A Fabrico totem is set on a 150-pound steel base, and he slides separate components over the armature to create structures that end up weighing about 300 pounds and are water-resistant due to silicon treatments between pieces and the 2,400-degree firing that inhibits any water absorption. The components have different themes, often nature and location inspired like those of Catskill Dream and Hudson River Totem, and, most recently, totems topped with a life-sized raven. “Carving clay is one of my favorite things to do,” he says. “We press ferns, leaves, and wood grains a lot into clay because we like that natural look.” Fabrico also creates pieces using found and recycled objects, from supermarket “slippery when wet” cones to UFO-shaped objects.

“I sold one last November called ‘Extraterrestrial Totem,” he says. “I found a three-foot piece of stainless steel that looked like a flying saucer, and incorporated that into a 10-foot sculpture. The challenge of all this is to find shapes that you like and that will coordinate with sculpture.”

The other parts of Fabrico’s work are for the birds—literally. Any one week, a visitor to his studio will find about 50 to 60 porcelain birdhouses and clay birdfeeders in different stages of completion. One of Fabrico’s most popular birdhouses is the Zen Birdhouse, which looks very Japanese with its low, sloping roofs and Y-shaped cedar perch. He

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also makes the Mission Birdhouse, which Fabrico says popular among architects for its height and angles, and also and arts andcrafts birdhouse style. “It has a similar sloping roof [like the Zen Birdhouse] but the bottom is sloped out, too,” he says. His squirrel-proof birdfeeder, is globe-shaped with holes big enough for birds but too small for squirrels and popular in bird shops throughout the country for its neat look and functionality. “Chickadees go in all day, and squirrels just kind of fall off it,” Fabrico says.

Fabrico’s studio is on the Hudson Valley Pottery Trail, and he welcomes visitors to his property to see an array of totems, bird feeders, bird baths, and interior objects. Visitors to the Unison Sculpture Show on June 1 at Unison Arts Center in New Paltz will be able to see some of his pieces.

FUNCTIONAL IS NATURALLY FASHIONABLE One Clematis vine was all it took to change Janice Shields’s life, and the look of countless local gardens.

“I bought a Clematis vine and I needed a trellis to support it,” she says. “I made it out of the woods by my house. Someone saw it and liked it, so I made a couple for them. Then, since one person liked it, I started to make more and put them out in front of my house with a sign that said ‘Trellis for Sale.’”

In 1995, Shields took the plunge and went full-time, starting up her natural outdoor garden ornamentation business, Hey Cut It Out. “The items that I make on a regular basis for wholesale and retail are trellises, arbors, benches, and obelisks, which are teepee-shaped, free standing garden trellises,” Shields says. Often, she is commissioned for site-specific custom work, which she says is the bread and butter of her business and her favorite part of her work. For all of her work, she says she mimics the more ornate designs that one might use with planed woods. “In other words, using sticks to make arbors rather than planed wood and using branches to decorate rather than latticework,” Shields says. “Each piece is totally unique.”

The characteristic of her work is defined by what Shields calls a delicate touch. “Rustic furniture and garden ornamentation tends to be very heavy,” she says. “I use a lighter touch and I think what attracts people is the delicacy. The wood that I use is not as heavy as a traditional artist might use so the diameter of the sticks I use in the work are smaller, giving it a delicate look. The construction is traditional, but it’s almost feminine in its look.”

For her pieces, Shields originally used only native hardwoods, and vines from the Berkshire area in Massachusetts. “Over the years, I’ve found that those materials, though beautiful, were fleeting in their lifespan in the garden,” Shields says. “So I sought material that would be more long-lasting.That turned out to be Eastern red cedar, which is not plentiful in the Berkshires, but, 35 miles west of here, in Columbia and Duchess Counties, it’s very plentiful.”

Shields knew that there was a lot of development in these areas, so she got in touch with the people that clear the land and started buying red cedar from them. She says the wood has a lifespan of 15 to 20 years, and it now comprises all of her outdoor work.

Woodstock artist Bryan Perrin also does similar work, but in a spiritual context. Perrin uses natural materials to create reverent lawn and garden design, ritual spaces, shrines, and seasonal altars.

ALL UNDER ONE ROOF Rudy Hopkins’sWest Hurley store, Crafts People, is a one-stop shop for a roundup of decorative garden items. For the past 35 years, Hopkins has provided a place for local and non-local artisans to place their pieces on consignment.

Today, he represents more than 500 artists in 6,000 square feet of space.

A visitor to Crafts People will find work by Lorri and Michael Wardell of Saugerties. “They do fountains and spirit houses,” Hopkins says. “Spirit houses are little, ceramic, house like structures you put in your garden that keep away evil spirits. Good spirits reside there and make your garden thrive.” He says their fountain designs are leaf-shaped with self-contained water movement.

Crafts People also features products from Woodstock Percussion, a popular international wind chime seller that is locally based. “They do chimes as well as garden bells,” Hopkins says. “Garden bells sit in your garden and when the wind blows they tinkle away. There’s maybe eight or 10 on bases arced in different ways. They’re like a bell that used to be in old phones; they bang onto one another and cause this melodic sound.” He says that Crafts People was the first place to sell Woodstock Percussion chimes. “[The chime maker’s] wife

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used to saw the chimes and run them up one at a time,” Hopkins says. “Now [Woodstock Percussion is] an international business, and I once told him, ‘You can’t sell chimes for rest of your life.’ Boy, was I wrong.”

Hopkins’s other local recommendations are birdhouses by Sherri Cohen, who uses wood and copper to create what he calls an Old World charm, and statuary by Linda Aiello, who creates cherubs that hang or sit in the garden.

Hopkins himself also creates hummingbird feeders and whimsically detailed birdhouses, which can feature window boxes, chimneys, and clay shingles.

Crafts People carries pieces by local artisans as well as others from throughout the country. Hopkins says he is always on the lookout for new talent whenever he travels to industry shows.

HUDSON VALLEY AS HOME AND GARDEN “I’ve traveled all over this country and seen a lot of places,” Fabrico says. “I think the Hudson Valley is the most inspirational. It has definitely influenced my life and I could never think of going back and making pots anywhere else.”

So whether it’s Fabrico’s fired-clay sculptures, Shields’s native woods, or Hopkins’s homegrown crafters, chances are these works of art will feel indigenous to your garden’s look.

RESOURCES Stephen Fabrico (845) 331-4760 Rosendale Hudson Valley Pottery Trail map

Hey Cut It Out (413) 298.0677 www.heycutitout.com

Crafts People 262 Spillway Rd. West Hurley, NY 12491 (845) 331-3859 (845) 339-8284 www.craftspeople.us

Bryan Perrin www.bryanperrinstudio.com

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ARCHITECTURE EcoArch DesignWorks Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4620 Award winning design, harmonizing Spirit, Health and the Environment, Solar and “Green” design. Licensed in New York, New Jersey and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in Planning, Architecture and Interiors for Single family or Multi-family homes, entertainment, retail or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library @ Omega, and numerous Private homes and Additions.

Unlock the potentials of your site, home or office, to foster greater design harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity.

ART GALLERIES & CENTERS Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940x119 www.annstreetgallery.org The Ann Street Gallery is a non-profit gallery located in the City of Newburgh, specializing in contemporary emerging and established artists.

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

Van Brunt Gallery 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists.

Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.

ART SUPPLIES Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston (845) 331-7780 Woodstock (845) 679-2251 Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250 Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure — voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year.

Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902

59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 Info@cpw.org

Since 1962, big-city selection and smalltown service have made Manny’s special.

We offer a full range of art materials, craft and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan. Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store.

Garrison Art Center

R & F Handmade Paints

23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org

84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com

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Paintings and limited edition prints of the Hudson Valley and beyond by Paul Gould.

Changing exhibits of representational paintings, sculpture, and photography by established and emerging artists. Gallery offers painting and frame restoration services and art instruction in all media, beginners welcome. Gallery open Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm or by appointment.

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Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.

Williams Lumber & Home Centers

ARTISANS

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!

Richard Carson (845) 744-8264 Working glass blowing studio specializing in custom glass, artisan pieces and education.

Glass styles range from the functional to abstract and conceptual. Offering beginner, intermediate and advanced courses. Studio rental and private lessons available. One-ofa-kind hand blown pieces for sale.

BEVERAGES Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 21 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, and Bali.

Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/ interpretation available.

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

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

CARPETS & RUGS 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.

CLEANING SERVICES Bless Your Hearth (845) 706-8447 Soundofspheres@aol.com Experienced, Professional, Non-Toxic Cleaning and Organizing Service. Pet Sitting. Home/Business Blessings. Excellent References.

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.

CLOTHING Closet Shop 337 Delaware Avenue, Delmar, NY (518) 439-5722 www.theclosetshop.info An eclectic, suburban shop offering trendy urban gear from popular designers like Free People and Anthropologie to classic and vintage collections. Other items include a variety of modern and handmade jewelry, handbags, shoes, books and modern art.

Also, shop our kid’s closet for great deals on Lilly Pulitzer, Fresh Produce, Ralph Lauren and more!

Pegasus Comfort Footwear 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock & New Paltz (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.

White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500 Clothing and accessories for women and children. Furniture and home furnishings.

With an Asian sensibility. Open 7 days.

COLLEGE ADVISING College Pathways—Kris Fox Latham, NY (518) 782-1270 or (800) 391-5272 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!

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.

Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 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.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS

DOG BOARDING

Past ‘n’ Perfect

Dog Love, LLC

1629 Main Street (Rt. 44), Pleasant Valley (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com

240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children.

Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks. Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

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 warmups, 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.

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.

features such worldclass lines as thymes, caswell massey, claus porto, jack black, laco house, musgo real, & purology haircare products

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In The Heart of Uptown Kingston LIGHTING • JEWELRY • ART • GIFTS • SWELL STUFF

Sprout Creek Farm 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-9885 www.sproutcreekfarm.org cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org COME TO SPROUT CREEK FARM MARKET! Grass-fed cheese from our own Guernsey and Jersey Cows... Free from artificial antibiotics and hormones.

While you’re here you can also pick up...

Grass Fed Pork, Veal, and Beef as well as Remsberger Farms Honey and Maple Syrup. Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks!

FAUX FINISHES DownUnderFaux Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1047 downunderfaux.com

The Center For Advanced Dentistry—Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD

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.

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

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494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

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

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A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes and accessories, and a unique variety of highquality 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.

Boutique & Salon

Tischler Family Dental Center

murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com

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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.

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GARDENING & GARDEN SUPPLIES Phantom Gardener Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8606 www.thephantomgardener.com At Phantom we provide everything you need to create and enjoy an organic, beautiful landscape. Our dedicated and knowledgeable staff will help you choose from an unbeatable selection of herbaceous or woody plants, garden products, and books.

We offer professional design, installation, and maintenance services. Visit us!

remarkable home furnishings destination in The Hudson Valley!

INTERNET SERVICES 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 site, 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.

JEWELRY, FINE ART & GIFTS Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775 Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many oneof-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.

(845) 613-0683 piintheskydesign@france-menk.com We make your virtual world real.

Promotional, advertising & editorial design.

Book jackets, brochures, corporate identity campaigns, dvds, magazines, newsletters, posters. 100% focused on your needs.

INTERIOR DESIGN AND HOME FURNISHINGS Marigold Home 747 Route 28, Kingston NY (located 3.5 mi. west of the NYS Thruway Exit 19 in Green Building next to Hickory Smokehouse) phone 845.338.0800 www.marigold-home.com Professional interior design services and home furnishings for stylish living. Furnish your entire home with an elegant selection of upholstered furniture, wood and metal furnishings, interior and exterior lighting, wallcoverings, window shades and cusutom draperies, area rugs, outdoor furnishings, tabletop and accessories, decorative interior mouldings, and a variety of wonderful gift items. Marigold Home is the most

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LODGING www.caskillmtlodge.com or call (518) 678-3101

The Catskill Mountain Lodge The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accomodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages, and a three bedroom house.

MANAGEMENT SERVICES Judith Johnson Management Services PO Box 624 Croton on Hudson, NY (914) 271-5018; (914) 271-9113 Judithjmanagement@gmail.com Organized, discrete and professional management services offered for dissolution of estates, downsizing, and insurance documentation. Multi-format cataloging; written and DVD photograph presentations; management of all details, including liaison with international, national, and local auction houses; shipping.

Dreaming Goddess 9 Collegeview Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com We carry hand-made jewelry, gifts and clothing that will touch your heart, uplift your spirits, and heal your soul. We offer various tools that will assist you on your quest for spiritual awareness and help you to deepen that connection. Essential Oils-HerbsCrystals-Incense-Candles-Divination Tools and so much more.

GRAPHIC DESIGN pi in the sky design

services to our Clients. Our artfully inspired landscape plans are coupled with contemporary sustainable site design methods. From intimate meditation gardens and outdoor rooms for enjoyment and entertainment, to large scale site design and native plantings, we instill our work with ‘the sense of place’ unique to each landscape.

Barbara Restaino, RLA, ASLA is principal and a LEED Accredited Professional.

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.

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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 worked 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.

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

MUSIC IMMERSION Debbie Lan (845) 255 2193 Music Immersion brings together the many different ways of experiencing and learning music: listening, playing, singing, reading, imitating, improvising, an interactive process in which each student explores and develops musical skills, knowledge and attitudes. Learning is in context, from whole to part – the ideal way to learn music.

In Early Childhood Music Immersion, children birth through 5 years old (and their caretakers) are introduced to the building blocks of music in weekly classes filled with a rich variety of musical activities, including songs, rhythm chants, dance and instrument play. Music Immersion uses research-based, developmentally appropriate materials that support the different levels and learning styles of very young children. Private Piano and Voice sessions are tailor-made for the individual and are for all ages. Adult and teen Vocal Ensembles explore and develop vocal technique, part-singing, harmonizing and deep listening skills.

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

Piano Lessons with 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.

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

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.

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.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

PERFORMING ARTS

RESTAINO DESIGN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS PC

(845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org

290 Main Street, Grahamsville, NY 845.985.0202 www.restainodesign.com

MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

At Restaino Design, we focus on providing personalized landscape architecture

myspace.com/amadjproductions At AMA DJ Productions we provide you with a professional, attentive, and positive DJ service. We play YOUR music choices.

We play at Weddings, All Parties, and Corporate Events. Your Professional Music Entertainment Source. Fun, Dancing, & Memories!! Since 1998.

