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CONTENTS 11/08

NEWS AND POLITICS 23 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING The gist of what you may have missed: negative equity, breastfeeding as a prophylactic against breast cancer, women gaining ground in global politics.

26 TYRANNY’S BUSINESS Daniel Pepper reports from Myanmar on a country pinned between a secretive military dictatorship and and a population geared toward consumerism.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart on the the New Know Nothing standard bearer, Sarah Palin.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35 PLANT YOURSELF Sharon Nichols investigates the nature of green burials.

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 54 FICTION: THE MINIVAN Mimi Lipson’s tale of one man’s love for his Aerostar, and the woman who drove him around in it, won this year’s short story contest, juried by Jana Martin.

58 TECH PREDU Odes to pre-digital technology by Laura Shaine Cunningham, John Darnton, Frank D. Gilroy, Jonathan Gould, Mikhail Horowitz, Michael Perkins, Nina Shengold.

62 POETRY Poems by Robert Kelly, Anne Gorrick, Gretchen Primack, and Ronald Baatz.

64 PREPOSTEROUS PREQUELS & SPURIOUS SEQUELS Readers take aim at our annual humor contest.

66 BEST-REVIEWED BOOKS OF 2008

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BUSINESS SERVICES

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71 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 89 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 100 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

Huma Bhabha’s sculpture, part of the “Excerpt” show at Vassar’s Loeb gallery.

42 LUCID DREAMING Beth E. Wilson considers unknown unknowns in a review of “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art” at Bard’s Hessel Museum.

46 GALLERY AND MUSEUM GUIDE 48 MUSIC Peter Aaron profiles folk singer-songwriter Kelleigh McKenzie. Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Noah Creshevsky/If, Bwana Favorite Encores. Reviewed by Peter Aaron. Setting Sun Children of the Wild. Reviewed by Jason Broome. The Rhodes Modern Sounds of Northern Towns. Reviewed by Robert Burke Warren.

68 FOOD & DRINK Brian K. Mahoney eats and drinks his way through Tuscany.

128 PARTING SHOT A photograph of the colossus of Ramesses II from Sarite Sanders’s recently published The Eternal Light of Egypt.

HOLIDAY EVENTS 77 DESTINATION SHOPPING Hillary Harvey offers a guide to local holiday events.

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THE FORECAST 110 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 109 Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana performs tempestuous Spanish dance at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center on November 22 and 23. 111 Gerard Hurley brings his first feature, The Pride, to Upstate Films November 7-9. 115 Encaustic paintings by wax muse Denise Orzo will be on display at R&F Handmade Paints through November 22. 117 The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performs “Reel Music,” by composers who have scored for film, at Dia:Beacon on November 22. 121 John Hodian and Bet Williams bring the sacred music of The Epiphany Project to the Colony Café in Woodstock on November 19.

PLANET WAVES 122 VOTING IS NOT ENOUGH Eric Francis Coppolino calls readers to a higher level of participation in the ongoing American experiment in democracy. Plus horoscopes.

85 WINDY PEAKS Amy Lubinski talks to the experts about hiking in the Catskills.

94 TWIST OF LYME Lorrie Klosterman talks with Lyme disease expert Dr. Steve Bock of the Rhinebeck Health Center about diagnosis and treatment this often overlooked malady.

98 FLOWERS FALL Field notes from a Buddhist mom’s experimental life. By Bethany Saltman.

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For the past five years, Nyack-based artist Stanford Kay has painted books. Books on shelves, in stacks, and in boxes. His interest in the subject developed after Kay noticed how people display their collection of books in their homes as they would artwork. “They’re both identifiers of who people are,� Kay explains. “Books contain information and culture in the same way paintings do.� Before he began painting his “Gutenberg Variations,� a series of over 60 book paintings, Kay developed an attraction to the visual motifs in modernist grid paintings. “I’ve always had an issue with content in paintings—what they’re about and how to get content in there without being too literal. This [painting books] was a way to evoke content that I or the viewer could project onto.� The paintings, void of any text—allow the viewer to decide what’s on that bookshelf; Tolstoy, Nancy Drew, or a biology textbook. Though Kay’s book paintings look similar to one another, he insists he avoid repetition through experimentation. Right now, he is painting books in boxes, as if packed for storage and viewed from above. “If you repeat yourself, you just make another doughnut, and it’s not about making doughnuts,� he says. Kay’s technique entails taping off parts of the raw canvas so when it is peeled back, the empty space has created a level bookshelf. “The paint will drip down from one layer of shelves and creates spaces and opens up opportunities to create little forms,� says Kay. The short, heavy paint drips, noticeable on some on the paintings, give a piece that would otherwise be known as a grid painting freedom for abstraction. The vivid color schemes are simply chosen by Kay’s interest in a palette at the time being.“As the color starts to assert itself, it starts to become part of the content—red, white, and blue might remind me of French Impressionism,� he says, referencing his bookshelf painting titled The History of French Painting. “The color will start to dicate what the painting is about, and then I try to steer the painting in that direction.� What’s next for Kay? “I don’t know. This is the longest I’ve worked on one theme. I am always exploring new ideas—whether one will turn into an extended preoccupation is hard to predict,� he says. www.stanfordkay.com. —Amy Lubinski


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EDITORIAL

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A Palindroming President Alert readers of Chronogram will remember that poet Sparrow is running for President of the United States (as he has in every election since 1992). Here are some of his surprising new campaign pronouncements: Running In Palindromes From now on, I will be the first presidential contender in American history to campaign entirely in palindromes. For example, as I travel through the United States, shaking hands and greeting my future constituents, my slogan will be: “Meet, see, esteem!” More Palindromic Thought People ask me: “What is your reaction to the subprime mortgage crisis?” And I can only answer: “Stolen, O gone lots!” In other words, lots—subdivided land on which houses may be built—are gone. In fact, they are stolen. “By whom are they stolen?” my questioners ask. “By greedy banking conglomerates,” I reply. “They have stolen the lots (and also the homes) of the hoodwinked middle class!” “How may we address this crisis?” the bewildered public cries. “Steal the money back from the banking conglomerates!” Further Palindroming What is the main thrust of your campaign?” Numerous concerned American workers ask me. The answer is simple: “Media? Raid ‘em!” In other words, mind-activists with my style of explosive, reality-shattering theories must raid the media, by any methods possible—even by chaining ourselves to the Saugerties Lighthouse, if necessary—to convey our bewilderingly crucial message.

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Even More Palindrome-Politicking One of the most important planks of my new palindromic platform is: Go, FEMA! Sesame fog. FEMA, of course, is the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was gutted under the Bush-Cheney theocracy, and has become virtually useless to the sufferers of New Orleans, or anywhere else. FEMA has settled into a kind of “sesame fog” of bureaucratic dithering. But I say: “Go, FEMA! Burst through that foggy tahini-like inertia! Serve the victims of floods, hurricanes, and severe earth tremors once more!” The Stresses of Political Life Many inquisitive reporters ask me: “Sparrow, how do you bear up under the stresses of political life? For example, you are at least 43 percent behind either of the major candidates. Don’t you panic? Don’t you lose faith?” I coolly reply: “Panic? I nap!” A good nap takes the edge off of nearly any abysmal crisis, I find. Two Radical Palindromes One of my most furious palindromic formulas is: Dammit, I’m mad! And it’s true! I am fundamentally angry about the Sunday School Fascism which has seized our once-facetious nation, and led us into two simultaneous last-ditch wars, and enough debt to sink the Frigate of the Future! Join with me, O Angry National Dissidents (though don’t vote for me!), and let’s march on every dazed armory in our land! In fact, let’s proudly bear the palindromic label: Revolt Lover. A Palindromic Anti-Guantánamo Slogan It’s about time a Prez candidate spoke out on American torture, in a palindromic fashion. So here’s my statement: Torture Be Rut Rot! The use of “enhanced coercive interrogation techniques” (to use a baroque CIA euphemism for torture) has become a rut—a dreary habit of the American military. But by any name, cruelty is rotting our once-vernal soul. New Palindromic Thrust It’s time for the dedicated palindrome-warriors to announce: Lasso loco colossal! Yes, we must lasso that colossal loco (insane person): Dick Cheney! I’m not advocating true violence, but we need to throw a lasso around Cheney’s girth, and rein in his Imperial war-thirst. Are you ready to join me? —Sparrow

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS In our October issue, due an editing error, we incorrectly stated that the Windham Fine Arts Gallery houses some of Thomas Cole’s original landscape paintings. While the Windham Fine Arts Gallery features work by dozens of contemporary artists, a number of whom paint in the style of the Hudson River School, the gallery does not represent any of Cole’s work. We apologize for any confusion.


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LOCAL LUMINARY BRIAN SHAPIRO LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

In 1984, a young activist named Brian Shapiro brought President Reagan to a graceless halt in the middle of a speech in Hackensack, New Jersey. He and other members of the punk band Crass, were chanting lyrics from one of the group’s songs: “Fight war, not wars.” Ten years later, Shapiro came to Woodstock hoping to better engage himself in animal rights, social justice, and environmental issues. “If there ever was a right move,” he says, “I made that right move in coming up here.” Among other pursuits, Shapiro has hosted a cable access television show, sued the federal government over its chosen location (wetlands, floodplain) for the Woodstock Post Office, worked for the Kingston Library, and taught preschool. In September, the county legislator (D-Woodstock) was tapped for the executive director position at the Ulster County SPCA, where he had

previously volunteered. From cats to cockatiels, the UCSPCA currently houses roughly 200 animals, the majority of whom await adoption. On a recent afternoon at the no-kill shelter, after showing off the enthusiasm of a quartet of bouncing Labrador puppies and moderating a brief dispute over alphahood in one of the cat rooms, Shapiro pauses in front of what used to be a giant freezer for euthanized animals and explains his plans for creating more usable space in the facility. He also hopes to build improved partnerships with other sanctuaries and humane associations so that he can accommodate his furry clients as well as possible; it is the first time in at least four years that the SPCA will be led by someone with advocacy experience. —Christina Kaminski

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What kind of attitude do you need to wear so many hats with such ease? I think it’s just how I was raised. I had parents who were products of the Sixties, and I myself am a Seventies kid, so we had a specific understanding about the importance of being active in the community. I grew up with a very strong sense of DIY, “do-it-yourself,” whether that meant putting together your own fanzine with your thoughts on music or artwork on sloppily Xeroxed pieces of paper, or learning three chords on a guitar and getting some people with weird haircuts together to start a band—it was all about DIY. I used to be an illustrator, a disc jockey, and a bass player; I continue to be a very creative and artistic person, but one of the challenges of being so involved in the community is that I have to find— through working with the environment, animals, ethics, and public service—outlets for things like creativity and a sense of humor, because literally every moment is accounted for. I used to argue about the laws, now I’m helping to create and change them; I used to argue about animal cruelty, now I have the tools to prevent it. But I’m still mad that I can’t play in a band anymore. I was in some good bands.

In addition to the animals available for adoption, the SPCA also cares for animals that the agency has seized through cruelty cases, right? Yellow tags on kennels or cages indicate that a humane law case pertaining to that animal is still pending, and that it is not adoptable for that reason. Neglect and cruelty cases are why the SPCA has humane law officers. But once you just make that arrest, or issue that ticket, it doesn’t just stop there. The evidence is not just a pound of cocaine in a locker somewhere—evidence in humane law cases is in living, feeling creatures. We have to care for these animals. They can’t just sit in a cold, dark room. We have to provide sustenance, medical care, housing, and recreation for these animals. These are legal matters, criminal matters being prosecuted by the district attorney’s office. And it’s a staggering cost, when you really think about it. Find me another case where some private, not-for-profit agency has to pay for housing and maintaining criminal evidence. I’m doing the best I can, with my experience in the courts, to help expedite these matters with the prevention of cruelty to animals in mind, to try to find justice and the best solution for them.

What’s your next big project? One of the things I have specific plans for is to have all of these agencies [Animal Emergency Fund, Animal Welfare Adoption Network, and individual volunteers] work together. There’s a population explosion. The animals don’t care what agency we’re from. In Woodstock, we’ve set up a trap/neuter/release fund, which was enough to buy some traps [for feral cats]. We had active volunteers working with an animal control officer there. I’ve also been meeting with other rescue groups and clubs—I’m hoping that we can get enough traps, training, and volunteers throughout the county that, if something’s happening in Gardiner or Shandaken, we have the means to address it. What does an animal lover eat for dinner? Marinated tofu with homemade vegetable stock, rice pilaf, and kale. The trick to tofu is that you need to slice it thin, cook it at a very low temperature, and turn it continually— that way it gets a firm, crispy texture. I also recommend two awesome vegan cookbooks, Veganomicon and Skinny Bitch in the Kitch.

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Celebration of the Arts in New Paltz on September 28 Top to bottom: Kit Kimble and Cindy Thomas, volunteers from Ohio, with ofďŹ cial COTA t-shirts; Artists Habitats, the brainchild of Simon Draper of Beacon; the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange booth, aka the Embrace Creativity Tent, where festival attendees had the opportunity to make art from recycled materials.

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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai November 12th at 7:00 p.m. – Join us for a screening of Taking Root, a documentary film about Kenya’s Green Belt Movement and its founder, Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The film showcases the link between environmental health and human rights.

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Conditions are not inherently distracting.They are only distracting to you if you are disposed to be distracted. —Adi Da Samraj Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: At a parent meeting recently, my four-year-old’s teacher described what she sees as her role in the classroom: She endeavors to model a way of being and working; she tries to do one thing at a time, to do things well, and with mindfulness. This is what she subscribes to in principle. In practice, it is a monumental task, if not impossible.The most important thing we can give to a child, she explained, is to demonstrate that we are striving.We will not be impeccable in every moment, but we will be working towards something finer. Leaving the meeting I realized that this is a beautiful and realistic goal—not to become someone who has attained something, but to actually be someone who is working, in the moment, to embody the qualities we value and admire; to be someone taking even tiny steps in the direction of being more conscious and mindful, of being truly human. This is a helpful insight as we enter a phase of greater collective difficulty and hardship. As everyone feels the need to tighten our belts, we are thrown back to the question of what we truly value. The objects of success in the world seem a little further out of reach, and striving for them seems a little more absurd, in view of the masses of people on the planet that struggle every day simply to survive. It is clear that we will have to change our lifestyle. And when we give up the material goodies, what do we have left? We have the goodies within. And we have the goodies without, the abundance of the impressions of the world—absolutely free (paying attention notwithstanding)—without any assistance from some new mediating gadget or labor-saving device. The experiences of the day are a garland of rich moments and opportunities to strive. A few from today come to mind: As I walk along the wooded road, the bright orange leaves on a maple tree catch my eye. Only half the leaves on the tree remain and the branches, tributary branches, and tiny capillary branches cut a striking design against the sky. The wind gusts, shaking another flock of leaves from the tree, and light and dark grey clouds speed toward the horizon. I am startled by the drama and beauty of the scene. Raking leaves in my yard I feel the pleasure of being the caretaker of this tiny piece of earth. I feel my emanations flowing into the ground like fertilizer as the rake combs grass, scratches soil, and teases bits of branch and stone from the lawn. Last year, the yard was just dirt but my son and I threw hundreds of handfuls of grass seed on it all spring and summer. To our abundant pleasure we watched tender shoots come up all over, and by October the lawn was verdant and almost lush. Now, raking, I feel as though I am caring for the grass I planted, and preparing it to come into greater fullness in the spring. Standing at the gate of the school, I wait and watch with eager anticipation for my son to emerge. I see his mussed curly hair among the teeming heads of children carrying little knapsacks and looking for their parents or the school bus. I realize how small he is. I see he needs a haircut. I see that he looks contained, well. His face glows with youth and health. He is beautiful and I am so glad to see him. “How are you?� I ask. “Good,� he replies, and we walk together hand in hand across the street and down the trail. Now that it is autumn, the mice are coming back inside. I spent weeks quietly requesting the mice and their devas to steer clear, but they showed up anyway, eating our crackers and quiche and pooping all over the larder, so I resorted to traps. Before I sat to write, I set 3 traps. Two detonated in the first few minutes. I went downstairs to find those perfect beings caught with broken necks and bugged-out eyes. They were caught with peanut butter on their lips, lives snapped out in an instant. As I open the trap and pull out the still-warm body of a mouse I compliment its long whiskers and cute silky ears and apologize for killing it before bringing its body out to the woods. The true human striving is not for some future result. It is the striving to be, here, now, to be aware of, accept, and appreciate everything that is present in this moment, including (and especially) my own feelings and reactions. As a spiritual teacher once whispered in my ear at a blackjack table in a cruise boat casino—“It doesn’t get any better than this!� —Jason Stern

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The Pew Research Center’s annual global attitude survey (released in September) found that racism is on the rise, especially in continental Europe. In Spain, 46 percent of the population reported viewing Jews unfavorably, while 52 percent reported having negative opinions of Muslims. Italy may be facing what some newspapers have called a “racism emergency.” Violent crime and discrimination against African immigrants has escalated to such a degree that members of the Italian Parliament and high-ranking Vatican officials alike are speaking out about intolerance, prejudice, xenophobia, and racism. Source: New York Times

Ten million homeowners currently have negative equity, meaning they owe more on their mortgages than the value of their homes. In August, more than half of the Californians who sold their homes suffered losses through “short sales”—so called because the sale price leaves the former homeowner “short” of the amount owed in the mortgage. By next June, 25 percent of all homes with mortgages will have negative equity, forcing many homeowners to sell for less than the value of the mortgage on their property and pay the difference out of pocket to avoid foreclosure. Source: New York Times

A recently released UN study has found that more women have entered politics in the past decade than ever before. Of the 22 countries where women constitute more than 30 percent of the national assembly, 18 have some form of quota. In Rwanda—which recently became the first country in the world to have a parliament in which women outnumber men—the need to end genocide is reported to have incited women to take political action in the country’s reconstruction. According to Unifem (the United Nations Development Fund for Women), if the rate of change holds constant, by 2045 women will reach parity of elective office in the developing world. Source: New York Times

Recent developments in the Million Women Study (Cancer Research UK) indicate that that the more children a woman has, the more time she spends breastfeeding, which apparently lowers her risk of later contracting breast cancer. Even comparatively short-term exposure to the hormonal changes accompanying childbirth can provide life-long protection from the disease. An effort to identify precisely which hormone is responsible is currently underway; the research and development of compounds capable of mimicking the effects of late pregnancy are in the pipeline. Source: The Guardian

In Rensselaer County, “Barack Osama” was presented as the Democratic presidential candidate on 300 absentee ballots (proofed and printed in-house to save taxpayer dollars). The Rensselaer County Board of Elections promptly issued new ballots, and voters were reminded that any corrections to a ballot nullify the vote. Source: Albany Times Union In 1989, Seymour Durst established the National Debt Clock in New York’s Time Square to track the rising indebtedness of the US government. When Durst put up the sign, the national debt was $2.7 trillion. In October, the clock had to be retrofit with another numerical space as the government debt topped $10 trillion. Source: Associated Press

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina spilled about nine million gallons of oil. This year, Hurricane Ike spilled another five million. Air contaminants were the second-most common release as refineries and chemical plants shut down, burning off hundreds of thousands of pounds of organic compounds and toxic chemicals, sometimes directly into the atmosphere. The Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, and Texas state agencies have responded to more than 3,000 pollution reports associated with the storm. Souce: Associated Press About 40 percent of the deaths in India every year are linked to tobacco use. Last month, the Health Ministry in India established a countrywide ban on smoking in public. Those who break the rules will be fined $5

or more (per capita income is less than $1,000 a year). This new rule will affect 250 million people, mostly men, who use tobacco in the country. At the end of this month, packs of cigarettes in India will bear the skull and crossbones symbol. Source: Wall Street Journal The acceptable level of arsenic contamination in drinking water is five times higher in Bangladesh than the global standard. Arsenic has also been found in soil and staple crops, such as rice. The World Health Organization has described the contamination problem as “the largest mass poisoning of a population in history,” affecting 30 million people in 61 districts. Once the toxin enters the body (through the skin or gastrointestinal tract) it is redistributed to the liver, kidney, lung, spleen, and intestines. Long-term exposure can lead to cancer, nerve damage, and renal failure. Source: ProMED-mail The tumbling stock market has wiped out $2 trillion in Americans’ retirement savings in the past 15 months. Pensions and 401(k) plans have decreased about 20 percent overall, with long-tenured employees aged 36 to 45 suffering the steepest declines. Analysts and economists predict that the number of full-time workers aged 65 and over who are delaying retirement will soar by more than 80 percent to make up 6.1 percent of the labor force. Source: Washington Post Days after federal officials agreed to an $85 billion bailout of American International Group (AIG), the firm spent roughly $443,000 on a corporate retreat at the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California. Just after the invoice went live online, the Fed forked over another $38 billion, and AIG executives went on an $86,000 partridge hunt at a British country manor. Attorney General Cuomo recently forced the company to freeze $19 million in remaining payments to its former CEO. Source: New York Times, TheSmokingGun.com Compiled by Christina Kaminski

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ou know times are hard when Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is dragged in front of a House committee and forced to admit previous trangressions, like some old Bolshevik at a Stalinist show trial. On October 23, Greenspan told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he had loved too deeply, held too close to his wizened old man-bosom (I’m paraphrasing here), his belief in the power of the free market to self-correct. “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” he said. Greenspan, bless his heart, still managed to put in a good word for the free market, suggesting that it would turn itself around. “Whatever regulatory changes are made, they will pale in comparison to the change already evident in today’s markets,” he said. “Those markets, for an indefinite future, will be far more restrained than would any currently contemplated new regulatory regime.” Now, I’m no economist, but I wonder if Greenspan, at 82, hasn’t gotten a touch senile. Was he not paying attention to government’s helping hand in the growth of capitalism in the last hundred years? Alan, baby: There is no such thing as a free market.The government, since the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1933 following the bank panics of the early 20th century, has explicitly (as in the case of the FDIC) and implicitly (as in the case of Greenspan’s decision to keep interest rates low throughout the final years of his Fed chairmanship) guaranteed this country’s business sector. The recent bailout of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, and AIG merely underscores, again, the government’s role as ultimate guarantor in our economy. Last I checked, that’s not free market capitalism. Now that Greenspan, once Washington’s economic Svengali, has been run out of town on a rail, the writing—or blood splatter and bullet holes—is on the wall: Panic! What many businesspeople don’t realize, however, is that a recession is the perfect time to expand their business. That’s why the forward thinking board of directors at Luminary Publishing (Chronogram’s evil corporate overlord), has directed me to cook up ideas for new magazines suited to this climate of economic turmoil. Allow me to sketch out some titles you might be seeing on the newsstand in 2009: End Times In these troubled times, we’re all looking for assurance. We all want security. We crave information from a source we can trust. Look no further than End Times. Each month our staff of pessimistic prognosticators, bleak forecasters, and paranoiacs will chart the path of impending doom with diligence and insouciance. Admit it:The end is nigh. Subscribe today and we’ll even send you a placard that says so. Better hurry, your first issue could be your last! (This title should not be confused with the already existing Endtime magazine, “one of the most widely circulated biblical prophecy magazines in the world.” Recent articles from Endtime include “Will the Real Antichrist Please Stand Up?” and “The Good Side of Armageddon.”)

Home Distilling Ease the pain of life in reduced circumstances with this monthly primer on transforming your garage into an alchemical miracle factory. Did you know that you can make vodka from just about anything fermentable? Recipes guaranteed against blindness! Mending & Darning In a knitting and quilting market dominated by ladies’ titles, this one’s for the fellas. Since you can’t afford to go out and buy a $50 shirt every time you pop a button anymore, M&D will offer straightforward no-nonsense advice on needle-and-thread work. No fancy patterns or quadruple-crossover stitches here, just easy-to-ignore directions outlining simple household tasks, like how to turn on the iron, and the myriad quick one can make with Scotch tape. Backyard Poultry This title, about raising chickens on one’s back 40, already exists. Drat! Home Labor Force Got kids? Time to put them to work, just like in the good old days. We’ll offer tips on home-based business opportunities designed with your child’s small hands in mind. Those nimble little fingers can do work you or I just can’t do, and why should we continue to outsource it to Asia when we have untapped potential—human resources!—right here in our homes? Tool Design Archeologists have found tools that date back over a million years. But if the grid goes down tomorrow, you won’t be able to pop out to Home Depot to buy a tool, not even a simple rake. Why, if you want to rake those pesky leaves in your backyard, you’ll have to make one yourself. And TD will show you how, offering the latest ergonomic developments in Stone and Bronze age tools. ••• Back in the real world, you’ll find our annual Literary Supplement (p. 53) in our current issue. Thanks to Nina Shengold and Mik Horowitz for editing the section and pulling together an impressive selection of hometown talent, including Laura Shaine Cunningham, John Darnton, Robert Kelly, Jonathan Gould, Frank D. Gilroy, Anne Gorrick, Gretchen Primack, Ronald Baatz, Michael Perkins, and our short story contest winner, Mimi Lipson. And join us for our “Eats, Reads, and Leaves” party celebrating the Literary Supplement on Friday, November 14 at 7pm. We’re holding the event in our new downstairs gallery below HQ here in Kingston at 314 Wall Street (we’re calling it—forgive our narcissism—Chronogram Space). It’ll feature readings by local literati, including our short story contest juror Jana Martin (Russian Lover and Other Stories), John Darnton (Black andWhite and Dead All Over), Gioia Timpanelli (What Makes a Child Lucky), and Gretchen Primack (The Slow Creaking of Planets). Did I mention free hors d’oeuvres and (not free) booze? Anchoring the evening will be Mikhail “Cultural Czar in Exile” Horowitz and Gilles “What, Me Worry?” Malkine, who will perform their satirical mash-up of literature, politics, and pop culture. I hope to see you there! Get your weekly dose of Chronogram on Monday mornings at 8:15 with Brian and Greg Gattine on “The Morning Show with Gattine and Franz.” WDST 100.1FM. 11/08 CHRONOGRAM 25


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TYRANNY’S BUSINESS Letter from Burma By Daniel Pepper

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n impossibly beautiful country, Myanmar is full of dilapidated colonial structures slowly crumbling in the damp swelter of the tropics, the surface of each slowly losing ground to organic pastels of mosses and molds. Between the housing blocks of downtown Yangon, the country’s largest city and former capital, bundles of fraying wires connect the isolated citizenry with one another. Satellite dishes, cell phones, and Internet cafes connect them with the outside world. On a recent visit to the apartment of a former Yangon city policeman and his family, two color televisions sat playing side-by-side, each with satellite connections, while a wall-mounted air-conditioner hummed quietly nearby. The only electronic gadget not turned on was a multi-speaker stereo system. “It was bad before,” the eldest of the policeman’s three daughters said over the din in the room. “Then some people died and now it’s still bad.” Her story is emblematic—due to the influence of the Internet and satellite TV—of how much more than ever before the Myanmar people are aware of their own country’s glacial pace of progress than at any point in the past. She happened to be on the street one day during last year’s uprising shouting antigovernment slogans. The next day she stayed in, fearing a stray bullet as she watched the blood-soaked crackdown live on Al Jazeera. “Do you think the Burmese are cowards?” she asked. It was last year’s social upheaval, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, that inspired hope that a chapter would be closing on the world’s longest-running military regime. But the Buddhist clergy and common citizens were quickly beaten back with batons and bullets, and the world moved on. During this September’s anniversary a bomb explosion in downtown Yangon wounded four, websites run by dissenters and exiles were attacked and shut down, and about 100 monks filed silently through the streets of a western fishing town to commemorate the crackdown. But this seems hardly dramatic enough to undo the disillusionment that set in after the defeat of the Saffron Revolution. In some ways, it only underscores it. 26 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 11/08

LURCHING FORWARD, LOST IN TIME Two years ago—11 months before the monks’ rebellion—I sat in one of the few, cramped Internet cafes in Yangon, the former capital, and glanced at my neighbors’ screens—all soft-core porn and foreign news websites. When I returned this summer, I found the cafes had become diverse and diffuse, packed with young people gabbing away on Google Talk, checking out the social networking sites Orkut, Hi5, and Friendster. Signs posted openly, even in small towns, explained how to circumvent government censors through proxy servers hosted at www.yoyahoo.com and www.bypassany.com. Myanmar is like that. Change perspectives, and its lost-in-time quality suddenly shifts as well, with a lurch forward. Against the backdrop of the 2,500-year-old golden Swedegon Pagoda, teenagers post photos on Facebook while Korean soap operas compete with English Premier League soccer for people’s attention. Cellphone stores proliferate, despite the cost of new connections—$1,500—from the single, government-owned provider, Myanma Post and Telecommunications. (Black market connections start at about $2,500.) At night in downtown Yangon, men can be found sitting huddled on low stools beneath the crowded umbrellas of downtown teashops, strumming loud acoustic traditional folk melodies. Despite the demonstrations of 2007, not one is a song of dissention or outrage. The only things exploding these days are the papayas, pineapples, and mangoes—the spirit of protest is, for the most part, silenced. In fact, the State Peace and Development Council, as the military government renamed itself in 1997, is even more entrenched now than it was a year ago, having profited from global increases in food and fuel prices—Myanmar is an exporter of each. A few signs of conspicuous consumption by the small urban middle class—satellite TV dishes, hip-hop music, and the latest urban fashions—are seeping down from the much smaller class of multimillionaire businessmen directly tied to the junta’s chairman, Than Shwe. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s broad mass of 50 million people remains among the


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ABOVE: A MONK LOOKS ON AFTER BEING HALTED BY RIOT POLICE AND MILITARY OFFICIALS WHILE HE AND OTHERS ATTEMPTED TO ENTER THE SHWEDAGON PAGODA IN YANGON ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2007. OPPOSITE: THE MEMBERS OF MYANMAR’S MILITARY JUNTA STAND AT ATTENTION DURING ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE AT THE COUNTRY’S NEW CAPITAL NEAR THE TOWN OF PYINMANA ON MARCH 27, 2006.

poorest in the world. Ranked 132nd out of 177 countries in the 2007 United Nation’s Development Program’s Human Development Index, most experts doubt the government’s statistics and think the reality is worse. “It’s so extraordinarily opaque,” offered Sean Turnall, who heads Burma Economic Watch and is a professor of economics at Macquarie University in Sydney. “You’ve got secrecy at every level.” The paradox of Myanmar is that its military, more indirectly than directly, almost wholly controls the driving economic engine behind the country’s newfound access to global commodities and media. Those who benefit are connected, in some way, to top generals or other upper-ranking officers.This poses a quandary to Myanmar’s masses: Deal with the devil to better one’s family or suffer silently as the world passes by. And pass by it will. According to Amnesty International over 2,100 political prisoners are still languishing in Myanmar’s jails, with over 1,000 locked up in the past year alone. Many sit in solitary confinment; some are denied medical treatment. Myanmar is one of the only countries to be publicly denounced for human rights abuses by the otherwise confidential and neutral International Committee of the Red Cross. In late August, the UN’s special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, visited. It was the 37th visit by a UN special envoy. Aung San Suu Kyi, the head of the opposition who has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, refused to meet with him to protest the lack of progress. In ill health, she is now refusing to see her doctor to drive home the same point and is reportedly refusing food. I was in the country at the time, and Gambari’s visit barely elicited a peep from the many Burmese I spoke with. According to Mark Farmaner, director of the Burma Campaign UK, the number of political prisoners has almost doubled since Gambari first visited two years ago and proclaimed the regime had a new page with the international community. “There is not a single reform or any progress to show for it,” said Farmaner. “Gambari’s visits are no longer about his own initiative now, it is all

about preparing the group for when Ban Ki-moon visits in December. Twenty years of talking about talking is over. We need to see real concrete progress.” The Myanmar government’s road map toward what it calls “disciplined democracy” is supported by China, Russia, and its neighbors in Southeast Asia. Elections have been set for 2010. In May, just after cyclone Nargis killed 134,000 of its citizens, the regime held a referendum on the new constitution, which passed with an approval rate of 92.4 percent. These results were largely denounced as a sham. GREEN GOLD The purpose of my latest trip was to report on the country’s booming jade industry, largely sustained by recently wealthy Chinese consumers. Jade plays a prominent role in Chinese culture and lore, and is often given as a present during engagement ceremonies. For the Beijing Olympics, gold, silver, and bronze medals were constructed with rings of jade on the back. Just before the start of the Beijing Olympics a report co-released by US and Thai-based activist groups the All Kachin Students andYouth Union and 8-8-08 for Burma called for a global ban on Burmese “blood jade.” The groups accused the jade mines of being “plagued with deplorable working conditions, an HIV/ AIDS epidemic, and environmental destruction.” One morning I went to the Ministry of Mines inYangon seeking official permission to travel to Hpakant, the main jade mining town in northern Kachin state. Greeted by half-dressed soldiers lounging idly in the front parking lot, 20 minutes of general confusion ensued until a ranking officer came by and told me the ministry had moved to Naypidaw, the new multi-billion dollar concrete bunker capital built in the middle of a jungle where Myanmar’s leadership moved suddenly and without warning in November, 2005. I then flew to Mandalay, in the middle of the country, and took a slow, rickety 24-hour train to the Myitkyina, the regional capital of Kachin state, where the Japanese and Americans fought fierce battles in the Second World War. From 11/08 CHRONOGRAM NEWS & POLITICS 27


there, together with two guides, I made a 16-hour journey to the small city of Hpakant on the back of a small, cheap Chinese motorcycle. Leaving around noon, we rode through the night across medieval landscapes—a tableau combining the worst of Goya and America’s Wild West—where abandoned wooden oxcarts and shuttered towns stared blankly, their vacant streets surrounded by jungle. The half-destroyed dirt roads were pockmarked with massive craters, many as much as two feet deep and filled with water from the seasonal rains. In some places, the mud was so thick and soupy, we had to walk our motorcycles. Ancient hulking trucks puttered along in the mud, some getting mired in the muck for days. At one collapsed bridge, people simply sat and waited while the army organized villagers to get chainsaws and start construction on another. Road signs along the way announced, like a cruel joke, “Government has arranged for road repair from each company.” Connected to the outside world through the one crumbling road, we arrived at dawn to a Hpakant full of Caterpillar backhoes and industrial-sized dump trucks.Taking two months to be transported, the large yellow Caterpillar machines float up the Irrawaddy River and then over the hills to reach Hpakant’s mining area, where they are put into use by the more than 450 private companies operating there. Joined by 100 joint ventures, the majority of which are owned by Burmese with Chinese heritage, all work to dig jade out of 3,000 separate mines. Hpakant itself is set among a series of hills that are slowly being denuded by the mining machinery. Entire mountaintops are severed only to be repositioned as piles elsewhere. Plant life bursts forth where it can, but most of the earth is an excavation site, undulating for miles into the distance.The Myanmar military maintains an invisible presence and the most prominent office in town belongs to the Kachin Independent Organization, an ethnic breakaway group that signed a cease-fire with the government in 1994 and now makes handsome profits off extortion rackets in Hpakant, as well as through the sale of opium, timber, and precious stones near their headquarters along the Myanmar-China border. In essence, the country runs like a mafia, from the languid teashops ofYangon to the remote jungle areas of Kachin state in Upper Burma, where Hpakant is located, and where much of the world’s jade comes from. It was there I met Sai Joseph, a gregarious and entrepreneurial family man who manages one midsize jade company. “There are only a few wealthy people in Myanmar,” he told me, “those who get in with the political people, the authorities who have power.” According to Joseph, an ethnic Shan living in Hpakant for only four years, business was very good. The road, he said, is kept bad on purpose in order to dissuade the “office workers” (i.e., government officials) from visiting too often. Once a scene from Dante’s Inferno—the few outsiders who visited sometimes described thousands upon thousands of half-naked men, women, and children clawing into the rock in search of jade—the mining is now a largely mechanical process executed by industrial backhoes and dump trucks. A few mines still employ human diggers, and earlier this year one such site collapsed, killing 20. A prime piece of real estate, it is best to be in a joint venture with the military government. But it is also possible to do business otherwise, paying bribes to the right officials. The week before President Bush left for Beijing he signed into law the Burma Jade Act, adding Myanmar’s jade and rubies to the long list of goods restricted for import. Jewelers such as Bulgari and Tiffany had already elected to stop using Myanmar stones in their products. Democracy advocates in exile hold out hope that China, which is Myanmar’s largest trading partner and its ally on the United Nations Security Council, will become the linchpin for changes in the regime. But most Burmese I spoke with on my two-week visit didn’t think China would ever yield to Western pleas for it to play such a role. Jade sellers in the marketplaces of Rangoon largely shrugged off the ban, saying that business from neighboring China, India, Thailand, Singapore, and the Arab Gulf states was booming. Business with China is in fact thriving, partly because tighter Western sanctions have made the junta more dependent on China for diplomatic support, as well as arms and consumer goods. SANCTIONS WELCOMED Since 1997, US sanctions on Myanmar such as the Burma Jade Act have only tightened. Largely as a result of lobby groups in Washington, the sanctions have helped to further isolate an already xenophobic and authoritarian junta, which 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 11/08

has been in power for most of the past 50 years and is the longest running military dictatorship in the world. “Sanctions are the only thing this government welcomes,” said Win Kyaw Oo, a former journalist who claims he lost his job by asking the wrong questions of the right people. “The government wants to isolate itself and the sanctions help them do this.” While India and China bring in foreign investment from their export-oriented manufacturing industries that employ large numbers of unskilled laborers who are slowly moving them up the value chain, Myanmar’s economy benefits primarily from its natural resources. Despite being awash in foreign currency, Myanmar’s government has yet to invest heavily in manufacturing. Instead, Myanmar’s big-ticket industries are based on extracting natural resources. Last year, sales of natural gas brought in about $3 billion, sales of jade an estimated $400 million. “[Myanmar] has got only one part of the equation—it’s got nothing to do with a broadly progressive economic program,” said economist Sean Turnell. “It’s about the extraction of valuable resources. The most prominent industries employ very few Burmese, so you don’t get those spillover effects.” Operating with a siege mentality, Myanmar’s generals have been on a shopping spree in search of fresh arms and defense systems from Russia and China. According to a former Western diplomat, the defense attachés of these two countries are some of the only who have frequent and unhindered access to Myanmar’s top leadership. With nearly half a million soldiers, it has one of the largest standing armies in the world—the 10th largest according to some estimates. Roughly a third of its annual budget is allocated to defense—more than twice the amount for health and education combined. And so power remains in the hands of those aligned with the ruling party. “Without having personal ties with high-ranking personnel in one way or another, no businesses could survive or expand,” explained Win Kyaw Oo. AWASH IN CORRUPTION Most major enterprises in Myanmar operate in deep secrecy. Transparency International once again listed Myanmar as one of the world’s most corrupt countries this year. If a businessman wants to build a hotel or export teak wood or import cars in Myanmar, the most efficient and effective way is to go through an army general who can open the right doors and provide a guarantee.The country’s newfound wealth has also opened opportunities for mid-ranking officers who run local and regional extortion rackets. The message to the people is clear: Send your children to the military academy, and with a little luck and the right connections they might strike it rich too. While the ruling elite would like to see the sanctions lifted, there is no urgency in the matter. According to a former Western diplomat, “They’d like to normalize relations if, for no other reason than to avoid being treated as a pariah nation. But they also don’t see normalized relations as absolutely necessary to their survival. Russia, China, India, and Burma’s ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations] enablers have shown them that sanctions, while they have interfered with their wealth-building, certainly haven’t weakened their regime.” “The very presence of these companies in Burma is their vote of confidence in the political stability of the regime,” said Matthew Smith, a project coordinator with the Thailand-based environmental and human rights organization EarthRights International (ERI). “By virtue of them being there, we can assume that the regime has successfully convinced these companies that nothing will compromise its grip on political power, and this is a conviction the regime doesn’t hesitate to demonstrate, as we’ve seen through its political imprisonments and violent treatment of dissent.” In September, ERI released a report detailing the investments of 69 Chinese multinationals invested in 90 hydropower, oil, natural gas, and mining projects, expressing concern at the secrecy and lack of transparency that shrouds most projects. Indeed, after having snuck into the jade mining area of Hpakant—which is restricted to foreigners—I was not there for more than a few hours before the authorities found, detained, and frog-marched me back to Yangon. A few days after being returned to Yangon, just past dawn, four plainclothes police officers woke me to say that my trip to Myanmar was now over and I was being deported. Driving me through the empty streets, and kind enough though to let me


