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VIEW FROM THE TOP

HOME & GARDEN

16 ARTSCENE TV

36 THE STOLEN CHURCH OF GLENFORD

A preview of our monthly video series highlighting Hudson Valley artists.

17 ON THE COVER An appreciation of January’s cover artist, photographer Jennifer Tzar.

NEWS AND POLITICS 16 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Unaffordable Hudson Valley, busted for booze in Saudi Arabia, and more.

17 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Truthful Republican presidential candidates just don’t poll all that well.

WELL-SPENT: SHOPPING 18 THE ABLUTIONAL EDITION

26 THE ELDERCARE BOOM

COMMUNITY PAGES 44 NEW PALTZ: MOUNTAINSIDE MOSAIC The ever-growing tourist sector in New Paltz is bringing the town to a tipping point with new tourism-related developments slated for 2016.

FOOD & DRINK 64 HEAD OF THE CLASS

Scrub away the cares of last year and feel as bright as a new penny.

KIDS & FAMILY As we live longer, more children find themselves taking care of aging parents.

EDUCATION 28 HARVESTING HEALTH

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WHOLE LIVING 74 RETHINKING CHRONIC ILLNESS

Wendy Kagan explores a fresh perspective on what it means to be sick.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 69 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 70 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 80 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.

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ARTS & CULTURE

THE FORECAST

50 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE

82 DAILY CALENDAR

54 MUSIC: TURNING THE TURNTABLES

Regional musicians and music journalists on the what they listened to in 2015. Nightlife Highlights include Puddles Pity Party, The Stacks, The Gibson Brothers, Thunderhead Organ Trio, The Mighty Diamonds. Reviews of Troy Pork Store by Los Chinches; Journey Home by Raphael Groten; and Wax & Gold by Tracy Bonham.

58 BOOKS: ADAM LEFEVRE

Books Editor Nina Shengold visits poet, actor, and playwright Adam LeFevre.

62 BOOK REVIEWS

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Reviews of Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt and River Road by Carol Goodman.

62 POETRY Poems by Jessica Megan Dammers, Michael De Rosa, Richard Donnelly, Lucy Engelman, Ava Fishman, John D. Flemming, Kate Finnegan, Cliff Henderson, Ari & Zenn Hewson, Mitch James, Marlin Klinger, Margo Mensing, Stephanie Ann Slepian, and James Spencer..

VIDEO: ARTSCENE TV Our monthly video series highlights the Hudson Valley artscene. Chronogram.com/TV.

Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS “Winter in America," a group show, is on display at The School in Kinderhook. The Ashokan Center hosts the third annual Winter Hoot in Olivebridge. The Dorsky Museum mounts the first retrospective of Andrew Lyght. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus takes up winter residency at Helsinki Hudson. Luther “Guitar Junior”Johnson brings the blues to the Towne Crier this month. Over 30 regional brewers hit Kingston for the Uptown Craft Beer Bugaloo. The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck stages “The Music Man.” Children’s author Chris Grabenstein reads and signs Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics at Oblong Books and Music in Rhinebeck on January 13.

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Art Scene

Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Here, Stephen gives an outline of this month’s film. Check out the film and others from the “ArtScene” series at Chronogram.com/TV.

Katharine McKenna

This month’s featured artist is Katharine McKenna. In the early 1970s, McKenna considered herself a street photographer. She took a large series of black-and-white photographs in Saratoga and the surrounding area, when the city was in a state of decay. Rare, intimate photos of musicians coming through town, such as Don McLean, Arlo Guthrie, and Tom Paxton, were also her subjects. Now McKenna is primarily a painter. She studied color early in her career—what she calls “color math.” McKenna continues to impart her mastery of color theory to her painting classes at the Woodstock School of Art. After building a foundation with still lifes and figure drawing, McKenna travels to Wyoming to apply her color knowledge to new compositions of landscapes that have become the signature of her style. McKenna sketches directly on the canvas at the site, and then lets the painting emerge from the sketch. McKenna doesn’t want to be a realist in her painting. She sees her paintings as visual poems. “I’m more interested in playing with color, it’s always an experiment,” she says. Specializing in optically mixing colors for special effect, McKenna creates a feeling of glowing light and illumination, by overlaying colors (often complementary) on top of each layer after the previous one has dried. “With oil paint, these colors cannot be mixed while wet, or they would just turn to mud,” she says. Through this technique, McKenna conveys her personal experience of the location. McKenna feels her landscapes are all about figures, often seeing a human female shape in the mountains. McKenna has an affinity for the wide open space of the western US, from Montana down to New Mexico, having spent time out there as a child. She also loves the uncovered geology, she says, “whereas in the East, everything is covered by trees; one doesn’t see the outcroppings and the mountains the way they really are.” When Katharine McKenna needs a break from, as she says, “the infinity of painting, and the hard soul searching which makes me feel exposed,” she explores another avenue by experimenting with color by designing a series of quilts that she calls “prototypes.” These quilts primarily use geometric shapes, either created from scratch on the computer or by using photographic details from nature that she shoots with her iPhone, that are repeated to create a pattern.

On The Cover: Jennifer Tzar

Also in this month’s “ArtScene,” a short film about this month’s cover artist, Jennifer Tzar. Read about Tzar and her work on page 12.

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ith a knack for magical realism, photographer Jennifer Tzar hones in on the modern-day fairy tale with her work. “Real life is not that interesting to me,” says the Minnesota-born Tzar. “I want to create a world where people want to be a part of it, but they don’t know what it is. A place they’ve never seen before.”Tzar’s incongruous images are eerily cryptic; from high fashion models casting unsettling faces against stark landscapes to a sunken Bruce Springsteen, hidden beneath a layer of clouds.While some shots do reflect an aura of lightness—like a sprightly Juliette Lewis banging a hot pink drum on a grassy hill—most bear an unprecedented hint of darkness. “Everything looks too real with regular lighting. I like to tweak everything [in Photoshop] to make it a little bit off.” Although Tzar has worked in the fashion industry for nearly 30 years, she didn’t having any initial intention to follow an artistic career path. She went to college for science, studying particle physics and biology. After landing a modeling gig,Tzar shifted her focus out of school and into the world of fashion in New York City. When she got pregnant with her daughter, she transitioned out of modeling and into a life as a wardrobe stylist. Eight years later—with the help of a then-photographer boyfriend—she began taking her own photos. Everything panned out naturally for her, and within a month, she picked up her very first photo gig with Levi’s. “It took off really, really quickly,” says Tzar. “I got sucked right into it.” Over the next few decades, Tzar traveled internationally, shooting bits for magazines like Men’s Vogue, Spin, and Discover, and shooting portraits musicians like Ozzy Osbourne, The Black Keys, and Mary J. Blige. When a fire burnt down her SoHo apartment two years ago, Tzar left Manhattan and headed north, falling in love with Hudson. Instead of moving back to the city, she took on her latest project with her leatherworking boyfriend: ÖR Gallery & Tavern, a multifaceted coffee shop, bar, restaurant, gallery, and work studio. Her connection to the Hudson Valley kicked off while on a photo shoot back in 2012 with Style Zeitgeist. Tzar she shot this month’s cover photo with a Mamiya RZ67 camera at Saugerties’ Opus 40—sculptor Harvey Fite’s world-acclaimed, mesmerizing structure erected from the natural bluestone quarry beneath his feet. Fite’s fantastical creation coincides with Tzar’s offbeat characteristics. “It feels like there’s an ancient Pagan wisdom to it. You can’t find a bad angle there,” Tzar says of Opus 40. Tzar wanted to emphasize the model’s composition juxtaposed against the obelisk. The model’s shape and empowering warrior stance complements the towering stone behind her, while also providing a sense of displacement. For the moment, Tzar has hung up her camera, focusing her time around ÖR and a newfound love—writing screenplays. “I just keep moving. I’m not someone who’s married to one thing,” she says. What’s next? She hopes to make a full-length movie about a hillbilly fairytale. Portfolio: http://jennifertzar.com/ —Zan Strumfeld CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH a short film by Stephen Blauweiss about Jennifer Tzar and her work.

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ESTEEMED READER Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Without a recommendation from a friend, I would not have attended the theater group Dzieci’s “Fool’s Mass” a few Sundays ago. When he shared news of the performance, something clicked—the decision to attend required no comparison of this or that option, no question of wanting or not wanting to go, being an action in which the choice and its actualization were equally inevitable. “Fool’s Mass” was mounted in the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, appropriate for several reasons: because the drama is a mass, because both are anachronisms from a medieval setting, and because the church—like the play—gives an odd sense of colliding worlds. This church feels like a spaceship that landed in millennia past and was simply built around for new purposes. Its cemetery is filled with ancient gravestones sculpted with reliefs of faces resembling the goddess Hathor and inscribed with mysterious, masonic symbols; obelisks stand guard outside the entrance like the teeth of a tuning fork, just as they do at the entrance to the temple Karnak in Luxor. The resonant atmosphere of the Old Dutch Church has attracted unlikely luminaries like Queen Juliana of the Netherlands with her consort, Bernhard, and later her daughter the princess Beatrix.When I am in Kingston I almost always sneak in and sit in the empty church. I don’t know why, but I always sit in the pew reserved for the pastor, and when I arrive with my son for “Fool’s Mass” I am ushered to this seat. The mass begins with the whole cast—a group of awkward and innocent village idiots with terrible teeth—guiding the audience to their seats. The interaction brings the whole audience of about 20 people immediately into a state of alertness. Something different from the conventional passive experience is afoot—it appears we will be required to interact with this outlandish group of imbeciles. My son tugs on my sleeve and asks with some urgency, “Are they acting?” Once the audience is seated, the actors slowly make their way up the aisle to a makeshift altar, each player making contact with each audience member in their character’s way. Each is their own type of imbecile—rapt, disturbed, or inspired by something apparent or unknown. One shell-shocked crone steps in front of each audience member, looking deeply into the person’s eyes and becoming increasingly troubled. She shouts “No!” in one man’s face. Despite full anticipation, the man inevitably jumps. Another actor finds a seat in a pew and gazes into space. The mass seems about to begin, but then we learn that the idiots’ mentor, the priest, has died. There is much Sturm und Drang and the flock of fools yells and beats one another as they metabolize this news and let its implications sink in. A kind of ringleader, seemingly more aware of the audience’s judgments, frequently repeats “Sorry, sorry, sorry...sompsing ees wrongk, very, very wrongk.” Finally the group (or the force operating through them) determines that the mass will go on. It begins quietly and then grows louder—the sound of sweet voices singing medieval Latin polyphonies. The audience looks around to see where the melody is coming from and then, to our surprise, we discover that the group of bent and retarded fools is giving voice to this angelic sound. The contrast is so sharp I begin to weep. There is a brief homage to the priest, who, it is revealed, has taught them to sing. Then the mass continues with a reading by an audience member and an inspired scriptural mashup by a seraphic oddball. There is a telling of the Christmas story replete with donkeys, wise men, and a nativity that gives birth to a loaf of bread, thus solving the problem of providing the Eucharist. With shouts of “flesh!” and “blood!” the mass is finally fulfilled with a profound sense of arrival after an arduous journey replete with fertile hazard at every turn. The group repeatedly breaks into beatific song, and each time I experience bewilderment. I see that I am the group of imbeciles—that the cadre of fools is me, forever awkward, obtuse, and stupid; and despite my handicaps and impediments, like them, I occasionally, miraculously give rise to a manifestation that is profound, beautiful, and completely out of character. The performance makes it clear that truth and beauty use any and every means to shine into the world. —Jason Stern

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ate one Sunday afternoon in early December, Lee Anne, Shazam, and I were at home, engaged in our usual routine. Lee Anne was finishing up the crossword in the New York Times Magazine. Shazam was curled up on the couch between us, three tennis balls hoarded Smaug-like between his paws and belly. I was skimming through the rest of the paper, attempting to stay minimally informed about politics, international news, arts and culture, sports, real estate, and business—and to see if I knew anybody who got their wedding covered in the Times. (And no, no one I know has been featured in the paper’s Wedding section.) Leafing through the Book Review, I spied a piece on a book we had written about in the November issue, The Catskills: It’s History and How It Changed America by Stephen M. Silverman and Raphael D. Silver. Imagine my surprise, reading the review, when I came across a mention of Chronogram. “Good heavens!” I cried in shock and amazement. Shazam awoke with a start and leapt off the couch, looking for the source of the commotion, sending tennis balls rolling across the living room floor in three directions, which became its own source of commotion and vexation for the dog as one of the balls rolled underneath our home entertainment center, the area known to Lee Anne and me as the tennis ball mausoleum. “What is it, darling?” Lee Anne asked, knowing how riled up I can get reading about the weddings of the children of the one percent. “Chronogram has been mentioned in the New York Times!” I said, trying not to exclaim. (Lee Anne and I are not in agreement on this bit about whether I exclaimed or not.) “Wonderful,” she said. “Why don’t you read it to me?” Before I puffed out my chest and began to declaim, I explained some of the context: The Catskills: It’s History and How It Changed America is a popular history building on the work of Alf Evers and others, containing many colorful characters, but no original research, and much of the book is spent on the post-World War II heyday of the Jewish Catskills. All of this according to the reviewer, New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Lemann, whose review, tepid at best, was less about the book than Lemann’s big thoughts about the Catskills. Such as: ideas about pristine wilderness and tourism have been intertwined since the early 19th century, when “the mountains were attracting tourists before they were a supposedly untouched paradise— indeed, the second identity resulted from the first”; the country and the city are a beast with two backs, “a single entity created in tandem, rather than two separate realms”; and anyone expecting an imminent economic comeback in the Catskills from the creeping influx of downstate creative is

going to have to wait a long time. (Lemann’s last point, about the pace of economic development, is spot-on, and I would add that those proclaiming otherwise are naïve at best and cynical hucksters at worst.) Here’s what I read to Lee Anne, from the third-to-last paragraph of Lemann’s review in the December 6 NewYork Times Book Review:

* Upstater.com and Upstater magazine are also published by Chronogram’s evil corporate overlord, Luminary Media. We infiltrate Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens on a quarterly basis with 50,000 copies of Upstater as part of a counter-insurgency targeting unsuspecting hipsters where they expect it least—in their own craft beer boutiques, granny dress shops, ramen burger restaurants, and mustache wax emporiums.

ran against a 27-year-old named Sean Eldridge, who just happened to be completely untested, gay, married to a billionaire, born in Canada and raised in Ohio, and a recent transplant to the region. It felt as if someone had fashioned Eldridge directly from a “Build a Perfect Carpetbagger” kit. Looking forward to 2016, Gibson says he’s not running, so it seems likely that the seat will fall back into Democratic hands, with Ulster County Executive Mike Hein defeating one of a number of little-known regional Republicans. It’s worth remembering that before Gibson was elected, the area was represented for 20 years by progressive Democrat Maurice Hinchey.

** A quibble with Lemann’s interpretation of the 2014 election:The career Army officer in question, Rep. Chris Gibson (one of the most moderate Republicans in Congress),

There is a version of the Catskills that just flows along down the years, not demanding anyone’s attention, impervious to the comings and goings of ambitious schemes. Many of the region’s permanent residents are descendants of self-sufficient German Palatines who arrived in the colonial era and never left; in the woods you often hear the pop-pop-pop of hunters’ guns. The Catskills also continue to attract people who want to create lowbudget ethnocultural microclimates, including, these days, several varieties of ultra-Orthodox Jews, Hutterites, Russian immigrants, converts to Buddhism and Harley-Davidson aficionados. Exiles from hipster Brooklyn are starting to appear (see Chronogram magazine or Upstater.com* for details) [emphasis mine], but it’s well to remember that in the 2014 elections, a Republican career Army officer handily carried the Catskills congressional district with 63 percent of the vote.** But as I read it again, my exultation began to fade. The words exiles + hipster + Brooklyn + Chronogram tasted sour as I said them. While I was pleased that our little provincial magazine is on the radar of New York City media elites, is this the way Chronogram is perceived, as the house organ of hipster exiles? As my colleague Kandy Harris noted about this on Upstater. com, the Times is infamous for calling the Hudson Valley “the new Brooklyn” on multiple occasions. I slumped back onto the couch, deflated. Lee Anne could see that what I first had viewed as an unqualified triumph was now a multivalent thing, full of meanings and interpretations beyond my control. “Don’t let the bastards get you down,” Lee Anne said, and kissed me on the cheek. As far as Chronogram is concerned, I invite you to have a look at this issue and ask yourself how the magazine stacks up against the claim that we’re chronicling the Brooklynization of the Hudson Valley. I don’t remember seeing any self-identified Brooklyn expats profiled here, but I could be wrong I’m curious to know what you think about this. Please e-mail your comments and suggestions to me at brian@chronogram.com.

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Alcohol is banned in Saudi Arabia. Yet there are people who manage to get their hands on booze in the country. How? An episode from November sheds some light: The Saudi authorities at the border with the United Arab Emirates caught a man with 48,000 cans of Heineken—all disguised as cans of Pepsi. This isn’t an isolated incident: earlier this year a Saudi man was caught on the border with Bahrain with 12 bottles of liquor sewn into this pants. Getting caught with alcohol is serious business in Saudi Arabia—offenders can be sentenced to prison and floggings. The World Health Organization estimates that the rate of alcohol consumption per capita in Saudi Arabia is 0.2 liters per adult, one of the lowest in the world. This estimate may be inaccurate, however, given the illicit drinking market. Source: Washington Post In less than 10 years, Uruguay has slashed its carbon footprint—renewables provide 94.5 percent of the country’s electricity and prices are lower than in the past relative to inflation. There are also fewer power cuts because a diverse energy mix means greater resilience to droughts. Fifty-five percent of the country’s overall energy mix (including transport fuel) come from compared with a global average share of 12 percent. At the recent climate change talks in Paris, Ramón Méndez, Uruguay’s head of climate change policy, made an ambitious pledge: an 88% cut in carbon emissions by 2017. Méndez attributes Uruguay’s success to three key factors: credibility (a stable democracy); helpful natural conditions (good wind, decent solar radiation, and lots of biomass from agriculture); and strong public companies (which are a reliable partner for private firms and can work with the state to create an attractive operating environment). Source: Guardian (UK)

The number of automobiles on the world’s roads is on pace to double— to more than two billion—by 2030. And more likely than not, most of those cars will be burning carbon-emitting gasoline or diesel fuels. That is because much of the expansion will be propelled by the rise of the consumer class in industrializing parts of the globe, especially in China and India, as hundreds of millions of new drivers discover the glory of the open road. The countries with the most cars today have set aggressive goals for improving fuel mileage. The US, under Obama’s fleet-wide standards for carmakers, is aiming for an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, up from about 30 mpg currently. China is aiming for 50.1 miles per gallon, and the European Union 60.6.The math is daunting, however. If the number of cars doubles, and the average mileage improves by only 50 percent, all of the fuel-economy gains would be offset by the emissions from the new vehicles. Source: New York Times After a man and a woman burst into a social services center in San Bernadino and opened fire on December 2, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum posted a message on the Ulster County Sherriff Department’s Facebook the next day urging licensed gun owners to carry their firearms in public. The post drew outrage and support online, and drew national media attention. A few days later, Dutchess County Sheriff Adrian “Butch” Anderson announced his support for Van Blarcum’s position, calling on licensed pistol permit holders in New York State and across the country to “exercise their Second Amendment right.” There are approximately 10,000 licensed pistol permit holders in Ulster County and 40,000 in Dutchess County. Sources: Poughkeepsie Journal, WDST 16 CHRONOGRAM 1/16

In early December, fired Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty of sex crimes against eight women, all committed while on duty. According to Kimberly Lonsway, a research director at End Violence Against Women International, most rapes go unpunished in America, and sex crime convictions are even more unlikely when law enforcement officers are accused, The Associated Press recently conducted a yearlong probe into sex crimes committed by officers which revealed about 1,000 police officers had lost their licenses for sex crimes or other sexual misconduct over a six-year period; many were never charged, let alone prosecuted. “There’s a natural tendency to believe the officer,” said Joshua Marquis, the district attorney in Clatsop County, Oregon, who has prosecuted numerous cases against police, including some sexual offenses. “A lot of people have a hard time wrapping their head around the idea that they could ever do this.” The accused officer typically has no criminal background, passionate supporters often show up in the gallery, and juries may believe an officer’s firing is punishment enough, Marquis said. Source: Associated Press Former State Assembly leader Sheldon Silver was convicted in early December of federal corruption charges related to schemes by which he received nearly $4 million in exchange for using his longtime position as the speaker of the Assembly to benefit real estate developers and a cancer researcher. Days later, Silver filed for state pension, which is estimated to be worth $100,000 a year. (Ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, convicted on corruption charges days after Silver, could receive an $80,00 annual pension.) The State Constitution assures that pensions “shall not be diminished or impaired,” a rule which has allowed other convicted lawmakers to collect in the past. US Attorney Preet Bharara, who prosecuted cases against both legislators, will likely seek to seize any pension funds paid to Silver or Skelos. Sources: New York Times, New York Post According to the Center for Housing Solutions and Urban Initiatives annual 2015 report, published by Pattern for Progress in late November, more than 90 percent of the homes for sale in the Hudson Valley are not affordable for households earning the area’s median income (Dutchess: $72,525; Ulster: $59590). The lack of affordable housing is cause for concern when it comes to the future of the economic health of the Hudson Valley, experts said. Stagnant wages, a short supply of affordable housing and increases in rents have made it difficult for residents to afford housing in the Hudson Valley. (The Department of Housing and Urban Development considers a home affordable when a housing payment is no more than 30 percent of household monthly income.) Source: Pattern for Progress

DION OGUST

Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

WHAT TRUMPS TRUTHINESS?

onald Trump’s candidacy was supposed to be the greatest gift to comedy since ever. As reliably loony as Michelle Bachman, as certain a punch line as pedophile priests. It was the gift of the comedy gods for Jon Stewart’s final weeks. Now,Trump is leader of the pack, the most likely candidate; practically, the only likely candidate. Then there was Ben Carson. It was extremely hard for someone who was not a Christian conservative in Iowa to figure out why he was polling so well. He has a demeanor on camera that seems as if could only have been created by a liquid valium drip. In that slow, sedated, careful medicated voice, he’d announce that it was gun control that led the Nazis come to power and carry out the Holocaust. Some of his most inspirational personal stories turned out to also have come from those realms where imagination reigns.Yet Carson polled second until just weeks ago. If Hollywood were to cast an evil weasel politician, he’d look like Ted Cruz. Which is how many of his colleagues, especially Republicans, think of him. Apparently, it’s how most people think of him. His college roommate said, “Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being.” Cruz is now polling in second place and possibly first in Iowa. Jeb Bush was supposed to be the shoo-in for the nomination. He had $24 million in campaign funds, plus over $100 million in his Super PAC, a record. Yet there he is, stuck in single digits. Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, and George Pataki are all down at the bottom with even fewer single digits. Marco Rubio was supposed to be a golden boy—young, handsome, dynamic and, as a Latino, able to bring in some of that ethnic vote. He’s doing better than the single digit gang, but not good enough. Slate wonders, “Is Marco Rubio a Paper Tiger?” and Daily Beast asks “Was Marco Rubio Overrated All Along?” Every pundit and commentator and political consultant will spout theories about presence, style, policy positions, the electorate, the mood, the this, the that, and the other. Is there an answer? Is there something that explains it all? Yes. Truth. Based on analysis by PolitiFact, the more truthful statements a candidate for the Republican nomination for president makes, the lower their standing will be. The more false statements they make, the better they do. PolitiFact classifies statements into six categories: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, and Pants on Fire.You can see the list on their website (Politifact.com), in order of the candidates’ popularity, with a simple bar graph alongside that conveys the essence at a glance. It is possible to quibble

with PolitiFact’s standards and with individual judgments. Yet it seems relatively neutral. More important, it’s the only quantitative measure of truthiness that we’ve got. So we’ll go with it. And to simplify matters even further, reduce the six categories to two, True to Half True, and Mostly False to Pants on Fire. Donald Trump had 76 claims analyzed. None were rated True, just 18 made it Mostly True and Half True, while 58 fell into the bottom half. That is, threequarters of what Trump says was rated false. Ben Carson had a higher un-truth percentage than Trump, 84 percent. So why didn’t he make it to first place? Quantitative. Carson didn’t talk as much (or wasn’t noticed talking), with the result that he had only 25 statements analyzed, giving Trump three times as many false statements recorded. PolitiFact rated two-thirds of 68 Ted Cruz utterances as falsies. Marco Rubio is barely at 40 percent in the falsehood half. So, yes, that’s enough to get noticed. But 60 percent of what he says contains some Truth, so he can’t get traction. What Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, and Rand Paul have in common? Weak falsehood ratings. Down around 30 percent.Their statements are True, or have some elements of truth, better than two-thirds of the time. Even that much truthiness—and it’s not really a lot—is the kiss of death for a Republican candidate. Admittedly, Fiorina (52 percent False), Huckabee (51 percent False) and Santorum (56 percent False) seem to be False enough to be doing better, which indicates that although un-truthiness is a determining factor, it is not the sole factor. Santorum has very little money, Huckabee has some, and Fiorina has more, but still not nearly enough to be competitive even with really great distortions and vibrant un-truths. Is it party specific? Politifact rated Hillary Clinton at 62 percent on the Truth side, Bernie Sanders at 63 percent, and Michael O’Malley at 75 percent (though saying very little). So yes, it’s party specific. Does this tell us something about the candidates? Do liars like to run as Republicans? There are Republican candidates who are nearly as truthful as Democrats, and as we see, they’re dead in the water. So, yes, it’s Republican voters. Of course, there are Democrats like that, too, who like some delusion with their politics. But among Democrats it’s a minority and among Republicans it appears to be a majority who have a preference for the fallacious. Both may be right to make their selections on such a basis, since, as Stephen Colbert said, facts have a liberal bias. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM 17

Shopping

Well Spent: The By Jana Martin

Ablutional Edition

Happy 2016. Time to scrub away the cares of last year and get shiny. These Hudson Valley purveyors have loads of fine ways to feel bright as a new penny—while we still have pennies. Don’t just shop local, shine local too.

