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O Wednesday, October 1st – Breast Health
O Tuesday, October 14th – Feeling Crazy? It Could Be Your Thyroid, Part II
Zoe Weinstein, MD, of Rhinebeck Surgical, will kick off Breast Cancer awareness month with a discussion on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, as well as new digital mammography, breast MRI and minimally invasive surgical options offered at NDH.
Sharagim Kemp, DO, of Summitt Medical Healthcare, will further explore hard-to-detect symptoms, prevention, and management of thyroid disease as a continuation of her popular Spring lecture.
O Thursday, October 23rd – Handwriting Without Tears Karin Lipke, OTR, CHT, of Northern Dutchess Hospital’s Occupational Therapy Department, will present information on this innovative, developmentallybased program that has successfully helped more than 10 million children develop good handwriting skills and assist with fine motor difficulties.
O Wednesday, October 29th – Men’s Prostate Health: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Paul Pietrow, MD, of Hudson Valley Urology Associates, will discuss prostate health including benign disease and typical aging symptoms as well as an overview of prostate cancer.
O Thursday, October 30th – Stroke Prevention and Treatment Gerald Kufner, MD, of Kingston Neurological Associates, will discuss stroke risk factors, symptoms and available treatments.
O Wednesday, November 5th – Hip and Knee Replacement: Keys to Top Outcomes Russell Tigges, MD, of Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, will discuss what you can expect from joint replacement surgery and the keys to top outcomes, as well as provide an overview of the latest technologies.
O Tuesday, October 28th – Fall’s Bounty of Nutrition Roufia Payman, Director of Outpatient Nutrition Education at Northern Dutchess Hospital, will explore the health benefits of choosing fresh, locally grown, in-season produce, and share innovative recipes for healthful eating.
O Tuesday, November 18th – Heart Health & Cholesterol, A Two-Pronged Lecture Julie Ling, MD, FACC, will begin the evening by discussing detection and prevention of cardiac artery disease, followed by DeDe McKibbin, PA, MHP, speaking about advances in lipid disorder management. Both practitioners are with the Hudson Valley Heart Center.
All lectures begin at 6pm and are free to the public. Registration is required, please call 1-877-729-2444 to reserve your space.
O Thursday, November 6th – The A-to-Zzzzzs of Sleep Testing Barbara Chatr-Aryamontri, MD, Medical Director of the Northern Dutchess Hospital Sleep Lab, will speak about the benefit of sleep testing and solutions to apnea and other sleep disorders. She will conduct a tour of the Sleep Lab as well.
O Wednesday, November 12th – New Topics in Spine Surgery Richard Perkins, MD, of Orthopedic Associates of Dutchess County, will discuss new topics in spinal surgery, including kyphoplasty, spinous process, spacer, laminectomy, minimally invasive surgery, same-day surgery, disc replacement, and other advances.
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NEWS AND POLITICS 23 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the media: decline in product placement on TV, insurance coverage rises, microchip tracking implants for people.
26 SILENCE BROKEN Adair K. Fincher explains the little-known plight of the women who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese military during World War II, and their enduring call for justice.
32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart suggests the upcoming election is time for voters to conduct a reality check.
COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 OUT OF THE TOY BOX Molly Belmont examines thetwentytenproject, photographer Steven Planck’s ongoing investigation into childhood and memory.
MONEY & INVESTING SUPPLEMENT 74 STUDENT LOAN SAVVY Kelley Granger offers tips for parents and students navigating the often labyrinthine college financial aid process.
GREENE COUNTY GUIDE 78 GREENE WITH ENVY Amy Lubinski offers an introduction to the sights and attractions of Greene County, the first article in a six-part series.
LAWYERS & MEDIATORS ALMANAC 89 CHRONOGRAM’S GUIDE TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION.
WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 90 TICK TICK TICK Lorrie Klosterman talks with Lyme disease expert Dr. Steve Bock of the Rhinebeck Health Center about diagnosis and treatment this often overlooked malady.
94 FLOWERS FALL Field notes from a Buddhist mom’s experimental life. A new column by Bethany Saltman.
BUSINESS SERVICES 66 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 81 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 97 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.
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ARTS & CULTURE 40 PORTFOLIO A retrospective of the photographs of Lilo Raymond opens this month at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
64 FOOD & DRINK Brian K. Mahoney chats with Culinary Institute of America wine studies professor Steven Kolpan, coauthor of WineWise, an irreverent beginner’s guide to wine.
132 PARTING SHOT A grid of works from Joy Taylor’s Skin Deep series.
42 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson reviews “War: Materials and Lies” at Time & Space Limited.
44 GALLERY AND MUSEUM GUIDE 50 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles Todd Mack, founder of FODFest, an annual concert in honor of slain journalist and musician Daniel Pearl. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Marilyn Crispell Vignettes. Reviewed by Peter Aaron. Spiv U:K So Far Machine. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. The Wood Brothers Loaded. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren.
54 BOOKS Nina Shengold profiles Laura Shaine Cunningham, whose memoir, Sleeping Arrangements, is being read as part of the 2008 One Book One New Paltz event.
56 BOOK REVIEWS Marx Dorrity reviews Why the Dalai Lama Matters by Robert Thurman. Anne Pyburn reviews What Makes a Child Lucky by Gioia Timpanelli and The Night Villa by Carol Goodman.
THE FORECAST 108 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 107 The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats tumble into UPAC on November 1. 109 Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird cracks The Egg in Albany on October 9. 110 Jay Blotcher previews this year’s Woodstock Film Festival, with capsule reviews of over 30 films to be screened at the festival. Plus an interview with Lifetime Achievement Award winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. 117 Graphic novelist Jessica Abel speaks at SUNY New Paltz on October 16. 121 The American Ballet Theater performs works by Jiri Kylian, Twyla Tharp, and Paul Taylor at Bard College’s Fisher Center October 17-19. 125 Through November 2 at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson, the haunting arial paintings and photographs of David Deutsch.
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126 THE ATLANTIS FACTOR Eric Francis Coppolino on the new Atlanteans. Plus horoscopes.
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Inside ellen nieves | oil on unstretched canvas | â€? x ď™‰ď™ƒâ€? | ď™…ď™ƒď™ƒď™Š-ď™ƒď™‹ For Ellen Nieves, painting is a pilgrimage through memory and imagination. When she’s painting, her paintbrush becomes a walking stick. “It’s always an adventure,â€? she says, “a hike into the internal, timeless zone.â€? A work of art is sometimes a search for answers, and it is perhaps no coincidence that Nieves recalls producing her earliest drawings during a period of early childhood when “why?â€? dominated most conversations. Nieves explains that the cover piece, Inside, began “as my projects usually do—with questions.â€? She continues, “I wanted to remember the innocence of my relationship to nature. I wanted to find the animating presence inside my young self that connected me to a tree, or water, or creatures. It wasn’t just an exercise in memory, I wanted to examine how my relationship to nature had changed.â€? Having moved from Detroit to Florida and then to New York City (just in time to chafe under the restrictive limitations of minimalism in the late ‘60s), Nieves finds that “nothing about painting has ever been routine.â€? At her Olive studio, she paints during the day and sometimes into the night, spending as much time painting as she does looking at nature or examining her work. For many years, Nieves’s paintings comprised numinous images of mountains, oceans, and glowing skyscapes. Two years ago, she began introducing figures into her work.These sometimes surreal and symbolic additions define a new focus for her viewers without sacrificing the element of continuity in her artistic intentions. Nieves’s unpeopled landscapes and her figure pieces express the same amplified, spiritual relationship to nature. The differences in style between Nieves’s paintings are like the differences between dialects whose words vary in pronunciation but not in meaning. “People tend to want you to do the same style or subject forever,â€? she says, “I choose to exercise the prerogative of allowing my work to evolve and change. When I reach a crossroad, I need to move forward to reveal deeper dreams as well as frailties.â€? Nieves shies from imposing interpretations on her own work, asserting instead that she is “interested in the different stories they tell to different people.â€? In this way, the fantastic experiences filtered through her memory become our own, roused and colored by her artistry. One especially awe-inspiring aspect of her art—one that does not come across in reproductions—is her affinity for working large; Inside is roughly five-feet square. Ellen Nieves’s paintings will be on display at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, 28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, from October 4 through November 2. An opening reception will be held on October 4, from 4 to 6pm. (845) 679-2940; www.woodstockart.org; www.ellennieves.com. —Christina Kaminski
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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com 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 Christina Kaminski ckaminski@chronogram.com PROOFREADER Candy Martin CONTRIBUTORS Joshua M. Adels, Dorothy Albertini, Emil Alzamora, Larry Beinhart, Molly Belmont, Jay Blotcher, Eric Francis Coppolino, DJ Wavy Davy, Richard Donnelly, Marx Dorrity, Adair K. Fincher, Fenner Osmond Friedman, Kelley Granger, Hillary Harvey, Tom Holmes, Maya Horowirtz, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Ada I.J. Graham Lowengard, Amy Lubinski, Jennifer May, Chuck Mishkin, Veronica Mort, Sharon Nichols, Christopher Porpora, Anne Pyburn, Fionn Reilly, Bethany Saltman, William Seaton, Alifair Skebe, Sparrow, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Robert Burke Warren
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LOCAL LUMINARY JOSEPH NEVINS LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY
It is conventional political wisdom in America to secure and fortify the country’s borders. Joseph Nevins disagrees. At Vassar College, he teaches courses on geography, mass violence, and the partitioning of the global landscape. Nevins has been conducting interviews and doing research on immigration and the US-Mexico border since the Clinton administration. He is increasingly unsettled by the level of surveillance, fences, underground sensors, weaponry, and laws that comprise the boundary-enforcement apparatus. Today, 338 miles of fencing separate the US and Mexico; the Department of Customs and Border Protection plans to have another 332 miles of fence in place before the end of this year. With a total of 20,000 agents expected by next year, the Border Patrol will have doubled in
size since 2001. More than 5,000 migrants have died in attempts to cross the border over the last 10 years; some of them in efforts to return to their US-citizen wives and children. A keen critic of today’s border policies, Nevins powerfully asserts that the more fences we fortify, the more deaths we can expect to see in the borderlands. Produced with the assistance of his partner and wife, photographer Mizue Aizeki, Nevins’s newest book, Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (2008,City Lights Books), is an examination of how and why the US-Mexico borderlands have become what they are, and a memorial to the many migrants who have lost their lives there. —Christina Kaminski
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What role does geography play in immigration? We have a tendency to think about history as dynamic— as always moving; but we tend to think of space as something static. While there might be a physical environment independent of human beings, the way we perceive that environment, the way we act toward it, our practices upon it, mean that we are always creating that environment and, in turn, that environment affects us. The places in which we live our lives—places to which we attach meanings that help define who we are—and the connections and divisions between them are all things that we can, and do, create and change. The nature of these places profoundly informs who migrates, to where, and under what conditions. What are some of the goals of the book? In putting the book together, what we wanted to do is think through how places become “American,” and what it entails for people who aren’t “American,” or people who are nonwhite, given how much “American” and “white” have historically been tied together. What the book is trying to do is to push the envelope. We need to call into question things we see as sacred and beyond question—national boundaries, immigration laws, and the enforcement apparatus—and try to think more creatively and, to the extent that we embrace human rights, try to think of different ways of seeing the world around us that lead to practices consistent with those human rights.
What can one person, or a small group of people, do for immigrants in this country? Reach out to your immigrant neighbors and fellow workers and try to befriend them and offer support in any way possible. Let them know that they are welcome and appreciated in your neighborhood, town, or city. In terms of policy, I think it’s important to continue building what they call “sanctuary cities,” where local officials let it be known that they’re not going to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security in breaking up families and communities by driving people out through deportations. There used to be something called the Sanctuary Movement; during the ’80s, churches, synagogues, and some university campuses offered sanctuary to refugees during the Reagan administration. We have the beginnings of a new sanctuary movement today (www.newsanctuarymovement.org), where a small number of places of worship across the country have said that they will offer shelter to families that are under threat of deportation, especially if they have US-citizen children, as a way of keeping the family together. Do you think that the outcome of the presidential election will effect any major policy changes? While there are differences between the Democrats and the Republicans on the issue of immigration and boundary enforcement, what’s far more striking than the differences are the similarities. The debate is, “Should
we have fences or walls that are 10 feet high or 15 feet high—should they be 700 miles long, or 450 miles long?” not, “Should they be there at all?” Having said that, I think there would be more room to move forward on some sort of regularization of status, what we call amnesty or provision, under Barack Obama than under John McCain. But regardless of who wins the election, if we want to see a border regime that is first and foremost about human rights, one that sees people as “human beings” rather than as “foreigners,” we have a lot of work to do. And that’s not only true in the United States, it’s true across the planet—hence the book's subtitle, “global apartheid”; the problems we see in the USMexico borderlands are, in many ways, manifestations of a global phenomenon. Recommended reading? Read people you think you’re going to agree with, but also those you’re going to vociferously, strongly disagree with, as a way of sharpening your own analysis and calling into question your own assumptions. That’s one of the ways we learn. We have to be willing to make ourselves uncomfortable, to challenge ourselves, to open ourselves to questioning, because otherwise we’re just preaching to the choir. If we’re not willing to consider the things we strongly disagree with, well, that’s really the antithesis of being a thinking person. 10/08 CHRONOGRAM 17
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Upcoming Exhibitions Opening reception for Lilo Raymond and Made By Hand exhibitions: Friday, October 10, 5-8p.m. Lilo Raymond Photographs: An Elegant and Natural Light October 11 – December 14, 2008 Made By Hand: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs and Prints from the Byrdcliffe Art Colony October 11 – December 14, 2008
Public Programs Gallery Tour - Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett. Thursday, October 16 at 7 p.m. Conversation with Photographer Lilo Raymond and NYC Gallery Owner Howard Greenberg Thursday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m.
THEATRE Company Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Oct. 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 at 8 p.m. Oct. 19 & 26 at 2 p.m. McKenna Theatre Box Office opens October 6. www.newpaltz.edu/theatre 845-257-3880
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Wiltwyck Golf Club, Kingston 18 holes of golf, cart, lunch, cocktails, dinner, silent auction and awards ceremony. All proceeds benefit The Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation at New Paltz’s annual Business Scholarship Fund.
Madera Vox Tuesday, October 28 at 8 p.m. McKenna Theatre $6 general admission, $5 seniors/staff, $3 students
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Esteemed Reader Our present society, based on great institutions that control economic resources and political power, tends to strengthen the materialistic and egoistic sides of human nature. We need a new kind of society in which concern for needs of others and of Nature as a whole will predominate over self-interest and fear. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Prospectus for the Claymont Society for Continuous Education, November 1974 Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: My parents were sure the end was nigh, and they intended to be prepared. It was the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, and abundant, fertile land in a remote area was cheap. They learned to build houses by building them.They learned to farm by farming. They started a â&#x20AC;&#x153;free schoolâ&#x20AC;? in a burned-out house and eventually came together as a community and built a schoolhouse. They met often for encounter groups and other varieties of â&#x20AC;&#x153;consciousness-raising.â&#x20AC;? On weekends we marched on one Capitol or another, against nuclear power, against imperialist war mongering. Their solution to the problems of society was to become selfsufficient. To drop out and reject their bourgeois origins. That was almost 40 years ago. Today, the problems that seemed to have us on the brink of disaster are amplified. The balance of nature is teetering under the weight of our environmental impact. Our leaders and their cheerleading team, the media, are so blatantly evil and ignorant as to be laughable. The lumbering behemoths of the multinational corporations are stumbling and falling under their massive girths and the reptilian stupidity of their profitfixated myopia. The feeding of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural resources into the gaping maw of our industrial monsterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which consumes oil, forests, oceans, whole species of animals, glaciers, and peoples before shitting out an amazon of toxic wasteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is on the rise. Social inequality, globalization, and the exploitation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;human resourcesâ&#x20AC;? are rife. We are waking up from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Dream,â&#x20AC;? which was yet another cynical joke at the expense of the malleable masses who stay tethered to the treadmills of industry, futilely stretching toward the dangling carrot (forever out of reach), ultimately falling off the track to be ground into dust as the machinery of progress makes its unstoppable push forward. And there is a sense that, more than ever, despite the ignorant elements in our midst, the world is just too small to think only about personal salvation. Dropping out and becoming â&#x20AC;&#x153;self-sufficientâ&#x20AC;? is no longer the answer. We are in it together. Having lived through the Back to the Land movement, it seems clear to me that what is needed now is best described by an old adage: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be in the world, but not of it.â&#x20AC;?We need to make the new world right here in the midst of the old one. And it is for people to come from ourselves to create something that knits together a meaningful community. We need to create something newâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not spend our precious energy rebelling against the old. The great pitfall of activism and politics is that they engage well-intentioned people with a paradigm that is fundamentally flawed. Even the illusion of democracy in America is dead. Now letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s let the dead bury their dead while we create something new. I look around the community and see so many people doing amazing work that has the remarkable quality of putting their values into action. Here are seven examples that spring immediately to mind, because they all live and work within a half-mile of my home: Pete Taliaferro, and family, and his organic community-supported farm; LagustaYearwood and her impeccable, local, organic, vegan meal home delivery service (and her bicycle powered washing machine); Mario Torchio and his 60 Main Arts Collective & CafĂŠ; Kim Kimble and daughter Noelle Kimble McEntee and their Celebration of the Arts event; James Yastion and the ultra-green strawbale house he built himself; Chris Harp, apiarist, and his passionate work to educate about bees; Ron Khosla, farmer, and his work to organize community farmers nationally under an organic certification independent of the USDA. Seven people doing amazing work in and for the earth and communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and within a half-mile of my home. What if I extended the circle to two miles?! The work for a new world is happening here, now. As the corporate dinosaurs die, the warm-blooded mammalsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;small, interrelated, interdependent communities that operate with an awareness of their own neighborhood and the planet as wholeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;will flourish. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jason Stern
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According to a Census Bureau report released in late August, the number of Americans with health insurance has increased—likely the result of growth in government-sponsored programs. Although the number of people covered by private or employment-based health insurance continued to decline, the overall .5 percent increase from 2006 to 2007 suggests that more are seeking coverage from public programs, especially on behalf of their children. Of the remaining 45.7 million uninsured Americans, 8.1 million of them are under 18. Massachusetts now has one of the lowest rates of uninsured people in the country at 8.3 percent (down from 12.6 percent in 1997), owing to the state’s recent health care overhaul. In New York, the uninsured rate is 13.4 percent, 2 percent lower than the national average. Source: New York Times
Microchip tracking devices have moved from automobiles and electronic devices, to pets, and, finally, people. An epidemic of kidnappings has led some wealthy and middle-class Mexicans to pay $4,000 to have tiny transmitters implanted that can pinpoint their location by satellite. Chipping people has already begun in the US, where VeriChip has inserted chips in 200 Alzheimer’s patients for a pilot program. Other purported uses of the chip include “patient identification,” “wander prevention,” and “emergency management.” Source: New York Times In America, taxpayers have spent over a billion dollars on abstinence-only sex education programs that are generally taught to students in grades 9 through 12. With more than 400,000 pregnant teenagers in the country, America has the highest number of teenage birthrates and abortions among wealthy nations. In Denmark, where 90 percent of teens report having had sex, birthrates and abortions among teenagers are low, at 8.1 (per 1,000 women) and 15.4, respectively (compared to 52.1 and 30.2 in the US). The difference may boil down to the thoroughness and quality of sex education, which begins no later than third grade in Denmark. Source: New York Times
In an effort to curb outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, the government has long allowed radiation treatment for beef, eggs, poultry, oysters, and spices. Fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce will soon join this list. Although the process kills E. coli (which accounts for eight percent of all produce-related outbreaks) and Salmonella (eighteen percent of all outbreaks), FDA-approved gamma radiation treatment does not affect Norovirus, which accounts for 40 percent of all produce-related outbreaks. Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest, New York Times The United States has become a nation of half-home owners: For the first time since World War II, the portion of their homes that Americans actually own has fallen to less than 50 percent (down from 70 percent in the 1980s). In the six years between 1982 and 1988, equity loans outstanding grew from $1 billion to $100 billion as federal laws began to allow mainstream banks to offer second mortgages (under the euphemism “home equity loan”). While banks have continued their persuasive advertising in the hope of transforming the public notion of “debt” into “luxury,” the total amount of outstanding balances on home equity loans now stands at $1.12 trillion. The portion of people who have home equity lines more than 30 days past due stands 55 percent above its average since the American Bankers’ Association began tracking it around 1990. Source: New York Times According to a report by Nielsen, product placement on primetime programming was down nearly 15 percent for the first six months of 2008. This still amounts to some 204,919 conspicuous brand appearances. The drop is largely the result of many former product-placement stalwarts of cable television, such as MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” A&E’s “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” and TLC’s “Miami Ink,” airing less frequently or not at all during this time. Source: Variety
You can donate your body to science, but what about art? Marco Evaristti, the artist who first gained notoriety with his goldfish-in-blenders exhibit at Denmark’s Trapholt Art Museum, has another project in the pipeline. In a demonstration of his opposition to capital punishment, the artist has secured Texas death-row convict Gene Hathorn’s permission to deep freeze the man’s body after his execution and make it into fish food. Visitors to Evaristti’s future exhibition will have the opportunity to feed Hathorn’s freeze-dried remains to a new generation of goldfish. Lawyers in the US dispute the validity of Hathorn’s testament and bequeathal. Source: The Guardian The nation’s first region-by-region analysis of mercury in women’s blood reveals that, in coastal states, sixteen percent of women exceeded blood mercury levels potentially toxic to a fetus, compared with 6 percent among their inland counterparts. The study also found that women with higher incomes tend to have higher mercury levels, likely because they are better able to afford more highly contaminated species of fish, such as swordfish or high-grade tuna. Source: Chicago Tribune
A government study published in September found that the medicines most often prescribed to combat psychotic symptoms in children—Zyprexa, Risperdal, or molindone—are not only less effective than older, cheaper alternatives, but they may also be more dangerous for those most prescribed to them. The fivefold increase in child prescriptions in the past 15 years underscores the widespread assumption that “newer” means “safer and more effective than what we had before,” but children’s bodies are quicker to show the detrimental side effects of these drugs, which can change cholesterol and insulin levels in the body and also contribute to rapid and severe weight gain. Source: New York Times The “quintessentially Indian” question of how to turn occupied farmland into workable industrial space has sparked protests and halted production of the world’s cheapest car, the $2,250 Tata “Nano.” The Tata group acquired 1,000 acres of land in the Singur region to establish a factory for manufacturing the vehicle, but some farmers who had sold land to the company—for a compensation that some economists have criticized as “measly”—later demanded that their land be returned. Protesters have surrounded the plant, blocked main roads, and prevented Tata workers from accessing their workplace in such numbers that the company will now make only a quarter of the number of cars it had originally planned to manufacture. Source: New York Times Compiled by Christina Kaminski
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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note This is Water
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n 2005, the author David Foster Wallace (best, and most infamously, known for his 1,079-page novel, Infinite Jest) gave the commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College. The speech, is a classic of its type, hewing close to the well-worn conventions of the genre. Wallace opens with a parable. He goes on to state banal platitudes and justify them by saying that clichés are vitally important to navigating adult life—wait for it—because they are true.Wallace coyly avers that he is not there (at a podium, in a cap and gown himself) to give advice or lecture about virtues, but then slips in an ethical framework for the graduates to judge themselves against. He points out that life is about the choices we make. He explains what he believes the real value of a college education to be. And when Wallace ends his speech, he does so by informing the class that graduation is not an end, but a beginning—that their real education now commences. Since Wallace killed himself last month, at the age of 46 (he had battled depression all his adult life), the Kenyon speech has been making the rounds, excerpted in obituaries and appreciations. The Wall Street Journal even devoted a full page to printing it in near-entirety. One of the reasons for the popularity of the speech, of course, is morbid curiosity. It makes passing reference to suicide, and we are hardwired to look there for the why.Why would an influential writer—prodigiously gifted, revered by his peers, staking out new territory in 21st-century American letters, the man whom Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times described as able to “do practically anything if he puts his mind to it”—want to kill himself? The speech doesn’t say. The other reason the speech is being so widely referenced is this: It is probably the most truthful and inspiring and funny and useful talk ever given to a graduating class. Wallace manages to walk the windy high-wire between self-help bromides and what amounts to tough-love Buddhism (exhorting the students to minute-by-minute mindfulness) with the finesse of Philippe Petit between the Twin Towers. Call it nitty-gritty positivity, a call to non-self-centered self-consciousness in a grim world still holding the possibility of grace. I have been reading it almost daily since Wallace’s death. It exhibits the guts and sincerity of self-examination that were the hallmarks of his work. While we don’t have the space the run the Kenyon speech in its entirety, I’d like to share the following excerpts. The entire text is widely available on the Internet. —Brian K. Mahoney
Excerpts from David FosterWallace’s 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College: There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?” *** Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal-arts cliché about “teaching you how to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: “Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger. And I submit that this is what the real, no-bullshit value of your liberal-arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out. *** If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important—if you want to operate on your default-setting—then you, like me, will not consider possibilities that aren’t pointless and annoying. But if you’ve really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars—compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff ’s necessarily true: The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re going to try to see it.You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. *** The real value of a real education has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: “This is water, this is water.”
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SILENCE BROKEN Former Comfort Women Await Justice By Adair K. Fincher
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typical winter scene outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea: Three elderly Korean women, too old and too weak to stand, sit with gloved hands frantically waving butterfly-shaped signs written in Korean: “Apologize to us on your knees.” The air is cold. They and their supporters—nuns, the elderly, the young, and the non-Korean—are bundled in heavy winter coats and woolen caps, noses peeking out over tightly wound scarves. A cane sticks out from below the banner draped across the elderly women’s knees. In Japanese, Korean, and English the banner reads, “Wednesday Demonstration to Solve the Japanese Military Comfort Women Issue.” Since 1992—16 years and counting—these elderly Korean women, former inafu, or “comfort women,” and their supporters have braved the elements— rain, sun, heat, and cold—to demonstrate each and every Wednesday at noon. Victims of the Japanese Imperial Army’s comfort-women system, these women were forced, some as young as 10 years old, to sexually service male soldiers from the Japanese armed forces throughout a complex network of state-run brothels in operation from 1931 to 1945—the period known in Japan as the 15 Years War. Originally, more than a dozen former comfort women attended the Wednesday demonstrations. But as the years have passed, their numbers have dwindled as age and sickness have taken its toll. They seek closure in the form of an apology and compensation from the Japanese government for its role in forcing them into sexual servitude during World War II. An apology they have been denied. “I was only 13 years old and did not even know the word ‘menstruation,’” former Korean comfort woman, Kang Duk-kyung, told Sangmi Choi Schellstede and Soon Mi Yu, editor and photographer, respectively, of ComfortWomen Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military (2000, Holmes & Meier), where Kung’s story is recorded. “Many soldiers had come and gone. I could not even begin to count the number of soldiers who raped me,” Kang said. “As I think back on my past, nightmares working as a comfort woman, I want to 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 10/08
believe that it was just a terrible dream. And if it were not a dream, I would like to think of it as my fate, over which I had no control.” Of the estimated 200,000 women who served as sex slaves to Japanese soldiers, 140,000 perished under the well-organized sex-as-comfort system set up and run by the Japanese government. Those who survived did so in silence for 50 years in order to avoid bringing shame on themselves and their families. Former comfort women, scattered throughout Japan’s former colonies and occupied territories—Korea, Taiwan, South Sakhalin, Thailand, Burma, French Indo-China, British Malaysia, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macao, and others—only began telling their stories in 1991, soon after the late Kim Hak-Sun, a former South Korean comfort woman, came forward and began speaking publicly about her experiences. Filing a lawsuit in 1992 in a Japanese court against the Japanese government, Kim demanded an apology and compensation. Her case was still pending when she died in 1997. Inspired by her actions, however, other comfort women came forward, carrying on the fight for apology and compensation in both US and Japanese courts. To date, all cases have been thrown out or ruled against the comfort women. One small victory was achieved in 2007, when the US House of Representatives passed nonbinding House Resolution 121. Fought against by Tokyo, HR 121 calls on Japan to “formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces’ coercion of young women into sexual slavery.” ESTABLISHING SEX FOR COMFORT Founded in 2000, the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women (WCCW) is a nonprofit organization that has worked tirelessly on behalf of the former comfort women. One project WCCW funded was Schellstede and Soon’s book, which involved recording and photographing the lives of 17 elderly Korean comfort women. While rape is a known tool of war used by oppressors to de-
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FORMER SOUTH KOREAN COMFORT WOMEN, WHO WERE FORCED TO SERVE THE JAPANESE MILITARY DURING WORLD WAR TWO WAVE HANDS DURING THEIR WEEKLY RALLY DEMANDING AN OFFICIAL APOLOGY FROM THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IN FRONT OF THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN SEOUL ON AUGUST 1, 2007. THE BANNER READS, “WEDNESDAY’S DEMONSTRATION TO SOLVE THE JAPANESE MILITARY COMFORT WOMEN ISSUE.” MORE THAN 200,000 WOMEN WERE FORCED TO TO SERVE AS COMFORT WOMEN.
moralize the oppressed, the specific stories of these women offer a glimpse at a sexual slavery system that differs from wide-scale accounts of warfront rape or present-day rape accounts of Japanese women raped by American military men stationed in Japan. As Mindy Kotler, director of the Washington-based Asia Policy Point, an organization instrumental in the passage of HR 121, says, “The argument you hear all the time is, ‘Everyone else had prostitutes from the locals, why can’t we [the Japanese]?’ That’s true, the Russians raped their way through Eastern Europe, the Germans set up brothels, but no one ever did this in such a large-scale, organized, state-sponsored way.” Lieutenant-General Okamura Yasuji established the first of the infamous comfort stations in Shanghai, China in 1932. According to George Hicks, author of The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War (W.W. Norton, 1995), the comfort stations were established for two reasons—to reduce the spread of venereal diseases and to stop the mass rape of civilians. The latter was viewed as an embarrassment for a nation seeking civilized equality to the Western powers. “The crippling of whole battalions by venereal disease was not unknown, and the Japanese took such a threat seriously, since they had learned the hard way,” writes Hicks. “In 1918, Japan had taken part in the Siberian Intervention initiated by the Western powers against the revolution in Russia. Between then and 1922, the equivalent of one division out of seven was incapacitated by venereal disease. After 223 reported rape cases by Japanese troops [in Shanghai], he [Lieutenant-General Yasuji] sought a solution by ‘following local naval practice,’” and requested the governor of Nagasaki Prefecture to send a contingent of comfort women to Shanghai. Rape reports then fell off markedly, providing a rationale for the subsequent expansion of military prostitution.” During the 15 Years War, virgins like Kang Duk-kyung were drafted into sexual servitude across Japan’s colonies and occupied territories. Approximately 80 percent of comfort women came from Japan’s primary colony, ra-
cially similar Korea. The Korean comfort women, viewed as inferior by the Japanese—simply by virtue of not being Japanese—were preferable to the culturally distinct Chinese and the darker Southeast Asian women. The use of civilian Japanese women for sexual slavery was out of the question due to the demoralizing effect their exploitation would have had on the troops and the nation. These views proved to be a deadly combination for many Korean women. The survivors sit on the steps of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul every Wednesday. GOVERNMENT POLICY The comfort stations represented “a governmental policy at the highest level,” says Kotler. “There was a policy to create these comfort centers wherever there were these troops. There was a whole manual on how to set them up, what to charge, how long each was allowed according to rank with these women. They had gynecologists assigned to units, not for the health of the women but for the [spread of] VD. They did actuary tables—if you were a certain age, how many guys, how long you were going to last.” The comfort women were drafted through a combination of coercion, false promises of employment, and abduction. Shipped across warring waters on boats destined for military bases throughout the territories, many women died when the ships carrying them were bombed. Once the surviving comfort women reached their final destination, naïve to what their work would be, the women were shown to small rooms—sometimes little more than a larger room divided by pieces of plywood or hanging mats. There they would wait until visited by an officer or soldier who would summarily rape them as an introduction to their new life. Some women attempted suicide. Some succeeded. Some fought only to be beaten and raped for resisting. Others simply resigned themselves to a life of sexual servitude. War-stressed soldiers came in droves and were often drunk, which was in 10/08 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27
violation of the comfort station rules stating that drinking and drunks were forbidden. The soldiers would throw tickets at the women, which the women were required to give to their overseers as proof of payment. Some soldiers were violent, stabbing women because they were not Japanese, because they refused to have sex with the soldier a certain way, or because they insisted that the soldier wear condoms that were provided to them by the Japanese government. The condoms, with names such as Attack Number One, Attack Champion, or Iron Cap, reflected Japan’s male-dominated culture. A woman who became pregnant had no choice but to continue servicing soldiers as her belly swelled or have an abortion. Venereal diseases were rampant. Doctors, who also took advantage of the women, regularly administered “Compound #606,” better known as Salvarsan—the world’s first cure for syphilis. The bodies of the many women who died (and some who were not fully dead) were unceremoniously discarded, buried in unmarked graves or dumped in the woods. Those who survived where often abandoned once the war was over, their uteri in tatters. They either found their own way home, often burying their dark secret in order to avoid the stigma of having had their virginity taken before marriage and to avoid bringing shame on their families. Some of the women remained in the country they found themselves in—too ashamed or sick or poor to return home. Many could not have children, make ends meet, or engage in normal relationships with men. “Some of the stories are embellished over time and some of the stories are so horrific they could only be true,” says Kotler. “The majority of them were throwaway people, women at the lowest rungs of society. There were no options for them.” THE SPECTER OF RACISM Beginning in mid-1943, the Japanese “comfort” system extended to include young, unmarried female Dutch internees in Dutch Indonesia who were forced to service high-ranking officers. “Japanese commanders said, ‘Line up your 17 to 21 year olds,’” explains Kotler. “The mothers would know exactly what was going to happen. So they had to figure out which daughter could handle it and which couldn’t.The ones that couldn’t, they said, ‘Oh, she is sick. Really sick.’ So they lined up the ones they thought could handle it, but not all of them could.” The systematic rape of the young Dutch women grew and on March 1, 1944, there was an official opening of four comfort stations in Samarang, Java. As Yuki Tanaka details in her book Japan’s ComfortWomen: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution DuringWorldWar II and the US Occupation (Routledge, 2001), “When the women refused to serve the Japanese, they were threatened with torture and death for themselves and their families. They were eventually beaten, kicked, and raped on the opening night. Some of these women were raped by [Major] Okada himself as well as by some of the comfort station managers. One of the medical officers, who conducted periodic VD examinations of these women, also raped them.” As was the case with other comfort women, these women attempted suicide and escape, became pregnant or had abortions. However, in the case of the Dutch women, high-ranking Japanese officials, knowing the international community would not approve of the forced and systematic rape of Western women, and trying to ensure that they would not be prosecuted for violations of international humanitarian law, forced, or tried to force them to sign forms stating that they were merely “volunteering.” Thinking that their “consensual” assault of Western women would be ignored was a miscalculation on the part of the Japanese. Aided by the tenets laid out in Article 27 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, an international treaty that regulates the treatment of civilians during war—which states, “Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault”—they were prosecuted by the Dutch after the end of World War II. The Netherlands established the Batavia War Crimes Tribunal and successfully prosecuted 12 Japanese military members who played a role in sexually enslaving Dutch nurses in Samarang. However, their Asian counterparts, who were not forced to sign similar types of forms and who were, therefore protected by international law, have had no prosecutions on their behalf. Some claim racism was the reason behind the prosecution void. “If those victims were European or American, I think that the settlement issue could have been settled a long time ago,” says Dr. Ok Cha Soh, a Wash28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 10/08
ington Bible College professor and former president and current advisor of the WCCW who believes that the international community was not, and is not, interested in what happened to the Asian comfort women. “However, most victims were from Asia, their cases have been delayed and they have been ignored. All the cases have been defeated. I think that there is subtle racial discrimination on this issue.” Indeed, every case put before a Japanese or US court system, except for the Batavia War Crimes Tribunal in 1948, has been shot down. In September of 2000, the WCCW, along with 15 former comfort women, filed a class action lawsuit against Japan under the US Alien Tort Claims Act, used by foreign nationals to prosecute other foreign nationals for wrongs committed on foreign soil. The case, after a number of appeals, was thrown out for the last time in February 2006 after Japan successfully argued sovereign immunity and that compensation had been resolved under postwar treaties. The comfort women are now barred from US courts. BROADENING THE DISCUSSION While there seems to be racial discrimination against the Asian comfort women, Kotler feels that, on the other hand, it has been very difficult to make the Korean activists understand that Korean women were not the only victims of the comfort women system. “Dead men tell no tales,” says Kotler, touching on the fact that many women died making it difficult to know exactly who and what nationalities were victims. Soh adds, “It’s not only an Asian or racial issue, it is also a violation of fundamental human rights regardless of the color of the woman.” Adding to the discussion, Dr. Margaret Stetz, women’s studies and humanities professor at the University of Delaware and co-editor of Legacies of the ComfortWomen ofWorldWar II (M.E. Sharpe, 2001), feels that the shared perspective between Asian and Western feminists has made it possible to openly converse not only about the systematic rape of the comfort women, but also rape in war. In Chapter 5, titled “Wartime Sexual Violence Against Women: A Feminist Response,” Stetz writes, “Today, thanks to Asian and Western feminist agitation, no historian, government, or international tribunal can afford to treat the story of any individual ‘comfort woman’ as lacking ‘significance within the larger picture.’” According to Stetz, Japanese feminists and academics are “leading the way” on the comfort-women issue. They have organized protests, written books, and have recorded and made public interviews with former comfort women. They also arranged a mock tribunal, the Women’s International Tribunal of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, in December of 2000, which was attended by experts on the Japanese army, international law, and psychology, and saw 75 survivors of the comfort system give oral evidence on the atrocities. Although invited, the Japanese government did not attend. The mock tribunal’s judges found Emperor Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan during World War II, guilty of war crimes and the Japanese government in violation of international law. THE HEART OF THE MATTER In 1992,Yoshimi Yoshiaki, a professor at Chuo University in Tokyo, found official documents pertaining to the establishment of the comfort-women system from the 1930s stamped with seals of high-ranking Imperial Army officers. This discovery forced the Japanese government to admit what they had previously denied: that the Japanese Imperial Army had played a role in supervising and managing the slave system. Over the last 15 years, there have been a handful of apologies from various prime ministers and chief cabinet secretaries. Former comfort women do not see the apologies as an official apology from the Japanese government, only from individuals. “The Japanese government, if you understand how the Japanese legislative process works, never did a formal, legal apology to the comfort women,” says Kotler. “What these women felt in their hearts was correct. When you hold [the apologies] up to the critical test—the legislative process and even linguistically—nothing passes as formal.” “An apology by a Japanese prime minister is an individual’s opinion,” Kotler clarified at a February 2007 congressional hearing prior to the adoption of HR121. “For an apology to be official, it would have to be: a statement by a minister in session of the Diet, which is their Parliament; a line or lines in an official communiqué while on an overseas visit; or to be a definitive, a state-
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GIL WON OK, 79, OF PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA, CRIES DURING A HEARING AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS ON NOVEMBER 6, 2007, AS SHE RECALLS HER FIRST TIME AS A “COMFORT WOMAN.” GIL TESTIFIED THAT SHE WAS FORCED AT AGE 13 TO WORK AS A SEX SLAVE FOR JAPANESE SOLDIERS.
