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8 On the Cover 10 Esteemed Reader 13 Editor’s Note 15 Q&A with Ruth-Ellen Blodgett 16 While You Were Sleeping 17 Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic 22 Chronogram Conversations
43 Learning to Glide This January, the Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club will launch a series of introductory cross-country skiing workshops.
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31 The Drink Hudson Valley Brewery’s limited edition canned beers are works of art.
HOME & GARDEN 32 Beautiful Bones Gallerist, interior designer, and all-around aesthete Francis Rick Gillette is a devotee of lasting beauty and constant reinvention.
HEALTH & WELLNESS 40 Simple & Sustainable You Here are 10 small and sustainable shifts to become healthier in 2019.
19 the money-making ethic by Karl Wilderquist
COMMUNITY PAGES 48 Great Barrington Jamie Larson takes us on a tour of this quintessential New England town in the Berkshires that’s pefectly situated “in the middle of everywhere.”
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EDUCATION 55 The Healing Horizon Marist College and Health Quest team up to build a medical school for the Hudson Valley.
WEDDINGS 59 On the Vend A roundup of our favorite Hudson Valley wedding vendors for 2019, plus tips from industry pros for nailing the big day.
From the archives: SInce publishing this piece in 1999, Karl Widerquist has become one of the leading voices of the global basic income movement.
64 a new start for NY19 by Brian K. Mahoney NY19’s recently elected congressman, Antonio Delgado, discusses his campaign, the state of our politics, and his priorities for DC.
68 framed by time by Peter Aaron A conversation with Luc Sante about the early photographs of Stanley Kubrick, recently published in Through a Different Lens.
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Untitled STANLEY KUBRICK Black-and-white photograph, a partygoer wearing a Cubist headdress, from the 1949 article titled “Philadelhia’s First Beaux Arts Ball”
“Observation is a dying art.” —Stanley Kubrick
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he formative stages of a great artist’s career are sometimes just filled with juvenilia, the early misfirings and wrong directions of a talent trying on different guises. In Stanley Kubrick’s case, a kid from the Bronx shows up at the offices of Look magazine one day and shows a portfolio of already accomplished work. (Kubrick’s father, a dentist, was a serious amateur photographer who kept a darkroom at home and gave young Stanley a Graflex camera). His first photograph for Look, published in 1945 when he was just 17, depicts a newsstand employee surrounded by newspapers announcing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death. The photo appeared in a double-page spread chronicling the careers of FDR and his successor, Harry S. Truman. The pathos in the old man’s face, slumped head in hand, displays mature talent. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, and capturing the pathos of ordinary life with a sophistication that belied his young age. Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs—both an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York and a book by Taschen of the same title—features more than 120 photographs by Kubrick from the museum’s Look magazine archive, a collection that includes 129 photography assignments and more than 12,000 negatives from his five years as a staff photographer. “Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs” is on view at the Museum of the City of New York through January 6. Mcny.org.
The Metropolitan Opera is broadcast live all season long to theaters and performance venues throughout the Hudson Valley.
ARTS 74 Books Nick Zungoli’s new book, Bear Mountain & Harriman Parks is a guide to exploring the parks as well as a photographic flight of fancy.
75 Music Album reviews of two albums by Jamie Saft; What Rough Beast by Blood & Stomach Pills; Gimme Some Light by Ryan Martin; and Invisible Forces by The Whispering Tree.
76 Poetry Poems by Melissa Akar, Madison Brower, Peggy Bruen, Stephanie Carter, Lori Corry, Sandra Dutton, James Lichtenberg, Gregory Luce, Henry M. McCarty, Ze’ev Willy Neumann, Rick Oestrike, Imogene Putnam, Lily Raper, Eliza Bishop Steinbacher, and John Sullivan. Edited by Philip X Levine.
THE GUIDE 81 Acclaimed feminist artist Linda Montano’s latest morbid exhibition comes to SUNY New Paltz. 83 Skip the city schlep and watch the Met live at theaters around the Hudson Valley. 85 A gallery guide for January, featuring shows at Unison Art Center, Fletcher Gallery, PLACE, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Garrison Art Center, Art Omi, HV MoCA, Hudson Beach Glass, and Art Society of Kingston. 89 Five live music shows to pencil in, from Rufus Wainwright to Robert Gordon.
96 Parting Shot A new exhibition at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum showcases the work of Connecticut’s Prison Arts Program.
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I had a rare conversation about politics with a friend. He argued that we need to support the right candidates and engage in the political to make a societal change. I opined that the system is broken and unfixable. “Well, what do you suggest?” He asked sincerely. “What’s a better system?” I don’t trust the government. Never did. Somehow it was always clear that most politicians are bought and sold, and that the few that stick their necks out to uphold real values get marginalized or assassinated. As a child, it seemed to me that the whole system is, as they say in yiddish, kaput. For me the brokenness of the system came into sharp relief when I was 30, with the 2000 presidential election. If you recall there was a clear winner of the popular vote but the electoral race came down to one state, Florida. There was the issue of some “hanging chads” on the paper ballots making them uncountable. Rather than conducting a thorough review, the case of Bush v. Gore was brought before the Supreme Court, who decided in favor of one of the candidates. I had learned in school that the three branches of government were designed to balance each other, not take sides, but in this case, the branch responsible for holding a balance had become partisan. The Bush regime, a cadre of super-rich old white guys, successfully staged a coup d’etat in plain sight. The result was to bend and break the system that was meant to prevent precisely such grabs for power. That’s history, but the institution of politics has continued to erode. There are too many examples to count, but an important one is the Citizens United case, in which corporations were deemed to have the same rights to speech as people, in the form of money given to political candidates. Now politicians can be bought with transparent impunity. Many are disillusioned with the our system of government— dominated as it is by money interests—and are drawn to opt out of the process. There’s a deep and justified cynicism about the whole structure of the US’s “democracy” and “representative form of government.” These ideals, with which children are indoctrinated in schools, have proven to be farcical and empty descriptions, so opposite to reality as to make George Orwell’s 1984 read as a realistic description of the present rather than a frightening but fantastical dystopian future. In considering my friend’s question, I recalled the model of Rudolph Steiner’s Threefold Social Order. Steiner posits that there are three spheres of human community. These are comprised by the economic, political, and cultural institutions and spheres. The economic sphere includes business, commerce, and the exchange of goods and services. The political realm encompasses government together with its bureaucracy and services, as well as law and human rights. The cultural realm includes science, education, arts, religion, and media. Steiner illustrates his image as three circles of activity, each of which is independent with the exception of small areas of overlap, and one space at its center in which all three circles overlap. In this area of convergence at the heart of the Venn diagram is humanity. This image explains so much about what goes wrong, and what could transform to make it right. For a society to be successful, each realm must limit its activity to its own sphere. When one sphere unduly influences another, the whole system goes out of balance. We see many examples of this imbalance, the major cause being the undue influence of the economic sphere over the others. The US’s system and its exported “democracy” is an epidemic with business influence in inappropriate spheres. Business and money influence both government and all aspects of culture. Literally nothing is safe from the profit motive. Isn’t it interesting that the microcosm of the society is a human being, and it is precisely this work of balancing oneself, that is the curative to psychic malaise? —Jason Stern
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THE TRIP WAS KARL’S IDEA, I WAS JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
Karl, an economist of my short acquaintance who worked at Bard College’s Levy Institute and a fellow cycling enthusiast, was going to be in Amsterdam attending a conference around the same time I would be visiting family and friends in Ireland and the UK. What if we both tacked on a week at the end of our trips and pedaled from Amsterdam to Copenhagen? It was the fall of 1998, I was not quite 30, and a bicycle trip along the Northern European coast seemed like an adventure, but not too much of an adventure— there were some unknowns involved, as well as some exertion, by no physical danger. (It’s not like we were riding from Sarajevo to Belgrade, if you recall world events of the period.) The two main unknowns were as follows: We didn’t have bicycles and we didn’t know where we were going. To clarify: We knew that Copenhagen was about 500 miles to the northeast of Amsterdam, but we weren’t sure of the best route for bicycle travel. We needed maps, which we purchased in a charming bookshop that specialized in travel literature, first-editions of 19th-century explorers’ memoirs, and maps. (Remember, dear reader, that a mere 20 years ago, GPS-aided mapping apps were not on handheld devices.) The bicycles were another matter entirely. Karl had assured me—based on his experience doing this elsewhere—that it would be easy to buy second-hand bicycles at a bike shop in Amsterdam, which we would then sell once we got to Copenhagen. I had arrived in Amsterdam a few days before Karl and I were scheduled to rendezvous to hang out with my college buddy Johnny Love, who managed what was then mainland Europe’s only improv theater, Boom Chicago. His social group consisted of a demimonde of artists, comedians, and grifters. At a warehouse party the night I arrived in Amsterdam, after inquiring as to where I might buy a used bicycle, I was approached by a guy named Max who said he had exactly the item I needed. Max then took me to his apartment (I think we definitely smoked some weed), where there was a 10-speed touring bike taking up the almost the entirety of his child-sized living room. It had a lock, too, which was good, as I was going to need that in my travels. Trouble was, the lock was engaged between the wheel and the frame, and the Max didn’t have the key. Max had stolen the bike just yesterday, a fact he offered cheerfully, as if the freshness of the theft was a major selling point. He’d let me take it off his hands for 40 guilders, all I’d need to do was go out in the morning and buy a hacksaw and cut through the lock. Max would let me do it in his apartment. And how perfect was it that I was leaving town, as Max’s neighbor would never know of his involvement. Despite Max’s offense—he did invite me into his home and get me high, he reminded me—I did not buy the purloined Schwinn. Karl and
I met up a few days later and it was as easy as Karl said to buy second-hand bikes. We rode off from Amsterdam’s city center on a November afternoon as a light rain was falling. This was to be one of the lightest rains of our journey. It turns out that November is the rainy season in Northern Europe. It rains—a lot. The postcards in the tourist shops make jokes about it. Bad weather is a thing, like traffic in LA. Nowhere is this more so than in the Dutch province of Friesland on the northwestern tip of the country jutting out into the North Sea. Karl and I had decided to take the coastal route, envisioning bucolic seaside touring past windmills and blonde barmaids. Friesland, however, had other ideas. It seems impossible that rain, which falls from above—the operative word here being falls, which implies vertical motion—could assault one in a purely horizontal manner, but I had never experienced Friesian rain. Rain so hard and so thick that Karl and I rode past the sign of the hostel we were supposed to stay at one afternoon. Just a few feet off the road, it was obscured by the sheer density of the material erupting out of an upside-down water volcano and crowding out the air itself. Because of the aggressively inclement weather, Karl and I spent a lot of time in cafes and bar either waiting out downpours or drying out from downpours. We spent a lot of time talking, and we spoke a lot about Karl’s work on the Universal Basic Income, which in 1998 seemed like a radical idea to my American ears, despite its partial adoption in some European countries. The central premise is as simple as it sounds: people receive a regular sum of money and services from the government, which is enough to live on. If they want to work to make more money, they are free to do so, but no one has to worry about their basic needs being met. Karl made the point that we don’t have a work ethic, but rather a money-making ethic. We all work because we need money, not because we love work. (I encourage you to write me if you disagree.) If we didn’t have to work our weekly 40 hours (or more) trying to make ends meet, what unrealized human potential might be unleashed? Karl has become one of the leading scholars and advocates for the Universal Basic Income over the last two decades. Our conversations on that long, wet ride led to me ask him to write an article for Chronogram. What Karl wrote then (From the Archive, page 19), which seemed so speculative to me, now seems weirdly prescient. At a time when digital behemoths like Google and Facebook make wealth not jobs, and the increasing automation of jobs— not only of manual labor but also the coming wave of robot lawyers and doctors—perhaps a work-free future isn’t such a far-fetched idea after all. I mean, if I didn’t have to work, I might make it back to Friesland for another bike trip with Karl—in April, the dry season.
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uth-Ellen Blodgett has served as president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley since 2009. PPMHV offers a wide array of low-cost health services—breast exams, pap tests, contraceptive services, STD screenings, gender-affirming hormone therapy for transgender patients, and more—at five health centers in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Goshen, Newburgh, and Monticello totaling nearly 20,000 patient visits annually. The election of President Trump in 2016 has galvanized the nationwide women’s movement. How has this impacted Planned Parenthood’s work here in the Hudson Valley? Immediately after the election, our outreach and public affairs staff held numerous meetings around the four counties that we cover—Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, and Orange. We opened up Saturday discussion groups and we literally had hundreds of people show up who have never really been fully activist engaged. Since that time, we have held marches, there have been rallies, and we saw donations to Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley skyrocket over previous years. What percentage of Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley’s work is abortion related? Nationally, it’s about three percent. Here in the Mid-Hudson Valley, it can range between 15 to 18 percent, because we are a liberal state. When you look nationally, there are some states where there is absolutely no access for abortion, so certainly that brings the percentage down. Dr. Leana Wen was recently chosen to be president of Planned Parenthood, the first MD to be hired for that job. Do you view having a doctor as a president of Planned Parenthood significant? One of the things that having a doctor as the head of Planned Parenthood emphasizes is that reproductive healthcare is healthcare and that our primary role in the community is to provide women’s healthcare. Most women come here to Planned Parenthood to get their pap smears, their breast exams, their contraception, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, et cetera. Having a doctor at the head just highlights the fact that we are a healthcare system.
Can you explain the significance of the Reproductive Health Act, which will be on the legislative agenda in Albany again this year? New York State’s abortion law was written in 1970—three years before Roe v. Wade— and it was written in the penal code of the New York State Law. It does not contain all the protections that Roe has for the life and health of the mother, and so what we’re trying to do is have the Reproductive Health Act passed, which would then codify Roe in New York State so that if indeed it was ever overturned at the federal level, then we would have the protections in New York State. I imagine writers like me spend a lot of time asking you questions about abortion and abortion-related matters when it really is a small fraction of Planned Parenthood’s efforts. Does that bother you? No, it doesn’t bother me because I believe that abortion is a very important choice that a woman makes in her life. One in four women will have an abortion by the time they are 40 years old, and so protecting that right is important to us. I would say that some of the more important things that we need to spend more time talking about are the health outcomes of the women that we serve. About 85-87 percent of our patients are at about 150 percent of poverty or below—that’s trying to raise a family of four in the Mid-Hudson Valley on an income of $36,000 a year. You became CEO almost 10 years ago— a more hopeful time for women’s health. What gives you a sense of optimism now? What gives me a sense of optimism is the fact that I don’t think there has ever been a time in my life—and I’m a ’60s, ’70’s civilrights-march kind of person—where I have seen the awareness on the part of women of really what’s at stake and I believe that we are going to see things turn around. It’s not gonna be easy, we are going to have a Supreme Court that will make decisions that will impact us for generations, but I believe that we are finally seeing women understand that the autonomy of their bodies is very close to being taken over and that they’re not gonna take it. I’m feeling that same energy and resurgence that was prevalent back in the ’60’s and I’m very hopeful that we are going to be able to turn this ship around.
