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41 a bridge between
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26 while you were sleeping Flossing may not be beneficial, voter supression in the American South, and more you may have missed.
27 beinhart’s body politic Larry Beinhart on the evolution of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
home & Garden 52 home: Traveler’s Rest
Douglas Sexton and Danny O’Connell’s house to share in HIllsdale.
59 garden: Aces in the fall
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Mohonk Mountain House’s Garden Manager Andrew Koehn’s favorite fall plants.
28 Tribal Politics
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80 Bounty of the Valley
Photos and text from Frank Spinelli’s experience on the streets at the RNC.
Art of business 34 The stories behind local business. This month: Fay Wood Studio, American Glory, NIne River Road, Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase, Daryl’s House.
A guide to some of the budding new restaurants across the region.
whole living 90 From Tibet, WIth love
Kids & Family 38 Necessary Movement
How racism affects children in the Hudson Valley and the response from local chapters of empowerment organizations.
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Traditional Tibetan medicine and the healing powers of the Medicine Buddha.
Community Resource Guide 87 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 88 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 94 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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Leon Botstein, music director Copland & Bruckner September 24–25 Elgar’s Enigma Variations October 29–30
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arts & culture 64 Gallery & museum GUIDe 68 music: The Felice Brothers
A profile of the local folk band and their journey to international success. Nightlife Highlights include Upstart Antisocial Campout, Justin Townes Earl, Quiet Village Festival, Terry Bozzio, and Wishbone Ash. Reviews of II by Chron Turbine; Sunshine Seas by New Zion W. Cyro; and Still Life by Young Magic.
74 BOOKS: Heart of Gold Sunil Yapa on the long and winding six-year road to his debut social justice novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist.
76 book reviews
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78 Poetry Poems by Norman Brahm, Jessica Carey, Sara Gannon, Anthony G. Herles, Mala Hoffman, Demetrios Michael Houtrides, Robert Bernard Hurwitz, Mary Newell, p, Angela Perry, Christopher Porpora, A.J. Porras, Randy Raimondo, shokan, J.R. Solonche, and Elizabeth Trotwood. Edited by Phillip X. Levine.
the forecast 98 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 97 Television will play BSP’s Back Room on September 4. 99 “John Burroughs and the North American Review” on September 29. 100 A talk with historian Vernon Benjamin about the Hudson Valley’s heritage. 103 An interview with Gilbert Gottfried Woodstock Comedy Festival headliner. 105 Basilica Soundscape showcases the best experimental and noise musicians. 106 Bluegrass festival FreshGrass returns to Mass MoCA September 16 to 18. 107 The Poetry Brothel transforms BSP into a turn-of-the-century bordello. 109 TMI Project honors “Vagina Monologues” creator Eva Ensler on September 17. 111 Egili Oliveira hosts a samba workshop at Mountain View Studio. 113 Swiss mask-theater troupe Mummenschanz previews their show “you & me.”
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esteemed reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: “Hold no opinions for or against anything.” —Zarathustra, 628-551 BCE hortly after my son entered school, I had a meeting with his teacher. “He’s very capable, and is a leader in the class,” the teacher began, “but he has a hard time staying in line.” I nodded sympathetically, for I knew the boy was spirited. His movements described zigzags, fractals, and asymmetrical forms more than tidy human geometry. And then something dawned on me. “Well you know,” I said to the teacher, “there are no straight lines in nature.” It sounded glib, and we chuckled together, but as I reflected on the conversation, I realized that in fact staying in line, or toeing the line as it were, is not a quality I hope to engender in my children, let alone myself. If anything, I hope to be, and have children who are, ready to step out of line. This is not to say that rebelliousness is, in itself, a virtue. Indeed there is a keen distinction between rebelling against an external constriction and following the guidance of an inner compass, its needle pointing toward what one knows to be true. This latter could also be called staying in line, but aligned with something quick, outwardly changeable, and requiring great vigilance to apprehend. In whirling, the dervish finds a central axis that doesn’t move. It stretches from the left foot, up the leg and through the torso, and through the top of the head. Though his body is spinning around at high speed, this plumb line at the center, and accompanying awareness, is still. When attention in the axis is lost he wobbles. If his attention goes to things outside, he gets dizzy, loses his balance and falls. For the dervish, the simple, difficult act of turning around is both cosmic in its mirroring of nature from subatomic to galactic scales, and it is personal as a psychological elaboration of a disposition to be carried into life.The line that the dervish toes is vertical and an internal point of reference for navigating in life. It is no coincidence that what the dervish does, turn, could also be described as performing revolutions. To turn around, in this sense is revolutionary, and it is precisely this revolution that is required in retrieving our center of gravity from outer forms and constraints to our inner compass and its accompanied knowing. In this direction I have a long-standing, good-natured debate with my children’s grandmother. “The children should write thank-you notes.They shouldn’t be so entitled!” she states vehemently. “But they are entitled,” I reply. “They are entitled to be authentic. They are entitled to say thank you because they feel gratitude, and to feel gratitude in response to a kind deed. I would rather have children that are rude than duplicitous.” For me, I try to express the highest value is that one’s outer expression matches a corresponding inner feeling. How much of the inner life is occupied and hemmed in by concern about the thoughts, views, impressions, expectations, and judgments of others? How often do we sacrifice our own sense of what is true to gain favor or acceptance? What might we be occupied with if we weren’t forever concerned about how we are seen by others? It is a narrow path, finding a balance between appropriateness and authenticity, inner awareness and relatedness. Finding the inner axis, the center of gravity of the whirling dervish—even for brief moments—enables the unfolding of a creative, revolutionary dance in life. William Segal, in this excerpt from his poem “The Middle Way,” gives a hint at what it is to be aware of one’s own axis or center of gravity, and the requisite delicate balance of active effort and receptive sensitivity:
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I am aware of a feeling which suffuses the interior of myself. It is a choiceless, an accepting awareness.With it comes a sensation that extends to and envelops all the parts of the body. I am very still, relating to the silence that is both inside and outside. Nothing is lacking at this moment. —Jason Stern
Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note The Great Thing Is the Earth Itself
“The works of man dwindle, and the original features of the huge globe come out. Every single object or point is dwarfed; the valley of the Hudson is only a wrinkle in the earth’s surface.You discover with a feeling of surprise that the great thing is the earth itself, which stretches away on every hand so far beyond your ken.” —John Burroughs describing the view from the summit of Slide Mountain
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or a few years in the late aughts and early teens of this century, I hiked up Wittenberg Mountain (3780’) in early November to celebrate my birthday. A few friends and I would undertake the multi-hour climb, chatting amiably and complaining of the bocce ball-sized rocks strewn everywhere along the path, making looking up a dangerous pursuit lest you stub your toe or twist your ankle. We’d pop a bottle of (by then warm) sparkling wine at the summit while enjoying the finest views the southern Catskills have to offer, a 180-degree panorama of the Taconic and Berkshire hills to the east and the lesser peaks of the area dotting the landscape undulating down to the Hudson River, which can be seen twisting and turning from this elevation, old river that it is. I’d chosen Wittenberg for this annual excursion because of the payoff of the view at the summit, despite wondering in the back of my mind whether we should have been hiking up Slide Mountain (4180’) instead—if only because it’s the tallest peak in the Catskills, despite the fact that there is no view from the top, short of scrambling up a Balsam fir. Around this time, I became aware of, and intrigued by, the Catskill 3500 Club. Membership in this club is open to anyone who has climbed the 35 Catskill peaks above 3500’ in elevation (and four of the peaks—Slide, Blackhead, Balsam, and Panther—again in winter, which is defined in the Club’s by-laws as the period from December 21 to March 21). Now, not to talk smack about the devoted friends who accompanied me up Wittenberg, but it seemed like every year the pace got a little slower and I was continually finding myself far ahead of the pack with Shazam the Wonder Dog, wondering what was taking everyone so long. So I decided to quicken the pace. In the fall of 2011, I set myself the goal of joining the 3500 Club. And I was going to do all 35 in a calendar year. I planned on hiking almost every weekend, and some weekdays as well. I was going to crush this 3500 Club thing. January was warm in 2012, so Shazam and I commenced our assault on the 35 peaks with Sugarloaf (3800’) on January 7. We made it up and back to the car in under three hours. There was some snow later that month and into February, so we didn’t set out again until March, when we bagged Kaaterskill High Peak (3655’; 2:37), Big Indian (3700’; 3:02), Indian Head (3573’; 3:15), and Windham High Peak (3524’; 2:20). As you can see, I recorded the times. We were basically running up and down these hills. I’d stop at the summit to take a picture and give myself and the dog some water and beef jerky, but mostly we were on the move and right-quick about it too. What’s the view like from the top of Kaaterskill High Peak? I couldn’t tell you. I have a photo of Shazam standing next to part of an airplane wing near the summit (see photo above), but that’s about it. We continued our bold, oblivious stab at the 3500 Club through April. (“In assaulting a mountain, as in assaulting a fort, boldness is the watchword.”—
John Burroughs) We bagged Hunter (4040’; 3:56), Twin (3640’; 2:40), and Balsam Cap (3623’; 4:30), which I guess we never really “bagged” as we could not find the sign-in canister at the summit despite an hour of increasing frustration looking for it after an arduous bushwhack to what I thought was the summit, which had no view anyway. (To be clear, Shazam showed no signs of frustration, only concern over my deteriorating mental state.) Some people climb mountains because they’re there; I climb to look down on the earth from on high. Burroughs again: “When one is on a mountain-top, he spends most of the time in looking at the show he has been at such pains to see.” It was Balsam Cap that broke me—no summit, no canister, no view—no good. My big, audacious goal was too much with itself. I hung up my hiking boots for the rest of the summer. In the fall I again summited Wittenberg with my slowpoke pals, cracked open the bubbly, and drank in the awe-inspiring view. I was reminded of my fool’s errand recently as I was rereading the John Burroughs essay, “The Heart of the Southern Catskills,” a chronicle of an ascent of he made of Slide in the 1880s, which all the quotes in this essay are from. If you don’t know who John Burroughs is, you’re not alone, and I doubt that any renaissance of this 19th-century writer/naturalist will be as complete as, say, that of Nick Drake after the “Pink Moon” Volkswagen ad aired. The problem that Burroughs suffers is also his greatest asset as a writer, and his biographer, Ed Renehan, describes him this way: “a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world.” To those of us used to reading popular science writers like Stephen Jay Gould and Jared Diamond, Burroughs can sound antique. But oh, how his prose can sing of the natural marvels that surround us like no one else. Happily, the North American Review, which published a couple dozen essays by Burroughs, is collecting them in a new volume titled Manifold Nature, which will be released on October 1 with an event at Slabsides, the rustic cabin Burroughs built in Esopus. A preview by our man Sparrow, who sports a beard that rivals Burroughs, appears on page 99. And, in case you didn’t know it, the neighboring peaks of Slide, Cornell, and Wittenberg are known as the Burroughs Range, named after the man himself. Coda Thanks to all who came out for the fourth annual Chronogram Block Party on August 20th. We closed down Wall Street in front of our office here in Kingston, and good thing, too, because we needed every inch to accommodate the thousands of people who showed up to celebrate with us. The soft summer night, amazing bands, beguiling street performers, food vendors, adult party beverages, our sponsors, and the Chronogram community created a magical atmosphere and an unforgettable evening. Big props to Samantha Liotta, our events director, for herding logistical cats and organizing an incredible event that came off (yet again) without a hitch—this woman could oversee a heck of a moon landing or large-scale humanitarian effort methinks. Saundi Wilson photographed the event for us—hundreds of images from the block party are posted at Facebook.com/Chronogram. 9/16 ChronograM 25
Humans and primates may not be the only animals to express altruistic behavior. Humpback whales around the globe have been rescuing animals from killer whale hunts. In data gathered by marine ecologist Robert Pitman, there were 115 documented interactions between humpbacks and orcas over the course of 61 years. In 89 percent of these documented interactions, the humpbacks were interfering with the killer whales hunt, rescuing the orcas. Additional animals rescued by humpback whales include: California sea lions, ocean sunfish, harbor seals, and gray whales. Source: Mother Nature Network Dental organizations and the federal government have long urged people to use dental floss, but there’s hardly any proof of its benefits. The latest US guidelines have dropped the recommendation following an investigation by the Associated Press (AP). Last year, journalists from the AP asked the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture for their evidence that flossing works. Since then, the US government has quietly dropped the recommendation, admitting that there is no scientific evidence to prove the benefits. Dental advisors are hesitant to believe this, though. “The difficulty is trying to get good evidence. People are different and large studies are costly to do; until then you can’t really say yes or no,” said Damien Walmsley, Professor at Birmingham University and scientific advisor to the British Dental Association. Source: Guardian (UK) In February 2015, Georgia resident Ronnie Music Jr. won $3 million off of a scratch-off ticket. Music, a maintenance worker, and his wife initially planned to save most of the money. Instead, he built a crystal meth ring to purchase and sell the drug. Music’s and his co-conspirators attempted to sell about 11 pounds of crystal meth—with a street value of more than $500,000. On July 26, Music pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking and firearm charges. “As a result of his unsound investment strategy, Music now faces decades in a federal prison,” said Edward J. Tarver, the United States attorney. Source: NBC News Prior to 2013, a section of the Voting Rights Act in Southern states required jurisdictions to receive preclearance before changing voter registrations and elections. Since the abolishment of this section, efforts like voter ID laws and cutbacks in early voting periods have disenfranchised African American voters. On July 29, a federal appeals court eliminated a North Carolina law requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls. The ruling also restores voters’ ability to register on Election Day and before the age of 18. Furthermore, the ruling permits voters to cast early ballots. All of these provisions were prohibited, either partially or fully, prior to the ruling. Source: New York Times
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any Republicans have tried to disavow or distance themselves from the Donald. Because he’s a racist. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called him a “race baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” Because he makes things up. Mitt Romney said, “Dishonesty is Trump’s hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong, he spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong, he saw no such thing. He imagined it.” Because he’s attacked a genuine war hero like John McCain and Gold Star parents. Because he’s rude to and about women. Barbara Bush said, “I mean, unbelievable. I don’t know how women can vote for someone who said what he said about Megyn Kelly, it’s terrible.” And on and on, in that distraught vein. And yet, each of the parts from which this Frankenstein’s monster was assembled was manufactured by the Republican Party. Happily, right here in America. When Republicans try to distance themselves from Trump’s racism they almost always remind us that they are the “the party of Lincoln.” That’s true. The Republican Party came into being in the 1850s. It was antislavery, pro-modernity, based mostly in the North. It won the presidency with Lincoln in 1860. The Civil War ensued. The North—under a Republican administration—won, freed the slaves, and, after the war, sent troops to occupy the South and impose multiracial democracy. Southern whites eventually regained enough power to get the troops removed. Then they terrorized the blacks, stopped them from voting, and imposed segregation backed by force and violence. For the next 100 years the loyalty of white Southerners to the Democrats was absolute, Yellow Dog Democrats—they’d “rather vote for yaller dawg than a Republican”— and the Old Confederacy became the Solid South, solidly Democratic.Then Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, pushed though the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Republicans saw the potential. Kevin Phillips, a Republican strategist (then, but no longer), wrote that, “The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.” In 1968, Richard Nixon adopted “the Southern Strategy,” to use code words like “states’ rights” and “law and order” that made it clear to the racists that they were the racist candidates, while voters who didn’t want to identify as racists could believe they were sensible moderates. The Republicans were so successful at it that they not only won elections, but they convinced multitudes of people—including most of the media and even themselves—that it wasn’t about race, that it was really about the code words of the day. If you’re one of the doubters, listen to Lee Atwater, the first of the great ruthless, creative, devious, and destructive political consultants, advisor to presidents Reagan and Bush (the elder) and chairman of the Republican National Committee. Lee made it absolutely explicit, “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.” After that, “you’re getting so abstract that you’re talking about cutting taxes.” Just in case that might have been too abstract, verbal links were provided by folks like Ronald Reagan: outrage over “welfare queens” driving Cadillacs, “strapping young bucks” who got food stamps instead of working, and affirmative action. The codes remained as clear as could be to the racists and just opaque enough that people who wanted to pretend to others—and to themselves—that race was not the issue could do so. The Southern Strategy worked. Completely. The “yellow dog Democrats” became “barking bow-wow Republicans,” and the Solid South became their base.
To get there, the Republican Party turned the Party of Lincoln inside out, to become not merely racist, but the party that fights modernity. For Republicans to despise Trump because he is racist is disingenuous. He’s adopted it very neatly against Mexicans and Muslims, expanding it into the browns, but so have most Republicans—all candidates must vehemently call for closing the borders and be against “amnesty” and be hysterical over Obama’s failure to say “radical Islamic terrorism.” It is their product; a necessity to their individual survival. Trump’s only sin is to not keep it in the codes that permit pretense and comfortable self-deception. Romney’s complaint about telling imaginary stories as if they are true is also part of Republican packaging. It is not an aberration. It is the modern standard. Credit for making that happen has to go to Ronald Reagan. Reagan, for example, loved to tell a story about a WWII bomber that had been shot up. Most of the crew had parachuted out. A young gunner was trapped, terrified, and in tears. The commander, still on board, came, sat beside him, and said, “We’ll ride this one down together.” Reagan’s punch line was, “Congressional medal of honor. Awarded posthumously.” He told it many times. It brought his audiences to tears. But it hadn’t happened in reality. It had happened in Wing and A Prayer, a 1944 film starring Don Ameche. The response of Reagan’s White House Press Secretary, Larry Speakes, was, “If you tell the same story five times, it’s true.” Trump attacked John McCain, who’d spent six years in a Vietnamese prison camp while Trump himself was a New York playboy, spending his father’s money, and—according to his own descriptions—dodging STDs, by saying, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Many people were shocked. Yet Trump’s popularity went up among Republican primary voters. Surprising? It shouldn’t be. In 2004, George Bush, who’d evaded combat by pulling strings and who may have missed most of his military service entirely, was running against a genuine war hero. John Kerry had a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. Republican operatives launched a campaign of slander, insinuations, and outright lies. Given the reality of the records of the two candidates, it seems audacious beyond belief.Yet, to an astonishing degree, it was successful. Reality barely stands a chance against loud and relentless repetition. Nowadays, Republicans have their own reality presented daily and relentlessly on their own reality TV network, Fox News. All that’s bad comes from big government. Cutting taxes is a cure all. Lower wages are never caused by union busting. Government spending is a giveaway to welfare queens and Mexican illegals. Climate change is a liberal, Chinese, homo plot, to take big SUVs from hard-working Americans. Obama is a Muslim, a socialist, a Kenyan, dammit, something that’s very wrong! (But not because he’s black). Being thoughtful is weak, blustering and bullying like O’Reilly and Putin is good. All spin, all the time is called “the no-spin zone.” Barbara Bush, standing up for women, is against Trump because he was rude to Megyn Kelly. Ms. Kelly is very stylish, looks good on camera, and is probably quite intelligent. She’s also part of the Alt.Reality machine that is Fox News, telling lies, promoting blowhards, quizzing candidates to see if they will adhere to the Fox News line. In other words, creating the terrarium in which a toxic Trump can thrive. When it became clear that Trump would win the nomination, Lindsey Graham said, “My party has gone batshit crazy.” True. But Lindsay, look around, it’s not Trump who made it that way, it’s that your party is batshit crazy that made Trump. 9/16 ChronograM 27
Portfolio Political dramatists acted out their slogans on East 4th Street. The reference to Jerusalem at the bottom of the yellow placard refers to an organization that memorializes Holocaust sites. Opposite: Live broadcast of the Convention on East 4th Street by MSNBC attracted hundreds of people. Many stood in camera view hoping to be seen waving their messages on national television. Tom Brokaw, Andrea Mitchel, Tamron Hall, and Chuck Todd were among the many anchors broadcasting live on the street.
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hen asked, with the inevitable expression of concern— “Weren’t you afraid for your safety at the Republican National Convention?”—my response has now become routine. I was not on the convention floor, but on the streets and parks outside the Quicken arena, which resembled a congenial town hall meeting for the most part. There were upwards of 3,500 police, along with an equal number of journalists. The ratio of police and journalists to those promoting their political agendas was nearly four to one—citizens were clearly in the minority. In addition, the police cleverly positioned themselves to form walls between discussion groups, and at times, these “walls” were broken into right angles to form mazes, making any tribal rush to a hotspot extremely difficult. Yet there was perhaps another, more subtle reason for the congeniality. In an open carry state such as Ohio, one might say that someone whipping out a weapon during an argument was a real possibility and therefore lowered the argumentative tenor, especially in light of the American experience over the few weeks before the convention. I saw citizens of every stripe humbled and respectful because of the awareness of the mass of killings in a Florida nightclub, while police violence against black citizens along with sniper attacks on the police themselves, seemed to drain even the most ardent protestors of their vitriol. The citizens who were in the plazas and by-ways of Cleveland, like everywhere else in the country, had been through an unrelenting ringer of news alerts heralding random death and mayhem and We, The People, seemed to be numbed by hurt and therefore exhausted. Our species, despite the political chasm that separated most, had become empathic of each other. Lining the street where the news organizations set up their broadcast booths, hawkers sold tee shirts, buttons, and banners. People were huddled
in small and mid-sized groups with agendas that included Black Lives Matter, religious evangelism, the disenfranchised, Mr. Trump’s Mexican wall, the NRA, Palestine and Israel, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and even veganism. The bulked-up police, along with keeping order, interacted with everyone of all stripes. The police even played ping pong with demonstrators in Jimmy Dimora Square. Some overheard discussions bordered on reasonable, while others bore no connection to reality. The strongest invectives were heaped onto President Obama, from his foreign birth to his collusion with Muslims to the fact that he was in the process of making secret deals with Iran to overthrow the United States. “Hillary Clinton belongs in prison” and “Dump Trump” were the most common chants. Anyone searching the vast terrain of the Internet can understand where these ideas originate. In an open forum where many of the protesters were not backed by their tribe, it seemed people were at ease with their ideas and that, in my mind, added to the de-escalation of the conversations that followed. What I had feared most is that when like-minded people are huddled together, the worst inclinations of a few can be carried out by the many. This is what I did not see on the streets surrounding the Republican Convention. I wish I could say the same for what went on inside Quicken Arena. The blood lust for Hillary’s demise seemed to surprise even the most ardent of her detractors on the outside. Frank Spinelli is a Woodstock-based photographer whose Hug Deli appeared on the cover of December 2014 issue of Chronogram. He is currently working on a series of Jamaican street culture photographs. More of Spinelli’s work can be seen at Frankspinelliphotography.com. 9/16 ChronograM 29
Anti-Trump Democrats encouraged bystanders to pick up message placards and to carry them throughout the park and into the surrounding streets. Many of the messages were biblical in tone. Police officers from across America (3,500 in total) arrived in Cleveland to maintain order. Police questioned this bystander who was carrying a handheld electronic device that looked as if it could trip an improvised explosive device (IED). The Guy Fawkes mask made him a profile target.
Opposite page: Black Lives Matter debated Blue Lives Matter. Our democratic experiment is alive and well after 240 years. The “Wall Off Trump� demonstrators sprinted down the street while nearly 200 ran alongside in support. The late morning sun was extremely hot and passions rose to a high pitch, but in the end, everybody kept their cool. 30 ChronograM 9/16
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Charlie Rose conferred with a research assistant alongside the MSNBC kiosk. What we never see on television: his flashy blue sneakers.
A veteran teamed up with a activist against Republican immigration policy.
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The Jesus protesters were by far the most vocal. The separation of church and state of late has been blatantly ignored.
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Three inns and a baby
Sims and Kirsten Harlow Foster have been reinventing Sullivan County hospitality since 2002, starting with restaurants and moving into hotels. “My husband was raised in Livingston Manor and he sold me on this area right after we started dating,” says Kirsten, who spent years as an economist with the Federal Reserve. “It’s like I’m using the other side of my brain that had been dormant. I grab Max— he’s 13 months, fifth generation Livingston Manor Foster—and hit the three inns on Saturday morning, have breakfast with everybody. We’re excited to be opening Nine River Road, our third hotel, in Callicoon. It’s right on the river and two blocks from Main Street. We want people to feel like they’re visiting good friends with a big country house and a personal chef. People come to breakfast in slippers saying ‘Is this OK?’ Of course! At Nine River Road, you check in with the innkeeper in the kitchen.”
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Educating Tastes
Joe Fierro spent years behind a Wall Street desk, dreaming of a restaurant. Now he presides happily over two locations of American Glory in Hudson and Tannersville, beloved for multiple styles of slammin’ BBQ and over 100 whiskeys. The dream is real. What makes a great whiskey bar? “Selection, knowledge, mixing skill, ice, the perfect serving vessel. Our bartenders can explain each whiskey’s flavor profile, origin, distilling process and correct way to be served, and pair the right whiskey with a customer’s food. There is nothing better than the look on a customer’s face when they request Jack Daniels and my bartenders offer a tasting flight of four different Kentucky or New York whiskeys, at the same price point but with flavor profiles that will make you forget you ever drank Jack or Maker’s Mark. It’s like winning a game. We converted another sour mash drinker to a budding whiskey connoisseur. Score!”
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After 20 years in an old church up the mountain on Fish Creek Road, Saugerties artist Fay Wood moved downtown three years ago. “I miss the wildlife, but the village has its own varieties,” she says dryly. Wood has been exhibited extensively in the US, Italy, and Germany; three of her works will be part of “Birds: Enduring Feathered Creatures” at the Orange Hall Gallery at SUNY Orange through October 22.
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with Baker Rorick of the Woodstock invitational Luthier’s Showcase
Growing a Show
Taking place from October 21-23 this year, the Woodstock Invitational Luthiers Showcase fills the Bearsville Theatre and Utopia Soundstage with exhibits, workshops and performances. Chronogram spoke to organizer Baker Rorick about this event that’s grown with the force of destiny fulfilled. How did you happen to end up here doing this? I’m from the musical instrument industry. I had a web of connections built up from decades of playing music, working in guitar sales and marketing, and music journalism, starting In the ‘70s in St. Louis, buying guitars in pawnshops and selling them to rock stars at backstage doors. I got to Woodstock thanks to Happy Traum and Homespun Tapes. In 2008 I was writing a profile of a major innovative guitar maker, and he asked me to help him put together a day for him to showcase his newest stuff in Woodstock. We rented the Colony Cafe and invited aficionados for a private showing. It was obvious we were onto something, and I decided to take it public the next year.
And it’s how big now? Paid attendance for the past three years has been between 1,000 and 1,500—half day-trippers, half from throughout North America and the world. We fill every inn and B&B, people group up and rent houses, and reserve for next year on the way out. We spend about $100,000 a year on production, 95 percent of it locally. This year there are 70 exhibitors and 40 performers. It’s a juried exhibition, and our waiting list for new applicants is out 2018. Most similar events worldwide are two or three times this big and much older. We’ve created a special niche. We’re in Bearsville, not a convention center. We’ve become the intersecting point between major guitar companies and the independent luthiers community; even with the big multinationals, most of the leaders are musicians themselves, and everybody comes for the vibe and lets their hair down. Then there are people who may take a pass through the exhibits, but they’re really here to listen to seven hours per day of live acoustic music by world greats for $20.
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Daryl Hall’s two passions—restoring antique architecture and making music—came together when the Hall of Famer took over the former Towne Crier in Pawling and made it over into Daryl’s House, adding a new entry to our region’s list of important yet intimate venues. Since then, the club’s been winning raves for everything from the acoustics to the mac and cheese. Nothing shines brighter than the lineup, though; Hall’s eclectic taste and warmhearted leadership combine to make a gig at Daryl’s House memorable for performer and audience alike, partaking of the laid-back creative spirit that fires the awardwinning web TV series “Live from Daryl’s House.” And it doesn’t hurt to have both a half-century of history to draw on and a heart for the new kids: September’s lineup includes legends like John Mayall and Leon Russell, along with brunches featuring the School of Rock band.