AMA DJ Productions (845) 489-5214

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

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES

SNACKS

Pet Painting by Carol Lieberman

Mister Snacks, Inc.

http://petpaintingusa.com

(845) 206-7256

Capture Your Pet Forever... A portrait in oil on canvas will capture a moment in time, preserving the image of your beloved pet forever. Give yourself or someone you love an unique gift of a pet portrait by Carol

www.mistersnacks.com

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SUNROOMS

Pussyfoot Lodge B&B

Four Seasons Sunrooms

(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com

Beacon (845) 838-1235

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.

www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

PHOTOGRAPHY 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.

PIANO Adam’s Piano

Call Vinny Sciullo for distribution of the finest snacks in the Hudson Valley. Visit our Gift Shop online.

Kingston (845) 339-1787 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.

WEB DESIGN Curious Minds Media Inc. (888) 227-1645

www.curiousm.com

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.

ICU Publish

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!

info@icupublish.com

PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291 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!

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On a huge selection of chimes, fountains, gongs, drums, beautiful wooden ducks, kid’s instruments and much more!

Enter Our Raffle Win a chime worth $150 retail value Come any day to enter the raffle Need not be present to win Drawing Sunday, 3pm Directions: From the Kingston roundabout, west on Rt. 28, 10.5 miles to DuBois Road, Shokan, follow the signs.

WEDDINGS HudsonValleyWeddings.com (845) 336-4705 judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The Only Resource You Need to Plan a Hudson Valley Wedding. Offering a free, extensive, online Wedding Guide and highlighting hundreds of WeddingRelated Professionals. Regional Bridal Show Schedule. Links. Wed Shop. Vendor Promotions, Specials, and more. Call or email for information about adding your wedding-related business.

WRITING SERVICES Emerging Writer’s Studio

New York Press Direct

(845) 688-7328

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.

Thur, Fri, Sat, Su n May 15,16,17,18 9am - 5pm

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.

PRINTING SERVICES

(845) 896-0894

SPRING WAREHOUSE SALE!

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(518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326 www.adamspiano.com

Woodstock Chimes®

http://www.emergingwriters.us/ 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.

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BEYOND GLASSES Entering the Multifaceted World of Integrative Vision Care Whatever your history with eyesight and glasses, don’t miss the chance to understand and improve your vision, and yourself, through the unique lens of natural vision care.

by lorrie klosterman illustrations by annie dwyer internicola

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ith a greater percentage of people wearing glasses or contact lenses more than ever before, we’ve come to accept that corrective lenses (or Lasik surgery) is all we can do to manage a vision problem. A few behavioral changes may help, like using better lighting or changing the computer’s default font to something larger. But there is another way to address the imperfections in your vision. Integrative vision care, also called natural vision care, is a holistic approach to eye health and vision improvement that works not just on the mechanics of eyesight, but through a sea of variables that influence vision. An increasing number of eye doctors are learning this approach and deepening what it means to help people see better.

I recently visited Dr. Marc Grossman, a behavioral optometrist, acupuncturist, and natural vision educator, to learn about integrative vision care.

Nothing else would likely have gotten me to an eye doctor for any number of years. Who wants their eyesight foibles reinforced? But rather than reprimand me for my neglect of vision check ups, he guided me through a

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fascinating hour similar to a patient’s first visit at his New Paltz office. Within a minute of our session, the first of several unique aspects to this approach revealed itself.

“Already I’m looking at things that I see,” he said as he scanned the way I stood and moved. “For one thing, you’re tilting your head to the side.” That observation may be related to vision, as people tend to tilt their heads to compensate for eyesight problems such as astigmatism. “That puts a bit more tension on the cleidomastoid muscle on one side,” he said, referring to a strap like muscle on each side of the neck that runs from behind the ear to the chest. Grossman explained that the body in many ways accommodates to eyesight needs—and not just the physical body, but the emotional and psychological self as well.

THE INTEGRATIVE VISION APPROACH I was a bit embarrassed to admit to Grossman that I had only thought of eyeballs as objects that mechanically take in the scenery as best they can. That’s

partly right: Eyesight refers to how eyeballs collect light and form images.

But their role is only one element in the bigger picture of vision. “Vision is our ability to take meaning from our environment,” he explains in one of his books, Greater Vision: A Comprehensive Program for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Clarity (coauthored with Vinton McCabe). “It is pervasive in everything we see, touch, and do. It is a reflection of our biases, our hopes, and our judgments, all in one package.” His training and practice in Chinese medicine enhances Grossman’s perspective that everything is interrelated, and his books are brimming with examples from his patients of how good vision depends on much more than good eyesight.

Like other tasks running in the brain, interpreting what we see is inextricably linked to other sensory input, thoughts, biases, memories, emotions, nutritional and health status, and just about every other aspect of being human. What’s more, a bounty of behavioral, psychological, and developmental studies have demonstrated how what a person reports to be seeing does not necessarily match what their eyes are capable of taking in.

Vision truly is a holistic activity. As such, visual problems are best treated through a holistic approach. “The integrative approach,” Grossman explains, “evaluates the person’s lifestyle, habits, diet, exercise routine, and stress management, along with the family history. It attempts to bring in the patient as an active partner in the program to improve or maintain eye health.”

A treatment plan may include acupuncture, chiropractic, athletics, psychotherapy, nutritional counseling, and other healing modalities, in combination with vision exercises.

NATURAL VISION IMPROVEMENT If you’ve worn glasses since childhood, you’ve probably thought there’s nothing you can do but wear glasses all your life. But most people aren’t born with vision problems. Amazingly, only about 5 percent of Americans are born myopic (able to see well near, but not far), but the percentage gradually increases through childhood, to reach 40 percent by age 18. Adults, too, like those who use a computer for long hours at the workplace, complain of newly

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emerging vision problems. Some vision experts attribute those trends to the unrelenting hours of close-up work many of us do, without letting our eyes rest or gaze afar.

Ironically, glasses are also an accomplice. They often perpetuate, and even worsen, a vision problem.That’s because, like any neglected muscle, eye muscles that don’t have to work so hard (because the glasses are letting them off the hook) weaken over time. As a result, you become dependent on glasses, and on increasingly stronger ones. It’s such a commonplace strategy that we don’t suspect the “cure” is reinforcing the condition.

Improving your vision is truly possible. Vision therapy is a part of the integrative vision approach, in which the doctor prescribes a plan of activities to do at home and in weekly sessions with a trained vision therapist.

Vision therapy has been proven to help people with such problems as lazy eye, crossed eyes, double vision, near- and far-sightedness, age-related vision decline, brain-injury vision changes, sports-related vision problems, and reading and learning disabilities. The strategy may use special tools such as therapeutic lenses, prisms, optical filters, or eye patches, along with exercises and games designed to improve visual skills and information processing.

Nancy Neff of Fishkill says she was sure she would grow up blind. “I got glasses when I was five,” she says, “and they just got stronger and stronger my whole life. Everyone in my family had glasses, and students in school all had glasses like me, so I figured that’s just the way it is.” But she was inspired by one of Grossman’s public talks and decided to try his approach to improving vision. It included using her glasses less, which wasn’t easy.

“You take your glasses off and you feel helpless,” she says. “I run every day, and doing that without the glasses in the beginning was really challenging. I used to say hello to the mailboxes!” But it worked. “Slowly, you break that addiction, and go to weaker glasses for things that aren’t that challenging.

Now, I do almost everything without my glasses. I’ve turned it around. It’s like I’m rewinding time.”

Neff is a natural vision educator who now helps others, coaching them through vision therapy prescribed by an integrative vision care doctor. “One of the things I emphasize most strongly is that it’s not really just exercises where you struggle and strain. It’s about good, healthy vision habits,” she explains. “It’s like good posture—you want to do it all day long.” Until recently, there hasn’t been any attention paid to visual hygiene, she says. “Most problems come from strain and bad habits over the years. We do things like stare at a computer for six hours straight without looking up, and never blink. If you wear glasses, they train your eyes not to move because they force you to look straight ahead. That reduces peripheral vision awareness.

Healthy eyes are sparkling because of tiny little movements all the time, scanning the environment.”

Mark Girard, who is farsighted (sees distances better than close up), wanted to improve his vision. “As an artist and avid reader,” says Girard, “I find that most of the things I look at are fairly close, and my eyes were accustomed to that.” Through his integrative vision consultation, Girard learned that changing his visual habits could naturally improve his vision. “I found that if I looked off at distant objects every few minutes, say, by looking up and out the window at birds as I was drawing, I could really feel my eyes working,” he recalls. “I also spent more time doing things without my glasses.” Through that process, he markedly reduced the strength of the glasses he now uses.

NEVER SAY INEVITABLE During my appointment with Grossman, standard eyesight tests confirmed the over-40 age-related blur of things up close. Yes, he said, people generally experience some loss of lens flexibility with age. But instead of encouraging me to use the reading glasses I already have, he counseled that, “If you use reading glasses, they do the work for you. If you go back to trying to read without them, it’s even blurrier.” I’ve noticed that, which makes me shy away from using them.

Next, he handed me a pair of glasses and a page to read. The glasses made it even blurrier than it was without my glasses. “Those are ‘opposite glasses,’” he explained. “You are farsighted. So I’ve given you nearsighted glasses. He then had me do some vision exercises while wearing them: focusing on my finger close up for about a minute, then on the distant wall, and then repeat88 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 5/08

ing this alternation of focus for several minutes. Then I took off the glasses and looked at the page. I could read it more easily (without any glasses) than before the exercises. Then he had me put on the reading glasses I had brought.

They were much stronger. “If you get used to these opposite glasses [by doing similar exercises regularly], your eyes should get better,” he explained. “It’s a big part of the exercises I do with patients.”

THE EYEBALL TEAM Visual acuity is only a part of what gives us good vision. An integrative vision doctor will check other essential components of seeing. One is teaming: how well the two eyes work together to focus on something. Another is tracking: how well the eyes follow a moving object, or scan across something like lines of print while reading. Problems in those areas are often overlooked in a standard eye exam, but can have powerful repercussions in school or a workplace.

“Most laypeople are under the impression that if you see 20/20, then that’s perfect,” says Dr. Daniel Lack, an optometrist, vision therapist, and the director of vision services at the Northeast Center for Special Care in Lake Katrine. “But just as a camera has to change focus to see things at different distances, your eyes need to work together to focus on something,” he says. “When they are seeing far away, the eyes are looking parallel.

When they see close up, the eyes must turn in toward each other”—a skill called convergence.

“Children who have learning problems often have convergence insufficiency,” says Lack. “Tracking is worse in children with learning disabilities, too. Most learning-disabled children have a vision problem that is at least contributing to it, if not causing it.” Parents and teachers don’t realize that the in-school eye exam only tests acuity, which may give a false assurance that there is no visual problem. “School nurses do a great job with the tools they are given, but they cannot check all these skills.”

Without testing other eye skills, children and even adults may be diagnosed with a learning or behavioral disorder and treated pharmacologically.

“One of my patients had a pediatrician who was going to prescribe Ritalin for ADD (attention deficit disorder),” says Lack. “But they came to me after hearing a talk, and we were able to use vision therapy instead of medication. Through visual learning activities, the patient learned to use their visual system efficiently.” Lack adds that even children who are already doing well might do better if their vision were improved through tracking tests and therapy. People with brain injuries or stroke deficiencies also benefit from this approach.

YOUR EYES’ KEEPER Hopefully you see that eyeballs aren’t just a bit of hardware we’re entitled to. They are living, changing entities. What’s more, good eyesight is just one aspect of a healthy visual system. How you treat not only eyes, but also the rest of you, impacts your vision. We’ve all heard that carrots are good for our eyes (and that’s the extent of vision-care schooling for many of us!). Indeed, nutrition is one way to support visual health.

Carotenoids, which are abundant not only in carrots but leafy green vegetables, appear to protect against and even improve macular degeneration (a progressive loss of retina function). Studies have shown that vitamin C, abundant in healthy eyes, is lower in people who are developing cataracts, and this vitamin is a routine part of glaucoma treatment in Europe.

So citrus fruits, red peppers, and tomatoes are good vision-support foods.

Several other nutrients that help regulate fluid movement and pressure in the eye, such as omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, and ginkgo biloba, can also moderate glaucoma.

As Grossman reminds us, these and several other nutrients with visionhealing potential should not be the only approach. Nothing replaces a nutritious diet overall, especially when it’s combined with a positive, healthy lifestyle that also includes regular exercise and daily relaxation such as meditation or a walk in nature. As a holistic healer and not just an eye doctor, he adds, “The rapid pace of our lives often interferes with us taking the time to really take care of ourselves. Caring for ourselves helps to keep our bodies healthy, and maximizes the mind/body’s inherent healing potential.”

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(845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.org IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of MaĂĽt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world. An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City.

Priscilla A. Bright, MAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Energy Healer/Counselor Kingston, NY (845) 688-7175

Omegaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 Rhinebeck season is now for sale! Join us for workshops, professional trainings, conferences, and rest & rejuvenation retreats at our beautiful campus in the heart of the Hudson Valley. Upcoming workshops this Spring with Glenn Black, Gary Zukav, Alberto Villoldo, and Arjuna Ardagh, as well as a special Labor Day Ecstatic Chant Celebration and a Women of Yoga Retreat.

HOMEOPATHY Suzy Meszoly, DSH / Classical Homeopathy 845-626-7771 Safe, effective, natural, individualized homeopathic healthcare for chronic and acute illness. Suzy Meszoly is an internationally trained and experienced homeopath, hands on healer and counselor. Using a gentle approach suitable for newborns, infants, pregnant moms, adults and the elderly for a wide range of physical, mental and emotional issues.

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Feng Shui Solutions

Kary Broffman, RN, CH

72 North Slope Road, Shokan, NY (845) 231-0801 fengshuisolutions@hotmail.com

Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753

Susan DeStefano

845.255.6482

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.

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.

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES

Margaret A. Cribbin, Certified Hypnotherapist

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The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing

658 Aaron Court, Kingston, NY (845) 430-8249

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Over 20 years ago, Margaret stopped smoking through hypnosis. She has been a registered nurse for 46 years and now shares the gift she received thorough hypnosis with others. Stop Smoking. Lose Weight. Improve Athletic Performance and Test Taking Skills.