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stop and take some departing snaps of the ancient, golden Swedagon Pagoda, they took me to the gleaming new international airport terminal, which has all the charm of a military hospital waiting room. With a firm pat on the back, an immigration official dressed smartly in whites returned my passport as I set foot onto a Thai Airways plane bound for Bangkok. DOUBLE STANDARD If Yangon and Hpakant are anything to go by, Myanmar’s people and economy will continue to grow and flourish. More tolerant, diverse and dynamic than America’s gas guzzling and glitz-filled ally Saudi Arabia, Myanmar has over 300 ethnic groups, and in the 1920s Yangon received more immigrants than New York. It has a highly literate population that places a premium on education. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has lumped Myanmar together with Belarus, Zimbabwe, and Iran as an “outpost of tyranny.” In many ways she’s right—it is the longest running military dictatorship in the world. While in many ways Myanmar is more open, it is also more democratically corrupt and egalitarian in its oppression. Among Myanmar’s youth, hip-hop music is more popular than rock, yet neither touch on the dominant social and political themes of the day. Instead, songs are usually about love and heartbreak—or getting rich. Even so, the military government locked up two popular rappers this year, Zayar Thaw and Yan Yan Chan, members of the popular group ACID. Zayar Thaw was also a member of the Internet-based, non-violent, youth-led activist group Generation Wave, which formed after last September’s crackdown, calling for a change in government. The group passed out pamphlets denouncing the May constitutional referendum and DVDs that showed the brutality used against the Buddhist monks last September. And there are small, subtle signs of creative expression as well. A coffee shop 30 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 11/08

menu in central Yangon displays pictures of the food on the right and blank pages on the left. People stick notes commenting on their favorite dishes, or about a date gone particularly well, and they correct each other’s spelling and comment upon comments, creating a Talmudic compendium to the sandwich and coffee selection. These sorts of things—banal hip-hop music, the “organic” coffee shop menu—wouldn’t be out of place either in China, Myanmar’s patron, which is also a one-party state without free and fair elections, where poverty inheres in the countryside while the cities develop, where political prisoners rot in jail and freedom of speech is curtailed. Yet America has full diplomatic and economic relations with China while shunning Burma. Myanmar’s people understand that America’s policy is “all stick, no carrot,” as one former Western diplomat put it. They understand that if the US and its close allies were serious about a full-court press on Myanmar’s aging generals, they would apply diplomatic pressure on Russia and China to stop selling weapons to the country. The US and its allies would ask neighboring countries to stop courting Myanmar for its natural gas. One rainy afternoon in Yangon I boarded a packed public bus and stood in the isle gazing over people’s heads into the flooded streets. The bus jerked violently and every few minutes the conductor’s assistant would leap off and shout out the names of coming destinations to the awaiting crowds with machine-gun like rapidity. More people climbed aboard. There was barely room to breathe, let alone stand. The cackling emanations from two small flat screen TVs that sounded like a cricket match were soon recognized as preprogrammed laugh tracks from “Mr. Bean.” Part of Myanmar’s tragedy is that its people place a high premium on education, yet their thirst for knowledge is being placated by pop music, fashion, and other momentarily satiating treats that only further imprison them.


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THE NEW KNOW NOTHINGS

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t was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, “Love thine enemy.” It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin. Sarah, I love you for having revealed unto the media the snarling heart of the beast that is the base (and the soul) of the Republican Party. Yes, you have the lipstick and the heels, not to mention the calves and bosoms, that send Republican men into swoons, but you have more; the pit-bull snarl that rouses your supporters to cry out, “Traitor!” against Obama, and “Kill him!” George Bush kept those folks in their kennels, ran as a “compassionate conservative,” and always masked his most heinous plans in double speak. Bush the Elder, Ronald Reagan, and even Richard Nixon never explicitly ran on hate and fear of “the other.” They used words that were coded enough that it was possible to pretend that they were true. But now the beast is loose. The Republican Party likes to remember Abraham Lincoln. And so they should. It’s a nice memory and brings credit to them. As does the accidental ascension of Teddy Roosevelt, environmentalist and basher of corporations. Back in the 1950s and ’60s, their party included such figures as Dwight Eisenhower—whose reputation grows ever better in retrospect—Nelson Rockefeller, who built New York’s state university system, and New York City mayor John Lindsey. But there is another strand that runs through their history. Back in the 1840s, there was a group called the Know Nothings. They were against immigrants and for real Americans. (“Real American” did not then, as it does not now, refer to Indians, it refers to descendants of English immigrants.) The movement was based on fear. Irish and German Catholics were going to take over. They would take orders from the Pope-in-Rome (one word). Their values were not “our values.” They drank. Their nunneries were virtual brothels and when the nuns had babies they practiced infanticide. The Know Nothings started with secret societies like the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, associated with William Poole, better known as Bill the Butcher, depicted by Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of NewYork. Their public political face was the American Republican Party, which became the Native American Party, and finally the American Party. Their platform was: Severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries. Restricting political office to “native-born” Americans. Mandating a wait of 21 years before an immigrant could gain citizenship. Restricting public school teaching to Protestants. Mandating daily Bible readings in public schools (from the Protestant version of the Bible). Restricting the sale of liquor. For a brief time, the American Party was wildly popular. In 1854 party membership swelled from 50,000 to over a million in a matter of months. It elected mayors in Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Chicago, and won the state legislature and governorship of Massachusetts.

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But there were other things going on: the Mexican War, slavery, secession, and the Civil War. The movement didn’t last long and was soon absorbed by the Republican Party. Fair is fair. Things morph and change. The Republican Party freed the slaves and tried to create an interracial democratic South during Reconstruction.The Democratic Party became the party of segregation in the South and the second home of the Klu Klux Klan. To be Republican is not to be necessarily narrowminded and in dread fear of foreigners. To be Democratic is not necessarily to be liberal, progressive and open-minded. But enough of being fair. The Great Depression demonstrated that the principles of the Republican Party were bankrupt. Like most of the country. The Democrats became the progressive party, representing social justice and programs that would protect capitalism from its own worst tendencies, moving toward a vision of a perfectable world. The Republicans became—in a very literal sense—a reactionary party, reacting against whatever the Democrats were doing, engaged in a 60-year-long war against the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson is the pivotal figure, both heroic and deeply tragic. The Democratic Party’s dirty public secret was that its political hegemony rested on the Solid South, still refusing to vote Republican out of hatred of Lincoln. Johnson knew that if he pushed through the Civil Rights Act his party would lose the South for a generation. Or more. His heroism is that he did anyway. No, he did not end the race issue, but he broke the back of segregation. The Republicans saw their opportunity. They pursued the Southern Strategy, wooing resentful whites with great success. But two things happened. Racism became less and less tenable. The generation that cherished it has grown old. That pillar of the Republican Party is crumbling. And then along came Bush-Cheney. Like Herbert Hoover, in the process of leading the country to bankruptcy they demonstrated that the Republican Party’s ideas were also bankrupt. They made government bigger, not smaller—and more intrusive, too. They didn’t oppose special interests, they were the special interests. They didn’t oppose lobbyists, they forced lobbyists to join their party at fiscal gunpoint. They were militaristic on parade, but could not run a war. They could not protect the country, nor punish the people who actually attacked us. Their policies demonstrated that free markets are a fiction, and real markets need more supervision than a grade-school playground. Along came John McCain. He looked out, from sea to shining sea, from the mountains, to the prairies, in search of voters who would vote for him. All he could find were the new Know Nothings. People who, frightened of the way things are changing, want to change back to that white, Protestant place it was, oh, sometime back before 1840. America Firsters. Anti-immigrant. Antiforeigner. Anti-elite. Anti-intelligence. Not quite capable of running as a true Know Nothing himself, he chose someone who could: Sarah Palin. She does it well, and in so doing, shows us, clearly and simply, who they really are.


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PLANT YOURSELF The Nature of Green Burials by Sharon Nichols Illustration by Carol Zaloom

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n early September, I conducted a random poll of Hudson Valley residents. It read: “What would you like to have done with your body at the time of your death?

A. Conventional burial (embalming, expensive casket, concrete vault) B. Cremation with embalming C. Cremation without embalming D. Sea burial in a metal casket E. Green burial (no embalming, pine/wicker/cardboard coffin or cloth shroud, burial in a natural or private cemetery) If your choice is not listed, it’s probably illegal.”

The survey results proved interesting, as some decided to have fun with it. One individual requested burial with “a granite sarcophagus, a gold-lapisturquoise-coral death mask, and three levels of gold outer sheathing”; another requested a backyard pyre. One friend wanted to be cremated and pressed into vinyl LPs, preferably records that he played on, that would be owned by “smokin’ nubile babes.” Another person said, “Just drag me outside and put me under one of the rocks,” and another desired to have his bones picked clean by birds: “string me up in a forest canopy that is frequented by corvids,” following his preferred method of death—tickling. Another said, “I want to be set adrift in a flaming Viking longboat”; one said “the idea of being mummified Egyptian-style appeals to my crafty side.” Finally, one individual opted for “non-embalmed cremation, preferably for the process to heat a hospital or run a generator at the same time,” or “an organic, cloth-shroud burial or birch bark casket in a thriving tree-filled park that children play in, not a stone-andsadness-filled graveyard that takes up common green space. Compost me!” Many who chose between the five legal options felt strongly about one of the choices, but some had difficulty deciding between two of them. Here’s how it summed up: Five percent requested a conventional burial, three percent wanted cremation with embalming, 39 percent wanted cremation without embalming, seven percent preferred sea burial, and a plurality, 46 percent, desired a green burial. (Keep in mind that this is Hudson Valley, and the people I encounter on a daily basis are probably more progressive and environmentally conscious than, say, the good citizens of Booger Holler, Georgia.)

THE INDUSTRY An in-depth analysis of the five options in my survey would take more than one magazine article. For the curious, there are several books on the market that reveal shocking information about the funeral industry and its methods. The 1963 bestseller, The American Way of Death (Simon and Shuster) by Jessica Mitford, is a scathing critique of the modern death care business. Stiff:The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003, W.W. Norton) by Mary Roach is morbid, fascinating, and hilarious at times. Indisputably the bible of any natural death care advocate is Grave Matters (2007, Scribner), by environmental journalist Mark Harris, which takes readers on a journey through the industry, beginning with the “tired, toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.” His detailed chapter on conventional preparation and embalming is enough to make you sick (many people are unaware that embalming is not required by law). Harris then presents chapters on more natural options: green cemeteries, sea burials, memorial “reef balls,” EXPL home funerals, and backyard burials. Desiring more local information on what the majority of those polled are interested in, I turned to funeral directors themselves. I cracked open the Yellow Pages to discover a whopping 80+ funeral homes listed in the Hudson Valley and spent a week phoning mortuaries at random. Though some didn’t know much about green burials, others had kept abreast of, or at least knew something about, the topic. However, most rarely perform green services outside the Jewish or Muslim faiths, simply because it is not requested. (Within those faiths, embalming is generally shunned as unnatural and they often have their own private cemeteries or special sections within public cemeteries.) I was perplexed. Nearly half the respondents to my survey desired a green burial, yet green burials are rarely performed. I surmised that the general populace believes that green burials are too complicated or non-existent. One person in my survey had said, “I’d love a green burial, but isn’t that illegal?”This made me wonder if the survey was too leading. If I had merely offered the two undetailed options of burial or cremation, most would probably have opted for cremation, not realizing that many people are first embalmed for viewing purposes prior to cremation, and thinking that “regular” burials are complicated, costly and, perhaps, environmentally unfriendly. Though several funeral directors interviewed were more than eager to whip out the GPL (or General Price List, aka a Chinese menu of products and 11/08 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 35


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services with big dollar signs attached), most of them ask first what the family and decedent would wish, so they can better guide on selection for a funeral service. “Are we burying or cremating?” is the first question they will ask. Many people believe that cremation is the greenest way to go because it doesn’t take up land space or use wood caskets. But how “green” is cremation, really? Modern-day crematoriums, which reduce a body to approximately five pounds of ash and bone fragments, run on natural gas, propane, or oil, and scour combustion gases before releasing them into the air. Normal operating temperature is between 1,400 and 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the process takes two to three hours to complete (one could drive nearly 5,000 miles on the equivalent energy). Carbon monoxide and soot comprise the primary emissions, but sulfur dioxide and trace metals may also be produced. Of all emissions, mercury from dental amalgams poses the biggest threat, as it is linked to brain and neurological damage. PUSHING UP THE DAISIES There are those who would like to start their own green cemeteries, but the process is difficult. A minimum of 10 acres in a rural area is required to start a public burial ground. As much of the Hudson Valley is located in the New York City watershed, green methods would possibly be met with investigation, followed by opposition. Until last year, only five natural, or “all-green,” burial grounds existed in the United States, the closest being Greensprings, in Newfield, just west of Ithaca. But the growing interest in green burials has now brought the natural cemetery tally up to 12. Greensprings (www.naturalburial.org), which is dedicated to environmental stewardship and renewal, is 100 acres of hilltop meadows bounded by two 4,000-acre forest preserves on either side; it will forever remain a natural burial site. The administrators request simple biodegradable caskets or burial shrouds, non-embalmed bodies, and natural stone grave markers that are flush with the earth and/or commemorative plantings of native trees or shrubs on the grave sites. Walking the grounds, you’d never know that Greensprings is a cemetery, as there are no standing tombstones, closely mowed lawns, or pesticides and/or fertilizers used. Another green option is backyard burial, but the process is a bit tricky. To create a domestic burial ground, it must be in a rural area and a certain distance from water, neighboring residences, utility poles, and the like, and meet the exact regulations dictated by the county and town, which normally start with a land survey, registration with the county or town clerk, a fund to maintain the grounds after your own death, and approval from the zoning board and board of health. The benefits of having family buried in your own yard are obvious, but one huge drawback would be the added difficulty of selling property with a cemetery on it, knowing that new owners could declare the cemetery abandoned and move the bodies elsewhere. Another natural burial option is an established cemetery with a green section. With the help of the undertakers I interviewed, I was able to locate a number of nonsectarian cemeteries that will bury a simple pine box (available at funeral homes for around $150, but most likely not on their GPL) without a concrete grave liner or vault (mandated in most cemeteries, as the eventual collapse of a coffin requires “backfill” dirt maintenance as the ground sinks). A few of these local cemeteries are Montrepose (Kingston), St. Peter’s (Poughkeepsie), Tongore (Olivebridge), St. Remy (Rifton), Wiltwyck (Kingston), St. Mary’s (Kingston), Cedar Hill (Newburgh), and Woodlawn (New Windsor). Parish-owned cemeteries may have some restrictions; others may charge an additional fee for backfill. A green burial through a licensed mortician (required by New York State law) would need to take place quicker than a conventional one. Without embalming, services would happen within two to three days, as most homes don’t offer refrigeration. Funeral director licenses are governed by the health department, so the rapid breakdown of body tissues can be a problem. One local individual is currently studying for a funeral director’s license for the purpose of conducting all green funerals and burials in the future—Alyssa Kime, director of the Hudson Valley Green Burial Association. “I’m very passionate about the cause,” says Kime. “Right now, it’s everything I live, eat, sleep, and breathe.” The student of mortuary science grew up in a funereal setting, her mother being a restorative artist. “Growing up in the environment of a mortician cer-

tainly doesn’t make me shy away from it,” she says, “but it also wasn’t something that made me want to jump into it. It was after watching [the HBO series] ‘Six Feet Under’ and reading Grave Matters when I realized that we needed to have a better future for our children and our children’s children, and that we couldn’t continue along the lines that we presently are. There have to be other options, and I feel the best option is green burials. It’s a necessity for the future of our planet. To sit here and continually think that we can do things to the environment without a moral obligation to future generations is just wrong. Green burials need to be accessible to everyone. That’s why I’m choosing to go to school and make a difference.” New to the local environmental scene, the not-for-profit, grass-roots Hudson Valley Green Burial Association is an information and advocacy group formed in the winter of 2007. Endorsed by the Green Burial Council in California, HVGBA’s current mission is to stay updated on the issue of green burials, as well as aspects of the modern-day funeral industry, and to provide answers wherever requested. As demands for green services increase, Kime hopes to open an all-green funeral home in the Hudson Valley. According to the organization, although a green send-off has been the way for most of mankind’s history, it is now commonplace to drain the veins and puncture the organs, pump the body full of chemicals, wire the jaw shut, plug up the anus with a plastic screw, place the body in a $5,000 casket, lower it into a concrete vault, and cover it in chemically fertilized turf. The HVGBA website (www.myspace.com/nygreenburials) includes a shocking list of natural resources and chemicals buried in modern-day cemeteries in the US annually: 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, 90,272 tons of steel caskets, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze caskets, 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete vaults, 14,000 tons of steel vaults and 30 million board feet of hardwood (including tropical wood) caskets. They claim that with the wood that has been buried on a typical 10-acre cemetery plot, 40 houses could be constructed. A benefit concert for Hudson Valley Green Burial Association will be held on November 15 at 7pm at the Living Seed Yoga Center in New Paltz. Performing acts will include singer-songwriter Meryl Joan Lammers,The Virginia Wolves, Quitzow, Venture Lift, and other special guests. A minimum donation of $10 is requested, and additional donations will be gratefully received. For more information, visit www.myspace.com/nygreenburials.

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Gallery Exhibitions October 18-November 16, 2008

space 314 Wall Street, Kingston

NOVEMBER EVENTS

Opening Reception: October18, 5-7pm

Anita Hart Balter Gallery

Audrey Chibbaro Memtex

Estrella Trio with jazz pianist Peggy Stern November 9 3 pm Peggy Stern piano, Lew Scott bass, Pete O’brien drums, and surprise guests. This renowned local latin-jazz pianist has recorded more than 10 CDs. Her performances are celebrated worldwide. Cost: $10

Gillette Gallery

James St. Clair Harbor Paintings

“Luminous lyricism...the piano more caressed than played...with subtlety, nuance, warmth, effortless swing, beauty of line, and sophistication of harmony and dynamics”—Sydney Morning Herald

One-day Oil Painting Workshop November 8 11 am - 2 pm Ever wish you could paint but don’t know where to begin? Or perhaps you are frustrated with your progress? Come join artist Deirdre Dowling, an experienced teacher, for an enjoyable day of painting. Please call (845) 440-6094 to register and for details. Basic materials can be purchased on the day of event. Number of participants limited. Cost: $50

Eats, Reads & Leaves November 14 7 pm Celebrate Chronogram’s Literary Supplement. Featuring readings and performances by: John Darnton, author of Black & White and Dead All Over, Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine, perpetrators of Poor, On Tour, & Over 54, Jana Martin, author of Russian Lover & Other Stories, Gretchen Primack, author of The Slow Creaking of Planets, Gioia Timpanelli, author of What Makes a Child Lucky. Hosted by Nina Shengold, author of Clearcut. Admission is free. Free Hors d’ouevers. Cash bar. Sponsored by Keegan Ales and The Golden Notebook.

9 Pianos November 15 7 pm Filmmaker Gillian Farrell screens her film “9 Pianos,” a documentary about our local piano dealer(adamspiano.com) donating and delivering pianos to New Orleans residents who lost pianos due to Katrina. (See the trailer to this film on youtube.com; search “9 Pianos”) $10 suggested donation at the door benefits the artists.

You’ll find the perfect place for your next event at Chronogram Space. Whether you’re planning a corporate function, social gathering, concert, fundraiser, press conference or holiday party, Chronogram Space offers a myriad of possibilities. Call Ruth Samuels at (845) 334-8600 x107 for more information on space rental.

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ARTS & CULTURE CHRONOGRAM

They Don’t Speak Huma Bhabha wood, acrylic paint, clay, styrofoam, wire 10” x 19” x 29.5” 2007

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Portfolio Huma Bhabha

Huma Bhabha was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and came to the United States in the mid-1980s to attend art school. A graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, she has spent the last 15 years developing a unique sculptural vocabulary, cobbling together humble materials such as Styrofoam, found wood, and clay to create structures that oscillate between references to the body and to architecture. An avid student of art history from the ancient world to today, Bhaba evokes through her works elements ranging from archetypal Mesopotamian monuments to the existential figures of Giacommetti. A resident of Poughkeepsie since 2002, she has exhibited her work around the world, most recently in shows at the New Museum in New York and at the 2008 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. She was awarded the 2008 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Museum of Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut, which currently hosts a major exhibition of her new work. She is also included in “Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection,” which is on view through January 4 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. —Beth E. Wilson

HUMA BHABHA ON HER WORK Scale and process

Sense(s) of place(s)

I’ve been working on sculpture for the past 15 years, most of them in New York. It’s always been figurative sculpture, sort of abstracted, mutated forms. About four or five years ago I started using clay, and that opened up a lot of doors for me. It starts out by building the sculpture, making sure that it is strong enough and it can stand, won’t fall apart. There are a lot of formal concerns within the building. I’m also interested in finding new ways of adding to the language of sculpture, like using new materials, and figuring out ways to attach the materials. I like the idea of stacking, then tying things, using the armature on top, and leaving things exposed so you see through into it. That brings up issues of scale.

I’ve been doing some drawings that deal with landscape. I find the idea of the landscape within the sculpture very interesting. I grew up in Karachi, a desert city on the Arabian Sea. It’s a place that seems like it’s under construction all the time, and it’s spread out on these flat, dry plains. People build big, expensive houses, in these sprawling neighborhoods. But then they leave piles of construction garbage outside, or they run out of money so there’s just a shell of a building that’s left. My experience of New York was a huge influence on the work, on how I look at landscape. In New York, the way they build is so temporary—constantly redoing, never preserving things, building using crappy materials that won’t last, with a complete disregard for anything durable. It’s a certain aesthetic, and between the two [places] it’s certainly informed my work.

The work has always been what I can make. I don’t really work with huge figures, not yet. The work stays close to the size of the human body. It goes a little bit bigger or smaller, but it’s pretty much what we are. Sometimes you can experience the presence of a tiny, little thing that is so small, but it makes you feel it’s much bigger. That’s obviously of interest to me.

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Up here in the Hudson Valley it’s very beautiful. I find that the more beautiful it gets, the further you have to stay away from it [in the work], or else you have to go down that path of the Hudson River School painters, Cole and the rest, which really isn’t something I’m interested in doing.


Above:“...And in the track of a hundred thousand years, out of the heart of dust, Hope sprang again, like greenness.”, wood, acrylic paint, clay, styrofoam, wire, leaves petals, ashes, sand, iron, rust, plastic, 168” x 144” x 73”, 2007. Opposite: Bourne Darkly, clay, wire, wood, Styrofoam, metal, acrylic paint, 68” x 14” in diameter, 2008; untitled, styrofoam, clay, wire, acrylic paint, 65” x 23” x 20”, 2006.

Cinema and psychology

This mortal coil

I like film because directors have to figure out ways of making their fantasy approachable, making them speak to another person. I feel there’s a very definite cinematic aspect of my work, in the same way. It’s about opening up an emotional landscape for the viewer.

The idea of death has been out there for a while, so I don’t see it as that unusual. It’s interesting to deal with that, and the idea of this is what’s left. These are very homemade monuments, they’re not grand. That’s also something I like—the materials are humble. It’s not marble. I do like bronze, and I’ve done a few bronze pieces, but that again is something beyond the materials I usually work with.

You do live in a world, and there’s a lot going on, maybe too much going on that you can’t ignore. Obviously there are other interests that you have. In the process of making the work, the psychological stuff going on in your head, or the fact that you’re interested in what is happening in the world seeps into the work. That happens more unconsciously than consciously. I think that’s why there is a pattern that emerges. It’s important to address certain issues, but not in a very obvious way that becomes boring, or that makes you turn people away. If the viewer can come up with the associations—it makes me think of this, or of that—that’s great.

I am hopeful for the future. As an artist, you think that hopefully you can change things. The work remains as something to look at, you make things that can help the viewer transcend, take them to another place. But I’m not delusional—there’s so much evil in the world. There’s this idea that you can profit from death. In just the past few years, there’s been so much death, you can’t get away from it. Sure, I’m making these things, I’m not unaware of how they look. But that isn’t my original intention, to make everybody fall down and cry [because of the “post-apocalyptic” appearance of the work]. But I like the work, for my own reasons—then you just see what the reaction is.

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CHRIS KENDALL

Lucid Dreaming BY BETH E. WILSON

KNOWING GLANCES There are known knowns; there are things we know we know.We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. —Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld This unexpected flight into epistemology took place during the run-up to the latest Iraq war in 2002, as part of the smoke-and-mirrors play with the truth by the Bush administration to convince us that Saddam Hussein actually possessed WMDs. After all, what is scarier than “unknown unknowns”—isn’t the old saw true about preferring the devil you know over the one that you don’t know? The trouble here isn’t so much the willful misleading of the public by the government (which is, of course, still a big issue); but, rather, the much larger reality that it highlights. Given the global echo chamber of the mass media that we now live in, how is it possible to really know (or to believe, which amounts to much the same thing) that anything that’s being presented to us is true? Is a representation of evidence the same thing as “truth”? This crucial and very basic question propels the current exhibition on view at the Hessel Museum at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. “The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art” is the first major exhibition produced as part of a much larger, very ambitious three-year research project mounted by Maria Lind, director of the graduate program at CCS. Assembling work by more than 70 artists, including photographs from the Hessel Collection, installations, sculptures, paintings, and a number of intriguing film/video works, the show opens a window onto the sometimes rather intense discussion within the contemporary art world regarding the problematic nature of documentary practice and its relationship to both reality and aesthetics. A two-channel video installation by Omer Fast is emblematic of the fundamental issues being explored here. Spielberg’s List presents a series of interviews 42 LUCID DREAMING CHRONOGRAM 11/08

with Poles who served as extras during the filming of Schindler’s List, recounting their experiences. At times the talking-head images are doubled, shown on both screens; at others, the person is paired with blurry shots from the movie, or of locations in modern-day Krakow. As the extras (who played Jews interred in the concentration camps) tell their stories, a rather surreal slippage takes place, as it becomes difficult to separate the experiences re-created for Spielberg’s film from what sounds like direct-witness testimony of the original events of the Holocaust. This slippage is amplified by the subtitles at times, when slightly different translations of the spoken statements are simultaneously offered on the two screens. The deep irony of Fast’s video can be found in its stark contrast with Spielberg’s own documentary project, launched as a result of his work on the film, in which he is assembling an archive of videotaped first-hand witness testimonies. While such an enterprise is of course laudable, it suppresses certain inconvenient questions—how believable are the witnesses, especially after so much time has elapsed? How reliable are their memories, especially if the witness was only a child at the time of the war? The brilliance of Fast’s video is in the way that it provides a clear, questioning counterpoint to what otherwise might be taken as simple, direct truth—while simultaneously pointing out that the only experience of the Holocaust that the vast majority of us will ever have takes place through the mediation of films like Schindler’s List. While there are some examples of more traditional media like painting and sculpture (most notably Emily Jacir’s 45-part series of paintings documenting e-mails in her Inbox, and Michael Rakowitz’s The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, which reconstructs a number of plundered treasures from the Iraq National Museum, using middle eastern packaging and newspapers), the vast majority of work included here falls into the category of “lens-based” media. In the center gallery of the museum, Lind has hung an enormous number of photographs drawn from the collection, highlighting work by artists


CHRIS KENDALL ABOVE: LOCKERBIE WITNESS BOX, NATHAN COLEY, 2003, ROSEWOOD LAMINATES, ALUMINUM, STEEL , CARPET, PLYWOOD, ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS AND CHAIR; (ON WALL) LOCKERBIE EVIDENCE, NATHAN COLEY, 2003, PENCIL ON PAPER OPPOSITE: HARUN FAROCKI, WAR AT A DISTANCE, 2003, SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO, 54 MINUTES

with various degrees of interest in documentary, from the 1960s through what seems like last week. Displayed in enormous, largely gridded clusters splayed wall-to-wall around the room, it presents a veritable tsunami of photographic practice. With this exhibition strategy, Lind places responsibility for making sense of it all squarely on the viewer, which is fine if you already know the basic gist of the artists involved. But given such a range, from Valie Export to Martha Rosler, from Nan Goldin to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and from Christian Boltanski to Vanessa Beecroft, anyone who is not a fairly avid follower of the contemporary art scene will feel overwhelmed, I’m afraid. But perhaps that’s part of the point—aren’t we all overwhelmed now, by world events, the obsessive-compulsive coverage of the election, gigantic political issues like the bailout of Wall Street, and all those lesser stories running across the creeper at the bottom of the CNN screen? At the end of the day, we’re all implicated in what we know, what we know we don’t know, and (scariest of all) those damned unknown unknowns. One 16mm film in the exhibition summarizes this beautifully. London-based artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer collaborated on a silent film titled Flash in the Metropolitan in 2006. Visiting the museum after hours, they took their camera on a noctural voyage through the collections, plunging the viewer into prolonged passages of complete darkness, punctuated by brief glimpses of the artwork in display cases, illuminated by gentle bursts of light that reveal the face on a pre-Columbian terra cotta, or some finely done bit of Mesopotamian metalwork in flashes that last a second or two. Sometimes the flash repeats, allowing a second or third glance at the object; at other times, the camera moves restlessly through the inky, unknowing darkness, presenting a new object with each flash of light. With no identifiable pattern of exposure, the film becomes a pure expression of living in the moment—bounded on all sides by the realization that we are wrapped largely in ignorance, never to know exactly what might be lurking in all that darkness.

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galleries & museums

Winter Trees, April Warren, gouache on watercolor paper, 10” x 10”, 2008

museums & galleries

“Points and Spaces,” an exhibition of April Warren’s work, will be on display through November 14 at Bywater Bistro, 419 Main Street, Rosendale. (845) 658-3210.

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415 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4346.

161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“The Luminous Landscape.” Gary Fifer, Arnold Levine, Robert Trondsen. Through January 3. “Olga Poloukhine, Iconographer- Into the Depths.” November 22-January 3. Opening Saturday, November 22, 5pm-8pm.

“Richichi: I N V O L U T I O N.” November 8-December 7. Opening Saturday, November 8, 6pm-9pm.

OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER, GHENT (518) 392-4568.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CONNECTICUT (203) 438-4519. “Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist.” Comprehensive exhibition of photographs. Through November 1. “Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition.” Through February 8. “Karen Davie: Symptomania.” Through February 8. “Lars Fisk: Trashbags.” Through February 15. “Paul Ramirez Jonas: Abracadabra I Create as I Speak.” Through November 30. “Peggy Prehiem: Little Black Book.” Through February 8. “Video A: Miguel Soares.” Through December 7.

