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22 while you were sleeping

40 Home: an alpaca farm in stanfordville

Teenagers are moving from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, and other news.

25 beinhart’s body politic Larry Beinhart weighs in on Trump’s proposed budget cuts.

Art of business 26 This month: Woodstock Yoga Center, Jar’d Wine Pub, John M. Carroll,

28 The Ripple Effect: facING the stigma of teen suicide

Hillary Harvery talks with Elise Gold and Mathew Swerdloff about the foundation they’ve started in memory of their daughter, Maya Gold.

COMMUNITY PAGES 32 A Riverfront with two faces: Newburgh & Cornwall Historic Newburgh and Cornwall decorate the Orange County waterfront.

Diane Greenberg discusses ecological gardening with Michelle Sutton.

Food & Drink 66 kitchen sink food & drink Brian Arnoff traded in the DC food truck scene to open a restaurant in Beacon.

L. Browe Asphalt, and Milea Vineyard.

kids & family

Alicia and Daniel Adams found room for farm and family in Dutchess County.

47 Garden: Our gardens as ecosystems

whole living 74 most intimate health questions, answered

Wendy Kagan gets down and dirty, asking the embarrassing medical questions that modest people would feel uncomfortable discussing.

Community Resource Guide 71 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 72 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 76 whole living Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.

A 1915 Harley-Davidson “Dodge City Racer” at the Motorcyclepedia Museum in Newburgh.

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Gallery & museum GUIDe

80 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.)

56 MUSIC: tin horn uprising

Peter Aaron talks about the local activist marching band, Tin Horn Uprising and

PREVIEWS 79 Bread and Puppet performs its update on Goethe’s play, “Faust 3,” at Time and Space Limited in Hudson on April 14.

their magnetic presence that grabs the attention of anyone around. Nightlife Highlights includes shows by Gary Lucas and Joey Alexander Trio.

81 24-Hour Drone is a continuous sound picked up and carried on by a variety of musicians, set to start at the Basilica Hudson on April 28 through April 29.

Reviews of Waiting for the Stars by Daisycutter, Nearness by Joshua Redmand and Brad Mehldau, and Here Comes the Wave by Shana Falana.

83 Exploring themes like marriage and suburbia,“Cul-de-sac” will be staged by the Half Moon Theater at the CIA’s Marriot Pavillion April 29 through May 14.

60 BOOKS: the most important room in the world Marie Doyon profiles the mastermind behind the creation of the Svalbard Seed

84 Upstate Films’ Engage Film Series screens of social justice documentaries. 85 “We’re Watching” is a collection of contemporary artists tackling the idea of sur-

Vault, Rhinebeck-based scientist and author Cary Fowler.

62 book reviews

The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills by Leslie T. Sharpe and

veilance and will run from April 27 to 30 at Bard College’s Fisher Center. 86 Forbidden is a documentary about the life of gay, illegal immigrant Moises Serrano. 87 Neil Gaiman discusses bringing American Gods from text to TV at Bard College. 88 Drag diva Varla Jean Merman performs at venues across the region this month.

The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy, reviewed by Brian K. Mahoney; There Now: Poems by Eamon Grennan, reviewed by Janet Hammil.

64 Poetry Poems by Loren Brown, Steve Clark, Richard Donnelly, Fiona Emmi, William A. Greenfield, Clifford Henderson, Nathaniel J. Krenkel, Alman Lawrence, Lucas McMillan, Chuck Mishkin, Bruce Robinson,

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Eat before dinner: a gluten-free manifesto

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For John Fallon, whose Origin #3 graces this month’s cover, it’s all about the joy. “I like this blended stripe format,” he says. “I like the whole process, I like the primary colors. I had been working in oils doing these, and then I found I didn’t want to do that anymore, so I started experimenting with acrylics. Then Fallon, who maintains studio space in the Erector Square arts compound (birthplace of the iconic Erector Set toys) in New Haven, Connecticut and participates in the city’s annual open studios tour, was invited to install a 16-foot piece composed of what he calls his “gestural stripes” as an outdoor mural in the public art friendly Westville neighborhood. That was in January 2016, and the experience of creating such a large piece further influenced his technique. “I did the really large public piece more or less as a lark,” Fallon says, “but the experience of scaling the stripes up to 20 times their normal size led me to certain developments and simplifications that I’ve continued to use in the smaller pieces.” New Haven is Fallon’s hometown; he was first seduced by art as a high school student. “I had an inspiring teacher, a sculptor who made these fantastic hammered lead faces. I started trying my hand at Van Gogh copies.” Right after high school, a serious motorcycle crash sidelined him from typical teenage activities, and as he recovered he took to spending his days painting in his father’s garage in Atlanta, where the family had relocated. Fallon did his undergraduate work at the Atlanta School of Art and went on to the Art Institute of Chicago for his MFA in painting, which he received in 1979. He’s been pursuing his love of form and color ever since in a variety of media and styles. “My primary focus has been abstract work of a constructivist nature, exploring color, symmetries, and spatial illusion,” he says. Within the stripe pieces, he’s found a lot of scope for the playful painting he loves. “I get completely focused on the method within each stripe, and each is different,” he says. “Some are transparencies, some are thicker stuff. I use sprays and stencils; sometimes I roll the paint on and sponge it off until I’m satisfied. Sometimes I draw into a tripe with water-based marker or insert some small object—a coin, a wire—and spray over it for a shadow effect. I just work until I’m happy with it or get drawn to something else. My method is organic; it just morphs with time. It’s engaging and fun, but you end up with a lot of paintings.” Meeting gallery owner Francis Rick Gillette was a boost. “I met Rick when I was in a smaller show in Hudson, and when somebody you respect gives you a push, it’s heartening,” he says. “Performance: Paintings by John Fallon” are on exhibit through May 31 at Gillette’s FRG Objects/Design gallery, on the second floor at 217 Warren Street in Hudson. Frgdesignart.com. Portfolio: Johnfallonart.com. —Anne Pyburn Craig

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Atlas Industries & Studios in Newburgh, site of our second Chronogram Conversations event on March 8. Top row: Yaakov Sullivan of Palate Wine & Spirits expounds on women winemakers; Luminary Media Editorial Director Brian K.Mahoney with realtor Daniel Aubry; Dan Brown, owner of The Wherehouse. Middle row: Kyle Sherrer and Sae Kenney of Graft Cidery; RUPCO CEO Kevin O’Connor and Philippe Pierre, owner of Ms. Fairfax and Palate Wine & Spirits; interrior designer Michelle Rodriguez of OneidaMichelleCruz, Eric Jarmann of Newburgh Mercantile Custom Picture Frames, designer Pat Nunnari. Bottom row:Exeuctive Director of Safe Harbors of the Hudson Lisa Silverstone, Chronogram Account Executive Anne Wygal, Eric Jarmann, Robert Grunnah of Newburgh City Living, real estate broker Cameron McFadden; Luminary Media copywriter Peter Martin, artist Will Teran; Paul Halayko of Newburgh Brewing Company, Cathy Collins of Habitat for Humanity, event promoter and activist Aquanetta Wright; attorney Austin DuBois speaking on the panel with Brian K. Mahoney.

The timing couldn’t have been better for the second in Luminary Media’s series of salon events. Chronogram Conversations took place in Newburgh on March 8, and many of the quickly evolving city’s movers and shakers came out to chat. The hosting sponsor, Atlas Industries & Studios—just steps from the thriving pedestrian thoroughfare of Liberty Avenue—was an idyllic venue for the session. Guests were treated to samples of wine from vintners Palate Wines & Spirits, Graft Cidery tastings, and Newburgh Brewing Company. The goal of the monthly series is to bring together community leaders, influencers, and creatives to discuss community issues in a social setting. The series’ locations parallel our Community Pages section and inform their content, as you can read on page 32. Luminary Media was also well represented by our business development and creative teams, including Newburgh Account Executive Anne Wygal. Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney moderated the afternoon’s panel discussion on “What’s Next, Newburgh?” with attorney Austin DuBois of Blustein, Shaprio, Rich & Barone; Paul Halayko, co-founder/owner of Newburgh Brewing Company; Aquanetta Wright, of Ferry Godmother Productions; Liberty Street Bistro chef/owner Michael Kelly; and Cathy Collins, executive director of Habitat For Humanity. April’s “Conversation” will take place in Beacon; images and video from that event will appear in the May issue of Chronogram. There are still advertising placement opportunities available, where businesses from Beacon and the surrounding area have the opportunity to shine as leaders of the community. Contact Ralph Jenkins: Ralph.Jenkins@Chronogram.com Thank you to Jenny’s Floral, JTD Productions, and Footage Films. You can watch a video from Newburgh’s March Chronogram Conversations at Atlas Industries & Studios at Chronogram.com/ newburghconversation, as well as on our Vimeo and YouTube pages. Photos by John Garay 4/17 ChronograM 19

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: There’s a traditional story from Afghanistan reads like a “Twilight Zone” episode or a theoretical physicist musing about parallel universes. At the same time, this tale conveys depth of meaning. It has the title “Paradise of Song”* and relates a series of events in which a protagonist named Ahangar, which literally means “making of the self,” sings a song about a distant, paradisiacal valley. Some who hear Ahangar’s song believe in the reality of the valley, while others do not. The latter group challenges him to find the place described, which he does after an arduous journey involving many ordeals. Ahangar discovers that the valley looks just like the one he came from.The story relates that something very strange was happening, but doesn’t say what it was. Some months later, Ahangar hobbles back into the village an old man. He appears to have aged many years. His neighbors ask what he found and he has difficulty answering. He seems weary and even hopeless. ‘I climbed and I climbed, and I climbed. When it seemed as though there could be no human habitation in such a desolate place, and after many trials and disappointments, I came upon a valley. This valley was exactly like the one in which we live. And then I saw the people. Those people are not only like us people: they are the same people. For every anybody whom we have here, there is another one, exactly the same in that valley. ‘These are likenesses and reflections to us, when we see such things. But it is we who are the likeness and reflection of them—we who are here, we are their twins…’ Everyone thought that Ahangar had gone mad through his privations. Ahangar rapidly grew old and died. And all the people, every one who had heard this story from the lips of Ahangar, first lost heart in their lives, then grew old and died, for they felt that something was going to happen over which they had no control and from which they had no hope, and so they lost interest in life itself. At first, the story doesn’t seem very particularly substantive. Is it a children’s bedtime fantasy about a world next door populated by doppelgängers? When I first read it some decades ago I had the feeling that it was meaningful but I couldn’t put my finger on its precise meaning. It was only the other day that a window opened onto a deeper significance. The event occurred when I was at a party. It was an obligatory social gathering, though not unpleasant, and I was using the occasion to practice staying present in sensation in my body. I had selected my hands and feet as anchors for attention, and as is usually the case, the presence in sensation came and went. I would hold onto it for a few seconds, or even for a whole minute, and then wake up again some minutes later realizing that I had completely forgotten about my inner task. I knew most of the people at this gathering and felt comfortable that we were all of a similar sensibility.Then one of the assembled spoke up and intimated he had happily voted for the current US president. As he said it I was present in sensation in my hands, and I noticed my body tense and my mind change; my attitude towards the person instantly and automatically adjusted from one of habitual, assumed camaraderie to equally habitual mistrust and mild revulsion. At the same time I continued to sense my hands, as though I knew the inner reaction was a real and albeit unexpected opportunity. In that moment of being filled with a subjective reaction and at the same time striving to be present in a neutral but palpable sensation of my body the separation was crystal clear. I saw that the part of my nature that can be presenced has dimensionally greater reality than the reactive contents of “me,” my beliefs, opinions, and biases. In reality the me that calls itself “I” is an imposter, a holographic reflection of a truer self. This self is real and palpable and eminently available when I can muster or be drawn into a deeper attention. It may be that touched by this realization, an old me can quickly age and die, and make way for an immanent individuality. Once begun, a sense of urgency enters the process for, as the Zoroastrian aphorism posits, “Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.” —Jason Stern * From Wisdom of the Idiots by Idries Shah (Octagon Press, 1969).

Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Lions & Lambs

f April is indeed the cruellest month, then March may be the strangest. The month began with the bizarre fallout from The Couch Incident. (Imagine it as a Robert Ludlum thriller, like The OstermanWeekend.) In late February, President Trump met with leaders from the nation’s historically black universities and colleges in the Oval Office to commemorate Black History Month (and the “amazing job Frederick Douglass has done”). Pictures of the meeting showed the counselor to the president, Kellyanne Conway, seated with her knees tucked under her on a couch with the heedlessness of a cheerleader at a slumber party. Conway’s bare feet on the couch nearly broke the Internet. More attention was paid to Conway’s perceived lack of decorum or disrespect to the Oval Office than to the blackwashing nature of the event itself. Trump’s budget plan, released two weeks later, made his lack of commitment to education, minority or otherwise, clear: His administration was seeking to cut $9.2 billion—13.5 percent— from the Education Department’s budget. Then on March 4, there was the early morning tweet from Trump accusing the former president of electronic eavesdropping: “How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” This unsubstantiated accusation turned out to be just another instance of Trump tweeting out whatever oddments of conspiracy Fox News happened to be peddling at the moment, and was being wished away by the rest of the administration until Conway was back in the news again on March 12, suggesting that Obama may have spied on Trump via home appliances. “There are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately,” Conway told Mike Kelly of the Bergen Record. “There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera.” In contrast to the ongoing craziness in Washington, I spent the month in a relatively normal manner. Some excerpts from my shockingly banal activities in March. Saturday, March 4 Tidying up my home office, I find a folder of childhood ephemera my mother foisted on me last summer. It’s full of book reports (Little House on the Prairie) and photos (see above). The one from seventh grade is typical. I excelled in language arts and social studies, I struggled in math and science, and didn’t live up to my potential. That’s just my grades. In the category of “Personal Growth and Community Awareness”—which is a euphemism for “This Is the Spot Where the School Will Tell You if Your Kid Is a Discipline Problem”—I am “Commendable” in all areas (Shows Respect, Cooperates with Others, Carries Out Responsibilities, Complies with School Policies) except one: Shows Self-Control. For all three marking periods that year, I received a grade of “Unsatisfactory” from my teacher, Mrs. Kennedy. Which leads me to question whether my self-control has improved at all in 30+ years. Too bad Mrs. Kennedy isn’t still around to ask. Wednesday, March 8 Chronogram hosts the second in its Conversations series at Atlas Industries & Studios in Newburgh (Chronogram Conversations, page 19). Close to 100 people show up, and they’re fired up to talk about Newburgh’s potential. There’s food, drinks, and a lively

panel discussion with community leaders and businesspeople followed by audience participation. Newburghers are passionate about their city, probably the citizens most fiercely loyal to their home turf that I’ve encountered in the region. Before the event, we sent out an invite with a link to an RSVP form which included the following question: “What excites you about how Newburgh is changing?” I’ve included a couple of the answers from attendees below. It captures some of the current climate of enthusiasm. “I am 4th generation Newburgh, my kids are 5th. The energy and optimism and forward thinking is palpable. New visitors, new residents, new investments, and new ideas are accepted with a new assumption as to when and how we are going to be successful together rather than the old ‘if.’” “We just moved to Newburgh last June. However, in the small amount of time we have been here we have seen an immense amount of change. Every day we see new faces in the community and the energy and excitement of Newburgh’s impending revitalization is infectious. Most importantly, we were welcomed to this tight-knit community with open arms.” Sunday, March 12 Back in February, when it the temperatures were unseasonably temperate, I made a plan to hike up Wittenberg Mountain with my buddy Chuck. Wittenberg is one of the highest Catskill Peaks (elevation 3,780’), and it’s about four miles to the top from the trailhead on Woodland Valley Road outside Phoenicia. The summit has one of the most dazzling views of the Catskill High Peaks, a panoramic view of the Ashokan Reservoir below and Overlook Mountain and the other peaks along the escarpment to the east. We hit the trail with our dogs shortly after 9am. The temperature was in the single digits. (Knowing how cold it was going to be, I waged a campaign to try and get out of the hike all week, texting Chuck messages like “It’s going to be a bit icy toward the summit. Do you have the right gear?” and “Are you sure you’re going to be warm enough?” and “I’m not entirely sold on this.” The thread culminated with me writing “I have nothing to prove,” to which Chuck replied: “We all have something to prove.” Fair enough. It seemed there was no getting out of it.) By the time we reached the summit my mustache was covered in frozen stalactites and my fingers were stiffening worryingly in my gloves. Even Shazam the Wonder Dog looked fairly miserable. We marveled at the view, wolfed down sandwiches, took a couple quick sips of whiskey, and picked our way carefully down over the chutes of ice. Back at the trailhead almost six hours after we started, we were bushwhacked. After a bite at the Phoenicia Diner, we headed our separate ways. At home, Shazam walked over the couch to jump up but couldn’t seem to make the leap. His legs had no spring in them. He just dropped to the floor and fell asleep. Tuesday, March 21 On our morning walk in the park, after scrambling up and over a snowbank and into the woods—for what I assumed was his morning constitutional—Shazam returned with a corndog in his mouth. Like he was retuning to his seat at a ball game after visiting the concession stand. He reacted the same way you might if I grabbed a corndog out of your mouth. 4/17 ChronograM 21

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Jonathan Freeman, a psychology professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, conducted a study on behalf of an airline with its staff and found “that 98 percent of us consider ourselves to be among the nicest 50 percent of the population.” The disconnect comes when people are asked to rate their own niceness. Another study conducted by the University of Chicago and University of Virginia found that “we flatter—and deceive—ourselves in other ways.” Part of the study asked participants to judge two photos of themselves and pick the unaltered one, however people tended to pick the enhanced version of themselves. When asked to do the same task for a stranger’s photo, participants would correctly pick the un-enhanced photo, speaking to people “unconsciously deceiving [themselves] so that [they] can gain confidence without knowingly lying.” Source: The Guardian (UK) Overturning the federal Stream Protection Rule made sense to Representative John Faso (NY-19), who said the rule, “would have regulated the coal industry out of business and eliminated tens of thousands of jobs.” The rule was just one of numerous, far-reaching regulatory mandates from the Obama administration, made as he was leaving office. However, other officials, like Rebecca Hammer, staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Water Program, felt the rule was needed to keep forests from being destroyed. Faso simply said that Hammer other officials were “dead wrong;” he also pointed out that a number of states were left out of the process to create the rule, despite their being in some of the regions that would have been affected. Source: Daily Freeman

Teenagers are moving away from the cigarette, but on to the e-cigarette. The New York State Health Department ran a study on high school students and found that the “smoking rate in 2016 was the lowest on record at 4.3 percent, down from 27 percent in 2000.” The survey also showed a 10-percent rise in students’ use of e-cigarettes (up to 21 percent, compared to 11 percent in 2015). Health officials have also warned that the use of e-cigarettes is a gateway to use of other tobacco products; with most e-cigarettes containing nicotine. Congress and local governments have been slowly trying to limit the use of e-cigarettes. First move: to prohibit their use indoors. Source: Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin

After years of war, drought, and forest clearcutting for heating and illegal timber sales, Afghanistan is faced with a severe deforestation problem. In response, Hibatullah Akhundzada, leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, released a statement in March calling upon civilians and fighters to plant trees “for the beautification of Earth and the benefit of almighty Allah’s creations.” A report carried by the Afghan Taliban Voice of Jihad website quoted Akhundzada: “Tree plantation plays an important role in environmental protection, economic development, and the beautification of Earth.” Source: BBC News

Ford, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota knew for years that Takata airbags were dangerous and could rupture, but continued to use those airbags in production of their vehicles. After 14 people were killed and more than 100 had been injured by Takata’s airbags, the automotive industry saw its largest safety recall in history with 70 million airbags in 42 million vehicles. The file indicating the four automakers were aware of the defects in the airbags also shows that they were made aware years before any recalls. As a result of the trial, Takata pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud for providing the false data and fabricating test data, resulting in them paying a fine of $1 billion. Victims of the faulty airbags filed a class-action lawsuit against the automakers in late February for civil damages. Source: New York Times

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) reported that the “EPA’s Office of Science and Technology no longer lists ‘science’ in the paragraph describing what it does.” Gretchen Gehrke, who works on the EDGI website team said, “removing ‘science’ from the Office of Science and Technology’s mission and replacing it with ‘technologically achievable’ means the EPA is moving toward more technology-based standards, where polluters just have to install certain types of technology.” This is a major change for the EPA, with “the administration [seeming] to view their job as being a support for business as opposed to safeguarding public health.” Source: New Republic

After retweeting, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” from story on the Voice of Europe website about the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Iowa representative Steve King has been accused of echoing the principles of white supremacy. Miriam Amer, the executive director of the Iowa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said, “This racist tweet crosses the line from dog-whistle politics to straight-up white supremacist advocacy.” The tweet by King was one in a number of racist actions he has taken since being elected in 2002. King is on record with CNN saying: “[He] meant exactly what [he] said,” in his tweet and stands behind his belief that “culture and demographics are our destiny.” Source: New York Times

Aid agencies wanted clarification from the South Sudanese government after it signaled to raise the cost of work permits for foreign aid workers in March, days after the country declared a famine. Aid groups spoke to the move by the “labor ministry to increase the cost of permits from $100 to up to $10,000 [as] “terrible timing” in a country where 100,000 people are starving and a further 1 million are on the brink of starvation.” However, Human Rights Watch came back, saying that the famine was the man-made result of “conflict, warring parties blocking access for aid workers, and large-scale human rights violations.” Source: The Guardian (UK)

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

Dumb, Deceptive, and Destructive. And Dumb.

Ah, the duplicity. onald Trump wants to cut funds for Meals on Wheels. There really In theory, all payroll taxes go to the programs for which they’re assessed, is no more to be said about the man. In case anyone doesn’t know, Meals on Wheels is a program that delivers food to people who are Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance. All the other stuff that the government does gets paid for by other sources housebound. Mostly the elderly, but also the ill and infirm. It’s a loose affiliation—almost an umbrella name—for about 5,000 individual local programs, of revenue, primarily the federal income tax. All the tax cuts from Reagan to Obama have included reductions for the primarily run and staffed by volunteers. Visits by volunteers mean more than the delivery of a meal. It’s human contact. Some companionship. A safety middle and the bottom—how else to sell them?—as well as for the top. The result is that people in the bottom 60 percent of income levels do not pay any check. Some fast facts. About 2,400,000 seniors got 219,400,000 meals from the federal income tax. In fact, they likely get money from the government. It is easy organization. Most of their money comes from individuals and private organi- to fall into the “lucky duckies” fallacy. It’s even easier to drop the two qualifying zations. That’s not accounting for the fact that most of the labor is free. Volun- words, “federal” and “income” in order to say that rich people pay an inordinate teers usually use their own vehicles. So that’s free, too. Along with the fuel and share of the word left over, “taxes.” The reality is that the tax cuts have actually been tax shifts. When payroll, state, and lomaintenance. Only about three percent comes cal taxes, and various others, are added up, most from the government. The reality is that the tax Americans—except those at the very bottom Federal money does not go directly to Meals and very top—pay a bit over 40 percent in taxes. On Wheels. It goes to a program called Comcuts have actually been Yes, we all pay taxes. Most of us pay the same munity Development Block Grant (CDGB), tax shifts. When payroll, percentage. started in 1978 by President Gerald Ford, that state, and local taxes, and But nearly half of us do not pay federal income gives funds to local and state governments. They various others, are added taxes. If the single mom in Detroit that Mulvaney allocate it, within guidelines and with reportis so concerned about lives up to her caricature, ing requirements, to benefit low and middle up, most Americans— she is certainly not paying federal income tax. Coal income communities. Administration spokesperexcept those at the very miners make between $30,000 and $65,000 ansons may try to use this technicality as a way to bottom and very top—pay nually. Even at the top end, they likely do not pay walk back the fact that they’re cutting money to any federal income tax. feed seniors. But Trump’s budget cuts the entire a bit over 40 percent in The programs that Mulvaney wants to cut are program. Zip. Zap. Gone. Funding for Meals on taxes. paid for almost entirely by the federal income tax. Wheels included. Yes, we all pay taxes. Which the single mom and the coal miner do not If Grandma is too feeble to get out of house pay. So his concern, his compassion, his reasonand down to the Trump Grill, “nestled in the corner of the Atrium in Midtown New York City’s world-renowned Trump ing, his pitch is either a flat out deception or the poison fruit of monumental Tower,” and doesn’t have enough money for the “classic American cuisine in ignorance. How does America makes its money? an elegant and relaxed setting”—come on, the “You’re Fired,” an oversized Arts and culture produce nearly $700 billion; movies and TV alone account Bloody Mary on the brunch menu only costs $18—then let her stay home with for $15.9 billion. That’s more than transportation, travel, and tourism, or agria can of cat food. culture. It produced a trade surplus of $16.3 billion (2014 figures). The budget proposal also cuts funding for PBS and NPR. All of it. You want economic growth, invest in science. “In 2010, about $26.6 billion It eliminates all money for the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library in National Institutes of Health research led to $69 billion in economic activity and supported 485,000 jobs. The $3.8 billion taxpayers invested in the Human Services, and a whole host of smaller programs. It makes major cuts to the departments of education, the EPA, Health and Genome Project helped create and drive $796 billion in economic activity.” Human Services, Transportation, Housing & Urban Development, the State (From an op-ed in the NewYork Times on October 29, 2012, written by Neal F. Lane, former director of the National Science Foundation.) Department, Labor Department, Commerce, Agriculture, and the Interior. Do we think America will become “great again” (or if you think it’s already Former South Carolina congressman Mick Mulvaney, now Trump’s budget director, has been making the rounds to pimp this tawdry, malicious, and mean great, even greater) with coal mining jobs? By physically assembling smart phones? Increasing the levels of permitted pollution? Or through education? rag of a document. Here’s his pitch: “When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, With healthier children. By investing in the arts—already a big winner—in one of the questions we asked was: ‘Can we really continue to ask a coal miner education, and in science which will invent the future. The Trump budget is not just dumb. Its premises and justifications are not in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs?’ The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t just deceptive. Their choices to invest and disinvest are destructive—of our ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.” Not present and our future; of our people and our economy. It’s double dumb. Triple dumb: Dumb, dumber, dumbest. asking them for money is “one of the most compassionate things we can do.” 4/17 ChronograM 25

Art of Business Profiles of our Advertising Partners

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Jar’d Wine Pub in the Water Street Market has been said to resemble a jewel box. Owner Theresa Fall, also co-founder of the larger, newer Parish Restaurant upstairs and the events coordinator for the market as a whole, says the real gems are the playful humans. “I’m guided by everybody around me,” she says. “Monday is when the restaurant people have off and do laundry, so we have Laundry Monday specials. It’s a silly day, but they also help me choose what movies we’ll have at Water Street Market next on movie night. It’s my busiest weeknight in the summer time.” The establishment’s small size—187 square feet inside, with a tiny deck outside—makes it something of a conversational crucible on any night. “The mix of regulars and tourists draws everyone in,” Fall says. “People want to understand the town, and the locals enjoy enlightening them, and the customers shape the evening; if you’re here, you’re creating it. The size of the space means you really don’t have much choice.” Jardwinepub.com

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My Analyst Told Me...

Barbara Boris knew there had to be more to life than the corporate art world, but until her first voyage to India, she’d thought she might become a doctor. “It was ‘94, the art boom had busted, and I was seeing a therapist like any good Californian in New York,” Boris recalls. “And I told him about the opportunity to go to India and study yoga more. He said, ‘Go!’ very definitely and forcefully. I’d never even been to Mexico. I was 35 years old, sitting on this plane, wondering, ‘Do I even like Indian food?’” Twenty-two years later, when a local publication published a roundup of Woodstock yoga studios without including the lively, warm, and eclectic ashram she’s founded in the heart of town, one of over two dozen letters from readers compared it to omitting the Smithsonian from a roundup of museums in Washington, DC. Woodstockyogacenter.com

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By Grace Alone John M. Carroll’s job description is “healer, teacher, spiritual counselor.” His tool kit involves prayer, energetic fields, and integrative mental imagery, and he’s very clear on his assertion that he himself does absolutely nothing at all; as a psychic surgeon, he is simply using analogy, intuition, and imagery to help clients access Divine Intervention. His website features testimonials from those who’ve employed his methodology to address illnesses ranging from cancer and Alzheimer’s to fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and MS. So you got into this by way of a couple of crisis situations in your own life? Yes. The first happened when I was 10. I fell into a coma for reasons no one could determine and was dead for 15 minutes. The next day, I came out of the coma, but I was paralyzed from the neck down. They prayed for two days, and I got up and walked out. My grandmother squeezed my hand and told me I now had a gift, and I should use it. I went into the technical side of the dental field. And I was plagued by horrible allergies. I was on a regimen of steroid sprays, antihistamines, and shots that wasn’t really working. I went to a Gerald Epstein workshop and it changed my life utterly, and my guardian angel told me what to do next.