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New research, published in the journal Nature, assessing the impact of food production on the global environment has come to a non-startling conclusion: Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change. In Western countries, beef consumption needs to fall by 90 percent and be replaced by five times more beans and pulses. The research also finds that enormous changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying the planet’s ability to feed the 10 billion people expected to be on the planet in a few decades. “Feeding a world population of 10 billion is possible, but only if we change the way we eat and the way we produce food,” said Professor Johan Rockström at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who was part of the research team. “Greening the food sector or eating up our planet: This is what is on the menu today.” Source: Guardian In late November, BabyCenter, a digital parenting resource, released its Top 100 Names of 2018. Sophia and Jackson were on top again, Jackson for the sixth year running, and Sophia for the ninth year in a row. The other top names for boys were Liam, Noah, Alden, Caden, Grayson, Lucas, Mason, Oliver, and Elijah. For girls: Olivia, Emma, Ava, Isabella, Aria, Riley, Amelia, Mia, and Layla. Some trends noted by BabyCenter in names moving up the charts this year: zen names (Peace, up 66 percent from last year); Fornite-related names (Ramirez, up 57 percent); healthy food names (Kiwi, up 40 percent); Kardashian-Jennerinspired names (Stormi, up 63 percent). Source: BabyCenter.com
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According to a new study by Creative Arts Agency and shift7, films with women in leading roles earn more than their male counterparts at the box office. Of the 350 top box office films from 2014 to 2017, women were the lead in 105. In every category broken down by budget, these films outperformed those starring men. “The perception that it’s not good business to have female leads is not true,” says CAA agent Christy Haubegger. “They’re a marketing asset.” Haubegger attributed this to the movie audience’s desire to see something new, rather than say, yet another superhero origin story about a white guy. That’s why stories about women perform better, as well as stories starring people of color. Source: Mashable
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For South Koreans in need of a break from the demands of everyday life, a day or two in a fake jail is the escape. South Koreans worked 2,024 hours on average in 2017, the third longest after Mexico and Costa Rica, in a survey of 36 member countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. “This prison gives me a sense of freedom,” said Park Hye-ri, a 28-year-old office worker who paid $90 to spend 24 hours locked up in a mock prison. Since 2013, the “Prison Inside Me” facility in northeast Hongcheon has hosted more than 2,000 inmates, many of them stressed office workers and students seeking relief from South Korea’s demanding work and academic culture. Clients get a blue prison uniform, a yoga mat, tea set, pen, and notebook. They sleep on the floor. There is a small toilet inside the room, but no mirror.The menu includes steamed sweet potato and a banana shake for dinner, and rice porridge for breakfast. Source: Reuters
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The dream of the Bloodhound supersonic car project lives on after its assets were purchased by English entrepreneur Ian Warhurst in December. The Bloodhound project, which seeks to build a car capable of speeds of 1,000mph, was facing insolvency. For 11 years, Bloodhound operated on a partnership and sponsorship model with support from Rolls-Royce, Rolex, the UK Ministry of Defense, and the Northern Cape Provincial Government in South Africa. At 1,000mph, the supersonic car will cover a mile in 3.6 seconds. The world land speed record of 763 mph is held by Thrust SSC, led by Bloodhound’s project director Richard Noble and driver Andy Green. Source: BBC
body politic by Larry Beinhart
All in the Family H
appy New Year! What’s coming for festive 2019? Keep an eye on the New York Times Style section. When politics merges with prison, couture will blossom, with new designs for the world of “Orange Is the New Black.” Truly stylish outfits—cleverly commissioned in anticipation of indictment by Ivanka—and manufactured in China, who will award her the brand—proud that she will be bringing something better to incarceration—with the expectation that her father’s influence will have the entire federal prison system order them from Trump companies. Why should the incarcerations be any different than the inauguration? Far-fetched? It appears (our synonym for alleged) that all Trump businesses are crooked in some way, shape, or form. Everyone around him is either a sleaze—he has a nose for recruiting them—or becomes one. It’s a multigenerational family thing. Calling it a tradition is too mild. It’s more like being born into a sub-culture or inheriting a compulsion. The president’s grandfather, Frederick Trump, was a draft dodger who snuck out of Germany to avoid taxes as well as military service. He came to America and followed the Gold Rush up to Alaska. He opened facilities to serve the miners. Some have called them brothels and Frederick a pimp. An anonymous letter rated one of them very highly: “For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings—and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.” Euphemism was the language of the day, and documentation scarce, which will allow you, if you prefer, to think of him as a hotelier who had sex available as a service and profited thereby. Donald’s father, Fred, was a builder. He was very successful at it. In part because he had an aptitude for fraud. He got money from the Federal Housing Authority, appears to have bribed the administrator, used phony evaluations, and pocketed money that appeared on the books as costs. In 1954, there was an investigation of profiteering. Fred was questioned. His testimony is a perfect model—indeed a teaching guide—
for Donald’s ducks, dodges, and dishonesties years later. In 1992, the Trumps set up a special company, All County Building Supply and Maintenance, whose sole purpose appears to have been fraud. It “acted” as a purchasing agent for Trump properties, added 20 percent to 50 percent, billed the properties, and kept the difference. This allowed the Trumps to artificially jack up regulated rents—effects still being felt today—and to evade taxes. All County was owned by Donald plus his three siblings and a cousin. It makes them a literal crime family, not a merely metaphoric one. One of the siblings was Maryanne Trump Barry, who became a federal judge in 1983. The New York Times only discovered the shell company because she revealed a $1,000,000 contribution from it for her Senate confirmation hearings. Donald has tried to operate many businesses—casinos, an airline, beverage company, mortgage company, the Plaza Hotel, Trump University, a vodka line, steaks—that have failed. All of these, along with his few successes, have been marked by the same things—pulling money out through fees and contracts with other entities that are himself in disguise, sticking others with the costs, and, as in the case of Trump University, outright frauds. His casinos are on the record as having been money laundering operations. It is likely that his real estate holdings have survived primarily because they—allegedly—served as money laundries. Just as Fred included his children in special ways of doing business, Donald has done the same with his children, Don, Jr., Eric, and, yes, Ivanka. Don’t forget Jared. He’s more than a son-in-law. Jared’s a kindred spirit. He inherited a real estate fortune from a criminal father. When he had a chance to make his own deals, he went big, and it was, like most of Donald’s deals, a terrible one that put it all on the edge of bankruptcy. He only saved himself with suspect deals for foreign money from very unpleasant people. Tiffany and Barron—Donald’s younger children—are apparently not included in the family gang. Trump got away with his errors and crimes for four reasons. He was willing
to spend a lot on lawsuits, making him more trouble than he was worth. When it was clear that he was going to lose, as with Trump University, he folded. Big real estate money is an essential sustenance of New York politics. Money laundering is an essential sustenance of New York real estate. New York prosecutors stay away. Perhaps most important, he learned the game at his father’s knee, making things sound as if they were legitimate or had only inadvertently crossed an ambiguous line. As president, those conditions no longer hold. The law is coming for him for everything he’s done. The missing millions from the inauguration fund. We now know Ivanka is in the middle of that. The games
The president’s grandfather was a draft dodger who snuck out of Germany to avoid taxes as well as military service. with the Trump Foundation. Don, Jr., Eric, and Ivanka are part of that. The Russians and the Russian money go through them. Ivanka’s deals in China. Jared’s deals with the Saudis and others. The tax evasions in New York. All that will be investigated. As with investigations of metaphoric crime families, they will proceed upward. It appears certain that there are crimes. Almost certain that they will be revealed. Then what? Indictments? Plea deals? Will the children testify against Dad to save themselves? Will Dad tell them not to rat and hang them out to dry to save himself ? Will Ivanka commission really stylish outfits in orange for the whole family? If so, will Donald find a way to profit from it? That’s what I’m thinking about for 2019. 1/19 CHRONOGRAM 17
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from the archives
The Money-Making Ethic By Karl Widerquist
In the 20 years since Brian asked me to write “The Money-Making Ethic” for Chronogram, I’ve published several books and dozens of articles on Universal Basic Income (UBI)—a policy that would provide a regular lifetime income, large enough to live on for everyone without a work requirement or any other strings attached. This policy would effectively make “work” optional for everyone. This article doesn’t mention UBI directly, but it addresses one of the arguments most commonly used against it: that it supposedly violates the “work ethic,” which is usually portrayed as some belief that everyone should “work” for what they get. But we have no work ethic in this country or any other country I know of. We have a moneymaking ethic that rich people can satisfy just by owning investments—whether they created those investments or not. Everyone else can only satisfy it by getting a job, which means finding somebody with more money and doing what they say for 40 hours per week (or more). I support UBI in part because if we’re not holding everyone to a real work ethic, we have no business holding anyone to a work ethic. —Karl Widerquist
D
o you think the world would be a better place if people spent more time making money? Sounds silly when you say it like that, but that belief is strongly propagated in our society. Of course, you don’t hear it said that way—you hear it said that people need to learn “the value of hard work,” but we all know what that means. There are other definitions of work, such as toll, effort, and production, but when people in our society say “work,” they usually mean “time spent making money.” All other time doing anything else then is “leisure.” Our society’s work ethic amounts to a “money-making ethic.” We venerate work and denigrate leisure. We value time spent making money as if work represents our entire contribution to society; as if work is what gives our lives meaning; as if work is who we are. Art and science, for example, were once considered leisure activities, but now they have become completely professionalized and people typically say that someone is not a real artist (or scientist, writer, athlete,
or activist) unless they make money at it, as if the ultimate function of any human activity was to collect cash. People usually find themselves evaluated by their job (or by their spouse’s job). We disrespect people who have low-paying or low-status jobs, even if they have some activity outside of work that gives meaning to their life, such as raising children, loving someone, or travel. A strong individualist might not be bothered by this kind of disapproval, but most of us aren’t that strong. When we think of work, we usually think of doing something difficult and important. Maybe the vision of somebody turning a crank on a big machine comes to mind. When we think of leisure, we think of someone who’s goofing off. Maybe the vision of someone relaxing in a lawn chair sipping a soda comes to mind. But we need to free ourselves from this view, it’s counterproductive. A job can be an important source of satisfaction for many people, but not for everyone. Some work is valuable, necessary, and a source of individual satisfaction, but some things we do in our leisure time are just as valuable, and often more so. It’s true that some of the things we do in our off hours are a silly waste of time, but some things that make money are also a silly waste of time. We are used to equating the distinction between “work” and “leisure” with the distinction between “work” and “play,” but this is misleading—many of the most important moments in life are not work but cannot be called play, either. Imagine a single mother and fast-food employee who hates her job and loves her family. In her work time, she makes unhealthy food for people spending their leisure time at a fast-food restaurant. After work, she takes care of her children, visits her grandfather, and listens to a friend’s problems. All of these activities are more important than selling greasy hamburgers. To her, “work” is only important if it makes these things possible. For most people, failure at leisure can be far more destructive than failure at work could possibly be. Imagine a single father, also a fast-food employee, who hates his job and hates his family. He spends his leisure time getting drunk and neglecting his children. He ignores his friends and his parents when they
We originally published this piece in January 1999. Since then, Karl Widerquist has become one of the leading voices of the worldwide basic income movement.
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This illustration by Brad Holland ran with the original article. In retrospect, we wonder what a floating man, holding a brush, with a beard pointing into the ground, has to do with work or money.
We use work as an approximation for wellspent time, but praising the act of making money is a poor substitute for praising well-spent time. Work is only as good or as bad as the leisure it serves. We do not need to glorify the act of making money as if all work was wellspent time and all leisure was wasted time. 20 CHRONOGRAM 1/19
need help with a problem. If he fails at work, people don’t get their unhealthy food as fast as they want, but if he fails at home he can seriously hurt his family and himself. The only recent effort to reconsider the work ethic has come from feminists who have attempted to redefine work as “time spent making money plus time spent raising children.” But this does not go far enough, because it leaves in place the basic premise that work is how we should evaluate people. We need to realize that raising children is only one of many important activities that don’t make money, and that many activities that do make money aren’t really all that important. We don’t need to redefine work, we need to dump the work ethic. If work were defined as toil, effort, or production, then certainly raising children would qualify more than many money-making activities, but the most important part of raising a child is not the toil but the love. Imagine a parent who is available for her children 24 hours a day, to love them, to read to them, to teach them, and to console them when they are sick, but pays someone else to cook and clean for them. Imagine another parent who cooks and cleans for her children, but tries to pay someone else to love them. The work ethic screws up our priorities because it ignores the fact that the function of work is to serve us in our leisure time. For example, imagine a carpenter who builds a house. The reason this act is a contribution to society is because it will be used in leisure: When she finishes the house, someone will live in it, play in it, sleep in it, make love in it, make dinner in it. The satisfaction she gets from a job well done is not from her toil but from the use that people get out of using what she builds. Imagine another carpenter who toils just as hard, but builds something that no one wants, and that just gets thrown out when she’s done. Her satisfaction of a job well done disappears. She may enjoy the act of building, but building for the pure joy of building is leisure, and it’s only worth doing if she enjoys it more than any other leisure activity. The product of all work, directly or indirectly, is consumed by someone during their leisure time. It doesn’t matter if the carpenter builds a house or an office building, you can trace the results to consumption. We use work as an approximation for well-spent time, but praising the act of making money is a poor substitute for praising well-spent time. Work is only as good or as bad as the leisure it serves: For every person who spends their off hours getting drunk, there is a person who spends
their work hours selling drinks, encouraging other people to buy cigarettes, or feeding people’s sexual fetishes. We do not need to glorify the act of making money as if all work was well-spent time and all leisure was wasted time. We do need to consider what activities are important to us and what work is necessary to support those activities. A society that evaluates people by their work is very far from a society that evaluates people by their contribution to society. Van Gogh’s “work” was coal mining; he painted in his free time. Emily Dickinson never “worked” a day in her life. Einstein discovered the theory of relativity while goofing off from his job as a patent clerk. Of course, all these contributions did make money for somebody eventually, if not for the person who created them. But take my grandfather instead. He was the only custom shirtmaker in Chicago from 1929 until about 1976. He built a business and sold custom shirts to wealthy people, including Al Capone. People said he was successful. He had a lot of money saved by the time he retired. About that time, his wife contracted Alzheimer’s disease. He took care of her as long as he could, and when she finally had to be put into a nursing home, he got an apartment nearby so that he could sit with her every day. When she woke up not knowing where she was, he was there to comfort her. This went on for eight years before she died. If he hadn’t sat with her every day, her last conscious moments would have been lonely and frightening. This was my grandfather’s most important contribution to society. If he had not gone to work every day, Al Capone would have had to buy his shirts off the rack. It was not his work that made him an honorable person. No one would dare accuse him of “working” when he sat with his wife. This would have implied that he was there out of a sense of responsibility or guilt rather than love. Caring for other people is not work: it’s far more important. If we make work the centerpiece of our self-esteem it will become the most important thing in our lives. If we think of work as who we are, it is in danger of becoming all we are. I do my job; you do your job; my computer does its job. We all do our part; that’s all there is to it; and we never need to stop and ask ourselves what we work for. But, ultimately what we work for is what’s important, not work itself. A society that values the effort we put into producing things more than we value the use of those things can find itself working and working and working to produce things that don’t make our lives better.