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Necessary Movement Voices of Black Lives Matter
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“Blackness is the thing that makes people feel threatened.” —Callie Jayne
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he impromptu group that gathered in Kingston on July 7th near the Citizen Action office was seeking a safe space to express solidarity in honoring Alton Sterling and Philando Castille, two men who had just died at the hands of law enforcement in Louisiana and Minnesota, respectively. People lit candles, sang, and held signs displaying the name, age, date of death, and activity of the people at the time they were killed. Alton Sterling, age 37, 7/5/16, selling CDs outside a supermarket. Tamir Rice, age 12, 11/22/14, playing with a toy gun in a park. At the bottom of each read #BlackLivesMatter. The hashtag started on Facebook in 2013. After George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, labor organizer Alicia Garza responded with a love letter to black people. She wrote, “I continue to be surprised at how little black lives matter.” Her friend, Patrisse Cullors, a community organizer in Los Angeles, hashtagged it, and it went viral. Together with Brooklynbased immigration-rights organizer Opal Tometi, Garza and Cullors built a website and took Black Lives Matter to the streets with local chapters and community activism. It’s been hailed as a grassroots, digitally connected, next wave of the Civil Rights movement. There were no set speakers at the vigil in Kingston, so attendees spoke in turn. One suggested they ask what police were doing to protect children of color. And before they knew it, the group was marching down Broadway to the police station. “The Kingston police responded well,” says Callie Jayne of Citizen Action, a national membership organization with chapters and affiliates that organize around issues important to local communities. “They escorted us to the police station, one squad car in the front and one in the back.” There, vigil participants rallied, sang, and read out all the names on their signs. Afterward, Time Warner Cable News staff led the story with a reference to the shootings of police officers at a protest in Dallas. Then, “A similar, peaceful protest was held Thursday night, right in Kingston.” According to Jayne, that’s dog whistle reporting, and it negatively influences public perceptions of black people. “With Alton Sterling, media pulled up a 10-year-old mug shot rather than his Facebook profile pic,” Jayne explains. “It portrays black as bad and white as good.” Those perceptions are something she struggles with on a daily basis as the mother of two girls. When Jayne was looking with her husband for an apartment in Accord last March, landlords were eager on the phone to show their rentals. But when Jayne showed up, 38 Kids & family ChronograM 9/16
Callie Jayne’s younger daughter Althea in the kids’ area at the Citizen Action office in Kingston.
the first question was, “What’s your income?” That’s exactly what a 2012 study by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development found. Across 28 cities, blacks were equally able to make appointments to view rental properties (a marked improvement from a similar 1977 study) but, upon arrival, were told about 11.4 percent and shown 4.2 percent fewer housing units than whites with comparable qualifications. Jayne identifies different levels of racism: “Individual and internalized is when someone feels this. Interpersonal is the guy at the office who makes the black joke. Institutional is people using their positions of power to express their individual and interpersonal feelings. It can be one person, but it builds its way up.” A landlord’s preconceived feelings about black people could affect Jayne’s ability to provide a stable life for her children. “Black folks feel pressure to win people over, in a certain way, in every interaction.” —Margaret Kwateng “Parents are trying to teach their children to be hyper-vigilant and hyper-aware all the time—the way you’re standing, the way you approach somebody—with the knowledge and expectation that you’re going to be seen as a threat,” says Margaret Kwateng, of Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, a multi-issue community organization based in Poughkeepsie that connects people with problems rooted in systems of power, and co-founded the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition. “Parents are often assumed to be incompetent, uncaring, or ineffective,” Kwateng says. “This framing shifts the blame from economic systems that have destroyed all of their surroundings to the parents, who are struggling to put together the pieces.” Those microagressions, Kwateng asserts, foster a negative self-image in children: of themselves and their parents. With black students being suspended or expelled at a rate three times that of white students, parents must take time off from work to liaise with administrators to keep their children in school. “There’s an overworked and underpaid population of black workers that have these added stressors in their family lives, which has negative health consequences,” Kwateng explains. Studies find that exposure to pervasive discrimination can impact a family’s well-being. Gilbert Gee of UCLA and colleagues found that people of color often have a higher rate of illness and lower mortality. In 2011, they wrote, “These systems—including the educational system, criminal justice system, and labor market—have been viewed as fundamental drivers of health inequities.” Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson began to combat displacement during the housing
market crisis, and has transitioned now to utility rates and energy policies. Lowerincome families pay more for utilities because of reduced access to energy-saving home improvements, and to debts owed on missed payments and fees associated with electricity shut-offs. In 2015, Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman of the NewYork Times studied debt-collection lawsuits in three major American cities. “Even accounting for income, the rate of court judgments from these lawsuits was twice as high in mostly black communities as it was in mostly white ones,” Kiel wrote. “Many were families who, knocked off their feet by medical bills or job loss or other problems, had simply been unable to recover.” According to Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson, this disproportionately impacts working class communities of color in Poughkeepsie because of racially discriminatory collections practices. So they developed workshops to look at how the utilities are set up and regulations happen. “It’s focused on developing an analysis of the institutions we interact with and the systems around us,” Kwateng says. “There’s a historical basis for the inequality we see, one that must push us to think beyond individual blame of families. This analysis of the root causes of this crisis is needed to develop solutions that address more than the immediate issues being faced.” “In a city of two square miles, you should know everyone. You should know your neighbor.”—Quintin Cross M&J Unisex Hair Studio in Hudson is not only a place to get a great haircut; it’s also a meeting place where locals go to chat about the things affecting their communities. Stemming from these talks, around 2012, people collectively resolved to be more engaged, and brothers Vernon and Quintin Cross and shop owner Juwan Morrison founded the Staley B. Keith Social Justice Center (SBK). Named for the prominent teacher and community leader who held multiple public offices in Hudson, including in the local NAACP chapter, SBK is run also by Alexis Keith, Staley’s daughter, who is the Vice-President and Vice-Chairman. “Our motto is help us help ourselves,” says Quintin Cross, SBK’s Executive Director. “We don’t need a hand out. Show us the way; don’t do it for us.” Their first cause was to encourage the school board in policies that reduced PINS petitions (Persons in Need of Supervision), which they identified as a main culprit in the school-to-prison pipeline for Hudson’s youth. Since then, SBK has worked to successfully support two candidates for City Council, one for the school board, and more for other boards and commissions. Warren Street, Hudson’s main thoroughfare, has seen a great transformation since 2000, but Cross says most people only think of Warren Street when they think of the city. “A block over, there’s some serious poverty and socio-economic indicators that affect the city’s revitalization goals,” explains Cross. “We’re not against the development of Warren Street, but our areas have to be developed at the same time.” Cross says that it’s little often acknowledged that people contributed to the upkeep of the city when no one else wanted to be there. “People of color did have businesses and owned houses and were vital to this community. People of color had churches and civic organizations and were so much a part of the tradition of the city, and that should be acknowledged and recognized.” Cross maintains that rising rents and children too quickly placed in foster care or residential treatment centers creates a poverty economy that leaves Hudson’s families of color with no way to rise past their circumstances. An SBK focus is to empower black youth to resist the marginalization of their communities. Tee-quan Davis was one of the first kids in the youth advocacy program. Cross was a family friend and, three years ago, he vouched for Davis when a school fight went to court. “He started mentoring me,” Davis says. “I was the youngest person around and learned everything.” Davis has joined SBK for marches locally and even traveled to Albany to protest a young person’s harsh sentencing. This summer, Davis again participated in the Social Justice Leadership Academy, which SBK runs in partnership with Kite’s Nest, a learning resource center in Hudson. “We teach kids how to be leaders and how to be themselves,” Davis says. “Everything we learn is life lessons: things that you’ll need every day. We learn about laws, where you go if you need help.” But Davis is quick to say how much fun the SBK and Kite’s Nest summer and after school programs are: making music, creating radio and film, photography, and meeting other youth clubs. Now with his Regents diploma, Davis is embarking on a culinary career, inspired by cooking classes with Nicole LoBue from Kite’s Nest. “The bond people got here—this is my second family.” What Cross especially likes about SBK’s partnership with Kite’s Nest is that it’s a black-led organization collaborating with an organization run by three white women and operates like family. “They are serving as credible messengers for our organization to the larger white community, and that plays a role in building the trust. It’s these ties that folks like Cross feel will help to close the social distance gap. He says, “Let’s acknowledge first that racism exists, that the world did not change because Barack Obama became president, and that we need all hands on deck.”
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ll of us here in the Hudson Valley knew it was coming. The next wave of gentrification. Indeed, many of us—this writer included— are transplants who came to the region years ago to escape the relentless grind, choking rents, and faded promises of that big Babylon to the south. But few of us could have predicted the breakneck change that has been sweeping Hudson, New York, of late. In the space of only a few years, the two-square-mile Columbia County seat has radically transformed, first from a decaying, crime-wracked landscape, then to an affordable urban haven for artists with a handful of antique stores and a couple of nice restaurants, and, finally, to a quasi-resort destination filled with five-star dining, high-end specialty shops, and tourists toting small dogs in shoulder bags. One wonders what the hookers and rounders who gave the town it unsavory reputation for centuries would’ve made of it all. And just across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Hudson, in Greene County, is Catskill, another town with a blighted past that’s following suit by remaking itself as a cultural hub.
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Above: Walking past street murals on Warren Street in Hudson Right: John T. Unger with a metal fire bowl of his construction.
Hudson: Put Out the Red Light Long before it became the magnet for yachting types it is today, Hudson attracted sea farers of different stripes: specifically, whaling magnates and sailors. Chartered in 1785, the port city came within one of vote of being named the capital of New York. As the whaling trade died out, Hudson became a notorious center of gambling and prostitution, hosting the largest red light district in the Northeast until 1950, when state troopers closed down the numerous brothels that lined Diamond Street (since renamed Columbia Street in an effort to erase its seedy past). Severe decrepitude took hold in the 1960s and didn’t ease up until the 1980s, when a handful of antique dealers opened shops on Warren Street, the city’s main artery, and renovated several of the stately Victorian homes on Allen and Union streets. The city’s new legacy as an antique hunter’s El Dorado continues today with popular outlets like Riverfront Antiques and Design, Arenskjold Antiques Art, Hudson Supermarket, White Whale, Carousel Antiques Center, Furlong, Hudson Mercantile, Stair Galleries,Vincent Mulford, and Regan & Smith, and dozens more. Art galleries include Carrie Haddad Gallery, BCB Art, Limner Gallery, and others; the town is also home to a number of working artisans, like John. T. Unger, who creates dazzling sculptural metal fire bowls by hand. 9/16 ChronograM community pages 43
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Douglas Sexton, Danny O'Connell and their dog Dean on their front porch. "We're friends with everyone on the street," O'Connell says. Sexton agrees: "People come over and hang out. It really has become what we wanted it to be -a gathering spot for friends and family." Even the neighbor's chickens regularly come to visit. Opposite, top: Sexton and O’Connell’s Greek Revival home in Hillsdale. “I love that the house has changed over time,” Sexton says. “Never with a total gut renovation, just bit by bit; it has a living history that you can see. I’m still discovering new bits of the story after living here for three years.” Opposite, bottom: The couple kept the original wallpaper and light switch panel in one of the upstairs guest rooms. “This is everyone’s favorite room to stay,” Sexton says.
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The House of Glass Eight years ago the couple tackled the ultimate overseas adventure: Building a house in a foreign country. They’d fallen in love with Nicaragua; they loved its lush environment and easygoing way of life. More specifically, they’d fallen in love with a piece of land: A remote, wild peninsula jutting over the Pacific Ocean. They bought the property, moved their US base from New York to Miami, and began working with an architect to build their dream house. The project quickly became complicated. Navigating the local bureaucracy was stressful. The architectural plans eroded with the naturally shifting topography. Costs ballooned. They finally manifested their vision—a mid-century inspired house of glass overlooking the sea—but found that the rugged, remote landscape which had first captivated them made the house difficult to maintain. After five years of construction and care, they were exhausted. Like migrating birds, they turned their sights north again.Throughout their time in the tropics, they’d found themselves constantly flying to New York for birthday and anniversary celebrations or cultural events. (“Sometimes even just for dinner parties,” O’Connell adds.) They also missed the change of seasons. “It just became apparent,” he tells me, “our hearts were in the Northeast.” They began searching the upstate region east of the Hudson for somewhere new “to keep them busy.” They wanted to simplify but still needed a challenge.
Clockwise from top left: The couple have restored the home’s original staircase. “We had to custom mill the spindles and custom build the new bannister,” Sexton says. The home’s sitting and dinning rooms. Sexton painted all the floors by hand, crawling through the house with a two-wedge paint brush. The home’s breakfast nook. “I’ve gone through so many cans of paint in this house,” Sexton says. “I painted one color, lived with it for a while, then painted it again. It’s a creative process.” The home’s renovated main kitchen. O’Connell did much of the home’s tile work. The brown wood cabinet in the pantry is original to the house. “A lot of our art work is from friends a lot of our friends are artists,” Sexton says—including this un-retouched portrait of Bette Davis from Harper’s Bazaar.
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The House Divided They began their search in Great Barrington. They’d visited friends in the region and loved its atmosphere of arts and culture. The proximity to New York City—where they both have family—was also a draw. However, nothing there, or in nearby Housatonic, was the right combination of potential and price. That’s when the house in Hillsdale caught their eye. “Hillsdale was always a mystery,” Sexton says, “that little town that we drove between to get from the Taconic to Great Barrington but never really thought about.” They found the 3,500-square-foot Greek Revival house online and were intrigued. When its price dropped they took it as a sign. Flying up to see the house in person, Sexton, at least, was immediately hooked. “When I first walked over the porch,” he says, “I told Danny: As long as it’s livable were getting this house.” Within days, they had an accepted offer. “Then,” Sexton says, “we just moved here.” Three years later, the care the couple have put into every detail of the restoration is difficult to imagine but easy to see. The original structure dates from 1850 and was added to, over time, with an extended family in mind. “The story goes,” O’Connell says, “there was a Civil War widow in the family, so they added rooms for her—but lived as one family.” During the Great Depression, the house was fully divided into two residences and a second kitchen
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was added. When Sexton and O’Connell first walked through the front door, they were greeted by a wall with two doors dividing the house in half. Each residence had dining and living rooms and separate staircases leading upstairs. They started their renovation by tearing out the wall and restoring the home’s original staircase. On one side of the first floor they created formal dining and sitting rooms; on the other, they removed a divider to create a large informal parlor. Both kitchens were retiled, and they installed a Viking stove and new appliances in the larger of the two. The tiny, original kitchen was transformed into a “butler’s pantry” for their guests. Upstairs, six bedrooms provide ample space for guests and a studio for Sexton. The couple regularly invite fellow travelers to come for dinner or to stay the weekend. This spirit of welcome is extended to travelers they haven’t yet met. “This is my third summer doing AirBnB,” Sexton says, “ and I just love it.” He often invites his AirBnB guests to dinner or to sit and talk in his favorite spot—the elevated farmer’s porch overlooking the yard and street. “I’ve made some really great friendships through AirBnB,” Sexton says. The House That Became a Home And the house they left behind in Nicaragua? With sadness, Sexton and O’Connell realized they had to let it go. Six months after putting it on the market, they received a letter telling another story of construction—this one ruined by heartbreak. It was from a couple who had built a large family compound in California and then lost five members of their family in a car accident. “We need your house,” the couple wrote, “we just need to sit on that beach, look over those crashing waves and be quiet.” Sexton and O’Connell realized all their hard work hadn’t been for naught. “It made us feel so good that the house was being appreciated and loved as we had loved it,” Sexton says. They still regularly receive letters from the home’s new owners, describing 56 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 9/16
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Some plants that shine in the fall at Mohonk Mountain House, clockwise from top left: dahlias, tuberous begonias, Hungarian daisies, salvias, more dahlias, and Japanese anemones.
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By Michelle Sutton Photos by Larry Decker Peaking at the Finish Line September is my favorite month in the garden, in part because of the subtle, undulating spectacle of the ornamental grasses. In designing a garden for maximum fall interest, they are the first group of plants that come to my mind. In the autumn, they fully inhabit their mature shape; they have peak movement; their tassels (flower stalks) are showy white, rose-pink, red, or copper—even black in the case of Moudry fountain grass—and some of the grasses, like red switchgrass and little bluestem, have blades that turn interesting colors in fall. In my autumn-interest garden, I would also include many hydrangeas, especially the “paniculata” type hydrangeas. Those have persistent, large, cone-shaped flowers whose colors morph in lovely ways in the fall. Many of them have attractive fall foliage color as well—yellow, red, or apricotorange. The paniculata type hydrangeas are visually interesting through autumn and well into winter. (You can read more about them in the August 2016 issue of Chronogram.) In terms of perennials that bloom in the fall, I love the elegant Japanese anemones, also called windflowers because their flowers are borne atop wiry two-to-three-feet-tall stems that move freely in the breeze. Japanese anemone flowers come in white to pink to rose and depending on the variety, bloom from July through October with single, semi-double, or double flowered forms. Most varieties prefer part shade, with protection from the wind. In those conditions, I find them to be truly rugged beauties.
Fall Stars at Mohonk Last September, we walked around the Mohonk Mountain House grounds with Garden Manager Andrew Koehn to talk about some of his favorite “fall superstar” plants. Because Koehn and crew do such an ambitiously elaborate annuals display every year, we started there, with the dahlias, including an outrageous rose-pink one called ‘Emory Paul’ that, at 12-14 inches across, is among the largest available in the trade. “Dahlias really sing in September and October,” Koehn says. “They don’t perform well in the summer; it’s too hot and the flowers bleach out in a matter of days. They’re mountainous plants from Mexico from high elevations; they like it cool and sunny, not hot and sunny. Don’t buy dahlias in pots in bloom in May—you’re not doing yourself any favors.” Instead, he recommends planting dahlia tubers (underground storage structures in the same vein as potatoes) in early summer—and waiting for them to bloom in due course, when the cooler days of fall make dahlias happiest. Koehn’s favorite dahlia is a cactus-type called Brookside Cherie. “It’s our sexiest dahlia—salmon with a rose flush and yellow in the center,” he says. “It produces tons of flowers, beginning in August, but it truly peaks in October.” Another annual that grows from a tuber and can really shine in the fall is tuberous begonia. The collection of potted tuberous begonias featured near the koi pond at Mohonk are stunning in the fall. Whereas when most people 9/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 59
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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective.” September 10-December 11. Opening reception September 10, 5pm-7pm.
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HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. Word. ‘Word’ is HVCCA’s first open call juried exhibition purposed to highlight talented regional artists. Through December 17.
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JAMES BARRON ART 4 FULLING LANE, KENT, CT (917) 270-8044. “Fifty Years After.” Group exhibition bringing together talented photographers Gordon Parks, Carrie Mae Weems, Mickalene Thomas, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. Through October 16. JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6680. “Erik Schoonebeek: New paintings.” Through September 30. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Rodney Dickson: Paintings. Also showing: Willard Boepple, Sculpture; JJ Manford,. Wanderers and Wildflowers (New Paintings); Nina Maric, Paintings; Jon Isherwood, Wood Blocks and Prints. Through Sept. 11. JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “But Today is Different: A Collaboration of Art & Poetry.” Mimi Czajka Graminski with poet Sarah Stern. Through September 10. KAPLAN HALL, MINDY ROSS GALLERY THE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. A Vision and A Verse: The Wheel of the Year in Word and Image. The exhibit by Margaret McCarthy, photographer and poet, showcases her visually, psychologically, and spiritually compelling images that link the past and future, inner and outer worlds, and art and commerce. Mondays-Fridays, 9am-5pm. KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 94 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 569-4997. “Peace.” The visual arts and poetry displayed at the Karpeles Museum is a collective exhibit involving The Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh, the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Saturday Art Program, local artists, members of the community, and the Hudson Valley Poets. September 1-October 31. Opening reception September 24, 2pm-4pm. THE KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART 134 JAY STREET, KATONAH (914) 232-9555. “OnSite Katonah.” OnSite Katonah presents experimental, site-specific installations created in response to the Katonah Museum of Art’s distinctive landscape, architecture, and history. Through September 30. “Victoria Fu: Egg.” Fu employs analogue and digital techniques to explore the impact of virtual aesthetics on the everyday human experience. Through September 30.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Works in Oil.” Works by James Cramer and John A. Varriano. September 3-October 8. Opening reception September 3, 5pm-7pm. MATTEAWAN GALLERY 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “Janice Caswell: Assembly Required.” September 10-October 2. Opening reception September 10, 6pm-9pm. MERRITT BOOKSTORE 57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665. “Iza Trapani: Original Watercolors.” Through September 12. NEUMANN FINE ART 65 COLD WATER STREET, HILLSDALE 413-246-5776. “Don Wynn: Paintings.” Through September 11. NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 222 MADISON AVENUE, ALBANY (518) 574-5877. “Hudson Valley Ruins.” A photography and architecture exhibition featuring over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi. Through December 31. NORTH RIVER GALLERY 34A MAIN STREET, CHATHAM 518-392-7000. “On The Cusp of Inner and Outer in Landscape Painting.” Works by Thomas Sarrantonio and Harry Orlyk. Through September 21. OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “Capturing the Cosmos.” Explores the influence of the great German Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on Frederic Church. Through November 6. OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE AND CAFÉ 639 ALBANY TURNPIKE ROAD, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. Works by Photographer Sy Balsen and Painter Kenneth J. Young. Through September 28. ONE MILE GALLERY 475 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON 338-2035. “Monsters in America.” Group show curated by Richard Saja. September 3-24. Opening reception September 3, 6pm-9pm. ORANGE HALL GALLERY SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4891. “Friends of a Feather: Bird Paintings by Joseph Sundwall.” September 16-October 15. Opening reception September 16, 5:30pm-7:45pm. ORANGE HALL GALLERY LOFT, SUNY ORANGE THE CORNER OF WAWAYANDA AND GRANDVIEW AVENUES, MIDDLETOWN 341-4891. “Colleagues: Hidden Talents 2016.” September 13-30. Opening reception September 13, 12pm-2pm. PALMER GALLERY 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “If Color Could Kill: New Paintings from New York City.” Through September 15. Opening reception September 6, 5pm-7pm.
RITZ THEATER LOBBY 107 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 784-1199. “Through the Eyes of the Cornerstone: Newburgh’s Ole Faithful.” Through October 31. ROOST STUDIOS & ART GALLERY 69 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 8456751217. “Michael Stewart: A Mini-Retrospective.” Through September 11. SAUNDERS FARM 853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON FACEBOOK.COM/PAGES/SAUNDERSFARM-GARRISON-NY. “Collaborative Concepts Farm Project 2016.” Outdoor sculpture exhibit. September 3-October 29. SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 23 WHITE OAK DRIVE, SUGAR LOAF 469-9459. “Nomina Magica.” Jesse Bransford’s work represents an ever-sharpening focus on Art’s relationship to Magic. September 24-January 4. Oening reception September 24, 5pm-8pm. SEPTEMBER 449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON. “Blue Jean Baby.” Group show. Through October 16. SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE: DANIEL ARTS CENTER 84 ALFORD ROAD, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA (413) 644-4400. “Trailing Off.” A solo exhibit by Brooklyn painter Robin Williams. Through October 7. SPACE CREATE 115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 590-1931. “Gita and Linda: Oil and Fire.” Gita Nádas and Linda Rahl Nádas, Through September 29. STEEL IMAGINATIONS\H-ART GALLERY 1 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL 914 643 4392. Works by Photographers Bob Pliskin, Larry Miller and Lynn Butler. September 24-October 20. STEVENSON LIBRARY BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON. “Blooks: The Art of Books that Aren’t.” An exhibition of 38 historic book-shaped objects on display, originally in the Grolier Club exhibition. Through October 30. Opening reception September 12, 4pm-6pm. THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL 518-943-7465. “Contemporary Art in Conversation with Cole.” Jason Middlebrook. Through October 30. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “Friend of a Friend.” Featuring the work of Dawn Clements, Julie Evans, John Hampshire, Carter Hodgkin, Jennifer Mahlman, Donna Moylan, Asya Reznikov and Michael Tong. Through October 2. TIME AND SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-8448. Time and Space Limited Archives: 1982-1987. Through Sept. 24. TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667. “Tivoli: People and Place.” Group show celebrating the landscape and people of Tivoli. Through Septemebr 30. TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. Allen and Tom Blagden. September 10-October 9. Opening reception September 10, 4pm-6pm. UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, 12561. “Our Places.” 20 artists whose magical places have lifted their souls. Through September 24. UNISON 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Unique Imagery: Two Photographers Select Works.” Jeanne C. Hildenbrand and Ken Tannenbaum. September 11-October 5. Opening reception September 11, 5pm-6pm. VANDERPOEL HOUSE OF HISTORY 16 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK (518) 758-9265. “Elegance & Strength: Stenciled Furniture and the Shell Motif.” Through September 30. WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “September Exhibit: Paintings.” Rick Parenti painting of Nature Museum of Hudson Highlands, Lana Privitera paintings of Bull Stone House. Emerging Artist: Mimi Werner, Hallway Theme: Water, Upstairs Gallery: Children’s Art. September 1-30. Opening reception September 3, 5pm-7pm. WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “A Distant Embrace.” An installation and exhibition of paintings and 3-dimensional works by Guggenheim Fellow and Esopus artist Robert Hite. Through September 18. WOODSTOCK FRAMING GALLERY 31 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-6003. “Summer Salon.” Featuring works by Gladys Brodsky, Katherine Burger, Anna Contes, Harriet Livathinos, Elin Menzies, Dion Ogust and Mariyah Sultan. Through October 2. WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 RTE. 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Instructors Exhibition.” Works by WSA instructors. Through October 8.
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MANITOGA / THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER 584 ROUTE 9D, GARRISON 424-3812. “Ecstatic Light.” Illuminated paintings of 2016 resident artist Peter Bynum. A site-specific installation of Bynum’s works will be on display in Russel Wright’s House and Studio, marking Manitoga’s first presentation of a contemporary artist within the interiors. Through November 14.
THE FISHER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE 60 MANOR AVENUE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7900. “Woven: In Process.” An exhibition photographs by Tanya Marcuse. Through November 20.
Music The Long Path The Felice Brothers By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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ell, this is certainly overdue. For nearly a decade, your music editor has watched and listened from the sidelines as the Felice Brothers have gone from being a local band with a following of friends to a certified phenomenon that sells out large venues across Europe and North America, wins drooling praise in the press, and places albums in the Billboard charts. But during that time whenever the idea of featuring the band came up it always seemed like they were out there on the road, doing what they do and amassing more and more zealous fans. The Felice Brothers aren’t the easiest guys to catch for a sit-down. Finally, though, here we are, with accordionist and keyboardist James Felice and singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Ian Felice in their rehearsal space just outside Hudson. It was here, the garage of a farm outbuilding adjacent to a chicken coop and a tractor repair shop, that they recorded Life in the Dark, their seventh and latest studio album. “Sometimes the chickens come by and hang out when we’re playing,” says James, who engineered the band-produced effort and once lived in a converted chicken coop himself. “We have a friend with a wood shop next door. You can hear his table saw sometimes when you’re in here. We made [2011’s] Celebration, Florida in a school building in Beacon. All our records have been done in odd places.” Odd places. By this point in their near-constantly-road-dogging career, the Felice Brothers have seen many of them. The list starts, however, with the one where the group’s founding members, and real-life brothers, James, Ian, and vocalist-drummer Simone Felice, hail from: Palenville. A hamlet of Greene County with a population of 1,037, the tiny town is perhaps the least-likely locality in the Hudson Valley for an internationally known rock band to have originated. Little more than the T intersection of routes 32A and 23A, it sits at the craggy foot of Kaaterskill Clove and is mainly known to modern outsiders as a wide spot en route to Kaaterskill Falls and Hunter Mountain. But there’s history in this hollow. Bisected by the Long Path hiking trail that connects Fort Lee to Albany, Palenville was a magnet for the Hudson River School painters, the set of productions by silent film star Mary Pickford, and the fictional home of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. The sleepy site was also an idyllic place for the Felice boys, whose father worked as a builder and whose mother juggled various jobs, to grow up in. “It was pretty Huck Finn-ish,” says Ian. “We’d make rope swings in the woods, go camping. There definitely is a spooky, Sleepy Hollow vibe to the landscape. It was pretty lawless then, too—Palenville doesn’t have a police department.” (The town relies on state troopers and Catskill cops for security.) Prior to the formation of the Felice Brothers, there actually was a touring local band of note, 1990s alternative unit Dripping Goss, which provided inspiration to the young siblings (leader Brian Goss was in Fuzz Deluxe, one of Simone’s numerous early projects). There were also the acoustic hoots at creek-side tavern the Fernwood Restaurant. “I saw John Herald there when I was 14 or 15,” Ian recalls. “Seeing all of these folk people like him was a big influence.” Fueled by folk, the three brothers started getting together at their father’s house for Sunday song swaps/cookouts. Their confidence buttressed, they soon took the blend of rootsy country rock that they’d been developing in their mountain home to the subways and streets of Manhattan, where they worked as buskers. To many, the rustic, ramshackle sounds they made evoked those of a group of earlier players who’d done some similar woodshedding just a few miles up the road from Palenville, in the cellar of a certain pink house in Saugerties. James, however, considers his group’s perceived picking up of the mantle of Bob Dylan and The Band as “an accident of geography.We never tried to get into that world and we never felt like part of that scene.Yeah, we’re from the same area, but we had as much exposure to that music as anyone else our age.” In 2006, the group recorded its self-released, official debut, Through These Reins and Gone, added bassist Josh “Christmas Clapton” Rawson, crammed themselves and their gear into a beat-up short bus and began touring like the rootless narrator in the first album’s “Trailer Song.” The acoustic-orientated Through These Reins… lassoed major airplay on WDST Radio Woodstock, thanks in large part to early championing by station program director and morning show host Jimmy Buff. “I was living in Palenville, and their younger sister Clare gave me one of their demo CDs, which had ‘Ballad of Lou the Welterweight’ on it,” says Buff. “I really liked that track and started playing it, and the response was great. Ian’s one of the best songwriters in the world today, his lyrics seem
so effortless and true. The Lumineers’ drummer, Jeremiah Friates, recently told me about coming to Kingston to see the Brothers back in 2007 or 2008 and being blown away—he said it changed the way he and [singer] Wes Schultz viewed how music could be made.” With 2007 came the release of the style-crystalizing sophomore set Tonight at the Arizona, on the UK label Loose, and the tour-only compilation The Adventures of the Felice BrothersVol. 1. Despite their initial ambivalence about having any ties to local legacies, the old guard anointed the band with a coveted appearance at one of Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles. Soon after, a fall tour with Bright Eyes (aka Conor Oberst) snagged the attention of that act’s label, New Paltz indie Team Love, which released 2008’s The Felice Brothers. Home to the boozy breakthrough hit “Frankie’s Gun!,” the disc brought the Felices’ Faulknerian folk rock to a larger audience, winning them a run of prime festival slots that culminated with a riotous performance at the Newport Folk Festival. Their next album, 2009’s raw, autumnal Yonder is the Clock, was heralded as a highwater mark by reviewers and even made the Billboard 200. It seemed the boys from Palenville were barreling down the tracks to their arrival at full speed. And then some unexpected news from within threatened to knock everything off the rails. Simone quit. “We already had this whole tour booked, so that was a pretty difficult moment,” James recalls about the announcement from the eldest brother, who left to work with his side project the Duke & the King and pursue a solo career. “But you can’t ever stop. You just make do with what you have.” And so the group dusted themselves off and hit the road for the presciently named Big Surprise Tour with Old Crow Medicine Show and Justin Townes Earle, adding new members Greg Farley on fiddle and vocals and Dave Turbeville on drums (since replaced by David Estabrook). After some stadium shows opening for the Dave Matthews Band, they reunited with Oberst for some West Coast gigs and flew to England, where they were rabidly received. In 2011, the Brothers hopped to the venerated Fat Possum imprint for Celebration, Florida, an effort that had them bucking their Band/Basement Tapes branding by experimenting with trip hop on the singles “Ponzi” and “Fire at the Pageant” and once again made the Billboard charts. An EP, Poughkeepsie Princess, and God BlessYou, Amigo, a digital-only collection of home recordings, came next, before the band switched to Dualtone Records and returned to familiar folksy terrain with 2014’s Favorite Waitress. After supporting the latter with yet another major tour, they held off on making another album until Life in the Dark, which came out in June on Yep Roc Records. Cut “completely live,” according to James, in their farm-side rehearsal room, Life in the Dark’s loose vibe hints at the Neil Young obsession the band was feeling during the recording and illustrates Ian’s aim of “writing songs that bring people together, like Woody, Dylan, and Leonard Cohen.” It wasn’t intended as such, he maintains, but the record plays like a series of impressionistic observations of our precarious planet: The deceptively cheerful “Aerosol Ball” references environmental destruction and mindless consumer/celebrity culture, while “Sell the House” laments a family who’ve fallen on hard times and the rousing, fiddle-and-organ-drenched standout “Plunder” takes shots at corporate lawlessness and “machines that make more machines.” “[The album] is just a collection of the songs I’d written, but it deals with a lot of anxieties,” says Ian in his nasal, instantly recognizable rasp. “I guess it’s just about trying to process the horrors that are happening in the world.” Ten years down the trail from the backyard barbeques that begat the band, one wonders: Besides their being better known and having more to show for their efforts, what else is different now for the Felice Brothers? “Before, we lived only for the music and now it’s more of a professional thing,” says Ian, now 31 and living on a farm in Columbia County with his lady. “My favorite part of the process is the writing. I’d be fine with not going on the road.” James, 34, has a different take. “Touring suits my temperament,” says the keyboardist, a Kingston resident. “It’s more fun now, we know our strengths and what kind of music we want to do. I’ve never had a boss, never had to have a job.We basically grew up on the road. And now we’ve become responsible adults.” Imagine that, Mom and Dad. The Felice Brothers will perform at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on September 8. Life in the Dark is out now onYep Roc Records.Thefelicebrothers.com. 9/16 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 69
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Justin Townes Earle plays Club Helsinki Septemer 9.
UPSTART ANTISOCIAL CAMPOUT September 9, 10. Greene County has suddenly become a hub of punky outdoor goodness with this month’s Meltasia festival and this gathering at the Blackthorne Resort. Open to all ages (“Kids under 12 free!”), the Upstart Antisocial Campout features over 30 live punk/ hardcore and ska bands, as well as comedians, vendors, and other attractions. Packing the bill are Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome, Mephiskapheles, Sheer Terror, the Svetlanas, Big D and the Kids Table, the Obvious, the Prozacs, Two Fisted Law, Damn Broads, and too many more. Starts September 9 at 2pm. $20. East Durham. (518) 634-2541; Facebook.com/ Upstart-Antisocial-Campout
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE September 9. It feels perfunctory to say it, but, yes, singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle happens to be the son of sometime local legend Steve Earle. Justin, however, is no familial coattail coaster. By far one of the most moving live solo acts you’ll see, he’s an influential artist in his own right, one with his own style, that, yes, happens to share some of the influences favored by his dad; his partial namesake, Townes Van Zandt, chief among them. And, as the title of his most recent album, 2014’s Absent Fathers, suggests, the younger Earle is not shy about confronting his father’s legacy. This return visit to Club Helsinki will no doubt be another night filled with his rootsy, introspective glory. (Dave and Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones testify September 3; Trixie Whitley turns up September 25.) 9pm. $25, $35. Hudson. (518) 8284800; Helsinkihudson.com.
QUIET VILLAGE FESTIVAL September 17. This day-long ambient music festival is set to be held in and around the Village of New Paltz and features electronic and experimental musicians from the Hudson Valley and beyond. Artists scheduled at the time of this writing include Cowboy and Indian, Okkoto, the Beaux Eaux Trio, Rothwell and Mariette Papic, David Mecionis, Frogwell, and Oneiromantix.