The TastE of Teamwork

Founded in 2015, Milea Estate Vineyards wines started winning awards with their very first crush that autumn. Vintner and co-owner Bruce Tripp says they’ve found themselves immersed in a collaborative brotherhood of the grape. “The craziest thing is the cooperation that goes on between the wineries,” he says. “We’re in competition as one region among many, but if our region does well then we all do well. I’m vice president of the Hudson Valley Wine and Grape Growers Association; we met just last night, as we do every few weeks early in the year, to blind-taste and rate each other’s wines in process straight from the tank or barrel. There’s a lot of conversation and analysis; we help each other identify faults we may not have noticed on our own and address those. We also share resources; if someone has surplus grapes, they’ll call around to see who can use them.” Mileavineyard.com

And you can help people heal their problems remotely, over the phone? You don’t even have to meet them? Oh sure. I just worked this weekend with a kid who’d been in a car accident; she wasn’t responding, but her brain was still good. By morning, she was responding to commands. I work in Israel, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy—there is no time and space in reality, after all. What does it feel like? Is it akin to channeling? I don’t channel, I pray. I see images; the client may feel a buzzing sensation, or warmth. But the main thing I feel is humbled and overjoyed by the blessing of being able to speak up, in a situation where they say it’s hopeless, and say “Not in my world it’s not.” Johnmcarrollhealer.com

paving the way

Why is the paving business so riddled with fly-by-night operations? Lorne Browe, proprietor of L. Browe Asphalt, thinks it’s the nature of the beast. “People can learn to do their own sheetrock, paint, do carpentry,” Browe says. “But hardly anyone actually knows how to go to the plant and obtain and manage this 300-degree material in mass quantities. So the homeowners just have no idea what’s actually involved, no way to tell if it’s being done right or not until it’s done. They’re left looking at the result and knowing something isn’t right, but without the confidence or the vocabulary to say what.” Browe is everything that the scammers are not, laying down sturdiness and good looks as the family business has been doing for over half a century out of Saratoga Springs. “It’s a craft that takes years to master, and it’s gratifying,” he says. “And I love that we recycle every bit of material these days. I always hated dumping it.” Broweasphalt.com

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Kids & Family

The Ripple Effect

Facing the stigma of teen suicide by Hillary Harvey photo by Elise Gold Maya Gold hiking in Minnewaska State Park, 2014.

fter their daughter, Maya, committed suicide in October 2015, Mathew Swerdloff and Elise Gold spent hours every weekend driving back and forth to Geneseo to spend time with Maya’s brother Adin. It’s 300 miles from New Paltz, and their conversations during those long car rides hatched an idea. Compassionate beyond her 15 years, Maya was also deeply sensitive. Her empathy led her to veganism and a future plan to advocate for children in Nepal. With Swerdloff’s experience in educational support services and instructional leadership, and Gold’s experience in human services and social justice, they decided to start a foundation that would honor Maya’s ideals. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 34, according to the Centers for Disease Control.Yet, even at a rate of 12.5 percent, teen suicide still trails the highest risk group (white, middle aged men) and even the second highest group (people over the age of 85) by 7 percent. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, mental disorders and/or substance abuse have been found in 90 percent of suicide cases. “Stigma surrounding suicide leads to underreporting,” their website states, “and data collection methods critical to suicide prevention need to be improved.” For Swerdloff and Gold, grieving involved unlocking the discussion around suicide–unpacking the social pressures and concerns that affected Maya and openly sharing their own processes. They both keep blogs about their personal experiences with the aftermath of Maya’s death. On his blog, Swerdloff writes, “Ten questions that cannot be answered: 3. Will I ever not be ‘the man whose daughter committed suicide?’” Those left grappling with the loss are often haunted by unanswered questions. Swerdloff went down the path of trying to uncover the roots of Maya’s pain, searching her phone, her room, and her social media accounts for answers. If she was contemplating suicide, why did she go to the library the night before her death to prep for a test that would happen in a few days? In the end, Swerdloff recognized that certain questions would never be resolved. “I got bits and pieces,” he says. “Then, when I got to the end of that pursuit, the question for me became, how do I respond? I realized that she’s still here because I’m here, because she’s always with me.” A mission for their foundation emerged: to empower youth. Swerdloff and Gold developed a two-part goal: to support programming for teens in the Hudson Valley that builds emotional awareness, and to partner with vetted NGOs in Nepal to provide basic necessities to children there. They incorporated as a

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501(c)3 and recruited volunteers who will support the mission. Board member Sarah Dukler, a family friend and Maya’s former babysitter, says, “Before this, I just wanted to do anything to help. These are the most incredible people, and they’ve been torn apart in every way possible.” Spiraling The summer of 2015 was a difficult one for Maya. She experienced painful social shifts common to the teen experience as she began her sophomore year at New Paltz High School. She was in therapy, but had also started to self-medicate, experimenting with over-the-counter (OTC) medicines that contained dextromethorphan (DM). She was stealing the cough suppressant pills and taking far more than the recommended dosage in order to get high. According to her parents, it was only three weeks from when Maya started using DM until her death. DM is an ingredient found in more than a hundred OTC cough and cold medicines. Introduced to the US in the 1950s, it works by raising the coughing threshold in the brain. It’s non-addictive and non-narcotic with no pain-relieving properties, but when taken in amounts that well exceed the recommended dosage, the side effects include hallucinations.What’s called robotripping or skittling is something that about 3 percent of tenth graders admit to trying, according to data collected in 2016 and released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DM is easier and cheaper to get than illicit drugs, and there’s an assumption among teens that because it’s a medicine, it’s somehow safer than street drugs. The levels of DM from multiple medicines in Maya’s body reveal that she probably experienced a temporary psychotic episode, and made a seemingly impulsive choice. Maya didn’t overdose on pills. On a Friday morning before school, she took her own life by other means. “Depending upon the particular medication, it can have spiraling effects,” says Lee Livermore, the public education coordinator for Upstate New York Poison Center, which runs educational public and professional programs on drug use, poisoning, and toxic exposures. “If it’s a depressant or a sedative, that can put someone in a state where they’re not thinking clearly.” Experimentation is a hallmark of adolescence, and that’s not just because of social norms—it’s biological. The human brain develops from back to front, with the prefrontal cortex, the part of theJudah brainand that’s for assessing Iggy responsible flexing consequences and regulating risk behavior and emotions, among other functions, being the last to develop.

Overcoming Invisibility There’s a fear that teen suicide is a social contagion, similar to pregnancy and smoking cigarettes—that open conversations at school assemblies and memorials might encourage struggling peers to be attracted to the attention and believe that social traumas can be vindicated through suicide. The conventional wisdom is to truncate the mourning period in an effort to avoid copycats and clusters. New methods take into account the influence of social media. Amie Adams, a program director for Astor Clinics of Ulster and Dutchess County, explains that best practices are changing rapidly. “We can’t stop the spread of info, so we want to make sure that the information that is going out there is the truth.” The Maya Gold Foundation’s approach is to provide programming that invites a larger conversation around a taboo topic and empowers mutually supportive communities of teens and adults. Last February, in response to Maya’s death, Astor worked with New Paltz High School to establish an independent and confidential clinic there, similar to partnerships with other districts, to complement the existing supports. The clinic works with kids and families to have safe talks and reduce access to OTCs, prescription drugs, sharp objects used for self-harm, and weapons. “I come from a proactive stance: In our clinical programs, we’re checking in at every session and establishing a safe place to talk about this. If you’ve had a thought or a plan, we want to bring that to the table. It’s something we can talk about in a clinical environment, and keep those lines of communication open.” A teen’s suicide shines a light on how deadly loneliness and isolation can be. A natural drifting apart happens during adolescence as teens gravitate toward peers and away from parents. But for all their self-determination, resentment, and independence, teens are fragile. In his TEDx Talk, author Roy Petitfils frames overcoming his own adolescent obesity as an overcoming of invisibility. He says, “Rejection is not our greatest fear; our greatest fear is to be invisible.” A therapist in Lafayette, Louisiana, an expert in understanding teenagers, Petitfils asserts that adult attention is a gift for teens, and that they are desperate to be seen. “Teens are almost treated as second-class citizens,” says Hannah Goichman, Maya’s childhood friend and a Maya Gold Foundation teen advisor. Amelia Verderosa, another teen advisor, agrees, “People will hear us, but they’re not actually listening. Teens realize that more than anyone.” The teen advisory board was formed last spring, and comprises kids ages 13 to 18. Goichman explains, “The foundation’s purpose is about Maya’s legacy and what she stood for, more than about her death or the way she died.” Verderosa never met Maya. She learned of the foundation when she performed at a fundraiser for the nonprofit with Vanaver Caravan. But, she says, “We all feel Maya coming through.” The foundation was incorporated a month after Maya’s death, and has been evolving quickly. Ulster County, the Superintendents Association, and the police have all expressed interest in partnering. Omega Institute in Rhinebeck provided a grant for a weekend retreat. Having worked in the nonprofit world for 40 years, Gold knows the foundation’s growth is remarkably fast. “People are just saying yes,” Gold explains, “because there’s a hunger for this. There’s a need.” At Omega, the foundation’s board crafted long-term plan, which they nicknamed the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal): That the Maya Gold Foundation becomes widely recognized as a model community-based organization inspiring youth and adults to grow together. The teen board developed their own mission: to give youth a voice. “Just being on the board, I already feel that way,” says Goichman. She sits on the Thrive Review Committee, which so far has offered 13 grants for local teen programming using money collected through fundraising. Goichman says that going through the applications to determine whose purpose aligns best with the mission is the greatest thing she’s done on the board. “Saying no didn’t feel good, but I felt empowered by it. I had the ability to decide who gets our money.” Right now, everyone involved in the Maya Gold Foundation is a volunteer, and most, if not all, of the money raised goes toward programming. Swerdloff and Gold unfold the leaf of their dining table for board meetings. “Our board and our teen advisory board are an expression of our mission,” Gold says. “We’re about empowering one another, so this community can be a model for other communities, and the ripples just continue.” The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800) 273-TALK The Lifeline is a free, 24/7 service that can provide suicidal persons or those around them with support, information, and local resources.

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A Riverfront with Two Faces Newburgh & Cornwall By elissa garay PHOTOs BY john garay

t’s been more than four centuries since Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River, his chronicler declaring the present-day city of Newburgh to be “a very pleasant place to build a town.” Some historians have deduced that this proclamation may have instead applied to where the Village of Cornwall-onHudson, in the bucolic Town of Cornwall, now stands, just a bit further south. Either way, he was right, with both historic waterfront communities—each boasting a pleasing, river-meets-mountain aesthetic—proving to be fruitful settlements indeed, despite following courses toward two strikingly different manifestations in the centuries to come. Perched along the western banks of the Hudson, Newburgh and Cornwall fall within the northeastern section of Orange County, both very much part of the Hudson Valley but distinctly flavored by their proximity to NewYork, which, set within a 60-mile radius, counts them as part of the greater New York Metropolitan area. Despite there being just over five miles separating Cornwall’s core from Newburgh’s city center, the two have emerged as a study in contrasts: Newburgh is decidedly urban, oozing raw potential and innovation despite its inner-city obstacles, while Cornwall has embraced its pastoral identity, holding steadfast to a stewardship of nature and an inherent sense of small-town USA. Newburgh Newburgh’s biggest hurdle has perhaps been its reputation, one of lurid notoriety for crime and grit—a rehashed narrative, as residents will tell you, that’s more of a retelling than a reality at this point.To be sure, the city is not without its problems, with gangs and drugs (as geographically isolated and targeted

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as they may be) a very real byproduct of an impoverished local community that’s been left to withstand the post-industrial fallout marking Newburgh’s late-20th-century demise. Once a jewel of an all-American industrial city in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Newburgh was eventually left to a slow spiral of urban decay, a long and torrid downfall that’s owed to myriad reasons too exhaustive to comprehensively depict here. But recently, more optimistic headlines out of Newburgh have pointed to a city in transition, as a slate of distinctive entrepreneurial ventures, creative artistic and cultural endeavors, and other developmental projects continue to emerge with increasing frequency.The investment in the city’s revitalization— fed by money, time, energy, and hope—has been palpable, as a clear pattern of community rebirth emerges for this Hudson Valley diamond-in-the-rough. Newburgh Revitalization Boasting natural riverfront beauty, New York proximity, cultural diversity, and impressive architectural bones, the appeal of affordable real estate here has been a major driving factor for its back-on-the-map renaissance, with ample opportunities presented to forward-thinking visionaries willing to restore and reimagine its many long-abandoned or underutilized storefronts, warehouses, and homes. Newburgh claims the state’s second-largest historic district: some 4,000 buildings of architectural and historical significance marked by the designs of 19th-century “starchitects” like Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Clarke Withers, Calvert Vaux (who created Newburgh’s 35-acre Downing Park with Frederick Law Olmsted—the same duo behind Central Park), and Alexander

Clockwise from top left: Doris Jones at Jones Farm in Cornwall; Rudolph and Deborah Duffus at Calabash Caribbean Restaurant & Lounge in Newburgh; Barbara Robinson DeAngelis at Gypsy Birds in Cornwall; Sasha Boucher at Wildlife Education Center of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall; Karen Monti at Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Headquarters State Historic Site in Newburgh; Michael Gabor at Newburgh Art Supply; Paul Halayko at Newburgh Brewing Company. Opposite: A section of the mural by Garin Baker at the Newburgh waterfront.

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Clockwise from top left: Jon Wallach at Eco Shrimp Garden in Newburgh; Jodi Cummings at Caffe Macchiato in Newburgh; Heewon Marshall at Seoul Kitchen in Newburgh; Talitha and Dan Jones at Edgwick Farm in Cornwall.

Jackson Davis (behind the monumental 1835 Dutch Reformed Church, a national historic landmark that’s currently seeking redevelopment proposals). The redevelopment momentum is largely owed to the capital and time put forth by several preservation-minded nonprofits, often working in collaboration. Since 1999, Habitat for Humanity has worked to bring 85 gutrehabbed and new-build homes to the city, with as many as nine more slated to come online in 2017. Affordable regional housing and community developer RUPCO, meanwhile, has just kicked off a 16-month construction schedule for their first foray into Newburgh: a $15 million project that will revitalize 15 historic buildings to feature 45 affordable apartments, a community space, and a policing substation on four blocks immediately north of Broadway. The RUPCO project, along with several Habitat properties, was developed in partnership with the Newburgh Community Land Bank, which aims to stimulate economic development and neighborhood revitalization in the city by acquiring abandoned and underutilized properties and giving them new life via affordable redevelopment initiatives; to date, they’ve sold over 50 Newburgh properties. Another transformative program has been the Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress’s August 2016-launched Creative Neighborhood project, which is assessing revitalization potential in the neighborhood surrounding the waterfront SUNY Orange campus. They’ve helped usher in a $3 million lowinterest loan fund to help fund area businesses, and are collaborating with the college on the adaptive reuse of three vacant civic buildings by late 2018, where they envision a “creative makers-village-type atmosphere” incorporating the college curriculum. Of course, for-profit firms have their hands in the pot, too, with companies like Brooklyn-rooted SASRE Properties and Penchant Capital seizing the opportunity to revive the architecturally significant housing stock. By year’s end, the two collaborating firms intend to renovate two commercial/mixedused buildings on Liberty Street, as well as 11 one-family townhouses in the city’s historic Washington Heights district, retailing them to clients (mainly from New York City) in a middle-class-friendly range of $225K to $275K. Newburgh Restoration blogger and urban planner Cher Vick has been documenting Newburgh’s revitalization efforts since 2008, and cited some upcoming projects that she’s especially excited about, like the Liberty Street School (set to become a “multi-use creative space”) and 257 Liberty, a former church parsonage (staged to transform into a preschool), right across from it. “The school is so pivotal for extending the revitalization of Liberty Street south,” she says. 34 community pages ChronograM 4/17

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From top: Skull, a sculpture by Jayoung Yoon at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh made of human hair and glue; The Wherehouse in Newburgh; Iliad, a painted steel sculpture by Alexander Liberman at Storm King Art Center in Cornwall.

Liberty Street & Lower Broadway Revival In all fairness, Liberty Street was first made a destination by George Washington, who utilized the historic Hasbrouck House here for his headquarters and residency during the end of the Revolutionary War (in 1782 and 1783). The nation’s first public historic site, Washington’s Headquarters will notably see the reopening of its 1887 Tower of Victory observation deck later this year. The site overlooks the five-year-old Newburgh Brewery, credited as one of the area’s revitalizing agents, which turns out craft brews in an old 1850s box factory; sample beers and light fare in their massive, rustic taproom—there are Saturday brewery tours, and live music acts on weekends, too. Another pioneer in the strip’s renaissance is the eight-year-old, rock ‘n’ roll-themed Wherehouse, pairing regular live music with more than 50 types of burgers, in-house smoked BBQ, and two dozen beers on tap. Caffe Macchiato, with its European vibe and specialty coffee bar, has been thriving under the ownership of CIA grad Jodi Cummings, who renovated the space and menu when she took over in September 2015. A parade of relative newcomers have followed suit: the June-debuted French/American eatery Liberty Street Bistro, helmed by young chef/owner Michael Kelly; the September 2015-launched Ms. Fairfax, offering a locally sourced menu, specialty cocktails, and backyard patio; December-debuted Korean eatery and Beacon-import Seoul Kitchen; and Calabash Caribbean Restaurant, which relocated here from Broadway in September. Or, stock up on ecofriendly shrimp raised on-site at the 2015-debuted Eco Shrimp Garden, just off Liberty on South William Street. On Broadway, a second outpost of Cornwall’s popular coffee shop 2 Alices Coffee Lounge debuted two years ago, featuring local art shows and live music, while Newburgh Mercantile vends items made in Newburgh, the greater Hudson Valley, and beyond. Artistic Ambitions The Liberty/Broadway area has been at the epicenter of the city’s flourishing arts and cultural scene. Off Liberty on Spring Street, high-end furniture maker Atlas Industries transplanted their manufacturing center here from Brooklyn in 2013, leasing off the rest of their stylishly renovated warehouse space via their Atlas Studios arm, where 45 workspaces are filled with a hive of creative tenants. Their gallery space, which hosts intimate musical performances from occupant Queen of the Hudson, will put on regular art exhibits for the first time this year. The partners behind Newburgh Art Supply have helped launch several of the city’s arts festivals, including Newburgh Last Saturdays, featuring open studios, live performances, and special dining and entertainment events on the last Saturday of the month; the annual OPEN Studios event, which highlighted over 100 Newburgh artists last year (September 30 to October 1); and the Lightbulb Project, a biennial showcase of public artworks. They join the annual Newburgh Illuminated Festival (June 3), a block party-style fest brimming with live music, food vendors, and performance art. Nonprofit organization Safe Harbors of the Hudson, committed to “building community through housing and the arts,” has served to revitalize a block of real estate at the Liberty/Broadway junction with projects like the contemporary Ann Street Gallery; a new urban park; and Space Create, a collaborative workspace and gallery that they lease space to. They’re currently planning a full renovation of the historic 1913 Ritz Theater, with the already renovated lobby presently hosting small-scale performances and art shows (April 29 kicks off a “Newburgh Visionaries” exhibition). The film industry is another emerging force in the city, being further boosted by special film tax credits extended to the region in 2016. Umbra of Newburgh debuted in 2011 as Newburgh’s first film production studio; filmmaker/actor Robert Fontaine has since partnered with the studio to bring his own Industrial House Films production company to the city. Newburgh Waterfront Newburgh’s Hudson River waterfront is the city’s most obvious visitors’ draw, a pleasant promenade that strings together a series of some half-dozen restaurants and bars, joined by boating diversions, the indie Downing Film Center, and a new mile-long waterfront trail on the grounds of the long-

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Further Afield Motorcycle enthusiasts shouldn’t miss the massive Motorcyclepedia Museum for its showcase of close to 600 rare and vintage motorcycles, or the Orange County Choppers headquarters (from Discovery’s American Chopper series), which is open for tours. Refuel on New American fare at the atmospheric North Plank Road Tavern, in operation almost continuously since 1801; or, on the newer side, Graft Cidery, launched in November and is opening a “cider garden” for tastings in May. Cornwall Just a few miles down the river, but worlds away by virtually every other measure apart from distance, the serene town of Cornwall draws visitors to its close-knit, family-friendly, well-heeled community with nature reserves, farm-fresh fare, fun festivals (like RiverFest on June 3 and the Cornwall Fall Festival on September 24), and quaint commercial strips, but really reels in art lovers far and wide for its biggest attraction: the seasonal Storm King Art Center (reopening April 5), ranked among the world’s top sculpture parks. The center’s 500 sprawling acres—in Mountainville, a hamlet of Cornwall— put forth stunning natural backdrops for the more than 100 outdoor contemporary sculptures on display, from the likes of Noguchi, Calder, and Di Suvero. Outdoor Adventures The family-focused Hudson Highlands Nature Museum touts two locations: the 177-acre Outdoor Discovery Center, with hiking trails, a “nature play” area, and year-round nature programs (including an Earth Day celebration on April 22), as well as Cornwall-on-Hudson’s Wildlife Education Center, featuring displays of small animals native to the region. Landlubbers can find trails in Cornwall’s 3,870-acre Black Rock Forest Consortium, or in Cornwall-on-Hudson’s 1,900-acre Storm King State Park, while the Hudson River waterfront beckons for seasonal guided kayaking outings from Cornwall-on-Hudson between May and October; try Storm King Adventure Tours or Mountain Valley Guides. Culinary Delights Fuel up on farm-fresh fare at the welcoming, 103-year-old, family-run Jones Farm with its standout bakery, cafe, and farmstand (don’t miss the mouthwatering goat cheese, sourced just up the road, from Edgwick Farm); well-curated gift ship sourcing local artisans; petting zoo, and art gallery. Top restaurants include Brothers Barbecue for meats smoked fresh daily (and live music on weekends) and CIA chef Scott Strauss-helmed newcomer Storm King Tavern Restaurant, on the historic Storm King Golf Club grounds. Cornwall-on-Hudson’s main stretch, Hudson Street, proposes the original 2 Alices Coffee Lounge and Painter’s Tavern, which features an eclectic menu, more than 100 beers, and local artwork. Cornwall’s Main Street Main Street offers retail therapy from longstanding anchors like Cornwall Yarn Shop, which sells a selection of New York State yarns, alongside newcomers like the year-old Hideaways for antiques, cards, and gifts, and the November-debuted Gypsy Birds, selling handmade soaps, candles, incense, and more. Metaphysical, herbalist, and tarot reading shop Brid’s Closet is currently sharing their storefront with the locally made, country-craft style handicrafts of Creative Gifts & More, and the Elizabeth Collection, which sells 100-percent handmade goods, with an emphasis on leatherwork. The the town is making a push to showcase Cornwall’s history on Main, too, via the 2016 restoration of the historic 1760 Sands Ring Homestead and plans for a Cornwall Historical Museum to open on the grounds of the town hall park next year.

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Alicia Adams, in an alpaca wool shawl, feeding her alpaca herd. Her “guilt-free fur” products are made from the animals’ sheared winter coats. Opposite: The 18th-century refurbished farmhouse sits on almost 80 acres of land— room enough for her family of six and her Alpacas to roam.

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lpaca fur is usually thick and scratchy, and warm enough to withstand an Andean winter, but the yarn spun from Alicia and Daniel Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alpaca herd is soft enough to be mistaken for cashmere. The yarn is woven into blankets, capes, sweaters, and pillows for their clothing and homeware line, Alicia Adams Alpaca. All of it is based out of their 80-acre farm, where the couple live, work, and care for the herd of alpacas that have become almost like extended family. Like their line of clothing and housewares, the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s background is a bit of Old World charm mixed with new world ingredients. Both are half German, and grew up in the Americas and Europe. Daniel is half American and spent part of his childhood on the East Coast; Alicia is half Mexican and lived in both Mexico and Germany as a child. However, since their arrival 11 years ago, they and their alpacas have woven themselves seamlessly into the fabric of the Hudson Valley.

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Left, from top: The Adams’ dining room. Daniel Adams designed the family’s wooden dining room table to include slate place settings. Chalk is always on hand to mark seating arrangements or entertain children. The home’s living room has original wide-plank wooden floors and a fireplace, and is decorated with pillows and a throw blanket woven from alpaca fur. An alpaca fur bedspread and pillows also adorn the downstairs guest bedroom. “At trade shows, I love taking buyers by the hand and saying ‘Here, touch this,’” Alicia Adams explains. “They always say, ‘Oh, it’s cashmere,’ and I say, ‘No—it’s alpaca.’” Right: The living room fireplace with a rainbow of shawls. Alpaca fur naturally ranges in 22 different shades. After separating out the guard hair and spinning the fur into yarn, Adams dyes it and then weaves it into her signature warm, ultra-soft knit.

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That’s not a Kangaroo True to the international nature of this brood, the Adamses came to alpaca farming through a rather circuitous route. They were living outside of Munich with two preschool-age children (and another on the way) where they had just finished renovating a large farmhouse. Daniel, one of the co-founders and the CFO of Design Hotels, a boutique hotel marketing and support services company, had taken that business public and then sold it. Alicia had left her career in marketing to focus on raising their family. (A fourth daughter was born later in the Hudson Valley.) “It was nice,” Alicia recalls, “but a little bit boring.” Both were ready for a new challenge. “We wanted an adventure”—but one that allowed for their growing family. Daniel thought a winery might provide both the challenge and work-life balance they were seeking. A lover of all things Australian, he went to investigate vineyards in the burgeoning wine region just north of Sydney. In Mudgee, New South Wales, after a day of research, he returned to his B&B for the evening to relax. Out on the veranda, sharing a bottle of wine with the B&B’s English owners, he noticed some unusual animals in the distance. “Those aren’t kangaroos,” he commented. The owners replied, “No, they’re alpacas.” Daniel was fascinated. In the morning, he called his wife. “Forget the wine, we can buy wine,” he remembers saying. “Let’s breed alpacas.” He started doing research and contacting American alpaca breeders. Like their relative the llama, alpacas are native to South America, but smaller, docile, and bred to produce masses of warm fur. Both Daniel and Alicia have always loved animals and were attracted to the fact that breeding the creatures and harvesting their fur wouldn’t involve any cruelty to the creatures. Alpacas are also a sustainable animal to keep. Unlike goats bred for cashmere, their feet are padded, allowing them to walk gently on the earth, and they only nibble the tops of grass, rather than pulling it up by the roots. (“If you want a good lawnmower,” Alicia says, “just get an alpaca.”) With their children still in preschool, the couple realized they had a window of opportunity. They sold their farm in Germany and decided to move to the US. (Australia was just too far from their extended family.) Friends suggested the Millbrook area for its European feel and proximity to NewYork city. They made their move.

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The 18th-Century Farmhouse Reinvented They began on a rented deer farm with 15 alpacas for breeding. “It was really learning by doing,” Alicia says. No one in the area had experience with the breed and the couple did all the birthing themselves. (Alpacas commonly have one baby a year, called a cria.) As they learned the ropes, they found they loved farm life, as well as the mixed community they found in the Hudson Valley. While locals were initially skeptical of their operation (“this is horse country,” Alicia notes) they soon saw the alpaca’s appeal. Pine Plains veterinarians Barbara Clayton and Bernardo Mongil even underwent specialized training to assist the Adamses in their operation. In 2008, the couple bought their current six-bedroom, three-bath farmhouse on 10 acres of land. They also purchased an adjacent 67 acres for their growing herd. The two properties, which together were once a farmstead dating from the 1780s, were reunified and reborn as a modern alpaca farm. However, the 4,800-square-foot farmhouse, as well as the surrounding landscape, required a complete overhaul to become the picturesque, working farmstead they are today. The first floor was built around a large central fireplace. Three mantles—one facing the living room, one the kitchen, and another a breakfast nook—all share the same flue. In the living room, the couple pulled up linoleum to reveal the original wide-plank wood floors. They gutted the kitchen and replaced it with a white, ultra modern island and cabinetry. Then they knocked out a wall, expanding the space to include a breakfast nook. An open porch was converted into an extended mud room for the family. A covered porch was closed in and incorporated into the first floor layout: It’s now an informal family room. Upstairs, they removed another wall to create an enlarged landing. Three of the original farmhouse bedrooms suit their youngest children perfectly, and they converted the attic into a bedroom for their oldest daughter. A master suite was added for the adults. Outside, they cleared the land of fallen trees and stone, using the raw materials to create a stacked log fence and stone patios. Humming Merrily Along In 2009, with a thriving alpaca herd and children happily enrolled in local schools, Alicia found that she once again needed a new adventure. Sheared once a year (“it’s always around Cinco De Mayo,” Alicia notes, “and we try to make a party of it”), alpacas produce hair of varied length and thickness and in a range of 22 shades. While Alicia had no previous experience with knitting or sewing, she had a love of design and practicality. She also had an idea to create something soft and sustainable. “When people think of alpaca, they thick of the thick, scratchy fur,” Alicia explains. “But, like other fiber animals, alpacas have a layer of coarse guard hair; underneath, their fur is soft.” By separating out the guard hair (she now uses a machine to do this) she was able to make a set of plush baby booties and a hat. She took the raw fiber and her sample products to local mills and artisans, as well as the Hudson Valley Sheep and Wool Festival, learning whatever she could and looking for someone to transform the raw material into yarn with the warmth of an alpaca sweater and the luxurious feel of cashmere. Just as with her husband’s trip to Australia, it took a trip overseas to provide the final necessary ingredient. She travelled to Peru, where she found artisan weavers able to create the silky, supple fabric she’d envisioned. (She also developed a love for Peru to rival her husband’s love of Australia.) Sold through her flagship store in Millbrook, the Alicia Adams Alpaca line is also available at a range of retail outlets and online. However, the heart of the operation still lies with the animals sharing their farmstead. Outside the house, three ponds and a babbling brook lead to a newly built 2,400-square-foot barn. Used for equipment and photo shoots for her retail line, it also serves as housing for the animals in the winter. The guileless, curious alpacas, now 65 in number, come to inspect anyone she brings to visit. Adams speaks to the animals in German, and they hum in reply. She explains, “Alpacas hum when they’re content.”