ment ratified by the Cabinet. None—and I repeat, none—of these conditions have been met.” The Asian Women’s Fund, which operated from 1995 to 1997 to monetarily compensate comfort women from South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines through private sources, provided a letter of apology from the prime minister in its compensation package on the condition that the comfort women did not pursue further compensation. Most of the women rejected this package and continue to campaign for an official apology from the government, which includes compensation through government funds and recognition of their ordeal through government-approved educational textbooks, which currently contain a watered-down version of their story. US HOUSE RESOLUTION 121 Asia Policy Point and Washington Coalition for Comfort Women, which Kotler and Soh are respectively affiliated with, and other US-based grassroots organizations were instrumental in the July 2007 passage of HR121. Sponsored by Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA) who is of Japanese descent, the resolution calls for Japan to “formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces’ coercion of young women into sexual slavery.” Asia Policy Point demanded use of the word “unequivocal” in the resolution, thus requiring absolute clarity of any apology put forth by the Japanese government, inclusive of the criteria stated by Kotler before Congress. Prior to the passage of HR121, the Japanese Government warned that such a passage would strain relations between the United States and Japan. Since its passage, there has been no headway toward an official Japanese apology, com30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 10/08
pensation, or the correction of historical textbooks. Congressman Honda recently stated another resolution is imminent if an official apology is not given. AN ISSUE FOR OPRAH? “I was surprised that not many American people were aware of the comfortwomen issue,” says Soh after years of lecturing and speaking out. She acknowledges that despite publicity surrounding the passage of HR121, many people are still not aware of the issue. Stetz believes that education is key to creating more awareness, but also feels that time is running out for the comfort women. “I feel that the survivors will not live to see an apology or compensation.” As the already elderly comfort women continue to age and have more and more health-related issues, asking them to participate in awareness campaigns is a double-edged sword. While telling their stories makes them feel important and as if they are creating change in the government, old wounds are opened and the trauma is relived. Most are dealing with their own personal issues and just want to see closure in the form of an apology from the Japanese government. “It is so frustrating that there is so little ‘Oprah’-like attention,” Stetz says, claiming that coverage on such a large scale would generate moral pressure on both the US and Japanese governments. Without such coverage, Stetz feels the Japanese government will continue to ignore the pleas of the comfort women, who will die before receiving the solace they seek. The comfort women seem to feel it, too. As one sign held in the air by a former Filipino comfort woman during the August demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila read, “Where is justice? When we are gone?”
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ere we are, rockin’ and rollin’ on the roller coaster ride of another presidential campaign. Up and down, rippin’ around the corners. At one moment, it looked like a straight-ahead, smooth road to the White House for Barack Obama. After all, the Republicans had been running all branches of the government since 2001 and everything they’d done had turned out wrong. Hillary did her part for Obama. Bill did too. Focus on the Family organized prayers for a deluge on the night of Obama’s acceptance speech in the open air stadium. But there were clear skies. As if God had finally switched sides (or Focus had one of their prayer glitches and actually called for Texas, a Republican stronghold, to be flooded by mistake.) Barack appeared and seemed worthy of the satire that “The Daily Show” did of him as the Lion King. Then, suddenly—They Were Back. They had a pit bull wearing lipstick (her own description). She became the new number one celebrity. From the PTA to the governor’s mansion to the podium at the Republican National Convention. A moose-huntin’, boot-wearin’, ex-beauty queen mom from the backwoods. Davy Crockett with cleavage and five chillun. There is no doubt about it, she is not an elitist. She is an authentic Wal-Mart shopper. When she was mayor, she helped transform her hometown of Wasilla from the crystal meth capital of Alaska into the crystal meth capital of Alaska with a strip mall of big-box stores. John McCain and the Republican noise machine then proceeded to run on “Change!” They proceeded to run against the Washington the Republicans had been in charge of for the last seven years. As the real reformers! Against special interests and lobbyists! (Never mind that almost all of the people running McCain’s campaign are lobbyists. That the head of his transition team—should he win—is a lobbyist.) McCain and Palin are running for Victory in Iraq. Never mind that Bush, Maliki, and General Petraeus have all already signed off on what is essentially Obama’s plan for phased withdrawal of US combat forces over, roughly speaking, 18 months. (Oh, you didn’t know that?You can’t expect the media to make a big deal out of something so minor.) It was like McDonald’s advertising itself as the cure for America’s epidemic of obesity. They didn’t even bother to change management or the menu. The scary part was that it was working. It should not have been. After all, we had just been through the Bush years. It was assumed that we had finally tired of a guy who said we were doing a good job in New Orleans during Katrina, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda, that the Mission Was Accomplished, that Americans do not torture people, that his tax cuts would produce “good jobs” and balance the budget, that the economy was sound. And that we didn’t want another guy like him.
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It was assumed that we had finally awakened to reality. That we could tell the difference between ridiculous assertions (spin, distortion, lies, delusions, TV-induced wackiness) and reality. It was assumed that even die hard Republicans were tired of it. That they could read their broker’s statements, do the numbers and see that their IRAs and Keoghs and trust funds were in trouble. That the Reagan ex-Democrats could see their $28-an-hourplus-health-care-and-pension jobs disappearing, and that if there were any jobs to replace them, they were $9-an-hour-no-benefits-take-this-urine test-and-polygraph-and-swear-that-you-put-the-company-first jobs. That the hoo-rah, hoo-rah militarists would have noticed that their clowns didn’t know how to pick an enemy or run a war. That even (some) of the racists had been appalled by “Heckuva Job” Brownie. And noticed that not only had the levees not been fixed, even the trash in the streets of New Orleans hadn’t been picked up yet. It was a bad assumption. Suddenly, the election looked like a dead heat. With the race factor lurking in the background—no one is able to tell how many people will, when they go into the booth, say they just can’t vote for a black person—it seemed possible that McCain could win. This campaign—America’s future—is a contest between delusion and reality. Selling delusions has its advantages. You’re free to say whatever you think consumers are most likely to buy. You are unconstrained by facts, reason, history, contradictions and cognitive dissonance. Selling reality is comparatively much more difficult.Think of it as a nutritionist trying to compete with McDonalds. Obama is pretty good at it. He dresses it up as Change—which we do need—and Hope, and tries not to be too specific. It had worked very well for him, but after the Republican National Convention, his campaign seemed to have stalled. Then reality stepped in. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. The market dove 500 points in one day. AIG needed to be bailed out. While McCain was saying the economy was basically sound. At last, the Democrats came out swinging. It’s not over. Unless it is. But it probably isn’t. The Republicans will fight back. There will be a barrage of pundits and advertisements blaming the Democrats and claiming the Mavericks were always against the corrupt Wall Street Bankers. And there are lots more things that can happen between now and the first Tuesday in November. Gaffes, terrorist attacks, more bad news in the market, scandals. Who knows what. Here’s my prediction. If reality stays in the spotlight, Obama will win. If reality calms down and steps back, delusion will seize the opportunity. Then McCain can win. Proving that not only can you put lipstick on a pig, you can get America to marry it.
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few springs ago, photographer Steven Planck was cleaning out his mother’s attic. He was sorting through 25 years of detritus that had accumulated in the neglected space when he came across the relics of his childhood: three cardboard boxes full of well-used stuffed animals, Matchbox cars, and GI Joe figures. He found Voltron action figures and a Lazer Tag game he had shared with his sister. He found an old dictionary given to him by his absent father and a treasured stuffed bear he called L’il Truff. These unexpected discoveries brought back years of childhood memories and put him right back in elementary school with all its innocent pastimes. As he looked through the boxes, he became a kid again, looking forward while still simultaneously looking back as an adult. “It’s nice to reflect on where you’ve come from, and where you are today, and whether or not you’re closer or further from where you thought you’d be,” Planck says. But the boxes also forced him to confront, in real space and time, just what he gave up from his childhood. He was struck by how much most adults sacrifice to conformity, and how much wisdom they lose in the search for understanding. The experience was a profound one for Planck and inspired a sprawling photography project that is at once a meditation on youth and aging and an attempt to recover early innocence. Through this project, Planck wants to reconnect people with their childhoods, when there was room for a little fun.
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“We’re all consumed by the pressure of everyday things,” Planck says. “I just don’t think we’re enjoying life anymore.” Planck conceived the portrait project as a three-part series, with a distinctly different look for each component. He dubbed the series thetwentytenproject (www.thetwentytenproject.com) for the planned year of its completion and held his first open photo shoot last April, when he shot over 500 frames. Next month, on November 15 and 16, he will hold another open photo shoot at his Wappingers Falls studio—a sunny, white space in the Market Street industrial park that he shares with several other photographers. The studio is organized into four different shooting spaces, replete with lighting equipment, backdrops, and props, but the vibe remains relaxed and informal. For the first piece of the project, Planck shoots his subjects with toys from their childhood, in a black-and-white, flat, naturalistic style. In these portraits, the toys take on a totemic significance. These portraits are a little lonely, capturing their subjects and the objects they hold dear in an isolated and vulnerable moment, not unlike childhood itself. When Tommy Confrey heard about the upcoming shoot, he knew exactly the toy he would bring. “Have you heard of Labyrinth?” Confrey asks. Confrey recalls the hours he spent sitting at a tiny table in a tiny chair hunched over the game, trying to navigate a marble through the wooden maze.
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PREVIOUS SPREAD AND ABOVE: UNTITLED PHOTOS FROM STEVEN PLANCK’S THETWENTYTENPROJECT
He appreciates Planck’s vision for the project. “I think it’s an interesting idea, how you move from being a child to adulthood, and how you have to move away from being happy and carefree, and box yourself up to be an adult,” he says. In the second piece of the project, Planck offers a colorful, highly stylized version of play, shooting his subjects with their faces pressed up against a plane of glass. They’re hamming it up for the camera the way they did when they were kids, but in so doing, they provide a startling view of adulthood— wrinkles, stubble, bald spots, and all. Franc Palaia participated in this shoot and said the experience was fun and comfortable. In one shot, Palaia is creeping in from the bottom of the frame, face smushed up against the glass, eyes cast heavenward, nostrils flared, a shock of salt-and-pepper hair wreathing his head. “When you’re doing it, there’s no way you can tell what it looks like,” he says. For the third piece, Planck is photographing his subjects in confined spaces. He is wedging them into the tight spots that are synonymous with adulthood, when people become hemmed in by deadlines, schedules, worry, and responsibility. The portraits are “a little rebellious,” Planck says. They represent an opportunity for subjects to play outside the boundaries of adult expectations 36 COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK CHRONOGRAM 10/08
about “how you’re supposed to look and act, and what is and isn’t expected of us.” Taken as a whole, the project is an elegy for the childhoods we had, and a yearning for the ones we didn’t. Not surprisingly, Planck categorizes his own childhood as “a little traumatic, a little chaotic.” Planck’s parents divorced when he was just three years old, and after the divorce his father slipped out of the picture and never really returned. His mother worked long hours, and Planck recalls being on his own a lot. He and his sister spent a lot of time by themselves, making their own fun, he said. Over the years, he received sporadic letters from his father, full of cautionary advice about enjoying his youth. One letter, charmingly titled “Bird’s Nest Soup,” advised, “Never move so fast or get so far ahead of yourself that you can’t slow down and smell the roses.” Through thetwentytenproject Planck has given us the opportunity to explore our own neglected inner spaces. He wants us to open that old box of relics and examine its contents.We are afforded an opportunity to reclaim the essential parts of ourselves and to reconnect with the joy of living. Planck is careful to emphasize that he doesn’t have an agenda for this show. He doesn’t want to tell people what to think, or what to do, but he hopes that the photographs will remind them of the things they’ve forgotten. “I hope that they smile,” he says. “That’s the only thing I could hope for.”
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Spencer Ainsley, Recluse, 1991. “Beyond the Woods,” an exhibition of Ainsley’s photographs, will be at Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery this month.
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Portfolio Lilo Raymond
Lilo Raymond’s photographs relentlessly pare away the inessential, presenting simple subjects—a neatly made bed, a vase of flowers by a window, the carved stone face of an angel from a funeral monument—enveloped in a rich veil of natural light. Born in 1922, in Frankfurt, Germany, Raymond fled the Nazi regime when she was 16, settling in New York, where she became part of the bohemian Greenwich Village art scene, taking various jobs as an artist’s model, a waitress, and even a tennis pro. She came to find her poetic vision only later in life, seriously taking up photography only in her late 30s, when she studied with the legendary photographer and fine art printer David Vestal at the Photo League.
She began exhibiting her work at various galleries in the ’70s, eventually moving to the Hudson Valley some 20 years ago. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others. A retrospective exhibition of Raymond’s photographs, “Lilo Raymond Photographs: An Elegant and Natural Light,” will open at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz with a reception on October 10 at 5pm. She will be receiving a Vision Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, at its 2008 gala in a ceremony at the Bearsville Theater on October 11. www.liloraymond.com. —Beth E. Wilson
Bed, Amagansett, gelatin silver print, 1977 LILO RAYMOND ON HER WORK Seeing shades of gray
Staying centered
Delayed entry
At one point in my very early years, I thought I would like to be a painter, but it took too much imagination. I liked seeing things in front of me, things that I could connect with. I couldn’t do it without something concrete. It turned out all right, I guess. I just sort of plugged along, and I didn’t pay much attention to what else was going on in the world. I made my own little world, and I liked that a lot. I look at things in black and white—I say, “Oh, this might be a good picture.” I see things, and it’s absolutely in black and white, like I have some glasses on that change things. It’s awesome, it really is.
I have the same camera I started off with. Well, not quite, it’s a Nikon 35mm, but I had a 2¼ when I started out, I think it was a Minolta, a copy of a Rolleiflex. I started with that, but then somebody I knew went to Japan and brought back the 35mm. I’m very conservative, I don’t change easily. If something works, why not use it? That’s my attitude. I was never looking for what’s new, what’s different. That has something to do with really getting serious at a more advanced age. I knew who I was, and what I liked, so I didn’t have to go through all that other stuff.
When I was a teenager, before I left Germany, nice Jewish girls and boys had to learn a trade. I had a friend who was attached to a photographer and I thought that it was really interesting. But my parents had to pay for [the training], so somehow I ended up as a millinery person, and hated every moment of it. That was the beginning of it. Then I came over [to the US] at age 16, and I went to Sid Grossman’s class at the Photo League. I came to a class with some pictures I had taken, and I put them on pink and blue mattes, and everybody laughed. And that was it—I never picked up a camera again until my late thirties.
I always had that approach. I was always centering in on very simple things, like a vase of flowers. That’s how my still life came about. But I always had that sense of simplifying things [with my photographs]. I think what I do is that I stare at something, and then it invites me to take a picture.
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I never thought of photography as a technology. Photography suits me perfectly, I find it very expressive. How many pictures can one take in a lifetime, that will mean something to yourself, or to others? My students [at the School of Visual Arts] loved me, because I told them I only take one picture a year that I really liked.
Finally one day a friend of mine who was a photographer took me by the arm to David Vestal’s class, which started at seven on Friday night, and ended at two or three or four in the morning. It was wonderful. We talked about everything, including the kitchen sink. Coming in at an advanced age, I didn’t have to go through a lot of things, like copying
Clockwise from top left: Untitled (oysters), gelatin silver print, 1971 Face (#4), gelatin silver print, 1993 Window in Studio, gelatin silver print, 1990 Sculpture, France, gelatin silver print, 1995 All images courtesy of the artist.
things, or doing grunt work in the darkroom. I think it’s true of anything that people do—if they do it in their 20s versus their late 30s, there’s quite a difference.
air conditioner in a studio, with a silk scarf blowing with a wind machine, or whatever. I couldn’t believe it. They went to great lengths to get the essence of a person’s work, but to commercialize it. I had a good time, though.
Going commercial
[Photographer] Peter Hujar lived around the corner from me. He was an exceptionally nice man—peculiar, but nice. He was at my house one day, when somebody mistakenly called to ask if I would do this wedding. So I asked Peter, “Would you like to do this wedding together?” He said yes, so we did. Let me tell you—I knew nothing about using a flash, or artificial light. And whenever I looked, Peter was having a wonderful time eating. It was a total disaster. I was an available-light photographer, and I had no lights—the photographs were awful. I didn’t know you had to do all this like the grandparents, and the bridesmaids, and all that. I haven’t the vaguest idea whose wedding it was now—I’m sure I’ve blocked it. Peter mostly ate, and he didn’t worry about anything. At that time, being a photographer wasn’t
I also worked commercially for many years, taking, strangely enough, interiors for magazines, because they found me (I didn’t seek the clients out). In the very beginning, with David Vestal’s class, commercial photography was a big no-no. At that time he was a real purist, but I don’t think he is so much anymore. In a way, I enjoyed the whole thing. I got to travel, I had an assistant who was an ex-student of mine. I enjoyed the commercial work because it was a group effort, it was so different from doing my own work. And I made a living at it. The most money I ever made [on a commercial job] was a black-and-white picture of a central air conditioner. They paid me $6,000—I can’t still believe it—to photograph this
a big deal. We all scrambled around for a living, doing this, that, and the other thing. It didn’t have this awe attached to it. It never occurred to me that some day somebody would honor me. What have I done? Fifty good pictures, period! On recognition I came to the Hudson Valley in the late 1980s. At first I just came here for weekends in the summer, and then New York City was getting impossible, so I moved. I really love it up here. The Center [for Photography at Woodstock] has been wonderful. What I am most interested in now, though, is the exhibition at the Dorsky Museum. I never thought I would have another exhibit. It’s wonderful. That’s really what I care about. I don’t care so much about being honored [with the Vision Award]. Actually, it sort of embarrasses me. It’s been a long life in photography. It’s almost too late, but it is good to have this recognition now.
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Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON
AESTHETIC DIS(INTEREST) Should art attempt to engage politics? Ever? This sort of question is only possible in a world in which the very idea of beauty has been shorn of all connection to the world, to the complex of human interaction and the web of knowledge and language that we live in every day. How could such a radical separation be possible? The wrenching of beauty away from everything else is actually a fundamental tenet of much thought since the Enlightenment. Philosopher Immanuel Kant notably rendered the essential components of the judgment of beauty as disinterested, universal, and necessary—the beautiful manifests as “purposiveness without purpose,” that is, as something that seems important, as though it has to be in the way that it is, but without direct, utilitarian function. Kant wasn’t just being arbitrary when he organized his aesthetics in this way—like any great philosopher, his thought is a kind of tuning fork that vibrates sympathetically with the larger social and cultural forces of its context, which for him was Europe on the brink of the Industrial Revolution, and the birth of modernity as we still very much experience it today (even if with a postmodern twist here and there). Out of this cauldron of ideas emerged the notion of “high art,” the separation of such high art from lowly manifestations such as craft (which is, after all, utilitarian), and the reification of the artist as the genius-demiurge, the embodiment of creativity itself. Such division of cultural labor has had more than just a theoretical impact on all of us. With the rise of industrial society, the important work of asking why, of radically rethinking the frameworks for thinking and living, for working and engaging with one another, has been pushed aside, allowed the bohemian ghetto here and there, but never admittance to the mainstream. Artists are weird, you know? It’s so much easier just to shut up and do your job, get that paycheck. But a creative double-standard has evolved over time. Public relations emerged as a new art form in the 20th century, alongside its older sibling, ad42 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM 10/08
vertising. There is creative thought involved in both of these undertakings, but always of an indelibly utilitarian nature—“buy this,” “believe that,” they always say, and always in support of the specific needs of wealth (corporations) and power (the government). Where might we be today if the reporters covering the run-up to war had been more creative in their thinking, more questioning of the bogus information trotted out by Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the gang in 2002 and 2003? How many Americans to this day still believe that Iraq had something—anything—to do with al-Qaeda and 9/11? (The responsibility falls not only on the news media, but also everyone who saw, heard, or read any of this news as well.) The show open now at TSL in Hudson is a stark contrast to such political quietism. “War: Material and Lies” is a scorching rejoinder to passivity of any sort, but especially the kind that allowed the current debacle in Iraq to take place. Most bluntly addressing that blind spot is a work dating to 2003, the year of the war’s start. R. Muttmussman’s (obviously the Duchampian nom de guerre of TSL founder Linda Mussman) Thinking While Reading Series, in which she dissects pages from the New York Times with blue and red Sharpie marker notes, arrows connecting stories and individuals, and outraged responses to outrageous claims that were otherwise dutifully transcribed from White House press briefings into the pages of our “paper of record.” Now, the “R. Muttmussman” work is certainly not physically or visually beautiful, although it is a manifestation of the kind of creativity that I’ve been talking about. There are other works in the show, however, that embrace both, in particular a series of monoprints by Marist College’s Ed Smith. All printed with the same soft blue ink, each print bears the color in its title—Blue Cloud, Blue Pole, Blue Tunnel, et cetera. The intimacy and immediacy of the monoprint process (where the artist applies ink directly to the plate, without incising or etching lines into it) translate here into delicate yet precise images. Blue Tree,
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for example, beautifully renders a small landscape, dominated in the center by a blackened, scraggly tree that appears to be holding its ground against rising waters. Twisted lines dangling from the branches remind me of nooses, setting up a recollection of Goya’s famous Disasters of War portfolio of etchings, where one finds quite similar blasted trees, hung with the tortured fruit of summary military executions. Only in Blue Pile is Smith quite so graphic, where the eponymous pile is a heap of skulls, shown killing-fields style; otherwise, the Goya reference itself is sufficient to generate a harrowing feeling that, combined with the extraordinary economy of means of the prints themselves, makes for a surprisingly effective, intimate interlacing of beauty and horror. There are many other examples of the juxtaposition of the beautiful and the political here—Carla Rae Johnson’s series of monumental (8-by-12-foot) charcoal drawings, Snarl, Shred, and Shame, which each apply the stars and stripes to configurations suggested by the titles; or Jane Gennaro’s delicate, meditative, monochromatic collages on life, war, and mortality using materials like deer bones and pigeon eggs. Sam Sebren’s Walls: Price vs. Cost translates the Caterpillar heavy equipment logo (a piece of instrumental graphic design itself) into an ironic memorial for peace activist Rachael Corrie, who was run over and killed by an armored bulldozer by the Israeli Defense Forces while protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes in the Gaza strip in 2003. But the real show stopper here is Berta Leone’s E PLURIBUS UNUM (Out of Many, One), an American flag-cum-wall-hanging constructed out of 30,000 spent bullet casings painstakingly punched and wired together. (The whole thing weighs 500 pounds!) Leone made the piece in 2001, finishing it in late summer after months of laborious work. She told me she went to visit with friends in Canada not long after, planning to stay for some months, but then 9/11 happened—and she felt like she needed to “come home.” It’s amazing how the shifting frame of world politics has relocated the emotional core of this powerful piece, and perhaps it’s a testament to both the vision of the artist and the beauty of the finished work that it can withstand the vagaries of US foreign (and domestic) policy so well—or perhaps it’s telling us something about the trajectory the country was already on, even before 9/11. Regardless, experiencing the work in this exhibition underscores for me the ever greater need to find ways of re-incorporating the beautiful, deploying the power of the aesthetic, into the sphere of otherwise business-as-usual politics. Connecting these dots is an exercise that not only artists need to dedicate themselves to.
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KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER
Opening Friday, October 10, 5pm-8pm.
5348 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-3104.
34 TINKER AVE, WOODSTOCK 679-2079.
“Snow: Beauty or Beast.” Featuring works in all media relating to snow, ice, winter and the color white in general. Through November 1.
“Pollock-Krasner Fellows Exhibition.” Through October 19.
“Made By Hand: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs and Prints from the Byrdcliffe Art Colony.” October 10-December 14.
GO NORTH GALLERY 469 MAIN STREET, BEACON GONORTHGALLERY@HOTMAIL.COM. “Abstract Endeavors.” Group exhibition of abstract-based art by 10 distinguished local and international artists. Through October 5.
GRIMM GALLERY 6 BROADHEAD AVENUE, NEW PALTZ 255-1660. “A Notion to Sew.” 19th century needlework of Hylah Hasbrouk and her daughters. Through October 31.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Expressionist Landscapes.” Caio Fonseca, Sibylle Szaggars, Stephen Hannock and Tom Slaughter. October 4-28.
Opening Friday, October 10, 5pm-8pm.
LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633.
STONE WINDOW GALLERY
“Reflective Moments.” Photographs by Susan Zimet. October 5-November 12.
17 MAIN STREET, ACCORD 626-4932.
Opening Sunday, October 5, 4pm-5pm.
“Glass Mosaics and Photographs by Bob Roher.” October 12-November 14. Opening Sunday, October 12, 2pm-5pm
MARIANNE COURVILLE GALLERY 341 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 755-4208.
TALEO ARTS CENTER
“Hans Namuth: Selected Portraits 1950-1981.” Through October 12.
275 WEST SAUGERTIES ROAD, WOODSTOCK 810-0491. “Elaine Fasulu Solo Show.” October 2-14. Opening Thursday, October 2, 4pm-7pm.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241.
TERENCHIN FINE ART
“Recent Works by Kevin Cook and John Varriano.” Through October 15.
462 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 945-1808. “Newton’s Third Law.” An exhibition of works by Kara Thurmond and Andrew Amelinckx. Through October 12.
MEZZALUNA CAFE 626 RTE 212, SAUGERTIES 246-5306.
TIME AND SPACE LIMITED
“Three Women-Three Visions.” Photography. Through October 25.
434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-8448.
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438.
MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY
“Between The River and the Sky.” Vincent Pomilio. October 4-November 1.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP
26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK 800-662-WINE.
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342.
“Art in the Loft: Fall 2008.” Through November 16.
“Natural Forces.” Textile prints and wood-fired pottery by Susan Kotulak. Through October 12.
Opening Saturday, October 4, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670.
“Two Takes on Nature.” Paintings by Barbara Walter. Through October 12.
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100.
“Very Mixed Media!” A solo exhibit of drawings, paintings & collage by Jeannie Friedman. Through October 26.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY
“Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums. Through July 26.
MORGAN LEHMAN GALLERY
“Between Stations.” Sculptures by Richard Dupont. Through December 21.
“The Art of Giving.” Holiday show. October 25-January 4.
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Opening Saturday, October 25, 5pm-8pm.
“Rootless Algas.” Grimanesa Amoros. Through December 21.
“Franklin Evans, Kysa Johnson, and Katia Santibaez.” Through October 12.
“Waking Planet: Visions of the World We Can Create.” Works by 25 artists exhibiting their visions of a better world. Through October 19.
246 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL (845) 534-5ART.
MORTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY 82 KELLY STREET, RHINECLIFF 876-2903.
UNISON ARTS AND LEARNING CENTER
“Western Visions.” Photo images by Tom Doyle, paintings by Paul Gould and guest artists. October 10-November 23. Opening Friday, October 10, 5pm-8pm.
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2 MAIN STREET, HYDE PARK 229-7791.
336 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5090.
UNISON GALLERY
“Works by Madeleine Segall-Marx.” October 11-31.
WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559.
Opening Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm-9pm.
“Paintings and Drawings by David Deutsch.” Through November 2.
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“Big Deep & Mythic Reflections.” Bill Miller works with reclaimed linoleum, pieced together into paintings that create an effect somewhere between collage and stained glass. Through October 17.
“Down the Shore.” Exhibition of photographs by Tony Gonzalez. Through October 11.
“Bill Miller Exhibit.” Reclaimed vinyl flooring, pieced together into paintings. Through October 17.
3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
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HUDSON VALLEY GALLERY
“Gavin and Gunning Glass.” October 10-31.
PEARL GALLERY “Living on Earth.” Solo show of sculpture and photography by Robert Hite. Through October 26.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907.
PEARLDADDY GALLERY
“Paintings by Laurel Sucsy.” Through October 5.
183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169.
“Paintings by Gabriel Phipps.” October 9-November 2.
“Lucie Tatarova: Fractal People.” Soft sculpture, print, and textile creations from Prague. Through December 7.
Opening Saturday, October 11, 6pm-8pm.
KENT CABOOSE GALLERY 11 RAILROAD STEET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 248-8800. “Remember When...” Through October 12.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. “Paintings by Thom Grady.” Large-sized portraits. October 4-31. Opening Saturday, October 4, 5pm-7pm.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Forgotten Spaces.” Photographs by Ellen M. Galinsky. Through October 6.
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“War: Materials and Lies.” Through October 28.
68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Sticks.” 5 person group show inspired by an appreciation of the spare beauty of sticks. October 12-31. Opening Sunday, October 12, 5pm-7pm.
“Norman Turner Five Paintings, Five Drawings.” Through October 5. “Ro Calhoun: Walls of Healing.” Through October 1. “Surprise.” 1st Annual Mini-Works Show. October 3-31. Opening Friday, October 3, 5pm-7pm.
VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “EV/LES- A Retrospective.” Retrospective of the East Village and Lower East Side art scene with over 50 artists. Through October 5.
VERDIGRIS ART +TEA 13 SOUTH THIRD STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-3139. “Nature Lust.” Works by photographer B. Docktor. October 4-November 23.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Indian Summer.” Oil paintings Bruce and Lita Thorne. October 1-31. Opening Saturday, October 4, 5pm-8pm.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. “Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett.” Retrospective of richly colored brooches, necklaces and pendants. Through November 16. “Lilo Raymond Photographs: An Elegant and Natural Light.” October 10-December 14.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Inside & Outside the Box.” Wild and fantastic artists-made boxes. October 3-19. “Recent Work: by Ellen Rieves.” October 4.
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Music FIONN REILLY
BY PETER AARON
TODD MACK, FOUNDER OF FODFEST, WITH A PICTURE OF DANIEL PEARL ON HIS GUITAR.