ARTROOM GALLERY AND STUDIO

BCB ART GALLERY 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Around Here.” 9 local landscapes by Sasha Chermayeff. Through November 30. “Black, White and Blue.” Works by Bart Gulley. Through November 30.

THE BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS AND ESTUARIES 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Top to Bottom: The Hudson River.” Photographs by Ted Kawalerski. Through March 1.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “The New Hudson River School.” Harry Orlyk, Craig Johns, Leigh Palmer, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams and Dawn Breeze. Through November 23.

“Clench 2008.” Oliver Kruse. Through November 30. “Stepping Stones (Pots and Pans).” Jean Shin and Brian Ripel. Through November 30. “Twitchers and Cheaters.” Nina Katchadourian. Through November 30.

FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-2199. “Behind Bars.” Photographs by Andrew Lichtenstein. Through January 4.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection.” Through January 4. “Revealed Anew: Selections from the Permanent.” November 7-January 4. Opening Thursday, November 13, 6pm-12am.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES

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

196 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 486-4592.

“The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art.” Through February 1.

“Unnatural History.” Sculptural installations, drawings and photographs by Accord artist Michael Asbill. Through November 9.

ARTS UPSTAIRS

COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

GALERIE BMG

4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON (518) 828-4181 EXT 5513.

12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027.

“Great & Small.” November 15-December 1. Opening Saturday, November 15, 6pm-9:30pm. “Lora Shelley Solo Exhibit.” Through November 16.

“Biodiversity: Captured in Photographs Contest.” November 24-January 22. Opening Thursday, December 4, 7pm-12am.

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DANBURY RAILROAD MUSEUM

97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331.

120 WHITE STREET, DANBURY, CONNECTICUT (203) 778-8337.

GALLERY 345

“The Railroad Legacy.” Works by John Fleming Gould. Through December 31.

“Close.” Paintings by Mark Moffett and photographs by Wendy Holmes Noyes. November 8-30. Opening Saturday, November 8, 5pm-8pm.

384 BINGHAM ROAD, MARLBORO 236-3049. “Views and Visions.” Works by Barbara Masterson and Laura Martinez-Bianco. Through November 2.

“Sustenance and Excess.” Exhibition of work by Bard senior art students. November 1-29. Opening Saturday, November 1, 5pm-8pm.

BACKSTAGE STUDIO PRODUCTIONS 323 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 338-8700. “Art x 2.” Evelyne Pouget (oil and oil pastels) and Scott Cronin (abstract geometric ink & pencil). November 1-29. Opening Saturday, November 1, 7pm.

DUCK POND GALLERY

“Within Shadows.” Works by Susan Burnstine. Through December 1. Opening Saturday, November 8, 5pm-7pm.

345 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 392-9620.

128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580.

THE GALLERY AT R & F

“River & the Rondout.” Watercolors by Claudia Engel. November 1-29. Opening Saturday, November 1, 5pm-8pm.

84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Denise Orzo: Fabrication vs. Verse.” Through November 22.

EMERSON RESORT & SPA

GARDINER LIBRARY

BARRETT ART CENTER

5340 ROUTE 28, MOUNT TREMPER 688-2828.

33 FARMERS TURNPIKE, GARDINER (845) 255-1255.

55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

“Material Things.” 2nd Annual Manhattan Quilters Guild group exhibition. Through November 30.

“Works by Pattie Eakin.” Through December 15. Opening Saturday, November 1, 3pm-5pm.

“New Directions ‘08.” Juried group show. Through November 22.

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galleries & museums GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON 424-3960. “Harbor Paintings.” James St. Clair. Through November 16. “Memtex.” Audrey Chibbaro. Through November 16.

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GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “GCCA Applauds Dot Chast.” Solo exhibition by GCCA artist member Dot Chast. Through November 8. “R.S.V.P. 2008.” Artists invited to exhibit by the GCCA Visual Arts Committee. Through November 8. “Salon Show 2008.” Annual exhibition of small art works by GCCA member artists. November 15-January 10. Opening Saturday, November 15, 5pm-7pm.

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HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Between the River and the Sky.” Works by Vincent Pomilio. Through November 1.

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“Between Stations.” Sculptures by Richard Dupont. Through December 21. “Rootless Algas.” Grimanesa Amoros. Through December 21. “Origins.” Use of primal materials such as clay, fiber, wood, aluminum, stone, and soil as mediums. Through July 26.

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“Western Visions.” Photo images by Tom Doyle, paintings by Paul Gould and guest artists. Through November 23.

HYDE PARK LIBRARY ANNEX 2 MAIN STREET, HYDE PARK, 229-7791.

THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK

“Hyde Park Visual History Project.” Through November 1.

THE IO GALLERY 131 KENT ROAD SOUTH, CORNWALL BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT (860) 672-6631.

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“Circus Freaks.” Curiosities, oddities and mysteries of art as far as the eye can see. Through November 23.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Paintings by Mark Tambella.” November 6-30. Opening Saturday, November 8, 6pm-8pm. “Paintings by Gabriel Phipps.” Through November 2. © Toni

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HUNTER VILLAGE SQUARE, HUNTER (518) 263-2060. “Marianne Neuber: Pinhole Photography.” Through November 23. “West of the Hudson.” Group show. Through November 23.

KENT CABOOSE GALLERY 11 RAILROAD STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 248-8800. “Blessed Be.” Holiday group art exhibit. November 22-December 21. Opening Saturday, November 22, 1pm-5pm “By Land & Sea.” Featuring Paul Arsenault maritime painter. Through November 16.

KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. “Paintings by Peter Barrett.” November 1-30. Opening Saturday, November 1, 5pm-7pm.

LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “Reflective Moments.” Photographs by Susan Zimet. Through November 12.

LIFEBRIDGE SANCTURARY 333 MOUNTAIN ROAD, ROSENDALE 338-6418. “Leaf Line Circle.” Jessica Baker. Through December 5.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Nature’s Patterns.” Works by Hardie Trusdale. Through December 3.

MATT CALARDO PHOTOGRAPHY 418 MCKINSTRY, GARDINER 255-9405. “Andrew Hunter Fine Furniture & Sculpture Show and Sale.” Through November 9.

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MILLBROOK GALLERY AND ANTIQUES 3297 FRANKLIN AVENUE, MILLBROOK 677-6699. “Works by Corso de Palenzuela.� November 15-18. Opening Saturday, November 15, 5pm-8pm.

MILLBROOK VINEYARDS & WINERY 26 WING ROAD, MILLBROOK 800-662-. “Art in the Loft: Fall 2008.� Through November 16.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Fiber of Being.� Solo exhibit of paintings and photographs by Vera Kaplan. November 20-December 31. Opening Friday, November 21, 5:30pm-8pm.

MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Faculty Works.� November 20-December 19. Opening Thursday, November 20, 7pm-12am.

PARK ROW GALLERY 2 PARK ROW, CHATHAM (518) 392-4800. “Painting the Invisible: Patterns in Nature.� New work by Raffaele D’Onofrio. Through November 29. Opening Saturday, November 8, 3pm-5pm.

PEARL GALLERY 3572 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-0888. “Translucent Porcelain Objects by Deborah Goldman.� November 2-December 13. Opening Sunday, November 2, 3pm-4pm.

PEARLDADDY GALLERY 183 MAIN STREET, BEACON 765-0169.

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“Lucie Tatarova: Fractal People.� Soft sculpture, print, and textile creations from Prague. Through December 7.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Finding Inner Harmony Meditations on Circles.� Works by Jennie Chien. Through November 3.

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.� Through December 14. “Made By Hand: Drawings, Paintings, Photographs and Prints from the Byrdcliffe Art Colony.� Through December 14.

STONE WINDOW GALLERY 17 MAIN STREET, ACCORD 626-4932. “Glass Mosaics and Photographs by Bob Roher.� Through November 14.

TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Artist Visions from Far & Near.� Works by Richard F. Lisle. Through November 9.

UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “The Art of Giving.� Holiday show. Through January 4.

UPSTATE ARTISTS GUILD GALLERY 247 LARK STREET, ALBANY (518) 426-3501. “The Futura Show.� Adam Furgang. November 7-28. Opening Friday, November 7, 6pm-9pm.

VARGA GALLERY 130 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-4005. “3 of Each.� Three works by a variety of artists in all studies. Through November 16.

VERDIGRIS ART +TEA 13 SOUTH THIRD STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-3139. “Nature Lust.� Works by photographer B. Docktor. Through November 23.

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12 OLD FORGE ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-2329. “Self Revealed.� Works by Vita. November 8-December 7.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “A Confession of Color.� Carrie Jacobson and George Hayes. November 1-29. Opening Saturday, November 8, 5pm-8pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Cynthia Dill: Stone on Stone.� November 8-30. Opening Saturday, November 8, 4pm-6pm

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Music

FIONN REILLY

BY PETER AARON

Vindication Stomp Kelleigh McKenzie

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lump-thump. Klump-thump. Black boots on a flat board. Klumpthump. A twang. There’s a twang. Wiry plucks on a banjo’s neck. A darkness in the air. Dark words in a sweet voice. Words that warn against the dangers of too much drink. Words with a playful edge, a wry bite: “You’re mine, taste my fire / and your walls come tumbling down / You’re fine, I like you better / when you’re crawling on the ground.” The boots, the voice, the banjo, and the words belong to Kelleigh McKenzie, who’s playing tonight to a packed, rapt room at New Paltz’s Unison arts

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center. The song, “Gin,” is off McKenzie’s outstanding recent debut, Chances (2008, Zatchubilly Music). There’s a bit of a quirky story behind it. “I like to think of inanimate objects as having personalities,” says the svelte and striking singer-songwriter. “And the different kinds of alcohol each have their own personality. For instance, whisky is mean. Beer is lazy, slothful. Tequila, of course, is crazy. And gin is sneaky.” Indeed, the song’s sinewy, snaky main riff is a perfect match for the imagery of its cunning lyric. “Gin” is a catchy, clever masterpiece of form meeting function.


In a similar stroke of functional form, McKenzie grew up in a town whose very name mandates the eventual exodus of its youth: Boring, Oregon, an unincorporated logging community whose population topped out at 12,851 in the 2000 Census. “[Boring is] about half way between Portland and Mount Hood,” she says, adding, not exactly surprisingly, “There’s not a lot going on there.” Before her own exodus occurred, however, in addition to learning guitar and absorbing her father’s taste for jazz and the sounds of her older sister’s classic rock LPs, McKenzie inherited her Southern-born grandmother’s fondness for country music—though the latter genre is one to which she was initially resistant. “[Her grandmother] used to listen to the Carter Family and watch ‘Hee Haw’ on TV all the time,” remembers the singer. “But as a kid I just thought it was goofy. It wasn’t ’til later on that I totally fell in love with the classic country stuff, and I’m thankful that she exposed me to it. I always say I got the hillbilly-music gene from grandma.” McKenzie came east to Pittsburgh to study acting at Carnegie Mellon University, where she found the curriculum edifying but grueling. “It was a very cut-throat, conservative program, designed to break down and rebuild the techniques of the students,” she explains. “So it really crushed a lot of kids, emotionally. But it ended up really helping to give me confidence and presence as a performer.” And, oddly, it was her time in the school’s acting program that also led to her picking up the five-string banjo. “We were doing a production of [the June Havoc-penned] Marathon ’33, which is about the dance marathons during the depression, like the one in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,” McKenzie recalls. “My character had to play a stringed instrument very poorly in one scene, and since I didn’t know how to play the banjo at the time that’s the instrument I chose; I’d also loved Steve Martin when I was younger, and he plays the banjo. Anyway, I ended up learning to play and even picked up on [traditional] claw hammer style from a banjo player I met after college. He also turned me on to Pete Seeger, who’s one of my biggest heroes, and I got even more deeply into folk music.” As an aspiring actress, McKenzie spent the ’90s in New York, where, in addition to working the requisite odd and temp jobs, she understudied for and was cast in several Off-Broadway productions and a few “really awful, lo-fi cable TV sitcoms.” While soon growing frustrated with acting as a medium, she continued to write songs and play music for her own amusement. “With acting, I felt like I couldn’t say what I really wanted to say,” she recalls. “Plus the work is so inconsistent. When I was creating songs I was getting a rush of excitement that I wasn’t getting from acting.” It was during her later New York period, however, that McKenzie’s musical aspirations would be sidelined by an unforeseen—and still unexplained— tragedy. In 1998, she suddenly developed a mysterious illness that affected her motor skills and resulted in bouts of crippling pain to her extremities, leaving her unable to hold or play an instrument. Her doctors were totally baffled, and the disease remains undiagnosed to this day. “At first, we thought it was some kind of repetitive motion injury, since I was doing a lot of office temp jobs where I was typing at the computer for long periods,” McKenzie says. “But it didn’t match up to the characteristics of those types of illnesses, and nothing we tried worked. [The doctors] were never able to figure out what it was or how to treat it, which was heartbreaking because I was just starting to get serious about my music.” Finally, after nearly 10 physically and emotionally torturous years, McKenzie found she was able to control and divert the pain; she learned how to recognize the signs that precede its appearance and how to stave it off by drawing on her college lessons in the Alexander Technique, a system used by performers to improve breathing and movement and decrease stage fright and that is also used to alleviate pain. “I describe it has having a ‘relationship’ with pain,” says McKenzie. “I could backslide at any time if I don’t stay aware. But you learn to listen to your body and to accept and live with the limitations. It sends you deeper inward as an artist. And sometimes for me the physical pain is not as hard as the pain of not being able to play.” In 2001 McKenzie and her husband Jeff Michne made the move from Manhat-

tan to Rosendale, where she immersed herself in further developing her material. In addition to finding another calling as a teacher at Music Together, the acclaimed syndicated program that introduces younger children to music, she began performing at local open mikes and singer-songwriter nights; one welcoming outlet was the long-running monthly John Street Jam in Saugerties, which is curated by Steve and Terri Massardo. “[McKenzie’s] songs are accessible without ever becoming predictable,” says Steve Massardo. “Sometimes you find yourself wondering how she came up with that chord or that curious interval, but it’s never done just to be quirky—it just happens to be Kelleigh’s way of expressing herself. She even gets her feet involved with a percussive porch board.” The porch board, or stomp box, as McKenzie calls it, is a low, flat, hollow wooden platform made of wood on which the singer stands when she performs. But her thumping in place on the mini dais isn’t only designed to bring an addictive rhythm and rustic vibe to her songs, it also assists McKenzie in dealing with her episodic affliction. “Being in motion helps to break the pain cycle, so using the stomp box really helps with that,” she says. “I’m a big Chris Whitley fan, and he used a stomp box, too. So does Ray Bonneville; John Lee Hooker used one. It’s fun for me, and it adds another dimension to the shows.” Released earlier this year, Chances, which was produced by Michne (he also plays guitar and percussion on the album), naturally reflects much of McKenzie’s own inner trials. But it also evokes the struggles seen in the lives of others, toils made apparent in her boldly minimal take of the Beatles’ anthem of loneliness, “Eleanor Rigby,” as well as in the supremely moving ballad “Underground.” “‘Underground’ was inspired by a piece I heard on the NPR show ‘51 Percent’ while I was driving one day,” says McKenzie. “It was a story about Prajwala, an organization set up by Dr. Sunitha Krishnan in India to combat human trafficking and child prostitution and to rescue and rehabilitate the victims. There was an interview with this little girl who had been rescued from one of the brothels there, she’d had this horrible life as a sexual slave almost from the time she was born. But somehow she still had hope; there wasn’t any bitterness in the way she spoke or in anything she said. It hit me so hard that I just lost it, completely broke down. I actually had to pull off the road. And when I got home the song just poured out.” But not all of the songs on Chances are so serious in tone. There’s the ringingly optimistic “O Mother,” the whimsical “The Bus Song,” even “Roark,” a loving and lighthearted ode to McKenzie’s so-named Australian shepherd. Since its release the disc has attracted much radio play as well as the enthusiasm of the local and international press. But perhaps what’s resonated most deeply with McKenzie as an artist has been the praise the album has brought from her peers, one of whom is banjo king Tony Trischka. “[Chances] is a work of art with eclectic and delicious production values,” says Trischka. “The kudos could go on and on, but just know that Kelleigh is a major talent, deserving of much wider recognition.” And that recognition seems surely imminent, thanks both to McKenzie’s busy performing schedule and being selected as a winning artist in last month’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, which is sponsored by NPR’s popular roots music show “Mountain Stage”; in another segment of the same competition, “Gin” tied for best song—with, appropriately enough, Rose Polenzani’s “You Were Drunk and I Was There.” (McKenzie has been invited to appear on “Mountain Stage” in January.) Her enigmatic illness may have thrown McKenzie a potentially devastating curveball, but it’s one she’s certainly knocked right out of the park. “It almost feels like living some kind of weird, archetypal myth or something,” she says, smirking and shaking her head in disbelief. “Like I was ‘smote down’ and humbled for some reason. But the process of dealing with it and finding my way back [to making music] has also given me some amazing gifts.” Kelleigh McKenzie will perform with Patty Larkin at the Towne Crier in Pawling on November 14 and at the Northeast Region Folk Alliance Conference’s Tricentric Showcase in Kerhonkson on November 15. www.kelleighmckenzie.com.

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

CLOCKWORK MERCURY November 7. The duo of poet/vocalist/bassist Eric Mingus and saxophonist Catherine Sikora, known as Clockwork Mercury combines the powerful insights of Mingus with the free playing of Sikora. Critics and fans alike compare the duo’s righteous sound to the more political songs of Marvin Gaye or Gil Scott-Heron. Sikora, originally from Ireland, played in England and Germany before moving to New York, where she studied improvisation with George Garzone. The pair makes a rare local foray to the new Muddy Cup/Inquiring Minds bookstore and java joint. (For a full live music and open jam/mike schedule, check www.myspace.com/muddycupsaugerties.) 8pm. Free. Saugerties. (845) 246-5775; www.clockworkmercury.com.

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November 15. Kid rocker and Chronogram contributor Robert Burke Warren brings a lot to the sandbox. After playing Buddy Holly in London’s West End, Warren brought his act stateside and honed it for his nieces and nephews (hence “Uncle Rock”). After many successful kid gigs at Utopia studios, the Uncle moves across the parking lot to the Bearsville Theater to celebrate the release of his new video, Number 1 DVD. Do we smell a number two in the works? Noon. $8 adults, $6 kids. Woodstock. (845) 679-4406; www.unclerock.com.

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November 15. The Ritz Theater, in cooperation with La Bella Guitar Strings and the Bardavon, continue its Tom Humphrey Guitar Series in honor of the famed Hudson Valley-based luthier who passed away earlier this year. The concerts, which benefit the restoration of the historic Ritz, were initiated by Humphrey himself just two months before his death. Humphrey’s designs and building techniques revolutionized the classical guitar and legend has it he created his best-known model, the Millennium, after the idea came to him in a dream. To raise the roof, musical legend Pete Seeger (who just released a new CD, At 89, on Appleseed Records) will be joined by his grandson, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, on guitar, banjo, harmonica, and vocals. All tickets include a post-concert reception with the artists, thanks to co-sponsorship from the Safe Harbor housing and arts foundation. 8pm. $25. Newburgh. (845) 562-6940; www.safe-harbors.org.

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BENEFIT CONCERT FOR HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE November 23. For the last few years, the sublime jazz singer Terry Blaine has raised money for the music department at Hudson Valley Hospice with an annual fundraising concert. For 2007’s benefit, folk legend Tom Chapin and his band joined Blaine and her fellow vocalist Bar Scott and the response was so fantastic that Chapin has again agreed to be a featured artist this year. This year’s show moves to a larger venue at Bard College, Olin Hall, so the artists can spread their good work around even more. 3pm. $15,/$10. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 473-2273 ext. 1109; www.terryblaine.com.

THE WAILERS November 28. Any opportunity to see the Wailers, especially with as many original members as possible, is a Jah blessing. The Chance Theater is especially I-rie for reggae, with its classically adorned stage and fantastic acoustics. Taking the lead on vocals tonight is Junior Murvin, the crooner of the classic Lee Perry-produced hit “Police and Thieves,” a song that takes on new meaning in these trying times. Wailer alums Al Anderson and Earl Lindo round out the front line, with a back line consisting of past and present musicians (calling Aston “Family Man” Barrett!). 8pm. $25. Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-1966; www.myspace.com/originalwailers. TERRY BLAINE PLAYS THE HUDSON VALLEY HOSPICE BENEFIT AT BARD COLLEGE NOVEMBER 23.


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SETTING SUN CHILDREN OF THE WILD (YOUNG LOVE RECORDS, 2008)

T is the kind of record one might expect of the HudThis son Valley. Music that sucks the grime from the grind of tthe nearby piss-stained and crumbling Gotham streets, oonly to return to the soft landings of pine-needled w woods and babbling brook perspectives. Songs that are iintelligent but raw, introspective but reaching. Children of ttheWild manages all of the above and even digs up some hhope in the sadness of them thar hills—kinda like the bband name itself. But these tunes are not mired in the m muck of hard luck and emotion. Four in particular are destined to stick in your happy head for days, and not in an annoying way: “What We Wanted,” “No Devil Me No More,” “How Long,” and “Happy Joy.” (Well, maybe the last one will: It is hard not to have the lyrical refrain “Happy, happy! Joy, joy!” swirling circus-like in your brain without some degree of mania.) But indie/folk/pop doesn’t get much better than this, and the rustic, anti-slick production only enhances the homebrewed flavor. The close-miked sound of leader Gary Levitt’s voice lends itself to preciousness, but he’s nuanced and sincere enough in his lyrics and delivery so as not to veer into hollow attention-seeking. Erica Quitzow’s vocals and cello and violin are the beautiful glue that binds the rest of the sounds, allowing the record to reach truly epiphanic heights. Check Setting Sun’s busy touring schedule, which takes the band to Europe this month. www.settingsun.cc. —Jason Broome

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I Hudson Valley quartet the Rhodes’ debut CD, ModIf eern Sounds of Northern Towns, was programmed with LP surface noise, you would not be faulted for thinkiing it was a lost collection of circa 1965 Merseybbeat gems. Unlike most bands who wear their influeences on their sleeve, however, the Rhodes sound aas if they are one-upping their Liverpudlian heroes w with particularly swooping melodies, offbeat chord cchanges, and unpredictable, rich harmonies. The 10 ttunes—which clock in at just under 32 minutes— i ddebut b t th amountt tto a bbracing thatt sounds remarkably fresh, crackling with energy and boasting top-notch tunesmithery by guitarist Derek Daunicht and drummer David LaViola. Although, like their British Invasion antecedents, this band sounds weaned on the tight harmonies of the Everly Brothers, the pulse of Motown, and the mischievous ’tude of Chuck Berry, there is a modern, feral rawness that comes across on Modern Sounds. “When Your Baby’s Gone” and “Shakedown” are full-on Cavern Club rave-ups, while the snaky, minor key “Sweet Shady Lady” and the mournful “Oh Angie” are delivered as only romantic 20-somethings can do. All four members sing with impressive chops and no song is without a seamless harmony (often two), even jokey ersatz country ditty “Joe, Johnny, or Jack.” Props go to producer Jon Stern, who knows songwriting like this doesn’t require additional bells and whistles.The fact that the Rhodes—all born in the ’80s—have put together such a committed, infectious addition to the power-pop canon, free of sampling, pitch correction, and other modern conveniences, is a marvel. www.myspace.com/therhodesmusic. —Robert Burke Warren

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Candidate must demonstrate ability to manage budgets and staff, our new Visitors Center and its gallery exhibition programming, cafĂŠ and gift shop. The candidate will also be responsible for board development, fundraising, and public relations. The candidate should be an articulate spokesperson for The Fields, able to communicate with its various audiences, including professionals of the international art world. A background in contemporary art with emphasis on sculpture in all its current manifestations is necessary. Curatorial experience, while a plus, is not required. Director may or may not also curate, depending on candidates qualifications, and will work with and coordinate guest curators. Applicant must live in close proximity to the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY or be willing to relocate. Position is either part time with a salary range of 25K-30K, or full time with a salary range of 45K-50K. To apply: Please submit a letter of interest including salary history, CV, and a list of at least three references to Ruth Adams, Administrative Director, Omi International Arts Center, 59 Letter S Road, Ghent, NY 12075. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. For more about our programs, please visit our web site at www.artomi.org.


THE 2008 CHRONOGRAM

LITERARY SUPPLEMENT EDITED BY MIKHAIL HOROWITZ & NINA SHENGOLD

JESSE KUHN

INCLUDING WORK BY

RONALD BAATZ, LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM, JOHN DARNTON, FRANK D. GILROY ANNE GORRICK, JONATHAN GOULD, ROBERT KELLY, MIMI LIPSON, MICHAEL PERKINS, GRETCHEN PRIMACK

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The Minivan by Mimi Lipson illustrations by Jesse Kuhn

A long time ago the late, great Grace Paley, who graced (sorry) the Hudson Valley with her fierce, openhearted, brilliant presence, told me, “You’re a real writer.” Without a clue as to what she meant, I stored her comment in my shirt pocket for years, pulling it out, creased and faded, whenever I was truly stumped or tangled up in a net of prose. Recently I had a head-smack of a moment when I realized that what she meant was reflecting a real effort: a struggle, a wish, an ambition, and a clear love for language in all its elastic and rigid forms. So I now convey her words to the writers whose stories I had the privilege to read for this contest. The stories were written by real writers: they had art and intention and desire written all over them. The paradox of fiction is that if it doesn’t feel real, it doesn’t feel like fiction. The winning story, “The Minivan,” by Mimi Lipson, was so real it made me laugh. On one level it is a very real-feeling portrait of a very real-seeming character who has a real kind of obsession with all the wrong, but real, things in life — such as a Ford Aerostar. Now there was a car, half clunker, half beauty, that had real written all over it (I had one, so I know). The details are real. The tools. The facial expressions. I can see it all. But on another level the story is about how the heart attaches and detaches; about how the heart itself has to be realistic. We go through this all the time, don’t we? And that is what I loved about it. Congrats. Really. —Jana Martin, 2008 Fiction Contest judge Jana Martin is the author of Russian Lover and Other Stories, a critically acclaimed collection published last year. She lives and works in Ulster County and is in the throes of a novel.

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met Isaac when he was doing some work at my house. I think he asked me out because he admired my fiberglass spaghetti lamp. He was foxy, punk rock, bratty in his banana curls and calculator watch. Mostly, he was hilarious! On our first date, at a bar in South Philly, he told me all about his plan to poison the crackheads in his neighborhood by scattering cyanidefilled vials on the sidewalk; about shooting pigeons by the bucketful in the warehouse he used to live in; he had me in stitches with his megalomaniacal fantasies about turning a certain abandoned factory into his fortress of solitude, where he would build his own personal Road Warrior Batmobile. Of course this was before I knew he wasn’t kidding about any of it. We hoisted mug after mug of lager that night, thrilled to have found one another. We groped behind a dumpster. We groped in a dumpster. Isaac showed me his photo album a few weeks into our affair. I thought it was amazing. With the overconfidence of a new lover, I deemed it a distillation of his very essence. Here was baby Isaac, standing unsteadily in a hallway, gripping a bench for support. Here was Isaac as a slack-lipped high school metalhead, eyes stoned and affectless beneath a frizzy mullet. Here he was perched high up on a roof truss in the warehouse, aiming a BB gun at the camera. And here with his old dog, Death Ray, lost in an acrimonious break-up. There were random snapshots: a brutalist municipal building; an ornate Victorian window grate; a boat in a weed-choked lot photographed through a cyclone fence, christened “The A-HOLE.” There were pages and pages of photos of floors— red pine, tongue-and-groove oak, parquet—that he’d installed or refinished or repaired over the years. Occasionally these would show someone in a corner holding a shop vac or a bucket, but Isaac didn’t identify them as he leafed through the album with me. He stopped at a picture of a skinny blonde girl in the passenger seat of a van. I thought he was going to tell me about an ex girlfriend (maybe the one who’d kept Death Ray), but instead he began waxing nostalgic about the van she was 54 LITERARY SUPPLEMENT CHRONOGRAM 11/08

sitting in. It was an Aerostar, he said, with plush velour seats and AC and power everything, and it was the nicest car he’d ever had. This began a disquisition on the subject of minivans, which Isaac felt were the perfect work vehicles. They got better gas mileage than a truck, you could fit a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood in the back, and you could sit in a nice civilized captain’s chair up front with a cup-holder and everything. (He liked his creature comforts.) He told me he had drawn plans for a prototype of the modern minivan when he was 10 years old, and he therefore felt that in some small measure he had invented it. But Isaac had no minivan now, and indeed, no driver’s license. An epileptic, he had crashed the Aerostar into the side of a church during a grand mal seizure. He’d been taken to the ER, where a doctor put a medical suspension on his driver’s license, and he couldn’t get it back until he could prove he hadn’t had a seizure for six months. This would require appointments with neurologists. Also blood tests, various costly scans and imagings, who knew what else; and furthermore, he wasn’t remotely seizure-free. He had hangover seizures, stress-related seizures, strobe light/trance music/op art seizures; he had justfor-the-hell-of-it seizures. “Everyone should have a seizure,” he told me. “It’s intense.” He hadn’t seen a neurologist since they sprung him from the hospital. He couldn’t. He had no health insurance. And rather than apply for Medicaid, he’d done what came naturally: He had slid effortlessly, numbly, fatalistically off the grid. Somehow, he was maintaining a floor-sanding business on his bicycle. A floor sander, in case you’ve never seen one, is a huge thing. Isaac’s weighed probably 200 lbs.Then there’s the buffer, the edger, the milk crates full of sandpaper, the five gallon buckets of polyurethane—all this had to be transported to and from the job. Astonishingly, he was able to get the various housewives who engaged his services to shuttle him and his equipment in their SUVs and drive him to Home Depot, or to Diamond Tool, or Bell Flooring, often making several trips a day due to his chronic disorganization. He wasn’t apologetic or


even particularly nice about it—he was basically a petulant, sarcastic teenager about it—and yet these housewives loved him. They loved him with all the exasperation and indulgence that their inner soccer moms possessed. I saw it with my own eyes. They clucked disapprovingly at his diatribes about, say, apocalyptic forms of population control, but still they made him nice lunches and sewed buttons on his shirts and paid him in cash because he didn’t have a bank account. His invisible charm worked on me, too. The clichés pile up as I try to explain: He made me laugh. I could be myself around him. I’d never met anyone like him—gimlet-eyed and crazy in equal measure. Ultimately, though, he was just so naked and guileless. He concealed none of his emotions, positive or negative; everything he felt seemed to register on the surface of his skin. Within a month he had moved into my house. Summer came. We rode our bikes all over town. Isaac showed me his cherished places: the decommissioned banks under the Frankford El; the impromptu, oddly homey arrangements of sofas and chairs and milk crates and industrial spools where junkies congregated in vacant lots; the boarded-up buildings that he’d pillaged or planned to pillage for light fixtures, doorknobs and other treasures. At some point in our travels, he showed me a mid-’80s Dodge Caravan, sun-dulled and putty-colored, beached on a Fishtown sidewalk in the shade of an ailanthus tree. It had a for-sale sign in the back window. “I’m gonna buy that minivan,” he said, and he wrote the phone number down in his sketchbook. I probably laughed if I reacted at all.

don’t even have a fucking driver’s license. “Fuck that. This is Philadelphia. I’m telling you—it’s the Wild West. Only chumps do it the hard way. Plus, if I’d had the minivan yesterday, I could have bought this Danelectro. It’s totally adorable—right up your alley. You should come over here and see it.” “And you’re drunk.” “Aw man, just come over or leave me alone,” he said, and hung up. I got on my bike and headed over to Larry’s. Did I think I was going to talk Isaac into leaving the minivan at Larry’s? Or did I just feel like I was missing a good party? Who knows. I’d been with Isaac only a few months now, and already I was tired of being the heavy. The ride was calming. I felt my foul mood slipping away as I crossed the Schuylkill and coasted down Baltimore Avenue, sweetly dappled in the summer twilight; past Clark Park, from whose virid depths came the first cool suspirations of the evening. And by the time I got to Larry’s I wasn’t angry anymore. Someone handed me a cold bottle of beer. I found Isaac down in the basement, happily flailing away on the Danelectro. I drank my beer and threw my bike in the minivan, and we headed home. Isaac leaned his seat back and dangled one arm out the window, his profile bobbing to some inner soundtrack. I put my feet up on the dashboard, rolled down the window, and let the night air wash over me as we drove past Clark Park and up Baltimore Ave. This felt good. But the transmission was definitely slipping a little.