Start with a clean slate Among its many handhewn goods, Reservoir & Wood in Beacon stocks Wit andWonder Soap by Keats, a rustic-scented mix of rosemary, French green clay and shea butter, and olive and sunflower oils. The little bar has multifarious powers: It’s a purifying, clarifying, moisturizing, healing, antioxidant, rejuvenating, toning treasure, just what you need to take on your own New Year’s resolutions—or at least a really great shower. Entirely organic and appealingly handcrafted, the soap comes in a beguiling little paper wrapper ($10). Shop.reservoirandwood.com

Oil help you Soothe that headache and those weary muscles, clear those sinuses, and just generally start the New Year feeling better with Little Helpers massage oils from Merriweather’s in Rhinebeck. There’s jojoba-oil-based Headache Relief—just a dab on each temple and the back of your skull will chase away the cranial conundrums. Arnica-based Muscle Relief is a blessing for tired and achy muscles. And exhilarating Sinus Relief will clear your sinuses with a zing. Set of all three in roll-on bottles ($15). Merriweathers.com Beautify the beard (or other parts) Homemade Calendula Spice Shave Soap by Phoenecia Soap Company is a fragrant tub of luscious: Saponified organic olive oil is infused with calendula, coconut and castor oils, sassed up with cinnamon and clove, and powered by aloe gel and bentonite clay. Made for both men and women, this brushable blend is friendly to sensitive skins (as are all the soaps made here) and it’ll make your whiskers stand up and salute. Comes in a nifty 3-ounce tin ($10). phoeniciasoap.com Do the body good Birch Body Care brought serious pampering to Uptown Kingston, including a whole array of massage choices—and if you’re just in the neighborhood, they take walk-ins too. Options include the Heavy Weight, a deep tissue massage that obliterates knots, reduces chronic pain, and will make last year’s tensions disappear. The well-trained therapists will work as you need, paying close attention to vexing problem spots. 30 minutes ($53), 60 minutes ($85), 75 minutes ($105), 90 minutes ($125). Birchkingston.com Give yourself a hand Great Barrington’s One Mercantile is an emporium of great goods, including healing luxuriants for bath and body. Fight the effects of a country winter on your hands and fingers with organic, herbal Hand-Air balm.The handy salve features coconut oil, shea butter, hemp seed oil, and accents of comfrey, calendula, and plaintain.Your digits will thank you—and the rest of your body may clamor for a slather as well. 1.5-ounce tin comes packed in a sweet little pouch ($12). One-mercantile.myshopify.com 18 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 1/16

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You too can prevent helmet head If you’re trying to roar into the New Year with a stylish bang, the last thing you want is to pull off your hat and look like an `80s pop star. But hit up Woodstock General Supply in Woodstock and Hudson for a tub of Fiber Pomade by Imperial Barber Products and you won’t have to. Aptly dubbed a biker’s best friend, this stalwart but lightweight and water-based hair pomade has extra-long fibers to help set that cut and keep it. Women: steal some for yourself too. Comes in a nifty, neo-utilitarian-looking 6-ounce tub ($22). Woodstockgeneralsupply.com De-air your dirty laundry High Fall’s home, house, and gift emporium Nectar (now located in Rhinebeck as well) turned 10 recently, and their globally sourced collection of handcrafted discoveries remains delightful and surprising. Of late that includes a trove of handwoven, fair trade laundry hampers created by an association of ruralWolof women in Senegal,West Africa. Crafted from cattails and recycled plastic strips, these lidded and capacious receptacles are ideal for disguising dirty clothes, and since they come in an incredible array of patterns and colors—stripes, checks, chevrons, and more—you’ll doubtless find some that jive with your décor. Set of two ($175). Shopnectar.com

Float above it all Wouldn’t it be nice to reach nirvana by doing utterly nothing? You can. That’s the soothing principle behind Mountain Float Spa in New Paltz, where you can have a rejuvenating float in a pool of saltwater, nestled into your own soundisolated individual cabin. Lie back and relax, and feel a sense of deep pleasure and peace as you ease into 2016. Floating is great for the brain and the nervous system, and can reduce chemical stress levels, relieve migraines, arthritis, and other conditions, and even help with postpartum depression (and expecting mothers love it). Sessions usually last between 60 and 90 minutes and can be combined with massage. 60-minute float session ($65). Mountainfloatspa.com Floating at Mountain Float Spa in New Paltz.

Ablute like royalty We had to get that high-faluting verb [ablute] back in here somewhere, but if you set a box of CÔté Bastide Pot Pourris near your bath, you’ll feel hautefaluted indeed. Made in France and available at Rural Residence in Hudson, these are the opposite of pink-dyed old petals rattling in a bowl. Instead, you’ve got an intensely soporific and dignified array of genuine acacia-resin chunks, infused with a uniquely heady but elegant fragrance. The amber potpourri is a local favorite: rural meets metrosexy. Amber Pot Pourri in a 10.6-ounce box ($54), .33-ounce recharger ($26). Ruralresidence.com 1/16 CHRONOGRAM SHOPPING 19

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The Ashokan Center offers an array of idyllic backdrops to stage your most memorable moments. Nestled in the Catskill mountains, our 385 acres include soothing nature trails, stunning waterfalls, an antique covered bridge, and much more! You and your guests will be comfortable, entertained, and inspired by your magical moments shared at Ashokan. Enjoy our range of options in ceremony and reception settings, lodging, and dining. Catering at Ashokan is made seamless with our widely acclaimed on-site chef and talented hospitality team. Come for a tour and see for yourself! We are excited to work with you to help craft the wedding of your dreams! For more information please email us at info@ashokancenter.org or call us at 845-657-8333 ext. 10. Olivebridge, NY (845) 657-8333 x10 www.ashokancenter.org

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In the spirit of your tradition or beliefs, Rev. Puja Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that reflects the uniqueness of your commitment to each other. Puja welcomes inquiries from couples blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic backgrounds as well as those with a common heritage. Her presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch.

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Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 weddings@woodstockguild.org woodstockguild.org Weddings at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, founded in 1902, are PHOTO BY NANCY DONSKOJ steeped in the pastoral beauty of the Catskills, the warmth of an artists’ community, and over a century of creativity. Whether you choose the rustic elegance of Byrdcliffe’s Barn or the enchanting landscape of the White Pines lawn, come celebrate love and life at the colony that made Woodstock . . . Woodstock.

Society of Lash 144 Fishkill Ave., Beacon (845) 765-2899 www.societyoflash.com THE LASH EXPERTS. Society of Lash, the area’s first dedicated eyelash studio, is revolutionizing the bridal makeover with individual lash extensions. Each extended lash blends seamlessly into the others for a natural, closeup-ready look. Mention the Chronogram January issue for 10% off your first visit.

Historic Huguenot Street Discover. Engage. Enjoy. Make history with your event at one of the most significant historic sites in America. Including seven stone houses that date to the early eighteenth century, this National Historic Landmark District offers a variety of options for memorable weddings and rehearsal dinners. The non-denominational French Church, a reconstruction of the original 1717 Huguenot Church, can accommodate up to 65 guests. The grounds behind the Deyo House, a breathtaking Victorian mansion, can accommodate tents for large parties and is just steps away from a state of the art catering kitchen. Event space is also available in Deyo Hall. Located in the heart of New Paltz, the site is close to a number of overnight accommodations. 81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz Visitor Center: (845) 255-1889

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Kids & Family

THE ELDERCARE BOOM Text and photo by Hillary Harvey

arinne Luck was not looking forward to giving her father a pedicure. But when the day arrived, Luck chose to view it as a gift. Witnessing her father’s physical degradation without denial, Luck felt a sweetness in that physical closeness. “Watching other families at the hospital care for their aging relatives, there were days when I felt like everything was so messed up. But within that experience, there was so much relationship and life,” Luck says. “The process of dying is a process within living; it’s not death. Just being open to seeing it that way gave me a lot more strength and resiliency.” Luck’s father is 62, but after several surgeries that turned out to be unnecessary and left parts of him incapacitated, he was finally diagnosed a year ago with ALS, a degenerative disease of the nervous system. Luck, who lives in Brooklyn, is essentially his full-time case manager, liaising with nurses, doctors, wheelchair services, speech and language therapists, and neurologists. She’s selling his house in England, managing his finances, and deciding which things from his life to keep, even though he doesn’t need them, so he can balance a life worth living with all that’s been lost. Valuing Elder Caregivers Unlike caring for our children or the temporarily infirm, who improve and flourish with our care, taking care of aging parents involves an often unpredictable situation that usually does not improve.This is something that Luck is keenly aware of through her work as a strategic consultant with Hand in Hand, a domestic employers network that was founded in 2010 when New York State became the first to adopt a domestic workers bill of rights (four states have followed suit). She’s worked on the Fair Care Pledge Campaign in cooperation with the National Workers Alliance and Care.com, an online marketplace for care jobs, to encourage all employers of domestic workers to ensure fair pay, clear expectations, and paid time off. Domestic workers (full-time employees who work in the home of an unrelated person) were exempt from the National Labor Relations Act enacted by Congress in 1935, which encourages collective bargaining. Ilana Berger of Hand in Hand feels that including this workforce in standard labor practices will only lead to better care, which is important since, she notes, it’s care that happens in the most intimate settings. Luck knows the challenges of a system that doesn’t value elder caregivers. When her father first began to need help, he’d already lost the ability to use one of his arms, so couldn’t fill out necessary paperwork or attend meetings to apply 26 KIDS & FAMILY CHRONOGRAM 1/16

for federal assistance. Concerned with worrying his daughter, he carved together a jumble of care through informal channels, and ended up with an aide who was neglectful and abusive, and ultimately was arrested. “My professional work informs my personal experience,” Luck says, “and my personal life informs the challenges and potential of building quality care for seniors and everyone who needs it.” Sensible Solutions Although Luck’s father is in a nursing home in England, her need to establish a clear narrative of her dad’s needs by weaving together different agencies that don’t always talk to each other mirrors the American system. It’s actually more a collection of sectors (legal, financial, real estate, insurance, medical, social, mental, etc.) than a bridged system. “With all the information that a person can download from the Internet, what they generally end up with is a pile of names and ‘eldercare speak’ to work through,” says Henry Alter, founder & CEO of the Orion Resource Group, a membership association of professionals in a broad range of elder care specialties. “It’s challenging to piece together sensible solutions to the issues elders and families face. At the end of the day, we’re all consumers who need to find somebody knowledgeable and caring to help navigate the eldercare matrix.” The lack of coherence in this setup is becoming more pressing. According to a 2013 report by the Centers for Disease Control, “Two factors—longer life spans and aging Baby Boomers—will combine to double the population of Americans aged 65 years or older during the next 25 years to about 72 million. By 2030, older adults will account for roughly 20 percent of the US population.” Dr. Bruce Chernoff, the chair of Congress’s Commission on Long-Term Care, has noted that 70 percent of older Americans will need some form of long-term services and support for, typically, three years. With nursing home costs averaging $81,000 annually, and in-home care averaging $21,000-22,000 annually, it’s an inevitability that most families aren’t prepared to handle. Usually a person has to spend down their savings and resources to qualify for Medicare’s coverage of long-term care costs. And economists worry that expecting Medicare to assume all those costs is unsustainable. The Ettinger Law Firm in Rhinebeck (among other locations) helps people plan for disability first through the creation of a trust, which the firm recommends as the best tool for preparing for any unexpected life changes.

Luck feels it further widens the gap of inequality when the middle classes spend all their money on parent care and have nothing left to inherit from their parents’ savings. She’s barely worked in the past half year due to a three-month-long visit to England. Knowing that nothing in her dad’s case is easily resolved, Luck focuses on her own well-being, which is crucial to her maintaining the long haul. She attends programs at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care in Manhattan, which integrates Buddhist practice with intentional end-of-life care, and reminds herself of what’s she come to realize through the teachings: “The actual journey of actively dying and being sick, that’s my dad’s journey. That’s not my journey. I can’t change that for him.” In England, she maintains her daily Pilates and meditation practices, and brings healthy food to the nursing home to keep her body strong while she cares for her dad. And she tries not to get so lost in it that she can’t find the simple pleasures, like playing cards or sitting in the sun with him. Allison Gould, a social worker at the Center for Healthy Aging at Northern Dutchess Hospital, says, “When someone is taking care of their parents, people tend to see it as an act of duty or responsibility, and don’t always recognize the degree to which caregiving impacts a person’s life at every level.” Gould offers bimonthly caretaker support groups where people can discuss the challenges. “The word that keeps coming up in these situations is loss. The person receiving care is losing independence, but the person giving care has also lost so much of what their life was like before.” As people have children later in life, a scenario where people are caring for parents and children simultaneously has developed—what has been loosely termed the sandwich generation. Similarly, there’s rising longevity, and the Baby Boomers are finding themselves entering retirement with a 90-year-old parent to care for, and a small percentage (7 percent), are the elderly caring for slightly more elderly spouses. What already felt busy or barely manageable could easily become overwhelming with the addition of eldercare responsibilities. Advanced Care Planning Gould finds that starting conversations early on is key to being prepared for what’s to come. One of the things she does at the Center for Aging is advanced care planning, where she guides people through much deeper conversations about the nittygritty of health-care proxies. “You might be surprised by how much the person you’re concerned about has thought about this,” Gould says. “They may be helpful in guiding you in what to do.” Gould says that aging parents sometimes fall into types: those who are looking forward to their adult children taking over their affairs; those who fight to maintain their independence; and those who come to acceptance, but with guilt, shame, and disappointment. She does outpatient counseling with people who are 65 and older who have acute issues related to getting older (adjusting to the time structure of retirement or no longer being able to drive) as well as people with ongoing anxiety, depression, or family issues. “As people get older, they can lose confidence,” Gould says. “The things they once could take care of, they now need a lot of feedback and reassurance. It takes time and patience and energy, and can be really draining. The number one complaint from caregivers is that there’s not enough time in the day.” Including faraway siblings and other family members can take some creativity, but it can ease the burden on the local person. Gould suggests paying bills online or calling the parent each night as ways of helping others share the experience. But families can be wrought with tension. As Rachel Loshak, a musician and teacher in Kingston, identifies, “There might be years or a lifetime of struggling communication that, when someone is sick, can be heightened. It’s hard to get past that, but you have to in order to move forward and be able to care for that person lovingly.” Loshak is an eight-hour flight from her mother, who is near 70 and has a rare form of incurable cancer. She takes comfort in her brother being an hour-and-a-half flight away. And Loshak looks to her mom for inspiration. Her mom took care of her grandparents when Loshak was a teenager, and offers a good example of selflessness. “There’s a lot more baggage with your own parent. You’ve really got to rise up,” Loshak says. “As my mother gets older and things progress, I envision myself in the future being able to rise up more. I have been able to let go of things that I find difficult within our relationship, but there’s definitely more I can do.” RESOURCES Center for Healthy Aging at Northern Dutchess Hospital Healthquest.org Ettinger Law Firm Trustlaw.com Hand in Hand Domesticemployers.org New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Zencare.org Orion Resources Group Orionrg.org

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hen educators from the Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP) walk into Poughkeepsie City schools, it’s like a celebrity sighting. The way the kids excitedly yell, “The farm people are here!” witnesses might never guess the farm people come offering tastes of raw turnips. Through field trips to their 12-acre urban farm and cooking lessons in the classroom, PFP’s exuberant educators make vegetables cool. So when the students see little white cups filled with raw kale in their cafeteria, they’re more apt to give it a taste. PFP’s education programs are part of a larger farm-toschool movement that seeks to bring healthy local produce into school cafeterias and support local farms in the process. Born of growing concerns over childhood obesity, the rapidly declining numbers of family farmers, and a school food environment that, in the 1980s, allowed for condi-

ments to be classified as vegetables in order to simultaneously meet nutritional guidelines and increased budget cuts, farm-to-school initiatives began in the late 1990s as a few pilot programs in a handful of school districts.The idea took off and efforts rapidly sprung up all over the country. According to the USDA Farm to School Census, in the 2011-12 school year, farm-to-school activities existed in 44 percent of all schools nationally and those schools collectively spent more than $385 million on local food— nearly 13 percent of their total school food expenditures. While school meals don’t yet rival the cuisine found in high-end farm-to-table restaurants, farm-to-school initiatives have helped to steadily improve the quality of school food through education of parents and students, technical assistance to schools and farmers, and building on infrastructure that can facilitate local food purchasing. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 29

Poughkeepsie Farm Project Education Director Jamie Levato taste testing kale with students at Morse Elementary School in Poughkeepsie.

Recently, in what the Poughkeepsie City School District (PCSD) calls a direct benefit to their schools, PFP was awarded $100,000 from the USDA Farm to School Program, the second such grant to fund farm-to-school endeavors in the district. Written into the two-year award is a continuation of the tastings in the cafeterias and the farm tours. It also expands the program to include faculty training in garden education so teachers can offer instruction in the school gardens that the PFP has helped establish at almost every PCSD school. Through initiatives with PFP and other partner organizations, PCSD is talking with kids about food in holistic ways. “Kids think milk comes from milk cartons,” PCSD Superintendent Dr. Nicole Williams says with a smile. “Now our children own their thinking about the origin of their food.They can explain in detail and give information drawn from real-life experiences, field trips, and exposure to local, healthy foods.” That works to galvanize the community. “Parents are unlikely to spend money on foods they aren’t sure their children will eat,” explains Jamie Levato, Education Director at PFP. “During cooking workshops, whether at the farm or in the classroom, students learn how to prepare simple healthy dishes. We make it straightforward enough so that the students are likely to remember how to prepare them with their families.” Many parents tell Levato, “Ever since we took that field trip to the farm, I have to get kale every time I go shopping now.” And Williams notes there are more book fundraisers in lieu of chocolate and cookie selling. “There’s a shift in the decisions our PTAs and organizations are making about what we share with our families.” Improving Access to Healthy Food The USDA Farm to School Program is a key source of funding for these initiatives, which is critical to the success of efforts in high-needs districts like Poughkeepsie. Eighty-six percent of PCSD students come from families living in poverty, and access to healthy food can be challenging. City buses limit passengers to four bags per ride, and pricier corner stores with limited fresh food offerings are often more convenient to people without cars. The district feeds the approximately 4,700 students in grades pre-K through 12 a free breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week, including during the summer. Even simple changes can have an impact.With breakfast machines in Poughkeepsie high school, students can grab a free apple or a bagel, rather than stopping at a bodega, and that has reduced tardiness. In the elementary schools, 30 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 1/16

students eat breakfast together in their classrooms. “Our district realizes the impact that quality food has on health, wellness, and an optimal, high-quality learning environment,” Williams says. “A healthy, nutritious breakfast is critical for students to excel in school.” According to Erin McGuire, Policy Director at the National Farm to School Network, “The [USDA] Farm-to-School Program is the only public funding stream dedicated to farm-to-school and nothing else.” The program was created by Congress and USDA in 2013 in response to a grassroots national movement. Part of its mandate is to fund projects across the country, which is important because farm-to-school is different in every community. “Without the requirement for geographic diversity,” says McGuire, “funding could easily go only to states with well-developed infrastructure and shovel-ready programs. This program really helps a wide range of projects get funded and helps deepen and broaden the movement.” Engaging Tastebuds “You can put healthy food in front of a child all day, but that doesn’t mean they’ll eat it,” says PCSD Food Services Director Al Muhlnickel. “Education is key in getting children to understand why it’s there.” Levato agrees. “We hear complaints about the new standards for school meals and that kids won’t want to eat those healthier meals, leading to waste,” she explains. “That info isn’t entirely accurate. In places where that’s happening, the problem is that the food just got changed and nobody’s going in and getting the kids pumped to eat kale.” Engaging students is vital, as well as an opportunity. At Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in Ghent, farm life is an integral educational component. Children glean their snack from seasonal crops, and third graders spend a week living on the farm, becoming immersed in farm life. Weekly farm classes for all grade levels teach children animal tending, spring planting, and dairy production for Hawthorne Valley Farm’s retail store. “The kids look forward to it,” says Amy Flaum, Director of Admissions. The lunch program feeds just 75 students, so ingredients are sourced from the campus farm, as well as through relationships the chef has built with other farms. The Millbrook School sees potential for advanced science research projects and leadership opportunities within the occasion to understand food productions’

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seasonal vibrations. Through a grant from the Edward E. Ford Foundation in 2013, the school was enabled to build a hoop house for year-round farming and academic projects. With a new recipe book in hand developed in partnership with the Culinary Institute of America, Muhlnickel aims to experiment with new recipes to keep healthy eating exciting. At this year’s open houses, PCSD tried the Tuscan kale, beet hummus, roasted squash, and broccoli au gratin, and asked parents and students to vote on which items should be added to the schools’ menus. “It feels slow to change the habits of a lifetime,” Muhlnickel says, “but starting young with these children, this is the place and the way to do it.” Bringing Health to the Table In the kitchen at Rondout Valley High School, Food Services Director Chris Van Dam, students, and volunteers made 130 pounds of organic applesauce this fall from a 3,000 pound donation of local apples. As with a recent classroom cooking demo on how chickpeas become hummus, Van Dam notes, “It’s amazing how once kids got involved, they’d taste it, and a good 80 percent said, ‘I love this.’”

of their food purchases as well as each school’s clout within the system. Not beholden to the lowest bid, they can accept local foods if the cost difference is minimal. Vendors and farmers have to be USDA GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) certified. “Farmers should understand what requirements institutional buyers may have—such as farm food safety certification—and how to market to them,” explains Glenda Neff, Co-Coordinator of Farm to Institution New York State (FINYS). To address this barrier, FINYS has developed a Market Readiness “Train the Trainers” Program for agencies and non-profits that work with farmers, to help them understand what they need to have in place to sell to institutions. “If we’re feeding lots of young children,” says Van Dam, “we want to make sure it’s a safe product.” DeWan says pricing can be another challenge for schools and farmers. “Are the schools in a position to purchase food, whether it be from a distributor or a farmer at the price that the farmer needs to receive in order to have a viable farm business?” Schools receive between 29 and 43 cents a lunch for students paying full price and up to $3.30 a meal for students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. “It can be tough for some farmers to meet [a school’s]

“You can put healthy food in front of a child all day, but that doesn’t mean they’ll eat it. Education is key in getting children to understand why it’s there.” —Al Muhlnickel, Poughkeepsie Central School District Food Services Director “Parents are unlikely to spend money on foods they aren’t sure their children will eat,” says Jamie Levato, Education Director at Poughkeepsie Farm Project.

Like many districts, not all Rondout Valley Schools have cooking equipment in their kitchens, as many schools receive their food ready-to-serve. “Our employees work a four-hour workday. There’s not a lot of extra time to do a lot of cooking,” Van Dam explains. But food made from scratch is still a priority. Goals for this summer are to buy tomatoes at the height of the season when prices are low, and minimally process them into sauce that can be used by the schools throughout the year. In rural farming communities, farm-to-school means connecting the next generation to the local food system. “We have everything we need right here to be an amazing farm-to-school model,” says Nicci Cagan, who became involved with the effort when her son entered Marbletown Elementary. In 2007, she cofounded From the Ground Up, an organization that has worked in a variety of capacities to study and champion the viability of farm-to-school in the region. She works closely with Deborah DeWan, executive director of the Rondout Valley Growers Association. “Our farms here in Ulster County are relatively small scale, so questions arise like, what are the needs of the school, and are local farmers able to meet the quantity needed by schools?” says DeWan. Schools don’t typically go directly to farms to buy food. There’s a complex bidding process, and local food distributors play an important role. They streamline food delivery in refrigerated trucks, reducing traffic on campus, and ensuring maximal use of transportation by pooling multiple deliveries. In Ulster County, seven school districts came together to bid out before the school year on nonperishable products that they can share. It increased the quality 32 EDUCATION CHRONOGRAM 1/16

price points while making a profit,” McGuire explains. And the school cafeteria can become isolated from the surrounding economy of local growers and makers as food service administrators try to balance the books. McGuire notes that more and more people are recognizing the benefits of farm to school and that’s helping to institutionalize these activities. “We’re seeing that in the explosion of school gardens across the country and in the growth of nutrition education in classrooms. This tremendous support from community members has translated into a lot of movement on the local and state policy level.” New York school districts recently got an additional boost when the state was one of eight selected by the USDA to participate in a pilot program allowing them to use more of their federal reimbursement money (the money spent by schools on certain kinds of food that the USDA reimburses) for unprocessed fruits and vegetables purchased from local farmers. And the program was augmented by an additional $2,000 per school added to those commodities funds. “It’s important for the health and wellbeing of the kids to have an understanding of the food system, to reduce our carbon footprint, and for all of us to recognize the role that agriculture plays in our communities,” says DeWan. “We’re in a transitional moment, an exciting one. It’s a perfect time to be having this conversation, working out some of the challenges, and to engage all the stakeholders.” RESOURCES Poughkeepsie Farm Project Farmproject.org National Farm to School Network Farmtoschool.org Farm to Institution New York State Finys.org Rondout Valley Growers Association Rondoutvalleygrowers.org

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very New Year’s Day for the past 14 years, Mor Pipman and Eric Hurliman have invited friends over for soup. It’s a tradition that began their first year of marriage. “We’d met and married in a whirlwind and then the holidays came,” Pipman remembers. “There was our wedding party, then Thanksgiving and office parties. It was parties, parties, parties— by New Year’s Eve we refused to go out. So we decided to stay home and make a pot of seafood bisque.” Anyone who’s tasted Pipman’s “Much Mor” breads and jams or attended a Hudson Valley Sudbury School music night can guess the next part of this story:The soup was delicious.There was also plenty to share, and the next day, January 1st, they invited neighbors over for an impromptu lunch. This was in the East Village before gentrification and high-priced lattes, when Pipman and Hurliman were an integral part of the inter-generational, intercultural neighborhood. Those first guests were as diverse as the ingredients in that first pot of bisque. Pipman, a stone carver and ceramic sculptor, divided her time between teaching and organizing the local “M’finda Kalunga” community garden. “It was activism along with gardening,” Pipman describes, “and was all about creating community. We held classes where the neighborhood elders taught the kids gardening. We screened political movies. We celebrated everyone’s festivals—the Chinese harvest festival, Juneteenth, and the Sukkot.” Their lives changed but the New Year’s soup tradition continued. Hurliman became an RN and they had two children, Ulysses and Zephyr. In 2007, their growing family and a rat infestation on their block sent them upstate looking for a new home, where they found an old church for sale outside Woodstock. Originally built in 1865, the former Methodist-Episcopalian church was one of 10 congregations displaced by the building of the Ashokan reservoir. It came to be known as “the stolen church of Glenford” when, in 1911, parishioners moved the church from the proposed reservoir basin to its current home in Glenford. “The story goes that it was stolen overnight,” Pipman says. “Of course, it wasn’t overnight. It takes time to move a church.”

Top: Interior view of 1865 Old Glenford Church with built-in artist studio loft. Stained glass windows were installed by parishioners in the mid-1940s.

Exterior of house with Pipman exiting the mud room. Fig pergola on left. Ceramic mask installation on right wall and ceramic heads on planks in front.

Deborah DeGraffenreid Mamalama performing at Hudson Valley Sudbury School Music Night in front of world map “stage.”