Overcome Phobias and Procrastination Problems. A perfect chance to guarantee New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resolutions. Gift Certificates available.

Sauna

(845) 255-3337 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.

HEALTH FOOD Pleasant Stone Farm 130 Dolson Avenue, Middletown, NY (845) 343-4040

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.

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Specializing in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout. Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome.

Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston and New Paltz. Initial phone consultation at no charge.

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Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. New Paltz and Kingston, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking and sports performance; enhance creativity.

Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology.

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LIFE TRANSITIONS AND CHANGE support for women INTERNATIONAL HEALER - PRISCILLA BRIGHT, MA 26 years experience | Opening your energy system & clearing blocks DEEP INTUITIVE TRANSFORMATION WORK

INTUITIVE ANALYSTS & REMOTE VIEWERS Marisa Anderson (845) 566-4134 www.marisaanderson.com www.new4u.mypharmanex.com.

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

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

Conscious Bodyâ&#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 japter@ulster.net www.apteraromatherapy.com Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes.

Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter.

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Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry

you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.

LONGEVITY EXERCISES Light of Life Longevity Certified Instructor 845 674 7721 www.yhtransformations.com Yonathan offers quality instruction in this unique system of moving meditation. This new system was developed energy healer and teacher. Join a class and learn some of the simple, elegant, and powerful exercises which promote health on many levels. New Paltz, NY

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(845) 430-2266 Graduate of the Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy. Licensed and practicing since 2001. Specializing in Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Swedish and Medical massage. Also available for corporate and event chair massage. Gift certificates available. Massage by appointment.

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Bringing Health to Balance. Whether your goal is to relieve stress and pain, address a health concern, or simply to pamper yourself â&#x20AC;&#x201D; our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers individualized sessions to nourish and repair body, mind & spirit. Licensed Massage Therapy, Therapeutic Yoga, Flower Essences, Ayurvedic treatments & products, and master-level Reiki; allnatural & organic oils, herbs and body products; 15 years experience.

Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT

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MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery 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.

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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.

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Carol Hornig, MS, CNS Intro to Kabbalistic Healing: A Framework for Living a Healed Life 6 Thursday evenings, 7/10-8/14 Accessible path toward spiritual awakening & change. Live more consciously, vibrantly & open-heartedly. Integrates Kabbalah, Buddhism, psychology, Christian mysticism & modern science. (www.carolhorning.com)

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Ideal for healthcare professionals and all those desiring personal growth. Learn 33 Shamanic, Esoteric and Holistic techniques for healing others and a variety of practices that increase your health, creativity, joy and spiritual awareness (NYSNA CEUs available).

FREE INTRO EVENINGS Release stress, strengthen your immune system and open to your healing ability. Kingston, Stone Ridge, New Paltz, Woodstock, Goshen.

Call for dates, times and locations.

SPECIAL INTRO WEEKENDS Learn Self-Healing Techniques and Techniques for Healing Others. Dates: April 26-27 and May 10-11 $250 (Register early and get $50 oďŹ&#x20AC;)

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Dara Lurie Dialoguing With the Body 8 Thursday evenings, 5/1-6/19 For playful and serious writers. Enrich your voice and strengthen your technique using creative process & body-awareness techniques to unlock deep levels of imagination & personal association. (www.transformative-writing.com)

Mind/Body/Spirit Healing ENROLL NOW! Stone Ridge school begins May 30!

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Open Tuesday thru Saturday Call for an appointment 518-567-9977 197 County Route 10, Germantown, New York 12526

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Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 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 and birth care in their homes.

Certified Nurse Midwife & NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.

NUTRITION COUNSELING 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

tion 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.

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.

PILATES Conscious Body 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400

Creating Wellness for individuals and businesses. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Health Fairs for Businesses wanting to improve employees’ productivity. Providing help with Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions, Weight loss, Digestive support, Women’s health, and Pediatric Nutrition.

Many insurances accepted.

Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com

OSTEOPATHY Applied Osteopathy — Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck (845) 876-1700 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com 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.

www.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.

Our consultations will help to positively influence family health, finances and relationships; clear negative energy; select or design the perfect home or office and improve business viability.

Transform your life by creating harmonious and balanced environments that support and nourish life.

Michelle Rodulfo, Feng Shui Consultant 845 231 0801 ~ fengshuisolutions@hotmail.com

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Yoga Barbara Boris 5 classes a week at Mt. View Studio, Woodstock

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the Divine Fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of Divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

B.K.S. Iyengar

845 679-3728 www.BarbaraBorisYoga.com

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Feng Shui Solutions

with certified instructor Yonathan Hormadaly.

Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715

Gentle movements and postures practiced as an active meditation for radiant health and well-being.

www.themovingbody.com Pilates of New Paltz 12 North Chestnut Street, 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.

Pilates on Main 127 Main St. Gardiner NY 12525 845 255 0120

New Paltz, NY and New York, NY group, private, and semi-private instruction 845-255-1793 ~ cell 845-674-7721 www.yhtransformations.com ~ www.thelightoflife.com

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PHYSICIANS Integrated Health Care for Women Poughkeepsie, NY

(845) 485-7168

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 medita-

Pilates on Main is a beautiful new studio, fully equipped with state of the art of equipment. In this completely renovated space, natural light streams in and soft music plays, creating a nurturing environment that best facilitates focus and relaxation. We offer group classes, private, duet, and trio lessons. Please view website for details.

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PSYCHICS Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 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. (845) 380-0023 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.

PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR

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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 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. Deep Clay (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com, deepclay@mac.com 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.

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 (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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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.

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Since 1995 the Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy, (HVSCH) has been instructing individuals in the art of healing and maintaining health on all levels. With an in-depth understanding of the laws and principles that govern the science of healing, correctly learn how to administer safe and highly effective homeopathic remedies for a variety of chronic and acute conditions. The high standards of HVSCH are intended to meet the needs of both the serious lay person, as well as those that are professionally minded. Modules are available from beginners/intermediate through advanced/ clinical. The staff is dedicated to providing participants with the most efficacious tools and thorough knowledge of this marvelous medicinal therapeutic that is Classical Homeopathy.

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

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Guests rave: “I want to live here! AR, New Paltz. “One of the best spa’s in the world. I’ve been to many.” SN, Portland. Guests are nurtured and pampered by large staff and luxurious state-of-the-art spa. Massage, facials, body scrubs/wraps, waxing, and more.

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.

SPIRITUAL Healing, Pathwork & Channeling by Flowing Spirit Guidance (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com 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.

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

SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com 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 Orient 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.

VEGAN LIFESTYLES Andrew Glick — Vegan Lifestyle Coach (845) 679-7979 www.meatfreezone.org andy@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 lactovegetarian 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.

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17 Old Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-5678 allsportfishkill.com activities@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.

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Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com Offering Ashtanga / Vinyasa style yoga classes for all levels seven days a week.

This style of yoga is both therapeutic and dance-like. days a week. By first warming up the body naturally we can then stretch safely, gaining an understanding of how to move from our core. We also offer â&#x20AC;&#x153;Community Yoga classesâ&#x20AC;? which are by donation.

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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Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and postnatal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna and organic Yoga clothing.

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Clockwise from upper left: Gerald Merna, Untitled No. 5; Morgan M. Ford, There’s a Reason Some Women Look Flawless; Gary W. Vann, The Black Light; Jim Turbert, Astronaut

NO RULES, JUST PHOTOS The door was wide open, the possibilities were endless. Any subject was fair game— children, playgrounds, adults, snack bars in the shadows of power plants, astronauts, and more—as was any genre—portraiture, abstraction, landscape, abstracts.

With over 650 images sent in from all around the country, the ones that struck juror Donna Ruskin the most were those that integrated a unique concept. “All three of the winning images incorporated technique in an interesting way,” says Ruskin.

Ruskin selected three winning images as well as several honorable mentions.

Dissolving Dream Girl, the winning photograph by Nicholas Fedak II, is a sepia-toned portrait of a girl in a ball gown with her hands primly folded at her waist, posing with an air of 19th-century formality. The blurred quality of the image presents a figure who is only partially present, further removed by black marks on the surface of the image, as if someone had tried to scratch the girl out and abandoned the effort halfway through.

Another of the winning images was a close up of a woman’s face, by Morgan M. Ford (There’s a Reason Some Women Look Flawless). A beautiful face gazes out, obscured with a layer of wax and the words “there’s a reason some women look flawless” written into the wax in repeating rows across the image.

Many of the artists on display have more than one work in the exhibit. “It gives you

more of a sense of that photographer’s work,” says Ruskin. “Also, if it’s part of series, it doesn’t make sense to take it out of context.” One of the many series on display portrays a sequence of eerie scenes . “They were taken of playgrounds, but they were absent of any children, but there was movement, evidence of some presence, but not a human presence.” The photos show swings in motion and playground carousels spinning. Ruskin had found the photos as hauntingly silent when she first viewed them, only to find out later the photographer, Gerald Merna, was deaf.

As the contest’s only judge, Ruskin chose 37 photographers, including seven from the Hudson Valley region, to display their work at the exhibit. Being a photographer for more than 25 years and working at the International Center of Photography for 20, Ruskin was thrilled to judge this years contest. “There were no guidelines so that made my job a little harder,” says Ruskin. “I had to keep in mind which images would hold up together and make some kind of cohesive exhibition.”

The Barrett Art Center’s 21st Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition is on display through May 10 at the Barrett Art Center, 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie.

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THURSDAY 1 MAY ART Paper Products Works on paper from the gallery collection featuring Kara Thurmond and Thomas Malic. Terenchin Fine Art, Catskill. (518) 945-1808.

People, Places and the Unexpected Journey by photographer Joseph Siegel. Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Tarrytown. (914) 631-1470 ext. 14.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Lifting the Veils Retreat Call for times. Investigate the illusion of our separateness and unhappiness. Woodstock, Woodstock. www.livingtruth.com.

The Tender Heart of Joy Call for times. Finding the source, troubleshooting the obstacles retreat. $210. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 384-6660.

Transforming the Female Pain-Body Call for times. 8-week series based on the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. Call for location. 687-8687.

Suicide Bereavement Group 5:30pm-7:30pm. Call for location. 339-9090 ext. 115.

Dara Lurie: Dialoguing With the Body 6pm-8pm. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Sufi Zikr 7pm. Sufi chanting and prayer. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Zuzu’s Wonderful Life, Inc., Albany. (518) 330-8006.

Paintings by Jerry Teters 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dream Wheels: Artistic Celebration of the Bicycle 6pm-9pm. Taliah Lempert. Upstate Artists Guild Gallery, Albany. (518) 426-3501.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Into the Mystery Call for times. A retreat for women. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES Permaculture Class Call for times. Call for location. www. appleseedpermaculture.com.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(413) 663-7962.

DANCE Rhinoceros 8pm. A salon-style, inter-art performance, choreographed by Susan Osberg for solo dancer Marika Blossfeldt. $12. Call for location. 831-1832.

Solas an Lae 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

EVENTS Quilting Weekend Call for times. Theme: Friendly Log Cabin. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Acting Class 6:30pm-9:30pm. Scene study/technique. 77 Cornell Street, Kingston. 679-0154.

Urban Bike Ride 5:30pm. Veterans’ Memorial, Albany. (518) 489-0866.

DANCE

Moroccan Night 8pm. Enjoy gourmet Moroccan/Mediterranean dinner and 2 belly dance performances. $25. Le Rive Gauche, Kingston. 339-2003.

KIDS

Lord of the Dance 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Hot Peas ‘N Butter 8pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

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MUSIC

Elderhostel Program-Fly Fishing & Watercolors Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville.

985-2291 ext. 205.

Jill Stevenson Call for times. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Berkshire Country Day School Admissions Open House 10am-12pm. Berkshire Country Day School, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-3916.

Spring Choral Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Outdoor Screening 7:30pm. The Thing. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5391.

KIDS Mask Making Call for times. Ages 8-11. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie.

471-7477.

MUSIC Spring Choral Concert 12:30pm. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8625.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

The Rhodes 7pm. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

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

SPOKEN WORD Women’s Circles: Networking Event 5pm-9pm. Bringing women together to share resources, meet others in the community who own businesses or offer services. $20. 222 Plutarch Road, Highland.

255-1948.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Our Town 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Bread and Puppet 7:30pm. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Live Music 9pm. Ben Ribble and with Claude Lehenaft on drums and Tom Ayres. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Damien Dempsey 9pm. $22.50/$17.50 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Exit 19 10pm. $5. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

SPOKEN WORD PASWORD & Project AWARE Alumnae Open Mike 7pm-9pm. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

THEATER Bard Playwrights Festival 8pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Community Playback Theatre 7pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Our Town 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Love’s Labor 7:30pm. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Bread and Puppet 7:30pm. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Compagnie Heddy Maalem 6/25-29 Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company 6/26-7/6 Chapel/Chapter in the round And so much more!

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7pm Talk: Huguenot Women at the Litchfield Female Academy Saturday, May 3rd, 10am to 5pm Opening Day sGuided GuidedTours.

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WORKSHOPS IWT Writing Workshops for Teachers Call for times. Presented by the Institute for Writing and Thinking. Institute for Writing and Thinking, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7484.

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Bard Playwrights Festival 8pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

FRIDAY 2 MAY

Garth Fagan Dance 6/18-22 Griot New York, music by Wynton Marsalis

Music for a Miracle 8pm. Featuring David Temple. $12. Coach House Players, Kingston. 339-5330.

Rory Block and Robert Hill 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

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2008 Festival Season

Digital Photo Safari 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Pastel Portraits with Clayton Buchanan 10am-1pm. Wallkill River Art Gallery, New Windsor.

689-0613.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition II 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz 257-3872

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Objects, In and Out 4pm-7pm. Contemporary works by Leslie Law. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Hudson Valley Arts In Education Roundtable 9am-12pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Some Day in May 5pm-8pm. Exhibit with Mary Evelyn Whitehill and Dennis Fanton. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Veneration/Fleeting 5pm-7pm. Photography and carbon wall drawing installation by John Ferro. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Dennis Fanton and Mary Evelyn Whitehill Plein Air Paintings 5pm-8pm. Wallkill River Art Gallery, New Windsor.

689-0613.

Saturday, May 3rd, 8am Birding in the Harcourt Sanctuary Easy one hour hike. Free.

Sunday, May 4th, 3pm Music on the Street KAIROS: A Consort of Singers $12/$8 seniors and students.