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forgot all about it. Then one afternoon I came home early to find Isaac sitting on our stoop, shit-faced drunk. Having nowhere to be that day, he’d gotten bored and polished off a bottle of vodka I had in the freezer. Thus emboldened, he’d called the phone number in his sketchbook and told the presumably delighted owner of the Caravan, “If you can get it to South Philly I’ll give you $400 for it.” Maybe half an hour later, the minivan pulled up to the curb in a cloud of whitish smoke and rattled to a stop. I took a look and went back in the house. After a while, he staggered inside and found me sitting at the kitchen table. “That’s one happy sonofabitch that got your $400,” I said. “Yeah? Well, how am I supposed to get money for something better if I can’t even drive my tools around? Are you going to buy me an Aerostar? No? That’s what I thought. Everyone else has a fucking minivan but me.” I started asking all the obvious questions. How was he going to register it? How could he just drive it around without a license? Had he even looked at the engine? But this was not the point. Isaac was sick of not having a minivan, and he was sick of thinking about it, so he’d called the guy, and now he had a minivan, and not only was I not happy for him, I was giving him crap about it. And as for his driver’s license, as far as he was concerned he was so thoroughly fucked that there was no point in thinking about that either. “Fine,” I said, “Don’t call me when you get pulled over for driving around without a license plate.” Isaac let out a long, quarrelsome fart as he contemplated this, then disappeared into the basement and re-emerged with a roll of duct tape and some scissors. He grabbed a box of Cheerios off the table, dumped its contents in the sink and cut a license plate-sized rectangle out of the cardboard. I followed him outside to see what he would do next. He looked up the street, wrote three letters on the piece of cardboard with a sharpie, then looked down the other way and added four numbers. He taped the cardboard onto the Caravan’s license plate holder and got in. The engine turned over after several tries, and the minivan lurched to the end of the block and vanished around the corner. After a few hours of furious paging, I heard from him. He was at his friend Larry’s house. It sounded like there was a party going on. “Hey, you’ll never guess what happened,” he said. (My heart dropped.) “You know that junk shop at Frankford and York? Larry just bought a Silvertone Danelectro there—you know, one of those Sears guitars? The case has a little amp in it. He’s letting me play it.” “You drove that thing to West Philly? Without a plate?” “I have a plate. I make my own plates!” “Isaac, I’ll say it again. You don’t have an inspection sticker, insurance, you

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saac was out in front of the house every day working on the Caravan and I was often out there keeping him company. Frank, a mechanic who ran a garage across the street, took a liking to Isaac and gave him a hydraulic floor jack and let him borrow tools. I would set up a lawn chair and read magazines while Isaac crawled around under the van, and occasionally I’d hold down some greasy flange while Isaac listened to the engine, or sit in the van and tell him if a gauge moved or a light went on. Isaac removed the transmission and had it rebuilt, which cost $650. The brakes were leaking fluid, so he replaced the master cylinder, then the wheel cylinders, and finally the brake lines. Most of the exhaust was shot—the muffler, it turned out, was hanging by a couple of straps, unconnected to anything—and Isaac was afraid the explosive noise was attracting too much attention, so he replaced the pipe all the way up to the manifold. I stopped keeping track of how much money Isaac had poured into the Caravan. Still, he seemed pleased with it. “Look how tight the steering is,” he’d say, giving the wheel a jaunty wiggle. Sometimes I’d run into Frank and he’d ask, “How’s Isaac making out with that minivan?” and then he’d shake his head sadly. The inevitable happened: Isaac got pulled over and the Caravan was impounded. I thought that might be the end of the road, but Isaac was determined to get it back, so we spent the next day in traffic court. When Isaac’s name was called, he stood before the judge—a black woman in her fifties with a maroon bob—while an official-looking group conferred around the bench in a low murmur for several minutes. The bailiff told Isaac to remove his baseball cap and continued to watch him suspiciously as the murmuring at the bench continued. Isaac put his cap back on and was told again to remove it. Finally, the judge addressed him: “Are you Isaac Winchester?” “Yes.” “And is this your car? A…” She consulted a sheet of paper in front of her. “A 1983 Dodge Caravan?” “Can I say something?” “Is this your car, Mr. Winchester?” “I was born in this country, and I work for a living,” he said, giving me a thumbs-up. The judge ignored this. “Mr. Winchester, do you own a 1983 Dodge Caravan? Yes or no?” “Yes, that’s my minivan. How do I get it back? How much is the fine?” “And do you also own a 1992 Ford LTD?” “I wish!” 11/08 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 55


“This… this Dodge Caravan is your only vehicle?” “Yes.” “And is your license plate number MAB1557?” “Well, I made that up,” said Isaac. “You made it up? I don’t understand.” Isaac effected a tone of nearly exhausted patience. “I went outside, I looked at one plate and wrote down three letters, then I looked at another plate and wrote down four numbers.” There was another conference at the bench, and after a moment the judge addressed Isaac again. “This license plate number you made up belongs to an individual in Harrisburg, a person who owns a 1992 LTD that has accumulated $1,840 in parking violations from the City of Harrisburg. I’m not sure what to do with you.You appear to have invented a new kind of violation for which there is no statute.” Isaac straightened a bit and puffed out his chest. “What are we going to do with you, Mr. Winchester?” It took several tries, but Isaac eventually explained his situation to the judge. In the end, it seemed that the city would only release the Caravan to a licensed owner with proof of registration and insurance, and there was nothing the judge could or would do about it. Isaac would not be responsible for the parking tickets, but he would have to pay an $80 impound fee and $260 in fines for driving without a license, registration, or insurance. There would also be a six-month suspension on his driver’s license, beginning at such time as his medical suspension had been removed. He was advised to “grow up” and dismissed. It was impossible not to feel sorry for Isaac. For weeks now, he had done nothing but come home from sanding floors all day to work on the Caravan, sometimes long after dark. It had taken on the nature of an undeserved affliction. Every dollar he’d earned had gone into it; and now, because he had no health insurance—and with his epilepsy he was virtually uninsurable— his right to own it had been revoked indefinitely. Maybe I hadn’t filed a tax return in years, but this, this was what it truly looked like to fall off the grid, I thought. I became obsessed with the idea of returning Isaac to official personhood. I made appointments at the welfare office and filled out Medicare forms for him, but more than anything I dedicated myself to morale-boosting pep talks. To him it was all pointless, impossible. He’d had a seizure a few weeks earlier after a boisterous night of drinking with Larry, so even assuming he saw a neurologist tomorrow, that would only be the beginning of the six seizure-free months he needed to resolve his medical suspension; and after that he’d have to wait out the other six months. Just thinking about it made him feel like he was going to have a seizure. But I persisted; and because I felt he was doing his best, I did something that might have been a mistake. I bought the Caravan from Isaac for a dollar and registered and insured it in my name. Even more foolishly, I let him drive it, until he was pulled over for blowing a red light (racking up an additional three months on his suspension), and the minivan got impounded again. After that, I began shuttling him and his floor-sanding equipment around and taking him to Home Depot, or Bell Flooring, or Diamond Tool. Isaac was becoming a full-time job. And, unlike the housewives, I was also on duty weekends, nights, and holidays, driving that hideous Caravan around with teeth clenched, hoping no essential engine parts would fall off, and thinking wistfully about the bicycle days. By August, we badly needed to get out of town; and since we were still pretending the Caravan wasn’t a disaster, we headed north to visit my brother in Boston. We got a late start after a long Saturday—I’d filled in as Isaac’s helper on a 1,000-square-foot buff-and-coat job at Society Hill Towers—and sometime after midnight, a mile or two east of the Tappan Zee bridge, we had a blowout. I pulled the minivan into a rest area, only to discover that we were traveling without a spare tire. And of course, it had begun to rain; and the thought of setting out into the Westchester County darkness to find a phone was too awful, and for that matter, useless. We made a nest on some drop 56 LITERARY SUPPLEMENT CHRONOGRAM 11/08

cloths on the back and fell into an exhausted sleep. When I woke up, Isaac was sitting in the wet grass beyond the parking area, staring without expression at the flat tire. We walked back along the highway to a gas station and hung around for a while, despondent, not looking at each other. Miraculously, a mid-’80s Dodge Caravan pulled up, and a large, incongruously well-dressed man got out to pump gas. He was, it seemed, on his way to pick up his grandmother and take her to church. After some haggling, then begging, he sold us a bald spare for $75, and we humped it back up the highway and got going again. Just outside Framingham, the engine overheated and blew a radiator hose. We left the van in an AutoZone parking lot on Route 9 and called my brother. As soon as we got to Sam’s apartment in Jamaica Plain, Isaac started chug-alugging beer until he passed out and had a seizure in his sleep. After a brief, stupefied visit, we replaced the radiator hose and took off down 95 South. At the Mansfield town line, I noticed the temperature gauge creeping up again. A mile later, it was in the red—the hose again?—and I pulled onto the s h o u l d e r. When Isaac lifted the hood, a steaming yellow-green geyser er upted from the radiator, sending us running for cover. From a safe vantage point in the ditch, we watched as the geyser ebbed and the loud hiss resolved into a series of distinct metallic groans and pops. I didn’t have to ask. I knew what I’d just witnessed: the engine had overheated definitively and fatally, cracking the block. “Fuckshitfuckingfuckfuckfuckfuck,” said Isaac finally. “I fucking give up. This cocksucking van has kicked my ass for the last time. Let’s just go.” “We can’t just leave the goddamn van here, Isaac. They’ll trace the VIN to me.” We argued about it until Isaac agreed to go into town and get a tow truck. He was quiet all the way to the garage, where the Caravan was pronounced dead on arrival. The field around the garage was dotted with parts cars and piles of used tires.While we were getting the bad news, I noticed a familiar-looking grill poking out from the alley between the garage and rusty white trailer. I hoped Isaac hadn’t seen it, but when I glanced at him, I saw that it was too late. He interrupted the mechanic: “Hey, is that an Aerostar?” “Sure is. Runs, too. Just needs a brake job and a new transmission.” “No!” I said, “No, I will not register that car for you! I swear to you, I will do everything in my power to help you get your license back, but I can’t go through this again.” “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” Isaac said. “That’s not a fucking Caravan. That’s an Aerostar!” “Please don’t ask me to do this, Isaac.” Isaac went dead-eyed. “I figured you wouldn’t help me. Why would anyone help me? I’m just some asshole without a car. Fuck me.” •••

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n the end, I headed back up north to my brother’s place, and Isaac headed south. And when I got back to South Philly and turned the corner onto my block, I saw him in front of the house loading the last of his things into a Ford Explorer with a Germantown Friends School sticker on the rear window. I ducked back around the corner and waited until he got into the passenger side and the Ford pulled away from the curb. Inside, I found a milk crate on the kitchen table. He’d left three cut-glass doorknob sets, a wood carving he’d made—an exquisite little black dog—and a commemorative Space Shuttle Challenger nightlight. There was also a note: Dear Kitty, Here is some stuff that you can have. Also left you that industrial roller track in the basement, which I can’t take because my dad is a freak and won’t let me put anything in his garage. Okay, I’ll see you around I hope. Thank you, Kitty. Love, Isaac


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Tech Perdu Salutes, Odes, and Paeans to Pre-Digital Technology Consider the dinosaur. Although it has not made the fern-bar scene or feasted on its fellow colossi since the late Cretaceous, it remains vital to the world’s imagination. As every kid, palaeontologist, and movie producer knows, there is something inherently lovable and enthralling about these vanished Gargantuas, as well as something that evokes pathos—when we contemplate their lost, lumbering grace, their great dignity and gravity, we often have the nagging sense that what has replaced them has not necessarily been for the better.

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am one of those eccentrics—curmudgeon class— who refuses to stand and salute when the anthem of Progress is sung. I love old books, old typewriters, old bourbon, old friends, and my old lady. I also love rotary phones, and that confessional, that citadel of privacy, the telephone booth. When touch-tone dialing appeared in the ’70s, I refused to give up my suddenly retro black Rotary Model 500 phone. I had it rigged so that I could continue to stick my index finger in a series of holes, turn the dial, hear it spring back and send the interrupted pulses that would wake up a friend halfway around the world. It was good enough for Ma Bell from 1919 to the 1970s, and it’s still good enough for me. But I have a touch-tone as a back-up, so I can talk to voice-recognition robots. What I really miss is the telephone booth. I’ve thought of installing one in my basement, but I don’t think I can afford the wooden model with folding doors and the little seat that I really want. I spent a good part of my young life in those little closets, sitting and talking and pleading with publishers, agents, and lovers. There was one in the Old Reliable Bar on East Third Street, the Lower East Side, which served as an office for a roster of people in the ’60s that included some of the most luminous names in modern poetry. Bell placed the first outdoor booth in 1905, but it was far from an instant hit. In those days people valued their privacy, and did not want passing strangers to overhear their business. They must have been another species. Today we clamor to put our private lives on display. The omnipresent cell phone is the antithesis of the phone booth, and it is impossible to escape cellular logorrhea, that running-off-at-the-mouth-at-the-topof-your-voice blather that announces to all and sundry they’re in the vicinity of a dolt. God bless the Google Generation for switching their indecent exposures to the silent text messaging of a Twitter. For a taste of telephonic paradise, try Foster’s Coach House Tavern in Rhinebeck, which boasts a booth with a rotary phone. Perhaps when Dylan Thomas had dinner there in the 1950s, he closed the folding doors behind him and placed a call to his home in Laugharne, Wales. —Michael Perkins Michael Perkins, of Glenford, is the longtime host of theWoodstock Library Forum and the author of numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir, including Burn, Dark Games, and Ceremonies of the Flesh.

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ven as I depress the shutter of my Canon Sure Shot, my heart longs for the more formal photographs of the past. My family albums begin with a leather volume, labeled ALBUM 1–RUSSIA. The album itself is aged—its maroon covers flake like old, burnt skin. But within, my Russian Jewish ancestors reappear in sharp resolution and forever fixed in their dignified postures. All these images are photographed against sets—Victorian potted palms, swagged drapery, 58 LITERARY SUPPLEMENT CHRONOGRAM 11/08

sculptures by Richmond Johnston

So, too, for the dinosaurs of communications technology. The digital gizmos that have made them obsolete have nothing of their charm, nobility, or romantic allure—at least not according to the seven writers assembled here, who offer bittersweet encomiums to the typewriter, the rotary phone and the phonebooth, letter-press printing, black-andwhite photographs, 45rpm records, telexes and telegrams, and writing and receiving letters via good, old-fashioned snail mail. Read on, and be here then. —The Eds.

always the accoutrements of wealth. The women wear beautiful long dresses with high collars and their hair is upswept or tucked under plumed bonnets. One picture is so perfect that I can detect the lace patterns on my great aunt’s blouse and the engraving on her husband’s golden pocket watch. Their expressions are luminous, solemn, as if they knew they inhabited the past, even then in their present. On a recent trip to Russia, I had a live encounter with the more common photographic experience, now global. It was 1am in St. Petersburg, and I was enjoying the midnight magic of a canal boat—the twin twinkle of the stars above and below, reflected in the water. Then I became distracted by flashing rectangles of light all around me—the teenaged tourists were taking their self portraits. Why here, why now? It spoiled the pristine night boat ride. Privately, I had long been thinking that digital photography had led to wretched excess; now it seemed plain wretched. How can the digital images of today match the dignity and value of those composed portraits? Now, too often, the ease of snapping “shots” catches the subjects open-mouthed, perhaps even munching chips. Of course I also have precious and beautiful digital photographs—my daughters as babies—and I can appreciate color prints when the picture is artful. But I cherish the old sepia images and the studied black-and-white photographs that followed. I would never, of course, part with that Sure Shot and its ability to transfer. But sometimes, as incoming and outgoing photo files clog my e-mail and life seems a download, I yearn for the poses of the past, even the silliness of some stagy shots—my grandmother, in her tropical suits,

posed before painted palm trees, with the printed legend “Miami Beach.” Even the formats were fun—the mini telescopes to view the Miami tableaus, the rick-racked edges of all my Asbury Park Beach vacation “booklets,” the black star “holders” that spangle the albums of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. The very process—buying film, having it developed—slowed the headlong rush into the future. I am happy when my daughter tells me, her finger poised on the trigger, that there is a sepia setting. —Laura Shaine Cunningham Laura Shaine Cunningham is a playwright and journalist as well as the author of the memoir, Sleeping Arrangements, the current choice for One Book, One New Paltz.

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doubt that many people mourned at the end of the 20th century when the telex died. A lot of people didn’t know what telexes were or had only a vague sense that they were used to send cablegrams or telegrams, which were killed off by e-mail. In January 2006, Western Union discontinued telegrams. It’s hard to imagine the number of scrapbooks in which all those hastily pasted messages—about money, marriage, love, and death—still reside. For some, for businessmen, airline pilots, and journalists bouncing around what used to be called “the Third World,” telexes were essential lifelines to the home office, clunky, upright machines that communicated with one another. Imagine two overgrown typewriters, one here and the other, say, in Nevada. You sit down and bang out a message on a keyboard, dial up a number and send it off. The machine falls silent. You wait and stare at it. After a decent interval, which could last hours (if Nevada is out to lunch), the machine suddenly lurches


to life, a tiny bulb lights up the paper roll, and the keys start striking it magically all on their own. Presto, Nevada answering. Of course in real life it never seemed to work that smoothly. The keyboard you found yourself sitting at might be French or, even worse, Portuguese, with a bewildering configuration for accent marks. Or you forgot to hit the special key to transmit numerals, which led to gobbledygook and could bring trouble (an Associated Press correspondent, Michael Goldsmith, was personally throttled and jailed for a month by Central African Emperor Bokassa, who thought his indecipherable mistakes were code). Or the telex could only be worked by an operator who found it hard to rouse himself from slumber unless a certain number of dollars (remember, this was a long time ago) crossed into his palm. Usually reporters pounded out their stories on a portable typewriter, then retyped it onto a five-hole paper tape that was then fed into the telex. Once you got a connection, you typed WRU (who are you?), which generated an automatic “answer back”.Then you pushed a button and the tape flew through like a panicky snake. That saved money. One foreign correspondent carried his own tiny paper punch with him, and whenever he pulled it out I was reminded of that scene in M*A*S*H when Elliot Gould pulled out a bottle of olives for the martinis. Old hands like to tell stories about the times they were so close to deadline on a big story they had to file live over the telex. These days correspondents in the field simply dial up a number on a satellite phone. One good thing about that is that it’s harder for a repressive government to pull the plug. One bad thing is that the ease of communication runs both ways—meaning it’s easier for your editors to reach you. —John Darnton John Darnton is an award-winning journalist and best-selling novelist. He worked for 40 years at the New York Times, winning two George Polk awards and a Pulitzer Prize. His new novel, Black & White and Dead All Over, employs obsolete journalistic technologies as murder weapons.

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uring my itinerant twenties, I spent six months as an apprentice typesetter at Copper Canyon Press. Founded by iconoclastic poet Sam Hamill in 1972, the celebrated poetry publisher was then a small operation that made limited-edition letterpress books and broadsides. The air in the print shop was redolent with the smell of ink, and as soon as I saw a worker hand-pulling proofs from a cast-iron platen press, synching his own rhythm to the machine’s, I was hooked. Letterpress typesetting is as hands-on as it gets. Small, three-dimensional pieces of lead type are assembled—letter by letter, word by word, line by line—into a block of text, which is inked and pressed into the surface of each sheet of paper, creating a rich, embossed depth. There’s a proud sense of craftsmanship to the whole enterprise, tracing its lineage back to the Gutenberg Bible. A letterpress typesetter knows a poem with a tactile intimacy that even the poet may not possess. When I typeset a broadside of Gary Snyder’s poem “Axe Handles,” I wondered if he’d ever noticed how much the top of the X in “axe” resembles the notch that that tool leaves in a woodblock, or felt the jagged/smooth texture of long and short lines. These are things learned by thumbs that run over the type. Words are not permanent. Nor, for that matter, are poems or books, readers or writers. In some ways, it may be as metaphorically apt for ideas to travel as

electronic impulses flashed onto screens as it is to embed them on paper. But perhaps it’s precisely because thought is transient that I crave the physical weight of a book in my hands, the texture of paper that holds a residual whiff of the forest primeval. In Snyder’s “Axe Handles,” a father shows his son how to carve an axe handle by using his own as a model. Remembering his teacher, the father concludes: And I see—he was an axe And I am an axe And my son a handle, soon To be shaping again, model And tool, craft of culture, How we go on. When I give my daughter my copy of “Axe Handles,” I will be passing on not just the words of the poem, but a physical object crafted from them. She can read Snyder’s words on the Web, but it won’t be the same. I want her to feel the echo of metal and wood in my “Axe Handles”—words imprinted on paper, for more than the blink of an eye. —Nina Shengold Nina Shengold’s novel Clearcut was published by Anchor Books in 2005. As the books editor of Chronogram, she has interviewed more than 50 HudsonValley authors.

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all me Luddite, sentimental, whatever. I’ll never part with my Royal Portable, purchased with crap game winnings on the troop ship home in May 1946. Everything I’ve written (including this piece) has issued from her carriage. “Her” ever since we did a movie together in France, where machine a écrire is feminine, which, given our amorous connection, seemed appropriate. We’ve shared swanky digs and the occasional fleabag (literally) from coast to coast and abroad. We’ve worked at every Hollywood movie studio, where I resisted the lure of dictation to comely misses, ladies, women. We’ve spent countless days and nights racing deadlines on innumerable plays, movies, TV scripts. We’ve written for love and/or money.

We’ve known triumph and disaster, but our relationship has never faltered. Encouraged to join the 20th century, I tried an electric typewriter. Accustomed to resting my fingers on the keys between inspirations, I found it upsetting that at the featheriest touch the electric machine began chattering. A machine that works faster than I do? No way. Back to my darling, until the increasingly difficult quest for replacement parts and ribbons, plus mounting family harassment, prompted an effort to join the 21st century via computer. It didn’t take. I missed the sound of the Royal: the reassuring clack that meant something was being accomplished, if only effort. After so many years of looking down at the keys and words, I found looking up at the computer screen a pain requiring Advil. Stuck keys, tattered ribbons, the visible dent in the space bar made by my thumb deepening, it’s me and ma belle machine a écrire to the end. My wife transfers all I write to a computer. But that’s another story. —Frank D. Gilroy Playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist Frank Gilroy won the Pulitzer Prize for The Subject Was Roses. He wrote and directed four independent films, including Once in Paris and The Gig. His latest book is the memoir Writing for Love and/or Money.

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he myriad, ceaseless e-mails I receive each day arrive instantaneously from the depths of cyberspace, which is everywhere, hence nowhere—at least not anywhere in particular. Reading them and deleting them, I often imagine that I’m playing out a modern version of the punishment of the Danaides—those 50 daughters of Danaus who, for the crime of killing their husbands en masse, were consigned to Tartarus, where they now spend eternity in the feckless endeavor of hauling water in sieves. How utterly, wonderfully different is receiving a letter. Unlike an e-pistle, which materializes on the fidgety screen with all the warmth, all the poetry, of a second changing into the next second on a digital clock, a letter unfolds in space and time. It has to be placed in an envelope, stamped, addressed, and deposited in a postal box or bin before arriving, mysteriously, at one’s home, all of which adds many layers of richness to the experience of reading it. 11/08 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 59


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Perhaps the writer was wearing musk, or patchouli, and left a trace of it on the envelope, or a smudge from an inky finger—there is that reminder of, that referent to, the body that sent us the letter. Perhaps the sender has chosen a particularly charming or allusive stamp, one that dovetails in a strange way with the contents of the letter—a handsome commemorative of the Polo Grounds, say, or a portrait of Thoreau. And perhaps, in this appalling age of increasingly more frenetic activity and inattentiveness, the writer has taken the time to write something at his or her leisure, reflective, intimate, and worthy of savoring, like a dry white wine from Chateau d’Yquem or a long, slow toke on a Hoyo de Monterrey Petit Robusto. But content aside, it’s the tactility of a letter, and the tacit narrative of its odyssey from me to you or you to

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me that culminates in its magical manifestation in my rural mailbox—where I can pick it up and hold it to the light and speculate about its contents with a tingle of anticipation before opening it—it’s this that makes writing, sending, and receiving letters a kind of poetry, as opposed to the perfunctory prose of e-mails. Reader, if you wish to reply to this, with either approbation or remonstrance, here’s how to reach me: Mikhail Horowitz, 302 High Falls Road, Saugerties, NY 12477. —Mikhail Horowitz Mikhail Horowitz is the author of Big League Poets and Rafting Into the Afterlife. His spoken-word performance work, solo and with Gilles Malkine, has received widespread vilification.

y heart sinks a little when I see them now at yard sales and library fairs, cradled in the hands of (other) graying ex-hippies and weekend motorcycle outlaws who rummage through the dusty cartons with an air of crazed anticipation reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart in the final scenes of The Treasure of Sierra Madre. In the digitized age of the mp3, the 45rpm “single” is now two full technological generations out of date.Yet today’s relic was once my link to a cultural revolution: the great record boom of the 1950s and 1960s, which changed the way the world listened to popular music, during a time when popular music was changing the way that kids like me thought about such weighty matters as age and race, sex and love. By 1941, when the outbreak of war in the Pacific abruptly curtailed the importation of shellac (a natural resin from Southeast Asia that was a prime component in the manufacture of phonograph records), audio engineers in the US were already seeking a suitable replacement for the scratchy, breakable 78rpm discs that had served as the principal medium of recorded music since the turn of the 20th century. It took them another seven years, but in 1948 America’s two largest labels, Columbia and RCA, introduced competing—and deliberately incompatible—new formats. Columbia’s was by far the bolder innovation: a 12-inch “long-playing” record, designed to turn at 33 1/3 rpm and made of nearly unbreakable vinyl, whose low speed and high fidelity “microgroove” technology enabled it to carry more than twenty minutes of music on a side. RCA staked its hopes on a more modest advance: a 7-inch vinyl record, turning at 45 rpm, which possessed the improved durability and sound quality but not the capacity of the LP. The advent of the long-playing “album” created a vast new adult-oriented market in recordings of classical music, Broadway shows, film soundtracks, satirical comedy, and instrumental jazz. But the humble 45rpm “single” quickly became the coin of the realm in the song-based world of popular music, thus bifurcating the record market into a pair of parallel social universes on the eve of a decade when the musical miscegenation of rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll first captured the imagination of young people around the world. Cheap, durable, bright-sounding, and seamlessly compatible with the single-play formats of the jukeboxes, AM radio stations, and portable phonographs that serviced the musical needs of teenagers, the 45 proved to be an exquisite vehicle for the dissemination of pop songs. For the next 20 years, the mystique of the hit single, as determined by its ranking on the weekly charts published by trade magazines like Billboard, would serve as the gold standard of success in the record business. Perhaps the subtlest virtue of the 45 was its racial anonymity. For unlike the LP, whose foot-square cardboard jacket was typically faced with a color portrait of the artist, singles were sold until the mid-1960s mostly in plain paper sleeves, with only the names of the singer, the song, and its composers printed on the trademark label at the center of the disc. In the race-charged social climate of the 1950s, this early example of stealth technology allowed the genius of artists like Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, and Little Richard to gain unfettered access to the heart and soul of America. Many of us have never been the same since. —Jonathan Gould Jonathan Gould is the author of Can’t Buy Me Love, hailed by critics as a “true group biography” of the Beatles.


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Poetry

This month, instead of publishing a selection of poems culled by poetry editor Phillip Levine from the mountainous cairn of submissions that he receives every month, we present four notable poets from the region whose work has not previously appeared in Chronogram: Ronald Baatz, Anne Gorrick, Robert Kelly, and Gretchen Primack. Their poems are accompanied by photographic portraits taken by Jennifer May at Maple Grove in Poughkeepsie and on the Bard College campus in Annandale. Baatz, of Mt. Tremper, is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The Elephants and Everybody Else (Cross + Roads Press,

2008). Gorrick, author of Kyotologic (Shearsman Books, 2008), curates the reading series Cadmium Text, which features innovative writing from in and around the Hudson Valley. Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College, is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and fiction, most recently The Book from the Sky (North Atlantic Books, 2008). Primack, author of The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line Press, 2007), teaches poetry through the Bard Prison Initiative. The poetry pages will return to their regular format in the December issue.

ONLY FOR THE OLD AND THE FRAGILE

That there could ever have been enough. A sparrow.

Knowing your place enlarges it. The sky for instance

understands, but what? Know me,

I have been waiting forever for what I think is you. Robert Kelly

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I don’t know why i want to live to be an old man, but i find that i do. It seems odd to me, when i really think about it. There isn’t much that i want to accomplish. No major goals have made themselves known to me. I can’t see my lazy self solving any of the serious problems facing this race of humans i’ve somehow become part of. That sounds condescending, and i am sorry. I want to love another woman, create more of these poems and like some other poets i know drink many more glasses of wine. At the end of it all dying a gracious death might prove to be a worthwhile act. And just once i would like to be able to charm the birds out of the trees. I’ve heard it said that certain people can do this, and these people are spoken of with very noticeable envy. It’d be nice to convince a good number of birds to come down and land on my shoulders. If i were an old man i would be thin and light and these birds could pick me up and carry me away. They would also be kind enough to pick my wife up also. We would float comfortably about in the air like people in a painting by chagall. This would be something to live to be an old man for. I have no desire to accumulate wealth, and fame is completely out of the question. Just to be held aloft by the birds would be plenty. Birds only do this for the old and the fragile. Ronald Baatz


THREE POEMS ABOUT THE SAME THING 1 Am I ready to die? I keep waiting to know and watch a lot of tv in the meantime. I think perhaps I’d like it, nothingness. This somethingness is a damp screwed clamp squeezing, Keep it up! Keep! It isn’t sustainable. Still, I cannot end my self. That’s blood talking, old and stubborn. 2 I am positive there is no point to any of this, and so fashion my own and don’t kid myself. There are frames on the wall, clean meals, creatures and loves and books, pens and art. There is the television, cool as a fridge, smug on its haunches. Between the looking and cooking and talking, the tv. 3 I could just sit in a chair or in front of the tv or on the grass and wait for other people’s art, and gobble it, sometimes so fast it makes me sick. Still it keeps coming, some of it so fine. It is how we show how scared we are and how we become less scared.

HIS INNER NEON ORNERY for GN

Gretchen Primack A geyser in all his sneering glory greenly signified, his greying gingerly The reneged grin The sign or ring The syringe In sung elegy and sorry, her rosy lyings sere nylon orgy: those gristled girls She lays against his egg linen in a field of rye He is ginseng sly Answer “yes” or “no” to this leggy sinner resin rinsed from a siren’s hair Let’s gorge and linger in our error songs green and gingery, legs and reins, grins and sighs Anne Gorrick 11/08 CHRONOGRAM LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 63


2008 Literary Humor Contest illustration by Jason Cring For this year’s Literary Humor Contest we sought either spurious sequels or preposterous prequels to works of literature or nonfiction, complete with a one-line descriptive zinger. The obvious entries—Intern Zhivago, The Puppy of the Baskervilles, etc., for the prequels; Catch-23, Naked Brunch, ad nauseam, for the sequels—were quickly weeded out. More difficult was to eliminate the entries that had good titles (The Scarlet E-mail, from Sari Grandstaff, of Saugerties; The House of the Seven Satellite Dishes, from Jude Tulli, of Tonopah, Arizona) but were lacking a snappy kicker. Here is the best of the rest.

GRAND PRIZE:

To Cook a Mockingbird It’s dead. Now what? Dozens of delicious suggestions. William Levitt Jr., Red Hook

BEST SEQUELS:

BEST PREQUELS:

DISHONORABLE MENTION PREQUELS:

DISHONORABLE MENTION SEQUELS:

The Public Sharer

A Tale of One City

Roget’s Tyrannosaurus

The Catcher in the Focaccia

Conrad’s nameless captain and the hitherto mysterious Leggatt announce their nuptials in the New York Times “Vows”column. Kelly Spencer, New Paltz

It was the best of times, it was the best of times. David Smilow, Saugerties

In use for innumerable eons, epochs, ages, and millennia before the more portable edition. Vladimir Mikolovich, East Jewett

Holden Caulfield is a phony boulanger at a crumby pâtisserie. Aram Macrosian, Shady

Queen Lear

Jonathan Livingston Hatchling

The Metamorphosyphilis

The Tao Te Ka-Ching!

Being the brief tale of Regan and Goneril’s mom, who died giving birth to their little sis. Kelly Spencer, New Paltz

Chick lit. Cora Suleen Sprunt, Stone Ridge

Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find he’s been changed into a giant cock... Dakota Lane, Phoenicia

Now that you’re like all serene an’ shit, let’s make some money! Lao-tsu’s guide to personal investments. John Berryhill, Red Hook

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Clan of the Precambrian Protozoa A colony of amoebae bands together to evolve into a multicellular organism. Laura Covello, Ulster Park

Dublinerds Computer fever strikes Trinity College. Amlin Gray, New York City


Out & Aloud An eclectic selection of the literary events coming to the Mid-Hudson Valley in November. Curated by Phillip Levine. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Saturday, 11/1, 2pm “The Ghost of Nicholas Greeby� with storyteller Margo Mueller. Catskill Mountain Foundation Movie Theater, Main Street, Rte. 23A, Hunter. (518) 263-2050; www.catskillmtn.org.

Thursday, 11/6, 6:45pm Reading and book-signing with Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Chains (Simon & Schuster Children’s). Merritt Bookstore; 57 Front Street, Millbrook. (845) 677-5857; www.merrittbooks.com.

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Reading and book-signing w/Richard Boes, author of Last Train Out. Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-0500; www.oblongbooks.com.

Friday, 11/7, 8-10pm Jazz and poetry by Clockwork Mercury, featuring Eric Mingus (voice, bass) and Catherine Sikora (saxophone); Muddy Cup/Inquiring Mind Coffeehouse and Bookstore; 65 Partition St., Saugerties. (845) 246-5775.

Saturday, 11/8, 2pm Woodstock Poetry Society: Open mike, reading, and beneďŹ t for Home Planet News w/Teresa Marta Costa, Roberta Gould, Sandra Graff, Eugenia Macer-Story, Shiv Mirabito, Tad Richards, Ed Sanders, William Seaton, Matthew J. Spireng, Janine Pommy Vega, Bruce Weber, Christopher Wheeling, R. Dionysius Whiteurs, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Donald Lev. Hosted by Phillip Levine. Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street; www.woodstockpoetry.com.

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Friday, 11/14, 7-11pm Chronogram Literary Supplement Party; Chronogram Space; 314 Main St., Kingston. Readings by Gioia Timpanelli, John Darnton, Jana Martin, Gretchen Primack; music and satire with Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine. (845) 334-8600x103; www.chronogram.com. $5.

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Saturday, 11/15, 2-5pm “Sip & Sign� book-signing and wine-tasting w/25 area authors including Larry Beinhart, Donald E. Westlake, Jon Bowermaster, Lisa Phillips, Richard Segalman, Amy Goldman, Nikki and David Goldbeck; Millbrook Winery, 26 Wing Road, Millbrook. (845) 677-8383 x17; www.millbrookwine.com.

Celebrate ’s Literary Supplement featuring readings and performances by

John Darnton author of Black &White and Dead All Over

Saturday, 11/22, 7:30pm Reading and book-signing with New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan and contributors to Some Delights of the Hudson Valley: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Humor (MonkďŹ sh/Epigraph Books). Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck. (845)876-0500; www.oblongbooks.com.

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine perpetrators of Poor, On Tour, & Over 54

Jana Martin author of Russian Lover & Other Stories

Gretchen Primack Saturday, 11/22, 7:30pm Poetry reading and book-signing with poet Martin Espada (pictured below) , awardwinning author of The Republic of Poetry; Alabanza; Presented by Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival; Kleinert/James Gallery, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com. $12.

author of The Slow Creaking of Planets

Gioia Timpanelli author of What Makes a Child Lucky

hosted by Nina Shengold author of Clearcut Sponsored by

Friday, November 14, 7 p.m. Sunday, 11/30, 4-6pm Reading and book-signing with Dakota Lane, Gothic Lolita; Alison Gaylin, Heartless; Holly George-Warren, Grateful Dead 365. Muddy Cup/Inquiring Mind Coffeehouse and Bookstore; 65 Partition St., Saugerties. (845) 246-5775.

Chronogram Space: 314 Wall Street, Kingston Free admission and hors d’oeuvres. Cash bar. Performances start at 8:00. For more information, call (845) 334-8600, ext. 103

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CHRONOGRAM’S CHOICE: The Year’s Best-Reviewed Books by Hudson Valley Authors

FICTION LIKE YOU’D UNDERSTAND ANYWAY JIM SHEPARD KNOPF, 2007, $23

“Though focusing on disaster, the stories themselves are triumphs: darkly funny, deeply intelligent, and unforgettable. Shepard’s characters are sharply and sympathetically developed, never mere pawns of historical forces. They debate with fate and with each other. They put up a mighty fight....A profound and disturbing book, full of dark delights.” (Hollis Seamon, 2/08)

Think global, read local. Over a hundred books have been reviewed in these pages since last November’s Literary Supplement. Books editor Nina Shengold revisits some of the year’s highlights for literate locavores.