NOT FADE AWAY FODfest Celebrates the Life of Daniel Pearl
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n February 1, 2002, when Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan by the terrorists who kidnapped him, the world lost much more than an accomplished, highly acclaimed journalist. It also lost a beloved son. A loving husband. The father of a new baby boy. A selfless, giving friend to many. And, in a fact less widely reported by the media Pearl served, the Earth was also robbed of a skilled, avid musician, one who loved endless varieties of music and threw himself into the joyful act of performing with the same deep passion he reserved for the revelatory stories he filed as a correspondent. “Danny was a really big music-head,” says radio host, producer/engineer, and musician Todd Mack, who was a close pal of the late journalist and launched FODfest—FOD being an acronym for Friends of Danny—in 2004. FODfest is a concert tour that takes place every October as part of Daniel Pearl World Music Days, a global event organized by the larger Daniel Pearl Foundation. “[Pearl] was an incredible musician, a classically trained violinist who loved Bach and all the masters. But he was also totally crazy about bluegrass, loved Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, David Grisman, Mark O’Connor. And he was a huge fan of timeless rock stuff like Springsteen, Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones. Bob Marley, Willie Dixon. All kinds of stuff.” Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1963 to a Palestinian-born Israeli father and an Iraqi Jewish mother and grew up in LA’s Encino area. From 1981 to 1985 he majored in communications at Stanford University, cofounding a student newspaper, earning a bachelor’s degree, and graduating with honors. He briefly interned as a Pulliam Fellow at the Indianapolis Star, took an eye-opening trip to Europe, China, and the Soviet Union, and relocated to the Berkshires, where he worked for the North Adams Transcript and the Berkshire Eagle. Next came a position at the San Francisco Business Times, and eventually a coveted post with the Wall Street Journal’s Atlanta bureau in 1990. But no matter where his occupation took him, Pearl’s violin came along, too. Whenever the young reporter-musician had free time in a new location, be it in the US, Europe, or the Middle East, he would almost immediately seek out the local jam sessions and sit in. “I actually met in Danny in Atlanta in 1991, when I was going to school there,” recalls Mack from the control room of his Off the Beat-n-Track Recording Studio in Sheffield, Massachusetts, where he records independent artists and his weekly syndicated “Off the Beat-n-Track Radio Show” (heard locally on WKZE 98.1 FM). “I’d put an ad in the [Atlanta] entertainment paper for a violin player and he answered it. He showed up to jam and right away we just totally clicked, both musically and personally. It was wild, we loved a lot of the same music and got to be great friends really quickly. Danny could play anything he put his hands on; besides violin, he played bass and piano. And he picked up mandolin right away, no problem. I think he loved that instrument mostly because he could fit it in his suitcase really easily.” After three years of rollicking Southern jam sessions, the two friends went their separate ways, Mack to Western Massachusetts and Pearl to the Wall Street Journal’s Washington, DC, bureau to cover telecommunications. In 1996, Pearl transferred to the Journal’s London office, along the way penning acclaimed stories that included a piece on a Stradivarius violin that was found on a highway on-ramp and another on Iranian pop music. Pearl’s most prestigious articles, however, were his exposes on the Balkan ethnic wars, in which he uncovered that the charges of an alleged genocide in Kosovo were unsubstantiated, and on the American missile attack on a supposed military site in Khartoum, which he proved to be a pharmaceutical factory. Pearl was in Karachi working on a story about would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid when he was abducted by a militant group called the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty. “I really think Danny took that assignment as way to get around covering the lead-up to the US invading Iraq,” says Mack. “I know he was disgusted with how the press was totally caving in to and not challenging the [Bush] administration.” Pearl’s kidnappers claimed he was a CIA agent and threatened to kill him unless their demands, which included the release of all Pakistani terror detainees, the end of US presence in the region, and the halting of a shipment of F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan, were immediately met; the group distributed photos and videos of Pearl in captivity via the Internet. But after 10 tortuous, gut-wrenching days that captivated the
world, the journalist was eventually murdered by his captors. Pearl’s killers were later caught, and the ringleader has been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder (no date has been set for his execution and his lawyers have filed an appeal, maintaining that one of the other participants is the actual killer). “The day Danny was killed was the blackest day of my life,” says Mack, his eyes tearing up as he recalls learning of the murder. “When I got the call saying he’d been killed, I just froze, I literally couldn’t move for, I don’t know, several minutes. But then I got right on the phone to let Danny’s friends know. I wanted them to hear it from me first, instead of from Dan Rather or someone like that.” Pearl’s son, Adam Daniel Pearl, was born three months after the murder. Even after his death, Pearl’s story has continued to resonate with the public, becoming the subject of numerous books, including a collection of his writing, At Home in theWorld (2002, Free Press), and an HBO documentary, The Journalist and the Jihadi:The Murder of Daniel Pearl, and inspiring musical works by composers Steve Reich and Russell Steinberg. Most famously, A Mighty Heart (2007, Scribner), the memoir by Pearl’s widow, Mariane Pearl, was adapted into a 2007 film of the same name starring Angelina Jolie. But perhaps the reporter’s greatest legacy is the Daniel Pearl Foundation, which was established by his parents, Judea and Ruth Pearl, shortly after his death to further the ideals that inspired his life and work by promoting cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and other forms of communication. The organization’s board includes such figures as Bill Clinton, Queen Noor, Christiane Amanpour, Ted Koppel, Itzhak Perlman, Elie Wiesel, and others, and sponsors Daniel Pearl Music Days, a week-long, worldwide series of concerts that takes place around Pearl’s October 10 birthday. To coincide with the annual event, Mack founded FODfest in 2004, staring out with a modest concert in the backyard of his studio/home. Since then, the happening has grown to become a three-week national tour of folk-based jam sessions that this year kicks off with an October 10 concert at the Mahawie Theater in Great Barrington, wends its way south to Atlanta and Nashville, and finishes in California. Mack and several other musicians will perform on all 20 dates of the volunteer-run, donation-funded tour, but the majority of the players are local to each of the itinerary’s stops. “The sessions are free to attend, and we try to give anyone who wants to play the chance to sit in,” says Mack. “Last year we had so many people who wanted to play we had to turn some away. But this time we’re a lot more organized and prepared. Before, I did the booking and a lot of the groundwork but now we’re working with a booking agency and a PR firm. So, hopefully, I won’t get an ulcer.” The 2007 tour featured over one hundred musicians from 14 states and three countries; this year, Mack expects upward of 250 players from all parts of the globe. “FODfest is the true embodiment of Danny’s spirit—a tour he would definitely not miss,” says Judea Pearl, a revered computer scientist and philosopher who has taught at UCLA since 1970. “It is on one hand a faithful enactment of Danny’s passion for music as an instrument for borderless friendships, and on the other hand a statement of defiance against the forces that took his life and the culture of hatred that threatens music and friendship.” Indeed, the pervasive feeling of musical bonhomie and the new friendships that spring up between the players, many of whom have never actually met prior to their time on stage together, has become almost legendary for an event of FODfest’s relatively young age. “The shows are great, really cool events, but they’re also bigger than just a night of folk music,” says Newburgh singersongwriter Todd Giudice, who performed at FODfest 2007 and will appear again on this year’s tour. “They’re also a way to address a really deep and twisted subject, racial and religious hatred, while still keeping everything on the light side. The spirit of the event is really tied into what I understand Danny loved to do, which was to bring people together to jam.” Six years after his tragic passing, Daniel Pearl continues to erase borders and unite others through music. Maybe turning the UN into a folk club isn’t such a bad idea. FODfest 2008 begins with a free concert and jam session at the Mahawie Theater in Great Barrington on October 10. www.fodfest.org. 10/08 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 51
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AHMAD JAMAL October 4. Pianist Jamalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth-dropping keyboard runs are well known to jazz fans but neophytes should not miss this chance to hear this true virtuoso. Jamal has had many quiet successes (read his excellent autobiographical pages at www.ahmadjamal.net) and gives his native Pittsburgh props as a jazz haven and home to many legendary artists, including lyricist Billy Strayhorn, guitarist George Benson, and vocalist Billy Eckstine. Certainly a thinking manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pianist, Jamalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compositions have been in heard in two literary ďŹ lm adaptations, Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Bridges of Madison County. Here, he appropriately performs in Skinner Hall at Vassar College in a show sponsored by Dickinson-Kayden. 7:15pm. Poughkeepsie. Free with advance tickets; see Vassar website for details. (845) 437-7294; www.vassar.edu/concerts.
GILLEN AND TURK October 18. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than two great musicians playing off each other? Two great musicians who are also great dudes both on and off the stage. Fred Gillen Jr. is one of the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hardest-working showmen, hosting and playing events from Westchester to Albany. Matt Turk, whose musical knowledge extends from mandolin riffs to Brazilian hip-hop, has a clear voice and a well-crafted songwriting style. Together, this folk duo exceeds the sum of its parts. Dockside Pub, Mahopac. (845) 621-0057; www.gillenandturk.com.
BLUES DAY TUESDAY REDUX October 7, 21 The multitalented Big Joe Fitz (crooner, mouth harpist, guitarist, and the host of WDST 100.1-FMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blues Breakâ&#x20AC;? on Sundays at 10pm) has for over 20 years overseen the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best blues jam on alternating Tuesdays at the Willow Creek Inn in Stone Ridge. Thank your lucky stars that Big Joe and company are now returning to their ďŹ rst-and-third Tuesdays roots with a new jam at a new location: the fun and casual High Falls Cafe. Big Joe and the crew, which also includes soaring vocalist Barbara Dempsey, have been culling great guest talent as well, such as the mesmerizing K. J. Denhert, who sat in last month. 7pm. High Falls. Free. (845) 687-2699; www.highfallscafe.com
JUDE ROBERTS October 16. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and Hudson Valley resident Jude Roberts hosts a CD release party for his full-length album Stained Glass Afterglow (Independent) at the still-indie Rosendale Theater. Roberts is set to perform tracks from the CD and other originals with support from a number of top-notch area musicians. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently shared stages with Pete Seeger, Dar Williams, and Karan Casey, helping, no doubt, to raise the bar on his unique vocal style and rock-solid guitar playing. This show is highly recommended for fans of acoustic and folk music. 7:30pm. $10 (includes CD). Rosendale. (845) 658-8989; www.myspace.com/heyjuderoberts.
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SKYTOP HALLOWEEN PARTY October 31. Get ready to monster mash when the atmospheric Skytop Steakhouse and Brewing Company pulls out all the stops for Halloween, which falls on a Friday this year. As part of Skytopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s That Organ Groove series, the fright, er, night begins with keyboardist Neil Alexander (NAIL, the Machine) warming things up with spooky toccatas and fugues in all sorts of minor keys. At 10pm, Alexander will be joined by the house band, which features guitar whiz Matthew Finck and yours truly on the traps. (That Organ Groove series ďŹ nishes out the year with Hammond B3 wizards Jeremy Baum and Bruce Katz on Nov 21.) 9pm. Free with costume. Kingston. (845) 340-4277; www.skytopsteakhouse.com. JUDE ROBERTS PLAYS THE ROSENDALE THEATER ON OCTOBER 8.
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CD REVIEWS MARILYN CRISPELL VIGNETTES (2008, ECM RECORDS)
T Treasured local pianist Marilyn Crispell emerged on tthe modern jazz scene in the late 1970s, when she bbegan her 15-year tenure with the Anthony Braxton Q Quartet. Building on the classical studies of her early yyears, the influential Crispell has created a singular sstyle that bridges the aggressive attack of Cecil Tayllor with the balladic introspection of Keith Jarrett. In rrecent years, however, over her three previous trio aalbums for ECM Crispell’s approach has drifted from tthe keyboard-strafing runs of Taylor to something that, w while still suggesting Jarrett’s wistful lyricism, also palpably reflects reflects the austere austere, monoch monochromatic Scandinavian winter landscape that she cites as a current influence. Though most of the 17 short pieces on the aptly titled Vignettes (the longest track, “Stilleweg,” clocks in at 6:18—brief, compared to much of Crispell’s output) are indeed pregnant with Bergmanesque brooding, Crispell’s patented discordant flurries haven’t evaporated entirely; see the feverish “Axis,” which finds the pianist’s hammering hands spiking the keys with the force of an IRT express train. Nothing ever was, anyway, Crispell’s 1996 ECM debut, is a double album of music by one of her neighbors, pioneering composer and performer Annette Peacock; for the mainly improvised Vignettes Crispell reaches out to another fellow Woodstocker for material: flutist and composer Jayna Nelson, whose “Cuida Tu Espiritu” offers perhaps as good a taste of this fine album’s bittersweet sadness as anything else on the track list. www.ecmrecords.com. —Peter Aaron
SPIV U:K SO FAR MACHINE (2008, INDEPENDENT)
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T Wood Brothers—Atlanta guitarist/vocalist OliThe vver and Saugerties bassist Chris—are road-weary, berreft, and ranting. Which, apparently, makes for a great aalbum. Following their freewheeling, live-in-the studio 22006 debut Ways Not to Lose, Loaded is the sound of a brother duo becoming greater than the sum of its pparts. Recorded in the shadow of their mother’s recent ppassing, it’s both a lusty celebration of life and an emottionally and physically moving expression of loss. John M Medeski—from Chris’s other gig, Medeski, Martin & W d i bbackk as producer, d ’ deftly fleshed out the sound with subtle touches that Wood—is andd hhe’s add color without stealing focus. Oliver’s grosgrain, vibratoless voice wraps around well-wrought lyrics that are by turns keen, deep, and wry. Warmly greeting the listener with the yearning gospel of “Lovin’ Arms,” that same voice will deliver the regret of the album’s title track and the wonder of love beyond life in “Still Close.” The secret funk weapon on Loaded is Chris’s versatile upright bass playing; the four-string veteran is without peer, providing harmonic underpinning that is felt as much as heard—here a dancing heartbeat, there a slap and tickle. Loaded’s three covers, the traditional “Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Angel”—a duet with the bros’ Blue Note compadre Amos Lee—and Bob Dylan’s “Buckets of Rain” get interesting essays, but, remarkably, pale in comparison to the Wood originals, and are rightfully relegated to the back end of this impressive collection. Loaded indeed. www.thewoodbrothers.com. —Robert Burke Warren
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WHERE THE HEART IS Laura Shaine Cunningham Brings It All Back Home by Nina Shengold photo by Jennifer May
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o one will ever go hungry at Laura Shaine Cunningham’s table. The author’s summer suppers are the stuff of local legend: cocktails and appetizers by the pool (reclaimed from a 12-foot-deep cistern, its construction hilariously described in her second memoir, A Place in the Country) and entrees on the porch. We’ve been writers group colleagues for over a decade, and while most of us settle for putting out bagels and coffee, a meeting at Cunningham’s house is a three-course affair. The preternaturally energetic novelist/memoirist/playwright/New York Times columnist divides her time between city and country homes. Her eponymous place in the country is a former inn, tucked away in a quiet corner of Ulster County. A child’s treehouse, a miniature of the original down to its creamcolored paint and black shutters, sits in a maple near the porch, where a black cat sunbathes by a windowbox spilling petunias. Cunningham makes her entrance in a cloche hat, a white linen jacket and skirt, and jaunty pink sandals. She gives off the warmth of a six-burner cookstove, with an infectious smile and occasional bursts of wild laughter. She’s prepared sole almondine and a Mediterranean tart of feta, heirloom tomatoes, and herbs—an elegant menu from a woman whose childhood meals, detailed in her first memoir, Sleeping Arrangements, included popcorn for breakfast and kosher beef hotdogs kept warm in a thermos. Sleeping Arrangements has been continuously in print for 19 years, with a host of devoted fans. Their numbers are sure to swell this November, when 54 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 10/08
Cunningham’s memoir takes center stage as the 2008 One Book, One New Paltz reading selection. It’s the first time the One Book committee, which includes representatives from SUNY New Paltz and the community, has picked a book by a local author; previous honorees include Mark Haddon, Edwidge Danticat, and Rudolfo A. Anaya. Committee member Susan Avery, former owner of Ariel Booksellers, says, “I have literally recommended this book to hundreds of people—women, men, girls, boys. There isn’t anyone who can’t find something to relate to and to love.” Planned events reflect this diversity: From November 16 to 23, New Paltz readers will explore Jewish themes, nontraditional families, elders and children, literature, cuisine, theater, and film (see sidebar for details). Cunningham calls the selection “an honor and a compliment. When I wrote the book, it was ‘One Book, One Apartment,’ so this is bigger than I dreamed. The idea of a whole community reading your book is heady, it’s thrilling. I’d even move to New Paltz, but I like it here.” The road to her sun-splashed Victorian porch was long and unlikely. Sleeping Arrangements chronicles a nomadic city childhood, made romantic by a loving single mother who could look at the underside of a relative’s dining table, where she and her daughter squeezed in for the night, and convert its dangling tablecloth into a canopy bed. Rosie had an equally fanciful touch with her personal history, giving young “Lily” (Laura’s childhood nickname) a war hero father with his own fighting dog, a boxer named Butch.
“It was a red-white-and-blue story, told to the accompaniment of bugles,” Cunningham writes. “There was only one flaw: While we waited for my hero father to return from battle, this country was not at war.” Rosie’s fiction frayed quickly. Eventually, she and her daughter found an apartment in the Bronx, so close to Yankee Stadium that the walls were bathed with the glow of twi-night floodlights and shouts of “It’s a homer!” Lily ran wild with her streetwise playmates, and all was bliss until Rosie’s untimely death. But even in tragedy, family love triumphed. Into the breach came two wildly eccentric bachelor uncles: six-foot-six-inch private investigator Len, and Gabe, a dreamer who wrote Jewish gospel songs. Sleeping Arrangements was a hit even before publication. The NewYorker published an excerpt, and bookjacket quotes arrived from Cunningham’s idols “like fairy dust”: Harper Lee, Anne Tyler, Chaim Potok, Muriel Spark. “It was incredible—people who were in my library, people who were mythical to me, wrote to me.” Cunningham beams. But the book’s impact went deeper than praise. A magazine writer who’d already published two novels (Sweet Nothings and Third Parties), Cunningham finished most of her manuscript, then set it aside for nearly a decade because she couldn’t bear to write about her mother’s death. “Finally, I sort of dove at it, and wrote it very quickly. I felt the weight of the world lift off my shoulders,” she recounts. “I remember it was three in the morning, and I walked out onto this porch, feeling literally lighter. This is what memoir can accomplish: You can write your way out, you can write for your life.” Both of Cunningham’s uncles were writers, as was their mother (and Lily’s eventual roommate), the unforgettable Etka from Minsk. After Rosie’s death, Lily clung to the family tradition. “It was a healing device—write, write, write, read, read, read. I read the way people drink. I would stagger out of the library with 70 pounds of books,” the author recalls. “I quickly got lost in a fantasy world. I’m very lucky that it also became a way to make a living.” Cunningham’s first paycheck came at 15, when she won a nationwide youth writers contest sponsored by ABC Television. The prize included a check for $200, a huge sum for an illicit 15-year-old (the contest was for 16-to-18-year-olds; terrified she’d be found out, the winner received her award “dressed like I was 40.”) “The path was set,” Cunningham says, “And now I have a 15-year-old writing ’til 2am and winning contests.” (Daughters Alexandra and Jasmine were adopted from Romania and China, respectively.) After the contest, Cunningham landed a column in Seventeen magazine, and wrote for magazines ranging from true-detective pulps to the Atlantic Monthly. She also wrote plays. One of these, “Beautiful Bodies,” is currently leading a rich double life: as source material for a 2002 novel with the same title, and as a runaway box office smash in the former Soviet bloc. Cunningham was researching a historical novel about the ill-fated Romanovs when she got a 3am e-mail from a Russian producer who wanted to translate and produce “Beautiful Bodies.” She leapt at the chance. “It felt like a very heavy hand of fate, mysterious and magical.” “Beautiful Bodies” premiered in 1,000-seat theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg. (“It was a terrible production, but a successful terrible production.”) More productions followed, and Cunningham found herself “Aerofloting around” to premieres in Siberia, war-torn Chechnya (“a beautiful production, very moving”), Bulgaria, Estonia, Romania, and Lithuania. At one premiere, diners washed their hands with vodka between courses of a backstage banquet. “I’ve never had such pure adventure,” Cunningham says. “When you go as a playwright, you’re not a tourist—you’re in back rooms, off the beaten track.” Not all back-room dealings were savory; Cunningham soon realized royalties were not forthcoming.When all else failed, she brought suit, becoming the first English-language writer ever to win a theft of intellectual property claim in Russian court. She’s currently writing a third memoir, Playing in the Forbidden Zone, about her multilayered connection to Russia. “I’m not a litiginous person. Why did I do it?” she muses. She did win some rubles, but “it was for justice. My family lost everything in Russia in 1905. I was damned if I was going to let it go under again.” Cunningham just completed her Romanov novel, The Diary of Marie R., which describes the doomed family’s last weeks through the eyes of the czar’s third daughter Marie. She did extensive research, but also felt an emotional immersion she describes as a sort of possession. “ It’s a kind of memoir, only
I’m another person, a 19-year-old Russian grand duchess.” Fiction, Cunningham says, “offers far more freedom than memoir. On the other hand, you’ll never know the material as well.” And since memoir is a booming genre in this reality-fixated age, Cunningham is much in demand as a speaker. Along with the One Book, One New Paltz celebration of Sleeping Arrangements, she’s been tapped for an October 20 appearance at Troy’s Memoir Project—following fellow Ulster County memoirist Da Chen (www.artscenteronline.org)—and for Woodstock Memoir Festival in February 2009. She’s currently writer-in-residence at the Memoir Institute (www.memoirinstitute. org), mentoring promising first-timers and accomplished writers, including a NewYork Times bestselling author. “More and more people are turning to memoir, not just to have a book, but to understand their lives,” says Cunningham. “You’re able to retrieve so many memories, and when they’re in written form, the patterns are so much clearer. It’s kind of like psychotherapy. Plus you get a book advance.”
ONE BOOK, ONE NEW PALTZ EVENTS November 16 Discussion and bagel brunch led by Rabbi Bill Strongin. Jewish Community Center. (11am) November 17 Dramatic reading of Sleeping Arrangements (the play) by Drama Club students at New Paltz High School. (7pm) November 18 Discussion on non-traditional families, led by mental health expert Jacki Brownstein. Elting Library. (7:30pm) November 19 Discussion led by English professor Jan Schmidt. Mudd Puddle, Water Street Market. (10:30am) Reading and book signing with Laura Shaine Cunningham, McKenna Theater, SUNY New Paltz. (7pm) November 20 Discussion led by Judy Reichler and Ann Burdett of Lifetime Learning Institute. Elting Library. (10:30am) Discussion led by librarian Mary Ann Lis-Simmons. St. Andrews Episcopal Church. (7:30pm) November 21 Academic panel discussion with professors from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education. Honors Center, SUNY New Paltz. (11:30am) Interactive social event. Community members share “Uncle food,” stories, and music relevant to Sleeping Arrangements. Unison Arts Center. (6pm) November 22 Film, A Walk on the Moon (rated R), starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen, plus film clip about Cunningham revisiting her Catskills summer camp. Elting Library. (7pm) Sunday, November 23 Discussion led by Cunningham, sponsored by Inquiring Mind bookstore. Muddy Cup coffeehouse. (3pm) Schedule subject to change. For additional events and information: www.onebookonenewpaltz.org.
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SHORT TAKES The Halloween month is a long, strange trip of author events and new publications, from doting Deadheads to the dearly devoured.
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ome places are especially freighted with enchantment. Just the word Italy has a sensuous fluidity on the tongue, a hint of wine and warmth and operatic passions, deliciously foreign. And if that sounds like a nice change, but you can’t quite muster the time and/or funds, take comfort: Sicily and Capri—two of the most Italian of places—are no farther than the nearest bookseller’s. Woodstock resident Gioia Timpanelli, a master oral storyteller, won the National Book Award for Sometimes the Soul. Her Sicily is a place steeped in a sort of free-range magic of the everyday, and her clever and good-hearted hero Joseph defi nitely lives in its flow. Poverty and family conflict complicate young Joseph’s life, but he’s a fortunate child, and when the murder of his best friend and the perfidy of brothers and politicians gets him exiled to no man’s land, he carves a niche for himself. He’s been raised with the wisdom of elders and old tales, so when he sees a chance, he takes it. Meeting an ally in the person of a gruff, tough genius of an old woman, he recognizes and reveres her. (“Not a fairy godmother, no, not that kind, but one who knows how to battle demons. Lucky me, who found such an old woman in a den of theives and murderers, but then where else would I have found her?”) Taking the lore of the ancients to heart, Joseph brings his adventure to a fruitful conclusion, relating this story as an older man looking back on his life. Ah, yes—courage and cleverness, loyalty and hard work, the virtues the old tales paint so vividly. What makes a reader lucky? A new Timpanelli tale to get lost in. Goodman’s exotica is also a time trip, jumping all the way back the eve of the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, after an opening that could have been yanked from last week’s headlines: “Bitter Ex-Boyfriend Opens Fire at Texas Campus.” It’s to get past this trauma that Goodman’s likeable college professor protagonist, Sophie, heads off to Capri on a research expedition. The expedition is fated to be an adventure from the very first, with a twisted cast list including Agnes, the shy student with whom Bitter Ex was obsessed; Elgin, the studly professor who once floated Sophie’s boat (and may now have his eye on vulnerable young Agnes); the Mysterious Rich Sponsor; the taciturn older woman of uncertain loyalties. Just watching this gang cavort around a villa might be entertaining, but as this is written by award-winning mystery author Carol Goodman, plots thicken. A series of ancient papyrus scrolls reveals an equally engaging set of characters in the first century, about to enact mystery rites, with no clue that they will soon be engulfed by ash and molten lava. There is skullduggery afoot in both eras and plotlines, and an enormous good time. Former Hudson Valley resident Goodman accelerates smoothly, leaving you hanging on for dear life through a series of hairpin turns in ancient underground tunnels with your hair standing on end. Like a mountain road experienced in a Ferrari with a real pro at the wheel, both books leave the reader exhilarated, with a sense of time well spent. Gioia Timpanelli will read from What Makes a Child Lucky at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck on October 3 at 7:30pm. —Anne Pyburn
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. No poetry submissions will be accepted for the Literary Supplement in our November issue. Deadline for our December issue is November 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
10, 9, other numbers, blast-off.
consider what you gain
—Fenner Osmond Friedman (7 years old)
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PONCHO
OLD BOOTS
the gay bartender shook a drink for you while I pointed out the mirrors the tin ceiling from 1916 the raven-haired waitress I loved
Old boots that brought me blisters in Prague, yet far from doubt, I wore them all the more, for they set out at once to match my feet’s strange shape and soon with massage and oil and fond regard their intimate creases formed a lovely map, and they push back on me just as I push on them. What simple fetish joy to walk upon them now and still to shape each other every day! Though it may be that down below, these dark boots, like sales clerks d’un certain age, trade beauty tips and cigarette-voiced bons mots with thick nails that themselves have taken a bit of a beating from our duet-work as well as from the unforgiving concrete of the daily walk.
yes this is my wife I told her and we drank an hour away at the zinc bar with the University Avenue traffic dying by degrees and old Minneapolis fading to nothing I looked like a millionaire to them maybe and you like the kept pampered pet the foolish one the dark-frayed beauty who believed anything she was told the salad arrived you were entranced more wine I called and when Brittany poured my glass she smiled at me as though to say what terrible thing have you done now
—William Seaton
LOVE POEM TO MY BROTHER
MONTREAL CONFESSION
Whoever dies first is a jerk.
Dear God: I’m sorry But I love Leonard Cohen More than I love you.
—Dorothy Albertini
—Veronica Mort
Oh impermanence How precarious is life Bird’s nest sways in wind * One season later No nest, no tree, only wind I have lost my words —Chuck Mishkin
—Richard Donnelly
ANDNESS
FIVE CLIPS
Would I could I do not know but for the sight inside of you turns outside the hell in it which curls us back on time to that point when one is whole. The sight I hold to each moment in the present future modal tense spread on one keyboard containing every feeling I have for you: all thoughts & feelings in you from the night with one finger I lifted your chin up to my mouth.
1: I look out the window. It’s still raining. I squint, I can see an outline of a supermarket far off.
—Tom Holmes
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2: I like the way your head feels on my lap. You are still sleeping, under the shade of the oak tree. 3: She runs off, her apron swaying back and forth. She’s 5, she is very smart for that age, already washing the dishes. 4: It’s 1:39 a.m., and I’m still awake. I want to wake someone up, but that would be rude. 5: We run up to the top of the mountain of grass, the robbers close behind. I yell at them. They stop running. —Ada I. J. Graham Lowengard (9 years old)
BODY AND LAND back highway
unpaved pitch-black mountain back
through the chasm down creek bed a slant 70º
falling rock black-brown hair straight down her back pretty is as pretty does
lover
horror
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precipitation begins back down washboard drive dust rises —Alifair Skebe
EXTRAIT 2. Will be leaving the day after tomorrow, and the strange melancholia is setting in. I will even miss the cruel and foul madame of this place, smoking her cigarettes while mixing drinks in a frenzy herself, disgusted with the incompetence of the pretty boys she after all hired, perhaps on a whim she now damns, or a drunk. I will miss her stalking about the premises, presiding over the tables on the beach from the top of the brick steps, hands planted at her hips, making certain the waitresses are doing their duties efficiently, taking a long drag now from her cigarette, eyes squinted, counting the seconds from the moment the gentleman puts down his empty glass of wine to when the girl with the ponytail and apron, now clearing a table full of empty plates, will notice. Yes, I will too miss the cruel French madame, because she is an inextricable element in the mystical essence of this place. Even if while smoking one of her cigarettes she takes to mixing drinks herself, hurling insults at her staff, spitting bits of chicken onto the floor, the bar, dirtying her own chin now, dripping with tantrum, chicken, bile, and tobacco, I adore her nonetheless. She is like the black in one of the Rouaults which seduced me long ago—his paintings do indeed contain some of the very most glorious colours—what shades of reds, of yellows!, of blues, even—but the heavy strokes of black, which so many objected to as diminishing the glory, the vibrance of the color, for me, made the piece in question whole—the black finished it, framed it as if a window of stained glass, a universe complete containing the spectrum of everything expressible, birth and death and rebirth and all of it in between. Yes—the madame may be the heavy, black scourge on the thriving, exotic, lovely palette of Cabarete color, but while she may temper certain joys, or force certain joys to fear her temper, she is exuberant in her foulness and filth, and thus makes blackness gloriously blacker, which is an achievement not easily attained, and while it might seem that this diminishes the other lovely shades and sources of light about her, she not only adds texture and subtleties to each, but in her cruelest, most awful, most threatening moments, she undoubtedly though reluctantly causes all the beauty she seeks to squelch to shine, and shine the more so, in the last breath, the seemingly last gasp, where we all fear that everything will, indeed, fade to black, fade to nothingness, fade to cruelty and soullessness. But it doesn’t, does it? No—it is a stunning beauty, this life—a bloody fucking riveting triumph— but nothing of value is won so easily, so let us marvel at the great, great struggle. On that note, I will miss you, dear madame—I really will. —Christopher Porpora
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Food & Drink
Vin Populi STEVEN KOLPAN UNCORKS FOR THE PEOPLE by Brian K. Mahoney photographs by Hillary Harvey
Wine fact: The number one restaurant venue for wine sales in the US is the Olive Garden. The restaurant, which offers any of the 38 wines on its chain-wide list free for sampling, gives away 35,000 cases of wine a year—and in turn sells over a million cases. This tidbit, from WineWise: Your Complete Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Enjoying Wine (Wiley, 2008) by Steven Kolpan, Brian Smith, and Michael Weiss, might seem off-topic in a wine primer. Don’t worry about being misled. The authors, professors of wine studies at the Culinary Institute of America, are not looking down their collective nose at Olive Garden patrons or the restaurant’s wine list. Far from it. In fact, WineWise pulls the curtain back on the wizards of wine punditry who dictate taste through point scores. The book espouses the radical notion that consumers should try every kind of wine, and not be afraid to follow their likes and dislikes. From Chapter One: “Our biggest word of warning is not to take as gospel everything the wine critics (including us) say about a wine…your palate is your own, and you should trust it.” Welcome to the empowering world of WineWise. Kolpan, et al. wrote the definitive textbook for food and wine professionals, Exploring Wine: The Culinary Institute of America’s Guide to Wines of the World (Wiley), first published in 1996. The third edition is due out in 2009. In contrast, their approach in WineWise is pragmatic (“screw caps and boxes do not mean low-quality wine”); bargain conscious (an entire chapter to lists hundreds of recommended wines under $30); and structured to tutor the generally uninformed but enthusiastic quaffer about understanding foreign and domestic wine labels, food pairing, and the major wine-producing countries and their varietal grapes. If Exploring Wine is the nightly news, then WineWise is “The Daily Show.” Not as straitlaced as its know-it-all older brother, WineWise is still informative, defi nitely irreverent, and thoroughly entertaining. In early September, I sat in on a class taught by Steven Kolpan at the CIA. Kolpan, who holds the Charmer Endowed Chair in Wines and Spirits, is one of the world’s premier wine educators and has been on the faculty of the CIA since 1986. He and coauthor Michael Weiss were named Wine Educators of the Year by the European Wine Council in 2007. A Sense of Place (Routledge, 64 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 10/08
1999) traces the history of one of California’s most storied estates, the NiebaumCoppola Winery (now owned by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola), and earned Kolpan the Versailles Award for Best American Wine Book. Kolpan is also a contributing writer for Wine & Spirits, and Santé, among other publications, and he’s a columnist for the region’s own Valley Table, where he’s not afraid to write pieces that include populist provocations like “I’m not a wine snob—I believe there is a special place in Hell for those who are.” The class I attended, “Wines and Spirits,” is a crash course. Its goal: to cram as much of Kolpan’s extensive knowledge—about wine, food pairing, and the service and marketing of wine in a restaurant setting—into the heads of future chefs as possible in a three-credit class. Fifty students listened to Kolpan lecture on the red wines of California in a small, tiered-seat auditorium done up with stained glass, stone walls, and wood beams, suggesting a wine cellar built in a choir loft. Speaking without notes throughout the multi-hour class, Kolpan ranged with ease across a wide spectrum of wine-related topics: the intricacies of the state’s growing regions, the differences between organic and biodynamic farming (short answer: the latter is a self-contained ecosystem), global warming (“Global warming is having a big impact on formerly unassailable tenets of what should be grown where. Grapes are the most sensitive crop there is. They’re the canary in the coal mine.”) As an aside, he related the two biggest cash crops in Mendocino County: wine and marijuana—and not in that order. The lecture was followed by a tasting of 10 Californian reds. It started with two light, bright, and fruity Pinot Noirs, went on through a selection of Merlot, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon, and ended with an intensely dry, inky-red Justin Syrah from Paso Robles. (“Just as there are seasons for food there are seasons for wine,” Kolpan commented on the Syrah, “and this is a winter wine.” He also suggested that Syrah is a perfect accompaniment to cassoulet, as it can stand up to the gamey meats and beans in the traditional French stew.) The tasting proceeded like this: Kolpan introduced the wine, then the students swirled their glasses and discussed its aromatic qualities—wet soil, leather, the forest after a rain, red fruit or black fruit, et cetera. This was fol-
ABOVE: STUDENTS TASTING AND EVALUATING WINES IN A CLASS TAUGHT BY STEVEN KOLPAN AT THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA. OPPOSITE: STEVEN KOLPAN LECTURING TO ASPIRING CHEFS AT THE CIA.
lowed by the tasting itself, and then the spit—into a plastic cup provided for this purpose. (This correspondent, who participated in the tasting, believes spitting is rude.) With the taste of the wine still on their tongues, the students offered ideas for food pairings to Kolpan. They suggested fatty fish to accompany the Pinot Noir, Zinfandel for Thanksgiving dinner, varieties of red meat with the Cabernet Sauvignon. Kolpan joked with his students about an idea for a new tattoo to help them remember an enduring pairing: “Merlot with Lamb.” The students then tried to guess the wholesale price of the wines. This was a crapshoot. Sometimes the students were dead-on, but mostly they were either too high or too low. There seemed to be no absolute value attached to the quality of a wine, and Kolpan told the students, “There will be no way for you to plot on a graph what you like versus the price.” This echoes WineWise’s stance that there is an abundance of bargains if consumers are ready to switch fom high-profile garpes like Chardonnay or Cabernet Sauvignon to lesser-known varietals like Torrontes from Argentina or Jumilla from Spain. During the class’s lunch break, I spoke with Kolpan about the place of wine in American culture and how wine has gone from a special-occasion signifier to an everyday tipple. As WineWise points out, the US will lead the world in wine consumption as early as next year—we passed Italy in 2007 and we’re poised to pass France before the end of 2008. “Twenty years ago, I would have laughed in your face if you told me that the US would one day lead the world in wine consumption.” According to Kolpan, there are a number of reasons for the boom in domestic wine consumption, chief among them the long run of the strong dollar, which allowed Americans to travel abroad cheaply and immerse themselves in the wine cultures of Europe. Importers also began to bring in quality, mid-market wines that were not previously available in the US, thus broadening drinking choices beyond low-quality brands like Lancers, Blue Nun, and pot-bellied bottles of Chianti wrapped in raffia. (An amusing Wine Wise aside: The name of the traditional wicker basket wrapped around Chianti bottles is a fiasco. The term earned its English meaning due to the execrable quality of most of the wine held in it.