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The Photography of Dotty Haines 5pm-7pm. Emily Hoystradt Gallery, Kingston. 399-0035.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Out of the Woods 5pm-7pm. Works on paper by Sophie Morrish. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston.

White Knuckle Rodeo and Planeside 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

New Works by Jacinta Bunnell 6pm-9pm. Bagel Benders, Kingston. 331-7350.

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Bob Marty: New Paintings 6pm-9pm. Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon. 838-2995.

How Did the Rope Get Up There? History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing Call for times. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

CLASSES

Singles and Sociables Hike: Mine Hole 9am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Beginning Oil Painting with William Noonan 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Black Creek Clean-Up & Paddle 9:30am. Black Creek, Esopus. 297-5126.

Creative Mamas 1pm-4pm. Arts-based class for pregnant women to explore and honor their changing bodies. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

SPOKEN WORD

Laughter Arts Festival- Italiano 8pm. The hottest Italian American stand-up comics.

Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Rhinoceros 8pm. A salon-style, inter-art performance, choreographed by Susan Osberg for solo dancer Marika Blossfeldt. $12. Call for location. 831-1832.

Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester.

469-4595.

EVENTS

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Go your own way www.TriumphMotorcycles.com

Celebration of the Celts Call for times. Horses, music, entertainment, refreshments. $15/$12 seniors/children free. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 851-9670.

Rosendale Earthfest and Energy Expo 11am. Music, theater, activities, food, speakers and exhibitors. $5/$10 family. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-8967.

Rhinebeck 2008 Car Show 6am-7pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck.

876-3554.

8th Annual Women’s Health and Fitness Expo 8am-4pm. Tech City, Kingston. 802-7025.

Town of Lloyd Clean Sweep 8:30am-12pm. Help pick up trash and junk along the streets and parks of Highland. Call for location.

691-2144.

Not Your Grandmother’s Quilt Show 1pm-7pm. Display of quilts from various quilting groups.

Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Stone Ridge.

687-9414.

1658 Stockade National Historic District Walking Tour 2pm-4pm. $10/$5 children. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Works by Ed Carson The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(413) 458-1700.

KIDS Sat Art Fun: Spring into Art Call for times. Ages 4-7. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie.

471-7477.

Citizen Science Program: Record The Ribbit 3pm. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

MUSIC The People’s Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943.

Teri Roiger and John Menegon 7pm. Adam’Space, Shokan. (518) 537-2326.

Different Music 8pm. 1st festival to benefit the Creative Music Studio’s Archive Project. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

Hudson Valley Gamelan Spring Concert 8pm. $10. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7216.

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Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Our Town 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Love’s Labor 3pm/7:30pm. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci 8pm. Operas performed by the Opera Company of the Highlands. $30/$20 in advance. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.

WORKSHOPS Drawn Home: A Life Drawing Experience 9:30am-Sunday, May 4, 5pm. $200/$180 members.

Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Laughter Meditation Workshop 1:15pm-3:15pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

SUNDAY 4 MAY Plein Air Workshop Call for times. With demonstrating artists. Downtown Chester Historic District, Chester. 457-2787.

Retrospective of Joseph Tubby Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston.

339-0720.

658-3355

Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

ART

GALLERY

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Bard Playwrights Festival Call for times. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

3rd Annual Evening of Comedy 8pm. Jewish Community Center of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie. 471-0430.

American Soldiers At War: To Iraq And Back 9am-12:30pm. Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 584-8635.

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THEATER

A Feast of the Arts 3pm. Food, art, fun. $25/$20. Union Presbyterian Church’s Fellowship Hall, Newburgh. 561-2585.

FILM

100% handmade butter scratch-baked goods and sugar free, vegan, dairy free, gluten free and organic treats. Where Taste is Everything.

Making Sense of Geology 4pm-5pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

DANCE

Solas An Lae 8pm. Irish dance. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Thruxton. The essence of a motorcycle.

Thruxton One hot cafe racer

Muddy Cup Studios Open House 5pm-12am. Curated by Christina Varga. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers Spring Concert 8pm. A cappella music by British composers. Zion Episcopal Church, Wappingers Falls. 256-9114.

May Day Jam 8pm-11pm. A concert for labor, social change, and health care reform. Muddy Cup, New Paltz. 338-3881.

Cadence 3pm-5pm. Patricia Gravett and Barbara Willner. Old Chatham Contry Store and Café Gallery, Old Chatham.

(518) 794-6227.

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

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 12am-2:30am. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

Solas an Lae 3pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

EVENTS Celebration of the Celts Call for times. Horses, music, entertainment, refreshments. $15/$12 seniors/children free. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. (518) 851-9670.

Rhinebeck 2008 Car Show 7am-4pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck.

876-3554.

GALLERY Thomas Cole’s Sketch Paintings: An Exploration of the Creative Process Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.

KIDS Make a Natural Mother’s Day Gift 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

MUSIC Eliza Gilkyson 2pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Collegium Musicum 3pm. $6/$4/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Luciano 9pm. $30. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie.

486-0223.

Colorado Quartet 3pm. $10. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7216.

Vocal Lessons Call for times. Song of the Valley Sweet Adelines. Valley View Nursing Care Center, Goshen. 496-7573.

The Blue State Blues 3pm. $16/$12. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 281-6734.

WCO Chamber Specials 3pm. Features the Franck Violin Sonata and Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Sonata. $25. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 246-7045.

Cloudnyne 5pm. Gullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Newburgh. 565-0077.

College-Youth Symphony 7pm. $6/$4/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Dickey Betts & Great Southern 7pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Different Music 8pm. 1st festival to benefit the Creative Music Studioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Archive Project. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

Life Drawing 6:30pm-9:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Drawing the Head with William Noonan 7pm-9pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

EVENTS Regional Brochure Exchange 8:30am-10:30am. Hosted by Dutchess County Tourism.

Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall, Poughkeepsie. 463-5446.

FILM

Iris Dement 8pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-3394.

Random Acts of Video 7pm. New screening of short artist created video pieces. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

THE OUTDOORS

MUSIC

Elderhostel Program- Birding & Wildflowers of the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students in concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196.

Singles and Sociables Hike: Duck Pond 10am-3pm. Strenuous 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Mills Mansion Grounds Walk 1pm. Staatsburg Historical Site, Staatsburg. 373-8202.

THEATER Our Town 3pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Bard Playwrights Festival Call for times. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Labor 3pm. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Teens on the Green Acting Classes 2pm-3:30pm. $12/$45. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-4561.

Bard College Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus 8pm. $5. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

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

Carmina Burana 8pm. $6/$4/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3858.

SPOKEN WORD Irit Rogoff: Looking Away 4:30pm-6pm. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7598.

Stump! Pub Trivia 8:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS

Papertole Dioramas 6pm-9pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.

Six Mistakes Retirees Make 6pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

MONDAY 5 MAY

CLASSES

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

Introduction to Watercolor with Patricia Morgan 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

CLASSES

Brain Games 1pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

Making Monoprints with Joe Carroll 7pm-9pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

FILM Lawrence of Arabia 7pm. Monday Night Classic Movie series. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

KIDS Theater Improv For Teens Call for times. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

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Kairos: A Consort of Singers Spring Concert 3pm. A cappella music by British composers. Old French Church, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Life Drawing 1:30pm-3:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Dance Class 5:30pm-7pm. Hudson Valley Modern DanceCooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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

Public Performances May 17, 18, 30, June 1, 7, 8 limited seating

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Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $109. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

339-2025.

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Pastel Workshop with Shawn Dell Joyce 7pm-9pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

FILM

MUSIC Open Mike and Vinyl Showcase 10pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

SPOKEN WORD Revolution and the Limits of Reason 4:30pm. Ellison and Invisible Man. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Stephen Dodge and Margot Malia Lynch. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

THEATER Diata Diata International Folkloric Theatre 5:30pm-7:30pm. Teen theater ensemble. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

WORKSHOPS Improv for Teens 4pm-6pm. Mill Street Loft Gallery, Poughkeepsie.

471-7477.

TUESDAY 6 MAY

The Object of Beauty Call for times. $15/$10 members. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.

Random Acts of Video 4 7:30pm. New short video works. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. kingwaynes@aol.com.

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

679-1002.

MUSIC Spring Music Residency Call for times. Host & featured artist Brian Melick.

Chapel and Cultural Center, Troy. (518) 274-779.

Colin Hay 7pm. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

(413) 528-3394.

Spring Band Concert 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

CLASSES

Electro-Acoustic Ensemble 8pm. Bard College, Blum Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7250.

The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Arts Center of the Capital District, Troy.

(518) 330-8006.

Open Mike Blues Jam 8:30pm-11:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Illustration by Dahl Taylor

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ANNA FINKE

DANCE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY

Lisa Boudreau and Brandon Collwes of the Merce Cunningham Dance company performing Beacon Event on January 12 at Dia:Beacon; choreography by Merce Cunningham.

Dancing at Dia There once was a dancer named Merce Who loved simply loved to rehearse All his sections From different directions And then do them all in reverse —Garrison Keillor, by permission Choreographer Merce Cunningham turned 89 in April. When teaching or rehearsing, he mostly sits on a wheelchair or stool and leans on a ballet barre, occasionally standing to demonstrate a movement. Sixty years of dancing on hard floors without the body therapies available to dancers today, combined with his determination to not give up the thing he loves most in life have taken a physical toll on Cunningham.

Despite his limitations, he continues to choreograph prolifically, assisted by 27-year company member Robert Swinton. It hasn’t stopped him from continuing to flourish as a choreographer, and this month, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will be performing a site-specific work at Dia:Beacon on May 18.

Cunningham has always been considered cutting edge and his dancers considered elite—even Baryshnikov found his style challenging. When working with Cunningham, dancers have always had a particular look in their eyes and body, and to this day not one atom of his effect has diminished. Where other teachers give a 32-count phrase, Cunningham will give 64. Then a dancer must reverse it. Other choreographer’s will have a dancer on one leg for 16 counts, Cunningham will ask for 32, and that the dancer rise into relevé and tilt his or her torso simultaneously.

With partner John Cage, he was the first choreographer to use avant garde and electronic music. Cunningham invented “chance dance,” and has used the I Ching to decide the order of the sections of a dance just prior to performance. His interest in technology led to being be part of the team that developed “DanceForms,” the

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first software for choreography. Now used by many colleges and choreographers, Cunningham has used it for all his dances since 1991.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s performance at Dia:Beacon is part of the Hudson Valley Project, a partnership with Dia, Bard College, and The John Cage Trust at Bard, consisting of eight residencies over two years for the company, as well as Cunningham-and-Cage-related lectures, films, open company class/rehearsals, and site-specific performances. Since 1964 Cunningham has created 770 site-specific dance events around the world. Each Dia event will be choreographed for a different season and gallery, and allow the audience to move during the performance in order to see the choreography from different perspectives. Three-hundred-and-sixty degrees of fluid human art, every visual “a-ha” moment coming into being because of “chance” interactions as the dancers and audience are juxtaposed. For January’s performance the dancers wore gray-toned costumes. When a father holding a baby (both wearing gray), knelt near a dancer, they created a beautiful trio.

For passersby in the museum, though some choreography will be obscured, there are opportunities for revelation. Dancers heads may suddenly appear above the crowd as they jump higher then the standing audience, a body seems to float above the crowd because those holding her are obscured. People walking through the museum, dancers stretching offstage, all become germane parts of the piece. For the May 18 performance, the company will perform on two stages, one inside and one outside, adjacent to the Bruce Nauman Gallery. Nauman’s Indoor Outdoor Seating Arrangement (1999), composed of three sets of bleachers, will be sited in the space for viewers to sit on.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company will perform on Sunday, May 18 at 2pm and 4:30pm at Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon. Tickets are free with museum admission but reservations are suggested. (845) 440-0100; www.diabeacon.org.

—Maya Horowitz

SPOKEN WORD Where Stories Take Us: Exploring Literary Locales 7pm-9pm. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

Why We Should Be Concerned About Invasive Plants 7:30pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext.

204.

Katt Williams 8pm. Comedy. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Independent Artists Collaborative Acting Class 7pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston.

THURSDAY 8 MAY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Suicide Bereavement Group 5:30pm-7:30pm. Call for location. 339-9090 ext. 115.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(413) 663-7962.

DANCE Rhinoceros 8pm. A salon-style, inter-art performance, choreographed by Susan Osberg for solo dancer Marika Blossfeldt. $12. Call for location. 831-1832.

Tango Practice 7:15pm-9pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

EVENTS Mother-Daughter Horse Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Woodstock Day School Open House Call for times. Woodstock Day School, Woodstock.

246-3744 ext. 103.

A Sense of Taste 7pm. Art, wine and community art exhibition to benefit Photography Program for children. $20. Catskill Community Center, Catskill. (518) 943-4950.

Dara Lurie: Dialoguing With the Body 6pm-8pm. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

MUSIC

Sufi Zikr 7pm. Sufi chanting and prayer. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music 8pm. Chamber music. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Feng Shui 7pm. The Wittenberg Center, Bearsville. 679-9764.

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

CLASSES

Alessandra Belloni 7pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Zuzu’s Wonderful Life, Inc., Albany.

(518) 330-8006.

Mid Hudson Community Orchestra Spring Concert 7:30pm. James and Betty Hall Theatre, Poughkeepsie.

876-2765.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

Bryan Adams 8pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

zzChampagne on the Park 6pm-9pm. Washington Park, Albany. (518) 434-3861.

FILM A Cantor’s Tale 7pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 227-3327.

Outdoor Screening 7:30pm. The Fly. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5391.

KIDS Mask Making Call for times. Ages 8-11. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie.

471-7477.

Rick Udler 8pm. Brazilian guitar. $18/$13 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Phil Ochs Song Night 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

James Durst 8pm. Friends of Fiddler’s Green concerts. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 483-0650.

Head Soup 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Ruby Fish 9pm. $5. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Trout Fishing in America 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

MUSIC

THE OUTDOORS

Findlay Cockrell and the Parnas Duo 12pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

Mother’s Day Family Camp Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

SPOKEN WORD

The World Fusion Open 7:30pm-11pm. For players of non-mainstream instruments and/or music. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Eat, Drink and Be Larry 8pm. Larry the Cable Guy. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Spring Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

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

THE OUTDOORS Wappingers Greenway Trail 5:30pm. Easy walk. Call for location. 471-1168.