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“Instead of presenting a traditional concert experience, Quiet Village provides a sonic environment that one can sit and listen to, use as a background for other activities, or simply be a sound field that one passes through,” explains organizer Bob Lukomski. Check website for updated schedule. Free. New Paltz; Quietvillage.us.
TERRY BOZZIO September 28. Drummer Terry Bozzio is well known for his work with Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, and ’80s MTV new wave hitmakers Missing Persons, among others. Here, he brings his ridiculously massive drum kit—declared the world’s largest tuned drum and percussion set by Rolling Stone—to the recently opened Woodstock Music Lab for what’s being billed as “an Evening of Solo Drum Music.” Rather than concentrating on mere bashing, Bozzio approaches his gargantuan kit, which has two-and-a-half octaves of tuned tom-toms and eight notes of bass drum, almost like one would play a piano: with his feet playing the “white key” bass notes of the keyboard and his hands playing against those. Drum nuts will dig this intimate performance. 7pm. $25, $30. Woodstock. (845) 853-3212; Ashokantalent.com.
WISHBONE ASH September 29. Founded in late-1960s England, hard/prog rockers Wishbone Ash stood out for their calling card of Andy Powell and Ted Turner’s twin lead guitars; used-LP bin trawlers of the 1980s (guilty) will recall their omnipresent 1972 opus, Argus, with its enigmatic cover art depicting a backward-facing, medieval/Darth Vader-like figure (song titles: “Thrown Down the Sword,” “Warrior,” “The King Will Come,” etc.). The band, which rocks Daryl’s House this month, still features Powell on vocals and guitar; Turner has been replaced by Muddy Manninen, and the group has seen turnovers in the rhythm section. But still the Ash marches on; They’re currently celebrating their 47th anniversary. (John Mayall jams September 15; Midge Ure and Richard Lloyd of Television take off October 1.) 8pm. $20, $30. Pawling. (845) 2890185; Darylshouseclub.com.
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A lot has changed in the four years since Chron Turine released its debut, Skull Necklace forYou, in 2012. Birthed in Brooklyn as a vehicle for Chris Turco (vocals, guitar) to record songs he’d been woodshedding, the band was fleshed out by Rye Coalition’s Dave Leto (drums) and Chris Jaeger (bass). The trio assaulted audiences in the big city and upstate with its unique brand of throbbing, hypnotic thrash. By the time Turco had begun cutting demos for a follow-up record, he had moved up the Hudson to Kingston and immersed himself in the local music scene (he currently hits the drum skins for Ultraam and Geezer). He ended up recording II as a solo project, with the blessing of Leto and Jaeger. The eight songs on this hand grenade of a cassette mini-album (also available via download) feature Turco on all instruments and vocals. Noise rock enthusiasts should revel in the pounding drums and in generally in-the-red sonic maelstrom. The opaque and often humorous lyrics are delivered with a hard-core conviction and howl. While always keeping it loud, II’s songs range from the breakneck punk of the anti-hippie “Tie Dye” to “Baby’s Got the Fear,” a groovy stoner dirge. Although Turco’s current schedule doesn’t include any Chron Turbine live dates, he says the possibility is open for a return of the original three-piece, to inflict some sonic damage on local ears. Chronturbine.bandcamp.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
NEW ZION W. CYRO SUNSHINE SEAS (2016, RARENOISE RECORDS)
On Sunshine Seas, world percussionist Cyro Baptista joins long-time collaborator Jaime Saft’s dub-jazz New Zion Trio, who change their name to New Zion and drop the “Trio” for the occasion. This is largely improvised music, but also quite strict in its aesthetic. New Zion is all about groove fluency, open space, and the palpability and personality of individual sounds as they emerge from and disappear back into the river of groove. Saft has long been after something you might call a semi-acoustic take on dub, capturing the outlandish production textures of that Jamaican form with modern jazz tools. On Sunshine Seas, the buoyant reggae and Afro-Cuban grooves purr along on such highlights as the sublimely subtle “Onda,” the psychedelic “Ranking,” and the skittering “Samba Jahmeyka.” In the great tradition of dub production, they are subject to all manner of sonic interlopers and groovus interruptus: unprecedented vocal happenings, ridiculous and ephemeral synthesized sounds, studio-engineered meltdowns and microblasts courtesy of co-producer Christian Castagno, and the remarkable array of high-character percussion sounds issuing from Baptitsa. The resulting texture is both organic and absurdist, in the high-20th-century sense of the word: hypnotic but also engagingly unpredictable. The rhythm section is utterly onboard with the rules and the intent—New Zion’s regular drummer, Craig Santiago, and, on several tracks here, the monster bassist Brad Jones, who has recently engaged in a different kind of roots reclamation with Don Byron’s New Gospel Quintet. Rarenoiserecords.com. —John Burdick
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Like music you would imagine emanating from the cool swank of a bar in Rekjavik, the album Still Life is not far off the mark from a fabled, and Icelandic, faerie pop star’s ideal. Ironically, the duo Young Magic come from the heat. Indonesian-American vocalist and instrumentalist Melati Malay was born in Jakarta, and her songwriting and producing partner Isaac Emmauel was born in Sydney. Started above a speakeasy in Brooklyn in 2010, their collaboration is otherworldly and effervescent. Electronic dreams from a shrinking globe. Recorded in Tokyo, Java, Bali, New York, and our beloved Catskills (the band are sometime Shokan-istas), Still Life grew from found-sound recordings and stories of Malay’s family history on a return trip to Indonesia. Ethereal, cerebral, and percussive, the music reveals new layers with every listen. The voices are moon-shaped waves floating above swirling currents of guitars and keyboards while speakerblowing bass rhythms weave in and out of the melodic grooves. Aided in no small measure by multi-instrumentalist, programmer, engineer, and producer Riox, the songs are also cinematic and synesthesiatic, easily meshing as a backdrop to the group’s numerous artistic videos. Young Magic just finished up a tour with Yeasayer, and one of their songs, “Default Memory,” was recently remixed by TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone. YoungMagicSounds.com. —Jason Broome CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the artists reviewed in this issue.
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Books
HEART OF GOLD SUNIL YAPA’S GLOBAL VISION By Nina Shengold Photo by Franco Vogt
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unil Yapa is not sure what time zone he’s in. The Woodstock-based novelist just returned from a book festival in Australia. On the first leg of the 20-hour flight, he watched two movies, took a nap, and woke up with five hours still to go. “There’s a panic moment: get me off this plane! Then you realize it’s over Fiji.” Yapa sits upstairs at Joshua’s Cafe, drinking iced dirty chai and staring down a Super Falafel sandwich the size of a Buick, which sits untouched for nearly two hours as he discusses his breakout debut novel, Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Little, Brown & Co., 2016). Even jet-lagged, he’s a high-octane talker: intense, eloquent, and impassioned. Your Heart is a street-level view of the WTO protests that rocked Seattle in 1999, following seven disparate characters: activists, cops, a Sri Lankan diplomat, and Victor, a biracial stoner who winds up across the barricades from his estranged father—the beleaguered chief of police—as the city melts down. Though the novel pulses with you-are-there urgency, Yapa did not participate in the Battle of Seattle, but discussed the unfolding drama in a literature class taught by Amitava Kumar, who now teaches at Vassar. “As a person of color, I had issues with strategy of mass arrests,” Yapa explains. Arrested at 17 for possession of marijuana, he spent a night in jail, an experience he had no wish to repeat. “In hindsight, I realized they had civil disobedience training in how to get arrested. It might have been an empowering experience.” Certainly writing about it has galvanized him. He’ll hit six continents on book tour this year; if Antarctica had indie bookstores, he’d probably travel there too. This seems apt for a novel about globalization, written over six years in 17 different locations, from Manhattan to a beach hut in Chile and a wintry Greek island with more sheep than people. Yapa grew up in State College, Pennsylvania, where his Sri Lankan-born father is an economic geography professor specializing in poverty studies. “I knew at nine that I wanted to be a writer, but I absorbed the idea that being an artist was self-involved,” he explains. “My parents are a teacher and nurse—the idea of service was very big.” Nevertheless, “reading and writing were beloved in my house. My mother has read more than anyone I know, except possibly me,” Yapa says. “Libraries are my church.” A biracial National Merit scholar, he was offered free rides to several colleges, but turned them down, to his parents’ horror. “My father’s an immigrant; my mother is a nurse/anesthesiologist, with three advanced degrees. It was the biggest deal in the world that I wasn’t going to college.” Finally he agreed to enroll, dropping out of two colleges before graduating from Penn. “My whole life has been a crooked road, interrupted,” Yapa says. After college, he and a friend went to teach English in Changzhou, China. “Within a month I’d scrapped my plans to get a PhD. I decided I was a writer.” He wrote sketches and short fiction, practicing descriptions of things like the smell of the river outside his apartment: “a bouquet of human shit, industrial run-off, and burning rubber.” They’d been hired for a year, but the SARS epidemic cut their stay short. With eight months suddenly free, they headed for Chile, where Yapa’s stepgrandfather offered his vacant apartment. “If American cultural norms don’t support writing, Chilean norms do. He was so proud of me,” Yapa says. This launched a string of world travels. Back in the USA, the pair found a job selling posters on college campuses. For two months each year, they crisscrossed the country in an oversized truck, erecting pop-up shops; their bestselling poster was Bob Marley toking up. The company’s top earners for six years running, they saved enough to fund ten-month road trips to Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, and India;Yapa wrote 500 pages of unpublished prose. He enrolled at VONA/Voices, a summer workshop for writers of color founded by Junot Diaz. Workshop leader Chitra Divakaruni urged him to apply to the University of Houston, where she taught. He did, but dropped out again. Then he took another summer workshop at London Film School, Ellis Freeman’s “Writers’ Gym,” which he calls “life-changing.” Yapa applied to the MFA program at Hunter College, where he studied with Colum McCann, Peter Carey, Claire Messud, and Nathan Englander. “These are your teachers; holy shit!” he exclaims. “They were working writers, at such a high level. They taught us on Monday, and Tuesday they went back to their own
work. That made all the difference. That and their generosity.” After McCann vetoed his first two novel ideas,Yapa came back from a break reenergized. “I’d been reading Don DeLillo’s Libra, and it blew me away. I realized you could write about recent American history, in a very American vernacular. If I wanted to do that, what would I write about?” When he thought of the WTO riots, “it was like the three poles of my life—writing, economic geography, and service/political activism—all fused. I just knew. Every cell in your body gets magnetized.” His mentor agreed. By luck, Yapa’s classmate Tennessee Jones had been at the Seattle protests, giving Yapa a bookshelf of activist zines and invaluable insights. Yapa also did research at the University of Washington, which archived 25 boxes of primary source material: firsthand accounts, Truth & Reconciliation transcripts, VHS tapes, costumes, and photos, including one with the slogan that became his book’s title, coined by woodcut artist Dalia Sapon-Shevin. He left Hunter with 130 finished pages and returned to Chile, where he spent weekdays focusing monastically on his work and weekends eating pescado al pobre on the beach with a girlfriend from Santiago. By December, he’d finished a draft. Against his girlfriend’s wishes, he went back to sell posters, and the laptop containing his 604-page draft was stolen from a hotel room. In despair, he holed up at his parents’ house, watching “an unhealthy amount of TV.” But the book wouldn’t let go. “I felt like I had a disease and this book was it.” The lost first draft was “a post-modern pastiche, a clever-young-man book” with 60 characters and deconstructed maps. Instead of trying to reproduce it, Yapa asked himself, “Why do I read? The answer was simple: characters. I care about people, their worldview. What are the consequences of that worldview and the decisions they make? I don’t give a shit about ripped-up maps!” He whittled his cast down to seven, honing in on emotional stakes. Six years and many rejections later, he found agent P. J. Mark, whose notes further refined the manuscript. It sold within 24 hours. Esteemed editor Lee Boudreaux chose Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist to launch her new imprint. “That was risky—I’m a total unknown,” Yapa says. He considers the novel an outgrowth of the protests. “Caring about people in other countries is a revolutionary act in a globalized world. Empathy is radical. Our connections are literal. This lettuce I’m eating,”—he still hasn’t taken a bite—”the shirt I’m wearing; okay, that’s fair-trade. But these shorts, where were they made? The sweatshop is the most obvious example, but what does it mean to start thinking about that?” Yapa’s stoked now. He orders another chai. “There’s been an incredible response to this as a debut novel. But for a book about social justice? I thought it might get picked up by some small press and get shelved with all the lefty shit we never read, but I didn’t care. I started writing this six years ago, before Occupy, before the Arab Spring, before Black Lives Matter. But now it strikes all these chords. I realized in Australia that I’m on this international book tour because this very American protest has resonated with people around the world. There’s a basic awareness of the way the global system works, that our lives of easy convenience are built on someone else’s labor,” he asserts. “The reaction to the book—not just that it’s positive, but that it’s touched people—that really moves me. The book articulates that sense of a connected world.” Last week he visited an aboriginal women’s center in the outback and spotted a photo of Michelle Obama on their inspiration board; next month he’ll go to South Africa. “You can’t underestimate how connected we are,” Yapa says. “I’m so tired. I’ve got back problems, hip problems. But to travel the world talking about this book that’s about connection, knowing the way globalization works is not right, is so energizing. I could talk about it for hours.” He actually has; a waitress is setting out evening candles as he finally picks up his sandwich. “The book moves from an investigation of loneliness and global inequality to a question of what’s beyond anger, outrage, despair. It’s about looking for and discovering the idea of love and hope in the lives of these people. It’s not an angry rant. It moves into this other space.” Indeed it does. When I get home, I open the copy of Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist Sunil Yapa signed for me. In bold capital letters, it says MAD WITH HOPE. 9/16 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 75
SHORT TAKES Five stellar new collections by Hudson Valley poets.
STARFISH PAULINE UCHMANOWICZ TWELVE WINTERS PRESS, 2016, $15
The opening poem of this stunning collection by SUNY New Paltz professor Uchmanowicz concludes, “Look everywhere / you will find what you need.” The poet’s intent gaze makes the familiar remarkable. Sometimes she seems to be holding binoculars backward, seeing “anthills / filling weedy cracks” at a beachside burial and finding gravitas in a discarded chair. On her native Cape Cod, “year-rounders” grill swordfish and drink, passing the names of dead friends “like lighted sparklers.” In “Elements of Style,” Uchmanowicz muses, “What if poets had to pick? The ocean or the stars.” Like its lovely title, Starfish contains both.
KNOCK JANET HAMILL, PHOTOS BY MARY ANN LIVCHAK SPUYTEN DUYVIL, 2016, $15
Orange County poet Hamill has opened for Patti Smith and often performs poetry with a band, so the incantatory music of her language is no surprise. Her new collection Knock is a concept album, with six suites of long-lined pantoums. Livchak’s haunting photos of doors divide them by region: Hollywood, Tijuana, the Atlantic, Giza, San Tropez, New York. Dense and astonishing, these poems paint “a cobalt blue song for a friend.” Hamill will appear 9/25 at 2:30 at the Subterranean Poetry Festival in Rosendale’s Widow Jane Mine; 10/14 at 8pm, Calling All Poets at Roost Studios, New Paltz; 10/23 at 2pm, Seligmann Center, Sugar Loaf.
ALEPH, BROKEN: POEMS FROM MY DIASPORA JUDITH KERMAN BROADSTONE BOOKS, 2016, $17.50
Parsing the uneasy relationship of a secular Jew to her heritage, this striking collection by Woodstock writer/publisher Kerman is animated by a searching intelligence, steeped in grief but never sentimental. “You’re hard,” a fading mother states in the rawwhisky prose poem “Conversation,” and the response devastates: “It’s a shell, Mother, a protection for my own pain. Or against it. When I knock, I hear the echo of nothing there.” Phrases glint and startle: a cut tomato becomes the “Red Sea unfurling, opening its arms;” a star-nosed mole passes through dirt “like the needle of a blind tailor;” and “Hooks of letters / tangle and unwind.”
SHE TOOK OFF HER DRESS POEMS BY TAD RICHARDS, DRAWINGS BY NANCY OSTROVSKY OLD MOLE PRESS, 2016, $15
Inspired “by jazz and eros” and pumping out plenty of both, this loose-limbed collaboration between Saugerties poet Richards and Accord performance painter Ostrovsky is breathless in all the right ways. Words and images riff off each other, musical line chasing pen-and-ink line. Both are remarkably varied: Richards’ smart, sprightly poems reference Gregorian chants and Bettie Page, Illinois Jacquet solos and “Clifton Chenier, / with bass enough to rattle / the crate against the wall,” while Ostrovsky morphs nudes with horseheads and motion-captures Miles Davis in slapdash white on black.
COAT THIEF JEFFREY DAVIS SAINT JULIAN PRESS, 2016, $12
Ulster County poet and creativity consultant Davis weaves an audaciously wide-ranging coat of many colors, channeling voices of the title poem’s anxious hoarder, a gypsy wife begging in an airport, a fire-scarred Indian bride, a thousandyear-old stone goddess. In the opening poem “A Promise,” an unborn baby rolls over in her mother’s belly, “Melon motion teasing your papa’s palm, / are you knocking? What can I tell you? // Sprout, it gets dark out here too, and cold / and, if you pay attention, strange.” Davis pays attention, reminding us of wonder and eventualities. Insomniacs all, we must “be awake, stupendously awake in the dark.”
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Unbound Ann E. Burg
Scholastic, 2016, $16.99
Lost Stars Lisa Selin Davis
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017, $17.99
Black River Falls Jeff Hirsch
Clarion, 2016, $17.99
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n honest, well-executed novel with a youthful protagonist is a gem to cherish. There is something universally heroic yet unique about each young soul’s journey to independence, mustering the emotional fire to break free from the safety of the parental nest, facing down demons, and attaining the wisdom that enables one to harness those flames without becoming fatally fried. Three new works from Hudson Valley authors pull it off with style and grace, transcending their respective genres to bring us heroines (and a hero) who live and breathe on the pages. It’s an ambitious undertaking to inhabit the nineyear-old heart, and even more ambitious if the nineyear-old is a girl fleeing plantation slavery. Unbound, a novel in verse by award-winning Dutchess County author Ann E. Burg, rises to the challenge: we live in the mind of young Grace as she and her tight-knit little family make a desperate emergency escape from the slave quarters and the chambers of the Big House into the depths of the Great Dismal Swamp, where some runaway slaves manage to carve secret lives of freedom. Burg’s lucid, flowing voice keeps the action moving with a deep, empathic illustration of slavery’s toxicity: better to cope with alligators and cottonmouths than master and mistress. Lost Stars, by Upstater.com founder Lisa Selin Davis, is a peppery blend of coming of age and first love set in the 1980s. Carrie (short for Caraway, thanks to her post-hippie parents) is 16; since the death of her older sister, she’s swaddled her tender, brilliant mind in layers of booze, weed, and rage, taking refuge with big sister’s basement-rocker party pals. As her summer unfolds, a construction job and a young man next door begin to melt the layers of shame and self-blame, and the real Carrie begins to stand up. Selin Davis does a masterful job of plumbing the depths of Carrie’s porcupine heart, evoking an era that may help today’s kids to understand their parents, and painting a spot-on portrait of a family nuked by grief. Coming to grips with tragedy is also a huge element in Black River Falls. Beacon resident Jeff Hirsch weaves a dark web around a small upstate New York town that’s been struck by a virus that wipes out people’s episodic memories. Seventeen-year-old Cardinal, who’s uninfected, is helping to look after some of the town’s children in a camp on the nearby mountain while wrestling with the contents of his own memory. The plot gets a bit chaotic in spots—it’s a complicated construct, after all—but overall Black River Falls is a dandy sci-fi thriller wrapped around a probing look at familial love, the uses and abuses of authority, and the nature of memory and identity. It’s hard to imagine a more varied set of books (aside from the Young Adult designation), each containing an empowering story about what can happen when the better natures of the human tribe join forces to survive long odds; read these novels yourself before passing them on to a beloved young person. —Anne Pyburn Craig
Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present Gail Buckland
Alfred A. Knopf, 2016, $45
A briefer narrative of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health
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t’s a stand-out photograph in a book of stand-out photographs: Michael Jordan soaring to the hoop as his elongated shadow, perpendicular to him, stretches horizontally across the foreground. Prior to reading Gail Buckland’s text accompanying this unusual shot, taken by Walter Iooss Jr., Jordan’s shadow evoked, for me, a stag painted on the ceiling of Lascaux cave, the raised arm with its articulated shadowy fingers conjuring up the image of an antler. Turns out that impression hews closely to what Buckland sees in the picture: “We have an equal sense that Jordan and his shadow have been painted on a ceiling—a Sistine Chapel for the saints of sports.” Buckland’s Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present is not merely a collection of “decisive moments” or iconic portraits of great or lesser athletes, although these are amply represented. More significantly, it is a book that treats in exhaustive but always exhilarating detail the story of the photographers who made these singular pictures—their challenges, their strategies, their back stories, and the striving for excellence that made them every bit as competitive as the athletes they chronicled, bringing their “A” games to every assignment. Take that photo of Jordan, suspended between heaven and earth. We learn that Iooss consistently aims for the picture “that once seen would not be forgotten.” Loath to take a conventional shot of Jordan in mid-air, he stationed himself in a cherry picker above a parking lot painted blue, with a carefully placed NBA regulation hoop; the resulting shot has a perspective unlike any other. Iooss Jr.’s fertile and idiosyncratic imagination, and the great care he lavishes on each picture, have turned many of his subjects into fans—including Jordan, who said he was aware, during his sessions with this photographer, that he “wasn’t the only professional in the room.” The medium’s finest practitioners are assembled here, from Cartier-Bresson to Robert Capa to Martin Munkacsi (whose work as a sports photographer later revolutionized fashion photography, when he started putting models in motion), all the way to Annie Leibovitz and Neil Leifer, a lifer with Sports Illustrated. And while several shots that have been seen by almost everyone on the planet are included— such as Leifer’s portrait of the late Muhammad Ali, taunting a prone Sonny Liston at his feet—Buckland’s choice of pictures is full of delightful surprises, lesser-known gems that capture quiet moments as well as glorious ones, and photographs that seem almost painterly or musical in their compositions. My favorite in a book of favorites is a study of five figures in a play at the plate, taken during a 2006 game between the Milwaukee Brewers and San Francisco Giants. Shooting from a catwalk in the stadium, John Biever has transformed this random disposition of players—one kneeling, two sprawling on the ground, two standing and gesturing—into something that appears to be deliberately arranged. It has the balanced, buoyant quality of the five capering figures in Matisse’s Dance. Buckland, who lives in Warwick, has written or co-written 12 books on photographic history, including Who Shot Rock and Roll (favorably reviewed in these pages in 2009). She is also the curator of the exhibition “Who Shot Sports,” currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum and recently reviewed in The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl, who called it “an immersive, often dazzling survey.” —Mikhail Horowitz
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our October issue is September 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
Place one hand on my belly and your other wherever you wish, and we will share laughter so silent our mouths drift open. —p
Time Out If I jump on the bed I’m in big trouble. Grandma’s gonna give me a time out. A bear on the bed who’s jumping, That’s not me. I’m a poison frog. And grandma’s gonna give him a time out. —Demetrios Michael Houtrides talking and singing to his grandma (4 years old)
WAKE
MAKING LOVE IN MIDDLETOWN
THE COUNTY ACTIVE FAIR
My neighbor dies the other day. Today I go to his wake. He was 77.
the yellow paint on your bedroom walls is the opening act for the sunlight. the light breaks your heart every day and you are soo open to loving.
And at county active fairs Young girls buy ribbons For their hair. And old men boast of Half-made truths Of daring younger years.
We weren’t friends. We were acquaintances. We were neighbors. We greeted one another on the road. In the post office. In the supermarket. The word wake means to stay alert. To watch. To guard. It comes from the Old English wacian To be awake. To keep watch. I don’t stay long. I say to his widow, “I’m very sorry.” I hug her.
you carried the willow stump, collected with moss across the hay field to me and placed it on the deck, a beloved specimen. we pulled and plucked our boots off— now to study each other. i buried my head alongside you between you and your familiar robe while you read Eliot and we found our selves in England, healing for the rest of our lives. each one of those tuesdays when we left each other not knowing if we would have another, it was like we were practicing dying. we used every bit of what belonged to yesterday.
I talk to two neighbors about local politics. About the price of gas. About the new water mains.
—shokan
About the weather. About how he doesn’t look 77. About how unexpected it was.
BLINDSIDE: FOR BAM AT 103
Mostly about the weather. I don’t stay long. I stay alert. I watch. I guard. It is mostly about the weather.
Your ravaged eyes picture librettos long known by heart, as you mouth the arias’ words. Never bored, your fragile limbs venture on dream trips, escapades missed in your youth.
It is cool but not cold. It is mostly cloudy. The sun comes out but doesn’t stay long.
Ripe resonant voice tells of discussions with Dad, decades dead, your sweetheart still.
—J.R. Solonche
This frail hand I hold opens in generosity— probes toward the void—
FROM “TO WRITE” A pillowy kingdom, some hidden cave— an exquisite silence is what I crave
could wave in the night goodbye and no one see.
—Christopher Porpora
—Mary Newell
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It’s the end of summer here Amber, yellow, brown and green. The plowman moves through Rows of corn. Shadows lengthen and recede. Auburn hair of dashing ace Flirtatious swing and Great Grecian face. Of the never-changing Playful pair At perennial county fairs. Through the passages Of aging space Through the corridors of rhyme Through the tremors of Forgiving tears Of carousel and Ferris time. And at county active fairs Young girls buy ribbons For their hair. And old men boast of Half-made truths Of daring younger years. —Norman Brahm
VOWS The night of the wedding you stood next to the French doors, your velvet matching the mood of the marble. Grief is like the moon, you said, you can’t swallow it whole. —Mala Hoffman
WHAT NOT TO DO IF THEY HATE YOU
PRAGMATIC MUSINGS
CONSTELLATIONS
do not give.
(Do not) tell me I am a bright-eyed child
i love you r skin has con(stellations) (versations) that speak Universes about Life and rise it’s and
do not hide. do not shrink yet do not grow brittle, stiff, or bitter. do not—do not pretend. do not reveal the quiet, constant wishes of your heart. do not even bend. —Angela Perry
You leaned forward So I could hear you over the chatter of the party. A small breeze Carried the scent of your breath to me. I smelled wine and something else. Unrecognizable, undefinable. Ahhh, no, I knew. I flushed, felt the familiar burn on my cheeks and ears and the sides of my neck and in my throat. I swallowed And felt it faintly in my breasts, then stronger in my belly. An intense pulse made me look around, Panicked, sure that my desire was on display. Now I had tasted you Before we ever kissed. —Elizabeth Trotwood
GONE LIKE THE WIND
I will (not) reply.
I am monstrous I am macabre I am leviathan On the mornings I wake, I take a wrench to my teeth & my three-pronged tongue dances through shark-tooth dentures— a nerodia cyclopion through
lilies
my tree trunk thighs clap: boom boom held up by knobbly feet and gnarled toes, squashing dwarfs and giddy goblins wind washes my dirt-crusted scales and Ethereal fingers quell my spindly hair to uncloak two ceaseless Black Holes that will scour scrutinize probe you
fall
and
rise
and
again like your belly when my lipsmeetyours rushing-river-rapids-running down your spine;monsoons that too-soon give way and collapse; to quiet rumbles of thunder in the distance. —Jessica Carey
to prove what i am (not) —Sara Gannon
AUTUMN BURLESQUE
GREEN VEGETATION Green vegetation Manufactured in bulk by Soil, water, and sun.
They dance on the leftover air of September Still showing their full green gowns Then changing their costumes into October Wearing reds and yellows and browns. They continue their act in the mid-autumn chill Still covering the truth of their gender But soon they undress and continue until They end their act as naked November.
—Robert Bernard Hurwitz He hovered over me, watched my every move. He made my palms sweat, —Anthony G. Herles and my pupils frantic. [UNTITLED 323] He was a black tornado, that never went away. It all seems new; the sky hasn’t been this color since Antietam. Anxiety often talked to me in a deep whisper, And everything is calm. what if this happens, what will you do, what will others think, he said. Underneath the bridge, I’ve mistaken grocery bags for geese again. I tried to push him away but he has grown too strong, I make a list of basic human graces and pet peeves hoping to encapsulate a definition, like air until a rainbow came barreling out from inside me. for the body I want to fill. Peace began to nibble away at Anxiety’s strength, using words like go away, I don’t need this, you are worthless. There was once obsidian night, the evergreen bayonets of a darkness once lost on me perhaps, All of a sudden in front of my eyes, mistaken again. black, turned to gray, turned to white, turned to dust, and Anxiety was gone. Through the window you pointed to the unmoving moon—almost spherical, Nothing hanging over my head but a rainbow, having lost just a bit—our imperfect missing host and that was only there to protect me. left on the dark open palm which remains uneaten. —Randi Raimondo (13 years) “She’s waning,” you say. —A. J. Porras 9/16 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 79
Food & Drink
Bounty of the Valley New Restaurant Roundup
By Anne Pyburn Craig Photos by Christine Ashburn
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Chicken Kebab and Futur from Ziatun in Beacon.
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he fact that the Hudson Valley is a restaurant Mecca is no longer news. But as the scene matures, some wonderful trends are emerging, trends we love: the mixing of global influences and local ingredients, of historic architecture and new flavor; the ample choices, whether you want to dine after a muddy hike or take proper Aunt Edna out and impress her all to pieces; the tendency of polished, metro-sharpened chefs to choose the region as the backdrop for their wildest dreams; the sophisticated offerings for vegans and vegetarians; and plenty of exposed brick, some of it at a former brick factory (see Sidebar). GB Eats When Great Barrington’s Main Street got a new look last year, chef/owner Pierre Cum decided to refresh his neighborhood diner into GB Eats, updating the interior with light natural wood, local art, and an expanse of plate glass overlooking the Berkshire Hills. Locals have been loving the look and the refreshed menu. Essential components of a great diner—fine coffee, pancakes until midafternoon—are not abandoned but expanded upon: you can get the house blend as espresso or nitro-brewed and iced, and housemade blueberry compote on those pancakes ($7.50). For dinner, try a classic steak burger ($11) or a Berkshire Melt: mozarella, avocado and tomato on local Berkshire sourdough with a basil pesto ($10). 282 Main St, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-8226. Ziatun (Beacon): From the creative mind of the culinary virtuoso behind Angelina’s Pizza and Brew in Cold Spring, the Tito Santana Taqueria and the Beacon Bread Company, comes Ziatun, combining Kamel Jamal’s trademarks—friendly, intelligent service, hands-on kitchen management and plenty of healthy choices—with the savory dishes of his Middle Eastern heritage. People rave about the futur (served with warm pita, considered a breakfast dish but available all day), scratch-made 80 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 9/16
falafel and hummus, and other Palestinian and Jordanian specialties. Reviewers have been known to wish Manhattan had food like this, but Jamal keeps locals in mind with the welcome and the reasonable prices—you can grab a falafel wrap or a beef and lamb shawarma sandwich for under $10. 244 Main Street, Beacon. (845) 765-8268; Ziatun.com. Grano Focaccetia Family-friendly, sparkling clean and warm, Grano Focaccetia’s prices are pretty much what you’d expect in a pizza place; you can get a margherita slice for $2.50 and a calzone for $6. But that’s where the similarity ends: Grano Focaccetia’s winning friends and fans among people who previously believed that genuine Italian was only to be found in Little Italy. Artisanal thin crust piesa, mouthwatering meatballs, baked pasta and calzones made with smoked mozzarella are all winning raves, as does the kale salad. Wash it all down with a soft drink, a latte or a glass of wine or beer, and save room for some Jane’s Ice Cream. 3182 Route 9, Cold Spring. (845) 666-7007; Granofocacceria.com. Commissary New Paltz and surrounding folks have long embraced Lagusta’s Luscious as a foodie brand. The name, she says, makes post office clerks think she makes exotic erotica; in fact, she makes sensual feasts for the tongue: fine handcrafted chocolates, veggie meals and, since 2011, her own line of truffles. This year she has opened Lagusta’s Luscious Commissary, a coffee shop where she celebrates her adoration of “deep flavor, ethical sourcing, farmers, the food poor people around the world have always eaten, lactic acid fermentation, and noodles.” Expect to find cheese plates, pickle plates, vegan deviled eggs and creative uses of whatever is freshest, along with slammin’ tea and dessert, all of it organic, fair trade, vegan, reasonably priced and lovingly crafted. 11 Church Street, New Paltz. Facebook.com/LLCommissary.