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Chronogram Conversations On December 5, Scribner’s Catskill Lodge—a stunning and painstakingly re-envisioned inn at the base of Hunter Mountain—hosted our final Chronogram Conversations event of 2018. At 5pm more than 75 eager attendees entered the grand foyer and moved onto the Library lounge, where they were greeted with a signature cocktail from the in-house mixologist and canapes that amplified the region’s idyllic location—surrounded by farms, rivers, and lakes, and the bounty that can come from sustainably tending them. Business owners, artists, bankers, students, other inn proprietors, and those with a keen ear to the groundswell of growth across Greene County arrived eager to listen and share their thoughts. Luminary Media’s Conversations series—for those reading about it for the first time—is a networking and thought leadership discussion event that travels our Hudson Valley and Catskills communities, bringing issues of the moment forward and giving voice to all with an interest. At Scribner’s, Chronogram Editorial Director Brian K. Mahoney moderated a panel of Greene County change makers, which included Jeff Friedman (Greene County Chamber of Commerce), Sarah Slutsky (Jessie’s Harvest House), Brian Wagner (Deer Mountain Inn), Robert Tomlinson (Catskill Mountain Foundation), and Marc Chodock (Scribner’s). Topics of discussion ranged from equitable development to education, the proliferation of the arts, affordable housing, and sustainability. Visit Chronogram.com to see where and when the next opportunity is for you to join the Conversation. —Brian Berusch
Clockwise from top: Dallas McCann of Fromer Market Gardens and Edward A Ullmann of Wellness Rx. Lisa Marie, Luminary Slaes Operations Manager at the check-in table. Michael Temun, President of the Board of Directors, Bridge Street Theater; John Sowle, Bridge Street Theater cofounder; woodworker Michael Puryear. The panel at Scribners: Jeff Friedman (Greene County Chamber of Commerce), Marc Chodock (Scribner’s), Brian Wagner (Deer Mountain Inn), Sarah Slutsky (Jessie’s Harvest House), and Robert Tomlinson (Catskill Mountain Foundation). Victoria Levy, marketing assistant at Luminary Media; Kim McGalliard of Jagerberg Beer Hall and Alpine Tavern; Kris Schneider, Media Specialist at Luminary Media. Carly Planker, Director of Events and Programming at Scribner’s with bartender (and Chronogram contributor) JD Eiseman. 22 CHRONOGRAM 1/19
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BUDGET EATS 25 Places Under $10 TO GRAB A BITE FOR
CHRONOGRAM STAFF & READER FAVORITES by Marie Doyon
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s The Byrds once crooned, there is “a time to every purpose, under heaven”—a time for saving, a time for splurging, a time for fancy dinners, and a time for cheap eats. In the New Year, while some of us are watching our waistlines, others will be watching their wallets. So we set out to bring you 23 affordable restaurants we love in the Hudson Valley. Our rubric? A decent bite to eat for under $10 (pre-tax, pre-tip). Here they are folks, gobble ’em up. If we missed your favorite inexpensive dining destination, let us know— and don’t worry! We revisit this list every year.
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Bread Alone
Gracie’s Luncheonette
Bread Alone was baking organic bread long before it was in vogue. Since 1983, their flaky loaves have been a cornerstone of the local food scene. Try their bread at the source at any of their four cafe/retail locations. Order from the all-day breakfast menu for a $4 egg-and-cheese or opt for a hearty soup, salad, or sandwich. Bread Alone cooks use New York State ingredients and their bread is made fresh daily.
This little luncheonette has taken the familiar comfort of a local diner—with its counter stools, milkshakes, coffee top-ups, and all-day breakfast menu—and elevated it. Everything from the bread to the ice cream and the condiments is made fresh, in-house; dairy, produce, and meat are from surrounding farms. The convergence of hyper-fresh sourcing and a dedication to laid-back approachability makes this little eatery a pleasure to frequent.
Circle W Market
Frida’s Bakery + Cafe
With a quaint white-and-red exterior, a candystripe awning, and a picket fence, this little roadside market looks straight out of another time. Serving breakfast, lunch, coffee, “bonkers” doughnuts and other baked goodies, this small and homey general store is the perfect place to pull up a chair at a creaky old table, and soak in the view.
Founded by the owner of Buttermilk Falls Inn and Henry’s at the Farm, Friday’s offers breakfast, lunch, and baked goods, all made from scratch daily. With a build-your-own salad bar that includes everything from quinoa to whitefish to kale (priced by the pound), paninis, wraps, and burgers, this is a great spot for a quick lunch that hits the spot.
Rhinebeck, Kingston, Woodstock, & Boiceville
Our Pick: Carrot Bahn Mi ($9) Palenville
Our Pick: Avocado Toast with Sriracha & Eden Shake ($7; add eggs for $2)
Leeds
Our Pick: Poutine ($8) Milton
Our Pick: Frida’s Farmers Salad ($8.50)
Middle Eastern delicacies from Ziatun in Beacon.
Top Taste
Ziatun
Pete’s Famous
In a squat, snub-nosed flatiron building at a funny six-way intersection in Midtown Kingston sits an inconspicuous gem. From the outside, Top Taste could be mistaken for a bodega, but inside you’ll find all the finger-licking, bone-in Jamaican delicacies you could ask for—oxtail, jerk chicken, curry chicken, stew chicken, beef patties, and goat curry, which is to die for. There is also a hot bar and rotating daily specials. It’s small, though, so be prepared to order out.
Savor the flavors of the Middle East in this Oriental rug-clad eatery on Beacon’s trendy main drag. For lunch, the pita wrap offers an affordable preview of the dinner mains—shawarma, lamb, kofta, chicken. Vegetarians will find plenty of soups, sides, and rice dishes to satisfy, from the addas (red lentil stew) to the hand-rolled grape leaves to the falafels.
In a Dutch barn-style building on Poughkeepsie’s Main Street, the Drivas family cooks up a sizzling mix of breakfast food, deli sandwiches, and pub grub. Build your own breakfast skillet, dig into an egg platter with corned beef hash, sink your teeth into a chicken chipotle sandwich, or get an order of wings and mozz sticks. The common denominator? They’re all delicious and all under $10.
Kingston
Our Pick: Jerk Chicken ($7)
Palace Dumpling Wappingers Falls
Sharing a strip mall with Smokes4Less, a nail salon, and a dry cleaners, Palace Dumpling doesn’t exactly have, er, palatial digs. But it’s not lofty setting that has people coming back. Palace Dumpling offers over 30 varieties of steaming dumplings alongside a host of soups, salads, noodle dishes, and tea. For between $8 and $13, you get a plate of 12 dumplings, enough to fill you up on your lunch break, or accompany with a salad for dinner.
Beacon
Our Pick: Shawarma Wrap ($9)
Tony’s Newburgh Lunch Newburgh
Tony’s has been a fixture in the waterfront city of Newburgh for going on 50 years, beloved by locals for its cheap hot dogs, homey feel, and special sauce (which you can order online). With breakfast specials ranging from $1.50 to $3.40, hot dogs for $2.25 a piece, and cheeseburgers for $2.75, you have to really be hungry to spend more than 10 bucks a head here. Just don’t forget your cholesterol medication!
Our Pick: 1 Hot Dog with Everything ($2.25) + 1 Cheeseburger with Texas Sauce ($2.75)
Poughkeepsie
Our Pick: Italian Breakfast Skillet ($7.75)
Historic Red Hook Diner Red Hook
Gleaming chrome exterior, neon signage, swivel stools, and aquamarine tiling—aah the splendor of the Red Hook Diner. It’s everything you want out of a 20th-century, all-American roadside eatery—breakfast all day, bottomless coffee, stacks of flapjacks, and friendly staff. Nothing new or flashy here, just all the classics. Our Pick: Long Horn Special ($9.75)
Our Pick: Pork with Cabbage Dumplings ($8.95)
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The breakfast special at Main Street Bistro in New Paltz is still $1.99.
Underground Coffee and Ales
Mexican Kitchen
Main Street Bistro
In an undeniably stark culinary landscape, Underground Coffee & Ales is a bastion of good taste, serving up a rotating slew of craft beers, fair trade coffee, and elevated pub grub. The breakfast menu, available from 9:3011am, offers a variety of cheap options (the Caboose Sandwich stands out, with two eggs, sausage, white cheddar, salsa, and avocado for just $7). Later in the day, it’s harder to get in under the $10 mark, but still affordable.
On Taco Tuesday, this shoebox Mexican joint is swarming with college kids clambering for $1 tacos and $2 beers. True, it’s a hell of a deal, but you can’t go wrong at Mexican Kitchen any day of the week. Full price, the tacos hover around $2.85 a piece, and are melt-in-your-mouth good. The tostadas are also a bargain, loaded with beans, queso, meat, lettuce, and onions.
On weekends, Main Street Bistro is a smoothly oiled madhouse. Innocent weekenders retreat into corners as broke college kids storm the halls to rejoice over the $1.95 special: two eggs, home fries, and toast. The omelettes start at $3, the breakfast sandwiches at $2.50, and if you’re willing to fork over a Hamilton, there is a smorgasbord of options, from the Alamo Scramble to the eggs benedict for just under $10.
Highland
Our Pick: Breakfast Burrito ($9)
Meyer’s Old Dutch Beacon
From the owners of the acclaimed Kitchen Sink Food & Drink, Meyer’s offers a range of good ol’ American eats at a reasonable price, including beef, lamb, and vegan options. The New York State Special, their quarter-pounder, comes in at just $7. Taking inspiration from their initials, the playful interior features mod accents and cool lighting. Our Pick: Crispy Chicken Sandwich ($9)
Big W Roadside BBQ Wingdale
Warren Norstein traded a pedigreed French restaurant for a roadside barbecue joint, and he couldn’t be happier. The meat is all dry-rubbed with spices and smoked for 5 to 17 hours. As a rule, sauce and slaw are served on the side. Extras like smokey beans, something green, and corn pudding are made daily from scratch. For the “truly sensible” you can get away with a pulled chicken sandwich for $6.85, but if you want a “Try It All” combo platter, plan to spend upward of $30 (and share with a friend). Our pick:“Sensible” Pulled Pork Sandwich ($9.75) 26 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 1/19
New Paltz
Our Pick: Carnitas tacos x3 ($8.55)
Taqueria Poblano Kingston
Off Broadway in Kingston, on a little side street, this little “hole in the wall” serves up hot, delicious, authentic Mexican food at a bargain. The owners used to operate a beloved food truck that could be seen parked in Midtown. Now with a brick-and-mortar location, the menu has expanded and there is room to sit down and eat. The tacos are delicious, traditional street-style fare, with heaps of raw onion and cilantro, starting at $2. You can feast like a rey for $10, but don’t forget to bring cash, no cards allowed. Our Pick: Shrimp Enchiladas ($7)
Nelly’s
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One Yelper affectionately called Nelly’s “A hole in the wall full of goodness!” This small Dominican restaurant offers all the Caribbean’s island’s hearty eats from pernil to oxtail to stewed chicken, empanadas, and plantains-a-plenty. With budget-friendly prices and big portions, this is a great place to eat with a family.
Our Pick: Small “Tres Golpes” breakfast ($5)
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The B-Side Grill New Paltz
B-Side is a combo breakfast and burger joint. The holy grail of budget dining in this college town, most of B-Side’s menu items are under $10. If you’re very broke (and very hungry) try the Burger Challenge—two one-pound cheeseburgers, a pound of fries, a pound of onion rings, and a milkshake all in 30 minutes. If you fail, you’ll have to fork over $25, but if you succeed, glory! Our Pick: Green Eggs ‘n’ Ham ($7.95)
Nana’s Creative Cafe Woodstock
Nana’s is locals’ favorite spot for a cheap and cheerful breakfast. Offering up a variety of scratch-cooked dishes, sandwiches, soups, fresh-baked goods, and rotating lunch specials like teriyaki chicken, you can always find something to fit the bill. Lunch sammies are classic deli fare, from the chicken Caesar wrap to the tuna melt and the BLTA (A is for avocado). Our pick: Crazy Egg Sandwich with Bacon ($7.20)
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The Cascades Hudson
From its appearance to its menu, The Cascades straddles a careful line between old-school deli and classy espresso bar (pinstripe awning, tin ceilings, deli paper, cortados). As Warren Street’s neighborhood deli and coffee bar, their motto says it all: “Good Food. Reasonable Prices. Friendly People.” Breakfast is dominated by bagels and waffles, while lunch is all wraps and classic sandwiches, all for under $10. Our pick: Mountain Morning Bagel ($8.95)
Peace Nation Cafe Kingston
This Guatemalan breakfast and lunch joint was founded with a focus on sustainability. Most of the cafe’s ingredients are organic and locally sourced, with the corn tortillas made in-house by hand. Fill up with a hearty burrito, a trio of pupusas, breakfast tacos, or fried garnachas—all for under $10. Vegans, fear not, there’s a whole plant-based menu! Our Pick: Chilaquiles ($9.95)
Tinker Taco Lab Woodstock
Tucked down a little alley with a patio overlooking the Tannery Brook, Tinker Taco Lab churns out authentic Mexican street tacos and tamales in a cozy space. Owner Jim Jennings makes his cheese, cream, pickled vegetables, tortillas, and tamale dough in-house. Try the best-selling pork-belly confit taco with jalapeno jam or go the tamale route. Our pick: 1 Carnitas Taco ($5.25) + 1 El Niño Taco ($4.95)
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With several loaded salads for $9, affordable all-day breakfast sandwiches, and a slew of Boar’s Head deli wraps and melts, you can easily fill up on a budget at this beloved Pine Plains establishment. The namesake dish is a hearty $9 smorgasbord with two eggs, bacon, sausage, roasted potatoes, and toast. Our Pick: Triple P Cheese Steak ($8.50)
Simone’s Kitchen Coxsackie
This Coxsackie eatery is give a Mediterranean twist to the buildyour-own poke bowl trend. Starting with a base of rice, quinoa, or fresh greens; add protein (like souvlaki, meatballs, or falafel), salata (mmm, kale tabouli), dip (tzatziki, anyone?); and drizzle in dressing to finish it off. Choose either a small bowl ($6.25) or a large ($8.25), and for extra, add cheese, grape leaves, or double your protein. Our Pick: Big Bowl with Falafel, Crunchy Beets, Creamy Avocado, and Tahini ($8.25)
The Egg at the CIA Hyde Park
This 28,000-square-foot, Adam Tihany-designed food court overlooking the Hudson River is the CIA’s student dining hall. An open secret: The public can eat here as well. Dining stations—such as noodle bowls, wood-fired pizzas, and artisanal sandwiches—use local, responsible, and sustainable ingredients whenever possible. There’s also some of the nicest furniture you’ll find in any college cafeteria. Our Pick: Crispy Pork Cutlet Noodle Bowl ($9)
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the drink Nice Cans Walk into any beer distributor and the display of craft cans hits you like a kaleidoscope of color, geometric patterns, and bold typography. Craft beer producers are not only creating innovative brews with fun appellations, they’re applying a curated-yet-chill aesthetic to packaging. On the local scene, Hudson Valley Brewery is leading the charge with their high-design cans. “We’ve been conducting ‘Art Department’ meetings since day one, before we had beer in distribution, even before our brewing system was in place,” says Jason Synan, brewer and co-owner of the Beacon-based company. As craft breweries have transitioned toward direct-toconsumer sales approaches, social media platforms have become their primary marketing tool. “Instagram is a visual medium that both encourages and rewards creativity,” Synan explains; simply put: “People want to look at cool stuff.” Hudson Valley Brewery’s first beers were released to the public two winters ago. Since then, their Instagram following has reached a baffling 50.4K, and their roving can release parties have grown into massive 500-person affairs that sell out in advance. Their limited-edition beers turn over every couple weeks, adding an element of scarcity and mystique to already good beer. The can design process at Hudson Valley Brewery is a collaborative conversation between the owners and the illustrator Evan M. Cohen. In early December, the company released Apotheosis and Babylon (both sour IPAs). According to Synan, the design concept was an exploration of “the relationship between civilization and the mythology it creates, to inspire and remind people that they have within them a capacity for greatness.” Look forward to more great beers and mindbending cans from Hudson Valley Brewery in 2019. No spoilers!