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plants disappear from an ecosystem the animals and insects that depend on them also decline, often to the point of extinction. Examples of invasive plants in the Northeast: Japanese barberry, burning bush, vinca/myrtle, Japanese stiltgrass, Japanese knotweed, English ivy, and Eurasian purple loosestrife. Baby Birds and Hedgerows As an ecological landscaper, Greenberg designs gardens that are beautiful, evoke and blend with the native flora of the Catskills, and function like ecosystems wherein symbiotic relationships between plants and animals are maximized. This is in contrast to the convention of homeowners and businesses planting predominantly European or Asian plants, which our Hudson Valley wildlife, especially insect and bird life, has limited use for. “Butterflies are very specific as to which plants their larvae need to eat, for example,” Greenberg says. The iconic example is the monarch butterfly larvae feeding on native milkweed exclusively. Other butterflies can utilize a variety of native tree species as host for their larvae. Native oak trees are going to offer more to the ecology than Norway spruces. “Spruces and most other evergreens can provide cover for birds, but not much else,” she says. “Many spruces are also suffering from a root fungus in our area, exacerbated by the interruption of the spruce’s dormancy by mild weather in the winter.” By contrast, native oaks are more resilient and their leaves are host to the larvae of a wide variety of moths and butterflies. “Where there’s larvae, there’s a buffet for baby birds,” she says. “We need to have plants in our environment that cater to the ability of insects to reproduce so that our baby birds get fed.” Taking a cue from the British, who design their hedgerows for windbreak and bird cover, Greenberg specializes in designing hedgerows with a mixed planting of mostly native small trees, shrubs, and perennials in zigzagging layers rather than planting what she calls a “conga line” of the same species. “These hedgerows come to life with birds, bees, butterflies, and other insects within one year,” she says. They’re also appropriately sized for the privacy that her clients seek. “Unless it’s an unusually tall house, you really only need 10 to 12 feet for privacy, especially when hiding a road. I use large shrubs for this purpose. If you plant trees, they end up looming over and over-shading your house.” A well-designed hedgerow gives privacy but also gives the homeowner—and the neighbor—an interesting tableau to enjoy. That’s more neighborly than a conga line of giant evergreens, to be sure. Hybridized to Oblivion At the big box stores, most of the plants you see are hybrids and cultivars (cultivated varieties, engineered to various degrees by people). Greenberg and Groeters try to get people to plant more straight species and fewer cultivars. For instance, the straight species of purple coneflower has the Latin name Echinacea purpurea. It’s a high-pollinator-value and durable perennial from which you can collect seeds and spread it all about and you’ll have reliably thrifty coneflower plants. But the hundreds of hybrids and cultivars of purple coneflower—like the double-flowered or ones with unusual colors like chartreuse—are less viable and tend to be sterile—i.e., they have nothing to offer pollinators. “Straight species are better for nature,” Greenberg says. “A lot of plants in the gardening trade have been hybridized to the point of having no pollen or no nectar and their original chemistry is shot; they’re the weakest in nature. Most of the cultivars we try last no more than three years. Every now and then we find a good one, one that actually lives, but most of them shrink over time and then disappear.” And then there are the hyped new “perennials” that have been hybridized with annuals and therefore fail to survive even one winter. “The patent owners constantly misdirect growers and consumers,” she says. “They want you to take a consumeristic approach to gardening, to whip you up into buying everything new without regard to longevity or ecological value.” In the second installment, Greenberg talks about why earthworms are bad for native plants, why you probably should eschew fertilizer, the problem with “deer-resistant gardening,” and other surprising reflections. Book Recommendations for People Interested in Ecological Landscaping from Greenberg and Groeters Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants SustainWildlife in Our Gardens by Douglas Tallamy The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden by Rick Darke and Doug Tallamy The Layered Garden: Design Lessons forYear Round Beauty by David L. Culp Planting in a Post-WildWorld: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes by Thomas Rainer Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change by Larry Weaner

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Monica Tiulescu’s Species 0060, part of the “Digitalia” exhibition at Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie through April 15.

510 WARREN ST GALLERY 510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “H. David Stein: Textures & Colors.” Through April 30. ALBANY CENTER GALLERY 488 BROADWAY, ALBANY (518) 462-4775. “39th Annual Photography Regional.” Through April 21.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER 24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136. 14th Annual Members Exhibition. April 8-May 7. Opening reception April 8, 6pm-8pm. ATLAS INDUSTRIES 11 SPRING STREET, NEWBURGH 391-8855.

ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Cloudlands.” Through July 31.

“Hadza: The Roots of Equality Documentary Exhibition.” Through April 21.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY 22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Gallery: Studio—A Symbiosis.” A curatorial view of an 18-year relationship with artist Christie Scheele. Through April 16.

“Digitalia.” National juried exhibit of digital artwork. Through April 15.

THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STreet, RIDGEFIELD, CT (203) 438-4519. “Beth Campbell: My Potential Future Past.” Through September 4.

BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550.

BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “4x4.” A Beacon Artists Union Members Show. Through April 4. BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY 43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435.

AMITY GALLERY 110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK 258-0818. Metal sculpture by Bill Graziano. April 30.

“On the Horizon.” Recycled material with rudimentary printmaking techniques by Roxie Johnson. April 6-May 7. Opening reception April 8, 5pm-7pm.

ARTS MID-HUDSON 696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-3222. “Catalytics.” Marieken Cochius, Emilie Houssart, Jinkook Hwang, Hayoon Jay Lee, Sumi Pak, Joe Radoccia, Leigh Williams, and Xuewu Zheng. Through April 23.

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Here, the artist returns to his high school alma mater, and turns to love. How might first love and first heartbreak intersect with politics?APRIL An expansive THROUGH 22 carpet that chromatically recalls a digital background gradient fills over half the gallery, punctuated by an undulating pattern of silhouetted heart emoji. The nature of space—its absence ct of |gravity, sun, |horizon, or any| hotchkiss.org/arts reference point—is, for the 11digital Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Open Daily 860.435.3663 artist, analogous to the experience of falling in, and perhaps out of, love. This question tantalizes: Can social media reshape what was once merely personal into that which is socially transformative?

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BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Selections: Woodstock Ceramic Arts Today.” Features work by contemporary ceramicists from the region: Rich Conti, D-Day, Eric Ehrnschwender, Sophie Fenton, Mary Frank, Jolyon Hofsted, Brad Lail, Joyce Robbins, Arlene Shechet, Elena Zang, and others. Through April 9. CAFFE A LA MODE 1 OAKLAND AVENUE, WARWICK 986-1223. “Three Themes: Photography by Angelo Marcialis.” Through April 14. CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Interlock: Color & Contrast in Abstraction.” Donise English, Paul Katz and Ralph Stout, Edward Avedisian, and Stephen Brophy. Through April 30. CLARK ART INSTITUTE 225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-2303. “An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting.” Through September 17. CLOVE AND CREEK 73 BROADWAY, KINGSTON Cloveandcreek.com. “I Caught All These Fish.” Works by Steven Weinberg. April 1-July 1. CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART 81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. Nature/Nurture. Paintings by Deborah Freedman and Jennifer Hicks. April 1-30. DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Site-specific work. Through May 31. EMPIRE STATE PLAZA CORNING TOWER 100 S MALL ARTERIAL, ALBANY (518) 473-7521. Works by Phil Frost. Through August 18. ERPF GALLERY 43355 ROUTE 28, ARKVILLE 586-2611. “Catskill 360.” Immersive photographs by Alan Powell. April 1-May 20.

FRG OBJECTS / DESIGN 217 WARREN STREET 2ND FLOOR, HUDSON. “Performance:Paintings by John Fallon.” April 1-May 31. GALLERY @ 46 46 GREEN STREET, HUDSON (518) 303-6446. “I am Here.” Photographs by Sasha Sicurella. April 1-29. GALLERY @ RHINEBECK 47 EAST MARKET STreet, RHINEBECK 876-1655. “Anderson Center for Autism Art Showcase.” April 4-15. Opening reception April 4, 6pm-8pm. GALLERY LEV SHALEM, WOODSTOCK JEWISH CONGREGATION 1682 GLASCO TURNPIKE, WOODSTOCK 679-2218. “Other Places.” Allison Constant, curator. Through April 24. GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMER’S TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255. Works by Howard Miller. Through April 8. GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Alexandra Eastburn: Passe–Partout.” Through April 9. GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. Outside the Lines 2017: GCCA’s Annual Youth and Student Arts Exhibition. Featuring artwork by pre-K through Grade 12 students from Greene County public, private and home schools. Mondays-Saturdays. HOTCHKISS LIBRARY 10 UPPER MAIN, SHARON, CT (860) 364-5041. Photography by Katherine Griswold and Sculptures Jon Riedeman. Through April 23. HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Peter Bynum: Illumination of the Sacred Forms.” Through December 17. INKY EDITIONS 112 S FRONT STreet, HUDSON (518) 610-5549. “Collage Chambers.“ Paintings and printed editions by Robert Gullie. Through April 29. JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6680. “Seth Koen: Wayward.” An exhibition of new sculpture. Through May 7. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Cross Country with Ari.” April 1-23.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. Kevin Cook and Andrea McFarland. Paintings. April 8-May 20. Opening reception April 8, 5pm-7pm. MID-HUDSON HERITAGE CENTER 317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8506. “Long Reach, Squared.” April 1-May 6. Opening reception April 8, 5pm-7pm. MILKWEED 2 & 3 ROMER’S ALLEY, SUGAR LOAF. “In(Flux).” A group exhibition of new interactive and performative work by Martin Dominguez Ball, Vernon M. Byron, Iain McInnes, and Cody Rounds. April 8-30. Opening reception April 8, 7pm-9pm. MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-0543. “100 Points of View.” 100 color photographs created by noted artist and photographer, Franc Palaia. Through April 28. OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “Windows: Lois Dodd.” Through May 7. ORANGE HALL GALLERY SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Art you kidding me?” 13th Annual Student and Faculty Art Show. April 4-May 1. Opening reception April 4, 2pm-4pm. ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY 9091 ROUTE 22, HILLSDALE (518) 325-4101. “Where Do We Go From Here?” Sculptures by Linda Horn. April 29-May 31. Opening reception April 29, 5:30pm. SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ Newpaltz.edu/museum. “Intimately Unfamiliar: New Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Faculty.” Through April 9. “Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts.” Through May 21. “Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Gloves Off.” Through May 21. “Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy.” Through May 21. SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 23 WHITE OAK DRIVE, SUGAR LOAF 469-9459. “Late Bloomers: An Exhibition by Yaron Rosner.” Through May 7. SEPTEMBER 449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON. “Witches.” Anna Betbeze, Cameron, Rosy Keyser, Laurel Sparks, Marianne Vitale. Through May 7. SPACE CREATE 115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 590-1931. “A Mapping: Judy Thomas New Paintings.” April 1-8. SUNY ULSTER 491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE 687-5262. “The Illustrator’s Show.” Children’s illustration. Through April 7. THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM 518-392-3005. “From a House on a Hill.” Juliet Teng, oil paintings. April 7-May 31. Opening reception April 7, 5pm-7pm. THOMPSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE Vassar.edu. “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Treasures From Steepletop.” Through June 11. TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. “Dear John.” Room-sized installation by Christopher K. Ho ’92. Through April 22. WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. Juried portrait and figure-themed group exhibit. April 1-22. Opening reception April 8, 5pm-7pm. WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. Recent Acquisitions 2009-2016.” Through May 28. 4/17 ChronograM arts & culture 55

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THE FALCON 1348 ROUTE 9W, MARLBORO 236-7970. “The Myth.” Photographs by Margaret Stahl. April 7-April 30. Opening reception April 7, 5:30pm.

KARPELES MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY MUSEUM 94 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 569-4997. “The History of Baseball.” Documents from the early days of America’s national sport. Through April 30.

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Meghan Quinn (on bass drum) leads Tin Horn Uprising at the People’s March for Education Justice on March 4 at Academy Green Park in Kingston.

Raising a Ruckus Tin Horn Uprising By Peter Aaron Photos by Fionn Reilly

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t’s a Saturday afternoon in Kingston’s Academy Green Park, the occasion of the statewide People’s March for Education Justice. Several hundred of us are here to voice our outrage over recently appointed US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s dreams of school privatization Governor Cuomo’s withholding of state educational funding, and other threats facing public schools. The sun is out and the sky is blue, but it’s insanely cold—the lacerating wind makes it feel like it’s in the teens, at most. And yet as we contemplate the heavy matters at hand and begin our trudge, the mood is somehow light. Ebullient, even. There’s an extra spring in our steps. The source of this paradoxical, highly contagious mood? Local activist marching band Tin Horn Uprising, whose clarion brass, thumping drums, crashing cymbals, and chants form an irresistible magnet that pulls the attention—and in many cases the physical presences—of even casual onlookers into this river of united humanity as it courses down Broadway. “Everyone loves a marching band, right?” asks trumpeter Scott Langley, 40, a social rights advocate by day and one of the troupe’s founding members. “Whenever a marching band comes through a town, people come out of their houses and poke their heads out their windows to watch and listen. So the noise gets attention, and that draws people to the message. At political events, music turns what might otherwise be a stale or boring gathering into a fun time. Besides being an outlet for the actual musicians, who themselves might be dealing with some of the troublesome issues being addressed, music makes people dance and sing. It lifts the spirits.”

Tin Horn Uprising has been doing such spirit lifting since mid-January, when the band made its raucous debut during a pro-Affordable Care Act rally at New York Representative John Faso’s Kingston office; next that month would come appearances in Poughkeepsie and Hudson during the Women’s March, followed by an ongoing stream of other rallies, marches, and actions. With a changeable core of approximately 40 members and an on-call e-mail list of nearly 75 applicant musicians, Tin Horn’s muster includes professional as well as amateur players of widely varied backgrounds and walks of life, from preteens to retirees; their live appearances average between 20 and 30 members. The name, explains founder and tuba player Adam Katzman, a 35-year-old solar energy specialist, comes from the Tin Horn Rebellion of 1839, during which Hudson Valley farmers organized against the deeded patroonship system that controlled land rights. Kicking off the Anti-Rent Movement, the rebellion saw tenant farmers blowing their tin dinner horns to alert each other whenever they were besieged by their would-be evictors. “We’re facing different threats today, of course,” says Katzman, who previously found his activist-street-band calling with Brooklyn’s Rude Mechanical Orchestra. “But besides the historical reference, the band name also alludes to people using horns as a call to action. It’s cool to be sort of picking up that torch.” The modern brass marching band format can be traced at least as far back as the Turkish military bands of the 11th century; in the early 18th century, wind instrument-dominated harmoniemusik ensembles started in Austria and Germany and the construct soon spread to England and the rest of Europe, whose warring nations came to rely on such groupings to boost morale and signal troop movements on the battlefield. Between wars, community bands, often made up of volunteers, were maintained by civic and fraternal organizations to perform for town celebrations and other public events. In America, marching bands became common as well; during the late 19th/early 20th century,Washington, DC-born bandleader and composer John Philip Sousa was an international star and the musicians in the original New Orleans brass bands that begat jazz played castoff Civil War instruments. Colleges and high schools formed marching bands to rally the fans at football games, a martial concept that in the last two decades has been subverted by the formation of street bands like Tin Horn and their better-known peers the Hungry March Band (Brooklyn), the Extra Action Marching Band (Oakland, California), and What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, Rhode Island), many of whom perform on behalf of radical causes at demonstrations and similar events. Such outfits often draw on rock, hip-hop, and other styles and sometimes augment their marching musicians with dancers, baton twirlers, and additional performers. Besides appearing at protests and the like, many of them compete annually at the HONK! Festival in Somerville, Massachusetts, and acknowledge their roots in the revolutionary bands of the early 20th-century European left-wing and union movements via renditions of related standards like “The Internationale” and the Italian partisan/anti-fascist anthem “Bella Ciao.” It was the outcome of the 2016 presidential election that spurred the formation of Tin Horn Uprising in December. “Adam and I had had a vision of putting together a radical street band in the Hudson Valley before then, but the aftermath of the election definitely became the real impetus,” says Langley, who played trumpet nonprofessionally in high school and college. The call went out and the burgeoning unit began to steadily swell with a roster of players—several on trumpets and saxophones, plus French horns, trombones, and other brass pieces as well as drums, tambourines, bells, and sundry hand percussion instruments— who rehearse an average of twice a month at Kingston’s Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills and sometimes rewrite the lyrics of the their repertoire based on the theme of whatever upcoming action they’re marching at. “[Joining the band] seemed like a constructive use of my energy and abilities, and those were things I wanted to bring to the ongoing protest,” says Meghan Quinn, 33, an accordionist who teaches high school English in Hyde Park and, fittingly, led the band (on bass drum) at the education-oriented demonstration in Kingston. “The mood is always positive when we play, it’s energizing and upbeat. What we’re trying to do is amplify the message of the protests, rather than be the focus of them.That’s why we made a conscious decision not to use megaphones,

which could compete with any of the speakers who might also be there. We’re always looking for more musicians to join us, but right now we’re more in need of other kinds of volunteers—especially dancers and banner wavers.” The reactions to Tin Horn’s joyful noise among their fellow demonstrators have been loudly appreciative. “When they showed up to the Stand with Planned Parenthood demonstration in Poughkeepsie,” says Liz Wassell, a longtime Planned Parenthood supporter and NARAL lobbyist who attended the January event, “it felt like the best, most fun kind of cavalry had arrived.” For many who were there, the band’s spontaneous performance of the national anthem when a bald eagle suddenly appeared in the sky above February’s Not My President’s Day rally in New Paltz was the most moving moment of that heady gathering. While the resistance continues to surge and adapt to the Trump administration and its regressive policies, so does Tin Horn Uprising in its membership, responses, repertoire, and goals. “We’ve been just seeing where it goes,” says Katzman. “One thing we’ve been looking at is the idea of having ‘satellite’ lineups that rehearse in other areas of the Hudson Valley, like in Albany or Poughkeepsie. As it is, we already have people who drive in from places that are an hour away to play, so that could be something that really works out well. But whatever happens, we’ll all see how things evolve together.” For some of their future recruits, however, the band may not have to look farther than the family rec room. “I have three kids,” says Langley. “And lately, almost every night, my two-year-old has been asking me to sing ‘Bella Ciao’ at bed time.” Tinhornuprising.org

Amy Trompetter sounds a musical protest at the People’s March for Education Justice.

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nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

Gary Lucas April 2. They say you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. Syracuseborn, New York-based guitarist Gary Lucas has worked with two of the most disparately influential artists of our time: Captain Beefheart and Jeff Buckley. Lucas, who kicks off this month’s Nightlife Highlights with a date at Quinn’s, plays on Beefheart’s seminal late-period albums Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow, and cowrote two of the tunes on Buckley’s immortal breakthrough, Grace. In addition to leading his long-running band Gods and Monsters, Lucas has maintained a creatively rewarding solo career and played as well with Graham Parker, Peter Hammill, Matthew Sweet, and others. (Super Yamba Band stirs it up April 15; Hans Tammen experiments April 19.) 8pm. $10. Beacon. (845) 202-7447; Facebook.com/QuinnsBeacon.

Gary Lucas and Jeff Buckley, circa 1992.

New Cicada Trio

Vanilla Fudge

April 7. Hudson Valley clarinetist and composer David Rothenberg and vocalist Timothy Hill collaborated with the late Kingston avant-garde icon Pauline Oliveros for the 2014 album by the Cicada Dream Band, which saw the three perform to the accompaniment of Rothenberg’s field recordings of emerging 17-year cicadas. With the passing of Oliveros last year, Rothenberg and Hill have teamed up with Czech-American violinist and vocalist Iva Bittova to revisit the concept as the New Cicada Trio, which will make mysterious magic for the Howland Cultural Center’s music-and-voice Equinox Series. (Old Timey Southern Fiddle Tunes night takes place second Tuesdays.) 8pm. $15. Beacon. (845) 331-4988; Howlandculturalcenter.org.

April 8. Formed on Long Island, Vanilla Fudge is one of the pioneering acts of the hardpsychedelic sound that begat heavy metal (the quartet began in 1965 as soul rock outfit the Pigeons; the name change came after the addition of drummer Carmine Appice in 1966). The band’s self-titled debut appeared in 1967 bearing their Top 40 smash cover of the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On,” and their thudding, organ-dominated style proved a starting point for Deep Purple and other budding hard rockers—in fact, Led Zeppelin’s first US tour, in 1968, was as the opening act for Vanilla Fudge. This month, the Fudge hammers Daryl’s House on their “Spirit of ’67” tour. (Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones testify April 22; Denny Lane plays Band on the Run April 28.) 8pm. $30. Pawling. (845) 289-0185; Darylshouseclub.com.

Dan Bern April 15. Iowa has produced at least two highly literate singer-songwriters: Greg Brown, who was recently covered here in Chronogram, and Dan Bern, who ambles into the Rosendale Cafe for this cozy date. The younger, socially conscious Bern, who has published two books under the pen name Cunliffe Merriwether, has been compared to Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, and, naturally, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie (see “Talkin’ Woody, Bob, Bruce, and Dan Blues” from 1998’s Smartie Mine). Now based in Los Angeles, he wrote the bulk of the songs for the 2007 Judd Apatow folksinger comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Known for his sardonic political humor, it’s an easy guess he’ll have some wry observations about the current state of things when he visits our area. (Bucky Pizzarelli, Ed Laub, and Martin Pizzarelli pick April 8; the Lucky Five swing it April 29.) 8pm. $15. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.

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Joey Alexander Trio April 21. The modern wunderkind of jazz, 13-year-old pianist Joey Alexander was six when he taught himself how to play. Since Wynton Marsalis invited him to play at Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2014, Alexander has performed for Herbie Hancock and presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Master-Jam Fest, and appeared at the 2015 Montreal and Newport Jazz festivals. Having received multiple Grammy nominations—the youngest musician ever to do so—Alexander, whose trio delivers this concert at the Woodstock Playhouse, struck number one on the Billboard charts in both the Traditional Jazz and Contemporary Jazz categories. But despite his young age, to the leading jazz authorities Alexander is no mere novelty act; Down Beat gushed, “If the word ‘genius’ still means anything, it applies to this prodigy.” 7:30pm. $40, $50, $60. Woodstock. (845) 679-6900; Woodstockplayhouse.org.

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Daisycutter Waiting for the Stars In 2009, Sara Milonovich, already a fiddle-playing rootsmusic MVP, made her solo debut as a singer-songwriter with an album called Daisycutter. Now that album title has become her nom-de-bande, and it’s apt in its suggestion of one part pastoral idyll, another part pointed slashing and burning. Milonovich set the template on her debut for roots- and country-based songs boasting instrumental virtuosity and lyrical directness. On Waiting for the Stars, she’s simply expanded on that formula to such a degree that even those who shy away from twang in their morning dose of music will appreciate the overall effect of her original compositions and her surprising cover tunes—so surprising that I didn’t even realize until I checked the liner notes that one is a Joe Strummer number, one a Neko Case, and two are Led Zeppelin. They all fit together with her own terrific songs in a dynamic manner that gives electro, funk, and raga accents to what are dazzling country- and bluegrass-based arrangements played by a veritable all-star team of instrumentalists including Boo Reiners, Natalia Zukerman, Lloyd Maines, and Leigh Gibson, as well as the core of the Beacon-based Daisycutter, which features Greg Anderson, Andy Goessling, and Ben Wittman. But none of these folks get in the way of musical mastermind Milonovich, who could easily be the next Sheryl Crow or Shawn Colvin. Kudos to producer Greg Anderson for tying it all together (in various recording studios around the Hudson Valley) while serving Sara’s innovative vision. Daisycutter.net. —Seth Rogovoy

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Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau Nearness (2016, Nonesuch Records)

A few bars into Nearness’s opening track, Charlie Parker’s anthem “Ornithology,” and Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau have lit out to take the road never travelled. Far from falling into rote soloing and comping, they parry and feint, call and respond, and interweave lines and, crucially, silences to create a sort of post-bop Dixieland whose counterpoint is as thematic and timbral as it is melodic. Pianist and Hudson Valley resident Mehldau came to prominence while a member of the ’90s quartet led by Redman, who famously abandoned an opportunity to attend Yale Law School in order to become one of the most commanding saxophonists of his generation. Their ease as a duo is infused with palpable mutual respect and continuous volleys of inspiration on this recording, drawn from a series of European performances in 2011. Things get even more abstract on another bop lodestone, Thelonious Monk’s “In Walked Bud,” where they enter with shards of shifting, Calder-like perspectives, giving way to a lustrous solo from Mehldau that engages his renowned, beguiling chord substitutions with repeated notes and bluesy interjections. Redman, while often providing a full-toned grounding to the proceedings, proves no less capable of melodic complexity in his virtuosic tenor cadenza that closes “The Nearness of You” and in the propulsive heartache that drives the Mehldau originals “Always August” and “Old West.” The result is an exceptionally potent demonstration of the state of the art from two acknowledged jazz masters, enshrining the tradition as an eternally fresh means of expressing the vitality of now. Nonesuch.com. —James Keepnews

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Shana Falana Here Comes the Wave (2016, Team Love Records)

Through the course of her nearly two decades of making music, Shana Falana has traveled from coast to coast absorbing life experience to help fuel the kind of dark pop she’s been perfecting since pressing record on a fourtrack for the very first time, along the way losing half a finger, and kicking a serious drug habit. Now a proud resident of the Hudson Valley with nearly seven years of sobriety under her belt, this force of nature leaves it all on the table with the fiery Here Comes the Wave, Falana’s second LP for the New Paltz-based Team Love imprint. Here are nine songs that brightly glow with the wisdom and honesty of a survivor, boasting a more refined sound that splits the difference between Kathleen Hanna and The Lion and the Cobra-era Sinead O’Connor on infectious tunes like “Cloudbeats” and “Brainy Fox.” The key single, “Cool Kids,” meanwhile, has been helping make waves for Wave because it’s an excellently written pop song bursting with Smiths-kissed psychedelia. Meanwhile, the strength of her musicianship and her collaborative kismet with beau/drummer Mike Amari and producer D. James Goodwin achieves a whole new sense of oneness with a transcendental interpretation of the Velvet Underground’s “Ocean” that brings a melodic undercurrent to their drone roots. Here Comes the Wave melts the chains connecting Shana Falana to her shoegaze past to smelt a most impressive LP of pure electric gold. Team-love.com. —Ron Hart chronogram.com

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Books

The Most Important Room in the World Cary Fowler and the Svalbard Seed Vault

by Marie Doyon photos by Franco Vogt

hen people think of extinction they think of whales, California condors, tigers. I’m very much focused on the slow, invisible losses of crop diversity—not just having the library burn down, but losing an individual book now and then,” says Cary Fowler, a scientist, conservationist, and biodiversity advocate, who is best known as the mastermind behind the Svalbard Seed Vault. Though approaching 70, Fowler’s kind face is framed by boyish, strawberry blonde curls. He has a strong chin and expressive blue eyes set behind gold wireframe glasses. A lilting drawl hints at his Southern upbringing.

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Fowler was raised in Memphis and spent summers at his grandmother’s family farm in Madison County,Tennessee.These visits cemented an appreciation of farming, which has been at the heart of Fowler’s career. Public Service Fowler comes from a long line of public servants. His father was a judge and his paternal grandfather was the head of the Memphis Housing Authority. On his mother’s side, his grandfather was Commissioner of Education for Jackson, Tennessee, until his death. “Agriculture in my family was seen as public service,” he says. “I suppose I was poised to try and marry those influences.” Amidst the political turmoil of the civil rights movement, Fowler strove to find meaningful work. In his early 20s, he worked for the Institute for Southern Studies in North Carolina, which published a journal called Southern Exposure. He wrote a piece for the publication about the rapid disappearance of family farms like his grandmother’s. “That was the first thing I had ever done concretely about agriculture.” The article was a jumping off point for Fowler, who subsequently began researching farming and the various challenges the industry was facing as it shifted away from small farms and toward large-scale monocultures. This trail eventually led him to the underpublicized issue of diminishing crop diversity. Fowler read the work of Jack Harlan, an American scientist and plant breeder whose startling articles bore provocative titles like “The Genetics of Disaster.” He learned that due to social and environmental factors like urbanization, the industrialization of farming, and the standardization of seed supply, large numbers of local crop varieties and their wild relatives were disappearing at a rapid rate. “I thought to myself, ‘If the most knowledgeable scientist in the world is ringing the alarm bells this loudly, then it must be an important issue.’ But the politicians and the powers that be weren’t paying a lot of attention.” So Fowler became an interpreter for the masses, working to popularize Harlan’s scientific work on crop diversity and to get people to pay attention. Willpower or Dumb Luck? At 23, with this new career just budding, Fowler was diagnosed with terminal melanoma. The doctors gave him six months to live. Against the odds, he recovered. However, a decade later, in 1982, he was diagnosed with seminoma, a completely different cancer, though again terminal. He says, “The second time I just didn’t believe I would die.” Whether through sheer willpower, divine intervention, or dumb luck, Fowler did survive again. With good-humored defensiveness, he says, “Most people make more to-do out of the cancer stuff. I was pretty determined and focused before I got cancer. It wasn’t like a conversion experience. But I don’t have a control group, so I don’t know what my life have been like without that.” Throughout the 1980s, Fowler worked long hours writing, lobbying, teaching, and researching. By the early ’90s, he was internationally recognized as an expert in the field of plant genetic resource conservation.The United Nations commissioned him to lead a global assessment of the state of crop diversity and strategize a plan for conservation and use of these resources. Fowler’s team found that the UN’s much touted “global system” of gene banks was not preserving much of anything. Instead, the underfunded facilities were sites of ongoing deterioration—faulty cooling systems, high humidity, and other technical problems involved in archiving were resulting in the destruction of seed samples. The study made exceedingly clear how much work remained to be done to ensure the future of crop diversity and food security. In 2003, Fowler was splitting his time between the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). CGIAR’s seed samples were not all housed in secure locations nor did they have safety duplicates. An abandoned mine shaft in the mountains of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard was one of the few repositories for duplicate samples in the world, which gave Fowler and his colleagues the idea for the Seed Vault. Where Polar Bears Outnumber People Svalbard is the world’s northernmost year-round settlement. Above the Arctic Circle, the subsurface temperature never climbs above 28 degrees Fahrenheit and polar bears outnumber people two-to-one. This remoteness insulates the islands against development as well as against major political and climate events. Even if all the world’s glaciers and ice melted, the location Fowler and his colleagues envisioned for the Seed Vault would remain more than 20 yards above the water level. Working through his vast network of gene bank managers, policy advisors, and research institutes, Fowler garnered support for the idea of a Seed Vault in Svalbard, coaxing it from a one-page concept paper to a fully fledged contract with Norwegian authorities over the course of three years. In May 2007, a groundbreaking ceremony was held with the prime ministers of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland all present. It took two years

to carve out the 18,514 square-foot tunnel. The finished vault has the capacity to hold 4.5 million seed samples. At present, it holds 930,000 varieties of food crops. There are over 150,000 samples each of wheat and rice, but there are also samples of lesser known plants with archaic names like wolf’s bane, skullcap, and saltbush. Italian maize varieties for making polenta share an aisle with hundreds of potato samples from Parque de Papas, an indigenous Peruvian potato conservation group. Each of these samples holds countless genetic traits, any one of which may be the key to pest, disease, or climate resistance in the future. At Home in Rhinebeck When he is not traveling, Fowler dabbles in plant breeding on a 200-acre-farmstead outside Rhinebeck. He has cultivated over 125 varieties of apple trees and 50 breeding lines of grass pea, a little-known African legume with big potential as a famine solution due to its extreme drought tolerance. His wife, Amy Goldman, is an author, artist, and reigning authority on heirloom vegetables. Since buying the farmstead in the late 1980s, she has developed extensive ornamental and vegetable gardens, which serve as the testing ground for heritage varieties of annual and perennial species alike. In her own right, Goldman has worked to preserve crop genetic diversity through the Seed Savers Exchange, a nonprofit of heirloom gardeners that she chaired for over five years. The 2013 documentary Seeds of Time explores both the Seed Exchange and the Seed Vault as important and complementary efforts.