Michael Kelly in the kitchen at Liberty Street Bistro in Newburgh. Buns-n-Bourbon in Peekskill.
Liberty Street Bistro Michael Kelly fell in love with food in between bussing tables in nice places in his hometown of Cornwall and polished his craft at the CIA, graduating with honors and enjoying a stellar career in Manhattan. Having helped open Markus Glocker’s Batard, which won the coveted James Beard Best New Restaurant Award in 2015, he headed back upriver; Manhattan’s loss is Newburgh’s gain, in the form of the approachably delicious Liberty Street Bistro. Exposed brick and a floor-to-ceiling front window overlooking Washington’s Headquarters complement an exceptional prix fixe menu—suit your appetite and wallet with two, three or four courses ($36-$61) featuring delicacies like duck confit salad, steamed mussels and pan-seared octopus. 97 Liberty Street, Newburgh. (845) 562-3900; Libertystreetbistro.com. Buns-n-Bourbon Peekskill is welcoming the irrepressible Buns-n-Bourbon, a party-hearty alter ego to the kid-friendly Taco Dive Bar in the same building. The focus here is on fine brown spirits and good party-nosh, like burgers, dogs and fried sandwiches priced from $6 to $9 and several kinds of fries to choose from. But this party-nosh has an updated, locavore feel—you’ll find Amish or grass fed beef, goat cheese, green papaya cabbage slaw, and veggie-bun food like a chargrilled portabella with Havarti and basil-truffle mayo. Perfect place to relish heart-pumping rock played a little bit loud, crazy movies on the big flat screen, a few adventurous shots and an evening’s laughter. 55 Hudson Avenue, Peekskill. (914) 788-2867; Bunsnbourbon.com. Plantae Vegetarians and vegans are flocking from near and far to experience the tacos, curry bowls and other top-notch delights at Plantae, where healthy, ethical fare is the raison d’etre rather than an afterthought. Plantae is a cozy charmer, with 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 81
Smorgasburg Upstate in at the Hutton Brickyards in Kingston.
Favorite New Place to Eat Smorgasburg Upstate
Photos by Roy Gumpel
Kevin Lyan and his son Hayden.
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Although it’s a not a restaurant per se, the downtown Kingston debut of Smorgasburg on August 6 left little doubt that it was a culinary game changer for the region. It was so successful that the thousands-strong crowd left little room to move, vendors ran out of food, and several parking lots filled up and closed—proving once again why the famous Brooklyn food-and-flea-market extravaganza, begun in 2011, was dubbed “the Woodstock of eating” by the NewYork Times. But by the end of August, Smorgasburg Upstate, as it’s known, had found an even keel, in part, thanks to a shuttle bus from uptown Kingston. Held at the historic Hutton Brickyards, the venue has the same buzz that’s made Smorgasburg a sensation at several NewYork City locations and most recently, in Los Angeles. But Smorgasburg Upstate is different. Its energy is both urban and rural, hectic and laidback—an appealing hybrid that attracts attendees from both upstate and downstate to eat, drink, shop, and wander the 12-acre property, which overlooks the Hudson River, with children and leashed dogs in tow. Smorgasburg Upstate offers innovative, farm-to-table food from Brooklyn (including the ever-popular Ramen Burger) and the Hudson Valley (from newer ventures like Itsa Pizza Truck, Borland House, Pakt, and Daughters Fare & Ale to old favorites like Sante Fe, Bread Alone, and Terrapin); along with craft-brewed beer, cider, and wine. An array of stalls sell handmade and vintage fashion, home goods, and collectibles, anchored by Brooklyn favorites like the toys-and-kitsch purveyor Dan’s Parents’ House and used-record shop Vinyl Rescue. Smorgasburg Upstate is held on Saturdays at 200 North Street, Kingston, from 11am to 6pm, through October 29. Upstate.Smorgasburg.com. —Susan Piperato
outdoor and upstairs mezzanine seating and free Wi-Fi; bring your own alcohol if you’d like. Brazilian-born head chef Raquel Osorio has come here after stints in the East Village and in Red Hook to enhance the magical sweetness that is Tivoli with a world class “masterpiece for the masses,” serving dishes such as arugula fruit salad ($15), an “Avo BLT” that pairs avocado with sweet barbecue tempeh bacon ($13) and hearty bean chili topped with your choice of cashew crème or avocado and served with organic corn chips (cup, $6; bowl, $8). 55 Broadway,Tivoli. (845) 757-2200; Facebook.com/plantaeTivoli.
Joy Risk at Plantae in Tivoli with a plate of macaroons.
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Essie’s Chef-owner Brandon Walker first came up from the city to study at the Culinary Institute, falling in love with both the mid-Hudson and his future wife. After graduation, he worked his share of 3-star Manhattan joints and did some culinary globetrotting, always dreaming of the ideal Hudson Valley restaurant to call his own. He found it in Poughkeepsie’s historic Little Italy, and Essie’s (named for his grandmother) was born, with industrial-chic decor and a casually elegant ambience. Walker’s CIA education, global journey, and sense of fun all inform his locally sourced New American comfort cuisine: expect to taste echoes of Caribbean, Asia, Classic French, and Mediterranean Spanish in snacks (country ham Cheddar corn muffins, $7), small plates. and entrees such as chicken and dumpling ($21) and cavatelli ($19). 14 Mt. Carmel Place, Poughkeepsie; (845) 452-7181; Essiesrestaurantpk.com
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Garvan’s Sometimes things really do work out for the best. Visitors to Shea O’Brien’s on Main Street in New Paltz were much enamored of the hospitality of manager Garvan McCloskey. When that restaurant closed in 2015, people missed Garvan terribly. Meanwhile, the owners of the Rock n’ Rye, an historic 1759 building at the end of Huguenot Street on the bucolic grounds of the New Paltz Golf Course, wanted an heir fit for an exceptional business. The combined dilemmas gave birth to Garvan’s, a gastropub and dining room where you can feast on surf-n-turf ($29) or a jumbo shrimp scampi ($24) while your vegetarian pal savors a Vegetable Napoleon ($19). Garvan’s is warm and artful, the kind of place that’s perfect for a special date night or celebration or a gastropub lunch in the middle of a stressful week. 215 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, (845) 255-7888; Garvans.com.
Butterfield Reinventing the former Inn at Stone Ridge was a tall order. How do you preserve the absolute best of a 250-year-old gem while updating it to sleek perfection? Leave it to Brooklyn-based Gowanus Hospitality Group. Designer Akiva Reich was equal to the challenge, adding a ton of windows for a sunshiny, airy feel and bringing in Chef Shawn Burnette to run Butterfield. The very name hearkens back to a colonial colloquialism about the excellence of the surrounding land; Burnette’s stated goal is to source everything from within a 20-mile radius. Come get in on the flavor with housemade lamb sausage ($14) served with herb and almond puree or bone-in ribeye for two (market price). In case you’re tired after your meal, the property house a 20-room boutique hotel. 3805 Main Street, Stone Ridge, (845) 687-0736; Hasbrouckhouseny.com. Bartlett House (Ghent) Somewhat off the beaten path in Ghent, northeast of Hudson, you’ll find a new and not-to-be-missed culinary experience at the Bartlett House, a blend of historic preservation, locavore consciousness, sustainable ethos, and just plain good food. A national historic site on Route 66, the Bartlett has been fitted out with a state-of-the-art kitchen and bakery featuring ethically sourced coffee, an approachable menu featuring locally sourced goodies and delectable baked goods, and a shop where you can purchase eclectic housewares and specialty foods to take home. Try the breakfast sandwich (fried farm egg, fontina cheese, choice of bacon, house sausage or vegetables, $8), house cured salmon, horseradish creme fraiche, cucumber, radish, dill, scallion on multigrain, ($12), or Bartlett house burger (cheese melt, pickle, aioli, fries, $14). 2258 Route 66, Ghent. (518) 392-7787; Bartletthouse.com.
Brandon Walker at Essie’s in Poughkeepsie.
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28 E. MARKET ST, RED HOOK (845) 758-2666 See our full menu at www.RedHookCurryHouse.com
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HRYN’S T A C Tuscan Grill
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Sparkling Sunday Brunch Noon – 3 pm
Extensive Wine List
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The patio at Ms. Fairfax in Newburgh.
Ms. Fairfax Another outstanding addition to the memorable and insanely delicious dining scene developing down on Liberty Street, Ms. Fairfax is artsy-casual and makes use of fresh, local goodies to create a simple but eclectic menu of “fowl, smoked meats and fine cheeses,” that nods to the cuisines of Italy, France, Morocco, England, Vietnam, and the US. Try the Backyard Turkey Sandwich: home-smoked turkey, herbed aioli, cranberry compote and arugula, sending your taste buds to a whole new level of Thanksgiving for just $13. Dine outdoors, or sip one of the 10 beers on tap over a game of chess; the backyard patio often hosts special events during Newburgh’s Last Saturdays or just because. 105 Liberty Street, Newburgh, (845) 565-0169; Facebook.com/msfairfax. Peace Nation Cafe, Pakt, Kovo, and Redwood Last year at this time, we noted the culinary revitalization that was taking place in Woodstock. This year, the burg that bursting with new restaurants is Kingston. Adding to an already robust Uptown eating scene are two eateries, Kovo Rotisserie and Redwood. Maria Philippis, owner of the chic bistro Boitson’s, has tapped into her Hellenic heritage with Kovo Rotisserie, a causal Greek-inspired joint. The menu is a build-your-own rotisserie pita sandwich or salad bowl ($11-$14.50) that straddles the line between health and hedonism. And don’t forget to order a side of zucchini fritters with tzatziki ($7). Redwood takes over where the short-lived Frogmore Tavern left off. The rooftop deck is still an amazing place to spend an evening under the stars, and the new owners Kelly Jenkins Polston and Scott Polston bring their California roots to dishes like Murray’s chicken breast, smoky honey lavender jus, duck fat purple potatoes, and sautéed summer greens served in a skillet ($24) and Sonoma salad of field greens, pistachio praline, roasted cherries, Manchego cheese, tossed in a Fumet Blanc vinaigrette ($12). In what are hopeful signs of a Midtown culinary renaissance (already begun a few years ago by The Anchor,) Peace Nation Café and Pakt have opened near UPAC on Broadway. Pakt is a Southern-inspired breakfast and lunch spot that is definitely not for the health conscious. Biscuit and gravy (sage sausage patty with two scrambled eggs Floretine-style, $11), chicken fried steak and eggs ($10), and chicken n waffle ($10) are deliciously heavy. Down the block, Peace Nation Café is a homey (mostly) vegetarian cafe serving fresh pastries (try the guava rolls), and traditional Guatemalan dishes with a healthy twist, like Guatemalan “chuchitos”—mini corn tamales steamed with chicken and topped with queso seco. Kovo Rotisserie: 43 North Front Street, Kingston. (845) 338-KOVO; kovorotisserie.com Pakt: 608 Broadway, Kingston. (845) 331-2400; Pakttogo.com Peace Nation Cafe:636 Broadway,Kingston.(845) 514-2561;Facebook.com/peacenationcafe. Redwood: 63 North Front Street, Kingston. (845) 259-5868; Redwooduptown.com 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 85
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Bakeries Alternative Baker
407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 www.lemoncakes.com Open 7am Thurs.–Mon.; Closed Tues.– Wed. Small-batch, all from scratch, handmade all-butter baked goods–this is our focus for twenty years. We also offer glutenfree and other allergy-friendly options, plus made-to-order award-winning sandwiches. All-vegan vegetable soups in season, an array of JB Peel coffees and Harney teas, artisanal drinks, plus our highly addictive Belgian Hot Chocolate, also served iced! Special-occasion cakes made to order. Seasonal desserts change through the year. Unique wedding cakes for a lifetime’s treasure. All “Worth a detour”—(NY Times). Truly “Where Taste is Everything!”
Butchers Jack’s Meats & Deli
79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Restaurants
Landmark Inn
566 Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com
Liberty Public House of Rhinebeck Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1760
Osaka Restaurant
22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 757-5055, 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.
Red Hook Curry House
28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com
Redwood Bar and Restaurant
Alley Cat Restaurant
63 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 259-5868 www.redwooduptown.com
Cafe Le Perche
Hop at Beacon, The
294 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1300 230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1850 www.cafeleperche.com
458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com
Cafe Mio
353 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-5500 nyrestaurantcatskill.com
2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4949 www.miogardiner.com
Caffe Macchiato
99 Liberty Street, Liberty, NY (845) 565-4616 www.99libertystreet.com
Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill
91 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5582 www.tuscangrill.com
Chateau Beacon
37 Lamplight Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8874 chateaubeacon.com
Hudson Hil’s
12-131 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-9471 www.hudsonhils.com
The premier Sushi restaurant in the Hudson Valley for over 21 years. Only the freshest sushi with an innovative flair.
All-Day Breakfast, Lunch, Brunch & Thursday Dinner Tuesday-Sunday 9am-3pm | Thursday Dinner 6-9pm 99 Liberty Street, Newburgh (845) 565-4616 99libertystreet.com
New York Restaurant, The
Tuthill House
20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
Yobo Restaurant
Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Wine Bars 394 Main
394 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 947-4774 www.394mainst.com
Jar’d Wine Pub
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com
Eclectic wines, craft coctails, craft beer & tapas Happy Hour Monday—Friday, 3 to 6 $5 mimosas all day Sundays www.jardwinepub.com water street market, new paltz
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business directory
Accommodations Gatehouse Gardens B & B New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8817 ww.gatehousegardens.com
Artists Studios Regal Bag Studios
302 North Water Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 444-8509 www.regalbagstudios.com
Wm. Farmer & Sons
20 South Front Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1635
Antiques Barn Star Productions
7 Center Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0616 www.barnstar.com
Hudson Antiques Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com
Tongue in Chique
99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1375 www.tongueinchique.com
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Steve Morris Designs
156 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 417-1819 www.stevemorrisdesigns.com
Art Galleries & Centers Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT www.aldrichart.org
After Eden Gallery
453 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 649-4469 www.afteredengallery.com
Carrie Haddad Gallery
622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 newyorktrafficlawyer.com k.friedman@msn.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Aviation Richmor Aviation (800) 359-2299 www.richmor.com
Books Cheryl Petersen
From Science and Religion to God Available on Amazon
Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe
31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock
Gallery 66
66 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5838 www.gallery66ny.com
Green Light Gallery
240 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY Greenlight.Gallery
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
North River Gallery
29 Main Street, Suite 2B, Chatham, NY www.northrivergallery.com
Ryan Cronin Gallery
10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.ryancroningallery.com
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply
Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Artists John T. Unger Studios
Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Baxter
L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design
2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
WCW Kitchens
3 Cherry Hill Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2022 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2002
Williams Lumber & Home Center 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Carpets & Rugs Anatolia-Tribal Rugs & Weavings
54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@gmail.com Hours: Mon. & Thurs.12-5. Fri., Sat., Sun. 12-6. Closed Tues. & Wed. Established in Woodstock 1981. Offering old, antique and contemporary handwoven carpets and kilims, from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, in a wide range of styles, colors, prices. Hundreds to choose from, in a regularly changing inventory. Also, Turkish kilim pillows. We are happy to share our knowledge about rugs, and try and simplify the sometimes overcomplicated world of handwoven rugs.
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories de Marchin
620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Berkshire Products, Inc.
Kasuri
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
Cabinet Designers
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Cord King
(845) 797-6877 cordkingllc@gmail.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
H Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
Herrington’s
Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
Nadine Robbins Art
Ingrained Building Concepts
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3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
(845) 471-1047 www.baxterbuilt.com
Hudson, NY (231) 584-2710 www.johntunger.com
www.nadinerobbinsart.com
John A Alvarez and Sons
(845) 224-5936
1 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 291-9922 www.kasuri.com
Next Boutique
17 W Strand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4537 www.nextboutique.com
OAK 42
34 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-0042 www.oak42.com
Pleasant Valley Department Store
1585 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.com
Vintage India NYC
99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, NY (518) 671-6711 www.vintageindianyc.com
Willow Wood
38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths
45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Education Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
Columbia-Greene Community College 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (845) 828-4181 www.mycommunitycollege.com
Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Millbrook School
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Montessori of New Paltz
130 Dubois Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-6668 montessoriofnewpaltz.com
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com
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Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley
Opus 40, Saugerties, NY (845) 452-3077 www.communityfoundationsHV.org
Film Columbia
Chatham, NY (518) 392-3446 www.filmcolumbia.com info@filmcolumbia.com
Hudson Valley Garlic Festival Cantine Field, Saugerties, NY www.hvgf.org
Glimmerglass Film Days
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TMI Project, Voices in Action
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810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com
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Wallkill View Farm Market
15 Route 299 West, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8050
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FROM TIBET, WITH LOVE TRADITIONAL TIBETAN MEDICINE INTERLACES THE SPIRITUAL AND THE MEDICAL FOR A SINGULARLY HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH.
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ust over a year ago, Peter Buettner finally admitted to himself what a lot of people had been telling him: that something was not right. “I was walking funny, I had a tremor in my hand, my voice changed. I just wasn’t my same self,” says Buettner, 64, a Woodstock-area musician. A neurologist diagnosed him with early-stage Parkinson’s disease, and he started a course of treatment doing everything by the book—taking Levodopa to alleviate his symptoms, showing up for regular appointments, eating well, exercising.Yet Buettner also did something that his doctors wouldn’t have expected: He started a Medicine Buddha practice. Guided by lamas and teachers at the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) monastery, he learned about the centuries-old traditions surrounding the lapis lazuli–colored “King of Medicine,” as this particular Buddha is described in the Tibetan lineage of Vajrayana Buddhism. Immersing himself in meditation, visualization, and mantra, he invited the healing blue light of the Medicine Buddha to wash over his brain and body. To the uninitiated, it may sound naïve and unscientific, like so much spiritual hoodoo. But on a mental and emotional level the effects have been profound, as well as measurable and quantifiable. “The main thing that it’s done for me, the Buddhist practice, in whatever limited level I’m practicing on, is that it’s changed my attitude toward the way I feel about having a chronic condition,” says Buettner. “You make choices, things happen to you, and you’re in environments that create conditions in your body that manifest as disease later. It’s about being able to accept that and not take it personally. It’s part of the karma of the human body.” Despite the weight of his diagnosis, there’s a peace and calm that emanates from Buettner which he can trace back to a practice that is not entirely new to him: He’s been studying Buddhism, in a “hit or miss” sort of way, for the past 30 years. It’s only since his Parkinson’s diagnosis that he has stepped up his commitment and become very diligent. Daily visits to the monastery (possible now since he is on disability from his day job as a contractor) have allowed him to intensify his study and practice, and to meet more lamas and teachers who open new doors for him. Meditation is more accessible thanks to teachers such as Mingyur Rinpoche, who visited KTD in July. “He talked about developing awareness, being aware of your mental states,” recalls Buettner. “It’s not about trying to stop the mind or change the mind. Instead, whatever you can do to be aware in the moment and not be feeding your story, your neurosis—that’s the practice in itself.” A Medical System with Spirit Although Buettner is mainly employing the spiritual and mental aspects of practice, there is an entire world of traditional Tibetan medicine which combines the spiritual and the medical in one interconnected system of healing. Among other classical Asian systems, “Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine are much wider known [than Tibetan medicine],” says Eric Rosenbush, a teacher and acupuncturist who has studied in depth all three systems of healing, and who is leading a Tibetan Rejuvenation Immersion at Menla Center for Health and Happiness in Phoenicia this October 25–30. The weeklong retreat, cotaught with Buddhist teacher Robert Thurman, offers an introduction to the principles and practices of Tibetan medicine, which Rosenbush describes as “a 90 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 9/16
blend of indigenous Tibetan healing techniques, some of which are shamanic and very old, with the Buddhist medical system of India that came over with Indian Buddhism starting over 1,400 years ago, as well as a strong influence of Chinese medical tradition and ancient Greek medical tradition. Tibetan medicine took all of these various influences and from around the 8th century really created its own system.” On a physical or subtle-body level, disease is understood in Tibetan medicine as an imbalance of the three principles: “rLung” (air or wind), “mKhrispa” (fire), and “Bad kann” (earth and water). On the spiritual level, illness is described as resulting from three afflictions in Buddhist belief: ignorance, attachment, and aversion. Beyond these principles Tibetan medicine is a vast system that, according to Rosenbush, who is a student of the eminent Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, has strong clinical efficacy to treat disease. “The Tibetan doctors that are practicing throughout the world are for the most part very highly trained and skilled in their diagnostic techniques and use of different substances. [Tibetan medicine is] really a gem within medical systems in the world today.” With a home base in Himalayan India, not far from the Tibetan border, Rosenbush works for an NGO that helps local farmers and villagers preserve and cultivate high-elevation plants used in traditional healing. Many of these are the same unique, endemic plants that are sourced to create the herbal substances used in Tibetan medicine, along with Indian and Chinese herbs introduced through centuries-old trade networks. At Menla, Rosenbush has plans to cultivate local plants and flowers for traditional medicine-making in future Tibetan Rejuvenation programs, to be offered several times a year. During the retreat, participants engage in mild fasting, skipping at least one meal a day. “In place of a meal,” says Rosenbush, “you learn to absorb vital energy from special herbal substances mixed with ghee or honey, or different kinds of herbal pills,” many of which he creates. Called Chulen, or “extracting the essence,” the practice is combined with breathing, visualization, meditation, and simple yoga to help cleanse and rejuvenate the body and mind. Participants also join in a Mendrub ceremony, which is a ritual with mandala-making and chanting to bless the medicine and “transmute it into nectar.” Says Rosenbush, “It’s quite profound, and it’s another great example of how the Buddhist tradition and the medical tradition work together.” Compassion as Medicine At KTD monastery, with its golden shrine room perched high above Woodstock, practices like these are woven into everyday life among the lamas, monks, teachers, and community of Buddhist practitioners. Above all, one Buddhist tenet emerges as a powerful vehicle for healing: compassion. A large part of Medicine Buddha practice involves compassion for the self and others; it aims to direct healing not just toward oneself, to ease one’s own suffering, but also toward other beings who need healing and freedom from suffering. “We have three kinds of practices for healing and to protect from disease: the outer, the inner, and the innermost,” says resident teacher Khenpo Karma Tenkyong. The
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outer practices are directed at protecting nature and other sentient beings, and often involve the live release of fish or other animals into their natural habitat. From there, the practice naturally moves inward, Khenpo explains. “Because you are a part of nature, you can feel your interdependence. Nature has the power of medicine: The inner person will come out. Then you’re not going to eat something that’s going to hurt you and cause disease.You love yourself and don’t want to harm yourself, because you know how important is this human life.You will take care of your body, exercise, train your mind with meditation. When you train your mind and body, you are healing. Then you can turn to helping animals, to helping other people.” Khenpo knows that in the Western world of modern medicine, these basic views are far from orthodox. But for him, growing up in a remote village on the border of Nepal and Tibet, a simple approach to health was the only approach to health. “We had no doctor, no hospital, and until now we had no road. If someone had a wound we would use tree leaves, medicines. If there is a very serious problem we contact the government and pay them money to bring a helicopter. But most people do not have big disease; I never hear about cancer in our village.” He chalks it up to Medicine Buddha practice—the “innermost” practice in Tibetan healing—taught to every child and practiced by every family in his village to this day. Buettner, too, benefits from the simple heart qualities of these teachings on his journey with Parkinson’s disease. “This really teaches you to use your condition, whatever condition or affliction that you have, as a springboard to compassion for other people and their suffering,” he says. These days, he is unable to play the saxophone because his fingers can’t hold certain keys down; he is, however, able to play the flute, compose music, and do basically all of his normal activities. “There are many people who are suffering far worse than I am,” he adds. “Having to face my mortality, and the limitations that my condition is going to place on me as time goes by, inspires me to have compassion towards anyone who needs it, and to bring some kind of conscious energy to the healing of any suffering being.” Meet Your Inner Blue Healer Rosenbush concurs that it all goes back to the Medicine Buddha—the “originator” of the Tibetan medical system and the source of all healing. “The Medicine Buddha is not necessarily a blue person or a blue alien that taught this medical tradition,” he says lightly. “It is the enlightened essence of the perfectly realized potentiality of healing. Within everyone there is, we say, the Buddha nature. This is your own enlightened essence, the wisdom essence of your soul. In Tibetan medicine, the Medicine Buddha is really the heart, and can manifest in different ways as your highest potential for healing.” You don’t have to be a Buddhist to manifest the Medicine Buddha’s qualities; rather, the deity represents the potential in us all to heal and be healed. While the traditional way of Medicine Buddha practice involves a three-step process (including oral transmission from a teacher, an introduction to its meaning, and an initiation), anyone can practice by chanting the Medicine Buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bhekandze Bhekandze Maha Bhekandze Randza Samungate Soha (roughly translating as “Beyond All, Auspicious One, Medicine Buddha, Greatness of Medicine Buddha, Perfectly Awakened, Dissolve in Me”).Visualizations focus on healing blue light streaming from the Buddha’s heart and body, and infusing the body of oneself or someone else who is suffering and needs healing. “No one will ever be able to prove that it works, but it couldn’t hurt,” says Buettner with a Buddha-like smile. “It’s very comforting. And I really believe that by changing your mind, the quality of your thoughts and emotions, that changes your body chemistry. And that changes your experience.” By keeping his mind free of suffering, the experience of illness for Buettner need not be a prison sentence. On the contrary, he sees it as a gift—a special time to deepen his spiritual practice, and to keep making music. “Getting the diagnosis definitely puts a fire under your butt.You realize you better do what you love, make your life count, and do things with the benefit of all other sentient beings in mind, whatever you choose to do in life. Don’t wait to live. There is no time to lose.” RESOURCES Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery Kagyu.org Menla Center for Health and Happiness Menla.org.
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Pilates Ulster Pilates Pilates and Gyrotonic® Studio 32 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 658 2239 www.ulsterpilates.com Ulster Pilates offers equipment pilates, gyrotonic® and gyrokinesis® in both individual and group classes. Our Pilates program is based on the precepts of the Kane School for Core Integration and Ellie Herman Studios in New York. It is a full body works out! It emphasizes core stability and strengthening, correct biomechanics and deeply works the abdominals, diaphragm, pelvic floor and back muscles.
Psychotherapy Wellness Embodied 126 Main Street Suite A, New Paltz, NY (845) 419-0293 www.wellnessembodiedcenter.com
220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
Emerson Resort & Spa Route 28, Mt. Tremper, NY (877) 688-2828 www.emersonresort.com
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute
45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
MidHudson Regional Hospital
Omega Institute
(845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com
Hospitals Health Quest
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/mhrh
Hunter Mountain, NY (518) 589-5000 www.peacevillageretreat.org
Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org
Jewish Federation of Ulster County Wiltwyck Golf Club, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8131 www.fallforart.org info@fallforart.org
Kol Hai (845) 477-5457 kolhai.org
Thermography Breast Thermography Full Body Thermography Susan Willson, RN, CNM, CCT Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4807 www.biothermalimaging.com ACCT approved clinic, offering non-invasive Breast and Full Body thermography in a warm, personal environment, since 2003. Full Body Thermography highlights areas of chronic inflammation and organ dysfunction before they become established disease. Breast thermography shows abnormalities 8-10 years before tumors will show on a mammogram, allowing for much gentler options to rebalance the body and prevent a tumor becoming established. Susan was the first to offer Thermography in the Hudson Valley. She uses the latest medically calibrated camera and Board Certified Thermologists for interpretation.
Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa
Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org info@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Sharon Salzberg and Ethan Nichtern: Real Love: Bringing the Path to Your Relationships, October 28-30; and the Buddhist Contemplative Care Symposium: Radical Compassion in Palliative and End of Life Care, November 3-6.
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Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center
Rhinebeck, NY (800) 944-1001 www.eOmega.org
Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston
Whole Sky Yoga High Falls, NY (845) 706-3668 www.wholeskyyoga.com Promoting compassionate awareness through 20 weekly classes, workshops, special events, and individual instruction. A non-exclusive, welcoming atmosphere to begin or deepen your yoga practice. 10 Class Pass: $100
Woodstock Yoga Center 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockyogacenter.com (845) 679-8700 woodstockyogacenter@gmail.com Woodstock Yoga offers a range of yoga asana steeped in Indian tradition, with a foundation rooted in the healing and transformative powers of Yoga. Owner Barbara Boris and other talented teachers offer decades of experience and a wide range of classes and styles, plus events, workshops and private sessions.
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Sept. 2-4 8pm Fri & Sat 3pm Sun Tickets: $24/$22
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Sunday, September 25 | 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. Opus 40 | Saugerties, New York
Sept. 9 - 18
8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $27/$25
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8pm Fri & Sat; 3pm Sun •Tickets: $20 A new musical by CENTER regular Frank McGinnis set in rural upstate New York. A young man wonders how his future will unfold in the small town that he has known all his life while an older man looks back on his past. Directed by Lou Trapani for CENTERstage.
Sept. 30 - Oct. 9 8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $22
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A subscription ad for the East Village Eye featuring Television's original line-up.Television performs at BSP Kingston on September 4.
We Interrupt This Broadcast In 1974, when the four young musicians who made up the band Television walked into a rat-infested bar in the Lower East Side looking for a gig, rock ’n’ roll at large was at a low ebb. The music had degenerated from the vital, vibrant sounds of the 1950s and ’60s into the disconnected domain of soft rock and stadium stars. Although in its previous incarnation as Hilly’s on the Bowery, the club, then just recently renamed CBGB, had hosted other acts connected with the dawn of what came to be called punk rock, it was Television who established the toehold at CBGB that opened the door for other up-and-comers like the Ramones, Patti Smith, and Talking Heads to play there. And now, 42 years later, Television, one of the most influential bands in rock history, is still performing. On September 4, the legendary group will play the only Northeast show of their upcoming American tour at BSP’s Backroom Theater. Fred Smith was not the bass player in Television at their time of their earliest shows at CBGB. In fact, it was bassist Richard Hell who cofounded the group with singer-guitarist Tom Verlaine, guitarist Richard Lloyd, and drummer Billy Ficca; at the time, Smith was in another early CB’s band, Blondie. “On any given night, you could catch two or three different acts,” says Smith about the stylistically varied, embryonic scene. “And usually they were all good.” When Hell left Television in 1975 to form the Heartbreakers with Johnny Thunders and, later, his own Voidoids, Smith took his place, and the group cut the indie single “Little Johnny Jewel” and 1977’s monumental Marquee Moon. Imbued with Verlaine and Lloyd’s intertwining guitars, Verlaine’s enigmatic lyrics, and the unbroken pulse of Smith and Ficca, the album showed that the quartet’s art owed more to psychedelia, jazz, instrumental surf, and Symbolist poets than the Stooges-styled nihilism of their more widely imitated contemporaries, the Ramones. Television’s second
album, the underrated Adventure, appeared in April 1978, but despite its charting in the UK, internal tensions tore the group apart only months later. Following the split, Verlaine and Lloyd pursued solo careers, Smith and Ficca played with other artists and on Verlaine’s albums, and Lloyd worked as a session guitarist. The band reunited for 1992’s well-received Television and recommenced touring, but Lloyd left in 2007 to be replaced by frequent Verlaine sideman Jimmy Rip. Since then, the group has kept active on the live front, doing select dates in North America and headlining festivals and large venues in Europe, the UK, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. After the Kingston show and dates in Washington, DC, and North Carolina, the foursome will return to South America, where they performed to sold-out houses in 2013. “Jimmy lives in Argentina, which was really great the first time we played there,” says Smith. “The audience knew all our songs and sang along—they even sang the guitar solos.” Speaking of songs, are there any new Television tunes in the works? “We’ll probably do a couple of new ones [in Kingston],” Smith says. “We’ve recorded some other stuff, but Tom’s still working on lyrics.” A Rosendale resident since 2003, the bassist and his wife, Paula Cereghino, run the successful Cereghino Smith winery. Does Smith see any parallels between making music and making wine? “In a way, yeah,” he muses. “With both, you’re trying to get people to taste what you make, hoping they like it enough to buy it.” Television and special guest Deradoorian will perform at BSP Backroom Theater in Kingston on September 4 at 7pm. Tickets are $40 in advance and $48 at the door. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com. —Peter Aaron
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THURSDAY 1 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Young Profesionals End of Summer Mixer
5:30-7pm. $0-$10. Featuring the Management, Crew and Pilots of the NY Air Show! Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, prizes and fantastic networking opportunities. Sponsored by: Walden Savings Bank. Billy Joe’s Ribworks, Newburgh. 565-1560.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Columbia County Fair
Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. Columbiafair.com.