SPOKEN WORD Elder Law Program 11am-12pm. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown.

341-5454.

THEATER Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Earthquake Research at the Mohonk Preserve: Part I 8pm-9pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

What Every Senior Citizen Needs to Know 2pm. Annual Decision Making Day. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

FRIDAY 9 MAY ART Master of Fine Arts Exhibition I 6pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz 257-3872

Saturdays May 24 - November 22 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain or Shine

Oliver 8pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

Time of Your Life 8pm. William Saroyan’s wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Your Septic System: What Every Homeowner Needs to Know 2pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

SATURDAY 10 MAY

Wait Wait- Don’t Tell Me!, 8pm. NPR quiz show live. Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

WORKSHOPS

Kingston Farmers’ Market Wall Street – Uptown Kingston

ART A Perfect Ten 5pm-8pm. 10 women interpret Hudson Valley landscape. Shelly K Gallery, Saugerties. 246-5250.

100 A.D. 6pm-9pm. Solo exhibition of artist Michael Zansky. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 119.

The Best Medicine 6pm-9pm. Paintings and sculpture by Edie Nadelhaft.

Pearldaddy Gallery, Beacon. 765-0169.

Aftermath 6pm-9pm. Erik Hanson. Go North Gallery, Beacon. gonorthgallery@hotmail.com .

CLASSES

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Digital Photo Safari 12pm-2pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Snakes Alive Call for times. Shed your fears and say yes to life. Call for location. (413) 417-8438.

Browse the The Best of the Hudson Valley Visit our Uptown stores & galleries, fine restaurants & cafés and enjoy the atmosphere of one of America’s oldest cities. free parking available

www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

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SPOKEN WORD Hudson Valley Writers Quorum 11am-1pm. Support, critique, brainstorming sessions.

Plattekill Library, Plattekill. HVwritersquorum@aol.com.

Batik with Michael Joyce 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

DANCE Rhinoceros 8pm. A salon-style, inter-art performance, choreographed by Susan Osberg for solo dancer Marika Blossfeldt. $12. Call for location. 831-1832.

Wendell Minor Call for times. Wolves are Back. Merritt Books, Red Hook. 758-2665.

Earthquake Research at the Mohonk Preserve: Part II 8am-11:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Jean Craighead George 4pm. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

Southern Italian Dance and Drum 2pm-7pm. With Alessandra Belloni-Feast of the Black Madonna celebration. Call for location. 687-7885.

Book Signing by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart 5pm. Creators of Dinosaurs, Castles & holiday books.

Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.

From the Horse’s Mouth 7pm. Presented by Partners in Dance. $12-$19. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Eat, Drink and Be Larry 5pm. Larry the Cable Guy. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

Contradance 8pm. Vikki Armstrong calling with music by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason. $10/$9 members/children half price.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Dust Poets 8pm. $19/$14 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS 5K Trolley Run 8:30am. To benefit Kingston Point Linear Park, the Onteora Runners Club, and the Kingston Historic Landmarks Preservation Commission. Trolley Museum, Kingston. 331-3399.

Discovery Day 9:30am. Introduction to the college for prospective students and their families. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 235-7186.

National Astronomy Day 12pm-4pm. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

Mother’s Day Tea 1pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson.

265-3638.

Open House 6pm. To unveil the new welcome center and introduce new programming. Catskill Community Center, Catskill.

(518) 943-4950.

FILM The Matrix I, II, II1/2 7pm-9pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

GALLERY

Eat, Drink and Be Larry 8pm. Larry the Cable Guy. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

THEATER Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

The Time of Your Life 8pm. William Saroyan’s wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS The Yen of Apple Growing Workshop Call for times. Blossom, Pollination, & Fruit Set. $125/$200. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge.

626-7919.

Brazilian Guitar Workshop 1pm-3pm. With Rick Udler. $45/$40 members. Unison Arts and Learning Cent, New Paltz. 255-1559.

ART

Sat Art Fun: Spring into Art Call for times. Ages 4-7. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie.

471-7477.

Plein Air Workshop Call for times. With demonstrating artists. Downtown Chester Historic District, Chester. 457-2787.

Children’s Workshop: Listen to Your Mom 10:30am-12pm. Harness Racing Museum, Goshen.

294-6330.

Modernism: On and Off the Grid 1pm-4pm. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7598.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Chris Trapper with Guest Allison Veltz Call for times. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Sacred Chanting 12am-1:30am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

In and Out of Motion Call for times. Joe Giardullo’s Language of Swans playing the music of Paul Motian. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Chanting Sessions 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Don Mclean 7pm. folk-rock. $34.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Name That Tune!

7:30pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Bach: Two Profiles 8pm. Pleshakov Piano Museum, Hunter. (518) 263-3333.

Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music 8pm. Chamber music. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Don McLean 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Eve Goldberg 8pm. Folk, blues, country, bluegrass. $15. Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park. (518) 674-2007.

Garfield Moore & David Leighton 8pm. Classics for the cello. $8. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson.

(518) 719-0633.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic 8pm. Make Mine Mahler. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

Brahms Soiree for Piano, Viola, and Voice 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Sabor Con Colour 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Tirendi 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

The Backburners 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike: Top of the Gunks 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

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KIDS

Rondout Music & Art Festival Call for times. Help raise monies to revitalize Cornell Park. Historic Kingston Rondout Waterfront, Kingston.

339-6925.

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Laurel Masse appears at the Marbletown Chamber Arts Festival in Stone Ridge on May 24.

Oliver 8pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

New Exhibit Works smaller than 3” x 3”. Le Petit Musee, Housatonic, Massachusetts. www.artsmoderne.com.

MUSIC

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CLASSES Creative Mamas 1pm-4pm. Arts-based class for pregnant women to explore and honor their changing bodies. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

ECK Worship Service 2pm-3pm. Trust your inner guidance. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston.

331-2884.

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

MUSIC The Big Bang Jazz Gang 7pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Acoustic Brunch 11am. Cafe Mezzaluna, Saugerties. 246-5306.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music 3pm. Chamber music. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Cellist Abby Newton 4:30pm. $20/$15 member. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Second Sunday Songwriters Series 7pm-9pm. Dana LaCroix, Marc Von Em, Vickie Russell. $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Emma’s Revolution 8pm. Pat Humphries and Sandy O. Special Mother’s Day concert. $15/$12. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.

THE OUTDOORS Elderhostel Program- Five Mountains in Five Days: Hiking the Catskill High Peaks Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Garden Tour Call for times. $3. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

Singles and Sociables Meditation Hike: Peters Kill 9:30am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Aluminum Pipes, Amplified Cactus “Duke Ellington said there’s two kinds of music: good music and bad music. And I think there’s two kinds of spiritual music: overt and covert,” observes Laurel Masse. Her own tastes are eclectic. The Manhattan Transfer, the group Masse co-founded, combined big band, doo wop, pop, and bebop influences. (Their secret model was the Kingston Trio.) But whatever she sings, there is one common element. “I am so heavily steeped in swing, that whether I’m singing a Basie chart or Mozart, it’s going to swing!” she remarks. Masse will appear with pianist Tex Arnold and bassist Tom Hubbard at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown on May 24. She recently lived in Highland, New York for five years, so the concert is a homecoming of sorts for her.

Eclecticism is key to the festival. Artistic director David Alpher chose the term “chamber arts” to move beyond traditional violin-viola-cello quartets. “I want to include many types of intimate expression, encompassing chamber music, cabaret, multi-media projects, spoken word, jazz—artforms meant to be personal, stage-to-audience,” he explains.

On May 31, the festival’s first “Evening of Multimedia Chamber Music” will present Alpher’s own composition, “Las Meninas: Variations,” accompanied by the images which inspired it—a series of Picasso paintings based on a work by Velazquez. “Voice of the Whale” by George Crumb includes intense blue lighting, and the three performers wear black half-masks. The instruments are piano, flute, and cello—all amplified.

Phillip Bimstein is a composer from Springdale, Utah, where he has also served two terms as mayor. Bimstein first came to prominence as the leader of the new wave band Phil ’n’ the Blanks in the ’80s. His works still have a pop sensibility, just without the constraints of the three-minute rock song. Bimstein describes “Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa” as a “fantasy for horn, frogs, crickets, and coyotes,” using recordings from outside his Utah home.

On May 30, the festival hosts its first percussion group, the Brooklyn-based quartet So Percussion, which resembles an indie rock band in their photos. And perhaps they are one. Some of their original compositions, such as “the so-called laws of nature III” sound like all-acoustic techno music. “Percussion,” of course, does not necessarily mean drums. Ethereal bells, glockenspiel, bowed marimba, and toy piano also qualify—as well as aluminum pipes and an amplified cactus.

On a more traditional note, the Peabody Trio will perform Zhou Long’s “Spirit of Chimes” as well as Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio on May 23. The group’s instrumentation is piano, cello, and violin. This trio won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1989.

All concerts take place at SUNY Ulster’s Quimby Theatre. The festival erects a “thrust stage” over the orchestra pit, to create a more intimate mood.

Alpher gives a series of free lectures each year illuminating the concerts. On May 6 he will discuss “The Intimate Art of Cabaret” with his wife, the singer Jennie Litt. On May 13, he will narrate on the history of the string quartet. The May 20 lecture explores Alpher’s “Las Meninas: Variations.” Rhe festival offers free admission to any student up to 12th grade.

The Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown runs on two weekends, from May 23 to June 1, at SUNY Ulster’s Quimby Theatre. (845) 687-2687; www.chamberartsfestival.org.

—Sparrow

Bread and Puppet Call for times. Radical puppeteers perform new work. $12.50/$10 members/$5 students. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Teens on the Green Acting Classes 2pm-3:30pm. $12/$45. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-4561.

Oliver 3pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

The Time of Your Life 3pm. William Saroyan’ wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.

MONDAY 12 MAY

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Papertole Dioramas 6pm-9pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady.

(518) 434-1703.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) Call for times. $75 series/$15 session. Woodstock.

679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 14 MAY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

CLASSES

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

Brain Games 1pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

CLASSES Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 528-6728.

Life Drawing 1:30pm-3:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

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

Learn to Meditate 7pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

Dance Class 5:30pm-7pm. Hudson Valley Modern DanceCooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS

DANCE

Dave Leonard/JTD Productions 10th annual Charity Golf Tournament 11am. To benefit Indie Programs. Woodstock Golf Club, Woodstock. 679-8652.

Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango 8pm. $25-$49. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS

Foreign and Documentary Films Series 7pm. $5. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Theater Improv For Teens Call for times. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

MUSIC Bard College Big Band 7pm. Bard College - Blum Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7250.

Open Mike and Vinyl Showcase 10pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

FILM

MUSIC Spring Music Residency Call for times. Host & featured artist Brian Melick.

Chapel and Cultural Center, Troy. (518) 274-779.

Terence Martin CD release Concert 6pm. $15. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

SPOKEN WORD

Da Capo Chamber Players 7:30pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7216.

Toward an Art Scene in Sheer Togetherness 11am-12:30pm. Artist Dora Hegyi. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.

Dancing On The Air 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Sharon Nichols and Samuel Claiborne. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 8pm. On tour with Randall Williams, Lindsay Mac, & Joe Crookston. $10/$5 children. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Poetry with Sharon Nichols and Samuel Claiborne 7:30pm. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

TUESDAY 13 MAY CLASSES Vocal Lessons Call for times. Song of the Valley Sweet Adelines. Valley View Nursing Care Center, Goshen. 496-7573.

The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Arts Center of the Capital District, Troy.

(518) 330-8006.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 281-6734.

THE OUTDOORS Wonder Lake State Park Call for times. Easy 4-5 miles. Call for location.

462-0142.

SPOKEN WORD Beautiful Easy Gardens, Easy to Maintain Without the Use of Chemicals 7:30pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext.

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THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

MUSIC

Independent Artists Collaborative Acting Class 7pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston.

Kelly Joe Phelps 8pm. $15/$12. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Nature Strollers 10am. Walk for families with young children. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Situations: Curating Out of Place 4:30pm-6pm. Claire Doherty. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.

Feeling Crazy? It Could Be Your Thyroid!

6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Networking session for environmental fields, sustainably minded or anyone eco-curious.

Downtown Cafe, Kingston. 331-5904.

Waterfalls of the Catskills 7pm-9pm. Mid-Hudson ADK. Rockefeller 200, Poughkeepsie. michelevh8@yahoo.com.

ADK Chapter Meeting 7pm. Rockefeller 200, Poughkeepsie. 667-4664.

Love and War in Western Art: Changes in Style and Substance 7:30pm. Passion Above All: The Romantic Credo.

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.

Stump! Pub Trivia 8:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Route 9 t Lafayette Plaza t Wappingers Falls t 297-8061 (1.6 miles south of Galleria)

Open Mike Blues Jam 8:30pm-11:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Life Drawing 6:30pm-9:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

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THURSDAY 15 MAY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Suicide Bereavement Group 5:30pm-7:30pm. Call for location. 339-9090 ext. 115.

Dara Lurie: Dialoguing With the Body 6pm-8pm. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Sufi Zikr 7pm. Sufi chanting and prayer. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Zuzu’s Wonderful Life, Inc., Albany.

(518) 330-8006.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

FILM Outdoor Screening 7:30pm. Dead Ringers. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie.

437-5391.

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KIDS Little Wonders of Science: Yertle the Turtle 10:30am. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

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BOOKS MILLBROOK BOOK FESTIVAL

Untitled photographs from Justin Guaraglia’s Planet Shanghai (Chronicle Books, 2008). Guariglia will be participating in the first Millbrook Book Festival, May 16 and 17.

It Takes a Village “I’ve always wanted to have a book festival in town,” says Scott Meyer of Millbrook’s Merritt Books, “For years I’ve wanted one.” Meyer’s dream is about to come true. On May 16 and 17, the WAMC commentator and former Millbrook Business Association president will oversee the first edition of the Millbrook Book Festival.

Nestled just east of historic Hyde Park, Millbrook is a village of 1,400 with a photogenic main street, an outsized helping of community spirit—and, it would seem, a ferocious commitment to literacy. During the festival, hardware stores and craft shops will sport decorations along bookish lines, inviting strollers to browse. Millbrook resident Valerie Martin, whose novels include Mary Reilly, Trespass, and Property, proclaims her hometown “very walkable,” adding that “the Millbrook library is beautiful, with a great children’s room, one of the best I’ve seen anywhere.”