“The biodiversity the Seed Vault protects is a common heritage of all humanity. By default and necessity, we are its guardians,” writes Fowler in the introduction to Seeds on Ice. The book, released in fall 2016, is a stunning compilation of photos of Svalbard, Norway, the Seed Vault itself, and Fowler’s own writing. A “testimonial to unvanquished optimism,” the book tells the tale of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. “People think about [the Seed Vault] as a time capsule,” Fowler laments, “Something we’ll walk away from and rediscover in a hundred years. It is not that. It is a living institution and facility. The facility operates like a safety deposit box. It is an insurance policy for the different institutions and seed banks around the world.” Gene banks around the world regularly send “deposits” to Svalbard. But this is high-stakes banking and the prerequisites for withdrawal are stark. Fowler explains, “Every time a depositor needs to come to us for seed that means that, by definition, we have avoided extinction.” He continues, “A woman in Svalbard said to me last week, ‘That is the most important room in the world.’ She is right. But the vault has to have a back-up.” With the unlikely permafrost repository established and operating smoothly, Fowler has turned his attention to the other components of a comprehensive conservation plan, namely financing an efficient, effective, sustainable global system of seed banks. “I wake up everyday eager to do something. I don’t have any moments of boredom. Zero. To be really good in this field you have to connect dots between genetics and biology and politics and environmental science and history. I won’t come anywhere near to knowing everything there is to know on this subject,” he concludes with childish wonderment. 4/17 ChronograM books 61

SHORT TAKES April is National Poetry Month. A curated selection of collections by regional poets, reviewed by Marx Dorrity.

The Olfactions: Poems on Perfume Anne Gorrick BlazeVOX [books] 2017, $18

Anne Gorrick’s new book, The Olfactions: Poems on Perfume, presents a startling reversal of the hierarchy of the senses, where sight and sound are almost clouded out by the prominence of smell. As memory and desire loosely commingle, Gorrick’s bouquet of descriptors include “a rosemary explanation,” “Flat lilac,” “pina colada smelling,” “a strong note of zinc oxide,” an “ozonic note,” “seaweed,” “neroli,” and “oudh.” From a paean to Coppertone called “Summer Former without Being Gorgeous”: “Recuse yourself from a beach / Scent glues itself to an entire summer / the air fluted with Coppertone.” Even ice, which takes on an epic role in one of Gorrick’s iterative and typically long poems, has an odorous dimension: “The fragrant dells found in ice.” Replete with Duchampian experiments (such as lines culled from Google’s auto-suggestions), these works engage subtle realms of awareness: “This poem may have formed from / a self-luminous sphere of gas.”

Won’t Be Long: Poems Short, Poems Shorter, Poems Shortest J. R. Solonche Deerbrook Editions 2016, $18

Won’t Be Long: Poems Short, Poems Shorter, Poems Shortest by J. R. Solonche makes the case that poems, even the shortest ones, are necessary. His observations are sparked at the place where knowledge and wonder brush together. For this poet, a single stanza can be sufficient to break open the sky. The poem “March 14th” is as compact and weighty as a teaspoon of particles in a black hole: “Today is Einstein’s birthday, the sun is shining.” His poems sometimes teeter on tautology, “The rain off / the duck’s back / was like water off / a duck’s back,” or careen toward aphorism via minute semantic shifts: “So far humans / have not / come so far.” The poem “Politics” gives no hint or anticipation of the current cataclysm, offering only a single proposition: “All poetry is local.”

Green and Burning: Glas Agus a Dhó Kathleen McCoy WordTech Editions, 2016, $18

The irony in the title of SUNY Adirondack professor Kathleen McCoy’s new book, Green and Burning, evokes the possibility, both unexpected and gleaming, of renewal. From “The River Marriage”: “The river, thick with liquid mud, / brightens in one-o’clock sun.” // “Rife with trout and glistening, / this river’s had many names.” Patterns of coupledom are illuminated, “You nap while I paddle / and then my turn will come.” These paddlers could be weekend tourists, or indigenous people, or the former dreaming of the latter. Ceremony, the lure of fire, and roots that twine us to the natural world are preoccupations for this poet. From “To Be”: “Birch reaching for the red-tailed hawk / Oak reaching for earth’s hot core.”

Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia of Paris, 1870 Jay Rogoff LSU Press, 2016, $11.29

The intersection of social upheaval, Machine-Age whimsy, and incomparable artistic achievement makes 19th-century Paris a perennial source of fascination. The poems in Jay Rogoff’s Enamel Eyes: A Fantasia of Paris, 1870 focus on the City of Light while it was under siege by the Prussians, during a war where Degas and Manet were artillerymen. The poet, who is also a dance critic and Skidmore professor, has taken as his subject the comic ballet “Coppélia” (the hit of the 1870 season), which riffs on the seductive potency of a mechanical girl. The production’s young star perished that same year from wartime privations. “The Paris Diet” illustrates the famine with a light touch: “Ingres-smooth steaks (dark donkey flesh) / gleam behind glass, fine bloody art…Paris crawls on, ravenous / as Géricault’s Raft sprung to life.”

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The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills

The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy

Leslie T. Sharpe

Michael McCarthy

The Overlook Press, $25, 2017

New York Review Books, $24.95, 2016

eslie T. Sharpe is a world-class noticer. Like fellow Catskills chronicler John Burroughs before her, she pays close attention and is a serious observer of the natural world—especially of animals near her cabin in Delaware County. A lifelong naturalist (and former vice president of the New York City Audubon Society), Sharpe’s forays from her rural retreat bring her into contact with curious black bears, insouciant bobcats, wobbly fawns, courageous crawfish, dancing woodcocks, brawny moths, scolding crows, and the nonplussed fox of the book’s title. (All descriptors are Sharpe’s own, and perhaps hint at the book’s only flaw: a penchant for the anthropomorphic from a mind that is seriously science-y.) She also possesses serious writing chops when simply taking a snapshot of the world around her, like this description of an incoming snowstorm: “Gray is the color we do best in the Great Western Catskills of upstate New York, even in summer, when smoky wisps cling to the mountains after a thunderstorm like lingering spirits, which the Indians believed they were, and especially in the morning, when mists rise from the West Branch of the Delaware River, enveloping my house in a milky white so opaque I can barely make out the steps that lead from the deck to the dandelion-strewn lawn.” You don’t just spend a week at an AirB&B and reach a deep understanding of your surroundings like this. Her prose is rooted in place like a hemlock clings to an old blue Catskills’ mountainside. For a contemporary naturalist, the Catskills are an inspiring and hopeful subject. These mountains were deforested and large animals like deer, large cats, and bears were nearly hunted to extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries. Since the formation of the 700,000acre Catskills Park and the preservation of vast swaths of acreage to slake New York City’s thirst in the early 20th century, the Catskills have returned to a natural footing mostly on par with the landscape pre-European settlement. The Catskills are a lucky exception in a world where one species has become so successful that it threatens all other forms of life. In The Moth Snowstorm, Michael McCarthy, the former environment editor at the British daily The Independent, documents what he calls “the great thinning” of other species by “the runaway scale of the human enterprise” and proposes a radical solution to save nature. According to McCarthy, the two methods currently employed to save the natural world—sustainable development and ecosystem services—aren’t working. He points out the lie at the heart of sustainable development: “people do not voluntarily change, if that means, stop acting out of self-interest”; as well as noting that assigning utilitarian value to nature will only save those parts of nature whose usefulness can be directly measured. Butterflies don’t fare well in this scenario. Our ecological crisis prompts McCarthy to ask the fundamental existential question: What does it mean to be human? He looks to the deep past to find his answer, and how to save nature. According to McCarthy, “the 50,000 generations through which we evolved as hunter-gatherers are more important to our psychological make-up, even today, than the 500 generations we have spent since agriculture began and with it, civilization.” Nature is not a luxury but an indispensable part of our essence. That we’ve spent 10,000 years trying to deny it has led us to what is now being called the Sixth Great Extinction. So what does McCarthy suggest? Joy. The need to reactivate our ancient bond with the natural world—the wildness in our wiring. To consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. Given that the other plans aren’t working, it’s worth a shot. Leslie T. Sharpe reads on 4/6 at 6pm at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck. —Brian K. Mahoney

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April 27-30, 2017

There Now: Poems Eamon Grennan

Graywolf Press, 2016, $16

here now—words calmly spoken by a parent after washing a child’s scraped knee and applying a Band-Aid. The words bring the reassurance that everything’s going to be all right. In naming his 11th volume, Eamon Grennan makes the same comforting gesture to his readers, to “settle ills and calm fevers” with poetry. The poems in There Now are hermetic meditations on the light-giving forces of nature and art—so often camouflaged or ignored by the noisy distractions of the “perpetually unsettling here and now.” Whether he’s in the Hudson Valley (Grennan lives in Poughkeepsie, where he taught for many years at Vassar College) or in Connemara, where he keeps a second home in the west country of his native Ireland, Grennan asks us to pause and listen to “the small sky-high cry of one nightbird over lake-glimmer [breaking] the silence with its little lamenting whistle-cry.” For Grennan, the little, lamenting cry represents the greater, liminal world, the restorative, nurturing world, which brings renewal and “fresh blood.” Though Grennan’s meditations are hermetic, they’re expressed with a vigor associated with the energy released in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s sprung rhythm. Another poet Grennan admires for his desire to make the language of poetry more reflective of natural speech is William Carlos Williams. Of course, the poetry of Hopkins and Williams couldn’t be further apart, and while Williams may have had a profound influence on Grennan’s world view and choice of subject matter, it’s the music of Hopkins that predominates there now. At one point, after Grennan had been in the United States for a while, he returned to Ireland for an extended period to immerse himself in the language of his homeland. The stay was immensely successful, as Grennan drew from Irish soil the clay from which he would mold his unique poetic voice—one driven with energetic lyricism. For this resident alien who lives in two worlds, the voice he has chosen is a musical Celtic voice, as in these lines from “Silence.” Nothing to say standing heartsick at the gaping light-broached mouth of the stone shed where last night the black-as-midnight mink sucked the life out of all your neighbour’s yellow-eyed hens and out of the four white green-smeared eggs in the nest in which new life had begun to pulse— One can’t read lines like these without thinking of another powerful Celtic voice, that of Dylan Thomas: “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer.” In addition to the vitality of his music, Grennan’s poems are also marked with his preoccupation with the sentence as a poetic unit. Each of the 62 poems in There Now is composed of a single sentence. As Grennan has said: “I have, it’s a toothache quality, a kind of pain—the ambition to make a sentence that is full, that has not gone limp, hasn’t stopped while it still has some elasticity in it.” The kinetic drive of the lyric—the winding, voluptuous sentences—the flora and fauna on the Eastern and Western coasts of the Atlantic—the paintings and sculptures of Giacometti, Serra, Cézanne, Bonnard, and Gauguin—and the birds (red tails, oystercatchers, juncos, wrens, sparrows, cardinals, and chickadees that embody Grennan’s ideal creation)—are just a few of the joys that make There Now an assuaging balm. —Janet Hamill

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our May issue is April 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: Chronogram.com/submissions.

Dragon This dragon does not This dragon hide in a cave. may build fear, though It hides it mainly builds inside a shining tower. walls. This dragon does not Let us fight this dragon— breathe fire the monster of the house it breathes insults of white. and curses. It does not call out This dragon’s face its servants, is not but Putin and many menacing. greedy rich men. It is double-chinned and orange.

Change of Season The weather is beautiful There is no care in the world As I cross the Hudson Bridge I gaze at the serene looking waves Slowly caressing the surface Of the motionless river The day appears to be normal Just like any other Or so I thought But like unpredictable weather My life immediately and abruptly Changed As I was no longer viewing nature’s beauty But waking up in a hospital room With tubes dangling from my nostrils Like a fish snared by a fisherman. Only a few days later I was happy—in my sadness To realize how lucky I was to survive The hook of a massive stroke. —Alman Lawrence

Why We Should Talk to Children I just love poetry, she said, how many poets are there? Oh, a jillion, I said, maybe more. That’s a lot of poets. You could double that in a year or two. The number grows moment by moment, like the national debt. Why so many? I guess people have a need, I said. We need a poets clock, like the one about debt they have on TV. You bet, I said They say, you bet, all the time in Arizona. There’s poetry right there, I said. Listen to people talking, speaking poetry they are. About that poets clock, she said, it would be about how much we owe them. —Clifford Henderson

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Let us go to battle on television screens on streets and sidewalks where we can be seen. This is not the end. This is the beginning. At the end of this battle the dragon shall be slayed. —Joe Soi (9 years)

How to Study a Poem If the ink is dry, read it. If the ink is not dry, wait a bit. [Hint: If the poem is in a book, the ink is dry and it is safe to proceed.] When you look it over for the first time, read only the words present for duty. Ignore the others, the ones in your head, but not on the page. [Hint: The words on the page appear against their will. The poet did not consult them, or the ones he left out. Do not be confused. Words are not the victim here.] Run through the poem again and ponder its meaning. Does it make you feel happy? Then it’s a happy poem. Does it make you feel confused? Then you are stupid, or the poet is. Blame the poet. [Hint: If poet is in the room with you, don’t worry about his feelings. Tell him to leave. Be firm about this.]

that look you gave me how much does it cost? —p

The Last Jazz Fan for David Peirce The last jazz fan slipped from the world one night like the amorphous notes of a trumpet solo at closing time. Some say reedy melodies hovered above him like nimbus clouds at the exact moment rhythm left the room. Explosive riffs be-bopped across the sky when the last jazz fan returned to stardust, and clarinets cooled the darkness. Some say it is the silent spaces between that describe the song, but some say the spaces might expand until they swallow the song and silence is certain. —Kenneth Salzmann

A Highway Cross for Ashley

Good luck with the poem. I’ll be in the next room.

Her loved ones were certain that some essence of her remained; some energy floating beside the bits of burnt rubber strewn about the roadside rye grass. so they built a shrine for all the rubberneckers to think about, wondering if they had caught the story on the evening news, wondering if the traffic had been halted for hours Would the symbol, and we have all seen many, be better served in some backyard garden, on some private pedestal far away from the roar of diesel and care less commuters? Why erect a memory where there was only horror? I don’t think she would have remained where the jaws of death were so routinely operated, where she was separated from gears and pistons, and pronounced bit by bloody bit.

—Ken Sutton

—William A. Greenfield

If the last hint seems cruel, consider, if a frog had pockets in his vest, he’d require origami skills to fold a letter from his mother small enough to it put away. When he took it out, he would find the creases had rendered it illegible. [Hint: This is the frog’s problem. Not yours.] I have been less than honest. When I told you it was safe to proceed, I lied. Poetry is never safe. I also said, Words are not the victim here, and you probably inferred the poet was. Not so. You are. Finally, frogs don’t have vests, or pockets in them. They do have wings. However, they are vestigial, too small to support them in flight. Which is why every time a frog jumps, he bumps his butt.

How Silly

The Gun Range Has Been Silent

if her slim ankles were tickled by a sliver of silk she’d shiver through her spine

the gun range has been silent these past few days I know, in 1977 my father’s friend (he had a name) was tagged for death by a KKK truck bed man who used a shotgun and Greensboro roads to bleed his brain (not so different) to John Roberts stabbing the Voting Rights Act with his Montblanc JFK Special got the KKK’s main man in the white house now and now the pop pop pop of post-event (noise pollution is missing) is not bothered is letting leaves rest in peace (yellow, red and disease) meaning maybe our dog returns with nine ticks in her face and the gun range is still silent as if the citizens kick-started it into a place for rain jazz and meadow surgery New Plymouth New Ice Cube New Eric Dolphy

—Fiona Emmi

All Because if you are thinking of me and I am thinking of you then beware for I will cast a very great spell on you you will be captured you will think of me all the time you will be helpless I will have everything and you will have nothing all because you are thinking of me and I am thinking of you —Richard Donnelly

Cairn Come as a pebble Long stroll erosion

—Nathaniel J Krenkel

Go as a rock Interment

Little Canoe

—Josh Sweet

Beneath the Sun The regret of a lifetime is the rotten leaves mired between the sand and a stone.

If this day you travel by canoe down narrowed rocky streams, your task to feel the water glide beneath your feet, then know that some will water be and steering clear of rocky faces will bring you home to me.

Beneath the sun are scattering things with many legs seeking out a shadow.

—Loren Brown

Nothing in this world will not kill you if given all the time of a sunbeam.

Predilection

Beneath the sun every error is played out in the laughter of this blaring saxophone.

a writing prompt gone headstrong wrong

—Steve Clark

those words we elect to cling to for disasters and remedies for afflictions in all the storms

Under indigo skies She raised her face to the rain Her heart was elsewhere —Chuck Mishkin

you can think of

you can think of —Bruce Robinson

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Black Burkini “I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away” —Aheda Zanetti 1 Burkini is a language Terrifying those ignorant of its text. 2 Cops patrol her tan lines Like dams patrol Rivers flowing above danger marks. 3 All you need is in that bag: Change into a garment More palatable for the cops in uniform. 4 Some garments cling too close to your surname Like a metaphor Too loud for good poetry. 5. Sea surfing can be tiring Like an infinite ebb and flow of a questionnaire. Batting an eye lid can be a tad too immodest. 6 Tether yourself close to the beach. Do not surf too deep into the ocean. Never self-intersect in circles of knots and tangles. 7 Bruises sustained from frisking Metamorphose into festering wounds. Gangrene could gnaw at your surname. 8 Erase your footprints from the sands. Waves of time rarely wash the footprints of a scuffle. Prolonged scuffle can bury us all in a deep hole. 9 Do you remember the first corpse The sea sucked off a turbulent beach? The sea spat it out after three days of frisking. 10 The footprints of scuffle Implicates you from shore to shore, Blowing up all bridges between you and anyone. 11 During this conversation Some territory has been ceded across The tan lines of your body. 12 Your body stripped off the garment Remains an evacuated language. Can a language be a scarecrow? 13 History will catch up with you In your rear-view mirror Even if you are full throttle in your Pursuit of happiness. —Chandramohan.S

Rooftop In August, 2:30 A.M. Prove to me the moon exists, she says, In the middle of an argument about faith. You can’t, so you put your hand in the small of her back And pull her across the blanket To kiss her, deeply, Not because you’re overcome by the thought But because you want her to stop pulling at threads Of what’s real and what’s not. —Lucas McMillan 4/17 ChronograM poetry 65

Food & Drink

Sunday Brunch: Crispy Chicken Biscuit (housemade biscuit with crispy chicken, pimento cheese, bacon and pickled fresno peppers), Sweet Potato & Goat Cheese Frittata (smoked onions, local greens), Steak and Eggs. Opposite: Eating Huevos Rancheros and Crispy Chicken Biscuit at the counter.

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everything but

Kitchen Sink Food & Drink

est you have any reservations that Kitchen Sink Food & Drink in Beacon is the new high-class dinner destination in the Hudson Valley, let the black-and-white photograph of the chimpanzee washing dishes ease your worries. The chimp is one of a handful of kitschy mementos on the walls of this Main Street restaurant that opened in August 2015. And they’re all about kitchen sinks. Because, you know, the food itself is everything but … “My mom came up with it,” says chef/owner Brian Arnoff, proudly. “It was just an idea she had one day. We’re gonna do everything.” So it’s not subtle. Nor is it very large—a sardine tin with about seven tables and a bar (or takeout counter, depending on the night) filling the black-andwhite tile-floored dining room. Walk to the bathroom (or the 25-seat backyard patio, reopening in April) and get a sneak peek at your food preparation. It’s knowingly cozy and appropriately Beacon, featuring comfort food with a twist for worldly folks who crave the unexpected. “At the end of the day it’s a very casual environment,” says Arnoff, the 29-yearold Poughkeepsie native who started his food-industry journey as a 15-year-old peeling potatoes and cutting onions in the prepared foods department at Adams Fairacre Farms. Soon Arnoff was pursuing a hospitality management degree at Boston University, and, before graduating in 2009, began working for Barbara Lynch, the second woman to ever win the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurateur. Arnoff soon joined the team that opened her Boston restaurant Sportello, a casual, modern Italian twist on the American diner experience. There are pieces of Lynch’s Sportello—where homemade pastas are served in a counter-service style—in Arnoff’s Kitchen Sink. It’s at Sportello—plus three months at the Apicius International School of Hospitality in Florence—where Arnoff found his passion for making pasta. And

by Timothy Malcolm photos by Christine Ashburn

it shows at Kitchen Sink with his butternut squash lasagna ($21), an artful take on a Sunday dinner favorite. A layer of roasted and pureed squash blends lovingly with a mixture of fontina and homemade ricotta and, for a slightly crunchy and salty thrill, a puree of pecans and onions. It’s perfect comfort food coming from a place of care and peace. Making pasta is like second nature at this point for Arnoff, so now he finds himself focusing on the meditative aspects of the process. Alone in the kitchen at dawn, he’ll cook, cut, blanch, and assemble his pastas carefully, his hands, mind, and soul working as one.“In some sort of way, it’s like my yoga,” he says. After two years working under Lynch and a stop at the Four Seasons in Boston, Arnoff began plotting the next major step. He saw that younger chefs were taking control of their careers earlier, and the classic process of learning under experienced chefs didn’t sound as exciting. Plus Arnoff knew what it took to own a small business, as his parents Mike and Lisa Arnoff are president and legal counsel of Arnoff Moving & Storage, the Poughkeepsie company his grandparents helped grow. So Arnoff decided to become an entrereneur. His idea was to open a macaroni-and-cheese food truck in Washington, DC. “It seemed like a great opportunity to be able to start something on my own, for what was a pretty reasonable amount of startup capital,” says Arnoff about his truck, CapMac, the eighth food truck to open in the nation’s capital. CapMac was successful and allowed Arnoff to further his passion of crafting pasta while providing a casual atmosphere with unexpected flavor profiles. Arnoff likes skewing expectations. Take Kitchen Sink’s Grandma’s Brisket Grilled Cheese ($16), a pleasingly crunchy sandwich of beef brisket, Muenster, Cheddar and onion jam between slices of house-baked challah. It’s served with potato chips and a tangy, creamy house-made coleslaw. It’s exactly what you might find on an Arnoff food truck, classic American comfort food tweaked with savory, salty, and acidic thrills. 4/17 ChronograM FOOD & DRINK 67

Kreplach, a crispy brisket-filled dumpling, served with gravy.

Winter carrots with honey, cilantro, beet, and sesame puree.

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But if you’re really searching for classic American comfort food, you’ll want to visit Kitchen Sink on a Monday night, when Arnoff turns the restaurant into a chicken shack. Walk up to the counter (the bar on other nights) and order your fried chicken dinner ($15). You’ll get chicken marinated for a full day in a buttermilk brine, then fried in cast-iron pans. Served with cornbread, that terrific coleslaw, a pickle, cookie, and—to bring it all back home—macaroni and cheese, it’s a great way to pep up a mundane Monday. “It’s part of the original concept,” says Arnoff, who loves cooking fried chicken for family members and friends. “And the other thing we wanted to do was make a feature on one night that made it affordable for people.” Arnoff gets his chicken locally, whether it’s from Barb’s Butchery in Beacon— where he’s a regular—or from any number of local farms and food organizations on the Kitchen Sink source list. Plenty of meat comes from the Hudson Valley Cattle Company, and produce may originate from Mead Orchards in Tivoli or Obercreek Farm in Wappingers Falls, among other places.Then there’s the family farm,Truckload Farm and Orchard, a half-acre in Hyde Park that produces thousands of pounds of tomatoes, summer squash, and hundreds of heads of lettuce. Working with local food producers has always been key for Arnoff. When his wife finished her PhD, the couple decided it was time for a change and an upgrade from food truck life. Brian didn’t want to battle the DC restaurant scene; plus, he loved his native home, and if he was opening a restaurant he wanted to know the food was grown nearby. “Both of us missed being there in a little more rural area that produces food. And being part of the ecosystem of small farmers and purveyors,” says Arnoff, who moved home in late 2014. “It seemed like the right move.” They looked at New Paltz and around Dutchess County but settled quickly after finding the Main Street Beacon location. They took over the space in June 2015, did a few quick renovations, then opened Kitchen Sink Food & Drink in August. The regional bounty provides the bedrock for Kitchen Sink, but there’s wiggle room as seasons bring new ingredients and Arnoff finds new inspirations. Like a Kitchen Sink cook from Puerto Rico who one day was talking to him about how much she loved mofongo, the classic Puerto Rican dish of fried and mashed plantain, sometimes served in a stew with vegetables and meat. “I thought, ‘Let’s put mofongo on the menu and do something cool with it,” says Arnoff. So there’s Duck Mofongo ($22), a Puerto Rican staple (mashed plantain, a hearty sofrito-induced broth with clean cilantro tang) with a Hudson Valley twist (braised and shredded duck legs). One item on the relatively small menu changes each week, so while there’s typically something new, the goal for Kitchen Sink is to stay rooted in the Hudson Valley (there’s Berkshire pork chop with sweet potato and bacon balsamic kale, $25) but frequently twist and dazzle the palate with influences that range from Arnoff’s travels to the very conversations that happen in his kitchen. Dessert (all dishes $8) furthers that mission. New Orleans-style beignets sit comfortably alongside a refreshing sour cherry and apple pie, with cherries from Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook. Kitchen Sink’s drink menu is a small but distinctly New York collection of wine (glasses $8 to $11, bottles $30-$45), soda ($2.50), beer ($6) and cider ($7). There are offerings from Newburgh Brewing Company and Keegan Ales, plus Millbrook Winery and Whitecliff Vineyards in Gardiner. Arnoff loves working with local beer and wine producers, preferring to meet someone for a local tasting rather than receive cases of Oregon Pinot Noir off a truck. “There’s something to be said for the Hudson Valley,” says Arnoff. “It’s a true microclimate; if you put food out that was produced locally, and if you pair it with wine that was produced locally, everything will come together, as it’s the same soil.” Brunch also starts local but avoids usual breakfast fare so as not to compete with the popular Yankee Clipper Diner down the road. There’s huevos rancheros ($16), a crispy chicken biscuit with pimento cheese and pickled fresno peppers ($14) and, for the bold, a homemade scrapple with eggs, home fries, and toast ($15). Scrapple, for the uninitiated, is a pan-fried pork loaf dish popular in the MidAtlantic region. Most people have no idea what goes in it, but Arnoff certainly elevates it: Brookshire pork butt with local polenta, Allen Brothers’ cooked pork, and plenty of seasonings. Like the pasta, the mofongo, and just about everything at Kitchen Sink, the scrapple may seem foreign, but it fits: comfort food tweaked to fit an adventurous sensibility. Forget expectation when walking into Kitchen Sink Food & Drink. And forget subtleties. Kitchen Sink is authenticalwly Beacon: fun and hip, worldly yet easy as a Sunday evening. Kitchen Sink Food & Drink 157 Main Street, Beacon (845) 765-0240; Kitchensinkny.com

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tastings directory Bakeries Alternative Baker 407 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-3355 www.lemoncakes.com 100% All butter, hand-made, small-batch baked goods with many allergy-friendly options. Where Taste is Everything! Open at 7am until 7pm Friday and Saturday. Until 5pm Thursday, Sunday, and Monday. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

Butchers

North Plank Road Tavern 30 Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-5031 www.northplankroadtavern.com

Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5055 www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s

Jack’s Meats & Deli

direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy

79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

the freshest sushi and delicious traditional

Cafés Apple Pie Bakery Café Culinary Institute of America, 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 905-4500 www.applepiebakerycafe.com

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

Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 21 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

Ristorante Caterina de’Medici Culinary Institute of America, 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 451-1013 www.ristorantecaterinademedici.com

Stonehedge Restaurant 1694 Route 9W, West Park, NY (845) 384-6555 www.stonehedgerestaurant.com

Fresh

Yobo Restaurant

Cornwall, NY www.eventsbyfresh.com

Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com

Restaurants Alley Cat Restaurant 294 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1300

American Bounty Restaurant Culinary Institute of America, 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 451-1011 www.americanbountyrestaurant.com

American Glory BBQ 342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com

The premier Sushi restaurant in the Hudson Valley for over 21 years. Only the freshest sushi with an innovative ﬂair.