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According to local historian Bob Steuding, part of the church grounds stood within the boundaries of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, something disgruntled congregants were quick to note when the city took control. The railroad president generously offered the church building to the congregation “if they could only cart it away”—and, to everyone’s surprise, they did. Oxen and dedicated congregants took five days to move the church from the Ashokan basin to the .9-acre triangle of donated land at the base of Ohayo Mountain. They then built a community hall (damaged and rebuilt after a 1935 fire) that eventually included a kitchen, a community meeting space, and a Sunday school annex. Over time, the local Methodist community, spread over three campuses, wanted to consolidate and expand. The limitations of the Glenford property became apparent. That’s when the Hurliman-Pipman family stepped in. Renovation Without a Plan Although originally attracted to Kingston for its diversity, they were intrigued with the church after finding it online. “I don’t know what it was. There were dropped cottage-cheese ceilings and florescent lighting throughout both buildings. There was no real kitchen. All the windows were interior windows and there was no insulation.” Even so, they thought the church and its location might offer a new take on the familiar refrain of building community. In the spring of 2008 they set up camp on the land and began the remodel. “Our priority was ecological,” Pipman tells me. “We weren’t concerned with aesthetics and we didn’t really have a plan.” They began by making the former community hall their living quarters. A kitchen from Green Demolitions, a nonprofit that recycles luxury kitchens and bathrooms, suited their needs perfectly. The honey-colored solid wood countertops, ornate cabinetry, and shelves laden with canned veggies are reminiscent of the late 19th century. Four-paned windows and wood doors, all bought secondhand from the Door Jamb in nearby Shokan, complete the vintage look. A large industrial stove adds a modern touch and is where Pipman, now a case worker for Hudson Valley Adoption Services, began her home-based business Much Mor Bread. The church’s former hall was converted into a large family room.The dropceiling tiles, once removed, revealed an arched two-story ceiling, and new, higher windows infused the space with light. Extra material from the purchased kitchen transformed the former stage into an office and laundry area. Now, along the high walls, stained-glass art by Pipman’s sister and windows recycled from her parent’s house alternate with bookshelves and the back of

the hall accommodates an oversize National Geographic world map.There’s even room for a baby grand piano in the corner. The bathroom, finished in white tile, includes an antique sink, clawfoot tub, and bidet, all salvaged from Zaborski’s architectural salvage in Kingston and refurbished by Pipman. The Sunday school annex was divided into two bedrooms and more office space. Eventually, a mudroom was added to the building’s entryway and a deck to the back side. Pipman dubs it all her “loft in the sticks.” Low-impact Lifestyle Hurliman has been working to further “green” their lifestyle. New solar panels supply most of the complex’s energy and also charge their plug-in hybrid. Hurliman built a large garden over the former church parking lot where they grow blueberry and raspberry bushes, grapes, and a fig tree along with a variety of vegetables.They hope a recently built pond will eventually provide them with fish. A recycled stone walkway leads through newly planted fruit trees to the original church. Although modernized, the former church sanctuary remains true to the original 19th-century design. As in the church hall, low ceilings were removed, exposing the original beams and bell tower, and solar tubes provide natural light. Insulation was added to the walls but the original dark wood carved paneling was refurbished or painstakingly replaced, and Pipman added antique chandeliers and a small centerpiece to the alter. Stained-glass windows, remnants of the building’s rich history, bathe the square chapel in blue and green light. Pipman’s small art studio sits above like a choir loft and the space regularly hosts public events—everything from book signings to art installations and musical performances (see sidebar). True to tradition, this January 1st soup day will include a mix of guests. Over the years, the menu has grown to include a variety of soups as well as other dishes: cheese and bread, sometimes casseroles, and always plenty of wine and desserts. New Hudson Valley friends will join with current neighbors and even past church congregants to enjoy Pipman’s generous, tasteful creations. More than a few city people and former neighbors will make the drive, eventually crashing on one of the many couches spread across the former church hall. Every year, it’s a slightly new blend of that timeless ingredient: community. “It’s a pot of people,” Pipman tells me off-handedly. Indeed. And the Hurliman-Pipman clan will continue to stir. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 41

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Hudson Valley Sudbury School Music Night The last Friday of every month, the Old Glenford church’s sanctuary-turnedstudio hosts an intimate house concert. Entrance costs five dollars and includes performances by two different acts. Music Night showcases an eclectic variety of acts, instruments, and musical styles, and has become the go-to listening room for local musicians introducing new material and anyone else who wants an affordable, high-quality night out. Performers at previous music nights include Deni Bonet, The Trapps, the Duke McVinnie Band, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, Robert Burke Warren, and Mark Black. It was conceived by Pipman and local singer Carmen Senski as a benefit for the Hudson Valley Sudbury School. It’s a community Pipman came across serendipitously after her move to the area. While living in Manhattan, she had volunteered with the original Brooklyn Free School and was intrigued by the alternative-education movement. Pipman knew she wanted to take a similar approach with her own children’s education and remembered there was a related school in the Hudson Valley. “I knew there was a little school up here, but I couldn’t remember the name.” When she finally found it, and realized it was only three miles from her new house, she knew it was kismet. She enrolled her older son Ulysses, and younger son Zephyr was soon to follow. The family has been a part of the school community ever since and the parents feel their sons are thriving there. Music Night begins with Pipman serving a gourmet, seasonally inspired meal prepared in the former church kitchen. Besides featuring local sourced, sustainable produce, Mor’s dinners emphasize affordability. It’s $12 for a very full plate of food, less if you just want a side of something, and even less if you want an even smaller side. There’s always a wide variety of options, including vegetarian and vegan fare, and plenty of desserts. Kids are welcome, if they are the kind of kids who can sit through musical performances and you can BYOB if you respect the family atmosphere and intimate nature of the performance space. On January 29, Whispering Trees and the Sweet Clementines will perform at HVSS Music Night. The old Glenford Church is 3 miles from Woodstock off Old Route 28. Doors open for dinner at 6pm and music begins at 7. All proceeds benefit the Hudson Valley Sudbury School. Hvssmusicnight.org.

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he Village of New Paltz Centennial Yearbook, published in 1987, celebrates “100 Years of Community Life” with black-and-white photographs, a narrated timeline of major events, and ads from local businesses that are so simplistically rendered they seem alien to a graphic-design-adjusted eye. The book shows New Paltzonians in the late 19th century awaiting the completion of the Wallkill Valley Railroad and accompanying station—a station that eventually became La Stazione, where New Paltzonians of today go for a fettuccine fix. It lists the names of the village’s first settlers: Deyo, Crispell, DuBois, LeFevre, Bevier—names that have been immortalized as the addresses of newly untethered college freshman. There are grainy photos of hotels-turned-apartment-buildings, bars-turned-pizza-places, and policestations-turned-storefronts. But despite the many changes—from 1887 to 1987, from 1987 to today—there remains a pervasive familiarity to it all. Even when staring the village’s evolution in the face, New Paltz still just feels like New Paltz. New Paltzonians of today, take heed, because the village of many faces is on the brink of yet another makeover. “We’re at an interesting tipping point,” says New Paltz Mayor Tim Rogers, who grew up in New Paltz and has served in various elected positions leading up to his mayoral win this past May. “We have to be careful about getting it right.” Anyone who has walked down the village’s indelible Main Street in the past few months has gotten a taste of it: Many beloved New Paltz establishments are no more—Barnaby’s, Earth Goods, Suruchi Indian Restaurant, andYanni’s, to name a few. In a place like New Paltz, though, it doesn’t take long to fill such vacated premises. The village attracts a mix of college eats, like Mexican Kitchen’s unfussy and dependable south-of-the-border fare on North Front Street, and date-night dining, like End Cut, a new French-Italian fusion restaurant in the former Suruchi location. The long-vacant building that previously housed Naomi’s Café on Church Street was reinvigorated last month by the opening of Huckleberry, a hip cocktail bar run by Brooklyn transplant Julie Dabbs. The inviting two-story space is roomy enough to invite a big group of friends but cozy enough to feel intimate, and the fun décor (glassdoorknob tap handles!), creative pub food, and impressive board-game collection makes for a refreshing retreat from the college town’s beer towers and bar crawls. Despite some new names and faces, New Paltz is still anchored by its long-standing businesses. In fact, in an age when streaming content reigns, New Paltz is home to two bookstores and two record stores, all harmoniously located within a stone’s-throw radius. But even some of these entrenched businesses are experimenting with different approaches. Main Street’s two yoga houses, Ashtanga and Jai Ma, which coexisted sideby-side for over 10 years, merged this past summer intoYogAlive. “Expanding the yoga room and bringing the two communities together just made sense,” says Michael Stein,

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who opened AshtangaYoga of New Paltz in 2001. “It allows us to offer much more than we did before.” Other New Paltz cornerstones are working to maintain their edge amid the changing faces. Bacchus, a go-to watering hole for New Paltzers of all stripes, has been defined by change over its 40+ years of business. “Being open to new ideas is huge,” says owner Linda Bradford. In addition to the building’s colorful past—with uses ranging from Chinese laundry to taxi station to barber shop to porno photography studio—Bacchus itself has evolved considerably, growing from a one-story bar in 1974 to a two-story Mexican restaurant by the early ’80s. In the ’90s, Bacchus presaged the craft beer boom by becoming one of the first beer bars in the area (first offering 99 bottles and growing to a list of up to 500); in 2005, it incorporated the billiard hall; and in 2013, Bacchus opened its own brewery, which has seen much-deserved success in its few short years of existence. (At the time this article was written, The Brewery at Bacchus was rated the #1 brewery in New York State on Untappd, a social sharing app for beer enthusiasts.) If Main Street is New Paltz’s heart, then the university is its head, and times are a-changin’ there as well. Most notably, SUNY New Paltz is in the throes of a metamorphosis from a primarily liberal arts college into a STEM-oriented school. Dan Freedman, dean of the School of Science and Engineering and director of its Hudson Valley Advanced Manufacturing Center, says the number of students in science and engineering has grown by 75 percent over the past five years. Since 2014, when the college began offering use of 30 3D printers, SUNY has grown into an advanced manufacturing hub for the region, with nearly 100 commercial clients, short courses in 3D printing open to the general public, and the inauguration this past November of the first-ever Additive New York thing (ANYthing) Conference, which highlights the industry’s cross-discipline impact. In 2014, SUNY New Paltz was awarded a $10 million state grant to help establish an Engineering Innovation Hub at the college—a project that is expected to generate $75 million in new economic impact. From Main Street turnover to SUNY expansion—as well as other major 46 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 1/16

development projects that are coming down the pike, including a luxury resort and waterpark that’s been proposed for a property just off the Thruway exit—New Paltz is in a heightened state of transition. But amid all of this excitement, it’s important to remember what makes this place so distinctive. “We have this unique proximity to New York City, but we also have this rural open space that people want to live amongst,” says Mayor Rogers. From the more than 23,000 acres of protected land in Minnewaska State Park to the 200 acres of open space in the Mill Brook Preserve just north of the village, the draw of New Paltz’s portals to the natural world cannot be overstated. “Even if you wanted to maintain New Paltz’s small-town rural feel and prevent any growth whatsoever,” Rogers says, “you would not be able to—the attraction to this ridge is too great.” And projects are in motion that will create even more access to New Paltz’s open space, like property and trail improvements planned for Mohonk Preserve’s foothills and the River-to-Ridge Project, which will create continuous walking access from the rail trail in the heart of the village all the way up the mountain. “We want to continue to protect and preserve our walkable Main Street and all the reasons why people are choosing to be here,” says Rogers, “but not end up with so much growth and congestion that we forfeit the charm and community character that we cherish. It’s a balancing act.” And while local officials continue to monitor this balancing act, there are some things about New Paltz that will never change, no matter the day-to-day transformations—like the sprawling Shawangunk Ridge that provides a stunning backdrop for even the most ordinary of errands, and the steadfast outline of Skytop Tower that fixes our attention on ever-greater heights.The feeling that New Paltz inspires is not one that can be easily conveyed through words, or 100-year-old photographs, or the admirable visions of the people who keep the village vibrant and full. Instead, it’s communicated only in certain unorchestrated moments when the wind hits just right, and the university clock strikes as the sun dips down behind the mountain, and people begin to gather for some party or parade or protest, and it may be 2016 or 1916 or any time at all.

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Ten Things to Know About New Paltz New Paltz’s name originates from a region of Germany called Die Pfalz, which is where the French Huguenots who would eventually settle New Paltz escaped to avoid religious persecution in the 17th century. Huguenot Street’s seven stone houses and accompanying structures were built in the early 18th century by Huguenot settlers, and remain in their original village setting. The site is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the country, and the street was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

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SUNY New Paltz was founded in 1828 as the New Paltz Classical School, which became the State Teachers College at New Paltz in 1938. The first graduating class was in 1942 with 112 students. Since then, SUNY New Paltz has grown exponentially, and consistently ranks high among the nation’s top public colleges by a variety of esteemed publications, including the Princeton Review and US News & World Report. In 2012, it was reported that New Paltz had received the most student applications out of all of the schools in the SUNY system for 23 consecutive years. Notable SUNY New Paltz alumni range from James Dolan, CEO of Cablevision and chairman of Madison Square Garden, to critically acclaimed actor John Turturro to Malcolm X’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, to famous wine educator Kevin Zraly, founder of the Windows on the World Wine School.

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New Paltz hosts dozens of parades and celebrations throughout the year, including a Halloween parade, New Paltz Pride March and Festival, and the New Paltz Regatta, where a procession of homemade boats parade down Main Street before their makers take part in a race on the Wallkill River. New Paltz’s outdoors sensibility is embodied by the abundance of running races held throughout the year, including The Survival of the Shawangunks, a 50.5-mile long triathlon held every September that features eight transitions, including a 1,000-foot climb to the finish line. Widely recognized as some of the best rock climbing on the East Coast, the Shawangunk Mountain Ridge attracts climbers from around the country and world. Writing for National Geographic in 2005, Cliff Ransom stated, “For the past 70 years, the Gunks have been a hallowed name among rockhounds, a sort of Yosemite East, with more routes (1,200 or so) than any single location sunrise-side of the Mississippi.”

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The Village of New Paltz is home to nearly 7,000 residents, but the tourist destination attracts almost 30 times that number of people in visitors annually, with well over 200,000 people coming to New Paltz each year. Proposed development projects, like the Wildberry Lodge indoor water park resort and an $80-million boutique hotel and condominium complex that’s being considered for the heart of the village, if completed, will contribute to even higher visitation rates in years to come. In the 1.8-square-mile area that makes up the Village of New Paltz, there are approximately 54 eateries (not counting chain fast-food joints). This number includes seven pizzerias.

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His Royal Highness II, Mohamad Hafez, plaster, paint, rusted metal, found objects, rigid foam, antique washing board, toys, 52” x 53” x 16”, 2015 January 30 through February 27 at Harts Gallery in New Milford, CT, “Unsettled Nostalgia,” an exhibition of three-dimensional installations by Syrian-born architect and artist Mohamad Hafez.

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1 HAWK DRIVE, SUNY NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “Full Circle.” Andrew Lyght retrospective. January 20-April 10.

DUCK POND GALLERY

128 CANAL ST. TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Linda Nimmer: Mixed Media.” January 2-30. Opening recption January 2, 4pm-7pm.

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84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Bound Forces: Works by Natalie Abram.” Encaustic works on paper. Through January 15.

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66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “My Best: Annual High School Art Exhibit.” Gallery 66 is ushering in the New Year by celebrating our youth and their hopes, talents and promise with an exhibit of their best artworks. ThursdaysSundays, 12-5pm.

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46 GREEN STREET, HUDSON 518.303.6446. Taboo and Revelation. A survey of the most recent work of local Hudson artist: Tom McGill. Through January 31.

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398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Tea & Alchemy.” Ruby Silvious’s tea bag paintings. January 16-February 27. Opening reception January 23, 5pm-7pm.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Moonbather I, an acrylic and sand painting on canvas by Kara Eletto, one of the works featured in a pop-up exhibit “Night of Arts” at Le Shag on January 23. The evening show features poets Mary Leonard and Darcy Smith, and artists Neal Hollinger and Kara Eletto. Poetry starts at 7pm. Le Shag, 292 Fair Street, Kingston (845) 338-0191.

1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. Live Art Fest 2. Join over 20 artists, painters, musicians, sculptors, dancers, and performance artists for a day of live art making. Sunday, January 31, 1-5pm.

JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY: THE SCHOOL

25 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK JACKSHAINMAN.COM/SCHOOL. “Winter in America.” Group exhibition with artists from 15 countries. Through March 30.

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JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “It’s Never Winter Here.” These paintings from the last ten years reflect Elliott Green’s journey from Manhattan to the Hudson Valley and to Italy as a Rome Prize Fellow. Along the way figuration transformed into abstraction and abstraction began to play with landscape forms. January 9-31. Opening reception January 9, 6pm-8pm.

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510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “Desde El Cielo.” Meagan Buratto. January 1-31. Opening reception January 2, 3pm-6pm.

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THE CORNER OF GRAND & FIRST STREETS, NEWBURGH 341-9386. “Colors.” Artworks by William Noonan. January 4-February 29.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY

311 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL ON HUDSON 845 534 4717. Exhibit of Artists Supported by The Arc of Orange County Art Studio. Through February 4.

17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. 39th Annual Holiday Salon Show. Featured in the exhibit are oils, pastels, watercolors, photographs, and drawings by some of the area’s favorite artists. Through January 11.

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22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Four By Four: the Annual Anniversary Salon.” Through January 31.

436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “I Draw & You Talk.” Jean-Marc Superville Sovak winter residency. January 5-31.

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45 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON TECH-SMITHS.COM/ANVIL-GALLERY. Animal Portraiture of Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Robert Lucy. Through February 28.

25 NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT 860.927.4501. “Wolf Kahn: Pastels.” Through January 31.

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1-3 COLLEGEVIEW AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8411. “Andrea McFarland: Soft Pastels.” Through January 11. 199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. “Along the Mt. Beacon Incline Railway: Past, Present & Future.” Through March 6.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY

43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435. “Hudson River Musings.” Luminosity in landscape. Through January 31.

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1 OAKLAND AVENUE, WARWICK 986-1223. Photographs by Frederick Buell. Through January 31.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Photography.” New work by Kahn & Selesnick, Birgit Blyth, Gail Peachin, Stephanie Blumenthal, David Halliday and Joseph Maresca will be exhibited alongside prints by Robert Hite, Eric Lindbloom, Jeri Eisenberg, Newbold Bohemia, and Lisa Frank. Through February 3. Opening reception January 3, 2pm-4pm.

1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “Anne Lindberg: Fold and Unfold.” Sculpture and drawings. January 16-March 13. Opening reception January 16, 1pm-3pm. SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. Orange County Arts Council Members Show. January 10-February 31. Exhibit of Artworks by Michael Tobin. Exhibit of Artworks by Michael Tobin. January 10-31. Opening reception January 10, 2pm-5pm.

PALMER GALLERY

VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “Teen Visions ‘16.” January 11-26.

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27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM 518-392-3005. “Fellow Travelers.” Classical artist Barbara Willner exhibits paintings. Small works of animals and insects done in freehand bronze will be on view. Through January 20.

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2683 SOUTH ROAD (US ROUTE 9), POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “Moments in Manhattan.” Photographs by Claudia Gorman. Through February 28.

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81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. “Four Forces.” Sculpture by Cockrill, George, Howie, and McDermid. January 2-24. Opening reception January 2, 6pm-8pm.

60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667. “Chiaroscuro: Play on Light and Dark.” Show featuring artwork inspired by lightness and darkness. January 15-February 7. Opening reception January 16, 6pm-8pm.

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1946 CAMPUS DRIVE (ROUTE 9), HYDE PARK 452-9430. “Dutch Foodways in the Old and New World.” Through February 4.

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3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3”. Landmark site-specific work. Excursus: Homage to the Square3 exemplifies Irwin’s practice of creating environments that bring attention to the subtleties of perception. Through May 31, 2017.

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124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “American Stories 1800-1950.” A sweeping exploration of portraits, landscapes, and narrative paintings. January 29-April 17.

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11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Collectors Curate.” A group show where art collectors present works by their favorite local artists. Through February 7.

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Turning the Turntables

his month marks the third yearly go-around of our Turning the Turntables music survey. Once again, we pass the mike to a curated cast of Hudson Valley music-scene stalwarts to discover which recordings they were listening to this past year, which local acts they’ve been digging, and who they have their ears on in 2016. Mike Amari Booking agent/promoter at BSP Kingston and Output Agency I am usually the last person under 30 to hear the massive pop hits of our day, and when I do I usually can’t tell the artists apart. Whenever I do hear the big guns (Bieber, Drake, ummm…), they sound pretty mediocre. The records I spun the most this year: Air Waves Parting Glances (Western Vinyl), Jessica Pratt On Your Own Love Again (Drag City Records; my favorite songwriter out there today, and one of my favorite live sets this year), and post-wavers Viet Cong’s Viet Cong (Jagjaguar Records). I somehow stumbled onto two Heavenly Records artists I’ve come to really love: H. Hawkline and Gwenno, both with great records this year. Kurt Vile’s new one, B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador Records), is a bit of a mixed bag. I thought it was really a banner year for the Hudson Valley. New Paltz based Team Love Records put out a bunch of great stuff this year (Quarterbacks, Shana Falana, Johanna Warren), Diet Cig blew up, Breakfast in Fur finally put out their debut LP, Flyaway Garden (Bar None Records), and it kills, and Bard-associated bands PWR BTTM and Palm are making serious waves. Melissa Auf der Maur Creative director at Basilica Hudson, erstwhile Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist The latest Interpol album, El Pintor (Matador Records) shows that a band making music for over a decade (harder and harder to find nowadays! Where are they?) can stay consistent with who they are. It’s a lovely record. Also, lots of Black Sabbath and The Sound of Music back-to-back lately—the unified life of a mother and heavy music lover. Locally, I dig Diet Cig because they’re fun, young, and going places! I’m looking forward to anything from Fever Ray, all the time, any year—and she’s due for another album, right?

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By Peter Aaron

John Burdick Music journalist at Chronogram and Almanac This was my year of solo piano music: Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas amaze and amaze. Chopin. Schuman’s Scenes from Childhood, Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel. My favorite is Brahms. On the rock front, I am thoroughly taken by Laura Stevenson’s Cocksure (Don Giovanni Records). And The Kids’ full-length debut, Turn to Each Other (Signature Records), really captures what makes that Northampton, Massachusetts, band so inspiring live. After hearing some of their new songs at their Bearsville Theater show, I am really excited to hear what Lucius releases this year. My cup has finally overflowed with Brooklyn art-rock bands, I’m afraid, but I had time for one more: Jared Samuel’s ultra-musical art-pop band Invisible Familiars blew me away this year. Locally, I love the Duke McVinnie Band’s 9 and 10 (Independent). Derek Daunicht of the awesome slack-pop band the Colorines is about to release some delirious music with Dead Wicks. Shana Falana and Breakfast in Fur released next-level psych-pop records. Chris Maxwell’s new album, Arkansas Summer (Max Recordings), is something people should seek out. I like how Connor Kennedy has distanced himself from the “blues phenom” thing and is embracing many streams of American music. Battle Ave made the otherworldly Year of Nod (Seagreen Records). Then there’s my band the Sweet Clementines. Our new record is a headful. Matthew Cullen Freelance studio producer/engineer, Ultraam and Duke McVinnie Band guitarist I listen to a lot of instrumental music. Max Richter released Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon) this year, an eight-hour orchestral work designed to play through the night and soundtrack your dreams. Steve Hauschlidt released Where All Is Fled (Kranky Records), continuing his ever-evolving use of arpeggiating synths and lush orchestrations. German minimalist Pole released Wald (Pole Records), a dub-tinged exercise in sparse, glitchy, yet groovy techno. I’ve also really been loving Lubomyr Melnyk’s 2013 album Corollaries (ErasedTapes Records)— endless, vaguely ambient piano pieces with occasional voice and cello. The recent flood of Popol Vuh vinyl re-releases has been greatly embraced at my house, alongside more contemporary ambient by Bing and Ruth and Robert Aubery Lowe and Ariel Kalma. Invisible Familiars’ debut, Disturbing Wildlife (Other Music Recording Co.), has been a common presence on my turntable all year. And

Patrick Higgins’s Bacchanalia (Telegraph Harp Records)—the Hudson native outdid himself with this one. Solo guitar interpretations of Bach, with minimal electronic processing. Also local: Alexander Turnquist, PWR BTTM, Geezer, It’s Not Night It’s Space, Slow Collins, Johnny Society, Blueberry, Shana Falana, the Grape and the Grain, Shadow Witch, Bearquilt, and Nature Films are all up to worthy endeavors. I’m totally biased, but Duke McVinnie should be a household name and a national treasure. Hieroglyphic Being (aka Jamal Moss) just released a great album featuring Marshall Allen and Greg Fox, We Are Not the First (RVNG International Records). He’s really quite prolific and his music is moving in ever more diverse directions, so I’ll be waiting to see where he goes next. [Oneida/Man Forever drummer] Kid Millions is always up to something, and it’s usually an interesting listen. Michael Eck Music journalist at Chronogram and Nippertown Joe Henry’s Invisible Hour (Work Song Records) still will just not leave me alone. It calls me on the pay phone from 2014. I worry it like a tooth. I worry it like a nipple. I drive into the Helderberg sunset as often as I can, with the shimmering disc—all bass clarinets and mandolin trills—as my eternal soundtrack. I’d ask it to stop, but I can’t. I’m glad they finally remastered Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. Records). I Spotify Dylan. I made a playlist of every studio album and each time I press Play I fall into prayer. This man. This work. It helps. Ryley Walker’s Primrose Green (Dead Oceans Records) is certainly my favorite new music of this year proper. The hyperbole—the swirling guitars, the heady vocals, the Buckley yawp—the record lives up to it. I listen to Josh Rosenthal’s memoir, A Record Store of the Mind (Tompkins Square Books), with my eyes, and it’s inspiring me in ways I haven’t fully grappled with. Locally, I’m psyched for Ryder Cooley’s upcoming Dust Bowl Faeries thing. Annie and the Hedonists’ latest effort, Tonal Indulgence (Independent), is a wonderful exploration of roots music by classic female blues, folk, jazz and country singers. And the Mike + Ruthy Band’s Bright as You Can (Humble Abode Music) has stuck with me. I caught an early copy of Sierra Hull’s next disc, Weighted Mind (Rounder Records). So far, that will be a highpoint of 2016. Tim Moore Hit-making singer-songwriter, music educator In 2015, I listened to a lot of Van Morrison, Gregory Porter, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong. For guitar inspiration, I’ve been listening to Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, Clapton, and Derek Trucks, who is so stone musical that every choice he makes lights me up. For riff rock, I keep going back to the Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed (London Records)

and their greatest-hits anthologies. I went deep into Bohuslav Martinu this year, a really spirited Czech composer whose peak years were in the 1930s and `40s, pivoting off Stravinsky’s neoclassical style. He’s a naturally upbeat composer whose rhythmic playfulness almost feels like jazz. I finally grew into Sergei Rachmaninoff, whose music I always thought was plush, red-velvet emo when I was younger. Now his solo piano music, variations, and Symphonic Dances really speak to me. My infatuation with North African music continues. Amadou and Mariam and Habib Koite are favorites. African guitar players inspire me. The local originals I enjoy are Kenny Siegel (Johnny Society), Duke McVinnie, and Jerry Leonard. David Torn’s film scores have caught my ear recently. [Flutist] Steve Gorn is a master I’ll go hear anytime. I like hearing Ruthy Ungar, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Amy Helm harmonize together. It would be great to see them record a collab project. Rick Schneider WKZE Music Director and morning show host Lots of great music was released in 2015. I really dig the new album by Los Lobos, Gates of Gold (429 Records). Thoughtful, well-written compositions, like the title track, great imagery in the lyrics, great melodies and instrumentation. Even some zesty, Spanish-flavored tunes. The album Tracker by Mark Knopfler (Verve Records) is dynamite from beginning to end. Great, laid-back, a very comfortable collection of new songs with great singing support from Ruth Moody of the Wailin’ Jennys. Chris Stapleton’s (formerly of the Steel Drivers) Traveler (Mercury Nashville) is an incredible album. Killer songs and, holy shit, what a voice! Really enjoying Paper Wheels (ATO Records) by Trey Anastasio, some of his best solo work ever. Just out at the end of November was Neal Casal’s Circles Around the Sun: Interludes for the Dead (Rhino Records), which covers my psychedelic needs. Mono (Valory Records) is a great release by the Mavericks. That album spent a lot of time in my car CD player in the summer. Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free (Southeastern Records) is stunning. Listen to “Children of Children” or “If It Takes a Lifetime” to hear what I mean. Galactic’s Into the Deep (Provogue Records) has some tasty grooves on it. Check out “Right On,” featuring Ms. Charm Taylor, and “Does It Really Make a Difference,” featuring Mavis Staples—great horns, great lyrical message. Great instrumentals on that record, too. Locally, the Mike + Ruthy Band’s Bright as You Can was a really strong album. Radiohead in 2016!