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Beautiful Bones
A GALLERIST AND INTERIOR DESIGNER BEGINS AGAIN (AND AGAIN) IN HUDSON By Mary Angeles Armstrong Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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rancis Rick Gillette’s affinity for beautiful, distinctive design began early, in the small town of Rome in central New York. “When I was five or six years old, my mom took me to my Aunt Linda’s house to see her new kitchen,” Gillette explains. “It was the Space Age: All the lower cabinets were stainless steel and the sink was part of a continuous stainless-steel countertop that curved inwards. I just flipped when I saw it.” He especially loved the kitchen’s upper wall cabinets—white painted metal with sliding frosted doors.
Francis Rick Gillette in the gallery of his live/work loft. The mirrored modular storage unit pictured exemplifies his talent for repurposing design. “It had its first incarnation in the den of my Park Avenue apartment in the mid-70s,” he explains. “The tower—as I call it—has moved with me and grown in size with each of my six homes.” Reflected behind Gillette is an oil on canvas painting by John Donovan. Gillette’s second-floor loft is on Warren Street in Hudson. With both a gallery and showroom, Gillette regularly fills the space with pieces he’s collected over the years. “Whether I am creating a new environment for myself or a client, I believe in injecting personal history to the concept by carefully curating things you’ve acquired throughout your life,” he says. 1/19 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 33
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It’s hard to believe that Gillette’s mother or aunt would have been surprised by the boy’s enthusiasm. Gillette’s eye for household objects developed early, as did his inclination to curate and collect. “At five years old, I was already collecting coffee pots—my mother couldn’t take me to one of my aunt’s or her friend’s houses without my leaving with a coffee pot,” Gillette remembers. (“We’re Italian,” he says, noting that he also had his first taste of coffee at five.) His growing collection of coffee pots was carefully stored in the family basement beside shelves of canned foods and storage, until one day when he was 12 and his mother put them on the street in bushel baskets, hoping to give them away. “She thought I’d outgrown them,” he remembers. “It was one of the most traumatic experiences for me at that time,” he adds. But Gillette’s days as a collector had really just begun. Unfortunately, Aunt Linda’s kitchen would eventually burn down, but it seemed fortuitous when, years later upon Gillette’s return to upstate New York, he found two of the exact same cabinets at the Carousel Antique Center on Warren Street in Hudson. “I totally, totally love these cabinets,” Gillette says. “They were made right after the war, because there were all these factories that had metalworking ability. In other words, the places that used to make airplanes or boats began to make these kitchen cabinets.” This appreciation for not only the integrity of a well-designed object, but a thorough understanding of its unique place in domestic history, is indicative of Gillette’s particular sort of genius. That is, he sees potential—whether it’s in a face, a building, or an object—and utilizes his knack for either uncovering the beauty he finds or restoring it. This aesthetic is evident everywhere in the second-floor live/work loft, showroom, and gallery space he inhabits in a four-story building overlooking Warren Street, the town’s main drag. Filled with objects he has gleaned from years of scouring thrift stores and antique shops, or even found on the street, and decorated with a revolving exhibit of artist’s works on the walls, the 3000-square-foot space is an ever-evolving display for Gillette’s eclectic taste in design. Based on his description of multiple off-site storage facilities filled with the ample cache of pieces he’s amassed over the years, the space won’t go empty anytime soon. “My home is part of my whole working palette,” explains Gillette, who also works as an interior designer helping others decorate their way through transitions. “What everything really is about is curating things,” he says. “Let’s say, like me, you’ve got all of this stuff that you’ve collected over the years and something has changed or you want to shake up your life. I help people create new lifestyles for themselves.”
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Top: The living room of Gillette’s private quarters. The photo is a blowup of some of Gillette’s early work. “It’s one of the few photos where I did the hair and make-up, as well as the styling and photography,” he says. The Lotus sectional sofa was made by the Danish company Soft Line. The chocolate chenille upholstery is original to the piece, but in 2017 Gillette recovered additional cushions with vintage moss green velour fabric. Bottom: Gillette’s showroom includes Design on Demand “Etica” pendant lights by the Italian designer Daniele Gualeni. Gillette found the 1980’s Art Deco style dining table with a Lucite and brushed aluminum base glass top at Antigo on Warren Street in Hudson.
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Revolving Collection Gillette’s own life trajectory exemplifies the possibility of creative reinvention. After childhood, Gillette moved to New York City, where he had a varied career as an interior designer, make-up artist and photographer, and spent 20 years working for Vogue magazine. During all those years, however, he continued to collect and curate furniture, homewares and art—sometimes working with experts to restore the pieces he found, sometimes doing the work himself. In the back of his mind, he hoped to one day finally share his collection with the world. “I was looking for a furniture showroom, where I could display my furniture and objects,” he remembers. Five years ago, he found the perfect space to do it. He chose Hudson for both its vibrant art scene and its affordability.
Located in a building dating from 1993, his loft includes both a front and back entrance, 11-foot ceilings, and abundant light from five large street-facing windows. He took a lease on the space in May of 2013 and then that August took the plunge and moved to Hudson full-time. From there, his business evolved. “This is really what I came here to do,” he explains, “take all the stuff I had in storage, find the right people to do the work on those pieces and then open a store to sell those things.” The idea to also utilize the space as an art gallery came next. “Because I ended up with this particular space, it opened all these other doors to working with other designers and artists. Every artist that’s come here has heard about this place and wanted to collaborate. I got an opportunity to collaborate that I didn’t expect to have. I’ve loved it so much.”
Gillette’s street-facing gallery is regularly redecorated with an eclectic blend of living room sets, chairs, coffee and dining tables. Currently, the gallery space is exhibiting artist John Donovan, whose work appeared on the cover of the September issue of this magazine. “Donovan’s oil paintings on conventional or shaped canvases check all the boxes of the genre of art I’m most attracted too. The work is precise, the application of paint to canvas is impeccable, and the colors are shockingly vibrant, they heighten the mood wherever they’re hung.”
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Top: Gillette’s living and sleeping area is dominated by a two-panel print by Karl Klingbiel. The headboard is a 1960’s lacquered ebony bedroom set Gillette inherited from his brother. The fitted bedcover was repurposed from an Indian Sari and Gillette found the metallic pillows in a linen drawer. “I don’t even remember where I got them or how they ended up in that drawer, but they were perfect with the bedcover so I had them filled with feathers.” Bottom: “Aunt Linda’s” kitchen cabinets surrounded by some of Gillette’s favorite vintage kitchen equipment and topped with a few coffee pots. “I have this thing for industrial design, specifically for kitchen appliances.”
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A New Take for Each New Year Over the past five years, Gillette has gutremodeled the place to suit his needs (there was previously no kitchen) and changed up the decor multiple times each year. Now, the gallery space spills into the show room and then again into his own living quarters in the back. Built around “Aunt Linda’s” kitchen cabinets, the back kitchen is a mix of Ikea shelving and hard plastic cubits from Design Within Reach, all filled with vintage kitchen appliances. “I have this thing for industrial design,” Gillette explains, showing off his vintage waffle iron, grilled cheese maker, and milkshake maker, as well as his 1950s electric oven. The ample shelving even provides space for his restarted coffee pot collection. There is also a wall filled with Gillette’s own personal collection of paintings, gathered over the years. Gillette’s living and sleeping spaces are creatively separated by metal-like railing. Recycled from a shuttered daycare, Gillette took what was once a bright orange 12foot playpen, painted the rails metallic white, then cut them up and hung them both vertically and horizontally to create a visual mix. His living room area is dominated by a bedroom set—in his family for a generation—creatively repurposed by stacking end tables into a living room console. By Gillette’s bed, he enlarged the window to create a full square picture window overlooking neighboring buildings and infusing the back rooms with light. “Now I can lay in bed and look out at the sky,” he says. The living area is separated from a bathroom with a wall of black and white portraiture Gillette took during his days at Vogue. “Everything has a story in here,” he explains. Sandwiched between the living area and the large gallery space is a furniture showroom filled with an ever-revolving display of his current pieces. A powder room off the public space is decorated with 1960s British wallpaper salvaged from a thrift store. (“There were five rolls of paper,” Gillette explains, “and it took exactly five rolls to cover this room.”) The front gallery space, reserved for larger dining sets, sofas, and other pieces is also ever shifting with new finds and pieces Gillette has brought back to their previous perfection. “It’s always a work in progress,” Gillette explains. “My life is a work in progress, it just keeps changing.” “Who knows,” Gillette says, looking around his perfectly decorated space, “by February, this could all look totally different.”
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SIMPLE & SUSTAINABLE YOU MAKE YOUR 2019 HEALTH RESOLUTION DOABLE WITH THESE EASY AND EFFECTIVE TIPS. By Jennifer Bucko Lamplough and Lara Rondinelli-Hamilton
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Research and identify an eating pattern you can live with. Studies show that there are many different eating patterns that can be helpful in managing diabetes. That means that if you’re trying to get your health in order, you don’t have to stick to a rigid plan that restricts many of your favorite foods. Some effective eating patterns include vegetarian or flexitarian, Mediterranean, low-carbohydrate, and lowglycemic. You’ll find these and more options in The Diabetes Cookbook 300 Recipes for Healthy Living Powered by the Diabetes Food Hub (American Diabetes Association, 2018). Choose leaner cuts of meat. Saturated fat—the kind found in animal protein—raises blood cholesterol levels, which is a risk factor for heart disease. An easy way to reduce your saturated fat intake is by choosing lean cuts of meat. Avoid or reduce your intake of lard, fatback, and high-fat meats like regular ground beef, bologna, hot dogs, sausage, bacon, spareribs, and the skin from chicken and other poultry. Instead, choose skinless poultry; fish, turkey, and beef trimmed of fat, including round, sirloin, flank, and tenderloin; and lean cuts of pork, including center loin chop and tenderloin. Plan your meal around veggies (instead of making them the afterthought). At mealtimes, try to fill at least half of your plate with nonstarchy vegetables like spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, bell peppers, Brussels sprouts, and eggplant. Veggies like cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, and Brussels sprouts are delicious when roasted in the oven, and sautéing cabbage, bell peppers, and eggplant brings out their natural flavors. Finally, start any meal with a simple salad of mixed greens to help you meet your veggie quota.
Try lettuce wraps instead of bread. Iceberg, green leaf, or butter lettuce make a surprisingly delicious bread substitute. Use them in place of bread for your next sandwich. Nestle burgers or grilled chicken inside a lettuce “cup” in place of hamburger buns, and carefully wrap deli meats and toppings into a low-carb lettuce sub sandwich and secure it with wax paper and a piece of tape. Then tear the paper away as you eat. Eat veggie noodles in place of pasta. For a great pasta substitute, sample the veggie noodles trend. Veggie noodles are a delicious, lower-carb option that can be eaten in place of grain-based pastas. A kitchen tool called a “spiralizer” quickly and easily turns vegetables into “noodles,” or you can use a standard vegetable peeler for a similar result. For even more convenience, you can now find these spiralized veggies in the freezer or produce section of many grocery stores. Try noodles made from zucchini, sweet potato, carrot, or spaghetti squash. Top them with chili, Bolognese sauce, or use them to make a cold “pasta salad” or noodle dishes like pad thai. Hint: You can also try cauliflower, butternut, or broccoli “rice” in place of regular rice for a lower-carb option.
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or the leisure class, “sports are an occasional diversion rather than a serious feature of life,” wrote the social theorist Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class, which introduced the concept of conspicuous consumption. Among sports, downhill skiing may be the most conspicuous of all, requiring ample leisure time, money, and environmental upheaval, so that individuals can sashay down a lift-served slope stripped of trees. “These sports,” Veblen concluded, “as well as the general range of predaceous impulses and habits of thought which underlie the sporting character, do not altogether commend themselves to common sense.” Cross-country skiing, however, is a decidedly less showy and destructive affair, and thus perhaps offers its adherents claim to a moral high ground, or at least the sturdy mantle of common sense. Cross-country skiers rely entirely on their own locomotion to traverse snowy terrain, without ski lifts or other forms of assistance. The sport’s popularity soared in the 1970s, in concert with a reactionary trend of American asceticism coming out of the '60s, according to ski historian and
US National Ski Hall of Famer John Fry. There were three main reasons for this: 1) cross-country skiing is much cheaper than downhill skiing; 2) it surpasses all sports in promoting cardiovascular fitness and muscle development; and 3) it embraces the natural environment. As Fry writes in The Story of Modern Skiing, cross-country skiers follow “trails deep into silent, commercial-free fir forests, hushed by the snow blanketing tree branches and the ground.” The Lake Placid Club became the first American resort to offer organized crosscountry skiing more than a century ago; since then, the sport has flourished in the mountains and backcountry of upstate New York. The Mid-Hudson Adirondack Mountain Club has been a vital steward of that legacy, and starting January 3, it will hold a series of beginner cross-country skiing workshops at the Mohonk Preserve in New Paltz and Fahnestock Winter Park in Carmel. Like last year, the workshops will be led by Marty Carp, a lifelong outdoorsman who estimates he’s led between 700 and 800 classes, hikes, and other events for the Mid-Hudson ADK and the Appalachian Mountain Club.
There are two basic styles in cross-country skiing. The Mid-Hudson ADK lessons focus on the classic technique, in which each ski is pushed forward in a sliding and gliding pattern, alternating foot to foot. This is the easiest method, and is well-suited for both unprepared terrain and groomed trails (pistes) like you’ll find in the Mohonk Preserve. Skiers with waxed combi skis can also learn skate skiing, a technique in which skiers push alternating skis away from one another at an angle, in a manner similar to ice skating. It can only be done on prepared runs, and the equipment differs from classic gear: Poles are slightly longer, skis shorter and narrower, and boots higher and stiffer. In general, skis used in cross-country are lighter and narrower than those used in downhill skiing, with free-heel bindings (meaning the boot is attached to the ski only at the toe). Poles are slightly longer, because additional length provides more propulsion across flat surfaces. That’s also why it’s important to choose poles specifically designed for cross-country skiing, as opposed to telescoping trekking poles used in hiking: You’ll be pushing hard off them, rather than just leaning on them for balance. 1/19 CHRONOGRAM OUTDOORS 43
The best way to maintain the right posture for cross-country skiing, Carp says, is to think of yourself as a gorilla running. That will keep your body hunched forward, knees bent, your weight on the balls of your feet, and your arms and legs moving in a diagonally alternating rhythm. “It loosens people up, too,” Carp adds, “and gets them into the more instinctive mode required for cross-country skiing.” As for clothing, since you won’t be flying downhill, Carp says a wool beanie or headband to keep your ears warm should suffice for headgear. Dress in light layers for warmth and flexibility, with a durable, waterproof outer layer, such as a soft-shell jacket or windbreaker. Pair wool or synthetic socks with ankle gaiters to keep snow from getting inside your boots. Any breathable outdoor glove of your choice is fine, though Carp advises beginners, who tend to fall down and get their gloves wet, to bring a second pair. Carp is an effusive champion of cross-country skiing as a sublime way to experience the winter environment, comparing it to “eating an ice cream cone all day” and quoting the pioneering Norwegian skier Herman “Jackrabbit” SmithJohannsen’s maxim of “ski, ski, ski!” to describe his impulse to continue doing it year after year, even at the age of 75. “I love standing on top of a hill on my skis with my poles in the ground,” he says, “just pausing to take it all in, and loving what I’m doing.” Who better to guide the beginner?