Yum Yum Noodle Bar Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7992, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1400 www.yumyumnoodlebar.com

Vineyard Milea Estate Vineyard Hollow Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 264-0403 www.mileaestatevineyard.com info@mileaestatevineyard.com

Voted Best Indian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley

Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED

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The Bocuse Restaurant

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Culinary Institute of America, 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 451-1012 www.bocuserestaurant.com

our unique terroir with traditional vine to

4 Vegetarian Dishes • 4 Non-Vegetarian Dishes includes: appetizers, soup, salad bar, bread, dessert, coffee & tea All you can eat only $12.95 • Children under 8- $7.95

Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446

glass winemaking.

Wine Bars Jar’d Wine Pub Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com

28 E. MARKET ST, RED HOOK (845) 758-2666 See our full menu at www.RedHookCurryHouse.com

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business directory Accommodations Blue Barn BnB 62 Old Route 82, Millbrook, NY (845) 750-2669 www.bluebarnbnb.com

Attorneys Jacobowitz & Gubits (845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8817 ww.gatehousegardens.com

Mohonk Mountain House 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY (800) 772-6646 www.mohonk.com

7 Center Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-0616 www.barnstar.com

552 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (888) 439-9985 www.ltbegnalmotor.com

Car Cleaning Company (845) 797-9915 www.carcleaningco.com

Beverages Binnewater/Leisure Time Spring Water (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com

Books

business directory

Fairground Shows NY P.O. Box 3938, Albany, NY (518) 331-5004 www.fairgroudshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com

Outdated 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com

Art Galleries & Centers Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu

Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.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 Studios Regal Bag Studios 302 Water Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-4922 www.regalbagstudios.com The Studios at the iconic Regal Bag Building, which has been family owned since 1945, are located on Western side of the Hudson River in Newburgh, New York and have been the home to prestigious artists and art exhibitions since 2015. The studios range from 250 to 1200 square feet. If interested in being a part of the resurgent Hudson Valley Art Movement, the Regal Bag Studios are the place to be. 72 business directory ChronograM 4/17

Carpets & Rugs Anatolia-Tribal Rugs & Weavings

Begnal Motors

Antiques Barn Star Productions

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

Auto Sales

Gatehouse Gardens B & B

Luis Perez

54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@gmail.com Winter Hours: Thursday-Monday 125pm, closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Established in Woodstock 1981. Offering old, antique and contemporary handwoven c a r p ets a nd k ilims, f ro m Tur key, 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

www.lrperezbooks.com

Monkfish Publishing

22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com

Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com

Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co.

Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org

Clothing & Accessories

(518) 789-4603, (845) 373-8309, (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

Newburgh Mall

Glenn’s Wood Sheds

Next Boutique

Herrington’s

17 W. Strand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4537 www.nextboutique.com

(845) 255-4704

Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com

John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com

Kniffen Builders New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7500 www.kniffen.com

L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com

N & S Supply

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

1401 Route 300, Newburgh, NY www.newburghmall.com

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Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu

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

Maplebrook School

5142 Route 22, Amenia, NY (845) 373-8191 www.maplebrook.org

Next Step College Counseling

Hyde Park, NY (845) 242-8336 www.nextstepcollegecounseling.com smoore@nextstepcollegecounseling.com

SUNY New Paltz New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu

Wayfinder Experience

61 O’Neil Street, Kingston, NY www.wayfinderexperience.com

Woodstock Day School

1430 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3744 x103 www.woodstockdayschool.org

Events 8 Day Week

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Birds of Prey Day

Pleasant Valley Department Store

Garnerville Arts Center Annual Arts Festival

1585 Main Street, Pleasant Valley, NY www.pleasantvalleydepartmentstore.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

WCW Kitchens

Custom Home Design and Materials

3 Cherry Hill Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2022 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2002

Bard MAT

34 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-0042 www.oak42.com

Sigler Henderson Studio

(845) 372-3499 www.siglerhendersonstudio.com

Education

Williams Lumber & Home Center

Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com

Green Chimneys, Brewster, NY www.greenchimneys.org

55 W. Railroad Ave. , Garnerville, NY www.garnerartscenter.org

LGBTQ Community for Racial Justice

29 North Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie, NY facebook.com/LGBTQRacialJustice

Sheep and Wool Showcase Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown, NY (518) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org

Taste of Greater Newburgh

Mount Saint Mary College (845) 561-1706 www.tasteofgreaternewburgh.com

Woodstock Writer’s Festival

www.woodstockwritersfestival.com

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms

1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

Apple Bin Farm Market

810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com

Beacon Natural Market

348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.

38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com

Graphic Design & Illustration Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.annieillustrates.com

Luminary Media

Hair Salons Allure

47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com

Hair Salons L Salon

234 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0269 www.thelsalonny.com

Le Shag.

292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com

Locks That Rock

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Home Furnishings & Décor A & G Custom Made Furniture 4747 Route 209, Accord, NY (845) 626-0063 www.agcustommade.com

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Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Crafts People

262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Open Fri., Sat., Sun., Mon. 10:30am - 6:00pm.

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Music Bearsville Theater

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Musical Instruments Woodstock Music Shop 6 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3224 1300 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 383-1734 www.woodstockmusic.com

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Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com

Ulster County Habitat for Humanity (845) 340-0907 www.ulsterhabitat.org

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Performing Arts

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Bardavon 1869 Opera House

50 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217

35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

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Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

Storm King Adventure Tours

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Pegasus Comfort Footwear New Paltz (845) 256-0788 and Woodstock (845) 679-2373 www.pegasusshoes.com

Half Moon Theatre 2515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY www.halfmoontheatre.org

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Kaatsbaan International Dance Center

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The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio

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Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com

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Tourism Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660

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MOST INTIMATE HEALTH QUESTIONS, ANSWERED Sometimes the questions that make you blush are the very questions you need to ask. by wendy k agan illustr ation by annie internicola

exual fantasies. Incontinence. Vaginal ecology. Erectile dysfunction. STDs. We might skirt gingerly around issues like these with our doctors, if we are the modest sort. Or we might get down and dirty with them. For this article, I chose to get down and dirty. I asked five health professionals to share their patients’ most intimate questions, along with their expert answers. Here’s the netherworld of knowledge we uncovered. Are my sexual fantasies normal? And what about that other taboo: masturbation? When people come seeking the intimate counsel of Garrison-based sex therapist Marian Dunn, PhD, some express worry about their sexual inner world. “Many women feel embarrassed if they have rape fantasies,” she says. “It’s not that they want to be raped. The fantasy is never violent, and the perpetrator is handsome, seductive, and giving them pleasure against their will. But it goes with the female script of being inhibited and not wanting to admit that you are very sexual, that you have sexual feelings. It’s ‘I couldn’t control myself; he was doing this to me. I didn’t have responsibility.’” Dunn reassures her female patients that fantasies like this are common and can be used constructively in the bedroom. “They can maybe use it for arousal, to be more turned on when they are with their partner.” Sexual fantasies usually start when we are young and are rehearsed during masturbation, explains Dunn. “So they become kind of fixed, and people are concerned about that.” People who fantasize also often feel guilt—a sense of disloyalty to their partner because they are thinking of another person or another scenario during lovemaking. “They might feel like masturbation is safer,” she says. Yet masturbation itself often comes saddled with the weight of taboo starting in childhood. “People are uncomfortable talking about it, even though it’s normal. Yet studies show that the majority of people do masturbate, even if they have a sexual partner.” Dunn suggests thinking of masturbation as a way of learning about your body—“the kind of touch you like, the kind of pressure you like, the kind of pace you like. Then it’s much easier to share it with a partner.” Masturbation can also be a way of equalizing sex drive. “If he has a higher drive than she does, maybe they make love once a week and he masturbates a couple of times a week. Or vice versa.” And of course, it can be a way to be sexual when someone doesn’t have a partner. “Masters and Johnson say that with sex drive, we use it or we lose it. With aging, if there is no sexual activity in a man, he tends to have more difficulty getting an erection. And I think for women, the less sex they have, the less sex they want to have. So masturbation can be a way of priming the pump, keeping things in circulation.” I know where every bathroom is from New York City to Albany. Can you help me with…incontinence? The shame of springing a leak can make people want to run and hide rather than seek out medical advice. With 25 million adult Americans suffering from some form of urinary incontinence (75 to 80 percent of them women), that’s a lot of red faces. Yet 74 whole living ChronograM 4/17

incontinence is treatable in many cases, and not just with surgery. “There’s a lot we can do,” says Cathy Leonard, a physical therapist specializing in pelvic rehabilitation at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck. “Once we identify the type of incontinence, we establish a treatment regimen and in many cases resolve the issue.” Sometimes a cough, sneeze, or laugh can trigger a bit of leakage; these are signs of stress incontinence, which often results from underactive or weak pelvic floor muscles. The first-line treatment is kegel exercises to strengthen this region—yet “90 percent of women who come to see us perform kegels incorrectly,” says Leonard. “Many perform them in a way that promotes incontinence.” Doing it properly involves isolating the pelvic floor muscles and pulling them in and up (“you should feel your vagina and/or rectum lift”); the belly, legs, and buttocks should stay relaxed, and the breath should not be held. Kegels are a cornerstone treatment, yet they are not the only approach. If the problem is not leakage due to stress incontinence but urge incontinence—characterized by increased frequency and urgency of urination—therapy will involve working to change bathroom behaviors, such as avoiding using the toilet “just in case,” which can lead to an overactive bladder and make the problem worse. “Sometimes it’s not actually weakness of the muscles, but tension in them that limits their effectiveness and prevents them from doing their job—keeping you dry,” says Leonard. In other words, don’t do your kegels like you’re training for the Olympics; more is not always better, especially if you aren’t doing them correctly. Instead, follow the advice of a trained PT on the type and amount of kegels that are optimal for you to prevail over the bathroom blues. What can vaginal odor tell me about my health? “A normal vaginal odor will have a musty, earthy smell. It shouldn’t be strong,” says Liz Pickett, a midwife and women’s healthcare professional based in Kingston. The presence of a sharper, more pervasive odor can be a sign that something is wrong—and when that happens it’s best to come in for an examination. En route to a diagnosis, Pickett will ask questions about additional symptoms such as vaginal discharge, itching, or pain. “From there, you can get clues or rule things out: Is this bacterial vaginosis (BV), a yeast infection, or pelvic inflammatory disease?” Vaginal ecology is about pH balance; a healthy vagina will be slightly acidic, with a pH between 3.5 and 4.5, and will secrete small amounts of discharge to keep itself clean (much like saliva keeps the mouth clean). Yet a number of disruptors can throw the pH off balance: menstruation, tampons, soap, douching, sex, or sitting in a wet bathing suit or sauna for too long. If the pH of the vagina gets too acidic and wipes out too much good bacteria, the result can be a yeast infection. If it gets too basic, an overgrowth of bad bacteria can create bacterial vaginosis (BV), which is characterized by a telltale fishy odor. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) can cause a strong odor as well, along with pain and fever. “I always tell people the vagina is a self-cleaning organ,” says Pickett. “Don’t use soap in it—just water. Soap can wash out the good bacteria, and there’s a reason why it’s there. Women are so self-conscious about their odor. It’s a cultural stigma. People think of their vaginas as these dirty things.”

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Aromatherapy Joan Apter, Aromacologist (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release Raindrop, Neuro-Auricular Technique (NAT), Vitaflex for humans and Horses, dogs, birds and cats. Health consultations, natural wellness writer, spa consultant, classes, trainings and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!

Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

Body Work Patrice Heber 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-8350

Dentistry & Orthodontics Ariel Dentistry 3 Plattekill Ave., New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8350 www.arieldentalcare.com

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Dentistry & Orthodontics Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo 56 Lucas Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1619 www.drvigs.com

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Funeral Homes Copeland Funeral Home Inc. 162 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1212 www.copelandfhnp.com

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature 1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.

Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com

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Massage Therapy Gentle Mountain Massage Therapy 7545 North Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 702-6751 www.gentlemountain.com

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

Psychic Psychic Readings by Rose 40 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6801 www.psychichreadingsinwoodstockny.com

Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com

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Retreat Centers Garrison Institute 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 Dan Siegel teaching “Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human,” May 5-7; and an LGBTIQ weekend meditation retreat, “Waking Up Fabulous: Living our Intentions,” on May 26-29.

Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org

Kol Hai: Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal (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.

Weight Loss Hudson Endocrinology 40 Sunset Ridge, Suite 230 New Paltz, NY (845) 293-0402 www.hudsonendocrinology.com

Yoga Woodstock Yoga Center 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8700 www.woodstockyogacenter.com

Pharmaceutical treatments can help with BV—but if the odor is persistent, Pickett recommends inserting a probiotic capsule vaginally every night until it’s resolved. In clinical trials, the probiotics Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus plantarum were proven effective. Probiotics can also be used preventively. “If you’ve been tested and you have normal flora but still feel like you have an odor, you can use the probiotics vaginally,” says Pickett. Most important, she adds, “Don’t try to diagnose or treat yourself. You should always see your doc.” Can acupuncture help me last longer in bed? Male patients sometimes come to Ben Fleisher, acupuncturist and owner of Woodstock Healing Arts, because they’ve heard that the ancient Chinese healing practice can help them regain their youth in the bedroom. There is some truth to the claim, says Fleisher. “Acupuncture can definitely help with erectile dysfunction. A number of older gentlemen have verified with me that things have improved for them in that department. There’s a certain glimmer in their eye when they report this to me.” For men who would rather not take a pharmaceutical like Viagra, an alternative treatment like acupuncture can hold appeal. While there are no clinical studies verifying acupuncture’s efficacy with erectile dysfunction, Fleisher points to anecdotal evidence from his own practice as well as a few documented case studies. The holistic approach of traditional Chinese medicine might have something to do with its purported success. “The question is, why are you not lasting longer, and what are your expectations? Are you thinking too much of ‘performance’ in the bedroom? Is there another underlying issue such as chronic pain? Usually by addressing those questions I can help with someone’s overall health—psychological, physical, and sexual health. If someone is not comfortable in their body, or they have some kind of chronic distraction from being intimate, you can address a lot of those things with acupuncture.” Patients often ask if there is one acupuncture needle in particular that can work bedroom magic. “There are a few,” he says. “If we are using those needles, someone with erectile dysfunction would notice a difference.” But again Fleisher emphasizes the holistic piece. “Acupuncture helps with overall metabolism. We do a lot of lifestyle and dietary changes to improve how your body is functioning, and that often results in having a better time in bed.” Can Lyme disease be sexually transmitted? When you live in a region where Lyme disease is on everyone’s lips, and spring brings fresh worries about tick-borne infections, it’s inevitable that questions about sexual transmission will come up. The notion is not far-fetched, says Hyde Park-based Lyme specialist Richard Horowitz, MD, author of How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease (St. Martins Griffin, 2017). “Lyme is a genetically related cousin of syphilis, which we know is sexually transmitted.” Like Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, syphilis’s Treponema pallidum is a spirochetal organism. The relationship between them inspired two published articles by Drs. Ray Stricker and Maureen Middelveen on the potential sexual transmission of Lyme. “What they found is that there were a small number of spirochetes that were present in sperm and vaginal secretions,” says Horowitz. “So in the study it was suggested that Lyme could be sexually transmitted, like syphilis. But the difference is that when we look at epidemiological data on the transmission rates of Lyme, we see that there are spikes during the spring, summer, and fall, but not in the wintertime. We also know that with the transmitted disease you generally need very high levels of the organism, a large amount of the bacteria. So although it is theoretically possible, especially if someone has lesions and the spirochetes could get in, it is probably unlikely with the vast majority of the population. We definitely need more proof.” Yet tick bites are not the only way to contract Lyme disease. “There is a large body of scientific evidence, which has essentially been ignored by the OBGYN population, that Lyme can be transmitted from mother to fetus, and not just Lyme but other borrelia species like relapsing fever and bartonella,” says Horowitz. “These are important questions for women wanting to get pregnant, or who have had multiple miscarriages, as we see sometimes with Lyme disease.” Another interesting connection between Lyme disease and STDs? Lyme is the number two most common infectious disease in the United States. The number one position goes to…chlamydia.

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The narrator (Esteli Kitchen) explains the function of gargoyle (Tyson Houseman) in the Bread & Puppet production of "Faust 3," performed at Time and Space Limited in Hudson.

Faust and Foremost I vividly remember the first time I saw Bread and Puppet Theater, at a demonstration on Wall Street in the 1960s. Gargantuan, bluish dream-phantoms rose in the air above me like Easter Island stone heads come to life. Years later, in 1984, I attended one of the Bread and Puppet theater pieces, “Josephine, the Mouse Singer,” and was surprised that it wasn’t simplistic political sloganeering, but a tragic tale of a woman vocalist, with eerie, mouselike, atonal music. Bread and Puppet isn’t easy to pin down. Their latest show, “Faust 3,” will appear at Time and Space Limited in Hudson on April 14. Peter Schumann, a German dancer and sculptor, founded Bread and Puppet Theater on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1963. Eleven years later, the troupe moved to a farm in Glover, Vermont. Four puppeteers currently live on the farm, which also includes a museum and print shop. Each summer, Bread and Puppet presents a weekly circus, plus silent pageants. They also tour internationally. Throughout the years, some characters recur in the Bread and Puppet plays: Mother Earth, Uncle Fatso, The Dragon, plus garbagemen, washerwomen, slumlords, and butchers. “When a horse shows up in a Bread and Puppet show, as horses do in 'Faust 3,’ that image rhymes with the horses in Bread and Puppet’s work going back to the very early show ‘White Horse Butcher,’ based on a Russian folktale,” explains Joshua Krugman, a current puppeteer. Avant-garde art typically travels from the periphery of society to museums, university textbooks, and the collections of the rich. Bread and Puppet Theater has resisted this career arc. It still speaks for the poor and the forgotten, the puppets are still made of papier-mâché, and the puppeteers still distribute “peasant bread” during the show. Schumann, now 83, distinguishes between the “fine arts” of the high-culture establishment and the “coarse arts” of ordinary people. He is firmly on the side of the latter. “The most important material for this year is cardboard, and there’s a certain pride that this thing you can find in a recycling station, or in your home, is the basic element of an aesthetic,” remarks Amelia Castillo, who lives at the Glover farm. Also, the troupe

continues to show up at demonstrations, including the Women’s March in Washington, DC, and recent immigration protests. Puppets were the CGI of the 12th century. Before Hollywood ever conjured up a believable ogre, a marionette in a dark room could do the trick. Puppets can also play games with scale. A normal human being seems minuscule next to a massive talking refrigerator, then giant—compared to a dancing thimble—all in the space of three minutes. The German Romantic poet Goethe wrote the verse play “Faust” in two parts. Last year, Schumann decided it was time to add a third section, which he titled “Faust 3.” Goethe’s “Faust” is based on the German legend of a philosopher who sells his soul to the Devil to achieve vast worldly knowledge. The play is in two parts. Part I stuck close to the original legend, but Part II was an expansive amalgam of fantasy, erudition, and moral lesson. The Bread and Puppet version uses Faust as an emcee to introduce skits about contemporary America. Ordinary workers, like the fabled German philosopher, lack basic satisfaction, and find themselves trapped in a world without meaning. “Faust 3” asks: Will they make a “Faustian bargain,” or find another way to escape their fate? This play includes numerous levels of illusion: finger puppets, masks, flat puppets, and a construction so large it won’t fit in certain venues (in which case there’s a Plan B climactic puppet). Fourteen performers constitute the current Bread and Puppet troupe, doubling, tripling, and quadrupling up on roles, plus playing instruments, dancing—and at the end, handing out bread. Though the play was written last summer, before Trump was elected, it confronts the stunned desperation of working class life in America with wry humor. In this age of political absurdity, farce is a true necessity. “Faust 3” by Bread and Puppet Theater will be performed at Time and Space Limited on April 14 at 7:30pm. (518) 822-8100; Timeandspace.org. —Sparrow 4/17 ChronograM forecast 79

SATURDAY 1 Comedy

High Mud Comedy Festival 2 Dope Queens headline. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) MoCA-111.

Dance

Small Plates Choreography Festival 8pm. $15. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.

Fairs & Festivals

Rock and Roll Resort v7: Feast of Fools $50/$80 weekend/discounts available. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. RocknRollResort.com.

Film

ENGAGE Film Series Presents: I Am Not Your Negro 10am. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515. Matinees at Shadowland Every other Saturday, 2-5pm. $10/$7 kids at door. Classic film series with features, cartoons, shorts, and serial chapter. See website for specific movies. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Food & Wine

Hudson Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival -2, 11am-4pm. $25. Come sip wine and sample chocolate and wine from all across the Hudson Valley and surrounding region. Cooking and cocktail demonstrations. Age 21 and over only. Patterson Recreation Center, Patterson. 278-7272. Tea & Cheese Pairing 1-2pm. $18. Join owner, Stacey Held as she guides guests through this tea and cheese pairing seminar. Advanced Reservations Required. The Water Oracle, Rhinebeck. 876-8327.

Health & Wellness

Embodying Bone Yoga Workshop: The Upper Limbs 1:30-4:30pm. $50. In this workshop series led by certified Embodied Anatomy & Yoga teacher Kate Hagerman, discover the dynamic mobile-stability and stable-mobility that arises from the interplay between the bones and the joints between them. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Kids & Family

Mystwood at Wild Earth First Saturday of every month, 10am-3:30pm. Mystwood is a nature connection program for 6-9 year olds that uses elves, fairies, wizards and magic as storytelling and teaching tools. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830. Trout Weekend 12-4pm. $3 non-members. “Meet the Trout” presentation at 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. Feeding time for Brook Trout at 1:30 p.m. & 3 p.m. Fun activities and stories plus crafts for kids. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Lectures & Talks

Gallery Talk and Book Launch with Gloves Off 2pm. Featuring exhibiting artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty and guest curator Andy Ingall. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum.

Literary & Books

The Price of Illusion: A Memoir 7-9pm. From Joan Juliet Buck, former editorin-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: blong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Music

All Too Real 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ann Wilson of Heart 8-10pm. $65-$125. Rock and roll. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater Box Office, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Chain of Fools Day party with The Pleasers 7:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Dan Signor 8pm. Modern rock. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. DÜM Turkish Rhythm Celebration 8pm. $15. Raquy Danziger specializes in Turkish Split Hand darbuka drumming, and performs with his ensemble. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Ed Palermo Big Band “Cosmic Debris” 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

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The Jon Bates Band 9:30pm. R&B, soul. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Kurt Henry Band 8:30-11pm. The softest band with the biggest sound. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Love Makes Such Fools of Us All: Cabaret with Kate Johnson 8pm. $25/$50 Patrons. An evening of cabaret and wine featuring Kate Johnson, vocalist with Francesca Tanksley, piano, Charlie Kniceley, bass, and Jeff Kraus, drums. Marbletown MultiArts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Memories of Patsy 7:30pm. Patsy Cline tribute show. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Mike & Alice Unplugged 8:30pm. Piano Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. (909) 547-4266. Ms. Lisa Fisher and Grand Baton 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Norman Rockwell & Alice Parker: Visions of America in Art and Song 3-5 & 7-9pm. $30/$50 preferred/$10 youth under 18. Crescendo, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the Berkshire Children’s Chorus, present the world premiere of a multimedia work by Berkshire-based composer John Myers. Saint James Place, Great Barrington, MA. (860) 435-4866. Hollis Brown Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744. Stringendo Inc.: 2017 Gala Concerts 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Open Houses/Parties/Benefits

Art Show and Sale Fundraiser 1-4pm. An exhibit featuring works of local artists Jamie Taylor and Kimberly D'Auria. Plattekill Library, Modena. 883-7286. Spring Sampler 5-8pm.Dance performances throughout the evening, handmade spring jewlery, and music from our musicians. Lace Mill Main Gallery, Kingston. 399-4437. 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. Word on the Street: Art meets Activism 6-9pm. A timely group exhibition that reflects a long tradition of artists as advocates for social justice and political change. Robeson Gallery, Peekskill. (917)-535-3309.

Spirituality

Fool’s Day Psychic Fair 12-5pm. $40 per half hour reading. We will have a selection of readers, each with their own unique style and set of modalities. Walkins will be warmly welcomed, but you may schedule your time with a specific reader in advance. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. Psychic Medium Kim Russo 8pm. $45/$75 with meet and greet. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Theater

Damn Yankees 8pm. $8/$6 children and sniors. Rhinebeck High School Drama Club is proud to present its 2017 spring musical. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. 871-5500. Mothers and Sons 8pm. A timely and touching new play about change, reconciliation and becoming a family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Who’s Tommy 7pm. $12/$5 students and seniors. Presented by the Beacon Players. Beacon High School, Beacon. 838-6900. Yours, Anne 8pm. $8-$35. This hauntingly powerful retelling of Anne Frank’s story features a moving, lyrical score. Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park. 235-9885.

Workshops & Classes

Encaustic Mini 12-4pm. $65. Mini encaustic workshops give participants a hands on introduction to the encaustic process. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. 333-3112.

Metalsmithing Basics: Ring Making with Dan Neville 9am-4pm. Learn the essentials of making a piece of jewelry from start to finish. We will discuss design, how to properly size a ring, and learn techniques such as soldering, fabricating, hammering, and polishing. Students will go home with custom sterling silver rings. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550. Old World Carving Join classically-trained Master Carver Georgette Kadgen and RWBS Lead Instructor Andrew Willner in this exclusive carving class. Students will learn classical and marine carving as Kadgen and Willner guide them in individualized projects. Saturdays through April 30. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080. Paper Cutting Workshop 2-4pm. Yvonne Laube leads this papercutting workshop, ideal for beginners, inspired by a Pennsylvania German folk art called Fraktur. Pine Plains Free Library, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1927.

SUNDAY 2 Film

National Theatre Presents Amadeus 2pm. $12/$10. Peter Shaffer’s iconic play had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, winning multiple Olivier and Tony awards before being adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. This new production is directed by Michael Longhurst, with live orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Fairs & Festivals

Rock and Roll Resort v7: Feast of Fools $50/$80 weekend/discounts available. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. RocknRollResort.com. Hudson Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival 11am-4pm. $25. Come sip wine and sample chocolate and wine from all across the Hudson Valley and surrounding region. Enjoy craft beverages including beer, cider, and distilled spirits. Shop from additional vendors including honey, olive oil, specialty foods, and more. Cooking and cocktail demonstrations. Age 21 and over only. Patterson Recreation Center, Patterson. 278-7272.

Health & Wellness

Just Dance First Sunday of every month, 2:30-4:30pm. $10 suggested. Come and sweat it out with us on the 1st Sunday of every month. We have a DJ providing the beats and vibrations to set us on a journey of self expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444. Reiki 12-2pm. Members of the Hudson Valley Community (HVC) Reiki group will offer 20-minute individual Reiki sessions, free of charge, on a first-come first-served basis. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Speed Activism! 20 organizations. 2 hours. Get involved. 2-4pm. $5. A fast-paced, lively way to explore 20 unique local and regional activist organizations. Learn how you can make a difference and find your movement match! Pre-registration required. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 901-1584.

Kids & Family

Hudson Valley Seed: Afternoon of Fun, Charity Bartending 1-4pm. Help us grow to help more students and community members. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. (347) 328-4481. Kestrel: Spring Discovery at Wild Earth 10am-3:15pm. $240 3-part series. Ages 7–10. This spring, we will gather in the forest to play games, tell stories around the fire, craft, track, build and so much more! Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830. Screech Owl: Spring Soaring at Wild Earth 10am-3:15pm. $240 3-part series. 4-7 year olds. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830. Trout Weekend 12-4pm. $3 non-members. “Meet the Trout” presentation at 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. Feeding time for Brook Trout at 1:30 p.m. & 3 p.m. Fun activities and stories plus crafts for kids. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Lectures & Talks

Gallery Talk with Guest Educator Kevin Cook 2pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum.

Literary & Books

Zakary Pelaccio and Peter Barrett, “Project 258: Making Dinner at Fish & Game” 2pm. Book signing. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.

Music

The Americana Music Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Argus Quartet in Spring 3-4:30pm. $15/$35 free for students under 18. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Compact 1pm. Angry Orchard, Walden. 1-888-845-3311. David Weiss & Point of Departure 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Duo Lontano with Pianists Babette Hierholzer & Jürgen Appell 2:30-4:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and children. Music Inspires Dance Series. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. (834) 757-5106 ex. 2. Garfield Moore, Cello: From Baroque to Flamenco 2-3:15pm. $15/$10 students. Rostropovich, Piatigorsky, the great Casals himself - these are the artists invoked by critics when they attempt to describe cellist Garfield Moore. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Guitarist Gary Lucas 8pm. $10. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Lea Salonga 8pm. $70. Disney princess Lea Salonga has thrilled audiences as Jasmine and Mulan in the Disney animated classics, Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters and The Farwells Concert 2-4pm. $15. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Pone Ensemble for New Music Spring Concert 3-5pm. $20/students free. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. 901-0937. Salif Keita:The Golden Voice of Africa 7pm. $40. Afro-pop pioneer. The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy. (518) 272-2390. Tenor Rich Halley with Percussionist Bob Meyer 4pm. $10. The Lace Mill, Kingston. 331-2140.

Spirituality

Dharma Sunday School First Sunday of every month, 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented class for children 5+ and their families. Come explore concepts like kindness, compassion, gratitude and generosity through readings, creative activities, community building, movement, and meditation. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.