Album covers, this page: The Mike + Ruthy Band, Bright As You Can; Ryley Walker, Primrose Green; David Torn, Only Sky; Chris Stapleton, Traveler. Album covers, opposite page: Shana Falana, Set Your Lightning Fire Free; Diet Cig, Over Easy; Duke McVinnie Band, 10; Patrick Higgins, Bacchanalia.

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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.

PUDDLES PITY PARTY January 10. A band fronted by a guy dressed up like a clown. Could only be a gimmick, right? Well, you might just end up rethinking that once Puddles Pity Party singer Puddles the Clown (AKA Big Mike Geier) steps up to the microphone, opens his mouth, and unveils the most robust baritone since Tom Jones. Called “the Sad Clown with the Golden Voice,” Puddles/Geier launched the act in his native Atlanta in 2013 after doing time in the tellingly monikered Greasepaint. Since then he’s taken the melancholy cabaret on the road, touring with Eels, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and others in the US, Europe, and the UK. Puddles brings his circus of sadness to Daryl’s House this month. (Darlingside and the Dupont Brothers dial it in January 13; the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies riot January 14.) 7pm. $25-$35. Pawling. (845) 289-0185; Darylshouseclub.com.

THE STACKS

THUNDERHEAD ORGAN TRIO

January 16. The location where alt-roots duo the Stacks first met, a Prohibition-era-themed blues club in New York, is a good indicator of their sound. “A conversation turned into a four-hour jam session and a duo was born,” says their website. The pair, which makes this wayside stop at the Rosendale Cafe, is comprised of guitarist Andy Stack (Jonah Smith, Suzanne Vega, Buffalo Stack) and guitarist/violinist Tania Elizabeth (the Avett Brothers, the Duhks, Mary Gauthier). Guitar magazine singled out Andy Stack’s playing as “surprising, soulful, and always in the right place,” while American Songwriter praised Tania Elizabeth’s chops as “nothing short of mind-blowing.” (Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones rock ’n’ roll January 9; DUM Turkish Rhythm Celebration drums it up January 22.) 8pm. $10. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.

January 21. Thunderhead Organ Trio is yet another in the long line of reliably intriguing bands featuring keyboardist Neil “Nail” Alexander, who in addition to working with jazz greats Gunther Hampel and Alphonse Mouzon spent many years in popular Pink Floyd tribute band the Machine and celebrates the music of Weather Report and the Headhunters with the trio Mr. Gone. Joining Alexander in Thunderhead Organ Trio, which makes this hit at the Wherehouse, are two of his fellow musical pros, trombonist Joe Gil (David Murray, Sonny Fortune, Willie Colon) and drummer Jason Furman (Arturo Sandoval, Diane Reeves, Joe Williams). Jams will be had. 8pm. Call for ticket price. Newburgh. (845) 561-7240; Thewherehouserestaurant.com.

THE GIBSON BROTHERS

THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS

January 22. Not to be confused with either the identically named 1970s West Indian disco trio or the 1980s Ohio blues punkers, these Gibson Brothers are tops on today’s traditional bluegrass circuit. Leigh (banjo) and Eric (guitar) Gibson, who hoof it to Infinity Music Hall for this winter hoedown, hail from the Dutchess County farming hamlet of Clinton Hollow and have roped in multiple International Bluegrass Music Association awards for their blazing chops and airtight harmonies. “When I hear someone like the Gibson Brothers, I know it’s them from the first note,” said none other than Del McCoury. “They have that little thing in their voices that no one else has.” The duo’s 12th and latest album, 2015’s Brotherhood, comprises covers of such superlative sibling acts as the Everly Brothers, Jim and Jess McReynolds, the Stanley Brothers, the Blue Sky Boys, and the York Brothers. With the Zolla Boys. (Kathy Mattea croons January 14; Johnny A jams January 15.) 8pm. $29-$39. Norfolk, Connecticut. (866) 666-6306; Infinityhall.com.

January 30. The longest-running vocal trio in Jamaican musical history, the Mighty Diamonds, who come to the Bearsville Theater this month, trace their deep roots back 46 years. The group—Pat “Lloyd Ferguson” (AKA Judge Diamond), Donald Shaw (Tabby Diamond), and Fitzroy Simpson (Bunny Diamond)—came together in 1969. They honed their sugar-sweet harmonies under noted producers Stranger Cole and Rupie Edwards before cutting their first hit, 1973’s “Shame and Pride,” under another iconic producer, Byron Lee, going on to wax 1976’s Right Time, one of reggae’s acknowledged classic albums and work with recently departed New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. “Pass the Kouchie,” from 1981’s Changes, was redone in 1982 by Musical Youth as the hit “Pass the Dutchie.” (Brian Fallon and the Crowes land January 8.) 8pm. $20, $25, $50. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.

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CD REVIEWS LOS CHINCHES TROY PORK STORE (2015, NODONUT RECORDS) Like the bedbugs from which they take their band name (chinches is Spanish for that particular arachnid), Los Chinches’ debut will get under your skin, on pathways heretofore blazed by slacker-rockers Camper Van Beethoven and Pavement, alt.Americana paragons Wilco and Drive-By Truckers, and proto-punk literati like Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed. Los Chinches is the boozy brainchild of dual guitarists / front men Jay Boss Rubin, a Germantown resident, and Harry Graff Kimball; together, their short bursts of song combine DIY rawk energy, bracingly edgy performances, and, riding above it all, high and dry in the mix, disarmingly powerful wordplay: “The light in this barn is moldy / Fix your eyes on the dust motes, and reach for a coldy…,” sings Kimball on the Crazy Horse-sounding album opener “Nine Beers.” Rubin soon lobs a sweet couplet our way in “Hipster Brunch”: “Eggs and leeks don’t ever speak of the hominy between us / With your cowgirl eyes and your punk rock style, I wait all week on pins and needles.” But what makes Los Chinches really special is the combo of Kimball’s up-all-night gravel and Rubin’s countrified, shredded yowl, motoring along on live-in-the-room guitar-bass-drum grooves, here a country lope, there a mosh-pit anthem, overseen by legendary engineer and hardcore hero Don Fury, famous for “New York Style” production, i.e., no frills, no edits, and no bullshit. Los Chinches is raw, funny, rocking, and ready to deliver a new chapter of bookish brio to the rock ’n’ roll canon. Facebook.com/loschinchesdenuevayork. —Robert Burke Warren

RAPHAEL GROTEN JOURNEY HOME (2015, SILENT WING RECORDS)

A recently published quantitative study of half a million songs documented the decline, practically the disappearance, of dominant seventh chords in popular music. It was widely interpreted as evidence of a dumb-down, a loss of refinement akin to the passing of the subjunctive in grammar. That’s a stretch, but the rarity of seventh chords does speak to the vanishing influence of jazz and blues. In this sense, the New Age genre (a classification roundly rejected by those so classified) was ahead of its time. New Age’s typically tension-free harmony derives from two streams: transatlantic folk, denuded of all bluesiness and blurred in its resolutions; and the tonal minimalism of Reich and Glass, composers who made a combative point of challenging serious music’s obsession with difficult harmony. On “Sweetness,” the lovely first track of the Will Ackerman-produced solo guitar outing Journey Home, Raphael Groten announces that his vision of a luminous new age is not averse to a blue note here or there, nor to a pop turn inspired by the Beatles or Simon and Garfunkel. You know it is New Age by the title and by the spirit-directed liner notes, but Groten’s folk-based musical vocabulary is inclusive. Windham Hill founder Ackerman’s production catches every glance of Groten’s unflashy, nuanced touch and his sweet timefeel. Journey Home revels in the characteristics of Groten’s instrument every bit as much as in his mature compositions.You can hear the windings of the strings. Raphaelgroten.com. —John Burdick

TRACY BONHAM WAX & GOLD (2015, A WOODY HOLLOW RECORDS)

After listening to Woodstock-based singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham’s terrific new album Wax & Gold a bunch of times, it’s no surprise to learn that a few years back Bonham teamed up with Danish group the Damn Crystals to perform Paul McCartney’s landmark Ram album in its entirety live in Copenhagen—Wax & Gold could well be Bonham’s answer to Ram. Like that album, Bonham’s is a getting-backto-the-roots effort that jumps around stylistically (from the R&B of “Under the Ruby Moon” to the Shawn Colvinflavored, rootsy pop folk of “Lovelovelovelovelove”) while it celebrates family connections (the haunting “This Here’s My Grandpa’s Guitar”) and the idyllic nature of rural life (the title track). Bonham and her husband recently adopted a child from Ethiopia, so several numbers deal with motherhood and identity, including “Luck” and “Black Tears,” grafting a Roy Orbison-like melody onto a Phil Spector rhythm line. The album by the Grammy Award-nominated artist and former touring member of Blue Man Group kicks off with “Noonday Demon,” a jazz tune with a blues structure built upon a Dave Brubeck-like irregular meter, featuring flute and saxophone by Jay Collins. While Bonham is a classically trained violinist and pianist, producer Kevin Salem (Yo La Tengo, Boys Against Girls) wisely chooses to showcase Bonham’s considerable strengths as a vocalist and songwriter (as well as providing sterling backup on guitars, banjo, and dobro himself). Wax & Gold is a bright and shining addition to one of our best local rock singer-songwriter’s considerable catalog. Tracybonham.com. —Seth Rogovoy CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the bands reviewed in this issue.

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Books

HOME IS EVERYWHERE Adam LeFevre’s Literary Buffet

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was always word-drunk,” says poet, actor, and playwright Adam LeFevre. “I was a good eater at the breast.Words are food. They feel like food, that kind of voluptuous thing in the mouth. That nom-nom-nom.” LeFevre’s just-released poetry collection A Swindler’s Grace (Western Michigan University Press, 2016) may spark widespread bouts of word-drunkenness. Praised by Marvin Bell (“brainwork and heartwork of a high order”) and David St. John (“an unflinching knife-blade of intelligence”), LeFevre’s third book is cause for celebration. Though he’s published poems in such prestigious journals as American Poetry Review,The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and his chapbook Ghost Light (Finishing Line Press, 2012) won the Starting Gate Award, his last full collection was 1978’s Everything All at Once (Wesleyan University Press). He’s spent most of the intervening decades on stage and onscreen.You may not recognize LeFevre’s name, but you’ve probably seen his face. He’s a hardworking character actor, a leading light of the “Oh, that guy” galaxy. TV credits include 12 guest spots on Law and Order (“I was only the perp a couple of times. Sometimes a judge, most often the parent of victims. I did a lot of weeping.”) and a phalanx of bartenders, cops, and lovable mooks. On the big screen, he’s played everything from Karl Rove in Fair Game to Man in Helicopter in The Dictator; his film debut was John Sayles’s Return of the Secaucus 7 (full disclosure: as a multitasking production assistant, I was filmed driving past him hitchhiking). He’s also appeared in Broadway musicals Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Guys and Dolls; Mamma Mia!; and Footloose—commuting from New Paltz. A longrunning show can be a grind, but the train ride offers contemplative time. “It’s right on the river. Can’t beat moving water.” LeFevre grew up in Coeymans, on a bluff overlooking the Hudson. His father was a doctor who made house calls, sometimes accepting produce and homemade sausage in trade for his services. “He really covered a wide swath of territory,” LeFevre recalls. “The phone would ring in the middle of the night, and I’d hear him throw on his clothes, go to the refrigerator, swig down some milk—it came in bottles then. The car would start and he’d be off. And I’d lie awake, listening for the sound of tires on gravel that meant he was back.” Ira LeFevre, who later ran Albany Medical Center’s ER, had a colorful past. As a Navy flight surgeon turned Marine, he survived some of the deadliest bloodbaths of WWII’s Pacific theater. While still in the service, he started corresponding with Helen Rhodes, a spirited young woman who worked for Schenectady’s WRGB, one of America’s first TV stations. (“There were maybe six television sets in Schenectady,” LeFevre says. “She had a hell of a time selling ads.”) After the war, he tried professional boxing. (LeFevre: “I think he had three fights. He got his ass handed to him.”) Helen covered one of these bouts, watching Ira get pulped by a 6’6” black southpaw. “The harder he hit him, the more Dad stood back and smiled,” LeFevre reports. “She said, ‘This man is either crazy or very special.’” They married in 1948. LeFevre calls his father “a man’s man, John Wayne kind of guy.” But he also recalls Ira watching ballet dancer Edward Villella on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and saying, “Now there’s an athlete.” LeFevre’s takeaway: “He was clearly offering us a buffet of what we could do.” In high school—an all-male military academy—LeFevre played football, baseball, and basketball. He also loved poetry. Smitten by Shakespeare and e.e. cummings, he wrote a sonnet with no capital letters—“the poem of a horny, 14-year-old virgin boy”—for a girl he adored. “It was so full of feeling, and so awful,” he recalls fondly. Recruited for football, he entered Williams College as “a premed and big fat jock.” But his dorm advisors were actor David Strathairn and future Secaucus 7 producer Jeffrey Nelson. “I didn’t have a chance,” LeFevre says happily. The athlete’s first role was a natural: Charles the Wrestler in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” LeFevre adopted a pro-wrestling “Nazi Bad Guy” persona, using a German accent copped from “Hogan’s Heroes” and flexing his muscles on cue. “It brought the house down,” he says. “I was hooked. What power!” He switched to an English major, writing poems for the college literary magazine (including “Sweet Wet Rosie,” an ode to a stripper penned in “a bump-and-grind rhythm”) and one-act plays. His first full-length, “Yucca Flats,” was accepted by the National Theatre Institute, landing him an agent and a 1973 production at Manhattan Theatre Club. “I had a very early success, and it’s been a struggle ever since,” he deadpans. After his Off-Broadway debut, he applied to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. It took three tries to get in, and he spent the intervening year caretaking an unheated cabin in Phoenicia and working blue-collar jobs in East Boston with Wil-

liams buddy John Sayles. For the next several summers, they joined Strathairn, Nelson, Gordon Clapp, Geena Davis, and other young actors at a summer stock theater in North Conway, New Hampshire; LeFevre supplemented his $65 paycheck by working the graveyard shift at a nearby shoe factory. At Iowa, he studied with Donald Justice, Mark Strand, and a pre-Garp John Irving, whose Novels class met weekly in the back room of a bar. “Those were the worst of my drinking years,” LeFevre admits. “I was never sober for six months. I’d wake up hung over with a headache and cure it with a drink. And I thought, I don’t want to be an alcoholic. It hurts.” His father was a high-functioning alcoholic. “High-functioning except at home,” LeFevre says. “He’d come home from the ER, and within an hour he was really drunk. He drank gin and tonics. He never abused anybody, he just got quiet. It was like watching him get in a boat and row away.” LeFevre just finished another collection, The Eleven O’Clock Number, which includes a suite of poems about drinking. He pads into another room, bringing back a bound manuscript. Digging glasses from the pocket of his burnt-orange work shirt, he reads several poems aloud with Wellesian relish. LeFevre earned his poetry MFA in 1975, staying to complete a second MFA in playwriting (“I have two terminal degrees—I’m really finished,” he quips). He also taught in the adult education program, where he met his late wife Cora Bennett, then a department secretary. She helped him xerox student handouts and enrolled in his class. The next years were heady. LeFevre scored a hole in one with Everything All at Once, sent as a blind submission to Wesleyan because he liked their list. He married Cora and moved to New York, sharing a sprawling Riverside Drive apartment with friends from the North Conway theater. LeFevre performed in Off-Off Broadway showcases, painting apartments between gigs; he and Sayles staged a double bill of one-acts at Manhattan Punchline. When daughter Tate was born, he was galvanized by the need to support a family. He worked in regional theaters “within earshot of New York” while starting to break into TV. He and Cora moved to New Paltz, where their son Isaac was born. “I began booking some studio films—then there’d be a payday,” LeFevre says. For a late-‘80s Diet Skippy ad, his workday involved 20 takes of a single shot in which he and a tennis buddy suck in their guts as two gorgeous young women walk by. The commercial ran for two years. “I probably earned $25,000 in royalties,” LeFevre marvels. “Then you beat up your ass doing some theater thing for $200 a week.” He still loves acting onstage—he’s about to reprise his well-reviewed DC performance of David Ives’s “The Metromaniacs” at San Diego’s Old Globe— and writing plays. “The stage is a place where language is valued and heightening of language is still acceptable,” he says gratefully. If the language of LeFevre’s plays is poetic, his poems are often theatrical, unfurling like character monologues. Even those that appear autobiographical may be full of invention. “They’re poems, and poetry is about truth. Its highest obligation is to truth, not to fact.” LeFevre cites his poem “Drums,” whose speaker finds his old Ludwig drum kit (“Still set up, as if anxious for a gig”) while cleaning out his dead parents’ attic. LeFevre never played drums, but the poem’s old girlfriend is real. “The overall communication is true,” he says. “It’s certainly true to feeling. It’s about feeling, and its failure, the incompetence of the heart to convey its true self. I stand by it as absolute truth.” The poems in A Swindler’s Grace span 30 years. “I kept trying to put a manuscript together, but I was never happy with it,” LeFevre explains. “I knew what the strongest poems were, but there didn’t seem to be any reason for these poems to be in the same room.” Assembling a collection involves spreading poems across the floor, with a lot of trial and error. “It’s so important to me not to make it a miscellany. There need to be thematic resonances, musical resonances, with a musician/ playwright’s drive to find an arc to help it cohere from the first poem to the last.” When his publisher’s author questionnaire asked, “Who do you see as the audience for your poems?” LeFevre told himself, “Don’t be a smartass, but I couldn’t help myself.” He wrote, “If Joe Sixpack married Emily Dickinson, their child would be the audience for these poems.” If Emily Dickinson married Joe Sixpack, their child might resemble Adam LeFevre, word-drunk in his butter-yellow kitchen with a plate of cookies and a stack of poetry books from the teetering pile in the bathroom. “I enjoy the buffet,” he says, beaming. Bon appetit. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 59

SHORT TAKES Here’s a resolution you won’t regret: Start the New Year with independent and small-press fiction by Hudson Valley authors.

DANCING WITH DASEIN AND OTHER STORIES MARK MORGANSTERN BURRITO BOOKS, 2015, $15

Rosendale Cafe proprietor Morganstern has hosted a legion of talents over the years. Now he’s sharing his own in this multifaceted story collection, steeped in the idiosyncratic glories of small-town life. Morganstern gives good phrase, and his stories display a lively intelligence. “Tomorrow’s Special” was awarded an Honorable Mention by Chronogram’s fiction contest judge Valerie Martin. Another story’s title, “Zen Master of the Hudson Valley,” might well apply to its author.

A SUDDEN GUST OF GRAVITY LAURIE BORIS CREATESPACE, 2015, $14.99

Indie Books Award winner Boris’s sixth novel begins with an unopened box of magic tricks, left by Christina’s departed father. Like Pandora, the spunky Boston waitress can’t resist peeking, leading her into a world of street magic and trouble. (Beware of men who reduce you to “Teeny.”) Woodstock resident Boris juggles a surprising Korean-American doctor and other deftly drawn characters in prose as agile as Paul Blumstein’s delightful cover art.

LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE W.B. BELCHER OTHER PRESS, 2016, $17.95

Folk music legend Eli Page is enigmatic, reclusive and more than a little bit cracked. When the Dylanesque fading star taps a drifting young writer and erstwhile musician as his live-in ghostwriter, it doesn’t take long for the song to go sour. Upstate debut novelist Belcher modulates his chord changes skillfully. Appearing 1/26 at 7pm, Northshire Bookstore, Saratoga Springs; 1/28 at 7pm, Battenkill Books, Cambridge; 2/15 at 4pm, Bush Memorial, Russell Sage College, Troy.

REWIRE NICOLE QUINN BLUEBARN PRODUCTIONS, 2015, $11

Quinn sets the stakes deliriously high in this final volume of her Gold Stone Girl trilogy, set in a feminist-nightmare dystopian future. The planetary monocontinent is shrinking, and reluctant heroine Mina, gifted with the power of dreaming, is marooned in the land of Disbelief and stalked by the predatory Night Mare. There’s imagination and quirky humor for days— talking dresses, male housewives imprisoned by slugs—in this visionary finale to an eye-opening series.

A CALL FROM SPOONER STREET CAROL ASCHER MILL CITY BOOKS, 2015, $15

Award-winning essayist and fiction writer Ascher weaves a detailed, painstaking, and generous tale of reconciliation among three generations. Elderly literature professor Peter Rosen, a cantankerous German émigré, is injured in an icy fall, and his estranged daughter Marlene is reluctantly called into service. Duty becomes something more textured and loving, with a gay Dominican homecare aide and Marlene’s strong-willed biracial son adding drama and depth to the mix.

A TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION CHRIS ORCUTT HAVE PEN WILL TRAVEL, 2015, $16

Millbrook journalist and IndieReader Best Book winner Orcutt’s third Dakota Stevens mystery finds the irresistible sleuth and his leggy chessmaster sidekick in deep international waters. Renowned sci-fi author E. Conover Wright has disappeared, and his sister is worried. She has good reason: FBI agents, Chinese moles, mobsters, and fracking czars are all on his trail, and the reason is literally out of this world. Orcutt’s eco-noir puts the heat in global warming.

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Mr. Splitfoot Samantha Hunt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, $24

n Mr. Splitfoot, Tivoli-based writer Samantha Hunt has created an entrancing, modern, haunted tale that seems drawn from the very bones of Hudson Valley history. Old farm ruins stick up out of the earth like a snaggletooth; decrepit old Adirondack Great Camps bear the brunt of disturbing pasts. Even geography itself is distorted: The distance to a city (Troy) is both three miles and 10,000-light years away, particularly to orphans stuck in the so-called care of a religious fanatic with a mean streak. Yet the distance between past and present is but a hair’s breadth. The power of this novel lies in its filigree accuracy of setting and its unforgettable central characters. Orphans Ruth and Nat, and—years later—Ruth’s niece Cora all share a certain pluck, a fiery opportunism, and a knack for venturing into strange, unhinged places, supernatural and otherwise. Ruth and Nat, among the many misfit children in the Love of Christ! foster home, grow up pretending to talk to the dead. Striking out on their own, they’re convinced to parlay it into a scam. Years later, Cora, pregnant, is taken by her long-lost aunt on a mysterious odyssey by foot across the vast expanse of New York State. Hunt builds both stories into a double narrative; as each side begins to tilt and collide with the other, it’s clear there’s far more than coincidence going on. Mr. Splitfoot is haunted by a metaphysical ebb and flow of souls, minds, and bodies, and by the ragtag, strange world of spiritualism and cults on the fringes and seams of America. As such, it belongs in the welcome genre of books by new writers who don’t accept the confines of modern literary fiction’s terse and limited geometry, its focus on flawed human relationships and their legacy. Yes, these are humans; yes, there are relationships—beautiful ones, fraught ones; humans with tremendous flaws. (No one but perhaps Flannery O’Connor has pegged the grotesque rage underlying religious fundamentalism this well.) An exuberant writer, Hunt furnishes every millimeter of her story with life, with palpable losses, longing, desire, tenderness, and even the trappings of pop culture. If you’re craving the tangy prose and warm sweep of a really well-wrought novel, you’ll find it here. For a taste, here’s one elegiac passage, in Hunt’s unique, infectious, and slightly stilted cadence: He wraps his arms around her. Ruth’s Walkman’s headphones are looped around her neck. A tiny bit of music leaks out. “Are You Lonesome Tonight.” He sings with Elvis, repeating the words. “Shall I? Shall? Come back? Come back again? Again? Again?” Ruth and the man and a quiet song. “I’ll miss you,” he says. Beside the chair he’s got an old water damaged suitcase as if he’s packed to go somewhere. But it’s the liberties Hunt takes that make this novel levitate into something wholly remarkable and new. She’s such a powerful writer that she naturally reaches beyond the usual canonized frame of what’s real—connect the locations where meteors landed together and what do you see? And what informs the carny fringes of the rural imagination, after all? Ghosts and spirits and conjurers and holy rollers. For those who prefer characters with skin as opposed to ether, Hunt makes a compelling argument for getting over it. The idea of communing with the dead may be, supposedly, a fringe topic in fiction. But consider this: in fiction, live characters are not technically alive anyway. The whole construct is supernatural to begin with. So set any conundrums aside and delve into this tightly crafted book. And then: sweet dreams. Appearing 1/9 at 7pm, Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. —Jana Martin

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River Road Carol Goodman

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nglish professor Nan Lewis—she shudders at “Nancy”—is driving home from a holiday party that turned from pleasant to horrific in moments. Learning that she’d been denied tenure would have been bad enough; having a public confrontation about it with her ex-lover, the head of the department, put the icing on the cake. Then a deer jumps in front of her car on treacherous River Road. These setbacks are only the beginning for Nan. Her universe is already tenuous: She’s been white-knuckle plowing through life since losing her tiny daughter to a drunk driver several years earlier. The morning after the party, she learns that her favorite student has been killed in a hit-and-run at the same dangerous spot—and in one of those brutal ironies that only the naive have never witnessed, Nan is suspected of the crime. Carol Goodman’s heroines tend to be brilliant, good-hearted women struggling under heavy weights, whether she’s chronicling the perils of magical species (writing as “Juliet Dark”) or teen heroics in her award-winning Blythewood boarding school tales. With River Road, Goodman returns to decidedly adult writing and realism without skipping a beat, giving us a lyrical, suspenseful adventure that twists and turns through the darker corners of the soul, much as River Road twists through the frozen landscape of a deliciously recognizable Hudson Valley college town. Who killed Leia Dawson, and was it a tragic accident or an act of malice? Though Nan briefly doubts her own memory—could she possibly have mistaken a white wool scarf for a deer’s belly fur?—forensics soon clear her name. But Nan remains haunted. On the day her daughter was hit, she had taken her eyes off the preschooler at precisely the wrong moment; on the last day of Leia’s life, she’d been too busy when the girl wanted to talk. These twin burdens draw Nan deeper into the mystery, and she finds herself enmeshed in a messy web with strands leading from the campus to the ghetto, from the lofty heights of Faculty Tower to the crumbling historic boathouse beside the icy Hudson. The psychographics of a Hudson Valley college town are spot on, rich and real. There’s the golden girl, struck down in her prime, whose facade of innocence will be stripped away before the puzzle’s half solved; the blue-collar stoner kid who’s part villain and part victim; the crabby professor who’s published a memoir about her Struggle; the semiliterate brat who uses everyone’s pain as a step stool to a gig at Gawker; the shady townie parasite; and the tough, loving single mom. An Oxycontin-fueled heroin problem is only one of many social issues in play in the equally vivid backdrop. As she puzzles out Leia’s fate, Nan’s brash courage and warmth lead her to wrestle her own demons with both hands. Her full-hearted nature also lures her into a romance with a loveable young cop and into mortal danger from more than one direction. Goodman pushes the needle over into the red zone and keeps it there through page after page of suspense, until it bursts open like a firework in a redemptive conclusion. Longtime Goodman fans, here’s our red meat; newcomers, prepare to become longtime fans. Appearing 1/19 at 6pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck; 1/22 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, New Paltz. —Anne Pyburn Craig

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POETRY

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

Ari (5 years old): “Mommy, did the dinosaurs have a god?” Zenn (7 years old): “Of course they did...Godzilla!”