Fortunately, much has changed, and the authors name some producers of topnotch Chianti in their chapter on bargain wine.) In addition, over the last two decades, a number of “branded wines” have appeared in the marketplace. Yellow Tail, from Australia, is probably the best example of this phenomenon. Introduced into the US market just seven years ago, Yellow Tail is now the number one wine brand imported into the US, its iconic yellow and red labels dominating liquor store retail space. The winery’s secret (aside from aggressive marketing)? It doesn’t age its wines, which creates a fruity, light, simple palate that is easily accessible. Kolpan has no beef with this, noting that 90 percent of all wine is made to be drunk in two years or less and won’t stand up to extended cellaring. “The Australians got it right,” he told me. “They figured out that if they wanted to make money, they should make wine ready to drink when people buy it.” In the US, Kolpan said, 85 percent of wine is consumed within 24 hours of purchase. “The idea that wine has to be old to be enjoyed is fallacious. Most people buy wine to go with dinner.” Wine’s medicinal aspect is also part of its appeal in the US, according to Kolpan. Wine is viewed as a beverage of health and moderation—a veritable fitness tonic when viewed alongside the illicit, binge-inducing pleasures of a can of Budweiser or a rum and Coke. Kolpan referenced an episode of “60 Minutes” that aired in 1991 which explored the “French paradox”—the contrast between the rich French diet of saturated fats and the country’s low incidence of heart disease—and posited that red wine was part of the reason why the French were healthier than Americans. “The wine industry owes Morley Safer millions of dollars,” he joked about the CBS correspondent. All that said, per capita wine consumption is quite low in the US when compared with Europe. The average person in Italy, France, and Spain drinks 13 gallons of wine a year, as opposed to two gallons here. So how can we be about to top consumption worldwide? Turns out there’s a dedicated cadre of wine drinkers, about 15 percent, that account for almost half of the total consumption in the US. When I asked Kolpan about this, he smiled and said, “I’m doing my part.” 10/08 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 65
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BAKERIES
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The Alternative Baker
Terrapin Catering
407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY
Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 hugh@terrapincatering.com
(845) 658-3355 or 1 (800) 399-3589
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www.lemoncakes.com 100% Scratch Bakery. Soups, sandwiches (our Goat Cheesehouse Special is a favorite!), 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 as seen in Williams-Sonoma catalog. We are open Monday through Wednesday, 7am to 7pm, closed Tuesday. Hours are subject to change as the seasons do. Please call to confirm! Located across from the Cinema in the village. P.O. Box 22, Rosendale, NY.
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” Ernest Hemingway
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DELI’S
948 Route 28, Kingston, NY
Rossi’s Deli
(845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
Bread Alone Café East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY
119 Warren St. Hudson, NY www.pmwinebar.com
(518) 828-2833
(845) 876-3108 Bread Alone Café offers fresh breads, pastries, soups, and sandwiches at three mid-Hudson locations. Also located in Route 28, Boiceville, NY, (845) 657-3328 (headquarters) and Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY, (845) 679-2108.
Casablanca Coffee Co. 11 Marist Drive, Poughkeepsie, NY
Monday thru Thursday 5 to 10 Friday and Saturday 5 to midnight Closed Sundays
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Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Terrapin Restaurant recently expanded its operation to include a catering department in order to better serve the Hudson Valley. At our new Catering Facility in Staatsburg, we can host seated dinners for up to 150 guests, and cocktail parties for as many as 250 guests; and, we can provide off-site catered events up to your imagination. We are here to help you celebrate any occasion: anniversaries, showers, holiday parties, corporate events. Want to hold your wedding at a breathtaking mansion? Or host a small rehearsal dinner? What about an engagement party at your home? Or a bridal shower? Terrapin can cater anything from a casual get-together to a formal gala. Terrapin Catering, catering to your imagination.
(845) 454-4440 www.casablancacoffeehouse.com The finest coffeehouse beverages and cuisine served in our Moroccan inspired eco-friendly café. Specialty coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, fresh baked pastries, breakfast, and lunch, including wrap and panini sandwiches. Vegetarian, soy, and gluten free options always available. Catering, take-out, and free Wi-Fi.
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 ever-evolving daily menu—with imported meats and cheeses and freshly baked breads and deserts—helps keep this place packed.
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-andpotatoes 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.
PASTA La Bella Pasta (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.
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 5pm-9pm; and Thursday through Monday for lunch from 11:30am-3pm.
Barnaby’s Route 32 North Chestnut and Academy Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2433
5pm-9:30pm; Friday 11:30am-10:30pm, Saturday 11:30am-10:30pm, and Sunday 11:30am-9:30pm. These are just a few of our reviews: “Cozy in winter, glorious garden dining in summer...wonderful food, delightful ambiance...a treasure!” “You’ll really get away from it all while feeling right at home at Charlotte’s...Get toasty by the fire with some homemade mashed potatoes, or a hot toddy in the charming bar. You’ll love the hint of deep country wafting up from their truffle Ajax fries! “Cozy, fire-placed restaurant with tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to divine. Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.” Reservations recommended.
Egg’s Nest (845) 687-7255 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 5pm and a cocktail lounge is also offered. The Egg’s Nest is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner, 11:30am-11pm SundayThursday and 11:30am to midnight on Friday and Saturday. We accept cash and personal checks, with an ATM on premises.
Emerson Organic Spa Café
Corner of Route 23 A and Route 214 Hunter, NY (518) 263-3839 www.bearcreekrestaurant.com
Refreshing, organic, veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asian-inspired design of the Café. Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock.
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.
(845) 688-2828
Gilded Otter
Bistro Brie & Bordeaux
3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY
5386 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-4911 www.bistrobb.com
(845) 256-1700
Charlotte’s Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com We are open Wednesday and Thursday
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Bear Creek Restaurant and Recreational Park
A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!
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11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1099 www.karmaroad.net
516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375
Quaint, compassionate, and bustling Organic cafĂŠ-deli with vegetarian/vegan fare for everyone! Open 7 days, 8am-8pm. Best Smoothie in the Hudson Valley in 2007. Stews, curries, wraps, sandwiches, soups, juice bar, wheat free, and gluten free desserts. Service with a smile and love in every dish.
Kindred Spirits Steakhouse & Pub (518) 678-3101 www.catskillmtlodge.com
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.
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9 Cleveland Place, New York, NY (518) 828-7770 www.mexrad.com pmljs@ecoipm.com Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily. Extensive vegetarian/vegan choices. A great place for parties! Visit our other location at 537 Warren Street, Huds on, NY.
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Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given four stars by the Daily Freeman. We are also located at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.
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Suruchiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Fine Taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Suruchi offers a large selection of delectable Indian food in a beautiful, calm atmosphere. All dishes are made from scratch from fresh ingredients including free-range chicken, wild shrimp, and homemade cheese and yogurt. Many vegetarian/vegan choices. Menu is 95% gluten free. Enjoy your dining experience with soothing music in your choice of regular seating or Indian style cushioned platform booths. Wednesday through Sunday dinner.
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STUDENT LOAN SAVVY NAVIGATING THE FINANCIAL AID PROCESS by Kelley Granger
The realities surrounding higher education and its financing have been changing at an alarming pace. According to the US Department of Labor, about 90 percent of the fastest-growing jobs of the future will require some post-secondary education or training. This comes at a time of unprecedented costs—the average tuition rate has nearly doubled over the last decade. A number of financial aid opportunities exist, but parents and students entering college have to work through a complex application process and thoroughly research options to ensure they’re maximizing the benefits of federal aid and choosing the most suitable financing for their particular circumstances. “Planning is of the utmost importance,” says Daniel Sistarenik, the director of financial aid for the State University of New York at New Paltz. “The knowledge parents and students need to gain is rather substantial. It’s not like going out and buying a vehicle—this is an investment in the student’s future.” He says that planning should start in the early high school years, when most families begin to get an idea of how much a college education will cost. Both the direct costs of education (the tuition, fees, room and board) and the indirect costs (books, supplies, transportation, and personal expenses) should be considered. Sistarenik recommends that families use the FAFSA4caster, an online tool that was introduced in 2007 to give an early prediction of a student’s eligibility for federal aid. The program is able to reveal what type of federal aid the student is qualified to receive (including grants, loans, and work study) and also gives an estimation of the award amount for each category based on the type of school the student plans to apply to. When it’s time to fill out the real form to apply for federal financial aid, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), having completed the FAFSA4caster will help expedite the process. After students have applied to schools and received acceptance letters, Sistarenik says college financial aid offices send out letters that estimate how much aid a student would receive if attending that school. In this phase he cautions parents and students to carefully read and question award letters. Often, especially with more costly private schools, he says institutional awards will be offered with conditions—for example, the money given may only apply during the first year of attendance or upon maintenance of a certain grade point average. Students will want to take advantage of whatever “free” money they can, in the form of grants or scholarships. “We don’t encourage borrowing unless abso74 MONEY & INVESTING CHRONOGRAM 10/08
lutely necessary,” Sistarenik says. He recommends applying for as many scholarship opportunities as possible, utilizing free award databases like FastWeb.com. FastWeb users create a profile based on their education and career objectives, hobbies, background, and more to be matched up with the most applicable scholarship opportunities. The government also offers money that doesn’t have to be paid back, most commonly in the form of Pell Grants, which are based on need and awarded to students who are enrolled in classes earning at least six credits. Making sense of all the financing options is one of the most complex parts of the college process. After publishing his first book with coauthor Joann P. Digennaro, The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students (1993) on student financial aid and including his e-mail address for readers who had additional questions, Mark Kantrowitz was astonished by the number of questions he received. In 1994 he founded FinAid.com, and started proactively answering questions online and compiling an extensive resource of financial aid information out of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Since the site’s inception, Kantrowitz says it’s helped more than 50 million people figure out how to pay for college. His criterion for choosing a student loan is simple—generally, it’s what’s cheapest when it comes to interest rates and fees. “Given that cost is a dominating factor in education, minimizing cost is a key consideration,” Kantrowitz says, but adds to also be aware of secondary factors like customer service. When families receive their aid report back after filing the FAFSA, it will detail which federal loans the student is eligible for. Among these will be the Perkins loan, the subsidized and unsubsidized versions of the Stafford loan, and the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS). The Perkins loan is the most beneficial federal loan a student can receive, according to Kantrowitz. It’s awarded to students that demonstrate exceptional financial need and is subsidized, so the government pays the interest during the in-school period and during deferment after graduation. It has a 5 percent interest rate with no fees and is administered by a revolving fund at the school. The Perkins loan also has one of the longest deferment periods—nine months—and is paid back over a span of up to 10 years. The next best federal loan to receive is the Stafford loan, which has a six-
month grace period and alternative repayment terms. The subsidized version is optimal—it’s based on need and offers interest paid by the government during the in-school period.With the unsubsidized Stafford loan, any student is eligible but they are responsible for all interest on the loan, though it can be deferred until after graduation. Unfortunately, Kantrowitz mentions, this increases the loan balance and makes it more expensive to pay back. If families can afford it, paying at least the interest during the school year will help offset costs. Kantrowitz also says families of undergraduate students can take advantage of a current phased-in interest rate reduction that Congress passed. The peak interest rate for a federal loan is guaranteed to be 6.8 percent, but borrowers who sign a loan this year will pay only 6 percent; if they sign a loan next year, they will pay 5.6 percent; the next year, 4.5 percent; and finally, a last year at 3.4 percent before loan rates return to 6.8 percent. “These rates are fixed rates that are in effect for the life of the loan,” Kantrowitz says. “Each year the new loan obtained during that year will be at the successively lower interest rate. So if you get a loan this year, it’s at 6.0 for the life of the loan; if you get it next year, it’s at 5.6 percent for the life of the loan. As in everything Congress does, it has five years and then it reverts to the status quo because of federal budgetary constraints.” The interest rate reductions do not apply for graduate borrowers, who will continue to pay the 6.8 percent rate. Stafford loan borrowers will incur two fees—a guarantee fee, which Kantrowitz says is now called a default fee, of 1 percent and an origination fee, which used to be 3 percent years ago and is now at 1 percent. “The origination fee is in the process of being phased out,” he says. “It’s at 1 percent this year; next year, it will be at 0.5 percent, and the next year it will be gone completely and that’s permanent.” Stafford borrowers this year will pay total fees of 2 percent. Another option for financing is the PLUS, which is offered to the parents of dependent undergraduate students and is available to graduate and professional students to pay for their own educations. If parents choose this method of financing their child’s education, they are ultimately held responsible for repayment, unlike other loans which hold the student responsible. PLUS loans provided by private lenders have a fixed interest rate of 8.5 percent; if funds are provided directly by the government, the rate is a fixed 7.9 percent. Fees are 4 percent and are deducted from each disbursement check. Deferment is available for graduate students who are in school, but repayment for other scenarios begins just 60 days after the final disbursement is made. Kantrowitz says to do the most with what federal, grant, or scholarship money is available. The other means of funding an education are not highly recommended, such as home equity loans, credit cards, and private alternative loans. Of these options, families often turn to private loans to cover the gap between available funds and federal loans and the rest of the education costs. “Private alternative student loans are on the whole more expensive than federal loans, but less than credit cards,” Kantrowitz says. “The private alternative loans are variable-rate loans, while the federal are fixed-rate loans. With a variable-rate loan, it’s not just the interest rate now that’s of concern, but the interest rate for the life of the loan.” He says that right now the typical interest rate on a private loan is a combination of a variable-rate index and fixed-rate margin, the margin depending on the applicant’s credit score—the better a credit score, the lower the margin. With the private student loans, Kantrowitz says that margins have been increasing while the indexes have been at lower and lower levels. “Lenders have been increasing margins, but the interest rate has been slightly increasing because the index is lower,” he says. “And obviously, these can be 20 to 25 year instruments, so the interest rate over the life of the loan will be higher than it is now because we are in an unusually low interest rate period.” If the borrower is looking to repay the entire loan within two to three years, the private loan rates are lower than PLUS loans right now and it makes sense, Kantrowitz says. “But if they are intending to hold on for the life of the loan term, which is usually 20 to 25 years, then the rates are going to be on average much more expensive than a PLUS loan and therefore they shouldn’t prefer private loans over federal.” Some instances may necessitate looking into alternative private loans—a student who is progressing at an unsatisfactory academic level may be ineligible for the PLUS loan, or community college students may not have the option for a PLUS loan because the school has a high student loan default rate and opted out to ensure other types of federal aid remain available. When aid is offered and it comes time to choose a lender, Kantrowitz says to
talk to the financial aid department at the college the student intends on attending because it’s the first place students turn to when they encounter a problem with a loan or lender. He also recommends going with a large lender so the student can be sure they’ll be in business when it comes time to repay. And in spite of the recent bias investigation of preferred college lender lists by the New York State Attorney General, Kantrowitz says with the exclusion of just a few, many schools have always had the student’s best interest in mind when compiling these lists. “The preferred lenders are a good starting point,” he says. “They shouldn’t be the only lenders you look at, but they can be a good source of lenders that have at least been vetted by the school.” Kantrowitz says the hardest part of the aid process is the complexity. “There are lots of choices and lots of details,” he says. “It’s very hard to get a handle on this, especially in a short period of time. The only way to handle it is to face it head on and learn the intricacies of financial aid.” If parents are still having trouble wrapping their heads around the options, they can turn to local businesses for help.The life planners and financial advisors at Third Eye Associates in Red Hook incorporate preparing for college costs during their holistic approach to managing and planning finances. “The first thing is to find out what the current financial needs of the parents are and how are they dealing with that,” says Susan Simon, the vice president of Third Eye Associates and a registered financial consultant and life planner. “What are the future financial needs for them? Because although it’s very important to plan for a child’s education, I feel it shouldn’t be at the cost of planning of your own future.” Simon says the advisors at Third Eye Associates are available early on in the process to help parents plan and save, or, later, to help them decipher the FAFSA. They can recommend a combination of savings vehicles for parents to help them attain their goals for their children’s education, helping families steer through the options, like the various 529 college savings programs. New York’s 529 plan offers low initial investment amounts (as low as $25), low fees, and advantages like tax-deferred savings and exemption from federal income tax on withdrawal earnings when they’re used for higher education expenses. Simon also recommends looking into a Coverdell Education Savings Account, which allows parents to save for education while enjoying tax advantages and also has the ability to put the money toward K-12 private schooling instead, if necessary. Ulster County Savings Bank provides detailed information on these options at the college planning section of their website. Other local banks also dedicate advisors to helping parents prepare for education expenses. M&T Bank has an education division within its investment department and parents can schedule to meet with a financial consultant to help set up financing goals.The bank’s website offers an education calculator that can give parents an idea of how their current investment strategy will measure up when it’s time to pay tuition. The most important step in the financial aid process is one of understanding—so make sure that any questions are answered by a professional or research the options and information online. There are loan forgiveness programs, tax advantages, repayment methods, and more that may never be known otherwise.
RESOURCES FinAid www.finaid.org FastWeb www.fastweb.com FAFSA4caster www.federalstudentaid.ed.gov SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 257-SUNY www.newpaltz.edu
Third Eye Associates 38 Spring Lake Road Red Hook, New York 12571 (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassoc.com Ulster County Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com M&T Bank (800) 724-2440 www.mandtbank.com
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GREENE WITH ENVY Uncovering Greene County By Amy Lubinski
THOMAS COLE, FALLS OF THE KAATERSKILL, OIL ON CANVAS, 43” X 46”,1826 COURTESY OF THE WARNER COLLECTION OF GULF STATES PAPER CORPORATION, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA THE KAATERSKILL FALLS, NEAR THE GREENE COUNTY TOWN OF PALENVILLE, WERE A FAVORITE SUBJECT OF THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL. THE THOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE IN CATSKILL HAS CREATED A SELF-GUIDED HUDSON RIVER ART TRAIL THAT LEADS VISITORS ON A TOUR OF THE FALLS AS WELL AS SEVEN OTHER SITES FAVORED BY THE 19TH-CENTURY LANDSCAPE PAINTERS.
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e all have that neighbor who lives across the street that we politely say hello to every day when we take out the garbage or retrieve the mail, about whom we know very little. Sure, you know they drive a beat up Subaru, and that they just painted their shutters green, but that’s about it. Yet there is more to this neighbor than you thought you knew. You can tell by the smell of French cuisine coming out of their kitchen in the evening, the montage of ski equipment that falls into the drive way every time the automatic garage door opens, the eclectic paintings hung on their walls you spy from your garden. To the surrounding counties in the Hudson Valley, this neighbor is Greene County—a destination that is familiar, yet its charm often overlooked, unnoticed, or just simply unexplored. Greene County has always had something to offer its visitors, according to Daniela Marino, director of promotions for Greene County Tourism. The county was one of America’s first vacationlands for the wealthy, and a stop for traveling sailors, she said. Come the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the middle class, more people flocked to the area. “The area is renowned for its clean air, outdoors, the paintings by Frederick Church—all publicity that combined to made Greene County a vacation destination,” explains Marino. Marino admits that there has been a change in perception from a family place “to a more artistic and trendy destination. But we still are a family place,” she said. In fact, Budget Travel recently selected Catskill for its September issue as one the “10 Coolest Towns,” of less than 10,000 people, that “rival larger cities when it comes to good food, culture, and quality of life.” The magazine noted that “after a period of neglect in the 1980s and ‘90s, Catskill is attracting artists again.”This reawakening can be attributed to “a huge synergy” said Marino. “If you start with Catskill, you have grants that helped beautify Main Street. Gallery owners followed with buildings and facades. It started as a depressed area, which made way for businesses to come move in,” Marino elaborated. But the area has always had a strong tradition of inspiring artists. As a young painter, Thomas Cole, creator of the Hudson River School, made this first trip up the Hudson River to Catskill in 1825, and his paintings of landscapes created a sensation in the New York art world. The Thomas Cole Historic Site, including Cole’s home, Cedar Grove, and his studio, is located in Catskill at the river’s edge. (Cole’s apprentice, Frederick Church, perched his Moorish villa, Olana, on a bluff above the Hudson River in Columbia County with stunning views of Greene County’s Catskill peaks.) “Greene County is the home of the first American landscape,” explains Victoria Alten, Windham Fine Arts gallery director. “Greene County has some really astounding landscape. It has unusual lighting. There’s a really not a bad view from anywhere—every curve in the road has something to paint. Some of our artists come from all over the country to paint here.” Since its opening in 2001, the Windham Fine Arts Gallery has been featuring work by dozens of artists, with over 400 paintings in the gallery at a time. Though the gallery is often noted for its paintings of landscapes, Alten explains that those paintings fill only half of the collection, not all. “We have a great cross-section of work,” she clarifies. Today, the Windham Fine Arts Gallery houses some of Thomas Cole’s original landscape paintings, as well as abstract paintings from the late Edward Arcenio Chavez and Ethel Magafan. The gallery also contains the work of many current-practicing artists, including Kevin Cook and James Coe. In addition to attracting artists again, Greene County has been become a hot spot for hip eateries. One cafe that’s capitalized on the revitalization of Greene County is MOD Café in Catskill, where the motto is “make love, not processed food.” “Everyone was speculating that things were changing for the better [in Catskill] and we believed that we could make a positive impact,” explains Mary Distefano, who co-owns the café with her business partner Dana Wegener. “We took the chance when so many of the storefronts were still dark. We put our best foot forward and the response has been fantastic.” The eight-table breakfast and lunch spot has sought to serve their customers food that is diverse as well as organic. “We make everything from scratch, from the
dressings that are on our salads to the meats for our sandwiches. All of our herbs and many of our seasonal vegetables are grown in the gardens behind the café,” Distefano explained. Wegener and Distefano seek to keep Greene County green in their practice of composting and recycling in their business— even their to-go containers are completely biodegradable, as requested by their customers. Breakfast menu items contain the straightforward (eggs and home fries) to the decadent Bananas Fosters French toast, and lunch items are salad platters, soups, and sandwiches with whimsical names such as Mr. Rogers Wrapper-Hood and Leonardo d’Veggie. In addition to the hip cafes in Greene County, there is no shortage of restaurants that embrace fine dining, as well as the historical character of the area, such as Bistro Brie and Bordeaux in Windham.The restaurant, opened in 2006, is housed in a building built in 1875 that was the original home to the Windham Journal newspaper. Old photographs were used to aid accurate restoration of the gable roof, clapboard siding, and wooden beam supports inside. But it’s doubtful that people come to the bistro with their primary intention of admiring period architecture. Menu items include smoked trout salad, wild mushroom risotto, and of course, French onion soup. But owner Claudia Desgaches insists that despite the menu of classic French cuisine created by her classically trained French chef husband Stephan Desgaches, they are “in no way a stuffy French restaurant.” “We’re casual, which is very indicative of Greene County.” Greene County is usually associated with skiing, and why not? Seeing that some of the mountains in the county rise beyond 3,500 feet, the county contains two ski destinations, Hunter Mountain and Windham Mountain. And these resorts’ main claim to a business is no longer just skiing and chair lifts anymore. As Windham Mountain proceeds with its plans of expanding into a four-season resort, some of the activities they offer can be experienced year round. Windham has built four terrain parks for skateboarders and freestyle bikers that contain a quarter pipe, a launch ramp, and a 600-foot long half pipe. They also offer mountain biking trails, a rock-climbing wall, a golf school, and paintball. And Hunter Mountain has long been known for the range of festivals it offers, including the WDST Mountain Jam Fest, German Alps Festival, International Celtic Festival, Microbrew and Wine Festival, and this month’s two weekend’s of Oktoberfest, October 4-5 and October 11-12. There’s no shortage of things to do in Greene County. Next time you find yourself driving past your picturesque neighbor, allow yourself to be invited in for a beer, and maybe a hiking trip up a mountain. And don’t be surprised if you find yourself greene with envy. This is the first article in a six-part series exploring Greene County. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GREENE COUNTY GREENE COUNTY TOURISM www.greenetourism.com WINDHAM FINE ARTS GALLERY www.windhamfinearts.com MOD CAFÉ www.myspace.com/modcafecatskill. BISTRO BRIE AND BORDEAUX www.bistrobrieandbordeaux.com WINDHAM MOUNTAIN www.windhammountain.com HUNTER MOUNTAIN www.huntermtn.com
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Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 Info@cpw.org
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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.
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
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CUSTOM HOME DESIGN AND MATERIALS Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY 1 (888) 558-2636 www.lindalny.com We are Atlantic Custom Homes, Inc., the Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning, premier distributor of Lindal Cedar Homes. We work with you to design your custom Post and Beam Lindal Cedar home, and provide a materials package that includes beautiful Western Red Cedar and architectural quality engineered lumber to build an energy efficient home. We find skilled contractors to erect and finish your beautiful custom home and assist you through the entire process of finding and developing land through completion.
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CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes, and accessories, and a unique variety of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise from casual to chic; contemporary to vintage; all sizes accepted. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
West Park, NY (845) 384-6146 www.barefootdancecenter.com info@barefootdancecenter.com Barefoot Dance Center offers classes in Modern Technique, Improvisation, Choreography, Creative Movement, Ballet, and Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dance. We emphasize healthy alignment, skill-building, and the creative process in a supportive environment. We are the home of the Barefoot Dance Company, a modern dance performance group made up of dedicated teenagers. We also offer school residencies, performances, rental space, and birthday parties. Jessie Levey, Director.
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DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warmups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.
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DENTISTRY The Center For Advanced Dentistry —Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD
a multitude of ways. Camilla Mathlein— certified in BTB Feng Shui/Feng Shui Staging (CFSS)—Parsons School of Design.
494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com
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Setting the standard for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes old-school care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18.
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Pi in the Sky Design piintheskydesign@france-menk.com We make your virtual world real. Promotional, advertising, and editorial design. Book jackets, brochures, corporate identity campaigns, dvds, magazines, newsletters, posters. 100% focused on your needs.
HANDWOVENS EVENTS
Loominus
Locust Grove–The Samuel Morse Historic Site
3257 Route 212, Bearsville, NY
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FARMS Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
FAUX FINISHES
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HOLISTIC HEALTH Garden of One 60 Thunder Hill Road, Rensselaerville, NY (518) 797-3373 www.gardenofone.com A Center for Spiritual Evolution. Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit in this sacred place.
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Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1040 downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com Down Under Faux is the creation of Muriel Calderon, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your Designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire. See color display ad.
Faux Intentions (845) 532-3067 Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces, and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes, and many other mediums, help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhilaration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away.
FENG SHUI Studio C, LLC (518) 789-0090 studiocm@mac.com Main focus—space planning. Kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, arrangements, and color consultations. To scale and 3-D drawings are provided to visually understand the outcome of the project. Feng Shui consultations and ‘staging’ available. Ancient art of harmoniously creating a functional pattern of ‘flow’ within your home or business space to benefit you in
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INTERIOR DESIGN AND HOME FURNISHINGS Marigold Home 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com Located 3.5 miles west of the NYState Thruway Exit 19 in the Green Building next to The Hickory Smokehouse, Marigold Home offers 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 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.
ITALIAN SPECIALTY PRODUCTS Leonardo’s Italian Market Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3980 The source for Italian specialty products in the Hudson Valley featuring Beretta meats, signature sandwiches, Italian cheeses, prepared entrees and salads, pastries/ cookies, Ricotta cheesecakes, Spumoni, Gelato, Italian ices, fresh sausage, oils, vinegars, legumes, San Marzano tomatoes, pastas, imported condiments, Perugina and Cafferal chocolate, artesian pizzas and more, including espresso, cappuccino and catering. Wi-fi. Open daily 10am–7pm to 9pm on Friday and Saturday. Call ahead for sandwiches, pizzas and antipasto platters.
JEWELRY, FINE ART & GIFTS Hummingbird Jewelers 20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com
Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775
KITCHENWARES Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com
MUSIC Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org
MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com
(845) 255-2193 deblan@hvi.net
www.360Cities.net is the World’s fastest growing Virtual Reality network. www. hudsonvalley.360cities.net and www. nyc.360cities.net are part of the 360cities global network. Our goal is to showcase area businesses from the most interesting perspectives. 360Cities can build awareness and attract new customers to your location and lets your new customer experience “the next best thing to being there”.
3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7036 Let us take you back to an era of comfort unparalleled in the Catskill Region of New York. Enjoy our 18th century historic mansion in peaceful Stone Ridge set on 150 acres of lawn including gardens, a working apple orchard and untouched woods. Daily, weekly, and monthly rates available.
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
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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 instore sharpening and engraving services.
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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.
families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children. This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.
(845) 679-2364 perrybeekman.com
NETWORKING 360 Cities—Peter Gersec (845) 687-7145 www.HudsonValley.360Cities.net www.NYC.360Cities.net pete@gersmedia.com
ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES Neatnik (845) 255-6648 or (845) 283-9969 Lessen your strife. Organize your life. Are you always: tired of looking for your keys, sunglasses, checkbook, cellphone, paperwork, clothes, favorite kitchen gadget? Surrounded by clutter? Feeling overwhelmed by it? Wishing you could get organized? Let us help! Neatnik will create customized systems for organizing every room in your home-offices too! If you’re moving, we can help you eliminate clutter before and organize after. Contact Neatnik by e-mail at Nancy.lobb@gmail.com or Talarts@aol.com.
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Fun & Fitness All-in-One! Get the entire family involved— Something for everyone! Group Exercise • Water Fitness • Yoga Weight Room • State of the Art Nautilus Room
Hudson River Performing Arts
Adam’s Piano
29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.com
(518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326 www.adamspiano.com
Hudson River Performing Arts, located in Fishkill, NY, offers instruction in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Acting, Voice, Guitar and Piano. Our goal is to cultivate and nurture a love and knowledge of the performing Arts at both the pre-professional and recreational levels. Our programs are designed to provide students with a solid foundation of technique in a nurturing and affirming atmosphere.
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(845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving three counties for 37 years. Experienced, dependable, thorough, and reasonable house sitting for your pets. Thank you Hudson Valley for entrusting ALL your pets and homes to us for 37 years.
PHOTOGRAPHY David Cunningham Woodstock, NY (914) 489-1991 www.davidmorriscunningham.com info@davidmorriscunningham.com David Morris Cunningham is a Woodstock, NY based photographer specializing in portraiture, performance photography, fine art and digital retouching. For information regarding session fees, print sales or commissioned work.
Michael Gold The Corporate Image Studios New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.michaelgoldsphotos.com Artistic headshots of actors, singers, models, musicians, performing artists, writers, and unusual, outlandish, off-the-wall personalities. Complete studio facilities and lighting. Creative, warm, original, professional. Unconditionally guaranteed.
Electrical, Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Fully Insured Free Estimates Radiant Heating, Oil to Gas Conversions and High Efficiency Buderus Boilers
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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.
Photosensualis 70 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com
Upstate Light 3 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3155 www.upstatelight.com Art reproduction, large-format exhibition printing, film, and flatbed scanning. We have over 20 years experience in digital imaging for artists and photographers. We photograph 2 or 3 dimensional artwork using the large-format Better Light™ scanning camera back, either in our studio or on location. Quality and expertise you would expect in the city, dedicated personal service you’ll find upstate. By appointment.
Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom. Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at www.adamspiano.com. A second showroom will be opening in New Paltz in November. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos!
PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291 info@nssupply.com We have showrooms in Fishkill, NY (845) 896-6291, Kingston,NY (845) 331-6700, and Catskill, NY (518) 947-2010. Don’t settle for less, benefit from the best! At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at a competitive price. Our experienced sales professionals will help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. With many convenient locations, stop by and see why service at N&S Supply is second to none!
PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason— to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading-edge in the industry. Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information.
SCHOOLS Berkshire Country Day School P. O. Box 867, Lenox, MA (413) 637-0755 www.berkshirecountryday.org Founded in 1946, Berkshire Country Day School is an independent school serving students in Pre-kindergarten through Grade 9. BCD is an academically rigorous school with a caring community in which students and teachers share in the process of learning. Steadfast in its commitment to learning in the spirit of inquiry and discovery, the school community is dedicated to encouraging academic excellence at the highest level, advancing each student’s unique potential for well-rounded development, and fostering responsive and responsible citizenship.
Dutchess Community College (845) 431-8020 www.sunydutchess.edu
High Meadow School (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Indian Mountain School Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org
Poughkeepsie Day School (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org
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220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1301 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com www.buttermilkspa.com Located on 75 acres overlooking the Hudson River. Brand new full service geothermal and solar spa. Organic products, pool, sauna and steam room. Hiking trails, gardens, waterfalls, peacock aviary.
Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com
TATTOOS Pats Tats 948 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-TAT2 www.patstats.com
THAI ART Fire Lotus 474 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-0292 www.thefirelotus.com A center for Thai Art and Culture in Beaconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Antique District. Across from The Howland Cultural Center. Providing the Hudson Valley with Thai art, handbags, hand-fabricated jewelry/fine gems, vintage furniture, Teak, insects, and mulberry paper. Graduate Gemologist on staff. Appraisals, estates purchased, diamond plotting, and grading.
TOURISM Ulster County Tourism 10 Westbrook Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 340-3566 www.ulstertourism.info
WEDDINGS Hudson Valley Weddings (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWeddings.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, and online Wedding Guide that highlights 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.
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There is a silk road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa; a place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more wellknown treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individuallytailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.
ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized consultation and training for both Mac and PCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, web design, and publishing with customized data base driven websites created with the artist in mind. Limitededition book publishing, artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books, portfolios, dummys, proposals, business reports, manuscript editing, off-site or onsite freelance editing available.