SALVATION BOULEVARD LARRY BEINHART NATION BOOKS, 2008, $24.95

“A Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, and an atheist are involved in a murder. Waiting for the punchline? It’s called Salvation Boulevard, Woodstock resident and Chronogram columnist Larry Beinhart’s latest novel. And yes, it packs a punch....Beinhart embeds the religious and political issues in a brisk narrative that tackles the big questions with acerbic humor and good storytelling, building towards a climax that will pull readers to the edges of their seats.” (Kim Wozencraft, 9/08)

HILLARY JORDAN

MEMOIR

ALGONQUIN BOOKS, 2008, $21.95

HATS & EYEGLASSES

“A moving and beautifully drawn portrait of a Southern tragedy in the 1940s, told in a series of first-person confessions. Tivoli resident Hillary Jordan sneaks us into the minds of black and white, male and female, as the storm clouds gather and the mud thickens....These people live and breathe; their angers, shocks and setbacks become our own. At the end of the tunnel of grief, there is light, and we are allowed to share that too.” (Anne Pyburn, 3/08)

MARTHA FRANKEL

NIGHT WORK

THINKING ABOUT MEMOIR

STEVE HAMILTON

ABIGAIL THOMAS

ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, 2007, $23.95

STERLING PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2008, $14.95

“Ulster County Noir is serious fun for any lover of the genre, and Hamilton pulls it off with enormous panache. The author of seven suspense novels set on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’s put us on a very special map. But Night Work’s gathering confusion and tension, its inexplicable events, would be riveting even if they were set in East Oshkosh.... Please, Mr. Hamilton. Make this a series.” (Anne Pyburn, 1/08)

“Thomas is a stellar guide. She begins with the basics of getting started, and moves right through to the grittiness of getting real. She addresses the darkest concerns of the memoirist-to-be: What if you can’t remember anything? What if your memoir upsets your loved ones? Why on earth should you do this at all? Her prose is colorful and deeply revealing, and the exercises she provides leave no emotional stone unturned.” (Susan Krawitz, 5/08)

MUDBOUND

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TARCHER/PENGUIN, 2008, $23.95

“A sparkling, sharp-witted insightful book told in colorful, unsparing prose. Frankel’s writing is riveting, and trots along at a gum-smacking pace. And, because of her eye for the absurd and gift of perfect phraseology, it may be the funniest addiction memoir you’ll ever read.... While it would be wrong to wish anything like poker hell on her again, one can’t help hoping she’s got a few more skeletons to write out of her closet.” (Susan Krawitz, 2/08)


NONFICTION ABRAHAM’S CURSE BRUCE CHILTON DOUBLEDAY, FEBRUARY 2008, $24.95

“Thought-provoking—at times chilling—but rendered in a compassionate tone that enables the reader to journey through blood-soaked religious history and emerge with a heightened comprehension of the misguided religious motivations that drive events in today’s headlines. Whether believers or not, Chilton says, we would do well to try to understand, for ‘any voice that calls us back to human sacrifice, in whatever form, is not God’s.’” (Kim Wozencraft, 3/08)

MEDITATIONS ON RISING AND FALLING PHILIP PARDI UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, 2008, $14.95

“Pardi’s concern with the lived moment is nowhere more evident than in his characterizations: a roofer frees a fly from tarpaper just before he himself falls; Don Pedro, a migrant farm worker, holds out his pesticide-soaked shirt to “the man with the clipboard;” a speaker notes his infant son “laughs / whenever I laugh / on faith / ...also learning when to make a fist.” Pardi’s vision, ironic in its depiction of life’s difficulties, is a testimony of faith and resistance in the world where ‘falling is the given.’” (Lee Gould, 8/08)

THE EXECUTION OF WILLIE FRANCIS

MAKING THE NEW LAMB TAKE

GILBERT KING

GABRIEL FREED

BASIC CIVITAS, 2008, $26

SARABANDE, 2007

“A search for justice in the American South suggests an arduous task. When the matter involves a black person, it may well be a fruitless one. Such is the message of Gilbert King’s expansive, engaging, and ultimately heartbreaking book...The Execution of Willie Francis offers readers several rewards: a scorching history lesson, a thorough judicial examination, and a crash course in Southern sociology—all the while reminding us of the knotty problems still surrounding capital punishment.” (Jay Blotcher, 4/08)

“The poems, which fuse images of a Hudson Valley upbringing with mythical and biblical references, feel as if they took a long time coming. The lines are as clean as filtered water, the subjects are quotidian life seen through the magnifying glass of an old soul....As the editor of the poetry series at Persea Books, Fried has probably seen a lot of what not to do in poetry. Perhaps that is why his poems feel so flawless and chiseled to their poetic cores.” (Caitlin McDonnell, 12/07)

THOUSAND MILE SONG

CHILDREN’S

DAVID ROTHENBERG BASIC BOOKS, 2008, $27.50

“Recently, [Rothenberg] has been jamming with whales—voyaging far and wide with his clarinet, and discussing the mysteries of these intelligent mammals with experts. Reading his searching chronicle, Thousand Mile Song, one never loses sight of the line between science and art; the ethical questions that arise as the author encroaches on this boundary become an important part of his inquiry....The author’s edgiest assertion may be simply that a whale can trade licks in the manner universal among all true musicians; by listening, replying, giving space—and searching out a certain kind of rightness.” (Marx Dorrity, 8/08)

POETRY FUGITIVE DENNIS DOHERTY CODHILL PRESS, 2007, $16

“Another outstanding release by New Paltz’s protean Codhill Press. Arresting at first read, dense enough to reward return visits, Doherty’s poetry offers “a pen—an awl to etch the graven acts.” Haifa Mahabir’s bookjacket photos shroud the author in a blindfold, shades, and dangling cigarette, echoing his poems’ intriguing mysteries.” (Short Takes, 12/07)

26 PRINCESSES DAVE HOROWITZ G.P. PUTNAM, 2008, $15.99

“Rosendale gefiltemesiter Horowitz hits another bulls-eye with this read-aloud tale of a frog prince besieged by an alphabet’s worth of royal attitude. The pastel collages are laugh-out-loud funny, and kids will delight in choosing their favorite princesses. Smelly Nell, petite Pearl, or lisping Ruth (mithing a tooth)?” (Short Takes, 3/08)

LADYBUG GIRL DAVID SOMAN & JACKY DAVIS DIAL BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, 2008, $16.99

“To her lofty brother, Lulu’s just a pesky little sister, but send her outdoors and she’s Ladybug Girl, able to rescue endangered ants, walk a fallen tree trunk without slipping, and leap shark-infested puddles in a single bound! Created by a local husband-and-wife team, this affirmative big girl adventure hit the New York Times bestseller list.” (Summer Reading Roundup, 7/08)

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Food & Drink

Cinghiale, Chianina, Chianti A TUSCAN DINING DIARY by Brian K. Mahoney photographs by Robin Dana

Perhaps we didn’t eat enough pasta. Most days, we had it twice daily as the primo, our first course: fettuccine or cavatelli for lunch, bucatini or strozzapretti— literally, choke the priest—for dinner. How do Italians create pasta—I mean the noodles themselves, sauce excluded—that tastes so much better than what we make here? (I bet they hold back on their exports to stimulate tourism.) We planned on trying more bottles of Brunello di Montalcino, that noble— and pricy— epitome of the Sangiovese grape, than we did. (We drank the vino della casa on the cheap, instead; the house wine served in Italy rarely disappoints.) And Lee Anne had gelato only two or three times. (There was little room for dessert after multi-course carb-and-protein loads worthy of a prize fighter trying to jump weight classes.) We never did fi nd a trippaio—a mobile stand, like a hot dog vendor, serving tripe on a bun, billed in our guidebook as the ultimate Florentine street food. And we kept meaning to order more dishes with truffles. (Tuscany is known for its tartufi, yet we sampled only bland shavings that left us wondering what the fuss was about.) Even though we ate in almost two dozen restaurants during our 10-day trip, we hardly scratched the surface of Tuscan cuisine. There is a Tuscan proverb: “To cook like your mother is good, to cook like your grandmother is better.” As consistently good as the food was, at times transportive—a simple panini with mozzarella, tomato, and artichoke hearts slathered with pesto that, by its very existence, offered a stinging indictment of the American sandwich—we were eating mom’s cooking most of the time, not grandma’s. This was mostly due to the fact that our intel was spotty and we never quite synched with the rhythm of Italian life. (Whaddya mean I can’t get lunch in this town at 3pm because all the restaurants are closed?) We’ll know better next time. Some field notes. 68 HUDSON VALLEY CHRONOGRAM 11/08

Orvieto Dazed from our transcontinental overnight flight, we exited the autostrada at Orvieto, two hours north of Rome. At Trattoria Da Dina, we were seated and handed English-language menus before we could utter one word of faltering Italian. (This happened in every restaurant we ate in—even after I bought a herringbone coat in Siena and learned how to request a table. Mi scusi signore. Un tavola per due, per favore? Or, perhaps, as Lee Anne suggested, my little speech could have been the reason why we were continually handed the English menus.) I ordered the specialty of the house, cinghiale (wild boar) over gnoochi, and Lee Anne chose tagliatelle with braised artichokes. To start, we asked for some pecorino, the sheep’s milk cheese being a regional specialty. Served in two fist-sized wedges, the sharp, tangy hunks contrasted well with the white wine we were drinking, a light, Grechetto-based Orvieto. The cinghiale, lozengeshaped bits of boar in a simple tomato sauce, was a touch greasy and lacking the potent gaminess I was expecting. The gnoochi were frankly a bit too soft. The tagliatelle was better, a simpler preparation that allowed the pasta to speak for itself, the artichokes and wine-butter sauce adding minimal commentary. Cortona Our host, Robin, an American, is spending the semester teaching photography to exchange students in Cortona, the quaint walled town made famous by the expatriate wet dream Under the Tuscan Sun. Robin’s apartment is on a cobblestone side street (every street in Cortona is paved with cobblestones) just off the main square, Piazza Garibaldi. We had three of our fi nest meals within 100 yards of her door.


ABOVE: OVERLOOKING PIAZZA SIGNORELLI IN CORTONA, ITALY. OPPOSITE: THE WINE WALL AT PANE E VINO; FETTUCCINE FROM BOTTEGA DELLA PASTA FRESCA IN CORTONA; UNSALTED TUSCAN BREAD.

At Pane e Vino, a kind of Italian tapas bar on Piazza Signorelli, we ordered the best cured meats of the trip, the piatto del fattore, (“farmer’s dish”), featuring prosciutto, fennel-flavored salami, and the thankfully ubiquitous pecorino cheese. At Preludio, down the steep sloping street from Piazza Garibaldi, the primo was best: cheese soufflé with fennel, black truffles, and a grapefruit reduction; chestnut ravioli stuffed with artichoke hearts, radicchio, and pecorino. (If you go, watch out for the garrulous waiter who won’t let you leave until you’ve sampled the complementary vin santo and the grappa.) At Osteria del Teatro, just up the street from Piazza Signorelli, Lee Anne and I split the bistecca alla fiorentina, a massive T-Bone from the prized creamcolored Chianina cattle raised throughout the region. We ordered the steak medium rare; it was served rare and topped with olive oil, salt, pepper, and lemon tableside. Our mistake. Tender, with a hint of exterior char; beefy, with a grassy, earthy complexity, bistecca alla fiorentina is a cut that can stand up to the best Manhattan steakhouse fare. Florence We spent eight hours in Florence. Here’s what we saw: the Duomo, Michelangelo’s David, the Medici chapels, the Basilica di San Lorenzo, the Ponte Vecchio, the Museo di San Marco, and, at a—literal—trot through the Uffizi, four Caravaggios, three Botticellis, two Rembrandts, and in what passed for early 17th-century feminism ,a Judith Slaying Holofernes, by Artemesia Gentileschi. We also saw the CHIUSO (“closed”) sign on a highly recommended eatery in our guidebook, Trattoria Coco Lezzone, located at the end of a piss-smelling alleyway a block off from the Arno River. Luckily, we found the one place that was serving food in the middle of the afternoon in Florence, a railroad-car thin lounge called Noir, just off the Ponte Vecchio. It was painted red and staffed by a waiter/bartender/chef who couldn’t care less about us. He threw our pre-made, pre-portioned lasagna in the oven and proceeded to chat loudly on his cell phone. He didn’t notice us in rapture, scraping the dishes clean of any last caramelized bits of phenomenally good pasta and cheese.

Siena Stopping for a midmorning snack in Pizzaland, we spy two types of specialty pizza. One had cut up hot dogs and French fries atop a bed of cheese; the other is the same, only crosshatched with ketchup. Leonardo da Vinci Airport, Rome With some time to kill before our flight, we grab a bite in the airport food court. A passable spaghetti puttanesca, cooked to order in front of you, plus a bottle of Chianti, all for less than $25. Coda At a cuisine tipica shop in Castiglione del Lago, we dropped $150 on boar sausage, salami, soprassata, extra virgin olive oil, and a kilogram of pecorino aged in a cave (a trick the Tuscans picked up when they took to hiding their formaggio from the Nazis). My plan was to smuggle the loot in my garment bag, wrapped in dirty laundry, and whistle my way through Customs in New York. At dinner with some other Americans later that day, we were advised not to risk confiscation of our valuable Italian foodstuffs at Customs. Best to ship home our Tuscan smorgasbord, we were told. Satisfied that we were doing the smart thing, we left our gear behind for Robin to ship. At JFK, our bags went unsearched and we strolled past the Customs agents. Two days later, however, I received an e-mail from Robin explaining that importing meat—raw, cured, freeze-dried, pickled, etc.—to the US is illegal. (Learn a lesson from my misfortune: Smuggling is the only way.) What I hadn’t mentioned to anyone was the lone salami I stuffed in our luggage; technically, in Lee Anne’s backpack, but as we weren’t searched, what does it matter? This $8 salami, marooned on our counter, now seems too precious to give away or to eat, the very embodiment of our trip. (The bottles of Sagrantino di Montefalco we brought back I had no qualms about popping open our first week home.) No matter how voluptuous its taste, once it’s gone, our trip is consigned wholly to memory. I wonder how long it’ll take that salami to go bad? 11/08 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 69


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Sprout Creek Farm

407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 or 1 (800) 399-3589 www.lemoncakes.com

34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-9885 www.sproutcreekfarm.org cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org

100% Scratch Bakery since 1996. Soups, sandwiches (our Goat Cheese House Special is a favorite!), stickybuns, scones, muffins, breads, focaccia, tartes, tortes, seasonal desserts featuring local produce; plus sugar-free, wheat-free, dairy-free, vegan, glutenfree, 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, Wednesday, and Sunday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday through Saturday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Tuesday. Specific hours are subject to change with the seasons. Please call to confirm! Located across from the Cinema. Weekends open later!

CAFÉS Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.

BREAD ALONE CAFÉ Bread Alone CafÊ 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 (845) 454-4440 www.casablancacoffeehouse.com The finest coffeehouse beverages and cuisine served in our Moroccan inspired eco-friendly cafĂŠ. Specialty coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, fresh baked pastries, breakfast, and lunch, including wrap and panini sandwiches. Vegetarian, soy, and glutenfree options always available. Catering, take-out, and free Wi-Fi.

Terrapin Restaurant Catering Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 hugh@terrapincatering.com 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 gettogether to a formal gala. Terrapin Catering, catering to your imagination.

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3108

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

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Bell’s Cafe-Bistro

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387 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-4070 www.Bellscafeny.net

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

In a warm and inviting Bistro located on Historic Main Street in the Village of Catskill Yael/Keith Chef/ Owners are serving down to earth foods with flavors from around the Mediterranean. Wine and Beer Menu available. Wednesday-Saturday dinner. SaturdaySunday brunch.

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.

Bistro Brie & Bordeaux—A French Country Restaurant in the Heart of the Catskills

49 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0162

5386 Main Street, Windham, NY (518) 734-4911 www.bistrobb.com Voted “Best Restaurant in Greene County” by Hudson Valley Magazine, 2007 and 2008. Zagat Rated. Come and enjoy a delicious meal prepared by awardwinning French Chef/Owner Stephane Desgaches. Casual European-styled bistro, full bar, extensive wine list. Beautiful views of Windham Mountain, just 1/4 mile away! Open Wednesday-Sunday for dinner. Sunday Champagne Brunch offered July-October. “Le Tour de France” $14.95, three-course meal offered Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday evenings 5PM-9PM (excluding holidays and holiday weeks).

Catskill Mountain Lodge 334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.caskillmtlodge.com The Catskill Mountain Lodge, celebrating forty years of hospitality, is set on the banks of the historic Kaaterskill Creek in Palenville, America’s first art colony. Accommodations include fireplace rooms, cabins, cottages, and a three bedroom house.

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Charlotte’s

★★★★ Poughkeepsie Journal Zagat Rated For 3 years - Best Sushi in The Hudson Valley - Hudson Valley Magazine

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1817 SOUTH ROAD, RTE. 9 (ACROSS FROM KOHLʼS) WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY (845) 298-9869 • 298-9872

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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. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.

(p.m.) wine bar 119 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2833 www.pmwinebar.com contact@pmwinebar.com Ernest Hemingway once said, “Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.” (p.m.) thinks Ernest was right and wants to share a wonderful selection of wines with you. Focusing on Spanish wines, and the food that compliments them, this wine bar breaks the mold of the “pour and snore.”

Sukhothai

We are open Wednesday and Thursday 5pm-9:30pm; Friday 11:30am-10:30pm, Saturday 11:30am10:30pm, and Sunday 11:30am-9:30pm. This is 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 devine. Charming owners, Alicia in front and Mikael in the kitchen, provide great warmth and make the place particularly comfortable.” Reservations recommended.

Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.

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 Sunday-Thursday and 11:30am to midnight on Friday and Saturday. We accept cash and personal checks, with an ATM on premises.

Gilded Otter

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!

Karma Road Vegetarian Café 11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1099 www.karmaroad.net Quaint, compassionate, and bustling Organic cafédeli 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.

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Voted Best Sushi Restaurant by Chronogram readers and rated four stars by Poughkeepsie Journal. Serving lunch and dinner daily. Eat in or take out. We offer many selections of Sushi and Sashimi, an extensive variety of special rolls, and kitchen dishes. Live Lobster prepared daily. Parking in rear available. Major credit cards accepted.

Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700

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Neko Sushi & Restaurant

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Suruchi—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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2ND ANNUAL DOWNTOWN UNWRAPPED IN NEW PALTZ NOVEMBER 21, 5-8PM Stores will dress up their windows for the holiday season and officially unwrap them on Friday night to start off the holiday shopping season. All weekend, there will be meet-the-artist receptions in the shops which feature jewelry, hats and fine art by local artisans, as well as special sales and door prizes. Vintage Studio will hold a holiday tea and hat party, and Historic Hugenot Street’s Museum Shop will be open and docents will be guiding tours of the historic houses by candlelight. On the street there will be fresh, hot apple cider stations to warm shoppers. There will be special sales and refreshments at participating stores all weekend. Additional events are planned for Christmas week. (845) 255-3022. A GILDED AGE CHRISTMAS AT MILLS MANSION NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 31 Weekend tours every half hour at the mansion, a 25-room Greek Revival structure built in 1832 by the firm of McKim, Mead, and White for Morgan Lewis. The mansion features elaborate turn-of-the-century holiday decorations, Christmas trees festooned with Edwardian-style ornaments, elegant flower arrangements, and other decorations based on historic themes. The museum gift shop will also be open. On December 26, there will be special evening hours from 6pm to 8pm. Admission fees are $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens, students, and groups; children 12 and under are free. www.staatsburgh.org 37TH ANNUAL DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR NOVEMBER 29 & 30, 10AM-4PM Dutchess Commnuity College hosts its 37th annual Holiday Craft Fair, featuring candles, soaps, oils, wood sculptures, decorative paintings, paper, photography, pottery, Ukranian eggs, leather goods, glass, jewelry and sumptuous vittles to eat on-site and take home. Proceeds from admission and raffle sales benefit student scholarships. www.sunydutchess.edu POUGHKEEPSIE CELEBRATION OF LIGHTS DECEMBER 5, 6:30PM The 14th annual Celebration of Lights begins with a parade down Main, Academy, and Market streets, featuring marching bands, dancers, classic cars, fire engines, floats, scouts, students, and—of course—Santa. Poughkeepsie’s Christmas trees will be lit along the way, and the fun culminates in the largest firework display of the year. There will also be an 8pm screening of Frank Capra’s holiday masterpiece It’s aWonderful Life at the Bardavon Opera House. www.bardavon.org SINTERKLAAS HOLIDAY PARADE IN RHINEBECK DECEMBER 6, 6PM This year brings the return of Sinterklaas to Rhinebeck, an ecumenical, secular holiday personifying the Dutch tradition of tolerance, combining the folk traditions of Dutch, Native American, German, Irish, Jewish, African, and Russian culture. The month-long program of events beginning November 2 and culminating in the festival on December 6 will include the arrival of St. Nicholas by boat to the Rhinecliff Dock on November 29 at 3pm. On December 6, there will be performances all day long throughout the village, including puppetry by Arm-of-the-Sea Theater, storytelling by Jonathan Kruk, a Morris team will dance Abbot’s Bromley Deer Dance, as well as fire jugglers, music, and street performers. The evening culminates in the Starlight Parade, led by St. Nicholas on his white horse. Stores will participate by presenting various solstice traditions from around the world. www.sinterklaasrhinebeck.com

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12TH ANNUAL WINTER WALK IN HUDSON DECEMBER 6, 5-8PM Hudson closes its streets every year for the thousands of visitors it receives for this marquee holiday events. There’s horse-drawn carriage rides, animated window scenes, Victorian carolers, African drumming, facepainting, and clowns, and members of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. The Hudson City Department of Youth will welcome Santa and Mrs. Claus, parading them from the Opera House to the park as they hand out presents to children (new books donated by publishing companies). Stores will hold a window-decorating contest and musicians will perform as people shop. The evening culminates in a fireworks show and dance performances. www.hudsonoperahouse.org WOODSTOCK OPEN HOUSE DECEMBER 5, 5-9PM More than 70 participating stores and businesses in Woodstock will be decorated with lights, festive window displays, and even culinary ice sculpture. Tour the shops and enjoy book and CD signings, wine and cheese tastings, fresh popcorn, and hot cider. Mrs. Claus will offer her face-painting skills and Santa will be available to take gift requests. Many bands and ensembles, including the Woodstock School carolers, will perform throughout the evening. www.woodstockchamber.com COLD SPRING BY CANDLELIGHT DECEMBER 6, 12-6PM For its sixth annual holiday celebration, the town of Cold Spring will be offering tours of 13 historic sites and houses. You can either bundle up and enjoy the self-guided walking tour or hop on the 10-cent trolley for a memorable experience. There will be concerts and carolers, visits from Old St. Nick, holiday storytelling, horse-drawn carriage rides, arts and crafts, and holiday shopping (stores will be open late). Free parking is available throughout the village. Advance tickets for the event are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $12 for children under 12. All proceeds support children and adults with developmental disabilities. VANDERBILT MANSION OPEN HOUSE DECEMBER 12, 6-9PM Tour the most lavishly decorated mansion in the Hudson Valley as Hyde Park’s Vanderbilt Mansion becomes “The House of Light.”This year, for the first time, the Christmas trees will be lit by thousands of eco-friendly LED lights. www.nps.gov/vama HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AT THE HOME OF FDR AND ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’S VAL-KILL DECEMBER 13, 6-9PM Visitors can get an intimate glimpse at a typical Roosevelt family Christmas as it was celebrated during the 1950s. The Stone Cottage at Val-Kill will be decorated and open for viewing and refreshments. At the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, an FDR impersonator will be reading excerpts of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. www.nps.gov/hofr WINTERFEST IN HISTORIC CHATHAM VILLAGE DECEMBER 19, 5-8PM The main streets of Chatham will be lined with luminarias as carolers wander the streets and a tractor-drawn stagecoach offers visitors a special view of the festive decorations. Stores will provide free gift wrapping and exceptional old time service as well as baked treats. This is a wonderful opportunity for last minute shopping. (518) 392-5848


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Hiking the Trails of Greene County By Amy Lubinski

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n 1819, Asher Brown Durand created his most famous painting, Kindred Spirits, depicting fellow Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant standing on a rocky promontory in the Catskill Mountains. Then and now, the same region that inspired authors and artists alike is an ideal expanse for anyone to hike. November is an excellent month to explore the mountain trails of Greene County. After all, it’s too chilly for the recreational activities you enjoyed in the summer, but not snowy enough for the festivities of winter. In November, all that huffing and puffing up a hiking trail will keep you warm enough to see expansive views of waterfalls, neighboring mountains, and in some cases, even several states bordering New York. If you’re not sure where to start your hiking adventures, consider joining a hiking or outdoors club, such as the Catskill Mountain Club, created by Chris Olney and Aaron Bennett in 2004, the centennial anniversary of the Catskill Park. Hiking is only one of the club’s recreational activities—the others being camping, fishing, hunting, canoeing, kayaking, biking, and climbing. With approximately 700 members devoted to the outdoors, you’re more than likely to find a hiking buddy who’s willing to explore Greene County with you. Anyone can join, and members are invited to lead hiking or other outdoor events, typically scheduled twice a month. And the most appealing fact yet—there are no dues. “Our group is much more diverse than most other similar groups because typically, 20-to-30-year olds aren’t going to spend $30 on a membership,” Bennett explained. If joining a club isn’t your prerogative, there’s certainly no shortage of mountains or trails to hike in Greene County that are easy to start with. Chair members of the Catskill 3500 Club as well as guidebook authors of Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons, Carol and David White, suggest many easy hikes in Greene 86 GREENE COUNTY CHRONOGRAM 11/08

County, including several to the Catskill Mountain House site. Hikes centered around the site of the once famous hotel near Palenville (which catered to the elite, including several presidents in its heyday in the 1800s) tend to be fairly popular because not only are the routes great for novice hikers, they also provide a look back in time, Carol White explains. White, who compiled and edited Catskill Peak Experiences: Mountaineering Tales of Endurance, Survival, Exploration and Adventure from the Catskill 3500 Club, describes a hike that begins at the mountain house as, “a broad path, much of it on flat bedrock, that passes old foundations and two stone posts.” White continues by explaining that, very shortly into the hike, there is “an open expanse [that] featured this enormous hotel with 13 Corinthian columns, built almost up to the cliffside.” Or, if you prefer an easy hike with some moderate climbing, White recommends a hike to Kaaterskill Falls, New York tallest casacding waterfall. “It is only a one-mile round trip, plus road walking 0.4 miles round-trip to the parking area.” She elaborates that if you park in the Molly Stark Parking area on Route 23A, you’ll only be .2 miles above the trailhead to Kaaterskill Falls. “This road traverses very rugged territory and has virtually no shoulder, so walk carefully, facing traffic, to the bridge, where the trailhead leaves the road and ascends new rock trail work along the stream,” Carol White advises. And prepare yourself for spectacular views: “Everything here is big—the boulders, trees, rocky cliffs, and of course, the falls,” she said. For a strenuous hike, Bennett recommends Devil’s Path, a 27-mile continuous trail that goes over seven of the Catskill High Peaks: West West Kill, West Kill Mountain, Hunter Mountain, Plateau Mountain, Sugarloaf Mountain, Twin Mountain, and Indian Head. Bennett said that the name was derived years ago from “locals who thought that only the devil could traverse such a range with big feet and a tail for balance.” Bennett said that Backpacker magazine

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once called Devil’s Path a day hike. “It’s really not, but people have done it in a day.” One of the benefits of this trail is that it has several bail-out points along the way if you feel like you just can’t quite make it to the end. If you’re a very experienced hiker looking to challenge yourself, then the Escarpment Trail will definitely test your limits. At over 18 miles long, from Windham to North Lake in Haines Falls, with elevation changes over 10,000 feet, rocky footing, various ledges and steep cliffs, the Escarpment Trail is “just a whole heap of trouble,” says Dick Vincent, organizer of the Escarpment Trail Run, held annually in July. “This is considered a highly technical trail,” he says. “It tests every aspect of a mountain runner.” Vincent warns that even the most experienced hiker or runner can incur an injury on the trail—the injuries that have occurred on the trail run the gamut: broken fingers, toes, ribs, sternums, even split skulls.To many, the threat of a looming injury is worth the view of the southern Adirondacks and Green Mountains, the Berkshires and Taconics, the Hudson Highlands around West Point, and the white-hued Shawangunks.Vincent recommends that you allot three days if you’re planning on a hiking or backpacking excursion along the 30-mile route, which includes loops at each end.

tival celebrating the Scandinavian God of Snow. “We have our annual sacrifice to Ullr, where we burn old skis as an offering to bring us snow,” explained Rick Hodge, event manager at Windham Mountain. So the next time you find yourself grumbling that November is such a “limbo” time—the summer activities have come to an end and winter activities aren’t in full swing yet—remind yourself that there are hundreds of miles of hiking trails in Greene County that are open to the public for the first time in years. Grab your water and trail mix; it’s time to explore Greene County. This is the second article in a six-part series exploring Greene County.

RESOURCES Catskill Mountain Club www.catskillmountainclub.org

Catskill 3500 Club www.catskill-3500-club.org

ANTICIPATING SNOW Alright, we get it. No amount of hiking will quell your desires to bundle up and hit the slopes. If Mother Nature permits, you may be able to start feeling the wind whip across your face as you zip past trees soon. “There’s a lot of data that says it’s going to be a very cold and snowy winter,” said Jessica Pezak, director of communications at Hunter Mountain. “We’re already seeing frost at night [in early October],” Pezak added. Hunter Mountain plans to start making snow for its visitors the third week of November, and Windham Mountain’s ski season will officially begin on November 29 with their annual Ullr Fest, a fes-

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ART GALLERIES & CENTERS

Catskill Mountain Lodge

Ann Street Gallery

334 Route 32A, Palenville, NY (518) 678-3101 www.caskillmtlodge.com

104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940, ext. 119 www.annstreetgallery.org

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

The Ann Street Gallery is a non-profit gallery located in the City of Newburgh, specializing in contemporary emerging and established artists.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY Advanced Radiant Design, Inc. 96 Vly Atwood Road, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-0044 www.radiant-design.com

Altren Geothermal & Solar Systems 1774 State Route 213, Ulster Park, NY (854) 658-7116 www.altren.net

ARCHITECTS Lucas Architecture & Planning Kingston, NY (845) 339-4069 www.lucas-architecture.com Located in uptown Kingston, we strive to provide excellent service and outstanding design to meet our clients’ needs and wishes. Jennifer Lucas, graduate of the renowned Southern California Institute of Architecture, will see that your residential or commercial architectural needs are met. Please call us for a free consultation.

Wall Street – Uptown Kingston Saturdays until November 22

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain or Shine free parking available

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

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

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

ART INSTRUCTION

Come explore the beauty of the region and sample the bounty of the Hudson Valley harvest in our grower/producer market.

Mill Street Loft 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 millstreetloft.org

www.kingstonnyfarmersmarket.com

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

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Advanced Radiant Design, Inc. is a recognized leader in the radiant heating industry, with several first-place national awards for residential and commercial projects. We custom-design fully integrated radiant heating systems that deliver complete comfort, the highest efficiency and greatest reliability. Whether your heating needs are simple and modest or large and complex, through our in-house design services, we ensure that your needs are met with the most cost-effective strategies available. And we provide creative solutions to unique design challenges.

Kingston Farmers’ Market

Turning details into dream days . . .

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

EcoArch DesignWorks

Omi International Arts Center

Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4620

59 Letter S Road, Ghent, NY www.artomi.org

Award winning design, harmonizing Spirit, Health, and the Environment, Solar and “Green” design. Licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in Planning, Architecture, and Interiors for single family or multi-family homes, entertainment, retail or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library @ Omega and numerous private homes and additions. Unlock the potentials of your site, home or office, to foster greater design harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity.

The Fields Sculpture Park, a 150-acre exhibition venue for international contemporary art located 2 hours north of New York City, is seeking an experienced Director to the global art world. A background in contemporary art with emphasis on sculpture in all its current manifestations is necessary. Curatorial experience, while a plus, is not required. Director may or may not also curate, depending on candidates qualifications, and will work with and coordinate guest curators. To apply: Please submit a letter of interest including salary history, CV, and a list of at least three reference to Ruth Adams, Administrative Director, at Omi International Arts Center.

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R & F Handmade Paints

BUILDING SUPPLIES

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

Williams Lumber & Home Centers

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

AUTOMOBILES Ruge’s Subaru Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1057

BEAUTY Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620

CARPETS & RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311

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

DENTISTRY

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

COOKING CLASSES Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com

Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com

CINEMA

Atlantic Custom Homes

Upstate Films

2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY 1 (888) 558-2636 www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

Coffee System of the Hudson Valley 1 (800) 660-3175 www.homecoffeesystem.com

Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 22 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

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

BODY & SKIN CARE

CLOTHING

Essence MediSpa, LLC—Stephen Weinman, MD

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222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.com “Take Some Time Off” 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.

502 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-6620 corahales@kosaco.net Kosa is a unique indie store specializing in organic, recycled, green, independent clothing and jewelry designers. Our designers work with eco consciousness and style. We carry Stewart and Brown, Prairie Underground, Filly, Preloved, Beebop and Wally, Loveheals, Philippa Kunisch, Claudia Kussano, Individual icons, Supermaggie, and many many more...

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CUSTOM HOME DESIGN AND MATERIALS

We are Atlantic Custom Homes, Inc., the Hudson Valley’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.

BOOKSTORES

COLLEGE ADVISING

West Park, NY (845) 384-6146 www.barefootdancecenter.com info@barefootdancecenter.com

Mirabai of Woodstock

College Pathways—Kris Fox

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

Latham, NY (518) 782-1270 or 1 (800) 391-5272

6422 Montgomery Street, (Route 9), Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0500 www.oblongbooks.com A true general bookstore, Oblong stocks the best and most interesting books in all categories. Oblong is more than just a great bookstore, also offering the region’s best selection of music. Our CD club rewards you with a free CD with every 10 purchased. Open daily.

Barefoot Dance Center

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

Barefoot Dance Center offers classes in Modern Technique, Improvisation, Choreography, Creative Movement, Ballet, and Boys’ 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.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS

DANCEWEAR

Past ‘n’ Perfect

First Street Dancewear

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

Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.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

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EVENTS Locust Grove–The Samuel Morse Historic Site (845) 454-4500 www.moresehistoricsite.org

FAUX FINISHES Down Under Faux Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1040 downunderfaux.com murialcalderon@downunderfaux.com

Faux Intentions

(845) 679-7327 www.petpaintingusa.com

1 (800) 246-8648 www.InnerTraditions.com

Oblong Books & Music

S.,etting 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.

Pet Painting

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

The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/ interpretation available.

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

CUSTOM PORTRAITS

DANCE INSTRUCTION

Inner Traditions/Bear & Co.

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

Down Under Faux is the creation of Muriel Calderon, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as one’s imagination. Whether it’s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa, an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your Designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire.

531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500

BOOK PUBLISHERS

Mass Match (413) 665-3218 www.massmatch.com

For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural Foods Industry.

BEVERAGES

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The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today! Also located at 317 Kyserike Road, High Falls, NY, (845) 687-7676 and 2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY, (845) 677-2324.

DATING SERVICE

The Present Perfect

Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine “Best Carpets.” Direct importers since 1981. Natural-dyed Afghan carpets, Balouchi tribal kilims, Russian sumaks, antique Caucasian carpets, silk Persian sumaks, Turkish kilims. Hundreds to choose from, 2’x3’ to 9’x12’. Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

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6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

First Street dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warmups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items. We also feature a line of women’s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

(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 a multitude of ways. Camilla Mathlein—certified in BTB Feng Shui/Feng Shui Staging (CFSS)—Parsons School of Design.


GRAPHIC DESIGN 11:11 Studio—Kelli Bickman (646) 436-8663 www.kellibickman.net Full service design studio including murals, fine art, illustration & graphic design by award winning artist. Graphic design includes advertising, editorial, book/ magazine covers, sign painting, all aspects of print design/layout. Fine art/murals are tailored to your needs bringing art that will make your life rich with vivid color. Extensive client list.

Pi in the Sky Design (845) 613-0683 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 Loominus 3257 Route 212, Bearsville, NY (845) 679-6500 www.loominus.com

HEALTH FOOD Mother Earth Store House 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY www.motherearthstorehouse.com

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.

