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38 BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX
Amazon’s market dominance, a lying president, child hunters, and other juicy tidbits.
17 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: THE SEVEN WORDS YOU CAN’T SAY AT THE CDC
Sculptor, welder, bread distributor, and eclectic collector Zoe Bissell opens the doors to her modern metal house in West Hurley.
Larry Beinhart waxes poetic about government censorship.
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62 RENOVATION & INNOVATION
This month: A Collector’s Eye, Collaborative Medical Arts, Motorcyclepedia
Melissa Esposito profiles three new restaurants that underwent extensive rennovations
Museum, NOFA-NY, RUPCO, and Wade’s Towne & Country Florist.
WEDDINGS 20 A VENUE FOR EVERY VISION A curated guide to Hudon Valley wedding venues.
COMMUNITY PAGES 28 RURAL REFINEMENT
The Dutchess towns of Millerton, Amenia, and Millbrook offer pastoral decadence.
EDUCATION 33 THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM Hillary Harvey explores study-abroad programs offered by local institutions.
before opening their doors: The Amsterdam, Heritage Food and Drink, and Silvia.
WHOLE LIVING 68 RAISING SEX-POSITIVE KIDS
Wendy Kagan speaks with Alicia Muñoz, a psychotherapist and couples’ counselor, about how to raise sex-positive kids amidst a world rife with sexual harassment.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 65 TASTINGS
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66 BUSINESS DIRECTORY 70 WHOLE LIVING
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Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
Shelby Buryk snuggles her Chihuahua Tina at home in West Hurley.
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50 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE
74 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.)
54 MUSIC: LET IT ALL HANG OUT
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Peter Aaron talks with bandmembers from The Nude Party about their name, their
73 An interview with music duo Rachael & Vilray, who are slated to play at Club Helsinki.
nudity, and their unlikely ascent as a garage rock outfit in a small Appalachian town.
74 Jim Peppler donates his civil rights photographs to Kingston’s African Roots Library.
Nightlife Highlights include Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, The Matchsellers, Max
75 Beacon Artist Union (BAU) celebrates 13 years with the group exhibhit “Lucky 13.”
Weinberg’s Jukebox, Pete International Airport, and Music from China.
76 Upstate Films screens ’90s culinary comedy Big Night followed by a feast at Cucina.
Album reviews of My Thoughts Approximately by David Greenberger and Prime
77 Mill Street Loft Arts and Spark Media Project merge under the name The Art Effect.
Lens; Tangents by Gary Peacock Trio; and Trophic Cascade by Matthew O’Neill.
78 Bindlestiff Family Circus will stage four risqué cabaret performances this winter. 79 Aaron Rezny hosts the first photo exhibit in his new Midtown Kingston studio/gallery.
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Leah Habib offers a roundup of six books to read in year’s first (and coldest) month.
Carolyn Quimby reviews New Paltz author Jennifer Castle’s newest YA novel, Together at Midnight, about high school drama, the bystander effect, and guilt.
60 POETRY Poems by Evelyn Agusto, Alden Brine, Katie Donlevy, Geordie Edel, Alice Graves, Lynn Hoins, Piper Levine, David Lukas, Ze’ev Willy Neumann,
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We’ve entered a new era of history and “minor” planets have a starring role.
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When Odili Donald Odita had his second solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea, an Art in America reviewer said the works were “showstoppers.” “Through repetition and variation of form, Odita establishes rhythms that are shifting and pulsing and entirely unpredictable,” wrote Janet Koplos. On our cover this month, the show goes on with Odita’s 2017 work Metropolitan, one of the explorations of color and geometry he’s been creating since 1999. “The painting verticality can refer to the body or to architecture; it’s my own vision of a Jacob Lawrence future architecture,” he says of the work, referencing the late painter, storyteller, and educator who characterized his style as “dynamic cubism.” Dynamic is an apt word. The sharp-edged forms in Odita’s work draw the viewer in along colorful pathways that only seem straightforward; after a minute, you realize you’ve come to someplace you didn’t expect to be at all. Kurt Vonnegut said that peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God; Odita has been dancing since before he could walk. “I was six months old when the Biafran war broke out,” he says. “My family escaped in time, and I grew up in the United States. If that war hadn’t happened, I don’t even know if this would be my life.” Whether in Columbus, Ohio, where the family settled, or in Enugu, Nigeria, it seems likely he’d have become an artist. His father was, and encouraged Odili when the five-year-old began to draw without ceasing, copying images from comic books and fashion magazines. He graduated from Ohio State with a BFA and went on to get his MFA at Bennington in 1990; since then, he’s been visiting critic at Yale, taught at both the University of Florida and Florida State University. He is currently Associate Professor of Painting at the Tyler School of Art / Temple University in Philadelphia. The narrative Odili brings to his abstractions is influenced by the traditions of both African and American art. “Lawrence had a narrative structure that related to the colors of black people in art, the notion of making space for black bodies in art. It’s an urban story; in the context of Metropolis, it’s some kind of a futuristic story. I think through things and draw on draft paper; the drawings are a process in and of themselves. I combine old and new, creating unexpected space to investigate in color. When a piece comes out in color, I’m always surprised by what’s there to deal with and come to terms with. We’re sponges of our world, and we bring that back out in unexpected ways.” For Odita, telling the story through abstract form and color opens up the options. “I think figurative art can work too, but it lends itself more easily to constructs, one-to-one connections without so much nuance. Not attaching to anything we can name leaves our minds open to freer association. We don’t see with our eyes, we see with our minds.” Odita’s work will be shown at the Dorsky Museum as part of the exhibition “Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists,” which opens on January 24 and runs through April 15. Newpaltz.edu/museum. Portfolio: Dilidonaldodita.com —Anne Pyburn Craig 10 CHRONOGRAM 1/18
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: With this issue, I wish to take the opportunity to share a teaching story from the dervishes of Central Asia. This story had a great impact on me when I first read it decades ago, and I have resorted to its message many times in the intervening years. The story has given different meanings at different times, as seems to be the nature of stories containing real teachings. I cannot say that I fully understand its message even now. More can be said about the different levels of meaning contained in the story, but first I hope you will read it, and with a special degree of attention. It is stated in a Hadith (quotations attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH) that every meaning expressed in the Muslim holy book, the Quran, can be interpreted at seven levels. “The Quran possesses an external appearance and a hidden depth, an exoteric meaning and an esoteric meaning. This esoteric meaning in turn conceals an esoteric meaning so it goes on for seven esoteric meanings (seven depths of hidden depth),” says the Hadith. Similarly, those interpreting Jewish scripture, the Torah, say the meaning can be educed at four levels, from the literal to the most hidden, inner meaning. This is echoed in every tradition, and is a mode of addressing both truth-seeking mystics and literal-interpretation fundamentalists. What the religionists call scripture is not distinct from a collection of teaching stories, woven together by a narrative, and laced with symbols. In my experience, there are three modes of reading a true teaching story. Their reading can be literal—occurring in the realm of bodies and objects; essential—as qualities; or as objective correlative, in which the symbolic interpretation is experienced as an immutable expression of an ideal existing outside of time, and is actually more real than any transitory phenomenon, be the phenomena in the aforementioned realms of objects, or qualities. Kurt Vonnegut in his classic novel The Sirens of Titan alludes to this realm where meaning exists both as something immutable and also absolutely adaptable—the chrono-synclastic infundibulum. In the words of his character Winston Niles Rumfoord, “In the grand, in the timeless, in the chronosynclastic infantimbulated way of looking at things, I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I’ve been.” Here’s the story, called “Prisoner”: A man was once sent to prison for life, for something which he had not done. When he had behaved in an exemplary way for some months, his jailers began to regard him as a model prisoner. He was allowed to make his cell a little more comfortable; and his wife sent him a prayer-carpet which she had herself woven. When several more months had passed, this man said to his guards: “I am a metalworker, and you are badly paid. If you can get me a few tools and some pieces of tin, I will make small decorative objects, which you can take to the market and sell.We could split the proceeds, to the advantage of both parties.” The guards agreed, and presently the smith was producing finely wrought objects whose sale added to everyone’s well-being. Then, one day, when the jailers went to the cell, the man had gone.They concluded that he must have been a magician. After many years when the error of the sentence had been discovered and the man was pardoned and out of hiding, the king of that country called him and asked him how he had escaped. The tinsmith said: “Real escape is possible only with the correct concurrence of factors. My wife found the locksmith who had made the lock on the door of my cell, and other locks throughout the prison. She embroidered the interior designs of the locks in the rug which she sent me, on the spot where the head is prostrated in prayer. She relied upon me to register this design and to realize that it was the wards of the locks. It was necessary for me to get materials with which to make the keys, and to be able to hammer and work metal in my cell. I had to enlist the greed and need of the guards, so that there would be no suspicion.That is the story of my escape.” Given the limitations of space, I conclude the recitation of this story with a single question: How can the conditions of one’s captivity be precisely the means of escaping from prison? —Jason Stern
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o you remember a time as a kid when you laid on your back in the grass, head pressed to the earth, staring up? Maybe you watched clouds sail by in the afternoon. Perhaps you counted the stars as they appeared, one by one, in the night sky. (I assume all children of my generation and previous ones did this, given a) the amount of free time allotted us; b) the boredom baked into childhood before the advent of ubiquitous digital technology; and c) the fact that kids are just closer to the ground than adults— it’s a shorter trip for them.) The part that I recall most vividly was not the imagineering of shapes in the sky— seeing cloud elephants and she-bears made of stars—but closing my eyes and feeling the Earth move. And I’m not referring to the pounding feet of the neighborhood kids as they thundered past me, spread out on the lawn; or seismic tremors; or garbage trucks bouncing in the potholes on 28th Avenue. I’m talking planetary and interstellar motion here, the dual action of the world turning on its axis and hurtling through space at 67,000 miles per hour. (What my seven-year-old selfdid not know was that there is greater motion still, larger wheels turning as we ride along on Spaceship Earth. Consider this: Our solar system spins around the center of the Milky Way at 490,000 miles per hour. Outside of that, the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies are rushing at the unfathomable speed of 621 miles per second toward the Great Attractor, a region of space roughly 150 million light-years away from us. The galaxies better pump their brakes before they get there.) It must have been science class, or perhaps Carl Sagan talking about it on TV that prompted the desire to feel the motion of the planet. Undoubtedly, it was explained to me that despite the incredible speeds we’re traveling at, we cannot actually detect the Earth moving because we are all moving with it. (This screwed up the ancients, who noticed the heavenly bodies above us moving but detected no motion on Earth and thus concluded the Earth was the center of the cosmos. Seems silly now, but based on the available evidence, I would have made the same mistake. That’s why we have experts.) My experiment to feel the motion of the Earth was simple: Lie down on the ground, arms and legs outstretched, sink into the grass, become as heavy as my 75 pounds allowed, and feel. Really feel. Like one of those saints Sister Daria taught us about, the kind who so keenly felt the love of God it was like a holy fire burning inside them. Now, it should be known that I was an especially intelligent and perceptive child. Everyone thought so. (Except
Mrs. Guildersleeve, my third-grade teacher, who believed I was fomenting rebellion in her classroom with comments made under my breath. I was just mumbling. The aging Amazon was four times my size and frightened the snot out of me.) Trying to feel the Earth’s motion was tricky. Lying there on the ground, I was clenching the grass with exertion, desperately trying to feel it. This went on for ages—about 10 minutes or so, me trying to will it to happen—until I became exhausted. Luckily, I was already on the ground, so I didn’t fall over. And there was nothing to do but relax. I thought of the charmingly outof-whack-yet-kid-scale illustrations by Antoine de Saint-Exupery from The Little Prince; how small the planets were and how big the golden-curled young man was. Surely the Little Prince could feel both the turning of his asteroid as well as well its velocity as it bobbed along in space. (Of course, the fact that the Little Prince escapes his home via a flock of migrating birds would indicate that the planet wasn’t traveling all that fast.) I imagined myself like the Little Prince, arms almost long enough to curve around the sides of a small planet. And then something simple yet extraordinary happened. I asked myself: What would it feel like to feel the turning of the Earth? And I thought: It would feel imperceptible yet inexorable; ungraspable and mystical. (Seven-year-old Brian didn’t use those words exactly, but you get the idea. I was operating in an intuitive space slightly ahead of my own vocabulary.) So, I tried that. Eyes closed, limbs akimbo, I pretended to feel the world spin. And guess what? It worked, sort of—my fingertips tingled, I saw lava lamp-like blobs floating under my eyelids, I had a floaty feeling. One could say that I experienced an ecstatic reverie, tapped in to the flow state at the heart of the universe. It was wonderful. Not wonderful like the taste of an ice cream bar, but wonderful as in full of wonder that I could co-create my own consciousness. And perhaps a storyteller was born in that moment. Then it passed, and I got up and played Wiffle ball for the rest of the afternoon like nothing happened. With the arrival of the new year, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what I might do differently in 2018, how I could mix things up a little. (Those who know me surely have a long list of suggestions as to how I might improve myself.) The majority of new year’s resolutions are discarded before the end of January. Here’s one I hope I can keep: To stay curious and be open to wonder.
Mrs. Guildersleeve, my third-grade teacher, believed I was fomenting rebellion in her classrom with comments made under my breath. I was just mumbling. The aging Amazon was four times my size and frightened the snot out of me.
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On a chilly mid-December eve, Millerton, Millbrook, and Amenia residents and business owners warmed themselves with whiskey, coffee, tea, and organic nibbles at Irving Farm Coffee Roasters for our final Chronogram Conversation of the year. Luminary’s networking and community discussion series provided the venue to discuss what good growth looks like in Eastern Dutchess County—and attendees had plenty to say. Our Conversations series is also a setting for regional sponsors to showcase their wares. Harney & Sons Tea presented a sampling of holiday-inspired teas. Our venue host, Irving Farm, poured single-sourced drip coffee. McEnroe Organic Farms served a selection of house-cured meats, pate, beef tartare, and cheeses. Hillrock Distillery poured samples of their bourbon, rye, and single-malt whiskeys. Agrisculpture once again provided custom-built stools for our panelists, made from reclaimed tractor parts. The panel discussion began with Jenny Hansell (North East Community Center), Mimi Ramos (Harney Real Estate and cofounder of the Spring for Sound music festival), and Gregg Osofsky (Watershed Center) who discussed their views on what makes Millerton singular, as well as some challenges facing the community, foremost among them youth employment and activities, equitable development, and aging village infrastructure. Brian K. Mahoney moderated the panel. As we launch headlong into 2018, Luminary presents Chronogram Conversations sponsorship opportunities to regional partners. Get face-to-face with 2,000-plus attendees and amplify your brand’s messaging to Chronogram’s audience before, during, and after the Conversations via our multiple media channels. This includes direct email, print placement, social media posts, and a video produced at each event. Contact Brian.Berusch@Chronogram.com to discuss your Conversations sponsorship. 1.The panel: Chronogram Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney; North East Community Center Executive Director Jenny Hansell; Mimi Ramos, cofounder of the Spring for Sound music festival and real estate broker with Harney Real Estate; Gregg Osofsky, cofounder of the Watershed Center. 2. Piper Broderick, sales and marketing manager for Silo Ridge Field Club. 3. Dick Hermans, founder of Oblong Books and Music, and Jenny Hansell of the North East Community Center. 4. Douglas Thorsey, sales and marketing manager for Hillrock Estate Distillery, and Michael Cobb, CEO of Crown Maple Syrup. 5. Wade McEnroe, executive chef of McEnroe Organic Farm. 6. Irving Farm Coffee House is located on Main Street in downtown Millerton. 7. Kathy Shapiro, manager of Irving Farm Coffee House, and author Kristen Panzer. Text and event production: Brian Berusch Photography: John Garay
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Mysticism in the Christian Tradition Mysticism’s reputation in the period since the Enlightenment has been checkered. Often rejected as being elitist or superstitious or heretical (or some combination of the three, for all the contradictions involved), mystical practices in recent years have been acclaimed as benefitting health, reducing stress, and/or providing special insight. The Rhinebeck Reformed Church offers a lecture series created and presented by The Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton of Bard College.
When: The 4th Sunday of the month from 1 – 1:45 PM (Lunch available at 12:30 PM)
♦ January 28 ♦ 6368 Mill St, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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A recent analysis by David Leonhardt in the New York Times compared the number of lies told by Presidents Obama and Trump. (Lies, as defined by Leonhardt, were “demonstrably and substantively false statements.” During Obama’s eight-year term, he told 18 lies, such as “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan,” in reference to the Affordable Care Act. (Under the ACA, however, some people were required to switch plans.) President Trump, during the first 10 months of his presidency, has told 103 lies, more than three times as many as Obama did during his entire presidency. As Leonhardt notes: “When he is caught lying, he will often try and discredit people telling the truth, be they judges, scientists, FBI or CIA officials, journalists, or members of Congress. Trump is trying to make the truth irrelevant. It is extremely damaging to democracy, and it’s not an accident. It’s core to his political strategy.” Source: New York Times
Filipino President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and US President Donald Trump at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on November 13, 2017.
In late November, while on a swing through Asia that included a stop in Manila for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, President Trump was sung a love song by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte at a dinner in front of leaders from across Asia. Duterte later explained his crooning was “on the orders of Donald Trump.” One of the song’s verses, translated from Filipino, begins: “You are the light in my world, a half of this heart of mine.” “Ladies and gentlemen, I sang uninvited, upon the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States,” said Duterte, who is known as the “Trump of the East,” because of this brash style. The US and its former colony, the Philippines, have been strategic allies since WWII. But their relations have been strained by anti-US outbursts from Duterte and his enthusiasm for better ties with Russia and China. Source: Guardian (UK)
On November 11, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed a bill into law doing away with the 10-year-old minimum age requirement for hunting. The law allows children younger than 10 to hunt if they are accompanied by an adult mentor who stays within arm’s length of them. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released data later in November that showed the agency had sold 1,814 mentored hunting licenses to children age nine or younger in the first week. The vast majority—1,011 licenses—went to nine-year-olds. Fifty-two licenses went to children under age 5, with 10 going to a child under a year old. A four-year-old was the youngest licensee to register a kill. State Rep. Joel Kleefisch, (R-Oconomowoc), said when he took his eight-yearold daughter hunting, he had to do it in Michigan because she wasn’t old enough to legally hunt in Wisconsin at that time. Kleefisch, the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, said parents should be able to decide when their children are ready to hunt. Source: USA Today Suicide rates are spiking in American teens, as are rates of anxiety and depression. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows the pattern is similar for self-harm, with alarmingly high rates among young girls. Until 2008, the rate of emergency room-worthy self-inflicted injuries among teens was flat. Since 2009, the rate of girls aged 10 to 14 arriving in emergency rooms with self-inflicted injuries has increased by 19 percent per year, a pace that far surpasses any other group. Source: Associated Press 16 CHRONOGRAM 1/18
In 2015, Australians Nick and Sarah Jensen publicly swore that their religious beliefs would force them to divorce in protest if Australia enacted marriage equality laws that allowed for same-sex marriage. “Marriage is the union of a man and a woman before a community in the sight of God,” said Nick Jensen. “My wife and I, as a matter of conscience, refuse to recognize the government’s regulation of marriage if its definition includes the solemnization of same-sex couples.” On November 15, the results of a two-month postal survey were released, indicating 61% of Australians were in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage. Afterward, the Jensens released a statement suggesting they were backtracking from their original commitment to divorce. “My previous public comments regarding civil divorce never envisaged me separating from my wife, but rather our marriage from the state,” Nick Jensen wrote in a text message. Source: Buzzfeed On December 15, two Facebook researchers, David Ginsberg and Moira Burke, posted the following piece on the site’s news blog: “Hard Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?” The pair reviewed some of the top scientific research on well-being and social media from scientists and mental health clinicians. Their conclusion? People who spend a lot of time passively consuming information on social media—reading but not interacting with people—report feeling worse afterward. That’s the downside. But’s there’s also an upside: People who actively interact with other people—sharing content, sending and receiving messages—report improvements in well-being. Our reading: If Facebook makes you sad, it’s because you’re using it wrong, and/or not enough. C’mon get happy and post on some Timelines! Source: Facebook Forty-four percent of Americans believe that media outlets fabricate stories about President Trump “more than once in a while,” according to a Poynter Media Trust Survey released in late November. The breakdown looks like this: 24 percent believe that the media fabricates Trump stories “about half of the time,” 14 percent “most of the time,” and 6 percent “all of the time.” This is a wildfire stoked by the president: In his 318 days in office, Trump has tweeted about “fake news” 155 times. Source: Washington Post Amazon was the eighth-largest employer in the US at the end of 2016, and the headcount is growing by 40 percent year-over-year. (The online retailer also announced plans to build a second US headquarters that will employ 50,000.) According to an analysis by Quartz.com, Amazon will represent 20 percent of the entire US retail industry’s growth in 2017—even though it only represents three percent of overall US retail sales. Some things to keep in mind about Amazon’s market dominance: Assuming the current industry trends continue through the end of the year, the number of employees in Amazon-related retail (that is, retail that Amazon competes with, such as book stores, as opposed to areas it doesn’t compete with, like gas stations) will decline by about one percent year-over-year. Amazon’s employment increases won’t be enough to cover the losses in the rest of the industry. Amazon has already added 55,000 robots this year and its growth rate is accelerating, meaning more jobs—for robots. Source: Quartz.com
GILLIAN FARRELL
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
THE SEVEN WORDS YOU CAN’T SAY AT THE CDC
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n December 15, the Washington Post reported that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had been given a list of seven words they were not to use. It’s possible that the restriction applies only to budget documents. It’s possible that it applies to other agencies as well.The CDC is subordinate to the Department of Health and Human Services, whose spokesperson denied it. The head of the CDC denied it also, but it took her two days to do so. The Washington Post story seemed very credibly sourced. All I can say is that it gets worse and worse, so much so that it must be treated in verse.
The White House giveth out a command Of seven words that now must be banned Not the seven that George Carlin made famous, that to say on TV would be to shame us. This is more like a special writ of mandamus put in place at the whim of King Ignoramus The new list is secret, the new list is known, in the Washington Post, and now in a poem. The White House denies both Post and verse, but truth for the Trumps oft runs in reverse. The new list is for an important agency Based down in Atlanta, it’s the CDC. Oddly its full name is quite rarely mentioned: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They must watch their language around diseases they can no longer say whatever they pleases. Is it just because the CDC has bored us, and it’s about time that they used a thesaurus? So, what’s on the list, what are the words, never to be written, never to be heard. Among the first to go had to be fetus ‘cause it’s a trick word that’s out to defeat us into thinking a zygote’s not a full human being capable of thinking, seeing, peeing, and skiing. Right near the top is the word transgender because some of us find it a scary mindbender. To others the ban sounds hugely queer perhaps prompted by some small-fingered fear. Should CDC decisions be evidence based? Use that phrase and you’ll go down in disgrace.
Since facts are no longer in the best of taste the CDC shouldn’t be that kind of place. Don’t think you’ll slip by, don’t think you can, by saying science based, to get ’round the ban. They’re wise to you, Mr. Science Smarty-Pants, give it your best shot, and lose all your grants. There are some who think Trump heaven sent to wage righteous war against entitlement. It’s not what he said, it is what he meant. If the word is gone, what’s left to lament? It’s decided that it must be some kind of perversity to use the word, let alone seek, diversity. Do not complain and do not curse at me that’s what I learned at Trump University. Vulnerable is one more word not to mention. Its use will get you sent down to detention. It might cause worry, concern, and despair, when we cut Medicaid and cut Medicare. For those too young, or those who missed it, here’s George Carlin’s seven, euphemistically listed, to establish a contrast with our changing times and why the pain of the moment cries out in rhymes. The old list was basically the rude and the lewd oft used for anger, or just a bad mood.
One’s about a person who does a certain oral act but its use is rarely prompted by that pleasant fact.
Now we have cable and the internet, too with full use of words that were once called blue, plus the hardest hardcore on quick instant view. Censorship has turned to something totally new. If this first seven is a huge Trump success there will be more, that’s our best guess. There are so many more that bring him distress that he’d surely love to repress and suppress. One to be rid of, since it creates much confusion, the thing that there isn’t, you know, collusion. Wouldn’t it be great to never hear that again. If you’d shut up about it, we could all be friends. Another selection, because it sounds so off-color that friend of James Comey, that guy Robert Mueller. When he goes, special council will go to, that’s just not something really good people do. More syllables Trump need never hear again, that maker of fake news: CNN. As long as our list is being guided by rhymes wouldn’t he banish the NewYork Times? He does not yet snarl at these words in public but “General John Kelly” must make him sick. Kelly’s testimony is the most likely to stick, There was urine and feces in the four-letter form. and he’s hooked to Trump as tight as a tick. The carnal act that you can use to keep warm. The curt, harsh sound used for the female genitalia, Whether spoken sharply or in a deep drawl another for the other female sign of genus mamalia. the word Trump hates, that makes his skin crawl, that makes him protest, bleat, squeak, and squall, A sixth is so oft-used, and so frequently heard, about his crowds, or his fingers, that word is small. that in some places mother is just half a word. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM 17
Art of Business PROFILES OF OUR ADVERTISING PARTNERS
The small businesses of the Hudson Valley are the engine of our local living economy. These enterprises are of a different type than national and global business brands. They are owned and run by our friends, neighbors, and fellow participants in the community. Rather than being siphoned off to Wall Street, the money these businesses take in is immediately circulated back into the local economy, a natural reinvestment in the commons. This Art of Business section in Chronogram is to introduce the founders and creators, and tell the inspiring and instructive backstories of these local businesses.