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Check weather and snow conditions before you head out. Freshly fallen snow is ideal for skiing. Crust—formed when the top layer melts and refreezes—is difficult. Slush and ice are not good conditions and should be avoided by beginners. Start with groomed trails while you’re learning. Go during the week, if possible. The best ski locations get extremely crowded on weekends. Bring a pack with extra clothing and accessories. You’ll be outside in the elements for a long time, so bring extra gloves, lip balm, tissues, water, and snacks in a small daypack. Bring wax. Glide wax is applied to the base of your skis once or twice per season (you can have a professional do it the first time). Grip wax (aka kick wax) is applied to the kick zone, which is the area on the bottom of your ski from your heel extending six inches beyond your toes. There are a range of types covering different temperatures, and it needs to be applied each time you hit the trail.
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ea Tobias sits at her sewing machine, guiding a rectangle of leather through the machine’s darting needle. In a few hours, the stitched fabric will sit as the body of a handcrafted tote, with a leather front and back, Woolrich plaid sides, and an orange sateen lining, plus carrying straps. Tobias is a fulltime seamstress at Unshattered, a nonprofit in Hopewell Junction that employs women recovering from addiction. Like other handbags she has sewn at this job, this tote consists of recycled materials—goods formerly seen as discards that have been made new again. It’s a concept that Tobias and her seamstress colleagues are intimately familiar with, for each knows what it’s like to live a fragmented, damaged life and then transform into a whole woman. A woman, unshattered. “It’s truly amazing here,” says Tobias of Unshattered’s busy studio. “I’m around the ladies that know my struggle. They know what I’ve been through and they relate.” Unshattered was founded after its CEO, Kelly Lyndgaard, was deeply moved by 46 ART OF BUSINESS CHRONOGRAM 1/19
hearing a recovering addict share the story of how her teenage brother thought it would be funny to get her high when she was eight. “Fast forward 10 years and she’s a homeless, IV drug-user,” Lyndgaard says. The woman was in recovery at Hoving Home, a residential addiction treatment center in Garrison (with four other locations across the country), that serves women involved in drug addiction, alcoholism, and other challenges. Months after hearing the woman’s tale, Lyndgaard, a hobby seamstress, began teaching the residents of Hoving Home how to sew handbags from donated coats, providing them with a marketable skill. She soon realized that without a clear career path, they were vulnerable to future economic hardships and relapse. Unshattered was incorporated in 2015 as an independent nonprofit to train and provide jobs for women who’ve undergone addiction recovery programs. Beth Greco is president of Hoving Home, which partners with Unshattered, including dedicating training space in its Garrison location to prepare participating residents
for work at Unshattered and providing transportation to the women’s subsequent employment there. “One of the things in recovery is that continuum of care,” says Greco. “[Recovering women] can finish our program, but there has to be a next step. What Unshattered has done is given us a very viable next step for some of the women.” Housed in a 2,000-square-foot studio, Unshattered’s site includes a workshop, office, and retail boutique. Lyndgaard, who left an executive position at IBM to head up the nonprofit, receives no salary. Revenue for 2018 was about $250,000, with 100 percent of the organization’s sales going to employee salaries and benefits. Fundraising covers operational costs. About two dozen business partners provide additional support. In the two-and-a-half years Unshattered has been in business, none of its employees have relapsed. That’s impressive, considering that while addiction can be managed, relapses in drug abuse are both possible and likely, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “You picture devastation and addiction. That was their lives,” says Lyndgaard. “They’ve chosen to get well,
Unshattered’s products consist of recycled materials and are made by hand by recovering addicts. Clockwise from top left: A makeup kit made from an upcycled West Point cadet uniform; a tote made from a retired US Army uniform paired with manufacturing scraps donated by Ultrafabrics in Tarrtyown; a toiletry kit made from 1955 Mercedes Benz upholstery; a handbag made from a backdrop from a Broadway show.
chosen to do the hard work to get back on their feet.” Unshattered, which won Think Dutchess’s 2018 Nonprofit of the Year Award, provides a 10-week apprenticeship for women who have completed an addiction recovery program, after which they decide on a fulltime, salaried position at the nonprofit. “It’s not about me deciding whether or not I want to hire you,” says Lyndgaard. “It’s: are you willing to do the work that it takes to create employment for yourself and drive enough value in revenue to the team?” Materials for Unshattered’s handbags come from retired military uniforms, Broadway and manufacturing scraps, upholstery, and other goods that are assembled into sewing kits for the seamstresses. A gold thread is sewn into each bag as a nod toward kintsugi, the Japanese art form where broken pottery is repaired with gold, making the piece more beautiful in repair than when it was whole. Another element is a hidden message from the seamstress that made the handbag, perhaps a note stating her days
of sobriety or another meaningful message. The handbags also are named for a person struggling with addiction, with completed designs sold through Unshattered’s catalog, website, retailers, and consumer shows. Thanks to the help she’s received, Tobias has been sober for two years. A native of McComb, Mississippi, she suffered early abuses, had a nervous breakdown, and was raped by a family member before turning to crack cocaine to numb the pain. Desperate, she joined an uncle in California who connected her with a Hoving Home location in Pasadena. She began the program but worried about returning home afterward. “I didn’t know what my next step was but I knew that going back to doing the things that I used to do wouldn’t work,” Tobias says. Then, in November 2017 she had the opportunity to move to New York’s Hoving Home and work at Unshattered. “It’s about women like myself, my beautiful handbags and learning to live,” Tobias says. DeeDee Wheeler also lives a distinctly different life from a few years ago. Born in New Jersey’s Clinton Correctional
Facility for Women (now the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women), Wheeler was raised by her emotionally abusive, alcoholic mother. She then became addicted to crack cocaine and had many failed attempts at sobriety. A mother of four and grandmother of four, Wheeler is now not only sober, but also works as a designer/seamstress at Unshattered and lives on her own. In October 2018, she spoke at the White House at the signing of bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid crisis. “It’s just a joyful moment to see the work that we do and how much people really love us,” says Wheeler. “I just think it’s something that means a lot to you and then to somebody else.” Unshattered.org How to help Unshattered is looking for a larger studio and also needs: • Funding to support the move • A commercial van
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t’s easy to look at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the Southern Berkshires’ forested mountains, with its historic streets and tidy, scrollable business district, and think it’s a sleepy town. But Great Barrington sleeps like a panther in the branches—elegant, poised, and self-assured in its ability to surprise you at any moment. The Heart of Great Barrington As much as it’s an old town, steeped in history, including being the birthplace of W.E.B. Du Bois, Great Barrington these days is all about the future. In 2017, the town board enacted a Trust Policy, ensuring undocumented immigrants are supported and protected by town government and police. Town board member Pedro Pachano said the decision was unanimous 48 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 1/19
and was indicative of the values Great Barrington wants to wear on its chest. “It was a conscious effort for the town to be recognized as being welcoming to all people,” says Pancano. “It’s a pretty progressive town. Other towns in the South Berkshires are much more conservative, but we want change and we want growth.” The Trust Policy was the idea of the Multicultural Bridge, one of a number of other innovative and brightly run community aide nonprofits that speak to Great Barrington’s civic character. The South Berkshire Regional Community Center, for another example, along with its many programs, holds a weekly free dinner where local professional chefs rotate in to cook high-quality meals available to all regardless of their circumstance.
Above: The Great Barrington Farmers’ Market has been operating for 29 years. Opposite: John Prusinski, in the back, was a foley artist for a Daniel’s Art Party/ Red Room Radio Redu, radio theater production of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” The audience was invited to check out the foley table after the show.
Ken Roht, Artistic Director for the Daniel Canter of Bard College at Simon’s Rock “In January, our Daniel’s Art Party started nurturing relationships in the arts and with many other Berkshires organizations. I have found an open-minded curiosity about taking part in new, community-engagement projects. My goal is to continue to find creative ways to bring all of us together as a vibrant and unified community, making unique and joyful performing arts projects. Personally, I’ve come to love Great Barrington’s Goodwill store. Such incredible finds! And I’ve finally settled on Rubi’s as my favorite morning coffee destination.”
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A Budding Industry Great Barrington will also soon be a destination for those looking to enjoy Massachusetts’s recently legalized recreational marijuana industry. There are four recreational dispensaries in the pipeline for the Berkshires and two of them will be on Main Street. Theory Wellness is already an operational medical marijuana dispensary, and received its state approval to sell recreational cannabis on December 13. Its soon-to-open neighbor, Calyx Berkshire Dispensary, received their final town approval the same day and hope to get their licensing from the state within 90 days. Calyx, named for the female part of the plant, is a harbinger of the business opportunities presented by legislation. Calyx is proudly female-owned and operated and is focusing on supporting woman makers and growers in the emerging industry. “Great Barrington just seemed like the perfect fit for us,” says Calyx CEO Donna Norman, who’s had a home in the southern Berkshires for 18 years. “Women are becoming a big part of our industry. We are very caring and nurturing by nature and more in tune with our bodies and what they need. I think bringing those characteristics to our business will help break down the stigma [around marijuana]. “It’s really exciting to be a part of history and help shape the industry and not let it become yet another man’s world,” she adds. “We feel like we are in a really good spot here, and Great Barrington has been really supportive. The arts and culture here is a huge draw for us.” Artistic Backbone Great Barrington’s downtown was recently named a Cultural District by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, recognizing its stable of galleries and venues as an invaluable artistic contribution to the region. The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is physically and metaphorically at its center. Ever since the historic movie theater, built in 1905, was restored in 2005, the Mahaiwe has been presenting world-class performances of all kinds as well as community programing. “I think our success has been rooted in a focus on inclusivity, a wide variety of projects, and being open year-round,” says executive director Beryl Jolly. “We love bringing back the area’s favorite acts, but we also want to make sure to keep things fresh. It’s a very special experience to go see a national draw in a 650-seat historic theater.” Early 2019’s slate of events includes screenings of the Met Live in HD as well as performances by the Pilobolus dance troupe and the Berkshire Bach Society. Tucked into the woods on the outside of town is the heavily arts focused Bard College at Simon’s Rock and its Daniel
Performing Arts Center. Along with providing facilities to students, it has also invigorated the previously reclusive school’s relationship with the town in a major way. “During the academic year, all our events are free,” says Sandy Cleary, the Daniel Center’s executive director. “That really helps connect with the community and people who maybe couldn’t afford tickets elsewhere—and many of these performances are world-class.” Ken Roht, artistic director at the Daniel Center, has spearheaded a number of groundbreaking community-integrated art projects. He’s working on a show with the local public television channel, and he’s staged ballroom dancing events with the local dance school, broadcast radio plays, and facilitates the Daniel’s Art Party spring festival. Nature’s Draw You can’t talk about the architectural or cultural aesthetic of Great Barrington without first acknowledging the aweinspiring beauty of the town’s natural surroundings, even in gloomy, leafless winter. “Bartholomew’s Cobble and Monument Mountain are integral to this place’s understanding of itself,” says H. Emerson Blake, editor-in-chief at Orion magazine, which is based out of an office on Main Street and explores humanity’s relationship with nature through literary expression. Lake Mansfield, Alford Springs, the Housatonic River Walk, and so many other beautiful spots inform life in Great Barrington. Of course, the art, restaurants, and distinctive small businesses of the town are a huge draw but, if you don’t pack your boots for your next trip here, you’re missing out. Think Global, Shop Local There’s a new term of art in the business world and it suits the vibrant tapestry of shops that wind through Main Street and Railroad Street. Great Barrington is “Amazon Proof.” You just can’t match the feeling of shopping in Great Barrington online, or in few other places for that matter. Home goods and clothing shops like Karen Allen’s Fiber Arts (owned and run by the actress, who lives nearby), One Mercantile, Mistral’s, Hammertown, The Chef ’s Shop, and many more exude the individuality and skilled dedication of their local owners. High-end antiques are also a big part of the local business scene. None are bigger than Asia Barong, an Asian furniture, art, and antiques importer with an unmatched selection of beautiful pieces from tableware to massive sculptures and full temples. “We are probably the biggest draw in Great Barrington. We are somewhere between a museum and a gallery,” says owner Bill
Alan Chartock, President and CEO of WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio We have lived in the Berkshires for 40 years and in Great Barrington since 1985. We love it! It’s a phenomenal town and has virtually everything you could want. I can’t think of another place like it. Railroad Street is the best place in the whole world. It’s become a little West Village. The Mahaiwe Theater is fantastic. You’re a 15-minute walk to Lake Mansfield. You’re a half an hour from Jacob’s Pillow and Tanglewood. When people think of the Berkshires, what they picture is everything we’ve got.
Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and Founding Director of Multicultural Bridge For 10 years Multicultural Bridge has been bridging the gap for underserved communities here in Great Barrington and throughout the county. The community has shown that it cares and what we’ve done is all preparation to have the even tougher conversations around things like racial inequality and police activity. It’s important to build up muscles around these conversations. Part of what we focus on is the tension between visitors and second homeowners and people that live here and help to show that it’s not all white and it’s not all affluent. We are starting to use the legacy and local history of W.E.B. Du Bois as something everyone can come together around to have conversations around unchecked racial tension and lack of understanding. 1/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 51
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Talbott. “We have so much depth to our collection that anyone can find that piece that will be a spark of inspiration for them. We also do things like supply temples of Asian organizations within the US that help them preserve their culture here, and that is a pretty special thing to be a part of.” A Town with Taste Just down the road from Asia Barong is Shiro Kitchen and Asian Market. Along with their excellent restaurant and bar, they are now offering cooking classes to show folks how to use the ingredients on their shelves at home. Bizen on Railroad Street, is also serving some of the best sushi and Japanese cuisine in the region. Serious and beautifully designed, Bizen makes Great Barrington a destination for lovers of Asian fare all by itself. The diversity and quality of the 60 restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops here is truly impressive. Everyone has a list of different favorites, but some stalwarts rise to the top of the recommendation list again and again. First, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace has been keeping the area eating well, healthier, and locally, at home since 1979. Everyone’s getting coffee each morning at Rubi’s, tucked stylishly behind the decadent Rubi’s Cheese Shop and the Great Barrington Bagel Co. and Deli. When it comes to fine dining, there is a nuanced but distinct Berkshire style of cuisine and it’s on full display here. Restaurants everywhere claim to be farm-to-table these days, but the produce and animals Great Barrington chefs are getting from local farmers and how they
adapt to seasonal inspiration is creating a food culture as singular and affecting as the surrounding landscape. Places like Mark Firth’s Prairie Whale, Field and Cellar, Public, and others are making the absolute most of a good thing. The ingredients the Berkshires gift these chefs are so good they deserve to be treated this well. “People really appreciate food here,” says Adam Zieminski, chef and owner of Cafe Adam, one of the originators of the Berkshire style. “It’s a great area to cook in, because the farm community has grown amazingly. Through requests from us and the farmers’ creative minds there are new varieties being grown. We get to put things on the plate people have never tasted. People have come to expect a level of quality from us, and that’s a good reputation to have to live up to.” (Longtime Great Barrington resident Alan Chartock, President and CEO of WAMC, claims Cafe Adam is the best restaurant in town. “I had the best sandwich of my life there,” says Chartock.) The greatness of Great Barrington is that it can be many things to many people. It can be that sleepy New England town with its luxurious shops waiting to embrace you. It can romance you at its sexy restaurants. It can smell of rocks and earth beneath your hiking boots. It can edify and enlighten with its dedication to the arts, and it can humble you with the way its people approach their community’s (and the nation’s) problems with resoluteness and compassion. Great Barrington is at once in the middle of nowhere and the middle of everywhere.