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 custom 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

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

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Founded in 1978, Mother Earth is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself! We can also be found at 804 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY, (845) 296-1069, and 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY, (845) 246-9614.

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.

Hummingbird Jewelers 20 West Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com

Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775 Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Owners Ronny and Michael Widener are committed to providing an inspired and diverse collection of jewelry, accessories, and artwork for your pleasure.

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

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LAWYERS & MEDIATORS

OUTFITTER

Law Office of Laura G. Shulman, PC

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369 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-7970 lgshulman@hotmail.com

Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-0552 www.atkenco.com

I am a divorce lawyer and mediator. I am trained and skilled in divorce mediation, and I also practice Collaborative Law. In Collaborative Law, parties agree not to go to court. Lawyers facilitate the negotiation of a separation agreement through informal meetings. Clients talk directly about their needs and those of their family.

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

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(608) 833-1555 www.erklaw.com; www.artslawyer.blogspot.com Copyright. Trademark. Arts and Entertainment. Russell Law serves musicians, writers, visual, and performing artists. Elizabeth T. Russell is a musician herself, admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and Wisconsin. Remarkably fluent in plain English, she is also the author of “Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Visual Artists.”

LODGING Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600; fax (845) 382-2700 www.kingston.hamptoninn.com poukg.hampton@hilton.com

Inn at Stone Ridge 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7036 info@innatstoneridge.com 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.

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, LLC (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir. Music instruction in piano, voice, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone. Individual and groups. Also special needs children and adults.

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PERFORMING ARTS Hudson River Performing Arts 29 Elm Street, Suite 205, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-1888 www.hudsonriverperformingarts.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.

PET SERVICES & SUPPLIES Pussyfoot Lodge B&B (845) 687-0330 www.pussyfootlodge.com The Pioneer in Professional Pet Care! Full house-pet-plant sitting service, proudly serving 3 counties in the Hudson Valley. 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.

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Photosensualis Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5333 www.photosensualis.com Fine Print Sales. Modern and Vintage Photography. Custom Sensual Portraiture. Confidential Digital Services. Free Consultations.

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

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(845) 331-1300 or (518) 537-2326 www.adamspiano.com ADAMSPIANO.com. Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our showroom on Route 28 between Kingston and Woodstock. Open by appointment only. Inventory and prices online. Superb service, rentals, storage, rebuilding.

PICTURE FRAMING Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com Don’t settle for less, benefit from the best! N&S Supply is a third generation family owned and run business for over 60 years. At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at competitive prices. Our experienced sales professionals will help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. Our service is what makes us the best and easiest supply house to deal with. Come and see why N&S Supply’s service is “Second to None.” N&S Supply offers many convenient locations throughout the Hudson Valley: Fishkill (845) 896-6291, Brewster (845) 279-8075, Kingston (845) 331-6700, Catskill (518) 943-2150, Hudson (518) 822-1771, and Danbury, CT (203) 791-9300.

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High Meadow School is a grassroots independent school where children and parents learn and grow. This progressive school places children at the center of a challenging curriculum with experiential, instructional, and integrated learning across the board, and prepares middle schoolers for higher learning with leadership training and community service.

Hudson Valley School of Advanced Aesthetic Skin Care 256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.hvsaesthetics.com info@hvsaesthetics.com With over 32 years of professional experience, Maria Ferguson, of the Hudson Valley School of Massage Therapy, is honored to offer you an extensive education, which will lead you to an exciting and rewarding career. She, along with an exclusive team of elite professional instructors have extended their affiliations in this learning institution through teaching, and are proud to thoroughly prepare and lead you into the next generation of Massage Therapists. HVSMT will groom you to cultivate a positive impact in the wellness industry. You will receive extensive hands-on and academic training in a nurturing, motivating environment.

Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care 256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSMassageTherapy.com info@hvsmassagetherapy.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

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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.

260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600, ext. 201 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org Poughkeepsie Day School, an independent co-educational school founded in 1934, serves 325 students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. With an intellectually challenging and creative curriculum that recognizes the strengths and talents of each child, we support them as they grow to become active, independent learners ready to take up the challenges of the future as global citizens. Small multi-graded classes and outstanding teachers create an atmosphere of mutual respect and trust. 100% of Poughkeepsie Day School graduates go on to college each year.

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SPAS & RESORTS Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 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.

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SUPERMARKETS Adams Fairacre Farms Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com Also located in Kingston, NY, (845) 336-6300 and Newburgh, NY, (845) 569-0303.

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A center for Thai Art and Culture in Beacon’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

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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.

WRITING SERVICES CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com Recent clients have sold first books to Penguin and Hyperion. But writing is not only about publication. I work with writers nationwide – memoirists, scholars, novelists, poets, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We work on drafting, overcoming blocks, reshaping text, querying agents & publishing houses, and more. My role? To mentor, edit, and/or ghostwrite – depending on the writer. Author of The Journey from the Center to the Page, I teach poetics and creative nonfiction in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

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whole living guide

twist of lyme Taking Aim at Lyme Disease Following last month’s review of Lyme disease’s characteristics and frequent misdiagnosis, this month’s focus is on multifaceted, holistic treatment approaches.

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f you haven’t delved into Lyme disease literature, it’s tempting to think of the illness in terms of its sound bite: You get it from a tick, and then get rid of it with antibiotics. Even a cursory search for details about the disease reveals that to be a vastly simplified and even inaccurate description. A chat with a Lyme-literate medical doctor or an informed naturopath, nutritionist, other complementary practitioner, as well as Lyme patients and their families, reveals a whole other scenario. “This is the number-one vector-borne illness, and it’s spreading worldwide,” says Dr. Richard Horowitz, a physician and Lyme disease expert at Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center in Hyde Park. “It is basically an incredible, silent epidemic. Lyme tests are unreliable and they test for just one or two strains, while there are a hundred strains of Lyme in the US, and 300 worldwide.” And antibiotics are not the silver bullet they are made out to be. Horowitz is one of a growing number of physicians who are convinced that a single, few-weeks round of antibiotics is insufficient for a number of patients. Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme-causing spirochete, is a tricky pathogen. It takes three forms, one that succumbs to antibiotics, but two that do not and can escape the immune system’s notice by entering cells or settling in areas with poor immune surveillance. “Unless people get antibiotics in the first few weeks,” says Horowitz, “they have a 99.99-percent chance of relapse. PCR testing [polymerase chain reaction, which detects pathogen DNA] shows that people can be positive after years of treatment. These bugs are very hard to eliminate.” Horowitz adds, “People need to realize that the ticks contain so many coinfections—babesiosis, ehrlichiosis, cat-scratch fever, mycoplasma, viruses—that most patients don’t have just Lyme, but also these coinfections.” Dr. Allan Sachs, a chiropractor and certified clinical nutritionist in Red Hook, explains that the Lyme spirochete is probably endemic—present in our population at a certain level, including in people who are carriers and show no symptoms as long as they are in good health with an effective immune system. “It’s hard to imagine that anybody who enjoys the outdoors or who has animals hasn’t been in contact with this. People assume they will find a tick, but because tick bites don’t itch or swell, many don’t realize they were bitten. Even the nymphs [one of the tick’s tiniest life stages] can be carriers. So there is a very good chance that there are many more people who have the spirochete than show symptoms.” Among those who are symptomatic, a hallmark of Lyme disease is that symptoms clear for a while and then recur. This portrait of Borrelia burgdorferi is similar to certain other endemic pathogens, such as herpes viruses. Some herpes carriers rarely have symptoms, except at times of stress or poor health. Streptococcal bacteria are another

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example:They inhabit the mouth and throat of many of us harmlessly, until the immune system is at a lull. Then they flourish, causing sore throat and serious infections. “These are opportunistic pathogens,” says Sachs. “They are there all the time, but they only manifest symptomologically when there is a drop in immune-system surveillance.”

ENTER COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES Antibiotics are meant to work in concert with a healthy body and a good immune system. So Horowitz tests his patients thoroughly for indicators of insufficient immunity or poor health that undermine the antibiotics’ power, rob the body’s ability to tolerate the drugs, and make residual infection more likely. Horowitz finds that “many people have heavy metal toxins, hormonal abnormalities, thyroid problems, vitamin B12 deficiencies, or psychological issues. You need to consider all these if someone is not getting better. So we also go after hormones, look at inflammatory cytokines, open up detox pathways, make sure people are getting enough sleep, and address stresses and psychological issues.” Horowitz, who is currently vice president of International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society and its past president, says “I don’t want patients to be on antibiotics the rest of their lives, so I use natural protocols. There are many complementary therapies out there.” He has seen many patients get symptom relief with Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, and with individual herbs or combinations. Horowitz currently favors the Cowden protocol, which he learned about at a Lyme disease conference from a colleague who said he had been having 95-percent success in symptom relief. Horowitz’s reaction at the time: “No way.” He decided to test the protocol himself by dividing 200 patients whose symptoms persisted after antibiotics into four treatment groups to compare the full protocol against a subset of the herbs, with or without additional antibiotics. While about 30 percent of people had no response or had problems tolerating the herbs, 70 percent had relief in hallmark symptoms such as joint pain, muscle pain, and numbness. Those who failed to improve, he noted, had resistant coinfections. Devised by physicianWilliam Lee Cowden, the protocol is a several-months’ regimen of diverse mineral, herb, and enzyme preparations taken sequentially to accomplish multiple tasks: kill bacteria, detoxify the body, replenish good nutritional status, alleviate pain, and boost immunity. Some of the herbs in the protocol are pinella, burbur, amantilla, parsley, and samento; there are others, and the specifics of how much and when to take them are complex and adapted to individual health status, body weight, and reactions to the herbs. The protocol should be undertaken only with an expert’s guidance.


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Bill Levitt, an art historian and print maker in Red Hook who is now being treated by Horowitz, has had symptoms of Lyme over a span of about 10 years. “Four times I have found a tick or a bite, but not the last couple of times,” he says. His symptoms have been various and changing. “I’ve had a lot of stomach problems, fatigue, and I feel like I’m working with half a brain now, though I don’t know how much of that is aging.” He’s seen several doctors and gotten many explanations. “Once, I was so stiff it was hard to get up and down the stairs,” he says. “I went to a doctor a couple of years ago for muscle and joint pain that moved around. If it were arthritis, or bursitis, it would be in one location. The doctor said it was migratory arthritis, not Lyme, because my Lyme test was negative.” Levitt is being treated by Horowitz, taking the Cowden herbs and probiotics, and is on antibiotics again for ehrlichiosis. He’s found that acupuncture can sometimes alleviate symptoms. There are myriad alternative Lyme treatments on the market. Horowitz is constantly testing herbs and other therapies, such as glutathione to improve natural detoxification pathways, or DMSA, an oral chelating agent that removes mercury and lead. He warns, though, that alternative therapies are not well monitored, and many of them have not been well tested. Does Horowitz think complementary therapies could replace antibiotics? “The antibiotics are extremely helpful,” he says, “and many people will not get better with herbs alone. It depends on a lot of things. But you can’t leave people on antibiotics forever.” One of the more popular alternative routes to vanquish Lyme symptoms is a Rife machine. Horowitz says he has never heard of any great success stories about them, but people are definitely trying them. A Rife machine produces light at frequencies to match light emitted by bacteria, and in so doing purportedly destroys them. The machine’s inventor, Royal Raymond Rife, devised special microscopes in the 1920s that had superior optics and illumination techniques that allowed viewing of living bacteria, which is how he observed both the emitted light (“bacterial aura”) and the ability of matching light frequencies to destroy them. Some people report Lyme disease symptom relief with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which involves spending an hour or so daily, typically for 30 or more sessions, inside a chamber infused with 100 percent oxygen at a pressure higher than ambient atmosphere. Normally, red blood cells leaving the lungs carry oxygen near their maximum capacity, but the plasma portion of blood is low in oxygen. While under pressure in the chamber, inhaled oxygen dissolves into blood plasma and achieves higher-than-normal oxygen concentrations in tissues and cells. This enhances certain cellular activities, including immune cell function and tissue repair in swollen, inflamed areas where infection is underway and fluid flow is sluggish. Further, studies suggest that Borrelia does not survive well in high-oxygen environments. A study in 1997 at the Texas A&M Hyperbaric Laboratory documented significant improvement in 85 percent of Lyme patients, all previously treated with antibiotics.

MICROFLORA MAYHEM Antibiotics are usually prescribed for just a few weeks because of possible side effects, ranging from minor nausea to life-threatening organ damage, and because overuse drives emergence of drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics also wipe one’s bacterial slate clean, eliminating pathogens and benign microbes alike. But we depend on the beneficial bacteria that inhabit our nooks and crannies to take up space and nutrients that harmful bacteria could utilize. A crew of helpful bacteria in the colon not only produces vitamins that we need and assists with the rapid breakdown and detoxification of food residues, but also keep populations of harmful bacteria and yeast (Candida albicans) in check. Yeast and the beneficial bacteria coexist, constituting our intestinal microflora; each make substances that hinder the other’s survival. But when antibiotics wipe out bacteria, yeast can thrive. Yeast infections and chronic intestinal turmoil are problems that Lyme patients often battle if they take antibiotics for many weeks or months to tackle lingering Borrelia infection or coinfections from tick bites. Sachs, who is an expert in yeast colonization and in restoring microflora balance, says, “With a chronic imbalance in the intestine, yeast can become a real danger.They are fermenting sugar and producing alcohol that gets into your blood.” That problem, termed autodistillery syndrome, damages nearby intestinal cells and harms organs that help detoxify the body and support immune function. Further, bacteria can’t grow in alcohol, so the yeast-dominated imbalance perpetuates 96 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 11/08

itself, blocking the reestablishment of a healthy bacterial population. “So now you need to treat yeast imbalance,” Sachs says, “which is a whole other treatment from the Lyme. It entails a strict diet low in white sugar and carbs, no alcohol whatsoever, avoidance of fermented foods, avoiding chlorinated water, and taking probiotics to repopulate the intestinal microflora.” Probiotics are oral supplements that contain several essential types of bacteria (foods containing these, in living form, are also an option). Sachs emphasizes that many patients take probiotics only during antibiotic treatment, but they should continue to take them for at least three to four weeks after the end of antibiotics to get the greatest benefit.

IMMUNE HEALTH ESSENTIALS For asymptomatic people with low-level populations of Lyme spirochetes, a period of stress, either physical or emotional, can diminish immune function and allow resident bacteria to proliferate. Symptoms return in the absence of a new tick bite or rashes, stumping doctors who don’t know about or believe in the recurrent nature of Lyme. “It accentuates the need for holistic care,” says Sachs. An important part of immune health, he explains, is the adrenal glands. “Anything that stresses the adrenals stresses the immune system. They are like the entry point to the immune system. Because they are part neurological and part hormonal tissue, they interface between neurological/psychological stress, and also hormonal stresses.” Because of this, immune support protocols, using herbs and/or minerals, typically include components to replenish adrenal reserves. “Nutrient supports for adrenals include the vitamins B and C, and a variety of herbal supplements such as ginseng, rhodiola, and ashwagandha,” he adds. And avoid the adrenal stimulants, nicotine and caffeine. “Adrenals work best through the natural stimulation of moderate to intense exercise on a regular basis,” says Sachs. “Caffeine should be eliminated or limited to a small amount, but if you can’t manage that, organic green tea might be an acceptable compromise, since it does contain beneficial bioflavonoids and antioxidants.” Sachs also highly recommends forms of relaxation (drug-free), and finding ways to nurture happiness, contentment, and laughter.These reduce stress and give adrenals a chance to recover. Sufficient sleep is important, too. “Restful sleep, at least seven to eight hours, is what most people need,” Sachs advises. “If that’s a problem, taking drugs to fall asleep is not usually recommended.There is a debate about whether the depth and restfulness of drug-induced sleep is sufficiently rejuvenating.” Instead, he recommends 5HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) as a good herbal sleeping aid (except for people who are taking antidepressants that influence serotonin; consult your doctor). It is a form of tryptophan, an amino acid that is a precursor in the body’s synthesis of serotonin, and it acts both as a mood enhancer and a sleep inducer. Good immune function also requires a healthy diet. But it’s also important to look for and eliminate allergens. “Even with a healthy diet and a full range of vitamins and minerals, you may be sensitive to foods,” says Sachs. “Hidden food allergies are often overlooked. If you are constantly having an allergic reaction, like to wheat or milk, it exhausts the adrenals.” A nutritionist or holistic doctor can evaluate food allergies and recommend food choices to maximize immune health. Another reason to work toward excellent overall health while battling Lyme pathogens or coinfections is that as bacteria succumb to treatments, they rupture, releasing floods of damaging toxins. Symptoms of infection can recur or markedly worsen during this time. This response to a pathogen die-off is called the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, or simply Herx reaction. Besides being a serious medical issue in some patients, the Herx reaction is a clinical sign that a patient had an infection that was impacted by the treatment. If you have Lyme disease, or think you do, don’t be discouraged at the mountain of information erupting about this illness, making its sound-bite characterization close to meaningless. Share your own experience and learning with others. Read Stephen Buhner’s Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections (Raven Press, 2005). Watch the documentary film Under Our Skin (recently at the Woodstock Film Festival, now on tour and for sale; www.underourskin.com). Work with a Lyme-experienced nutritionist or herbalist and other complementary practitioners in concert with a medical doctor. Medical experts continue to learn as they go, too. Says Horowitz, as he dashes off to another annual Lyme conference, “Twenty years and eleven thousand patients later, I’m working on pieces of the puzzle.”


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Flowers Fall

Field Notes from a Buddhist Mom’s Experimental Life By Bethany Saltman

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his morning Azzie and I ate breakfast at her little table, chatting about the upcoming day, random facts, and lists of all the people she knows. The routine. But last night T and I watched the vice presidential debate, so I was listening to the radio more intently than usual, desperate for reassurance that the world saw through Sarah Palin’s robotic performance. Perhaps I had a faraway look on my face, indicating that I wasn’t 100-percent present with the little darling as she munched away on her veggie sausage, reminiscing about how she fell off her stool last night, “but my boo-boo doesn’t hurt anymore right now.” “Great!” I answered. She continued, “Mama, look! Jimmy [the cat] just jumped onto the table! We don’t jump on tables!!!” She stared at me, as if on pause, her eyes and mouth aghast, ready for confirmation that, “No, we don’t jump on tables! Silly cat!” accompanied by a big tickle. But instead, distracted by reports of Palinlovin’ voters, I simply responded, “It’s okay, honey, Jimmy can do that.” Obviously unsatisfied, Azzie asked me, “Mama, why do you have your head like this?” turning her own head toward the radio. “I guess I’m trying to listen to the radio.” So, of course, she walked over to the radio and turned it off. Before I had children, I would have read the above and clucked to myself, thinking, “So? Turn it back on!” Part of me still agrees, but it’s not as simple as it looks. Take this morning: If I had just marched up to her like in the movies and said, “Azalea! You may not turn off the radio while mommy is listening to it,” I would have instantly engaged in a power struggle, which most certainly would have included at least one tantruming body thrashing about, and certainly two minds spending the rest of the morning vacillating in drama.Yuck! If I said nothing, knowing I could listen to the radio later, I would have “given in,” encouraging more spoiled behavior, or so I feared. If I took a moment and softened my body, approaching her with exaggerated surprise, pretending I was “shocked!” that she be so bold and made a big, gentle joke out of it, adding some fart noises on her neck, then I would most likely been able to listen to the radio fuss-free, Azalea would have gotten the picture, and harmony would be restored. If I were more like Sarah Palin, I would be able to do this all the time; my talking points would never be far from reach. But, what can I say? Sometimes “I just don’t waaaaaant to!!!!” I have had a lot of relationships in my 39 years. In every other, the way Azalea treats me would be considered unfair at best and abusive at worst, and all my friends would advise me to leave her at once. I mean, look, she is totally control-

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ling, needs to be at the center of the universe at every moment, is completely unappreciative, and can’t even wipe her own fanny! Girl, you can do better! (But you should see the way she looks at me, and the way she smells….) So I understand why it’s difficult to always remember, “Oh, right, she’s not just acting like a two-year-old,” and refrain from have an even bigger fit myself. The thing that freaks me out is how I am not just learning how to do this thing (i.e., being a mature adult), in a classroom or on my meditation cushion, but live, with the most rapt audience one could ever hope for, or recoil from, depending on one’s disposition. The girl totally studies me—literally watching—then immediately copies the way I greet a friend, cross my legs at the table, talk to small things, cave under pressure, and push the hair out of my eyes (apparently, I couple that gesture with the comment, “Oh my gosh, my hair really is really in my eyes a lot today.”). As someone who’s not always crazy about what she sees in the mirror, it can be brutal to see myself parading around in the body of a two-year-old. Part of what’s been so healing about Zen has been learning to trust my teacher, Daido Roshi. I tend to think that my teacher, being “enlightened” and all (whatever that means), should be perfect, not in the Buddhist sense of a person being completely oneself, but in the—dare I say—Christian sense of measuring up to some standard. It is humbling to see my teacher’s truly perfect imperfection and appreciate that yes, he is teaching me in every moment that I am his student, but that doesn’t mean he is walking around thinking, “How can I teach Bethany about compassion today?” It just happens, and it happens between us. Likewise with Azalea. Sometimes I am really “parenting,” but mostly, it just happens. Unfortunately, she hasn’t exactly chosen me as her teacher (though some Buddhists would disagree); also, when we met, she was a one-second old infant, not an already-formed person coming to Zen and looking for answers; and I was, and still am, quite deluded. In other words, she’s so vulnerable! Luckily, Azalea also has a devoted father, extended family, and loving community to help show her the way. But it’s painful to think of my own darkness— my impatience, anger, judging mind—and imagine that, as hard as I try not to, I’m transmitting that mind to her—the one I love so, so deeply. How could I not? I am transmitting myself. I had the good fortune of attending a “mondo” (a question-and-answer session with the teacher) at the monastery the other day. One of the first questions I heard was from a student who asked about forgiveness. She was teary, talking about people she wanted to forgive, but wasn’t sure how. Daido was so gentle when he answered, “Forgive yourself.”


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(845) 750-6488 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. It’s 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 things…there are no short cuts. These esoteric practices have brought health, vitality and youthfulness, to me and my students, some of whom are in their 70’s and 80’s. The only requirements for Chi Gung and Tai Chi Chuan are determined practice of the principles and the will to persevere.

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IONE—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 Maåt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Women’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.

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HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing (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.

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Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT— Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796

Dragonfly Holistic 1181 North Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 463-2802 www.dragonflyholistic.com

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.

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

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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.

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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 self-awareness, empowering them to find joy, balance, and health in their daily lives. Call for classes, appointments, and consultations.

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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.

INTEGRATED KABBALISTIC HEALING Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

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LIFE COACHING Jessica Thayer, LLC 1 (800) 291-5576 www.jessicathayer.com 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 initial consultation online.

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

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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.

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

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 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.

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(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 health home and personal concerns, spa consultantm 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 Alice Velky LMT, RYT,, (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 with Licensed Massage Therapy, Reiki, Polarity & Chakra Balancing, and Therapeutic Yoga; flower essences, all-natural and organic oils, herbs and body products; 16 years experience.

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. Offices in Poughkeepsie and Pawling. Massage by appointment.

MEDITATION Kadampa Meditation Center 47 Sweeny Road, Glen Spey, NY (845) 856-9000 www.kadampaNewYork.org

MIDWIFERY Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 womanway@gmail.com Since the 1970’s 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.

NON TOXIC CLEANING SERVICES Bless Your Hearth—Truly Natural Cleaning Services (845) 706-8447 Soundofspheres@aol.com 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!


Vicki Koenig, MS, RD, CDN 7 Innis Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2398 www.Nutrition-wise.com Creating Wellness for individuals and businesses. Nutrition counseling: combining traditional and integrative solutions to enhance well-being. Corporate Wellness fairs, assessments, classes and programs for businesses wanting to improve employee productivity. Providing help with Diabetes, Cardiovascular conditions, Weight loss, Digestive support, Women’s health, and Pediatric Nutrition.

huntermountainhouse.com $325 includes all training, new rooms, food, hot tub....more. Rooms / house / space for rent to live and for your retreat weekend. Reiki Clinic/Home Circle every other week.

Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

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Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of one’s life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.

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138 Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1700 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com

Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-doctoral candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents. Additional opportunities available for intensive psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

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Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By appointment. For more information call or visit the website. Also located at 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589.

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PASTORAL COUNSELING Lifepath (845) 657-9835 www.lifepathtransformations.com

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.

The Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715 www.themovingbody.com Offering Pilates and GyrotonicÂŽ, FeldenkraisÂŽ, and Pilates Teacher Training.

PSYCHICS Lorry Salluzzi Sensei (845) 688-5672 www.psychic-healer.tv lorrysallu@yahoo.com Pyshic Development with Reiki I Certification only $50. Reiki Master Certification $500 by appointment. Psychic Medium Readings $25 per 15 minutes. Medium Training Retreat Weekend: 11/9-11/11 www.

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

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

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.

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(845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

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

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Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac. Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine 87 East Market St. Suite 102 Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com

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Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy.

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, attachment in adoption, 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 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.

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current problems, and cognitive which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.

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.org; www.youtube. com/watch?v=OrwvSF2Bp_k julieezweig@gmail.com

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Rosen Method is distinguished by its gentle, direct touch. Using listening hands, 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 Julie’s listing under Psychotherapy.

SCHOOLS Institute for Integrative Nutrition (877) 730-5444; (212) 730-5433 www.integrativenutrition.com admissions@integrativenutrition.com Study at the largest nutrition school featuring live weekend classes in New York City with the world’s leaders in health and wellness.

SKIN CARE The Body Studio (845) 255-3512 www.thebodystudionewpaltz.com

SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com There is a silk road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa; a place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more well-known treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments. Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room and relaxation area...all included with your spa visit. Day spa appointments available.

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

SPIRITUAL Healing, Pathwork & Channeling by Flowing Spirit Healing (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully the love and the abundance of God’s universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. University of Spiritual Healing & Sufism healing, Pathwork and channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions.


STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Hudson Valley Structural Integration 26 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4654 www.theiasi.org; www.anatomytrains.com Ryan Flowers and Krisha Showalter are NY State Licensed Massage Therapists with additional professional training and Certification in Structural Integration and Visceral Osteopathic Manipulation. We offer advanced manual therapy specializing in chronic pain conditions, structural/postural alignment, movement re-education and rehabilitation. We are committed to providing a high level of skill in manual therapy, utilizing intelligent principles to guide the use of techniques, detailed visual and manual assessments and soft tissue manipulation that is communicative and receptive to the individual and their body’s systems. Free Consultations.

SUPERMARKETS Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy Convenient locations throughout New York www.hannaford.com

SWIM LESSONS Total Immersion Swim Studio 246 Main Street, Suite 15A, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4242 www.totalimmersion.net

TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson—Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

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,

YOGA Ashtanga Yoga of New Paltz 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 430-7402 www.ashtangaofnewpaltz.com Offering Ashtanga/Vinyasa style yoga classes for all levels seven days a week. This style of yoga is both therapeutic and dance-like. 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.

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For the love of food. Whatever your tastebuds are craving we’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. We’ll see you there!

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

Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.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.

When was the last time someone really listened to your body? Roy Capellaro, PT Integrative Manual Physical Therapy Zero Balancing CranioSacral Therapy 125 Main Street ¡ Gardiner ¡ NY 845.518.1070 www.roycapellaro.com 11/08 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY

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Taste our award winning artisinal cheese made right here in our creamery. Cheese-making classes available. Please call the market for reservations.

• Live Jazz—Friday and Saturday—Starts at 6pm

Cheese Orders are taken 7 days a week through cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org or call. We ship via UPS Monday-Thursday. Gift Baskets Available. Gear up for the holidays with a variety of gourmet cheeses.

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COME VISIT SPROUT CREEK FARM. Enjoy the farm and the animals during your visit. Open to the public year-round kids always welcome! After-school camp opportunities available. Learn, connect, and eat healthy foods— it’s another way to save the children. Call or go on-line for an application (845-485-8438) www.sproutcreekfarm.org. 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie NY ~ 845-485-9885 www.sproutcreekfarm.org ~ cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org Friday-Saturday 10–6pm ~ Sunday 10–4pm

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Juanjo Garcia, Defne Enc, and Antonio Hidalgo, dancers of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, which will perform at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center this month.

SHOW ME SOME OF THAT SPANISH DANCING When you read the word flamenco, what comes to mind? Perhaps you see women dancing in flaring dresses, men moving to snappy music. If so, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana aptly fits your imagination. But true to the world of flamenco, the performance group offers more than vibrant costumes and quick steps. On Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will present its 25th anniversary production at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli. The show, which will be the culmination of the group’s two-week residency at the center, will feature a variety of traditional flamenco dances. Performers involved are not limited to dancers, but include guitarists and singers as well. Carlota Santana, who started the dance group in 1983 with a fellow dancer and choreographer, said the residency has made her feel like Kaatsbaan is a second home away from the group’s center in Madrid. “We live in Tivoli and at Kaatsbaan for two weeks,” Santana explained. “We perform, rehearse, work on lighting and sound and all kinds of stage direction, getting those things ready to go on tour.” According to Santana, the motivation behind starting the group was to “push the envelope, doing modern, besides traditional, flamenco.” But Santana considers the performance’s most entrancing piece to be the guajira, a traditional flamenco dance for which its dancer wears the bata de cola. The bata de cola is a dress with a long train that demands the expertise of a master. Santana explained that dancers of the

guajira must take specific classes to learn not only how to dance around the dress’s tail, but to use it as a tool, incorporating it into the dance’s fiery movements. “It’s a very special technique,” said Santana, “and it’s something new and different that people may not have seen before.” The element of the exotic is part of the group’s artistic mission, which Santana said is to introduce the dance form to those unfamiliar to it, and to “let them understand that it’s an important part of Hispanic culture.” Along with its cultural steeping, Santana feels flamenco performance is an outlet to be used by both dancers and audience members. “Flamenco allows dancers to express themselves, and I think audience members respond to that,” Santana said. To the emotionally hungry, whom Santana considers to be anyone, really, flamenco is not just a source of entertainment, but of individual satisfaction. “I think the most important part of flamenco is its emotional expression, which is universal,” Santana said. “Everybody is happy, sad, angry, or jealous maybe. You see all these things in flamenco.” Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will perform at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center on Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 pm and on Sunday, November 23 at 2:30pm. Tables can be reserved for $30, and seated tickets can be purchased for $25. Students may purchase tickets at the door for $10. (845) 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org. —Cade Aespen 11/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST


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Mosaic Mirror Demo by Sharon Adler 1pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Taj Mahal Trio 8pm. $34/$29. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

Works by Pattie Eakin 3pm-5pm. Gardiner Public Library, Gardiner. Eakinpattie@aol.com.

Dorraine Scofield and Thunder Ridge 9pm. Hickory BBQ Smokehouse, Kingston. 338-2424.

River & the Rondout 5pm-8pm. Watercolors by Claudia Engel. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Parallel Worlds 6pm. Performance art exhibition by Sun Ock Lee. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491. Art x 2 7pm. Evelyne Pouget (oil and oil pastels) and Scott Cronin (abstract geometric ink & pencil). Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.

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Shane Kirsch and The Fuzzy Flow 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra All-Bach Program 8pm. $20/$5 students. Pointe of Praise Family Life Center, Kingston. 246-7045.

Sustenance and Excess 5pm-8pm. Exhibition of work by Bard senior art students. ASK Art Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

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Hudson Valley Artisans Guild 10am-4pm. Fall craft fair. Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie. 463-7810.

Paintings by Peter Barrett 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. Kmoca.org.

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BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Introduction to Zen Training Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Lighten Up Weekend Call for times. How to lose weight from your mind, body and spirit. Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Lenox, MA. (800) 741-7353. Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925. Yoga for Bones Class 9:30am-10:30am. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836.

Ellis Paul 9pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Marc Black Band with Uncle Monk 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Upstart Blues All Stars 9pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277. The Ray Spiegel Ensemble 9pm. Indo-jazz with special guest vocalist Raka Mukherjee. Woodstock Mothership, Woodstock. 684-5216. The Rhodes 9:30pm. Rock. Mulligan’s Irish House, Poughkeepsie. 486-9044. Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500. The Big Takeover 11pm. Snug Harbor, New Paltz. 255-9800.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike: Verkeerder Kill Falls 9:30am-4pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Walk Locust Grove 10am. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 473-5557. For the Birds 10am. $5/$3. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Nighttime Hike 6pm. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

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CLASSES

Kingston High School Crew Team Storytime/ Demonstration 11am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Interpreting the Landscape 1pm-Wednesday, November 5, 4pm. $130/4 classes. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Poetry Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Jake St. John, Colleen Keenan, and Dave Spinelli. Baby Grand Bookstore, Warwick. 294-8085.

Seeing Color and Light Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Symphony Space’s At Last an Election! 8pm. Comedy with Isaiah Sheffer and Jane Curtin. $40. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Beginning Oil with William Noonan 10am-12:30pm. 5 weekly sessions. $155. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Green Construction 10am-1pm. Course on advanced building methods. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

DANCE Swinging Moments: Benefit for Alzheimer’s Call for times. 6:15pm dance lesson, 7pm performance, featuring Swingin’ Jive Patrol & Dan Shaut. Kingston High School, Kingston. 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.

EVENTS A Halloween Theme Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Benefit Call for times. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 338-2887. Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Putting DNA to Work Call for times. Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium, Schenectady. (518) 382-7890. Two Silly Fathers 11am. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8000.

Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

THEATER Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Anna in the Tropics 4pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Doubt 8pm. Mohonk Mountain Stage Company. $16/$12 members + $2 at the door. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. They’re Playing Our Song 8pm. $17/$15 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965. The Best of Broadway 8pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Some Girl(s) 8pm. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $15/$12 seniors and students. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

WORKSHOPS Create Your Own Greeting Card 10:30am. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

FILM Double Feature: King and Kennedy and Of Mice and Men 9pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

KIDS El Dia de los Muertos 11am-1pm. Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589. Jack and the Beanstalk 11am. Spring Valley Puppet Theatre. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC The People’s Open Mike 7pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Randy Stern 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Coffee House Evening 7pm. Emceed by Dominic Kelly & Loren O’Connell. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Paprika Benefit Concert 7:30pm. $30/$5 children. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448. Steven Curtis Chapman & Michael W. Smith 7:30pm. Contemporary. $44-$54. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. TEN 27: The Black Book Project 7:30pm. $20/$15 students. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Colorado String Quartet 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

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SUNDAY 2 ART A Evening of the World’s Best Short Films Call for times. $12. GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Fall Ceramics and Jewelry Show Call for times. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Parallel Worlds 2pm. Performance art exhibition by Sun Ock Lee and photo visuals by Howard Finkelson. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491. Translucent Porcelain Objects by Deborah Goldman 3pm-4pm. Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-0888.

CLASSES Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Still Life Painting with Mary Mugele Sealfon 12pm-1:30pm. 5 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS To the Skies: Poetic Visions of the Heavens through Glazing 6pm-8pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

DANCE Swing Dance Jam 5:30pm-8pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 339-3032.


FILM THE PRIDE IMAGE PROVIDED

Nancy McNultey and Gerard Hurley star in The Pride, filmed locally and written and directed by Hurley, which will be screened at Upstate Films this month.