Columbia County Fair Demolition Derby
Drivers can enter in four-cylinder, sixcylinder, eight-cylinder or mini-van classes. Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded in each event. Participants must be at least 18 years old, have a valid driver’s license, supply their own vehicle and comply with all safety rules. Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. 518-392-2121.
FILM Patricia L Boyd and Anne Boyer
7pm. The project is grounded in Boyd’s research into what she calls “the protocol of production-as-exhaustion,” which acknowledges the debt (of time, vitality, and labor) that must be paid to capitalism by every living body, as well as the internal economics of self-preservation that a body must undertake to honor this debt. In light of such demands. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
HEALTH & WELLNESS How To Keep Your Eyes Healthy with Marc Grossman
How the eyes are intimately connected to our brains and bodies, to our attitudes and beliefs. How we see and react to life situations can affect our vision. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. RVHHC.org.
LECTURES & TALKS First Thursdays in the Archives
First Thursday of every month, 122pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.
MUSIC David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps
7pm. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps dole out two sets of the finest country rock. At this family friendly event, everyone is invited to bring blankets, chairs and food to enjoy while sitting back (or dancing) to some great music in the park. Roxbury Arts Group Concert in the Park, Stamford. (607) 326-7908.
Johnny Nicholas & Hellbent with Cindy Cashdollar
7pm. Roots and blues. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Karma Darwin
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Middle-Stage Music Social
First Thursday of every month, 2-3:30pm. People with middle-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their family caregivers are invited to this free opportunity to socialize in a safe environment. Refreshments will be served. Preregistration is required. This program is supported in part by a grant from the New York State Department of Health. Wingate at Ulster, Highland. (800) 272-3900. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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The New Millennium Jelly Rollers
5pm. $15/$10 children suggested. Enjoy a picnic on the farm at 5:30pm, and the performance at 7pm. Hear a joyful night of foot tapping, awesome folk harmonies & musicianship. Mettabee Farm, Hillsdale. (518) 567-5123.
TheWallflowers
8pm. Classic rock. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
The Wallflowers
8-10pm. $40/$55. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
East Meets West 2016
7-9pm. $15 per session/$45 for 4 sessions. Presented off-site in the instructor’s East Meredith barn studio. For teens and adults. In these playful & provoking sessions, participants will discover some of the myriad characters who dwell within. Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, Lanny will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice. West Kortright Centre, East Meredith. (607) 278-5454.
Severely Fractured Fairy Tales
5-7pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater Company will perform a delightfully fun-filled fantasy adventure. Severely Fractured Fairy Tales, a new collaborative work for stage by Jerry James and David Aston-Reese, is based on stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and John Ruskin. Outdoor Elizabethan Theater, Woodstock. 247-4007.
FRIDAY 2 DANCE Parsons Dance
8-10pm. $40/$35 members/$20 students. Last summer PS21’s audiences saw “Almah,” Kate Skarpetowksa’s new work, in development during open rehearsals. This year we will now have an opportunity to see the completed work. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Anna Christie
Berkshire Ramblers
Cocoon Theater Presents: No Theme Festival
Bunny Wailer
6pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
8pm. $20. Three days of original theatre, dance, music, and art. Artists from New York City, Philadelphia, the Hudson Valley, and even as far away as Barcelona. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.
Severely Fractured Fairy Tales
5-7pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater Company will perform a delightfully fun-filled fantasy adventure. Severely Fractured Fairy Tales, a new collaborative work for stage by Jerry James and David Aston-Reese, is based on stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and John Ruskin. Outdoor Elizabethan Theater, Woodstock. 247-4007.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Book Binding for Photographers
Three-day workshop with Scott McCarney. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.9.
SATURDAY 3 DANCE Parsons Dance
8-10pm. $40/$35 members/$20 students. Last summer PS21’s audiences saw “Almah,” Kate Skarpetowksa’s new work, in development during open rehearsals. This year we will now have an opportunity to see the completed work. PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Columbia County Fair
Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. Columbiafair.com.
Hudson Valley Grape Jam Festival
A music festival to benefit the Westchester Medical Center/Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Members of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network. Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills. Hvgrapejam.com.
LECTURES & TALKS Carey Harrison
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Columbia County Fair
Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. Columbiafair.com.
6pm. An interview with Carey Harrison, English dramatist, novelist, and Professor of English at Brooklyn College. Mr. Harrison will be in conversation with visual artist Mark Thomas Kanter. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
MUSIC 108 Troubles
LITERARY & BOOKS 11th Annual Festival of Books
7:30pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Beyond the Wall: Pink Floyd Tribute 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Chico Alvarez & Mauricio Smith with Ran Kan Kan 8pm. Latin. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
The Robert Cray Band
8pm. $29.50/$34.50/$44.50. Soulful vocals, stinging guitar solos and smoking modern blues. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Soñando
7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
A Super Size First Fridays: Contemporary Cocktail Party
7-9pm. $20/$15 member/free for $250+ members. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.
The Wallflowers
8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The festival features a giant used book sale, two days of discussions with and readings by esteemed authors, and a children’s program. Featured authors this year include Christopher Breiseth, Elizabeth Brundage, Michelle Hoover, Courtney Maum, David Pietrusza, Ruth Reichl, Russell Shorto, Will Swift, Mark Wunderlich, and Steve Yarbrough. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
Valerie Martin and John Cullen In Conversation
1pm. Author, Valerie Martin, and translator, John Cullen, share a love of language, stories, and each other. Join us to hear award winning author Valerie Martin and translator John Cullen discuss their work, both process and product. We are celebrating the paperback release of Valerie’s latest short story collection, Sea Lovers, and the release of John’s newest translations, David Trueba’s Blitz and Patrick Modiano’s Villa Triste. The Merritt Bookstore, Millbrook. 677-5857.
MUSIC Andrew Russo and Frederic Chiu, Pianists
6-8pm. $25-$45. Debussy: Suite Bergamasque; Ravel: Miroirs; Debussy, arr. Ravel: Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune, for piano duet; Stravinsky: Petrushka, for piano duet. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
8pm. $25. Fundraiser for Guthrie Center. Guthrie Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-1955. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Cathy Young
8:30pm. Acoustic. Grand Cru Beer and Cheese Market, Rhinebeck.
Donovan Michael
8-10:30pm. $10. Under The Rasta Influence (U.R.I) has an explosive stage presence and natural ability to incinerate stages and leave fans with tired feet. Reggae. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737-1701.
Eric Lindell
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Everton Blender
8-10pm. $5-$16. Spend one last summer night at MASS MoCA with the cool, steady, and easy grooves of reggae legend Everton Blender, whose perfect combination of classic roots and dance-hall rhythm make him a powerful presence in the world of Jamaican music. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express
7pm. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
JB3 Trio
7-10:30pm. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227.
Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen
7pm. $28/$38/$48. New Orleans funk, Motown and bluegrass. Also featuring: Sleepy Man and Simi Stone. Belleayre Music Festival, Highmount. (800) 942-6904.
Kingston Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse
7:30pm. The coffeehouse performances start at 7:30 pm with an open mike format before and after our featured performer, Paul Stokes. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.
Labor Day Celebration with the West Point Band
7:30-9pm. Summer isn’t over in the Hudson Valley until you’ve heard the powerful finale of the 1812 Overture with live cannon fire, followed by a brilliant fireworks display over the Hudson. Bring your family, friends, and a picnic to this annual favorite showcasing music of all genres. West Point Military Academy, West Point. 938-2617.
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Natalie Forteza at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Marco Benevento
Check website for times. Woodstocksesions.com.
Piano and Lieder
7pm. $25/$20 in advance/$10 students and seniors. Reiko Füting piano, composer and Nani Füting mezzo-soprano. Works by Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg and Reiko Füting. Queen of the Hudson, Newburgh. Queenofthehudson.com.
The Shanghai String Quartet
6:30pm. $35/$30. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
Songwriter Tom Pacheco
7:30pm. $18/$15 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-945.
West Point Band: Music Under the Stars Labor Day Celebration
7:30pm. This powerful finale to the summer will include the 1812 Overture with live cannon fire and a fireworks show over the Hudson River. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.
BOOKS MANIFOLD NATURE: JOHN BURROUGHS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
John Burroughs at Slabsides, his rustic cabin in West Park. A new collection of Burroughs's writing, Manifold Nature, is being published on October 1.
Burroughs Is Back “Chemistry is incorruptible and immortal, it is the handmaid of God; the yeast works in the elements of our bread of life while we sleep; the stars send their influences, the earth renews itself, the brooding heavens gathers us under its wings, and all is well with us if we have the heroic hearts to see it,” wrote John Burroughs in “Shall We Accept the Universe?” That essay appears in a new book, Manifold Nature: John Burroughs and the North American Review, which has its official debut on October 1 at Slabsides, the roughhewn cabin Burroughs built in West Park. Burroughs grew up on a dairy farm in Delaware County outside Roxbury, the seventh of 10 children. At the age of 17, Burroughs became a teacher in Olive, then alternated teaching and attending schools, such as Cooperstown Seminary. While living in Washington, DC, in 1863, Burroughs met and befriended Walt Whitman, who was ministering to injured soldiers in Army hospitals. Whitman profoundly inspired Burroughs, whose first book, Notes on Walt Whitman As Poet and Person (1867), was a defense of the still-controversial bard. Whitman encouraged his friend to write about nature, and Burroughs’ first wildlife essay, “With the Birds,” published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1865, was an immediate hit. Burroughs returned to the Hudson Valley in 1873, buying a farm in West Park. Eventually Burroughs would publish 23 books, which sold a total of 1.5 million copies. He became a household name, respected for his wisdom and simplicity, like a combination of Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama. Burroughs was sought out by other notables such as Teddy Roosevelt, whom he inspired as a conservationist. Burroughs, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and rubber magnate Harvey Firestone went on rustic vacations together, calling themselves the “Four Vagabonds.” Burroughs and his son constructed Slabsides from bark-covered logs in 1895. (The
first cutting from a log is called a “slab.”) During Burroughs’ lifetime, many of his admirers made the pilgrimage to his simple dwelling: nearly 7,000 fans signed his guest books. After Burroughs’ death, Henry Ford bought the property, then passed it on to the John Burroughs Association, which still manages it. Slabsides became a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in the United States, founded in 1815 in Boston—before there was a recognizable American literature. “If you see the American Revolution as being the political Declaration of Independence, then you can say the North American Review is the cultural Declaration of Independence,” observes Jeremy Schraffenberger, editor of the journal. The NAR has published an astonishing array of famous writers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Emile Zola, Henry James, Bram Stoker, William Butler Yeats—plus 12 American presidents! Since 1968, the review has been published at the University of Northern Iowa. Last year, to celebrate their bicentennial, the magazine produced The Great Sympathetic: Walt Whitman and the North American Review, a collection of writings by and about Whitman, all originally from its pages. Manifold Nature collects the 19 essays Burroughs wrote for the magazine, along with reviews and letters to the editor about him. “The book’s called Manifold Nature because we wanted to show the manifold nature of Burroughs himself. He’s more than just a nature writer; he’s also a deep thinker,” Schraffenberger explained. “John Burroughs and the North American Review,” a panel discussion, will take place at Vassar College on September 29 at 6:30pm, moderated by Schraffenberger. Jeremy Schraffenberger will speak at Slabsides in West Park October 1, noon, at the book launch of Manifold Nature. Johnburroughsassociation.org. —Sparrow 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 99
HISTORY THE HISTORY OF THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY
North River Blue Stone Works of John Maxwell and the Bigelow Blue Stone at Malden, Ulster Co. N.Y, from the County Atlas of Ulster, New York, Recent and Actual Surveys and Records under the superintendence of F. W. Beers. Published by Walker & Jewett, 36 Vesey Street, New York,1875.
Landscape is Destiny: A Talk with Historian Vernon Benjamin “Labor of love” is a term far more bandied about that it probably deserves, but in the case of Vernon Benjamin’s prodigious, two-volume history of the Hudson Valley, it’s entirely accurate: the author’s love for this place is as abundant as the book’s page count. The second volume, The History of the Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times (Overlook Press, 2016) is a fittingly obsessive chronicle of the further populating of this remarkable place. Benjamin may well be the perfect person to write it: a Saugerties native son, he was a student of history and cultural studies who worked in state, local and county governments. (He also had a long association with Maurice D. Hinchey and served three terms as a county legislator.) He started out tincanning it as a freelancer and writing local journalism, and never lost his ability to pull a tale out of a fact or connect a story to a face. I talked to him one hazy summer afternoon at Inquiring Minds in Saugerties, where he’s a regular. People came up to greet him; the manager apologized to him for having sold out of his books. Benjamin knows everyone, and if he doesn’t know them, you get the impression he will soon. We covered the past, the present, the strange combination of respectability and eccentricity that marks this place, and what comes next. Vernon Benjamin will be speaking at a number of events during the month of September. For a full listing, visit Chronogram.com. —Jana Martin Together with the first volume (From Wilderness to the Civil War) there’s over a thousand pages of Hudson Valley history. It’s a tremendous undertaking. What prompted you to do it? Spider Barbour, the great Saugerties naturalist and a friend, recommended me to Peter Mayer, then CEO of Viking-Penguin. Mayer called to see if I would be interested in writing a history of the Hudson Valley. At one point he said to me, “You can do this, can’t you?” I blurted out, “I was born to do this!” and immediately felt embarrassed. What did I know what I was born for? No one had done anything like this before. There was a Hudson Valley history published out of Chicago in 1931, but in the old style. The editor, Nelson Greene, asked local communities to send him historical materials, and he put it together under a single editorial style. It was pretty good, but not a critical history. 100 FORECAST CHRONOGRAM 9/16
It’s certainly a lot to learn—and you cover everything. Warts was my mantra, even the need to tackle topics that were foreign to me — geology, for instance. But I lucked out. I found an obscure library in the Geological Survey in Albany and spent three months there going through about 180 books, pamphlets, maps, and other learned exegeses. It reminds me of Alf Evers’ Woodstock and Catskills books: a similar dedication to bringing the history of this place to life via the people in it, no matter the time or pages it takes. Alf and I were friends, and we have similar backgrounds. Like him, my first job was investigating people and writing biographies of them for insurance and stock market companies. And Alf knew what I was doing—we talked about it. When I think about how he wrote those books, I’m amazed that he did those without a computer. How on earth did he keep track of all that information? When I was writing this, the first chapter I sent to Peter originally had 270 footnotes in it. What is it about this place that made you want to take, oh, about 20 years to write about it? I think it’s summed up in the phrase Congress used when they designated the Hudson Valley National Heritage Area in 1996: “The landscape that defined America.” The Valley played an incredible role not just in the American Revolution, but as the proving ground for American democracy and the fountainhead of American romanticism. So much happened here. In the Gilded Age, the captains of industry—the “malefactors of great wealth” as Teddy Roosevelt called them—came home to the Hudson Valley after their labors in the city. And the rise of the NAACP happened here in Amenia, in 1916, a coming together of black national interests and goals that ultimately led to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Amenia as in Amenia, Dutchess County? Exactly. And the growth of art and culture here mirrored and to a large extent abetted New York’s rise as the cultural capital of the world. Some very notable aspects of modern
times—the Sixties, the rise of Feminism, the Great Migration, the development of nuclear power (commercially and in the military), Storm King and the rise of environmentalism—all of that happened here. I had no idea The Feminine Mystique was written in a house on the Hudson in Rockland County, or that Betty Friedan was so involved in the local school system. Lots of surprises in this book, like Margaret Sanger talking about birth control in terms of eugenics in 1917— Right—she’s not as squeaky clean as we all think. What about other milestones? As your book makes clear, the region is filled with them. I think for all of American history the biggest one was the death of Lincoln. Here in the Hudson Valley, a milestone in aviation history came on May 29, 1920, when Glenn Curtiss flew an airplane from Albany to New York, demonstrating the viability of long-distance air travel. I personally think Aaron Copland’s composition of the Piano Variations in a rented house in Bedford was another milestone. And December 19, 1980 is a big one: the day the Hudson River Peace Treaty was signed, ending Consolidated Edison’s 17year effort to build a bulked storage generating plant on Storm King Mountain in the Hudson Highlands. That was the beginning of the American environmental movement. You give a harrowing description of the 1912 fire that almost obliterated the Capitol building in Albany, including the irony that it was the soaked paper mache ceiling— the “scandal ceiling” that should have been oak but was a cheat—that saved the building from being completely destroyed. The wags on Park Row—the cynical journalists in the state capitol itself—joked that it was saved by corruption. It’s not a quiet place, our Hudson Valley. Definitely not just cows, trees and country houses. More like: boardrooms, infrastructure, road-building. It was certainly a milestone when Governor Thomas E. Dewey broke ground on the first section of the New York State Thruway in 1946. That changed everything. But what’s also interesting is how the highways follow the primal geography of this place—they’re
essentially the same paths taken for centuries by the Native Americans, the settlers, animals. We are a people ultimately defined by our geography. Yes—you’ve talked about landscape as destiny, geography as destiny. You also write about the contradictory nature of the Hudson Valley, of its people. Consider that Benedict Arnold, the hero of Saratoga, was also the betrayer of West Point. We honor and admire Sojourner Truth as one of our own, yet she was a slave when she lived here. It took 150 years for the medieval manorial land tenure system to die out in the Hudson Valley, but only one crazy weekend in August to bring on the apotheosis of Abby Hoffman’s Woodstock Nation. Poultney Bigelow, a touchstone figure for this book, was a walking contradiction. He was the son of the co-editor of the New York Evening Post and minister to France under Lincoln and Johnson. He was a respected international journalist and a friend of Jane Whitehead of Byrdcliffe fame. But he was also a nasty racist and a louse who tossed his wife into a wheelbarrow and buried her in the front yard when she died. So what does the future hold? More contradictions, perhaps. You noted that a thousand shopping centers were built in the Hudson Valley between 1950 and 1970. Recently the owner of one of the newer ones, the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, defaulted on a $49 million debt. Is that due to over-population, over-development? I don’t know; certainly it’s the result of bad business planning. But isn’t it something? The malls arriveth and the malls taketh away. That’s history for you. I remember that some locals thought it was crazy that the Hudson Valley Mall developers exposed that ridge with the fabulous Catskills views, only to move the whole complex so far away from the edge that no one could enjoy them. Maybe it was the view that killed it. And what about climate change? Are we in danger of being washed away? Or frozen over, in another Ice Age. That’s a point where history stops, isn’t it? The DEC predicts that in the next 80 years, the Hudson River is going to rise between 9 and 12 feet. So we’re going to spend the next half a century building walls that get overrun anyway. It’s a waste. But we’re persistent creatures. No matter what, we keep coming back to the anthill. That’s another glorious contradiction, about the species, not just the Valley. 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 101
Woodstock Concerts on the Green 2016 1-5pm. Many different artists performing in this outdoor concert series. Village Green, Woodstock. Woodstockchamber.com.
Zac Brown Band 7pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Drawing and Painting from the figure
9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Great for beginning students looking to develop a portfolio as well as seasoned artists ready to challenge themselves with the human form. Each four week session builds upon the last but can also be taken on their own. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
First Saturday Reception First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Guided History Tours 11am-12:30pm. West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring. Scenichudson.org/ parks/westpointfoundrypreserve.
SPIRITUALITY Meditation Intensive 9am-4pm. $125. Meditation Intensive with Gurudev Nityananda, successor of the renowned meditation master Baba Muktananda, provides a unique opportunity to receive guidance, inspiration, and encouragement for one’s own spiritual practice by spending the day in his presence. Each Intensive focuses on a particular topic. All are welcome. Includes a wholesome, homemade, vegetarian lunch. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s 8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Anna Christie 3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
Cocoon Theater Presents: No Theme Festival 8pm. $20. Three days of original theatre, dance, music, and art. Artists from New York City, Philadelphia, the Hudson Valley, and even as far away as Barcelona. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.
An Intimate Evening with Death, Herself 9:15pm. $15. A 90-minute one-woman show. Douglass Truth is Dorothy, a meatloaf-phobic waitress. She goes to a bar after a bad day on the cafeteria line and meets Tod, who turns out to be the Grim Reaper. In the course of an understated, unpretentious, poignant and tender, droll and massively ambitious performance, Dorothy helps her audience relate to death without flinching, and with abundant amusement. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Severely Fractured Fairy Tales 5-7pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater Company will perform a delightfully fun-filled fantasy adventure. Severely Fractured Fairy Tales, a new collaborative work for stage by Jerry James and David Aston-Reese, is based on stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and John Ruskin. Outdoor Elizabethan Theater, Woodstock. 247-4007. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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SUNDAY 4 DANCE Just Dance
First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Columbia County Fair
Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. Columbiafair.com.
High Falls Flea Market
Hudson Valley Bluegrass Express 4pm. Brian’s Backyard Barbecue, Middletown. 692-3227.
Jon Cleary
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Just Dance!
First Sunday of every month, 2:30-4:30pm. $10. Each month we have a DJ providing the beats and vibrations to set us on a journey of self expression. This is not guided in any way. It is an open dance party for all ages. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
PARTIES Labor Day Party at The Lodge
3pm. $35/$30. Music Mountain, Falls Village, CT. (860) 824-7126.
Snehasish Mozumder and the Sound of Mandolin 8pm. Hindustani Indian classical music. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
LITERARY & BOOKS 11th Annual Festival of Books
The festival features a giant used book sale, two days of discussions with and readings by esteemed authors, and a children’s program. Featured authors this year include Christopher Breiseth, Elizabeth Brundage, Michelle Hoover, Courtney Maum, David Pietrusza, Ruth Reichl, Russell Shorto, Will Swift, Mark Wunderlich, and Steve Yarbrough. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
Nancy and Ned Engel
4pm. Presenting Einstein Meadows: The Unspoken Perils & Thrills of Living in a Retirement Community. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis
11am-2pm. Blues. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Blink 182
7pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
Buried Treasure
9pm. $12/$10 in advance. Featuring Bari Koral, Lee Falco, Will Bryant, Brandon Morrison, Danny Blume & special guests. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
A COncert for the Friends of Maverick: Pedja Muzijevic, Piano
4-6pm. $50. Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 52 in D major; George Crumb: Pastorale, from Makrokosmos (1972); Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959. A 60-minute program with no intermission. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Navy Band Northeast Ceremonial Band & Rhode Island Sound Rock Band
The Shanghai String Quartet
7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Hudson Valley Grape Jam Festival
First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented class for children ages 5+. Come and explore concepts like kindness, compassion, gratitude and generosity through readings, creative activities, community building, movement, and meditation. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
2pm. Labor Day concert event. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
Songwriter Tom Pacheco
LECTURES & TALKS Dharma Sunday School
MUSIC Geoff Vidal/Derrick James Quartet
OC/DC: Music of Ornette Coleman
9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471. A music festival to benefit the Westchester Medical Center/Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, Members of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network. Vendors of all kinds will be on the grounds both Saturday and Sunday, as well as entertainment for kids such as a bouncy slide and wagon rides thru the vineyard. There will be café style food, wine, NYS craft beer, wine slushies, hard cider, sangria, pink lemonade and snacks both inside and outside the winery tasting room in the 200 year old barn. Palaia Vineyards, Highland Mills. Hvgrapejam.com.
Christopher Breiseth, Elizabeth Brundage, Michelle Hoover, Courtney Maum, David Pietrusza, Ruth Reichl, Russell Shorto, Will Swift, Mark Wunderlich, and Steve Yarbrough. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693.
7:30pm. $18/$15 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-945.
2-4pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Anna Christie
3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
Cocoon Theater Presents: No Theme Festival
3pm. $20. Three days of original theatre, dance, music, and art. Artists from New York City, Philadelphia, the Hudson Valley, and even as far away as Barcelona. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.
Severely Fractured Fairy Tales
5-7pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater Company will perform a delightfully fun-filled fantasy adventure. Severely Fractured Fairy Tales, a new collaborative work for stage by Jerry James and David Aston-Reese, is based on stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and John Ruskin. Outdoor Elizabethan Theater, Woodstock. 247-4007.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Intro to Drawing Class
1-3pm. $25. Covering cartooning, human figure, portraits landscapes. ALL ages, ALL levels, materials provided. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. 633-1625.
MONDAY 5 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Columbia County Fair
Columbia County Fairgrounds, Chatham. Columbiafair.com.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Movement & Strength
First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
Yin Aroma Yoga
8-10am. $20-$30. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
Jivamukti Yoga Immersion with Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Jules Febre 9/5-9/9. Go deeper into your study of Jivamukti Yoga. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
LITERARY & BOOKS 11th Annual Festival of Books
The festival features a giant used book sale, two days of discussions with and readings by esteemed authors, and a children’s program. Featured authors this year include
5pm. Music by Frenzi. The Lodge, Woodstock. Gothamcitywork.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Figure in Monotype
9am-4pm. $315. Through Sept. 7. Richard Segalman will teach the fundamentals of monotype printmaking with students working from self-provided reference material. A studio technician will be present. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Inside the Ceramics Studio with Rachel Dubicki
7-9pm. $245/$220 for WSW members. 6-week class. All skill levels are welcome in this introductory course Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. (854) 658-9133.
TUESDAY 6 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Path to Entrepreneurship Program
Please join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a FREE program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. Free but pre-registation is required. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 363-6432.
FILM 6-Week Filmmaking Workshop for Teens
3:30-5:30pm. Teens: Earn money and build a portfolio through Spark Media Project! FRAME (Film, Radio, Art, Media, Entrepreneurship) is a paid, after-school job-training workshop for ages 14-19 that meets on Tues, Wed, and Thurs. Create high-quality videos for client-partner organization The Cary Institute, and earn a $100 stipend upon program completion. Howland Public Library, Beacon. 485-4480.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Essential Wellness: Healthy Living through Nature with Adam Bernstein
First Tuesday of every month, 7-8:30pm. Learn how to take charge of your health and well-being naturally by using essential oils as the foundation of a complete wellness program. Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg., Kingston. 687-3693.
Reiki Share
First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. For Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
LITERARY & BOOKS Bronte Mania: A Book Discussion Series with Mark Scarbrough
7pm. Please join us for the first in a 5-part book discussion series featuring Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041.
Open Mike
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
COMEDY WOODSTOCK COMEDY FESTIVAL
Show Me the Funny Does comedian Gilbert Gottfried have a Justin Bieber chest tattoo? Or did he take the stage after Jimi Hendrix at the 1969 Woodstock music festival? Although these questions may be dubious, it is true that Gottfried will headline this year’s Woodstock Comedy Festival on Saturday, September 24 at the Bearsville Theater. The show starts at 8pm. Eddie Brill, who was the audience warm-up comedian and stand-up comedy talent coordinator on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” will open for Gottfried. The festival, which runs from September 23-25, includes stand-up and sketch comedy, panels, improv, and films. Susie Essman, who played Susie Greene in the HBO comedy series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” will host a night dubbed “Laughingstock!” on Friday, September 23 at 8pm, which will feature four female comedians: Liz Miele, Jaye McBride, Kendra Cunningham, and Karen Bergreen. In its fourth year, the Woodstock Comedy Festival helps survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking by donating its net profits to two charities, Family of Woodstock and Polaris. Gottfried spoke to Chronogram about the Hudson Valley, being a 21st-century comedian, political correctness, headlining the festival, and why he hopes “the check clears.” Woodstockcomedyfestival.org. —Mark Gerlach Do you have memories of the Hudson Valley, or Woodstock in particular? No. Except for when I performed after Jimi Hendrix. I didn’t attend Woodstock [the concert]. I could not imagine why anyone would have gone there. Three days of mud, and no toilets, and no food. I can’t imagine anyone, for the life of me, wanting to do that to themselves. This is your area debut, is that right? I guess so. I think I would have remembered if it was Woodstock. But I’m also one of those people who, I could have played there last night and forgotten about it. There are clubs that I swear I’ve never been to, then I go there and I see that I’ve signed their wall. So, I never know. Any thoughts about your Hudson Valley debut, or potential debut? I hope the check clears. What was the initial spark that led you into comedy? I was a kid and I started watching loads of TV. And I started imitating people I’d seen on TV. I just started getting interested in it. And then someone told my sister about some club where you could go and sign your name down and just go on and perform, and I did that at 15. I went (on) my pilgrimage from Brooklyn to this club in Manhattan and went on. I don’t remember if I did well, or if I was too stupid to know I did badly. That’s how it really started. Do you remember what you felt at that time? Were you nervous? It was a weird thing because once again the stupidity goes into play. I feel like what got me to feel like I could make it in show business, and what got me to continue, was just being that dumb; not knowing the odds, not knowing the reality of the situation. As you get older you get more common sense. Nowadays I think: “No. That’s insane to think you could just go into show business and make it.” You have a successful podcast [“Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast”] and have read 50 Shades of Grey for CollegeHumor.com. What role does technology play for comedians, up and coming? I seriously feel like the second I had a vague understanding of how show business worked, it all changed. And then it continued changing. I vaguely figured it out. There were movies and there was TV. But now it’s like I have no idea. If you ask me who a star is I’ll go like Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. And that, I think, is kind of old-fashioned because now a star is some guy on the Internet who squeezes his blackheads. And if you book him somewhere he could fill an arena. So I’m really backward on it. What role does political correctness have in comedy? Oh God. Well, I’ve certainly experienced it. It’s very peculiar because I think the Internet makes me feel sentimental about old-time lynch mobs. I feel like old-time lynch mobs actually had to put their boots on, go outside, get their hands dirty, and deal with other people. And nowadays you sit in your underwear on the couch and type together a lynch mob. It’s become the new, Space Age way of ringing someone’s doorbell and running away.
Gilbert Gottfried
People love getting offended and love getting outraged. And it’s a way of feeling better about themselves. Like if some horrible tragedy happens you can actually fly to where it happened and help out, or donate money, or you can get offended by what someone said about it and then you feel like “Oh, I’ll pat myself on the back and I’m a good person now.” Do you think comedy is a safe zone that should be exempt from PC guardians? Absolutely. I remember when Michael Richards [of “Seinfeld”] got in trouble. And the owner of the club announced that anyone who uses the N-word on stage will be fined. I thought, wouldn’t it make more sense to advertise that we don’t censor anything that goes up on stage? And it might offend you. It might get you angry. I think that would entice people more to go to a club. To me, it’s like when you try to clean up stuff like that and make it acceptable it’d be like advertising: “On our roller coaster, as opposed to other roller coasters, you don’t feel like you could die or get hurt. Our roller coaster goes very slowly and it never makes any sharp turns.” I think people want that. People want to go to an amusement park and feel like their life is in danger. Is there anything about you most people don’t know? Do you like heavy metal or have tattoos? I have a giant full-size tattoo of Justin Bieber on my chest. At the time it seemed like a good idea. Why should people come to the Woodstock Comedy Festival and see your show? I think they should come because I’ve got some bills to pay. And I’m not concerned whether they like it or not, just as long as they pay. 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 103
MUSIC Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis Blues and Dance Party
First Tuesday of every month, 7-10pm. Big Joe brings together some of the most highly regarded musicians on the northeast music scene. Their sound features a sophisticated blend of jazz and blues. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
The Chapel Restoration Music Series
First Tuesday of every month, 4-5:30pm. Classical music series with world-renowned musicians. Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. Chapelrestoration.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES FRAME After-School Workshop
Film, Radio, Art, Media, Entrepreneurship workshop for ages 14-19. Runs through Oct. 13. Howland Public Library, Beacon.