Amparo Vollert, Architect and board member at the Great Barrington Rudolph Steiner School “There are many aspects that I think makes Great Barrington a wonderful place to live and raise a child. The beauty of the natural landscape, which both expands the mind with its breathtaking mountain views and intrigues the senses with anything from the bursting colors of a native wildflower to the velvety moss growing on a rock. I’ve discovered that every season, with its particular light, colors, sounds, and even temperatures, has inspired me on levels I never imagined.
H Emerson Blake Editor-in-Chief at Orion magazine “Orion moved here from the city in 1996, in the knowledge that this is a community that wants to take care of one’s own place. Communities set the tone for our culture and our culture sets the tone for how we treat our environment. The South Berkshires have a history of seeking community identity. Wendell Berry said that any understanding of human values starts with the land. There are more community supported agriculture projects here than just about anywhere in the country. They’re enacting the ideals of human values that start at the community level.” 1/19 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 53
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he search for faculty is under way, a site adjacent to Vassar Hospital has been chosen for a dedicated building, and the first class of future physicians to be minted in the Hudson Valley are expected to begin their studies in 2022 at the Marist Health Quest School of Medicine. The collaboration will address a nationwide need: It’s predicted that the US will face a deficit of as many as 121,300 doctors by 2030. Regionally, a 2009 SUNY Albany study identified the Hudson Valley as likely to experience the second-worst shortage in the state, behind New York City. The planned medical school will feature a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the Vassar Brothers Medical Center campus, expected to cost $70 to $80 million; special purpose facilities at Marist; and a faculty of about 100. The class matriculating in 2022 is expected to number 60, with capacity doubling to 120 by 2028; by that time, between students,
residents, and faculty, the school is expected to add about 1,000 people to the region’s population. Studies show that 20 to 25 percent of new doctors set up shop and practice in the region where they train. There are currently only 151 schools in the US granting MD degrees; the nearest are in Westchester and Albany. (Touro College in Middletown, opened in 2014, awards a Doctor of Osteopathy degree.) In the 1970s, the conventional wisdom predicted that there would be too many doctors graduating, which put a damper on the creation of new medical schools and has now left the field scrambling to catch up. Locally Grown MDs Dr. Glenn Loomis, Health Quest’s chief medical operations officer and president of Health Quest Medical Practice, says that the ability to grow a fresh, local crop of physicians will be a major boon. “We have had a hard time recruiting locally, which
increased the appeal of a build-your-own approach,” he says. “And it adds pizzazz, having a medical school. You can attract people who are interested in teaching and research; it helps you get and keep all sorts of resources.” The estimated economic impact on the mid-Hudson region over 10 years, including construction, payroll, operational and capital spending and multipliers, is a cool $500 million. “From the Marist standpoint, it’s a natural progression,” says college president David Yellen. “We have moved into health sciences, especially in the last two years. We introduced a Masters Physician Assistant program in 2016; the first group graduated six months ago. We just launched a doctorate in physical therapy. Health Quest initially approached us about this in 2016, two weeks into my presidency of the college, and since then it’s been two years of an incredibly complex and detailed discussion.” 1/19 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 55
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Nearly a Decade of Training Medical school is a four-year graduate program that focuses increasingly on hands-on clinical training, especially in years three and four, when students serve clinical rotations assisting residents in various specialties at the school’s affiliated hospitals. After that, holders of the MD degree must spend from three to seven years in supervised residencies, polishing their skills in their chosen area of practice before taking licensing exams. (Admission to residency, like admission to medical school, is highly competitive; some believe this to be the worst bottleneck in the medical education pipeline.) Some doctors add a fellowship, leading to specialized board certification. The process of becoming a doctor can easily go on for a decade after college. Health Quest, which announced last spring that it’s merging with Western Connecticut Health Systems, will have seven hospitals to welcome students on rotation and will be offering 225 residencies and 25 fellowships in nine different specialties in 2020: general surgery, internal medicine, psychiatry, emergency medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, anaesthesia, orthopedics, and family medicine. Technology to Restore Humanity Everyone involved is excited about applying Marist’s advanced learning management systems and artificial and augmented intelligence programs to a curriculum that can barely stay abreast of the knowledge it needs to convey. “One of the problems in health care education is that we’re often teaching as we were taught, not pushing forward toward where things are headed,” says Loomis. “We’re always behind unless we’re looking ahead. What are the technologies, what are electronic medical records [EMR] going to look like, what effect is AI going to have on medicine and medical education? We think it can have a large effect on some of what drives us crazy right now, and we hope to get some R&D going on some of that tech. Right now, doctors spend too much time on mundane forms and documentation. We stare at computer screens when we should be face-to-face with patients, and that’s wrong. The buzz phrase, the big need, is to use technology to restore humanity, and we want to be helping to lead that.” The building is still pending municipal approval, but no one is worried about that. “When we made the announcement, we were all excited, but I think the mayor of Poughkeepsie [Rob Rolison] might have been the most excited person in the room,” says Marist Vice President Geoff Brackett. “This really will have a transformative impact on the community. From the student side, the demand is such that there are 10 times as many applicants as positions. And medicine is just beginning to be transformed by technology: EMR, cognitive computing, AI in diagnosis, and treatment. The physicians of the future will be using these in fundamental ways; graduates will be entering a landscape that’s been transformed since they started their studies. We’ll be able to build this in and account for it from the ground up.” The curriculum will face its own approval process, from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the New York State Education Department and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, in 2021. “The school’s not a money maker in and of itself for either institution,” says Loomis, “but both boards are people from the community and very staunchly behind this plan.” (One person, businessman and philanthropist Rob Dyson, serves on both boards; a new joint board of overseers is being formed to manage operations, budget, and strategic planning.) “They know, and we know, that the benefit for all of us will be farreaching and extend far beyond the bottom line.”
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Yes, we’re in the darkest days of winter, but another glorious summer in the Hudson Valley will be upon us before you know it, and with it an explosion of taffeta, table settings, and bouquet tosses—wedding season! For couples tying the knot in 2019 (and 2020!), the time is nigh to start planning in earnest. We’ve rounded up some of our favorite Hudson Valley wedding vendors, plus we asked some local industry pros for their tips on nailing the big day.
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Music Dave Leonard, JTD Productions “A couple has to figure out their priorities. Some people really care about music, and budget accordingly. Live music is a great way to go, but it can be expensive. A DJ can be more eclectic and cover more musical landscape than a band. Also, make sure to find someone who fits your artistic vision and is then able to balance that with the mood of the room. There’s an art to that. Don’t forget this is going to be the best part of your lives.” Dave Leonard is a DJ and head of JTD Productions, a boutique DJ and events company. Jtdproductions.com
Venue Owl’s Hoot Barn, Kerri Corrigan “If you are seriously interested in a venue, ask how it is permitted and what the local laws are. If a venue owner doesn’t know, you may want to call the town directly. A few key things to look for: fire suppression in the building, amplified music cut-off time, adequate electrical supply, and approved water and septic. Ask the venue owner if they operate on a special use permit and what the conditions are. While it sounds fun to party all night long, the reality is that no town law permits that and venues need to be compliant to eliminate the risk of anything happening that could impact a couple’s big day!” Owl’s Hoot Barn is a wedding venue in Coxsackie. Owlshootbarn.com
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Lawn Games: Upstate Jamboree, Napanoch Taking aesthetic inspiration from medieval France, Moorish architecture, and traveling carnivals, Upstate Jamboree’s wooden lawn games are exquisite works of art that add a tasteful twist of fun to your cocktail hour. Handcrafted using locally harvested timber, each game is a blend of old traditions and modern twists. Some of the games include Japanese billiards, arches, dice, cornhole, ricochet, gruyere, and others you’ve never heard of. Upstatejamboree.com
Caterer: Simply Gourmet, Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie-based caterer Simply Gourmet sources ingredients from Hudson Valley farmers to offer seasonal, locally sourced wedding fare. Their offerings range from an herb-marinated flank steak perfect for cool-weather weddings to a salmon main with fresh fruit salsa in summer. Wedding catering with Simply Gourmet always includes full-service coordination and service from set-up to breakdown. Simplygourmetevents.com
Flowers: Invitations: Shoving Leopard Farm, Barrytown Thornwillow, Newburgh In 2006, Marina Michahelles This Newburgh-based custom established Shoving Leopard Flower stationery company is steeped in the Farm on the grounds of the historic craft of printing. Their traditional 430-acre Rokeby estate in Dutchess boutique press shop specializes in County. Aside from its popular letterpress printing, custom engraving flower CSA, Shoving Leopard offers , and hand-binding. Choose from several options for nuptials at a range one of their designs online or inof price points ranging from pickstore, or work with them to develop your-own wedding flowers and bulk your own wedding correspondence— flower buckets for DIY arrangements from save-the-dates to invitations to full-service floral design, where and thank you cards. Printed on each arrangement is harvested, archival paper, these textured, handdesigned, and custom-created crafted communications are enduring according to the aesthetic and color mementos of your big day. scheme of your wedding. Thornwillow.com Shovingleopardfarm.org Bar and Photobooths: Hudson Trailer Co., Washingtonville Once upon a not-too-distant past, “trailer” was dirty word. While the tiny house fad has catalyzed a generation of DIY Airstream remodels, many of those refurbished trailers remain stationary. But Hudson Trailer Co. is sprucing up vintage tow-behind campers for a traveling destiny—transforming them into elegant mobile bars and photo booths for rent for weddings, rehearsal dinners, and other events. Hudsontrailerco.com
Cake: The Pastry Garden, Poughkeepsie Since 1984, the Pastry Garden has been whipping up lipsmacking cakes, cookies, and pastries for weddings and special occasions, straddling the line between traditional and trending. Each of the Pastry Garden’s three wedding package tiers offers a range of cake flavors (think from marbled, white, and chocolate all the way up through red velvet, hazelnut, and funfetti) and fillings (from fruit preserves to champagne mousse to ganache). Thepastrygarden.com
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A NEW START for NY19 A Talk with Antonio Delgado Brian K. Mahoney: Congratulations on your victory in the recent election. What was the secret sauce? Antonio Delgado: Our thought going in was to make sure that everybody across this district felt they had a true representative, no matter where they live, no matter how rural or how urban. It didn’t matter. I’m very pleased with the results. We closed the margins in a lot of areas that are traditionally red, and we were able to actually win Otsego County. And I think it was about the way we ran our campaign and the reach and by going everywhere. BKM: What do you mean specifically when you say, “the way we ran our campaign?” AD: The way was showing up. We’ve had trends in our political discourse that have moved the way we go about the business of democracy away from the people. It’s become sort of this game that happens in DC and with donors, and there’s decisions and choices made separate and apart from the ground. And the more money that’s gotten into politics, the more politicians have been incentivized to engage more and more with that dynamic, rather than going to work with their constituents, holding town halls, having offices that they can be found in, or having case workers that do the 64 FEATURE CHRONOGRAM 1/19
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n November 6, Democratic candidate Antonio Delgado made history, becoming the first African American member of Congress from upstate New York, as well as its first Hispanic representative, narrowly defeating one-term Republican John Faso in the race for the 19th Congressional district. A Schenectady native born to working-class parents, Delgado attended Colgate and Harvard Law School, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, enjoyed a brief rap career that provided fodder for some race-baiting campaign commercials, and most recently worked as an attorney at the high-powered law firm Akin Gump in New York City. Delgado sat down for a conversation in early December at his mostly vacant campaign headquarters in Kingston in the midst of frantic preparations to take his seat in Washington, DC, and set up the necessary infrastructure for constituent services back home. —Brian K. Mahoney
work, and people can feel that, they know. I’ve talked about doing these things. We went to communities across the district. We engaged, we held town halls. We did the things that I intend to do as a congressman to demonstrate to people that this is what it’s going to be like if you allow me the honor and the privilege of serving you. BKM: What did you learn by talking to people on the campaign trail that you didn’t expect? AD: You know, it’s interesting because I’ve been asked that question before, and you would think that by now I’d have an answer. But the thing that I always come back to when I’m asked that question, and I’m going to do it here, it’s not that I learned something that I didn’t expect, but what I discovered through the process was how deep the desire is for it. You know, you have an instinct, you have a gut that you think this is lacking. You have a sense that this doesn’t feel right. But you don’t know until you’re actually out there and people are reacting the way to it. And you see the real hope and the desire when they are confronted with the possibility of real change. You see that and you can see it manifest itself in them. That is something that no matter how much you think it through or project it, you’re not going to be
able to actually know what it’s going to be like until you’re confronted with it. It’s like when you’re an athlete and you’re trying to prepare for a game—you don’t know what the game’s going to be like really until you’re in the game. In the same way, engaging with people face-to-face, having those interactions, and seeing the depth of desire that they feel for real change—that, to me, was incredibly meaningful. BKM: Where are we at as a country? If a Martian landed outside and walked in and said, “Describe the political climate to me,” what would you say? AD: I always try to orient myself based on what’s happening here at home. We bridged a lot of gaps through my campaign. We overcame a lot of divisiveness. And we spoke to the better angels of people across this district. With the divisiveness that is ongoing right now across the country, the intense partisanship—and New York 19 is an example of this—we are going through a process of being held accountable as a country and particularly here at home to what we really stand for and what we’re genuinely about—what our value set is. And I feel that until we right that value set, we are going to be stuck on how we solve complicated problems, whether it’s health
Congressman-elect Antonio Delgado on the campaign trail in Oneonta on September 8, 2018. Photo by Stacey Estrella.
care, climate change, or wage stagnation. You know, there’s very difficult problems that we have to solve collectively in a diverse country. But unless we can get to a place that we can civil, we can’t disagree without being disagreeable, right? We can actually be respectful to each other, understand that we’re in this together. And we did a lot of work, I felt like. BKM: How do you intend to make that happen in DC? AD: Well, one way is to actually do the work of engaging with everybody there across the aisle, not just siloing myself off and saying, “I’m just going to only work with these individuals or only those people who call themselves X,” but actually, saying “Anybody who’s interested in an infrastructure bill, let’s talk. Anybody who’s interested in increasing wages for people, let’s talk. Anybody who’s interested in improving our health care system, let’s talk.” And I think it’s sort of casting a broad net and saying, okay who’s out there on either side of the aisle who wants to focus on these issues? Who wants to deal with climate change? Right? Who wants to tackle that? Right? So, you start from that and get to have these kind of conversations, and you do that intentionally for the purpose of results here back home.