MOTORCYCLEPEDIA MUSEUM
From choppers to street bikes, crotch rockets to cruisers, motorcycles come in all shapes and sizes and appeal to all types of people—from full-time bad boys to Wall Street brokers blowing off steam. The Motorcyclepedia Museum is an 85,000-square-foot space in Newburgh displaying the collection father-son duo Gerald and Ted Doering has amassed over a combined 80 years. The volunteer-run museum is a love letter to the American motorcycle, with the most complete timeline of Indian motorcycles anywhere in the world, plus a handful of historically significant European and Asian models. “Headlights, horns, handlebars, gas tanks—it’s very obvious to see how these parts evolved when you have a timeline as complete as our Indian timeline,” says Dale Prusinowski, a Motorcyclepedia trustee. In addition to the display of over 600 bikes, the museum also has more than 3,000 articles of memorabilia, such as posters and ads, and special interest exhibits that include historical context for different bikes. They have one bike from JFK’s motorcade the day was he assassinated, as well as the police motorcycle that was the first vehicle to arrive in Roswell, New Mexico, when aliens had supposedly landed in 1948. Through this thoughtful curation, motorcycles become a lens through which to view the history and evolution of America. Motorcyclepediamuseum.org
WADE’S TOWNE & COUNTRY FLORIST
As the lush hills of Delaware County grow in popularity as a site for weddings, barns are being converted into venues and the small-town businesses are flourishing. Mischell Wade has run Wade’s Towne & Country Florist in Stamford for just shy of a decade. “My business keeps growing every year,” she says. “Barn weddings are up-and-coming in this area; 2017 was my biggest year ever for weddings.” She works with couples to develop a budget and a design concept, and offers full-service deliveries to regional venues. Wade has always had a green thumb. She worked at florists all throughout high school, before majoring in plant science at SUNY Cobleskill. After graduating, she worked for many years in interior design and landscape design. While these professions honed her keen aesthetic, she felt something was missing. “I wanted to do something finer and more artistic, on a smaller scale,” she says. So she returned to floral design. “It’s a talent I always had, and I just evolved with it.” Wade has extensive flower gardens at her house, which she cuts from in the summertime to add local variety in her shop. For the DIY curious, Wade also offers seasonal and holiday-themed workshops and private classes for all ages. (607) 652-2500 18 ART OF BUSINESS CHRONOGRAM 1/18
RUPCO “There is opportunity in every community,” says Tara Collins, communications director at RUPCO, the region’s leading affordable housing and community developer. “At RUPCO, we don’t define communities, we help them define themselves.” Among RUPCO’s many programs and services, 2017 saw the beginning of a project to revitalize Newburgh’s historic East End. “All the way down Broadway to the riverfront, there was block after block, rowhouse after rowhouse of vacant historic buildings with windows blown out, just really unloveable conditions,” Collins says. “But Newburgh is a diamond in the rough. It has all this potential, it just needed a little push in that direction,” Collins says. In an ongoing collaboration, RUPCO is partnering with the NYS Homes & Community Renewal, Newburgh Community Land Bank, and Safe Harbors of the Hudson to create a scattersite development of 45 apartments in 15 historic buildings over a five-block area. “It all starts at home. When we have a safe secure place to live to call home, the rest of our lives blossom—we go from surviving to thriving,” she says. “We can choose to make a stand in communities that some people have written off. With a little help and a lot of vision and patience, we are hoping this phoenix of Newburgh will rise out of the ashes.” RUPCO.org
NOFA-NY
As 2018 dawns, a new state farm bill threatens many of the protections and incentives in place for organic farmers. Amidst this context, NOFA-NY will host their 36th Annual Organic Farming and Gardening Conference in Saratoga, from January 19 to 21. This year’s theme is “Healthy People, Healthy Planet,” which recognizes the crucial intersection of health and agriculture. There will be workshops in 12 tracks, covering a range of subjects from value-adding techniques to policy, lean business planning to specialty crops like hemp. The keynote speakers will be David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, authors of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health. A new feature this year is the Wellness Fair, which will be held on January 20. In the style of O+, health practitioners of many modalities will be providing services to conference participants. “We want to honor our farmers by providing some of these services,” says Andrianna Natsoulas, Executive Director of NOFA-NY. “Our organic farmers work so hard growing, producing, and selling amazing food for our community, but when it comes to their own bodies, they need a bit of support.” The conference is open to the public and includes delicious organic meals, live entertainment in the evening, and a trade show. Nofany.org
A COLLECTOR’S EYE
Conrad Cultraro is a born collector. As a nine-year old he began stockpiling coins, stamps, baseball cards, and comic books. Over the course of a 35-year career in architecture and interior design his interests expanded to include furniture, fixtures, and decorative and fine art. Cultaro and his wife Doris, of DC Stained Glass in Germantown, spent years going to auctions, estate sales, and galleries. On vacation, they would comb through antique and warehouse districts “on hands and knees, with flashlights and gloves,” searching for buried treasure. “That’s how we had our fun,” he says. Cultraro’s gallery in Hudson, A Collector’s Eye, is the culmination of a lifetime of discerning accumulation. “After filling and selling two houses, I don’t have room any more, so I have to find new homes,” he says. At his gallery, Cultraro has remedied many of the frustrations he encountered in his own antique-hunting experience. Organized by design era, the displays are clear and uncluttered; the shop is well-lit; everything is priced clearly; and nothing smells musty. The shop specializes in Modernist era collectibles (1870–1960). The vast inventory spans furniture, rugs, lighting, coins, militaria, statuary, costume and estate jewelry, clothing, and countless other treasures for the curious collector. Acollectorseye.com
COLLABORATIVE MEDICAL ARTS
In his prolific and wide-ranging career, the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner always sought to find the intersection of science and spirituality. His thinking birthed Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, associative economics, and a branch of the healing arts called anthroposophic medicine. Anthroposophic medicine explores the emotional, creative, and spiritual health of the patient as well as his or her physical well-being. A fundamental difference to this approach is its view of illness: “In this day and age, people don’t allow themselves to be ill. They want antibiotics; they want to get better quickly; they want to get back to work or to send their kids to school,” says Dr. Kathleen Lazare of Collaborative Medical Arts, which is an anthroposophic practice in Chatham. “But illness is actually something we need in order to get the debris out of our body and rebuild the architecture.” Rather than suppressing illness, Collaborative Medical Arts focuses on encouraging the body’s natural healing forces. Treatment plans may include a combination of remedies, therapeutic modalities, supplements, lifestyle or dietary changes, and, when necessary, conventional medications. Dr. Lazare works alongside the anthroposophic neurologist Cathy Sims-O’Neil, DO, and a team of healthcare practitioners. Collaborativemedicalarts.org
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Weddings & Celebrations
Reid and Jess at Hasbrouck House in Stone Ridge.
A VENUE FOR EVERY VISION A CURATED GUIDE TO HUDSON VALLEY WEDDING VENUES BY MARIE DOYON
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ou’ve decided to get married. Phew! The biggest decision is out of the way. Next up: venue selection. No doubt from the moment you got engaged, soon-to-be in-laws, well-meaning neighbors, and friends have badgered you about where and when. Your wedding venue is the backdrop for your fated day. From photography to film, anecdotes to guest book notes, the details and distinctions of your venue will get folded into the collective memory of the event. The right setting creates the tone and ambiance to match your vision. We’ll leave the vision to you, but here is a guide of some of our favorite venues in the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. Historic If you’ve dreamt of your wedding since childhood and swooned over storybook romances, a historic venue may provide the perfect backdrop for your fairytale day. The Hudson Valley offers many venues whose character and mystique has stood the test of time. Under new ownership, the historic Hasbrouck House in Stone Ridge has undergone an extensive internal renovation to complement a rejuvenated vision and aesthetic. Just minutes’ walk from shops and restaurants, the old stone inn exists magically apart from the world—its own secluded Eden. Old oaks, sycamores, and pines soar above emerald lawns, lined by boxwood hedges, 20 WEDDINGS CHRONOGRAM 1/18
flowering shrubs, and herb gardens. The property has several locations for wedding festivities, each with their own vibe and size capacity, from the hotel’s restaurant, Butterfield, to the wraparound porch, large bluestone patio, and sprawling lawns. Hasbrouck House is a great option for couples who have family travelling from out of town, with 17 rooms, including four multi-bedroom suites, a Carriage House Apartment, a Stable House Grand Loft, and a Wedding Suite. With impeccable decor, attentive landscaping, and oodles of historic charm, every photograph will look perfectly staged. Hasbrouckhouseny.com The Wilderstein estate in Rhinebeck epitomizes the Hudson Valley’s rich blend of history and natural beauty.Weddings at Wilderstein take place entirely outdoors. With 40 acres of lush lawns, river frontage, and mountain vistas you will feel like you have stepped into a Thomas Cole painting.You can choose any location on the grounds for your ceremony, from either of the two gazebos to a silhouetted hilltop to the riverside at sunset. Take fairytale photos on the veranda of the 19th-century Queen Anne-style country house and sip cocktails on the lawn. Event pricing is reasonable and even includes photography, but you must make your own arrangements for tents and equipment rentals, food service, and entertainment. Wilderstein.org Other historic options include Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck, and the Olana State Historic Site in Hudson.
Jen and Jon at Bascilica Hudson.
Industrial Chic From artist lofts to converted factories, the edgy, expansiveness of industrial spaces has caught on as a design concept in both urban and rural environments. Blending raw materials, like metal and wood, with salvaged items, this style offers a simple, well-worn look. If you want a fresh, no-frills wedding, with a funky edge, renting a converted industrial space may be the way to go. The Senate Garage in Uptown Kingston is exactly what it sounds like. This 1921 parking building represents a bygone era of Kingston’s industrial history. Think exposed brick, factory windows, polished concrete, Edison bulb fixtures, vaulted ceilings, and tiled bathrooms. The 7,500-square-foot space is highly customizable and can accommodate up to 275 seated guests. A vintage lounge area, featuring velvet sofas and heavy drapes, is the perfect place to pose with cocktails, canapes, and (unlit) cigars. In the heart of the Stockade District, this venue offers walkability to a range of restaurants, bars, and shops, as well as accessibility to major highways. Senategarage.com Basilica Hudson is one of the blossoming city’s cornerstone community projects. As a multidisciplinary arts center, this solar-powered space is a hub of culture and creativity in the region. The soaring brick building was built in the 1880s as an factory, with close proximity to Hudson’s waterfront and railroad. Leaded glass windows line every side of the 7,000-square foot building, allowing a tremendous amount of natural light in, all throughout the day. If you are looking for architectural character without any preciousness, this is it. Basilicahudson.org If these two don’t quite hit the mark, check out the Roundhouse in Beacon or the Newburgh Brewing Co.
Michelle and Mike at Senate Garage in Kingston (courtesy SAW Photography).
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Brianna at Lambs Hill Farm in Fishkill.
Intimate Stepping away from the massive industrial spaces, sometimes smaller is better. For those who don’t want to deal with crazy extended family members, or simply have always dreamed of an intimate wedding celebration, there are several cozy venues in the Hudson Valley to accommodate your petite party. That said, small can still mean expansive. Lambs Hill in Fishkill is a farm and event center carved into the side of Mount Beacon, with gasp-worthy skytop panoramas of the region and the Hudson River, all just five minutes from Beacon’s bustling downtown. The hillside venue features a manicured main lawn, a covered patio with a vanishing-edge pool (perfect for cocktail hour), and a rustic-chic barn for receptions. Icelandic horses and miniature donkeys add a major cute factor. Lambshill.com Lined with brightly colored two-story buildings that house inns, bars, and businesses like a bakery and a cheese shop, Main Street, Rosendale is about as picturesque they come. In the middle of this mighty little town, the steeple of the Belltower venue soars above all else. Built in 1896 by the Dutch Reformed Church, the beautiful Gothic-style brick building is a relic of the town’s cement industry days. These days, the space is used primarily as a studio for glass design and sculpture, but it moonlights as an event venue, capable of accommodating up to 120 guests. Natural light floods in through the vaulted windows creating a bright, inviting space, that retains its hallowed atmosphere. Belltowervenue.com If you want to keep it intimate, check out these other sites: Colony in Woodstock, Chapel Restoration in Cold Spring, the Bird and Bottle Inn in Garrison, and the Bykenhulle House in Hopewell Junction. Picturesque The modestly named Deer Mountain Inn covers nearly 200 acres of lawns and woodlands in Tannersville, with spectacular views of the valley below and the Catskill Mountains beyond. Built in the Arts & Crafts style of the early 1900s, the Inn offers a multitude of settings for groups as small as 40 or as large as 250. There is the Alpine lodge-style attic, the bright and cheerful sunroom, the bar and restaurant, the exquisite terrace and gardens, and the sprawling lawns. Six double-occupancy suites offer limited lodging for the core bridal party. Deermountaininn.com 22 WEDDINGS CHRONOGRAM 1/18
Belltower Venue in Rosendale.
Ditch the pole tent and spring for the pole barn when you book at Willow Drey Farm in Delaware County. In fact, forget the hassle of rental companies altogether; the venue includes farmhouse tables, vintage schoolhouse chairs, mix-and-match china, and silver plate place settings for a elegant yet whimsical feel. Flowers and accents pop in the stunning whitewashed space. Thanks to recent renovations, you don’t have to sacrifice any creature comforts to have a farm wedding. The venue space features radiant heat, full insulation, and a complete catering shed for year-round events. Outdoors, enjoy expansive views of Gladstone Hollow and Mount Pisgah in the distance from the large bluestone patio. Willowdreyfarm.com For other picturesque options, check out The Links at Union Vale, The Garrison Institute in Garrison, and Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper.
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Matt and Jordan at Owls Hoot Barn in Coxsackie (courtesy Forged in the North).
Barn is the New Black Rustic is having a renaissance. For those who believe there is no greater beauty than nature’s own palate, and those who imagine their wedding as a jovial, unpretentious celebration with boot stompin’, bonfires, and lawn games, barn weddings may be the right fit. Think burlap and garden roses, cowboy boots and bowties. Barn weddings represent the height of country charm—bucolic beauty with an elegant twist. Like many working farms of old, the Owls Hoot venue in Coxsackie has not one but several barns, which can each be tailored to your celebration. The 1800s Dutch barn is the largest of these, accommodating up to 180 guests for dancing and dining. These agricultural structures retain their rich heritage, set amidst pastures and fields of colorful wildflowers. Gravel paths and a small willow-lined creek wind their way through the pastoral landscape.While most of the ceremonies are al fresco affairs, there is a pavilion attached to the Dutch barn that can serve as a rain plan. Owlshootbarn.com Voyage to heart of the Catskills State Park for a truly rural reverie. At Hayfield, the English Frame Barn and Prairie Barn, with its 35-foot vaulted ceiling, offers two options for nuptial festivities. Stroll through the fields of wild grass, under the boughs of venerable, old trees, and glimpse the majestic peaks of the surrounding mountains.This hilltop destination offers a peaceful, private space for exchanging vows and celebrating marriage. Hayfieldcatskills.com At 400 acres, Stone Tavern Farm in Roxbury is the largest of the wedding venues on our list. The sprawling property, nestled in the hills of Delaware County at the end of a dead-end road, includes fields and forest, a riding ring, pond, pavilion, and a 12,000-square-foot barn that can accommodate up to 400 guests. Horses and goats dot the hillside, creating an authentic pastoral feel. Stone Tavern Farm offers lodging onsite for the bridal party and camping for guests. Stonetavernfarm.com The list of barn venues is lengthy and growing. Some other highlights include the Barn on the Pond in Saugerties, the BARN at Liberty Farms, Apple Barn Farm, the Roxbury Barn & Estate, Crested Hen Farms, Buttermilk Falls, Tralee Farm, Hudson Valley Weddings at The Hill, Locust Grove, The Catskill Mountain House, Stonegate Farm, Full Moon Resort, and Red Maple Vineyard.
Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson (518) 822-1438 rentals@hudsonhall.org hudsonhall.org New York State’s oldest surviving theater is an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind setting for your wedding, special event or corporate meeting. With restoration of its magnificent upstairs performance hall now complete, Hudson Hall boasts two floors of climate-controlled spaces perfect for your ceremony, dinner and dancing, and is a stunning backdrop for your bridal party photographs. Located conveniently on Hudson’s historic main street and a short walk from the Amtrak station, your guests will delight in an escape to Upstate’s “most beautiful small town”.
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Clockwise from top left: Taconic Distillery Founder Paul Coughlin in Stanfordville; Samantha Bea at The Music Cellar in Millerton; Kayla Agostini and Catherine Bauer at The Moviehouse in Millerton; Eman Alshawaf, artist in residency at The Wassaic Project.
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location is now one of nine stores, but still the only choice outside Manhattan. New on their menu is cold brew (in addition to iced coffee), both a classic and seasonal blend. Those who prefer tea can head over to Harney & Sons, another outlet with a sister site in New York. They offer 250 varieties of tea in their tasting room, plus a lunch menu in the back lounge. Good grub can be found at Main Street eateries like 52 Main, a tapas restaurant, and Oakhurst Diner, a retro boxcar-style joint dating back to the 1940s. On the shopping front, Gilmor Glass is a Millerton staple, now in its 21st year of business. Pop into the gallery to marvel at delicate stemware, bowls, vases, and other pieces made by hand using mouth-blown and pressed-glass techniques; or stop by the factory space next door to learn the complex art of glassmaking yourself via demonstrations and workshops. Directly across the street is PLACE Gallery, a brand-new space showcasing custom furniture, commissioned fine art, handcrafted ceramics, and wood sculpture. For a culture fix, try The Moviehouse, residing inside a building crowned by an old clock tower. The Moviehouse doesn’t stick to mainstream programming; it also screens indies, foreign films, and documentaries handpicked from festivals. It even livestreams ballets from Russia and operas at the Met, making it possible to witness international genius without spending a fortune on plane tickets.
Clockwise from top left: Redheads in love, James Smith and Megan Mooney at Harney and Sons’ Millerton shop; Sonne Hernandez with her artwork at PLACE gallery in Millerton; Cole Peck, assistant winemaker at Millbrook Vineyards & Winery; Brennan Kearney and Antonia Salvato, antique dealers at Millbrook Antiques Mall.
Outdoor options abound, especially on the Harlem Valley Rail Trail, a route of over 15 paved miles through tranquil woods and a favorite of devoted bikers. Another 13 miles of abandoned rail bed are currently in development stages, plus 18 more have been acquired and will take the trail north into the Village of Chatham. “This will change the volume of people coming into town dramatically, which is a good thing,” says Kathy Shapiro, manager at Irving Farms. “As of now, the trail crosses Main but only on one side; once the last leg is built, the trail will connect from Wassaic to Chatham, leading straight through Millerton.” For more Millerton information, check out Main Street magazine, a hyperlocal publication celebrating its fifth anniversary this March. Main Street covers everything from real estate to gardening to hiking to local businesses. The magazine’s editor and owner Thorunn Kristjansdottir launched a website this past April, hoping to guide visitors and old hands alike in finding spots to eat, shop, stay, and luxuriate while in town. “There’s so much to do here—you’re just limited by your imagination,” Kristjansdottir says. Amenia Roughly nine miles south of Millerton lies Amenia, another tiny village with a big influx of wealthy homeowners on the way. Four years ago, Amenia was left struggling and quiet when its largest employer—an institution for the developmentally disabled—closed down. But the times they are a-changin’, as an enormous luxury development hopes to draw movie stars and businessmen away from their Hamptons retreats and into a new sort of decadence. The Silo Ridge Field Club is a recent project of the Discovery Land Company, transforming 800 acres of old dairy farmland in Amenia into a high-end gated community housing 245 residencies ranging from $2 to $10 million (New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has already secured himself a spot). By March, 12 condo units will be full, and more single-family homes should
be occupied by spring. In addition to the Tom Fazio-designed golf course, Silo Ridge boasts a vegetable garden and dedicated beehives for delivering fresh honey to clubhouse members. The in-house chef Jonathan Wright was formerly employed at New York’s famous Rainbow Room, and will prepare dishes with ingredients sourced locally. Dan O’Callaghan, New York director of sales with the Discovery Land Company, believes Silo Ridge will benefit the community regardless of its club membership. “We have 245 homeowners that are all buying properties,” says O’Callaghan. “All those people will be shopping in Amenia, going to the local restaurants. Not to mention tax benefits for the town.” As for food and drink you can indulge in without a Silo affiliation, there’s the Cascade Mountain Winery (celebrating its 41st anniversary this year) and several more renowned local chefs. CIA graduate Dafna Mizrahi, who won the Food Network’s “Chopped” in 2015, heads up Monte’s Local Kitchen and Taproom, while Serge Madikians utilizes his Iranian ancestry to delight diners with Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flavors at Serevan. For those who prefer their entertainment old school, the Four Brothers Drive-In is a nice change of pace from the modern-day cinema experience. Open March through October, the drive-in screens evening double features and will add a larger concession stand, mini-golf course, and airstream trailer to house traveling moviegoers by 2018. According to John Stephanopoulos (who runs the drive-in and Four Brothers Pizza next door with his brother Paul), visitors are common from towns two to three hours away, so he now offers pre-movie music and magic shows, to keep early parkers busy. Nostalgia is heightened by carhop service, with food brought directly to your vehicle, and in addition to new releases the drive-in hosts a Throwback Thursday, during which classic films are screened. A small hamlet in the town of Amenia called Wassaic is home to the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit born of a 2008 arts festival that still happens every August. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 29
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It has since grown to become a year-round organization with rotating gallery exhibitions and art workshops. Housed inside a formidable, milky-white former grain mill, the facility offers artist residencies in the summer and winter; chosen residents are primarily visual creators, though co-executive director Jeff Barnett-Winsby hopes to develop a dance residency in the future. These artists engage with nearby public schools, creating curriculums with the goal being cultural exposure for local kids. At the end of this month, the Wassaic Project will host its Mill Warming event at the Maxon Mills, a new winter exhibition called “What We Don’t Realize When We See Things.” Millbrook Millbrook is the most affluent village on our list, host to both generationsold families and weekend newcomers. Celebs like Liam Neeson keep country estates here, and expensive equestrian sports are common, with events like polo matches and the Millbrook Hunt (fox hunting). The Orvis Sandanona shooting grounds is the oldest permitted shotgun shooting club in the country, where millionaires and tradesmen alike congregate to puff cigars and practice their aim. A thriving science center might seem out of place in such a swanky setting, but Millbrook’s Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies does important environmental research into topics like Lyme disease prevention and climate change, plus it hosts regular guest speakers to inform the community. On February 13, there will be a road salt science and management forum for discussion surrounding icy winter roads and how to keep them safe while not damaging the land with saline. The institute’s passion for global warming education is also a constant. According to President Josh Ginsberg, “it’s important to give people the science of climate change, rather than just the rhetoric, in this current political climate.” Get further in touch with the natural world at the Trevor Zoo, home to 80 different species, eight of them endangered. The zoo is open every day of the year (including holidays), making it the perfect destination for a family outing. There are 200 animals total—among them red pandas, wolves, and lemurs. To see how the animals behave after hours, watch the zoo’s livestream of the pandas on their website. 30 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 1/18
If you’re looking to carouse, hit up the Millbrook Distillery (just outside town, in Stanfordville) for some barrel-aged spirits, or try Millbrook Vineyards and Winery; since last year, the winery doubled the size of its tasting room, added a space for reserve tastings, and opened up a Vineyard Tap Room with wine by the glass on draft. In the summer it hosts Food Truck Fridays, where trucks bearing tasty treats roll up to the winery and help revelers soak up all that vino. Just a hop, skip, and a jump from the winery is Wing’s Castle, a strange structure straight out of a fairytale, built entirely from reclaimed materials. The castle offers several B&B options, ranging from the Dungeon Room (spooky!) to The Cottage (much cozier!) As for shopping, there are plenty of high-end boutiques to peruse. Alicia Adams Alpacas specializes in the design and production of clothing made from alpaca wool (the alpaca herd lives in nearby Stanfordville). New in the store is the Rainbow Collection (scarves, hats, sweaters, all unisex, in every color of the rainbow); a percentage of proceeds go to an LGBT organization. Adams moved to Millbrook from Germany and says she relishes the town’s “melting pot” atmosphere, with so many weekenders from New York City and large communities of Spanish speakers and international families. Partake of more retail therapy at Absolutely Wild Home, an upscale home furnishings store that opened last December, or Arrowsmith Forge, where custom metal designs like steel chandeliers and wrought-iron gates are produced. It remains one of the few ornamental and architectural forges in the Hudson Valley. Another recent addition to Millbrook is Maura’s Kitchen, a family-owned restaurant that prides itself on providing “the comfort of a mother’s home cooked meal” and serving “feel good food.” If you crave more sophisticated cuisine, Cafe Les Baux has eclectic French nosh and Charlotte’s serves European fare in a rural setting, with outdoor garden seating in the warmer months and a cozy fireplace in winter. Slammin’ Salmon serves lunch with an “old school” gourmet shop feel; specialties include hand-cut aged steaks, artisan cheese, and the freshest fish around. Whether you’re strolling down the Harlem Valley Rail Trail via Millerton, snuggling up with a sweetheart at the drive-in, or hanging with the animals at Millbrook’s Trevor Zoo, you’ll never be starved for amusement or culture in Northeast Dutchess County.
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always comes back to the human reality; it transcends all time and connects to the emotions, sometimes through complex situations that the characters experience. “As actors, the language presents opportunities to play with those emotions and fill them out in an almost larger-than-life kind of way,” Sawhill says. “It gives teens confidence in their own voice and in the world.” Says 15-year-old NGP student, Georgia Dedolph, “It has always been my dream to go to London and study at the Globe.” Cultivating Connections The majority of study-abroad programs in the US, though, happen at colleges and universities. At SUNY New Paltz’s Center for International Programs, about 500 students study abroad each year, including some from other SUNY campuses and other American universities. There are 70 programs in 20 countries, and students spend a semester, a year, or a winter or summer break on faculty-led trips or international internships and programs. Established in 1998, the center helped SUNY New Paltz to be recognized in 2015 with the Institute of International Education (IIE) Heiskell Award, for their innovative efforts in providing underrepresented students studyabroad opportunities. The New Paltz website profiles Jeremy Acevedo, who studied abroad in 2012 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. “Students who engage in global learning opportunities tend to find that their interest goes beyond study-abroad opportunities to include internships, cultural immersion, fluency in a foreign language, and graduate and/or work opportunities overseas,” says Samantha Skillman, the center’s marketing coordinator. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 33
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When Acevedo was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in order to return to the Czech Republic to work and study at a medical school in the city of Pilsen, he told the center, “Demographically, the odds were not in my favor to study abroad, but thanks to the Gilman [a scholarship funded by the Department of State] and Fulbright Scholarships, I have been able to establish these lasting global connections.” Generation Global In preparation for the IIE’s centennial celebration in 2019, it launched an initiative in 2014 called Generation Study Abroad. The baseline for the initiative was data from the Open Doors 2013 Report, which found that less than 10 percent of the 2.6 million students graduating with associate and baccalaureate degrees study abroad. The initiative gathered over 700 partners committed to mobilizing resources in order to double the number of US students participating in credit and noncredit programs abroad by 2020. Having, for almost 100 years, led the effort to expand opportunities for Americans to study in foreign countries, IIE invested $2 million into the initiative, including developing the Fulbright Program on behalf of the US government, which Acevedo benefitted from. On its website, IIE explains, “We believe that peace and prosperity in the 21st century depend on increasing the capacity of people to think and work on a global and intercultural basis.” One of the schools that has gotten on board in partnering with Generation Study Abroad is Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh. A few years ago, it started to offer a couple programs with destinations in England, Italy, and New Zealand. The programs are proposed by professors who want to share research interests and engage students. Last summer, students went to Spain to focus on language and literature. During the winter break, students went to three different cities in Australia, the first time Mount students ventured there. Of the roughly 2,000 students at the Mount, about 60 participate in the faculty-led studyabroad programs. The Mount’s Study Abroad Advisor, Ingrid Morales, says that those programs are popular because of the structure that they offer. “Our school is a small campus, and students like that. Some of them want to go to a new country, but continue to have the support of faculty and peers that they know. They feel more comfortable.” Last winter, 20 Mount students traveled for three weeks to Shanghai to study traditional Chinese medicine practices. Nursing, pre-med, biology, and sociology students would spend the morning with a guest lecturer. In the afternoons, they might go to a museum dedicated to traditional medicine, or visit a tea shop to learn about the centuries-old practices of using herbs to stay healthy. Morales explains the benefits to this cultural exchange for Western medicine students. “Whereas we treat illness; they prevent illness. They view illness in a different way in China.” At the same time, the Mount also offers options for independent, long-term study abroad to its students. One student spent the spring at an internship in Dublin, Ireland. Another student spent a semester in Costa Rica. Christina Green is a sophomore nursing student, who participated in the Shanghai Eastern medicine program and is now going to study in South Korea with the help of Mount Saint Mary College. “Learning about Traditional Chinese Medicine, visiting different Buddhist temples, and walking along the Great Wall was an experience that intensified my desire to embark on another study abroad in Asia,” Green says. “I am beyond excited to go abroad to Asia once again!” The benefits of studying abroad are visible, Morales explains. “Students tend to come back and, in their final years at school, seem more confident and more determined,” she says. “They may not know the language, so they have to develop the skills to sustain themselves, especially students living independently for a semester. Employers are looking for the skills that those who study internationally bring back with them–the ability to work with diverse populations and problem solve. Cultivating the mindset of being global, in the times we live, is very important.” Jealous of your kids? Follow Chronogram.com’s Daily Dose this month for information on winter learning vacations with Omega Institute in Costa Rica and other locally led study-abroad programming for adults.