WEDNESDAY 7 MUSIC Americano: A Tribute to the Brian Setzer Orchestra 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Dan Bern
7pm. Roots rock. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Tuba Skinny
7pm. Old blues and jazz. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Wednesday Morning Concert: Flamenco in the Courtyard
11am-1pm. $22.50/$52.50 concert, tour & lunch. Experience the characteristic dance and song of Spain, bursting with passion, color, and rhythm. This series includes a concert in the Spanish Courtyard followed by a tour of the Mediterranean-style Rosen House, a buffet lunch inspired by Spanish cuisine, and a self-guided garden stroll. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
THURSDAY 8 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting
Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response
7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
FILM The Prison in Twelve Landscapes 8pm. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Movement & Strength
First Monday, Thursday of every month, 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
LECTURES & TALKS Dr. Thomas Mounkhall
6-7:30pm. A two-part multimedia presentation on the Hudson River during two significant time periods. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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MUSIC The English Beat
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Cheap Trick
6:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
Jay Stollman Band with Matt Schofield
7pm. Blues rock. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Oldtone Roots Music Festival
4-10:30pm. $10-$100. Featuring traditional mountain fiddling, bluegrass, hot swing, classic country, brass, cajun and contra music. A family-friendly full camping festival. Cool Whisper Farm, North Hillsdale. (646) 269-9216.
The Robert Cray Band
8-10pm. $50/$60. Open ears and an open mind are the essence of singer, guitarist, and songwriter Robert Cray’s approach to writing. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
Sunset and Music Cruise
4:30-7:30pm. $65. The Friends of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District announces a “Sunset and Music Cruise”, along the Hudson River on board the 125 passenger yacht Marika, operated by Hudson Cruises, Inc. This outing includes a hot and cold buffet, coffee and iced tea, and a cash bar is available. The cruise also features the music of local professionals Hurricane Annie and Eric Garrison, playing rhythm and blues, classic rock, soul and folk. Shadows Marina, Poughkeepsie. 485-3445.
LECTURES & TALKS It’s the Little Things: Creating Big Moments In Your Home Through the Stylish Small Stuff
Changing Climate Change: Theater for a Healthy Planet 7pm. Hudson River Playback Theatre. Rail Trail Cafe, New Paltz.
6:30pm. Susanna Salk, author & designer. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
A Concert Reading of The Curse of Batvia
LITERARY & BOOKS Pauline Uchmanowicz: New Poetry Collection, Starfish
8-10pm. A concert reading of The Curse of Batvia, a seriously silly musical comedy about a missing dog, a book of spells from a far-off, vaguely Eastern European country, and an ancient lycanthropic curse. Book and lyrics by Katherine Burger, music by Roland Tec. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Acoustic Music with Barbara Dempsey and Co.
6:30-7:30pm. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
The Acquaintances
Second Friday of every month, 8-11pm. The Acquaintances consisting of Jeff Entin on guitar, Bob Blum on bass, and Larry Balestra on drums. The trio play mostly original music and also do a fair share of covers including everything from jazz standards to rockabilly, music from The Band, The Grateful Dead, The Beatles, and much more. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play 8pm. $15/$12 members. Vintage Hitchcock, a live radio play in the style of a 1940’s radio broadcast. Spies, murder, love and other trademarks of Alfred Hitchcock come alive in this triple feature show, complete with vintage commercials and live sound effects. The show includes: The Lodger, Sabotage, and The 39 Steps. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
SATURDAY 10
The Alonzo Wright Project
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS 2nd Annual Fish Fry and Group Motorcycle Ride
Dave and Phil Alvin and the Guilty Ones
8-10:30pm. $10. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737-1701.
8pm. Blues. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
James Hearne
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Bingo
8pm. Alternative country. Chatham Brewing, Chatham. 5186970202.
12-6pm. $20 ride and dinner/$15 dinner only. Rider registration starts at 10 AM. KSU at 12 PM. The Hudson Valley Buffalo Soldiers M.C. has partnered with BMW of the Hudson Valley and Kingston HarleyDavidson, sponsors of our 2nd Annual Community Event and Fish Fry. Join us for a group ride thru the hills of Dutchess County. Don’t have a motorcycle? Join us for the Fish Fry, great food and drinks starting at 12 PM. VFW, Poughkeepsie. Facebook. com/events/1070119736434534/.
Justin Townes Earle
Fall Flower Show
The Robert Cray Band
Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
Fall for Art
5-9pm. Juried art show, sale & cocktail fundraiser for the Jewish Federation of Ulster County. The Chateau, Kingston. 338-8131.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Globe on Screen: Richard II
1-3:30pm. $21/$18 contributing members. Captured Live from Stratford’s Globe Theater. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Art Uncorked
6:30-8:30pm. $35. A paint and sip evening instructed by William Noonan. Canvases are pre-sketched with cat and flowers and ready for you to paint. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
FRIDAY 9 DANCE Dance of Universal Peace
7-8:45pm. $5-$10. Participatory simple circle dances and songs drawn from diverse sacred tradition. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Baby Magic Knitting, Crocheting & Meditation Circle
Second Friday of every month, 7-9pm. This circle is for conscious, spiritual women who want to conceive or who are pregnant, as well as their supportive sisters, girlfriends and mothers. Open to knitters and crocheters at all levels, even beginners. White Barn Farm, New Paltz. 259-1355.
9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Distillery Live: Music by Maggie 5-7pm. Hudson Valley Distillers at Spirits Grove Farm, Clermont. Hudsonvalleydistillers.com/.
9pm. Signature country-inflected brand of folk-rock. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Keith Newman
5pm. Acoustic. The Golden Rail Ale House, Newburgh. 565-2337.
Martin Sexton
8-10pm. $40/$50. Martin Sexton’s new album Mix Tape of the Open Road is a musical cross-country trip, blazing through all territories of style, as you cruise through time and place. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
The Mehmet Polat Trio
7:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. World music, blending oriental and West African sounds. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Oldtone Roots Music Festival
4-10:30pm. $10-$100. Featuring traditional mountain fiddling, bluegrass, hot swing, classic country, brass, cajun and contra music. A family-friendly full camping festival. Cool Whisper Farm, North Hillsdale. (646) 269-9216.
Petey Hop & Friends at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Slam Allen’s Birthday Party 8pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Feast your eyes on a myriad of fall flower displays by regional florists created for each room at Lyndhurst. Co-sponsored by Garden Club of Irvington. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 914-631-4481.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday of every month. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon.
FILM Breaking Down the Box 6-9pm. Breaking Down the Box examines the mental health, racial justice and human rights implications of the systemic use of solitary confinement as torture in U.S. prisons. Old Chatham Quaker Meeting, Old Chatham. (518) 766-2992.
James Baldwin’s America: A Reading & Discussion Series 5-7pm. A public screening and discussion of American Playhouse’s Go Tell It on the Mountain. Go Tell it on the Mountain was James Baldwin’s first and semiautobiographical novel. Set in Harlem in the 1930’s it tells the moving story of a 14 yearold boy’s struggle to find his identity despite his tyrannical step-father, a Pentacostal preacher. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101.
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
FOOD & WINE 6th Annual Chef’s Farm Dinner
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
3 & 4:15pm. $135/$125 members. Join Chef Noah Sheetz and the Hudson Valley Chefs Consortium for the Farm Fresh Dinner on Bannerman Island. Enjoy a fivecourse gourmet meal prepared by five noted Hudson Valley chefs. Dine in Helen Bannerman’s Garden. Bannerman Island, Glenham. Bannermancastle.org.
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Anna Christie
6pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
MUSIC BASILICA SOUNDSCAPE
Explosions in the Sky headlines Basilica Soundscape September 16-18.
The Anti-Coachella “I grew up in the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey,” says Brandon Stosuy, one of the creators of this month’s Basilica Soundscape festival in Hudson. “I lived in a town of 800 people, and there wasn’t really any culture nearby. But in the Upstate area, you have this best of both worlds: the space and the outdoors and the beauty, and where Basilica takes place is right next to the Hudson River. So you’ll have the charm of Swans playing a set and then all of a sudden you can hear a train in the distance, or people leaving the event to take a dip in the lake nearby. Being from a rural area is a really big part of who I am, and being up in Hudson taps that part of my brain where you’re involved in a tight knit community where everybody knows each other and plays a part instead of a ‘scene’ in a really cynical way, where it’s a bunch of outsiders just coming in and setting up shop.” To hear Stosuy—the former editorial director at Pitchfork who recently launched the new Kickstarter-affiliated online publication The Creative Independent—explain Basilica Soundscape, you’d think he was describing a utopian congregation at the height of Ulster County’s hippie era. But the weekend-long event actually serves as a showcase for some of the best artists in experimental metal and noise. And given that Tony Stone, an independent filmmaker and Bard graduate who co-founded Basilica Hudson’s present incarnation as a “non-profit multidisciplinary arts center” alongside former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Mar, is an avowed fan of all things heavy, the decision to greenlight Soundscape was indeed an easy one. It also helped that Stosuy had a rather prolific mutual friend between them in renowned modern artist Matthew Barney to endorse the concept of the festival. “Matthew and I would do these off-the-grid shows mixing music and art and just weird stuff in various galleries and private spaces,” Stosuy explains. “He was talking to Melissa and Tony about starting some kind of Upstate festival, and Tony is really into metal. He was at one of our events when [Milwaukee gloom metalists] Wolves was playing, and he talked to Matthew shortly after that event and got the ball rolling. Basilica basically
models itself after the thing that Matthew and I are always doing, but open to the public as opposed to our regular shows, which are invite-only.” And this fifth year of Basilica boasts perhaps the fest’s most impressive lineup ever. Among the featured names performing the weekend of September 16th include Austin instru-metalists Explosions In The Sky, ambient metal titans Wolves in the Throne Room, indie folk chanteuse Angel Olsen, harpist Mary Lattimore, former Mars Volta drummer Deantoni Parks, EBM revivalists Youth Code; with spoken word performances from the likes of Throbbing Gristle/Psychic T.V.’s Genesis P-Orridge and actress Amber Tamblyn as well as visual artists Cal Lane, Lisa Laratta and Heather Benjamin among others. For Stosuy, the gradual increase in interest amongst the acts looking for a spot on the bill is a testament to the organic and communal nature of the festival. “The thing that’s worked for us is that each year more bands hear about it through word of mouth,” he reveals. “That’s enabled us to get acts that maybe in the past we couldn’t get. It’s not a sponsored, Coachella kind of thing where you’ll get six figures to play; our budget is not huge, so it’s more about getting people who really want to be there. When Swans played, [front man Michael] Gira saw it as the opportunity to play a show locally, because he lives nearby. And those guys actually picked up some additional gear that we needed that year from SIR Studios in New York and played for us at a reduced rate because we couldn’t handle what they normally charge. This year, Explosions in the Sky really wanted to do it, and this year it just worked. Once the artist is into it and wants to do it, it’s not so much about the agent who might handle booking them, but more about the actual talent having the desire to play Soundscape because of what it is as opposed to turning a profit.” Basilica SoundScape takes place September 16-18 at Basilica Hudson. A weekend pass is $75; other packages are available. Basilicahudson.org. —Ron Hart 9/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 105
Stalking Wild Mushrooms in the Berkshires
10am-noon. $20/$15 members. This diverse group of plants is most apparent in the wild during the fall months. The most common poisonous and edible mushrooms will be identified. A variety of live fungi will be on display, supplemented with slides of other commonly found mushrooms. Participants will explore a nearby woodland and hunt for mushrooms. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
KIDS & FAMILY Clearwater’s Family Day
2-7pm. Join Clearwater for a beautiful day by the river. There will be live music, stories, art projects, seining and a scavenger hunt. Bring a beach chair and a picnic. Musical acts will include, Rick Soedler, Funkinships, and Payne’s Grey Sky. Esopus Meadows Preserve, Esopus. 265-8080 ext. 7106.
Don Henley
8pm. $71-$141. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
Happy Traum and Friends
8-10pm. $25-$45. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Lines of Reason
8-10:30pm. $10. With Michael Cochrane (piano), Marcus McLaurine (bass), Joe Ford (sax), Alan Nelson (drums). Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737-1701.
Oldtone Roots Music Festival
10am-10:30pm. $10-$100. Featuring traditional mountain fiddling, bluegrass, hot swing, classic country, brass, cajun and contra music. A family-friendly full camping festival. Cool Whisper Farm, North Hillsdale. (646) 269-9216.
Community Paint In
SPIRITUALITY An Evening of TranceFormative Healing with Eda Zavala and Evry Mann
$25/$60 series. Join us at MaMA for this very special collaboration that blends ancient shamanic healing work with contemporary creative approaches. Using sound and energy medicine, Eda and Ev will guide you on a healing journey that promises to stir your soul. Marbletown MultiArts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Anna Christie
3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
11am-2pm. This is a hands-on, collaborative, community art event open to all ages. Donations appreciated, supplies provided, food and refreshments available for purchase. Raffles and prizes. Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh. 784-1146.
Family Hootenany
Second Saturday of every month, 10-11am. $5. Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
LITERARY & BOOKS Susan Conrad: Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage 6pm. Norrie Point, Staatsburg. 889-4646.
MUSIC 2016 Leaf Peeper Concert: Autumn Echoes
7:30-10:30pm. $25/$35 premium/students free/Season tickets $80/$120. Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenfeld and a world premiere by Tania Ko. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent. (413) 644-0007.
FreshGrass at MassMoCA Bluegrass music traces its roots to Appalachia. Its melodic sounds, simple chords and delicate acoustic string instruments make the genre an old-timey favorite. East Coast fans of the nostalgic music can rejoice this month: FreshGrass returns to MASS MoCA for its sixth year. “It’s three days of bluegrass across a 16-acre, 19th-century factory campus. Lots of places for people to bring instruments and sit and pick and play, in addition to three main stages, in addition to pop-up concerts in the MASS MoCA galleries which festival goers have access to all weekend long,” says MASS MoCA Director of Communications Jodi Joseph. “It’s a really great party.” This year’s lineup features well-known bands like Old Crow Medicine Show, Glen Hansard, Lau, and The Devil Makes Three. Emerging duos, bands, banjo, and fiddle players will compete for the chance to win $30,000 in headto-head performances. FreshGrass takes place from September 16 to 18 at MASS MoCA. Festival passes, single day, and VIP tickets are available for purchase. Freshgrass.com
Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse
7:30pm. $6/$5 Folk Guild members. Featuring music by Heartwood. Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, New Windsor. Uucrt.org.
Roomful of Blues
Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
David Kraai & Amy Laber
OUTDOORS & RECREATION 25th Anniversary of the General Montgomery Day 8k
7pm. Blues. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. 6pm. A live performance followed by a listening party to celebrate the release of Amy’s new album Mountainside Wildflower! Country harmonies, sweet banjo, tasty mandolin, twangy guitars, beautiful autoharp and soulful harmonica. Darkside Records, Poughkeepsie. 452-8010. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Fall Flower Show
Feast your eyes on a myriad of fall flower displays by regional florists created for each room at Lyndhurst. Co-sponsored by Garden Club of Irvington. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 914-631-4481.
Walk Over the Hudson for Kidneys!
12-2pm. 0. Enjoy family fun, entertainment, refreshments and more, all while making a difference for those affected by kidney disease and organ donation! Fundraising is encouraged for everyone! Earn great prizes! Check in time : 12:00 Noon, Walk starts at 1 PM. Register online at healthykidneys. donordrive.com Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 518-533-7880.
FILM Swedish Royal Ballet in Juliet and Romeo
LECTURES & TALKS Bringing Plants in for the Winter
5-7:30pm. $50. Contrary to the popular belief that slavery was practiced exclusively in the South, Northern states were also dependent on enslaved African labor in the 17th and 18th centuries. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
SUNDAY 11
9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
6:30pm. Children 6 and up are invited to travel the globe without ever leaving Peekskill! Kids can sample food from other cultures, and discover crafts, games, music and costumes from around the world. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project
12-4pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free at this communitysponsored “experiment in repair culture.” Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood. An expert level of repair and great place to meet your neighbors. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 464-2245.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS High Falls Flea Market
Tour Around the World
2-4:30pm. $30/$25 members. Tricks of the trade for gardeners to protect their tender perennials, house plants, woody potted specimens and succulent collections and encourage these plants to thrive during the winter season. Bring hand pruners. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
Repair Cafe-Rhinebeck
7am. $25/$15 under 15. Proceeds will support Hudson Valley Cancer Resource Center. Runners and walkers will race 4.97 miles through a moderately challenging course starting and ending at the Montgomery Senior Center. Senior Center, Montgomery. Hudsonvalleycancer.org.
PETS Blessing of the Animals
11am-3pm. Local pastors will bless pets. Pet friendly vendors are also invited to participate. Animals rescue groups and local animal clinics are alsoinvited to attend. A pet memorial service will take place at 12:30pm. Riverside Park, Coxsackie. (518) 478-5414.
Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play
2 & 8pm. $15/$12 members. Vintage Hitchcock, a live radio play in the style of a 1940’s radio broadcast. Spies, murder, love and other trademarks of Alfred Hitchcock come alive in this triple feature show, complete with vintage commercials and live sound effects. The show includes: The Lodger, Sabotage, and The 39 Steps. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Drawing and Painting from the figure
9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Great for beginning students looking to develop a portfolio as well as seasoned artists ready to challenge themselves with the human form. Each four week session builds upon the last but can also be taken on their own. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
R&F Encaustic Mini Workshop
12-4pm. $65. Topics covered include: what is encaustic; how to get started; health and safety; and the most popular techniques and applications. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
3pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. Master contemporary choreographer Mats Ek’s full-length work to Tchaikovsky’s music was captured at Stockholm’s Royal Opera House in HD and was only recently made available to audiences in the U.S. Starring Mariko Kida and Anthony Lomuljo as the lovers, the production features the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra conducted by Alexander Polianichko. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
FOOD & WINE Vanderbilt Garden Tea
2-4pm. $50/$45 members. A Garden Tea reminiscent of those held by Louise Vanderbilt during the Gilded Age. Vanderbilt Garden Association Inc., Hyde Park. 229-6432.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Love Your Neighbor Community Outreach Rally
12-6pm. Free. A fun filled day of love, hope and community! Downing Park, Newburgh. 561-2904.
LECTURES & TALKS Dr. Thomas Mounkhall
4-5:30pm. A two-part multimedia presentation as part of the free Local History Speaker Series. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101.
LITERARY & BOOKS Children’s Author Iza Trapani
4pm. Presenting her new picture book, Gabe and Goon, a spirited story of unexpected friendship. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC 16th Annual Big Band Concert & Sunset Picnic
$17/$27 concert and tour. Visitors are invited to bring blankets and chairs, a picnic and enjoy an old-style evening of swing music and dancing while the sun sets over the mighty Hudson River. Returning again this year will be swing dance demonstrations performed by instructors & students of the Fred Astaire Dance Studio. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
The Blues Farm
11am-2pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Bryan Adams
7:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. 518-584-9330.
Oldtone Roots Music Festival
9:30am-1pm. $10-$100. Featuring traditional mountain fiddling, bluegrass, hot swing, classic country, brass, cajun and contra music. A family-friendly full camping festival. Cool Whisper Farm, North Hillsdale. (646) 269-9216.
Jeremy Denk
3pm. Music from Bach to the Beatles with one of America’s foremost pianists. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900.
Pine Bush Community Band Concert 2-3:30pm. Family friendly symphonic band concert. Join the Pine Bush Community Band as they perform Sousa, show tunes, and band favorites. Bring a chair or sit at a picnic table in the Large Pavilion. Valerie Latimer, Pine Bush. Pinebushcommunityband.com.
MONDAY 12 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End The New Jim Crow Action Network
6-8pm. ENJAN is dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston. Enjan.org.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Reiki I
6:30-9pm. $90. In this workshop series, experience the holistic healing system of Reiki. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.
MUSIC George Muscatello Trio
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
MUSIC Music Faculty Showcase 8pm. $8/$6/$3. An introduction to the fine musicians in the music department performing music ranging from Baroque to Jazz styles. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
3pm. $8/$6/$3. Violinist Alex Shiozaki and pianist Nana Shi perform works written during WWI and WWII by Fauré, Satoh, Messiaen, Cowell and Copland. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Forest Ecology Hike
SPORTS HITS Saugerties $1 Million Grand Prix 2-4:30pm. $10. Watch Olympic-level equestrians athletes compete for $1 Million! Enjoy a day of family-friendly fun including a meet & greet Olympic Athletes and the Presentation of the Flags by West Point Cadets. HITS-on-the-Hudson, Saugerties. 246-8833.
THEATER 8 Track: The Sounds of the 70s
2-4pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Anna Christie
3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Certified Marina, Connelly. Annachristieplay.com.
LITERARY & BOOKS Poetry at Poets’ Walk
Poetry Brothel The Poetry Brothel of Kingston removes poetry from the world of academia and places it in the context of a turn-of-the-20th-century bordello. Each poet takes on a different character and is a decked out in lavish costumes. The characters present their poems from the stage. In true brothel fashion, audience members can request a one-on-one reading in a dark corner for $3. “It’s more of a variety show, although the focus is on words. No one is being trafficked, words are being trafficked,” says Brothel performer and Chronogram Poetry Editor Phillip Levine. In addition to the poetry performances, the event will feature belly dancers and live music. The Poetry Brothel will take place on Saturday, September 17 at 7:30pm at BSP Kingston. Poetry Brothel of Kingston proceeds support the rescue and educational efforts of The Blue Butterfly, which works with trafficked girls in Nepal. $10. (845) 481-5158.
Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal
7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 388-4630.
TUESDAY 13 FILM Beacon Film Society Presents: Weiner 7:30-10pm. $10. Sexts, lies, and Carlos Danger: watch the wildest political meltdown in recent history as it unfolds. It’s 2013 and Anthony Weiner— still reeling from the sex scandal that ended his political career two years earlier— is back in the spotlight as he mounts an audacious comeback campaign for NYC mayor. Q&A with co-director Josh Kriegman following the screening. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. 418-3731.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep
HEALTH & WELLNESS Living with Lymphedema Support Groups
Memoir as Bewilderment with Nick Flynn
LECTURES & TALKS Engaging Lectures with Everyday Experts Series
11am-3pm. $60. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.
9/11-9/16. Learn to access life’s deeper mysteries, and embody them in your memoir, with acclaimed poet, memoirist, and playwright Nick Flynn. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS 8th Annual SUNY New Paltz Volunteer Fair
Second Wednesday of every month, 4-5pm. Fre. Do you need to fulfill volunteer hours? Come to this monthly meeting to volunteer and advise the library on what teen programs, teen books, music and movies we should be looking at. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1003.
7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
10am-3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Oin us for a fun 2 mile walk, through our vineyards, to promote awareness of canine cancer and fundraise for cancer research to benefit both pets and people. We will have vendors, agility demonstrations, raffles, and a K9 demonstration by the Ulster County Sheriff’s department! Adair VIneyards, New Paltz. 255-1377.
6-8pm. ENJAN is dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. Enjan.org.
KIDS & FAMILY Teen Advisory Board Meeting
Sunday Evening Jazz: Dave Stryker’s Eight-Track
PETS PuppyUp New Paltz Dog Walk
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End The New Jim Crow Action Network
1-4pm. This event is an excellent match for local, national, and international organizations offering short- and longterm volunteer, service-learning, or postgraduate service opportunities. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/careers/ npvf.html.
Shiozaki Duo: Music of the Turbulent Times
10am. Join Cary Institute forest ecologist Charles Canham for a 2-mile guided hike along the Wappinger Creek Trail. Learn the history of Dutchess County’s forests, from fascinating facts and folklore to legacies of past land use practices and current threats. Registration is required. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
of EXPO in a big way. Now, in addition to being the biggest and best businessto-business trade show in the Hudson Valley, EXPO will include an extensive business-to-consumer component– making it truly a something-for-everyone experience. More than 220 booths will be available for Chamber members to display, demonstrate, show and sell their products and services. Crystal Run Galleria, Middletown. 457-9700.
7pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
7:15-9:45pm. Featuring Bansuri virtuoso Steve Gorn, yoga instructor Barbara Neiman, and acupuncturist and naturopathic doctor Tammi Price. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep
11am-3pm. $60. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.
Tea & Stones
Second Tuesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. You’ll learn about their healing qualities, some history and folklore and ways to incorporate them into our daily life. The evening always include a meditation while holding the stone to connect to it’s essence and to listen to it’s message for you personally. Please bring your tea mug, and a camp chair if you have one - seating is limited and if you bring a chair you are guaranteed a seat! Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Woodstock Writers Workshops
6:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 session. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, novel, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc.—and get it published. Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 14 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Orange County Chamber of Commerce Business EXPO 2016
10am-5pm. We’re celebrating 25 years
5:30-7:30pm. Celebrate the 20th anniversary of our flagship park in fitting fashion—by hiking its scenic trails while making occasional stops to read poetry inspired by the Hudson Valley’s natural splendor. We’ll have verses to share—or bring your own. Poets’ Walk Park, Red Hook. 473-4440.
MUSIC Andy Fairweather Low and The Low Riders 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Donovan’s Sunshine Superman 50th Anniversary Tour 7:30pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Rob Zombie with Special Guest DJ Ginger Fish 8pm. $39.75-$79.75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Canciones Españolas: Celebrating Enrique Granados
11am-1pm. $22.50/$52.50 concert, tour & lunch. Songs to honor and celebrate the 100th birthday of renowned composer Enrique Granados, performed with invigorating vocals and guitar. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
Reversing Runaway Inequality
5:30-9pm. The workshop involves small group discussions around key facts and historical examples that illustrate the depth and systems behind runaway inequality. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie. 229-7890.
R&F 3-Day Comprehensive
9am-5pm. $400. Through Sept. 16. The 3-Day Comprehensive workshop will allow participants an immersive and thorough exploration of R&F Encaustic and Pigment Sticks. This workshop is founded on the premise that artists will grow in their practice and experimentation with these materials by having a solid base in the fundamental principles and techniques. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
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THURSDAY 15 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Orange County Citizens Foundation 45th Annual Meeting & Cocktails
5pm. $75. The organization hosts this event each year for members and supporters of the Foundation, as well as local policymakers and advocates, to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year, and to learn more about the Foundation’s future plans to impact quality of life of those who live and work in Orange County. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
DANCE Towne Crier Dance Jam
7-10:15pm. $10. Soul, R&B, Latin (all rhythms), funk, Reggae, rock, disco and more are played by DJs Rhoda and Al in the performance room. New song selections are always added at each dance. The setting is informal and all are welcome: singles, couples, friends, newcomers. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 765-0667.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Hudson Valley Food Truck Festival
Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-10pm. Local food trucks from the Hudson valley makes their most delicious dishes. There is live music, a great selection of microbrew beers & children entertainment. Bring your family, friends & anyone who might like to eat & drink. Cantine memorial field, Saugerties. 399-2222.
FILM The Beatles: Eight Days A Week
7:15pm. $10/$8 members. Film based on the first part of The Beatles’ career. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Wild Earth and Phillies Bridge Farm and Wilderness Homeschool Program 10am-3:30pm. $480/Sibling discounts and payment plans available. A unique and deeply connective experience for 5-11 year olds. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
MUSIC Chris Walsh
7pm. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
Connor Kennedy & Minstrel
7pm. Roots rock. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
John Mayall
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
THEATER NT Live Encores: A View From the Bridge
7-10pm. $21/$18 members. By Arthur Miller. From the Young Vic Theatre in London’s West End. Starring: Mark Strong Directed by: Ivo van Hove. Don’t miss this encore of an incredible production led by Mark Strong. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
The Tavern
7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. It’s a dark and stormy night and a wayside inn shelters an unlikely assortment of oddball characters, including a mysterious vagabond who’s almost certainly not what he appears to be. Kaliyuga Arts presents George M. Cohan’s loving tribute to old-time melodramas, directed by Steven Patterson. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Library Knitters
Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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FRIDAY 16 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica SoundScape
A site-specific, weekend-long experimental music and art event that draws unconventional connections, parallels and collaborations between a diverse array of artists. Basilica SoundScape features live concert performances, conceptual sound, author readings, visual art and video installations, collaborations, a marketplace of local vendors and artisans, on-site activities and more, creating an immersive, innovative weekend of art, music and culture. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst
10am-5pm. $12 weekend pass/$11 seniors 62+/children 6 – 16 are $4 and children under 6 free. Showcases over 275 modern American makers, artists, designers and craftspeople Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.
FILM Beacon Independent Film Festival
Event will showcase feature films, documentaries, local food and drink and offer interactive activities for kids and more. University Settlement, Beacon. Beaconindiefilmfest.org.
LECTURES & TALKS A Talk with Thomas Sarrantonio
6pm. Discussion with abstract landscape painter Thomas Sarrantonio, Professor of Art at SUNY New Paltz. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
LITERARY & BOOKS Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Susan Conrad: Inside: One Woman’s Journey Through the Inside Passage 8pm. Rock & Snow, New Paltz. 255-1311.
MUSIC 3 Doors Down
8pm. $39.75-$79.75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
3rd Friday Reggae with Joe Ferry & The Big Ska Band 8-10:30pm. $10. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737-1701.
FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival 2016
$96/$84 early reg./$46 children/$300 FreshPass. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
John Mayall
8pm. $38. Blues and jazz. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Matthew Sweet
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
New Riders of the Purple Sage 8-10pm. $30/$35. Opening guests: Professor Louie & The Crowmatix. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.
Zepparella
9pm. All-female Led Zeppelin powerhouse quartet. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
THEATER God of Carnage
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Tavern
7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. It’s a dark and stormy night and a wayside inn shelters an unlikely assortment of oddball characters, including a mysterious vagabond who’s almost certainly not what he appears to be. Kaliyuga Arts presents George M. Cohan’s loving tribute to old-time melodramas, directed by Steven Patterson. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Craft: Making An Herbal Dream Pillow 6:30-8pm. Create an herbal dream pillow with fabric, simple sewing, lavendar and rose hips. Place your wish inside. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
Warm Water Yoga With Terry Roth Schaff 9/16-9/18. Experience the freedom to move with ease through Terry Roth Schaff’s Warm Water Yoga program. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
SATURDAY 17 DANCE End of Summer Shindig
5-7pm. $40. ADI/Lumberyard will house a 5,000 square foot flexible theater space and artist housing. When opened, ADI/ Lumberyard will host a summer/fall season that will bring renowned artists to Catskill for performances and world premieres. Join ADI and friends for hors d’oeuvres and drinks with performance excerpts by Jodi Melnick with Steven Reker and Dan Hurlin. American Dance Institute, Catskill. (855) 263-2623 $40.
Red Pepper Dance Night
7-11:30pm. $10. Soul, R&B, Latin (all rhythms), funk, Reggae, rock, disco and more are played by DJs Rhoda and Al in the performance room. New song selections are always added at each dance. The setting is informal and all are welcome: singles, couples, friends, newcomers. Red Pepper Bistro, Wappingers Falls. 765-0667.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica SoundScape
A site-specific, weekend-long experimental music and art event that draws unconventional connections, parallels and collaborations between a diverse array of artists. Basilica SoundScape features live concert performances, conceptual sound, author readings, visual art and video installations, collaborations, a marketplace of local vendors and artisans, on-site activities and more, creating an immersive, innovative weekend of art, music and culture. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst
7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
10am-6pm. $12 weekend pass/$11 seniors 62+/children 6 – 16 are $4 and children under 6 free. Showcases over 275 modern American makers, artists, designers and craftspeople Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.
Singer-Songwriter Showcase
Hudson Valley Apple Festival
New Swing Sextet
Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311.