From the Barroom to the Big Screen The new film The Pride deals with situations so bleak and so forthright, from alcoholism to wife battering, that the overeager cineaste might presume Gerard Hurley—an expatriate from County Cork living in Tivoli—had carved this chunk of celluloid directly from his own bruised heart. But Hurley insists the storyline sprang from his imagination. “Every relationship I’ve ever had in my life has been very tumultuous and problematic,” he allows, “but never abusive.” The Pride will play a weeklong engagement at Upstate Films beginning November 7, with a special post-screening discussion with Hurley—the screenwriter, director, and star—that evening at 7pm. Known to locals as the owner-proprietor of the Black Swan, a popular Tivoli pub, Hurley, 40, worked on screenplays when he wasn’t drawing pints. From concept to screenplay, The Pride took him a little more than a year. By his own reckoning, he’s a fast writer, “but I’m one of those people who has to write a lot of shite before I get anything good.” In fact, The Pride is the sibling of no fewer than 18 unproduced screenplays. The most promising near-miss had involved Stanley Tucci, whose production company optioned a piece titled Jesus, Blood, and Vodka, which Hurley had completed almost a decade ago. But, ultimately, Tucci could not find studio support for the gritty Bronx tale. The Pride examines a theme that also looms in Hurley’s previous works: troubled relationships, between man and woman, as well as man and his Maker. The story is rife with humble but indelible characters and was crafted with a nod toward Hurley’s favorite directors: Brits Ken Loach and Mike Leigh and Dutchess County neighbor John Sayles. In The Pride, Hurley plays Mickey, an Irish national adrift in America who has run

afoul of his family, his religion, and life itself. Just sprung from prison, he comes home to seek forgiveness from Sarah, the wife he battered during his last blackout. The dialogue crackles, but so do the awkward silences. Most affecting is Mickey’s own rough-hewn mug, suggesting a dog that has been whipped for most of its life. This was Hurley’s first acting gig. The Pride is a true low-budget indie film, shot on video and paid for with just over $60,000 in maxed-out credit cards, Hurley estimates. The costs were minimized by sheer resourcefulness: Hurley hammered together sets in his own basement, found props at the Salvation Army thrift shop, shot the movie in pieces over three months, and cobbled much of the cast from Black Swan regulars. Nancy McNultey, whose performance as Sarah is both profane and heartbreaking, was found through a Manhattan audition. Shooting the film, the first-time director said, was akin to immersion in an “emotional mosh pit.” But that’s not a complaint. The positive response to The Pride has encouraged Hurley to liberate other works from his drawers, including a piece about a man who emerges from a coma after six years and another about a sex addict. “I wish I could write science fiction or something,” he says, with ripe self-mockery. “I think life would be less painful and a lot easier.” The Pride will be shown at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck from November 7 through November 9. A post-screening discussion with Hurley will be held on November 7 at 7pm. (845) 876-2515; www.upstatefilms.org. —Jay Blotcher 11/08 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST

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EVENTS Antique Postcard Show 10am. $8. Midtown Neighborhood Center, Kingston. 338-4825. 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Open House and Book Festival 10am-2pm. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

FILM

Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.

WEDNESDAY 5 CLASSES Singing Classes Call for times. Indian Ragas, Bhajans, folk songs, and chants by acclaimed North Indian classical vocalist Raka Mukherjee. Vivekananda Retreat-Ridgely, Stone Ridge. 687-4574. Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Pastel Techniques with Shawn Dell Joyce 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 Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS Historical Society Annual Awards Gala Call for times. Grandview, Poughkeepsie. 471-1630. 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.

Double Feature: King and Kennedy and Of Mice and Men Call for times. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Time Lapse Dance Company 7:30pm. Postmodern. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.

KIDS

EVENTS

Pastel Workshop with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-12pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Railroad Street Youth Project Call for times. Dinner program. $50. Pearl’s Restaurant, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-7767.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Mystic Landscapes Paintings by Peter Ritzer. Deborah Davis Fine Art, Inc., Hudson. (518) 822-1885.

FILM

EVENTS

KIDS

Citizen Cane 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Woodstock Farm Festival Pot Luck 6pm-9pm. End of the season celebration. Oriole 9, Woodstock. OR9-5763.

Exploring Nature Through Art 1pm-2pm. For ages 4-5. $60/$48. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Ralph’s World 2pm. $15/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

MUSIC Split the Bill 11am. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Randy Stern 12pm. Alternative. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Jazz Brunch with Joyce Lyons 1pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Sound of Mbira 2pm. Music from Zimbabwe. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 597-4277. Berkshire Music School: Joey & Friends 2pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

KIDS Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Children’s Bilingual Storytime 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

SPOKEN WORD

MUSIC

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra All-Bach Program 2pm. $20/$5 students. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 246-7045.

Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series 2:30pm. Peter Carey. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Faculty Recital 2pm. Kellogg Music Center at Bard College, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-4400.

Science and Society in the Age of Galileo and Descartes 4:30pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Open Mike 5pm. Featuring Ken Sikula & Fred Coddington. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Alex Bartholemew 5pm. Recent fossil discoveries in the Hudson Valley. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.

Ken Sikula & Fred C 5:30pm. Open mike. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Poetry Open Mike 7pm. Featuring Samuel Claiborn. $4. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble 9pm. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

THE OUTDOORS Elderhostel Program- Five Mountains In Five Days: Hiking The Catskill High Peaks Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205. Go Fly a Kite 8am. Learn how wind power can be harnessed to make things go. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204. Family Hiking Club 12pm-2pm. $3. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Stress Less Strategies for Students 7pm. Video conference. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.

WORKSHOPS Braindance 10:30am. Help your memory, alignment, coordination and more by learning the braindance. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Autism 11:30am-1pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

TUESDAY 4 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tai Chi & Qigong for Busy People 6pm-7pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447.

CLASSES

THEATER Mamma Mia Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Anna in the Tropics 1:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Best of Broadway 2pm. $20/$18. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Some Girl(s) 7pm. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $15/$12 seniors and students. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

WORKSHOPS Open Pit Fired Pots 11am-1pm. $100/$85 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Introduction to Artist’s Books 12pm-4pm. Introduction to the visual, textual and conceptual possibilities of books. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

MONDAY 3 ART Beth Dow and Keith Taylor: English Gardens & Manors Call for times. Iris Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9663.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

CLASSES Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939. 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. Pet Portraits with Ann Marie Nitti, 6pm-8pm. 4 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

FORECAST CHRONOGRAM 11/08

That Ruby! 10am. Story time. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Linda Russell: Songs of Political Campaigns 6pm-7pm. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh. 569-3136. New Member Breakfast 7:30am-9am. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. Terrace Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Jen Clapp CD Release Party 6pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

KIDS

MUSIC

Vassar Camerata 2pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus of Dreams 6pm. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

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Decorative Painting with Nancy Reed Jones 7pm-9pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Adult Drop in and Paint 10am-12pm. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Ballroom Dance Swing & Hustle 6:30pm-7:30pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447. Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

FILM Frankenstein 8pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

MUSIC Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students in concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. David Kraai 10pm. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636. The Rhodes 10pm. Rock. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THE OUTDOORS Nature Strollers 10am. One-hour hike with the tykes. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

Nerdcore Rising 7pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

GALLERY

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. 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

Music Alive Ensembles 8pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.

Songs of David Byrne and Brian Enom 8pm. $58-$68. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

Open Mike 9pm-12am. Cappuccino’s, Red Hook. 876-1331.

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

Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 minimum order. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.

THE OUTDOORS

THE OUTDOORS

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: High Peters Kill 9:30am-1pm. Strenuous 4-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Thursday Morning Ranger Hike 10am-2pm. Black Creek, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273.

SPOKEN WORD Author David Rakoff Call for times. This American Life. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Stranger in the Eco-Village: Race, Tourism, and Environmental Time 5:30pm. Author and literary critic Rob Nixon. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

SPOKEN WORD Stress Less Strategies for Students 4pm. Video conference. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179. Ligia Aldana 5pm. Blackness, music and national belonging in the Colombian Caribbean. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.

Hip and Knee Replacement: Keys to Top Outcomes 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.

Paranoid Empire: Specters of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib 5:30pm. Author and literary critic Anne McClintock. Taylor Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Entombed by Linda Fairstein 7pm-9pm. Scholar-led book discussion. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

An Economic Justice Imperative 6pm. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 235-7186.

Earthartistry: Awareness and Awakening Book Club 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

The A-to-Zzzzzs of Sleep Testing 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.

Lola Brooks: Metals Artist 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3727. Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction Tour 7:30pm. $89.50/$79.50/$59.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

THEATER Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 6pm-7pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Autism 6:30pm-8pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

THURSDAY 6 ART 8th Annual Regional Portfolio Day 4pm-8pm. Art students to meet with and have their portfolios reviewed by representative. Henry J. Wallace Center, Hyde Park. 471-7477.

Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. An Evening with Film Stars 7pm. Panel discussion with Nicole Quinn, David Straitharn, and Giancarlo Esposito. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Carlos Mencia: At Close Range 8pm. Comedy. $42.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

THEATER Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Glass Menagerie 7:30pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 320-4175.

WORKSHOPS Energy Savings Programs 6pm. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 331-2238. Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

FRIDAY 7

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

CLASSES Designing and Painting Watercolors from Photos with Patricia Morgan 9am-12pm. 4 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Beginning Oil Painting with Gene Bovea 10am-12pm. 6 sessions. $150. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

ART Artists Reception: Karen Arp-Sandel 5pm. The Atrium Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 644-4400. Printmaking by Jordana Eisen 5pm-7pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Futura Show 6pm-9pm. Adam Furgang. Upstate Artists Guild Gallery, Albany. (518) 426-3501.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Still Life Painting with Mary Mugele Sealfon 1pm-3:30pm. 5 sessions. $100. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Fundamentals of Brennan Healing Science Call for times. $300. Vivekananda Retreat-Ridgely, Stone Ridge. 687-4574.

Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Practicing Harmony Call for times. The gift and challenge of community. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Beyond Hypnosis 6pm-9pm. 3 sessions. $140. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

CLASSES

THEATER

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Kingston Acting Class 6:30pm-9:30pm. $90/month. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

The Portrait in Pastel Call for times. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

EVENTS A Night at the Headquarters 6pm-8pm. Nighttime tour. Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195.


Swing Dance 7pm-10pm. Lesson and performance. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.

Clockwork Mercury 8pm-10pm. Jazz and poetry. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

DANCE

MUSIC

Contradance 8pm. With Peter Stix and Friends. $10/$9 members/ children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Karton Herz 5pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Christian Coffeehouse 7pm. Trinity United Methodist Church, Newburgh. Honeymoon Suite Concert 8pm. Folk. $19/$15 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Eileen Jewell Band 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Reality Check 8pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Taj Mahal 8pm. Blues. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100. Judith Tulloch Band With The Drummers 8:30pm. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Four Guys in Disguise 9pm. Skytop Restaurant, Kingston. 340-4277. Reality Check 9pm. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

Cafe Cabaret! 6pm-9pm. A fundraiser dinner of Indian food and live music for Catskill Community Radio. $25. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Walker Valley Fire Dept. Ladies Auxiliary Holiday Penny Social 7:30pm. Walker Valley Fire House, Walker Valley. 744-2107. The Fourth Annual Vampyre Ball 9pm. $7. Le Rive Gauche, Kingston. 339-2003.

FILM Night of 1,000 Shorts Call for times. Themed fall. Children’s Media Project, Poughkeepsie. 485-4480. Fall Regional Showcase Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie. 454-0522.

KIDS Pocahontas 11am. Kit’s Interactive Theater. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Hudson Valley Philharmonic Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Calling All Poets Series Call for times. Open mike featuring Frank Boyer & Bill Seaton. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Met Opera: Live in HD: Adams’ Doctor Atomic 1pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Slides, Websites & CD’s...Oh My 6:30pm-8:30pm. Educator’s forum. Mill Street Loft, Poughkeepsie. 471-7477.

Senior Recital: Bradley Klein 1:30pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Reading and Signing with Jeff Golliher 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Eric Squindo 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Ask the Expert: A Talk by Ward Stone 7:30pm-8:30pm. New York State DEC Wildlife Pathologist. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

John Street Jam 7pm. $3. John Street Jam at the Dutch Arms Chapel, Saugerties.

THEATER

Crescendo Choir and Crescendo Vocal Ensemble 7:30pm. $25/$10 students. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (860) 435-4866.

The Glass Menagerie 7:30pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 320-4175. Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Anna in the Tropics 8pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Modified Rapture 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. They’re Playing Our Song 8pm. $17/$15 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

SATURDAY 8 ART Top to Bottom: The Hudson River 4pm. Photographs by Ted Kawalerski, Q&A session.The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600.

Fall Jazz Series 7:30pm. Jack and Luna’s, Stone Ridge. 687-9794.

Ann Klein 8pm. With Barely Lace and Annie Roland & Carrie Chapman. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. David Starobin 8pm. Tribute to guitar maker Thomas Humphrey. $25/$20 members/$15 students/add $5 at the door. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

A Confession of Color 5pm-8pm. Carrie Jacobson and George Hayes. Wallkill River School Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Close 5pm-8pm. Paintings by Mark Moffett and photographs by Wendy Holmes Noyes. Gallery 345, Hudson. (518) 392-9620 Asian Performance Art Expo 6pm. With Ray Yip Scroll Art. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491. Paintings by Mark Tambella 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Richichi: I N V O L U T I O N 6pm-9pm. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.

CLASSES Reiki Level One Certification 10am-Sunday, November 9, 6pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Portraits of Loved Ones

Shawn Colvin 8pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Essential Elgar 8pm. Hudson Valley Philharmonic. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. SONiA & Disappear Fear 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Exit 19 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Within Shadows 5pm-7pm. Works by Susan Burnstine. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

Directions: From the Kingston roundabout, west on Rt. 28, 10.5 miles to DuBois Road, Shokan, follow the signs.

Red Molly with Steve Kirkman 8pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Painting the Invisible: Patterns in Nature 3pm-5pm. New work by Raffaele D’Onofrio. Park Row Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-4800.

J. Thompson Silkqin Performance 5pm. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491.

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

Vassar Women’s Choir 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Hurley Mountain Highway 9pm. Soft rock, pop. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.

Cynthia Dill: Stone on Stone 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. 679-2940.

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Parisian Cabaret and American Jazz 7:30pm. $15. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Holidays in the Mountains 2008 2pm-4pm. GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham. (518) 734-3104.

50 Paintings in 50 Days 3pm-6:30pm. Large figurative paintings by Kate Vrijmoet. Kate Vrijmoet Artist’s Studio, Pawling.

Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun 9am - 5pm November 13, 14, 15, 16

GALLERY

SPOKEN WORD

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

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Mambo Kikongo 9:30pm. Latin. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Atlantic Custom Homes Open House 10am-5pm. Atlantic Custom Homes, Cold Spring. 558-2636.

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Marc Black Band 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Preserving Your Land Conference 9am-1:30pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

PRE-HOLIDAY

B I R T H D AY G I F T S

Railbird and Phil Roy 8pm. $25. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

EVENTS

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Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Gilded Otter, New Paltz. 256-1700.

Ulster Ballet Company: A Christmas Carol 2pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

H O L I D AY G I F T S

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 7:30pm. Featuring music by Carl Bethge. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Steve Forbert with Anthony da Costa 9pm. $35/$30 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

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

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike: Beacon Hill 9:30am-4pm. Strenuous 9-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. Tracking Coyotes 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD Preserving Your Land Conference 10am-1:30pm. $30. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 255-2761. Woodstock Poetry Society Meeting and Festival 2pm. A benefit for Donald Lev’s Home Planet News. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock.

THEATER Anna in the Tropics 4pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Glass Menagerie 7:30pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 320-4175. Three Phantoms In Concert 8pm. $48-$68. Paramount Theater, Middletown. 647-1772. They’re Playing Our Song 8pm. $17/$15 students and seniors/$11 children. Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

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

Holistic Eye Care 7:45pm-9:45pm. $12/$10. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Healing Group With the Sound of the Crystal Bowls 8pm-9pm. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

CLASSES

CLASSES

Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.

Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

FILM

WORKSHOPS Jewelry Making 1pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

SUNDAY 9 ART J. Thompson Silkqin Performance 3pm. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491. Photography by Patrick Winfield 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Asian Performance Art Expo 9pm. With Ray Yip Scroll Art. Taleo Arts Center, Woodstock. 810-0491.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

CLASSES Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

DANCE Parsons Dance Company 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

EVENTS 2008 Rosendale Farmers Market 9am-3pm. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-3467. Psychic Fair Fundraiser 11am-4pm. Benefit the Walker Valley Firemen Children’s Christmas Fund. Walker Valley Schoolhouse, Walker Valley. 744-3960. Champagne Brunch and Silent Auction 12pm. Benefits The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. $75. Powelton Club, Newburgh. 534-5506 ext. 204. 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 Jay & Lee 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

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 Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.

EVENTS

KIDS

MUSIC

Soup That’s Just Right! 10am. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Matinees & Music: Big Band Tribute Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

MUSIC Dancing On The Air 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

THEATER

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk- Split Rock 9:30am-1pm. Moderate 5-mile hike. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919.

The Things They Carried 7:30pm. True North Theater. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Braindance 10:30am. Help your memory, alignment, coordination and more by learning the braindance. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

TUESDAY 11 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-8pm. An evening with the master teachers. $15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

CLASSES

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

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

Auditions for String of Pearls 7pm. County Players. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Tom Chapin 3pm. $15/$12 seniors/$10 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai 7pm. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Railroad Street Youth Project Call for times. Dinner program. $50. Pearl’s Restaurant, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-7767. Auditions for Skin of Our Teeth 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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.

THE OUTDOORS

SPOKEN WORD

CRUMBS Night Out at The Linda 7pm. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. James McMurtry 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $20. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Dan Stokes 7:30pm. Pop, soft rock. Big Easy Bistro, Newburgh. 565-3939. Open Mike 9pm-12am. Cappuccino’s, Red Hook. 876-1331.

THE OUTDOORS Sunset Sensations 5:30pm-7:30pm. Wine and food sampling series. Locust Grove Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Music in Film 1pm. With live performances. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

SPOKEN WORD

Anne Roschelle 5pm. Welfare indignities in San Francisco. Honors Center SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933.

After-Hours Mixer 5:30pm-7:30pm. New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce. Mariner’s on the Hudson, Highland. 255-0243.

New Topics in Spine Surgery 6pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444.

A History of the New York City Police Department 4pm. Aquinas Theater, Newburgh. 569-3179.

Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

Friends of Senate House Annual Meeting 6:30pm-9pm. With reception and lecture. Senate House State Historic Site, Kingston. 338-2786.

Admissions Information Session 7pm. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600.

The Sandwich Generation, a Jewish Perspective 7pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

Perspectives on Metals Today Panel Discussion 7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Hands On Communication Book Group 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. A Reading by Stephan Wackwitz 7pm. Author of An Invisible Country. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

Reading and Signing with Diane Galusha 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

THEATER

Pleasant Bud, Deuces Child, Jody Stokhamer 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Charles Lume: Painter 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3727.

Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

THEATER

Anne Tormela 3pm. Lyric Coloratura and member of Manhattan Lyric Opera. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Auditions for Skin of Our Teeth 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Madera Vox 3pm. Presented by the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. $20/$5 students. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 246-7045.

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Pat Horgan & The Thunder Road Band 3pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Vassar Mahogany Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Crescendo Choir and Crescendo Vocal Ensemble 4pm. $25/$10 students. Trinity Episcopal Church, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-4866. Diane Bish 5pm. Organist. Blessed Kateri Roman Catholic Church, LaGrangeville. 297-7693. Kenny White, Amy Correia, and Jonathan Spottiswoode 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Pro Tools Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Edible Landscaping with Ease 6pm-9:30pm. $59. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

WORKSHOPS

Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

African Drum Workshop 6pm-7pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THURSDAY 13

Intermediate/Advanced Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Revealed Anew: Selections from the Permanent 6pm. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Being Somebody and Being Nobody Call for times. Study of the self in Zen Buddhism. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Come Hell & High Water: Surviving the Apocalypse with a Compassionate Heart Call for times. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805.

EVENTS

KIDS Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

MUSIC

Women of the Duat Call for times. Women’s mystery retreat. Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. 338-6418.

Zydeco Dance with Johnny Ace & Sidewalk Zydeco 8pm-10pm. Workshop at 7:30pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

CLASSES

EVENTS

Botanical Drawing with Watercolor Pencils with Roberta Rosenthal 10am-12:30pm. 4 sessions. $180. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Soñando Benefit Performance for Haitian Children Haitian People’s Support Project 10th Annual Benefit Dance and Art/Craft Sale, 7:30pm-1am. New World Home Cooking Restaurant, between Woodstock and Saugerties. www.haitiansupportproject.org.

THE OUTDOORS

Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Schunemunk Mountain Hike Call for times. Difficult 7 mile hike. Call for location. 462-0142.

Wings of Love Benefit Concert 7pm. Featuring Vickie Russel. St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston. 331-2252.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Singles and Sociables Hike- Castle Point 9:30am-3pm. Moderate 8-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Faculty Showcase 8pm. $5/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Dog Manners & More 5:45pm-6:30pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447.

THEATER

SPOKEN WORD

Anna in the Tropics 2:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Reading and Signing with Robert Zweig 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

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

Auditions for Skin of Our Teeth 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

THEATER

Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WEDNESDAY 12 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

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.

Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

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DANCE

Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Eva Lehnsen Feuermann Cello Master Class 4pm. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216.

MONDAY 10

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT A Meditation Retreat for Writers Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

Gov’t Mule 8pm. With Back Door Slam. Calvin Theater, Northampton, MA. (413) 584-1444.

Auditions for String of Pearls 7pm. County Players. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

FRIDAY 14

ART

Hudson Valley Green Drinks 6:30pm-9pm. Networking session for environmental fields, sustainably-minded and eco-curious. Steelhouse, Kingston. 454-6410.

Under the Cliffs: Stories from a Small Town 3pm. Hudson River Playback Theater. Gardiner Library, Gardiner.

WORKSHOPS

Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Ballroom Dance Swing & Hustle 6:30pm-7:30pm. Taconic Hills Central School, Craryville. (518) 325-0447.

Second Sunday Songwriters Series 7pm-9pm. Kate McDonnell, Michael Veitch, and Julie Last. $8. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Sunday Jazz Series 8pm-10pm. Dean Sharp, Michael Bisio, and George Muscatello. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

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Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

KIDS

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

MUSIC John Mueller 7pm. Acoustic. Cozzy’s Cafe Trattoria, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7800. Susan Tedeschi and James Hunter 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Honeyboy Edwards 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Michael Franti & Spearhead 8pm. $32/$28.50 in advance. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. The Big Heavy 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Kingston Acting Class 6:30pm-9:30pm. $90/month. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Patty Larkin 9pm. Kelleigh McKenzie. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Life Drawing 7pm. No materials or instructor provided, just a live model. $4 to $8. Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 499-9348.

Reality Check 9pm. Rock. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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.

3 Guys From Gotham 9pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Butter 9:30pm. Funk and R&B. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

THE OUTDOORS A Girl Scout Adventure Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.


ART DENISE ORZO

Bird in the Hand, Denise Orzo ,encaustic on paper, 2008. “Fabrication vs Verse,” a solo show of recent encaustic work by Denise Orzo, will be exhibited this month at R&F Handmade Paints.

The Wax Muse Denise Orzo first encountered encaustic paint in the late ‘90s when she took a job painting color charts for R&F Handmade Paints. By painting rectangular swaths of color samples, she was able to thoroughly acquaint herself with encaustic’s sometimes capricious and unpredictable nature. Each encaustic color has a personality of its own and, when warmed, almost brings its colorful history to life before being transformed into something else. Encaustic painting is as old as ancient Greece; but until the 20th century, if artists wanted to experiment with encaustic, they had to make it themselves (which was time-consuming, messy, and dangerous, albeit alchemically exciting). Both Jasper Johns and Diego Rivera made their own encaustic paint. Today, more than 80 different colors of oil-based pigment sticks and soap-like bricks of encaustic paint are manufactured at R&F, and each retains a certain unique, hand-hewn quality. Because the colors are made naturally rather than synthesized in a lab, detritus such as tree bark, grasses, charred bones, and elephant hair are often sifted out of the pigment materials. Such are the unusual ingredients Orzo employs to render everything from women to wishbones. “I love the paint itself. I love the materiality of it,” says Orzo, “I love its wileyness. The smell of the warm wax and the experience of working with it makes for a very full sense experience.” The paint is dynamic and independent, inviting the artist to cede control to it and blurring the lines between process and product. Painters who work in encaustic must use a hot palette to blend pigments together—and once the paint leaves the palette,

time is of the essence. Unlike oil paints, which spend hours in the transition between wet and dry, encaustic paint takes only seconds to undergo a change of state from liquid to solid. Once solidified, the paint can be layered, sculpted, engraved, or embossed. Orzo’s Macaroni, for example, depicts a single black feather whose weightlessness presents a striking and mysterious contrast to the medium’s thick physicality. Orzo likens the piece’s method to sketching, or incising, a drawing. “You’re working invisibly,” she explains, “your marks in the medium are not seen, let’s say, until you smush oil paint into the lines you’ve drawn.” In some cases, Orzo incises without filling her lines—the result is a kind of secret message for those who are willing to lean forward, play off the glare, and examine the text etched into the resin. Window Pain, which depicts a downy woodpecker along with details of the sighting (such as place and time), also contains hidden verses that employ this technique. Most of Orzo’s recent work is made using stencils to cut crisp and well-distinguished lines that define the wax against negative space. The overall effect, like that of Macaroni, presents the viewer with an interesting contradiction between method and medium—where an indulgent slathered-on heaviness is expected, light and clarity appear instead. Denise Orzo’s solo exhibition, “Fabrication vs Verse,” is being shown through November 22 at the gallery at R&F Handmade Paints, 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston. (845) 331-3112; www.rfpaints.com. —Christina Kaminski

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THEATER Fools 7pm. The Durham Irish Repertory Theater. $10. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027.

Give Thanks & Celebrate with one of our refreshing beverages

Open Mike 8pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Steve Kaufman 8pm. Bluegrass. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie.

The Odd Couple 7pm. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Tom Humphrey Guitar Series 8pm. Featuring Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107.

Anna in the Tropics 8pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Vassar College Choir 8pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Modified Rapture 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

WORKSHOPS Flatpicking Guitar Workshop Call for times. $90. Muddy Cup, Poughkeepsie. 486-1378.

SATURDAY 15

Jonathan Edwards 8pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Popa Chubby 9pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 11pm. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Hike- Undercliff/Overcliff 9am-12pm. Easy 5-mile hike. Meet at the West Trapps Trailhead, New Paltz. 255-0919. Autumn Animals 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506 ext. 204.

SPOKEN WORD ART 1st Annual Drawathon 12pm-12am. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Cahill Elementary School Art Reception 3pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Salon Show 2008 5pm-7pm. Annual exhibition of small art works by GCCA member artists. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Great & Small 6:30pm-9pm. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

THEATER

Sharing Shabbat 9am-10:30am. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925. Circle Singing and Freedom of Expression 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

CLASSES

Celebrating the Partnership of Human & Horse

ENGLISH RIDING FOR ALL AGES Boarding and Training Saddle Club After School Program Holiday Gift Certificates

ESOPUS, N.Y. (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Painting Fall Foliage in Plein Air with Shawn Dell Joyce 10am-4pm. $70/$50 without lunch. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

DANCE

Anna in the Tropics 4pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Fools 7pm. The Durham Irish Repertory Theater. $10. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027. Modified Rapture 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Anna in the Tropics 8:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

EVENTS

WORKSHOPS

Sip & Sign Holiday Book Signing 2pm-5pm. Join 25 Hudson Valley Authors at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. 677-8383

Off the Grid- Smart Green Home Design 10am-1pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School Open House 10am-noon. Learn more about why Waldorf is the largest, fastest growing event independent school movement in the world, New Paltz. 255-0033.

Orton-Gillingham Training Seminar 1pm-3pm. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

Interfaith Fair Trade Bazaar 11am-5pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-4013. 4th Annual Chili Fest 1pm-5pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Moscow Cats Theater 1pm. Acrobatic cats. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Native American Social 2pm-4pm. Drumming, dancing, food. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Chronogram Literary Supplement Party 7pm. Readings by John Darnton, Jana Martin; music and hijinks by Mik Horowitz & Gilles Malkine, wine, and hor’s d’ouevres. Chronogram Space, Kingston. 334-8600 ext.103. Duncan Sheik: Stars of Spring Awakening 8pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

KIDS

American Girl: Make Cents Event 1pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Dog on Fleas 1pm. Children’s music. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

MUSIC The Acoustic Medicine Show 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Dark Star Orchestra 7pm. $31. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Benefit Concert for Hudson Valley Green Burials 7pm. $10. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Eddie Fingerhut 7pm. Acoustic. Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, Catskill. 334-8600. Carolyn Malachi 8pm-10pm. Hip-hop, soul, spoken-word. Inquiring Mind/ Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

SUNDAY 16 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Anatomy Workshop 2:30pm-6:30pm. With Donald Mouton. $45. Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.

CLASSES Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

DANCE Tango Fire Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Circus of Life 2:30pm. Lynn Barr Dance. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Swing Dance Jam 6:30pm-9pm. Lesson at 6pm. $5. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 339-3032.

EVENTS Interfaith Fair Trade Bazaar 11am-3pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 452-4013.

MUSIC Deuces Child 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Hazbins 1pm. Cabaret. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Elinor Frey: Cello 2:30pm. Trail Mix concert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482. Pianist Jason Cutmore 3pm. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867. Denise Jordan Finley and Daniel Pagdon 3pm. Folk. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884. Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Bard Conservatory of Music students. $12/$10 seniors/students free. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.

American Brass Quintet 8pm. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

The Lydian String Quartet 3pm. The Daniel Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 320-4175.

3 Redneck Tenors 8pm. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Vassar Wind Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

Vassar Mixed Choir 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

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The Odd Couple Call for times. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

The Circus of Life 7:30pm. Lynn Barr Dance. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.

Cinderella 11am. Tanglewood Marionettes. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

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World Peace Tellebration 6pm-9pm. Stories of peace from around the world. World Peace Sanctuary, Wassaic. 877-6093 ext. 205. Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.

FROG HOLLOW FARM

Sip and Sign 2pm-5pm. With 25 local authors. Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook. (800) 662-9463.

Works by Corso de Palenzuela 5pm-8pm. Millbrook Gallery and Antiques, Millbrook. 677-6699.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

(845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com sales@esotecltd.com

Cadmium Text Series: Mark Lamoureux and Joan Retallak 2pm. $5. The Gallery at R & F, Kingston. 331-3112.

Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.


MUSIC ST. LUKE'S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE IMAGE PROVIDED

The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble will perform a program of “Reel Music” at Dia:Beacon on November 22.

Scores Without Films If the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble ever wishes to change its name, I suggest Virtuosos Who Get Bored Playing The Same Schubert Quartets Over And Over. This group enjoys a challenge. “When I first got here, which was two years ago, I thought the focus was on Baroque music, and [the musicians] really have mastered that, but then we had a contemporary music series, and they just blew everyone’s socks off,” notes Liz KellerTripp, artistic associate for the ensemble. Last year at Dia:Beacon, I saw the group perform contemporary work in the “Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers” series. The quiet delight the musicians took in digging into a difficult score was palpable. On November 22, at the same venue, they will present “Reel Music,” a concert of music by composers who wrote for films. Benjamin Britten, for example, scored Love from a Stranger (1937), a film based on an Agatha Christie novel. Jacques Ibert composed the music for Orson Welles’s Macbeth (1948). And Robert Vaughn-Williams was responsible for the orchestration in 49th Parallel (1941). “Reel Music” will not present the film music, however, but other pieces by the same composers. Part of the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble’s work is educational. Few people realize how many major composers wrote for film—because the composers didn’t want anyone to know! It would be like compiling an anthology of Novelists Who Were Also Screenwriters. Bernard Herrmann is the exception. Born in New York City in 1911, he won a $100 music composition prize at age 13. After attending New York University, Herrmann joined CBS radio as a staff conductor. He wrote the music for the infamous “War of the Worlds”

broadcast by Orson Welles in 1938. When Welles moved on to movies, Herrmann joined him, composing the score for Citizen Kane. Probably his best-known works were for Alfred Hitchcock, which include Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho. “He’s really the powerhouse of film composing on this program. And it’ll feature our clarinetist, who’s fabulous,” remarks Keller-Tripp. Anyone who has heard Herrmann’s disturbing, intricate, careening music finds his or her self wondering: “What would he compose without a screenplay?” Yet his serious works are rarely performed. Most often, orchestral concerts feature excerpts from Herrmann’s movie scores. The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble will perform his “Souvenirs de Voyage,” a gentle piece in three movements for clarinet and string quartet. The ensemble has 22 members, not all of whom perform at each concert. For certain appearances, it expands to 60 musicians to become the Orchestra at St. Luke’s. The group is extremely versatile. In a two-week period, it may perform a children’s concert, then at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and later accompany a chorus or even a musical comedy. At Dia:Beacon, the audience will be surrounded by the Andy Warhol series “Shadows,” which consists of 102 silkscreens taken from a single photograph of a cardboard maquette. The performers will commandeer one corner of the room, where the acoustics are surprisingly fine. The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble will perform “Reel Music” at Dia:Beacon on November 22 at 2 pm. (845) 440-0100; www.diaart.org. —Sparrow

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Open Mike 6pm. Featuring Ken Sikula & Fred Coddington. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881. Ken Sikula & Fred C 6:30pm. Open mike. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

TUESDAY 18 CLASSES

Duncan Sheik 7pm. American Roots & Branches music series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Modern Dance Call for times. Classes with the Hudson Valley Modern Dance Cooperative. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart 7pm. Acoustic country. $49. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

John McCutcheon 7:30pm. American folk. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

THE OUTDOORS

Drumming 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Singles and Sociables Hike- Guyot Hill 10am-3pm. 7-mile hike. Slingerland Pavilion, New Paltz. 255-0919. Trees of the Shawangunks 1pm-3pm. Easy 2-mile hike. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER Measure for Measure 2pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Blood Brothers 2pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Fools 2pm. The Durham Irish Repertory Theater. $10. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 822-2027. Anna in the Tropics 2:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Modified Rapture 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Odd Couple 3pm. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats 3pm. $25/$12.50 children. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Moscow Cats Theater 4pm. Acrobatic feats, integrated into a colorful and funfilled family show. $22/$18 seniors/$15 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

WORKSHOPS The Words to Say It 1:30pm-5pm. Writing fiction, poetry and autobiography. $75. Yoga on Duck Pond, Stone Ridge. 687-4836.

MONDAY 17 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

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.

MUSIC Conservatory Noon Concert Series 12pm. Conservatory students in concert. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Emanuel Ax and Yafim Bronfman 8pm. $60/$55. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Fall Choral Concert 8pm. $6/$5 seniors and staff/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Kairos: A Consort of Singers 8pm. The Ecstasies Above. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 256-9114.

SPOKEN WORD Heart Health & Cholesterol, A Two-Pronged Lecture 6pm. Women’s View, Rhinebeck. (877) 729-2444. Historic Huguenot Street: Costumes and Culture of the American Revolution 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Artist Slide Talk 7:30pm. Featuring Emily Lambert, Penny Dell, Kelly Leslie. Vanderlyn Hall, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.

THEATER Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

Meditation Intensives Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228. Meditation: Discover Peace Within 7:30pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 797-1218.