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Many prep schools in the Hudson Valley offer study-abroad options to middle and high schoolers. Here, a few featured programs are listed to highlight the variety that’s available. South Kent School
Southkentschool.org 40 Bulls Bridge Road in South Kent, Connecticut College preparatory school for boys, grades 9-12 For over a decade, SKS has offered Spring Term trips for small group learning. In the Czech Republic, students partner with local students for a blend of educational and cultural exchange. Science students travel to South and Central America for an immersive experience in ecological research. There’s also the Call to Adventure expedition, where boys test their physical and mental limits and employ athleticism, problem-solving, and team work. Each trip focuses on the Hero’s Journey–a process of honing leadership, insight, and adaptability—which is a tenet of each boy’s SKS experience.
Millbrook School
Millbrook.org 131 Millbrook School Road in Millbrook Coed boarding and day school, grades 9-12 Millbrook’s World Language Department provides language immersion programs through their School Year Abroad (SYA). SYA offers the truest immersion experience for highly committed students, who want academic challenge and adventure. Over the course of a nine-month stay, students can travel within their host county, try new foods, and discover what life is like. Each SYA program is different, but some offer a culminating project: delving into a specific topic of study, group collaborations, and art installations. With the extensive language immersion experience, students undergo a linguistic “code switch” about three months in, where they move from simultaneous translation into fluency.
Berkshire Waldorf High School
Berkshirewaldorf.com 14 Pine Street in Stockbridge, Massachusetts Coed high school serving grades 9-12 Students travel at least once during their high school years, financed by intensive student fundraising as well as grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and the German government. Destinations include Munich, for students studying the German language, or Spanish-speaking countries, for students studying Spanish, and last about three weeks or more. “These trips encourage real, practical foreign language learning,” says Stephen Sagarin, Faculty Chair. “Our slogan is, ‘Small School, Big World,’ and travel every other year broadens our students’ experience of the world we all share.” German Waldorf students also come to study at the Berkshire Waldorf High School for three-to-six-month stays.
The Harvey School
Harveyschool.org 260 Jay Street in Katonah Coed college preparatory school serving grades 6-12 Launching their International Student Program five years ago, the Harvey School has partnerships with overseas schools for trimester-long student exchanges. Harvey students who study a foreign language often also signup for year-end trips abroad, which include some sight-seeing and home stays. The Harvey GOES program consists of 12 students who are paired up with students at partner schools to investigate a prearranged topic or theme. They meet for two weeks at the Harvey School and two weeks at the partner school to explore the topic in depth and detail. Previous such projects have partnered with a school in Italy to investigate immigration by Syrians to Italy and by Latinos to the US. This year, students are partnering with a school in Hungary to study New York and Budapest–two great cities on rivers. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 37
The House
Zoe Bissell in the master bedroom of her kit home, surrounded by some of her most recent work. Her bold and playful metal-and-papier-mâché sculptures begin as sketches. After Bissell settles on a shape she likes, she casts a metal armature in her shop and then adds the papier-mâché and paints. “They are quirky and crude and not meant to be precious at all,” Bissell explains. “A lot of my work is not at all meant to be permanent.”
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The 1,450-square-foot LV home Bissell shares with partner Bryan Buryk and their daughter Shelby. Designed by architect Rocio Romero, the prefabricated rectangular structure of steel and glass sits on three forested acres and was completed in 2008.
Bigger Than a Breadbox A MODERN METAL HOUSE IN WEST HURLEY by Mary Angeles Armstrong photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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oe Bissell was completely done with wood. The sculptor, welder, bread distributor, and eclectic collector had been living in some version of the log cabin vernacular since 1980, when her father and a family friend bought 12 undeveloped acres in West Hurley. The first cabin on the property, built by her father out of the surrounding woods, was decidedly rustic. “There was a well outside, an outdoor shower, an outhouse and a woodburning stove,” Bissell remembers. She would camp out there on weekends and throughout the summer months as she finished high school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and then attended Parsons School of Design. In 1995, Bissell moved to West Hurley full-time and began to transition into slightly more sophisticated cabin living. Her second cabin of residence, built on the adjacent six acres by a family friend, was slightly less rustic (“It had indoor plumbing!” she recalls) and more suitable for winter living. Bissell bounced between the two West Hurley cabins for almost 15 years, staying at her father’s simple cabin in the warm months and then in the winterized wood cabin when everything froze. Those years were fruitful ones: She
attended Bard College for graduate school, studying sculpture, she met her partner Bryan Buryk, and she began two successful careers—one as an artisan metalworker and the other driving a truck for the family business, delivering Heidelberg bread. But by the mid-aughts, Bissell was ready for some changes. “The ‘roughing it’ glamour started to wear off,” she explains. She still loved the woods, but needed a little distance. “I had lived in cabins and everything was wood, wood, wood—a wood-burning stove, wood dust, and then the mold. I was tired of all of it. I wanted something completely clean and modern with no wood anywhere.” With three acres of her father’s original property and visions of both personal and architectural advancement, she and Buryk began to hatch a plan. “We thought, let’s try and be grown-ups now,” she remembers. “Let’s take it up a few notches, we can have an indoor bathroom and sheetrocked walls.” Bissell envisioned a total departure from the way they’d been living— she didn’t even want a woodstove. “I got it in my head that I wanted a metal house,” she explains. Bissell and Buryk set out to build a new, shiner, home. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 39
The home’s main living and dining area is flooded with light from the south and west. “Because the home’s interior has a modern loft/gallery feeling to me, especially when we first completed it, I finally had a clean slate to display the furniture, art, and objects I’d spent my early adult years collecting,” Bissell explains. Tina and Angus sit patiently.
Elemental Shift This wasn’t Bissell’s first foray into the glories of metal. After college, she began working with welder Peter Sinclair, learning the craft and business of metalsmithing. She eventually took over Sinclair’s metal shop, the Base Company, teaching herself to solder and creating metal display stands for art, artifacts, and sculpture. (She ran the business, located right across the road from the West Hurley property, from 2008 until 2017.) With practice, she learned metal was easy to work with and could be very durable in the long run. With no internet in either cabin, Bissell made daily forays to the Kingston Library, searching online for ways to create a structure that would fit their budget and suit their needs. Then, online, she stumbled across architect Rocio Romero’s modern kit home, the LV. Romero’s minimalist, one-story rectangular house was designed to “celebrate glass, steel, and light” and be both affordable and beautiful. The couple found a prototype LV home in Virginia for rent and planned a vacation around it. By the end of the weekend, they knew it was exactly what they’d been looking for. Bissell and Buryk returned home and began the process of reproducing their own metal-and-glass cabin in West Hurley. 40 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 1/18
Beg, Borrow, Steel Even though it was a kit house, it still took almost three years before construction could begin. Multiple engineers had to weigh in, helping the couple to locate a building site, dig a basement and foundation, and install services. The property’s proximity to the Ashokan Reservoir added another layer of complexity, requiring special approval to install a septic tank within the reservoir’s watershed, which is tightly regulated by New York City. “It was a serious test of everything—our ability to remain a team and to find the resources we needed,” Bissell recalls. “It was like when you finally learn as a grown up that you have to push through hurdles and not let them kill a project—you’ve got to have will.” When they finally got the all-clear to build, the shell of the home was erected within two weeks. The LV’s highly efficient, passive solar design is comprised of three Galvalume steel walls and a flat pitched rubber roof with enclosed drains. The long, south-facing wall is made almost entirely of floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows. In order to equal the efficiency of the roof and steel walls, Bissell and Buryk invested in commercial-grade, low-emissivity Acadia double-paned glass doors and windows. They also installed sheetrock and a
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Top: The home’s kitchen was completed on a shoestring budget. Mismatched cabinets and pine butcher block counters complement a blue discounted sink from N&S Supply in Kingston. “Most everything is hand-me-down or from yard sales,” Bissell says. “That’s how we roll.” Bottom, from left: A nook in the corner of the master bedroom doubles as office space and is decorated with Bissel’s metal sculptures and other collected artworks. A collection of animal skulls and bones found in the surrounding woods is displayed in the living room corner. Buryk completed the interior of the master bathroom, setting the tiles and installing the vintage clawfoot tub.
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double layer of fiberglass insulation to the interior, then finished the walls in shades of grey and white. A large square-paned window in the west, and longer rectangular windows to the north and east provide abundant light as well as a cross breeze in the summer months. A combination of radiant heat floors and ample sunshine keep the home warm though the winter. (There’s also a high efficiency, wall-mounted “suitcase” boiler in the basement.) With the home’s roof, ceiling, and exterior walls complete, the couple were able to adapt the 1,450 square feet of interior space to suit their needs. The home’s only load-bearing wall was at the exact center of the structure, creating a divide between the eastern and western half of the home—the rest of the design was up to Bissell and Buryk. The freedom suited their aesthetic, as well as their restrictions. “By the time we got to the kitchen, our budget ran out,” explains Bissell. “We had to pull all our resources together—it almost didn’t happen.” Wabi-Sabi The couple finished the home with ingenuity and elbow grease. First, they threw together a simple open kitchen in the northwestern corner of the house. Buryk, who does architectural cabinetry and millwork professionally, was able to finish most of the interior work himself. Wooden cabinets and pine butcher block counters line the back wall, and a workbench—traded for welding work—serves as a counter dividing the kitchen area from the south-facing living room looking out through the ample south and west windows. The rest of the furniture in the open, sunny, loft-like living space is a wabisabi mixture of pieces gleaned through barter and scavenging or donated by friends and family.The dining room table, with a wooden top created by Buryk and metal legs welded by Bissell, is surrounded by mismatched chairs found at yard sales and on sidewalks. Bookshelves donated by neighbors line one wall 44 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 1/18
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Another piece of Bissell’s metalwork hangs over her bed. Bissell loves the simplicity of welding metal. “I can heat it up and bend it,” she explains. “Just like with collecting junk furniture and castoffs: If it’s not easy and quick, I’m not interested.”
and Bissell’s collections and sculptures line another. A covered entrance way at the center of the northern wall features art by Bissell’s mother and serves as a mudroom. The couple configured the eastern wing of the house into two bedrooms, two baths, and a bit of closet space. For their daughter (born right after they finished building), a smaller south-facing bedroom features a wall of glass doors and a small half closet with open storage space above. Across the hall, Buryk built a full bathroom with a walk-in shower. There is also a laundry and additional closet space. At the end of the hallway, the eastern section of the home forms one large master bedroom and bath. Bissell furnished the space with mismatched cabinetry, sculpture, and art. Buryk carved the space for the master bath out of the northern corner, laying penny tiles along the floor and subway tiles along the walls. A vintage clawfoot tub, found online, faces an elevated slop sink Bissell found buried in her father’s yard and adorned with new fixtures. In the southern corner of the room, an office area faces the backyard and is central to her newest venture. Recently leaving the welding business behind her, Bissell has taken on distribution for Heidelberg Bread. She now oversees the daily delivery of bread from bakeries in Herkimer to over 40 accounts in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, and Delaware counties. Bissell is surprised by how much she’s enjoyed the left-brained turn in her professional life. It’s also allowed her to take her welding skills and sculpture in a playful new direction, creating work solely for her own enjoyment. The house and its interior design is a work in constant progress. Bissell and Buryk plan to eventually finish the floors and cabinetry and add a garden and landscaping outside. The interior is frequently rearranged into new configurations and collections, like a gallery space. “We have more resources now,” explains Bissell, “but we still have the mentality of putting things together.”
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510 WARREN ST GALLERY 510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “Into the Garden.” Paintings by Kate Knapp. A year of painting while the garden grows. January 5-28. Opening reception January 6, 3-6pm. ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY (518) 242-2241. “Chasing the Tale.” Artists engaged in a pictorial expression of storytelling cross personal mythology with collected narratives from historical, folk and popular culture. Artists: Jason Blue Lake Hawk Martinez, Kenny Harris, Ira Marcks, Fernando Orellana, Amy Podmore, Jeff Starr, Gerda van Leeuwen. Through February 26. ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY 22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Luminous Landscape.” 20th annual exhibition featuring 20 artists. Through January 28. Closing Reception & Gallery’s 20th Birthday Party, January 27, 4-7pm. ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146. “Silent Sentinels: Group Show.” Through January 20. THE ART EFFECT 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE MILLSTREETLOFT.ORG. “Tenn Vision’s ‘18.” Work by Summer Art Intensive students. January 12-February 13. Opening reception, January 12, 5-7pm. ART SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0333. “Ray Curran: A Retrospective.” Plus member’s exhibition: “Zen and the Art of Space.” Opening reception January 6, 5-8pm. THE BAKERY 13A NORTH FRONT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-8840. “Streets.” Photographs by Kelin Long-Gaye. Through February 15. BANNERMAN ISLAND GALLERY 150 MAIN STREET, BEACON 416-8342. “Fine Art Holiday Exhibition.” Exhibition will feature paintings, photography, drawings, printmaking and mixed media works, as well as 3-D objects of glass, ceramics and sculpture. Through January 28. BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “PhotoWork 2018.” Through March 24. BEACON ARTIST UNION 506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “Flotilla.” Herman Roggeman. A new series paintings and sculptural interpretations of the spirit that celebrates man’s work life and escapist pleasures at sea and on the river. Through January 7. BERKSHIRE MUSEUM 39 SOUTH STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 413-443-7171. “Morgan Bulkeley: Nature Culture Clash.” Solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture represents a 50-year career re.trospective. Through February 4.
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BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “5 by 7 Show.” Through January 7. CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Painted Cities.” Including works by Dan Rupe, Darshan Russell, Edward Avedisian, Patty Neal, Richard Britell, Robert Goldstrom, and Scott Nelson Foster. January 4-February 18. Opening reception January 6, 5pm-8pm. THE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Kenro Izu: Sacred Places.” Special exhibit at aaron Rezny Studio at 76 Prince Street Studios LLC in Kingston. Through January 28. COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON (518) 828-1481. “The Earth from Above.” Recent wax and oil paintings by Joy Wolf appear abstract, but are direct representations of aerial photographs. Wolf selects landscapes that have been altered by human intervention: irrigated rice fields in Bali, ancient fields and crescent dunes in Egypt, tailings ponds at the Neves-Corvo mine in Portugal. Explored the human impact on the earth. Through March 30. CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (CIA) 1946 CAMPUS DRIVE (ROUTE 9), HYDE PARK 452-9430. “You Are What You [M]eat: The Culture of Meat in 19th–20th Century America.” Through the use of primary texts, cultural artifacts, and multimedia, You Are What You [M]eat: The Culture of Meat in 19th–20th Century America showcases meat culture—from production to consumption, as well as its rejection—in America over the past two centuries. Through March 30. DIA:BEACON 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. Michelle Stuart. Dia will present Michelle Stuart’s four part rubbing Sayreville Strata Quartet (1976). The installation expands Dia’s presentation of pioneering land art practices, by introducing the archeological concerns of Stuart’s drawings. Ongoing. SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Abstract Minded: Works by Six Contemportary African Artists.” January 24-April 15. ECKERT FINE ART 1394 ROUTE 83, PINE PLAINS (518) 592-1330. “American Works on Paper.” A group exhibition featuring numerous modern and contemporary examples of drawing, watercolor, collage, printmaking, and photography by notable United States-based artists. Through January 7. EMERGE GALLERY & ART SPACE 228 MAIN STREET, SAUGERTIES 247-7515. “Primar(il)y Red: An Exhibition of Art Celebrating the Color Red.” Art of various styles and mediums where the eye is immediately drawn to the red element. Over 40 artists. Through January 8. FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “People Are Beautiful: Prints, Photographs, and Films by Andy Warhol.” An exhibition of close to 100 rarely seen works by Andy Warhol. The exhibition, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, explores shifting notions of beauty in the artist’s portraits from 1964 to 1985. January 26-April 15. GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Road Paint” by Steven Edson. Through January 7. GOOD PURPOSE GALLERY 40 MAIN STREET, LEE, MA (413) 394-5045. “A Beautiful World.” Bringing together three very unique artists whose styles are highly individual: Jessica Park, Diane Cournoyer and Teresa Bills. Through January 8. GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff: Conversations in Color.” January 27-March 10. Opening reception January 27, 5-7pm. GREIG’S FARM 223 PITCHER LANE, RED HOOK 758-1234. “Overglazed.” Curated by Steel Imagination. Marion’s Gallery is excited to present a solo exhibition of new works by Paola Bari. The exhibit is a comprehensive of visual and functional body of works where Paola is leveraging all the different techniques and materials. Through January 13. HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER 477 MAIN STREET, BEACON 831-4988. “Cloth & Memory.” Four kindred spirits investigate how cloth retains, transmits, and resonates (with) memories. These artists include: Croton artist and exhibit curator, Mary McFerran; Red Hook artist, Mimi Czajka Graminski; Stanfordville artist, Riva Weinstein, and Dobbs Ferry artist, Harriet Cherry Cheney. January 7-27. Opening reception January 13, 3-5pm. HUDSON AREA LIBRARY 51 NORTH FIFTH STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1792. “Bridges Past and Present: Crossing the Hudson River.” Watercolors by Otto Miranda. January 5-February 28. HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Kite.” A group show of handmade interpretations of kites. Through January 8.
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Venice Beach, a painting by Ginnie Gardiner, from the exhibit “Ginnie Gardiner & Martin Katzoff: Conversations in Color,” opening January 27 at GCCA Gallery in Catskill.
HUDSON HALL 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “See Me Like This.” Phtotographs by Val Shaff. Through January 21. JEFF BAILEY GALLERY 127 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-6680. “Transcendent Functionalism.” Designers and artists who take design as a point of departure, appropriating and personalizing the forms of furniture, garments, graphics, and other useful things. Through January 28. JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Works by Martin Dull.” January 6-28. Opening reception January 6, 6-8pm. THE KNAUS GALLERY AND WINE BAR 76 VINEYARD AVENUE, HIGHLAND. “Bud Lavery: Breakfast of Champions.” Through January 28. MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “41st Annual Holiday Salon Show.” Oils, pastels, watercolors, photographs, and drawings by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Paul Abrams, Andrea McFarland, Staats Fasoldt, John Varriano, Marsha Massih, Marlene Wiedenbaum, Hardie Truesdale, Eric Angeloch, Robert Trondsen, Gayle Fedigan, Jim Cramer, Jim Coe, Carolyn Edlund, Mireille Duchesne, Linda Puiatti, Susan Miiller, Lana Privitera, Tarryl Gabel, and more. Through January 31. OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “On Site: Yolande Daniels.” The exhibition will feature a steel panel from a 2010 installation of an outdoor pavilion of folded waterjet cut sheet steel and cast concrete hemisphere seating for the Evergreen Museum at Johns Hopkins University. The project responds to the decorative exuberance of a demolished tearoom on the grounds of the former mansion and references tea fantasies from the tranquility of the Japanese tea ceremony to the psychedelia of Alice in Wonderland’s tea party. January 6-February 4. Opening reception January 6, 1-3pm. PELHAM ART CENTER 155 5TH AVENUE, PELHAM (914) 738-2525. “Near to You: Curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock and Elizabeth Saperstein.” On view will be painting and sculpture by six exciting artists committed to the language and texture of paint and painting as well as challenging approaches to portraiture itself. Near To You features the work of Tim Doud, Jenny Dubnau, Donna Festa, John Mitchell, Heather Morgan, and Julia Schwartz and includes self-portraits and portrait subjects. January 19-March 24. Opening reception January 19, 6:30-8pm. ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS 27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK 358-0877. “Jacques Jarrige: Kinetic Sculptures.” Outdoor sculpture exhibit. Through June 30. ROOST STUDIOS & ART GALLERY 69 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 675-1217. “Second Annual Holiday Gala & Art Show.” Through January 7.
SEPTEMBER 449 WARREN STREET #3, HUDSON SEPTEMBERGALLERY.COM. “Paula Hayes and the Erl: I am he as you are he as we are me and we are all together.” Saturday, January 6. STONE RIDGE LIBRARY 3700 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 687-7023. “Paintings by Judy Stanger.” Through March 16. THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3005. “Soul of Our Soil” Hudson photographer Georgia Landman displays her photographs inspired by farms in Columbia County. Through January 21. THE FIELD GALLERY 4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL 9147370521. “Orpheus Acosta: Retail.” Portraits shot with a mix of medium format and digital photography based in a retail store located in Yonkers. Through January 21. THE WASSAIC PROJECT 37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC (347) 815-0783. “What We Don’t Realize When We See Things.” Curated by Tara Foley, Will Hutnick, and Jordan Hutton, is a group exhibition composed of painting, drawing, video, sculpture, and performance that addresses everyday life that shapes who we are and how we relate to others. Opening reception January 27, 4-9pm. THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY 57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “En Masse 2017.” This is the fourth year for the by-invitation-only, salon-style show featuring over 50 artists and an incredible range of affordable work-sculpture, glass art, oil paintings collages and much more. Through January 7. TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI (845) 757 2667. “New Year/New Works.” Over 30 local artists exhibiting new works in a wide variety of media—paintings, prints, mixed media, sculpture, photography and more. Through February 18. TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-4423. “10 Artists/10 Pieces” Works created in response to objects chosen from the Hotchkiss School Special Collections. January 12-March 11. Opening reception January 12, 4-5pm. TWISTED SOUL 47 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-2770. “Light, Lines and Landscapes.” Kelly A. Thompson’s digital prints of spontaneously inspired and composed photographs interpreting light, lines and Hudson Valley landscapes. Through January 11. Closing reception January 11, 5:30-7:30pm. WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Lines Let Loose.” A group show curated by Meredith Rosier featuring works by 40 artists who let their lines loose. Through April 1.
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Music
Let It All Hang Out The Nude Party
By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly
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The Nude Party outside their Livingston Manor farmhouse (l-r): Patton Magee, Alec Castillo, Austin Brose, Shaun Couture, Connor Mikita, Zachary Merrill.
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t was never anything sexual,” says singer and guitarist Patton Magee about the activity that inspired his band’s name: performing in the buff. “It was just, you know, to be weird.” Being nude and weird were central to the Nude Party’s branding when they began performing in their native North Carolina. The former practice, though, has ceased, at least for the time being, as the six-piece psychedelic/garage rock outfit weathers its first butt-freezing Hudson Valley winter since relocating here over the summer. “We’ve started to care more about the songs,” explains guitarist Shaun Couture. “We want people to focus more on that.” While the nudity has been shelved, the weirdness, thankfully, remains. The band, whose members are all between 23 and 25 years old, also features drummer Connor Mikita, bassist Alec Castillo, percussionist Austin Brose, and keyboardist Zachary Merrill. The sextet came together in 2013 around a shared love of partying and British Invasion sounds. Throw in an irreverent sense of fun and more recent Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers, and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd influences—your music editor also hears the classic San Francisco stylings of the first Country Joe & the Fish album and early Grateful Dead—and top it all with the contemporary psych of the Black Angels and the Allah-Las, and what you have is a lysergic, dance-friendly concoction full of freaky, feelin’-fine grooves. Free your mind and your (bare) ass will follow. The birthplace of Nude Party is the remote Blue Ridge Mountains town of Boone, home to the late Doc Watson and a thriving bluegrass culture but by no means a nurturing hive for garage rock. So how, then, did the boys bump into such arcane, nonmainstream inspirations when the local college station runs a “commercial alternative” format and the closest major underground rock scenes are hours away? The answer, of course, is the internet, and one posits the band wouldn’t exist as such without it; millennials who’ve grown up with the ability to instantly access and listen to pretty much anything have had their tastes shaped in polyglot ways unimaginable to previous generations. “Yeah, I guess that’s sorta true,” says Magee. “We got into the Animals and early Stones first from hearing them on the classic rock station and from some of our parents’ record collections, then we started looking up stuff on Spotify that was related or kinda had that sound.” Although several of the group’s members had known each other in high school and some had met as students at Appalachian State University when they decided to start a band, only Magee and Couture had previously played instruments; bizarrely, given the Nude Party’s lo-fi sound, Couture had been in a short-lived band called Carson that featured “American Idol” contestant Taisha Bethea on lead vocals. When Castillo’s parents vacated their rural lake house for the summer, the six moved in together, Monkees-style, and began hosting drunken public jams there while they figured out how to make music—often getting naked along the way. “We were loud and bad,” remembers Merrill. “We’d learn one riff—the main riff from [Booker T & the MG’s’] ‘Green Onions’ was the first, I think. Then we’d just play it loud and quiet until we pissed off the neighbors.” Original songs began to be worked up and the band started playing at outside house parties and at the town’s handful of bars. “Even though the kind of music we were playing was really out of place in Boone, we’d still get really good crowds at the gigs because there’s just not a lot to do there,” says Brose.