Vieux Farka Touré
9pm. Signature blend of Malian blues and world-music fusion. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
-18, 10am-6pm. $5/under age 14 free. Prepare for a day of old fashioned family fun including live music, hayrides, Wacky Apple Crate Derby, wine and craft brews, arts & crafts, apple baking contest, children’s games and activities, rock climbing wall, haybale maze, petting zoo and every conceivable type of food made with apples! Palatine Park, Germantown. (518) 537-6833.
Red Hook Hardscrabble Day
10am. Join us for our annual Hardscrabble Day! Vendors, live music, free events for kids, food, parade and more. Headliner Patty Smyth and Scandal. Red Hook Village, Red Hook. 758-1081.
FILM Beacon Independent Film Festival
Event will showcase feature films, documentaries, local food and drink and offer interactive activities for kids and more. University Settlement, Beacon. Beaconindiefilmfest.org.
FOOD & WINE Guest Bartender Event
6-9pm. Join us for a Guest Bartender Event to benefit Safe Harbors Green. Food and drinks, BBQ, patio open. All tips will benefit Safe Harbors Green. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-6940.
The Nature of Wine and Creativity: A Sensory Wine-Tasting Experience
5-7pm. $45. Understand wine, what’s happening in the brain when we taste and smell wine and how this knowledge and experience is transferred to others. Practice looking at, smelling, and tasting wines as the experts do, while sampling four Connecticut wines from Hopkins Vineyard. Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.
Rhinecliff Volunteer Fire Company Chili Cook-Off
3-7pm. Field games including Frisbee, kickball, and horseshoes begin at 3 pm. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own balls and games as well. At 4:45pm, the chili cook off will take place. Anyone can participate. Firemen’s Field, Rhinecliff.
LITERARY & BOOKS Battle of the Books
Twenty-three public libraries throughout the Mid-Hudson Library System’s five counties (Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Ulster and Greene) will compete in the nationally recognized literature contest, Battle of the Books, in which young teens answer trivia questions based on books they’ve read during the summer. ColumbiaGreene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481.
Fruits of the Earth: A Talk and Book Signing by Amy Goldman, Using Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures
10am-noon. $15/$10 members. Amy will share her experiences from the past 25 years growing many of her favorite heirloom vegetables and fruits on her 200-acre farm. The talk will be accompanied by images that are sure to inspire both the home gardener and those interested in our food heritage. A book signing will follow the talk. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
Glenda Rosen Presents Dying to Be Beautiful 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Kingston’s Unspoken Word
7pm. $5. Readings by authors Kerry Guerin and Abigail Thomas. Followed by 3-minute open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.
MUSIC Almost Queen
8pm. Classic rocks. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. 914-739-0039 ext 2.
Cricket Tell the Weather
8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Edwin McCain
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival 2016
$96/$84 early reg./$46 children/$300 FreshPass. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our
galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
John Tropea Band
7pm. Jazz and blues fusion. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Julian Lage Trio
6pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Music In The Field
12-5pm. $15/$25 family. Bring a picnic and your entire family and friends to boogie down! Live music from: Howard Fishman and the Biting Fish Brass Band; Rye Straw Blue Grass Band; & more! $15/$25 per family. A fundraiser for Hasbrouck Park and Mountain Laurel Waldorf School. Field of Dreams, New Paltz. 255-1000.
Quartet Concert Celebrating Mile Davis Book Release
A Horse of a Different Color
The Tavern
6-10pm. Blue Rider Stables celebrates 25 years with a fundraising benefit. The evening will be highlighted by silent and live auctions, live music and dancing, local artisan foods, and signature drinks served throughout the historic grounds of America’s foremost public sculptor Daniel Chester French. Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3579 ext. 25210.
7:30-9:30pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. It’s a dark and stormy night and a wayside inn shelters an unlikely assortment of oddball characters, including a mysterious vagabond who’s almost certainly not what he appears to be. Kaliyuga Arts presents George M. Cohan’s loving tribute to old-time melodramas, directed by Steven Patterson. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
Light into Night
TMI Project 2016 Community Outreach Showcase
$500-$3500/$200 dinner tickets/$95 cocktail tickets. Benefits Omi. Farm-to-table dinner, art happenings, dance party, live and silent auction, kids’ party. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. Omiartscenter.org/ education.
Yard Sale 8am-3pm. $2. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
7:30pm. Honoring the first recipient of TMI Project’s Voices in Action Award, Eve Ensler. Also featuring TMI Project storytellers. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Community Clay Day
Third Saturday of every month, 1-3pm. $6. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525.
6:30-8pm. Book talk and concert marking the release of “The Miles Davis Lost Quintet and Other Revolutionary Ensembles.” Performance by Bob Gluck (piano), Tani Tabbal (drums), Michael Bisio (bass), and Adam Siegel (saxophone). Music from the repertoire of Miles Davis’s exploratory band of the late 1960s. Sponsored by The Golden Notebook bookstore. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-8000.
Rudresh Mahanthappa IndoPak Coalition
8pm. $28. Synthesizing jazz with the improvised musical forms of South Asia, the Indo-Pak Coalition features saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, guitarist Rez Abbasi and percussionist Dan Weiss. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
NIGHTLIFE Surreal Masquerade Party
7-11pm. $15. Don’t be afraid to step out of character, throw on a different hat, maybe slip on a mask, or transform with an outrageous costume. DJ’d by Mike Bloom, the masquerade will feature pop-up performances by a secret roster of artists, installations, Tarot readings, absurd games, costume contests, a bonfire and plenty of dancing. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Byrdcliffe’s 5th Annual Opera Gala 6pm. $175. Dine in the homes of Byrdcliffe supporters, then head off to the historic Byrdcliffe Theater for dessert and classical song organized by Maria Todaro of the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. An evening of magic. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Full Moon Party
5-9pm. $50. A rare glimpse into the iron foundry practices. Artists Robert Modafferi, Michael Dominick and the crew of the Manhattan Iron Project will create souvenir iron medallions, iron-and-ice sculptures and Michael’s own iron paintings. Elizabeth Sayles will give a talk on “The Ghost Army” of WWII, a regiment that created an art of deception and helped our troops win the war. Enjoy a great BBQ dinner with drinks and dance the night away to the live music of Country Fresh and The Used Karmas. Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack. 358-0877.
History Sails into Haverstraw: Celebrating 400 Years
12-6pm. Music, food, crafts, sailing, beer garden, community project. Emeline Park, Haverstraw. Haverstrawriverarts.org.
Repair Cafe- New Paltz
10am-2pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired--for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood; dolls & stuffed animals. Plus a supervised Kids Take-Apart Area. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835.
Rio Style Samba Workshop
1:30-3:30pm. $50. Learn stage presence, posture, posing, proper breathing, stamina, samba no pe technique, combinations, choreography. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.
SUNDAY 18
1-3pm. All ages are invited to join us at each “mini-endurance” and walk/dance/ bawk/eat eggs/step with love feet and improvise safely and beautifully so we can mentor peaceful-flying despite our vestigial wings. Remember, Chickens were originally dinosaurs. Come costumed as a wild fowl. Seamon Park, Saugerties. (917) 312-7161.
10am-8pm. A day-long “anti-festival” of ambient electronic music, is an outdoor event featuring musicians from the Hudson Valley and beyond, all performing live electronic sets. . Hasbrouck Park, New Paltz. Quietvillage.us.
8-10:30pm. $15. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737 - 1701.
11am-4pm. $65. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
DANCE Chicken Dancearama with Linda Mary Montano
Quiet Village 1.0
Ray Blue / Larry Newcomb Project, with Sharp Radway on piano, Hill Greene on bass, and Sir G Earl Grice on drums
R&F Saturday Lab with Encaustic and Pigment Sticks
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica SoundScape
TMI Project Tribute to Eve Ensler Eva Ensler is a playwright, performer, activist, and the creator of “The Vagina Monologues,” an episodic play in which each monologue deals with an unspoken aspect of the feminine experience. Ensler and “The Vagina Monologues” are the inspiration behind TMI Project, a local nonprofit that offers memoir-writing workshops that are shaped into performance monologs. “TMI Project is a direct result of my experience with ‘The Vagina Monologues,’” says Eva Tenuto, TMI Project CoFounder and Executive Director. TMI’s Community Outreach Initiative specifically partners with local organizations and schools to offer workshops to populations whose stories often go unheard—the incarcerated, the homeless, at-risk teens, cancer patients, survivors of domestic violence, drug abusers, and military veterans. On September 17, at 7:30pm, these individuals will share their workshopped monologues as part of the “Voices in Action: Community Outreach Showcase” fundraiser at BSP Kingston. After the show, a reception and champagne toast with Eva Ensler, TMI Project staff, and the performers will take place. Tmiproject.org.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Byrdcliffe Trail Hike: Changing Season
9:30am. $15. Join NYSDEC-licensed Hiking Guide, Dave Holden, for Byrdcliffe’s spring/summer/fall series of educational and invigorating hikes on the beautiful Byrdcliffe Trail. Hikes last approximately two hours and are themed according to the variations of the seasons. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Drawing and Painting from the figure
9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Great for beginning students looking to develop a portfolio as well as seasoned artists ready to challenge themselves with the human form. Each four week session builds upon the last but can also be taken on their own. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Growing Giant Pumpkins
Farmland Cycling Tour
1-3pm. $20/$15 members. A fun and informative look into the world of competitive pumpkin growing. Learn how to grow plants in the Cucurbita family to bear the biggest and best fruits possible. The class will also inform gardeners about improving growing conditions for pumpkin relatives including melons, squash and cucumbers. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
Lighthouse Tour
How to Become More Profitable Using QuickBooks
9am-2pm. After energizing on fresh donuts, cider and apples (courtesy of local farmers), pedal through the rolling countryside of Dutchess and Columbia counties on a 10-, 25- or 45-mile ride, passing farms Scenic Hudson helped protect. Then enjoy a fabulous lunch and live music back at the park. Poets’ Walk Park, Red Hook. 473-4440. 10am-2pm. Join HRMM and the Save the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse Commission for this special two-lighthouse tour. Take a cruise on board the Spirit on Hudson and stop at both lighthouses for interior guided tours, including to the towers of both. Enjoy a boxed lunch on the Spirit between lighthouses. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
THEATER God of Carnage
8-10pm and 2-4pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
9am-4pm. $49.95. Learn how to use QuickBooks to enhance your business decision, learn the strategic WHY of each feature of this under-utilized program, understand more than just the checkbook register feature of QuickBooks, use the reports that can empower your business decisions, and become more profitable. The Accelerator, New Windsor. 363-6432.
Publishing a Photo Book
Two-day workshop with David Maisel & Alan Rapp. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.
A site-specific, weekend-long experimental music and art event that draws unconventional connections, parallels and collaborations between a diverse array of artists. Basilica SoundScape features live concert performances, conceptual sound, author readings, visual art and video installations, collaborations, a marketplace of local vendors and artisans, on-site activities and more, creating an immersive, innovative weekend of art, music and culture. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
Fall Crafts at Lyndhurst
10am-5pm. $12 weekend pass/$11 seniors 62+/children 6 – 16 are $4 and children under 6 free. Showcases over 275 modern American makers, artists, designers and craftspeople. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.
Taste of New Paltz
11am-5pm. 26th annual food and beverage tastiong exatravaganza. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. Tasteofnewpaltz.com.
High Falls Flea Market
9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
Hudson Valley Apple Festival
10am-6pm. $5/under age 14 free. Prepare for a day of old fashioned family fun including live music, hayrides, Wacky Apple Crate Derby, wine and craft brews, arts & crafts, apple baking contest, children’s games and activities, rock climbing wall, haybale maze, petting zoo and every conceivable type of food made with apples! Palatine Park, Germantown. (518) 537-6833.
FILM Beacon Independent Film Festival
Event will showcase feature films, documentaries, local food and drink and offer interactive activities for kids and more. University Settlement, Beacon. Beaconindiefilmfest.org.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Breathwork Circle: Exploration & Self-healing Workshop, with Guarapriya Tester
6:30-9pm. $30. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.
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LITERARY & BOOKS Jay R. Lang: Breakthrough: How to Get Hired in Today’s Tough Job Market
4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC BAMM Concert: Sailing Stone
2-3:15pm. Sailing Stone is a band composed of family members and friends who perform rock, pop, blues, folk, and original music. The Peekskill-based group features Nick Chiapparino, Brianna Chiapparino, Richie Mascalino, Andrew Ortiz, and Nikko Cocciolillo. Mahopac Library, Mahopac. 628-2009 ext. 100.
Celtic Band Calan
7:30pm. $19/$17 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.
Donovan
7-9pm. $60.13/$82.41/$93.54. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of his #1 hit “Sunshine Superman”. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
Donovan’s Sunshine Superman 50th Anniversary Tour 7pm. $49.50-$79.50. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
Elvin Bishop
7:30pm. Blues guitarist. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival 2016
$96/$84 early reg./$46 children/$300 FreshPass. An opportunity for enthusiasts to both appreciate and participate, FreshGrass is a family-friendly festival, brimming with bright talent on four stages, and also in our galleries, brick-lined courtyards, and grassy field, produced in partnership by MASS MoCA, the FreshGrass Foundation, and No Depression. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
John Tropea Band
11am-2pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Latin Jazz & Salsa with Orchestra Pastrana
6-9pm. $15. Up from Puerto Rico, percussionist Tony Pastrana, gives a special performance at the BeanRunner Café. Peekskill, United States. (914) 737 - 1701.
Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Sunday Evening Jazz: Paul McCandless + Charged Particles 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER God of Carnage
2-4pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Poughkeepsie Newyorkers Chorus presents Sentimental Journey 3pm. $20. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
The Tavern
2-4pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. It’s a dark and stormy night and a wayside inn shelters an unlikely assortment of oddball characters, including a mysterious vagabond who’s almost certainly not what he appears to be. Kaliyuga Arts presents George M. Cohan’s loving tribute to oldtime melodramas, directed by Steven Patterson. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Sunday Art Studios
11am-1pm. These Sunday morning programs are designed for local families, heritage and art tourists, and regular visitors who like to make art. Projects take about 30 minutes and are fun for all ages. Everyone leaves with a work of art. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext.105.
Turned Teapots with Tara Hagen
3-6pm. $200 for WSW members/$210 non-members. Tuition includes one bag of clay and firing fees. A non-refundable $100 deposit due. 4-week course. By building on the basics, you’ll learn new techniques to create every aspect of a teapot including handles, spouts, lids, finials, and glazing. While we’ll focus on the teapot form, you’re encouraged to experiment freely with any form on the wheel. Demos, personalized instruction, and time to work independently. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
MONDAY 19 FILM David Bowie Is
7-8:30pm. $16/$13 members. From the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Directors: Hamish Hamilton, Katy Mullan. Starring: Vicky Broackes, Geoffrey Marsh, Kansai Yamamoto. David Bowie Is, was the Victoria & Albert Museum’s international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie. Over 300 objects including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, photography, set designs, album artwork and rare performance material from the past five decades are brought together from the David Bowie Archive for the very first time. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
LECTURES & TALKS A Reading & Discussion Series: James Baldwin’s America
6-8pm. This series will be facilitated by Donna Ford Grover, a professor at Bard College in 19th and 20th century American literature. Books will be provided by the library. Registration is limited to 20 participants on a first come/first serve basis. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101.
MUSIC Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal
7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 388-4630.
Nick Mellivoi Quartet
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Creative Music Studio™ Fall Workshop
4-day workshop. Drummer and educator Milford Graves, pianist/composer Fabian Almazan and Creative Music Studio™ Associate Artistic Director/trumpeter Steven Bernstein join CMS co-founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso. Full Moon Resort, Big Indian. 254-5117.
TUESDAY 20 HEALTH & WELLNESS Community Holistic Healthcare Days
Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available and we have many new practitioners. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7PM. Though no money or insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org.
Free Community Holistic Healthcare Day
Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served
basis upon check-in. Though no money/ insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org/.
KIDS & FAMILY Girls’ Power
$120. Through Oct. 26. Our 6-week series offers a fun and powerful opportunity for girls ages 6 – 12 to interact with horses – from the ground – and develop the strengths required for both personal, social and academic success. Horseplay Camp, Ghent. Https://high-n-mighty.org/.
LECTURES & TALKS Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease
7-8:30pm. If you or someone you know is affected by Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the time for legal and financial planning is now. This workshop provided by the Alzheimer’s Association is for anyone who would like to know more about what legal or financial issues to consider and how to put plans in place. Meals on Wheels, Nanuet. (800) 272-3900.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Tarot Wisdom Gathering
Third Wednesday of every month, 6:308pm. $10. Join us at our monthly Tarot gathering. Each month a card will be chosen that we will delve into with open minds and hearts. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THURSDAY 22 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response
7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
FILM Cameraperson
8pm. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
KIDS & FAMILY Wild Earth and Phillies Bridge Farm and Wilderness Homeschool Program
LITERARY & BOOKS Jay McInerney: Bright Precious Days
10am-3:30pm. $480/Sibling discounts and payment plans available. A unique and deeply connective experience for 5-11 year olds. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
Open Mike
MUSIC John Herrington
6pm. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. (860) 435-0030. 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
NIGHTLIFE Third Tuesday Queer Night
Third Tuesday of every month, 7-11:30pm. Yoo hoo mid-Hudson queers! Community, fun, music and more. Dogwood, Beacon. Https://facebook.com/ midhudsonqueernight/.
WEDNESDAY 21 FILM K2 and the Invisible Footmen
7:15pm. $7/$5. An extraordinary documentary about mountain climbing and the often overlooked porters who carry critical supplies and take on higher altitude tasks in support of ascending climbers. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
HEALTH & WELLNESS BHealthy Living for your Brain and Body: Tips from the Latest Research
2pm. Educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter with information about research in diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement and use hands-on tools to develop a plan for healthy aging. Manor at Woodside, Poughkeepsie. (800) 272-3900.
Legal Services of Hudson Valley: Elder Law and Managed Long Term Care
6:30-8pm. Legal Services of Hudson Valley presentation on Elder Law Topics and Managed Long Term Care. Some of the topics discussed will be power of attorney, healthcare proxy, pool trusts and more. There will be time for a Q&A. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
MUSIC Julian Lage
7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Petey Hop Hosts Roots & Blues Sessions 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Wednesday Morning Concert
11am-noon. $22.50/$52.50 concert, tour & lunch. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Mabel Kwan
7pm. Performing on two pianos simultaneously, Mabel Kwan takes on Trois Hommages, the virtuosic opus of contemporary composer Georg Friedrich Haas. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Middle-Stage Music Social
Fourth Thursday of every month, 2-3:30pm. People with middle-stage Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia and their family caregivers are invited to this free opportunity to socialize in a safe environment. R Wingate at Dutchess Recreation Room, Fishkill. 471-2655.
Odyssey
7-8:30pm. $25/$20 in Sept./$15 before Sept. 1. Facilitated by Amy McTear, musician, mentor and spiritual activist in collaboration with Michael Ponte, Steve Gorn, Rob Norris, Hector Bee and others. Original, ambient, worldfusion music, crystal singing bowls, flute, symphonic gong, guitar, bass, piano, drums, communal voice, visual inspiration, spoken word and silence. The Belltower, Rosendale. (914) 388-0632.
Vernon Webb
7pm. Acoustic. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Bingo Fourth Thursday of every month, 7pm. Beekman Fire Department, Poughquag. 270-9133.
SPIRITUALITY Gong Bath Series with David Karlberg 8-9pm. $15. Enjoy deep relaxation with the low tones and complex harmonics of multiple gongs. Combined with singing bowls, didgeridoo, flute and voice, listeners will experience an energetic journey through vibration and sound, enhanced by Boughton Place’s unique acoustics and special stage. Boughton Place, Highland. 325-0648.
THEATER God of Carnage
8-10pm. $34-$39. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Mummenschanz: “you & me” 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
NT Live: The Threepenny Opera
7-10pm. $21/$18 member. By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
FRIDAY 23 ART Haitian Art Auction & Sale
Check website for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Thehaitiproject.org.
COMEDY Woodstock Comedy Festival
Headliner Gilbert Gottfried. Standup shows, panels, films, and contest winners are also featured. Around Woodstock, Woodstock. Woodstockcomedyfestival.org/.
COMEDY Woodstock Comedy Festival
Headliner Gilbert Gottfried. Standup shows, panels, films, and contest winners are also featured. Around Woodstock, Woodstock. Woodstockcomedyfestival.org/.
DANCE Russian Grand Ballet presents Swan Lake
7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS RVGA Harvest Hoedown and Local Food Barbecue
3-9pm. $30/$25 in advance/$10 ages 6-12/$5 ages 6-12 in advance/under 6 free. Join farmers and neighbors at RVGA’s 14th annual Harvest Hoedown and Local Food Barbecue. Marbletown Park, Stone Ridge. 626-1532.
MUSIC 2016 Leaf Peeper Concert: From East to West with The Shanghai Quartet
SPIRITUALITY Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup
Chris O’Leary Band
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Reiki Master Training & Certification With Brett Bevell
7:30-10:30pm. $25/$35 premium/students free/Season tickets $80/$120. Mozart, Zhou Long, Foote & Grieg. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. (413) 644-0007. 7pm. Blues. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Eric Erickson
8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
John Waite and the Axeman with special guest Leslie Dinicola
7pm. $50/$60/$145 VIP. Gallery concert series. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 866-781-2922.
DANCE Swing Dance to the Graham Tichy Quartet
8-11:30pm. Enjoy a night of healthy fun! No partner needed. No experience necessary. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120
LITERARY & BOOKS Author Julia Ain-Krupa presents The Upright Heart
11am-3pm. $60. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.
Steve Derrickson: Guns Girl Bomb
Repair Cafe: Kingston
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Martin Barre
Styx
8-9:30pm. $59.50/$69.50/$79.50/$99.50, $195.00 VIP. Like a symphony that builds to a satisfying crescendo, a Styx set covers a wide range of stylistic cornerstones. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
Egili Oliveira Samba Workshop The Afro-Brazilian samba is rooted in Angola via the West African slave trade. By the early 20th century, the samba became the quintessential dance form associated with Rio de Janiero’s pre-lenten Carnival Festival, where beautiful passistas (female samba dancers) in pheasant-feathered headdresses gyrate their hips wearing extravagant bustiers embroidered with intricate beading and Swarovski crystals. Rio comes to the Hudson Valley on Saturday, September 17. Egili Oliveira, one of Rio’s top passistas, will instruct a two-hour Rio-style samba class at Mountain View Studio in Woodstock. The workshop is from 1:30pm–3:30pm and costs $50. No experience is necessary. Mtnviewstudio.com
FILM Beggars of Life (1928)
The Chain Gang
7-9pm. Director William Wellman’s silent film, “Beggars of Life” (1928) starring Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen and Wallace Beery. This film is recommended for teens/adults. With live musical accompaniment by Cary Brown. Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
Vaud and the Villains
KIDS & FAMILY Peppa Pig’s Big Splash
8pm. Classic rock. The Italian Center, Poughkeepsie.
Sylvia Tyson and Scarlet Rivera
8pm. $25/$22 members. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Wolf Critton
8pm. Rock and blues. 8-10pm. $25. Rock and blues singer/songwriter. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. Gbabbage@safeharbors.org.
The Orchestra Now
8pm. Copland and Bruckner. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900.
8pm. $27. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
5pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088
Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zepplin Experience
THEATER Confessions of a Playwright at 3am
LECTURES & TALKS Digging Deeper: A House in the Country with Katie Ridder & Peter Pennoyer
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS For Goodness Bake
7pm. $10. Presented by Cocoon Theater. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Tips and Tricks in Watercolor
Fourth Friday of every month, 10am1pm. $40. With instructor Claudia Engel. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, Rhinebeck. 516-4435.
SATURDAY 24 ART Haitian Art Auction & Sale
Check website for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Thehaitiproject.org.
9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Great for beginning students looking to develop a portfolio as well as seasoned artists ready to challenge themselves with the human form. Each four week session builds upon the last but can also be taken on their own. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep
7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
8-10:30pm. $15. Bean Runner Cafe, Peekskill, United States. (914) 737 -1701.
Drawing and Painting from the figure
9am-4pm. $245. In this intensive, twoday lithography workshop students will print a maximum of two images from prepared stones which will be provided. Students will draw black-and-white images with lithographic crayons and pencils, and learn the fascinating process of etching the stones and printing editions from them. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
6:30pm. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.
Mary Mancini & Mario Tacca, with Mike Caruso (guitar), and Ricci Saracino (drums)
9/23-9/25. Gain your Reiki Master Level certification, which empowers you to initiate others into the Reiki system of natural healing. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
Lithography
LECTURES & TALKS Getting to Green, Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
8pm. $34. Martin Barre the lead guitarist of Jethro Tull leads his own band to perform the “classic” music from the Tull catalogue as well as blues and rock from his own recordings. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
4:30-5:30pm. $65/$60 Garden Conservancy members. Join renowned architect Peter Pennoyer and sought-after interior designer Katie Ridder for a talk about the conception, design, decoration, and landscaping of their new country house in Millbrook, New York. A one-of-a-kind Greek Revival-inspired house with lush woodland, flower and cutting gardens. Garden of Katie Ridder & Peter Pennoyer, Millbrook. (888) 842-2442.
LITERARY & BOOKS Laura Ludwig: Poetry and Performance
3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
10am-4pm. A bake sale to raise funds and awareness for the Beacon Community Kitchen.Catalyst Gallery, Beacon. 204-3844.
11am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free in mid-town Kingston. Mechanical, electrical, electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood--even book repair. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. Clinton Avenue United Methodist, Kingston. 339-2526.
Rustic Bench Build
10am-5pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080.
SUNDAY 25 ART Haitian Art Auction & Sale
Check website for times. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Thehaitiproject.org.
COMEDY Woodstock Comedy Festival
Headliner Gilbert Gottfried. Standup shows, panels, films, and contest winners are also featured. Around Woodstock, Woodstock. Woodstockcomedyfestival.org/.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS High Falls Flea Market
9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
LITERARY & BOOKS 26th Annual Subterranean Poetry Festival: The Word Itself
Check website for times. Millbrook School, Millbrook. Millbrook.org.
1-4pm. $5. Curated by Cheryl Rice, this year’s SubPOFest will include poetry organizations from around the Hudson Valley and Northeastern U.S. Century House Historical Society, Rosendale. Https://facebook.com/ events/319698485038539/.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Roe Jan Ramble Bike Tour
Derek Dellinger presents The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution
Millbrook School Open House
10am. The towns of Ancram, Copake and Hillsdale will sponsor the fourth annual Roe Jan Ramble Bike Tour, a fun, noncompetitive ride that aims to promote biking in Columbia County. Hamlet of Copake, Copake. Bikereg.com/roe-janramble-bike-tour.
4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
Frances Dunwell: The Hudson: America’s River
4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
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MUSIC Block: Jazz Opera/Musical 2 & 7pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
The Orchestra Now 2pm. Copland and Bruckner. Fisher Center, Bard College. 758-7900.
The Bruce Katz Band 7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Distillery Live: The Goldbergs 1-3pm. Dynamic duo of acoustic guitars and percussion with outstanding vocals and harmony. Hudson Valley Distillers, Germantown. 835-8049.
Harv Sorgen 5pm. St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Beacon. 831-1369.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Annual Garden Party 1:30-6:30pm. At this event the Foundation publicly recognizes the community service and contributions of local citizens while sharing information about the Foundation and the hundreds of organizations and programs supported by and through its 525 charitable funds. Opus 40, Saugerties. 246-3400.
Chefs for Clearwater 4pm. Local chefs prepare regional bounty in support of Clearwater. Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park. Chefsforclearwater.org.
SPIRITUALITY 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Info Session 12-1pm. If you’d like to learn more about what teacher training is all about, come to this free information session. This is an opportunity to learn whether our training is right for you and to figure out if now is the right time to get immersed in yoga. The Yoga House, Kingston. 706-9642.
Akashic Records Revelaed with June Brought Last Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
THEATER La Stupenda 3pm. $50. Presented by Taconic Opera. Music Conservatory of Westchester, White Plains. 914-761-3900.
National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge 3pm. $12/$10 members. Don’t miss a stellar cast led by Mark Strong in the Young Vic’s ‘magnetic, electrifying, astonishingly bold’ production of A View from the Bridge. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
MONDAY 26 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End The New Jim Crow Action Network 6-8pm. ENJAN is dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston. Enjan.org. CHRONOGRAM.COM
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LECTURES & TALKS A Reading & Discussion Series: James Baldwin’s America
6-8pm. This series will be facilitated by Donna Ford Grover, a professor at Bard College in 19th and 20th century American literature. Books will be provided by the library. Registration is limited to 20 participants on a first come/first serve basis. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792 ext. 101.
MUSIC Mid-Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsal
7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 388-4630.
Tom Beckham’s Slice
Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com
TUESDAY 27 MUSIC Faculty Jazz
8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz artist faculty perform an evening of standards, ballads, originals, and up-tempo tunes high-lighting America’s great jazz tradition. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Herbal Magic
Last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Every herb has its own personal signature, its own magic, its own vibration, with healing properties for our physical, mental and spiritual benefit. Each month we’ll work with a specific herb, discussing its different properties & various uses; we’ll talk about and show you, the basic “how too’s” like smudging, creating simple mojo bags, candle magic, elixirs, and more. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
Woodstock Writers Workshops
6:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 session. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, novel, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc.—and get it published. Led by Iris Litt. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.
WEDNESDAY 28 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End The New Jim Crow Action Network
6-8pm. ENJAN is dedicated to fighting racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. Enjan.org.
LECTURES & TALKS Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat’s Walk Across America. Chrostopher Spatz , Cougar Rewilding Foundation
7-8:30pm. Presented by Christopher Spatz, The Cougar Rewilding Foundation figures prominently in Will Stolzenburg’s book Heart of a Lion. Follow the cross-country odyssey of a young mountain lion in this presentation combining scientific fact and mystery. A story about the resilience of nature, changing habitat and human reflection. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
MUSIC Alice Cooper
8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Beethoven Under The Stars
6:30pm. A program featuring the music of Beethoven and his peer. Iron Forge Inn, Warwick. 986-3411.
An Evening with Terry Bozzio
8pm. $30/$25 in advance. A night of solo drumming and include compositions from throughout his career, as well as improvisation. Woodstock Music Lab, Kingston. Ashokantalent.com.
Leon Russel
7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Poet Gold’s Poelodies at The Falcon Underground 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THURSDAY 29 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Happy Hour Yoga: Orange County Chamber of Commerce
Last Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. $10-$15. Long day at work? Release tension, stretch, strengthen and relax with our Happy Hour Yoga Class, followed by a hard cider tasting and networking. Co-hosted by the Minority & Women in Business Committee and the Orange County Chamber. Yoga by Wild Soul Yoga Studio. Hard Cider tasting by Angry Orchard. Orange County Chamber of Commerce, Montgomery. 8454579700.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS KIDS & FAMILY Wild Earth and Phillies Bridge Farm and Wilderness Homeschool Program 10am-3:30pm. $480/Sibling discounts and payment plans available. . Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
MUSIC Big Upstate Balkan Dance Party 7pm. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Buddy Guy
8pm. $68-$108. Rock. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
David Kraai
district was demolished in a federally funded urban renewal project. Documentary film by Stephen Blauweiss and Lynn Woods with soundtrack by Peter Wetzler. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
FOOD & WINE Starry Starry Night
6-10pm. Starry Starry Night is one of three fundraising benefit events held by the Walkway Over the Hudson nonprofit organization. Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-9649.
LECTURES & TALKS Invasive Plant Identification, Removal, and Control Strategies 1-3pm. $45/$40 members. Michael Nadeau, founding member of the Organic Land Care Project, will explore invasive plants, identification, removal and control for homeowners. There will be a lecture on Friday then on Saturday he will conduct a site evaluation to demonstrate how to develop a realistic plan to manage this problem. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
LITERARY & BOOKS Vernon Benjamin presents History of the Hudson River Valley: From Civil War to Modern Times 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC Rant Band
9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Sara Watkins
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
7-10pm. Country folk music. This is the last night of David’s residency at Uncle Willy’s. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. 853-8049.