I like these pants. My feet nearly reach the ground. —p

—Ari & Zenn Hewson

NAMESAKE

LAUREN

SHADOWS

You’re a martyr, He said— Laughing as I jumped into the water.

I heard everything you have to say about her she sounds beautiful I’m sure she is beautiful Lauren with the dreadlocked hair which she doesn’t care about and bangs she cuts herself and the ragged t-shirts and I heard she doesn’t work and lives with friends on Bryant Avenue in a little room really a closet and she doesn’t want to meet me or anyone because she ‘s writing or painting or something Lauren doesn’t like society or anyone and that’s why I want to meet her I don’t like anyone either well actually I do but I can change absolutely I can change I can change for Lauren

I am aching. I hear my bones creak like the front door of your summer home— Upstate, New York. In late

—Richard Donnelly

that I thought I was the reason my father left, and you would kiss my cheek because you felt the same guilt.

WHERE ARE WE?

Our sundial hearts would cast shadows in the yellow porch light, reminding us we would never be so

Constitution Island— Trespassing prohibited— Where the trees laughed too. Into the Hudson, No, The Muhheakantuck— In between two backstrokes, I spit the brown water towards the sky. Brackish, With an aftertaste of fuel, Has always been my thing, I thought— Drifting in a river that flows two ways. —Michael De Rosa

NEARLY HOME There shows up ahead The blue shoulders and peaks Of the Good Old Catskill Mountains From this spot they are curtained On both sides by the sight of Autumn’s Changed and leaf-fallen trees One glimpses the tower at Mohonk Sending its enduring vertical welcome We’ll soon be leaving the NY Thruway That splendid road that gives us reach enough To partake of many Big Apple doings Brings us back to our neighbors and critters —John D. Flemming

ORIGAMI We made the kind of love Meant for the light Bodies grinding Where our souls could not How we twisted and hinged at the joints How we strained at the muscles To fit together In the most perfect way The beauty of an origami swan Meant for all of the light In the world

Where are we? The alignment of my spine The back of the moon black as a skillet The edge of the red sea under The whole truth solitary and loud The lines on my hands like bows and arrows The bubble wrap quieted The cut of your sweat Is it wonder? —Lucy Engelman

COMPLETELY There are more poets than anyone knows what to do with. In the night we stare hollow eyed at the unmarked face of forever, and scratch and scratch to make a mark that says, I am, I want, I was. Missing the point completely. —Cliff Henderson

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July of ’95, we were thirteen, and I had never kissed a boy before. The light in the sky was pink with tomorrow’s heat, and our mothers were in the kitchen drinking beer, flicking cigarettes into a make-shift ashtray. We would tell our friends at school we were like brother and sister, but that summer left us strangers. You reached for my hand. That night the lake would be illuminated by fireworks, and I would get the courage to tell you

young and so old. Now, I am old, and still young, but I have forgotten how to tell time with my heart, and you have forgotten me—but I promise, I still ache for the moments to slow just as they did the summer we were thirteen. —Jessica Megan Dammers

WATCHTOWER Sunrise fades behind the mountain The Hudson ribbons to the sea I want to see ten thousand miles So I climb one more floor To the top of the sky —James Spencer

LEAVES

PINBALL PRONGS

DEPARTS PENN STATION 1:05 PM

In spring time we are very glad To see the sunshine peak The plants and grass and trees and shrubs Emerge and grow each week.

you can be hypnotized by the flow of a river and shocked right out of it by the crash of a door.

Midday train to Albany I take a window seat left side I need to see to trace the river Two talkative women take the seat behind I move forward find a pleasant island No one in front of or behind me

you can be so fully you and slammed right out of you so hard that you don’t remember you anymore.

The train begins to move twelve minutes in deep dark then the vague light West Side Highway George Washington Bridge Out of Manhattan the train picks up speed and the world becomes what the river gives its rocky edge skirting the occasional warehouse the riverside parks The Hudson where people have been having their way with the world for hundreds of years The river reminds me how old I am

The world is really waking up And plants are growing buds The trees are leafing everywhere Like putting on their duds. They spread their limbs and fill them out And shade the yards below We welcome all the cooling breeze Their limbs and leaves bestow.

pinball prongs poking your hips and your ribs you don’t want to hit any more points you just want to fall straight through. losing is ok if you finally get to rest.

But now it’s fall, the shade is thin The leaves are turning color They’re beautiful and bright to see With vistas like no other. And then they fall just like the rain To cover walks and grass Now we are left to rake them up The total bunch en masse.

you’ll be better but never the same as you were before. open the door.

Once again the trees are bare The leaves are on the ground Piled up and waiting there For us to move around.

—Alexa Salvato

SYMPOSIUM

So now we’re glad the trees are bare We put the rake away But in the morning leaves are there That weren’t there yesterday.

Music is, though hard to grasp, tradition that has passed through the prism of science to create light; though the past was place of steady dark, brilliance seeped through the void and lit the air with symphonic sunrise.

Why was I glad to see the leaves Arrive in full last spring ‘Cause now they bring me to my knees With all this @%#&* (endless) raking.

—Stephanie Ann Slepian

—Marlin Klinger

SHE They asked her how her green eyes gleamed And she kept hold of the answer So they said she gazed at the universe so long that bits of starlight flew into her sight They asked her why she kept sunfish in a long glass room And she turned her head away So they decided that her mind had too much darkness, and the fish provided glowing light They asked her what she wanted to be And she stood and glided out So they thought that she was deaf, that she wasn’t quite alright They turned to ask each other Discussed why she acted dead They wondered why she stared into nothing And why the sea flowed through her head One day the sun was shining And she came out of her trance A pencil moved across the page And she began to dance —Ava Fisherman

Heading into the city four days ago across the aisle two young women jabbered in Dutch What do they know about Henry Hudson What do I Soon the Tappan Zee the new bridge growing next to her older sister A line of paired pilings Workers skittering up and down the half built piers months perhaps years to go A tug painted to match the barge it pushes Belly full of oil pumped from a tanker in Albany Hundreds of black balloons strung between the interstate’s north south lanes Indian Point what I am waiting for comes into view The twin reactors across the river nudge the shore My politics once so certain now diffuse After a brief flurry I am back to passing through barely noticing The reactors still reacting strangely comforting perhaps because we go back a fair amount of time And then West Point sullen glinting even without the sun The train continues pushing past the blah landscape colored by the blah weather We are coming up to Beacon the bridge to Newburgh I swam across the river here Twice as a matter of fact Hundreds of swimmers swimming in the name of Clean Water Pete Seeger still around then singing us off in Beacon and then as if spirited by some force there he was in Newburgh as we climbed from the river still singing “If I had a hammer” Today the river is as gray as the day Perhaps it is slack tide those few moments twice a day when saltwater mingles with fresh Not mixing merely touching planes riding one another a frictionless friction where rivers meet seas Two places in one time this place where I will stay —Margo Mensing 1/16 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 63

Food & Drink

Head of the Class

Above: CIA instructor Douglass Miller teaching students in the brewery. Opposite: Brewmaster Hutch Kugeman making beer with students.

The CIA’s Teaching Brewery By Peter Martin

t’s still early in the day and already a handful of college students crowd around a table with over a dozen beers. The musty smell of hops and yeast pervades the room as the students listen to their professor talk about beer and beer drinking. His lecture, however, is a lot different from the castigating reprimand typically handed out to undergraduates caught quaffing beer. Dressed in in chef’s coats and checkered pants, these are students at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, and their professor, Douglass Miller, is teaching them how to make this ancient beverage that’s solidifying its place alongside wine on restaurant menus. Tastings like these are part of the curriculum of the CIA’s new course, called “The Art and Science of Brewing,” first offered last fall in the campus’s brand new brewery. During the semester-long elective, students learn the ins-andouts of brewing, from grist to growler, along with marketing and even how to choose a name. (Of the roughly 29,000 different beers in the US, simply finding a name that hasn’t been trademarked is a challenge in itself).The course is structured similarly to other CIA classes with lab components, except the “lab” is the seven-barrel brewery, overseen by brewmaster Hutch Kugeman. The construction of the facility was made possible through sponsorship from Brooklyn Brewery, which helped design the layout, purchase equipment, and will continue to offer its support through a multiyear agreement with the school. Beer on the Rise For Waldy Malouf, the brewery couldn’t have come at a better time. Malouf is the senior director of food and beverage operations for all three CIA campuses, and he’s noted the momentous shift beer has undergone in the restaurant industry. “What you’re seeing in the beer community is following what happened with wine 20 to 25 years ago,” Malouf says. “It’s being paired with 64 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 1/16

food in a traditional sense.” A great beer program is now not only common but necessary in the industry according to Malouf, and it follows that a culinary education should reflect the changing landscape. The brewery, he says, will help “the CIA stay relevant, to be better for the education of our students,” and allow its restaurants to carry “the best possible beer” that “can’t be any more local.” Malouf adds: “It’s also just fun.” The incorporation of a brewing program into one America’s most prestigious culinary schools marks a milestone for craft beer as well. This is no surprise, however, for Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery. “Beer is the ultimate culinary drink,” he said at a kickoff event for the brewery in December. While wine has only one ingredient, beer can be brewed with everything from apricots to oysters, allowing it to express a diverse range of flavors. “You can pair it with anything,” Oliver says, and even the most rarified pockets of the culinary world are coming around to his way of thinking. In September, Oliver presided over a seven-course tasting menu at Thomas Keller’s Per Se. 11 Madison Park offers a dozens-strong beer selection, and at Gramercy Tavern you can even order from their selection of vintage beers aging in the cellar. Since 2011, the number of New York state wineries grew by 50 percent, while breweries expanded by a staggering 400 percent. While the state is quickly becoming one of the epicenters of the craft beer movement, its advent has shaken things up throughout the country. Surprisingly, craft beer’s meteoric rise has actually taken place during a comparative slump in the industry. From its heyday in the 1970s, beer consumption over wine or spirits has actually decreased or remained flat, growing only half a percent in 2014. The crucial factor is that of the people drinking beer, more and more are choosing craft over larger “macro” breweries: market-share for craft beer has more than doubled in the past 5 years, from 5 percent to 11 percent.

The US now has more breweries than ever its history, exceeding even preProhibition levels. Garret Oliver argues that rather than being a novel trend, “beer has now returned to normal.” He’s citing, of course, the vast variety of beer and breweries in operation before Prohibition, when each neighborhood in a city might have its own brewery. Miller says that during the 1870s, there were five to six breweries in Poughkeepsie alone. While beer culture in our country is often portrayed as reintroduced from the old world, its unstoppable rise has taken on a life and character of its own.When you can walk into a recently opened, small-batch brewery in London and find yourself in front of a West-Coast style “American Pale Ale,” it’s clear that US beer culture is distinctive, healthy, and thriving. With craft beer becoming a nigh-on global phenomenon, the offerings at the CIA have got a lot to live up to. The good news is that the beers great. At the kickoff event, three different beers showcasing a range of styles were served. The first two will be offered year-round: the Cleaver IPA, and the Mise-en-Place Witbier. The IPA is hearty and robust with a substantial but sharper mouthfeel and plenty of hoppy flavor, but pulls just short of being bitter, finishing clean and crisp. Brooklyn’s influence is felt here; it was reminiscent of its own East India Pale Ale. Mise-En-Place Witbier, a delicate wheat beer, is brewed with orange peel and coriander. Like other good ingredient-added beers, the extra flavorings helped shape the flavor rather than dominate it, providing a touch of citrus in the mid-palate that played beautifully off of the chalky texture common for the style. The one they served was a touch undercarbonated—some extra bubbles would have provided the clean, sharp finish that sets exceptional beers of this style apart—but was pulled directly from the brite tank where carbonation occurs, and was sure to undergo further development. Nonetheless it was exciting to try a beer that was technically “less than zero” days old, as Malouf put it. The standout, however, was the Cast Iron Stout, which was developed by this semester’s students under brewmaster Hutch Kugeman. The texture was spot-on, with deep notes of chocolate and toasted malt, but the addition of German Magnum and Perle hops provided the perfect counterbalance to keep it from getting too heavy. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 65

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Although the CIA does not have a license to distribute, the beer is available to visitors with a growler and will be served in each of the CIA’s campus restaurants. American Bounty places a special emphasis on the brewery’s products, and is featuring every available beer at the James Beard Tavern, opening early next February. Set apart from the restaurant, the tavern is designed to be a more informal dining experience, with a separate kitchen offering a firstfor-the-CIA bar menu for small plates and snacks. Don’t equate informal with blasé, however, as sample offerings included wood-roasted oysters with verjus and shallots with a pink peppercorn mignonette. The oysters were sumptuous and had an almost cream-like texture, accented beautifully by the acidic mignonette. These were accompanied by grilled shrimp coated in Aleppo chili and served with a charred tomatillos and were, in a word, phenomenal. Almost flash-roasted in an extremely hot oven, were served with much of the shell on, which was actually encouraged to be eaten. Far from the unpalatable texture one would expect, the shell lent a satisfyingly crispy crunch, almost as if it was fried; it must to be tried to be believed. (The shrimp were sourced from Eco Shrimp Garden, an indoor shrimp farm in Newburgh. The school puts an emphasis on buying local.) Waldy Malouf describes the concept for the tavern as a casual yet elegant place to “have a great burger and fresh beer,” and the burger was superb as well, cooked perfectly to temperature and served with a New York cheddar, hand-cut fries, and house-made ketchup. Die-hard purists might argue over whether beer belongs in the same lofty culinary halls as wine or spirits, but that ship has sailed. Craft beer is here to stay. The CIA’s campus brewery is a prescient acknowledgment by the school, and much as beer has found its way onto the culinary landscape, it’s similarly found its way onto one of the landscape’s vaunted institutions. Needless to say, the course “The Art and Science of Brewing” is popular on campus, but not just for the stereotypical inclination of undergraduates toward beer-drinking. These students know that craft beer has entered the main stage, and a culinary education would be incomplete without it.

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tastings directory Butchers Fleisher’s Craft Butchery 307 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-MOOO www.fleishers.com info@fleishers.com

Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244

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

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

Catering Grounded NY 83 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 514-3432 www.groundedny.com

Pamela’s on the Hudson (845) 562-4505 www.pamelastravelingfeast.com

Restaurants Cafe Le Perche 230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1850 www.cafeleperche.com

Culinary Institute of America

The Hop at Beacon 458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com

LaBella Pizza Bistro 194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com

Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 757-5055, www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s direct link to Japan’s finest cuisines! Enjoy the freshest sushi and delicious traditional Japanese small plates cooked with love by this family owned and operated treasure for over 20 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net.

Phoenicia Diner 5681 NY-28, Phoenicia, NY www.phoeniciadiner.com

Rabbit and the Turtle 302 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Red Hook Curry House 28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com

Seoul Kitchen 469 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8596 www.seoulkitchenbeacon.com

Ship to Shore 15 West Strand, Kingston, NY www.shiptoshorehudsonvalley.com

Vault 446 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 202-7735 www.thevaultbeacon.com

1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY (845) 471-6608 www.ciarestaurantgroup.com

Yobo Restaurant

Diego’s Taqueria

www.yoborestaurant.com

38 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2816 www.diegoskingston.com diegoskingston@gmail.com Unique and delicious street-style tacos, tortas and bowls in a perfectly cozy spot, with your favorite playlist in the speakers. Entirely house-made menu using many locally sourced ingredients, with a nod to all of our vegetarian and vegan friends. Belly up for a craft beer from the constantly updated seasonal selection, and live music every Friday night! See you soon!

Elephant 310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com

Eclectic wines, craft beer & tapas Happy Hour Monday—Friday, 3 to 6 $5 mimosas all day Sundays www.jardwinepub.com water street market, new paltz

Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848

Specialty Food Shops Immuneschein Tea Haus 446 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (828) 319-1844 www.immune-schein.com immuneschein@gmail.com

Kingston Candy Bar 319 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 901-0341 www.kingstoncandybar.com

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business directory

Antiques hudsonantiques.net

Milne’s At Home Antiques & Gallery 81 Broadway, Kingston , NY (845) 331-3902 www.milneathomeantiques.com

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Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Action of Greene County, Inc. 7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org

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

Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, , New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com newyorktrafficlawyer.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center

185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812

Books Monkfish Publishing

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

Bookstores Barner Books

3 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2635 www.barnerbooks.com

Mirabai

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

Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe

31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com

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

Building Services & Supplies Berkshire Products, Inc.

884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com

Cabinet Designers

747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com

Cord King

(845) 797-6877 cordkingllc@gmail.com

Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704

Ice B’Gone Magic www.ibgmagic.com

Ingrained Building Concepts (845) 224-5936

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

Education

Millbrook Cabinetry & Design

2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com

Acorn School

2911 Lucas Turnpike, Accord, NY (845) 443-1541 www.acornschoolhouse.com

N & S Supply

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

Ashokan Center

477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge, NY

New Leaf Treehouse Company

Bard College at Simon’s Rock

(518) 526-6675 www.newleaftreehousecompany.com

84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA (800) 235-7186 www.simons-rock.edu/academyinfo

Williams Lumber & Home Center 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

Bard MAT

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu

Cinemas

The Birch School

Rosendale Theater Collective

9 Vance Road, Rock Tavern, NY (845) 645-7772 www.thebirchschool.org

Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

Upstate Films

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

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

2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

Center for the Digital Arts/Westchester Community College 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill

Clothing & Accessories Lea’s Boutique

Forman School

33 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4666

12 Norfolk Road, Litchfield, CT (860) 567-1802 www.formanschool.org

Computer Services

Green Meadow Waldorf School

Tech Smiths

(845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org

45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com

Housatonic Valley Waldorf School 40 Dodgingtown Road, Newtown, CT (203) 364-1113 www.waldorfct.org

Craft Galleries 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: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

Custom Home Design & Materials Atlantic Custom Homes

2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com

Hotchkiss School

11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts

Livingston Street Early Childhood Community Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 www.livingstonstreet.org

Manitou School

1656 Route 9D, Cold Spring, NY www.manitouschool.org

Marist College

3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 575-3000 www.marist.edu

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business directory

Hudson Antique Dealers Association

Hair Salons

Millbrook School

131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8261 www.millbrook.org

Montgomery Montessori School

136 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845) 401-9232 www.montgomeryms.com Montgomery Montessori encompasses students from PreK-8th grade. We are a learning community where children are inspired to realize their academic, personal, and social potential to become global citizens. The historically proven Montessori education model supports the whole child, creates lifelong learners, and educates for peace. The resulting academic excellence is supported by a prepared classroom environment that inspires self-paced, individualized discovery and love of learning, as well as respect for self, others, and the environment.

Mountain Laurel Waldorf School

16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org

Le Shag.

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

Oakwood Friends School

22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-4200 www.OakwoodFriends.org SummerCamp@OakwoodFriends.org

Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com

Randolph School

Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org

Rudolf Steiner School

business directory

35 West Plain Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org

South Kent School

40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 x201 www.southkentschool.org

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

Trinity - Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org

Woodstock Day School

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

Events Durants Tents & Events

1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com

Senate Garage

6 N. Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 784-6134 www.senategarage.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

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

Florists Hops Petunia

73 B Broadway, Kingston, NY www.hopspetunia.com

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

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507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org

Lush Eco-Salon & Spa

2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Tender Land Home

64 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-7213 www.tenderlandhome.com

Insurance Devine Insurance Agency

58 N Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7806 www.devineinsurance.com

Mountaintop School

68 Band Camp Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 389-7322 www.mountaintopschool.com

Organizations YMCA of Kingston

Interior Design New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts

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

Bearsville Theater

291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com

Center for Performing Arts

Hudson Valley Goldsmith

11 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com

The Nest Egg

84 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5851 www.nesteggshop.com

Sierra Lily

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Landscaping Coral Acres, Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634

Lawyers & Mediators

Music Daryl’s House

130 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com

JTD Productions, Inc. (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com

Musical Instruments Barcones Music

528 Broadway, Kingston, (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com

Francis Morris Violins

Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com

Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com

Stamell String Instruments

7 Garden Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-3030 www.stamellstring.com

Stockade Guitars

41 North Front Street, Kingston, NY

Outfitters Next Boutique

17 West Strand Street, Kingston, NY www.nextboutique.com

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

Recreation Apple Greens Golf Course

881 NY-28, Kingston, NY (845) 481-4988 www.jungle28.com

1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, perched over Marlboro Falls, is the Hudson Valley’s premier venue for live world class music, dining, libations and vibrations. There are no tickets or cover charges. The Falcon encourages contributions to a careworn donation box, a symbol of democracy in the arts and a way for patrons to give what they will and what they can. Support living artists! www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org

339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

The Jungle

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

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

New Paltz Travel Center 43 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7706 www.newpaltztravel.com

Toys & Games Tonner Doll Company 301 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.tonnerdoll.com

Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org

Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center 1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 610-5900 www.sugarloafpac.org

Photography

Weddings Luminary Weddings 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 x 114 www.luminaryweddings.com

Roots and Wings

Christine Ashburn Photography (845) 424-6328 www.christineashburnphoto.com

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com

Fionn Reilly Photography

Saugerties Historical Society

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

Picture Framing

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

Rocket Number Nine Records

The Falcon

The Linda WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio,

238 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (212) 625-1656 www.geoffreygood.com

Record Stores

161 South Street, Highland, NY www.applegreens.com

Dreaming Goddess

Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry

(917) 991-5749 peek12media@gmail.com

661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org

Kaatsbaan International Dance Center

44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com

Peekskill Artist District

Bardavon 1869 Opera House

Bop to Tottom

299 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8100

service and specializing in sophisticated marketing techniques, with offices both in Kingston and New York City.

Atelier Renee Fine Framing

The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 25 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Pools & Spas Aqua Jet

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

Real Estate Joy Barnhart Realtor

6700 Kalanianaole Hwy #210, Honolulu, HI (808) 351-7778 joybhart@aol.com

119 Main Street, Saugerties, NY www.saugertieshistoricalsociety.org

Society of Lash 144 Fishkill Avenue, Beacon, NY (845) 765-2899 www.societyoflash.com

Wine & Liquor & Beer Arlington Wine & Liquor 18 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (866) SAY-WINE www.arlingtonwine.net

Denning’s Point Distillery 10 North Chestnut Street, Beacon, NY www.denningspointdistillery.com

Hetta (845) 216-4801 www.hettaglogg.com

Nostrano Vineyards 14 Gala Lane, Milton, NY (845) 795-5473 www.nostranovineyards.com

Town and Country Liquors Route 212, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8931 www.townandcountryliquorstore.com

Workshops

Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg. 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com

Lawrence O’Toole Realty

30 John Street, Kingston, New York (845) 338-5832 www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com larryandpony@gmail.com Lawrence O’Toole Realty is a boutique brokerage company priding itself on its high level of personal

Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss (845) 339-7834 www.hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com

Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org

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RETHINKING CHRONIC ILLNESS

THE WORLD NEEDS A FRESH TAKE ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SICK.

by wendy kagan photos by amanda crommett

rowing up in Katonah in the ’00s, Allie Cashel and Erica Lupinacci were classic girl pals. “We were both into theater so we acted in shows together; we had sleepovers at each other’s houses,” says Cashel. “If you can imagine suburban best friends, we were those girls.” When they got their driver’s licenses, Cashel and Lupinacci would just drive around, talking about everything there was to talk about—boys, school, gossip, friends. But there was one thing they didn’t discuss, ever, and it was probably the biggest thing they were going through in their young lives. They were both chronically ill. Cashel had been diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease at seven years old, but her symptoms never went away; instead, they got worse as she passed through adolescence and young adulthood. After two years of mysterious ailments and misdiagnoses, Lupinacci found out she had lupus when she was 17. Of course, they each knew the other was sick. But talking about it was not an option. “I was terrified to bring it into my social life, so I never brought it up, not one time,” says Cashel. “There just wasn’t space for [being sick] in the identity that I was trying to craft for myself at that time in my life.” A few years later, Cashel dropped the reticence and started writing Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial (North Atlantic Books, 2015), which grew out of her senior project as an undergrad at Bard College. The book tells the story of Cashel and others who are dealing with a medical community that refuses to recognize chronic Lyme disease; patients with persistent symptoms are often dismissed out of hand (one doctor told Cashel that it was physically impossible that she had Lyme, and that she was actually having a mental breakdown). While the book has received positive attention for exposing the politics of Lyme, it also came with a bonus: It inspired Lupinacci and Cashel to open up to each other about their illnesses. When they finally did, it was a relief—and it was also an epiphany to find so many parallels in their experiences. “The politics surrounding Lyme are really intense,” says Lupinacci, “but the emotional aspects [of our illnesses] are

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very similar—feeling alone or like no one understands, being embarrassed about what you can’t do, having to cancel plans, and just the unpredictability of life with a chronic illness.” As the two women recognized how much sharing their experiences helped in their own lives, they decided to create that kind of connection for other people. In 2014 they launched a “Suffering the Silence” web community where people could share their chronic illness stories in a safe, supportive setting. In 2015 they added a visual element: self-portraits. People are invited to write the name of their illness on their arm and take a photo while covering their mouth, symbolizing how we are often “silenced” by illness. Via Twitter and Instagram with a #sufferingthesilence hashtag, the powerful portraits have spread like virtual wildfire. “I think that when people know there’s a community supporting them, a space where they’re not going to be judged and where people want to hear what they have to say,” says Lupinacci, “then they really do want to talk about it.” (Sick) Elephant in the Room If everybody spoke at once about their chronic ailments, our country would be a noisy place: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about half of US adults, 117 million people, had one or more chronic diseases in 2012. Meanwhile, 86 percent of all health-care spending in 2010 was for people with chronic illnesses; that’s 16 percent of our GDP. Those numbers call into question the effectiveness of our current health-care system—which is really designed for acute illnesses rather than chronic ones—to handle this growing crisis, especially when you consider that the incidence of diseases like Alzheimer’s is expected to triple over the next two to three decades. It’s statistics like these that swirl through the brain of Richard Horowitz, MD, the Hyde Park-based Lyme specialist and author of the book Why Can’t I Get Better: Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). “We need to be creating an entirely new model for chronic diseases,” says Horowitz, who is working on projects with collaborators in the US and abroad to find ways

to shift the paradigm for how we treat persistent health scourges. Unlike some doctors who say it’s all in your head, Horowitz is certain that chronic Lyme exists—so certain that he has given it a new name, Lyme-MSIDS (Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome). And since Lyme tends to mimic other disease pathways, he considers it to be a useful lens through which to view all manner of chronic diseases and their treatment. The message that Horowitz presents is that it’s not just one factor that causes disease but a multitude of factors—and we have to consider them all if we’re going to make any progress in the medical world. “Until we look at all the multiple etiologies which are causing chronic disease, medicine is going to be at a standstill,” he says. “We’re going to just keep throwing money at chronic disease epidemics and their end-stage manifestations, but we’re not getting to the source of the problem.” Horowitz identifies 16 factors that make people ill, in what he calls the 16-point MSIDS model. Toward the top of this list are infections and environmental toxins—two elements that are “probably the biggest part of what’s making people sick,” he says. For the most part, the medical community has ignored their effects, but recent studies at Harvard and the University of California, Davis, have looked at environmental factors such as pesticides that increase the risk of autism. “We’re finding a lot of new information that these infections and toxins are driving the inflammatory response,” he says, adding, “Inflammation is the number one common denominator in all chronic disease.”