“We didn’t really do the naked thing at bars, mainly that was at parties,” says Castillo. “It really divides the crowd—people either think it’s hilarious or they get offended. Sometimes people in the audience would get naked, too. Once we played this basement party where everyone was fucked-up and naked and someone had called the cops because of the noise. When the cops walked in they were, like, ‘What the hell is going on here?!’” Encouraged by visiting Asheville garage greats the Shine Brothers, the group cut 2016’s basement-recorded Hot Tub EP (a concurrently released 7” features two of the EP’s tracks) and started touring, at first regionally and then nationally, opening for name acts like the Jacuzzi Boys and the Growlers along the way. “We drove 24 hours to play three shows at South by Southwest, where one of the clubs threatened to cut the power on us and call the cops because one of us got naked,” Magee recalls. “Then we drove 24 hours back to Boone. We got home just in time to fail our midterms.” Later that year, Shine Brothers keyboardist and Black Lips drummer Oakley Munson tipped area promoter Andy Animal, the mastermind behind the brilliant Meltasia music festival, to the band. The impressed impresario added them to the lineup of Meltasia’s inaugural weekend in Greene County. There, the (clothed) group slayed with a set marked by chugging, yet-to-be-released jams like “Feelin’ Alright” and “Boys Gotta Make a Living.” The local love was mutual, so much so that when Munson offered to manage the band and invited them to live communally in his newly purchased Livingston Manor farmhouse, they readily accepted. With the stately, weathered manse as their new base—Nude Manor, they’ve dubbed it—the band is putting down fresh roots at Hudson Valley venues and taking advantage of the striking distance to NewYork City, where they shared the bill with the reunited Make-Up and others at September’s Seaport Music Festival and completed a three-night residency at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn last August. “It was a pretty easy transition, moving up here,” says Mikita. “It actually feels a lot like the area we’re from.” At the time of this writing, the band is putting the finishing touches on their upcoming debut on New West Records, tracks for which were produced by Munson and engineered by Matthew Cullen (Yoko Ono, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan) at Dreamland Studios in Woodstock. “Some of the newer songs have a ’70s outlaw country vibe,” explains Magee. “We’ve been digging a lot of Graham Parsons with the Flying Burrito Brothers, a lot of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Our buddy Catfish from the band Natural Child has been sitting in on lap steel. So, we’re experimenting a lot now with different styles.” During the leadup to the new album, the band has been unveiling new songs online via a series of official videos, rather than physical or digital releases. The most recent is for the organ-dominated “Water on Mars,” a surreal Alice in Wonderland-esque romp shot in the wilds of North Carolina before the band’s Northern exodus. When questioned about what it was in particular that drew him to the band, Andy Animal is quick to reply. “What’s not to like?” he answers. “Musically, they’re like a cross between the Velvet Underground, Canned Heat, and Davie Allan and the Arrows. And as people they’re funny as hell. All very comfortable in their own skin.”
“We’ve started to care more about the songs. We want people to focus on that.” —Shaun Couture
The Nude Party will perform at Mercury Lounge in NewYork on January 11 and Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn on February 1.The official video for “Water on Mars” is viewable now onYouTube. Facebook.com/tnpband. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 55
NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
The Matchsellers play The Anchor in Kingston on January 9.
JAIMOE’S JASSSZ BAND January 6. Percussionist and Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson was steeped in soulful music long before he became a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. Prior to hooking up with the fathers of Southern rock, the drummer, now 73, toured with Otis Redding and Sam & Dave. Following last year’s passing of Gregg Allman, which marks the end of one of American music’s most iconic acts, he’s been concentrating on keeping the Allmans legacy alive via Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band. For this installment of the Egg’s ongoing American Roots & Branches series, Jaimoe and group bring their intoxicating brew of R&B, jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll to the Capital Region. (Neko Case croons January 15; Henry Rollins talks and shows travel photos January 20). 8pm. $29.50. Albany. (518) 473-1845; Theegg.org.
THE MATCHSELLERS January 9. Indiana/Missouri duo the Matchsellers—singer and guitarist Andrew Morris and singer and violinist Julie Bates—became a musical match when in 2012, when they met while teaching abroad in Leipzig, Germany. While primarily rooted in old-time and bluegrass styles, the duo’s music also takes in their respective blues and classical backgrounds, winning them much NPR airplay and folk-blog hollas. Their recently released second album, Songs We Made Up, features tight vocal harmonies, beautiful waltzes, and “[songs about] stolen crackers.” For this date, the rambling twosome sidles into the Anchor for the venue’s post-holiday season vacation reopening. (PUNK 45 night promises raucous cuts DJed by Sean McDevitt and your music editor January 11.) 9:30pm. Free. (845) 853-8124; Theanchorkingston.com.
MAX WEINBERG’S JUKEBOX January 19. One of two famed-drummers-turned-bandleaders in this month’s Highlights, Max Weinberg is, of course, revered as the rhythmic driver behind Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and as the overlord of the house bands of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.” This evening at Tarrytown Music Hall is being billed
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as an “interactive experience” in which “the audience gets to choose from a video menu of over 200 songs—everything from the Beatles to the Stones to Bruce and the E Street Band’s biggest hits—and hear ’em the way they want to hear them played!” (The hall’s Winter Blues fundraiser features the Incumbents, Juke Joint and the Tarrytown Horns, and Losing Our Faculties January 6.) 8pm. $35-$175. Tarrytown. (877) 840-0457; Tarrytownmusichall.org.
PETE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT January 19. The pedigree of Portland, Oregon, neopsych unit Pete International Airport, which here lands at BSP, is formidable: The band features guitarist Peter Holstrom (Dandy Warhols), bassist Colin Hegna (Brian Jonestown Massacre), singer Jsun Adams (Upsidedown), and drummers Jason “Plucky” Anchondo (Warlocks, Spindrift) and Paulie Pulvirenti. The group’s new album, Safer with the Wolves…, stars guest singers from the Black Angels, Daydream Machine, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dark Horses, and Hopewell and was released on Brian Jonestown Massacre mastermind Anton Newcombe’s A Recordings label. With Frankenstein 3000 and Guiding Light. (Anders Parker ambles in January 6; the Districts drift by January 20.) 7:30pm. $12 advance; $15 door. Kingston. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com.
MUSIC FROM CHINA January 28. Here’s a savory serving of wonderful world music to warm your winter. This afternoon concert on the Sosnoff Stage of at Bard College’s shimmering Fisher Center features the China Central Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and soloists performing on traditional Chinese instruments with the school’s The Orchestra Now and guest conductor Jindong Cai. A Stanford University faculty member, Cai guest conducts the China National Broadcasting Symphony, the National Ballet Theater of China, and the Shanghai Symphony. The program includes new music by Chinese composers written for traditional indigenous instruments— erhu, pipa, and guzheng—and symphony orchestra. (The Orchestra Now performs Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” February 3-4.) 3-m. $10. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu.
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Don’t let the whimsy fool you. David Greenberger’s spoken-word performances of transcriptions of interviews he’s conducted with nursing home residents combined with musical accompaniment are serious acts of historical preservation disguised as art. That they work as both—as they do on Greenberger’s latest, featuring jazzy, evocative accompaniment by Prime Lens—is a tribute to Greenberger’s genius. The alternatively wacky and poignant arrangements—featuring drummer Bob Stagner, multiinstrumentalist Evan Lipson, keyboardist Tyson Rogers, plus a handful of guest artists—mirror the emotional range of the stories Greenberger’s interlocutors tell, of jobs, wartime, music, booze, books they’ve read, people they’ve known, and, in a few instances, of first-hand reportage from deep inside delirium. The sum is a mosaic of memories pieced together like shards of colorful, reflective glass. Greenberger is a national treasure, deserving of a MacArthur Fellowship and a National Heritage Fellowship. Give it up! Davidgreenberger.com. —Seth Rogovoy
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It’s a winding line that would encompass all the musicians and sensibilities—including, briefly, Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar, Bill Evans, Albert Ayler, and Keith Jarrett, among countless others—with whom bassist Gary Peacock has performed during his storied career, and an appositely oblique quality suffuses Tangents, his 13th date as a leader. Pianist Marc Copland demonstrates his sonorous touch and inviting swing on the Evans favorites “Spartacus” and “Blue in Green,” yet he sounds even more persuasive on other tracks, developing sudden, sustained bell-like, Morton Feldman-esque abstractions bathed in silence. Similarly, one-time Downtown firebrand drummer Joey Baron exhibits delicacy in his spare yet voluptuously full tom and cymbal statements that initiate the trio improvisation “Empty Forest.” Peacock magisterially leads by example throughout, commanding yet liberated. Tangents lives up to its title while being as essential—and mysterious—as night and day. Ecmrecords.com. —James Keepnews MATTHEW O’NEILL TROPHIC CASCADE (2017, UNDERWATER PANTHER COALITION)
On this release, Matthew O’Neill melds psychedelia, Americana/roots, alt-country, indie rock, and his own strain of “mountain soul.” “Bridge Builder” is a funky, grinding tune introducing O’Neill’s David Byrne-esque vocals and backing gospel choir. Sounding more like NeilYoung in “Golden Boy,” O’Neill is accompanied by haunting organ and pedal steel, creating a lazy day sound.The jazzy “Louisiana” weaves serpentine guitar around an infectious beat and eerie backing vocals. What’s paramount with this recording is O’Neill’s intention to put forth what he calls “mystical awareness.” Spending his youth in the forests and later living nomadically on reservations, he connected with the spiritual culture of America’s original inhabitants. Half of the proceeds of this recording will go toward conservation organizations spotlighting indigenous rights and the protection of our planet. Matthew-oneill.com. —Sharon Nichols CHRONOGRAM.COM
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SHORT TAKES For the first (and coldest) month of the year, here are some books to help pass the dark hours, warm your soul, and feed your mind. Compiled by Leah Habib.
TRAIN RIDE TO BUCHAREST LUCIA CHERICIU, SHEEP MEADOW PRESS, 2017, $19.95
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Dutchess Community College professor of English Lucia Chericiu’s latest collection of poetry transports readers to other times and nostalgic places. Packed with over 100 poems, the Romanian-born poet’s latest book is set up into sections that tell tales of childhood memories and friends who have passed on. Trips from Bucharest to America are referenced, as are universal experiences of parental love and self-doubt.
PERPETUATING TROUBLE CHRIS ORCUTT HAVE PEN, WILL TRAVEL, 2017, $14.95
Chris Orcutt’s witty memoir sheds light into the trials and tribulations of being a writer. Beginning with Orcutt as a teenager peering out his the window in his Millbrook home fascinated by a UFO, the opening chapter quickly jumps to the day he picks up two hitchhiking “alien girls,” who inspire and encourage Orcutt to write this memoir. Written with candidness and a sense of self reflection, Perpetuating Trouble is an ideal read for any aspiring writer or individual desiring an inside look into the career.
THE BALLAD OF SARA AND THOR ANDREW MCCARRON STATION HILL, 2017, $12.95
This novella begins with the declarative statement “Thor Wilson murdered Sara James.” Told in the first person, McCarron’s prose brings the story of Sara’s death to life. Murder, suspense, and the coming-of age-college experience are intertwined. Set on a college campus in Upstate New York, eerily reminiscent of Bard College, this book is a quick, deep read.
EDINBURGH TWILIGHT CAROLE LAWRENCE THOMAS & MERCER, 2017, $10.79
The Chronogram Literary Fiction Award winner’s latest mystery novel shows Edinburgh at the turn of the 19th century. The first installment in the Ian Hamilton Mystery series, Edinburgh Twilight follows orphan Hamilton as he investigates a strangling case that occurred in Holyrood Park. The culprit becomes known as the “Holyrood Strangler” as the body count rises and Hamilton must enlist the help of his aunt and George Pearson, a crime-fascinated librarian, to solve the case.
ALONG THE VALLEY LINE: THE STORY OF THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY RAILROAD MAX R. MILLER WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017, $24.95
The Connecticut Valley Railroad was completed in 1871. Piecing together historical documents, photos, and vignettes, Miller tells the story of the inspiration for the railroad, its operational details, and the changing transportation landscape. Twenty-two miles of the line are now run as a tourist railroad. A Valley Railroad veteran serving as a vice president and director of the line, Miller’s passion for trains shines through in this historical read.
UNCLE BRUCKER THE RAT KILLER LESLIE PETER WULFF NIGHT SHADE BOOKS, 2017, $15.99
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New Paltz-based Wulff’s debut fantasy novel follows teen angst-ridden Walt as he moves in with his eccentric Uncle Brucker. Brucker trains Walt on the secret world of rats: how to kill them, the history of when they ruled the world, and the current outer dimensions in which they hide waiting to gain what is rightfully theirs. Once Brucker is taken on a governmental mission and fails to return, Walt travels to Rat Land to save him. An inspiring story of an adolescent and a brilliant weirdo and their quest to defeat and understand the most conventionally hated animal.
Together at Midnight Jennifer Castle
$17.99, HarperTeen, January 2, 2018
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veryone wants to believe they would intervene in a bad situation to help a fellow human in distress—but what happens if you don’t? New Paltz author Jennifer Castle’s newest YA novel, Together at Midnight, asks this very question. After witnessing a tragedy, two Hudson Valley teenagers choose to extend kindness to others in the wake of their shared grief. Castle (The Beginning of After, You Look Different in Real Life, What Happens Now) sets her novel in New York City in the days leading up to New Year’s Day. The snowy, Christmas light-strewn streets provide a hopeful, magical, and, at times, slightly melancholy atmosphere. Told from alternating first-person perspectives, Kendall and Max are both on the precipice of major life changes. Kendall, who has ADHD, has just returned from an alternative study abroad program in Europe and is unsure whether to return to high school. Meanwhile, Max has decided to defer his admission to Brown University to stay home for his emotionally fragile ex-girlfriend. After Christmas, both teens find themselves aimless and restless in Manhattan. Max has been saddled with watching his elderly curmudgeon of a grandfather, and Kendall is hiding from her parents and responsibilities at her brother’s apartment. Max and Kendall have a history that both would rather forget, but fate has other plans. One night, they run into each other on a street corner and witness an accident. The next day—racked with guilt about not intervening in the situation— Max and Kendall have a stilted, awkward breakfast. At the cafe, their eavesdropping waitress dares them to perform random acts of kindness. Without haste, they decide on seven acts (one for each bystander who didn’t step in) to be performed before NewYear’s Day.With only one rule (no money can be involved), they embark on a journey to help people without expecting anything in return. After each random act of kindness—which range from shoveling snow for a family to offering a helping hand to an overwhelmed father—there is a firstperson perspective from the people Max and Kendall help. These glimpses are such an unexpected and lovely addition because readers are able to gather a full picture of what it means to help and be helped. Another surprising (though welcome) theme running through the book:What one views as helpful, another may view as intrusive. Some of the people they attempt to help shrug them off or worse, but the reader understands why: Some are grieving, some are trying to gain control over their lives, and some are dealing with invisible illnesses. Kendall’s brother tells her about an inspirational poster at his school that reads “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Castle allows the reader a brief look at those battles, which makes the acts (or attempted acts) of kindness all the more powerful. If the novel’s heart is the kindness dare, the rest of the novel is a tapestry of high school drama, minor teenage angst, family issues, crushes, breakups, and loss. As Max and Kendall get closer, they unintentionally—and then intentionally—help each other grow and shed their fears. Big E., Max’s CNN-loving, Old School New York, ailing-yet-rowdy grandfather, is a perfect example of the faint sadness that permeates this book. The book shows that sometimes the greatest kindness you can extend someone is to truly see and listen to them. Together at Midnight ends in a way that will appeal to both romantics and realists. In an attempt to make stranger’s lives better (even just for a moment), Max and Kendall find a way to make each other better. —Carolyn Quimby
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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: Chronogram.com/submissions.
The streets don’t look as grey as they did before. Now they’re crisp, with a winter rose, budding a cold white world. —Piper Levine (13 years)
WHAT DISAPPEARS INTO BEAUTIFUL THINGS? I. Vietnam haunts me—or at least the thought of being there, high above the Jackfruit and Sub-Nosed monkeys, in a Huey, picking off the ants below. So now I create mobiles out of driftwood— In part to hang my nightmares by a fishing wire. II. The wood sheds density over time. With enough of a breeze, it rattles just right: click clack…click clack…click clack… lamenting the madrigal of a monk’s bamboo flute. Petrified. Sculpted. Transmuted. The wind nudges the chimes, like a mother kisses the forehead of her newborn.
Caught by the shocking strobe of season Arms in frantic mad apology Scratching the sky for one more sun —p excerpt from “Winter Trees”
LAUNDRY Oh, let there be nothing on Earth but laundry —Richard Wilbur Outside, a tense wire wiggles in the wind, tightrope of decades connecting our lives and loves. Each piece of each outfit dancing, weighing down the checkered line, interspersed with persistent pulleys, reminders of the way we were. Cloth flags signaling what will come. Colors shift along a washed horizon, then fold to the ground as if weeping; in our morning light, we pass through French double doors to test their dryness.
III. Dug into the jungle, I see my enemy. He is panting; he is slobbering like a thirsty boar— a ringlet of heat rising from his nostrils. The field blistering with the naked adrenaline of bloodlust.
Who will hear them flapping when we’re gone? Pack them away when the old house closes?
IV. So today I walk the shoreline, looking for washed up tree parts. The ones I am searching for are made smooth and dynamic by the relentless pressure of the tides.
DREAM
—George Cassidy Payne
CHESTNUT RIDGE The puppy is hanging by a leg in a bra that I am drying from a doorknob. Cookies are smoking in the oven. A baking project begun and abandoned for painting rocks on the patio. There is a sticky, pink substance on the piano keys. Pumpkins multiply in the flowerbeds around the house. Ropy green vines, dinner plate leaves and yellow blossoms blanket purple cone flowers and peonies. I am unsure which industrious child found the seeds last spring. The terrier has raided a laundry basket. Random socks color my lawn. Our Blue Market Parakeet swoops from the roof of his cage on a circular reconnaissance mission from kitchen to laundry room... living room...dining room and settles back on a windowsill in the kitchen. He stretches a single blue wing wide, shoves his head in his avian armpit and preens some feathers. Proud with his beauty he screams at the dogs. They dutifully trot over only to have their noses bitten. The baby has busied herself with a box of sanitary pads. Thinking she has discovered a hidden trove of stickers, she has stuck them artfully on the wall in the hallway. And I? I am happy in all this mayhem for it goes too fast. One day I will be sitting with a cup of coffee in my spotlessly clean house. My dogs will be old with grey muzzles, too lame to chase children with frisbees and I will write a poem about when we were all so young. —Lisa Barnes Schwartz
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—Perry Nicholas
In my dream, you were dead but you returned to have dinner with us I didn’t want you to know you were dead I was afraid if you knew, you would leave and never come back I shut your coffin so you would not see yourself lying there. Afterwards, we were walking up many steps to get to a tower like the one in Florence that we visited the summer you were thirteen. Before we got to the top you turned into a bug, an insect. Usually, insects repulse me, but this one did not. I bent down and held out my hand and told you to hop on, I would carry you the rest of the way. I held you and climbed to the top. When we got there, you flew away, My empty hand frozen in the air, stunned. —Alice Graves
HUNTER’S MOON O Moon, they said you would be a super moon tonight. What they didn’t say was how you’d announce your arrival by gilding the rim of the mountains with silver before you rolled across the sky flinging light everywhere. —Lynn Hoins
POEM
THE KISS
IGNEOUS IS BLISS
Don’t think for a moment that because this is not prose you won’t be able to understand it. It’s not a poem like that, though it follows certain poetic conventions. Not that it doesn’t lack for clear language. And though there’s a form of rhyme throughout, it’s not schoolmarm rhyme, doesn’t distract like that can, the ear tricked into listening for a specific sound, the meaning lost like a voice in a wind, overwhelmed by a force too strong.
And you filled your mouth with me, coated your words with the savory flavor of us, then wore your tongue smooth against the stone of my pleasure.
Logic is the frailty of man Emotion is its catapult
It’s something in which you might find certain images as familiar as the back of your hand, the veins and lines and shape of the nails. Or your own image as it fills the mirror. That same face you’ve seen time after time looking back. Your face. Go ahead. Admire it. It’s quite nice. Or it might spring a surprise. There are ways poets do that, you know. Ways poets sneak up quietly in spots you think you’re quite alone and look over your shoulder at the same fine face you see in the mirror so clear and familiar. —Matthew J. Spireng
PEOPLE BRIDGE I’ll be seeing you at our rendezvous; the place we spent our youthful afternoons. Now trains and whistles make me think of you. Are you free to meet today around two? My heart skipped a beat when you said to me, “I’ll be seeing you at our rendezvous.” Weeds wrapped around the tracks and our hearts grew closer each day we spent atop the bridge. Now trains and whistles make me think of you. rarely touched, the bridge belonged to the few who graffiti it, littered it, and us. I’ll be skiing you at our rendezvous. The best moments were when the train passed through the tunnel as we stood above the roof. Now trains and whistles make me think of you. We haven’t spoken much since then. I knew the bridge would be the same and so would you. I’ll be seeing you at our rendezvous; Why trains and whistles make me think of you. —Katie Donlevy
And you taught our bodies their purpose too, drove the meaning of love deep inside me until we both
Intemperate —J Sweet
HAIRCUT
understood the difference
I entrusted myself to you and you cut me like it was nothing.
between the rhythm of our hearts beating... and their singing.
My head was the center of all kinds of activity—the spritz of water, the snip of scissors, the buzz of buzzers.
—Evelyn Augusto
You pressed your manly girth against me I fought the urge to pull away You were too close, I was too lonely.
SHADOW I sit in a diner and worry about what to do with the spoon after stirring milk into my coffee and whether or not I’ll end up in a bigger house than my father’s I’m not sure which is more important I don’t even know if I want kids but I do know I want a second cup to wash down these bacon and eggs and the spoon keeps falling off the saucer and bleeding through the napkin. —David Lukas
For some moments your touch was an inch from familiar though still a furlong from intimate but I could still feel that you meant something to me, if only for a little while. My locks have fallen, leaving me open-hearted. —Alden Brine
THE SOURCE I won’t tell you my name, but I’ll show you how angels’ wings look underwater: momentous, effortful, doomed. I can give you coins if you need some. Don’t keep them near your heart or you’ll come to love them, and you can’t love them because you’re going to need them for things: elevation, commerce, the carnival machine that tells fortunes. Spend them on glistening. Spend them on certainty. Throw them into a deep pool orange with hot-tempered fish. Try not to hit the angels. Do not presume to wish. —Sara Streett
AFTER After my death And after a pause You’ll continue to do Just what you did Before my death —Ze’ev Willy Neumann
EXPANSION Today, again, the cosmos is expanding. When you walk out of your home, feel for yourself it’s movement into the infinite. Now, take the leash off your senses, find the orange crayon in your pocket and step head first into the actual existing thing. —Geordie Edel 1/18 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 61
Food & Drink
RENOVATION & INNOVATION THE AMSTERDAM, HERITAGE FOOD AND DRINK, SILVIA
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By Melissa Esposito
here’s always a little heartbreak involved when a longstanding establishment closes its doors. But aspiring business owners, especially restaurateurs, seem to spring up faster each year, eager to resuscitate these timeworn buildings—aware of the immense undertaking of preserving community spirit while bringing their vision to life. The Amsterdam For instance, the buzzing main strip in the Village of Rhinebeck is bookended by two restaurants in buildings with storied pasts, though they couldn’t be more different in design. At one end, Terrapin’s storybook former-church location contrasts with the welcome-home feel that new eatery The Amsterdam provides. When approaching The Amsterdam, it’s as though you are walking up to a neighbor’s house—the porch is decked with inviting chairs, seasonal decor, and modern lanterns to guide you towards the entrance. Inside, you’ve stepped into a tapestry of styles—modern, country, vintage, industrial chic—woven together to create a warm atmosphere. “Part of the building dates back to 1798. Our goal was to bring forward the history and sense of place the building offered as a gathering place for our community of guests,” says proprietor Howard Jacobs. Rhinebeck’s earliest residents originally owned the historic portion, but the building fell into disrepair centuries later. An antiques dealer rescued and restored it. When Jacobs first saw the building, he couldn’t resist its charm. “We fell in love with its underlying potential as a special place for friends and family to gather, just as it functioned in the 1800s,” Jacobs says. It was a long road to transform the house into a full-service restaurant. Jacobs and his team were able to preserve some key architectural elements, but others were removed to open the space. Extensive steelwork was added for structure. “It created a beautiful and emotional connection that extended to fantastic transom windows at the rear the main dining,” Jacobs explains. “There were plenty of big and little challenges along the way, 62 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 1/18
but the end result was worth the effort. We sourced historic lighting, used reclaimed wood, and had materials custom designed by local artisans to complete our story.” The Amsterdam’s menu features an array of locally sourced dishes that complement the space; upscale with a country soul. At dinner, the atmosphere is convivial; laughter bounces through the high ceilings, the sleek, open kitchen provides a peek at your prepared dishes, and the polite staff is happy to answer questions about your meal (the house-smoked salmon is indeed wild-caught, and yes, those are leeks flavoring your Prince Edward Island mussels). The dryaged duck breast with roasted delicata squash, cauliflower, and black barley is a popular option, and the Amsterdam Burger—not your average grill choice—is topped with Rascal cheese, tomato jam, and Bibb lettuce on a milk bun. “Guests initially fall in love with the warmth, beauty, and uniqueness of our spaces, but they rave about the quality and soulful execution of our food— simple comfort food done at a very high level,” Jacobs says. Heritage Food and Drink Further down Route 9, Heritage Food and Drink is set back among rows of little plazas in Wappingers Falls. Heritage, which opened in August, is sited at the former location of Greenbaum and Gilhooley’s, which served traditional American fare for half a century before closing a few years ago. Now, regulars of the old family restaurant would hardly recognize the joint. Not only did owner Jesse Camac ditch Greenbaum and Gilhooley’s green-and-white exterior for a more contemporary look, but the interior has been completely transformed; stuck-in-time wallpaper and shellacked tables have been replaced by striking modern farmhouse elements. “We liked that the building required a lot of work. That gave us the ability to rebuild it exactly the way we wanted,” Camac says. The space balances elegance and edginess with just enough comfort. The bright, airy front room—with its bistro seating flanked by a large, windowed
Clockwise from top left: The bar at Heritage Food and Drink in Wappengers Falls; the dining room at The Amsterdam in Rhinebeck; the charcuterie board at The Amsterdam; Opposite: Silvia in Woodstock.
wall and a long, stocked bar—contrasts with the warmer back room’s upscalesteampunk vibe. Industrial cage-light sconces and brassy bowl lamps hanging from metal pulleys illuminate dark wooden tables accented with brass brads. Matte black leather booths are chic, soft, and welcoming; some face the glasswalled kitchen—all the show, without the noise. “We basically had to rebuild the entire building and start from scratch, in order to get the results we were looking for,” Camac explains. “The project took close to a year to complete and we are very proud of the end result—especially given that we did a designand-build, which essentially meant that we were making decisions as progress was made.” Heritage’s brunch and dinner menus offer hearty comfort food made with fresh and locally sourced ingredients. The cast-iron cinnamon bun—a brunch favorite made for sharing—is served in the small pan in which it’s baked, set atop a live-edge wood slab trivet. The fluffy bun features a light glaze and a nutty cinnamon swirl. The Country Benedict, another brunch staple, offers puffy poached eggs atop cheddar biscuits and house-cured ham. Top dinner preferences include fried chicken with spicy honey butter and house-made biscuits; maple-glazed pork chop with bacon, squash, cippolini onions, fennel, and grilled apples; and maple bacon Brie: oven-baked, McGrath Du Jour cheese, puff pastry, and bacon pecan jam. “We try and source as much as possible from New York, specifically the Hudson Valley,” Camac says. “We have an apple orchard in Milton, so you will notice that there are apples in many of our dishes.” Silvia Diners will also find fresh ingredients and from-scratch dishes at Silvia, which opened recently in one of Tinker Street’s most infamous buildings. “The building was built at the turn of the century, and amazingly not too much is known about its use at that time,” says Silvia co-owner Betty Choi. “Local folks who come in like to remember its former uses—an ice cream shop which goes
back to the ’50s, and a hardware store at some point.” Prior to Silvia, its most recent incarnation was Not Fade Away, a tie-dye and music-themed tourist trap, but of all its past lives, the building is best known as the former Joyous Lake. The mere mention of the Joyous Lake still brings a sparkle to the eye of many Woodstock boomers. The Lake was known for its raucous nightlife in the ’70s, with living-legend performer-patrons (the Rolling Stones, the Band, Charles Mingus) and the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll. But, while the memories live on, long gone is the Lake, the ice cream parlor, the tie-dye head shop. The building had been on the market for a year before Betty Choi and her sister, co-owner and chef Doris Choi, decided to buy it. Because the building hadn’t been updated in decades, renovations were extensive; everything but the floors had to go. Over time, the building’s new design came to life. “We were inspired by a trip to Iceland, so we painted the building black, which is offset by the rich wood of the porch and its canopy,” Choi explains. “We wanted the building to look a little striking, and even stark, with the contrast enhancing the experience of warmth and light upon entering its foyer and dining room.” Silvia’s menu can be described as hyperlocal new American food with global inspirations, and an emphasis on Korean and other Asian influences. “Some of our most popular items are our Korean bibimbap, sustainable seafood bouillabaisse, and our ash-roasted squash which we cook in the hot ash from our wood-burning oven,” says chef Doris. “Betty goes to great lengths to research and visit each farm we work with to ensure we are getting the highest-quality product. We buy whole grass-fed steers and pigs, and make our own sausage and bacon. You will never see a can in our kitchen—everything is made from scratch, even the ketchup and mustard.” While many parts remain the same,Woodstock has developed a new identity since the ’70s, and Silvia encompasses the essence what the town has become: homegrown, diverse, innovative, and authentic—with a respect to the spirit that has not yet faded away. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 63
Coffee Bar & Café on the Historic Kingston Waterfront Serving breakfast & lunch, ice cream, pastries. Free wifi Indoor & outdoor seating
Crafting Exceptional Hudson River Region Wines
1 West Strand Kingston, NY 845.331.4700 Redstartcoffee.com Hours 8am-6pm every day
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Custom Cut • Home Cooking Delicatessen Nitrate-Free Bacon • Pork Roasts • Beef Roasts Bone-in or Boneless Ham: smoked or fresh Local Organic Beef • Exotic Meats (Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich) • Wild Fish
tastings directory Bakeries Ella’s Bellas Bakery 418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502 www.ellabellasbeacon.com
Butchers 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, Jonathan Sheridan, and Dan Sherman. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes. Redstart Coffee 1 West Strand, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4700 www.redstartcoffee.com
Catering Lobster Lagoon Catering 259 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY www.lobsterlagoon,com (518) 536-4500 Lobster Lagoon Catering provides full service catering for gatherings large and small from 10- 500 guests. For all events, wedding, corporate event, summer barbecue, graduation, or other party. Mary’s Cookin Again (607) 326-4191 www.maryscookin.com
Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Institute 48 West 21 Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY (212) 645-5170 naturalgourmetinstitute.com hello@nginyc.com Natural Gourmet Institute’s interactive and dynamic hands-on classes cover a wide variety of topics including vegan and vegetarian cooking, gluten-free baking, basic culinary skills, and global cuisine. NGI also offers in-depth certificate programs in Food Therapy and Culinary Nutrition. Classes are available for all skill levels.