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Ropes: Wilderness Program for Teens at Wild Earth
7:30pm. $29-$79. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Open Hive/Music: A Duo of Duos: Jon Shain & FJ Ventre and Amy Soucy & Sharon Goldman 7-9:30pm. $20/$15 in advance. Join us for an intimate evening of scintillating guitar work and vibrant vocal harmonies. B Beahive Beacon, Beacon. 418-3731.
Wishbone Ash
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185 8pm. $30/$20 GA. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
THEATER Hannah Rickards
7pm. One can make out the surface only by placing any dark-colored object on the ground is a performance that uses navigational techniques to choreograph the interaction of a moving camera with two performers. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Mad Forest
8pm. $18/$16/$10. Mad Forest is a gripping, account of life before, during, and after the Romanian Revolution told from the perspective of citizens young and old, wealthy and working-class. Parker Theater, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/theatre.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Encaustic Assemblage
$400. Through Oct. 1. Instructor: Kelly McGrath. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
FRIDAY 30 FILM Lost Rondout: A Story of Urban Removal
6:30-8pm. In the late 1960s, most of Kingston’s historic downtown Rondout
8pm. $39.50-$105. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
5:30-11pm. Friday evenings: 5:30pm–11pm Friday evening programs plus 2, 2-night overnights. Come to Ropes to play epic night games, have deep conversations, cook over the fire, and hang out in the woods. The teens describe it as a place where they can come to remember who they are. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
THEATER Mad Forest
8pm. $18/$16/$10. Mad Forest is a gripping, account of life before, during, and after the Romanian Revolution told from the perspective of citizens young and old, wealthy and working-class. Parker Theater, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/theatre.
WORKSHOPS Omega Wellness Weekend With Tom Francescott, Kathy Fitzgerald, and Wayne Homsi 9/30-10/2. Join top teachers in naturopathic medicine, nutrition, and intuition, to find balance in life and health. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
Exploring Women’s Health, Sexuality & Spirit With Amy Novatt, MD, and Kelly Jennings, ND 9/30-10/2. Expand your knowledge about yourself and your body as we address the joys, challenges, and complexities of women’s bodies and lives. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
Nourish Yourself With Holly Shelowitz 9/30-10/2. Develop a satisfying relationship with food and a holistic view of nourishment—including the physical, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual aspects. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. eOmega.org.
SATURDAY 1 COMEDY Jena Friedman Comedy Show
8-10pm. $22/$16 in advance/$28 preferred/$10 students. A comedian and filmmaker who has worked as a field producer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has written for Late Show with David Letterman, Jena brings a sharp eye (and sharper tongue) for social, sexual, and political comedy to the MASS MoCA stage. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
DANCE Ballet des Amériques
Helluva Town: A New York Soundtrack 8-9:15pm. $20/$10 for patrons 21 and under. Performers Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano close out Tom Andersen’s 2016 Words and Music Series with this sparkling and sophisticated cabaret evening. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (800) 838-3006.
Roy Zimmerman performs “This Machine”
7 & 9pm. $25. The Barn at Egremont Inn, South Egremont, MA. (413) 528-9580.
Slam Allen
8pm. $15. Unique blend of soul and blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Tree-torials
3-5pm. $20/$15 members. Frederic Church planted thousands of trees while living at Olana. Join us on July 16th to learn all about these native and exotic specimen trees on a walk through our winding carriage roads. Ages 5+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
8pm. $18/$16/$10. Mad Forest is a gripping, account of life before, during, and after the Romanian Revolution told from the perspective of citizens young and old, wealthy and working-class. Parker Theater, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/theatre.
3-6pm. Author Tia Keenan appearance and local cheese tasting. bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, Rhinebeck. 876-1117.
MUSIC Ben Neill
Brass quintet and electronics. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.
Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano: Masterful. Magical. Married 8pm. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill.
9am-4pm. Art, antiques, collectibles, crafts and unique treasures. Grady Park, high falls. 810-0471.
Together Tuesdays with Francesca Dec. 31, 10:30-11:30am. For kids birth through preschool. Story, craft, and play. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. 688-7811.
LECTURES & TALKS
KIDS & FAMILY Museum Storytelling: Family Tours
LITERARY & BOOKS The Art of the Cheese Plate
High Falls Flea Market
KIDS & FAMILY
10am-5pm. 28th annual festival of the “stinking rose.” Cantine Field, Saugerties. Hvgf.org.
1-3pm. $45/$40 members. Michael Nadeau, founding member of the Organic Land Care Project, will explore invasive plants, identification, removal and control for homeowners. There will be a lecture on Friday then on Saturday he will conduct a site evaluation to demonstrate how to develop a realistic plan to manage this problem. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
10am-5pm. 28th annual festival of the “stinking rose.” Cantine Field, Saugerties. Hvgf.org.
10am-3:15pm. $240 series. This fall, we will gather in the forest to play games, tell stories around the fire, craft, track, build and so much more. We warmly welcome you to Kestrel: Autumn Discovery. Together, we will safely explore the elements and build lasting friendships with each other and the land as we nurture the village the children have enriched each summer at camp. Ages 7–10. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
LECTURES & TALKS Invasive Plant Identification, Removal, and Control Strategies
Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
Kestrel: Autumn Discovery at Wild Earth
10am-5pm. Event tickets: $1. Join us for an annual tradition that’s almost 40 years old. Face painting, candle dipping, pumpkin carving, hayride, caramel apples, amazing vendors of unique and handcrafted items, organic food, live music. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. Gmws.org
First Saturday of every month, 10am3:30pm. Mystwood is a nature connection program for 6-9 year olds that uses elves, fairies, wizards and magic as storytelling and teaching tools. Through play, mystery and wonder, Wild Earth instructors will guide young Seekers into the ever growing world of Mystwood. Instructors will create a safe, nurturing container in which children can follow their curiosities and explore, each at their own authentic pace. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. $10. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
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THEATER Mad Forest
2-4pm. $25/$35/$50. A company of classically trained dancers performing works of French-American director and choreographer Carole Alexis. Drawing on multifarious cultural traditions, these works transcend the established categories of classical, modern and contemporary dance in surprising and captivating ways. The performance features two new works by Carole Alexis and pieces from the company’s répertoire. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (718) 309-0437.
10-11:30am. This will not be a traditional house tour; instead storyteller Tom Lee engages with Olana’s collection to invent stories to show how museum collections can come alive. Tom Lee works in museums all over the country including The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ages 5+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
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Dharma Sunday School Mummenschanz Broadway is synonymous with sound—vocalization, singing, and speaking. In 1977 Swiss mask-theater troupe Mummenschanz changed this notion, beginning a heralded three-year run. Unlike its Broadway counterparts, Mummenschanz performers unfold their “stories” without sound—no words or music are used in the performances. Two mimes hide behind large surreal masks, with not a hint of their body showing, as they perform in front of a black backdrop. Often, props made from recycled materials are intertwined with minimal choreography. The audience picks up the story solely from the visual cues of the performers. “Its always surprising and fantastic because its silent. And you don’t know what’s coming next. You don’t know if this little dot is going to grow and be an enormous circle or if this thing that seems to be hurling across the stage about to jump in the audience is actually going to do that,” says Bardavon Executive Director Chris Silva. On Thursday, September 22 at 7pm Mummenschanz will perform their show “you & me” at the Bardavon, ending their three-week residency in Poughkeepsie. After this preview performance, Mummenschanz will be taking this show on a worldwide tour. Tickets are $10. Bardavon.com
First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented class for children ages 5+. Come and explore concepts like kindness, compassion, gratitude and generosity through readings, creative activities, community building, movement, and meditation. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
MUSIC Vieux Farka Toure Check website for time. “Hendrix of the Sahara.” Woodstock Sessions. Woodstocksessions.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Screech Owl: Autumn Soaring at Wild Earth
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS First Saturday Reception
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First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
9am-noon. 150.00. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to approach the figure. Great for beginning students looking to develop a portfolio as well as seasoned artists ready to challenge themselves with the human form. Each four week session builds upon the last but can also be taken on their own. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
The Peach Tree: Handmade Jewelry 12-4pm. Come meet the artist, see her at work and purchase that special piece of beautiful handcrafted jewelry. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION 16th Annual Tivoli Street Painting Festival 9am-5pm. A day-long “paint-in” by artists of all ages along Broadway. Materials provided, including oil pastel chalk, an 8’ X 8’ pallet of pavement, beautiful weather, live local acoustic music by Joe Tobin’s Acoustic Medicine Variety Show and much, much, more. Squares allocated first come, first serve. Tivoli Village Hall, Tivoli. Tivoliny.org.
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10am-3pm. $240 series. We will safely explore the elements and build lasting friendships with each other and the land as we nurture the village the children have enriched each summer at camp.Each day begins with a morning circle where thanksgiving, songs and silly movement games bring us further into our bodies. During the day we’ll play amongst the trees, create bridges across the stream, build fairy houses and explore nature’s treasures. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.
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SUNDAY 2 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Annual Support-A-Walk for Breast and Ovarian Cancer 9am-noon. 3-mile walkathon, rain or shine, to bring attention to the needs of people affected by breast and ovarian cancer. Proceeds fund Support Connection’s free breast and ovarian cancer support services. FDR State Park, Yorktown Heights. (914) 962-6402.
Mad Forest 2pm. $18/$16/$10. Mad Forest is a gripping, account of life before, during, and after the Romanian Revolution told from the perspective of citizens young and old, wealthy and working-class. Parker Theater, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/theatre.
Good Dirt 3pm. A multimedia performance based on interviews with HV farmers. Directed by Mary Stuart Masterson. Fisher Center, Bard College. Fishercenter.bard.edu.
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The Great Reveal The Full Moon in Aquarius, which took place in mid-August, began a kind of astrological Olympics. Late August through the end of the summer is an adventure where a good few world records will be set. We might ask, though, before looking into the details of this sequence of events, how it is that the movements of the planets combine with consciousness and physical experience to create an effect. Each time I describe one of these sequences of events, it’s as if the cosmos is spewing forth another totally unique pattern in the astrology, which we then get to navigate. This is true whether we’re aware of the astrological details or not. Yet we might also ask what result the awareness yields, and how that result happens. The traditional (and newly revived, increasingly popular) approach of astrology is to predict an outcome. My approach to astrology is to describe the environment, which then becomes whatever we want it to become, or unwittingly choose: opportunity, creative fodder or an apparent source of chaos and crisis. Our dominant, generic model of time proposes that one day is like another; that 4pm today is like 4pm tomorrow. The astrology model of time reveals that every day and indeed every moment are different. A constant stream of new patterns is rolling out of, well, out of something. Not only are no two the same, they are all so wildly different as to call for an entirely new approach to each. There is an additional factor. Everyone has a natal chart. Each new pattern that comes along is plucking, stroking or knocking into each unique natal chart differently. The transits as they meet each natal chart form a unique pattern of what you might call interference. That pattern, mixed with consciousness, becomes what we experience. 114 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 9/16
Meta Landscape: the Eclipse Pattern We are now in the midst of an eclipse pattern. Eclipse patterns happen twice a year, approximately every five-and-a-half months. They gradually drift earlier and earlier in the year, that is, each year they come about two weeks earlier. Said another way, eclipses move retrograde. The Aquarius Full Moon this morning was listed by some sources as a very slight lunar eclipse. It was distinctive for other reasons, including a surge of energy through a long-standing pattern of planets: the Uranus-Eris conjunction in Aries, covered here many times, as well as Chiron, Jupiter and others. Lunation events—including eclipses and ordinary Full and New moons, power up the background, and in a sense bring it forward. Then there’s a total eclipse of the Sun in Virgo on September 1, and an eclipse of the Moon in Pisces on September 16. This is an excellent opportunity for a review of what eclipses represent. I have four main properties that I’ve identified. These properties are: 1. Concentration of experience; 2. Events seem karmic or predestined; 3. Discontinuity; 4. Critical transition or decision points. Let’s take them one at a time, so we have a guide to the next month or so. Then I’ll add a fifth property that I’ve mentioned a number of times before. The most notable effect of an eclipse phase is concentration of experience. A lot happens in a short time, and time becomes distorted, like it’s being run through a funnel or venturi. This works on an individual level and on a collective level. Time feels like it’s moving more briskly as an individual perception, and then at the same time, personal and world events arrive closer and closer together. Events seem karmic or predestined. They may not be, but they certainly might feel that way. A lot of how that effect shapes up depends on your relationship to the
ideas of karma and destiny—and remember, these things are ideas. However, this “fate effect” merely emphasizes the more valuable sense that decisions are more vital now. Smaller decisions mean more; larger decisions can have a much more vivid, lasting and sweeping impact on life. Pay attention for when you’re making a decision you don’t know you’re making. Add some discontinuity. The world always seems to plow forward on its crazy way, and yet little seems to really change. Life is genuinely different as eclipses approach, and then never quite returns to normal. Instead, a new kind of normal takes over. In the process of the parallel evolution of the planetary level and our individual lives, these events often represent a type of movement without which there would be very little progress at all. You might think of eclipses as opportunities to catch up with yourself. So, a fourth characteristic is a distinct sense of critical transition. We move from one space of life into another. Personal relationships are particularly susceptible to shifts, emotional movement or rearrangement. The change can manifest as a deepening of stronger relationships, or shake-ups in weaker, less stable relationships, many of which are likely to change dramatically. Anything that’s not working with the process of our personal and collective evolution is subject to disruption, things that are working are subject to challenge, and their strength can be put to good use. In all, given this environment, two things are necessary—pay attention and work with the process. This is good advice for life at any stage, but particularly during an eclipse, these two little points can get you a long way from feeling overwhelmed to a sense that you’re actually making some progress. Of course, with eclipses, it’s best to not judge progress in the moment. Wait till you have a longer view. Let’s add a fifth property of eclipses, one that’s especially relevant now, during a presidential campaign that affects the whole world. That is what you might think of as an Aries Point-like effect, of the individual and the collective merging. Eclipses represent several different factors meeting in space and time. They are, in actual, scientific reality, an intersection of several dimensions. The way that shakes out symbolically is that they can arrive with that feeling of world events seeming to be more personal and relevant, and a calling to take part in the wider world. Needless to say, this will be a very interesting few weeks in the presidential campaign.
edge greater than itself. This is likely to add to the “truth comes out” process. Another truly interesting distinction is that Jupiter is changing signs. It does so on September 9. That alone is noteworthy, and I’ll cover it as its own topic in the next section. One way to describe this is that Mercury is involved in the process of Jupiter changing signs. For the past year, Jupiter has been in Virgo, a sign opposite one of the signs that it rules, Pisces. This has been about making connections. Still, Jupiter can feel a little awkward or out of place in Virgo, which describes the relationships that it’s formed; yet the connection to Virgo. Virgo has had to stretch its capacity thanks to Jupiter’s presence. Now, Mercury making its double conjunction to Jupiter while in Virgo is about claiming that added knowledge, ability or flow.
Life is genuinely different as eclipses approach, and then never quite returns to normal. Instead, a new kind of normal takes over.
Mercury Retrograde: The Truth Revealed Mercury is about to be retrograde. On August 30, just prior to the September 1 eclipse, Mercury began its second retrograde of the year. This lasts through September 22, the Libra equinox. The retrograde begins in the last degree of Virgo, one of two signs that Mercury rules. Mercury is unusually strong in Virgo; both the planet and the sign are related to what I would call applied intelligence. Virgo tends to represent mental patterns, and retrograde Mercury is going to provide many occasions to reconsider what we’ve been thinking. I am being polite here. What I really mean is that we may see many, many things revealed as bullshit—as the insanity that they are, or as the blatant deceptions that they are. When Mercury stations retrograde or direct, stuff comes out. It’s like Mercury shakes the tree of the “sphere of all intelligence” and some fruit thumps to the ground, or leaves of information come a-fluttering. This Mercury retrograde is distinctive because it takes place entirely in Virgo, and for two other reasons: it begins in the very last degree of Virgo, which describes high mental focus: a state of total concentration. This is an interesting image, though the thing to remember is that total concentration also needs a kind of polarity point of relaxation. So you might keep your favorite puzzle, sketchpad, kittycat or Pocket Rocket nearby for those planned distractions. Then, this Mercury retrograde involves three conjunctions to Jupiter. Mercury is tapping into something much larger than itself. It’s a little like the individual computer meets the internet, or the mind meets a source of knowl-
Jupiter in Libra: Quest for Equilibrium On September 9, Jupiter ingresses Libra, which happens every 12 years. This is like the Great Equinox in the Sky. Jupiter can have so much emphasis that it can feel like the Sun. It’s 1,200 times the size of the Earth and denser than Saturn. And it moves a lot more slowly than the Earth, taking a year to go through a sign rather than a month. There’s something in astrology called the Aries Point. The Aries Point is the great granddaddy of where cultural meets individual—the crossroads of the personal and the political. It begins at the first degree of Aries: a degree that has all the power of a planet, even when empty. then it extends to the first degree of all the other cardinal signs. That includes Libra. Jupiter in this position will expand and enlarge something about experience. It’s as if the scale of everything will increase. Or you might think of Jupiter in Virgo as having undergone an initiation of sorts, sorting out many matters of relationship, and then it enters Libra—the official sign of relationship. Mars, Saturn and Neptune: Out of the Background In the background of all the astrology I’ve described is a long, unusual aspect between Saturn (the planet of structure and of time) and Neptune (the planet of dissolving and of dreams). There is tension here between the seemingly real and the seemingly unreal. Because Neptune is involved, the Saturn-Neptune square has had a tendency to disappear into the background of existence. It’s been this silent, subtle pressure, as if leaning in on everyone’s eardrums but just below the level of perception. Between now and August 24, Mars will be passing through this square. Mars has spent all of this year in Scorpio and Sagittarius. It’s been collecting the energy of one sign associated with sex and another with religion. Saturn in Sagittarius can turn lunch in the park into some kind of heavy, religiously tainted experience; everything seems way too serious under this influence. And now Mars is about to come along and challenge this influence, this authority. That feels like pressure, which means the pressure to change what you believe. Remember that in Sagittarius, this will exist on the level of religion; that is, taken not on faith but on unproven authority. This is the thing about religion. It’s taken so seriously, with absolutely nothing to back it up. It colonizes the brain, ending any real discussion of life, death or sex. Mars is not having any of this. As I see it, Mars is in revolutionary mode, at its most fiery, enhanced by fiery Sagittarius, and the square to volatile Neptune. This aspect, as well, will bring to the foreground much that has been hidden or that has dropped beneath the level of liminality; that is, conscious awareness. I would rate this aspect as somewhat dangerous, with a high potential for both overreaction and creative change. It’s going to be a wild week or two in the news—as if it hasn’t been wild enough. Under this astrology, though, we might see things that stretch all credulity and test the definitions of known reality. You may decide it wasn’t so real after all. CHRONOGRAM.COM READ Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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ARIES
(March 20-April 19)
If you’ve been wanting for company, you won’t be for much longer. There is companionship in the stars, which means that you’ll have a variety of possibilities available. People have a way of aiming low in their relationship choices. We’ve all been there, and seen it more times than we can count. You have your options open, and I suggest you leave it that way for a while. You don’t have to commit to the first person who you think might be acceptable, and you don’t have to compromise. Stand in your truth, and see who responds to you as the person you really are. This will take some time. And in that time, you’re free to do what you want, with whom. See if you can stand back from the idea that you owe anyone your loyalty, fidelity or exclusivity for as long as you need to have some fun and to truly discover who the people around you are. Far from violating the rules of civil society, you might say you’re violating the rules of low self-esteem. Over the past year or so, you’ve emerged as someone original with a unique mission. There are people in the world who recognize you for these qualities. Those are the people you want in your life: those who are friendly, supportive, encouraging and genuinely loving. Settle for no less.
TAURUS
(April 19-May 20)
You’ve made an investment in the technical aspects of what you do the best. This has necessitated a long phase of using the “beginner’s mind” technique, even though you’re not a beginner. Said another way, you’ve had to stretch your capacities, your skills and your knowledge. There have been some frustrating moments, perhaps, but along the way you knew you were doing the right thing, and you kept doing it. By all indications it looks like you’ve succeeded at attaining a new level of talent at something you’ve done reasonably well for quite a while. Now you begin a journeyman phase—that is, of being fully qualified to do the work that you do. Along this part of your trip, understate your abilities. Never claim mastery; rather, let others claim it for you. Make sure that your workshop is as beautiful as your work. You thrive on working in a pleasing, well-outfitted environment, one that reflects your personal style. Make an investment in yourself here. Keep doing what you do with style, passion and your impeccable sense of aesthetics and you’re headed for an unusual phase of professional accomplishment. Just remember that your true calling is some form of art, which in any event means doing whatever you do artfully and beautifully and letting this be the one relevant metric of success.
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The obsession with security that our society has developed during the past 15 years has a parallel on the human level: How is it possible to feel safe on our planet at this time? There are days when everything seems to be unraveling. We are constantly reminded of what’s supposed to threaten us, from mosquitoes to the nuclear arsenal. The spiritual approach is to declare yourself the safe place. You become your own sanctuary. Yet the private dimension is one of the most menacing for many people, where their own inner voices, such as the critic or the moralist, leave them the least room to be themselves, or to feel safe. Yet inner poise is what you must cultivate, and you have many opportunities to do so. One thing your astrology indicates is an inner exploration of the sources of insecurity as they are rooted in your childhood experiences. You might avoid these memories and emotions as one way of dealing with them, though I suggest you address them directly. This is the simplest way to neutralize the power they seem to hold over you. When you hear an inner critic or authority speaking, ask yourself: Whose voice is this? If you can get past this layer of turbulence, you will feel safer, and you will tap into a well of wisdom and knowledge from which you will surely benefit.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You certainly have plenty on your mind and your plate. That’s a beautiful thing—you’re involved with your own life. Yet at times you may feel a little overwhelmed, as if your life is living you. When that happens, slow down and make some decisions; rearrange your schedule; eliminate what’s not truly necessary and emphasize what is. Amidst the sheer volume of thought and activity, you may find it easy to focus on the single most significant thing you need to be doing, and there most certainly is one. Pay attention to what you’re called to do the first week of the month. If you need a clue, I can give it to you in one word: writing. But what exactly? The thing you’ve been wanting to do very nearly forever. What if you’re not a writer? There is some element of analysis and exposition, in written words, of the thing that you do the best. It might involve a business plan, a proposal, a grant, your CV or resume, or that important letter you need to write. This might involve an intimate aspect of your life, such as your journals (dust them off, in any case). There is a special role that both reading and writing have, which is the cultivation of inner, private space, and your sense of self. Ultimately, this is what you’re working toward.
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(July 22-August 23)
From the look of your solar chart, you’ve just experienced some kind of personal breakthrough that’s taken you closer to being an artist, a lover or a free spirit. You’ve worked hard for this; you’ve had to face many inner demons and insecurities, and the result has been a surge of creative and sexual energy. This has helped you overcome an inner block that’s been interfering with your fun and passion for a while. The thing to remember is that it’s possible to revert to old ways of being. It’s easy to get scared of being “too free” or “too powerful.” In fact freedom feels like a dangerous state to many people, which is why humans so often revert to some form of unfree. You have to decide what you want, and what you’re willing to do in order to have it. If you want to get into the flow of energy, ideas and pleasure—that is, vital force—I have a few suggestions from your astrology. One is to avoid moral judgments on pleasure of any kind. Another is to step back from people, whether friends, partners or colleagues, who express such judgments. Preserving and developing your newfound space to explore your potential will in part depend on cultivating relationships that support you rather than diminish you. Those relationships are available, though you must set the criteria.
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You’re beginning one of the most intriguing months in many seasons. A total solar eclipse in your sign, Mercury retrograde in your sign, and Jupiter leaving your sign, combine to create a unique set of circumstances. Let’s take them one at a time. The eclipse is like being reborn, with all the perils and potentials thereof. Said another way, you’re catching up with much growth and progress that you had either not noticed, or not added up on your karmic balance sheet. Update your files and proceed with full credit for all that you’ve learned. Mercury retrograde in your sign looks like what some call a searching and fearless moral inventory. Yet as a Virgo, you must remember that you tend to over-judge yourself, so I suggest you take this on the level of discovering all that is right and true and beautiful about yourself. Learn to see yourself and your life from a benevolent perspective. You have learned plenty the past year about how much you have to offer, and I suggest you make this knowledge a permanent feature in your psychological makeup. As for Jupiter leaving your sign, that means it enters Libra; and for you, that’s a comment on self-esteem. This is not something that’s given to you; rather, it’s something that you must claim for yourself, and the time is ripe.
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The big news, of course, is that Jupiter is entering your sign this month. For reference, the most recent time that happened was way back in late September 2004, which leads me to a question: are you still facing the same old fears, or have you found your confidence? I suggest you not make any assumptions; really consider this one. Fear and confidence work in a ratio. The more confidence you have, the less you are inclined to worry about things that might trouble other people. Another theme is generosity. I’ve noticed something grim in the 12 years since Jupiter was last in Libra, which is that being sincerely helpful has grown ever less fashionable—or worse, it makes less and less sense to many people. The ethos of taking, of getting what you can, of taking advantage, seems to seep through a lot of rhetoric about integrity. You have something to gain by being generous, which is peace of mind. I would propose that you have a need to live knowing that you’re doing everything that you can do for everyone you can do it for. To do this, you must go beyond what you think your capacity is. You must stretch a little, and that is what Jupiter does. You will have many opportunities this year to set small things right—and some big ones, too.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) Do you feel protected? It’s time to tune into that feeling. Your sign is more given to anxiety than the astrology books say, plenty of which is social anxiety about what you think other people think about you. If you knew the sheer volume of energy you’ve wasted on this topic, you would be amazed. No matter how grounded and secure you are in fact, you will scramble that feeling by projecting judgment onto others. Two bits of information might help. People think less about you than you think they do. They have a lot of other people on their mind. Second, it does not matter what most people think or feel, unless they have some direct power over you, or unless you specifically care about them. This will require some sorting out. Your astrology this month is a wild tour of your civic and social world. You will see and notice a lot; you’ve got the power of discernment when it comes to deciding who means what to you, and why. Yet you can afford to go light on your assessments, and you can afford to notice those with whom you share goodwill. Suspicion and judgment in any form will block your perception. There are some people who really have your back. They care about you just because they do. Notice who they are. 9/16 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 117
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Whatever happened in late August was in some way life-altering; which is to say, it looks like you had a moment of clarity. An innovator of therapy named Fritz Perls once said that his definition of learning is discovering that something is possible. So I would ask: what did you discover is possible? Did you challenge yourself to do something that made you push your abilities or talents? That might even include challenging someone who had undue authority in your life. You might have challenged a belief that was holding you back; and if you have not quite squared up to that yet, there’s still time. You remain determined to live your life your way, beyond what’s typical even for you. Take this advantage while you have it. You can proceed with the confidence that your truth is your truth, and if you don’t live for that, you’re not really living. This will, of some necessity, involve conflict. This doesn’t need to be jackets-off, outside type of conflict, but it might mean some abrasion. Little scrapes and skirmishes will help you get clear about who you are and what you want. And nearly everyone on the planet needs practice standing up for themselves. Before long you will be able to dial this back and be on friendly terms with the many people who see, and moreover feel, who you are.
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You tend to split hairs over your beliefs, as if trying to determine which are more true than others. Here is the thing: Belief is just belief. The problem is that when something so frail is assigned authority, that thing can take authority over you. For example, you might have a belief about integrity, and that can take on the stature of a god in your mind, while doing little to influence you in a positive way. Your astrology for the next few weeks is challenging you to consider this issue. What do you believe and why do you believe it? When you encounter one of these thought forms, ask yourself this question, and listen for the answer you get. Then ask again and take it deeper. You might conclude that belief per se is meaningless. It would be a compliment to call it fiction, since fiction at least involves the conscious weaving of a reality for a specific purpose. Yet it works a little like that—the purpose often being convenience. Don’t be afraid to go out of your way to find out what’s actually true for you. That might include going somewhere to conduct a personal inquiry, in search of what is real. The decisions you make this month can influence not just your long-range view of your future, but also your actual destination. Keep your eyes open and shine your light into the dark.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) It looks as if you’re ready to go someplace exotic, or at least to travel further than you can drive. In any event, you need a change of scenery and a change of pace. This will help you see the greater possibilities that you contain. When you can feel your own potential, you have a much greater chance of making it real. And that is the very thing that is opening up for you now. If you tune in, you may feel the scale of your entire future. This might manifest as what in the Seth material is described as your ‘probable selves’. You have many; many people you can be, things you can do, and places you can go. Hold that potential open as you make some important decisions this month around your finances and your career. You are starting to see the futility of certain attachments that are not furthering your cause. Before long, you’re sure to notice a certain attractive power of one particular goal. It’s seemed like a nice idea; though, when Venus moves in your favor later this month, you’re likely to be drawn to this with passion and creative lust. You’re intelligent enough to work with a clear strategy, and clever enough to know that part of that strategy must include leaving certain things to what some call luck or fate. Keep your feet loose and your wheels turning around.
PISCES (February 19-March 20)
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This month ends a long cycle in your relationships and begins another. We might be talking about something that dates back eight to 10 years. That’s quite a while, especially with time speeding along in dog years. Plenty has happened to you; and as you take a step forward, it’s time for a review of what this past decade of relationships has been about. Consider the people, consider the patterns, and consider how your expectations have evolved over time. One hint I can offer you is that as time has gone on, you’ve made peace with what a quirky individual you are. You’ve figured out that your priorities are different, your values are different, and that your drive to be your individual self—almost at all costs—is genuinely unique. This discovery may have come gradually, or it may have come all at once (of course, after building up for a while). Now comes a kind of summation of all your progress and experience. If you feel like you’re heading into unknown and uncertain territory, you’re in the right place. Yet, despite some sense of intensity and living on the edge, you have every reason to be confident. I would sum it up simply in a few words: you’ve reached a stage of life where a real exchange is possible. That translates to: give consciously, and receive graciously.
9/16 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 119
Parting Shot
U.S.A. (No. 74), Michael Crawford, acrylic on torn palette paper on paper, 22” x 30”, 2012.
A couple of years ago, I started seeing an elegantly disheveled gent—dressed in a blue oxford shirt, rumpled khakis, ball cap, and tennis shoes—riding his bicycle around Kingston. He looked every bit the collegian headed to class, albeit 40 years out of school. This remarkable fellow was none other than Michael Crawford, an artist best known for his wry, minimalist cartoons that started appearing in The New Yorker in 1981. Crawford’s wife, Carolita Johnson, who is also a cartoonist for The New Yorker and cartoon editor of Chronogram’s sister publication Upstater, describes his paintings and his cartoons as similar in style. “His cartoons were what I would call ‘expressionistic,’” says Johnson. “They consisted of only the necessary lines and shadows required to convey the idea he wanted to express. Though he would often redraw or repaint the same image over and over till he was satisfied, he wasn’t interested in being neat about it. ‘Perfect’ and ‘neat’ were not the same thing. In a painting, a face could be a few bold strokes of color, and the chiaroscuro of his cartoons, done in commercial markers, was painterly.” The humor in Crawford’s work flowed back and forth between media and his life. Fellow cartoonist Roz Chast described him as possessing “a loose, sweet, jazzy style”; “a loose, sweet, jazzy style”; New Yorker editor David Remnick saw a “wild, improvisational streak” in Crawford’s work. His wife, Johnson, was perhaps his most perceptive critic. “You’d look at a painting that looked perfectly serious and eventually realize you’d been duped, you’d just burst out laughing,” says Johnson. “He was hard-wired to find the humor in, or the alternate, funny version of any situation. His sense of humor was irrepressible, and it showed in his life’s work.” Michael Crawford died at home, in Kingston, on July 12, at the age of 70. —Brian K. Mahoney 120 CHRONOGRAM 9/16
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