Theater

Damn Yankees 2pm. $8/$6 children and sniors. Rhinebeck High School Drama Club is proud to present its 2017 spring musical. Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck. 871-5500. Mothers and Sons 2pm. A timely and touching new play about change, reconciliation and becoming a family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 3pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Who’s Tommy 7pm. $12/$5 students and seniors. Presented by the Beacon Players. Beacon High School, Beacon. 838-6900. Yours, Anne 2pm. $8-$35. This hauntingly powerful retelling of Anne Frank’s story features a moving, lyrical score. Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park. 235-9885.

Workshops & Classes

Ballet Master Class $30. Classes are open to boys and girls. The Intermediate Level session, for ages 8-11, runs 1:00 - 2:30. The Advanced Level class, for ages 12 and up (ladies on pointe), runs 3:30-5:00. New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 255-0044. Mindful Movement Class (monthly) First Sunday of every month, 12-1pm. $15. Learn to use the principles of the Alexander Technique. Good for all ability levels. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 917-373-6151.

MONDAY 3 Kids & Family

Love Shouldn’t Hurt 7-8pm. Helping our children understand healthy vs. unhealthy relationships has never been more challenging. Red Hook High School, Red Hook. Redhookptsa@gmail.com.

Music

Johnny Feds & Friends 6pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. NE-HI, Jouska, Cal Fish 7:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.

MUSIC 24-hour drone

Eric Harvey Brown

The 24-Hour Drone festival takes place April 28-29 at Basilica Hudson.

The Drone Zone A single, sustained note hangs in the air. It rises, dips, and further fluctuates in pitch. But, over a span of roughly three quarters of an hour, it does not stop. Instead, once that 45-minute segment has gone by, the musician or group of musicians who’ve been emitting the tone goes silent and another musician or group immediately takes their places and begins to play. They, in turn, pick up the hovering sound and keep it aloft for another 45 minutes until the next player/group picks it up and passes it along to the following act, and so on. By its end, this sacred sonic cycle will have lasted, nearly unbroken, for a full 24 hours. Welcome to 24-Hour Drone, which on April 29 and 30 marks its third staging at Basilica Hudson. “It really reflects the power of an immersive, shared experience,” says Basilica Hudson director and the event’s co-organizer, Melissa Auf der Maur—who rock fans will know from her stints as the bassist of Hole and Smashing Pumpkins—about 24-Hour Drone’s overarching concept. “It’s liberating, something that appeals not only to people who are into experimental or drone music, but also to people who primarily listen to rock or classical music. So there’s a real crossover going on. It’s not so much about headliners—it’s about the event as a whole.” Yet, there are certain known artists whose names can’t help but bring wider attention to the Hudson festival. This year’s roster includes, among many others, Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum, no wave composer and guitarist Phil Kline, A Silver Mt. Zion violinist Jessica Moss, and Brooklyn singer-songwriter and band leader Shilpa Ray, whose main instrument, harmonium, is perfectly suited for such an occasion. “I’ve done some solo performances before,” says Ray, who for her slot will be performing in a rare unaccompanied-and-improvising setting. “But those were structured pieces, usually for theatrical things, and because of that they were more strictly dependent on time.”

Time has seen 24-Hour Drone fan out from its 2014 beginning in Holland by parent organization Le Guess Who? and its partnering with Basilica Hudson for its 2015 US launch: Earlier this year, satellite installments were held in Canada and the UK, and, at the moment, Auf der Maur, her husband and Basilica partner Tony Stone, and Le Guess Who?’s Bob van Heur are in discussions to bring the franchise to Sweden and Cuba later in 2017. “One of the precepts of the event is that we really try to tap into the whole local color wheel of wherever it’s taking place by featuring artists from within a two- or three-hour radius of the venue,” Auf der Maur explains. “Obviously, because of its experimental style we include a lot of noise and avant-garde artists, and I’m always so amazed by how many of them are right here in the Hudson Valley. But we also like to include more ‘normal’ [i.e., conventional] musicians and encourage them to try droning, which for many is something they’ve never done before. And we also reach out to heritage and indigenous artists; at the Canadian event we had singers from the local Icelandic subculture and at this month’s event in Hudson there’s going to be an endurance reading of [sacred text] The Testimonies of Mother Ann Lee presented by the Mount Lebanon Shaker Museum.” Many attendees of the Hudson happening come for the duration, taking advantage of the on-site bar and food vendors and even camping out on the floor of the cavernous, 19th-century Basilica building as the hypnotic sounds surround them (sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, and mats are all encouraged). “I’m definitely looking forward to getting weird,” says Ray. 24-Hour Drone takes place from April 28 at noon through April 29 at noon. Tickets are $24 (“early bird”) and $32. (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.org. —Peter Aaron 4/17 ChronograM forecast 81

Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

TUESDAY 4 Film

1984 7:15pm. $8/$6 members. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Health & Wellness

Mindfulness and the Art of Savoring with Stephanie Speer 6:30-9pm. $45. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 332-9936. Reiki Practitioner Healing Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Gathering of Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Kids & Family

K-2 After School Art Program 4:15-6pm. $150 series/$35 drop-in. Sunflower Art Studios, Gardiner. 419-5219.

Lectures & Talks

Hope on the Golden Gate Bridge 6:30-9pm. Raising awareness about mental health and suicide prevention. Presented by the Maya Gold Foundation and the SUNY NP Association for Suicide Awareness and Prevention. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz.

Literary & Books

Edie Meidav: Kingdom of the Young 6-8pm. The dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure, work, love, absolution, better chances elsewhere. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Out From Calaboose 6:15-9pm. Karen Corinne Herceg reads from her poetry collection Out From Calaboose newly released from Nirala Publications. Wok & Roll Café, Woodstock. 679-3484.

Theater

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 10am. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Beginner Series in Watercolors 1-4 & 5:30-8:30pm. $160. Four-week series. This workshop will have demonstrations followed by hands-on learning. Betsy Jacaruso Studio & Gallery, Rhinebeck. 516-4435. Bodystorm Women’s Council 6:30-8:30pm. An embodyperiod. take on traditional talking circles, Bodystorm is like a guided brainstorming session with intuitive, interactive, and embodied exploration. Bodystorm is led by Jungian depth psychologist Dr. Roxanne Partridge. Aletis House, Hudson. (415) 686-8722. Understanding Dementia Related Behaviors & Effective Communication 10am-3pm. Learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers and learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of dementia. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. (800) 272-3900.

WEDNESDAY 5 Art Galleries and Exhibits Long Reach, Squared Opening reception April 8, 5pm7pm Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 485-8506. Juried Portrait and Figure themed group Exhibit Opening reception April 8, 5pm-7pm Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Film

Film and Discussion Series with Katie Cokinos 6:30-8pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Kids & Family

4th-6th Grade 5-week After School Art Program 4:15-6pm. $150 series/$35 drop-in. Sunflower Art Studios, Gardiner. 419-5219.

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Gender and Sexuality Today by Lisa Romero 6:30pm. Sex Education and the SpiritUnderstanding Gender and Sexuality through spiritual insight in the light of Waldorf Education. LMountain Laurel Waldorf School, New Paltz. 255-0033.

Lectures & Talks

Becoming a Candidate for Competitive Colleges: How to Stand Out in the Crowd 6-7:30pm. Presented by former college admission director and the founder of Next Step College Counseling, Sandra M. Moore, M.A., the presentation will focus on the key criteria selective colleges use in evaluating applications and the concrete steps students can take to stand out and improve their chances of being admitted and receiving preferential need-based financial aid packages and merit scholarships. Millbrook Free Library, Millbrook. 677-3611. The Roosevelt Circle: A Closer Perspective 2pm. $40 series/$25 memebrs. Educational program led by local historians Linda Bouchey and Albert Vinck. April 5, The Roosevelts Entertain the King & Queen; April 12, Frances Perkins: The New Deal’s First Lady (Part I); April 19, Frances Perkins: The New Deal’s First Lady (Part II); April 26, Missy LeHand: FDR’s Other Closest Companion. Wilderstein Preservation, Rhinebeck. 876-4818.

Lectures & Talks

John Durham Peters: From Miracles to Meteorology: Weather and Media Theory 5-6:30pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Literary & Books

An Evening of Poetry with Bill Greenfield and Robert Milby 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Leslie T. Sharpe: The Quarry Fox 6-8pm. The Quarry Fox is the first in-depth study of Catskill wildlife since legendary nature writer John Burroughs first chronicled the area in the 19th century. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Music

The Fifth Element: Performance and Presentation by Crystal Leigh Endsley 7-9pm. Part performer, part professor, Dr. Crystal Leigh uses a hybrid of spoken word poetry, performance and presentation to explore what Hiphop names as the fifth element— knowledge of self—as a tool for social justice. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Zadie Smith: Annual Alex Krieger ’95 Memorial Lecture 8-10pm. The event will feature Smith reading from recent works. Main Building Villard Room at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Andy Stack’s American Soup 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Cloudnyne Duo Partly Cloudy 7pm. Classic rock. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Glen Phillips 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Krishna Das Benefit for Tibetan Home of Hope 8-9:30pm. $45/$50/$60. Join Krishna Das and friends for an evening of sacred kirtan music to benefit the Tibetan Home of Hope. arrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. The Microscopic Septet 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Pianist Jon Cleary 8pm. $37.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Roosevelt Dime 7:30pm. Americana rhythm & blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

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Spirituality

Literary & Books

Brit Floyd Immersion World Tour 2017 8-11pm. $45/$35/$145 VIP meet and greet. The spectacle of a Pink Floyd concert experience is truly recaptured in high-definition sound, and with a stunning million dollar light show and state of the art video design. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins 9pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Theater

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 10am. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Encaustic and Paper $400. Through April 7. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112. Skills Identification and Transferable Skills 4-5:30pm. Meghan Lambert, from Dutchess One Stop Career Center. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Understanding & Responding to DementiaRelated Behavior 2-3pm. Learn to decode behavioral messages, identify common behavior triggers and learn strategies to help intervene with some of the most common behavioral challenges of dementia. om the New York State Department of Health. Adelphi University Hudson Valley Campus, Poughkeepsie. (800) 272-3900.

THURSDAY 6 Food & Wine

Eat organic, local, and fair trade meals 8am-4pm. Pay what you can for breakfast, lunch, bakery and coffee. Outdated: An Antique Cafe, Kingston. 331-0030. Meet the Maker: Erik Bell from Old Klaverack Brewery 6:30-8pm. Meet craft beer brewer Erik Bell, owner of Old Klaverack Brewery. Hudson Valley Distillers, Germantown. (518) 537-6820.

Health & Wellness

Biologic Approaches to Oral Health with Drs. Maureen and Jeffrey Viglielmo 7-8:30pm. Explore holistic dentistry with Drs. Maureen and Jeffrey Viglielmo, members of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org.

Kids & Family

3rd-5th Grade After School Art Program 4-6pm. $150 series/$35 drop-in. Sunflower Art Studios, Gardiner. 419-5219.

Thursday Tantra Class 7-9pm. $10. Imagine a Living Practice. Tantra Gateway, Beacon. (518) 929-8575.

Theater

Almost, Maine 7pm. $10/students free. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-1959. Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre: The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti 7-9:30pm. $45. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.

Workshops & Classes Textile Printing for Quiters 6:30-8:30pm. Thursdays through April. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

FRIDAY 7 Business & Networking

Clinton Historical Society Annual Business Meeting and Potluck Supper 6:30pm. Creek Meeting House, Clinton Corners.

Comedy

David Sedaris 7:30pm. $75. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Dance

Ballroom Dance with Pete Redmond & Crazy Feet First Friday of every month, 8-11:30pm. $15. After the lesson: the band provides a mix of dance-able ballroom, swing and Latin standards. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833. Cajun Dance with Krewe de la Rue 7-11pm. $15/$10 with FT student ID. Krewe de la Rue serves up a punchy dance hall mix of Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music. 7 pm free beginners’ lesson, 8-11 pm dance. No partner necessary. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 388-7048.

Film

Voices Across the Divide 7-9pm. This award-winning film explores the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through rarely heard personal stories. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-2113.

Health & Wellness

Seeing the Back Body with Kevin Gardiner 1-4pm. $75/$200 series. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Literary & Books

Calling All Poets 8-11pm. $5. On the first Friday of every month since 1999, Calling All Poets has welcomed and nurtured poets and their patrons.Roost Studios & Art Gallery, New Paltz. 675-1217. A Consideration of T. C. Boyle’s novel When the Killing’s Done 6pm. Julia Jardine, Conservation Communicator with Rockefeller State Park Preserve, will facilitate discussion of invasive species and what, if anything, is to be done about them. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

Music

Barrelhouse Blues Band 7:30pm. Covers. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Chris O’Leary Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Colorway 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Gala Orange County Tribute to Phil Ochs 7-10pm. $25. Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, New Windsor. 325-1615. New Cicada Trio 8pm. $15. Featuring Iva Bittová, violin and voice; Timothy Hill, overtone singing and guitar and David Rothenberg, clarinets and cicadas. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Okwui 8pm. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Massmoca.org/event/okwui-okpokwasili/. Queenston: NuQueer Meltdown 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Sarah Kilborne: The Lavender Bluess 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Fundraiser with Sheriff Butch Anderson 7:30-11pm. $40/$70 couple. To benefit End Overdose in Harlem Valley. Silent auction, food, dancing. The Links at Union Vale, LaGrangeville. 223-1002. The Voyages of Jan Sawka Exhibition and Film Fundraiser 5-9pm. Get an inside peek into a new featurelength documentary film about Jan Sawka and meet the late artist’s widow, Hanka Sawka and director Hanna Sawka, daughter of the artist and filmmaker. Gomen Kudasai, New Paltz. 255-8811.

Spirituality

Music, Meditation, and Shabbat Potluck Dinners 6pm. Location TBD. 477-5457.

Theater

Almost, Maine 7pm. $10/students free. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-1959. Drag Legend Varla Jean Merman 8:30pm. $25. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Body Ritual Movement with Diego Pinon 7-10pm. Fri. $45/Sat. $75/Sun. $55/All three $150. Odd Fellows Temple Art and Theater Space, Saugerties. (917) 669-1094. Culinary Arts and Colors 3-7pm. $249 +$30-$40 materials fee. Three Fridays. The class will begin with students learning how to make colorful food garnishes to fill their wooden pallet. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759. The Hacksaw with Seth Gould 9am-4pm. $580. The hacksaw is a basic but important tool for any workshop, and in this three day class students will learn to make their own. Through the process of controlled hand forging, students will learn to precisely forge the parts for their saw. Through April 9th. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

SATURDAY 8 Dance

Coast 2 Coast Dance Annual Tricky Tray/ Penny Social 2-6pm. $5. Roy C Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls. 240-5447.

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.

THEATER "CUL-DE-SAC"

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Molly Renfroe Katz, Katie Hartke, and Michael Borelli star in the Half Moon Theater production "Cul-de-sac" at the CIA Marriot Pavillion this month.

Five Years After Happily Ever After Popular culture has had a long-standing fascination—part-scorn and part-adoration—with suburbia. Television shows like “Weeds” and “Desperate Housewives” and movies like Blue Velvet and American Beauty reveal the comedic, sadistic, secretive, and sad reality of suburban life. When you look past the perfectly manicured lawns and shiny, new cars, what do you see? Do you know your neighbors? Are they happy? Are you? John Cariani’s “Cul-de-sac” attempts to answer these questions. The play, which first opened off-off-Broadway on April 29, 2006 at the Connelly Theater, was described by the New York Times as a “charming, witty and macabre” study in suburban doldrums. In the years since, Cariani has revised and reworked “Cul-de-sac” for various productions including the upcoming show at Half Moon Theater. Cariani’s dark comedy “Cul-de-sac” explores themes like marriage and suburbia while also allowing women to usurp their usual roles. “Women won’t typically get to perpetrate violence or make demands—in life or on stage—and the women in ‘Cul-de-sac’ do,” Cariani says. “They make demands. And they get violent.” While the play began as Cariani’s attempt to explore how complicated marriage can be, it became more than that—in the same way marriages often become about more than just the wedded. In some ways, “Cul-de-sac” is the answer to the myriad stories about finding and falling in love—it’s the tale that begins five years after happily ever after. “Keeping love is special—and maintaining love is so difficult,” he says. “Good relationships require care and attention and time. It’s a commitment two people make with themselves, but also with their communities. I feel like people aren’t warned ahead of time what they’re getting into.” In addition to marriage, Cariani says that he was inspired to write “Cul-de-sac” by his desire to respond to suburban America. “Suburban America isn’t what people think

it is anymore,” he says. “It’s diverse. The problems that plagued cities have followed people to the suburbs. I wanted to write about how you can’t run from trouble. There’s no place far enough away from it.” The play follows three families—the Smiths, the Johnsons, and the Joneses—who live in the same cul-de-sac in the suburbs. They are all trying to find the ever-changing, always-elusive American Dream. It’s about the lengths people will go to survive and the danger of trying to “keep up with the Joneses.” “It’s about how comparing yourself to others will lead to utter despair,” Cariani says. “I think that will always be relevant.” As for the generic names of the families, Cariani explains these surnames are not necessarily set in stone. For example, if Hispanic actors played one of the couples they could assume a common Hispanic-American surname if they wanted. He believes the message behind the names is more important than the names themselves. “I want people to remember that the lives of ordinary, seemingly harmless, boring people can be extraordinary and very much in turmoil,” Cariani says. The play, like domesticity and marriage, evokes the full gamut of emotions—joy, surprise, and sadness. Cariani hopes the play will stay with audiences long after the curtains close on the three families. “When they leave the theater, I hope they vow to be honest with their spouses—and as good to them as they can possible be,” he says, “And figure out how to want what they already have, because most of us all have so much.” Half Moon Theater performs “Cul-de-sac” April 29 through May 14 at the Culinary Institute of America's Marriott Pavilion. Directed by Michael Schiralli, the production stars Michael Borrelli, Sean Hayden, Katie Hartke, Samantha Jones, Molly Renfroe Katz, and Bruch Reed. (845) 235-9885; Halfmoontheatre.org. —Carolyn Quimby 4/17 ChronograM forecast 83

Sugaring Off: 18th Century Style 11am-3pm. $4/$3 seniors/children free. Activities include boiling maple sap to syrup, making jack wax candy, baking molasses cornbread and waffles over an open fire, hewing a log into a trough and making wooden buckets and spiles which were used to collect the sap. Senate House and Museum, Kingston.

Food & Wine

Kingston Farmers’ Market Indoor Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759. Tea and Cookie Tasting 5-7pm. Meet the owner/founder of Savor Cookies, Andre Kreft. Taste (and savor) delicious, sweet, savory and spicy shortbread cookies. All are paired with our delectable teas. Verdigris Tea & Chocolate Bar, Hudson. (518) 828-3139.

Health & Wellness

Living Ayurveda: A One Day Retreat with Claudia Gukeisen 10:30am-5pm. $145/$120 early reg. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. (914) 673-3313. Seeing the Back Body with Kevin Gardiner 1-4pm. $75/$200 series. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Kids & Family

One Year Anniversary at the Hudson Armory 10am-3pm. You are cordially invited to the Library open House. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792. Spring Fever Family Day and Book Fair 10am-1pm. Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-7435.

The Mairtine O’Connor Trio 8pm. Presented by Studio Red Hook. St Paul’s Hall, Red Hook. Mamalama 7:30pm. Mamalama is an uncommon orchestra of harp and ethereal voice, cello, violin, hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel, melodica, tenor recorder, upright bass, piano, French horn, and choral voices. Mettabee Farm, Hillsdale. (518) 567-5123. Miracle Legion 8pm. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Massmoca.org/event/miracle-legion/. Peter Frampton Raw 8pm. Acoustic. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Rob Fisch’s Intentional Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. $20/$10. A celebration of music from Miles Davis’ classic “Kind of Blue.” Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. (518) 392-3693. Singer-songwriter James McMurtry 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Special Pre-War Acoustic Blues Workshop & Concert with Ari Eisinger Sign up for an afternoon guitar workshop followed by an evening concert with Ari & others. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. The Subdudes 8pm. $34. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

18th Annual Garden Day 8:30am-4:15pm. $40. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 340-4990. The Art of Pysanky 1-3pm. $35 includes kit. Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Body Ritual Movement with Diego Pinon 12-6pm. Fri. $45/Sat. $75/Sun. $55/All three $150. Odd Fellows Temple Art and Theater Space, Saugerties. (917) 669-1094. Intuitive Portraits by Amanda Light 12-8pm. $10/portrait. Intuitive Portraits are multimedia portrayals of the essence, spirit, or personality of the subject The Dream Center, Newburgh. 234-8716. Paper Lithography $150. With instructor Leslie Giuliani. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112. Real Fiction with Nina Shengold 10:30am-12:30pm. $125/$100 early registration. Saturdays through May 13. This class is for new and experienced fiction writers, as well as for writers in other genres—memoir, poetry, drama—who want to explore the potential of narrative fiction. Phoenicia Library, Phoenicia. (607) 326-6135.

Lectures & Talks

The Poetry of Snow: A Poetry Reading 5pm. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.

Literary & Books

Annual Spring Poetry Dinner 6pm. $125. Terrance Hayes reads selections from his work. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041. Kenneth Posner presents Running the Long Path: A 350-mile Journey of Discovery in New York’s Hudson Valley 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

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Seeing the Back Body with Kevin Gardiner 1-4pm. $75/$200 series. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Teen HorsePlay Workshop 2-4pm. Teens ages 13-16 are invited to horsearound with peers and a group of miniature ponies for an adventure in awareness. Sponsored by the Maya Gold Foundation. All activities take place on-the-ground (no riding.) Pre-registration required. Nichols Field, Kerhonkson. 616-3608.

Kids & Family

Indoor Easter Egg Hunt 9:30-11am & 2:30-4pm. $16/discounts for siblings and members. Poughkidsie, Poughkeepsie. (845-) 243-3750.

Lectures & Talks

A Painter’s Paradise: Thomas Cole and his Transformative Experience in Florence, 1831-2 2pm. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465. Working Across Difference: Meeting Refugees in Crisis 3-6pm. $20. The public forum features speakers Giovanni Ciarlo, and Tara Stuart, and a World Café Roundtable Session, providing attendees opportunities to network and consider initiatives that can breach difference and create solutions for refugees in crisis. Registration required. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 256-2726.

Literary & Books

Activist Story Hour with special guest reader Fre Atlast 10:30-11:30am. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Fiction into Film Book Group: 1984 1:30-4:30pm. $10/$8 seniors and students/$6 Read George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, then join the group for a screening of the film. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Music

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn 8pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Berkshire Bach Society Celebrates Bach’s 332nd Birthday 6-9pm. $75. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. 413-528-9555. Bernstein Bard Trio 7:30-10pm. $15. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley. 528-7280. Bucky Pizzarelli/Ed Laub/Martin Pizzarelli Trio 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Compact 8:30pm. Classic rock. The Shelter, Rhinebeck. 876-1500. The Crossroads Band 8:30pm. Classic rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. Cuboricua Salsa Band! 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai with Chris Macchia 7-10pm. D Station Bar & Curio, Woodstock. 810-0203. Depot Folk 4-10pm. $20-$60. The Mammals featuring Mike & Ruthy and guitarist Beppe Gambetta help launch a new workshop-and-performance series Garrison: Depot Folk. Philipstown Depot Theatre, Garrison. 424-3900. Ethan Bortnick 8pm. $50. 16-year old singer, songwriter, pianist and performer. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Gang of Thieves and ShwizZ 7:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Gotham Kings 8-9:30pm. $15-$65. Jazz in the Music Room presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center always promises performances that give you something to get excited about on your calendar. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Hudson Valley Philharmonic: 21st Century Giants 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Laurie Berkner 11am-1pm. $25/$35/$100 VIP. Recognized as “the queen of children’s music,” Laurie Berkner is a singer, songwriter, lyricist, author, and founder of Two Tomatoes Records. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater Box Office, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

Health & Wellness

Engage Film Series at Upstate Films This month, Upstate Films in Rhinebeck launches a series of social justice documentary screenings that focuses transforming ideas into action. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion where attendees will have the opportunity to hear directly impacted from impacted community members and find ways to take action. The first film is Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin biopic I Am Not Your Negro, showing on April 1. On April 23, Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps to a Sustainable Future, will be screened, followed by a panel discussion on issues impacting the region such as food, justice, the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, and the crude oil rail shipments. Other showings include Care (about elder care) on May 6, and Documented (about illegal immigration) on June 3. (845) 876-2515; Upstatefilms.org. Tom Anderson: My Favorite Sings 8-9:15pm. $25/$10 students. Tunes from the Great American Songbook, Broadway, and the world of Country Music with a distinctly “local” twist featuring Tom Andersen and special guests Jumbo Bungalow. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Vanilla Fudge 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Repair Cafe: Poughkeepsie 9am-noon. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired by experts who are also our neighbors. Bicycle tune-ups and repairs by SPOKE: “Improving Poughkeepsie one bicycle at a time.” First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. Repaircafehv.org.

SUNDAY 9

Spirituality

Multigenerational Family Services 610am. Woodland Pond, New Paltz. 477-5457. KTD/Bodhi Kids Family Day 10am-3pm. $10/vegetarian lunch or BYO. Children and parents enjoy the arts, storytelling and activities which convey the Buddha’s teachings in a way suitable for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 1012. What is a Spiritual Life: Half-day Zen Meditation Retreat & Dharma Talk 9am-12:30pm. $15. Led by Zen teacher Roshi Nancy Mujo Baker. Educational Annex of Wellness Embodied: A Center for Psychotherapy and Healing, New Paltz. 901-2235.

Theater

Comedy

Gary Gulman 8pm. $30. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Dance

Swing Dance to the Bernstein Bard $12/$8 FT students. Check website for time. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. Hvcd.dance.

Fairs & Festivals

Spring Blossoms Flower Show Lyndhurst will open for the season with an extravagant spring flower show featuring Westchester’s finest florists. Each florist will transform a room within the mansion with floral displays that highlight their style. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 914-631-4481.

Film

Alive and Kicking 2pm. $12/$10 members/$6 under 12. Alive and Kicking explores the culture surrounding swing dance from the emergence of the Lindy Hop to the modern day international phenomenon. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

American Roots and Branches Series: Dale Watson and Ray Benson 7pm. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Dave Keyes: The Music of Leon Russell 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai 1-4pm. Two sets of fine country folk music. Angry Orchard, Walden. (888) 845-3311. Munich Philharmonic String Quartet 3pm. $25/$5 students. Presented by Newburgh Chamber Music. The program will feature Haydn’s Opus 74, no.3 “The Rider”; Schulhoff’s “Five Pieces” and Schumann’s Quartet No. 3. St. George’s Church, Newburgh. 231-3592. Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson Quartet: Waltz New 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Varla Jean Merman 7pm. Gay cabaret. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Nightlife

"Keep Dreaming" Closing Reception 5-9pm. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@gmail.com.

Theater

Golden Dragon Acrobats 3pm. Internationally-renowned Chinese Acrobats. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Drag Legend Varla Jean Merman 7pm. $25. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 3pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this inventive black comedy. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Body Ritual Movement with Diego Pinon 2-6pm. Fri. $45/Sat. $75/Sun. $55/All three $150. Odd Fellows Temple Art and Theater Space, Saugerties. (917) 669-1094.

MONDAY 10 Comedy

Chris Rock 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Kids & Family

Afternoon Studios: Magical Mobiles 2-4pm. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. School Break Mini Camp 9am-4pm. $48 per day/$42 per day members. Through 4/14. Ages 6-9. Each day campers explore and play in the fields, ponds, and forests. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Lectures & Talks

Interactive Family Tour and Workshop 11am-12:30pm. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.

ART "WE'RE WATCHING"

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From Alexandro Segade's "Future Street," part of "We're Watching" at Bard College's Fisher Center, April 27-30.

Monitored Relations Over the past few weeks, the executive branch has made unsubstantiated claims that the Obama administration has been wiretapping them, with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway convinced that microwaves could have been used as cameras. These allegations should not come as a surprise—data collection is increasingly casual, and the cultural response to privacy loss bleeds into every realm. “What we thought of as purely fiction has really caught up with us,” notes Gideon Lester, director of the Theater and Performance Department at Bard College. Lester saw the theme of surveillance appearing in the work of contemporary performance artists. What power dynamics are implicit when one person views another? With this question in mind, he and his colleague Caleb Hammons began to commission multidisciplinary artists for the upcoming performance exhibition “We’re Watching.” While art shows on surveillance have proliferated as of late, this will be the first to use contemporary performance. What will this add to the conversation? Lester argues that the etymological root of the word “theater” means “the place of watching,” and that the bodily, time-based nature of performance provides a more visceral view of surveillance than an art object can. Despite the many federal spying scandals of the past decade, Lester takes an unconventionally indifferent stance toward governmental surveillance. The show will instead focus on surveillance’s impact on “what it is to be, in relation to other human beings.” The seven original works of “We’re Watching” may land in this humanistic spirit: They include Alexandro Segade’s play, “Future St.,” which takes place in a dystopian Southern California city (think Blade Runner) where male cloning as reproduction is enforced, until it's overthrown by under-the-radar feminists. “Foundation for Healing,” a virtual reality experience by Samuel Miller, teaches visitors about self-care in the surveillance state, like creating makeup that thwarts facial recognition. He feels that his

nurturing performance is necessary to counter the “hyper vigilance” that the internet has bred in him, and in other queer artists “who have spent a lot of time needing to protect their own identity.” Other performances will include “What Remains,” an ambitious collaboration between professor Homi K. Bhabha, filmmaker John Lucas, poet Claudia Rankine, and choreographer Will Rawls. It will use movement, language, and video to look at the memorialization of those murdered by the state. Hasan Elahi’s work “Retina” will use Google Street View imagery to show the simultaneous pragmatism and intrusiveness of mapping. In “The Great Outdoors,” Annie Dorsen will use a planetarium-like structure to display anonymous internet forum comments like an unfiltered worldview. Big Art Group’s performance “Opacity” will position a lone figure in bed with a cell phone to question how intimacy can be gained through a digital interface. A group-show format does not typically occur within the performing arts. In an interview with BOMB magazine, performer Alexandro Segade notes that it is easier to dissolve the boundary between performer and audience within a fine arts context. This experimentation could lead to more critical form of performance, and Lester feels this makes “an argument that American performing artists are also conceptual.” To many, this claim would appear obvious. Yet, many of the radical theater experiments of the last century failed to actually transform the field of theater as a whole. Avant-garde performance becomes relegated to the field of fine arts, but also remains apart from it, watching itself. “We’re Watching,” the second Live Arts Bard Biennial, will run from April 27 to 30 at Bard College’s Fisher Center. Tickets are available for individual performances or for marathon viewing on Saturday and Sunday. (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu. —Nolan Boomer

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Literary & Books

Reading by Paul Lisicky 2:30pm. Author of The Narrow Door. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

Music

Arlen & Lexie Roth 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

TUESDAY 11 Film

Take Me to the River 7:15pm. $8/$6. This documentary film brings multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians together to record a new album. Features Terrence Howard, William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples, Otis Clay, Bobby Rush, and many more. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Health & Wellness

Accelerated Resolution Therapy for Veterans, First Responders and Police 10am-4pm. ART incorporates a combination of techniques used in many other traditional psychotherapies. High Falls Emporium, High Falls. 399-3196. Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Second Tuesday of every month, 10:15am. Open to women with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. (914) 962-6402. Sound Healing with Joy 6-7:30pm. $25/$20 for attending 2 or 3 classes. Practice chanting, intuitive voice expression and using drums, rattles, bowls, gong. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@ gmail.com.