Restaurants A&P Bar and Restaurant 83 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY www.aandpbar.com Café Mio 2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4949 www.miogardiner.com Colony Woodstock 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7625 www.colonywoodstock.com Daryl’s House Club 130 NY-22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com Daryl’s House Restaurant & Music Club serves up top-notch food along with amazing music Wednesday - Sunday. The weekends feature Free Music Brunch! Full calendar of shows, tickets + menus can be found on the website. Gomen-Kudasai Noodle Escape 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811
The premier Sushi restaurant in the Hudson Valley for over 22 years. Only the freshest sushi with an innovative flair.
Henry’s at the Farm 220 North Road, Milton, NY (845) 795-1500 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com/eat-and-drink henrys@buttermilkfallsinn.com Henry’s at the Farm is a jewel of a restaurant, tucked away in the Hudson Valley’s orchard and wine country, at Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa. At Henry’s, contemporary American cuisine and sublime craft cocktails are only steps away from Buttermilk’s own Millstone Farm. Landmark Inn 566 Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com The New York Restaurant 353 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-5500 nyrestaurantcatskill.com Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5055 www.osakasushi.net Foodies, consider yourselves warned and informed! Osaka Restaurant is Rhinebeck’s 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 22 years! For more information and menus, go to osakasushi.net. Red Hook Curry House 28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 redhookcurryhouse.com Mohammed and his wife, Maksuda, are the chefs for Red Hook Curry House. Their creations have received excellent reviews – Zagat rated! Home-cooked traditional Hundi cuisine. Monday night is Bard night! Students or faculty get 10% off on Monday’s. Enjoy a Hundi buffet on Tuesday’s & Sunday’s! It offers 4 vegetarian dishes and 4 non-vegetarian dishes. It includes appetizers, soup, salad bar, bread, dessert, tea, and coffee! Seoul Kitchen 71 Liberty Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 563-0796 Authentic Korean Food. Heewon (Owner and Cook) cooks her memory of childhood that her mother and friend’s mother always treated them warm rice and a soup with ban-chan (side dishes) from their mothers who were middle class. She likes a jip-bap (house meal) and wants people to try it. Saturday Ramen Special. Stonehedge Restaurant 1694 Route 9W, West Park, NY (845) 384-6555 www.stonehedgerestaurant.com
Voted Best Indian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley
Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED
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Specialty Foods Applestone Meat Co. Stone Ridge, Accord, NY www.applestonemeat.com Crown Maple 47 McCourt Road, Dover Plains, NY (845) 877-5143 www.crownmaple.com Lagusta’s Luscious 25 N Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 633-8615 www.lagustasluscious.com
Vineyard Milea Estate Vineyard Hollow Road, Staatsburg, NY www.mileaestatevineyard.com (845) 264-0403 info@mileaestatevineyard.com 1/18 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 65
business directory Accommodations
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Best Western Plus Kingston Hotel & Conference Center
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Mohonk Mountain House
Catskill Art & Office Supply
503 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-1299 bwpkingston.com 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY (800) 772-6646 www.mohonk.com
Art Supplies Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Artisans
Antiques Millbrook Antiques Mall
473 Main Street, Catskill, NY (212) 647-7505 www.counterev.com
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314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0030 outdatedcafe@gmail.com
Architects Bialecki Architects
www.bialeckiarchitects.com info@bialeckiarchitects.com
BKSK Architects
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3301 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-9311 www.millbrookantiquesmall.com
28 West 25th Street, New York, NY (212) 807-9600 www.bksk.com bkskinfo@bksk.com BKSK Architects is a NYC-based 40-person firm whose diverse range of work includes award-winning cultural, civic, educational, institutional and residential projects. As stewards of the built and natural environments and scholars of architectural history, BKSK’s innovative designs are underscored by an in-house Sustainability/Research LAB, Preservation Specialist and Interiors group.
Art & Music Guns Don’t Save People... Poets Do: Dueling with words to stop gun violence
71 Main Street, PO Box 284, Stamford, NY (845) 625-9190 A Facebook Group poetsout@gmail.com Using poetry to tell others about the legacy of gun violence. One can only imagine that if folks came to understand what happens after that shot is taken, how the horror only begins with the echo of that gun blast...then they... because they are logical and loving... would release their grip on that gun handle. Read: U R Not Your Gun on Facebook.
Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1438 www.hudsonhall.org hello@hudsonhall.org Hudson Hall offers a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, youth and adult workshops, as well as community events such as Winter Walk. Housing New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in 2017 for the first time in over 55 years. Hudson Hall reflects Hudson’s rich history in a modern facility that welcomes visitors from our community, across the nation, and around the globe.
Art Galleries & Centers Dia: Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org
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
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Artists Studios Regal Bag Studios
302 North Water Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 444-8509 www.regalbagstudios.com
Attorneys Jacobowitz & Gubits (845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com
Beauty and Supply Columbia Wig and Beauty Supply
56 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 www.columbiacostumes.com columbiacostumes@gmail.com Columbia is back with a wide array of beauty products, including high end wigs, headscarves, hair dye, hair styling products, and makeup. They also carry costume rentals, costume wigs, and theatrical accessories. Now located in their new location just down the road from the old store!
Book Publishers Epigraph Publishing Service
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.epigraphps.com paul@monkfishpublishing.com Epigraph Publishing Service is a home for books where authors can find solutions to their many publishing needs including design, editing, printing, and distribution. Epigraph is a DBA of Monkfish Book Publishing Company, an award-winning traditional small press founded in 2002, specializing in books that combine literary and spiritual merits.
Books Green Toad Bookstore
198 Main Street, Oneonta, NY www.greentoadbookstore.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies First Fuel & Propane
(518) 828-8700 www.firstfuelandpropane.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
John A. Alvarez And Sons Custom Modular Homes
3572 US Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com “Let us make our house your home.” Our goal
is to provide the best quality manufactured homes, to surpass our home owner’s expectation when purchasing a home, provide a high level of service to our customers, and to maintain a safe and healthy environment for our employees.
Bard MAT
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
14 Pine Street, Stockbridge, MA (413) 298-3800 berkshirewaldorf.com
WCW Kitchens
Canterbury School
Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
Berkshire Waldorf High School
3 Cherry Hill Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2022 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2002
101 Aspetuck Avenue, New Milford, CT (860) 210.3800 www.cbury.org
Williams Lumber & Home Center
2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Carpets & Rugs Anatolia-Tribal Rugs & Weavings
54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 www.anatoliarugs.com anatoliarugs@gmail.com Thurs.-Mon., 12-5; closed Tues. & Wed. Established in Woodstock 1981. Offering old, antique and contemporary handwoven carpets and kilims, from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia, in a wide range of styles, colors, prices. Hundreds to choose from, in a regularly changing inventory. Also, kilim pillows, $45-55. We are happy to share our knowledge about rugs, and try and simplify the sometimes overcomplicated world of handwoven rugs.
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing Out of the Closet Vintage Boutique 6017 Main Street, Tannersville, NY (518) 589-4133 @OutofClosetVintage
Computer Services Computer Hut
71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 750-5279 www.computerhutsales.com computerhutsales@gmail.com Computer Hut offers a large inventory of refurbished computers, phones and tablets. We repair Mac and PC computers, iPhones, and iPads. We also buy used electronics and offer electronic recycling free of charge with secure data wipe available.
Computing Solutions
(845) 687-9458 alan-silverman-computers.com alan.silverman.computers@gmail.com Are computers impossible? At your wit’s end? Alan Silverman – Computer Concierge, I’m here when you need me. Helping people on three continents stay sane with computers since 1986. Home users and small businesses. I help buy the best built PCs, then set them up for you.
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Education Bard College at Simon’s Rock
84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-4400 www.simons-rock.edu
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Center for the Digital Arts/ Westchester Community College 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill
Green Meadow Waldorf School (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org
Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School 40 Dodgingtown Road, Newtown, CT (203) 364-1113 www.waldorfct.org
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 www.livingstonstreet.org
Millbrook School
131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8261 www.millbrook.org
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Mountaintop Waldorf School
68 Band Camp Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 389-7322 www.mountaintopschool.com
Next Step College Counseling
Hyde Park, NY (845) 242-8336 www.nextstepcollegecounseling.com smoore@nextstepcollegecounseling.com
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
Rudolf Steiner School
35 West Plain Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org
Salisbury School
251 Canaan Road, Salisbury, CT (860) 435-5732 www.salisburysummerschool.org
SUNY New Paltz New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu
Environmental and Land Conservation Scenic Hudson
Hudson Valley, NY (845) 473-4440 www.scenichudson.org info@scenichudson.org We help valley citizens and communities preserve land and farms and create parks where people experience the outdoors and Hudson River. With new possibilities but also the impacts of climate change, we focus on maximizing the benefits all can enjoy from beautiful natural places and vibrant cities and town centers.
Event Services/Spaces Durants Tents & Events 1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com
Events 8 Day Week www.chronogram.com/8dw
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
Graphic Design & Illustration Luminary Media 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 www.luminarymedia.com
Hair Salons Le Shag.
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa 2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com
Salune Hudson Hudson, NY www.salunehudson.com
Insurance Agency Curabba Agency 334 E Main Street, Middletown, NY (845) 343-0855 www.curabba.com
William J. Cole Agency 1 John Street, Suite 101 & 102, Millerton, NY (518) 789-4657
Interior Design & Home Furnishings Cabinet Designers 747 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com info@cabinetdesigners.com Cabinet Designers, your Kitchen & Bath Design firm is known for its handcrafted approach to design. This 30-plus-year-old company helps homeowners think out-ofthe-box with an extensive selection of custom, semi-custom, and stock cabinets. Choose from traditional, transitional, and modern styles by leaders in the field to create the Kitchen or Bathroom of your dreams.
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc. Open Fri., Sat., Sun.,Mon. 10:30am - 6:00pm. Closing Jan. 23 through April 12, 2018.
44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 dreaminggoddess.com At the Dreaming Goddess, we offer unique gifts, ranging from stunning sterling silver jewelry, artful cards, to a vast array of crystals and gemstones. With a selection of therapeutic grade essential oils, candles and herbs, we have everything for your magical needs. Workshops, classes, and tarot & psychic readings are available, and we also offer rental space for practitioners and healers.
Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry 238 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (212) 625-1656 www.geoffreygood.com
Green Cottage 1204 Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-4810 www.thegreencottage.com
Hudson Valley Goldsmith 71A Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com
Hummingbird Jewelers 23 A East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 hummingbirdjewelers.com info@hummingbirdjewelers.com Premier showcase for fine designer jewelry since 1978. Specializing in on premises custom goldsmithing, repairs, restoration and repurposing of your family heirlooms. Gemologists-Appraisers. Watchmakers. Best selection of unique wedding bands and engagement rings in the valley. Open Mon. 10:30-5:30,Tues. closed, Wed.-Sat. 10:30-5:30.
Lawyers & Mediators Karen A. Friedman Esq. 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY www.newyorktrafficlawyer.com (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com Handling a variety of traffic-related and criminally-related traffic matters, including traffic and trucking violations, misdemeanors and appeals.
Music Daryl’s House 130 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com
The Falcon 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com
JTD Productions, Inc. (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com
Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Musical Instruments Francis Morris Violins Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com
Organizations Hudson Valley CSA Coalition www.hudsonvalleycsa.org hudsonvalleycsa@gmail.com
Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com Write with WVW. Creative writing workshops held weekly and on some Satu rd ay s. C o n s u l t a ti o n s & I n d i v i d u a l Conferences also available. Registration/ Information: www.wallkillvalleywriters.com or khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com.
YMCA of Kingston
Hudson River Housing
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
313 Mill Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-5176 hudsonriverhousing.org
Lofts on Main
Performing Arts Bardavon 1869 Opera House
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org The Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (the Bardavon) is a nonprofit arts presenter that owns and operates a historic theater of the same name in Poughkeepsie, and the region’s premiere orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. It offers affordable, world-class music, education programs, dance, theater, Met Live in HD broadcasts, and classic films for the diverse audiences of the Hudson Valley.
Center for Performing Arts
Peekskill, NY (845) 306-7705 www.loftsonmainny.com
Upstate House www.upstatehouse.com
Upstater www.upstater.com
Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Summer Camps Renaissance Kids
661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
1821 Route 376, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 452-4225 www.renkids.org
Club Helsinki Hudson
Sunrooms
405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-4800 helsinkihudson.com
Hudson Valley Sunrooms 355 Broadway, Port Ewen (Ulster Park), NY (845) 339-1717 www.hudsonvalleysunrooms.com
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
33 Kaatsbaan Road, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5106 www.kaatsbaan.org
Tourism Historic Huguenot Street
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
339 Central Avenue, 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.
81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY www.huguenotstreet.org (845) 255-1889 info@huguenotstreet.org This 10-acre National Historic Landmark District includes a Visitor Center, seven historic stone houses, a reconstructed 1717 Huguenot church, a replica Munsee wigwam, exhibit and program spaces, archaeological sites, and a burial ground that dates to the very first settlers. Guided tours and special events are offered year-round.
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Ulster Performing Arts Center
601 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 339-6088 www.upac.org The Broadway Theatre - Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC ) is a 1927 former vaudeville theatre that is on the National Historic Register. It seats 1500 and is the largest historic presenting house between New York City and Albany.
Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Wedding Services www.centannicinema.com
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 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Real Estate Columbia County Real Estate Specialists
(800) 290-4235, (518) 697-9865 www.realestatecolumbiacounty.com margaretavenia@gmail.com
Hopewell Animal Hospital
Cent’anni Cinema
Picture Framing
Aqua Jet
14 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1890 www.newpaltzvet.com Veterinary services including discounted wellness packages for puppies, kittens, adults and seniors. Boarding, daycare & physical rehabilitation services. 2611 Route 52, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 221-PETS (7387) www.hopewellanimalhospital.com
Fionn Reilly Photography
Atelier Renee Fine Framing
All Creatures Veterinary Hospital
The Garrison 2015 US 9, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3604 www.thegarrison.com
Hudson Hall 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1438 www.hudsonhall.org
Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson, ROOTS & WINGS PO Box 1081, New Paltz, NY www.rootsnwings.com (845) 255-2278 puja@rootsnwings.com For two decades, Reverend Puja Thomson has been designing spiritual ceremonies in her hallmark style of warmth, respect, and inclusivity. Rev. Puja welcomes couples joining different spiritual, religious, ethnic backgrounds and is LGBTQ friendly. Puja will guide you to co-create a ceremony to celebrate your love, faith and commitment.
Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org
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RAISING SEX-POSITIVE KIDS IN A WORLD RIFE WITH SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND MISCONDUCT, HOW CAN WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY? by wendy k agan
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y daughter is 12 years old, and she has already been groped. It happened at a local water park last summer in the wave pool, the kind of swimming pool where mechanically generated waves simulate the swell of the ocean. As one wave lifted her up, she felt the hand of a teenage boy grabbing her bikinied butt. How strange, she thought. It must have been a mistake; maybe the wave had carried him into her.Yet the same thing happened to her 11-year-old friend who was swimming nearby. Then they heard two more girls remarking loudly that the boy had touched them, too. Apparently, this young man was groping every female buttock in the pool like he was testing for ripe fruit at the farmers’ market. Soon, the two lifeguards on duty were frantically blowing their whistles. The waves stopped and the red-handed boy, standing by the lifeguard station with his father, was told to leave the water park immediately. While the news that my young daughter had been groped horrified me, I couldn’t have imagined a better outcome. She was with a friend and her friend’s mother, able to share and process the experience and even laughed about it a little. More important, the teenage offender was caught, confronted, and suffered the consequences. He was publically shamed for his stupid and intrusive acts, as he deserved to be. And yet, my girl had been groped. She had been initiated into the world of women everywhere who are plagued by men behaving badly. Or in the words of a recent “Saturday Night Live” skit, “Welcome to Hell.” The recent spate of news stories about women (and some men) being 68 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 1/18
sexually harassed in the entertainment industry and in politics may be painful to witness, but it’s also liberating. The #metoo movement has broken the code of silence and unleashed a formidable backlash against many men who have unfairly wielded their power.Women and men are talking; mothers and fathers are talking. And many of us are wondering: How did we get here, and how can we stem the tide of sexual misconduct for the generations to come? How can we do things a little more mindfully so that we can raise girls who are empowered and expressive, and boys who are enlightened and empathetic? A True Yes and a True No Alicia Muñoz, a psychotherapist and couples’ counselor based in Falls Church, Virginia, sees one solution in the growing trend toward raising sex-positive kids. “Sex positive” is a relatively new buzz-phrase that’s gaining traction in the therapy world and beyond. “It’s about helping your children grow up with a sense of sexuality as a natural, normal, healthy, pleasurable part of being alive, of being a human being,” says Muñoz. “That’s easier said than done, especially in a culture that is so weighted toward sex negativity and gender biases and power differentials that are unfair. It’s a tall order, but an important thing.” One essential message of sex positivity is that any sexual activity, and any touching of body parts, should be consensual. “Taking the shame out of sexuality is part of what provides a foundation for the awareness of consent,” says Muñoz. “It’s being able to grow up in an environment where you’re not ashamed of
your own sexuality, or of sexuality in general. That’s part of what empowers parents. “They might say, ‘Joey does this, so why can’t I do it?’ They might give you to have a voice, and having a voice means you’re connected to your right you a hard time, but they’ll appreciate it. There’s nothing worse for a child to give a true yes or a true no in different situations, including sexual ones. And than feeling like their parent doesn’t care.” on the other side of it, you’re primed to respect another’s true yes or true no In the same spirit, parents are modeling behaviors to their children all when you view sex as a positive, integral, normal part of being human.” the time, without speaking. Empathy is not something that you can inculcate Raising kids to be sex positive is a lifestyle that begins at the onset of into a child, but they’ll develop the capacity for it through osmosis, says parenthood. Many parents worry about when to have “the talk” with their Goldstein. “If the child sees a healthy interaction between the parents, sees children, but, in a sense, we’re already talking about sex to our kids before they them supporting each other and talking about their feelings, they’ll grow up have language. “From the moment they’re born, babies and kids are receiving with these kinds of capacities. Empathy is something that really derives from data related to sex and sexuality and gender—through their senses, touch, the family experience.” Yet some things do need to be put into words, and longings, hunger, their relationship to their body, in a world where sexual misconduct is rampant, and their parents’ or caregiver’s relationships to therapists tend to agree about one thing to tell their bodies,” says Muñoz.Yet the time will come your kids unequivocally: “The hard and fast rule when children want to put sex into words they is that you don’t have the right to put your hands can understand. And the sex-positive way for on someone else, period. And no one should put parents is to start talking about sex as soon as a their hands on you. Period.” child starts asking about it. “When a child asks a question, even if that child is just two and a half The Power of Speaking Out or three, you answer it in simple, true language,” Parents are not the only influencers; cultural says Muñoz. “You call a vulva a vulva, a penis a messaging is very powerful as well. Terrence penis. You don’t call it a wee-wee or a pee-pee Real, a psychotherapist who wrote I Don’tWant to or another nickname. You show that, even in the Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male naming of body parts, there’s no need to hide it.” Depression (Scribner, 1998) and other books, says While the goal is to remove any negativity that boys lose their hearts when they’re five or and evasiveness from sexuality, it’s important not six, and girls lose their voices when they’re 11 or to take the message too far and give your child 12. “Five or six is when the socialization process more than he or she is ready to handle.Talk about starts to really impact boys as they get shamed sex should be age-appropriate, keeping in mind for doing things they were allowed to do when what young brains need. “Little kids need shortthey were younger,” says Muñoz. “They might be sentence explanations rather than long lectures,” called weak or girly. So, when you have a boy, says Muñoz. “For a four-year-old who asks where how do you keep him connected to his heart yet babies come from, a short answer might be that still have him belong in his circle of peers? How babies are created by a man and a woman giving do you keep your girls raising their hands in class —Alicia Muñoz each other a special kind of hug.” Yet with sex rather than becoming wallflowers? How do you positivity, the aim is to always expand the lens keep them speaking up when the society says that of sexuality and give a sense of inclusiveness beyond limited cultural norms if you speak up you’re a bitch, or you’re not as attractive?” or biases. So, parents might want to add that some babies are created by a Expressiveness in girls is crucial to encourage for two main purposes: their man’s seed that’s put with the help of a doctor into a woman, and then that baby might be raised by two men, or it might be raised by two women. Then ability to share difficult experiences, and their empowerment in speaking out no matter which path the child takes later in terms of sexual preference or and defending themselves. “Letting your child lead the conversation, or lead gender identity, the stage is set for a sense of normalcy and acceptance from the play when they are younger, creates a space where your child trusts you to share things such as, ‘Oh, one of the boys grabs my behind at school’ or ‘I saw the outset. a video with naked people on the internet.’” Parents can practice not reacting in fear or letting their anxiety show, but opening a space to calmly help and Following Your Child’s Lead With so much buzz about sexual harassment and assault in the news and popular guide them. In turn, some self-defense teachers have girls practice yelling on culture, parents may wonder how to talk about such heavy issues with their the top of their lungs and using their voice, so if they are assaulted or groped children—and how to protect them from the bullying and power imbalances in the subway or on the street, they can call attention to the perpetrator and that start as early as elementary school. “Most kids don’t pay attention to what get help if help is needed. To raise sex-positive kids requires some work from the parents, and not all happens in the news, so in terms of discussing something disturbing with of it is easy. If a parent has any sexual trauma or abuse in their own past, it’s your child, it’s best to wait until the child raises up the issue themselves,” says essential for them to be willing to face and work through it, not only for their Stanley Goldstein, PhD, a child clinical psychologist based in Middletown and the author of several books including Troubled Children/Troubled Parents:TheWay own sake but for their children’s sake. Otherwise, says Muñoz, “In your wellOut 2nd edition (Wyston Books, 2011). The idea is to follow the child’s lead; intentioned desire to protect your children, you’re going to be communicating equally important is to speak with them rather than to them, even when you’re a lot of sex-negative messages to them.” Another challenge for parents is laying down guidelines designed to keep them safe—such as explaining to resisting the impulse to impose their power as adults over their children in everyday interactions. “What they learn there is, ‘Oh, I have to obey somebody your teenage daughter why you don’t want her to walk alone at night. “It’s crucially important not to say to a child or teenager, ‘Do this because more powerful than me even if it doesn’t feel good,’” says Muñoz. “Not telling I say so.’ If you do that, then you repress the capacity for abstract thinking. your child they have to obey isn’t the same thing as having the inmates run the Instead, say, ‘Do it because…’ and express your concerns. Explain that the asylum. Instead it’s telling them, ‘I’m with you. We work as a team.’” world is generally a safe place, but you have to be cautious. If you feel that they’re not ready to do certain things, tell them no and tell them why.” While RESOURCES many parents believe that the major influence for teenagers is their peer group, Stanley Goldstein, PhD Drstanleygoldstein.com Goldstein posits that the major influence for healthy teenagers remains the Alicia Muñoz, MA, LPC Aliciamunoz.com
“Being able to grow up in an environment where you’re not ashamed of your own sexuality, or of sexuality in general, is part of what empowers you to have a voice, and having a voice means you’re connected to your right to give a true yes or a true no.”
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(845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter, Aromacologist
(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release Raindrop, Neuro-Auricular Technique (NAT), Vitaflex for humans and Horses, dogs, birds and cats. Health consultations, natural wellness writer, spa consultant, classes, trainings and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!