In her coaching sessions (which often happen remotely over Skype), Stack tailors her approach to the specific needs of each client, drawing from her training in holistic health, integrative nutrition, positive psychology, and mind-body modalities like meditation and mindfulness. “If [a client is] feeling something really strongly, I might ask, ‘Are you aware of that feeling that you’re having? What does that awareness feel like?’ That can lead people into a realization of the awareness that’s underlying everything and that’s unchanging, totally full and perfect, and that’s never been touched by illness, trauma, or any other circumstances. No matter what’s going on, pain or discomfort, there’s always this underlying consciousness.” Through exercises like this, says Stack, people can begin to disidentify with their illness and recognize that they are so much more than their diagnosis; they begin to find more peace. She also works with people

“There’s real power when you bring people together with different diagnoses. We want to create dialogue and raise awareness as a larger community rather than a fragmented one.” —Allie Cashel Horowitz is coming out with an app to help people work with his 16-point model; he also has a vision for Chronic Disease Centers of Excellence— a new kind of clinic that will treat people using his multifactorial paradigm that looks at everything from bacteria in the gut to nutritional deficiencies and hormone imbalances. On the prevention and treatment side, he finds promise in epigenetics—a growing field of science about how we can change our genetic programming when it comes to chronic illness. “Nutritional supplements like curcumin [an anti-inflammatory], resveratrol [an antioxidant found in red wine], zinc—all of these things have been published in the medical literature as affecting the way our DNA acts in the body.” Horowitz also recommends meditation, exercise, and nine hours of sleep a night, noting, “There are things we can do to change our genetic destiny.” Writing Your Own Story When you’re living with chronic illness on a daily basis, self-care of the kind Horowitz describes is essential. For Kelly Stack—a North Carolina-based health coach who specializes in helping people with chronic illness, and who was herself diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 24—it starts with your mindset. “It’s so easy for people to get totally identified with their illness and to put themselves in a box,” she says. “For a lot of people, their life is about their illness.” They might fixate on doctors’ protocols or medical statistics, getting pulled along for the ride in a way that creates a lot of stress. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Stack works with people to help them expand their experience and to reduce the feeling of isolation that chronic illness can bring. “It’s so liberating to realize that even if an illness is progressing, you can still do a lot to have a really full and amazing life.We don’t have to let circumstances dictate how we’re experiencing life. It’s important to stay open to possibilities.”

to engage more with life, to seek out moments of pleasure, and to avoid the chronic stress that often comes with chronic illness. “It’s easy for those of us who are on this path of exploring healing to get superconsumed with that. What’s the perfect diet? It’s constantly looking for the next thing that can heal us.” Of course, we can pursue healthy practices, but we need to do it with a sense of balance, says Stack—and we need to recognize that some things are beyond our control. “Explore and do what you can, but do it from a nourishing, wholesome place of acceptance and self-love.” It’s insights like these that Stack will expand upon in her forthcoming book, Flourishing with Chronic Illness, which draws from the ways she’s helped clients (and herself) to create a deep and satisfying experience of life, even through major challenges. 1/16 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING 75

1 Anahata Yoga and More

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The sweetest spot in Kingston with over 300 varieties of penny candy, ice cream and cookies

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334 Wall Street • (845) 338-8100 www.boptotottom.com

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Gifts, Jewelry, Clothing, Fashion Accessories, Swell Stuff!

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5 Diego's Taqueria

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38 John Street • (845) 338-2816 diegoskingston.com

6 Lawrence O’Toole Realty Opening new doors for you

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An American bistro celebrating 17 years Located in the heart of the Hudson Valley on Kingston’s Historic Waterfront. 15 West Strand • (845) 334-8887 shiptoshorehudsonvalley.com

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In Good Company Having a chronic illness can be very isolating, says Stack, but with a little reframing it can also be a source of profound connection. Cashel and Lupinacci agree. “There’s real power when you bring people together with different diagnoses,” says Cashel about their “Suffering the Silence” web community and portrait project. “We want to create dialogue and raise awareness as a larger community rather than a fragmented one.” They also want to help reveal what are often not just silent illnesses, but also invisible ones. “When you have symptoms like fatigue or joint pain, people can easily brush them off,” says Lupinacci. “Sometimes you look physically fine, and that makes it hard for them to picture you as ill or incapable of doing things. That lack of disability in your appearance can affect people’s ability to understand what you’re going through.” After breaking her own silence, Lupinacci feels that she has become a better advocate for herself, identifying what kind of support she needs from doctors, family, and friends. For Cashel, coming out about Lyme helped her come to terms with what she has gone through and claim it as part of her identity—as well as part of a larger collective of people. Her conclusion? “We’re in this together.” RESOURCES Allie Cashel/Erica Lupinacci Sufferingthesilence.com Richard Horowitz, MD Cangetbetter.com Kelly Stack Kellystack.com

Check John’s website for more information johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420 715 State Route 28, Kingston NY and West 72nd Street New York, NY

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Manage Stress • Apprehensions • Pain • Improve Sleep Release Weight • Set Goals • Change Habits Pre/Post Surgery • Fertility • Hypno Birthing Immune System Enhancement • Nutritional Counseling Past Life Regression • Intuitive Counseling Motivational & Spiritual Guidance

Breathe • Be Mindful • Let Go • Flow

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Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac.

371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive one-onone care, affordable rates, sliding scale. Accepting Blue Cross, no-fault and other insurances. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and triggerpoint acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of nontoxic, eco-friendly materials.

Aromatherapy

life experience and heal. Inner exploration though Hypnosis, somatic awareness, sand play and expressive art brings greater clarity, renewed sense of purpose and wisdom. Address issues for positive change ranging from greater success in public speaking to releasing addictive behavior. Providing Medical Hypnosis, beyond time exploration, and Life Between Livesª Sessions. Offering Certification in Hypnosis throughout the year.

Kent Babcock, LMSW Stone Ridge, NY (845) 807-7147 kentagram@gmail.com At 65, as an older therapist, I now work exclusively with men—mid-life and older. I counsel men who are taking stock of their lives, supporting them in the here-and-now to reassess the past and re-contemplate the future. I also have a particular interest and expertise in Asperger’s Syndrome, diagnosed or not. Sliding scale.

Joan Apter

Mary Taylor, LCSW

Center for Metal Arts

New Paltz, NY and the Upper West Side, NYC, www.creativeintelligence.org (212) 579-7955 My practice targets areas of most concern for the creative person. Psychotherapy, career counseling and peak performance methods are combined with experiential and energetic practices to cultivate flow and allow you to work effectively with your creative abilities. Peace of mind emerges when living from your own ‘creative space.’

(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy

Art Instruction 44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com info@centerformetalarts.com Beginner and master classes in Blacksmithing and Small Metals. Intro workshops and advanced skills with resident blacksmithing instructor Patrick Quinn, and small metals with resident instructor Laurie Marshall. Advanced workshops with visiting instructors. Oneday, weekend and extended seminars in the metal arts, with hands-on instruction in a well-equipped working studio.

Astrology Planet Waves

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

Counseling Clear Mind Arts

Rhinebeck, New York clearmindarts.com jenniferaxinnweiss.com 845-876-8828 sandplay555@frontier.com A safe and supportive space offering tools for adults and children to process 78 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 1/16

Dentistry & Orthodontics Center for Advanced Dentistry 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

Tischler Dental Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com

Fitness Centers ClubLife Health & Fitness 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 320-7885 www.clublifefi t.com

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

Health Coaching Take Control Health Coaching (845) 758-6067 www.takecontrolhealthcoaching.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

John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com

Hospitals Health Quest 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org

MidHudson Regional Hospital Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/ mhrh

Life & Career Coaching Peter Heymann (845) 802-0544 www.breakthroughwithcoachpete.com

Massage Therapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Hot Stones.

Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes 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!

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.

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

Emerson Resort & Spa Route 28, Mt. Tremper, NY (877) 688-2828 www.emersonresort.com

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

Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston

Clear Yoga 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY www.clearyogarhinebeck.com 845 876 6129 clearyogarhinebeck@gmail.com Iyengar yoga is a form of hatha yoga that promotes strength, flexibility, and stamina, as well as a more focused state of mind. It is suitable for people of all ages and experience, from yoga enthusiasts to athletes interested in building core strength. Beginning in January: Thursdays 12-5 at Izlind in Rhinebeck for more info: www.izlind.com

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publicprograms Healing America’s Streams and Rivers

Friday, January 22 at 7 p.m. Ecologist Dr. Margaret Palmer will discuss the realities of restoring our nation’s flowing fresh waters. Palmer is an expert on how mining and other pressures impact streams, and an advocate for their preservation in U.S. Courts. (Ned Ames Honorary Lecture)

Roaring Back

Friday, February 19 at 7 p.m.

Simi Stone performing at the Chronogram Block Party.

8DW EIGHT DAY WEEK

EVENTS TO YOUR INBOX EACH THURSDAY

Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, President of the Cary Institute, will present an optimistic update on the world’s large carnivores. Lions, tigers, bears, wild dogs, and other iconic animals are often depicted as being on the brink of extinction. Discover conservation success stories and lessons learned.

Learn more at www.caryinstitute.org 2801 Sharon Turnpike (Rte. 44)|Millbrook, NY 12545|845 677-5343

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THECENTERFORPERFORMINGARTS (845) 232-2320 • www.centerforperformingarts.org ATRHINEBECK For box office and information:

ROSEN DALE THEATRE 408 Main Street Rosendale, NY 1 2472 845.658.8989 rosendaletheatre.org JAN. 3

SUNDAY SILENTS

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE

WITH LIVE PIANO BY MARTA WATERMAN $7/$5 members, 3:00 pm

JAN. 10

DANCE FILM SUNDAY PRESENTS

MILLEPIED, BALANCHINE, ROBBINS $12/$10 members/$6 under 12, 3:00 pm

JAN. 24

NATIONAL THEATRE FROM LONDON

JANE EYRE

$12/$10 members, 3:00 pm

UPCOMING FILMS: ROOM, TRUMBO, THE DANISH GIRL

January 8 - 31

8pm Fri & Sat; 3pm Sat (1/16 & 1/23 only); 3pm Sun • Tickets: $27/$25

And Then They Came for Me Part oral history, part dramatic action, part direct address, part remembrance, the ensemble-driven And Then They Came for Me breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics in world-wide productions. “This production is like a historic newsreel brought to life on the stage. And it works.” Directed by Patrick McGriff for CENTERstage Productions.

February 5-7

8pm Fri & Sat • 3pm Sun Tickets: $20/$10 at door for students with current i.d.

The CENTER is located at 661 Rte. 308, 3.5 miles east of the light in the Village of Rhinebeck

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See you at The CENTER!

WHERE EVERYBODY COMES TO PLAY

YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County 507 Broadway Kingston, NY 12401 Phone: 845-338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org

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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR JANUARY 2016

Immanence, by Yoan Capote, one of the artworks in "Winter in America" at The School in Kinderhook through April 30.

Winterlude All of the healers have been killed Or sent away, yeah But the people know, the people know It’s winter Winter in America These lines are from “Winter in America,” a Gil Scott-Heron song from 1974 that inspired a Hank Willis Thomas video, which in turn inspired an art show at The School, the sprawling gallery in Kinderhook. “Winter in America” runs through April 30. This exhibition space, administered by the Jack Shainman Gallery, resembles a small museum. But museum shows often feel like they were assembled by a committee, and a highly individual eye created this exhibit, juxtaposing photography, painting, original comic book art, installation, carvings by untrained sculptors, and items from the Black Panther archives. Artists from 15 countries contributed works. This is a first-rate showcase available to Hudson Valley art lovers for free. Since it was once Martin Van Buren High School—and is still called “The School”—one expects education, and isn’t disappointed! Walking into the gallery, you confront a huge head of Fidel Castro (I thought it was Odysseus) made from hundreds of Cuban door hinges. The sculpture rests on 11 discarded American doors, representing the 11 presidential administrations since Fidel came to power. This is “Immanence” by Yoan Capote, a Cuban installation artist. Down the hall, Francis Mitchell’s photograph of Malcolm X (taken from the Panther archives) shows Malcolm with his finger pointing forward, mid-lecture, like a revolutionary history teacher. Destiny is an oil painting of three superimposed images of black incarcerated women named Destiny, painted by Titus Kaphar. (Nearly a third of all the women prisoners in the world are in the US.) This triple-face, which resembles a rolling TV screen, gazes across the room at two Andy Warhol silkscreens of electric chairs—or

actually, the same electric chair in two different colors. (And odd colors: light green and mauve.) Is state-sponsored murder Destiny’s destiny? A heroic Mark di Suvero titled Chonk On squats on the front lawn, like a playground for five-year-old astrophysicists. This sculpture subtly announces the show-withina-show of three small di Suvero assemblages and two drawings, one of which is, coincidentally, called Untitled (Wintertime). “You’d be surprised how much the town of Kinderhook has embraced the gallery,” Jack Shainman remarks. One connection to the village is Harold Van Santvoord (1863-1913), 11 of whose drawings are in the show. While working as an editor at the Albany Times-Union and contributing to Life magazine, Kinderhook resident Van Santvoord composed absurd limericks that he illustrated with semi-insulting illustrations (“Weary Waggles, though down on his uppers / Fills himself up with booze to the scuppers…”). He was the Hudson Valley Edward Lear! Yet these works were unknown until 2006, when they were discovered in the basement of the Kinderhook Memorial Library. A number of major artists are represented here: Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Nancy Spero, Carrie Mae Weems, Margaret Bourke-White, Michael Snow. But some of the most powerful artworks are by “Anonymous.” One is a small wooden doll hanging from a gallows. His arms are tied behind his back with string, and his back arches in agony. He was carved by an unknown prisoner sometime in the 20th century. Nearby is a jar (still labeled “Salad Dressing”) entirely filled with wishbones. An African-American character in Kerry James Marshall’s “Rythm Master” comic strip announces: “Our art was not made for museums or coffee tables. Its purpose is to sustain a people.” This could be the epigraph of “Winter in America.” “Winter in America” will be exhibited at The School in Kinderhook until April 30. The gallery is open Saturdays, 11am to 5pm. (518) 758-1628; Jackshainman.com/school. —Sparrow

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FRIDAY 1 HEALTH & WELLNESS First Day Hike at Olana

11am-noon. With the launching of our 50th anniversary year, marking the saving of Olana, we will host our new landscape tour for the first time. Join us for an historic hike of the artist designed Ridge Road carriage drive, as we focus on Frederic Church’s art, vision and design. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 103.

First Saturday Reception

First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.

SUNDAY 3 FILM

Seastrom’s “The Phantom Carriage”

Amy McTear: New Year’s Day Musical Odyssey

3-5pm. 7$. An artistic rendering of a dark morality tale. It has a deep and typically Scandinavian sense of despair and hopelessness. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Lucky Peterson

MUSIC

4pm. New Age. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255.8212. 7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Larry Moses & The Latin Jazz Explosion

New Year’s Day Brunch with Big Joe Fitz and the Lo-Fis

Tift Merritt

12-3pm. Come on down to the Cafe and work off those hangovers with a Bloody Mary or Mimosa while listening to some soothing music. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

WEDNESDAY 6

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

6:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of drinks, painting, fun, & relaxation. Al Fresco Ristorante, Fishkill. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-atal-fresco-ristorante/.

Lespecial

8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

COMEDY

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

7:30pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335.

Beginner Swing Dance Class

6pm. $85. 4-week class. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578.

THURSDAY 7 Movement Therapy With ShivaRam Wolfgang Thom

7-8:30pm. Sponsored by the Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. (845) 687-0880.

8:30pm. W/ The Trapps. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

Michael Musillami Trio

7pm. With special guests Peter Madsen, Jimmy Greene, Jon Irabagon, and Jason Rigby. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-3775.

Second Friday Jam Winter Hoot The third annual Hoot is a long weekend of music, dancing, local food and drink, film, family-friendly activities, and community at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge. Friday night features dinner and a screening of The Wisdom to Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Community, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. All-day entertainment starts at 11am on Saturday with music and dancing for kids and families, blacksmithing demos, sledding, all-ages crafts in the FiberFlame room, music performances by Gustafer Yellowgold, the Mike + Ruthy Band, and others, culminating in a rowdy midnight square dance. Sunday concludes with brunch and a Community Sing with Elizabeth Mitchell and Friends. Tickets are by donation and contributions help fund the Ashokan Center’s environmental programs and facilities improvements. Homeofthehoot.com

First Saturday of every month, 10am-noon. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.

Sailing Stone

MUSIC

Times Square: Classic A Cappella Doo Wop

6pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

MONDAY 4

The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble

12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Kingston Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse

7:30pm. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Don Sparks and multi-instrumentalist Dan Bonis followed by open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston. 331-2884.

Krewe de la Rue

8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Marshall Crenshaw

7pm. Folk, rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

DANCE

Swing Dance Class

$85 series. 4-week class. Beginner 6-7pm, intermediate 7-8pm, advanced 8-9pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. (845)338-0333.

MUSIC

Joe Fiedler Quintet

8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. TGI Friday’s, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-at-tgifridays-newburgh-010416/.

New Year’s Eve Ragas with Steve Gorn and Ray Seigel

5-7pm. Steve Gorn: bansuri Indian flute & Ray Spieigel: Tabla Drums. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Pat McGee Duo

Healing Circle to Nourish Your Soul

8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Bully

8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Bryan Gordon

MUSIC

Lara Hope & The Arktones

11am-1pm. $20. Join us on New Year’s Day for a very special workshop that will bring your New Year in with the healing energy of the Divine Mother. Anahata, Kingston. 481-0519.

Saturday Social Circle

6-7:30pm. Come meet renowned licensed creative arts therapist, Theresa Haney, to learn more about the upcoming Arts Therapy groups starting in mid-January at Izlind. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

8-10:30pm. $20-$35. Rex Fowler of the renowned folk-rock duo Aztec Two-Step will be honoring The King of Rock ‘n Roll with his special show All About Elvis. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Divine Mother Activation - New Year’s Day Celebration

KIDS & FAMILY

Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies

Happy Birthday Elvis Preseley! Documentary Film & Concert featuring Rex & The Rockabilly Kings

SPIRITUALITY

7:30-10:30pm. $15. With the Swing Shift Orchestra. Includes basic lesson at 7:30 with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. No partner or dance experience necessary to attend. MAC Fitness, Kingston. Got2lindy.com.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

7-9pm. David Kraai & Amy Laber dole out two sets of the finest country folk music. Diego’s Taqueria, Kingston. 338-2816.

8:30pm. Rick Danko Tribute. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

Swing into the New Year Dance

Stand-up Comedian Kathleen Madigan

David Kraai & Amy Laber

Buffalo Stack

SATURDAY 2

FRIDAY 8

7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Through 1/3. Three days of music and dance classes, singing, jamming and evening dances, plus a festive New Year’s Eve dinner. Fabulous music, great food, good times, and comfy lodging with heated floors. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

DANCE

7-8:30pm. $20 4H member/$40 non-member and adults. Fly tying is the art of tying string, yarn, feathers, & other materials to a fish hook so it resembles food that fish eat. Orange County 4-H/Gander Mountain, Middletown. 344-1234.

A Course in Miracles

New Year’s at Ashokan

First Friday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $35. A sacred circle to connect, explore and expand. Acupuncturist and intuitive healer Holly Burling will guide you through a soulful healing experience SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974.

Orange County 4-H Fly Tying Program

SPIRITUALITY

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

8:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

TUESDAY 5 LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike

7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Path to Entrepreneurship Program

5:30-8pm. Please join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a free program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh. 363-6432.

A New You: Transitions and Changes for the New Year 6:30-8:30pm. $35/By 11/14 $25. Explore pathways to realizing your dreams as you create a “new you for the new year...” Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

LECTURES & TALKS First Thursdays in the Archives First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.

MUSIC David Kraai 7-10pm. David Kraai swings by to dole out two sets of fine country folk music. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739.

Joe Louis Walker & Friends 7pm. Blues, rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

ProJam 14 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7pm. $45. Join us for a night of drinks, painting, fun, & relaxation. Gus’s Tavern, New Windsor. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paintat-guss-tavern/.

SPIRITUALITY Sufi Healing Circle 6:45pm. Refreshments at 6pm. Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-8989.

8-11:30pm. Jeff Entin and Bob Blum met in a mental hospital in 1972, where they were both aides. The emphasis is on fun.. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

THEATER

HD Screening of London’s National Theater: Coriolanus

6:30pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

The Music Man

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 9 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.

FOOD & WINE

New Paltz Winter Farmers’ Market

Second Saturday of every month, 10am-3pm. Shop for delicious local food items such as meat, eggs, root crops, greens, goat cheese, bakery items, maple syrup, heirloom seeds and more. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 383-1761.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Introduction to Yoga

JourneyDance into the New Year

2-4pm. $45. Come create and dance a new story for the New Year! By awakening the sense and loosening the spine, we will create renewed energy for any intentions for 2016. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

KIDS & FAMILY

The Berenstain Bears Live

3pm. $30/$25. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.

MUSIC

Chris Jackson

8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

ART ANDREW LYGHT RETROSPECTIVE

Air Rights NYLyght NY 6136, Andrew Lyght, archival pigment inks and pencil on cotton photo rag paper, 22”x 27”, 2009-10.

More Lyght! In the 1980s and early 1990s, when I was living in New York City, downtown Manhattan was a cauldron of creativity, with neo-expressionism, abstraction, and graffiti art spilling out of the galleries into the streets and clubs. But two of my most memorable art encounters occurred in Midtown: One was an assemblage consisting of a huge blue sail and dangling pieces of bamboo hung in the soaring space of St. Peter’s Church, in the Citicorp Building, and the second was a huge mobile-like construction of colored geometric shapes like giant kites floating in the atrium of the new Embassy Suites hotel in Times Square. Both pieces recalled the contemporaneous skewed geometric reliefs of Frank Stella, but their transcendent lyricism, tropical coloration, formal rigor, and vernacular craft were unique. In 2012, I unexpectedly met the creator of the two pieces, Guyana-born artist Andrew Lyght, who had moved to Kingston after purchasing a former brick mule barn he was restoring as a home/studio. Lyght was an exile several times over: After winning Guyana’s top art prize at the age of 19, he moved to Montreal, where he lived for eight years before relocating to New York City. He had his first solo show at the Nassau County Museum, which was followed by commissions for IBM and other corporate clients; his pieces are in the collections of the Pompidou Center, the World Bank, and Smith College Museum of Art. Upon losing his 8,000-square-foot loft after an extended court battle with his landlord, Lyght left the city and spent much of 2004 and 2005 in Italy before settling in the Hudson Valley. (The $150,000 grant he received from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation funded much of his stay in Europe.) Through all the changes, he never ceased to make art. His five decades of drawings, paintings, installations, prints, and sculpture—categories that in his oeuvre blur and overlap—are now finally getting their due in his first solo retrospective show, “Full Circle,” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. The exhibition spans Lyght’s work from the circular string-suspended colorful canvas floor pieces that represented his first foray into abstraction in Montreal to his current wall pieces, constructed of a curved piece of plywood, vellum or paper pinned to an underlying wooden crosspiece frame. Each sheet is a shape, painted in fruity, subdued, or earth tones, a palette inspired by his native Caribbean land. Like many of his surfaces, each is covered in an abstract patterned drawing, a kind of coded network

that conflates the diagrammatic with the biomorphic and was inspired by the prehistoric petroglyphs in Guyana. In between is a rich sampling of Lyght’s work over the decades. The “Industrial Paintings,” glossy, epoxied steel sheaths positioned in a steel post-and-lintel frame (in some works the frame morphs into a sculptural form) and wall or floor-based constructions incorporating 55-gallon steel drums, steel sheathing, ladders, piping, bamboo, and other natural and industrial materials that further push the language of abstract form into three dimensions, are from the 1990s. There are works on canvas or paper covered in rust shapes, made from the oxidization of objects placed on the surface under water, a process he first experimented with in Montreal. More recent works include the Air Rights NY / Lyght NY series, which combine CAD drawing, digital photography, and printmaking to depict fanciful, space-age shapes floating above the New York skyline; each image is covered in a radial pattern of colored-pencil lines, fracturing and divvying up the space, a diagrammatic device that both abstracts the image and perhaps references the calculations of real estate investors. (Lyght notes that after losing his loft, he transferred his studio “into the virtual space of the laptop” and created the computer-generated drawings, which garnered him another prestigious grant.) Rooted in his childhood experience of the shipyards and multiracial markets of coastal Guyana, Lyght’s body of work transcends specificity for an imaginative vision that conflates prehistoric past and gleaming future, the analytical and the mysterious, materiality and flight. His pieces function as both artifact and instruction, a source of sensory pleasure as well as an invitation to a journey. “I have physically deconstructed, altered, and reconstructed the picture plane, the frame, and the compositional elements within that frame to better understand and communicate the dynamic nature of pictorial space,” he writes in the sumptuous, comprehensive catalog that accompanies the show. “Each new body of work has explored the limits of the eye by creating an art form that appears to have no fixed boundaries.” “Full Circle” will be on display at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art from January 20 to April 10. (845) 257-3844; Newpaltz.edu/museum. —Lynn Woods 1/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 83

The Crossroads Band

MUSIC

Daria Grace’s Pre-War Ponies

8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

8pm. Featuring Loren Stillman, Brandon Seabrook and Eivind Opsvik. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

Healing Concert

NIGHTLIFE

The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble

7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. Copperfield’s, Millbrook. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-atcopperfields/.