Martin is a veteran of numerous book festivals, including the Tennessee Williams and Faulkner festivals in New Orleans, Washington’s Fall for the Books, and others in Minneapolis, Key West, and South Carolina. “Valerie told us how to do it,” says Meyer.

She wasn’t alone: Over 100 volunteers were involved in the year-long planning process, and local businesses signed on enthusiastically.

Millbrook is home to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, a world leader in the ecological research field and the host of the festival’s opening on Friday, May 16.

Senior research specialist Heather Malcom is “exceedingly excited” by the symbiosis.

“The whole scientific community goes to the bookstore–everybody knows Scott,” she explains. “This was a perfect match—we’re celebrating our 25th anniversary, and here’s someone who wanted to bring the public to us.” From 4 to 6pm, the institute will offer open lab tours and activities for all ages, including fog collecting, determining the age of Hudson River clams by counting shell ridges like tree rings, checking water Ph

content, and viewing Lyme-bearing ticks through a microscope (“They’ll be dead ticks,” Malcom reassures with a laugh). A reception from 6 to 7pm will feature refreshments and a performance by eco-folksinger Bindlestick Bill. At 7pm, New York Times science writer Andrew Revkin will headline a panel discussion on the population explosion and climate change.

May 17’s lineup is remarkably diverse, starting with a pancake breakfast at Grace Church. Merritt will sponsor booksignings all day, with literary panels on spirituality, history, children’s books, poetry, mystery, literary fiction, and romance at various venues.

Participating authors include Valerie Martin, National Geographic photographer Justin Guariglia, Jennifer Donnelly (The Winter Rose), Susan Richards (Chosen Forever), Bruce Chilton (Abraham’s Curse), Fergus Bordewich (Washington), Edgar Award nominee Julia Spencer-Fleming, and dozens more. Admission is free.

Interspersed throughout are child-friendly happenings: a parade (“dress as your favorite book character”), storytelling, and readings by young writers. A soup-and-salad dinner at St. Joseph’s School spotlights recipes by cookbook author Brother Victor. And many Millbrook restaurants will offer special book-themed lunches, including Les Baux (A Year in Provence); Piccolo (Under the Tuscan Sun); Slammin’ Salmon (Moby Dick); and Babette’s (what else but Babette’s Feast?)

“It’s a very unique village,” Meyer says, sharing his favorite compliment from a bookstore patron. When asked if she needed help, she shook her head, saying, “I came in just to feel better.” Meyer beams. “We’re bibliotherapists here.”

The Millbrook Book Festival will be held at various locations in Millbrook on May 16 and 17.

For a full schedule and list of participating authors, visit www.millbrookbookfestival.com.

—Nina Shengold

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MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

Hal Ketchum 7:30pm. Country rock. $24. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

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

David Bromberg and Special Guests Angel Band 8pm. Acoustic. $37. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Hudson River Live Art Auction 3:30pm. Gillette & Anita Hart Balter Galleries, Garrison.

424-3960.

Jose Acosta Art Extravaganza 5pm-9pm. G.A.S. Poughkeepsie. 486-4592.

It’s About Light: Exploring the grand Hudson River Experiment with Contemporary Tools 6pm-8pm. Vincent Bilotta. M Gallery, Catskill.

(518) 943-0380.

Plugged In 6pm-10pm. Exhibition of new media works. Warren Street, Hudson. melissastafford@gmail.com.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Holy Manifestation 10am-1pm. The Secret Behind the Secret. $25.

Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES WORKSHOPS Retirement Planning 6pm. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428.

FRIDAY 16 MAY ART Electric Windows Call for times. 24 street artists will converge to create live artwork and have their work installed on the exterior of a 19th century factory building. Beacon, Beacon.

Master of Fine Arts Exhibition II 7:30pm-9:30pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz. 257-3872

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yoga Vedanta Weekend Call for times. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 6790901.

CLASSES

May Dance 8pm. Senior Project and other choreography. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Choreography Project 7pm. Modern dance concert. $10. Barefoot Dance Center, West Park. 384-6146.

EVENTS Hudson Valley Youth Festival 9am-5pm. Interactive visual arts activities, competition and awards ceremony. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 471-7477.

MHH Hike-A-Thon 9am. Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

1st Annual Custom and Classic Car Show 10am. Presented by Arlington High School. $5. Arlington High School, LaGrangeville. 486-4860 ext. 1321.

Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 663-7962.

Go Green Energy Fair 10am-5pm. Exhibition of wind, solar and geothermal technology. $7/$5. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock.

679-0901.

DANCE Drum & Dance Gathering 8pm-11pm. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

May Dance 8pm. Senior Project and other choreography. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

EVENTS Millbrook Book Festival Call for times. Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.

FILM Screening of Deli Commedia 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Freeheld 7pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Revolutionary War Encampment 10am-5pm. Military re-enactor units, colonial tradesmen and merchants, artillery demonstrations, children’s storytelling and activities, A/V presentation. $5. Call for location. 339-7858.

FILM UnCivil Liberties 6:30pm. Followed by panel discussion. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

GALLERY Stillness: Tacita Dean 6-part film project. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

KIDS Little Wonders of Science: Yertle the Turtle 10:30am. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

Puppets with Tom Knight 11am. $10/$7 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

MUSIC

Family Discovery Lab: Electromagnets 1pm. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

Bard Orchestra 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

MUSIC

Globetrotting: World Jazz 8pm. John Davey, Steve Gorn and Brian Mellick. $19/$14 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Maggie’s Farm 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Chris Smither 9pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-8890.

The Rhodes and Haden Minifie 9pm. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 2551901.

SPOKEN WORD Steve Clorfeine: Poetry Reading of Works 7pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Oliver 8pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

The Time of Your Life 8pm. William Saroyan’s wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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DANCE

Digital Photography for Dummies with Marge Morales 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Floral Still Life with William Noonan 6pm-9pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

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Creative Mamas 1pm-4pm. Arts-based class for pregnant women to explore and honor their changing bodies. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Barbershop Quartet 2008 Show Call for times. $30. F.D. Roosevelt High School, Hyde Park. 471-5845.

Marc Copland 7pm. Jazz piano. Adam’Space, Shokan. (518) 5372326.

America 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Big Sister 8pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Marc Black & Band 8pm. $20/$15 member. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Fiddlers Dream III 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Bret Mosley 9pm. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Pitchfork Militia 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS Bird Walk Call for times. $2. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240.

John Burroughs’ Nature Sanctuary: Spring Slabsides Day Call for times. Call for location.

ART

Singles and Sociables Hike: Stissing Mountain 1:30am-3:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 2550919.

Arts in the Park 10am-4pm. Music and art by students and teachers Poughkeepsie City School District. Waryas Park, Poughkeepsie. (914) 714-2706.

Fifth Annual Wildlife Sale 10am-1pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 5345506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Ledig House International Writers Residency Reading Call for times. Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent.

(518) 392-4568.

Singles and Sociables Hike: Rhododendron Bridge and Beyond 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Spring Wildflower Walk 2pm-5:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER Hank Williams: Lost Highway Call for times. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany.

(518) 445-7469.

THEATER Who is Pippi Longstocking?

2pm. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Oliver 8pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

Oliver 3pm. Presented by The Two Of Us Productions and the Eagles Band. Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-4660.

The Time of Your Life 8pm. William Saroyanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Time of Your Life 3pm. William Saroyanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wise and bittersweet homage to bars and life. $20/$18 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

8pm. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Teens on the Green Acting Classes 2pm-3:30pm. $12/$45. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-4561.

WORKSHOPS Low Cost Transformation through Cellular Healing 10am-1pm. $30. Free Soul, Old Chatham.

(518) 794-0017.

WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.

Found Poems: A Writing Workshop for Teens 10:30am-12:30pm. Ages 13-17. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Song Writing Workshop with Bar Scott 12pm. Lucy Max Studio, Woodstock. 679-1087.

Writing This Moment: A Writing Workshop for Adults of All Ages 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Rosendale Library, Rosendale.

658-9013.

SUNDAY 18 MAY ART dev Plein Air Workshop Call for times. With demonstrating artists. Bertoni Gallery, Sugar Loaf. 457-2787.

Arts on the Lake Visual Artists Opening Exhibit 1pm-5pm. Lake Carmel Art Center, Kent. 225-3856.

Works by Chris Jones 4pm-6pm. Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.

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

Oil Painting for Beginners with Gene Bove 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

DANCE Merce Cunningham Dance Company Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Swing Dance Jam 12am-2:30am. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032.

MONDAY 19 MAY BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Magick for Beginners Class 7pm. $20. Call for location. 340-0220.

CLASSES Learn to Meditate Call for times. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

Dance Classes Call for times. Barefoot Dance Center, West Park. 3846146.

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 528-6728.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

TUESDAY 20 MAY CLASSES

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 12am-2:30am. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Arts Center of the Capital District, Troy.

(518) 330-8006.

The Kurt Henry Band CD Release 2pm-5pm. $10. High Falls CafĂŠ, High Falls. 687-2699.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 281-6734.

THE OUTDOORS

Grilled Wings Wednesdays â&#x20AC;˘ Private Parties â&#x20AC;˘ Desserts

THEATER

MUSIC

The Cantors: Live!

7:30pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 227-3327.

Friday May 30 Singer Mark Raisch

Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Anne Richey and William Seaton. $4.

The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Vocal Lessons Call for times. Song of the Valley Sweet Adelines. Valley View Nursing Care Center, Goshen. 496-7573.

Women in Music Series 7pm. Gretchen Witt. $10. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock.

679-5342.

Friday May 23 The Amazing Slam Allen

THE OUTDOORS

KIDS

Peabody Piano Trio 4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Friday May 16 Blues Guitar Great Pat Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea

MUSIC

SPOKEN WORD

Alexander String Quartet 4pm. $30. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Saturday May 10 Comic Colin Kane

Theater Improv For Teens Call for times. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Serpentessa Performance Group 3pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 3396088.

Trail Mix Concerts 2:30pm. David Geber-cello, Julia Lichten-cello, Maria Allison-piano. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 6572482.

Friday May 9 The Erin Hobson Band

KIDS

Toddlers on the Trail: Wildflowers and Critter Walk 10am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano & Harp Recital 2pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Friday May 2 Barbara Dempsey

Jaws 7pm. Monday Night Classic Movie series. $5/$3 children. Palace Theater, Albany.

May Dance 3pm. Senior Project and other choreography. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Garden and Home Luncheon Fundraiser 11:30am-2pm. With speaker Suzy Bales. $50. Columbia Golf and Country Club, Claverack. (518) 567-1115.

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Screening of Deli Commedia 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Open Mike and Vinyl Showcase 10pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Spring Antique Auction 10:30am. Carlsen Gallery, Freehold. (518) 634-2466.

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FILM

Dance Fest â&#x20AC;&#x2122;08 3pm. Professional and student dancers from four local studios. $15/$10 in advance. Paramount Theater, Middletown. 647-1772.

EVENTS

Great Music and Entertainment Every Week on the Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newest Stage.

Life Drawing 6:30pm-9:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

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

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DJ Leonard 8pm. $7. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

SPOKEN WORD

Constitution Marsh Paddle 8:30am. Meet at Cold Spring Metro North Station, Cold Spring. 457-4552.

Ana Paula Cohen 4:30pm-6pm. Species of spaces on the flexibility of art spaces and/or how to inhabit them. Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7598.

Family Hiking Club 10am-1pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 5345506 ext. 204.

GYN Surgery in the 21st Century: Band-Aids Instead of Bandages 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

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An Evening with Dr. Maya Angelou 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Stump! Pub Trivia 8:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

Kids’ Camp Trailblazer Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

THEATER

MUSIC

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

The Peabody Trio Call for times. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

WEDNESDAY 21 MAY CLASSES Brain Games 1pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

Life Drawing 1:30pm-3:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Dance Class 5:30pm-7pm. Hudson Valley Modern DanceCooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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

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Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $119. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

339-2025.

MUSIC

The Closet Shop The best styles and trends in designer and vintage clothes!

Open Mike Blues Jam 8:30pm-11:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

Tues, Wed 10–5 Thurs, Fri 10–6 Sat 10–3

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Bill’s Toupee 6pm. Dance music covers. 26 Front Street, Newburgh.

569-8035.

Chris Bergson 8pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

The Essentials 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

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

THEATER Sleuth 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

SATURDAY 24 MAY ART Works by Ben Butler 6pm-8pm. Sculpture and large monoprints. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

THEATER

Tweet Suite: Birds of North America 6pm-9pm. Paintings by Laura Levine. Varga Gallery, Woodstock. 679-4005.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Independent Artists Collaborative Acting Class 7pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston.

Snakes Alive Call for times. Shed your fears and say yes to life. Call for location. (413) 417-8438.

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KIDS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Suicide Bereavement Group 5:30pm-7:30pm. Call for location. 339-9090 ext. 115.

Dara Lurie: Dialoguing With the Body 6pm-8pm. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Sufi Zikr 7pm. Sufi chanting and prayer. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

CLASSES The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Zuzu’s Wonderful Life, Inc., Albany.

(518) 330-8006.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

EVENTS Barn Sale 9am-4pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Bivouac: Living History 9am-4pm. Period military vehicles, soldiers in dress, weapons, stories. FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park.

229-9115.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 10am-5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck.

876-1989.

Woodstock-New Paltz Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-6pm. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz.

679-8087.

KIDS Adventures in Science: LEDs with Marktech 1pm-3pm. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890.

FILM

MUSIC

Give her one of Aveda’s spa

Outdoor Screening 7:30pm. Being John Malkovich. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5391.

Laurel Masse Call for times. Jazz. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

ritual gift sets. Created to

MUSIC

help improve serenity and

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

balance, each soothing set can be enhanced with a gift card for an Aveda professional spa treatment.

Mark Raisch’s Tribute to the Great Bobby Darin 2pm. Swing, jump, big band. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Gypsy!

6pm. Gypsy-inspired works by Haydn and Brahms.

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Ann Hampton Callaway 8pm. $25. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

Tom Pacheco 8pm. $15. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

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

The Creations 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Bennett Harris 8:30pm. Blues. 12 Grape Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

John Schrader Band 9pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

SPOKEN WORD Compost Tea and the Benefits of Composting 7:30pm. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext.