Art Instruction Center for Metal Arts
44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com info@centerformetalarts.com Beginner and master classes in Blacksmithing and Small Metals. One-day, 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
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo 56 Lucas Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-1619 www.drvigs.com
Transcend Dental
269 Route 375, West Hurley, NY (845) 679-4000 transcenddental.net
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature
1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com
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Collaborative Medical Arts
2542 Route 66, Chatham, NY (518) 721-8417 www.collaborativemedicalarts.org collaborativemedicalarts@gmail.com Collaborative Medical Arts is a group of physicians and therapists offering: Conventional and Anthroposophic family medicine, Osteopathic cranial treatments, Neurology, holistic anthroposophic nursing, therapeutic eurythmy, painting therapy and rhythmical massage therapy. Kathleen DeRosa-Lazare, DO: Anthroposophic Family Medicine
embodyperiod
439 Union Street, Hudson, NY (415) 686-8722 www.embodyperiod.com
John M. Carroll
715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.
Kary Broffman, RN, CH
Rhinebeck, NY karybroffman.com (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com New Year, New You. Integrate Your Life, Its A Balancing Act. Mind/Body integration with hypnosis, nutritional coaching, stress management, visualization. Spiritual and intuitive readings. Utilize these modalities to help you find true north to a happier and more fulfilled life.
One Light Healing Touch
Lagrangeville & Rhinebeck, NY www.OLHT1.com pennylavin@gmail.com krransom@optimum.net Learn 33 advanced Holistic, Shamanic and Esoteric techniques to heal yourself and others in our acclaimed 18-day training. $3,200. Ideal for those seeking personal growth and all healthcare practitioners. Lagrangeville School with Penny and Ron Lavin meets June to Nov. Intro workshops: April & May. Rhinebeck School with Karen Ransom & Sharon Johnston meets Sept. to March.
Hospitals MidHudson Regional Hospital
241 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.midhudsonregional.org MidHudson Regional Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, is home to the mid-Hudson Valley’s most advanced healthcare services. This 243-bed facility features the area’s only ACS-verified Level II Trauma Center, the Redl Center for Cancer Care, Center for Robotic Surgery, and the WMC Heart & Vascular Institute.
Northern Dutchess Hospital
6511 Springbrook Avenue, Rhinebeck, NY www.healthquest.org/rhinebeck/ northern-dutchess-hospital.aspx (845) 876-3001 Northern Dutchess Hospital is a healing en-
vironment where modern medicine meets compassionate care. From spacious, private patient rooms to state-of-the-art operating rooms equipped with minimally invasive and robotic technology, you and your family no longer need to travel far for advanced medical care. The hospital offers a holistic birth center, an expanded emergency department, orthopedic needs from sports medicine and pain management to minimally invasive surgery, general and bariatric surgery, wound care, a full spectrum of rehabilitation therapies and much more. Thanks to convenient, seamless access, you can visit a primary or specialty care provider then have your lab work or radiology procedure without leaving the campus. Excellent care for you and your family has been our priority since the hospital’s founding more than a century ago.
Putnam Hospital Center
670 Stoneleigh Avenue, Carmel, NY www.healthquest.org/carmel/ putnam-hospital-center.aspx (845) 279-5711 For more than 50 years, Putnam Hospital Center has been the community’s resource for advanced and compassionate care. With a reputation for high patient satisfaction, our caring teams offer advanced orthopedic, robotic and bariatric surgical services. Discover the comfortable, private rooms and complimentary valet parking, all close to home.
Sharon Hospital
50 Hospital Hill, Sharon, CT www.healthquest.org/sharon-hospital/ sharon-hospital.aspx (860) 364-4000 Sharon Hospital is now part of Health Quest. Offering the same warm and personalized care, Sharon Hospital now provides the benefits of an entire system including direct access to more advanced medical offerings, the latest technologies and a network of leading specialists. For residents of the Northwest Connecticut community, there’s no need to travel far for exceptional healthcare.
Vassar Brothers Medical Center
45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY www.healthquest.org/poughkeepsie/ vassar-brothers-medical-center.aspx (845) 454-8500 Since 1887, Vassar Brothers Medical Center has been committed to delivering sophisticated medical care with a personal touch in the Mid-Hudson Valley. As a regional medical center, Vassar is recognized for stroke and cardiac care, and has the area’s first and only cardiothoracic surgery center in the Mid-Hudson Valley. For women’s and children’s health services, we offer the first and only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the region for premature and critically ill infants. Vassar Brothers Medical Center recently became a Level II Trauma Center, further advancing our vision to provide the community with local access to state-ofthe-art medical care.
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.
Pain Management Medical Marijuana Certification and Consulting
(845) 430-4239 gepstein@hvc.rr.com Consultation on approved use of medical marijuana in NY. With certification for patients who qualify under New York State law. Will help find a CBD/THC concentration that is most effective for you. Full evaluation of your medical history and lifestyle to find appropriate treatment for your medical condition. Now approved for patients with PTSD.
Resorts & Spas Bodhi Holistic Spa
543 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhiholisticspa.com
Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa
220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
The Gideon Putnam
24 Gideon Putnam Road, Saratoga Springs, NY (866) 890-1171 www.gideonputnam.com
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute
Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org info@garrisoninstitute.org Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Eve Ekman and B. Alan Wallace teaching Cultivating Emotional Balance, February 23-March 3; Sharon Salzberg and the Holistic Life Foundation teaching People Who Care for People, March 9-11; and Jane and Derek Kolleeny teaching Practice Mindfulness on the Spring Equinox: A Special Retreat on How to Meditate, March 23-25.
Spirituality Kol Hai: Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal (845) 477-5457 kolhai.org
Sacred Heart Parish
Stamford, NY (607) 652-7170 www.sacredheartstamford.org
Workshops Rhinebeck Reformed Church
6368 Mill Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3727 rhinebeckreformed.org rhinebeckreformed@frontiernet.net “Mysticism in the Christian Tradition” presented by Dr. Bruce Chilton of Bard College: Mysticism’s reputation in the period since the Enlightenment has been checkered. Find out why on January 28th at 1pm (Lunch served at 12:30) Free and open to everyone. Call/email to register (required).
Medical Marijuana Certification and Consulting Gene Epstein, FNP Now approved for PTSD and chronic pain Evaluations done of your medical history, paired with consideration of your lifestyle to find an appropriate therapy.
Home Visits & Sliding Scale Available For Information & Appointment Call 845-430-4239 gepstein@hvc.rr.com
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Jan. 5 - 28 8pm Fri (1/5 & 1/19) 3pm Sat (1/6 & 1/20) 8pm Sat (1/13 & 1/27) 3pm Sun (1/14 & 1/28)
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GROOVIN’ THE SUMMERS OF LOVE Recreating the Great Classic Rock legends of 1967-1969 from Monteray Pop to the Woodstock Festival
Yasmina Reza’s biting serio-comedy about two sets of parents (one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park) who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. As their meeting progresses, the parents become children themselves and the evening devolves into chaos. Tickets: $23
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Jan. 5 - 28 8pm Fri (1/12 & 1/26) 3pm Sat (1/13 & 1/27) 8pm Sat (1/6 & 1/20) 3pm Sun (1/7 & 1/21) Tickets: $23
Dawn of the Dregs The complete Original Lineup Reunited after 40 Years SATURDAY, MARCH 17TH
This Pulitzer Prize winning musical is much more than a feel-good musical; it is a feel-everything musical. This modern rock musical won three Tony Awards in 2009 for its heartbreaking, humorous and unflinchingly authentic look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of one family member’s bipolar disorder. Book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt.
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Acoustic duo Rachael & Vilray play Club Helsinki January 19.
Melodic Merger It’s a special kind of magic when two voices meet and immediately sound like they’ve never been apart. The voices of acoustic duo Rachael & Vilray—aka Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price and, well, simply Vilray—are magical enough on their own, but when they blend in song the results are utterly sublime. Rooted in the jazz and Tin Pan Alley pop of the 1930s and 1940s, the twosome recalls the heavenly sounds of the Merry Macs, the Pied Pipers, and Les Paul & Mary Ford, crooning a repertoire of timeless standards and angelic originals. The pair met in Boston in the early 2000s and stayed in touch as Price made her ascendancy with Lake Street Dive and Vilray returned to his native Brooklyn, where he’s plied his craft as a subway busker. Between studio sessions for their upcoming debut, the two are doing a series of cozy Northeast winter dates and answered a few questions via e-mail below. Rachael & Vilray will perform at Club Helsinki in Hudson on January 19 at 8pm. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com. —Peter Aaron You've known each other since 2003, when you were both students at the New England Conservatory of Music, which is also where Lake Street Dive met and formed. How did you actually meet? What drew you together? Rachael: I don’t recall the specific first time we met. Vilray became fast friends with Mike “McDuck” Olson and Mike Calabrese [of Lake Street Dive] and I recall thinking they were the coolest and I really wanted to be friends with them. I also recall Vilray being quite unenthused by my personality and I really had to force him to be friends with me. Because I knew that if he knew me, he’d love me. I was right. Do you recall the feelings you had when you first sang together? What thoughts went through your heads during and after that initial duet? Rachael: It was easily seven years after we’d met before we sang together. I knew we both loved this type of music and was sure we could do it together. But it took some
forcing and couple of bad gigs to realize that there was something there. Once again, I was right. What is it about the pop music of the 1930s and 1940s in particular that appeals to you? Who are some of your favorite artists and songwriters from that era and why? Vilray: The Tin Pan Alley scene that produced or inspired the music we play expresses such a range of emotions with such an economy of words. The ’30s-’40s period was the golden age, all the kinks had been worked out and the forms they were using were very hip, a little experimental, and sometimes very dark and lovely. It’s a populist music: danceable, singable, easily understood, humorous, heartbreaking, authentic, and unpretentious. Fats Waller could perform a lighthearted bop like “I Simply Adore You” (“Looked at from all directions you’re just perfection’s design / There’s no to be or not to be you just got to be mine!”) and then go right into “Inside This Heart of Mine” (“Blue skies taunt me / Memories haunt me / You don’t want me...”). What era of music, besides opera, served such a balanced meal to its audiences? When can we look forward to hearing your debut album? Vilray: Recordings are still in the planning stage. Right now, we’re planning to have something to release in 2018. What do you most hope people experience when they come to see you perform? Vilray: We hope people experience some measure of intimacy and vulnerability when they come hear us. Whether they’re told humorously or earnestly, these are songs of love and loss. We are singing them with our bodies and faces close to each other, looking into each other’s eyes, sharing a single microphone. We are having real feelings up on stage and we hear it comes across. It’s hopefully a different kind of experience for audiences today, when so much art is expressed ironically or from an emotional distance. 1/18 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 73
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Rev. Ralph Abernathy scatters flowers over the casket of Martin Luther King Jr during burial rites in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 9, 1968.
Community Yoga Class to support the Broome Animal Sanctuary
1-2:30pm. Donate your fresh Christmas tree to support the Broome Animal Sanctuary. The Broome Animal Sanctuary is an animal sanctuary and certified wildlife habitat for at risk farm animals. We will be offering a 1 hour class from 3:30pm to 4:30pm to thank all who donate. No experience necessary. Mats will be available for you to use, or bring your own. Lilananda Yoga, Glenville. (518) 470-5240. LITERARY & BOOKS All Vintage & First Editions Book Sale
1-7pm. The Friends of Esopus Library are hosting a unique book sale of over 1,000 volumes; all vintage, first editions and many signed by author. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. MUSIC Bernstein Bard Trio
8pm. Eclectic blue grass, swing, & more. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Blues Brunch with Chris Vitarello
noon. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Jaimoe’s Jassz Band
8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Jim Peppler
James Maddock
Jim Peppler’s Civil Rights Photographs From 1956 to 1968, Jim Peppler worked for the Southern Courier, a nonprofit weekly Civil Rights newspaper serving Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. During that time, he shot thousands of images, which are now part Jim Peppler Collection at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. On January 13, Peppler, now living in the Hudson Valley, will be donating a series of his Civil Rights photos to the permanent collection of the A. J. WilliamsMyers African Roots Library in Kingston. At the event, from 5 to 7pm, Pepppler will discuss his work and the struggle for equality he witnessed in the South in the late '60s. Africanrootslibrary.org
LITERARY & BOOKS
LITERARY & BOOKS
Gardiner Library Book Club
All Vintage & First Editions Book Sale
3-4pm. The Samurai’s Daughter by Sujata Massey. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. MUSIC Common Tongue’s First Wednesdays
8pm. Rock and fusion. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Falcon Underground Songwriter Sessions
7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THURSDAY 4 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Tarot Club
MONDAY 1 MUSIC New Year’s Day Brunch with Big Joe Fitz & the LoFis
12-3pm. Their sound features a sophisticated blend of Jazz and Blues which is always soulful, always swinging, and always in an engaging style that never fails to connect with the audience. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
TUESDAY 2 LITERARY & BOOKS Hudson Valley YA Society: HOLLY BLACK
6-8pm. Author of the the Modern Tales of Faerie series. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
WEDNESDAY 3 LECTURES & TALKS Climate Change and Hope in the Hudson Valley
7-9pm. Tim Guinee, Marbletown resident, actor will lead a slideshow and panel discussion of the latest science regarding climate change in our area and across North America. Co-sponsored by Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission and the Rondout Valley Permaculture Meetup. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. (406) 686-6067. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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Every other Thursday, 6-7pm. Led by Sabra Margaret, Reiki Master and intuitive. All ages. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771. HEALTH & WELLNESS Resilience–Gifts of Adversity: Free Holistic Self-Care Class
7-8:30pm. Resilience is what we discover as we cycle through the stages of transformation and growth that reveal our gifts and challenges. Join Meagan Lara Shapiro to learn more. Wear comfortable clothes. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org. MUSIC The Amish Outlaws
8pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Andy Stack’s American Soup
8pm. Decades of American classics. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. First Thursday Singer Songwriter Series hosted by Maureen and Don Black
6-9:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
FRIDAY 5
1-7pm. The Friends of Esopus Library are hosting a unique book sale of over 1,000 volumes; all vintage, first editions and many signed by author. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Jamie Cat Callan on Parisian Charm
5-7pm. Jamie Cat Callan launches her new book, Parisian Charm School: French Secrets for Cultivating Love, Joy, and That Certain je ne sais quoi, The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. 518-392-3005.
Spaghetti Dinner - Fundraiser for Boy Scouts of Troop 8
5-8pm. Sawkill Firehouse, Kingston. 750-9924.
8pm. $10. American roots. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Rabbbits in Delusionville
8pm. Rock opera by POPaganda artists Ron English. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Singer-Songwriter Heather Masses
7pm. $18. Accompanied by a string quartet that includes: Megan Gugliotta, violin; Megan Gould, violin; Andrew Borkowski, cello; Scot Moore, viola. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. Slam Allen
9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS First Saturday Reception
MUSIC The Chain Gang
THEATER
8pm. Classic rock. La Puerta Azul, Salt Point. 677-2985.
God of Carnage
Cuboricua Salsa Band!
8pm. Latin dance party. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Drew Bordeaux
9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Grayson Hugh and the Moon Hawks
8pm. $15-$20. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. THEATER God of Carnage
8pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Four-Week Swing Dance Class
$85. With Linda and Chester Freeman. Beginner session 6pm-7pm, intermediate session 7pm-8pm. Maximum Fitness, Newburgh. 236-3939.
SATURDAY 6
Nonprofits TALK
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Michael Francis McCarthy
5-8pm. ASK’s monthly art opening. Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
First Friday of every month, 8:30-10am. Nonprofits TALK is a monthly facilitated conversation on selected nonprofit topics with the nonprofit community. We invite executive directors, staff, and board members to exchange ideas, discuss solutions and identify resources. Hosted by the Hudson Valley Sustainable Leadership Organization (HV SLO). The Pivot Ground Cafe & Work Space, Kingston. 481-0459.
8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
ART Why Not Both?
1-9pm. Felix Oliveri's newfound stryle of street art, combinig old school traditional fine arts. Broadway Arts, Kingston. 417-6825. DANCE Swing into the New Year Swing Dance
7:30-10:30pm. $15. Includes basic lesson at 7:30-8pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Music by the Swing Shift Orchestra. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 236-3939.
3pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Next to Normal
8pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES 2018 Kakizome
2-4pm. Kakizome, which translates to “first writing,” takes place within the first few days of each new year. Traditionally people would use calligraphy to write poems that expressed their hopes and aspirations for the coming year. The poems were later burned, as if to seal the fate of the hope, a practice reminiscent of blowing out candles on a birthday cake after making a wish. Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222. Instruction on How to Follow a Buddhist Path within Day to Day Life
2:30pm. $25. Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery, Wappingers Falls. 297-2500. Kingston Clay Day
2-4pm. $25. Guests of all ages/abilities can play with clay on Kingston’s First Saturday! Kingston Ceramics Studio, Kingston. 331-2078. Repair Cafe: Esopus
10am-1pm. A community meeting place to get stuff fixed for free. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 340-1293.
SUNDAY 7 FILM Lon Chaney: Laugh, Clown, Laugh
2pm. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. HEALTH & WELLNESS
Beginner’s Yoga 4-Part Series with Barbara Eichin
1-2:15pm. $75. A gentle introduction to yoga. Rainbow Body Yoga, Red Hook. (518) 965-9566.
ART "LUCKY 13"
Pictured (l-r): Kirsten Lyon, Erica Caginalp, Herman Roggeman, Pamela Zaremba, Gary Jacketti, Carla Goldberg, Russell Ritell Not pictured: Joan Phares, Julie Jacobs, Grey Zeien and Melissa Schlobhom
Risk-Takers Anonymous “Just take a risk!” says artist Joan Phares, explaining the philosophy of BAU, the Beacon Artist Union. Artist cooperatives have a reputation for celebrating mediocrity, but BAU is different. Members encourage one another to experiment with unfamiliar artforms. Twice a year, the gallery presents group shows, to which all the artists contribute new work. Offering assignments, inspiring risk, BAU is like a school without teachers. “It’s the kind of interaction that keeps you growing, whether you like it or not,” observes Phares. Their ethos has succeeded; BAU is now the oldest gallery in Beacon. To celebrate the completion of their 13th year, the members chose “Lucky 13” as the theme of a group exhibition. Coincidentally, there are now 13 artists in the group—and the show opens January 13! BAU is not an art movement; no one genre predominates. The artists range in age from 27 to 68. They take on a new member only when someone leaves. “I’ve been a member of a lot of different [artist] co-ops; this one is different,” remarks mixed-media artist Carla Goldberg. “This one really makes you up your game.” There are three sections to the gallery. The front room is usually reserved for a solo show; behind that is the BAU Store, where all the member artists are represented. In the rear is the Beacon Room, which features a guest artist; this month it’s Aine Gunn, a 15-year-old Beacon High School sophomore who creates wool animals on bendable wire frames, such as a smug-looking goat playing the banjo. No one censors the solo shows. “The artists are really in charge of their own space,” says founding member Gary Jacketti. “If they want it open 24/7 for 30 days and sell candy cigarettes, that’s totally up to them.” Generally, the artists are present during their exhibitions, spying on the patrons, who don’t expect a sculptor to be sitting behind a desk in an art gallery. “You really learn a lot about your work, and how it’s perceived,
when you gallery-sit,” remarks Phares. “Lucky 13” means that an apparently ill omen is actually fortuitous. An optimist might say we live in a Lucky 13 moment, when the “bad news” of President Trump has sparked creative resistance in such unlikely quarters as the NFL, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” and… Alabama. But such a theme is particularly tricky for artists. Luck is an elusive, immaterial force. How to depict it with pigment or clay? “The last couple of nights, that’s been the last thing I’ve been thinking about as I’m going to sleep: 'Lucky 13! What am I going to do?'" admits Goldberg. Phares often creates installations with disused doll parts. “For this 'Lucky 13' one, I just used a doll head that I’ve been saving for a long time, found a couple of arms, cut up a few dollar bills, stuck them in her head, and she’s ready to rock 'n' roll!” she recounts. The dollars are not immediately recognizable—they resemble wiry hair. But once you look closely, the idea registers: Luck means money sprouting out of your head. The creature holds a stencil for the number 1 in her right hand, and the number 3 in her left. At the point I interviewed Phares, the piece’s working title was Saint Trifecta. Julie Jacobs and Melissa Schlobohm produced Haunt, a black-and-white photograph of a young woman wearing a nightgown and cradling a teddy bear. Behind her, in a twilit field, stands a man in a rabbit suit, paws raised to chest. Haunt could be the result of childhood trauma inflicted by the Easter Bunny. As of press time, the rest of the artists were still thinking. “Lucky 13” will appear at the BAU Gallery in Beacon from January 13-February 4. (845) 440-7584; Baugallery.com. —Sparrow 1/18 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 75
KIDS & FAMILY
MUSIC
Brrr! It’s Cold Outside
Greg Kihn’s 80s
10am. $3-$7. Learn all about the physical and behavioral adaptations animals use in the winter. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. LECTURES & TALKS Thomas Cole: On Paper
2pm. Nicholas Robbins, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, Yale University. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465. LITERARY & BOOKS Get Lit Beacon
5-7pm. Get Lit Beacon is a literary salon. Published and aspiring writers alike can share 5 minutes of their work or just listen and socialize with a lit-friendly crowd. The monthly event is open to adult writers of all levels. Oak Vino Wine Bar, Beacon. (845)750-9080. MUSIC
Kristen Capolino’s Second Thursdays
7pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Jazz Sessions at The Falcon Underground
7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. THEATER
8pm. Classic guitar rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Open Mike Night with Jeff Entin
7-9:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. THEATER Newsies Jr. Auditions
4-6:30pm. For ages 8-18. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Newsies Jr. Auditions
4-6:30pm. For ages 8-18. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Four-Week Beginner Swing Dance Class
6-7pm. $85. With Linda and Chester Freeman. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.
FRIDAY 12 DANCE Cajun Dance with the Bunkhouse Boys
7-11pm. $15/$10 with FT student ID. 7pm free beginners’ lesson, 8pm dance, beginners welcome. No partner necessary. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 388-7048.
Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis
11am. Swing blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER Next to Normal
8pm. $35-$48. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. FAIRS & FESTIVALS
12-1pm. $15. Learn to use the principles of the Alexander Technique. Good for all ability levels. MaMa, Stone Ridge. 917-373-6151.
Beacon Second Saturday
MONDAY 8 MUSIC
LECTURES & TALKS Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk
7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556. LITERARY & BOOKS Morton Book Club Discussion: Hillbilly Elegy
6:30-7:30pm. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Four-Week Beginner Swing Dance Class
7-8pm. $85. With Linda and Chester Freeman. Elks Lodge, Beacon. 8458319746.
WEDNESDAY 10 HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast Cancer Support Group
2-3:30pm. Peer led support group by Breast Cancer Options, a local non-profit organization. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 339-4673. LITERARY & BOOKS Poetry Reading: Gabriel Fried The Children Are Reading
6-8pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 789-0055. CHRONOGRAM.COM
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12:30-1:30pm. All Abilities is a program on alternate Fridays for adults with special needs. Join us in the library’s Community Room for an hour of creative fun in art and science. Our specific activities varies each session. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Bobby Collins
Mindful Movement Class (monthly)
TUESDAY 9
All Abilties
COMEDY
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
6-7pm. $85. With Linda and Chester Freeman. Intermediate and advanced lessons also available. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 236-3939.
3pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
SATURDAY 13
3pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Four-Week Swing Dance Class
Next to Normal
9:30am-12:30pm. $150. Weekly through Feb. 16. Learn to paint in watercolor, acrylics or oils at instructor’s studio. Taught by local artist, Mira Fink. Mira Fink’s Studio, Hurley. 338-6503.
8pm. World music jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
8pm. 8pm. $15-$20. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. THEATER
Painting Class for Adults
Lena Bloch & Feathery
Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals
Porter Carroll Jr With Wali Ali & The Tambourine Band
7-8pm. $20. Happy Hour with Ali Verdicchio is a fun and energetic Vinyasa flow class set to varying musical playlists each month. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
7-9:30pm. $20-$35. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8-10pm. $45/$60/$70. The Grammynominated Plain White T’s—composed of Tom Higgenson, Tim Lopez, Dave Trio, De’Mar Hamilton and Mike Retondo. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
Happy Hour Yoga
All About Elvis: Multi-Media Presentation & Live Concert featuring Rex and the Rockabilly Kings
Albert Lee & Band
Plain White T’s
Big Night at Upstate Films/Cucina Released to mouthwatering acclaim in 1996, Big Night, costarring and codirected by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott, is a culinary comedy classic. On January 14 at 3:30pm, to celebrate this fabulous film of food and fun, Upstate Films in Woodstock will present a special screening of the movie followed by a scrumptious dinner at nearby restaurant Cucina prepared by the eatery’s owner, Gianni Scappin—who also happens to be the award-winning chef who designed the meals in Big Night. The film also stars Tony Shalhoub, Ian Holm, Isabella Rosselini, Allison Janney, Minnie Driver, and Liev Schreiber. The film’s writer, Joe Tropiano, will be in attendance for the screening and dinner. Tickets are $75. Upstatefilms.org.
Second Saturday of every month. Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. Beaconarts.org Downtown Beacon, Beacon. FILM The Opera House
12:45-3pm. General $14 / Members $12. A New Documentary that Charts a Momentous Period of Change for The Met and New York City in the 50s and 60s. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. HEALTH & WELLNESS Metastatic Breast Cancer Support Group
THURSDAY 11 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting
Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640. Path to Entrepreneurship Program: Woodbury
6-8pm. Do You Have What it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur? Pre-registration is required. Woodbury Public Library, Highland Mills. 363-6432. COMEDY Colin Quinn: One in Every Crowd
8pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Comics at The Underground
Dances of Universal Peace
7-9pm. Come join us in these challenging times. Using sacred phrases, chants, music and movements from many different spiritual traditions, we cultivate joy, peace, and integration within ourselves, in our communities, and in the greater world. Dances taught by certified leaders. Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, Hudson. (518) 828-1034. HEALTH & WELLNESS Introductory Evening on the Havening Techniques
6-8pm. Join us for a free introductory evening about Havening Techniques, a fast but gentle approach to disarm traumatic memory. Center For Symbolic Studies, New Paltz. 658-8083.
12-1:30pm. Peer led support group by Breast Cancer Options, a local non-profit organization serving the Hudson Valley. Christ the King Church, New Paltz. 339-4673. Shoulder Opening & Strengthening with Charles Matkin
4-5:30pm. $40. Working with Asana, Pranayama, and Guided Imagery to tap into the more gentle techniques for the shoulders that Yoga offers to heal on both the physical and emotional levels. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444. KIDS & FAMILY StarLab: Indoor Planetarium
10, 11:30am & 1pm. $12/$8 memebrs. Registration required. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. MUSIC The Acquaintances
8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
MUSIC
HEALTH & WELLNESS
8pm. Classical soul. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8-11pm. Jeff Entin, Bob Blum, and Larry Balestra play a variety of songs and instrumental pieces. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Gina Chavez
Blue in Green Jazz Quartet
Hurley Mountain Highway
The Crossroads Band
9pm. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
8:30pm. Rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012.