WINE & LIQUOR Village Wine & Spirits 45 Front Street, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3311 www.villagewinemillbrook.com
WORKSHOPS Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Media Project www.childrensmediaproject.org
Wallkill Valley Writers (845) 255-7090 khamherstwriters@aol.com Creative writing workshops in New Paltz led by Kate Hymes, poet and educator. Aspiring and experienced writers are welcome. WVW provides structured time, a supportive community and a safe place for you to fulfill the dream of writing your stories, real or imagined. Many writers find the community of a workshop benefits their work and keeps them motivated.
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CenterToPage: Moving Writers From The Center To The Page Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.CenterToPage.com With 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience as author and teacher, Jeff Davis meets each person where he or she is at for coaching, editing, and ghostwriting. Jeff works in all stages of writing and publishing with scholars, nonfiction writers, novelists, poets, and people simply wishing to develop a writing practice from their center. Teaches at WCSU MFA Program and at conferences nationwide. References available.
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“We promptly and clearly communicate Jacobowitz and Gubits, LLP has built a repuwith our clients so that they know what tation of excellence in legal representation through nearly 50 years of service in the Hudis happening in the matter and why.” son Valley and throughout the state of New York. Our attorneys and staff are dedicated to providing innovative, responsive and cost-effective legal services, while meeting the highest ethical and legal standards. The Breadth of our experience and practice encompasses the areas of Personal Injury, Business & Commercial Law, Real Estate, Environmental Law, Land Use & Zoning, Taxation, Bankruptcy, Elder Law as well as Wills, Trusts and Estates. We look forward to assisting you with your legal affairs. When you need the trusted legal guidance of some of the most highly respected attorneys in The Valley, call J & G. We promptly and clearly communicate with our clients so that they know what is happening in the matter and why.
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tick, tick, tick Looking at Lyme Disease Just returned from an annual Lyme disease conference, Rhinebeck’s integrative doctor Steven Bock describes the pitfalls and ironies of tackling this misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and often just plain missed malady.
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rriving for the first time at a gorgeous Australian beach, I was stunned to find nobody in the water and signs explaining that a certain local jellyfish can turn a refreshing swim into a fatal one.Years later, during a trip to South America, the locals warned of a common, biting bug that carries a microscopic pathogen responsible for Chagas disease, an ailment with a yearslong incubation that eventually debilitates its victims with extreme fatigue, digestive failure, and heart damage that can be fatal (and may have been one of Charles Darwin’s unintended mementos from his South American travels). Visitors to the Hudson Valley may be surprised to see the warnings of ticks and Lyme disease, even in tiny urban parks; worse off are those who missed the signs and return home to develop a mysterious illness their doctors don’t recognize. We live in one of the hottest spots for Lyme disease in the nation (Dutchess and Columbia counties were two of the three counties nationwide tallying over 300 cases per 100,000 people for three years running; the other was Dukes County in Massachusetts). Because of that, citizens as well as medical professionals tend to be better informed about tick-borne illnesses, especially Lyme disease, than in many parts of the country. Nearly everybody understands that Lyme disease is a vector-borne illness, meaning that the pathogen that causes it (the spirochete bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi) gets into people through a middleman (rather, middlecritter) that unwittingly shuttles the pathogen around. In our region, the predominant vector that shuttles Borrelia is the deer tick (also called the blacklegged tick, or Ixodes scapularis), though mosquitoes, fleas, and mites are also vectors. Tick eggs are pathogen free, but during the blood meals that fuel its progression from larva to nymph to adult, each tick may acquire the bacteria by feasting on the blood of an animal “reservoir”—one that had previously been bitten by a bacteria-carrying tick and now serves as a bacteria incubator. Borrelia reservoirs include mice, voles, moles, and several kinds of birds.Ticks in our area also may carry pathogens for other illnesses, namely, human granulocytic anaplasmosis (formerly known as human granulocytic ehrlichiosis) and babesiosis. Ironically, in spite of our tick awareness, many people still don’t get early or sufficient medical care. A number of problems hamper diagnosis and treatment, and fuel controversies over such basics as whether there is such a thing as chronic Lyme. Dr. Steven Bock of the Rhinebeck Health Center and the Center for Progressive Medicine in Albany has been working with Lyme disease for about 25 years now and has seen close to 6,000 cases. He names several key challenges with the illness: About half of people who come down with Lyme symptoms never find a tick or a bite, or the bull’s-eye rash (erythema migrans, or EM) characteristic of Lyme. 90 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 10/08
Symptoms of early Lyme disease (headache, fever, fatigue, muscle aches) may be dismissed as other problems, such as flu, joint injury, overwork, or even psychological issues like depression. Symptoms of long-term infection with the Lyme pathogen may be quite different from the hallmark picture of impaired nervous system function, vision problems, heart dysrhythmia, and/or joint damage. Lyme-causing bacteria can linger in certain tissues or within cells where the immune system cannot readily detect and destroy them, causing recurrent and varied symptoms, and inconsistent test results. Patients may have concomitant infections with other bacteria or parasites carried by ticks, each of which requires a different course of treatment. Diagnosis and treatment decisions are often based on the results of laboratory tests that are not very sensitive, especially in the first few months after a tick bite, and can give false negatives (finding no infection when there is one); people can test negative for years while still having symptoms.
THE GREAT PRETENDER Lyme hardly ever looks like the textbook example of a tick bite followed by the EM rash, then neurological symptoms, fatigue, and joint pain, says Bock. “Lyme is like the great pretender, like syphilis used to be. Lyme presents itself in different ways in each individual person. There is a pattern, but that doesn’t mean that every case is the same. It depends on the patient’s history and circumstances. Some of my patients have seen seven or eight specialists trying to diagnose the problem. They may have symptoms that are staggered over time, or one isolated symptom.” He also notes that children’s symptoms can include learning and behavioral problems; often it’s their mothers who recognize that something is just not right. Bock compares Lyme to the parable of several blind men who each touch a different part of an elephant, and each identify it differently. Medical specialists looking at symptoms may pursue treatments for ailments other than the real beast: Borrelia infection. In a 2004Townsend Letter to Doctors and Patients titled “New Ideas About the Cause, Spread, and Therapy of Lyme Disease,” Dr. James Howenstine gives evidence for many conditions misdiagnosed in patients who turn out to have Borrelia infection. Those conditions include AML (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Parkinson’s disease, MS (multiple sclerosis), Bell’s palsy (facial paralysis), chronic fatigue, heart failure, angina, irregular heart rhythms, fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma and lupus, sudden deafness, ADD and hyperactivity, psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia, and more.
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A problem in diagnosing Lyme arises when doctors narrow their definition of what constitutes symptoms. It should be a clinical diagnosis, Bock explains, based on a doctor’s evaluation of the patient’s history, current health, and personal variation in symptoms. But many doctors use a definition of Lyme that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) uses for surveillance purposes to help track the geographic distribution of the illness over time. The CDC’s criteria are strict: A patient must have a ring-shaped rash of at least 5 centimeters in diameter, or have at least one late symptom of infection (a musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, or neurologic problem) in combination with laboratory evidence of infection with Borrelia. The CDC definition leaves out the many people who didn’t notice a rash, haven’t progressed to more serious symptoms, or who had a negative Lyme test result. The CDC’s criteria about what constitutes a positive test is having two of three bands visible on the western blot (indicating pathogen bits in the blood), or five of ten bands on the IGG test (showing various antibodies in the blood). “Those levels were established by the CDC for their studies and research,” Bock explains, “but they don’t really apply to clinical diagnosis. A person could still have important bands and have the test called negative.” Without suspecting Lyme in those cases, a doctor will skip the most effective treatment: early antibiotic treatment. “The biggest problem I get in my practice,” says Bock, “is people being told by good doctors that they don’t have Lyme. What happens is that a patient comes to me with a dysfunction like pain in the joints, or headache, or fatigue, and they may even have had a tick bite, but they had a negative test for Lyme, or they may have only three bands instead of five [on one of the lab tests]. But absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
FAILING THE TEST The laboratory tests for Lyme disease can unfortunately be a barrier to prompt and appropriate treatment. Bock gives an example of how negative test results can prolong and confound diagnosis. “A patient goes on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard in June, doesn’t notice any tick bite or rash, but in the end of August, she gets flu-like symptoms,” he says. “That’s kind of unusual in the summer, but she gets better and doesn’t think about it any more. A month later, she develops headaches, but they might be a sinus problem, or stress. Later she feels really fatigued, and maybe her knee hurts, so she sees a rheumatologist—who may even think to test for Lyme but have it be negative. Then she may be prescribed anti-inflammatory medication for the joint pain.” Bock has seen over and over that antibiotics for Lyme can resolve symptoms in many such cases. “If my clinical impression is Lyme, a negative test doesn’t stop me from prescribing a six-week course of antibiotics [two weeks longer than many doctors prescribe]. If a patient tells me they went camping, and they have developed several of the myriad symptoms you can get with Lyme, I’ll do a trial of antibiotic. If symptoms clear, they may well have had Lyme. They have to be free of symptoms for five-to-six weeks before I stop antibiotics, then I follow them for an additional six to twelve months before I consider them home free.” He notes that his attitude toward antibiotics has changed where Lyme is concerned, especially when treating children. “In my practice in integrative medicine, I used to get kids off of antibiotics because they were being given too much. But with Lyme, I see people who aren’t treated enough.” As for the recent trend of giving a single dose of 200 mg doxycycline after a tick bite, he says it might work for some people, but he’s seen many for whom that fails.
LYME AND LYME AGAIN Author Bryan Rosner, editor of The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments (BioMed Publishing) and contributor to the 2008 Lyme Disease Annual Report, is one of many people incensed by a current controversy about whether or not Lyme infection can persist after the standard three- to four-week antibiotic treatment and cause chronic symptoms that become, in some cases, catastrophically debilitating.The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is a prominent medical organization that denies the existence of chronic Lyme. In his Annual Report chapter Rosner laments that, “IDSA guidelines generally determine Centers for Disease Control guidelines, and CDC guidelines generally determine what is and is not accepted practice for licensed physicians. Hence, because the IDSA does not recognize chronic Lyme disease as a real medical condition, neither do the majority of physicians in the United States.” 92 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 10/08
The IDSA believes that any symptoms after antibiotic treatment are a psychosomatic condition best called “post-Lyme disease syndrome.” In a similar vein, a 2007 article authored by several physicians in the authoritative New England Journal of Medicine asserts that “it is highly unlikely that post–Lyme disease syndrome is a consequence of occult infection of the central nervous system.” The paper acknowledges that some patients continue to have fatigue, difficulties with concentration or memory, and/or musculoskeletal pain after a course of antibiotics. Nonetheless, the authors recommend this to doctors: “The scientific evidence against the concept of chronic Lyme disease should be discussed and the patient should be advised about the risks of unnecessary antibiotic therapy. Explaining that there is no medication, such as an antibiotic, to cure the condition is one of the most difficult aspects of caring for such patients. Nevertheless, failure to do so in clear and empathetic language leaves the patient susceptible to those who would offer unproven and potentially dangerous therapies.” That stance has outraged thousands of patients and those doctors willing to treat for extended Lyme infection, who are battling for insurance coverage and even face persecution and legal challenges for their insistence that chronic infection is real. At an annual think-tank conference about Lyme this summer, Bock and other doctors gathered to dispel the notion that Lyme must be corseted by the CDC’s and the ISDA’s thinking. “There has been a big barrier,” says Bock, “between those in the ISDA, who feel that Lyme is totally curable with four weeks of antibiotics, and others like me who are in ILADS [the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society], who feel that Lyme can be complicated in certain people. The bacteria can be sequestered in immunologically privileged tissue, where they aren’t vulnerable to the immune system. And the bacteria only get killed by the antibiotic when they divide, so two months later a patient may feel fatigued and get headaches, and it might be the Lyme bacteria still.” At a past ILADS conference, evidence for a way that bacteria could survive included electron micrographs of Borrelia entering a white blood cell and emerging with a layer of the cell’s membrane, serving as a protective cloak that the immune system ignores as “self ” cells. Reports in medical journals and at other conferences support the ability of Borrelia to linger, such as the laboratory experiments by researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine, in which antibiotics eliminated bacteria attached to the outside of human cells but left viable bacteria inside the cells. In addition, Borrelia bacteria have been shown to survive without a cell wall, making antibiotics that work by blocking cell-wall production (as many do) ineffective.
LYME SMART What can we do when, even in our Lyme-aware region, people are struggling through missed diagnoses and debilitating symptoms that can potentially put them in wheelchairs and cost months or years of missed work or schooling? “The biggest thing people can do,” Bock advises, “is to have the facts, and to realize there are controversies, different presentations, and erroneous information out there.You need to be sure to ask a doctor if your symptoms might be Lyme—not by getting obsessive about it and telling the doctor ‘I think I have Lyme’—but don’t just take a doctor’s saying that you can’t possibly have Lyme because the test was negative or your symptoms aren’t the textbook case.” To find a doctor who recognizes the complex picture of Lyme, ask directly or check online for a Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) trained in and qualified to treat chronic Lyme disease (www.lymenet.org). Also visit the website of ILADS, a nonprofit, international medical society promoting proper diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and related diseases (www.ILADS.org). Remember, too, that your immune system is working to inactivate substances injected by a feasting tick. Within hours the bite area may become red and itchy—that’s a reaction to the injury, not pathogens (some ticks don’t carry any). But an EM rash and early Lyme symptoms that emerge days or weeks later indicate the immune system’s reaction to spreading microbes. So general immune support is another angle to protect against Lyme or other tick-borne diseases. In addition, probiotics (oral doses of live intestinal bacteria) maintain a healthy mix of intestinal flora during antibiotic treatment. For specific steps in keeping your body at its peak health to combat illness, seek the advice of a naturopathic doctor or integrative medical specialist. Next month, we’ll look at the integrative treatment of Lyme disease and review popular alternative treatments.
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The Incredible Disappearing Drama Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
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parents, which is enough to blow anyone’s mind, but also from community participants to necessarily more marginal ones. It wasn’t easy. So I was intrigued, but not sure what I would write about: I mean, what in the world is a Buddhist mom? But with all the warrior spirit I could muster I took it up as an experiment, devoted to seeing my mind, and then reporting back to blogosphere. Now that we are taking the plunge into print, it is important to note that I am definitely in no position, as Zen student or mom, to offer anything remotely resembling advice. All I have to offer is my commitment to asking questions, and my faith that asking—in and of itself—transforms. I know it has for me. When I accidentally discovered Zen, I was trying to change my miserable life, but it just wasn’t happening. One day I wandered into the self-help section of a Manhattan Barnes & Noble. Gazing at all the seriously lame books, I implored the universe: “Okay. I give up. Shoot me.” I was serious! Luckily, before any all-powerful force turned “its” attention toward my demands, I glanced to the left, to the “Eastern Thought” section—a place, for the record, I had zero interest in investigating—where I saw a beautiful book called Nothing Special Living Zen. I pulled it off the shelf, sat down, and read the chapter called “The Cocoon of Pain.” That was it. I wasn’t looking for a more spiritual life, a community, or even a teacher. I was just obsessed with one question: Why was I so determined to ruin my own life? I knew better, and yet I felt powerless. Call it addiction, compulsion, neurosis, or insanity, the bottom line is that I was totally lost, and I knew it. Thankfully, a community and a teacher found me and I was (and still am) able to practice Zen in plenty of very challenging company. And I was even able to find some relief—intermittently, of course. However, when I gave birth to Azalea, I was very soon struck by how much I could love a person—so truly, so sincerely, so totally—and yet still struggle to manifest that love. My little pea-heart was just so taxed! My inner and outer states were not in harmony. It was the same old dilemma, but with new, higher, unfathomable, stakes: Where is the disconnect? What can I change? What is real? Who am I? Being a Buddhist mom, for me, means living a big experiment: hurting, loving, wondering, watching my heart—and everyone else’s—open and close. Sometimes it feels like I am going over the same drama again and again. But upon closer inspection, and when I let it, the drama disappears. Read Hillary Harvey’s blog, Swimming Upstream, about her ongoing experiment in homeschooling her daughter Zoe, at www.chronogram.com.
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Classical Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs 303 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (914) 388-7789 For those looking for a radical, no-nonsense approach to pain, physical, mental, and spiritual dis-ease or discomfort, Dylana Accolla and Classical Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs offers 17 years of experience in the healing arts. Co-author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Back to Balance: a Self-Help Guide to Far East Asian
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Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture Kingston, NY (845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com Creating health in partnership with nature. Effective, informative healthcare based in the profound traditions of Chinese medicine. Both private and community acupuncture ($15-$35 sliding scale) is available to ensure affordability to all. Apothecary specializes in local, organic Asian and native herbs available in bulk, tincture, tea mixtures and much more. Workshops, apprenticeships, garden tours. Founded by Hillary Thing, MS, LAc., Professor and Clinic Supervisor at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in NYC, with over 10 years of clinical experience. The main office is located at Apothecary in Kingston and my home office, Gardens in Accord, NY.
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Active Release Techniques (ARTÂŽ) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica. ARTÂŽ is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up. ARTÂŽ works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ARTÂŽ doctors are trained in over 500 hands on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ARTÂŽ doctors attend yearly continuing education and recertification by ARTÂŽ.
Remedies,â&#x20AC;? Dylana trained in bodywork, qigong, and tai ji chuan in Japan, graduated from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco, and completed post-graduate studies at the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cheng-Du, China. She specializes in gynecological and fertility work. Her practice is wide-ranging, including treatment of allergies, asthma, bronchitis, chronic and acute pain, depression and anxiety, digestive issues, fatigue, gallstones, headaches, lingering common colds, Lyme disease, menopausal issues, prostate problems, sleep disorders, vertigo and dizziness, and weakened immune systems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dylanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach is dynamic. Her results are dramatic. Her practice brings about life-changing epiphanies, releasing pain and trauma.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Satisfied Patient
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Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 For the past 18 years, Dr. Hoon J. Park has been practicing a natural and gentle approach to pain management for conditions such as arthritis, chronic and acute pain in neck, back, and legs, fibromyalgia, motor vehicle and workrelated injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and more by integrating physical therapy modalities along with acupuncture. Dr. Hoon Park is a board-certified physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation, pain medicine, and electrodiagnostic studies. His experienced, friendly staff offer the most comprehensive and individualized rehabilitative care available. Please call the office to arrange a consultation. New patients and most insurances are accepted. Half mile south of the Galleria Mall.
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Mid-Hudson Acupunctureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; William Weinstein, L.Ac. New Paltz and Manhattan, NY (845) 255-2070 or (212) 695-3565 www.mhacu.com
845.255.6482
Announcing MEI ZEN COSMETIC ACUPUNCTURE at Mid-Hudson Acupuncture. Present yourself the way you wish to be. Feel great inside! Look great outside!ÂŽ Personalized, unhurried treatment tailored to your specific needs. ALSO: Relief from headache, migraine, arthritis, carpal tunnel, TMJ/TMD, repetitive strain, rotator cuff injury, and stress-related syndromes stemming from the modern lifestyle. Support through chronic illness, including relief from the adverse effects of cancer care. NHAI, Oxford, Elderplan. MC/V/D. New Paltz: 218 Main Street. Manhattan: 119 West 23rd Street.
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Absolute Laser, LLC
www.monarda.net In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wild-crafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified organic alcohol tinctures, teas, salves, essential oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships.
AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter
japter@ulster.net See also Massage Therapy.
ART THERAPY
(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. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens.
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ASTROLOGY Planet Waves Kingston, NY (877) 453-8265 www.planetwaves.net Offering a weekly newsletter with news, astrology, and horoscopes. Private astrological consultations by appointment.
Spirit Root Services â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are the Lock. Enlightenment is the Key. Being Divine is the Secret.â&#x20AC;?
Jen Paradise 98
www.mysticmama.com
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An Organic and Natural Grocery Store. Hawthorne Valley Farm Store features delicious foods made here on our Biodynamic organic farm, including raw milk, artisan cheese, yogurt, homemade bread, and desserts. We also feature local and organic fruits and vegetables, holistic body care, and homeopathic remedies. We are part of Hawthorne Valley Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable agriculture, education, and the arts. Our farming practices reflect our commitment to the Earth and our education programs raise awareness of the social, ecological, and economic importance of agriculture in our daily lives.
BODY & SKIN CARE
Deep Clay
Enlightenment and Beyond
327 Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500, ext. 1 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
(845) 339-2562
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Classes for All Levels.
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
Monarda Herbal Apothecary
(845) 679-0512
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BIODYNAMIC
Springbrook Medical Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7100 www.absolute-laser.com Absolute Laser, LLC offers commitment to beautiful skin through outstanding care and service. Offering Laser Hair Removal, Microdermabrasion, Vitalize Peel, and Fotofacial RF. The Fotofacial RF is the next generation in high-tech skin enhancement. These gentle, no downtime treatments are used to improve cosmetic appearance of the face, neck, hands, and body. The results are brighter, smoother, more radiant, and luminescent skin. This process delivers results that skin care products alone cannot do! Recover and rediscover the youth and vitality of your skin. Call for a complimentary consultation: Janice DiGiovanni.
Essence MediSpa, LLCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Stephen Weinman, MD 222 Route 299 Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Some Time Offâ&#x20AC;? at Essence MediSpa with skin rejuvenation and anti-aging treatments. Non-surgical treatments for age spots and skin lesions, teeth whitening, Botox Cosmetic, laser hair removal, Non-surgical skin tightening using the Titan System, Varicose and Spider Vein treatments, Microdermabrasion, chemical peels, acne treatments, facials, and massage services.
Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Irene Humbach, LCSW, PCâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services
(845) 897-3280
(845) 485-5933
Spirit Root Services: The Astrological Wheel and your natal chart consultations, chart relocationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;astrocartography, transits and progressions, composite chartsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;couples, parents, and children. Regular classes for all levels.
By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open
blocks to their softer heart energy. Tensession psycho-spiritual group for women in recovery. Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.
CHI GUNGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;TAI CHI CHUAN Red Land Internal Arts Hawks (845) 750-6488
CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ARTÂŽ) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries. In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ARTÂŽ to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today.
Exelbert Chiropractic 4311 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-8868
Mancarella Chiropractic 68 West Cedar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-3558 Located near Marist and Saint Francis. Practicing for 21 years. Combining traditional chiropractic therapy with current rehabilitation and core strengthening exercises. Most insurance accepted including Workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Compensation, No Fault, and Medicare. Convenient early morning and late evening appointments available.
Connie Schneiderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Certified Colon Therapist New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 Colon hydrotherapy or colonics is a gentle approach to colon health. A healthy digestive tract helps support a healthy immune system, improving overall health, basics for a healthy lifestyle. Herbal Detox Programs available. See display ad.
COUNSELING
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IONEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Healing Psyche (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. Fax: (845) 331-6624.
S PIRITUAL COUNSELOR â&#x20AC;&#x153;John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last three years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen (with Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help).â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard Brown, M.D. Author, Stop Depression Now â&#x20AC;&#x153;John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gerald Epstein, M.D. Author, Healing Visualizations
CRYSTALS & WELL-BEING Crystals & Well-Being Center 116 Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY (646) 286-9325 crystalshealing.googlepages.com crystalswellbeing@gmail.com Dedicated to your body and soulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wellbeing, the center offers spectacular and energetically powerful crystals, holistic gifts, and healing tools at extremely competitive prices. In this breathtaking space, our licensed massage therapists, acupuncturist, chiropractor, and certified energy healers will move your energy and pain away. Healing per appointment. Located inside the yellow church.
CUSTOM PORTRAITS Pet Painting (845) 679-7327 www.petpaintingusa.com
DENTISTRY
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The spiritual alchemy practices of ancient Taoist sorcerers and Shaolin Buddhist monks, yielded these two treasures of Chinese internal Gung Fu. Chi Gung: This meditative practice incorporates and integrates both stillness and motion to strengthen the body and mind. Its deep breathing techniques, stretching and massaging of the acupuncture meridians, tendons, ligaments and muscles helps to fend off disease and old age. It prepares the body to withstand the rigorous training of Martial Arts and helps us to live a long life, free of degenerative diseases. Tai Chi Chuan, based on the same principles as Chi Gung, further embodies the expression of our intrinsic energy (CHI) in general physical movement and stillness meditation, as well as the deeply intricate movements found in the self-defense aspect of the Tai Chi form. Both of these practices were founded on the combination of Shaolin Buddhist meditation, Shaolin martial body mechanics and Taoist spiritual alchemy, but the first step in attaining results in these arts depends on setting the body and mind to the true nature of thingsâ&#x20AC;Śthere are no short cuts. These esoteric practices have brought health, vitality and youthfulness, to me and my students, some of which are in their 70â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. The only requirements for Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan are determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere.
COLON HEALTH CARE
Barbara Boris 5 classes a week at Mountain View Studio, Woodstock Tuesday, 6 p.m. Class at Satya Yoga, Rhinebeck
Perform each asana as a mantra and each pose as a meditation, then the light will dawn from the centre of your being. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; B.K.S. IYENGAR
845 679-3728 www.BarbaraBorisYoga.com
Tischler Family Dental Center 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.
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FARMERS’ MARKETS 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!
GOURMET FRUIT ARRANGEMENTS Edible Arrangements Kingston, NY 1 (877) DoFruit www.ediblearrangements.com Also located in Poughkeepsie, NY.
HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing
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(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.
TAROT on the HUDSON with Rachel Pollack
internationally renowned Certified Tarot Grand Master & Award Winning Novelist
Monthly classes - Rhinebeck & NYC Lectures Workshops Private Consultations Mentoring in Tarot and Writing Telephone: 845-876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com www.rachelpollack.com
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.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies 1 (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org Omega Institute is in its fourth decade of awakening the best in the human spirit. Join us for Winter Learning Vacations in Costa Rica and St. John and keep your eye on our website—our 2008 Rhinebeck season will be for sale soon.
Ron Figueroa, MA, CHT (845) 399-2098 www.centerforwholelifehealing.com
HOMEOPATHY Hudson Valley School of Classical Homeopathy (845) 255-6141 classicalhomeopathy@earthlink.net
Suzy Meszoly, DSH/Classical Homeopathy (845) 626-7771
Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT— Holistic Health Counselor
Safe, effective, natural, individualized homeopathic health care 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.
41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 Cassandra is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Teacher and Certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist with a MS in Counseling Psychology. She offers integrative health counseling to individuals as well as groups, melding Ayurvedic nutritional counseling, yoga, and more traditional therapeutic techniques to guide people toward greater selfawareness, empowering them to find joy, balance, and health in their daily lives. Call for classes, appointments, and consultations.
Dragonfly Holistic 1181 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 463-2802 www.dragonflyholistic.com
60 Thunder Hill Road. Rensselaerville, NY (518) 797-3373 www.gardenofone.com A Center for Spiritual Evolution. Rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit in this sacred place.
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts—Carolyn Rabiner, LAc At High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, patients enjoy an advanced level of care, based on the understanding gained from this ancient healing tradition, together with approaches developed as a result of modern research. Regaining healthy balance in an environment full of stressors may require more than one mode of care
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- all five of the professionally practiced branches of Taoist healing arts are offered. Over 16 years of experience.
HYPNOSIS Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild. She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.
Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stressrelated illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity. Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
INTUITIVE ANALYSTS & REMOTE VIEWERS Marisa Anderson P.O. Box 83, Milton, NY (845) 566-4134 www.marisaanderson.com Specializing in Individual Concerns, Law Enforcement, Personal Healing and Health Issues, Corporate Analysis, Animal Concerns, and Science/Technology Data. Guest speaker on many radio programs, featured in noted publications nationally, and in books, and on The Discovery Channel. Available for private sessions (in person or by phone), parties, and corporate events.
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.
LIFE COACHING Jessica Thayer, LLC 1 (800) 291-5576 www.jessicathayer.com
Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.
MASSAGE THERAPY Conscious Body—Ellen Ronis McCallum, LMT 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.
Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage—Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Katie Hoffstatter, LMT, Gia Polk, LMT 243 Main Street, Suite 220, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 Are your muscles feeling tight and congested? Are you dealing with stress
Julie Zweig, MA
Julie Zweig, MA Rosen Method Bodywork & Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes. Essential Oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and home cleaning products from Young Living Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter.
Madhuri Therapeutics—Bringing Health to Balance 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net Whether your goal is to relieve stress and pain, address a health concern, or simply to pamper yourself—our tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offers individualized sessions to nourish and repair body, mind, and spirit. Licensed Massage Therapy, Therapeutic Yoga, Flower Essences, Ayurvedic treatments and products, and master-level Reiki; allnatural and organic oils, herbs and body products; 15 years experience. Alice Velky LMT, RYT.
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Sarah Samuels, LMT (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.
MEDIATION
Save the date! Monday, October 13, 2008 at 7pm in Garrison, NY
Rosen Method Bodywork & Body-Centered Psychotherapy demonstration of her work that is now recognized and practiced world-wide. This
Marion Rosen, founder of Rosen Method Bodywork, will give a lecture and is a rare opportunity to learn about and witness the transforming work of Marion Rosen here in New York. At The Desmond-Fish Library in Garrison, NY (http://dfl.highlands.com/). For more information, contact Julie Zweig or see website (info below). No RSVP or attendance fee. Donations requested to offset presentation costs.
New Paltz, New York t (845) 255-3566
New Paltz, New York t (845) 255-3566 t julieezweig@gmail.com
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Serving artists, healers, creatives, and other sensitives called to integrate their rich interior worlds into their daily lives. When therapy for the past fails to provide the tools for the future. Schedule your complimentary consultation online.
from emotional, physical or environmental causes? Do you just feel overwhelmed? Our conscientious and skilled NY Licensed Massage Therapists can help you discover a place of ease within your body, mind, and spirit. Let us help you to feel whole! Craniosacral, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage and Health Kinesiology. MondayFriday 8:30am-7pm, Saturday 9am-3pm.
Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP
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Kadampa Meditation Center 47 Sweeny Road, Glen Spey, NY (845) 856-9000 www.kadampaNewYork.org
MIDWIFERY
71 Main St. New Paltz
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 and NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~ Albert Einstein
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MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com
Acupuncture by M.D.
Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C.
Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir.
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Experienced, professional, non-toxic cleaning and organizing service. Pet sitting. Home/business blessings. Excellent references.
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!
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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation,
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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 meditation as well as individual treatment of stress-related illness. Sessions are designed to teach self-help tools based on mindfulness based stress reduction, guided imagery, Twelve Steps, Reiki, and Qigong. Her individual practice combines traditional medical practice with an integrative approach in an effort to decrease dependency on medication.
PILATES Conscious Body 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit. We are perceptive, experienced, and certified instructors who would love to help you achieve your goals whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus and mat classes available. Visit our studio on main street in Rosendale.
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find your balance Aveda introduces Chakraâ&#x201E;˘ Balancing Massageâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;grounded in Ayurveda, the ancient healing art of India. Our in-salon treatment balances the chakrasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;energy centers of the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with massage, meditation and the power of aroma. Book today. And take home our Chakraâ&#x201E;˘ Balancing Body Mistsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ayurvedic fusions to enhance well-being. Balance the sensesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;visit Aveda today.
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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.
Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933
PSYCHOLOGISTS Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed? Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees.
Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. 39 Collegeview Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023
PSYCHOTHERAPY Amy R. Frisch, CSWR New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229 Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls, and 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
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT,TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy.
Julie Zweig, MA, NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 julieezweig@gmail.com Verbal Body-Centered Psychotherapy. Julie is trained through the doctoral level in psychology (ABD for PhD), with many areas of expertise, including trauma recovery, somatic issues, body image and chronic pain, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, cross-cultural issues (including LGBT), spiritual issues, ACOA issues and more. Julie has 20 years of experience as a therapist. This modality does not include touch (just talking), but utilizes the principles of Rosen Method Bodywork. See description of Rosen Method Bodywork. Also in training as an IMAGO therapist, and will soon be offering couples counseling.
Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW— Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511, ext. 304
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Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-graduate candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 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.
Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
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Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term 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.
We can help you achieve the peace and ease of movement you are searching for in your body, in your mind, and in your spirit. CranioSacral Therapy, Energy Healing, Therapeutic Massage, Advanced Myofacial Techniques & Health Kinesiology are available to assist you with finding health. You take care of your car, why not take care of the primary vehicle that gets you through life —YOU!
Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage 243 Main St., Suite 220 Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, Owner New Paltz, NY 12561 Katie Hoffstatter, LMT (845) 255-4832 / hvtm@hvc.rr.com M-F: 8:30am - 7pm Sat: 9am - 3pm 10/08 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY
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REIKI INSTRUCTION Lorry Salluzzi Sensei (845) 688-5672 www.psychic-healer.tv lorrysallu@yahoo.com Reiki I: $50, Reiki II: $100, by appointment; Reiki Master Retreat Weekend 10/17-10/19, $625 with room and food; Reiki Master Weekend 10/18 and 10/19 $500; Psychic Medium Training Retreat Weekend: 11/9-11/11, $325 all Psychic Medium Readings: Phone/person $25. At the Hunter Mountain House: www. thehuntermountainhouse.com. Rooms/ space for rent also available.
ROSEN METHOD BODYWORK Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.RosenMethod.com www.youtube.com.watch?v=OrwvSF2Bp_k julieezweig@gmail.com
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Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using hands that listen rather than manipulate, the practitioner focuses on chronic muscle tension. As relaxation occurs and the breath deepens, unconscious feelings, attitudes, and memories may emerge. The practitioner responds with touch and words that allow the client to begin to recognize what has been held down by unconscious muscle tension. As this process unfolds, habitual tension and old patterns may be released, freeing the client to experience more aliveness, new choices in life, and a greater sense of well-being. Please see Julieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ad for information regarding the presentation by Marion Rosen (founder of Rosen Method Bodywork) in the Hudson Valley in October.
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 donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully the love and the abundance of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.
SUPERMARKETS Hannaford Supermarket Convenient locations throughout New York www.hannaford.com For the love of food. Whatever your tastebuds are craving weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the solution. Stop by Hannaford for the freshest meats, produce, and seafood. Tasty deli meats and world class cheeses. Breads baked fresh daily and cakes, pies, and cookies for the hardiest sweet tooth. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see you there!
SWIM LESSONS Total Immersion Swim Studio 246 Main Street, Suite 15A, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4242 www.totalimmersion.net
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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.
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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 lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it’s a process that can be fun, easy, and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance, and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach.
YOGA Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com
Barbara Boris—Woodstock Iyengar Yoga Mountain View Studio, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3728 www.barbaraborisyoga.com bxboris@yahoo.com The Iyengar method develops strength, endurance, and correct body alignment in addition to flexibility and relaxation. Standing poses are emphasized: building strong legs, increased general vitality, and improved circulation, coordination and balance. 12 years teaching yoga, 20 years practicing. 12 trips to India. Extensive training with the Iyengar family.
Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com
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Madhuri Therapeutics 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 madhurihealing@optonline.net Bringing Health to Balance. A Yoga-based mind-body approach for adults, children, and special needs populations of all ages. Gentle, safe and effective treatment for ASD’s, developmental, attention and learning differences; anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and immune syndromes. Therapeutic Yoga, licensed Massage Therapy, Flower Essences, Reiki, and other traditional healing modalities can return you, your child or loved one to a naturally balanced state of health and harmony. We look forward to working with you! Namaste. Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT.
Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.com
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When was the last time someone really listened to your body? Roy Capellaro, PT Integrative Manual Physical Therapy Zero Balancing CranioSacral Therapy whole living directory
Offering Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga classes for all levels seven days a week. This style of yoga is both therapeutic and dance-like. By first warming up the body naturally we can stretch safely, gaining an understanding of how to move from our core. We also offer “Community Yoga classes” which are by donation.
Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. We offer classes for every level of student. Our classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Anusara Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette, RYT and Ami Hirschstein, RYT have been teaching locally since 1995.
125 Main Street · Gardiner · NY 845.518.1070 www.roycapellaro.com
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 preregister: we invite you to just show up.
The Living Seed 521 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years. Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and postnatal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna, and organic Yoga clothing. Route 299, across from Econo Lodge.
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The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats will perform at UPAC in Kingston on November 1.
TAO ON A TIGHTWIRE Sublimity is rare on YouTube, but try the Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats. In the “Bowl Balance,” a man dressed in white lifts up a girl, also in white. He holds only her hands; she’s bent into a C shape. Gradually, you’ll notice a soup bowl balanced on her head. Her lips are pursed like a serene princess. The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats will appear at the Ulster Performing Arts Center on November 1. This is their 29th North American tour, but each year’s show is different, in case you’ve seen this troupe previously. But not everything changes. “There are certain acts we have to bring, no matter what,” observes tour producer Don Hughes. “The public expects to see them. One is what we call ‘The Tower of Chairs,’ where the performer goes up 26 feet in the air and does a one-handed horizontal handstand at the top. Everyone is just holding their breath—I’ll have to tell you—including me! I’ve seen it for the majority of my life, but my palms still sweat when I see that act.” The Shangri-La acrobats work without a tightwire or nets. “It makes it more exciting, watching them,” says Hughes. “You know, when they’ve got a wire on, people are inclined to believe that the wire’s holding them up.” “The Pagoda of Chairs,” which is all women, standing sideways, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most chairs with no tightwire. Not all the acts are nail-biters, however. Performers dressed as two shaggy Chinese lions balance on a large red ball, on a seesaw. A contortionist performs; there’s scarfdancing, juggling, and kung fu. Acrobatics is a central part of Chinese culture. Every major city has an acrobat troupe, the way American cities have baseball teams. Children begin training at the
age of five or six and practice six days a week. Ken Hai, a fourth-generation Chinese acrobat, is artistic director of Shangri-La. At a studio in Beijing, he auditions performers. The current troupe includes 13 acrobats. Am I imagining an influence of Taoism? Lao Tzu wrote: Alive, a man is supple, soft; In death, unbending, rigorous. All creatures, grass and trees, alive Are pliant; dead, are brittle and dry. Hughes has been organizing tours for Chinese acrobats since 1973. In that time, audiences have become more familiar with this art form. “Originally, when we first came, people wanted to see Chinese culture,” Hughes remembers. “Now they go to see it because they know it’s good!” This year the Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats played seven months at Opryland, in Nashville, Tennessee. They’ve also performed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in Las Vegas. Acrobats are more inspiring than most sermons. The performers escape death every day by pulling together, literally. They fall, and bounce back up. These are lessons we all need to learn, and relearn—especially while watching spinning plates. “There’s no age limit on it, and no language barrier!” vows Hughes. The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats will appear at the Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC) in Kingston at 2 pm and 7pm on November 1. (845) 339-6088; www.upac.org. —Sparrow 10/08 10/08CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAM FORECAST
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WEDNESDAY 1 ART Silent Auction of American Art Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-Wednesday, November 5, 4pm. $130/4 classes. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
FILM Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, workshops, concerts and discussions. Woodstock. 679-4265.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Ben Sollee Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THE OUTDOORS Stretch and Stride: Yoga and Hiking in the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Fishkill Ridge Hike 8am. 6-mile hike. Call for location. 896-9332. Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Peters Kill 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
THEATER Art 7:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
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Berlin-Inspired Cabaret 7pm. Songs of decadence, exile, corruption, and experiment. Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632. The Sparrow Quartet 8pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Keith Prayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THE OUTDOORS Ranger Hike 10am-2pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273.
SPOKEN WORD Franz Kafka and Movies 4pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. Breast Health 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444. Ripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Poetry Night 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. The Grapes of Wrath Discussion 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Speaker Series: The Hudson: Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s River 7:30pm. Painterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Art 7:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
WORKSHOPS Still Life Painting 1pm-3:30pm. 5 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Playwrightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
FRIDAY 3 ART Surprise 4pm-6pm. 1st Annual Mini-Works Show. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559. Inside & Outside the Box 6pm-9pm. Wild and fantastic artists-made boxes. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. 679-2940.
CLASSES Fall Foliage in Oil Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Zen of Oil Pastel 10am-1pm. 4 sessions. $125. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Swing Class Family Style 6pm-7pm. 4 sessions. $66. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Ballroom Dance 7pm-8pm. 4 sessions. $60. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
DANCE Bard SummerScape: Dance Call for times. $25. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
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Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Latin Dance â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calienteâ&#x20AC;? 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip Hop Dance 6pm-7:30pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447. Still Life Painting 7pm-9pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Bard SummerScape: Dance Call for times. $25. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Muddy Lindy:Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casual Swing Stomp 8pm-10pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
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Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109. 10th Anniversary Celebration of The Mill Street Loft 5:30pm-7:30pm. $35. Vassar Alumni House, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
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Tigray Soccer Tournament 3pm-6pm. Benefit for the Wide Horizons For Children fund. Dutchess Day School, Millbrook. 876-8731. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Featuring music by Rebel Red after open mike. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
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KIDS Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, Catskill. 334-8600. Cheryl Wheeler 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Dar Williams 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Raviellons! 8pm. Traditional music of Quebec. $20. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197. The Tami Tango Trio: Music and Dances of Argentina 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Satisfaction: A Rolling Stone Tribute 8pm. $25. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Son Lewis and Reddan Brothers Band 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
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Andrew Bird will perform at The Egg in Albany on October 9.
Bird Cracks Egg Anyone experiencing Olympics withdrawal—wherein one hungers for more displays of what a human body actually can do in performance—should hasten to the Egg in Albany on October 8 at 7:30pm to experience a solo performance by Andrew Bird. Looking for a voice that rivals Jeff Buckley’s in expressive power and range? Covered. How about bewitching classical violin, gypsy fiddling, jazz/rock/surf guitar, and glockenspiel? Standard. Hankering for rich melodies and interesting wordplay wrought with impish glee? No problem. Then, if it’s not too much, can we get some haunting, otherworldly whistling in there? Done. Andrew Bird has been on the scene for a little over a decade, making music, touring internationally, and recently blogging about songwriting for the New York Times. His latest CD, Armchair Apocrypha (2007, Fat Possum Records), is his tour de force, a culmination of the various styles and technologies he’s been exploring for the last 10 years. At present, he is assembling a follow-up for 2009, but the notoriously restless Bird is taking a break to limber up, hit the road, and do some work-in-progress dance steps. That rare artist, like Imogen Heap or Laurie Anderson, whose exuberant, folksy embrace of cutting-edge technology brings organic warmth to the whirring microprocessors, Bird sweetens the pot with jaw-dropping chops, unabashed pop sensibility, and a dash of rock-star charisma. In addition to his seven studio albums—both solo and with his band, Bowl of Fire— Andrew Bird has released three much-lauded live CDs and carved an expanding niche for himself as a ya-gotta-see-him-live artist. A YouTube search reveals the aura of “a happening”
surrounding an Andrew Bird performance; on the Bonnaroo stage, the Letterman set, and the smoky shadows of Paris club La Maroquinerie, it is not business as usual. It is rare to watch a pop performer construct—and then expand and deconstruct—a song before your very eyes, but in the live context that is what Bird does, with an engaging confidence and offbeat, David Byrne-esque showmanship. Often beginning with a skeletal pizzicato violin sent through a sampler, Bird creates intertwining sonic loops on various instruments, upon which an engaging story is woven. It’s like being a fly on the wall of a crazy-haired, mad scientist’s lab; the loosely choreographed steps from sampler pedal to mallets to stringed instruments are punctuated by an easy rapport with a riveted and frequently high-spirited audience, and while the song as recorded remains recognizable, its execution at any given performance is strikingly unique. And it isn’t just about digital wizardry and ace musicianship—the tunes are hooky, achingly beautiful, and radio-friendly. You can bet the work-in-progress material he recently blogged about will be assembled like an ephemeral Frankenstein’s monster at the Egg. (Just in time for Halloween!) If you’d like to be a part of that combustible, unpredictable creation, this is your chance. Blazing torches optional. Andrew Bird will perform at the Egg in Albany on October 9 at 7:30pm. (518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org. —Robert Burke Warren
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The Reel Deal in Woodstock By Jay Blotcher The Woodstock Film Festival, an annual be-in of progressive filmmakers, musicians, and artists, will return to the Hudson Valley from October 1 through 5. For nearly its entire existence, the event has languished in the guttering twilight of the Bush administration, whose agenda remains antithetical in extremis to the ultra-liberal values that birthed WFF. The result has been a film festival whose impact and relevance have, ironically, grown as America (and, by extension, the world) has taken a battering. Each year, WFF manages to skirt the growing pains that other independent festivals suffer and re-emerge as a no-frills gathering of the faithful. Celebrity-politicos and indie studio icons are lauded, counterculture phenomena are celebrated, and cult actors walk Tinker Street to polite acclaim. And, yes, that is indeed ‘60s folkie-sprite-mystic Donovan walking through the crowds this year, to support a new documentary about his multi-hued career. Cofounders Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto continue to guard the ideals of the festival, culling a number of provocative and remarkable works from the 2,100 film entries this year. WFF award recipients this month include cinematographer and unreconstructed leftie Haskell Wexler (see interview), who will be given the WFF’s first lifetime achievement award. Producer-director Kevin Smith, whose penchant for comic books and poo jokes cannot mask a skewed brilliance, receives the annual Maverick Award. (His latest foray into humane outrageousness, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, closes this year’s festival.) Focus Features CEO James Schamus is honored with the Trailblazer Award. The cofounder of indie pioneer production company Good Machine, Schamus has always shown unerring and unwavering taste in championing artists like Todd Solondz, Todd Haynes, and his longtime collaborator, Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain). As the WFF has grown, so has the Bush juggernaut. The trade-off was that the reign of terror provided WFF filmmakers with ample material for films about injustices perpetrated upon the planet and its people: pre-emptive war, institutionalized racism, unemployment, ecological insanity. At the same time, the WFF could equally be relied upon for fun; the film program always allows its freak flag to fly. Documentaries and narratives revisit the back-to-the-garden counterculture that now seems poised, by necessity, to return. A measure of fatalism bubbles up when you feel the world is collapsing about you, despite your efforts to wake the populace through the arts. And, more often than not since 2000, the WFF has seemed like an Irish wake: a raucous and mournful celebration of a world fast disappearing, despite our best efforts to save it. Perhaps the growing power of the Obama-Biden ticket will reverse the defensive, whistling-in-the graveyard mood among participants and artists that has palpably marked past festivals. Wear your love beads and join the family. For a full schedule of the Woodstock Film Festival, as well as the locations of all venues offering tickets, films, concerts, panels, and parties that will swallow the region for four days, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
EDGE OF TOWN (dir. Christopher Ciancimino)—Promising debut by NYU film student Ciancimino, this short teases and then haunts with evocative cinematography and a fragmented storyline that explains why a local girl is found dead in the woods. EXPLICIT ILLS (dir. Mark Webber)—The camera forever roves in this portrait of inner-city Philadelphians, some rich, some poor, all yearning for what they think they lack. Writerdirector Webber fills his tale with elliptical characterizations of a genial drug dealer, a rich girl turned artist, a man hoping to open a health food store, and a small boy suffering from asthma. Every single frame resembles a painting, which may excuse the sketchy depictions. The vibe of this film can be summed up in one character exchange. She: “This is depressing.” He: “But it’s good for us as artists.” Starring Rosario Dawson and Paul Dano (There Will Be Blood) and executive-produced by Ulster County resident Jim Jarmusch. GOSPEL HILL (dir. Giancarlo Esposito)— Radiating a distinct John Sayles vibe, this tale of injustice in a small Southern town has a gallery of boldly drawn characters, the economy of a conventional short story, and a reassuring amount of character reformation to reaffirm your faith in the world. As townspeople prepare to honor the memory of a fallen civil rights leader, ghosts of the past lie in waiting. The surfeit of 11th-hour reconciliations make this crowd-pleaser perfect for HBO on a Saturday evening. Starring Angela Bassett and Danny Glover. * I’LL COME RUNNING (dir. Spenser Parsons)—A late-night hook-up between Veronica, a Mexican restaurant waitress, and Pelle, a cranky Danish tourist, seems typical enough: they exchange pet names, have lots of sex, and wonder how to say goodbye. But the cutesy narrative falls away when Pelle dies in a crash en route to the airport. Veronica, feeling something between tragic love and guilt, travels to Denmark to learn more about Pelle. A preposterous plotline courting incredulity nonetheless works, thanks to marvelously understated performances by an ensemble cast, especially Melonie Diaz as Veronica and Christian Taldrup as Soren, Pelle’s best friend. Shot in Austin, Texas and Arbus, Denmark. IDIOTS AND ANGELS (dir. Bill Plympton)— Animator and philosopher Plympton draws a world of beleaguered men who fight with each other on the way to a dehumanizing office and are unable to connect with women, even in sexual congress. But Plympton is far from a misanthrope, and his latest work reminds us that man is in a constant struggle to regain his state of grace. (In this film, he has even sprouted a pair of angel wings.) His humor remains pitch-black, his images harsh and unsettling, but Plympton still maintains hope for his fellow man.
CAPSULE REVIEWS OF FILMS SHOWING AT THE FESTIVAL Of a roster of nearly 150 films this year—10 of them world premieres—the following were made available for preview. While they range, predictably, from the sophomoric to the sublime, there seems a surfeit of vital works in the festival this year. Not one of the 32 works screened can be dismissed out of hand. Even the few that were thematically earnest, visually cloying, or politically naive still commanded attention. [* Denotes Chronogram film critic favorite.] NARRATIVE FEATURES: * 32 A (dir. Marian Quinn)—In an era when Judd Apatow has sewn up the American youth movie, for better of for worse, this tale of female adolescence in 1989 Ireland is refreshingly snark-free. Schoolgirl Maeve (Ailish McCarthy) has spirit to spare and a mouth she unleashes freely. But when a local boy in this seacoast town woos her, she yields to the first bittersweet taste of romantic love. Keenly observed and sweetly vulgar, this film offers numerous small joys and an unsentimental look back at the ‘80s. With Ulster County resident Aidan Quinn (brother of the director) and Jared Harris.
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* JULIA (dir. Erick Zonca)—Indie film icon and Oscar winner for last year’s Michael Clayton, Tilda Swinton beguiles and assaults with a powerhouse performance as an alcoholic unable to distinguish between self-sabotage and salvation. Her brash seductions and breathtaking rationalizations land her in a scheme to kidnap the young heir to an electronics fortune. Veering between psychological portrait and an unlikely road-buddy film, Julia benefits from strong cinematography and meticulous plotting for most of the film. Memorable turns by Kate Del Castillo as the fellow 12-stepper and Aidan Gould as the kidnaped son. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (dir. Tomas Alfredson)—This tender tale of awkward 1970s adolescent romance involves Oskar, a lonely boy, and Eli, the goth girl next door who teaches him to stand up to the school bullies. But Eli is not a Sisters of Mercy fan; she’s a member of the Undead, but her love for Eli keeps her from feeding on him. Overripe dialogue and cheesy, Argento-type horror effects threaten to make this SwedishNorwegian vampire film a genre-busting laugh-riot, but sensitive lead performances by Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson will squelch any mocking impulses.
FILM WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY (dir. Barry Jenkins)—This wistful tale of a one-night stand that bleeds over, unexpectedly, into another day and night, should be remarkable for more than just the fact that the star-crossed lovers are middle-class African-Americans. But this a film industry that still shortchanges the Black Experience unless the storyline is hip-hop or a Tyler Payne morality play. Director-writer Barry Jenkins depicts a San Francisco more gray than sunny, abetted by cinematographer Jamie Laxton. The director has an agenda that extends beyond sexual politics; his leads discuss housing for the poor and he plunks a real-life debate among housing activists smack into the middle of the film. NATURAL CAUSES (dir. Alex Cannon, Paul Cannon and Michael Lerman)—Scenes from a slacker relationship. A chance meeting of 20-something boy and girl is followed by wisecracks and water balloons, observations about grilled cheese sandwiches and onenight-stand etiquette. But amid the elliptical conversation (and moody lighting), young love inexplicably grows. Shot in a documentary style that favors fly-on-the-wall scenes to clever banter, this film grows on you. Owing to the trio of men at the helm as writerdirectors, boyfriend David (from the John Mayer school of lanky, curly-haired, puppydogs) has all of the best soul-searching lines. Stars Jerzy Gwiazdowski and Leah Goldstein are never facile, offering vulnerable, multilayered performances. * THE NEW YEAR PARADE (dir. Tom Quinn)—A bookend of sorts to Earthly Ills, this depiction of a troubled Irish neighborhood in Philadelphia is set against the annual Mummers parade. Writer-directorcinematographer-editor Quinn knows his neighborhood intimately and trusts the smallscale human dramas that grow organically from crushed dreams and pickled livers. When Veteran’s Stadium implodes, it’s the perfect metaphor for a way of life also due to disappear. Naturalistic performances—especially by Jennifer-Lynn Welsh as the rudderless daughter in a divorcing family—make up for the occasional slackness of the plot. * PAPER COVERS ROCK (dir. Joe Maggio)— Kudos to a male writer-director for successfully grasping and illuminating the travails of a woman coping with divorce and the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt. Sam (Jeannie Kaspar) is forced to move in with her Brooklyn sister Ed (Sayra Player) after being released from Bellevue. While recuperating, she must struggle to recapture her life while battling the presumptions of a society that does not understand episodic mental illness. Cinematography by Sam Shinn captures the nightmarish and oddly beautiful aspects of city life. * THE PRIDE (dir. Gerard Hurley)—Writerdirector-star Gerard Hurley (a Tivoli resident) has created a poignant but never mawkish tale of a drunk battling his Black Irish demons while hoping for redemption. Just released from prison, Mickey heads home to his estranged wife Sarah, who carries the memory of her last beating at his hands. Evenly matched for Gaelic stubbornness, passion, and profanity, the two circle each other warily over the next few days. Nancy McNultey fully inhabits Sarah, and the other actors are seamless. A modern successor to the “angry young man” genre of the ‘50s and ‘60s, this film radiates a woeful lyricism. * THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)—A deeply felt portrait of a family of Tunisian immigrants living in a hostile France, this film is equally a lacerating character study and a sociological document. Driven from his job on the waterfront, an aging patriarch named Slimane Beiji feels useless, despite the love of his children, his mistress, and his begrudging ex-wife. When he plans to open a restaurant on a boat, the entire family puts aside its petty grievances and pitches in to make the opening night a success. At this point, a raft of plot contrivances throw off-kilter what had been a profound
character study. But the film retains its power, thanks to an ensemble cast of breathtaking naturalism and set pieces that are mini-operas in themselves. Named best film of the year in France, and produced by master filmmaker Claude Berri (Jean de Florette), The Secret of the Grain is a classic. TOKYO! (dir. Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry)—Giddy weirdness abounds in this triptych of tales that take place in modern Tokyo. The best known of the directors is Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the more recent The Science of Sleep). His arch tale “Interior Design” concerns a man and woman at odds with one another while searching for digs. The least successful of the three is Leos Carax’s “Merde,” a sour slice of anarchy perhaps meant to tweak xenophobes and fans of the so-called War on Terror. Joon-Ho Bong’s “Shaking Tokyo” slyly proves that true love can conquer all—even agoraphobia. But at what cost? More puzzling than edifying, and more snarky than profound, these three works nonetheless reflect restless directorial minds that ask questions about the human condition. VISIONEERS (dir. Jared Drake)—In a future that is already upon us, one corporation runs the world and has sucked the ambition from all of its employers. Those who dare to aspire to personal dreams eventually explode—literally. A deadpan view of a world where rampant consumerism is the only panacea and everyone eats fried chicken in buckets. When a drone named George tries to break out of his psychological cage, he comes under the scrutiny of the friendly fascists at the top. Alternately biting satire and soppy romance, this film has strong performances by Zach Galifianakis as George and Judy Greer as his narcotized wife. Bonus cameo by Aubrey Morris, (the school truant officer from A Clockwork Orange) as the misanthropic company boss. WERE THE WORLD MINE (dir. by Tom Gustafson)—Tired of gay coming-of-age tales where the hapless homosexual must navigate the dangers of proms, lunchroom harassment, and menacing jocks? This overstuffed bonbon not only turns the tables on the oppressors, but does so with a Shakespearean subplot taken from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The resulting spectacle resembles a Maxfield Parrish painting crossed with an Erasure pop video.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES: * ALL TOGETHER NOW (dir. Adrian Wills)—If the name Cirque de Soleil shrieks preciousness and Las Vegas bloat, you will still be charmed by this examination of the staging of Love, the Beatles tribute destined to run forever at the Mirage. Propelled by an artistic vision, the show’s director-creator Dominic Champagne soon comes up against the micromanaging Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, who have differing visions on how their husbands’ musical legacies should be dramatized. Interviews with surviving Beatles Paul and Ringo will bring a tear to the eye of anyone born between 1950 and 1960; these boys are hardwired into our collective cultural hardware. * AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (dir. Dan Stone)—When did the exhortation “Save the Whales” become a cry of derision, poking fun at animal rights activists? This film should revitalize the slogan, as Japanese vessels still illegally harvest the rare mammals. To their rescue is the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which challenges the whalers through often-violent ocean confrontations. Breathtaking footage of these oceanic duels, deckside and in the air, make this troubling film equally irresistible. Crisp editing by Patrick Gambuti, Jr. and Kurt Engfehr. * THE BETRAYAL (co-dir. Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath)—A film 23 years in the making, and doubly fascinating because of it. An examination of a Laotian family that still struggles to understand their native country’s—and their father’s—criminal liaison with
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HI, MY NAME IS RYAN (dir. Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose)—Ryan is a chubby eunuch-like kid of indeterminate age who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Rather than seek the counsel of a therapist for personality issues stemming from a narcissistic mother and a feckless father, Ryan has channelled his anger into being lead singer for a thrash band, making him a local celebrity. Whether his work is entertainment or unfiltered catharsis makes no nevermind to his many fans. Alternately stupefying and fascinating, this portrait of the artist as a young misfit challenges our definition of the parameters and purposes of art. * IN A DREAM (dir. Jeremiah Zagar)—A visually powerful meditation on the price of freedom and the downside of artistic genius. Philadelphia demi-legend Isaiah Zagar channeled his manic creativity into numerous art forms, including mosaic coverings of seven buildings, inside and out. But a tenuous hold on reality, even during the laissez-faire ’60s, made life hard for his wife and children. Son Jeremiah showcases his father’s inner and outer worldviews through kinetic montages of his huge body of work. Here is a loving but unsparing psychological portrait of a family in decay that also exposes the intimacy issues of the voyeuristic director. * KASSIM THE DREAM (dir. Kief Davidson)— Kassim Ouma, an international junior middleweight boxing champion, is both canonized and dissected in this exhaustive portrait. What starts as a reverential profile soon ends up cataloguing Ouma’s lack of self-discipline and taste for weed. The selfsabotage springs from a harrowing past; a young soldier kidnapped into the Ugandan rebel army, Ouma by age eight had killed several people. The camera tracks the fighter’s struggles in the ring and politically as an expatriate, and captures images that sing with life and color. Executive-produced by Forest Whitaker.
PRESSURE COOKER (dir. Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker)—In Philadelphia’s Frankford High School, bad attitudes carry the day until people graduate or drop out to the bleak world outside. But several students are learning culinary arts so they can compete in a cooking contest for college scholarships. Their teacher is a diminutive hardass named Wilma Stephenson, who alternately harangues and nurtures these kids, urging them not to be “ghetto-minded” in their culinary pursuits. While there is little dramatic tension, the story offers a great deal of heart. * SUNSHINE SUPERMAN: THE JOURNEY OF DONOVAN (dir. by Hannes Rossacher)— Employing miles of rare footage, eyepopping animation, and a narrator no less accommodating than the artist himself, this portrait of the ’60s pop-chart success (11 Top 40 hits between 1966 and ’69) rescues him from history. Donvan was far more than the overly earnest flower child our faulty memories recall. This Glaswegian native son was a protest-folkie sensation on a par with Dylan before exploring a hyrbid of Celtic psychedelia for which he is best known. At three hours running time, this doc often veers into hagiography, but sit back with an electrical banana and enjoy the trip.
FILM WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL * TRINIDAD (dir. PJ Raval and Jay Hodges)— Whether you see gender reassignment as selfrevelation or self-mutilation, the battlefield for transgender people rests in an unlikely place: a Colorado frontier town of 9,000. Trinidad’s hospital has been performing such medical transitions since the late 50s, earning this home of bars, brothels, and fundamentalist churches the sobriquet “Sex-change capital of the world.” This unwavering but respectful portrait depicts the transsexuals who came for an operation but decide to stay on to help others. Fascinating and humanizing. UPSTREAM BATTLE (dir. Ben Kempas)—The persecution of the Native American did not reach resolution with a bonus plot of reservation land and casinos. In Northern California, hydroelectric dams have destroyed the salmon runs that provide food and commerce for the Hoopa and Yurok tribes. Wielding political savvy while still hewing to ancient rituals, a group of Native Americans takes on the energy companies. Their goal: close down the Klamath Hydroelectric Project. A heartbreaking but engrossing tale of the clash between ancient and modern civilzations. The warriors get their say, but so do the guileless company officials, who are puzzled by the fiery opposition to their role in bringing electricity to rural people.
Q&A with Haskell Wexler
You have been a champion of the Woodstock Film festival since its beginning. You are a gentleman of very specific and very passionate political ideals; you would not have become involved if it didn’t reflect your values. Woodstock became known to me because of the map and the concert and the film. When it happened, it represented a generational spirit. And spirit shows itself profoundly in music. When they started the film festival, it felt like—if I can use one of those subjective words—it felt like they were dealing with that same spirit of who were are and who we want to be, what kind of world we want to live in. All those things relate to filmmaking. And filmmaking is what I do, what I love, what I get my pleasure out of. We are careering into the Democratic Convention [as of press time]. I’m sure this will reignite people’s interest in Medium Cool [a documentary Wexler directed and shot during the 1968 Democratic Convention that folds the real-life protests into the film]. I wonder if you have been asked to appear at screenings of the film, and to talk about the experiences of shooting this film in 1968. There have been a lot of groups of filmmakers who wanted me to join with them in filming around both conventions. And I have hesitated to want to cooperate with them for basically what you might call political reasons. Just like most of our history, I don’t think people really know the history. I think the history of 1968 is not in the film; it’s not what we shot on the streets. That’s the movie. That’s life, the movie. And I’m not interested in shooting life for the movie in 2008, because the players in the movie are much more sophisticated on the so-called security side. Their methods of sequestering any rights to assemble in any meaningful way have been so thoroughly militarized. And the danger of some kind of event—either by some crazy anarchist or by some provocateur—would create another movie that would not enlighten people, but make them more fearful and more [under] control of authority. But the main difference between ’68 and now is that ’68 happened because on all levels, great masses of American people were not being heard by either the Democratic or the Republican parties. They were being ignored. So that was the essence of why they were demonstrating in the streets. And that is not clear from the so-called demonstrators [of this era] in front of the convention center—in either party, either candidate. Neither one of them are saying, “We are living in a lie.” No one is saying that the political system has lied to us in deadly ways. When you accepted the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1968, you said, “I hope we can use our art for love and peace.” I was wondering— [Laughs] That’s right, I did say that! That’s true. I’m laughing at how cornball the words sound. And, actually, the Vietnam War was going on, and those words peace and love—you looked at an image in the back of your head of some girl in a T-shirt with her nipple showing, and some guy with long hair a kind of wild look in his eyes. So, those were revolutionary words.
Rod Steiger with Haskell Wexler on the set of In the Heat of the Night in 1967.
Among film historians, cineastes, and those who simply follow the eternal ballet between light and shadows, cinematographer Haskell Wexler commands as much attention for a project as that project’s director. And with good reason: His painstaking approach to the craft—from the time in 1962 that he ran down an alley with a handheld camera to create a classic cinema trope—has transformed good films into great films. (But not without on-set battles; in his memoirs, Elia Kazan pronounced Wexler “a man of considerable talent” but also “a considerable pain in the ass.”) Centuries from now, film students will still be hypnotized by the results of Wexler’s work on In the Heat of the Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Days of Heaven, Bound for Glory, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the latter two of which brought him Oscars. Wexler, who will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival, is also known as an indefatigable supporter of progressive causes, from the Sandanistas to union leaders to more humane working conditions for the film industry. Even at 86, Wexler’s pugnacious approach to politics is evident in a brief phone interview. —Jay Blotcher
Regarding the spirit of those words, which directors these days create work that help political advancement and peace and love? Is there somebody like a Hal Ashby [director of Bound for Glory] these days, whose art and attitudes and his political philosophy coalesce? They’re out there, but they’re not out there. Amongst Hollywood directors, many of them—writers as well—do not get work. The corporatization of all our media, Bill Moyers speaks the best about that. It also goes with moviemaking. Look at the coming attractions at any time in any theater and see what it says in the [box] below: “Rated for violence, sexuality [etc.].” The established no-nos are the very thing [I look for in films]. When I see something that’s got a G rating, I figure, like a lot of people, that I don’t want to see this, it’s going to be boring. So that’s where [the movie industry] brought us, by changing our language and changing our response to images. In my documentary Who Needs Sleep? I quote George Orwell: “In a time of deceit, telling the truth can be a revolutionary act.” One of the reasons [directors] don’t challenge [social injustices] is because those kinds of pictures don’t make money. Anti-war pictures are flops. If they’re flops, they’re failures. If they’re failures, nobody sees them. Getting back to Woodstock, [the] Woodstock [Film Festival] is a possibility for artistic, interesting, entertaining films to be showcased. [The festival] should also be a catalyst for people to see that those films that they think are worthy to be seen, are seen by more than the lucky people who come to Woodstock. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Haskell Wexler at the 2008 Woodstock Film Festival Award Ceremony on Saturday, October 4 by his friends and colleagues writer-director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi.
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Reality Check 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Nailed Shut 9pm. Rock. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Mambo Kikongo 9:30pm. Latin. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Sabor Con Colour Latin Dance Party 9:30pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. John Mueller 10pm. Acoustic. Seany B’s 101, Millbrook. 677-2282.
SPOKEN WORD Chemistry of Chocolate Demo 12pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440. Story Time and Book Signing with Laura Numeroff 6:30pm. Author of If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.
THEATER Community Playback Theatre 7pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118. Art 8pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. A Body of Water 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Children’s Hour 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Thoroughly Modern Millie 8pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady. (877) 350-7378.
SATURDAY 4 ART Kingston Open Studios Tour 11am-5pm. Citywide cultural event features professional, local and regional artists. 338-0331. Melissa Harris Art Open Studio 12pm-5pm. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632. Concrete On Main Street 3pm. Modern design exhibit & Rosendale retrospective. Willow Kiln Park, Rosendale. (914) 262-2559. Paintings by Thom Grady 5pm-7pm. Large-sized portraits. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Kmoca.org. GCCA Applauds Dot Chast 5pm-7pm. Solo exhibition by GCCA artist member Dot Chast. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. R.S.V.P. 2008 5pm-7pm. Artists invited to exhibit by the GCCA Visual Arts Committee. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Expressionist Landscapes 5pm-7pm. Caio Fonseca, Sibylle Szaggars, Stephen Hannock and Tom Slaughter. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. Top to Bottom: The Hudson River 5pm-7pm. Photographs by Ted Kawalerski. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600. Indian Summer 5pm-8pm. Oil paintings Bruce and Lita Thorne. Wallkill River School and Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Glens & Gardens 5pm-8pm. Watercolors of the Hudson Valley & gardens. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. En Plein Air and Selections from the Open Studios Tour 5pm-8pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Between The River and the Sky 6pm-8pm. Vincent Pomilio. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Collaboration 6pm-8pm. Gallery 345, Hudson. (518) 392-9620. Artists on Location 3:30pm. Paintings and drawings created in the Hudson Valley. Live auction and refreshments. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. (845) 424-3960.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sharing Shabbat Program 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, Lagrange. 223-5925. The Secret to Youthful Aging (For Men Only!) 9am-12pm. Learn the simple but powerful secret to aging well. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025. Open House Dream Depot 1pm-5pm. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984. Forrest Yoga Workshop 1pm-4pm. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855. Into the Mystery: a Healing Circle for Women 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Turn Your Ideas into Images with Phillip Toledano Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
DANCE
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Bard SummerScape: Dance Call for times. $25. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Ballroom, Latin and Swing Dance Social 7:30pm-12am. $10. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530. Percussia 8pm. Synesthesia in action. $15/$12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. FreeStyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. 389 Broadway, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org
EVENTS Oktoberfest I & II Austrian and German-American bands, Schuhplattler dances, vendors, puppet shows, jugglers, magicians, horses, etc. Free arts & crafts for kids. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.huntermtn.com. Columbia-Greene Chili Cookoff 10am-3pm. Outdoor family festival featuring farmers’ markets, boat rides, entertainment for all ages. Historic Catskill Point, Hudson. (518) 943-0989.
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Kingston’s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Heart of the Hudson Valley Bounty Festival 10am-4pm. Restaurant competition, farmers’ market, a Green Expo, family activities and wine tasting with local wineries. Cluett-Shantz Memorial Park, Milton. 616-7824. Pakatakan Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Round Barn, Halcottsville. 586-3326. 8th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival 9am-5pm. Tivoli. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. 19th Annual Huguenot Street Apple Festival & Craft Fair 10am-4pm. The Reformed Church, New Paltz. 255-6340. Patrol Torpedo Boat 728 Tour Call for times. $25/$10/$5. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Hommes & Pommes, Apple Picking and Dance Party 4pm-8pm. Presented by Hudson Valley BARES. $5. Call for location. www.HudsonValleyBARES.org. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Enjoy delicious healthy desserts from the farm. Wall Street, Kingston. www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com.
FILM Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, workshops, concerts and discussions. Woodstock. 679-4265.