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Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration 9pm. With Eric Squindo & Friends. The Dockside Pub, Mahopac. 621-0057.

The Real Men 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

THE OUTDOORS THEATER Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

FRIDAY 23 MAY ART

THEATER

Todd Poteet: The Tie That Binds 5pm-7pm. Paintings and prints, large and small snapshots of daily life. Mill Street Loft Gallery, Poughkeespie. 471-7477.

Sleuth 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12 . Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

(413) 663-7962.

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Singles and Sociables Hike: Rainbow Falls and Beyond 9:30am-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

WORKSHOPS Stone Workshop with Dan Snow 9am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SUNDAY 25 MAY

DANCE

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Swing Dance 12am-3am. 7:30pm lesson. Live music. $15/$8 students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

Chanting Sessions 12am-1:30am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS

Eckhart Tolle Silent Meetings Call for times. Videos, meditation, and dialogue. Call for location. 687-8687.

Sunset Soiree 6pm-8pm. With live jazz music. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.

Sacred Chanting 12am-1:30am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

ART PLUGGED IN

Clockwise from top: A still from Jillian Mcdonald’s interactive video installation The Sparkling; A drawing of Fernando Orellana’s The Brousseau Building; A still from Bryan Zanisnik’s video Vivarium.

Springing to Distant Dreams "Plugged In" curator Melissa Stafford invokes Baudelaire in her exhibition statement, writing that her hope for those viewing the multimedia arts project taking place at locations around Hudson May 17 through May 31 is to "seize on some fragment, and like an able dancer, use it as a trampoline, to spring to distant dreams."

The 15 artists selected for "Plugged In" are presenting some very interesting fragments. Jillian McDonald, a Canadian video artist currently living in New York City who will be presenting her interactive video installation The Sparkling, has become obssessed in her work as of late with horror films, and playing with the idea of fear as entertainment. In a recent piece, Vamp it Up, performed on the elevated train in Chicago, McDonald transforms herself into a vampire via the application of make-up during the course of a train commute.

Fernando Orellana is fascinated by the quiet but constant presence of architecture, noting that it witnesses all, but reveals nothing of what it sees. Seeking to answer the question "If these walls could talk, what would they tell us?" Orellana will be creating a site-specific installation for "Plugged In." The outside of the Brousseau Building at 204

Warren Street in Hudson will be retrofitted with a façade designed to "bring out the inherit personality or character of the building," according to Orellana. Using a computer generated synthetic voice and motion sensors, the Broussau building will "whisper, speak, and scream to pedestrians details of its interior, history, and the current objects that reside in it."

Other artists participating in "Plugged In" are Hudson's own "love artist" Kathe Izzo, Christine Sciulli, Jesse Matulis, Mark Gregory, Jonathan Osofsky + Jasdeep Gosal, Giorgio Handman, Ingrid Ludt, Greg Locke, Michael Oatman, Bart Woodstrup, Chip Fasciana, and Bryan Zanisnik.

"Plugged In" will commence its two-week run in Hudson on May 17 with an opening night party from 6-10pm in the PARC Foundation buildings at 330 and 336 Warren Street.

Both locations will host performances, featuring UK-based video performance artists Eclectic Method, and music from Brooklyn's experimental avant-noise trio Lukomski/ Majer/Lail and DJs ESE and Mikey Palms. Painter Mike Long will create a six-by-ten foot painting as the night unfolds. www.hudsonpluggedin.com.

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CLASSES

MUSIC

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

Brian Dewan, Joe Davis, & Michael Bassett 7pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

EVENTS Bivouac: Living History 10am-4pm. Period military vehicles, soldiers in dress, weapons, stories. FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park.

229-9115.

Woodstock-New Paltz Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-6pm. Ulster County Fair Grounds, New Paltz.

679-8087.

SPOKEN WORD Is My Fatigue and Pain Lupus? Lyme Disease?

6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck.

876-3001.

Stump! Pub Trivia 8:30pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277.

THEATER

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 11am-4pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck.

876-1989.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Olde Hurley Guided Walking Tour 2pm. $3. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.

WORKSHOPS

MUSIC Drew Minter & Friends Call for times. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Thunder Ridge 1pm. Country. Creekside Restaurant, Catskill.

(518) 943-6522.

Billy T Band 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.

Crucial Massive 8pm. Reggae. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

The “The Band” Band Tribute 8pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike: Northeast Trail 10am-2pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Writing Poetry, Short Story, Novel, Memoir or Creative Non-fiction (and Getting It Published) Call for times. $75 series/$15 session. Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 28 MAY CLASSES Brain Games 1pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.

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

Dance Class 5:30pm-7pm. Hudson Valley Modern DanceCooperative. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $119. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

339-2025.

THEATER Teens on the Green Acting Classes 2pm-3:30pm. $12/$45. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-4561.

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Sleuth 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

WORKSHOPS

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Trombone Shout Band 7pm. Rondout Valley High School, Accord. 687-2400.

Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.

THEATER

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

CLASSES Learn to Meditate Call for times. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

Not a bi-weekly program—

MUSIC

Open Mike Blues Jam 8:30pm-11:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Without refinancing. And little to no change in lifestyle!

Foreign and Documentary Films Series 7pm. $5. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Stone Workshop with Dan Snow 9am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

MONDAY 26 MAY Be mortgage-free in as little as ½ to 1/3 the time.

FILM

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Independent Artists Collaborative Acting Class 7pm. Shirt Factory, Kingston.

In The Mood 7:30pm. Big band theatrical swing revue. $39.50-$29.50. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

WORKSHOPS Improve Your Image with Elisa Pritzker 1pm-3pm. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Dance Classes Call for times. Barefoot Dance Center, West Park.

384-6146.

THURSDAY 29 MAY

Acting for the Camera 6pm-9pm. Casting director Jenny O’Haver teaches how to hone acting skills to the camera. $25/$100 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 528-6728.

ART

EVENTS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Woodstock-New Paltz Arts and Crafts Fair 10am-4pm. Ulster County Fair Grounds, New Paltz.

679-8087.

Suicide Bereavement Group 5:30pm-7:30pm. Call for location. 339-9090 ext. 115.

KIDS

Future Voices 3 5pm-12am. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

Dara Lurie: Dialoguing With the Body 6pm-8pm. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

Theater Improv For Teens Call for times. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Sufi Zikr 7pm. Sufi chanting and prayer. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.

MUSIC

CLASSES

Open Mike and Vinyl Showcase 10pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

SPOKEN WORD

The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Zuzu’s Wonderful Life, Inc., Albany.

(518) 330-8006.

Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Michael Cartucci and Carol Graser. $4.

The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

WORKSHOPS

EVENTS

Stone Workshop with Dan Snow 9am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Dutchess Arts Camp Open House 4pm-6pm. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook. 471-7477.

TUESDAY 27 MAY ART Women’s Studio Workshop Slide Show 7:30pm. No Space Gallery, Rosendale. 339-3600.

CLASSES The Art of Belly Dancing with Habiba Call for times. Arts Center of the Capital District, Troy.

(518) 330-8006.

Rhythm Tap Dance Classes 5:30pm. Introduction to the art of sound and movement taught by Stefanie Weber. $50 for five classes. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 281-6734.

FILM Outdoor Screening 7:30pm. Silence of the Lambs. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5391.

MUSIC Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany.

(518) 474-5877.

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

The Edmar Castenada Trio 8pm. Latin jazz. $25. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

THEATER

THE OUTDOORS

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

10am. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

Fahnestock Loop 9am. Moderate hike. Call for location. 677-9995.

FRIDAY 30 MAY CLASSES Rhythm Songs in Rhythm Tap 5pm-6pm. Beginner to advanced beginner jazz tap taught by Sherry Hains-Salerno. $12 . Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 663-7962.

Singles and Sociables Hike: Sky Top Loop 10am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD The Wonders of Wetlands 10am. Learn about the wonders of the wetlands.

Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506 ext. 204.

EVENTS

George Trakas 1pm. Gallery talk on his Beacon Point. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

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

THEATER

KIDS

Sleuth 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Girl Scout Skill Builder Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Laura Ingalls Wilder 1pm. ArtsPower USA. $8/$6 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

MUSIC

All For One 7:30pm. British musical. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Mountain Jam Music Festival Call for times. $75-$145. Hunter Mountain, Hunter.

679-7600 ext. 18.

So Percussion Ensemble Call for times. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 7pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

The Acoustic Medicine Show with Joe Tobin 7pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

The Sparrow Quartet 8pm. Featuring Abigail Washburn & Bela Fleck. $28.

The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

SPOKEN WORD Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 8pm. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Who’s On First?

8pm. Durham Irish Repertory Theater. $15. Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre, East Durham.

(518) 634-2286.

WORKSHOPS Art Workshop by Jone Miller Call for times. Create photograms using special paper and a variety of found objects. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Digital Photography Workshop with G. Steve Jordan 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Images from the Sun 12:30pm-3pm. Create photograms using special paper and a variety of objects. $10/$5 children. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

For Artists Only! An Open House for Artists and Related Professionals 6:30pm-8:30pm. Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut. (203) 438-4519.

THEATER Sleuth 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Nothing Means Nothing 8pm. Written by Larry Winters. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Who is Pippi Longstocking?

8pm. NYS Theater Institute, Troy. (518) 274-3200.

SUNDAY 1 JUNE ART 33rd Annual Artists on the Campus Outdoor Art Show & S Call for times. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh.

569-3337.

CLASSES

SATURDAY 31 MAY

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

ART Enlightened Views 5pm-8pm. Recent paintings by Robert Trondsen.

Hudson Valley Gallery, Cornwall. 534-5278.

DANCE Paul Taylor Dance Company Call for times. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Classical Mystery Tour - from Baroque to The Beatles: A Celebration of Dance Call for times. Presented by Ballet Arts Studio & The Dutchess Ballet Co. $15. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie.

473-2072.

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 12am-2:30am. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.

EVENTS Native American Themed Dinner Call for times. Twin Lakes Resort, Hurley. 338-2400.

GALLERY Current: A Scultprure Tour 2nd annual outdoor exhibition at 5 Garrison landmark locations. Call for location. 424-3960.

EVENTS

MUSIC

Raptors Classic Golf Outing Fund-raiser for the Bard Men’s Basketball Team. Call for location. 758-7334.

Mountain Jam Music Festival Call for times. $75-$145. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. 6797600 ext. 18.

Tannersville Duck Race and Festival 11am-4pm. Rip Van Winkle Lake, Tannersville.

(518) 589-5765.

Parker String Quartet Call for times. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

GALLERY

Sugarloaf Music 8pm. Dave Valentin Quartet featuring Chris Barretto on sax. $25. The Pavilion at the Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf.

258-3019.

Williamstown Landscape The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

(413) 458-1700.

MUSIC An Evening of Multi-Media Chamber Music Call for times. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

Mountain Jam Music Festival Call for times. $75-$145. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. 6797600 ext. 18.

Music for the Inner Journey 5pm. Featuring Premik Russel Tubbs. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

Music Memorial for Ron Osenenko 7pm. With Pete Levin & guests all proceeds go to the John Herald Fund of Family of Woodstock. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Suzanne Vega 8pm. $25. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

THE OUTDOORS Five Rivers In Five Days: Fly Fishing The Catskills’ Charmed Circle Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

THEATER Sleuth 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

All For One 2pm. British musical. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Who’s On First 2pm. Durham Irish Repertory Theater. $15. Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Centre, East Durham.

(518) 634-2286.

WORKSHOPS

The Mortal Brothers 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Digital Photography Workshop with G. Steve Jordan 12am-6:30am. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Memorial Day Weekend Bash 10pm. Firebird Grill and Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.

Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.

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hough it may be difficult to see, we have a serious self-esteem problem in our society. We are, in short, either taught that we don’t exist, taught to hate ourselves, or some combination of the two.

Most people you see walking around on the street don’t feel worthy of love. And this seems to be a matter of self-love, or the lack thereof.

If we are lacking self-esteem—a problem so pervasive as to be invisible—we are going to have a lot of problems in relationships. This can account for much of our stuff around jealousy. For example, if we need a relationship to know that we exist, then we will naturally feel that our existence is threatened if our partner so much as smiles at someone else.

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If much of our trip in relationships is designed to cover up a lack of real self-awareness, we are adding several dense layers of complication to finding out who we really are. It would seem that the real solution to our relationship stuff, our jealousy, our loneliness, and many other factors, is to figure out who we are, enter a conscious relationship with that person, and then take that into our relationships with others.

In other words, we need to get to the place where the most honest relationship we have in the world is with ourselves, and then let that overflow into our encounters with the people around us—not forgetting in what order these things happen. Unfortunately, we are taught to have relationships with

ourselves that are based specifically on denying and deceiving ourselves. This is a sad state of humanity, but one that could be easily addressed—if we were somehow relieved of the fear to look within.

And a lot of other kinds of fear. When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, during his first season in office, he hired the Heritage Foundation to lobby Congress for something called abstinence-only sex “education.” This is a program, taught in public schools and elsewhere, that indoctrinates kids to remain abstinent until heterosexual marriage. Kids are taught that birth control does not work. Masturbation and homosexuality are not mentioned. It is direct-denial sex education. You pay to have this taught in public schools.

We now have a whole generation—more, really—of people who were raised with this influence. Before we can start to address the damage, we need to figure out what it is. That is going to take a while, and it’s going to take some deep introspection when that is usually the last thing on our minds. To do this, we’re going to need to talk about sex, something that most of us are poorly equipped for, and generally embarrassed to do.

Usually, this process starts with getting people freaked out about masturbation. While this form of sex has never had too much respect, early in the 18th century, it was turned into the combination of a disease and a moral blight.

Around 1712, a book called Onania packaged up all of society’s misgivings about self-given sexual pleasure and proffered them with a degree of marketing genius. The book was really an infomercial for the author’s snake-oil cures for the “disease,” but somehow it became a classic, making its way from London’s Grub Street to the height of European society.

The ideas stuck, and persistently plague us to this day. What could have been a source of introspection, learning, and self-fulfillment was turned into an attack on nature and self-awareness.

Many of our relationships today are based on a lack of individuality and missing sense of existence. We rely almost exclusively on “one special other” as a source of fulfillment. Many people are desperate for sex or feel trapped because masturbation is lonely, unfulfilling, and supposedly shameful. It did not start that way; it was made that way. Imagine if we could turn that around; if we could (on a culture-wide level) make masturbation hot and satisfactory, and then start our partnerships from a solid, level place, and then seek out one another to share from there. It would be a whole different world. We’re not in that world yet, but we can surely get there if we want.