BKM: Let’s talk about priorities. Going into this session, what are your top priorities? AD: Well, I’m a big believer that you govern based on how you campaign. I campaigned on health care. So, that was top priority. It’s going to be my top priority as a congressman. I campaigned making sure that we expand coverage and get people the choice to opt into Medicare. I want to fight for that. I campaigned on making sure Medicare has negotiating power with big pharma. I want to fight for that. I campaigned on dealing with the opioid epidemic. I want to fight for that. BKM: What does dealing with the opioid epidemic look like in this district? How can you help in Congress? AD: Well, we need funding for drug treatment centers. The key is how do we decriminalize the behavior and stop treating incarceration as the treatment of choice, because that’s currently what it is. And we need to look at examples like Chief Volkmann out in Chatham in Columbia County. [Oversimplified synopsis: Police in Chatham are emphasizing treatment over arrest for addicts.] That’s a prime example of something that we can model out and fund, and find funding for, I would hope on the federal level. That would ultimately allow us
to both deal with the stigma of addiction and enable people who are struggling with the addiction to find other avenues for treatment via drug treatment centers and drug courts, rather than just being siloed off into the criminal justice system. To me there’s funding opportunities for that. And one of the things that I’ve talked to with folks in DC about, and leadership in particular, is how do I directly fight for that work? There’s a bipartisan task force, the opioid task force, that I’m hoping to be a part of and have a leadership role on to make sure we bring attention to this issue specifically and fight for the funding that is lacking right now. So that, to me, is an area where I certainly want to be front and center on. BKM: So, health care, opioids— AD: Yes, and in the same scope, before we leave health care, mental health care access is another big one. Lyme disease, you know. We have the highest levels of deer ticks here in the Hudson Valley. BKM: Sure, Lyme disease is a huge problem here. How can you help? AD: Well, I think there are funding opportunities that are out there again for R&D that can allow us to figure out ways to 1/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 65
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tackle this. Obviously, health care, fighting for health care to make sure that we protect pre-existing conditions so that individuals who are suffering from Lyme disease aren’t priced out of the market. That’s a big place. Working with the experts in the field and making sure that I have a direct dialog with the experts who have done a lot of work, and the activists in this arena, to make sure that we shed light on this issue. But primarily I think it’s about finding the appropriate funding for the research and the development, and then of course making sure that we have a health care system that allows those who actually are impacted by it to get the treatment they deserve without fear of any sort of cost barriers. And then outside of health care, I would say it’s economic development and how we actually create meaningful jobs. BKM: How do we do that? I’ve heard a lot of different workforce development proposals, but creating jobs on a mass scale is difficult. Industry is not coming back to the Hudson Valley. You know, so what are we trying to develop here? AD: I would push back a little bit when you say industry is not coming back. I mean, you have to build things to make sure that it does come back. Yes, you might not get IBM back, we might not get GE back, but that whole model is in many respects moved on given globalization. The key is: How do you have opportunities for small business growth, entrepreneurship, and co-ops based on a robust infrastructure plan that creates immediate access to the market here locally and in New York City, where you have significant unmet demand, particularly for example in organic and locally grown food. We have thousands of farmers and farm operations in this district, and they are unfortunately hamstrung by the fact that they are lacking the infrastructure, regional infrastructure, to tap into those markets. BKM: When you say “infrastructure,” what do you mean specifically? AD: Roads, rail, distribution plants, processing plants, broadband access. Quality cell service. How can you set up a business, how can you sell your goods and services in a manner that is fair relative to others who are across the country or even, you know, across the Northeast region, if you’re lacking access to markets via your cell phone or via broadband access? One of the things that I really want to zero in on is rural broadband access. I really want to—this term, ideally—
make sure that we can roll out some legislation that actually specifically addresses the lack of rural broadband all throughout this district. That is a chief priority of mine. BKM: How would the legislation work? How do you compel broadband providers to create cost-ineffective infrastructure? AD: There are pieces of legislation that I have not yet studied, but I’m aware that are out there that will be done to address this. And I want to make sure that my team looks at that and find ways to build off of that with other sponsors, individuals who’ve taken the lead on this across the country, and have a robust plan that we can present to the people, particularly people here at home. BKM: The Green New Deal, what’s your feeling on this? Are you going to be with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others and pushing this forward? AD: I want to draw a distinction here, and I think, you know, it’s funny how terms can take on a life on of their own, because the Green New Deal has been used many, many times before its current iteration. I mean, I used the Green New Deal at certain times over the course of the campaign well in advance of the way it’s currently defined. So, we’ve got to be careful with our terms. I’m for a larger, conceptual notion that we have to get to a place where we prioritize dealing with climate change in a robust and meaningful way. And that includes, as I talked about over the course of my campaign, a commitment to stop propping up fossil fuel industries and stop spending billions and billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits when we don’t need to, and to shift those tax credits and subsidies over into the renewable energy space. I think if we do that, we can actually incentivize more and more growth in wind, in solar, in geothermal. That is how you transition responsibly and effectively toward a robust green economy— it is a necessity at this point. And we must be thoughtful of the impact of this transition on individuals who rely on paychecks in industries that might be left behind through this process. These are our fellow citizens who are raising their families with children, putting food on their table. What are the alternatives? What’s not just the plan to create and incentivize investment and renewal energy? What’s the robust plan to create skills training that actually pays in a manner that allows people to feel comfortable, or at least comfortably live through this transition, and not just be
left behind and fall off a cliff by virtue of the transition. BKM: Some people say that since the Democrats now control the House, it’s time to impeach Trump. Where do you stand on that? AD: In the same place I’ve stood throughout the course of the campaign—we have an ongoing investigation. What all the developments have shown of late is that we have got to protect the special prosecutor, bipartisan legislation that does that. That to me is the priority. Let the investigation conclude. Let all the facts be laid bare, and then, once we have that, we are standing on an evidentiary foundation that I think gives a lot more credence and merit to any decision that is made at that point. I would much rather do that type of conduct, which whatever way you go on this, you want to make sure you have the evidentiary record for the public’s consumption, and then that decision, I think, will proceed as it should, whatever that course might be. That also, I think, speaks to the divisiveness, right? You don’t want to, I think, react in a way that’s not grounded in that, because it just has a potential of just feeding into the divisiveness. BKM: And if Robert Mueller’s fired, what then? AD: Oh, if Mueller’s fired, we have a constitutional crisis on our hands and the game is changed considerably. BKM: In two years, I hope to sit down with you again for another chat. What will you have hoped to have accomplished by then? AD: Well, I’m hoping that two years from now we’re talking about that rural broadband bill that we got passed. We’re talking about the funding that I was able to bring home for drug treatment centers. We’re talking about the water contamination legislation that we’re focusing on with Rep. Dan Kildee over in Flint to deal with the issues that we’re seeing in Petersburg and in Hoosick. And if we’re talking about those three things two years from now and maybe something on health care (ideally, I really want to make sure we get to a place somewhere on health care), I’d be very pleased. And, of course, if we’re talking about all those town halls that I did over the course of two years; and we talk about all of the offices that I opened across the district; and how we were connecting with people; and how we were so accessible that it gave people the sense that we were restoring their faith in democracy—if all those things happen, I’d be very pleased. 1/19 CHRONOGRAM FEATURE 67
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LUC SANTE LOOKS AT YOUNG STANLEY KUBRICK’S PHOTOS By Peter Aaron
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October 1947. What appears to be Brooklyn. An impossibly towheaded shoeshine boy named Mickey takes a break from his work and leans against a lamppost, eating a hot dog and having an animated conversation with his pal in the Huntz Hall hat. A chainlinkfenced industrial yard containing giant oil tanks—perhaps where Mickey and his friend’s fathers work—looms behind them.
March 1948. An aspiring actress who’s a dead ringer for Heddy Lamar, positioned and straining just so, to emphasize the claustrophobic confines of her walk-up’s cramped kitchen, has her Hollywood moment. In another frame, the struggling starlet is backstage at her bill-paying gig as a scantily clad showgirl, applying makeup with defeated detachment.
The scenes are flawlessly composed and constructed, with fanatical attention to detail. Each looks like it’s from a movie. Which makes perfect sense, when you consider that they were made by one of moviedom’s most painstakingly “visual” and detail-obsessed filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, during the days he worked as a staff photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s, before he began his subsequent career. Kubrick’s photos for Look are the focus of “Through a Different Lens,” an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, and a lavish, identically titled companion tome published by Taschen Books. “These photo features were supposed to tell stories, and Kubrick stuck to the script, as it were, when he was creating them,” says writer and historian Luc Sante, who penned “Learning to Look,” an introductory essay for Through a Different Lens. “It’s clear he wasn’t intended to remain a photographer. But his photos from that time are important, because they show us a completely lost world.” Kubrick, of course, stands as a cinematic icon, the director of such monolithic, cultureshifting masterpieces as Paths of Glory (1957), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Full Metal Jacket (1987). But few today are aware of his humble, workaday beginnings as a maker of still images. Born in the Bronx in 1928 to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Kubrick began his initial, photographic phase when his father presented him with a high-end Graflex camera on his 13th birthday. Look magazine in the 1940s was the perfect print outlet for this budding young lensman. Founded in 1937, it was the biweekly rival to the weekly Life, which, of the two, tended to feature more wholesome content and cover more international topics. Look had those elements as well, but its longer lag time between issues allowed its creators regular opportunities to embed themselves further while cultivating story matter, and much of it came from just outside their Manhattan offices. In 1945, bypassing college, Kubrick became a Look staffer at the astonishing age of 17 and remained at the magazine until 1950. “By the time I was 21,” he said later, “I had four years of seeing how things worked in the world.” His photos for the publication cut straight to the seasoned souls of his subjects, uncannily conveying experiences well beyond most the teenager taking their picture would have known
Opposite: From the article "Shoeshine Boy," 1947 Above: From the article "Rosemary Williams—Showgirl," 1948
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Peter Arno plays the piano in his Park Avenue apartment, from "Peter Arno...Sophisticated Cartoonist," 1949
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himself. Reprinted in Through a Different Lens are Kubrick’s mass-market-satisfying pictorials of celebrities like bandleaders Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe and doomed matinee idol Montgomery Clift. But equally impactful as the shots of famous figures—often more so—are the ones of “regular” people, on the sidewalks, in the subways, and in the bygone theaters and dancehalls of New York. Many of these tableaux were cleverly staged by Kubrick; A marked film-noir feel permeates much of Kubrick’s work here, and this aesthetic clearly found its way into two of his earliest films, the genre gems Killer’s Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956), as well as the suffocating settings of Dr. Strangelove (a July 1947 spread on the on-location shooting of Jules Dassin’s noir classic The Naked City was certainly a formative assignment for the auteur-to-be). By 1951, though, Kubrick had seen what he’d needed to see at Look. He left the magazine and picked up a different kind of camera. That year, he made his directorial debut with Day of the Fight, a short boxing documentary no doubt informed by his Look pictorials on prizefighters Rocky Graziano and Walter Cartier. After that, he was on his way, launching his fabled feature film career with Fear and Desire in 1953 and finishing it with Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, the year he died.
Historical Reference “All of the houses were newly built and had little driveways, but nobody had a car,” says Luc Sante about suburban Verviers, Belgium, where he was born in 1954. “There was only one family with a TV set in the neighborhood. By 1963, though, the ‘economic miracle’ [postwar European growth] had happened, and everyone had cars and TVs.” Despite the period’s resurgence, however, there were still glimpses of a Europe that hadn’t fully emerged from the 19th century. “My early classrooms featured potbellied stoves and double desks with inkwells, into which we dipped our nibs,” Sante recalls in The Factory of Facts, his childhood memoir. Sante is the author of several books, most famously Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, and reams of writings concerned with art, culture, and, especially, history. He traces his fascination with the latter subject to an early interest in the Romans who colonized his homeland in the fourth century, although it was the visual arts that initially sparked his vocational ambitions. “At first, I wanted to be a cartoonist,” he says. “[wing-helmeted FrancoBelgian comic strip characters] Asterix and Obelix were around, and I loved them. But I’m colorblind. So that wasn’t going to work.” Although the economic miracle benefitted many Europeans, it didn’t arrive soon enough
Left: A serviceman passes the time at a handwriting analysis booth, from "Fun at an Amusement Park: Look Visits Palisades Park," 1947 Right: Montgomery Clift with fellow actor Kevin McCarthy, from "Montgomery Clift: Glamour Boy in Baggy Pants," 1949
I’ve always been a sucker for tales of lost civilizations, pockets in time, suppressed documents. —Luc Sante, The Factory of Facts
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Betsy von Furstenberg with friends from "The Debutante Who Went to Work," 1950
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to secure Sante’s father’s position as a foundry foreman. By the time the recovery was settling in, the Santes had settled in New Jersey. There, young Luc resumed his education while learning the language. “Wanting to be a writer came from the act of learning English,” he says. “When I was 10, one of my teachers told me I’d be a good writer, although I didn’t think much of it at the time.” A family trip to Montreal for Expo 67 included a visit to a French-language bookstore where he discovered Rimbaud and the Surrealists, and by age 13 he was devouring everything from the Bronte sisters and Thomas Hardy to Naked Lunch and Henry Felsen’s teen hot rod novels. He also started pitching articles. “I’d buy Writer’s Digest and respond to the listings,” he says, with a dry smirk. “I submitted all this filler—to boating magazines, whoever was looking for writers—but nothing ever got published.” The pull of poetry and the counterculture led Sante, naturally, to the Lower East Side. By 1968, he’d become a St. Mark’s Place habitué, going to concerts at the Fillmore, haunting the record racks at Free Being, and buying egg creams from Gem Spa and $10 bags of pot from surreptitious slots in 10th Street storefronts. A scholarship got him into the exclusive Regis High School on the Upper East Side, and studies under the Pulitzer-winning poet Kenneth Koch at Columbia University came next. But it soon became clear that poetry was not to be his calling. “I could never get into the rhythm [of poetry],” he says. “Line breaks bothered the shit out of me, and you can’t be a poet without line breaks.” His disinterest resulted in his leaving Columbia in 1976 without a degree. Around this time, though, came other awakenings. “For the last two years at Columbia, I’d been living in crumbling building on 118th Street,” Sante says. “Then I moved into an apartment on the Upper West Side and, eventually, a tenement in the Lower East Side. You’d scrape the paint on the window sills in these places and there’d be layer upon layer of it. I discovered that one of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire had lived in my building on 12th Street, and that Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte, had been buried on my block. These buildings were like palimpsests. They made me wonder about the lives of all the people who had lived in them over the years.” One of Sante’s roommates was a fellow Columbia/Koch student Jim Jarmusch, then a writer and musician, and, like Sante, a denizen of the embryonic punk scene exploding in and around CBGB. The two hosted public readings of their work, and Jarmusch formed a band, the Del-Byzanteens, for which Sante occasionally wrote lyrics. In 1980, he got a job in the mailroom of the New York Review of Books and eventually became editor Barbara Epstein’s
assistant and a long-serving staff writer at the magazine. While researching a freelance story, he came across some revelatory nuggets of hidden New York history that included a startling first-person account of the 1863 Draft Riots. The discoveries reinforced his obsession with the city’s lost voices. “Herbert Asbury’s The Gangs of New York had been passed around a lot when I was at Columbia, and I’d loved that book,” says Sante. “I decided I should write a history of the slums.” Published in 1991, Low Life became a bestseller and stands as a game-changer of historical writing. Within its pages, Sante delves deep into the crime-and-vice-ridden cracks and gutters of Manhattan’s paved-over past, vividly conjuring the rough lives of the forgotten and the scenes that swirled around them through text that is poetic, richly detailed, and impossible to not be swept up by. It is, simply, an essential read for anyone who’s ever lived in New York, or even visited the city. The success of Low Life led to 1992’s Evidence, a compendium of the haunting turn-of-the-century crime photos unearthed during its making. Teaching positions at Columbia’s MFA program and the New School followed, and 1998 brought The Factory of Facts and O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (coedited with his ex-wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson). The anthology Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces and Novels in Three Lines, a translation of writings by French anarchist and art critic Felix Feneon, appeared in 2007, and 2015 brought The Other Paris, and epic excavation of the titular city’s storied recesses akin to Low Life’s archaeology of New York. Sante’s photo-oriented efforts include Walker Evans (1999); No Smoking (2004); Folk Photography and Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography (both 2009); and Annie Liebovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983 (2018). The recipient of a 1992-1993 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1997 Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 1998 Grammy for his essay in the reissued Anthology of American Folk Music, he contributed to last year’s Beastie Boys Book and the documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Given his affinity for the previous souls encased in the eaves of the structures he’s dwelled in, what does he hope the residents of his rambling 1929 wood-frame house in Midtown Kingston find in his absence? “Well, I hope there is a world 100 years in the future, and that Kingston keeps it quiet pace and doesn’t grow too fast,” Sante offers. “And I hope the wiring in here’s still good and the plumbing still works.”