Music Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Pierre Bensusan 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Workshops & Classes From Feldenkrais to GoPro: Mary Armentrout 5pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Theater Almost, Maine 7pm. $10/students free. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Almost, Maine will never be the same. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-1959. Interactive Mystery Dinner Theatre: The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti 7-9:30pm. $45. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.

THURSDAY 13 Business & Networking Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.

FRIDAY 14 Dance Dances of Universal Peace Second Friday of every month, 7-9pm. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034.

Asperger’s Are Us Comedy Troupe 7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.

Dance

LAVA 3pm. LAVA’s unique language of feminist dance includes towering human pyramids, acrobatic wrestling, and subtle physicality. The company’s new piece, developed at MASS MoCA, is a survival story that vaults the audience from a patriarchal present into a rainbow-colored feminist future. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Massmoca.org/event/lava-a-goddessey/.

Lectures & Talks

Tax Prep Help 10am-6pm. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.

WEDNESDAY 12 Business & Networking

Small Business Breakthrough 6-8pm. During this event you will learn to: Create quality content for your Blog, Newsletter or E-blast, transform your content into effective marketing copy and deliver a message that speaks to your audience with originality & passion. Wallkill Public Library, Wallkill. 363-6432.

Dance

Mary Armentrout: From Feldenkrais to GoPro 5pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Empac.rpi.edu.

Film

Health & Wellness

Balance Workshop for Seniors 5-6:30pm. Please come in clothes that are comfortable to move around in. We will try some introductory balance exercises including different walks (on toes or heel-toe for instance), one-legged stands and some rolling. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792.

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Almost, Maine 7pm. $10/students free. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded. And life for the people of Almost, Maine will never be the same. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-1959.

Comedy

3-Day Spring Break Day Camp at Wild Earth 10am-3:30pm. $240/sibling discount available. Through April 13. Ages 5-11. Spring Break Day Camp is three days of ancestral and primitive skills. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.

Workshops & Classes

Theater

SATURDAY 15

Kids & Family

The Design and Stewardship of Living Landscapes 2pm. Landscape consultant, author, and photographer Rick Darke’s work is grounded in an ethic of observation; blending art, ecology, and cultural geography in the design and stewardship of living landscapes. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5283. 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. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

Little Larry and the Squall 8pm. Motown, R&B. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701 9pm. Max’s on Main, Beacon. Maxsonmain.com. Otterknockers Band 8:30pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Soul Purpose 7:30pm. Motown, R&B. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. Uptown Swing! with the Scrub Board Serenaders 7pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Whisper of a Shadow: An Homage to Louis Moreau Gottschalk 7:30pm. $25-$40. French Jazz series. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900.

Film Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America Moises Serrano, now 23, came to America with his parents from Mexico when he was just 18 months old. Born on Mexican soil, Serrano is not a legal immigrant of the United States, but that’s not the only challenge this young man has to face—he’s also a gay man living in North Carolina. Director Tiffany Rhynard documents Serrano’s crusade to expand the rights of undocumented people trying to survive in America, and unite the immigration reform and LGBTQ movements in Forbidden. A portrait of a confident but unassuming spokesman for a controversial cause, Forbidden is a lens into one person’s struggle for human rights. The film screens on April 28 at 6pm at the Family Partnership Center in Poughkeepsie. Chronogram Editor Brian K. Mahoney will interview Moises Serrano after the film, followed by a Q&A. Forbidden is presented by the LGBTQ Community for Racial Justice. Facebook.com/LGBTQRacialJustice/

Health & Wellness

Art Program for Women with Cancer 6:15-8:15pm. Open to people living with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. (914) 962-6402.

Literary & Books

Andrew Forsthoefel presents Walking to Listen 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. The Widow of Wall Street 6-8pm. Author Randy Susan Meyers will present her provocative new novel Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Music

19th Blues Pro Jam 8pm. The region’s top blues musicians will join together for an evening of jamming on the blues. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Dave Douglas & Frank Woeste: 7:30pm. $25. French pianist Frank Woeste and American trumpeter Dave Douglas (Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Honduras and Acid Dad 8pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Open Mike at the Gallery Second Thursday of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5 donation. Artists’ Collective of Hyde Park, Hyde Park. (914) 456-6700. Recurring Dream Trio 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ricky Nelson Remembered: Featuring Matthew and Gunnar Nelson 8pm. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Health & Wellness

A Path to Peace with Andrew Forsthoefel 7-9:30pm. In this workshop we will together to listen our way into a new world built by trust and true connection, using a combination of storytelling, discussion, dyad and group exercises, and guided meditation. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org.

Kids & Family

Afternoon Studios: Earth Day 2-4pm. Turn a day off into an artful one. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519. Dinner Date, Kids Create! Second Friday of every month, 6:30-8:30pm. $20-$25. Just drop off the kids at Roost Studios & Art Gallery. Roost Studios & Art Gallery, New Paltz. (516) 652-0229.

Music

Country Singer Kane Brown 8-11:45pm. $27. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. The Crossroads Band 8pm. La Puerta Azul, Salt Point. 677-2985. Dahlia Dumont’s ‘Blue Dahlia’ 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ginkgoa 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Honky-Tonk Americana Festival 9pm. Featuring country-roots and old-time sounds from the Roughouts and old-jazz, ragtime and blues from Miss Maybell & Slimpickin’s. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Hudson Valley Folk Guild’s Friends of Fiddler’s Green Chapter Concert 8pm. $12/$10 seniors/$8 HVFG members. Featuring Caroline Paton and Friends. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 758-2681.

Matinees at Shadowland Every other Saturday, 2-5pm. $10/$7 kids at door. Classic film series with features, cartoons, shorts, and serial chapter. See website for specific movies. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Health & Wellness

Fun with Eggs Workshop with Barbara Boris 1:30-3:30pm. $40. In honor of Easter, we’ll be exploring the versatility of the incredible non-edible egg. We will do both active and restorative asanas using the yoga prop. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Kids & Family

Rascally Rabbits 9:30 & 11am. $4-$8. Learn why rabbits have so many babies and how they protect themselves. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Lectures & Talks

Neil Gaiman: American Gods 7:30pm. In a special evening program, Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman and Executive Producer Bryan Fuller discuss moving from page to screen for the forthcoming Starz television series, “American Gods,” adapted from Gaiman’s best selling novel. Includes screening of Episode 1. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7914.

Music

The Compact 7:30pm. Acoustic. The New York Resturant, Catskill. (518) 943-5500. Contemporaneous presents Transcendental Geometry 8pm. $20. Geometry, a performance project that will present four world premieres of large-scale new music written with non-traditional tunings. Murray’s Tivoli, Tivoli. 757-6003. Dan Bern 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 8:30-11:30pm. Two sets of the finest country rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Eric Erickson 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Escher Quartet 6pm. String quartet. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Larry Coryell Tribute & Celebration A celebration of the life and music of the great American jazz guitarist known as “Godfather of Fusion” Larry Coryell. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Rosie Dias with Harmonic Aggression 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spirituality

Fundamentals of Buddha Nature $560. Led by Gilbert Gutierrez. Through April 23. Dharma Drum Retreat Center, Pine Bush. 744-8114.

Theater

Almost, Maine 7pm. $10/students free. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost’s residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-1959. Golden Dragon Acrobats 3-5 & 7-9pm. $30/$35/$40.03. The premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2.

Workshops & Classes

Cornell Cooperative Extension Composting Workshop 1pm. Hosted by the Pine Plains Garden Club. Pine Plains Free Library, Pine Plains. 5183981927. Dismantling Racism: Building Capacity for White People to Understand Racial Injustice 7-8:30pm. The Quaker Intentional VillageCanaan will host a series of 6 free workshops using a curriculum to create a space for white people interested in being effective allies with people of color in the work of dismantling racism and undoing white privilege. QIVC, East Chatham. (518) 392-0289. Creative Approaches to Story Telling 10:30am-noon. $25. This monthly series will bring unique exercises, practice and sharing of an inspirational nature, to broaden, strengthen, and put the zing in your storytelling skills. For all levels of writers. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@gmail.com. Painting as a Meditation 1:30-3:30pm. Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Paper Making Experience 3-6pm. $25. Engage in a cathartic experience by learning how to make your own paper. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Art.lightworks@ gmail.com.

Health & Wellness

Blessings for Peace with Joy 6:30-7:30pm. Guided meditation, Sound Bath with Crystal Bowls, Gong, Chimes and Drum. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@gmail.com.

Music

Anne Akiko Meyers 8pm. A superstar of the violin world. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

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 19 Lectures & Talks

The Construction of Beauty: Music and Math 7pm. Johannes Goebel talk and workshop. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Empac.rpi.edu.

Young People’s Concert 10 & 11:45am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Workshops & Classes #HandcraftNight Third Wednesday of every month, 5-8pm. $5. The return of our monthly community series, when we all need it most. Drop in with any portable handcraft project you would like to work on, and enjoy some good crafty company, snacks and beverages. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com/ events/2017/2/15/handcraftnight.. Exploring Visual Language 9am-5pm. $550. Through April 21. In this workshop participants use R&F Pigment Sticks to create layered, expressive, richly surfaced paintings. We will be experimenting with a wide range of materials including: oil paint, cold wax, graphite, ink, and pan pastels. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

Yoga Prop Workshopr With Barbara Boris. Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Lectures & Talks

Engaging Lectures with Everyday Experts Series 4-6:30pm. Featuring: Decora, Hip-Hop Artist, DJ, and Performance Poet, “Normal is Not a Feeling.” Evan Pritchard, Author, Algonquin Scholar, and Activist, “The Native Roots of the Easter Story.” Ian Robertson Duncan, Founder of Norther Dipper Daoist Temple. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Music

D Major Project 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Get the Led Out 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Open Mike Every third Sunday, 4-6pm. Open to performers of all kinds. Darkside Records, Poughkeepsie. 452-8010.

Workshops & Classes

Raku Intensive 2pm. $1,200. This workshop will explore the art and craft of the raku firing technique. The Wassaic Project, Wassaic. (914) 960-7861.

MONDAY 17 Music

Albany Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s 9th 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

TUESDAY 18 Comedy

Comedy Writing Workshop Showcase 7:30pm. $20. The students of the Comedy Writing Workshop have spent eight weeks writing and practicing their comedy bits and are ready to take them to the stage for a night of laughs! Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Film

Who is Dayani Cristal? 7:15pm. A migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death." The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

An Evening of Poetry featuring Karen Herceg, Robert Milby, and friends 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. An Evening of Poetry with Ann Lauterbach, Mark Wunderlich and Jean Kane 6-8pm. An evening of readings in celebration of National Poetry Month. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Music

bigBANG 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Junius and Clover 7:30pm. $10. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Karl Berger/Ingrid Sertso Quintet 8pm. $20. Featuring Berger on piano and vibes, Sertso on vocals and poetry, Kenny Wessel on guitar, Ken Filiano on bass and Tani Tabbal on drums. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Thunderhead Organ Trio 8pm. Jazz. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240. Young People’s Concert 10:45am. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Interfaith Earth Day Observance 5:30-7:30pm. Sponsored by the Woodstock Interfaith Council, the observance includes a panel discussion, ceremony, and community dinner. All are welcome. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 679-5906 ext. 1012.

Theater

The Price is Right Live 7:30pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Workshops & Classes

SUNDAY 16

Health & Wellness

Literary & Books

Spirituality

Food & Wine

Charolette's Restaurant and Catering Easter Buffet. 4258 Rt 44, Millbrook. 677-5888.

Our Changing Lives, Work, Family and Policy in a Time of Gender Equality 5pm. The 2017 Martin H. Crego Lecture in Economics will be delivered by University of Michigan economist Betsey Stevenson. Taylor Hall Room 203 at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Neil Gaiman and American Gods Besides being the husband of musician Amanda Palmer, Gaiman has amassed quite a resumé: he writes fantasy, fairy tales, and science fiction, in the form of short fiction, novels, comic books, theater, and films. He’s also won a slew of awards, including Hugos for his gothic kid’s book Coraline and American Gods. (Literary tidbit: Gaiman’s first book, a biography of the band Duran Duran, was published in 1984.) Gaiman and executive producer Bryan Fuller will be at the Fisher Center to discuss bringing the best-selling American Gods from text to TV. The event will feature an exclusive preview of the first episode of the new television series two weeks ahead of the series premiere on the Starz network. (845) 758-7900; Fishcenter.bard.edu. Cultural Diversity Day Event 1-2:30pm. This year SUNY Ulster’s Cultural Diversity Day features “Dances with Two”, a compelling performance and multimedia presentation facilitated by Phoenix Rising Kawamoto, a master story weaver and educator. Phoenix will lead the audience on a journey through a number of personal experiences and challenges commonly shared by members of the LGBTQ community. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. DreamTalk: Poet Gold 7:30-9pm. $5. his month, the featured guest speaker will be Dutchess County’s 2017 poet laureate, Poet Gold. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@gmail.com. Federalism and the Importance of State Constitutions 7pm. The Honorable Judge Albert Rosenblatt, New York State Court of Appeals (retired), Distinguished Judicial Fellow, New York University Law School will present “Federalism and the Importance of State Constitutions.” SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Poetry Reading: Another April: Readings by Codhill Press Poets 5pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum. Tarot Wisdom Gathering Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $10. Bring your own Tarot deck to enjoy this guided exploration to learn & connect more deeply with your deck. Each month a card will be chosen that we will delve into with open minds and hearts. We will have a discussion and journey to gather and share our inner wisdom. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.

Music

Petey Hop Hosts Roots & Blues Sessions 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.

THURSDAY 20 Business & Networking Brighter Busness Seminar 7-9pm. Learn how to build and grow a business with internationally acclaimed Transformational Strategist Ozioma of BurnBright. The Dream Center, Newburgh. (347) 762-3639.

Dance Contra Dance with George Wilson and Dave Kaynor with the Capital District Mega Band 7-10pm. Mettabee Farm, Hillsdale. (518) 567-5123.

Food & Wine Meet the Maker: Carlo DeVito from Hudson Chatham Winery 6:30-8pm. Hudson Valley Distillers, Germantown. (518) 537-6820.

Health & Wellness Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Third Thursday of every month, 7pm. Support Connection, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer, offers a Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. (914) 962-6402.

Lectures & Talks Gardening Habitats for Bees, Butterflies, and Birds 7pm. Master gardener Florence Ancillotti will provide tips on herbs, flowers, native plants, and veggies providing food and habitat for beneficial insects and wildlife. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578.

Inspired Painting 6-9pm. $25. You are invited to create an abstract painting in a group setting The Dream Center, Newburgh. Art.lightworks@gmail.com. Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Rethinking Wild Edibles 7-9pm. $15. Join chef and forager Rob Handel from Heather Ridge Farm and The Bees Knees Café for a presentation discussing unique ways to utilize wild edibles of the Catskills. Catskill Center, Arkville. Catskillcenter.org.

FRIDAY 21 Dance

Ballroom By Request Lesson & Practice Time Third Friday of every month, 8-11pm. $15 for both lessons/$10 one lesson. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, LaGrangeville. 204-9833.

Lectures & Talks

Hadza: The Roots of Equality 6:30-9:30pm. An evening of talks on egalitarian social organization, silent auction, and a screening of the documentary The Hadza: Last of the First to coincide with Earth Day. Atlas Industries, Newburgh. 391-8855. Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Music

Del McCoury and David Grisman 8pm. Country, rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. An Intimate Solo/Acoustic Listening Performance by Citizen Cope 8pm. $46/$36. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Joey Alexander Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900. The Judith Tulloch Band 7pm. Rustic Wheelhouse, Chester. 610-5266. Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Lou Gramm 8-10pm. $45/$55/$65. The voice behind Foreigner. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Mamma’s Marmalade 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Singer-Songwriter Showcase 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.

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Nightlife

Open Mike Night Poet Edition Third Friday of every month, 6:30-9pm. The Dream Center, Newburgh. 234-8716.

Theater

Performance: One Quiet Plunge presents Seeger 5-8pm. A multimedia project inspired by the music of Pete Seeger and his mother, Ruth Crawford. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum. The Taming of the Shrew 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Knitting Workshop with Bruce Weinstein 1-3pm. Fridays through May 12. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041. Paul Sherbow on the04- Yoga Sutras & Bhagavad-Gita 6-9pm. $20. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034. Women in Politics: Past, Present & Future $75/$35. A two-day conference commemorating the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York State. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/benjamincenter.

ASK for Music 8-10:30pm. $8. Come out to hear the finest Hudson Valley singer-songwriters in a listening space surrounded by art. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331. Bridget Kearney 9pm. Soul, pop. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Carolyn Wonderland 7pm. Opener: Nalani & Sarina. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Charlie Daniels Band 8pm. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. 914-739-0039 ext 2. Chris Parker Jazz Trio 7-9:30pm. $15. An active composer of jazz and contemporary classical music, Parker has a long list of original compositions. Amity Gallery, Warwick. 258-4645. The Compact 9pm. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Eszter Balint 7:30-11pm. $15/$10 students. Eszter will be performing new material as well as songs from her three albums. She will be accompanied by innovative guitar player, Chris Cochrane. Murray’s Tivoli, Tivoli. 757-6003.

Atlantic Custom Homes—Open House 10am-5pm. Discover how to create and build your warm, modern new home! Atlantic Custom Homes Inc, Cold Spring. 265-2636. Postcard Art Show 5-9pm. Show in support of the Children of Aleppo. Catalyst Gallery, Beacon. 204-3844.

Outdoors & Recreation

Earth Day Celebration and Annual Hike-A-Thon 9:30am-3pm. $5/carload. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Spring Ambassador Vesting Ceremony 11am-noon. The Spring Vesting Ceremony is for those who have completed all four trainings, and are willing to commit a minimum of 50 volunteer hours per year. Walkway Over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

Spirituality

Music, Meditation, and Shabbat Potluck Dinners 6pm. Location TBD. 477-5457.

Theater

MET Live: Eugene and Onegin 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

SATURDAY 22 Record Store Day 2017 10am-9pm. Woodstock Music Shop Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. 383-1734.

Dance

ZviDance 7:30-9:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and hildren. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2.

Film

The Gold Rush (1925) 7-9pm. The Butterfield Library’s silent film series with live musical accompaniment presents “The Gold Rush” (1925). Charlie Chaplin stars in this film he wrote, produced and directed. Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040. Charolette's Restaurant and Catering Comedy Night, Dinner with 3 local Comedians. 4258 Rt 44, Millbrook. 677-5888 Kingston Farmers’ Market Indoor Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.

Health & Wellness

Earth Day Event Woodstock Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700.

Literary & Books

Cultivating Hope in an Age of Fear 1-5pm. $45. The Berkshire Festival of Women Writers. Jana Laiz, Ellen Meeropol, and Jennifer Browdy will share short excerpts from their environmental writing. South Berkshire Friends Meeting House, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Berkshirewomenwriters.org. Leslie Sharpe presents The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Music

Already Gone 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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Film

ENGAGE Film Series Presents: Tomorrow 10am. Upstate Films, Rhinebeck. 876-2515. National Theatre: Hedda Gabler 2pm. $12/$10 members. Just married, bored already, Hedda longs to be free. Rosendale Theater Collective, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids & Family

Music

Food & Wine

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks 7-8pm. Celebrate Earth Day with a special lecture from author and scholar Terry Tempest Williams. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.

ZviDance 2:30-4:30pm. $30/$10 student rush and hildren. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2.

A Digital Look at Apple Cultivation in Dutchess County 3-4:30pm. Bard College Experimental Humanities Digital Projects Coordinator Gretta Tritch Roman and her students share their latest project– an interactive website about the agricultural, economic and cultural impact of apple growing in Dutchess County. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.

The Chancellor's Sheep and Wool Showcase 11am-4pm. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518)-537-4240

Lectures & Talks

Dance

Lectures & Talks

Fairs & Festivals

Tea Time 2-4pm. $20-$25. Led by Jennifer Bruntil, HHS School Programming Coordinator, this year’s “Tea Time” will focus on Native American stories. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-1660. Weekend Art Camp Session 2: Sock Dolls or Hand Puppets 1-3pm. $35. Sunflower Art Studios, Gardiner. 419-5219.

SUNDAY 23

The Song of Mulan 11am & 2pm. The story is based on the epic Chinese poem, The Ballad of Mulan. When Mulan learns that her ailing father is drafted into Khan’s army, she protects him by serving in his place. Disguised as a man, she risks everything to maintain family honor. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Business & Networking

Kids & Family

Repair Cafe: Phoenicia 11am-3pm. This Earth Day come to Phoenicia’s first Repair Cafe in the Parish Hall. Skilled engineers, seamstresses, craftsman will be on hand. Don’t throw it away--fix it! Children are encouraged to come and learn. Parish Field is a great place to have fun in the heart of the Catskills too. St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church, Phoenicia. 688-1541. Watercolor My Life 2:30-3:30pm. $25. Tips, techniques, and ideas for creating watercolor magic. The Dream Center, Newburgh. Newburghdreamcenter@ gmail.com.

Varla Jean Merman The fictitious offspring of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine, Varla Jean Merman is a flame-haired chanteuse with a vocal range somewhere between Shirley Bassey and Kathleen Battle. An evening with Varla Jean Merman is a modern-day drag show that ranges from the operatic to the comedic, often in the same song. Merman starred in the 2011 musical “Lucky Guy” Leslie Jordan and had the New York Times raving, “If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent.” Big Gay Hudson Valley welcomes Varla Jean Merman to the region with three shows this month: April 7 at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, April 8 at the Rosendale Theater, and April 9 at Helsinki Hudson. Biggayhudsonvalley.com. Frank Vignola and Gene Bertoncini 8pm. $20. Jazz. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Guitarist Tom Carter 8pm. $10. Folk, rock. Center for Creative Education, Beacon. 338-7664. Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers 8pm. $45. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Roots Music in the Music Room: Darlingside & Lula Wiles 8-10pm. $15/$25/$35/$45/$55/$65. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Steven Wright 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

Open Houses/Parties/Benefits

The Proprietors Ball Grand re-opening of the historic Hudson Opera House. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181. Hudson Valley Goldsmith Spring Sale, up to 75 percent off. Hudson Valley Goldsmith, New Paltz. 255-5872.

The Taming of the Shrew 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

The Alexander Technique 2-4pm. $35. Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Intro to Nonferrous Forging: Bracelet Making with Marie DeWerff 9am-4pm. $350. Two-day workshop.Learn the basics of forging nonferrous materials working with both copper and silver to create a forged bracelet by annealing, step rolling, hammer technique, and planishing. At the end of this two day workshop you will walk away with a completed bracelet and the know how to start including forged elements into your jewelry work. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550. Repair Cafe: Beacon 12-4pm. An expert level of repair on all kinds of items. Join this “experiment in repair culture”. A great place to meet your neighbors, and Sarah’s famous home baked cookies too. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. Beaconrepaircafe@ gmail.com.

Fire and Ice 3:30pm. This concert features three world premieres by Norwegian and American composers: Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. Petito, Gilmore, Lawrence, Perowsky & Rachel Z 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Melissa Etheridge 7:30pm. $59/$69/$79. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. The Moonlights 10am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Pamela Frank and Christian Tetzlaff 3-5pm. $10/$15/$25/$35/$45/$55. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. Pop-Soul Singer-Songwriter Gabriel Tajeu 7pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Theater

Black Angels Over Tuskegee 3pm. $15/$10 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/students free. The award-winning OffBroadway play relating the story of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first group of AfricanAmerican Fighter Pilots in WWII. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891. National Theatre: Hedda Gabler 2pm. $12/$10 members. Just married, bored already, Hedda longs to be free. Ivo van Hove, one of the world’s most exciting directors, makes his National Theatre debut with a modern production of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. The Taming of the Shrew 3pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Repair Cafe: Gardiner 12-4pm. A free community meeting place to get stuff fixed for free. Mechanical, electrical, electronic, digital, clothing and things made of wood. Check out a book while you’re there. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. Repaircafehv.org.

MONDAY 24 Film

Mariam Ghani 7pm. Several films from the Afghan Film Archive, EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Workshops & Classes

Dementia Conversations 4:30-6:30pm. Helpful tips to assist families with difficult conversations related to dementia. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. (800) 272-3900.

TUESDAY 25 Dance

Move Beyond 7:30pm. Starring Julianne & Derek Hough. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. The Return of La Argentina: Trajal Harrell 5pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

Lectures & Talks

The Mind and Music of Beethoven: Lecture & Concert by Richard Kogan, MD 7-8:30pm. $25. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.

Music

Aimee Mann 7:30pm. $34.50/$44.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Buddy Guy 8pm. $110/$95. Rock, blues guitar. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 7-9pm. $45/$40 members. Co-presented by Caffè Lena and SPAC. Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs. (518) 583-0022. Timothy B. Schmit 7:30pm. $45.50-$69.50. Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes. (800) 745-3000.

WEDNESDAY 26 Clubs & Organizations

8th Annual UlsterCorps Service Summit 8:30am-noon. Co-sponsored by the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz and held in The Terrace. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 481-0331.

Health & Wellness

The Spirituality of Health: A Healer’s Handbook with Thurman Greco 7-8:30pm. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Music

Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds 8pm. $39.50-$89.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

Workshops & Classes

Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease 5:30-7pm. Free. If you or someone you know is affected by Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the time for legal and financial planning is now. This free 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. For more information or to RSVP, call 800.272.3900. This program is supported in part by a grant from the New York State Department of Health. Meals on Wheels, Nanuet. 800-272-3900.

THURSDAY 27 Health & Wellness

Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Fourth Thursday of every month, 7pm. Registration required. Support Connection, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer, offers a Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 962-6402. Rhinoplasty Seminar 5-7pm. The seminar will be hosted by practice owner, double board certified and fellowship trained local Facial Plastic Surgeon and Otolaryngologist (ENT) Manoj T. Abraham, M.D., F.A.C.S. Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC, Poughkeepsie. 454-8025.

Lectures & Talks

Investments, Debts and Budgeting 7-8pm. Join us during Money Smart Week to hear tips about investments, debts and budgeting with AXA Advisors financial educator, Stephen Knapp. Mr. Knapp will also answer financial questions. Marlboro Free Library, Marlboro. 236-7272.

Music

Acoustic Showcase: James Hearne, Katy Cole, Jules Taylor 7:30pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Anne Carpenter & Friends 8:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Branford Marsalis Quartet 7:30pm. $29-$79. With special guest Kurt Elling. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. What Do You Want To Say? Live Painting & Music 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Spirituality

Gong Bath with David Karlberg Last Thursday of every month, 7-9pm. Suggested donation $15. David Karlberg returns to bring his unique form of sound therapy. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578.

Workshops & Classes

Glass Bending Workshop with Suzanne McClelland and Dorie Guthrie 6-8pm. $50/$40 member. Ages 14 and up (participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult). The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-4519.

FRIDAY 28 Comedy

Kathleen Madigan: Bothering Jesus 8pm. $47.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Dance

Dance to the Music of Eight to the Bar $15/$10 FT students. Beginners’ lesson at 8pm, dance 8:30pm-11:30pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120.

Film

Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America 6-9pm. A screening of presented by the LCBTQ Community for Racial Justice and Chronogram. Post-screening discussion with documentary subject Moises Serrano and Chronogram editor Brian K. Mahoney. Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. Facebook.com/ LGBTQRacialJustice.

Music

The Barn Cats 9pm. Blues. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Everything Turned to Color 7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew 8pm. $15. Cajun. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Roger & Lenny 7pm. Songs from a golden era of pop music. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887. Singer-songwriter Greg Brown 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Dancing with the Stars Ulster Style 7pm. $75/$70/$65. Diamond Mills, Saugerties. 247-0700.

Outdoors & Recreation

Stargazing Party 8-10pm. View the night sky away from the lights of the cities and towns of our area! Bring your own telescope or view the stars through one brought by our members. Registration required. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram. Midhudsonastro.org.