KIDS Tot Shabbat Call for times. With crafts, fun and food, we invite you and your pre-K children to learn the love of Judaism through their senses. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925. Wonderful Wooly Bears! 10am. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Puppet Potpourri XP 11am. The Puppet People. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Wild Life Program 11am. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MUSIC The People’s Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Doug Marcus 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Baird Hersey and Prana 8pm. $25/$20 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Ahmad Jamal 8pm. Jazz. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Kelleigh McKenzie & Sarah Perrotta 8pm. $16/$12 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Martin Sexton 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Rach On! 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Hurley Mountain Highway 8:30pm. Pop, soft rock. The Harp & Whistle Restaurant and Pub, Newburgh. 565-4277. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Larry Stevens Acoustic Band 9pm. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Eileen Jewell Band 9:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Creation 10pm. Covers. Seany B’s 101, Millbrook. 677-2282.
THE OUTDOORS Annual ADK Meeting Call for times. Picnic, walks, paddles. Norrie Point, Staatsburg. 889-4745. Singles and Sociables Hike- Gertrude’s Nose 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Book Signing by James David Audlin 1pm-4pm. Author of Circle of Life. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253. 18th Annual Subterranean Poetry Reading 2pm. Benefits the Century House Historical Society. $5. Century House Historical Society, Rosendale. Poetry Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Richard Jeffrey Newman. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 294-8085. Cheech and Chong Live 7:30pm. Comedy. $61.50/$45.40. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
THEATER Thoroughly Modern Millie 2pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady . (877) 350-7378. Art 4pm/8:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
Thoroughly Modern Millie 8pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady . (877) 350-7378. The Children’s Hour 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS The Yen of Apple Growing Workshop Call for times. Late Season Apple Varieties. $125/$200. Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge. 626-7919. Thirteenth Annual Hawk Migration Workshop 9am-12pm. Learn about the wild raptors of the local area. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Hive Maintenance- Fall/Winter Prep 11am-2pm. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
SUNDAY 5 ART Fall for the Arts 11am-5pm. Festival of storytelling, puppetry, music and dance. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0033. Melissa Harris Art Open Studio 12pm-5pm. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632. Madeleine Segall-Marx Open Studio 2pm-4pm. Fund raiser for the Hyde Free Library. WaveCrest, Hyde Park. 229-7791. Reflective Moments 4pm-5pm. Photographs by Susan Zime. La Bella Bistro, New Paltz. 255-2633.
CLASSES Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Still Life Painting 1pm-3:30pm. 4 sessions. $120. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
DANCE Bard SummerScape: Dance Call for times. $25. Fisher Center, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. Audition for Skilled Dancers 9am-12pm. Ages 8 and up. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.
EVENTS Oktoberfest I & II Austrian and German-American bands, Schuhplattler dances, vendors, puppet shows, jugglers, magicians, horses, etc. Free arts & crafts for kids. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.huntermtn.com. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Cajun Festival 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Fall Harvest Festival 12:30pm. Featuring live music by Hurley Mountain Highway. Weeds Orchards, Marlboro. 236-2684. Patrol Torpedo Boat 728 Tour Call for times. $25/$10/$5. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.
FILM Woodstock Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, workshops, concerts and discussions. Woodstock. 679-4265.
MUSIC Bluestone Festival 12pm-6pm. Slide show, presentations, boat trips, music, tours. T.R. Gallo Park, Kingston. bluestonefestival@yahoo.com. Split the Bill 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Hudson Rhythm Boys 3pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Vassar Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Frank Cassara, percussion. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone 4pm. $30/$10 members. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243. Maria Muldaur Band 8pm. $35/$30 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Richard Rizzo & Trio Chroch 8pm. $10/$5 members. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.
THE OUTDOORS Family High Ropes Course 12pm-3pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Late Autumn Hike of the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Singles and Sociables Hike- Humpty Dumpty Path 9:30am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Thoroughly Modern Millie 2pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady. (877) 350-7378. Art 2:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Children’s Hour 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Staged Play Reading of The Grapes of Wrath 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Auditions for Follies 7pm. CenterStage Productions. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001. Hand Felted Jewelry 10am-2pm. $45/$40 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MONDAY 6 CLASSES Ceramics Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
KIDS Nature Strollers 10am. One-hour hike with the tykes. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Lucinda Williams 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $39.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Faculty Jazz Ensemble 8pm. $10. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. The Rhodes 10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
SPOKEN WORD Women’s Circles Rhinebeck & Red Hook/Tivoli Call for times. Networking dinner. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Journey of the Americas 12:30pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440. Artist Woody Pirtle 7pm. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 7pm-9pm. Scholar-led book discussion. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.
THEATER Art 7:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Marriage Counselor 7:30pm. $34/$42. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
WEDNESDAY 8
KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
SPOKEN WORD Personhood and Creative Ethics in the Confucian Tradition 4:30pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
THEATER Auditions for Follies 7pm. CenterStage Productions. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Preparing To Care For Your Elderly Parents 7pm-9pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447.
TUESDAY 7 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Developing Your Creativity Through Art and Yoga 6pm-8pm. 5 sessions. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Heart Meditation 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yom Kippur Services Call for times. Congregation Shir Chadash, Lagrange. 223-5925. Create Peace, Health & Satisfaction 6:30pm-8:30pm. A class based on spiritual healing and Pathwork. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
CLASSES Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. One Stroke Painting 6pm-8pm. 4 sessions. $120. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS Trees & Forests of America: A Photographic Journey with an Ecological Lesson 7pm. Take a visual tour of the nation’s forests with award-winning photographer and author Tim Palmer. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Auditorium, Millbrook. 677-7600, ext. 121. You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
THE OUTDOORS
Dowsing Human Energy Fields for SelfImprovement and Well-Being 6pm-9pm. 2 sessions. $42. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Preserve Bob Babb Wednesday Walk- Sky Top 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
THEATER Art 7:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
WORKSHOPS
Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
The Basics of Selling on E-Bay 6pm-9pm. $50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
ART
Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE
Ecology and People of the Shawangunks 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Salsa Dance 7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS Altercation Punk Comedy Tour Call for times. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. The Community Foundation of Dutchess County
Fall Foliage in Watercolor Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Floral Painting 9am-12pm. 4 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
DANCE Muddy Lindy: Kingston’s Casual Swing Stomp 8pm-10pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
EVENTS Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
FILM Das Testament de Dr. Mabuse/M 7:30pm. Berlin-inspired outdoor film festival. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC David Kraai 6pm. Singer/songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Karton Herz 7pm. Acoustic. River Station Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 452-9207. Andrew Bird 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Ged Foley 8pm. Celtic guitar, fiddle and song. $17. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197. Frigg 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THE OUTDOORS Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Wine and food sampling series. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
SPOKEN WORD Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. How the Native People Adapted to the Changing Environment of the Hudson Valley 7:30pm. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
THEATER Art 7:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
WORKSHOPS Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
FRIDAY 10
The Grapes of Wrath 7:30pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
MUSIC
Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
CLASSES
FILM
Learn to Ice Skate: Beg. to Adv. 4:15pm-5:45pm. 6 sessions. $108. Kiwanis Ice Arena, Saugerties. 247-2590.
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THEATER
Annual Benefit Garden Party 3pm-6pm. Featuring pianist Tom Kohl, bassist Bill Crow. $125. Obercreek Estate, Hughsonville. 452-3077.
THURSDAY 9 Seduced by Color Paintings by Lydia Johnson. Deborah Davis Fine Art, Inc., Hudson. (518) 822-1885.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Yom Kippur Services Call for times. Congregation Shir Chadash, Lagrange. 223-5925. Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
ART Lilo Raymond Photographs: An Elegant and Natural Light 5pm-8pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Western Visions 5pm-8pm. Photo images by Tom Doyle, paintings by Paul Gould and guest artist. Hudson Valley Gallery, Cornwall. 534-5ART. Gavin and Gunning Glass 6pm-8pm. Morton memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. Michelle Rhodes: Pottery 6pm-9pm. Front Door Gallery, New Paltz. 255-8039.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Buddhist Jataka Tales Storytelling on the Bodhisattva Way with Rafe Martin. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Jewel Heart Retreat Call for times. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-on-Hudson. 424-3960. Atonement and Forgiveness Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Inner Peace- Inner Power through Raja Yoga Meditation Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Marathon of Dreamers 6pm-10pm. Ione’s 13th Annual Dream Festival. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
DANCE Latin and Hustle Dance Social 7:30pm-12am. $10. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 8pm. Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Becket, Massachusetts. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29. 2nd Friday Salsa Dance 9:30pm. $5. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
KIDS Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
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Uncle Rock 10am. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Different Music 7pm. Music with Creative Music Studio alumni and friends. $20/$15 students/$35 both days. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Verdes 7pm-10pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400. Reality Check 8pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Susan Tedeschi 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Kurt Henry Band 8pm. Rock. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Tapeier 8pm. Celtic. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Danny Kalb Trio 9pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Reality Check 9pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Butter 9:30pm. Funk. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. The Rhodes 10pm. Cabaloosaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, New Paltz. 255-3400.
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ART Painting Outside the Lines Call for times. Art-making workshop with Melissa Harris. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632. Landscapes of the Hudson Valley 12pm-2pm. Works by Warren Hurley. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497. Paint-out/Art Auction 3pm. Kent Art Association, Kent, CT. (860) 927-3989. Views and Visions 4pm-8pm. Works by Barbara Masterson and Laura Martinez-Bianco. Artroom Gallery and Studio, Marlboro. 236-3049. Lila Bacon Show 4pm-6pm. Garden and studio still life compositions by Lila Bacon. SweetHeart Gallery, Woodstock. 679-2622. The Luminous Landscape 5pm-8pm. Gary Fifer, Arnold Levine, Robert Trondsen. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Hudson. (518) 828-4346. Paintings by Gabriel Phipps 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Marathon of Dreamers 6pm-10pm. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.
CLASSES Swing Dance 7pm-10pm. Lesson and performance. $10/$6 students/ children free. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.
DANCE Contradance 8pm. Peter Stix calling, with music by Colin McCoy and Susie Deane. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 8pm. Jacobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pillow Dance, Becket, MA. (413) 243-9919 ext. 29.
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Ryan Reiss: 3 Guys From Gotham 9pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Art 8pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hour 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Thoroughly Modern Millie 8pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady. (877) 350-7378.
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Hudson Athens Lighthouse Tour 11am-3pm. Tours every 35 minutes, spectacular view. Hudson Waterfront Park. (518) 822-1014. 14th Annual Autumn Affair 10am-4pm. Arts & crafts show, food, and entertainment for all ages. Main street, Windham. (518) 743-3852. 15th Annual Apple Harvest Festival 10am-6pm. Live music, entertainment, food, apple pie baking contest. Angelo Canna Park, Cairo. (518) 622-9614. Oktoberfest I & II Austrian and German-American bands, Schuhplattler dances, vendors, puppet shows, jugglers, magicians, horses, etc. Free arts & crafts for kids. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.hunter.mtn.com. Harvest Fest 10am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, good food. Adams Fairacre Farms, Kingston. 336-6300. 30th Annual Benefit Auction Call for times. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957. Kingstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. 2008 Benefit Gala for the Center for Photography at Woodstock Call for times. Vision award honorees, benefit auction, preview exhibition. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Patrol Torpedo Boat 728 Tour Call for times. $25/$10/$5. Front Street Marina, Newburgh. 331-4790.
Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workshop: Ghosts and Goblins Galore 10:30am-12pm. Harness Racing Museum, Goshen. 294-6330. Uncle Rock: Smart Music for Kids and Parents 11am. $10/$7 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Wildlife World 11am. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Longhouse Sleepover Adventure 5pm. Ages 7-14. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
MUSIC Frankie and His Fingers Call for times. Acoustic. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock . 679-2079. The Malley Bragg Band Call for times. Claudeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro, Phoenicia. 688-2561. Met Opera: Live in HD Richard Straussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Salome 1pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Aaron Gilmartin 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Dissident Folk and Arts Festival 6pm-11pm. Featuring protest songs and poetry, workshops. $8. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. The United States Air Force Academy Band 6:45pm. Beacon High School Auditorium, Beacon. 838-6900 ext. 3420. Different Music 7pm. Music with Creative Music Studio alumni and friends. $20/$15 students/$35 both days. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Words & Music for an Autumn Evening 7pm. Benefit for WAAM featuring Bruce Ackerman, Julie Parisi Kirby, James Krueger and Bob Wright. $5. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Music for Violin and Piano 7:30pm. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. John Street Jam 7:30pm. Acoustic. $3. Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties. Larry Chance & The Earls 7:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Baroque Concert 7:30pm. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 325-3805. Eric Andersen 8pm. Folk. $22/$17 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Special Guest Recital and Vocal Master Class 8pm. Mary Ann Hart, mezzo-soprano. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Black Crowes 8pm. $42. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. The Hunger Mountain Boys 8pm. $12. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. John Lennon Birthday Beatle Bash 8pm. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Gargerelli 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Eddie Fingerhut 9pm. Acoustic. New Paltz Cultural Collective, New Paltz. 255-1901. Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. Rock. Pamelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Joe Medwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. 4 of a Kind 10pm. Rock. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.
THE OUTDOORS Taconic Ridge Hike Call for times. Difficult hike. Call for location. 462-0142. Singles and Sociables Hike- Blackhead Range 9:30am-4:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Mushroom and Lichen Hikinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 10am. Hudson Highlands Nature Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today Call for times. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
BOOKS JESSICA ABEL
Comic Book Heroine Cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel began producing comics during the mid 1980s while she was a student at the University of Chicago, where she drew her first fulllength one—an outer-space version of Medea—to get out of writing a final paper for Classics 101; she earned an A on it. Gaining acclaim with her illustrated short-story series, Artbabe, first self-published through a Xeric Grant and later compiled as the Fantagraphics title Mirror, Window (2000), Abel rose to prominence with the release of her Harvey Award-winning graphic novel La Perdida (2006, Pantheon), about American expatriates in Mexico City. She is also the author of a textbook about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures (2008, First Second; written with her husband, Matt Madden, her series co-editor for Houghton Mifflin’s The Best American Comics 2008), and a collaborator with Ira Glass on Radio: An Illustrated Guide (WBEZ Alliance, 1999), a nonfiction comic about NPR’s broadcast “This American Life.” Her work was recently featured in Lit Graphic: The World of the Graphic Novel, an exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Abel has lectured widely, speaking at the University of Ohio’s Wexner Center for the Arts and London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. She currently teaches at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts. Jessica Abel will present a free public lecture followed by a book signing at SUNY New Paltz’s Lecture Center 100 on October 16 at 7pm. (845) 257-2727; www.newpaltz.edu. —Pauline Uchmanowicz
A page from Jessica Abel’s graphic novel La Perdida (Pantheon Books, 2006) about a young American woman’s extended visit to Mexico City. Abel will speak at SUNY New Paltz on October 16.
What is the first thing you did in your studio today? Answered e-mail. What typically happens after you finish pedestrian chores like that? If I’m in the middle of something the first thing might be to do a thumbnail, which is a sketch version of a page, or to go straight to a layout with a ruler, or straight to lettering or sketching a layout. Your drawing and lettering style changed during a sojourn you took in Mexico. How has your work evolved over the years? The major point of my switch was because I’d grown fairly unhappy with how the work in Artbabe was turning out. The figures seemed fine but the world around them seemed stiff. The style was striving for complete realism. If you draw a room and leave the molding off it’s not real. I knew I was going to fail at perfect realism and make myself crazy. I asked Matt to help by giving me drawing exercises to see what I would do differently. I began drawing pages over and over—larger and smaller—to see what I preferred. I also started modeling and drawing my own version of other people’s comics to see what came out. I made a 16-page mini-comic in this brushy style, which I developed in La Perdida. The main difference in my newer work is the scale. In Artbabe, there are small, quiet, Midwestern stories. In La Perdida, the larger canvas and range of emotion is more challenging. You and Matt Madden just put out a terrific how-to guide based on a course you teach at SVA. Can you talk about what inspired the book and the collaborative process? The course I regularly teach is actually [on] storytelling. Because SVA offers a degree
in comics and students get the principles of cartooning and drawing in other classes, storytelling allows room in their curriculum to investigate comics from a different perspective. Drawing Words & Writing Pictures is the first-of-its-kind guide, designed with a complete pedagogy in mind. You could go through the book in a 15-week course—which is how we wrote it—or expand it for use in a yearlong class. We’re saying that if a course only lasts one semester, these are the basic skills students should know to be on their own, making comics. We’re starting to think about our second volume. Another of your recent collaborations, Life Sucks (First Second, 2008), about a vampire who works the night shift, was written with Gabriel Soria and illustrated by Warren Pleece. How did that project come about? The process was quite different for me. I started working on it at the same time as La Perdida, but, unlike in that book, it’s a story that doesn’t depend on the subtlety of a raised eyebrow. I knew I could write it, but I had no interest in drawing a convenience store for a hundred pages, so collaboration seemed like a natural process after I sold the script to First Second. I’d been a big fan of Warren, who is a British cartoonist, for some time, since finding his work in the anthology Deadline. To be able to work with Warren was really fun. Why do you think comic books and graphic novels have become so popular? Comics as a medium have grown a ton in the last 20 years. Before that, the groundwork was being laid, the history was there, but it was not out in the open. You buy Maus [Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust account], but what do you buy next? My generation of comic artists is the first to be attempting something serious and deep and people keep being interested in making comics. So if you increase the possibility of getting great work, you increase the possibility that there will be a genius in the bunch.
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SPOKEN WORD Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring Mary Kathryn Jablonski and Will Nixon. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 246-8565. All Originals 7pm. Original stories by Michael Monasterial, John Kelly, Tom Caplan and Deb Tompkins. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie 2pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady . (877) 350-7378. Art 4pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Just Say Noh 7pm. Noh and Kyogen Japanese theatre. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Thoroughly Modern Millie 8pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady . (877) 350-7378. The Children’s Hour 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Art 8:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
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Painting Outside the Lines Call for times. Art-making workshop with Melissa Harris. Melissa Harris Art Studio, Hurley. 340-9632. Sticks 4pm-6pm. 5 person group show inspired by an appreciation of the spare beauty of sticks. Unison Arts and Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559 .
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Beginner Yoga Series 12:30pm-1:30pm. 4 weeks. $65. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528. 7 hour Gland-athon 1pm. Woodstock Mothership, Woodstock. 684-5216.
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Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS 14th Annual Autumn Affair 10am-4pm. Arts & crafts show, food, and entertainment for all ages. Main street, Windham. (518) 743-3852. 15th Annual Apple Harvest Festival 10am-6pm. Live music, entertainment, food, apple pie baking contest. Angelo Canna Park, Cairo. (518) 622-9614. Catskill Mountain Ginseng & Medicinal Herb Festival 10am-4pm at the Historic Catskill Point, Catskill. (518) 943-0989 Oktoberfest I & II Austrian and German-American bands, Schuhplattler dances, vendors, puppet shows, jugglers, magicians, horses, etc. Free arts & crafts for kids. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.hunter.mtn.com. Harvest Fest 10am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, good food. Adams Fairacre Farms, Poughkeepsie. 454-4330. Patrol Torpedo Boat 728 Tour Call for times. $25/$10/$5. Front Street Marina, Newburgh. 331-4790. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Rhinebeck Antiques Fair 11am-4pm. $9. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-1989. Chili Cook-Off 11am-4pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Horse and Carriage Day 5pm. Boscobel Restoration, Garrison-on-Hudson. 265-3638.
KIDS DreamScapes 11am-2pm. Kids’ dream workshop. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
MUSIC Bonnie Raitt Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Project Mercury 2:30pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Fourth Donald M. Pearson Memorial Organ Recital 3pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Doug Ferony and his Orchestra 7pm. $30/$35. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill. (877) 840-0457. Rebel Red 8pm. Roots music. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.
THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike- Rock Rift 9:30am-2:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
THEATER Thoroughly Modern Millie 2pm. Schenectady Light Opera Company. $12-$22. Schenectady Light Opera House, Schenectady . (877) 350-7378. Art 2:30pm. By Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton. $32-$42. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Children’s Hour 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001. Plein Air Painting 10am-12pm. $25. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Classic Still Life 1pm-4pm. $30. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Merkabah, the Divine Light Vehicle 2pm-4pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 13 CLASSES Ceramics Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
SPOKEN WORD Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
TUESDAY 14 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Meditation Retreat for Writers with Susan Piver. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Heart Meditation 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215. Group Meditation for World Service 7pm-8pm. Based on the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Call for location. 338-6418. Tune Up Your Frequency 7:30pm-9:30pm. An evening with the “Master Teachers.” $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Basic Ballroom Dance Waltz & Foxtrot 6:30pm-7:30pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Salsa Dance 7pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS Hudson Valley Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Which Seafood to Buy and Why? Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Newburgh Library Knitting Club 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3601.
FILM Encounters at the End of the World Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. When Did You Last See Your Father? Call for times. $3/$2. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.
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Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
13th Annual CHIME Conference 8:30am-Sunday, October 19, 5:30pm. Music and Ritual in China and East Asia. Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson. 758-7235.
SPOKEN WORD Open House 9:30am. Woodstock Day School, Woodstock. 246-3744 ext. 103. Ancient Pompeii in the Year 79 A.D. 4pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
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Feeling Crazy? It Could Be Your Thyroid, Part II 6pm. Women’s View, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.
Frog in the Clouds 11am. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
The Grapes of Wrath Discussion 7pm. Barnes and Noble, Newburgh. 567-0782.
Whose Line is it Anyway, Shandaken Style! 4:15pm-5:30pm. After school program for teens. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
WORKSHOPS Woodstock Writers Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 15 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Deepening Your Relationship With Spirit Call for times. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
CLASSES Collage Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
EVENTS You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Jimi Hendrix Experience 7pm. Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. $51.50-$81.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Chris Botti 8pm. American Roots and Branches Series. $34-$48. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
THE OUTDOORS Morning Ranger Hike Call for times. Mount Beacon, Beacon. 473-4440 ext. 273.
SPOKEN WORD Violence in Our Schools 8:30am-4pm. Protecting Our Most Valuable Resource. $35. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Piri Thomas 12:30pm. Hispanic Heritage Month. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8440. The Song and Dance Ensemble of West Africa 6:30pm. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138. Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Green Home Remodeling 7:30pm. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
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Green Drinks 6:30-9pm. Networking for the sustainably-minded and eco-curious. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 454-6410.
Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
KIDS
Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Frog in the Clouds 11am. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THE OUTDOORS Bob Babb Wednesday Walk- Bonticou Crag 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Ron Knapp 5pm. Discovering China ‘forgotten’ bridges. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.
WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 16 ART Works by Madeleine Segall-Marx 7:30-9pm. Hyde Park Free Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Healing Power of Purrs 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
WORKSHOPS
FRIDAY 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Juice and Yoga 3-Day Cleanse Call for times. Shambhala Yoga Center, Beacon. 778-1855.
Maintaining Vibrant Health 6pm-9pm. $42. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
DANCE American Ballet Theatre 8pm. Baker’s Dozen and Sinatra Suite. $20-$65. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Blues Dance with Big Joe Fitz 8pm. $16/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Zydeco Dance with River City Slim and the Zydeco Hogs 8pm-10pm. Workshop at 7:30pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
EVENTS A Halloween Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
FILM
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Botanical Basics 10am-12:30pm. 4 sessions. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Introduction to Flamenco Dance 7pm-8:30pm. 6 sessions. $109. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Beginners Belly Dance 7:30pm-9pm. 6 sessions. $99. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
DANCE Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 2pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Muddy Lindy: Kingston’s Casual Swing Stomp 8pm-10pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
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Open Psychodrama Session 7:30pm. Dreamwork: Asleep and Awake. $7/$5. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502.
The Great Gatsby Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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Raising the Mind of Enlightenment: The Religious Calling Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.
Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
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FunkHouse 8pm. Blend of modern jazz, funk, blues, Indian, European and American folk music. $15/$12. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Off Hour Rockers 8pm. Gail’s Place, Newburgh. 567-1414. Roger McGuinn 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Three Rivers, One Source: A Concert of Traditional and Folk Music 8pm. Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-6822 ext. 6294. Hunger Mountain Boys and Moonshine Creek 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Reality Check 9pm. Rock. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724. Eric Andersen 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Creation 9pm. Covers. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Bennett Harris 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
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Crawdaddy 9:30pm. Cajun, Zydeco. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Big Kahuna 10pm. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.
Revolutionary War Encampment by the 3rd Ulster Militia 2pm-5pm. Living history interpreters and interactive educational activities for the whole family. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Second Annual Halloween Program 7pm. Classic stories for Halloween will be offered for this literary night of fright. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
SPOKEN WORD
GALLERY
MH2 9:30pm. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
Virginia Small and Rich Pomerantz Call for times. Great Gardens of the Berkshires. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton. (518) 789-3797. Some Delights of the Hudson Valley: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Humor 6:30pm. Book launch and fund raiser for the Dutchess County Arts Council. $35/$50 couple. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Evenings of Psychodrama 7:30pm. $6/$4 students and seniors. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502. Once Upon a Mattress 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Stories of our Changing Climate 8pm-8pm. Hudson River Playback Theater. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 255-7716. The Best of Broadway 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
SATURDAY 18 ART Woodstock Sixth Annual Artists Studio Tour 1am-5pm. Locations around Woodstock. 679-6234. 7th Annual New Hudson River School Painters Paint-Out 9am-6:30pm. With art auction. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 471-2550. Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Cross River Fine Art. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. Millay Colony Artists 5pm-7pm. Writers, composers and visual artists from around the country and the world present their work. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Photographer Michael Gallo-Farrell 5pm-7pm. Opening reception. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sharing Shabbat Program 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.
CLASSES Fall Foliage in Pastel Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. 35 hr. Basic Transformative Mediation Training 8:30am-5:30pm. $750/$500 DC residents. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 471-7213. Fall Watercolor Class 1pm-3:30pm. 3 sessions. $75. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
DANCE Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company 7:30pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. American Ballet Theatre 8pm. Baker’s Dozen and Sinatra Suite. $20-$65. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. FreeStyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. Dancing in an alcohol-free environment to a wide range of music. $5/$2 teens and seniors/children free. 389 Broadway, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.com.
EVENTS Octoberfest 2008 12pm-6pm. Live music, beer, local wine, specialty food vendors. Dinsmore New York State Golf Course, Staatsburg. 876-3330. Mountaintop Pumpkin Festival 11am-4pm. Hayrides, pumpkin painting, vendors. Bear Creek Restaurant, Hunter (Raindate 19). (518) 263-3839. Harvest Fest 11am-4pm. Free face painting, hay rides, pony rides, good food. Adams Fairacre Farms, Newburgh. 569-0303. Kingston’s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Art Studio Views Call for times. Self-guided tour. Call for location. 876-1510.
Kyra Teis Call for times. Children’s reading of The Magic Flute. Oblong Books & Music, Millerton. (518) 789-3797. Halloween Mask Making/Storytelling 10:30am-12:30pm. Ages 5-8. $15/$12 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Hiawatha 11am. Catskill Puppet Theater. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Frog in the Clouds 11am. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The 2nd International Cookbook for Kids 1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Frances Kramer & Nick Howard 2pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Three Rivers, One Source: A Concert of Traditional and Folk Music 5pm. Bard Hall, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-6822 ext. 6294. Close Encounters with Music: Crown Jewels 6pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Erin McKeown 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Trumpeter Chris Botti 8pm. $55/$50 members. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. William Anderson with Joan Forsyth 8pm. Classical. $18/$13. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Larry Stevens Acoustic Band 9pm. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Bill Miller 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Sonando 10pm. Salsa. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
THE OUTDOORS Nineteenth Annual Ridge Hike 6:30am-4:30pm. Strenuous, 14- to 18-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Plateau & Sugarloaf Hike 8am. Difficult hike. Call for location. 246-2006. Fahnestock State Park and Glynwood Center Hike 9am. Call for location. 452-9086. Singles and Sociables Hike Breakneck Ridge 9:30am-4pm. Strenuous 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Oaks and Acorns 10am. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext.204.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Anime Orange 1pm-3pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.
THEATER Our Lives and the Mountain Through Storytelling and Art 1pm-5pm. Performance of readings of excerpted transcripts. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940. Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Challenge V: Cold Buffet 8pm. The fifth MMSC actor & audience challenge. $10. St. Andrew’s Church, New Paltz. 255-3102. Once Upon a Mattress 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The Best of Broadway 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Nohgaku Workshop 1pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. $100/$85 members. (518) 822-1438.
20th Annual Country Seats Tour Call for times. Self driving tour through rural and charming countryside. Call for location. 876-2474.
ART
Third-Annual Mountaintop Pumpkin Festival 1am-4pm. Bear Creek Landing, Hunter. (518) 263-3839. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789.
Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Cross River Fine Art. Betsy Jacaruso Studio, Red Hook. 758-9244. Woodstock Sixth Annual Artists Studio Tour 11am-5pm. Locations around Woodstock. 679-6234.
Johnny Appleseed Cider Festival 10am-3pm. Children’s activities, pick-your-own, hayrides. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Ashokan Fall Festival 11am-5pm. Hands-on activities that will immerse you back into the 1800s. $5. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 246-2121. Fall Foliage Fun Road Rally 1pm. Self-drive during peak foliage season through scenic and historic areas with games, prizes and refreshments. $35. Dover Elementary School, Dover. 471-1630.
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Wiltwyck Quilters Guild Show Call for times. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. www.wiltwyckquiltersguild.org.
Senator Stephen Saland’s 16th Annual Golden Gathering 9:30am-12:30pm. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-4181 ext 5513. Riverside Farmers and Artisians Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.
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CLASSES Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
DANCE American Ballet Theatre 3pm. Baker’s Dozen and Sinatra Suite. $20-$65. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
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Misty Copeland of the American Ballet Theater in Paul Taylor’s “Company B.” The American Ballet Theater will perform at Bard College’s Fisher Center this month.
MOVES FOR MODERNS Local dance lovers are in for a treat this month. In keeping with its modern architectural style, the Fisher Center is presenting one of Lincoln Center’s two resident ballet companies, the American Ballet Theater, performing not classical works, but, rather, pieces by three modern choreographers. Created in 1939 by co-directors Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith and directed briefly in the 1980s by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ABT became America’s National Ballet Company by an act of Congress in 2006. The ABT differs from the other Lincoln Center ballet company, the New York City Ballet, in that it is a repertory company that performs the works of many choreographers from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Not having appeared in this area for nearly 50 years, the ABT will be performing the works of Czech/Dutch choreographer Jiri Kylian and esteemed New York choreographers Twyla Tharp and Paul Taylor, all known for being uniquely innovative in the modern choreographic idiom. An artist who comes from the heart and the former head of Nederlands Dans Theater, Kylian believes dances should make one feel richer after viewing them. His “Overgrown Path,” performed to music by Leoš Janácek, is a fluid emotional piece of duets and small groups exploring the subjects of life and death. Using all the music during his choreographic process to insure the correct meter and phrasing, he then removes the music from the final section, which heightens the impact of his message by having the work danced in silence. Paul Taylor’s “Company B” is 10 dances woven together with music from the Andrews Sisters, including “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” Yiddish and Latin songs, and
polkas. Evocative of the dances and sentiments of the 1940s, the piece is a comment on the good-natured, up-tempo feelings, as well as the hardships, of that era. As with Taylor’s other works, this is a richly layered piece that depicts the issues all societies face during times of war. Also on the program are two pieces by Twyla Tharp, who began choreographing for ABT in the 1970s and temporarily merged her company into ABT in 1987, becoming co-director with Baryshnikov for two years. “Baker’s Dozen” is a playful group piece set to Willie “the Lion” Smith’s jazz piano music, with silky, creamy costumes by frequent collaborator Santo Loquasto, who knows exactly how to enhance Tharp’s smooth movements. “Sinatra Suite,” a 1982 duet to Frank Sinatra singing five of his greatest hits, will be staged by original cast member Elaine Kudo. Although its dancers are dressed in black formal wear by Oscar de la Renta and its moves are based on ballroom dancing and the art of Fred Astaire, the piece is still unmistakably Tharpian, incorporating the wit and slouchy, slinky, speedy movements and unexpected lifts she is known for. “Company B,” “Baker’s Dozen,” and “Sinatra Suite” will be lit by the brilliant, awardwinning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton. It’s almost worth the price of admission just to see her art. The American Ballet Theater will perform in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater at Bard College on October 17 at 8pm; October 18 at 2 and 8pm; and October 19 at 3pm. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu. —Maya Horowitz
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Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032.
EVENTS Art Studio Views Call for times. Self-guided tour. Call for location. 876-1510. 20th Annual Country Seats Tour: Premier Restoration and Reinterpretation Call for times. Self driving tour through rural and charming countryside. Call for location. 876-2474. Wiltwyck Quilters Guild Show Call for times. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. www.wiltwyckquiltersguild.org. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting Book and Art Sale 9am-4pm. Call for location. (518) 766-2992. Johnny Appleseed Cider Festival 10am-3pm. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities, pick-your-own, hayrides. Prospect Hill Orchard, Marlboro. 795-2383. Community Harvest Celebration 2pm-5pm. tours, local food, live music, art activities. Common Fire Housing Co-op, Tivoli. 750-6476. Ulster County Historical Society Annual Meeting 4pm-6pm. Bevier House Museum/Ulster County Historical Society, Kingston. 339-7858. Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Studio Workshopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gala Dinner 5:30pm. Honoring artist Judy Pfaff. $75. Locust Tree Restaurant, New Paltz. 658-9133.
MUSIC The Acoustic Medicine Show 12pm. Taste Buddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Classical Jam 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Cellist Michael Jones and guitarist Agustin Maruri. $12/$10. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021. Attacca Quartet 4pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870. Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$4 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Kairos: A Consort of Singers 4pm. Cantata No. 139, Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 256-9114. Crooked Still 7pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $20. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
THE OUTDOORS
Celebrating our First Year
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Stretch And Stride: Yoga And Hiking In The Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Singles and Sociable: Work Day 10am-2pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. A Family Farm Day 1pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Storytelling Event 2pm-4pm. Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi, Karen Pillsworth and Pat Tomlinson. Maple Grove Restoration, Poughkeepsie. 471-9651.
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THEATER Company 2pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Once Upon a Mattress 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The Best of Broadway 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001. Watercolor Workshop 9:30am-3:30pm. $75. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
FILM Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Get Lost Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
SPOKEN WORD Reading by Tyler Wilhelm Call for times. Author of Alive. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Hudson Community Book Group 6pm-7:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Italian Mystery Book Discussion 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
TUESDAY 21 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Heart Meditation 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215. Creative Dream Work 6:30pm-8:30pm. 4 sessions. $69. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
FILM The Last Mistress Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
KIDS Toddlers on the Trail Walk- In Search of Signs of the Glaciers 10am-12pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students perform. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
SPOKEN WORD City of Light by Lauren Belfer 7pm-9pm. Scholar-led book discussion. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454. The First 100 Days: FDRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Response to the Great Depression 7pm. lecture and presentation. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Artist Slide Show 7:30pm. Jennifer Grimyser, Susan Amons, Erin Paradis. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 658-9133.