8:30pm. Classic rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012.

5pm. With Laila Brady Walzer, Jim Barbaro, and friends. Music designed to open and heal the heart, mind and soul T Woodstock Sufi Center, Woodstock. 679-8989.

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones

8pm. Rockabilly, rhythm ‘n’ blues, rock ‘n’ roll. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

The Living Roots Trio

8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Willow Blue

8:30pm. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.

Commander Cody Band

8:30pm. Classic rock. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

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Vinnie Sparrazza Apocryphal

TUESDAY 12 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Solopreneurs Sounding Board

Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9pm. donation. Struggling with a work issue? Need a perspective shift? Take advantage of collective intelligence (“hive mind”) and an inspiring meeting place to work out creative solutions to problems. Facilitated by BEAHIVE founder Scott Tillitt and/or Lauree Ostrofsky. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. Beahivebzzz.com/events/ solopreneurs-sounding-board-2014-07-08/.

KIDS & FAMILY Winter Storytelling Night 6:30-7:30pm. $20/children free. Winter is storytelling season, and “Winter Nights” is a great opportunity to get out of the house, join in community, relax, and recharge your spirit. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC Darlingside

THEATER

Death Takes a Cruise

7pm. Interactive mysery dinner theater with the ACME Mystery Company. Mahoney’s Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Orange County 4-H Fly Tying Program

Folk quartet. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Trivium and One Day Waiting The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.

NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. Umberto’s Mamma Marisa, Poughkeepsie. Vinevangogh.com/product/sippaint-at-umbertos-of-mamma-marisa-011316/.

FRIDAY 15 LECTURES & TALKS Introductory Sessions

9-11am. Watch a short video about Waldorf Education, tour the school’s 11-acre campus, and speak to Administrators and faculty. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.

MUSIC

Elvis Birthday Bash

9pm. Featuring the Lustre Kings. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors/students and children free. Featuring works by Edvard Grieg, John Luther Adams, and Jean Sibelius. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-6900.

Professor Louie and the Crowmatix

8pm. Music from Hurley Mountain. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

THEATER

The Sherman Holmes Project with Brooks Long

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Singer-Songwriter Showcase

7pm. Gospel, R&B. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Music Man

8-10:30pm. Third Friday of every month. $6. Arts Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0311.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Renewal Course

Eight to the Bar

8:30pm. Jazz, swing, jump blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

9am-3pm. $125. This is a recertification of the ACLS course. You must have an ACLS certification to take this course. Course completion results in a two-year ACLS certification from the American Heart Association. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

The Musical Box: Authorized by Peter Gabriel, Re-Creation Of Genesis “The Black Show”

8pm. $60. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Blacksmithing Basics

NIGHTLIFE

Lots of basic techniques at the anvil in this one-day class. Build your forging skills for the advanced blacksmithing classes here, and expect to go home with two sets of forged hooks. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

Vine Van Gogh

7-9:30pm. $45. Join Vine Van Gogh, the Hudson Valley’s premier “Sip and Paint” for a night of drinks, painting, fun, and relaxation. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

SUNDAY 10 DANCE

2nd Sunday Swing Dance

Second Sunday of every month. $12/$6 full time students with ID. Beginners’ lesson 6:006:30, dance to live music 6:30-9:00. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Swing Dance to Shorty King’s Rhythm Revue

6-9pm. $12/$10 FT students. Beginners’ lesson 6-6:30; band 6:30-9; sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

LECTURES & TALKS

Francis Morrone: Thomas Cole and 19thCentury American Architecture 2pm. $9/$8 members. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465.

MUSIC

Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Ryan Montbleau

7pm. Indie rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

THEATER

The Music Man

3pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 11 HEALTH & WELLNESS

Detox Fundamentals: Learn How to Cleanse the Body, Mind, & Spirit

6-8pm. Join special guest and well-known Naturopathic Doctor, Tom Francescott (Dr. Tom), as he discusses detoxification. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

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THEATER Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Winter Cabaret Hudson’s resident band of sideshow specialists are back for another winter in residence at Helsinki Hudson. The adult-oriented cabaret kicks off on January 16 at 9pm with an eclectic mix of internationally renowned street performers, circus acts, theater, comedy, and original, witty musical entertainment. Each month will bring a new lineup, from sword swallowers to contortionists to aerialists. (A family-friendly matinee will be offered on March 20.) Audiences are encouraged to dress for the occasion, and those in costume or circus makeup receive discounted admission. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.

The Music Man

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

American Heart Association BLS Healthcare Provider Renewal Course

6-10pm. $50. This is a recertification class for BLS healthcare providers. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

SATURDAY 16 DANCE

SPIRITUALITY

DANCE

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Third Saturday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm. $10/$5 full time students. Dances are taught, if you are new try to get there on time; the earlier dances are easier. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050.

Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango an Salsa

A Course in Miracles

HEALTH & WELLNESS

THURSDAY 14

Introduction to Meditation

6-7pm. $120 series. A 6-week introductory workshop to learn and practice the ancient art of meditation. Discuss and practice the essential elements of different styles of meditation such as mindfulness body scan, loving-kindness, chanting, and guided healing. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

LECTURES & TALKS

Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk

Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.

MUSIC

Chris Speed Trio

9pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & great memories. Bacchus Restaurant, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-atbacchus-restaurant/.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Intermediate Swing Dance Class

6:30-7:30pm. $85. 4-week class. Intro to swing dance performance class at 7:30pm. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578.

BUSINESS & NETWORKING

Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting

Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Beginning Tai Chi Chuan

9:30-10:30am. $132/series. Tai Chi Chuan improves health, generates energy, clears the mind and harmonizes the spirit.Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 399-1033.

MUSIC

The DuPont Brothers

8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys 7pm. Zydeco. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

The Musical Box performs Genesis’ “The Black Show” 8pm. $35-$48. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.

Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin

7-9:30pm. Jeff Entin welcomes musicians from all around the Hudson Valley to Open Mic night. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

7pm. $45. Join us for a night of drinks, painting, fun, & relaxation. The Branding Iron, Peekskill. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paintat-the-branding-iron/.

Third Saturday Contra Dance Party

HEALTH & WELLNESS Introduction to Yoga

KIDS & FAMILY

Firefighter Fran and Firestar

10:30am-noon. Firefighter Fran and Firestar will present an interactive show on fire safety that will have the whole family excited about fire prevention. After the show meet and greet Firestar and pose for a picture with this crazy canine. FASNY Museum of Firefighting, Hudson. (518) 822-1875.

Three Little Birds

2 & 4:30pm. $20/$15 children. The show is based on the children’s book of the same name, penned by Cedella Marley, daughter of legendary reggae artist Bob Marley. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

LITERARY & BOOKS

Helen Klein Ross: What Was Mine

4-5:30pm. This urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years. The White Hart Inn, Salisbury, CT. 876-0500.

MUSIC LUTHER “GUITAR JUNIOR” JOHNSON

Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson performs at the Towne Crier on January 16.

Live Wire As of late, time has been taking its toll on the Greatest Generation of the blues. We lost B. B. King last May, local great Little Sammy Davis, 87, has been sidelined by a stroke, and within just the last few years Honeyboy Edwards, Pinetop Perkins, and Louisiana Red have all departed. It’s tough to meditate on, but it’s true: Our living links to the authentic deep blues of the American South, and even the later electric Chicago blues of the 1950s, are dwindling fast. But there is a handful of these treasured conduits to the Real Deal still standing. One of them is Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, who has direct ties to both blues epochs and will visit the Towne Crier on January 16. The 76-year-old singer and guitarist (who shouldn’t be confused with the similarly named bluesmen Luther “Snake Boy” Johnson, Luther “Houserocker” Johnson, and Lonnie “Guitar Junior” Brooks) was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and moved to Chicago in 1955. There, he began an apprenticeship with the great Magic Sam, picking up on the guitar king’s distinctive West Side style—stinging single notes interspersed with distorted rhythm chords. Developed for the most part by Magic Sam and Otis Rush, the West Side sound made a deep impact on Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, and other rock players. From 1972 to 1980, Johnson played in Muddy Waters’s band, touring the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and appearing on several of the legend’s records.

After leaving Waters, Johnson cut a couple of tracks for Chicago’s renowned Alligator Records and appeared as a member of John Lee Hooker’s backup band in the monsterhit 1980 John Belushi/Dan Akroyd comedy The Blues Brothers. He eventually split the Windy City for the East Coast, where he put together the Magic Rockers, a group he would front for four albums. Since settling in New Hampshire, he’s collaborated on three albums with Washington, DC, unit the Nighthawks, whose ranks at one time included a young guitar player named Warren Haynes. Johnson won a Grammy in 1985 for his contributions to that year’s seminal Alligator anthology, Blues Explosion. During his years with Waters, Johnson shared bills with Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, and the Allman Brothers and performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Radio City Music Hall. A festival favorite, the guitarist and vocalist has brought his heated, bending strings and anguished wail to event stages from New Orleans to Antibes. “If you don’t like the blues, you got a hole in your soul,” Johnson growls between riffs in a YouTube clip from a torrid 2011 gig. No argument here, sir. Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson performs at the Towne Crier in Beacon on January 16 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $25. (845) 855-1300; Townecrier.com. —Peter Aaron

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MUSIC

Aaron Carter and Lineup Atlantic

The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret

9pm. Cabaret, featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps

9pm-midnight. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps are back to dole out two sets of the finest country rock. The Andes Hotel, Andes. 676-3980.

Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Experience 8pm. $39.50-$44.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble

12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

The Met: Live in HD Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de Perles 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

THEATER

LITERARY & BOOKS

3pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Book Launch Event Carol Goodman: River Road

The Music Man

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Ballroom Dance Crash Course

1-4pm. $20 each/$45 all three. Swing 1pm, foxtrot 2pm, waltz 3pm. Take each section or entire series. La Maison du BienÊtre, Newburgh.

6-7:30pm. A chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident. Carol Goodman is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including The Seduction of Water. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Purpose and Passion Creative Arts Group: Ages 20-29

7:30-8:30pm. $620/$585/$550. Passion and Purpose is a group using the creative arts for individuals in their 20’s who want to explore their talents and passions, develop important interpersonal skills, and discover what it means to live a life of purpose. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC

Open Mike

Split Bill: Bobby Paltauf and Dylan Doyle Band

HEALTH & WELLNESS

7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

The Thunderhead Organ Trio

6-8pm. $100 +$235 detox juice in advance/$185. Transform your resolutions into health solutions! What are your body and soul craving? Join special guest and renowned Naturopathic Doctor, Tom Francescott (Dr. Tom), as he guides a simple yet life-changing detox and cleanse program. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC

MONDAY 18 Detox & Transform Body & Mind: A 21 Day Group Cleanse

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

8pm. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Driftwood

An Acoustic Evening with Joe Bonamassa 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.

Lydia Adams Davis & Dan Pelletier 8pm. Dogwood, Beacon. 202-7500.

Soul City Motown & Stax Revue

8:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

Trio Mio

8-9:30pm. This 4-5 member trio performs mostly original music in either acoustic or electric formats. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

8:30-11:30pm. Soul City presents some of the most powerful decades in music history. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

7pm. $75. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. The Tavern at Centennial Golf Club, Carmel. Vinevangogh.com/product/sippaint-at-the-tavern-at-centennial-golf-club/.

Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson

8:30pm. Blues. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

THEATER

Tony Merando

7pm. Interactive mysery dinner theater with the ACME Mystery Company. Mahoney’s Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.

Death Takes a Cruise

8:30pm. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.

THEATER

The Music Man

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

8pm and 3pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Library Knitters

How to Create the Most Profitable Marketing Plan for Your Business

Orange County 4-H Fly Tying Program

9am-4pm. $49.95. This workshop is only for business owners that want the best return on investment on their resources. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432.

Repair Cafe: New Paltz

10am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood; dolls & stuffed animals. An expert level of repair. Plus a supervised Kids Take-Apart Area. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835.

SUNDAY 17 KIDS & FAMILY

The Paper Bag Players “PopPop-Popcorn!”

2pm. $8.50/$6 children/$7.50 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/$6 students/SUNY Orange students with ID free. The award winning Paper Bag Players new play “POP-POP-POPCORN!” will have you singing and laughing, hoppin’ and poppin’ from start to finish. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891.

LECTURES & TALKS

Woodstock’s 26th Annual Birthday Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2pm. Through reflection, celebration, education and song let us remember the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and use them to inspire us to continue the struggle against the New Jim Crow with ever greater vision, solidarity and intensity. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 679-7420.

MUSIC

Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound 11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jean-Michel Pilc: Solo Piano

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society

3pm. Annual concert, this year presenting Avery Amereau, mezzo-soprano. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.

The Subdudes

8:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal

8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

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FRIDAY 22 DANCE

Swing Dane Workshop with Professional Dance Instructors Uptown Craft Beer Boogaloo In case you missed Radio Woodstock’s craft beer blowout at Cantine Field in Saugerties this summer, they’re bringing their mobile bacchanal to the cavernous back room of BSP Kingston on January 30. The inaugural Uptown Boogaloo will feature over 60 craft beers from more than 30 regional and national breweries (Captain Lawrence, Rushing Duck, Trout Town, Magic Hat, Keegan Ales, and Goose Island, to name a few), alongside Hudson Valley food and craft vendors. Uptownboogaloo.com. Hatha Yoga Classes 7:15-8pm. $10. Gentle Hatha Yoga for all levels with Kelly Shanti Mandir, Walden. 845 778 1008.

MUSIC Ray Blue Trio: In Tribute to Martin Luther King 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

NIGHTLIFE Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation.. River Station Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. Vinevangogh.com/product/ sip-paint-at-river-station-restaurant-011816/.

TUESDAY 19 HEALTH & WELLNESS Ageless Wisdom Creative Arts Group: Ages 60+ 10-11am. $620. A group for individuals 60 years of age and older who seek a personal growth experience. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

Free Holistic Healthcare Third Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. Free. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Though no money or insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. For more information please visit: www.rvhhc.org. Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community, Inc., Stone Ridge. 687-2252.

WEDNESDAY 20

Fourth Friday of every month, 6:15-8pm. $15/$20 for both. 6:30-7:15 & 7:15-8:00. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

LITERARY & BOOKS

Author Carol Goodman

7pm. Presenting her new psychological thriller, River Road. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

MUSIC

The Crossroads Band

MUSIC

Davy Knowles

8:30pm. Classic rock. La Puerta Azul, Salt Point. 677-2985.

Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad

The Lavender Blues: A Showcase of Queer Music Before World War II

7pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. 8pm. $60. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Roots & Blues Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

NIGHTLIFE

Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

7pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. Chateau Beacon, Beacon. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-atchateau-beacon/.

SPIRITUALITY

A Course in Miracles

7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

THURSDAY 21 HEALTH & WELLNESS

Align and Shine Creative Arts Group: Ages 30-59

6-7pm. $620. Align and Shine is a creative arts group for individuals aged 30-59 who are looking for clarity of purpose, wish to ignite their passion, and are open to exploring their internal process, Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

Beginning Tai Chi Chuan

9:30-10:30am. $132/series. Tai Chi Chuan improves health, generates energy, clears the mind and harmonizes the spirit. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 399-1033.

8pm. Performed by Sarah Kilborne. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Sarah Kilborne: The Lavender Blues: Queer Music Before World War II

8-9:30pm. $20/$15 in advance. Some of our most famous musical artists of the early 20th century were “in the life” (meaning gay, bisexual or transgender) and they sang about this life too, in a variety of genres such as blues, early jazz, ballads and pop. Modern cabaret performer Sarah Kilborne reveals a little-known yet revolutionary moment in music history when pioneering artists sang boldly about sexual and gender fluidity. A portion of this evening’s proceeds will benefit the Hudson Pride Foundation’s Scholarship Fund. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Split Bill: Adrien Reju and Elijah Wolf 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Roosevelt Dime

8:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

The Vibe

7:30pm. Classic rock. Union Square, Poughkeepsie. Unionsquarepok.com.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Green Mountain Energy

10am-8pm. Representatives from Green Mountain Energy will be setting up information tables at our store to help inform you of what they do. Sunflower Natural Foods Market, Woodstock. 679-5361.

THEATER "THE MUSIC MAN"

Amaryllis (Evelyn Shannon) Director (Michael Berkeley), Mrs. Paroo (Cindy Kubik), Winthrop Paroo (Jamison Fountain) and Marian Paroo (Amy LeBlanc) from the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebecks' staging of "The Music Man,"

Ya Got Trouble, Right Here in River City “The Music Man” is classic 1957 Americana that has stood the test of half a century— the story of River City, Iowa, where they’re “so by-God stubborn we can stand touchin’ noses / for a week at a time and never see eye to eye?” the whole town is seduced by a smooth talking traveling salesman who sells those folks “a way to keep the young ones moral after school?” “It’s not fluff by any means,” says Michael Berkeley, who’s directing and musical directing the production slated for this month at the Performing Arts Center of Rhinebeck. “Harold Hill is a con artist, and then he gets to this one stuffy town and something happens to him.” Hill may not be a bona fide professor, but something transformative happens to River City too. The school board learns to harmonize on key, the gossipy society ladies become a dance committee. A little boy finds a voice. Musical director Berkeley brings decades of honed craft to the production, and a musical apprenticeship that began in childhood. Growing up in Elmhurst, Illinois, he was surrounded by music and already in love with stories that burst into song. ” I used to get all the neighborhood kids together to do shows in my backyard, with sheets on the clothesline,” he says. “There aren’t words to describe the excitement of the addition of the garage door opener.” His mother played classical piano, and insisted on lessons for all five kids. “Instead of practicing etudes, I’d deviate into Jerry Herman songs,” he says. Both parents loved musical theatre ,too, and “The Music Man” was among the treasured collection of original cast albums. A tenth-birthday trip into the city to see Celeste Holm as “Mame” helped seal Berkeley’s fate. His long list of credits, both before and since becoming musical director at TriArts Sharon Playhouse in Connecticut, run the gamut from “My Fair Lady” to the “Rocky Horror Show” and beyond. “The Music Man” is his second venture in Rhinebeck; he was

asked back for the production after producing his original Hudson Valley-themed “Rip! The Musical” there last summer. He’s written two other shows specifically for teen casts, built a musical theater program at Connecticut’s Region One High School, and served as artist in residence in a long list of places. He also offers private coaching, helping performers achieve the knack of acting, singing, and dancing on beat and in harmony. It’s his work with youth and developmentally handicapped folks that led the Huffington Post to name him Greatest Person of the Day back in 2011. “I’ll never forget seeing a sevenyear-old boy burst into tears at his first audition,” he says. “He was shy, intimidated by the high energy of the first day of rehearsal for 'Gypsy.'” He nearly walked away until I gave him a smaller part just to keep him involved in the show. Several years later, he appeared on Broadway in “Annie Get Your Gun” with Bernadette Peters. There are countless stories of children and adults who find their lives transformed by the self-confidence that carries into all aspects of their lives.” Berkeley’s in love with how this one’s going. “The set starts as mostly earth tones, and more color starts to imbue itself. By the end you’ve got this town that has burst into life in red, white and blue,” he says. “You need a very likeable Harold Hill, and a great singer for Marian—I have a wonderful Harold and a beautiful Marian with an operatic voice. We have an actual barbershop quartet driving up from Jersey to be our school board. Marian’s mother is another find—gutsy and hilarious with a great Irish accent. I have a hilarious Mayor Shin and Mrs. Shin, a lot of young people who can dance and sing, and terrific support staff—I’m very impressed at the level of talent that auditioned. It’s sounding great. You’ll walk into a burst of color and light and hear that big sound. Theater should always be a big experience. Otherwise, why bother?” “The Music Man” will be staged at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck January 8 through 31. (845) 876-3080; Centerforperformingarts.org. —Anne Pyburn Craig 1/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 87

SPIRITUALITY

Relationships: Promises & Impossibilities with Mark Finn, PhD

5pm. $350. In this retreat with clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and Buddhist practitioner Mark Finn, we’ll explore how we can humbly live in a world where our meditation practice and our love life are not one—and not two. Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper. 688-2228.

SPORTS

Global Force Wrestling

7:30pm. $42/$32/$22. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

THEATER

The Music Man

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 23 HEALTH & WELLNESS Introduction to Yoga

HoneybeeLives Organic Beekeeping Class

10am-6pm. $200. This two-day class introduces students to Organic/Natural Beekeeping with a Biodynamic influence. A philosophy of care is imparted, as well as practical knowledge in preparation for starting hives in the spring. Learn a gentle way to tend honeybees while respecting their instincts and understanding their complex and beautiful lives. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.

Invasive and Exotic Plant Control

10am-noon. Free (registration required). Join gardeners, landscape and conservation professionals, and the staff to discuss strategies to control exotic invasive plants. This round-table discussion will consider mechanical methods such as timed mowings, burning, plant competition, combinations of these practices, and fertility management. Although the group will consider the use of chemical and organic herbicides, the focus and intent is to share information that will help identify and demystify methods to manage

12-1pm. $80 4-week package. This introductory 4-session workshop series will describe, explain, and gently guide you through beginning level yoga poses while providing individualized attention for the needs of each and every participant. Each pose will be taught with finely detailed alignment instructions, the basics of breath, and an introduction to the practice of mindfulness. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

Story Medicine for the Road to Healing from Alcoholism & Addiction

3-5pm. $120 4-week package. Special guest, and master story weaver, Phoenix Rising Kawamoto, has crafted a unique 4-session series and experience for travelers in recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC

Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

3pm. $25/$5 children. Presented by Newburgh Chamber Music. A good choice for families, the program will include American folk music as well as Cajun and Quebecois waltzes and reels. St. George’s Episcopal Church, Newburgh.

Joe Carozza Trio

11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Birds of Chicago

8:30pm. W/Marc Von Em. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

The Trapps

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

TUESDAY 26 WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Brew Beer and Make Mead

6:30-8pm. Join Tom Folster of Barley, Hops and Grapes to learn the fine art of brewing beer yourself. He will bring a through knowledge of the brewing process and examples of the ingredients of what makes beer. He will also discuss making the sweet drink called mead. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

WEDNESDAY 27 LECTURES & TALKS

Introduction to the Lower School

7:30pm. Come hear what makes Waldorf Education unique, learn why it might be right for your child, and speak with experienced faculty. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.

SPIRITUALITY

A Course in Miracles

7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Path to Entrepreneurship Program

5:30-8pm. Join the Women’s Enterprise Development Center for a free program designed to introduce you to small business ownership. Learn about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur and what it takes to run your own business. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 363-6432.

A New You: Transitions and Changes for the New Year

THURSDAY 28

11am-1pm. $35/By 11/14 $25. Explore pathways to realizing your dreams as you create a “new you for the new year...” Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Beginning Tai Chi Chuan

9:30-10:30am. $132/series. Tai Chi Chuan improves health, generates energy, clears the mind and harmonizes the spirit. I Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 399-1033.

MUSIC

Arlen Roth Slide Guitar Summit with Cindy Cashdollar

MUSIC

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Gratefully Yours: Grateful Dead Tribute

8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Australian Bee Gees

8pm. $67. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

NIGHTLIFE

DÜM Turkish Rhythm Celebration

7:30-9:30pm. Come test your knowledge against fellow customers for a chance to win a gift certificate to the High Falls Cafe. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Trivia with Paul Tully and Eric Stamberg

8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Mike Stern Band

8:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble

12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Stringendo Inc.: 2016 Gala Concerts 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Take Two

8:30pm. Piano Wine Bar, Fishkill. 896-8466.

THEATER Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics The best-selling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Chris Grabenstein, appears for a reading and booksigning at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck in support of his latest book for young readers, Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics, to be released on January 5. Grabenstein’s much-anticipated sequel is packed with puzzles from the world-famous game maker Luigi Lemoncello. Grabenstein, the critically acclaimed author of over 30 books, a playwright, screenwriter, former advertising executive, and improvisational comedian drops into Oblong on Wednesday, January 13, at 4:30pm. (845) 876-0500; Oblongbooks.com.

SPIRITUALITY

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

invasives using environmentally sensitive techniques. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. 413-298-3926.

THEATER

More Leaning Into Intimacy: A Tantric Workshop with Arabella Champaq

The Music Man

8pm and 3pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

American Heart Association BLS Healthcare Provider Certification

9am-2pm. $75. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

Forging the Bottle Opener with Pat Quinn Lots of basic techniques at the anvil in learning to forge your own bottle opener. This is a great basic workshop to prepare for taking more advanced blacksmithing classes. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

HAM Radio License Class

8:30am-5:30pm. $30. 2-day course. This class gives you everything you need to pass the written examination for a Technician Class amateur radio license. Saturday is a full day of learning sessions and demonstrations. Sunday morning finishes the class and prepares you for the exam. On Sunday afternoon, you take the exam. Woodstock Rescue Squad Headquarters, Woodstock.

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1-4pm. $40. We seek greater intimacy in our relationships, but how do we nurture the relationship with Self? In this exploration of profound authenticity, we will continue to develop our potential to love and live in Presence, independent of what else and who else is in our lives. This workshop is a continuation of Leaning Into Intimacy, which was offered in Nov. 2015. It is not necessary to have attended that workshop. Shambhala Yoga Studio, Beacon. (518) 929-8575.

Repair Cafe: Kingston

11am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood; dolls & stuffed animals; book repair. An expert level of repair. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. Clinton Avenue United Methodist, Kingston. 339-2526.

SUNDAY 24 DANCE

Bolshoi Ballet’s The Taming of The Shrew in HD

12:55pm. $25/$20/$15. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

9:30am-4:30pm. $140. A day of mindfulness provides an opportunity to de-stress, cultivate inner peace, and reconnect with joy. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

Tribute to Pete Seeger

2-6pm. A benefit concert to help Clearwater float the boat. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-9347.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sip & Paint for a Cause: Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club

3pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting & relaxation to help raise money for the Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club. Wittenberg Sportsmen’s Club, Mt Tremper. Vinevangogh. com/product/sip-paint-for-a-cause-wittenburgsportsmens-club/.