Theater

The Language Archive $20/discounts available. Presented by Theatre on the Road. Arts at the Chocolate Factory, Red Hook. Artsatthefactory.com. The Taming of the Shrew 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Legal and Financial Planning for Alzheimer’s Disease 11am-noon. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. (800) 272-3900.

SATURDAY 29 Fairs & Festivals

27th Annual Beltane Festival 1-7pm. $15-$35. Gates open at noon and the music begins at 1pm; Procession and May Pageant will take place at 4pm; the festivities of Music and Magical Entertainments will continue until 7pm. Center For Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. Https://eventbrite.com/e/27th-annualbeltane-festival-at-stone-mountain-farm-april29th-2017-tickets-32799217342. Spring Makers Market - Wickham Works 10am-3pm. Free. Makers Market presenting Hudson Valley area artisans, demonstrations, music and family friendly community art project. Wickham Woodlands Manor, Warwick. (917) 922 0943.

Health & Wellness

International Cooking Ayurveda Style with Claudia Gukeisen 12-3pm. $85/$75. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. (914) 673-3313.

Kids & Family

Susanna Reich & Gary Golio: Stand Up and Sing 11am-noon. Teaching children the power of poetry, music, and artistic expression in difficult times. For ages 6 and up. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Canoe Paddle Carving Carve your own canoe paddle! From the shape of the paddle blade, to its length, to the shape of the handle, the paddle you create will be made for you, by you. Two-day workshop. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 265-8080. Lecture/Demo/Workshop: Introduction to Islamic Decoration with Amera Abdalrahim 2-4pm. Registration required. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz. edu/museum.

SUNDAY 30

Literary & Books

Poetry Night with Robert Milby 6:30-8:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Music

24-Hour Drone noon. $1/hour. Basilica Hudson & Le Guess Who? present 24-Hour Drone: Experiments in Sound and Music in collaboration with Second Ward Foundation and Wave Farm/WGXC April 29 @ noon through April 30 @ noon. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. Basilicahudson.org/24hour-drone/. The Alwan Arab Music Ensemble 7pm. $10/$5. Six contemporary masters of a broad range of musical idioms weave together folk, popular and art music of the Arab world. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869. The Crossroads Band 8:30pm. Classic rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm-midnight. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps dole out two sets of the finest country rock this side of 1973. O’Neill’s Shire Pub, Delhi. (607) 746-8758. The Fab Faux 7:30pm. $39/$49/$67. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. FDR Drive Band 9:30pm. Dance. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Foreigner 7-11pm. $202.50/$102.50/$82.50/$75.50 /$52.50. Rock. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Geoff Muldaur 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Hudson Valley Philharmonic: The Ninth 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. The Lucky Five 8pm. $10. Swing and jazz. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Melissa Etheridge 8-10pm. $75/$90/$110. American rock singer/ songwriter. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Old Salt Union with Mile Twelve 9pm. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Vincitore Piano Concert Series 7pm. Featuring Francesco Attesti, internationally acclaimed pianist. Lyall Memorial Federated Church, Millbrook. 677-3485.

Open Houses/Parties/Benefits Beaux Arts Gala 5:30-10pm. The WAAM Beaux Arts Gala will feature dinner, live music by Perry Beekman and Soul Purpose, Little Gems: Original art by regional artists, silent action, raffles, and more. Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties. 246-7723.

Spirituality

Hudson Valley Saturday Psychic Meet Up 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

Theater

Cul-de-sac 7-9pm. By John Cariani. Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park. 235-9885. The Language Archive $20/discounts available. Presented by Theatre on the Road. Arts at the Chocolate Factory, Red Hook. Artsatthefactory.com. The Taming of the Shrew 8pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Workshops & Classes

Beginner Toolmaking with Pat Quinn 9am-4pm. $310. Through April 30. Build up your tool set and learn the techniques that those tools make possible with this opportunity for the beginner blacksmith to work on hammer control, learn about heat-treating, and making tools at the anvil. Learn how to make the tools we use here at the Center for Metal Arts using coil spring, and expand upon your tools set with the punches, chisels and texturing tools shapes that directly relate to the kind of work you do in your studio. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

Fairs & Festivals

Spring Makers Market - Wickham Works 10am-3pm. Free. Makers Market presenting Hudson Valley area artisans, demonstrations, music and family friendly community art project. Wickham Woodlands Manor, Warwick. (917) 922 0943.

Health & Wellness

Mindful Yoga with Lauren Rebecca 11am-12:30pm. Music, mantras, sing along. The Dream Center, Newburgh. 234-8716.

Kids & Family

Sunday Family Day 2pm. Exhibition-inspired hands-on activities for children and their families with Museum Educator Zachary Bowman. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz. edu/museum. Yom Ha’Zikaron (Israel Memorial Day)/Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) 6:30pm. Congregation Ahavath Israel, Kingston. 338-4409.

Lectures & Talks

Community Educational Forums: Right Part Series 1-4pm. Part III: On Immigration. A conversation on immigration as it pertains to President Donald Trump’s proposed initiatives. With special guests Andrea Callan, Esq., Workers Justice Center for New York. Church De Artistes, Kingston. 331-1031.

Literary & Books

Writers Unbound 12-4pm. Writers in the Mountains (WIM) invites you to its annual literary arts and community event and celebration. Poetry reading, panel discussion, keynote address, authors and illustrators. Union Grove Distillery, Arkville. 586-6300.

Music

Backdoor Boys Gay Cabaret 7pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Noah Haidu Quartet 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Saints of Swing 10am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Saugerties Pro Musica Presents the Jazz stylings of Terry Blaine & Mark Shane 3-4:30pm. $12/$10 seniors/students. The vocal jazz stylings of Terry Blaine combined with the piano virtuosity of Mark Shane once again bring the American songbook to our stage. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 679-5733. Serious Fun…With Very Young Composers 3pm. $10/under 13 free. Featuring Jon Deak (composer, educator, bassist) and Eugenia Zukerman (flute). Henry Hudson Hall, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Outdoors & Recreation

2nd Annual 5K Run/Walk to Benefit Pets Alive 7am-noon. $25. First 100 Registrants get a 5K exclusive t-shirt. Francher Davidge Park, Middletown. 386-9738.

Theater

The Taming of the Shrew 3pm. $22/$24/$20 rush at the door. Rhinebeck Theatre Society presents this Shakesperean Classic. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Cul-de-sac 7-9pm. By John Cariani. Half Moon Theatre at the Culinary Institute of America’s Marriott Pavilion, Hyde Park. 235-9885. The Language Archive $20/discounts available. Presented by Theatre on the Road. Arts at the Chocolate Factory, Red Hook. Artsatthefactory.com.

Workshops & Classes

Community Educational Forums: An EightPart Series 1pm. Part III: On Immigration. Moderated by KingstonCitizens.org Co-Founder Rebecca Martin. Church De Artistes, Kingston. KingstonCitizens.org.

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Lizanne Webb

by eric francis coppolino

A gluten-free pie, Los Angeles style.

Eat Before Dinner: A Gluten-Free Manifesto

t’s been 11 years since I wrote my first gluten-free piece for Chronogram, called “Hold the Bread on that Sandwich Please.” As usual, we were way ahead of the wave. Gluten-free was an obscure topic in 2006. It’s now a bona fide trend. In fact, it’s become an industry. It’s become a controversy. And it’s also become a joke: such as the person who goes to great lengths to make sure that their dinner is absolutely, entirely free from a single molecule of gluten, only to order the ordinary crumb cake for dessert. In case you’re one of those people, please stop. You’re free to inflame your cells, mess up your immune system, be an emotional mess, and strip your upper intestine of its ability to absorb nutrients. But you have no right to make life more difficult for anyone else, or cast the rest of us as phonies. If you own a restaurant, or work as a server or prepare food, thanks for putting up with these people. There are actually those among us who need to keep gluten out of our bodies, or else we can have serious problems—longterm and immediate. Here’s the thing to remember: Being wheat-free may not seem like a big deal to you. But to someone who is honoring this diet, the whole universe of prepared foods becomes hostile: It’s literally toxic. Sharing food is an important aspect of social life. The feeling that glutensensitive people have, particularly those with celiac, is that of being excluded and left to starve. Everyone else can enjoy things that you cannot, and this is happening all the time. It’s so bad that I’ve often had to eat before dinner, if I have a hunch that the only thing gluten-free will be the celery. Yes, I will literally eat dinner before going to a dinner party. If I can get to the person preparing the food, usually they’re happy to help, though this is not always possible. 90 planet waves ChronograM 4/17

If I’m traveling, I’ll make sure I have some gluten-free snacks in my bag. Gluten-free people cannot “grab a slice” or “run out for a sandwich.” Rather, we have to map out the neighborhood, do research, and gain experience in order to be able to eat more or less normally. Note that in 2017, we have many more options available. There was a day when the only gluten-free stuff was Rice Krispies and these things called Rice Wafers, which made matzo seem like a delicacy. Today, even many ordinary supermarkets have hundreds of products that are certified gluten-free. I was diagnosed with celiac when I was one-year-old, in April 1965. My life was saved by my Grandma Mary, and by Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose book,Baby and Child Care warned of a celiac problem known of for hundreds of years. The treatment is to stop feeding the kid wheat, barley, and rye—grains (which I will call wheat products for the purposes of this article) that contain a protein people with celiac cannot process. For an excellent introduction to the science behind this, visit Planetwaves.net/gluten. There are no drugs to treat celiac; and if there were any, I would not be interested. This is a condition that’s entirely manageable using diet, which means knowledge and discipline. There are also lower-grade gluten sensitivities, which do not fit the definition of celiac. Others are experimenting with going off of gluten, which is a worthy goal. Gluten serves no productive nutritional purpose. It’s either a contaminant, or used for aesthetic purposes; that is, to make a pastry feel and taste like a pastry, or to put the crunch into the crispy. As you get gluten out of your diet, you’ll start to figure out the difference between a need and a want. Another is how wheat, particularly low-quality, hybridized wheat, infiltrates our entire food system.

Getting the wheat out is not about making a dietary change. Rather, it’s comes with a tremendous responsibility on the part of the owners. Your job about getting an understanding of food, lifestyle, and where the two meet. is to get the conversation onto the level of what they’re secretly planning to You will learn how to scrutinize a menu or food package. When you’re eating put into your body. Some places have a good attitude toward gluten-sensitive people. Please in a restaurant, you might find yourself playing a game of deducing the one thing on the menu you can eat. When reading a package, there’s an easy way patronize those places and send your friends. Spread the news on Yelp and to know for sure that something contains gluten: if the ingredient list is too elsewhere. Other places have a genuinely dismal attitude, as if they’ve declared long. You don’t need to read the long lists; you can assume they have gluten. ideological war and would sooner keep a dead rat in their freezer than a loaf of When the ingredients are a few lines, read carefully and you may discover that gluten-free bread. I suggest boycotting those places, telling your friends to do the same, and, once again, making sure that you reflect this in any review you write. they left it out. When you’re ordering, keep it friendly and matter-of-fact. It helps if you’re Addressing gluten sensitivity, or any food sensitivity, is about total dietary awareness. You must scrutinize every last thing you put in your mouth. You knowledgeable and sincere. Declare your situation upon being greeted by the must know how food is made. That means conscious, constant learning. It server. My preferred language is, “Hello. I have celiac and we need to keep all means having many conversations with servers and food preparers, ‘til you have gluten off of my plate. Can you help me with that?” Do not feel bad about this! Enlist the server as your ally. You’re not incona real answer. If you’re in a restaurant and your server says, “There’s wheat veniencing anyone. You’re only helping them in pasta?” try not to laugh; just ask for the chef or fulfill their dharma (life purpose). You’re helping the manager. Being wheat-free may not educate them for the next customer who comes Living this way as a child stoked my interest in in. Be grateful when you find servers and kitchen seem like a big deal to food preparation. Grandma Mary was a deep influwho are cooperative. Leave a good tip. Tell ence: As the family chef, she was part artist and you. But to someone who staff the manager you were treated well. This kind of part scientist. She had the right tool for everything. positive encouragement goes a long way. is honoring this diet, the She would practice new recipes the day before she As a gluten-free person, you know that you had to make them for a family gathering. Between whole universe of prepared have to avoid all the obvious things that contain this and the constant investigation into the contents foods becomes hostile. wheat products: breads, cakes, pies, pasta, pizza, and preparation of foods, by the time I was about and most snack foods. The challenge is spotting 20, I had worked in numerous restaurants as a It’s literally toxic. the invisible gluten, or the places where there’s server, food prep, and cook. cross-contamination. If you’re ordering glutenWhen I was accepted at the Culinary Institute of America, my admissions free pizza, for example, ask about their food practices. How do they know it’s essay was called “Recipe for a Chef,” which noted that my celiac had been one gluten-free? They should have a good answer. source of my passion for food preparation. I chose a journalism career instead, The deep fryer is the perfect example of where cross-contamination happens. though I never lost interest in the kitchen. When I was 22, I lived in a spiritual community for a year. Someone named Patrick Sullivan ran the kitchen. He had Most restaurants only have one of these. The French fries go in the same vat as been a saucier at Windows on the World and executive chef at the Columbia the onion rings, the chicken fingers, the mozzarella sticks, the wheat bombs, and the rest of it. To be safe, you must avoid eating all deep-fried foods outside University Faculty Club. He knew his onions. Naturally, I shadowed him in the kitchen every minute I could, volunteering your home. One exception is that most major fast food systems have segregated as his prep or sous chef or dishwasher or whatever he needed. I was determined deep-fry bins: the potatoes go in one, and the gluten stuff goes in another. You to learn everything I could possibly learn from him. One thing I discovered was might not think of McDonald’s or Nathan’s as a godsend, but if you’re glutenthat you can make just about anything vegan. At that stage of his career, he was free and in a pinch, you can always have fries and tea. I recently figured out that a taco restaurant I frequent was deep-frying the obsessed with making sumptuous vegan meals that you just could not tell did not include any meat. All it took was the will, some research and planning, tortilla chips. I talked to the owner and he said it was too expensive to get a second deep fryer. That’s a poor excuse, in my opinion. But they could also and some experimentation. So, to all you restaurateurs out there, you have no excuse. Anyone actually keep a bag of ordinary chips on hand and mention on the menu that their regular trained in culinary arts knows that, outside of pastries, nearly all use of flour chips are not gluten-free. The other common place wheat gets into is soups and sauces. You have to for appetizers and main courses is unnecessary—most, as in 90 percent. If you ask the server what the ingredients are. For example: “Does this come with a want to help gluten-free people and also run a better kitchen, get the flour out sauce and, if so, is it gluten free?” If they don’t seem to know, politely ask them of where it does not belong. If you cannot make a reduction (gravy or sauce) to ask the chef. Be persistent and get a real answer. Don’t be afraid to ask to without thickening it with flour, stick to cooking for your family on Thanksgivread the package that an ingredient comes in. This stuff called eel sauce, used on ing, or get more training. sushi, is like gluten gel. There are many weird examples in Asian food, and you To the places that make a real effort, thank you. I walked into Cheese Louise have to become something of an expert. For the most part (with the exception for the first time last weekend; it’s an actual old-school delicatessen located on of soy sauce), garden-variety Chinese food is fine, except if something is deep Route 28. They had salmon chowder on the menu. I asked if it was thickened fried. You have to ask them to keep the soy sauce out. with flour, and the chef said, and I quote: “It’s not necessary. The soup has I frequently eat at a place in the city, and every time I go, I ask if the fries potatoes.” She had me at it’s not necessary. are gluten-free. The first five times, they said yes. The sixth time, the server I finally found a local place that makes gluten-free pizza the right way—they said no, they have gluten. This called for an investigation: They had changed get their dough and bread products from off-premises: Enzo’s in the town of their ingredient that one day. You have to keep asking and, in the process, get Ulster, which buys its dough from Meredith’s Bakery. Recently, I called my to know the staff and the kitchen habits of the places you frequent. old landlord, Renato, who owns DiBella’s Pizza in Kingston, and he went on In short, you have to participate in the food that you eat. As our whole and on for 10 minutes about all the new gluten-free stuff he has on his menu. society moves toward a service economy, we are increasingly removed from Dominick’s Cafe has gluten-free options every day. Anatolia in New Paltz will the actual preparation of our sources of nourishment. As a gluten-free person, gladly help gluten-free people. Please tell these places I said hello. or someone who loves one, you must turn this around for yourself. It’s on the This attitude is more than we can hope for, however. So, for the rest of this level of a 24/7 mindfulness exercise. Be grateful that Zen training comes free article, I’ll share my strategies for keeping gluten out of my body. as part of your diet. First of all, you need a little chutzpah. Just a little—enough to ask a series chronogram.com of questions and get real answers. You need to know in your heart and soul Read Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column. that the purpose of a restaurant is to serve you. Write that on your debit card. This 4/17 ChronograM planet waves 91

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ARIES (March 20-April 19) One thing that’s fast going missing here in the internet age is something known as an inner life. You can think of this as the sanctity of one’s thoughts; a private inner experience of the world; a relationship with the “you” nobody knows. One reason for this loss is an unwholesome obsession with appearances and glamour: looking like something at the expense of being that thing. There’s another problem: the internet has blown our minds inside-out. We expose ourselves, and we’re invaded, tracked, stalked, and photographed. Despite all of this, you have an inner life. Your being extends inward further than it expands outward. Aspects this month will guide you in this direction: toward yourself, into a world of feelings, a dimension of perceptions you may not be able to describe. This may have a “scary” feeling as you step from one form of consciousness to another. If you peer into your mind and see shadow and darkness, give your eyes a moment to adjust. Allow your inner vision to receive rather than pursue what you might see. What you’re likely to discover is a world of light, of ideas, of memories, and of unfamiliar desires. It will be worth stretching past any fear, discomfort, or strangeness, and allowing yourself to get to know your own being, and discover your inner life.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You tend to be a private person, and this is understandable enough. You have a clear line between what is your business and what you would feel comfortable with others knowing. Most of who you are is inside that circle. Yet as the next few weeks progress, you will be drawn out of yourself as if by some cosmic or psychic force. You may notice that you’re revealing what you would never ordinarily let out; putting into words what you might never speak; allowing people into your feelings in new ways. Why would you do this? For one thing, what you’ve got going on inside is too compelling to contain. It’s not that you need validation, but, rather, when you encounter the world on the level of your deepest truth, you take an extra step in its direction. There’s a confrontation involved, which necessitates a deeper level of both experience and claiming who you are in the context of others. This is not about them. It’s about you. To be fully confident in who you are, you need to be confident in your identity, which comes through a kind of confrontation with the world. The private space of “knowing something is true” will get you part of the way there. Then it’s essential to connect: and that’s what you seem to be reaching for.

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GEMINI (May 20-June 21) If you want to attain the highest levels of professionalism and success, it’s necessary for you to be vulnerable in ways not usually associated with a career. Emotional investment, cultivation of your talent, and the willingness to serve rather than to be seen are all involved. Your work cannot be separate from who you are, which is to say, in whatever you do. You’re an artist, and that calls for total investment, and taking a hint from your Gemini cousin Bob Dylan that a poet alone can tell the truth. It’s possible that in recent months you’ve become wary or weary of the drive for superficial accomplishment. Your chart is cautioning against falling for appearances and popularity, to the point where you may be openly rebelling against these things. Rather than rebel, draw yourself closer to the very thing that distinguishes you. Be not afraid to stand out, that is; or to be authentically different in a way that challenges you. The thing that you may be concerned is your fatal flaw is the thing to work with. For you that may feel like a longing to hear the true message of the universe, or the drive to connect with others in a common language you feel you might never attain or master. If you pursue the impossible, or even the improbable, you’re heading in the right direction.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Sometimes you come up with a plan, and sometimes a plan reveals itself to you, and you must respond. This month you’ll be at the nexus of where the two meet. You have your ideas about what you must do with your existence, and life seems to have ideas of its own. If you’re not strictly the product of your environment, it’s also true that your environment is only partly the product of your efforts. In order to find the correct blend, you’ll need to experiment. For example, you can set an agenda with no concept of how you’ll accomplish it, and watch what happens. You can let your life unfold without planning things in advance, and use your skills of adaptation and invention to develop seemingly random events into something that really works for you. One thing that remains true regardless of what approach you take is to keep on friendly terms with people in power. They are your collaborators, your facilitators, and, in essence, your sponsors. Being friendly with them, and finding the points of contact, is not about kissing ass. Rather, you do your best when you’re working on the human level among other humans. Be truthful about your desires and your motives, and notice who responds supportively. Powerful people are protecting you, and have an interest in your success. Get to know them.

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LEO (July 22-August 23) This month, you’ll need to take some time and resolve a prior emotional or sexual bond. If this is something that did not end well, you’re the one who will need to set aside your ego, extend the proverbial olive branch, and take the risk of vulnerability. This is a complex situation. All the people involved have brought an element of past injury to the scenario, which has little to do with those who are immediately involved. See the situation in that context and it’ll be easier to understand. You may have stepped away because it was just too complex, or because of some uncertainty about whether you were being told the truth. However, your personal truth is more important than some abstract notion of a valid point of view, and you’re now much more confident in who you are. In a similar way, “the situation” is not what needs to be resolved; rather, you must come to terms with your own feelings and your own healing process. You may or may not get the full cooperation of others, though that does not matter. What counts is that you make yourself available for an exchange, without judgment. Then as you do that, notice what happens: how people respond, what they say and, most of all, the contrast between what you remember and what you see now.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) If you find yourself strategizing how to get or keep a lover, take a step back. Using strategy is a sign of a closed heart, and what happens on the emotional plane cannot be planned or predicted. If you need a plan of action, try being real; which is to say, honest about your feelings. This is a matter of vulnerability. You might feel like it’s someone else who’s not quite open, though even if that were true, you could still respond by staying close to your feelings. If you discover that the past is in the way (such as resentment, guilt, or the feeling that you just cannot please someone), stick with those feelings, too. The real obstacle may be something from your own past entirely unrelated to what seems to be going on. Notice if you feel like you need to prove something to someone; notice if the discussion omits the emotional level; there would be reasons for these things. Ultimately, you will need to submit yourself to what actually means something to you: what matters, what makes a difference, or some motive you have for living and being, rather than being in a relationship. Any encounter between you and another person must be based on common ground, and your part in this is to know intimately the ground on which you stand.

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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Relationships need a purpose. That is to say, both parties to the encounter need a common reason for being there, otherwise the experience can degrade into something self-serving for people who are mutually using one another. Yet it’s astonishing how rare it is for people to work with a tangible shared purpose. Raising children and paying the mortgage can fill in for a while, though it needs to go deeper. You might ask yourself what the purpose of each of your relationships is—especially the thing you consider your primary relationship. If you don’t have one of those and are looking for one, you might ask yourself why that is. If the answer is companionship, what’s the nature of that? Is it about completing something missing within you, or is it the desire to co-create? Do you have some mutual purpose related to service? Do you have a healing agenda that you can share with a close partner? That would serve your purposes well. When we say love, we mean trust, and trust is about understanding that your presence in someone’s life is to make their life better, as is their presence in yours. As you orient on this, you’ll be taken to a deeper emotional level than you may be accustomed to going, especially in recent years. Hang in with this purpose, and with the people you care about.

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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) Sex is underrated. Yes, it’s ridiculously hyped in some places, and thrown into the gutter in many others. Yet we might take a chance and admit that the source of life, the wellspring of existence itself, has a spiritual and creative purpose. Even so, between you and that state of consciousness are several obstacles. They all involve exploitation, from the most publicly displayed (selling everything from cars to drugs to vacations with some form of erotic bait) to the most private: all the injuries that we’ve suffered, many of them going back to childhood. I think there are two keys to tapping the power of sexuality: one is being open to it; the second is seeing it as the creative core from which all other forms of personal expression emanate. This is potentially controversial, though should it be? Embarrassment is no excuse. You would be wellserved to open up to the nuances involved, starting with a careful review of your erotic liaisons during the past two years. There’s something you seem to be urgently trying to let go of and to move beyond. Yet there’s something you’re wanting, needing, and intending to turn toward. This is a point of inner contact that will melt away your fears and inhibitions and allow you to enter totally unfamiliar, perhaps frightening, strangely beautiful territory within yourself. That’s how you’ll know you’re making progress.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You’ve been on a creative roll lately. Art and passion (closely related in astrology) are always a gamble, though you seem to keep winning every time you throw the dice. Over the next month, the level of personal risk involved in your creative expression deepens. You’re swimming upstream within yourself, toward a destination. The kind of vulnerability and sensitivity you may experience is the kind that everyone born under your sign knows about, and very few care to admit. Plunge in and go for it. The water is not nearly as murky as it may seem, nor are the questions you’ll face as overwhelming as they may appear. Yet there’s no question: the circumstances of your life, and the aspirations you’re being called to reach for, are summoning you to a new level of introspection and emotional contact. To reach into this place will require facing old pain, legacy material from your fantasy, and those age-old questions of whether you really belong here, and what you’re actually doing here. These cannot be accessed merely by asking, wondering, or enduring. Yet you can liberate yourself by exploring, in earnest, the roots of your emotional being. If you’re an artist, your art will get better, and if you’re a lover, your love will grow. As a born explorer, this is one of your ultimate quests.

CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) You have a curious relationship to your spiritual life. It’s almost as if it hides from you, or you overlook it, while you’re busy pursuing it. This can have a number of effects, including a kind of detachment or separation between what you do in the world, and your sense of a profound truth you contain and cannot express. If integrity is important to you, and I reckon that it is, your inner life requires alignment with your outer activity. If you feel like there’s a gap between the two (by choice or by circumstance) that calls for some investigation. You might feel as if there are things you must do to ensure your worldly existence, which call for a compromise. That was never true, and it’s never been less true than it is today. What you hold as sacred, and what you know to be your “original instructions,” are the very thing that you’re summoned to live, to express, and in a sense, to enforce in your material and worldly life. If there seem to be levels of truth, that’s likely to be the result of the density associated with the various levels in your mind. As an inhabitant of this Earth, there are some things you cannot avoid; there are facts that are true on every level or dimension of existence. This is your starting point, not your destination.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) Astrology teaches us something obvious that I’ve never seen in a self-help book or learned in therapy training: Money and selfesteem are intimately related. We see this through the second house in astrology, which classically is about cash on hand and available resources, and in psychological astrology is about your relationship to yourself. In your solar chart this is Pisces, which at the moment is populated by an interesting assortment of planets (most of them new discoveries since the 1970s). Now Venus is about to enter Pisces, and conclude its retrograde journey mid-month with a conjunction to Chiron. This is about deciphering all the ways you hold back love and approval from yourself. Then you can learn a lot by answering those judgments in sane and humane ways. Nobody on our particular planet goes through life without some struggle over the right to exist. Aquarians in particular can grapple with a poignant sense of not fitting in. Yet as you figure out that this whole drama is moderated by your own state of self-acceptance, you will settle down and, in a sense, claim yourself. That means taking ownership of all your personal resources and talents; and that, in turn, is good for business and career. What you might offer to others must be yours to share, and that’s the essence of full “belonging” in every sense of the word.

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Your sign stands at the threshold of endings and beginnings. And that’s exactly where many of the planets stand at this moment—distributed between Pisces, the Omega zone, and Aries, the Alpha zone. Yet with Venus in retrograde motion, poised to track backward from Aries into Pisces, there would seem to be something that you want to retrieve before you proceed forward. On many accounts, a new phase of your life has already begun. Rather than plunging forward without reflection, take a little time and consider what you simply must take with you. You may not be aware of what this is yet, though I reckon you’ll soon find out. I can describe in a vague way by saying that you’re ready to retrieve a memory of your true being and your true purpose. Yet in classic mystical fashion, this is the kind of thing you can become aware of with a sense of profound understanding, and then forget just as fast. Now, when you remember, the thing to do is to maintain that awareness as a central focus of your life. As this consciousness dawns on you, do what you can to acknowledge, record, and express what you discover. Said another way, you’re about to rediscover who you are, and remember what you’ve known all along. Make this real by making it the basis of all your decisions.

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One of the earliest maps to show the Earth as a sphere was apparently grafted, by some lost process, onto a baseball. The ball, fished out of the Aegean Sea by a Greek trawler, was later purchased at a yard sale in Lesbos, coincidentally enough, by a cameraperson for “Antiques Roadshow.” Alas, in deplorable condition, it sold for a mere five drachmas.

The Delphi Dolphins (later the Delphi Dodgers) played in this stadium throughout the Age of Classical Myth. One of the most memorable moments in the history of this park occurred when Phoebus “Big Papi” Apollo threw a pitch that got away from him and killed the star slugger of the Oracles, Ty Python.

Ancient Baseball: The Boys of Sumer For well over a century now, baseball and the month of April have been happily intertwined. After a punishing winter, in which we paid court to cardiac arrest by shoveling immovable mounds of snow, or slogged through slush to free a Civic entombed in a dolmen of ice, we suddenly joy, one day, to the Eternal Return of Spring: a vee of Canadian geese heading north and a flock of Baltimore Orioles heading south. Yes, in this fourth month, which brings to mind the timeless cycles of the natural world—the budding of trees, the melting of streams—it is well to consider the timelessness of baseball, too. Historians generally agree that the first officially chronicled baseball game, pitting the New York Ball Club against a team from Brooklyn, took place in Hoboken, New Jersey, on October 21, 1845. But the very site of that long-ago contest—the Elysian Fields, named for that rest area of the Underworld where the immortal heroes of Greek mythology reside in a state of interminable ennui— provides a clue as to the true antiquity of the game. Likewise, the rare photos that accompany this text (courtesy of the Royal Library of Alexandria) are further proof that baseball was known to, and held sacred by, the ancients, East and West. Boys of summer, meet the boys of Sumer! Text, collages*, and captions by Mikhail Horowitz

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