WORKSHOPS Gnosticism for the 21st Century 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
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Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939. Monotype Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Ceramics Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Youth Latin Dance â&#x20AC;&#x153;Calienteâ&#x20AC;? 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
EVENTS Golf Outing Call for times. Benefits the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.
WEDNESDAY 22 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Create Peace, Health & Satisfaction 6:30pm-8:30pm. A class based on spiritual healing and Pathwork. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.
CLASSES Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
EVENTS You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
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Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Millbrook Ridge Loop 9:30am-1pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Night of 1000 Pumpkins 6pm. Pumpkin carving! Parade! Storytelling! Catskill Community Center, Catskill. (518) 719-8244. A Halloween Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Potluck Shabbat Dinner 6pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, Lagrange. 223-5925.
SPOKEN WORD Local Government Day 9am. Local leaders convene to discuss issues affecting the Catskills. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Friends of the Newburgh Free Library Monthly Meeting 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 23 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
DANCE Mevlevi Sufis 7:30pm. Mystical poetry, music and whirling dance. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Muddy Lindy: Kingston’s Casual Swing Stomp 8pm-10pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
KIDS Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Prokofiev and His World Call for times. Music performances, lectures, panel discussions. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The Kurt Henry Band 5pm. Rock. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Peter Yarrow with Bethany and Rufus 7pm. Writer of the charming childhood classic Puff the Magic Dragon. $27/$24/$10 children. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Bard Music Festival: Weekend III 8pm. $25-$55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Girlz in Concert 8pm. Elly Wininger and The Cover Girlz. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Songwriter’s Circle: An Open Mike 8pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Richard Thompson Band 8pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Joe Medwick’s Memphis Soul 9pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816. Voodelic 9:30pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
THE OUTDOORS
SPOKEN WORD
GET 3rd Anniversary Luncheon Call for times. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 790-5004. Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
Lucy Knisley Call for times. Author of French Milk. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Ulster County Technology Conference 9am-2:30pm. Forum of technology professionals discusses key and emerging technologies and their impact on Ulster County. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. (984) 568-7526.
Whose Line is it Anyway, Shandaken Style! 4:15pm-5:30pm. After school program for teens. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Richard Thompson Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Louis Landon 2pm. Jazz. Torches on the Hudson, Newburgh. 568-0100. Rodney Crowell Acoustic Trio 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $25. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Richard Thompson 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
SPOKEN WORD Handwriting without Tears 6pm. Help develop good handwriting skills and assist with fine motor difficulties. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444. Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Discussion of Dorothea Lange’s Photographs 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640. Conversation with Lilo Raymond and Howard Greenberg 7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Coming to Terms with the Implications of Climate Change 7:30pm. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
THEATER Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
WORKSHOPS Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
FRIDAY 24 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Journey Into the 11th Step—Exploring Prayer & Meditation Call for times. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Unity in Contemplation Call for times. Garrison Arts Center, Garrison-onHudson. 424-3960. Reflexology 6pm-8pm. 5 sessions. $129. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.
CLASSES The Poetic Landscape Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
DANCE Swing Dance 8pm. 7:30pm lesson. Live music. $15/$8 students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
For the Price of Good...Get Great!
Tracking the Silent Visitor: A Scientist Studies Sawwhet Owls 7pm-8pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
EVENTS
KIDS
OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE
THEATER LA Theatre Works: War of the Worlds 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Once Upon a Mattress 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. The Best of Broadway 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS Water of Life: Challenges & Opportunities in the 21st Century Weekend conference with leading environmental speakers about sustainable living, the Living Building Challenge, and Omega’s environmental education programs. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
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Fall Ceramics and Jewelry Show Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. The Art of Giving 5pm-8pm. Holiday show. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz. 255-5482.
• Open seven days for breakfast and lunch.
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
• Call for reservations or to cater your event.
Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way 2pm-4pm. $25/$30. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Dinner on weekends.
• Live Jazz—Friday and Saturday—Starts at 6pm • Fireplace pub has 13 beers on tap.
CLASSES Watercolor Workshop 10am-12pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
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DANCE Ballroom, Latin and Swing Dance Social 7:30pm-12am. $10. Strictly Ballroom, Balmville. 569-0530.
EVENTS Halloween Family Fun Fest 2-6pm. Old fashioned festival. Maze, hunt, games and prizes. Dutchman’s Landing, Catskill. (518) 943-7473. Kingston’s History Tour Call for times. 18th-century cooking, crafts and games demonstrated by interpreters in period clothing, with guided and self tours. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786. Heart of the Hudson Valley Farmers’ Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Cluett-Schantz Memorial Park, Milton. 464-2789. Riverside Farmers and Artisans Market 10am-2pm. With live music. Riverside Market, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Last Saturday Arts, Crafts & Farmers Markets 10am-4pm. Hosted by Safe Harbors of the Hudson. Ritz Theater Parking Lot, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. Community Baby Shower 11am-1pm. Free samples and gifts, education and information, wonderful door prizes, refreshments, and resources. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Adult Ghost Walk 7pm. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 339-3611. Kingston Farmers’ Market 9am-2pm. Make-A-Difference Day. Wall Street, Uptown Kingston. www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com.
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Barn Aid Dinner & Concert 4pm-8pm. To raise funds for the assembly of a historic Dutch Barn. $20. Gisiano’s Restaurant, Saugerties. 246-5466.
Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
KIDS
GALLERY
KIDS
Predator vs. Prey 11am. $6-$9. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
North East Watercolor Society International Juried Exhibit Kent Art Association, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-3989.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC
Evan Uhlmann 12pm. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.
GALLERY New Directions ‘08 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. New Directions ‘08 24th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Prokofiev and His World Call for times. Music performances, lectures, panel discussions. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Bard Music Festival: Weekend III 10am. $25-$55. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Vince Sauter 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Straight Drive 7:30pm. Blue grass. $13/$10 HVBA members. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. String Trios and World Premiere by Jon Deak, 7:30pm. $20. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (518) 325-3805. The Derek Trucks Band 7:30pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Abercrombie, Meyer, Kniceley Trio 8pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Four Bitchin’ Babes 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. John Roberts & Cliff Haslam 8pm. Songs of the sea. $17. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197. Metropolitan Hot Club 8pm. Jazz. $19/$14 members. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Paul Carlon Octet 8pm. $15/$12 members. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Richard Thompson 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. The New York Swing Exchange 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Crossroads 9pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s on The Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Dennis Mitcheltree Quartet 9:30pm. Jazz. $5. Justin’s, Albany. (518) 436-7008.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks, Yesterday and Today 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Michael Harney Call for times. Author of The Harney and Sons Guide to Tea. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Jeffery Weiss on Bruce Nauman 1pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Depression Era Cooking 1pm. Lecture and demonstration. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
THEATER The Best of Broadway 3pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Company 8pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Chicago City Limits: One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State 8pm. Political comedy. $27/ $24 high school & college students $15. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Once Upon a Mattress 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
WORKSHOPS Harvest Still Life Workshop/Retreat 9:30am-4:30pm. $60. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Guitar Workshop 4pm. With Denise Jordan Finley. $15. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662.
High Hopes for High Ropes 3pm-5pm. A fundraiser to help the center purchase a van. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
MUSIC
Illinois and the Wannabe 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Colorado Quartet 3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Svet Stoyanov, Percussionist 4pm. $30/$10 members. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 297-9243. Irish Song and Tune Session 4pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. California Guitar Trip 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.
THE OUTDOORS Women Only: Hiking In The Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Discover the Black Creek Preserve 10am. Easy hike. Black Creek, Esopus. 452-1727. Singles and Sociables Hike: Zaidee’s Bower 10pm-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Conservatory Piano Master Class 4pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Madera Vox 8pm. $3-$6. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
SPOKEN WORD
History and Practice of Gunks Rock Climbing 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The November Elections: A Discussion of Politics and Jewish Identity 11am. Congregation Shir Chadash, Lagrange. 223-5925.
THEATER Leo Lionni’s Swimmy & Other Stories 1pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Company 2pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Mammoth Follies 3pm. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
WORKSHOPS Woodstock Writers Workshops 6:30pm-8:30pm. $75 series/$15 session. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256. Scrying: How to Access Your Own Deep Vision 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
WEDNESDAY 29 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Projective Dream Work 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
CLASSES
Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison New Paltz. 255-1559.
FILM A Girl Cut in Two Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
KIDS Story Time, Music & Movement 10am-12pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Open Mike 10:30pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.
THE OUTDOORS Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Table Rock 9:30am-1pm. Slingerland Pavilion, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD 2008 Lecture/Luncheon Call for times. Presented by SPAC Action Council. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Men’s Prostate Health: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.
THEATER Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
ART
KIDS
Fall Ceramics and Jewelry Show Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
WORKSHOPS
BODY / MIND / SPIRIT
Celtic Session 7:30pm. Traditional Irish music. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MUSIC
TUESDAY 28
CLASSES Tango Class Call for times. Beginner and intermediate available. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Tango Argentino Classes Call for times. $6-$70. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613. Plein Air Painting with Dan Rupe 1pm-4pm. $25. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
EVENTS Orange County Horse Council Horse Show & Expo Call for times. Thomas Bull Park, Montgomery. 781-0357. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Guided Walking Tour 2pm. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Heart Meditation 6:30pm-8:30pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
MUSIC Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 purchase minimum. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.
SPOKEN WORD Gioia Timpanelli Call for times. Author of What Makes a Child Lucky. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Mamma Mia 12:30pm. Schaffer Theater Talks. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138. How Cars Conquered Our Cities 4pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. Stroke Prevention and Treatment 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.
Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Tell No One Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Exploring Nature Through Art 1pm-2pm. For ages 4-5. $60/$48. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwallon-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.
EVENTS
Plein Air Painting Workshops 9:30am-1pm. Call for location. 728-4001.
Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
KIDS
Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.
FILM
Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.
Monsieur Verdun Call for times. $6. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Jewelry 5:30pm-8:30pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Elements of Drawing 7pm-9:30pm. 5 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.
WORKSHOPS
Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.
FILM
Elly Wininger 6:30pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.
Once Upon a Mattress 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
CLASSES
Safe Harbors of the Hudson Tour 11:30am. Informational tours of the Ritz Theater, The Cornerstone Residence and the Ann Street Gallery. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 109.
THEATER
You Wanna Play? 7pm. Scrabble/board games/food and fun. Russ’s Country Cafe, Phoenicia. 688-2337.
MONDAY 27
EVENTS
Whose Line is it Anyway, Shandaken Style! 4:15pm-5:30pm. After school program for teens. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.
SPOKEN WORD Ecology and People of the Shawangunks 11am/1pm. Gentle stroll. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Muddy Lindy: Kingston’s Casual Swing Stomp 8pm-10pm. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.
Fall’s Bounty of Nutrition 6pm. Women’s View, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444. Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300. Newburgh Library Knitting Club 7pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
Election Year 2008 Movies 6:45pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 563-3640.
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MUSIC
DANCE
African Drum Workshop 7pm-8pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THURSDAY 30 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Introduction to Zen Training Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Dream Workshop: Listening In Dreams 6pm-9pm. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984. Zikr - Sufi Healing Circle 7:15pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-7215.
CLASSES Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Writer and Filmmaker Nicole Quinn 7pm. Panel discussion. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Imagining the Highlands of the Hudson in the Nineteenth Century 7:30pm. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Poetry Reading by Paul Kane 8pm. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie.
THEATER
Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.
WORKSHOPS Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
FRIDAY 31 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Introduction to Zen Training Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.
DANCE Halloween Dance Party 10pm. The Firebird Lounge, Rhinebeck. 876-8686.
EVENTS A Halloween Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.
FILM The Rocky Horror Picture Show 11pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.
KIDS Open Studio for Young Artists 3:30pm-5pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
MUSIC Woodstock Chamber Orchestra All-Bach Program 8pm. $20/$5 students. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 246-7045. MacTalla Mor Band 9pm. Celtic. $22.50/$17.50 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. The Providers 9pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers 10pm. Cajun, Zydeco. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
THE OUTDOORS Tracking the Silent Visitor: A Scientist Studies Sawwhet Owls 7pm-8pm. Easy 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
SPOKEN WORD Lake George Opera at Saratoga: Oh Joy, Oh Rapture The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan 6pm. Schaffer Theater Talks. Robb Alley, Schenectady. (518) 388-2388 ext. 138.
THEATER Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Doubt, A Parable 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Anna in the Tropics 8pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Best of Broadway 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID DEUTSCH
Top: High Desert Ghost House, 2001. Bottom from left: Untitled, 2001; Performance, 2001; Untitled, 2000.
The Flying Deutschman A restaurant, a plantation, a single-family home, a neighborhood—familiar and, in themselves, unremarkable subjects. But these tranquil vistas are viewed by David Deutsch from such curious perspectives, or rendered through such uncommon conditions, that they are transformed from everyday sights into mysterious and eerie tableaus. Sometimes captured from helicopter and lit by police searchlights, the scenes provoke responses from the inner voyeur and paranoiac alike. Who else is watching? What else can they see? The film noir overtones of Deutsch’s images lead the eye to seek a shady figure passing through the frame. Failing to locate this focus, the eye turns inward with sudden understanding that the focal point may not necessarily be what is pictured but how that picture makes one feel. The anxiety produced by the stark spotlighting and sharp contrast meets an unnerving, ghost-town peace in Deutsch’s aerial photography. Even Deutsch’s paintings, many of them colorful, broadly brush-stroked portraits of
suburban homes, suggest a kind of disinterested resignation that is alternately comforting and disarming. In an interview in 1983, the artist explained, “All my decisions are made from a distance, at least 30 paces back.” Back then, 30 paces was sufficient; 25 years later, Deutsch requires a helicopter to realize his ideas. The precious rarity of the artist’s perspective makes his work distinct and difficult to describe. We are only capable of glimpsing Deutsch’s vision through the aid of the instruments he employed to capture it: In short, we must fly. To take on the artist’s perspective is like telescoping in from space, homing bird’s-eye scenes that offer themselves as both limiting and liberating alternatives to the familiar. David Deutsch’s paintings and photographs will be on display through November 2 at the recently relocated and expanded Nicole Fiacco Gallery, 336 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-5090; www.nicolefiaccogallery.com. —Christina Kaminski
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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
EMIL ALZAMORA
The Atlantis Factor
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he other night while I was exploring the astrology of the Large Hadron we are looking for a picture of God. Atlantis/Photographica also conjuncts with one of Collider—a particle smasher that scientists will use to study the formation the fates, Klotho, which minor planet astrologer Martha Wescott tells us is about the of the universe—I joked that the lead scientist, Professor Peter Higgs, was conditions at the beginning. a holdover from Atlantis. It went well with the story of a multibillion-dollar This setup is opposite Atropos (root of the word atrophy), which is about the condimachine supposedly designed to have some kind of spiritual outcome and a chart that tions at the end; and Asbolus, the common struggle of survival shared by all living things, looked a little like a runaway train. related to how all living things contain carbon. So we have a picture of the beginning and I am careful what I joke about; there’s this odd spell that follows me around, under the end suggested in the same chart, clustering around this theme of Atlantis. which my jokes come true. Looking at his face peering out from beneath his dashing green These are tightly square to the asteroid (128) Nemesis, which is in Aquarius. Nemesis hardhat, I started to recognize him. You know that odd feeling of having met someone in Greek mythology, says Wikipedia, “was the spirit of divine retribution against those before, but it wasn’t any time in the past few thousand years? who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Higgs is the namesake of the “God particle,” which this $8 billion machine was Nemesis is related to the Greek word meaning ‘to give what is due.’” designed to discover. Science is the fairly recent development in human consciousness In Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh, there is a part that I think of as the that supposedly replaced religious dogma and superstition. In its Atlantis passage. “As I have said, this isn’t the first time your civiScience is the fairly recent latest major chapter, science has gone on a hunt for a subatomic lization has been at this brink,” God says. “Once before on your particle that gives birth to all other basic subatomic particles, a development in human consciousness planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your kind of portal to another dimension. If anything, it’s the Goddess ability to use it responsibly. You are approaching the same point that supposedly replaced religious particle. Meanwhile, these scientists think that this device they’ve dogma and superstition. In its latest in human history again. Your society is on the verge of becoming created 500 feet under the ground is so powerful that it could, major chapter, science has gone on a product of your technology rather than your technology being under the right circumstances, create mini black holes. a product of your society. When a society becomes a product of a hunt for a subatomic particle that I kept looking at Professor Higgs, who is described as humble its own technology, it destroys itself.” and unassuming, and wondering who he really is. I wondered gives birth to all other basic subatomic particles, a kind of portal what he must feel like, having the God particle named after him. Atlantis and the Apocalypse This is what put the feeling into the pit of my stomach: He’s back, We live in times that many people with a long future are thinking to another dimension. in the form of a British physicist, one of the people I think of as of as the “end times,” and also in times that are actually apocalyptic the Engineers. One of my reincarnation theories is that people come back with similar for others. For example, this includes tribes whose homelands are being wiped out by jobs or roles, perhaps more or less harmless, sometimes trying to grow up get it right the logging of the Amazon, or entire societies that were lost to the Asian tsunami in this time, and others undecided or firmly committed to making matters worse. December 2004. For those of us in Western civilization who have food to eat and warm beds to sleep Atlantis and Reincarnation in, the apocalypse functions as a psychological factor. It’s the projection of the fear of indiYou’ve probably never read anything in which I discuss reincarnation at length, or with vidual death onto the whole society. Those who can’t process or address their own fear of a particular dogma; such thought is too often used as a weapon, and I think astrology death are the ones most likely to have to project it onto everyone else. holds a relatively small part of the key to understanding specific past lives. There are, To me this is why Rapture Christians are so scary: They cannot conceive of themselves however, a lot of people I see in the public sphere, sometimes on TV and sometimes in dying; they fear hellfire and damnation; we all have to go at once. I guess it’s easier for places such as a Senate committee, where I get the feeling that we’re meeting again. them that way (it’s the same basic psychology as the murder-suicides we read about in Atlantis, a favorite reincarnation destination, is the stand-in for a nearly perfect, shopping malls). When you mix this up with religion, politics and the atomic bomb, powerful civilization with real potential that lost its grip as a result of some tragic flaw. that is certifiably scary. Nobody who has the Apocalypse in their personal belief system Introduced to Western thought by Plato, it may or may not be historically real; he seemed should be allowed anywhere near the controls for the atomic bomb. to mean it as a metaphor, though he gives some exact measurements of structures that Sometimes things get so weird that we need to look to mythology for a reflection, as were there. I think of it as half real, half metaphor for everything else. a means of understanding what we’re going through. J.R.R. Tolkien has a little-known There are plenty of real ones: Babylon, Troy, Pompeii, and others feed the mythology book called Akallabeth, about the fictional fall of the kingdom of Numenor. It’s one of into our DNA. On some level we know that our own civilization may be on the short list the books leading into The Lord of the Rings. We have all met Strider or Aragorn, who is of those about to fall, which may be why it is so easy for so many to care so little. a direct descendent of Numenorian refugees who fled the destruction of their continent. From among the mythical lost civilizations, we have made up lots of stories; and we This is Tolkien’s story of Atlantis. may have inherited memories, traumas, and some technology. We are also presumed For Tolkien, the crisis was not technological; it involved religion and the fear of to inherit hubris, a flaw in our awareness wherein we think we’re big and bad and get death that haunted the original Numenorians. Many of Tolkien’s deeper themes involve ourselves into some big and bad trouble. Inherent in the Atlantis concept is a question: mortality. Strider, for example, is mortal, but when he becomes king, he marries Arwen, “Are we next?” There is more than a touch of catastrophobia around this theme. an immortal. The Numenorians, in their day, had exceptionally long lives, but did not There seem to be two sides to the Atlantis issue. One is spiritual, regarding our live forever. They began to envy the gods and the elves, who could live forever if they relationship to God or the cosmos. The other is technological, regarding our relationwanted. They became so haunted by the fear of death and the obsession with living ship to Big Science and ordinary technology. The two issues are, at times, closely forever that they became conquerors. bonded; for us, they both address the question of existence or, more often, the threat In fact, they sailed to Middle Earth with a plan to take as hostage Sauron, the Dark of nonexistence. Lord. He gave himself over willingly to be their prisoner and was taken back to their Either God will create the Rapture, or one of our Big Science machines will run out astonishing civilization—but with a secret plan to take advantage of the Numenorians’ of control. If we worship technology and turn it into God, we’ll surely have problems. fear and destroy them. Eventually, he convinces the king that he and his people are betOr we may intentionally use technology as a means of either discovering God (the Large ter than the gods and goddess, who live in a land to the east (where they are forbidden Hadron Collider) or thinking we are God (the nuclear bomb, which Americans and only to sail). Finally, he convinces them to wage war on the gods. And this they do. The Americans have used on civilians). psychology is clear: The fear of their own death leads them to attempt to conquer the immortals. They try—but, in return, their island is destroyed without a trace, except Atlantis, the Asteroid for nine ships that sail back to Middle Earth. When you take these themes and wrap them in the issue of whether any of this is going to We may think that our tragic flaw involves technology and its abuse, from our obbe our downfall, that is the essence of Atlantis. It has an asteroid, number 1198, so the way session with games and technical diversions to our casual attitude toward the nuclear you would write that is (1198) Atlantis. My keywords for this point are the use and abuse bomb. But I think that beneath that is the spiritual issue that Tolkien lays out so vividly of technology, but this can be on any scale you like, and the results of that use are included. in Akallabeth. We don’t see it, but that lurking fear drives us to do nearly everything we (1198) Atlantis also hints at our anxiety around the fall of our own civilization. do, and to avoid nearly everything we avoid. The fear of death haunts our technology, In the chart for the start-up for the Large Hadron Collider, Atlantis shows up in an which is often used to act out murderous games. It haunts our relationships and our interesting configuration: First of all, it’s in Scorpio, making it a deep influence encrypted perception of politics and of the future. Many of our political leaders profess to believe in our DNA. It’s in the 2nd house, indicating a values system. It’s conjunct is an asteroid in the Rapture. called (443) Photographica. I am sure the people who worked on this project would The fear of death is indeed driving us closer to the brink of collective disaster: In our not be flattered to hear it called a glorified camera, but here we have an image of just own minds, we are becoming the next Atlantis. What we may not know is that such a that: It’s designed to take pictures of the conditions that it creates, including conditions fate is optional. Yet that’s always how it is. at the beginning of the universe. If we’re looking for a God particle, then presumably Additional research by Mari Kim and Genevieve Salerno. 10/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 127
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(March 20-April 19)
Do you have the feeling lately that you’re trying to put the pieces of a vastly complex puzzle together, and that puzzle is you? Are you struggling with linear time, or with keeping the plotline of your life together? I had this vision of you buying a 2009 date planner but getting a copy where the pages are all in the wrong order. Meanwhile, I’m wondering what it must be like for you to communicate with the people who are the most important to you. It’s probably not so easy at the moment, and I am sure you don’t think it’s getting any easier. Some kind of blowout or emotional injury (perhaps a double blow) that occurred late last month may still be lingering and you may even fear that it’s knocked an important relationship off the rails. I suggest you take it slow, and, if vaguely possible, live with the uncertainty. Try not to push matters, but, rather, work with your environment. To put it simply, Mercury is retrograde in your opposite sign, Libra, and this may be scrambling all the signals that you’re trying to get straight. Under these aspects, your time and energy right now are better spent listening and gathering information. What you need to remember is your commitment to yourself and to life, and your mutual commitment with those you love. The tides will rise and fall. These remain the solid ground on which you stand.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) How do you see yourself lately? You seem to be imaging yourself through the eyes of others. We all do this, but suddenly it seems to be an odd obsession, imagining the voice of someone is speaking through you or like some part of their personality has taken up residence in your awareness. You may be using this perspective as a kind of lever to get to know yourself. I suggest you take this as a clue that you feel that you’re too uncertain of your identity or sufficiently emotionally unbalanced that you need to get your information about yourself from elsewhere. The elusive knowledge you’re seeking about yourself is connected to what feels like an untouchable part of you. In other words, it does not exist outside yourself, in another person, in a situation, or in a goal. What you seek is an aspect of your existence that you hold as too pure to share with anyone else, and perhaps so deep you may not know how to get there. You may in some way feel guilty or ashamed of yourself when you do. That’s the feeling to be aware of. You can easily—in fact, too easily at this point—hide your feelings in someone else, or some circumstance external to yourself. I suggest you meditate on communicating with the deep, burning, and unspeakable mystery within yourself. Even if you don’t think it’s there, it really is.
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(May 20-June 21)
You’re running the risk of stressing yourself unnecessarily in a relationship or wannabe relationship. This involves investing yourself in a situation with too high of a risk-to-reward ratio. If you feel like you’re taking chances that are too big, you probably are. Now, it’s possible that you’re having fun gambling, in which case you may need to content yourself with the possibility of losing the game. You may be wondering where all that excellent passion you were experiencing just a few weeks ago went, even if that passion was unfulfilled desire. And that, by the way, can become an addiction, which is in reality a kind of obsession with intensity, regardless of where it may or may not be going. I suggest you look and feel below this level of your experience. There is something down there: for one thing, an old story that you can now see from a new point of view. Go on a hunt for the feeling that you have done something in the past that renders you “undeserving.” Make friends with the side of you that someone may have, one unfortunate day long ago, branded a loser. It’s not true— but if you believe it, you will live as if it is. Meanwhile, regarding your current situation, if you face the truth that you don’t have so much influence, you will begin to discover what influence you do have.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’re headed into bold and unfamiliar relationship territory. This likely involves one particular relationship, but also your encounter with that entity known as “everyone.” In some way, one person is poised to become a contact point with the rest of the world. Listen to anyone who speaks to you like they’re an ambassador or translator. If you’re feeling the unfamiliarity of your environment, like you’re in a place with unusual and unfamiliar customs, or like you don’t quite fit in but are being accepted anyway, you are in the right place. Pay attention to the deeper story, meanwhile: It is about you negotiating with yourself about having permission to feel secure in your feelings, on the planet and in your environment. You may feel like you’re swimming in emotional uncertainty or confusion, but it’s what you might call fertile chaos. If you want to move from the chaos factor to the creative fertility factor, go deeper; all the turbulence is on the surface. Take a chance you would not normally take. You may not, at this point, feel you have so much to gain. Determine how little you have to lose, and then decide what you’re willing to try. That chance will appear as an opportunity in the realm of emotional or erotic bonding, joined by an unusual chance to express your ideas and your talent. These will take you far beyond yourself. 128 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 10/08
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LEO (July 22-August 23) You like to get along with your neighbors, and you see the wisdom of this. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighborsâ&#x20AC;? includes siblings, friends, and people you work with. They may be testing your patience; maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the lost e-mails and missed phone calls that are getting in the way of your peace and harmony. I have two suggestions, one of them more practical than the other. Walk over and visit some of the people you would normally be inclined to call or e-mail. Show your face and add some warmth to the transaction. At least pick up the phoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better than a free-floating packet of data. Second, there are certain past situations with some of the above-mentioned people from your past who would love to hear from you. Go as far back in time as you like: elementary school, five jobs ago, last year. Think of the people you were closest to, or were most intrigued by. Remember anyone you felt an affinity with, or in whom you saw some unusual beauty. Consider who you were afraid to approach because you thought them out of reach, or because you simply lacked confidence. Then get yourself onto Facebook or LinkedIn and see whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still in business. There is a human gem from your own past waiting for you if you do, and the reassurance that life is not as transient as some would have us believe.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve often said in this column and elsewhere that how much money you have reflects how you feel about yourself. This is not true for everyone; we all know there are some extremely wealthy people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel good about themselves at all. For you, resources of any kind have their roots in your emotional resources. This includes your sense of balance, your sense of purpose, and the awareness of your own beauty. How you perceive yourself quickly reflects in the world around you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now being taken on a journey into your awareness of how this works, from the inside outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is the direction you need to consider. In other words, external reassurance is not what you need, but rather the inner awareness of the feelings of inadequacy that you struggle with. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suggest you avoid your doubts. I suggest, rather, that you look truthfully at them, and strive for some idea of their source and, by extension, their validity. Doubts donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from nowhere; everything that grows has roots. Getting to the truth will be a process that works out in layers over the next month or so. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already experienced some unusual revelations about the anger you harbor toward yourself. Start there, applying the simple question: Does this make any sense at all?
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Getting to know ourselves seems to be one of the most profound experiences in life, one of the most challenging and the most satisfying. Yet how many people have a conscious relationship with themselves? I think that more often we relate to ourselves vicariously through others. You have the chance to do both in the coming weeks, and a moment when you figure out the difference. For a while, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confusing as usual, then there is a moment of clarity. Your inner feedback is suddenly more meaningful than what comes at you from outside. Your idea of what your life is about is more accurately reflected in your feelings than in the feelings of others. Your interior space is less chaotic and feels more dependable than any space around you. This is a bigger shift in awareness than you may imagine. You are so dependably a relational person, that is, someone whose primary orientation within existence is relating with and exchanging with others. Usually, their sense of individuality powers over your own. Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only been a matter of time, it has been a long time coming for you to feel some sense of stability in your self-awareness. You may not be there yet, but by the Full Moon mid-month you will have a very helpful clue.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) There was a time when we thought â&#x20AC;&#x153;pictures donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lie.â&#x20AC;? They started lying some time before King Kong climbed up the Empire State Building. Images can also tell the truth, but in doing so they teach us that every statement of the truth is a symbol. A photograph is the symbol of an actuality, not the real thing. In other words, we look at a photo, no matter how doctored up or authentic it may be, and we presume itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the implied message of all photographs. There is some element of this idea that informs your existence in the coming weeks, as you sort out your self-image from the image you project to the real person you actually are. Once you become aware of what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll call your imaging process, you may find youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re disturbed by what you discover. You may have one of those psychedelic moments of feeling completely disingenuous; you may decide everything that is projected or perceived is a kind of illusion. Yet at the core of all of this imaging and mirroring and perceiving is reality, and through this process you are gradually learning to project an image to the world that is in tune with the truth of who you are at your core. One clue I can offer: One aspect of that truth changes, one aspect remains the same.
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Communication is typically the number one struggle in relationships, when it could be among the most gratifying pleasures. This is true because we’re not taught to actually communicate; we are taught to signal and to receive signals; we are taught to guess what people are feeling; we are expected not to ask or to reveal. That leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation, and you happen to be standing in this territory right now. The best thing you can do for yourself and the people you care about is to speak your mind clearly when you feel a need to; and ask clearly for what you want to know. Leave no room for guessing, and remember that much of what people consider their truth changes on an almost daily basis. That’s going to be especially vivid through October and through the rest of the year, with Mercury changing directions mid-month and so many important planetary aspects developing. You have a gift for being a rolling stone, one who can adapt to changes, to progress and to setbacks with equal grace and awareness. Turn that awareness up high and set the example that the world needs one who speaks authentically and asks authentic questions.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) You may feel a distinct tension developing in your life, and you may also be noticing that small things are not working out as you planned. Don’t confuse the two; they are barely related. The relatively minor inconveniences you’re currently facing, particularly at work or involving your parents, will blow over pretty quickly if you can keep the misunderstandings contained. The way to do that is to maintain a policy of seeing both sides of the story and deciding on the truth for yourself; and, of course, keep factoring in new information. The size and scale of the greater changes will be more obvious come November: the sense that you need to free yourself from some kind of constraint, responsibility, or idea that is dragging you down. On one level it would seem that you lack the basic faith that you can solve your problems; yet the very ideas that your mind creates push you to accept the fact that you can, if only you were willing to adjust your beliefs. Nobody is asking you to do this on faith; rather, you have the chance to decide what is true for you based on actual evidence of what works. If you notice that you shun this kind of evidence, then you have on your hands a crisis rooted in believing what is not true. Rather than ask why you would do that, I suggest you simply admit the situation. The reason matters less than the basic fact.
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Admit that you are in unfamiliar territory and that you need to be here. The way your life feels right now is illustrated by a conjunction of the North Node and Chiron in your birth sign. The North Node is about pushing into unfamiliar and uncertain territory, which is the basic mode of existence of any conscious person at least part of the time, but the North Node creates a kind of irresistible, incomprehensible magnetism. It is a strong, almost irresistible pull, with the feeling that you came here to do this, no matter how difficult it may be. Add Chiron to the equation and you get the kind of intensity that is rare to find and difficult to feel, with the sense that you may somehow be on your own, and the extreme vulnerability of knowing that you are simply different. Yet difference is not what you’re striving for; rather, it’s a consequence of your growth phase. What you are looking for is to find your place in the world, one that is in harmony with the ways in which you excel, stand out, or have a mental focus for that is off of any familiar wavelength. It is not easy being different, and the vast majority of people on the planet—as you well know—would prefer not to deal with difference at all. And that, per se, is the challenge.
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You may feel that your creative drive, your sense of self, and your very existence are plunging toward a head-on collision with some limitation you can feel but cannot see. Actually, your limitations are headed for a collision with you. This is unlikely to be pleasant while you’re not quite aware of what is happening, or while you’re more invested in your doubts than you are in any sense of certainty. I would propose that the name of the game right now is moving beyond both doubt and certainty, and working from the most grounded, basic sense of purpose that you can connect with. By basic purpose, I don’t mean reducing your sense of vision any smaller than your sense of apprehension is making it feel already; rather, I mean staying connected to the people around you, to the quality of the work that you do, and at least feigning the belief that what you are doing is connected to a larger purpose, both individual and collective. Emphasize communication and awareness. Most people can walk around and content themselves with the idea that their life is directly about them. That does not work for a Pisces. There must always be a sense of connection, though at the moment you may be struggling to find the contact point. A major turn in the river is not far off; too far, you may think, but closer than you realize.
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Clockwise from top left: Works from Joy Taylor’s Skin Deep series: Mandala, 2008; Who Am I?, 2008; Windy, 2006; Label, 2007; Meat, 2008; Interference, 2008.
Collagist Joy Taylor has many, many shoe boxes of materials awaiting their true purposes. The once-avid collector of sponges, toothbrushes, matches, sycamore leaves, and “fabulous, frightening doctor’s tools” now finds that extraordinary efforts to collect are no longer needed—objects simply suggest themselves to her. The androgynous face, shared by all Taylor’s pieces in the Skin Deep series, is actually a doctor’s-office schematic, a sticker employed to chart the progress of a worrisome growth or lesion on a patient’s face. Similar diagrams exist for all body parts, but Taylor points out that she lifted the face stickers in particular because “it is such a stylized drawing, rather Egyptian in style, where both profiles of the face, including both ears, are included along with the full frontal view—a view impossible to gain in nature—but useful to a dermatologist because one sticker can show all, and useful to me for its unique quality of line, impossible point of view, the rather philosophical expression, and the gender-questionable nature of him/her.” Taylor’s collages are not random pastiches but calculated permutations. By resituating the face among other found materials and hoarded treasures, she engages the observer in an optical game of re-evaluation and re-cognition. Pieces from Skin Deep will be exhibited in a group show through October 12 at BCB Art, 116 Warren Street, Hudson. (518) 828-4539; www.bcbart.com. —Christina Kaminski
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