THEATER

The Music Man

3pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 25

NT Live: Donmar Warehouse: Les Liasons Dangereuses

7-10pm. $21/$18 members. In 1782, Choderlos de Laclos’ novel of sex, intrigue and betrayal in pre-revolutionary France scandalised the world. Two hundred years later, Christopher Hampton’s irresistible adaptation swept the board, winning the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Play. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.

Death Takes a Cruise

7pm. Interactive mysery dinner theater with the ACME Mystery Company. Mahoney’s Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Orange County 4-H Fly Tying Program

FRIDAY 29 FAIRS & FESTIVALS Winter Hoot

With music, dancing, food, film, art and nature activities for all ages, he 4th Annual Winter Hoot welcomes the community, one and all, for a spirit-raising good time in mid-winter! Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

MUSIC

Dan Tepfer & ICE

FILM

7pm. Music at the intersection of live improvisation and computer-driven algorithms. LUMA Theater, Bard College. 758-7900.

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

Stefon Harris & Sonic Creed

Gremlins

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Detox & Transform Body & Mind: A 21 Day Group Cleanse

6-8pm. $100 +$235 detox juice in advance/$185. Transform your resolutions into health solutions! Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC

James Brandon Lewis Trio

8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.

8pm. $29.50. Jazz. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

Melissa Ferrick

7pm. Indie alt-rock. Opener: Western Den. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Willie Nile

8:30pm. Rock. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS 8th Annual Robbie Burns Supper 6:30-9:30pm. The Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinebeck. 876-0509.

THEATER

The Music Man

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SATURDAY 30 DANCE

Fifth Saturday Contra Dance Party

7:30-10:30pm. $10/$5 full time students. Dances are taught, if you are new try to get there on time; the earlier dances are easier. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Winter Hoot

FILM

Wild Oranges (1924) Silent Film

7-9pm. Live musical accompaniment by Cary Brown. King Vidor’s atmospheric 1924 film. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Introduction to Yoga

LITERARY & BOOKS Author Alton Cambell

4pm. Presenting the first novel in the series Children of Ohm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

MUSIC

Breakaway Featuring Robin Baker

8-11:30pm. Local singer Robin Baker returns to the Cafe for a fun night of music and dancing. Reservations are suggested. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. (845-) 87-2699.

Elly Wininger

7pm. Acoustic. Cafe Le Perche, Hudson. (518) 828-1850.

The Hudson Valley Jazz Ensemble

12-3pm. Led by Hudson Valley Jazz Festival director and drummer, Steve Rubin. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.

Itzhak Perlman, World-Renowned Virtuoso Violinist

8-10pm. $59.50/$79.50/$99.50/$129.50. The reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician. Westchester County Center, White Plains. (914) 995-4050.

Jane Lee HookerBand

7pm. Opener: Leah Siegel & Miles Goldstein. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Keith Newman

8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Historic Cemetery Tours

7pm. $10. Guests will move through the Church’s cemetery, and stop at five stations to hear the stories of the leaders and inhabitants of Kingston’s colonial era. The five ghosts, played by members of Theatre on the Road, will talk about their roles in the community, where they were when Kingston was burned, and how they aided the Revolution and the rebuilding of their homes. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. Theatreontheroad.com.

SPIRITUALITY Kirtan

7:30-9pm. free. We welcome everyone to an ecstatic evening of Kirtan and meditation. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 845 778 1008.

THEATER

The Music Man

8pm. $22-$27. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES HoneybeeLives Organic Beekeeping Class

The Indestructible Houseplant with Tovah Martin

10am-noon. Members $15; Nonmembers $20. Grow houseplants that will prosper. Get recommendations for dozens of lowmaintenance, tough windowsill companions that can survive and thrive despite challenging conditions. Also get suggestions for new varieties as well as creative ideas for containers. Get information about watering,fertilization and ongoing care. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. 413-298-3926.

Learn to Swing Dance Workshop for Beginners

5:30-7pm. $25. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. La Maison du Bien-Être, Newburgh.

Repair Cafe - Poughkeepsie

9am-noon. Free. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood. An expert level of repair and great place to meet your neighbors. Coffee & tea free; baked goods & fruit in our Cafe. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. Repaircafehv.org.

The Met: Live in HD Puccini’s Turandot 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Trixter with Eric Martin

The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh

3pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting & fun, to help raise funds to support the Catskill Chix Avon Breast Cancer Walk. Money raised will help the Catskill Chix go to NYC to participate in the 2016 Avon Breast Cancer Walk.The class is designed for everyone at every skill level. Classes are about 2.5 hours with a break in the middle. 1 complimentary beverage of choice and light refreshments provided. Margaretville Fire Hall, Margaretville. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-for-acause-catskill-chix-avon-breast-cancer-walk/.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Eagle Watch Bus Tour

10am-1pm. $20/$15 members. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy and learn about eagles in our region, how they returned from the brink of extinction, and the habitat they need to thrive while you take a scenic drive with an expert guide on a heated bus and look for eagles. Reservations required. Upper Delaware Visitor Center, Lackawaxen, PA. 583-1010.

Distribution

Repair Cafe - Rhinebeck

12-4pm. Free. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Mechanical & electrical items; electronic & digital; clothing & jewelry; things made of wood. An expert level of repair and great place to meet your neighbors. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 453-2105.

SUNDAY 31

Stepahne Wrembel

8:30pm. Jazz. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

BE WHERE WE ARE.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Winter Hoot

MUSIC

Habitat for Humanity Presents: 5th Annual Women Performers for Women Build

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Delivering your print materials to the Hudson Valley, Berkshires, and beyond.

7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Jason Vieaux, Guitar

4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Victor Wooten

7:30pm. Jazz. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

La Familia

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11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Stanley Curtis in Recital: Songs of Love

3pm. $10/$5 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/free for students. Tenor Stanley Curtis performs selections of classical and folk music from many countries. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891.

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Planet Waves ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

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Global Warming and the Potluck Dinner

few months ago I was a guest on “Caravan to Midnight,” a popular nightly Internet video interview program, invited on to talk about Monsanto’s fraudulent way of doing business and poisoning our bodies. I gave a recitation of the company’s key points of history back to its founding in 1901 and up through the three major phases of its GMO career. Toward the end of the discussion, which I will admit was as disturbing as the description of any mass murder scene, host John B. Wells asked me what I would do if I was president—of the United States, that is. How would I save the world? I thought about it for a moment and said I would suggest people have lots of potluck dinners. Yes, were I the commander in chief, I would say: “Go forth and meet up somewhere with your casseroles! Don’t forget to keep it gluten free if you can.” I know this is not very superhero like. I know it contradicts the notion that when something horrific happens, we will finally all wake up. We tried that experiment—it was called 9/11. That event shocked most people into a deeper, angrier trance. Community dinners will help us come out of the fear trance. We need to take some time and get together, be together, experience one another’s humanity, and share food, companionship, and ideas. Plus, at the end of the night, no money is exchanged. It is wholesome to have some places in life free from the marketplace. We need exchange, not the medium of exchange. Regularly held social meals would address many problems associated with the cold alienation of both our typical social interactions, and of the Internet. They would remind us that we actually have neighbors, who have faces, names, and voices—and who eat food. As Paul Simon said, food is the bottom line for everyone. As figures on the Internet, we eat bandwidth and electricity, we have publicity photos and often use alias names. Nobody actually eats food. You cannot 90 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 1/16

attach a pie as a PDF. Said another way, the Internet is disembodied and denies the existence of the body, which happens to be our main connection to life. Food is also the bottom line of global warming. Besides fires, floods, droughts, and various other dramas that may involve seeking high ground, the first place we’re going to feel the most brutal effects of global warming is on the food supply. Whatever the purveyors of hydroponics and DNA cut-andpaste potatoes may try to convince us of, food comes from seeds, land, water, and sunshine—and the efforts of farmers. I know it seems unbearably quaint. When the climate is disrupted, food production is disrupted. There are a lot of people on the planet right now, and we all need to eat. When food production is interrupted, chaos can and often does ensue. (It’s one of the problems that Syria is facing.) A few weeks ago, there was a major international global warming conference in Paris. I think most people view this positively—188 nations actually agreed on something. In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times,Thomas Friedman wrote, “I had low expectations for the UN climate meeting here, and it met all of them—beautifully. I say that without cynicism.” He added that now “we have a chance to meet what scientists say is our key challenge: to avoid the worst impacts of global warming” and also to “manage those impacts that we can no longer avoid. That is a big, big deal.” That same week, I had a guest on Planet Waves FM (my now Pacifica Radioaffiliated community program) who was not so chipper. His name is Albert Saldamando, and he’s a human rights attorney who attended the conference as a negotiator on behalf of indigenous people. “The Paris accord is a trade agreement, nothing more,” he said. “It promises to privatize, commodify, and sell forested lands as carbon offsets in fraudulent schemes. These offset schemes provide a financial laundering mechanism for developed countries to launder their carbon pollution on the backs of the global south.”

I’m not sure if that was one of Mr. Friedman’s low expectations, though I think he sees the whole carbon trading thing differently. Carbon trading, if you’ve never heard of it, works like a commodities market, only the commodity traded is pollution. Saldamando continued, “Case in point, the United States’ climate change plan includes 250 million megatons to be absorbed by oceans and forest offset markets. Essentially, those responsible for the climate crisis not only get to buy their way out of compliance but they also get to profit from it as well.” In other words, the Paris accord is in part a carbon-trading agreement, which does things like allow PE&G, a huge power company in California, to buy its way out of 80 percent of its responsibility without actually cutting its emissions. They get to keep them going, profiting from their pollution. Someone else has to make the cuts. Those are the carbon-trading points Friedman references. For what it’s worth, I cast the astrological chart for the adoption of the motion that sealed the deal, and the chart basically says that the business of the world is business. When Saldamando later called it a trade agreement, I had even better words to describe the chart. Saldamando said that if we utterly stopped burning carbon for fuel right now, the world might come in under the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming goal that the Paris agreement purports to endorse and even facilitate. Without agonizing over this too much, it means that we’re on our own. Big daddy ain’t gonna make himself behave or stay sober. We’ll never change his mind about saving the planet. We might get governments to do a little, or to block good things a little less, but their reins are really in the hands of corporations. It is these massive conglomerates, or trusts, that we must go after. By we I mean us. If you read somewhere that a bunch of people in Sweden organized the whole country to divest from petrochemicals, you would think, how smart of them. Scandinavia, they are so evolved and civilized. If I said we can do that in the United States, you might say we’re just too big a collection of douche bags to get anything of the kind accomplished. We’ll all just disagree for the unmitigated joy of vapid controversy—while the ice caps melt and the oceans gradually turn to acid. Seawater is supposed to be alkaline. When it becomes acidic (from all the carbon dioxide that it’s absorbing on our behalf), it’s habitable mostly to slime. Nothing against slime, by the way—maybe it will spawn a new evolutionary line of superbeings immune to toxicity. This could come in handy in the future. Yes, Americans long ago decided we’re just too stupid and self-centered to give a toss about something as ridiculous as our planet. But doesn’t that really, really annoy you sometimes? Like watching the guy who’s squirting charcoal starter on an already-lit barbecue. You’re thinking, he doesn’t know that the reason you’re not supposed to do that is because the fire can jump up the stream and make the can explode. Or maybe he does know. And you’re wondering whether it will happen this time, secretly thinking it sure would be interesting if it did. Welcome to global warming. So, we are on our own. Those of us who, you know, get it. Even a little. Recently, a friend wrote to me on the topic of climate and said that “we can’t all be activists on the ground.” I wrote back, “Much of the activism we need to do is, like, spend money in the right places. It’s economic activism, which would be spurred by information activism (i.e., reporting, analysis, story telling, etc.). Shifting money to the better parts of the economy is a real thing. Divestment toppled Apartheid.” She wasn’t born at the time, so she can’t quite know the thrill of realizing

in real time that the town board of Turtle Turd, New Mexico, voting to remove its investments from businesses working with South Africa actually helped win the issue. Seemingly intractable white-superior culture there just collapsed from economic starvation. Then Nelson Mandela not only got out of jail, he became president. I continued to my friend, “So, ultimately, the issue really is spiritual in that it involves awareness, relationship to existence and putting one’s money where one’s ethics are. That and conserving, simplifying. No part of this is about marching in the streets. More like my solution to everything, the potluck dinner.” She replied: “The potluck dinner is a solid solution. That is why our connection to each other matters. When we break bread with each other, by itself that is magic in that it is humanizing. People who see the humans in the community they share meals with are more likely to apply that framework of perception to communities outside their immediate ones.” Divesting from petrochemical giants includes spending money in one’s neighborhood as a matter of course. For example, if you shop at the local farmers’ market, that broccoli or onion did not require being trucked 2,500 miles across the country. It also requires stitching ourselves more closely into the local economy. Those words are tossed around, but there is such a thing. You discover it more as you engage in it more; it starts to seem real because it is. However, what you will also notice is that everything you get is better quality, and it’s great to do business with an actual human. Doing this starts to seem increasingly productive and important, and then you may get hooked and start doing things with a sense of principle and satisfaction that you’re getting something done. No matter how small, it’s actually part of the solution that will work. You might start to get other people involved, inviting them to the party. No “protesting” involved. No risking Tasers or pepper spray, unless Homeland Security one day deems farmers’ markets a terrorist threat. As for those pot luck dinners. We need a place to get to know one another, one that is designed for sharing, and to be social, where no money is exchanged. The more we know our neighbors, the more of a mutual resource we can be. This goes against the very principle of toxic capitalism, every man, woman, and child for themselves. It’s exactly the opposite of divide and conquer: Let’s get together and be real. Real is strong, and familiar is becoming ever more necessary in a world where we’re facing some serious “security” challenges (such as closing the Los Angeles school district due to an e-mail, and all its implications). Plus, group dinners create resources and diversity with a low carbon footprint. And who knows, someone might bring a vegan version of that mushroom meatball stroganoff you love. Anything that can remind people how to cook is worth doing for its own sake, anyway. I’m about to bring out a book called The Lost Art of Making Your Own Scrambled Eggs. People in a community taking part in any modest reminder that because we’re together, everyone gets to eat, is unusually reassuring, if you’ve never experienced that before. A camp I stayed in at Burning Man a few years ago had a strong ethos of food organization, and as a result could also have a policy of feeding any wayfarers who wandered in. What I’m suggesting here isn’t even sappy enough to make you feel dumb for being idealistic. And while it may feel strange to socialize in person, you’ll get over it pretty quick.

Were I the commander in chief, I would say: “Go forth and meet up somewhere with your casseroles! Don’t forget to keep it gluten free if you can.”

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ARIES (March 20-April 19) You stand at a branching of the ways in your own life. One road leads toward appearances, glitter and glamour, and the other leads toward self-realization. Life is not normally so black and white, though a great wave of energy is about to come through your life, and its raw power is inherently neutral. It will carry you far and fuel your endeavors, in whatever direction you choose. You are the one who gives it meaning, and who harnesses it for the purpose that you designate. In other words, you choose what to do with the vital force that powers your entire being. And now that vital force is rising, and you will have great surges of energy, as will many around you. Yet the path of least resistance will be to stay on the surface; and many will do that, transfixed by shiny objects. The more challenging path is to go inward. Part of why it’s challenging is that “inward” is such strange territory these days. For many it’s entirely alien, and for most it’s unfamiliar, intimidating and chaotic. Do not be intimidated by yourself. Leave that to others, if that’s how they feel. You are who you are inwardly, and you are being challenged now to go inside and stay with yourself for a while. If you seek understanding, and self-respect, you will indeed find them.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Not everything in life is about power over others, though there’s currently quite the campaign being waged to convince us that that it is. Every time you see a news story, it’s about what one person or entity may do to another, just because they can. This is not your way; though, in order to evade and even transcend this, you will need to think clearly and be clever. This you can do. You are currently bestowed with a kind of intelligence that is both deep and unusually perceptive. But now it will be necessary to make decisions and to move faster than you normally want. As the events of the next four seasons emerge, you will need to be flexible and strong. It’s also essential that you have some version of a game plan, by which I mean a basic sketch of your strategy. The most meaningful part of that plan is having a direction in which you’re headed. You will change and correct this, though you still need a point of orientation: at least one guiding principle to focus around. It would be far better if that principle were not about another person. You need an idea about your life that is yours alone, which you then bring with you into every situation. The theme of this year is learning to trust yourself—which, like any skill, is gained with practice.

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Aspire to what has lasting value. Since the future is becoming increasingly difficult to see, you must do this in the present. Yet this does not merely mean going for immediate satisfaction. In material goods, purchase what is of high quality, of real use, and built to last. Yet where you invest your energy must also match the other kind of value—that which you personally possess. You’re being guided as if by cosmic forces to slow down your mind, to see beneath the surface, and to probe deeper into your personal truth. You could say this is about getting real with yourself. Scrupulous honesty with yourself is required, as is acting on authentic goals that match who you know you are. For this you will need to sort out wishful thinking from observing where you actually connect with existence. Which brings us to the most important theme of your year: living every day. The only way to deal with the vast uncertainty of the world is to focus on what you must do, now. As you do, it’s essential to notice whether what you’re doing is working for you, and whether it serves the “greatest good” factor as well. It is the quality of your individual days, and individual tasks, that amounts to the quality of your life—and the strength of your foundation for the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your goal seems to be to feed the world, whether literally or in some symbolic sense. To do that you must be well-nourished, well-rested, and well-informed. The pressure that you’re feeling to succeed in your mission is not some passing whim or fancy. It’s as if the time for a certain level of action has arrived, which comes with a level of dedication and devotion. As a result, you may feel driven like never before. And as a consequence of that, it will be necessary to stir up some chaos, and to deal with things that don’t go according to plan. You’ve been living with that for a while, though now it’s time to maximize that factor. Many great successes are adaptations to instability and uncertainty in society. That’s another way of saying that necessity is the mother of invention. The rate of change in the world is maddening, and you would do yourself a favor by admitting that it’s impossible to keep up. But what is possible is to identify patterns that provide you with opportunities to connect with the world with a viable purpose. As an essential ingredient of that, you will need to bring your vulnerability. Most of the struggle on the planet right now involves coldness and lack of empathy. Your success will depend on calling forth these qualities you possess, and indeed respect the most about yourself.

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LEO (July 22-August 23) Not everything is about money. Money is important, but it’s also necessary to remember its inherently symbolic value. In other words, you cannot eat the stuff, and if it has any meaning at all, it’s the meaning we give it. Your charts this year are, in many ways, about discussions and negotiations over resources. It may seem that other people are in a better position than you are, yet if you look closely enough you will see the many advantages that you hold. One of them is that you are resourceful, which means inventive. Another is that when you’re under pressure, you can be brilliantly creative. Yet you can also be naive, particularly in your business dealings; and it’s now essential that you be realistic. This includes in all matters where resources of any kind are exchanged. The deeper the exchange, the more complex this can become—for example, where both sex and money are involved; where inheritances are involved; where your creative work product is connected to finances and your self-esteem. What you must bring to the table is a mix of your passion, your talent, and your stone-cold analysis of who holds what cards. As part of that breakout, make sure you notice who has invested so significantly in you. Someone has—and they have just as much faith in you now as ever.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Looked at one way, your solar charts describe you as being guided by the fates and the winds of fortune, subject to their whims. Yet seen another way, you’ve never been more firmly grounded in your sense of commitment and your drive to do what is right. How can both exist at the same time? The answer, in a word, is perception. Fate, fortune, and purpose may be stories you tell yourself, but they are not equal in value. The closer you get to purpose, the closer you get to a conscious and intentional meeting with the world around you. This is about a relationship, which must be a mutual endeavor. Your charts state strongly that this must be practical before it is mystical. Your mind, your observations, and your choices determine the course of your life. Even if there are other forces at work, you are the person guiding yourself among them. This calls for rising to a new level of responsibility. You must also proceed with some confidence, even though you might feel a bit (or more) out of your element, or like you’re wearing clothes that are a little too tight. As you grow accustomed to your new level of self-direction and decision-making, that firm, tight cloth will begin to soften and loosen up. As that happens, fate will begin to feel more like warm, caring spiritual guidance.

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LIBRA (September 22-October 23) We hear the word “security” a lot these days. If you were some observer not directly associated with our society, you might think it was a product sold by the pound—we spend this much, we feel this good. Yet authentic security is nothing of the kind. You know this because for a number of years, you’ve experienced what seems like every possible challenge to your grounding and stability. Libra is famous for its love of balance. You have been living in an earthquake zone. But what you’ve learned from living there is that ultimately it is your own choice to feel secure. No amount of lawyers, guns, money or shoes can change that. Often the people of the most impressive means are the ones who feel the most threatened by little changes. You are becoming accustomed to feeling secure in the midst of huge changes. For all your life you’ve wanted to stand on your own feet. You’ve wanted to take responsibility for your own decisions, and reap the benefits. And you’ve wanted to serve the world around you in the way that works for you. That is what you are finally getting to do. And now, as this story develops, you’re being called upon to rise to a new level of challenge, and of talent, with a mix of Libra’s two best qualities—elegant finesse and gritty determination.

SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) What will it take not to be trapped in your insecurities? You want something else. If you tap into that wanting, and cultivate it like a tree, that desire will grow up and bear fruit. The past two years of Saturn in your sign have brought many enforced changes. You’ve had to rise to occasions that otherwise might have held you down. You’ve been shaped and tempered, and done a lot of growing up. As a wise astrologer once wrote, Saturn always gives more than it takes away. Now Saturn has moved on to Sagittarius, and the emphasis is on your self-esteem. Were I bestowed with magical power to heal one thing on the planet for everyone, self-esteem would be that thing. Now you get to work on this. Do not take respecting yourself for granted. It’s easy enough for you to do, though now it seems like you’re being tested. You might feel like there’s not enough of you to go around, even for yourself. The planets in their courses are guiding you to experiment with this idea: the opposite of depression is expression. You are being squeezed; and from that pressure, you will discover many openings through which beautiful and seemingly new manifestations of yourself may emerge. When you feel the crush—or feel scarcity in any form—express, express, express. And in the process, you will gain a rare and beautiful kind of confidence.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Can anyone ever plan to be on top of their game? Preparation and focus can get you pretty far. Ambition and a sense of mission can take you even further. The last and most challenging factor is the emotional piece. Imagine if you could feel good every single day—you would be unstoppable. One method that’s worked for you in the past has been detachment. That, however, now verges on impossible. Your solar chart is so emotionally connected that you have no choice but to get in the water and swim. I think that full immersion in your feelings is the way to get you into that play-to-win mode. It is easier to feel than to resist, because resistance consumes precious energy. There is something else that would help, which is to see all of your motives, desires, and aspirations not only as valid but as aspects of the same thing. You are one unified, holistic being. As you gather the seemingly different aspects of yourself, and consider them all valuable assets, you will concentrate your energy. And you will discover how many small things it takes to make a lot. Remember that while the details matter and must be attended to, your overall vision matters a heck of a lot more. Stay in contact with yourself and rise to your own true level.

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For quite some time you’ve been dealing with undeniable forces of change, which have pushed and stretched you. You’ve made major adjustments, you’ve made progress and you’ve sustained some losses. You know all of this was necessary, because the result has been focusing your life on your evolution. You’re now entering a more introspective time, when outer pressures and chaos will be less influential. Your direction of movement is inherently inward. Even if you’re the outgoing kind of Capricorn, the chances are that in truth you’re an introvert. You are now being pulled deeper in, closer to your spiritual core. You know you’re tapping into aspects of existence that many people around you neither notice nor acknowledge. But here is the thing. Ultimately you are being pressed, guided, and compelled to a state of clarity. That, your charts suggest, is going to come in the form of language. While it may seem there are realizations too sacred to be spoken, or too difficult to put into words, you simply must make the effort, for your own sanity. Your inward draw is only as helpful as the ideas that you focus—no matter how challenging, imperfect or imprecise. Leave yourself and others a record of your inner journey, one word or one page at a time, as necessary. As for love, I can sum it up in a sentence. Intimacy is introspection that we share.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 19) How exactly do you hold onto your ideals in a world where it seems like the whole game is rigged for greed, competition, and conformity? I never thought you’d ask! The answer is: it’s challenging, but you must. It may be five times harder to reach for your truth as the madness of our society reaches a new peak. And in the end it will get you double your investment, because you are building a strong foundation that will be there when the world is in calmer times. Before then, you know you’re being true to yourself, and you cannot live with yourself any other way. The current struggle of our world translates to energy loss, depression, and confusion in most people, and it could easily do so for you—which is why you must keep your grounding. And your grounding is in your ideals. I would propose that the one that’s closest to the core is existing in a way where you see the needs of the many, the needs of the few, and your own personal necessities. If, at least, you acknowledge that they exist, you will have perspective. The one rapidly disappearing element of the world is that of mutual benefit. Practice and apply this concept in everything you do. And while you do that, notice who cannot see past their own personal hunger, and steer clear of them.

PISCES (February 19-March 20)

The emotional details of your relationships are of the essence now. Your success engaging with your fellow humans, and your advancement in the world, are intimately dependent on one another. You must make that delicate move from an orientation on the past to emphasis on the present. Rare and unusual aspects describe the narrow path you must walk in order to be responsive and patient with the sleepy condition of the world. You must tread the way between avoidance, to one side, and cynicism, to the other. If you can do this, you will establish a refuge from some of the worst human failings. You’ll also facilitate your own process of building something designed to last. It had better be, given how long it’s taken you to get where you are, and to have learned what you’ve learned. You’re going beyond the usual description of spiritual in that everything you do must accomplish both loving intent and practical use. It’s not enough to ‘be a better person’ or to “have integrity.” You are here to participate, and to innovate. You have been charged with the responsibility of making actual improvements to your wider environment. And no matter how you may feel about it, this includes exerting actual leadership in a time of profound moral crisis. Yet this is nothing less than what you’ve prepared for all your days.

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Parting Shot

Mixed-media paintings on teabags by Ruby Silvious. Clockwise from top: Tee Bags; Day 278; Day 334.

On January 3rd of last year, Coxsackie-based artist Ruby Silvious committed to posting a tea-themed art piece on social media for a year. The project, “365 Days of Tea,” featuring mixed-media paintings on used teabags, went viral in October, getting picked up by blogs and publications including the Guardian (UK), Bored Panda, and Design Taxi. A solo show of Slivious’s work, “Tea and Alchemy,” will be exhibited January 16 through February 27 at GCCA’s Catskill Gallery, 398 Main Street in Catskill. An opening reception will be held on January 23, from 5 to 7pm. (518) 934-3400; Greenearts.org. Portfolio: Rubysilvious.com.

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