The Julie Corbalis Band
Damn the Torpedoes: A Tribute to Tom Petty and Heartbrakers
Breast Cancer Support Group
6-7:30pm. Peer led support group by Breast Cancer Options, a local non-profit organization serving the Hudson Valley with free support and education services. T 84 Greene Street, Hudson. 339-4673. Yoga Holiday Survival Series
6-7:15pm. $45 for all 4 classes/$15 per class. Zephyr Float, Kingston. 853-2400. MUSIC Calico
7pm. $10-$15. Country. Colony Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-7625. Gil Parris Picks the Hits: Hendri, Santana, Beck, Blues and Beyond
8pm. $10-$15. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Abraham & the Groove
8pm. Latin pop. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
9:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Leon Parker’s Embodijazz Ensemble
8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Ominous Seapods
8pm. $22/$27. Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes. (800) 745-3000.
7pm. Jazz. Denning’s Point Distillery, Beacon. Denningspointdistillery.com/.
8pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Dave Kearney
8-11pm. $5. A.I.R. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Gary Solomon Plays Dylan
8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
ART THE ART EFFECT
Clockwise from top: Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro joined The Art Effect staff and supporters for the ribbon cutting in Poughkeepsie on December 15; Yan Lam Ko painting at the 2017 Summer Art Institute; Matthew Hamilton, a participant in the DROP TV summer program.
Feel the Art Effect Can two revered nonprofits consolidate resources, merge visions, and become one? It’s entirely possible, with the right kind of support. Just ask the folks behind the Art Effect, a newly reimagined merger between Poughkeepsie’s Mill Street Loft Arts and Spark Media Project with executive director and Hudson Valley native Nicole FenichelHewitt at its helm. Launched in 1981 and 1994, respectively, Mill Street Loft and Spark Media Project (formerly known as Children’s Media Project) share many of the same goals, including youth empowerment, personal and professional development, and healing through the arts. Carole J. Wolf, Mill Street Loft’s founder and executive director for more than 30 years, says the fusion was a no-brainer—and years in the making. “I gave this project its roots,” Wolf recalls. “Now Nicole is giving it its wings, and it’s flying!” Students and community members can expect much of the same programming and community outreach from the Art Effect, Fenichel-Hewitt says, including popular programs like the Art Institute. Founded in 1996, the pre-college portfolio review program has helped students over the years win more than $42 million in merit-based scholarships toward higher education in the arts. In 2017 alone, the group’s beloved Dutchess Arts Camp provided some $25,000 in scholarships for children from low-income families to participate in the annual arts summer camp. Likewise, both Mill Street Loft and Spark Media Project hosted more than 1,000 guests at its 2017 events, including numerous art exhibitions and the fifth annual Reel Expressions teen film festival. More than 150 individuals were served at Arts for Healing, the organization’s art therapy program. “Our goal has always been to
make a big impact, both in Poughkeepsie and in the Hudson Valley,” Fenichel-Hewitt says. “We’re figuring out a lot of plans to keep growing and serving more students, and have more students access college and careers through our work. It’s a very exciting time for us!” Though the merger was a natural progression, the steps to carry out the fusion weren’t taken lightly. Wolf, Fenichel-Hewitt, and Spark Media Project founder Maria Marewski sought help from top-notch legal experts at the National Council on Nonprofits, generous funding from the Dyson Foundation in Millbrook, and support from both organizations’ respective boards of directors, who approved the merger unanimously. “The boards will merge as one in 2018,” Wolf explains. “I think this will be a good example for our community. There should be more opportunities for nonprofits to merge together.” The joint organization’s new name, however, was a little more contentious. Both organizations formed a committee dedicated to naming the new nonprofit. The Art Effect was a popular choice, Wolf and Fenichel-Hewitt recall. On one hand, the name sounds almost like the word artifact, which team members from both ends liked. On the other hand, it speaks to the organization’s goal to inspire, educate, and spark positive change through the arts. “And, it grows on you!” Fenichel-Hewitt says with a laugh. The Art Effect’s “Senior Project Exhibition” is currently on display in Wolf’s namesake gallery and will run through January 9. The organization’s next exhibition, “Teen Visions,” opens on January 11 and will be on display through the beginning of February. (845) 471-7477; Feelthearteffect.org. —Samantha Manzanella 1/18 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 77
Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew
8pm. $15. Cajun. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
TUESDAY 16
MUSIC Bluegrass Brunch: Too Blue
HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Putnam
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Kurt Henry Parlour Band
noon. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
War
Damn the Torpedoes: A Tribute to Tom Petty and Heartbrakers
1-2:30pm. Are you caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease? You don’t have to face it alone. Christ’s Lutheran Church, Woodstock. (800) 272-3900.
7:30pm. Singer-songwriter. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. 8pm. $34.50-$44.50. Lonnie Jordan, original lead singer, keyboardist and musical director brings the legendary band WAR and its signature mix of funk, jazz, R&B and rock & roll to the stage for an evening of classics. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
7pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Sudbury Open House
4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
8pm. Pop treasures jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Piano Festial: Anna Polonsky/Orion Weiss
Agatha Christie’s “A Murder is Announced”
7-9pm. Presented by Coach House Players. Hudson Valley Senior Residence, Kingston. Coachhouseplayers.org.
MET Live in HD: Ades’ the Exterminating Angel
1pm. $28/$26 members/$20 children. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
8pm. Folk jazz from the Imaginary Pannonia. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions
7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. THEATER
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Instruction on How to Follow a Buddhist Path within Day to Day Life
Agatha Christie’s “A Murder is Announced”
2:30pm. $25. Taught by Ms. Katrin Querl an expert in the Tibetan language, exceedingly rare combination of advanced degrees from both premiere Western Universities and from the traditional, Tibetan Buddhist Monastic system. Katrin has served as a lecturer in Tibetan language courses at Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich and at the Drikung Garchen Institute. Also, available to participate online. Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery, Wappingers Falls. 297-2500.
7-9pm. Presented by Coach House Players. Hudson Valley Senior Residence, Kingston. Coachhouseplayers.org.
THURSDAY 18 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Tarot Club
6-7pm. Tarot club will be led by Sabra Margaret. Sabra is a Reiki Master and intuitive. All ages. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771. LITERARY & BOOKS
MLK Jr. Day of Giving
1-3pm. Give thanks by giving back. Join Bard Center for Civic Engagement and Red Hook Public Library for a variety of fun projects designed for giving to friends, community heroes, and those in need. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
Non-Fiction Book Group
Repair Cafe: Poughgkeepsie
SUNDAY 14 DANCE HVCD Swing Dance
$12/$8 FT students. Big Joe Fitz brings big talent. Beginners’ swing lesson 3:00pm3:30pm. Dance from 3:30pm-6pm. No partner necessary. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. Hvcd.dance. FILM Rebels on Pointe
2pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. A documentary film about the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the riotous allmale comic ballet troupe. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. LECTURES & TALKS YOGA: The Secret of Life—The Photographic Process
1-2:30pm. General $14 / Members $12. In this lecture Francesco Mastalia will introduce the audience to the equipment and explain this fascinating process in depth, and will explain how the technique impacts the final images and informs his creative process. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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6-8pm. Author and historian David B. Woolner will present his revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. MUSIC
Josh Deutsch’s Pannonia
God of Carnage
4-5:30pm. $25. In this workshop we will work with Asana, Pranayama, and Guided Imagery to tap into the more gentle techniques for the shoulders that Yoga offers to heal on both the physical and emotional levels. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
David B. Woolner: The Last 100 Days
7pm. $25-$35. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
3pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Shoulder Opening & Strengthening Workshop with Charles Matkin
6-7:30pm. Peer led support group with chair massage provided by Breast Cancer Options, a local non-profit organization serving the Hudson Valley with free support and education services. St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Cornwall. 339-4673. LITERARY & BOOKS
Graham Bonnet Band
Next to Normal
9am-noon. Expert and friendly repair for all kinds of items. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. Repaircafehv.org.
7pm. Support Connection, Inc., a notfor-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer, offers a Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. (800) 532-4290. Breast Cancer Support Group
THEATER
Maike Schulz
1-4pm. HVSS Open Houses are the best way to begin to get to know the school. . Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston. 679-1002. THEATER
The Hazelrigg Brothers
Alzheimer’s Support Group
Bindlestiff Family Circus Monthly Winter Cabaret Established in Brooklyn circa 1995 and based in Hudson since 2006, the Bindlestiff Family Circus is led by performers Stephanie Rousseau and Keith Nelson, who corral a quirky, colorful cornucopia of clowns, acrobats, musicians, magicians, and cabaret, vaudeville, burlesque, and sideshow artists. Each winter, the circus presents a changing, dynamic roster of visiting acts over four shows at their hometown venue Club Helsinki. Rooted in New York’s Downtown club and performance art scene, the Bindlestiffs are renowned for their risqué programming—yet each winter’s residency also includes a family-geared Sunday matinee. January 20, February 17, March 17; family matinee on March 18. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com. THEATER
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
God of Carnage
Unwind with Melia Marzollo
3pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
7:15-8:30pm. $20. Unwind is a myofascial release class that restores range of motion, relieves pains and removes blockages by stimulating the bones using a gentle, air filled ball with gravity doing most of the “work.” SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Embellish and Repair: The Art of Mending
1-4pm. $75. Our well-worn garments don’t have to be disposable. During this three hour class you will learn how to both repair beloved but timeworn clothing and refresh items asking for customization. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. (518) 545-4028.
MONDAY 15 MUSIC Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals
7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030. Neko Case
7pm. $34.50-$44.50. Indie rock and altcountry. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. THEATER Agatha Christie’s “A Murder is Announced”
7-9pm. Presented by Coach House Players. Hudson Valley Senior Residence, Kingston. Coachhouseplayers.org.
WEDNESDAY 17 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Resolve to Own a Business: Build, Buy or Franchise?
6-8pm. $10. Time to act on that entrepreneurial instinct? Find out, by joining WEDC for an informational seminar for women who are aspiring or current business owners, semi-retirees, veterans, execs-in-transition, and others. Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432. FILM The Opera House
6:30-8:30pm. General $14 / Members $12. A New Documentary that Charts a Momentous Period of Change for The Met and New York City in the 50’s and 60’s from Director, Susan Froemke. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
6-7:30pm. A new nonfiction book group focused on history and social and political life in North America. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792. MUSIC bigBANG
7pm. Large ensemble jazz. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Funky Dawgz Brass Band
8-10pm. $20/$25. A contagious upbeat mix of traditional New Orleans R&B, original music, hip hop, funk, and today’s top hits with a brass twist. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. The Nerds
8pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Portraits
8pm. $60. Featuring former Rolling Stones sax player Crispin. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Library Knitters
Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FRIDAY 19 HEALTH & WELLNESS Sound Healing & Tibetan Singing Bowls
7:30-8:30pm. $25. Michelle Clifton will play the singing bowls and awaken our bodies’ own innate healing abilities and re-tune our bodies. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444. MUSIC Blue Oyster Cult
8-10pm. $25/$35/$55. Hard rock and heavy metal. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. David Kraai with Josh Roy Brown
8-11pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Josh Roy Brown on lap steel/ The New York Resturant, Catskill. (518) 943-5500. Julie Corbalis & Bryan Gordon Duo
9:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Virtuoso Spanish Pianist Leonel Morales
7pm. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-4423.
PHOTOGRAPHY “KENRO IZU: SACRED PLACES”
Picture Perfect Three years ago, as the rent was soaring in his longtime Chelsea studio, food photographer Aaron Rezny took the plunge and bought an industrial brick building in Midtown Kingston. He subsequently renovated it and moved his photography business up to the facility in 2016. Besides saving money on rent, his new location at 76 Prince Street has brought other advantages. It’s three times as big as his old location—5,000 square feet on the sprawling, light-filled first floor, with an additional 2,000 square feet in a half-completed residential loft upstairs—enabling him to create his dream studio. There are four digital stations for his photography, each equipped with a large-format -view camera, which enables him to work on several set-ups at once; an industrial kitchen, including six ovens and multiple fridges and freezers; room to accommodate workers or clients who journey up from New York if need be; and a photography gallery. “I’ve maintained my client base and brought in new ones,” says Rezny, who resides in Woodstock. “I’ve lowered my overhead, and my clients feel like they’re on vacation when they come up here.” His costs, from buying coffee to treating his staff and clients to restaurant meals to the electricity bill, are significantly less than before—and no one has to fight gridlock to get here. One of his first significant projects since the move was doing all the photography for the global rebranding of Gerber baby food. Over the course of nine months, Rezny did all the shooting, as well as the post-production work, in his new Kingston space. The client “loved being in Kingston,” he says. Rezny worked with a staff of 10, including his longtime assistant Ward Yoshimoto, who traveled up from his home in Brooklyn. (Rezny hires locally as well. Yet another advantage of the new location is that so many people he works with in the city have homes in the Hudson Valley.) Initially the move to Kingston seemed risky, given the building’s deterioration and lackluster location. Built in the 1890s, it had been used most recently as a warehouse. The facade was covered in blue siding, and a low suspended ceiling on the first floor hid the stunning wooden truss work, which is now exposed and imbues the space with drama and warmth. Boarded-up windows and skylights were opened up and more windows added, along with a multi-paned garage door in the back of the building. The concrete floor was buffed to a smooth, slate-like finish, and architect Christopher Richartz of Studio ARKH shifted the front entrance to the side of the building, so that visitors enter via an intimate, patio-like alleyway past colorful graffiti Rezny has preserved on the exterior brick wall (he hopes to have local graffiti artists update the art periodically). Rezny set up his first darkroom at age 12. He grew up in Brooklyn, attended the High School of Art and Design, and started working as a photographer’s assistant after graduating from the School of Visual Arts. His roster of clients includes Duncan Hines, Kellogg’s, and other leading food brands and his photographs have been published in national consumer magazines, including Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and New York magazine. In 2009, when the economic collapse caused a lull in his business, he began shooting the food of his youth—bagels, knishes, gefilte fish, blintzes, and other staples of Jewish food—just as the Jewish delis were vanishing from the city. Partnering with his longtime colleague Jordan Schaps, former director of photography at New York magazine, the project evolved into the book Eating Delancey: A Celebration of Jewish Food (Powerhouse Books, 2014), with an introduction by Joan Rivers; Lou Reed, Don Rickles, Milton Glaser, Itzhak Perlman, and Bette Midler are among the other eminences contributing reminiscences. The book was reviewed in the New York Times, and its success has inspired Rezny to photograph other subjects of personal interest, including the game pieces of his childhood, obsolete objects (payphones, typewriters, subway tokens, and the like) and artifacts of the Holocaust—a topic that’s particularly close to his heart, given that his parents, who were born in Poland, were both Holocaust survivors. He plans to eventually publish his photos in a book with the working title Survive. More than just a workspace, Rezny’s building is also an integral part of the emerging Midtown arts community, thanks to the opening of his gallery in mid-December with a show of photographs by Rhinebeck-based photographer Kenro Izu. On view through the end of January, the exhibition is a collaboration with the Center for Photography at Woodstock. CPW Executive Director Hannah Frieser curated the show, which also includes works by other photographers. Howard Greenberg, a childhood friend of Rezny’s who founded CPW and runs a gallery on 57th Street, represents Izu; the Kingston show is the first of many collaborations Rezny plans to have with CPW and Greenberg’s gallery. “I’m glad I trusted my instinct with this building,” Rezny says, noting that Midtown Kingston reminds him of SoHo in the late 1970s and early 1980s. “The transition has been phenomenal, lifestyle-wise. From the services, restaurants, and caterers to the mayor’s office and local planning board, we’ve just been embraced by Kingston. I love being here.” “Kenro Izu: Sacred Places” at 76 Prince Street, Kingston, is open through January 31. Hours are Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 pm or by appointment. A talk by artist Kenro Izu and gallerist Howard Greenberg will take place on January 14 at 2pm. (212) 691-1894. —Lynn Woods
Top: Kenro Izu, Hampi No. 15, India, 1996, from the series “Sacred Places” Middle: Photographer Aaron Rezny, gallerist Howard Greenberg, and Center for Photography at Woodstock Executive Director Hannah Frieser at the opening reception. Bottom: The renovated interior at 76 Prince Street, Kingston, home of Aaron Rezny's photo studio.
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Max Weinberg’s Jukebox
Rhapsody in Blue
Mister Oh!
2pm. West Point Concert Band plays George Gershwin’s quintessentially American piano concerto. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.
8pm. $35-$58. Rock. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. 8:30-11pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. A Night of Country with Charles “Chip” Esten
8pm. $75. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Pousette-Dart Band
HoneybeeLives Organic Beekeeping Class
10am-6pm. $200. This two-day class introduces students to Organic/Natural
Sarah Guthrie in Concert
Beekeeping with a Biodynamic influence.
7:30-9pm. $15. Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack. 358-0877.
A philosophy of care is imparted, as well
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
starting hives in the spring. Learn a gentle
8pm. $20-$30. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
8pm. $29-$49/$99-$149 VIP. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Rachael & Vilray
The Lords of 52nd Street
9pm. Vintage, mid-20th century jazzy pop sounds. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
8pm. $38. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
as practical knowledge in preparation for way to tend honeybees while respecting their instincts and understanding their complex and beautiful lives. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Swap Meet & Warehouse Sale
10am-3pm. Motorcyclepedia, Newburgh. 569-9065. THEATER
Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
2pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Next to Normal
3pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Wholecloth Quilt
11am-3:30pm. $100. Learn to make a simple and stylish hand stitched wholecloth quilt from start to finish quilt. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. (518) 545-4028.
Nora Jane Struthers
8pm. $18. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233x158. Singer-Songwriter Showcase
8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
MONDAY 22 MUSIC Broadway Sings Stevie Wonder
7:30pm. $40. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Introductory Session for Prospective Parents
9-11am. Join us to learn more about Waldorf Education. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 302. THEATER
TUESDAY 23 FILM Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney at The Royal Academy of Arts
Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
8pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
7-8:30pm. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022.
Ephraim Asili Inheritance: Work-in-Progress
7pm. Hudson Valley filmmaker Ephraim Asili will offer a first look at his feature film, Inheritance, which he is developing in residence at EMPAC. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921. LITERARY & BOOKS
God of Carnage
8pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Jamie Cat Callan:Parisian Charm School
6-8pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 789-0500.
Sound Healing with Michelle Clifton
7:30-8:30pm. $30/$25 in advance. Sound Healing is one blissful and nurturing evening with Sound Healer and Massage Therapist Michelle Clifton. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
WEDNESDAY 24 MUSIC Greensky Bluegrass with special guest Billy Strings
SATURDAY 20 BUSINESS & NETWORKING
7pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
QuickBooks Online (QBO) Essentials
Poet Gold’s Poelodies
9am-4pm. $29.95. Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432. KIDS & FAMILY Close Encounters With Birds of Prey
6-8pm. $15/$10 members. Using five to seven live birds, the Delaware Valley Raptor Center will introduce you to the fascinating world of raptors. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. LECTURES & TALKS What’s Happening? A Lecture by Marc Newkirk
1:30-4:30pm. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. Rvhhc.org. MUSIC Carolyn Wonderland
8pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Crossroads Band
8:30pm. Rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. David Kraai with Chris Macchia
8-11pm. David Kraai swings by this excellent bar to dole out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Chris Macchia slapping that upright country bass. Station Bar & Curio, Woodstock. 810-0203. Deadgrass
Union Grove Distillery Opened in the Delaware County hamlet of Arkville in 2016, Union Grove Distillery is one of the Catskills’ leading distillers of craft vodka, bourbon, whiskey, rye whiskey, and other spirits. With daily free tours and tastings, the rustic distillery is located on the former site of Union Grove, a town claimed by the pure waters of the adjacent Pepacton Reservoir during its 1950s creation. Visitors can purchase a bottle of Union Grove’s award-winning Vly Creek Vodka or relax with a cocktail by the wood-burning fire and copper-top bar while their little ones play in the kids’ room. (845) 586-6300; Uniongrovedistillery.com. The Weeklings: A Beatles Inspired Performance
8pm. $15-$25. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. THEATER Bindlestiff Cirkus Monthly Winter Cabaret
9pm. Each month this winter, Bindlestiff Cirkus will bring a new lineup, with acts including trapeze, contortion, acrobatic balance, sword swallowing, juggling, physical comedy, and oddball novelty turns. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
8pm. Music of Jerry Garcia. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER
Hudson Crossing Bluegrass Band
3pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
8-11pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Quindar
8pm. Work in progress music and film. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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God of Carnage
Next to Normal
8pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
8pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Repair Cafe: New Paltz
10am-2pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired by an expert who is also your neighbor. 10am-2pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired by an expert who is also your neighbor. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835. Repair Cafe: Warwick
10am-2pm. Encouraging frugality, ingenuity, and the appreciation of everyday objects. Senior Center at Warwick Town Hall, Warwick. 544-1056. Shibori Surface Design
1-5:30pm. $115. This workshop is ideal for anyone with intro shibori and indigo knowledge who want to go deeper into the technique. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. (518) 545-4028.
SUNDAY 21 FILM Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo & Juliet
12:45-3:45pm. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. MUSIC Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band
5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Gypsy Jazz Brunch: Mandology
noon. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Rodney Green & Camden Chronicles
8pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
7pm. Spoken word hip hop. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Tenores de Aterúe
8pm. Songs of Sardinia & Corsica. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Ventures
7pm. $25-$35. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
THURSDAY 25 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Path to Entrepreneurship Program: Poughkeepsie
6-8pm. Do You Have What it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur? 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. Pre-registration is required. Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, Poughkeepsie. 363-6432. COMEDY The Comics at The Underground
8pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. HEALTH & WELLNESS
The New Year, New You Wellness Workshop
7-8:30pm. $327/$247 book by Dec 27/$287 book by Jan 15. With award-winning author & health coach Marika Blossfeldt. Marika’s Kitchen, Beacon. (646) 241-8478. LITERARY & BOOKS Scott Spencer reads from The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
6-8pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. MUSIC Brandy Clark
8pm. $40. Nashville singer/songwriter. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Rachel Yamagata
8pm. $20-$25. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
FRIDAY 26 DANCE Dance to Professor Cunningham and his Old School
8-11pm. $15/$10 FT students. Swing dance. Recreate the golden era of Jazz! No partner needed. Beginner’s swing dance lesson 8pm to 8:30 pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120. MUSIC Scottish Weekend at Mohonk Mt. House
Call for times. Award-winning musicians, concerts, dancing, and more. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (844) 859-6716. The Ivan Poanco Trio
10pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Men Without Hats
8-10pm. $25/$35/$50. '80s pop. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters
8pm. $25-$40. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
The Kurt Henry Parlour Band
7:30pm. Singer-songwriter. American Glory BBQ, Hudson. (518) 822-1234. The Reveries Play Dead
8pm. Tribute to the Dead. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970. Richie & Rosie
8pm. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. OPEN HOUSES Simon's Rock Discovery Day
Check web for times. Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington. Simons-rock.edu. OUTDOORS & RECREATION Powder for Pups
11am-3pm. $30. Pets Alive is hosting a fun day of snow tubing at Holiday Mountain to benefit the animals at Pets Alive! Holiday Mountain, Monticello. 386-9738.
Beeswax: Production, Collection, Processing, and Uses
MUSIC
HoneybeeLives Organic Beekeeping Class
5-7pm. $10. Movement is the medicine and metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures/age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness,awareness into action. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
1-3pm. $35/$25 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. 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. Repair Cafe: Woodstock
10am-2pm. In the heart of Woodstock, hosted by Woodstock Transition NY. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock. Repaircafehv.org. Repair Cafe: Wurtsboro
11am-3pm. Bring an item for repair and check out a book while you’re there. Mamakating Library, Wurtsboro. 888-8004.
T-Ray & the Bros’ Groove
5 Rhythms
Live Dead + Riders ‘69
7pm. $35-$55. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Mid Hudson Women’s Chorus Open Rehearsals
7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030. Music From China: East Meets West
3pm. $10. Contemporary works for Chinese and Western instruments. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
8pm. Funk. 8pm. Funk. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Open Mike with Featured Act Kurt Henry & Cheryl Lambert
An Evening with Tinsley Ellis
2pm. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791.
8pm. $18. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233x158.
Piano Festival: Roman Rabinovitch
Terrapin
4pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
7:30pm. $25. Featuring former Rolling Stones sax player Crispin Cioe. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. THEATER
Times Square: Classic A Cappella Doo Wop
11am. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Next to Normal
8pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
SPIRIT
Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
1-1:45pm. Lecture series presented by Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton. Rhinebeck Reformed Church, Rhinebeck. 876-3727.
Mysticism in the Christian Tradition
8pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
THEATER God of Carnage
3pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
All Abilties
12:30-1:30pm. All Abilities is a program on alternate Fridays for adults with special needs. Join us in the library’s Community Room for an hour of creative fun in art and science. Our specific activities varies each session. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
SATURDAY 27 COMEDY Judy Gold and Bruce Villanch Big and Tall
8pm. $37.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. FILM
Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
Zadock Pratt Museum Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Zadock Pratt Museum is the storied home of patriot, tanner, and US Congressman Zadock Pratt Jr. (1790-1871). Located in Prattsville—the town Pratt founded in 1824—the two-story, five-bay, Federal-style house was built in 1828 and opened as a museum dedicated to exhibiting the history and culture of the Northern Catskill Region in 1959. Although Hurricane Irene damaged the site and much of its collection of original papers and furniture in 2011, the home has since been restored and reopened for curated period exhibits, guided tours, and special events. (518) 299-3395; Zadockprattmuseum.com.
Met Live: Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca"
12:45-3:45pm. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. FOOD & WINE Hudson Valley Wingfest 11
4-9pm. $30-$100. Who will be the king of the wings? In it’s 11th season, Hudson Valley Wingfest is sure to be the fiercest competition yet. HV Wingfest 11 will bring together the best wings from around the Hudson Valley along with live music, cold beer and more. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. MUSIC Alicia Hall Moran
8pm. Work in progress alt-opera. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. 2018 Winter Warm-Up
THEATER Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies
8pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Next to Normal
5 Rhythms
3pm. $23. Modern-rock musical. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080. God of Carnage
8pm. $23. Yamina Reza's biting seriocomedy. Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Brother Joscephus & The Love Revolution
Piff the Magic Dragon
1pm. $28/$26 members/$20 children. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
8pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
8-10pm. $31. With over 12 million YouTube hits to his name, Piff the Magic Dragon has performed to hundreds of thousands of fans. Paramount Hudson Valley Theater, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
The Halley DeVestern Band
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
8:30-11pm. Blonde bombshell Halley DeVestern explodes out of her songs with unbridled passion, power and social principles. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Joey Alexander
7:30pm. $34/$39/$44. Jazz. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
SUNDAY 28 DANCE
MET live in HD: Puccini’s Tosca
Chris Bergson Band
10am-noon. $10/$5 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
THEATER
8pm. $18. Concert to Benefit the Linda with Red Dirt Highway, Mixed Roots, Hasty Page, and Sub Slab. The Linda, Albany. (518) 465-5233x158. 8pm. $15-$20. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Responsible Backyard Beekeeping Series: Current State of Beekeeping and Organic Solutions.