CLASSES

Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Hip-Hop Dance Ages 11-13 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Open Lab 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

KIDS

Adult Latin Dance 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Children’s Bilingual Storytime 4pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

DANCE Swing Dance Classes Call for times. Various levels offered. $75 series. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.

FILM Orgasmic Birth 6:30pm. Documentary screening at 7:30pm. Benefit for Solace for Mothers. Downing Film Center, Newburgh. (800) 974-8592.

New Neighbor Love 10am. Story time. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

MUSIC Ani Di Franco 7:30pm. $44.50/$39.50. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Arlo Guthrie, His Son Abe, and the Burns Sisters 8pm. $35/$29/$20 students. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038. Epiphany Project 8pm. CD release for Hin Dagh. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

From Here to Eternity 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

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

GALLERY

THE OUTDOORS

Faculty Artwork 2008 Exhibit Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 431-8610.

Bob Babb Wednesday Walk: Black Creek 9:30am-1pm. Black Creek, Esopus. 255-0919.

KIDS

SPOKEN WORD

Tutoring 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

The Sandwich Generation, a Jewish Perspective 7pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

MUSIC Three Dollar Bill CD Release 6pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

SPOKEN WORD Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series 2:30pm. Featuring author Peter Straub. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7216. Educator Roundtable: Patrick Darfler 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Reading by Poet Yusef Komunyakaa 7:30pm. Blodgett House at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA. (800) 235-7186.

WORKSHOPS Braindance 10:30am. Help your memory, alignment, coordination and more by learning the braindance. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

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CLASSES

Swing Dance Call for times. Various levels offered. $75. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 236-3939.

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

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WEDNESDAY 19

A. J. Schenkman: Washington’s Headquarters in Newburgh 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. The Astronomic Search for the Origins of Life on Mars 7pm. $3. Hudson Valley Science Cafe, New Windsor. Jeff Woodbury: Multi-media Artist 7:30pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. 257-3727.

THEATER Some Girl(s) 7pm. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $15/$12 seniors and students. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 6pm-7pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.


THURSDAY 20

Akashic Record 7:30pm. $20/$15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

ART

CLASSES

Faculty Works 7pm-12am. Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge. 687-5113.

Cleansing Your Body of Toxins 6pm-9pm. $42. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

CLASSES Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, 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. Kingston Acting Class 6:30pm-9:30pm. $90/month. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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. Simple Fun 7pm. Boards gaming event sponsored by Mensa. New Paltz Village Hall, New Paltz. 256-9233.

FILM Two Angry Moms 7pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Children of Winter 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

KIDS 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 NYS Craft Beer Dinner Series 6pm. Sample a variety of award-winning beers paired with meals served by Terrapin Restaurant at Dinsmore Golf Course. Reservations required. 876-3330. 12th Annual Quilting Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

FILM Children of Winter Call for times. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. This is Spinal Tap Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

MUSIC Eric Erickson 5pm. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847. Karton Herz 7pm. Acoustic. Oasis Cafe, New Paltz. 255-2400.

Amy Fradon and Leslie Ritter Reunion Show 8pm. $20. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Judy Collins 8pm. Folk. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Marc von Em 8pm. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. Red Molly 8:30pm. Americana. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595. Guitarist David Wilcox 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. That Organ Groove 9pm. SkyTop Steak House, Kingston. 340-4277.

Children’s Colonial Crafts 4:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Big Kahuna 10pm. Dance music. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. 564-4500.

MUSIC

SPOKEN WORD

Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Raise Your Visibility, Raise Your Profits 9am-11am. $15/members free. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-0243.

THEATER Evenings of Psychodrama 7pm. $6/$4 students and seniors. Boughton Place, Highland. 255-7502.

Live Jazz After Dinner 9pm. $10 minimum order. Suruchi Indian Restaurant, New Paltz. 255-2772.

The Odd Couple 7pm. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

SPOKEN WORD

Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821.

Elizabeth Werlau: Plattekill, New York 7pm. Book signing and discussion. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. The Uncensored Word 7pm. Poetry open mike. $3. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Rip’s Resurrected Poetry 7pm-9pm. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306. Humanist Book Group with Michael Strong 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Mihai Grunfeld 7pm. Author of Memories of Romania. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Anna in the Tropics 8pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Chapter 2 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. The Boys Next Door 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

WORKSHOPS Introduction to Strawbale Construction 5:30pm-9am. $59. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

Professional Non-Fiction Writer’s Group 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. The End of the Fall Poetry Evening 7pm. Original poetry by local poets. Morrison Hall Mansion, Middletown. 341-4891.

THEATER Anna in the Tropics 7:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. The Boys Next Door 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.

WORKSHOPS Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

FRIDAY 21 ART Fiber of Being 5:30pm-8pm. Solo exhibit of paintings and photographs by Vera Kaplan. Montgomery Row Second Level, Rhinebeck. 876-6670.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT The Election as a Waking Dream Call for times. Miriam’s Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. Potluck Shabbat 6pm. Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 223-5925.

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Girls’ Night Out Book Group 7pm. Discuss Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Open Mike 9pm-12am. Cappuccino’s, Red Hook. 876-1331.

Affective Communities: Anti-colonial Thought, Finde-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship 6pm. Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (800) 235-7186.

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Bard College Conservatory of Music 8pm. Chamber music. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7216.

Crawdaddy 9:30pm. Cajun, zydeco. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Student Chamber Jazz Ensemble 8pm. $6/$5 seniors and staff/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

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Spiritual Family Music Night 7pm-10pm. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Jorma Kaukonen 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

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March of the Penguins 7pm. Cary Institute, Millbrook. 677-5343.

SATURDAY 22 ART Blessed Be 1pm-5pm. Holiday group art exhibit. Kent Caboose Gallery, Kent, CT. (860) 248-8800. Olga Poloukhine, Iconographer: Into the Depths 5pm-8pm. Albert Shahinian Fine Art, Hudson. (518) 828-4346.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.

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Solas an Lae 11am. Irish dancing. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Belly Dance Superstars 8pm. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

KIDS Handmade Cards 10am-1pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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MUSIC Bard College Conservatory of Music Call for times. Chamber music. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7216.

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Rory Block Call for times. Center for Creative Education, Stone Ridge. 687-8890. Met Opera: Live in HD: La Damnation de Faust 1pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Kingston High School Band Chamber and Jazz Ensembles 1:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Vassar College Madrigal Singers 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. David Kraai 5pm. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Marji Zintz 6pm. Acoustic Music For Humanity fundraiser. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

THE OUTDOORS

Grateful for Blessings! 10am. Story time. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

MUSIC Reddan Brothers Band 9pm. Rock. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Doug Marcus 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

Singles and Sociables Hike- Rainbow Falls 10am-3pm. Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz. 255-7059.

Senior Recital: Nicholas Herbert 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.

THEATER

Open Mike Night 9:30pm. Sign up at 8:30 p.m. Tess’ Lark Tavern, Albany. (518) 463-9779.

Measure for Measure 2pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.

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

Anna in the Tropics 2:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

SPOKEN WORD

Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers and Pat McGee 7:30pm. American Roots & Branches and Rhythm Series. $20/$15 students. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. The Princes of Serendip 7:30pm. Acoustic. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Jim Gaudet 8pm. $15. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. World Cultures Concert Series 8pm. Liu Fang, world renowned virtuoso of the Chinese lute and zither. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. Hop High Productions. $18/$15. www.hophigh.org.

Chapter 2 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Boys Next Door 3pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The Odd Couple 3pm. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478.

Kairos: A Consort of Singers 8pm. The Ecstasies Above. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 256-9114. Liu Fang- Empress of the Pipa 8pm. $22/$20 in advance/$15 students and seniors. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Mark Rasich “Autumn Swings in New York” Concert 8pm. Jazz. Cunneen Hackett Theater, Poughkeepsie. 452-7067. Livingston Taylor 9pm. Singer/songwriter. $45/$40 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

THE OUTDOORS Explore Poughkeepsie History and Architecture 10am. Hike through Poughkeepsie and over the MHB to Highland. Compassion Veterinarian, Poughkeepsie. 452-5010. Singles and Sociables Hike- Wittenberg Mountain 10am-3pm. 8-mile hike. Phoenicia Municipal Lot, Phoenicia. 255-0919. Some Creatures Great and Small: Live Local Raptors and Reptiles 3pm-4pm. $17/$10 children/$8 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Lynn Biederman: Unraveling 3pm. Reading and book signing. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

MONDAY 24 CLASSES

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.

Modern Man 8:30pm. Comedy. Bodle’s Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

THEATER The Odd Couple Call for times. $15/$12 seniors and students. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. Anna in the Tropics 4pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469. The Boys Next Door 8pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Measure for Measure 8pm. $16/$14. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Chapter 2 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Blood Brothers 8pm. Presented by County Players. $20/$17 seniors and children. County Players Falls Theatre, Wappingers Falls. 297-9821. Anna in the Tropics 8:30pm. True North Theater. $32-$44. Capital Repertory Theater, Albany. (518) 445-7469.

WORKSHOPS Off the Grid: Smart Green Home Design 10am-1pm. Business Resource Center, Kingston. 339-2025.

SUNDAY 23 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Sacred Chanting 10am-11:30am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Healing Group With the Sound of the Crystal Bowls 7pm-8pm. $20/$15. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

CLASSES Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

EVENTS Benefit Concert for Ty Adams 5pm-9pm. Spoken word, music, his new book. $20. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342.

Voodelic 9:30pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

THEATER Legally Blonde The Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Chapter 2 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS Contemplative Cooking: an Offering from the Hearth Call for times. Meditate, shop, cook, serve and dine. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Hands On Communication Book 7pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

THEATER Legally Blonde The Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Some Girl(s) 7pm. Presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock. $15/$12 seniors and students. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

WORKSHOPS African Drum Workshop 6pm-7pm. $55/$40 members 4-week session. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

THURSDAY 27 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 9am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.

CLASSES

SATURDAY 29 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong/Tai Chi 10am-5pm. With The Chi Kung Guy Bryon Abrams. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.

DANCE BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular 3pm. Break dancing, locking, popping, power tumbling, DJ-ing and bucket drumming. $22/$18 seniors/$15 children. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

EVENTS 37th Annual Holiday Craft Fair Drumlin & Falcon Halls, Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, 10am-4pm. 431-8000. 14th Annual Craft Boutique 10am-4pm. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326. Tour of the Daniel Smiley Research Center 1:30pm-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

FILM

Adult Beginner Hip-Hop 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Euro Dance 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couple. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Swing, Cha-Cha and Blues Dancing 7:45pm-9pm. $110/$80 members. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Youth Latin Dance “Caliente” 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

SPOKEN WORD

Drumming 6pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Magic with John Shaw 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Hip-Hop Ages 11-13 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

MUSIC

Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs: In With a Bang? 7pm. Eastern US dinosaurs from the Hudson Valley during the Triassic-Jurassic transition. Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre, Middletown. 341-4891.

WORKSHOPS Braindance 10:30am. Help your memory, alignment, coordination and more by learning the braindance. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine 8pm. Comedy. $19/$14. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

TUESDAY 25 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Tune Up Your Frequency 6:30pm-8pm. An evening with the master teachers. $20/$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 Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. All Boys Beginner Hip-Hop 4pm-5pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Hip-Hop Class Ages 8-10 5pm-6pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Drumming 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.

Kingston Acting Class 6:30pm-9:30pm. $90/month. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664. Life Drawing Classes 7:30pm-9:30pm. Studies in life drawing. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

EVENTS 5th Annual Family of New Paltz Turkey Trot 9am. 5K, fun run, walk, & Mashed Potato Kids 1/4 & 1/2 mile fun runs. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 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.

KIDS Comic Book Drawing Class 4pm-5pm. Ages 8-13. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331. Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Wizard of Oz Call for times. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

KIDS

Eric Squindo 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. J. Watson Bailey Bulldog 3pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer-songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. David Jacobs-Strain 8pm. Blues. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Reddan Brothers Band 9pm. Rock. East Side Bar, Walden. 778-2039.

THEATER Legally Blonde The Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Chapter 2 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SUNDAY 30

MUSIC Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert 6pm. Acoustic. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Open Mike 9pm-12am. Cappuccino’s, Red Hook. 876-1331.

SPOKEN WORD The Uncensored Word 7pm-9pm. Poetry open mike. $3. Mezzaluna Cafe, Saugerties. 246-5306.

THEATER

CLASSES Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

EVENTS 37th Annual Holiday Craft Fair Drumlin & Falcon Halls, Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, 10am-4pm. 431-8000.

Recording Time 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Legally Blonde the Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Annual Craft Boutique 10am-4pm. Van Wyck Homestead Museum, Fishkill. 896-5326.

KIDS

WORKSHOPS

MUSIC

Tutoring 6pm-7:30pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Playwrights’ Workshop 6:30pm. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

David Kraai 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500.

FRIDAY 28

SPOKEN WORD Kingston Chapter of PFLAG Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

The Black and Tan Comedy Show 7pm. $27.50. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Introduction to Zen Training Retreat Call for times. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

THEATER

DANCE

Legally Blonde The Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

St. Petersburg State Ballet Call for times. $40/$28.50 children. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

WEDNESDAY 26

Swing Dance 12am-3am. 7:30pm lesson. Live music. $15/$8 students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Open Book 1pm. Alternative. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287. American Idols 7pm. 4 American Idol finalists. $48/$36 children. Pavilion Theatre at Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

THE OUTDOORS Cross-Country Skiing & Snowshoeing in the Catskills Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA’s Straus Center Inn, Claryville. (800) 454-5768. Singles and Sociables Hike- Mud Pond 9am-4pm. Strenuous 9-mile hike. Meet at the Minnewaska State Park Preserve Awosting Lot, New Paltz. 255-7059.

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KIDS

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

MUSIC

Winnie the Pooh Special Storytime 3pm. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590.

Create Peace, Health & Satisfaction 6:30pm-8:30pm. A class based on spiritual healing and Pathwork. Flowing Spirit Healing, Woodstock. 679-8989.

The Kurt Henry Band 5pm. Rock. Steelhouse, Kingston. 338-7847.

Author Readings and Book Signings 4pm-6pm. Dakota Lane, Holly George-Warren, and Alison Gaylin. Inquiring Mind/Muddy Cup, Saugerties. 246-5775.

CLASSES

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

THEATER

Garage Band Lesson 6pm-7pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings 9pm. With the Caravan of Thieves. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Legally Blonde The Musical Call for times. $20-$65. Main Stage at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

Open Lab 7pm-8pm. Center for Creative Education, Kingston. 338-7664.

Twist and Shout 9pm. 10th annual night after Thanksgiving bash. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Chapter 2 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Brewflies 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Healing Voices, Caring Hearts 3pm. A concert to benefit Hospice Music Therapy. $15/$10 seniors and students. Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7216.

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MUSIC EPIPHANY PROJECT

The Sounds of Scripture The Epiphany Project is back, both physically and musically. John Hodian and Bet Williams moved from their Woodstock home a few years ago to live in New York City, before hopping on over to Europe to expand their work even more. What better for these masters of world music than to spend a few years tooling around Poland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Armenia? It was in the latter country where their newest masterpiece was born, the haunting, breathtaking Hin Dagh (Epiphany Records, 2008). On November 19, Williams and Hodian, who haven’t played in the US in five years, will have a homecoming of sorts at the Colony Café in Woodstock. Hodian is Armenian-American and had been working with struggling Armenian composers while living there. Yet he didn’t set out to consciously record an Armenian album. “We were traveling with a filmmaker friend who was doing documentaries on dying cultures in the area,” he says. “There are still tiny pockets of Zoroastrians and Avestans who have ancient practices and pre-Christian belief systems. Coming in contact with some of their customs, languages, and rituals was really inspiring.” The album title itself means “old words,” and many of the songs are in dead languages, orchestrated with indigenous instruments from Armenia and the surrounding areas. Vocalist Williams, who has always been fascinated with language, started experimenting with new sounds on the group’s 2000 self-titled debut CD, using ancient Aramaic on one track. But this time Williams delves into Avestan, Armenian, Aramaic, Hindustani, ancient Welsh, Sanskrit, Swahili, and Coptic Greek. “The feeling you get when you sing these ancient words is really powerful,” says Williams. “Armenian is a beautiful language and these sounds are perfect for singing. Maybe the terrain influences the language. Terrain affects sound; sound affects terrain. I think the mind can move in different directions with different languages.” Interestingly, the

lyrics on Hin Dagh were mostly drawn from ancient prayers and sacred texts. Hodian, a passionate pianist, composed the pieces beginning with improvisation, creating sketches on keys and percussion and recording them with a variety of Armenian musicians doing rough tracks with raw performances and vocals. There are indigenous instruments aplenty here—santur, kamancha, udu, dumbek, zorna, tar, rik, saz, kora, duduk—and guest vocalists, too. “There is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to musical talent in Armenia,” says Williams. The duo finished up the album in France. Hodian had built a modern studio with all the latest technology, but they wanted to mix on an old analog-style board. “It was interesting taking these recordings we created in Armenia and looking at them through the sophisticated lens of a city like Paris,” says Williams. The resulting 12 tracks are profound and piercing—the driving rhythms of the heated “Ashem” (a Zoroastrian prayer), the religious experience of “Charents I” (an Armenian poet), the carnal earthiness and mystic vocals of “Ararat,” the intoxicatingly beautiful “Avvon d’Bishmaiya” (an Armenian version of the Lord’s Prayer). The CD packaging, like the music, is an experience in itself. It is, in essence, a book of scripture. The Epiphany Project will perform at the Colony Café in Woodstock on November 19 at 8pm. (845) 679-5342; www.epiphanyrecords.com. —Sharon Nichols

Bet Williams and John Hodian of the Epiphany Project will perform at the Colony Café in Woodstock on November 19

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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Voting is not Enough

Obviously, voting is not enough. The problem with voting is not that we do it or don’t do it, but rather that we think it’s enough; we think it’s sufficient participation in society. It is supposedly more than a symbolic gesture, but it is starting to seem like going to church.

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y car got booted for unpaid parking tickets the other day, so naturally I went to Kingston City Hall to clear the matter up. Because the governments and the banks are in the process of stealing our money, I had some cash on hand (my accountant suggested this). The city government where I live doesn’t take checks or credit cards. I am pretty good at fighting parking tickets, but I didn’t have time this summer. When I showed up at the window in the city comptroller’s office, they already knew my name. “Are you Eric?” The personal treatment was disconcerting. I said hello and then politely added, “I just have a few questions.” “Okay,” said the clerk. “Do I have a right to plead not guilty?” “No,” said the clerk. “Do I have a right to an attorney?” “No.” “Do I have a right to a trial?” “No.” Then another (apparently senior) clerk added, “If it gets to this point where your car is booted, you’ve lost all your rights. Your tickets are past 45 days, notices have been sent out, you had a chance to do everything you just talked about doing, and you haven’t done it.” The legal logic here is: We arrested you (or at least your car), so therefore you’re guilty. I proposed an alternate scenario, that I learned in school: innocent until proven guilty. Even if you rob a bank and go on the lam, you still have the right to a lawyer and a trial if you’re caught five years later. One lady laughed; the other reiterated that I used to have that right, but because I ignored the tickets for a while, I had lost it. “There are a lot of dead patriots buried by the Old Dutch Church who gave their lives so we could have our rights,” I said. The women were silent for a somber moment. I paid cash under protest, took my paperwork, and walked away. I felt that I had got my money’s worth having been told by a city official, openly and notoriously, that I had no rights. What is the truth, and does it matter? I say it does matter, if we value our freedom. I don’t mean to make a parking meter a bigger deal than it is, but most people don’t think that federal wiretaps or the “free-speech zones” that are set up to contain protesters are an especially big deal either.

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We were all told we live in a country where we have rights, and where we send people abroad supposedly to die for our freedom. I’ve heard this about a thousand times since September 11, 2001. We have rights for a reason. For example, what if my car had been booted by mistake? Would I have to admit that I was wrong and pay the fine with no further recourse in order to have the boot removed? Then it doesn’t seem like such a small matter; we all use our car to get to work, buy food, and get the kids to school. When my local city councilman, Tom Hoffay, came into my office at Dominick’s Cafe a few days later, I asked him what someone would do in that case. He said they would have to file what’s called an Article 78 proceeding, a lawsuit compelling the city to follow state law. Out of politeness, I didn’t laugh. I may be the only person outside the legal community and state government who even knows what that is. It’s not the kind of thing you can do during lunch. We wonder why government so often acts on its own behalf, or those of its biggest constituents (lately, the banks) and ignores the needs of the people who created it and pay for it. We wonder how we get taxed and taxed and have so little to show for it. We wonder why people can attack nationalized health care as wasteful when they support nationalizing the banks for many times the cost. We need to look no further than the refusal of most people, most as in the majority, to be aware and to get involved in their communities. I have seen numerous instances where the moment actual citizens get involved and show up at city hall or at the state legislature or a student association meeting, and mysteriously the right thing happens. All of us in the past decade seen how, when we ignore our rights, we supposedly lose them—just like the clerk at City Hall proposed. In that sense, she is correct. If you don’t exercise your rights, you lose them. For example, when we didn’t protest a stolen presidential election in 2000, we had another one stolen in 2004. If you recall, Al Gore got more popular votes in ’00 and yet Bush took office. We know the rules about the Electoral College, but personally that is something that I never thought possible, though I’d considered it many times. Bush taking office was like putting the boot on the White House; he had it, so he was right. The election fraud issue is something that’s not being talked about enough. I keep hearing people say that if Barack Obama gets 60 percent of the popular vote, we’re safe—then they can’t steal the election. Remember, the current president, who mainly presides over the disaster area the federal government and national economy have become, lost the popular vote. Now we need 60 percent to win? I think this shows you


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how slanted the playing field is. Obviously, voting is not enough. The problem with voting is not that we do it or don’t do it, but rather that we think it’s enough; we think it’s sufficient participation in society. It is supposedly more than a symbolic gesture, but it is starting to seem like going to church. What is enough? Someone I know recently spouted out the idea that the American public is defined by what it does not know. Since you are someone who is reading something, you personally may be defined by your curiosity and your concern about the issues of our very strange time in history. However, knowledge of the world is entirely abstract if it does not correspond to some inner knowledge; a sense of self and a corresponding sense of ethics. We’re transitioning into the beginning of a crucial era, in fact we’re meeting this thing we’ve been calling 2012. In addition to a major change in the Mayan calendar (the end of the 13th baktun) in that year, the planetary astrology—beginning this month, with Pluto entering Capricorn—builds to a crescendo, complete with social upheavals that will make the Sixties feel like a rehearsal for the high school pageant. Change is not comfortable for most people. We would rather have things be just so, and we’ll do almost anything to keep them that way, including deny our own growth, health, liberty, and sanity. We will stay with people who we don’t love or barely care about. We will keep jobs we hate. Most of all, we will refuse to face our pain. We’ll do all of this for the illusion of stability. Or maybe it’s preserving the illusion of stability that protects us from the scourge of freedom. As society goes into its gyrations and birth contractions and we are compelled to recreate ourselves as we explore our relationship to the whole, you can be sure that many will be struggling with an adaptation process, and with what feels like an inordinate amount of growth. We will not have much time for regrets. We will not have time to ponder whether we’re ready for a new way of relating to one another, be it through community, new models of relationship, or more functional ideas of family. There will be many people who feel that they are retarded because others much younger have done some of the work, and figured out how to stand on their own and as part of a group. Those of us in the helping professions are going to have plenty on our hands, and our own healing process will accelerate as a result. Most of us already have plenty to do, and we need to start organizing support networks so that we can keep the sanity we’ve worked so

hard to gain, and not get dragged down by so many unusual demands on our attention. I have suggested on a number of occasions that if you want to see what material you’re going to be working with during Pluto in Capricorn, study the era from late 2001 through 2005 and investigate what that tells you. Decide what you accomplished, what you did not accomplish and most of all, what you learned. And please consider this equation, from my article “How To Be Your Own Lover,” that deconstructs guilt—this emotion being the lifeblood of all oppression, inner and outer. This brief segment was co-written with Joseph Trusso, my longtime holistic therapist and mentor. In taking on Pluto in Capricorn, we will need to challenge and overthrow the guilt of our families, and of our society, which we carry internally. We carry it as guilt about sex, freedom, happiness, and even love; I believe that guilt is the essence of what Freud called Thanatos, the death urge. It is what is paralyzing us against standing up against injustice, against the lack of emotional freedom we feel, and ultimately it’s what’s going to mess up our children. It is up to us, you and me, to break the cycle. “Fritz and Laura Perls, early pioneers of Gestalt therapy, taught that guilt is resentment turned against itself. Generally speaking, children, being the powerful yet powerless little critters they are, take upon themselves the notion of “fault and blame.” They cannot imagine adults (who are personifications of the gods and goddesses) making an error. If they do, it’s still the “fault” of the child. “If only I would’ve done this or that, Daddy wouldn’t hit me.” “If I were quieter, Mommy wouldn’t drink.” And so on. Since they are at “fault,” they are “guilty,” and since they cannot rage against the adults very successfully or have a real impact on the direction of events, they turn the resentment at being pruned, modified, corrected, disciplined, strongly directed or dictated to, back at themselves. “That is guilt. It’s fair to say that our lives, so often filled with the idea that we cannot influence the direction of events, so often caught in the web of control, of bosses, of taxes, of children, and, yes, of our sexual relationships, are often holographic copies of these original crushing relationships with parents and teachers. Yet as adults, the programming, the patterns, are contained within us. They are internalized. Check it out: Do we have especially creative jobs? Dare we say what we feel, go where we want, be who we are or have sex with who we desire? Or are we pruned, modified, dictated to, and denied out of existence by our own self-control?” That is the question, and if we can ask it honestly we may find the source of our real human wealth as a bunch of bankers and unelected bureaucrats try to steal the rest. 11/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 123


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(March 20-April 19)

Achievement has not come easily for you in recent years, though having extremely idealistic goals certainly has. The polarity between the two states of being has at times been painful to stretch yourself across. You have surely made an effort, and you have been patient; this has taught you something crucial, which is temperance. You have wracked your spirit on many debates over the ethics of your choices, and have often tried to live as if you were spiritual rather than simply real. Deep in there, you have questioned whether you are a good enough person to deserve success. Has it occurred to that so much that you’ve been trying to work out was not your own personal material but rather the legacy of the parent who tried to cast their shadow over you? That shadow seemed like light; it was veiled in terms like “growth� and “mystical� and even “cosmic.� It may have simply been someone’s religious trip that was endured by someone in a time before you lived; God knows there are plenty of them in our DNA. The message of Pluto’s entry into Capricorn is that it’s time for you to define accomplishment on your own terms. You set your own objectives and you determine the extent to which you need to go to make something happen in the world. Yet the more compelling point is this. Success is not doing what is expected of you. Often it is about specifically giving up those expectations, and taking up the responsibility and the privilege of independence.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Many of my recent columns have guided you to seek understanding of what you believe and why—and to see the power of those beliefs to influence your existence. The most enduring mental constructions in our society would appear to be things like guilt, sacrifice, and an obsession with scarcity. It would not be stretching things to say these ideas tend to form the foundation of our thought structure as a culture and as individuals. This in turn would help explain why we are so obsessed with having more, and with dramas of right and wrong. Now imagine all of this is like a rigid structure that holds back your potential, your energy, your talent and most of all your ability to define your existence on the basis of love and not loss. You may already know this, and what may all-but-terrify you is the notion that if your belief structures are challenged or destroyed, your existence will somehow collapse. How many times have you had this feeling, this lurking sense that you are somehow held up by whatever you believe, which makes it precious—even if it’s not true, even if it’s hurting you or limiting your potential? As you begin to experience something new, remember this imagery. Feel the energy pouring out of the spaces where it was contained by your own false notions about life.

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Love hides in narrow corners and strange places, or at least that’s where you seem to look for it. Perhaps this is because all the ordinary places you seek, you find people whose beliefs are so conventional it’s a marvel they have any room to think or breathe, much less to grow. And it is a wonder, at times, that you can stay awake around them for 15 minutes. You’ve struggled with believing nothing else is possible; and with the impulse to lower your standards or deny your own desires. At times you’ve resigned yourself to transcend the need for intimacy. There is a reason for these things, and I believe it involves the structure of human consciousness: a facade we call the ego; which obscures this ocean of chaos we call the unconscious; which in turn conceals the existence of the soul. We tend, all of us at times, though some more than others, to acknowledge only the show that’s on the stage rather than the production behind the scenes. As one who is soaked in your own feelings, it’s impossible for you to deny that you have an inner life. A new era of your relationships is beginning, and one quality that may surprise you is how others will seek you as a guide to their own inner quest, and in the process you will help many. As for your own satisfaction, choose from among those who are aware of and truly interested in your own inner journey.


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LEO

(July 22-Aug. 23)

Much of what I know about Leo, I know from homeopathy—specifically, from the remedy aurum metallicum, or pure gold. Most of the rest comes from having working relationships with Leos, wherein I have learned that there exists something of a gold standard, and one that is described in the properties of the remedy aurum. It is not quite about perfectionism but rather about giving all you have as a matter of common sense. You do something, you do it well. You commit to something, you come through. It’s a more practical approach than trying to be perfect. People other than Leos have these values, but few take it to heart so deeply, with such pride and with the capacity to feel so poignantly any sense of failure. Apropos of Pluto ingressing Capricorn, your solar sixth house, you need to pace yourself; to balance effort, recovery, and recreation; and, most important, to let your mind carry the weight of your process more than your body. This is a transit about refining your method, purpose, and message of something vital in this world—service. The key to these years of your life is about restructuring your world such that it supports your goals. You may already be onto this one, but the time has come to put your plan into action. You know what is possible. You believe in yourself. And you trust your own strength. Focus your intention and the rest will come.

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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Most people, no matter how old, are ruled by their families. Just listen to them long enough and you will see what I mean. It’s not that they are told or forbidden what to do directly, though disturbingly often this is true even for some adults. Rather, we often live with the sense that if we do something we truly want, we will be met with the displeasure or disappointment of a parent, a spouse or some shadowy authority figure standing in their place. On a deeper level, you—like most people—seem to drag around an idea of what is safe and secure that is based on some ancestral notion. I have news for you today. The moving force of your soul is about to impact these ancient artifacts of history, and it’s not going to stop any time soon. With passion, with gusto, and with a sense of evolutionary urgency, you are claiming the right to define safety, security, and necessity for yourself. You can and must define your life in terms more meaningful than survival, yet without ever losing the capacity to survive. The time has come to go beyond an emotionally Spartan existence and take inner authority. This is not so much about controlling your feelings as it is about consciously removing your inherited blocks to even feeling them at all. And this, in case nobody has written it before, is where freedom begins.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) You are a deep and thoughtful person, but it’s rather incredible the extent to which your entire reasoning process is based on doubt. You usually arrive at the truth by reduction; by determining, through a long process, what is not true; and then what is left must therefore be true. It’s now time to reverse that process; to seek the core of the matter as a conscious act. You may feel like you’re going on a hunt for a unicorn. That is, you may doubt, at the outset, whether what you are seeking really exists. This is one place where your doubt is not going to serve you; now you either need faith or determination. As has so often been said, the truth you are seeking is within yourself. You have spent much of your existence, and I mean from early childhood on, encountering very old ideas, and you still love tradition. Yet any tradition that is alive, changes. That is the whole point: It is an evolutionary process. This works for you on several levels, one or more of which may apply. The first is your sense of community. The second is your sense of family. The last is your talent for some form of expression of an idea. Think of it this way. You go to the library basement, where everything is kept that nobody has bothered with since AOL was invented. You find there is another basement. You go down there, and you start writing, and you come up with something actually original—and you never stop.

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SAGITTARIUS

(November 22-December 22)

You may feel like you’re finally being set free of something: a spell, an obsession, or a seemingly endless phase of your life that has driven you to some incredible highs and lows. You have in these years learned to apply intentional force and awareness through a long process of trial and error. You have figured out the necessity to focus your mind rather than to think in generalities. And you’ve learned to let some seemingly “other” strength come through you, a strength that turns out to have been truly your own. That, in a nutshell, was Pluto in Sagittarius. I am sure you’ve also observed that you can do significant damage if you’re not careful, and can, in those rare, transcendent moments, get actual results that exceeded your talent or expectations. The result of this process is that you’ve figured out that you exist. You have impact, people are compelled by your presence, and they actually care about you. Remember the sense of community and interpersonal contact as your life begins to take on profound tones of self-sufficiency. You’re not an island; rather, I feel you’re learning to be independent in the sense that what is important to you is about embodying your principles, even if it supposedly involves a sacrifice. The chances are, it will not—or not of anything you will miss.

CAPRICORN

(December 22-January 20)

What you are struggling with is an internal phenomenon. It may simply be the awareness that you need to wake up, but you’re not sure you want to. You may feel, urgently, that it’s time to let go of a vast number of preconceived ideas about life, all of which prevent you from doing one thing—feeling the truth of your feelings from the core of your existence, without needing to pretend you don’t care about something else. The extended phase of life that you’re entering is about becoming someone other than the person you were supposed to be. Who exactly is that person? I can give you one clue; it is a person who feels far less isolated than the person than you’ve come to know yourself as. Indeed, you may not realize the extent to which this isolation has been a factor of your life, but it has been a necessary one, one that has given you deep spiritual grounding. Count back 15 years. Think of your ideas about God or Goddess, your personal cosmology; consider your values about death and what you have discovered about the essential nature of your own soul. Now imagine that what you learned in that time is actually true. And imagine that the person you have become during these years is the one who can express his or herself in the world as if it were true; not as a question but as an underlying reality of existence.

AQUARIUS

(January 20-February 19)

I am gradually coming to observe that Aquarius is the sign of the most profound contradictions faced by humanity. In the archetypal sense, Aquarius stands for futurism, liberty, and the power of invention. Then it stands for the crystallization of patterns that make progress all but impossible. Where there is tyranny or revolt, Aquarius is in the picture. For an individual, the essential remedy to the contradiction is being aware of one’s shadow nature; that is, having a conscious relationship to your deepest fears. If you don’t, you can run into problems, and by that I mean descend into control issues, profound loneliness, and a sense that you’re too complex to ever actually feel good. Recent years of your life (2005 to present) have had you under the influence of Chiron; this has focused your personality intensely, and has left you with an obsession with growth, healing, and awareness. The longer story is Neptune: a personal drama over truth, integrity, and a significant controversy over where you begin and where the world ends. Pluto is now moving into the sector of your chart where you keep your darkest secrets, and you need to be deeply honest with yourself about them. This is a confrontation you cannot avoid, and if you do so with an open heart, it will bear nourishing fruit.

PISCES

(February 19-March 20)

I don’t think there’s a Pisces alive who wonders whether there’s a place for him or her in this world. You are soft and, if you haven’t noticed, the primary construction materials on this planet are concrete, steel, and some odd idea that the past must overshadow the future. Your most important long-term transit has been Uranus in your sign. This is making you burst with the desire to make your unique mark on the world, to shape the world in some new way that embraces imagination and personal freedom. Pluto in Capricorn will give you some extra potency to shape not just belief, but material reality. This is a skill that few people have—most just go along with the program. You are moving into a position to insist that the program go along with you, or, better yet, to establish your own place in the world. Certainly, the fear of being different will no longer hold you down. You don’t lack energy and you are well into taking the step of being your own best friend. Even if you have tried to have a particular form of impact a hundred times, try again. If you have attempted to get an idea off the ground each of the past 10 years, try again. If you have been seeking a place in society where you get to keep your integrity, look for it now, and don’t be surprised when it opens up.

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