What would Lincoln say?

One of my many ideas for films and novels tells the story of the wife of an extremely wealthy, well-connected corporate executive. He’s an absentee husband, and, day after day for years, he leaves her stranded in this huge suburban house without any money or the ability to travel. He does whatever he wants; her credit card has a $500 limit. It is a kind of “passive” abuse, and it goes on for a long time. She is basically his prisoner, trapped in a 16-room mansion, supervised by maids who come in to spy on her and report any suspected transgression. Finally, one day she gets sick of it.

She calls up a local lawyer she finds in the phone book and says she wants to file for divorce. Hubby has assumed no such plan would ever work because he and his lawyers are so powerful in the legal community. She has no money, but he’s rich enough, so she figures her case is worth taking; but the real reason the lawyer takes her case is because it’s interesting.

They go through the usual divorce route in state court, but his powerful lawyers, with their connections all over the legal system, do a great job of stonewalling her. They use various tactics to create delays, stop the paperwork, and fight her pleadings on every possible level. Finally, it becomes obvious they are not going to get a divorce by the normal route. And why is he doing this?

There could be many “reasons”—mainly, though, it’s because he is a control freak. It’s just the kind of guy he is. And to think, he seemed so charming.

Her lawyer, a young woman recently out of law school with training in civil rights issues, comes up with a novel legal theory. She brings a divorce suit in federal court based on the 13th Amendment, which prohibits slavery. They argue that the marriage contract (that is, the state marriage license), as written and as it’s being applied in this case, is equivalent to a form of illegal servitude and that her constitutional rights are being violated. This is laughed at by his lawyers and in the media—it’s considered a legal absurdity. Indeed, there is a

vicious public backlash against their lawsuit.

To everyone’s surprise, however, the federal judge grants a trial—and then her divorce. He does nothing else; it’s all the relief they’ve asked for (she hasn’t even asked for alimony or damages; now it’s all strictly on principle).

His lawyers, in response, rush into federal appellate court and manage to stay the decision; then they get it thrown out. Her undaunted young lawyer, in response, files with the United States Supreme Court, and after a long wait, with much attention, public abuse, and bantering on talk radio, they are granted certiorari: the Supreme Court will take their case.

Imagine the headlines in the New York Times: “Divorce Case Goes to Nation’s Highest Court.” Or the Wall Street Journal: “What Would Lincoln Say?” (Lincoln is credited with freeing the slaves; the 13th Amendment came later.)

In her filings before the Supreme Court, our young lawyer questions the validity of the marriage license itself. It seems to have a flaw—there is no exit clause. Driver’s licenses expire or can be revoked; medical licenses must be renewed; trademarks and patents expire. Marriage is unique among them.

She also proves that, structurally, it puts women at a disadvantage to the extent of negating her existence, and is therefore inherently unfair to one of the parties. She mentions that how the contract has been applied is equally meaningful as what the contract says. And she argues that in all 50 states, marriage contracts basically say the same thing: all of which violates the 13th Amendment because one person is, in effect, taking possession over another person.

The court hears arguments in a packed, dramatic scene. A couple of months later, a decision is published that dissolves the woman’s marriage and, in the same gesture, declares all marriage licenses unconstitutional. Basically, they are all found to be null and void, and one morning everyone in the United States and its territories wakes up legally single. Not divorced—annulled. They can stay in their relationships voluntarily, or walk out the door if they want.

Voluntary forms of relationship The parody here, if it’s not obvious, is on the fact that we are not really free in our relationships; or, rather, we are rooked out of freedom in our relationships by a bunch of cultural requirements and expectations that are highly subject to abuse. It is no great wonder that we are indoctrinated into compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory monogamy as part of this process.

We live in a world where nearly everything is an obligation, and when we express any form of voluntary desire or freedom, usually it is attended by guilt— or the people around us revolt on behalf of the status quo and try to keep us on the old path. But in truth, though they may do so, nobody has to lay the guilt trip on us: It just seems to materialize out of the ethers of consciousness.

We need some new models of relationship. We need ways to relate to one another in a loving and erotic context that allow for us to be individuals as well as to bond with one another. At the moment, our models of relationship call for significant, and I believe unnecessary, forms of sacrifice of individuality.

Everyone knows this, many people feel it distinctly as no form of relationship really seeming to work—but most people have no idea how to start the discussion. I think that this is the main thing that needs to happen—the conversation has to start. The place it needs to start is with people being honest with one another about their real needs in relationships.

The problem with this, of course, is that just about everyone fears that if they express their real relationship needs to partners or prospective partners, our relationships would fall apart or never happen. So in the partner game, you get a lot of mendacious activity: lies, secrets, and silence. In the dating game, you get a constant stream of public relations activity to make yourself as appealing as possible. Most people fear that if they are authentic, then they are unacceptable.

I have a different theory. Expressing your needs gives your partners or would-be partners something to work with. If someone has a clue what you need, maybe they will want to provide that or help you get it. Of course, maybe you will find out they have absolutely no interest whatsoever in doing so, which would be valuable information to have.

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Horoscopes ARIES (March 20-April 19) If you are experiencing your potential more like a violent tug than a gentle ascent to grandeur, look for where you’re resisting internally. Around you there is nothing but opportunity. No glass ceiling separates you from the sky; no walls or locked door divides you from the terrain of existence that is spreading out around you.

Yet what is developing internally is calling you to match any possibility you might hope for in the world with an inner revolution. One will make way for the other. For the most part, people are willing to live unconsciously, or they insist on doing so because awareness is too painful, or too much of a hassle. The most profound ignorance does not involve worldly knowledge, but, rather, is that which veils who we are from ourselves. This is what you are being called upon to let go of, and, admittedly, this takes some guts. You may feel like you have to release some aspect of denial all at once, and if that happens you may fear you’re going to be left in totally unfamiliar territory, with no sense of orientation. Even if this were possible, you would be a lot better off experiencing that than attempting to sort out your life one grain of rice at a time.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) As a stunning New Moon sweeps through your birth sign this month, I suggest you ask yourself one question: Is what you want based on what you want, or is it based on some extreme external conditioning? One’s work or mission must be based on an inner process in order to be authentic. While it’s impossible to sort out all external factors, there are a few you need to be aware of. These principally involve the effects of what you were told you could not do. The equation parses out like this: If you were blocked, chastised, or punished for expressing your talents, this can trigger a kind of obsession with ambition. The effect would be to make you object-oriented rather than process-oriented; in spiritual terms, you could say, “hung up on the supposed destination rather than the journey.” You will have a clue about whether this is happening if in some way you emphasize image over substance; if you care concerned more about what people think than how you feel. The most helpful thing you can do at this point is discern whether your goals are really your goals. Where exactly did they come from, and what other options do you see? For where you are at now, is it necessary to have goals at all, or do they conceal something deeper—something you truly want and need?

GEMINI (May 20-June 21) You need to leave yourself plenty of room to change your mind. I know this sounds like telling a Pisces they need to go to the beach, but it would appear that you are going to reconsider something about which you are at the moment feeling confident and committed. Please don’t let the secret desire for commitment substitute for the real thing. As you progress through these weeks, you will have access to all the information you need; when you look back at this time, you’ll be surprised by what you already knew, and how early you knew it. But in advance, you may not be assembling the pieces. Then, one afternoon, a revelation arrives—but is it doubt, or is it a breakthrough? Is it hesitation and insecurity, or are you being given some authentic inspiration? These are the approximate choices you have available. In other words, when you get to the reversal point, you get to define what it is and why you are there. Consciously reach into the wisdom of insecurity. Touch that moment when you have no options at all.

If you get to the place where you seem to be standing in a vacuum, remember that you can fill it with anything you like.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You have been learning so much about yourself, you could fill a library or two. Yet so far, you’ve had limited opportunities to put your knowledge into action. Currently, you have the option to create a new strategy for life based on what you have discovered about yourself in the past year or so. You know a lot that you’re not admitting, about your preferences for how you spend your time, where, and with whom.

Certain people have begun to impact your life in a way that would have been highly unusual not long ago, and you may be recognizing that not everyone is as wholesome an influence as you would have liked. You have options you never quite imagined would be real. And, finally, you may feel that the potential for failure has never been greater. Usually, that is a pretty good portent. For any possibility to be made real, it helps to contact all the other possibilities, too. This is not merely about thinking you have some choice in the matter of your life; rather, it’s about making contact with the fact that life is comprised of cycles, and of elements that often contain their opposite force of influence. Being mindful of this balance will give you strength, sanity, and some extra freedom.

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Horoscopes LEO (July 22-August 23) Fair to say that over the past six months, you’ve faced some of your worst fears. You’re not only still alive, you have made it fully intact into a new season of your life. You’ve also come to terms with the essentially fearful nature of human emotions: We tend to be fixated on what can (and what we think will) go wrong, rather than what we know we can achieve. Unlike most people, you don’t tend to be negatively obsessed; rather, there seems to be a fearful thought that pops up and threatens your peace of mind. This is the tiger that you’ve been learning to flirt with. Large fears are made of small ones that have gone out of control. Doubts about the great matters in life are often related to small or seemingly insignificant insecurities. You have been taken on a grand tour of all of these states of mind, and, by now, the connections between the great and the petty should be obvious. Events over the next few weeks will reveal to you how potent your influence on the world is. You may find that people rebel against your strength or influence.

Now, however, you can take it in stride, even as a compliment.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Saturn transiting your birth sign is about helping you feel more settled and solid in life, which is a necessary precursor for freedom. Pluto in Capricorn is helping you push through some of the overcooked boundaries and restrictions you place on yourself. These may feel like contradictory influences, breaking up restrictions while at the same time embodying the Saturn principle. Rather, they work together as one combined influence. Saturn is often perceived as a kind of stuck influence—but not when it’s making a transit. Then it moves the world, moves you, and gives you the strength to overcome the ideas or changes you may have resisted for years.

Pluto is working in perfect harmony with Saturn now, and it, too, has a job to do: to take you back to the feeling of being young. There are reasons you have chosen not to take certain risks in life, and these are being dismantled. One quality that you are overcoming, and will be for the foreseeable future, is a tendency to conserve your energy rather than explore, expand or extend it. You could say this results in a kind of conservatism, though currently it looks like you’re liberating your energy. The result will not be about being liberal; the result will be liberation.

LIBRA (September 22-Ocotber 23) You may wonder how deep you need to dig into yourself until you feel secure. You may want to try digging into your parents and their ideas about life, which your soul is challenging with every quantum of its strength. Now is the time to let go of the delusion (held by most of the Western world) that our parents really don’t influence us all that much. In truth, they created the structure in which we live. In the days of yore, this used to be something practical, like a house. Today, it is restricted to our self-concept; our ego structure, and these are rarely useful. What you may be noticing is just how isolating that structure really is. Despite the fact of so many people being interested in you, your tendency to hide in a room in your mind would make you better suited for life on an island. You can come out of that dark space, if you want, but you will need to brave the unpredictable emotional elements of life in a direct way. If you don’t, they will find you where you are retreating. Many have noticed that putting up barriers only serves to increase the intensity of the storm raging outside. If you think of it more as an adventure, I assure you, it will feel like one.

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I trust that you have, by this time, begun to enjoy the process of questioning your intentions and determining whether something actually feels right before you thrust yourself into it. However, Mars has finally broken free of the retrograde effect that dominated the winter and early spring, and is about to cross the midheaven angle of your chart. This is the time to put your plans into action, with gusto. The sticking point may be a series of negotiations with others that could benefit from a thorough review for accuracy, integrity, and whether they are realistic. I don’t suggest you allow this to block your movement through the world, however. Most things you want to do don’t call for the involvement of others. Those involvements might turn out to be good for you, and will definitely turn out to be good for them; the key is making sure that shared arrangements of any kind are good for everyone. So take your time where those discussions are concerned, and be bold about everything else.

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You appear, though, to be in a struggle over what I will call your creative identity. This is part of a larger question that involves not being able to dial in the prior versions of yourself that in the past proved so dependable. The experience may seem like a spacecraft that has disappeared behind a planet and has lost radio contact with base. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the old scripts and ego identities still exist, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a void that is compelling you to think of yourself in new ways. Please take advantage of this. A whole assortment of presumptions, largely the result of your talent for fashioning yourself into a kind of living myth, are now finally being questioned. You are on a journey into the unknownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which I trust is suited to your taste for adventure. The real effect, if you allow it, is spurring your creative passions. Now, passions are strong, but they are a poor match for the oppressive and boring teachings of society. In other words, if you get a blast of creativity, run with it, lest it be subsumed back into the belly of the Borg.

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You want action. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if we can figure out where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to find it. Or rather, where it is going to find you. I think the word is directly. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re accustomed to one particular part of your life going with excruciating, even agonizing, slowness. Keep your antennas up, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to pick up the pace. As it does, you may face various questions of appropriateness: Do I mix a sexual relationship with one that involves another commitment? Can I even think about it? Will I be giving someone too much power over me? Yeah, these are the questions that nobody would have given a hoot or a toot about in 1975. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s anymore; we are in another land, the land of boundaries and borders and limits. We are, collectively, moving through a time when fear is the reason to avoid everyone and everything, except maybe prescription mediation and a tall latte. Most people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel it as strange; it is very, very strange. You need a definition of integrity that allows you to have the fun you want, and, by that, I mean the naughty kind of fun. Remember, integrity means being a whole person, not a pure one.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Keep building from the inside out. Forget ambition, aspiration, the big prize, the house on the hill. Remember your core, your rich, inner domain, the abundance of wealth that you stand on, live on, nourish yourself from. Rather than look up, I suggest you work on a horizontal plane. This is not the place to include a long rant over our cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obsession with up and down as the only directions of movement; but then most people didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make it through geometry. As one of the smartest signs of the zodiac, you are no doubt familiar with the concept of an X-axis as well as a Y-axis. Look out on your level of reality in all directions. Notice who you see; there will be a number of people who are sufficiently self-aware and in contact with their desires to be able to respond to yours. Note that you will meet the occasional egomaniac as well; you will recognize them by their visible tendency toward hostility. While you may want to express your usual tendency to tame or fix such souls, you would be wasting an opportunity to indulge in some excellent missing experiences.

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