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider Certification
9am-1pm. $50/$65 with text. This class is appropriate for new or recertifying students. The textbook is required (February 2016 AHA BLS) and AHA allows students to use it when taking the written exam. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. 279-5711.
5-7pm. Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Cold Spring Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
2pm. $22/$17 for Members of the Playhouse/$10 students with ID. A contemporary adult play that sheds a comedic light on the secret corners of marriage, relationships and family. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264. Pet First Aid, CPR and Disaster Preparedness Course
9am-1pm. $45. This course covers basic first aid, CPR and disaster preparedness for dogs and cats. For ages 14 to adult. Preregistration and payment are required. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. 279-5711.
TUESDAY 30 KIDS & FAMILY Yogapalooza with Bari Koral
3pm. $15/adult free with child. Groove to a family yoga and dance party with music by kids’ favorite Bari Koral and her rocking band. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. MUSIC The Wood Brothers
7pm. $29.50-$39.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
FILM Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney at The Royal Academy of Arts
1-2:30pm. The Moviehouse, Millerton. 518-789-0022. KIDS & FAMILY Animal Tracks and Traces
WEDNESDAY 31 MUSIC The Jason Gisser Band
7pm. $10-$15. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
10am. $3-$7. Join a naturalist on a wintry walk to discover “secrets in the snow” left by winter active animals. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
LITERARY & BOOKS
7pm. The Falcon Underground, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Hudson Valley YA Society: Marieka Nijkamp, Kim Purcell, Jennifer Castle & Samira Ahmed
4-6pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
8pm. $32.50-$42.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Petey Hop’s Roots & Blues Sessions
Turkuaz
8pm. $23. Cohoes Music Hall, Cohoes. (800) 745-3000.
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Planet Waves Christine Y
BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
Planets in a Minor Key
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n November and December, we looked at the outer planet transits that take hold in 2018 and last years into the future. Saturn entered Capricorn on December 19, which will be followed by Chiron entering Aries on April 17 and Uranus entering Taurus on May 15. Just these three events, in such close proximity, describe a rapidly changing world. Distant outer planets describe the energy coming from the ground, as in figure-ground. They’re a background environmental factor that gradually manifests in tangible ways—or as the case may be, instantly. To give two particularly stunning examples, the day Chiron entered Pisces in 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, leading to one of the worst oil spills in history. The day Uranus entered Aries in 2011, there was an earthquake that took out the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, resulting in several total meltdowns and the mess that followed. Of course, most of the news that gets reported is bad news: by definition, that’s what news is. We don’t know what breakthroughs or discoveries happened those days. We don’t know what ideas were born. At least these two events put us on notice to pay attention to the sign changes of slow-moving planets. While Saturn is not an outer planet, it’s the keeper of the edge between the inner and outer solar system; a reference point, boundary divider and the 82 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 1/18
lord of chronological time. Saturn’s three-year run through Sagittarius ended December 19 when, for the first time in a generation, it returned to a sign that it rules. Because Pluto is also in Capricorn, Saturn’s ingress begins something called the Saturn-Pluto conjunction, associated with an even bigger event, the Pluto return of the United States. Pluto, which takes 250 years to orbit the Sun, entered Capricorn in January of 2008, retreating briefly into Sagittarius for the summer and election of Barack Obama, before returning to Capricorn after the election, where it remains today. Pluto is now close to its natal position in the chart for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Capricorn (among other metaphors) is the sign that represents industry, government, and society’s major institutions. So, when we combine transiting Saturn, transiting Pluto and the natal position of Pluto in the US chart, that’s going to move some energy in the world around us. Here’s something novel: for the 2020 election, planets in Capricorn will include Quaoar, Pholus, Pallas, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn. Pallas is an asteroid named for the goddess of law and politics. Quaoar and Pholus are rather different from asteroids; I’ll come to them in a moment when I introduce the idea of a minor planet. Now that Saturn is in Capricorn, it’s fair to say we’re in a new era of history.
In a recent New York Times interview about this astrology, I said that, “We are entering the biggest point of reckoning in American history since the Civil War.” With Saturn in Capricorn as our foundation, let’s check out the minor planets. Chiron: The Original Minor Planet First, a distinction between a visible and an invisible planet. You might think of objects that can be seen with the unaided eye as being part of ordinary consciousness. That includes the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Under very rare conditions, Uranus and the asteroid Vesta can be seen without a lens. Occasionally comets show up, and if you look back at the old books, they made astrologers of the past exceedingly nervous. Besides that, all other orbiting objects are invisible without the use of special equipment, and can be considered part of non-ordinary consciousness. In fact, most objects are invisible without a telescope, and that includes all of the minor planets. Technically, a minor planet is anything with a catalogue number from the Minor Planet Center, also called an MPC number. Currently there are about 750,000 known bodies orbiting our Sun, which are either in the catalog or close to being entered. This catalog includes a wide diversity of types of objects. A minor planet is not minor in the sense of the minor leagues in a sport, where seemingly less important things happen, or a minor role in a film. It’s more like a minor key in music, which is in no way a thing of lesser importance in music theory or musical history. Arguably there are more memorable, moving songs written in minor keys than in major keys. This is also true of the minor planets, though they are largely ignored by established astrology; this fact largely accounts for its bland flavor and inert quality. The first solar system object discovered that eventually became a minor planet was Ceres, which was seen on January 1, 1801, the first day of the 19th century. Ceres was first classified as a potential comet, then as an asteroid; then in 2006, it was given the new designation “dwarf planet” (along with Pluto and Eris). From an astrological standpoint, the concept of a minor planet emerges with the discovery of something called Object Kowal in 1977—that became Chiron. Chiron is a small body, about the size of an asteroid, but it is made of ice like a comet, with a tail like a comet, and with an atmosphere; and an odd 51-year orbit of the kind that nobody had ever seen before. What the first astrologers who danced with Chiron discovered is that it was astonishingly potent, especially for a small object, and it represented elements of psychic development and of healing that had not been seen before in astrology (but were well known in other fields). In the broadest terms, Chiron represents the holistic principle. In the natal chart, Chiron represents a place where we seek wholeness. We may have sustained an injury there, though that point remains alive and active and often has a way of concentrating some unusual talent, gift or strength. Sometimes Chiron manifests as a point of defeat or, psychologically, as the feeling an injury that will never heal or a problem that will never be solved. However, I have found that through conscious process (particularly, working with one’s lifetime Chiron transits), the gift can almost always be claimed. There will often be what homeopaths call a “healing crisis” involved: a seeming mishap or series of them associated with the process of mounting the healing journey in a conscious way. Chiron is about to enter Aries. This is happening in an era already dominated by astrology in this sign, particularly the epic Uranus-Eris conjunction of 20162017 that is one of the outstanding astrological monuments of a very long era. Eris, the goddess of discord, is the standard-bearing minor planet of our time. This conjunction is largely about the digital age and the supremacy of technology—and what it’s done to our identity (Aries, collective and individual identity). Quoting Prof. Eric McLuhan yet again: “The body is everywhere assaulted by all of our new media, a state which has resulted in deep disorientation of intellect and destabilization of culture throughout the world. In the age of disembodied communication, the meaning and significance and experience of the body is utterly transformed and distorted.” What he’s saying is that this assault on our minds is really pushing us out of
our bodies, or distorting our relationship to them, and that’s messing not just with individual identity but also with collective identity. Chiron in Aries will precipitate or ignite a healing process that helps us address this very troublesome state of affairs. Just remember, as the old song goes, waking up is hard to do. It’s a lot easier if voluntary—if we want to be conscious, which means admitting that some other state preceded full awareness. Summing up Chiron in Aries in a phrase, this is about coming out of denial, no matter how difficult that might be—and thereby finding something better. And what might that be? Notably, when Chiron enters Aries, one of the first things it does is make a conjunction to a slow-mover called Salacia, which is hovering around the first degree of Aries this year. The mythological wife of Neptune, Salacia (a dwarf planet candidate) has an unusual 271-year orbit. She’s also the root of the word salacious. While astrology does not usually draw such a direct line of etymology to the meaning of a planet, we’ve seen quite a bit of that lately with Salacia sitting on the face of the “personal is political” Aries Point for many seasons. In my happy dreams, Chiron conjunct Salacia is going to be about the conscious claiming of not just sexual identity but of actual sexual being. The “sexual revolution” we need is one associated with holistic healing, and an understanding of the relationship between sex and existence.
Eris, the goddess of discord, is the standard-bearing minor planet of our time.
Pholus and Quaoar in Capricorn Pholus was the second planet designated in the centaur group, discovered in 1992. Pholus orbits the Sun in 92 years. The discovery of (5145) Pholus opened up a floodgate of centaur and Kuiper belt discoveries, now numbering more than a thousand. Welcome to the energy of Pholus, which comes in two main forms: the uncontrollable, uncontainable reaction, and the small cause with a big effect. Pholus is involved in the seemingly nonstop revelation of sexual misconduct. Alternately, if someone takes a single dose of a homeopathic remedy, and that helps a person heal from an illness, we have an example of the small cause with a big effect. Pholus enters Capricorn on January 20, 2018, which plunges it into the realm of corporations and government. Isn’t it amazing that with all the infinite varieties of corporate exploitation and criminal activity, all we’ve heard about anytime lately is sexual transgression? We may be hearing about a lot more than that as this transit develops. Ten years after the discovery of Pholus, an object called Quaoar was discovered way out in the Kuiper belt, past Pluto. Named for the creator god of the Tongva people (who used to inhabit what is now the LA-area), its technical classification is “cubewano.” Originally called 2002 LM60, it was considered such an important discovery that it was given the designation (50000) Quaoar. It takes just over 287 years to orbit our Sun. Now that you know all of that, here’s the news: Quaoar was discovered in Sagittarius, where it was until mid-December, when it entered Capricorn. At its essence, Quaoar is about family patterns. And now it’s in the sign of corporations and governments—and one of the signs most associated with family. Note that Quaoar in Capricorn is square Salacia in Aries. This is bringing the most impersonal corporate and governmental realms into the personal, individual ones. Yet the underlying message is that this is about the family and what happens there. For all the taboo associated with the subject, we will discover that sexuality is a family affair, and that everything we experience and see in society is a dramatization of the sexual business within the household and the tribe. All of the sexual misconduct that has been revealed since early October has its origin in the household and in early childhood—along with every other form of sexual reality. And if we’re going to be free of this blight, that’s where we need to go for our answers. It is true that the minor planets often represent the subjects neither society nor astrology want to address. Too often we relegate these issues to the courts. However, from where we stand today, ignorance, inaction and deferring to the government are no longer options. It’s time to get over ourselves: our shame, embarrassment and guilt; and let our life force out into the open. CHRONOGRAM.COM READ Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) Freedom and discipline go hand-in-hand. That will be a happy discovery for you, as you embark upon a momentous phase of your vocation in the coming seasons. Note that I did not say career or profession. A vocation can become those things, though it starts someplace else: with a calling. It’s a calling so deep it could be considered spiritual, or one’s true dharma; and the fulfillment of the purpose is more important than success. This will take everything you’ve got, and you’re ready to offer that up. You will need to address any authority issues you have, whether they involve being responsive to others in power or wielding your own. This will be an ongoing process that will largely entail internalizing your sense of responsibility. You will need to work with time, which means pacing yourself; neither being in a big hurry nor willing to wait forever. You’ll need to have faith in yourself, and to persevere, in times when you’re doubting your mission or when things don’t seem to be going well. At the heart of your life plan must be some concept of home. That’s the most dependable way to provide grounding not just for your success but also a place where you can rest and connect with others. Just remember, all true collaboration depends on intimacy, and is fed by passion.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) Integrity is the very essence of your nature, and you possess a keen awareness of right and wrong. You’ve also figured out by now that you must bring your flexibility into every situation. Nothing is carved in stone or set in concrete, especially where your personal ethics are concerned. You can afford to evaluate every situation on its own merits. You’ve learned many times that this is better than having inflexible rules, though you might say that strict adherence to the law is a kind of temptation for you. However, you can now look at the world with fresh eyes, which also includes taking a more benevolent view of your own past. You don’t need to judge yourself or anyone, nor does whether you agree with something or not need to be your standard of reality. You are bigger than nearly all that you perceive. You’re bigger than your parents, your family, and anyone who has held authority over you. If you keep an open mind, and set orthodoxy aside, these next few years of your life will provide you with some beautiful and original opportunities to learn about yourself and the world. Regarding the question of scale, what you may figure out is that you’re bigger than all you survey. This is a temporary state of affairs; it’s a useful perspective to take, for the time being.
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You’ve just been through one of the most—what’s the word? Ridiculous? Exciting? Challenging?—phases of your life, and whatever that was, whatever you’ve been through, is over. Time has given rise to something else, as if you’ve been transported to another dimension of your own existence. I don’t think this will be subtle, though it’s possible to live in the past. If you’re living in the present, you will see that the nature of your commitments has evolved into something more tangible, even solid. This will facilitate the building of relationships and associations of all kinds, whether their purpose is making home, making money or making love. It’s likely that you’ve been so enamored of your need for freedom that you missed the privileges that come with having a stable structure around you. However, when you feel commitment coming from inside you, rather than something you feel is imposed on you, you’ll appreciate its beauty. It will be helpful if you’re less enamored of an abstract concept of your freedom and refine that into something you can actually express. You may need to be specific; for example, decide consciously whether you want a relationship to be live-in or not; monogamous or not; financially intertwined or not. Determine the role you want to play in any business partnership, and know the places where you’re flexible or open to compromise.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Saturn has entered your solar 7th house of relationships, the sign Capricorn. The most recent time this occurred was 29 years ago, perhaps before you were born. It’s entered Capricorn along with an impressive collection of other planets. The upshot is that where you may have felt like you were living on the frontier, you will now be joined by settlers, who might become colonists. Remember, though, that the spirit of a pioneer is different from that of someone who wants to build a town. You would benefit from those possessing both qualities: those who are undaunted by new territory, and who also want to build something familiar. Saturn’s three-year run through your relationship house will help you clear unnecessary or outmoded relationships, and it will help you develop something entirely new. For many long years, you’ve been deconstructing the rules and traditions that have not served your sensitive and original nature. This has not been easy. Remember that you still have some ground to cover there; and meanwhile, it would be helpful to remove some of the debris that’s been left behind from your various demolition projects. Beware of old ideas, ungrounded expectations, the fear of abandonment and jealousy. The more you give language to these feelings, the easier they will be to work through in a conscious and loving way: the way of the lover.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) It’s essential that you balance work and wellbeing. You’re one of the hardest-working people you know, and one of the most willing to sacrifice your personal needs and your health for the sake of getting the job done. However, it’s time to live under less Spartan conditions. You still have plenty to accomplish, yet taking care of your body and your mind must come first. One way you can maintain a balance is by learning something that I’ve seen is rather difficult for those born under your sign: how to delegate work. In doing this, you might follow a simple rule. Only assign tasks to those who do them better than you do. This might take a little time to find, though you need to have total trust when you let go of a task. And that would be worth seeking over time and, if need be, waiting for. In any event, collaboration is an art form. This skill will be worth developing. How you structure your time is also vitally important. You must see time as your ally, and use well the time you have. Think in terms of efficiency, making actual decisions about what is and is not necessary, and how much energy certain projects or goals deserve. Yet the first of these must be structuring a life in such a way that you can take care of yourself.
VIRGO (August 23-September 23) You simply must keep a positive attitude, because you have so much to live for. What’s changing the most rapidly is your approach to your work. You’ve made great strides on this selfimprovement project, and now you’re ready for another step: doing everything you do with the passion of an artist. There are those people who would do their work for free (and many who do) only because they love its purpose so much. Whatever job you may have, this is not a thing of the future. Before you get to the “do what you love” phase, you must go through the “love what you do” phase, whatever that thing is. This will cultivate the state of mind that emphasizes both quality, and your recognition that you exist in a network of people who are, ideally, all working toward the same end. Part of your work is the task itself; yet equally important is your influence on your coworkers, colleagues, clients, and people in leadership. Whatever you may do, your primary purpose is dharma: acting as if to hold the world together. The “as if” part is important because it takes pressure off of you. You’re not actually responsible for holding the world together; you just have to make every decision on that basis. One last hint: the past weighs on you far less than you may think.
LIBRA (September 23-October 23) Many factors in your chart point to grounding: in your home, in your feelings, in your body and in your local community. This follows a phase of being somewhat all over the place, both mentally and physically. You’re now able to focus your mind, as if you’ve just woken up from many days of feverish dreams and could suddenly speak and think clearly. For the foreseeable future, your primary task is to strengthen your foundations. This could pertain equally to home, family, and the most personal aspects of your career. Take tangible steps every day to organize your physical space, and your emotional space will follow. Saturn moving through your 4th solar house is about clearing out the clutter, such that you can see the walls and floors of the basement and make any necessary repairs. When cleaning a closet, empty it out entirely first. You will find, through this process, that you need far less than you think; and, further, that you will place a greater value on what you choose to keep. Finally, there’s the matter of your relationship to your family. You’ve reached a point where you must handle this consciously, and not allow anyone to make assumptions or presumptions about you. If you want more space to yourself, and you feel guilty about that, count this as proof that your desires are correct.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 2) You have the perfect blend of drive and discipline going for you now. Take advantage of this and get your year started off right. Just be aware of one thing: you cannot content yourself with being little. You are past being willing, or able, to make yourself small for the sake of others. Your role is not to bow to their insecurities, nor to worry about how they’re supposed to handle someone who wants to live fully, and strives to do so. As you do this, you may notice the extent to which people seem determined to shrink themselves, to diminish their goals and talents, or to thrive on boredom (which is really a mask over anger). You may feel pressure from peers to conform to this odd way of living. Don’t waste your time wondering whether you can, or whether this is the right thing. And while you may feel the lure of analyzing why people choose to live this way, you would be better served to ask yourself why you ever did. There’s a fear running loose that when we connect with our desire, passion, love, or sex drive, that we’re going to go out of control. After all, society could possibly not handle everyone being in contact with their power, living honestly. But here’s the question: How would anyone even know?
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Taking care of your finances will get you a long way in life. The time has arrived: whatever you may want to accomplish, being grounded, realistic, and resourceful will be your vehicle for doing it. Money flows toward structure, and you need to build that gently around yourself. Start with full awareness of your income, your expenses, your debts, and your needs for future growth. Then, use your skills or get help to build a model you can live in. One way to work is to make long- and medium-range plans for development projects. It’s vitally important, in our current version of the world, that you phase out obsolete equipment and phase in the fully serviceable gear you need to get your work done. This is a matter of planning. Keep all your options open for how to do this—and remember, the world is awash with gear that nobody is using. Take leadership, learn how to pool resources, and get that process going. Remember that your most valuable asset is your talent: what you can do and, in particular, what you alone can do. Set a higher price on that than you ever have; at the same time, you must be bold about demonstrating and even proving your abilities before expecting people to pay. You have the abilities and the discipline to make this happen. And it’ll be worth it, too.
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Saturn’s return to your birth sign describes a sense of completeness you have not felt for a very long time, if ever. Take a moment to collect yourself: a week or two of reflecting on your goals and preparing your mind; and get ready to face the challenges you’ve been avoiding. You now have the perspective and the strength to step up to your life as a full participant. To this task, you will bring all of your resources. You can no longer hide or camouflage yourself. It’s no longer viable to live in a state of limbo, or suspended animation around your commitments—and it never really was. You can no longer disappear, from your own life or anyone else’s. Practicality must take precedence over ideology. What is right is what works for you and for the people you associate with. Perhaps your most daunting challenge is taking responsibility for communication. You are the person who must guide that process, and strive for clarity on behalf of everyone. You can no longer blame people for what you don’t understand, particularly if you have questions you haven’t asked or sought answers to, or if you’ve ignored available information. Commitment means commitment to yourself; and if you’re able to do that, you’ll notice that you come through for others because you want to live up to your own potential.
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The concept of an inner life is elusive to most people. By inner life, I mean the world that you contain, your conscious growth process, and your relationship to your past. How this could elude anyone, I don’t know; but it seems to, in the same way people’s dreams deliver them messages that seem cryptic or incomprehensible and, therefore, not even worth thinking much about. The combination of Venus, the Sun and Saturn entering your adjoining sign Capricorn is about you awakening to who you are inside. Here’s the thing. Doing this involves encountering what psychologists describe as shadow material. That might include your fears, your regrets, and emotions on the embarrassment-guiltshame spectrum. One’s inner life also includes one’s deepest desires, especially including what the Vedic astrologers call “the pleasures of the bed”—one’s secret fantasies and most profound needs, which are both erotic and emotional. The supposed reward for avoiding awareness of your inner life is the convenience of not having to address any of these things. The actual reward for entering and fully embracing your inner life is being a whole person. Your capacity for intimacy will deepen. Through understanding yourself and your motives, you will be more curious about the inner lives of those you care about. Yet this will also have a way of filtering out superficial relationships. You just won’t be interested.
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The time has arrived to reap the rewards of your success. You’ve done much to establish yourself in recent years, and have risen to the occasion of many challenges. It’s now time to collect. That doesn’t mean resting on your laurels, but rather focusing less on aspiration and more on connecting your efforts to direct benefits. From the look of your solar chart, those might come in many different forms, financial gain being one of them. Some rewards might arrive in the form of increased social and professional standing, which grant you privileges you’ve never had before. You’re due for a time dividend, which means the benefit of time that is your own, like profits delivered after all taxes have been paid. The key to this will be designing your life structure, and then honoring it. It’ll be easier than during many recent seasons, when the emphasis has been on success-at-all-costs Saturn in Sagittarius. The posture to assume at this stage of your life, described by Saturn in Capricorn, is a calm confidence: somewhat reserved, but standing firmly in your self-assurance. People will notice how much experience you have, and will likely be somewhat daunted by it. You can humanize this by being willing to help as you can, whenever someone needs you. Demonstrate going from vision to action with no need to check in with any authority higher than yourself.
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Q&A with Dar Williams For the past two decades, singer/songwriter Dar Williams has toured the farthest reaches of the country. Along the way she noticed something: Some towns seemed to have perfect chemistry—great community events, thriving small businesses, and connected residents. Others lacked the X factor of prosperity and connectivity, and it showed. Williams set out to find out why, and What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, & Coffee Shop at a Time (Basic Books, 2017) is her instruction manual, outlining the successes of towns from Moab to Beacon. The Cold Spring resident shared her obervations via e-mail. —Brian K. Mahoney
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What was the impetus for writing What I Found in a Thousand Towns? I kept thinking, “Someone should write this book about how towns and cities have come up through the last 25 years in the shadow of the decline of industry, drug epidemics, and the rise of malls and big boxes.” I got a little obsessed with it. Urban planners and sociologists were speaking the language of how far we’d come, but I got to see it firsthand in my touring, so I wrote this book. With significant help from the experts.
In your book, you summarize the qualities that make a town a place where people want to live as “positive proximity.” How did you come up with it?
I observed that there were mechanisms, not just intentions, that helped towns build and grow themselves and thrive. There were certain spaces that seemed to diversify conversations, which is great for positive proximity. The “two-roomer” cafe, for instance, was great. The second room was where people could really dream and scheme for their communities. Then there are identity-building projects that helped people remember how much they loved their towns and got dovetailing skill sets in motion. History, food, nature, culture, and anything involving a waterfront are touchstones for connections that are more proximal than partisan. And lastly, there was an ethos of translation: How towns create a sense of welcome and pride, whether through media, signage, or how they embraced their “conscious bridgers,” people who like finding bridges between social and geographical parts of town. 88 CHRONOGRAM 1/18
There’s a sociological word for it: bridging social capital. Positive proximity is both the building blocks and experience of wanting to contribute to where we live, feeling happy and grateful to be there, and to constantly look for more avenues of access for all of its citizens and visitors. Towns and cities get to this state of being the fastest when there are spaces, projects, and other mechanisms in place that bridge different groups together, whether it’s a dog run, a mushroom festival, or a proactive local radio station.
new housing to outstrip demand, and housing for service jobs like teaching and policing. To even have ideas, you need to have a belief that all citizens in your town matter and that belief should inform every level of government. Beacon cares on all fronts. My answer is not sufficient. But without positive proximity, downtowns would be darkened hulls of despair, even in cities. Pedestrian culture, which benefits older and low-income citizens, wouldn’t exist. We have downtowns. How do we make them affordable?
Many of the developments you document in your book are citizen-activated, not governmentally driven. Was that by design, or did you see a pattern of citizen leadership on these issues?
You write about Beacon: “People often shake their heads when I tell them about towns that have become at once unique, resilient, and prosperous. They just say, ‘Gentrification…’ as if inevitably Towns that work have civic engagement. They the work of the commons only aren’t playing on each other’s fears, and they benefits a small group of people.” accommodate the right mix of voices in finding solutions to each challenge. That kind of ethos And while people in Beacon are means that whether your running for government actively fighting against this, or connecting to it as a citizen, government itself Beacon, is, to some effect at this pretty natural from the citizens, or the point, closed. Once these vibrant flows civicsphere as WNYC calls it. communities are created, how can they be kept equitable for all? What’s the easiest and most There is a difference, albeit a thin line, between impactful way for people to get “improvement” and “gentrification.” There has to involved in rebuilding their own be, right? We don’t want drug deals, organized communities? crime, and waking to sleeping despair at every street corner. We want improvement. Malls and big box stores took the pulse out of downtowns. The public-private mix of local businesses and positive proximity brought life back in. Positive proximity even attracts businesses that create jobs, like in Rockingham, Vermont, where a company called Chroma was looking for a place with a good quality of life. They are beautiful. They have life. They have affordable parent-coached sports. They’ve got modern libraries. And yes, they have laughing people at outdoor wine bars sipping Chardonnay. They will attract people. Positive proximity got them there, and, hopefully, will provide a fabric of cohesion and conscience for moving forward. There is no one solution, but there have been attempts like rent control, a percentage of affordable units in new construction,
Find your own self-interest in the town, whether that be in its unique history, natural beauty, food, young people, older people, or getting the downtown into shape. That’s the first thing. I heard that loud and clear from people who had successfully revitalized their towns. Look for bridges that can be built, like bridging the digital divide, making a footbridge over a creek, or finding interesting connections or common ground between religions or ethnicities. That’s second. An Episcopalian church can partner with a Jewish temple for a coat drive or a winter festival, for instance. Towns with strong bridges thrive. And lastly, look for the people who are already involved in building up the town. Look for proactive librarians, council members, or teachers. There are bound to be a few.
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