Faye Emerson with Stanley Kubrick, from "Faye Emerson: Young Lady in a Hurry," 1950
Stanley always acted like he knew something you didn't know. —Michael Herr, author and journalist
Through a Different Lens is on view at the Museum of the City of New York through January 6. Mcny. org.Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kurbick Photographs is available now from Taschen Books. Taschen.com.
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music Jamie Saft Solo a Genova Jamie Saft Quartet Blue Dream (RareNoise) On a charcoal-gray Sunday morning in early December, there may be no better album to pop in than Jamie Saft’s Solo a Genoa. Quietly capturing the Kerhonkson keyboardist performing unaccompanied in the titular Northwestern Italian city, the pianoonly set is a meditative masterpiece of monochromatic mood; one that plays perfectly against the bleak backdrop of winter’s onset—or, for that matter, one of the season’s early sunsets or candlelit nights in—and instantly evokes the influential, introverted introspection of Bill Evans. And, indeed, Saft’s suitably icy interpretation of the Evans/Miles Davis standard “Blue in Green” repays his debts to the late piano great. But the rest of the play list, outside of a gorgeous reflection on John Coltrane’s “Naima,” is perhaps less expected: There are revelatory reinventions of songs by Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, Joni Mitchell, and other non-jazz artists. Then again, since Saft has played with everyone from Laurie Anderson to the Beastie Boys, such eclecticism is wholly fitting. Although Blue Dream likewise revisits some standards (the Tin Pan Alley tunes “Sweet Lorraine,” “There’s a Lull in My Life,” and a warm, loving “Violets for Your Furs”), it’s otherwise comprised of original material. Recorded in Saft’s home studio, the album pairs the pianist with tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry, bassist Bradley Christopher Jones, and drummer Nasheet Waits for a highly satisfying session of Trane-tinged explorations. Of its 12 transcendent tracks, “Infinite Compassion” may be the most indicative of Blue Dream’s spirit-summoning direction. Rarenoiserecords.com. —Peter Aaron
Blood & Stomach Pills What Rough Beast (Independent)
Ryan Martin Gimme Some Light (High Moon Records)
The Whispering Tree Invisible Forces (Independent)
“Entropy will surely have its way.” A tossed off line from opening track “Sad Song,” from Blood & Stomach Pills’ debut (released digitally and as a limited-edition flash drive) sets the agenda for the duration of this wonderfully morose and rocking album. Encompassing a broad geography of American music, husbandand-wife duo Heron (drums/guitar/vocals) and Sierra Furtwangler (organ/vocals), employ a palette of gnashing guitars and gospel, punk, and country vocals, underpinned by a bedrock of undertaker organ. “Beat & Twisted,” showcases Heron’s blues/gospel whoop and holler, while the title track has the duo employing frantic call and response that leaves them literally breathless by track’s end. Themes of depression, displacement, and hopelessness dominate lyrically, while the music chugs ahead with a single-minded rock ’n’ roll determination. Fans of gritty countrified garage punk a la North Carolina’s Flat Duo Jets will surely dig the Pills’ approach. Bloodandstomachpills.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
Croton-on-Hudson songsmith Ryan Martin wasn’t born yesterday. He was hatched decades ago. Martin’s long player Gimme Some Light sounds like an obscure small-label issue from Laurel Canyon, circa 1974, the kind of thing that Matthew Sweet or Evan Dando would score in the backroom of a Cambridge record shop and stake as some sort of primal influence; the kind of thing John Phillips may have had a hand in at some point; the kind of thing Bobby Darin might have financed had he not died a few months before. It’s not filled with hooks, but it has them, especially in “Say You Love Me” and “Regular Man.” Instead, it’s loaded with atmosphere—offhand vocals, sweet steel guitar, gently strummed acoustic, roaring electric. The list of players is long, not surprising given the brass symphony of “Ask Your Mother.” Gimme Some Light does not grab on first listen—it’s a honey slide. Highmoonrecords.com. —Michael Eck
On their fourth album, Beacon-based, Franco-American folk duo Eleanor Kleiner and Elie Brangbour continue their mixed bag of style, weaving eight tunes from various bolts of musical cloth. Number one on the International Folk DJ Chart in September 2018, Invisible Forces leads with “These Houses,” a soulful piano ballad with harmonized gospel-esque vocals detailing the melancholy entropy of houses, almost begging to understand who and what events the decaying structures once endured. Upbeat and mysterious, the gypsy jazz of “Fat Cat” showcases Kleiner’s Frenchinflected serenade of a shady rich character. “California” is a feel-good pop song of hope and reinventing oneself, while “Little Sailor” is a brief a cappella questionnaire to a seafarer that makes for a perfect lullaby of male/female harmonies. The Whispering Tree live is an intimate slice of warm folk roots, so check Chronogram’s winter events listings for local performances. Thewhisperingtree.com. —Haviland S. Nichols
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poetry
EDITED BY Phillip X Levine
Dear A Formerly Dying Butterfly,
New Year’s Eve
you were always the Fragile One. When I was six I named the Waterfall after your eventual death: the falls of mortality. Your wings would pulse a drumbeat in steady rhythm a Harmony with your breath, skin folding like paper.
It’s hard to have resolutions When my life is so unresolved —p
When you lay, wings broken, I never knew how really hurt you were until you were mostly Whole again. and now I can’t help but to clutch you as close to my heart as I can, my Butterfly. —Lily Raper (13 years)
At Kummenlanke At Kummenlanke the waters have unfrozen after a week of prolonged sun. I ladle my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like earth, stone, fire. It permeates my body waking my bones and blood. I heed their moaning question oh—what is that marvelous thing which just happened? —Eliza Bishop Steinbacher Hands awoke to the warmth of flesh, pink and freckled sunken into yesterday’s cup cold and sweet patiently waiting for your hands and my fair skin to tumultuously meet and here I am pressed against a door waiting for a cab, maybe something more but the sky is dark as it should be— and my eyes are dark as they are your hands so pink and freckled, cold and sweet and far —Madison Brower The Gift I said that I was happy. They told me what to say. The truth is I feel crappy. Wear that? No friggin’ way! —Rick Oestrike
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Calendar
Suddenly
In calendar rows a day is mapped with one box, proceeding rightward, white, and straight. Days lie, side by side in sevens, trapped. So, done: the brunch, the job, the plans, in numbered date.
Suddenly, spring doesn’t come. Suddenly, the day lacks poise. The sweet connection falls apart, And what was song is noise.
to learn our days are jars, not square, not white, preserving vivid scenes in a priceless sphere holding nested gems in bowls, refracting light, where colors from a fragile vase appear
We lift our heads to meet the day And what in dreams is dread Awake is foggy, cold, and gray, A warp of tangled thread.
But ladies, men, those Quaker-gathered guests are gems, who form a sacred quiet gift who make a necklace of gentle, reverent breasts linking bead, with bead, where spirits lift
Rectangled paper row? Bejeweled china bowl? Know a death will come, may pulverize the whole —Imogene Putnam
This life is truly but a shadow. Friends and love appear and fade. Around us what seemed firm Is frailty, and what shone bright is pale.
I miss you now my heart’s sweet dream. I miss you now forever. But there is nothing to be done. Alas, not now, or ever. —James Lichtenberg
Enough If I were the waves And you were the sand, I would tease your massive arrangement Forming and reforming Provoking and persuading, Pulverized to purify by constancy. I would lie heavily over you Dark and dense at night. Still and silent. Suffocating you with fluid swells, Demanding and owning. Only to release you through a third—the day’s sun, To have you lucid and crystal by day, Clear to your deepest depth, Your needs and worry set free, As I crash against you day and night to remind you, I am here all around you Quenching you, Disturbing you Loving you —Peggy Bruen
A Pendulum for Amanda When we die I want our bones in a swinging casket Loose and intermingling rubbing up against one another so that we are no longer distinguishable or apart. our edges rounded from the friction like river rock smoothed over eternity no corners or jagged edges just each other without traits. as unremarkable as a handful of gravel in the slender grasp of your graceful palm. A shapeless resting place For a love that replaced our need to be distinct. —John Sullivan
Mourning Ellie sends me an article about a neo-Nazi who lived on our street and the fear gets closer again. Reading the words My stomach turns And in one of the photos at an Alt Right rally, I see a kid wearing a Mets hat. The world is on fire. Every small noise I wonder if I’m next. A sacrifice to the insanity. A bouncer who saves everyone gets shot and killed But the terrorist gets a neat typed-up report in which the responding FBI officer states his credentials. God is tired. And the hands they used to rock our crib have succumbed to a slumped-over figure in the corner of the room. We are losing. We are losing. Please wake up Before anyone else has to die Please now, we need you to wake up And help us. I flicker the lights and bang on the door But there is no movement Just 130 characters in which someone explains why they hate a group of human beings Just several images in which they depict their deaths and the blood is pixilated and edgy. Our own neighbor. Our own little version of a reason to flee in the middle of the night And never return again. —Henry M. McCarty
Evening Walk
After
Thank you. It ended too soon but you made a warm night warmer, the sidewalk seem softer, the streetlights brighter, though not so bright as your eyes when I stole a glance or two at them, and you touched my arm as you said goodnight and sparked a small shiver.
After I die And after a pause You’ll go back to do Just what you did Before I died.
—Gregory Luce
Here’s where we diverge You to the liquor store Me to the hotel lobby A metal grate between my face and a bored hotel clerk When she swiped my card her wrist flicked like the cool girls in high school. Where are they now? They are all working the midday shift at The Country Inn on Route 9. Welcome to Fishkill, they say as they flick their wrists again and charge your card by the hour. Do you remember T?, they ask. Do you remember how we danced at prom? No and no. The bells above the door jingle and you walk into the lobby, A bottle under each arm, no bag in either hand. A hotel hook-up. Planned sometime between play dates and vaccinations. Do you remember me? Do you remember how we fell in love? —Melissa Akar
—Ze’ev Willy Neumann Breath & Brevity Remember, you watched that leaf fall off the oak tree in the yard outside the kitchen window in the house that made you cry when you walked into it for the first time because you knew you had dreamed it the night before? You watched the leaf completely detach itself from the tree then flutter, then fall to the ground. There is a hard-won wisdom in witnessing. You knew your life was half over, you knew you were smarter for seeing it but the damned leaf broke your heart because you never imagined how long it would take to stand inside that moment, to watch the leaf make contact with the earth. All these things you never noticed before your half life was lived. There is hard-won wisdom in witnessing. The vertical space above your head seems to help when you are on this second side of living. High ceilings in the rooms you live in make the days more breathable. No one thinks much of vertical space these days but you know it helps to be able to hold your head up high in the rooms that hold your life. There is hard-won wisdom in witnessing. —Lori Corry
Take My Pride I pay rent to this land, just like your great-grandfather did. I crease my papers over again pacing outside the courtroom while my children weep in a cage at some border town, south of those purple mountains majesty we never reached. Mountains that frame the path just beyond that desert filled with the melodic drone of crickets that, burrowing in the soft sand, never let us forget, even for a night, that our footsteps, that our very existence is rogue. That given half a chance, your government can and will, eviscerate our dreams. Those dreams we thought had half a chance to soar. But now those dreams implode in this foreign town where I’m still pacing, still wringing my papers and staring outside at a pigeon, willing it to carry my story, like a kernel of truth, to your television sets, and make you realize, I pay rent just like you. I’m just a little short this month. —Stephanie Carter
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The Emerald Isle Dance Hall From the bridge in South Cairo you can see it the old Emerald Isle Dance Hall, abandoned, sagging over Catskill Creek. It was quite the place, they said, with the waltzes the romance the beer the floorboards jumping in time to the music. If you turn left onto 23B and park on the shoulder, you can cross the road and find the building partially hidden by massive trees. The word SHAMROCK is barely visible on the wall and an old neon sign DANCE hangs askew near the roof. Where a wall has collapsed you can see the stage backed by windows overlooking the creek. Walk around to the porch where columns remain and you can picture the gaiety when bands like the Galway Blazers made the air sing on South Cairo’s summer nights. —Sandra Dutton
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Johanna Lindsay at PLACE New York City-based photographer Lindsay will showcase new work at PLACE gallery in Millerton this month. Lindsay is a former theatrical public relations and marketing expert who discovered her passion for photography in the early 90s when she worked as an associate producer for The Second City. First published in Chronicle Books’ This Is Happening: #Life through the Lens of Instagram, Lindsay is a storyteller who narrates with her camera. January 2-March 2.
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An untitled photograph by Johanna Lindsay.
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Linda Montano photographed by Amber S. Clark at the former Ulster County Jail in 2007.
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art
I'm Dying is part of an exhibition by Linda Montano opening on January 23.
“I’m a deathaholic,” admits performance artist Linda Montano. Her new exhibition, “The Art/Life Hospital,” opens at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz on January 23. Don’t worry; despite the title of the show, and her age—Montano is 76—she’s in perfect health. Nonetheless, during two performances at the Dorsky she’ll lie inside a coffin for two hours, occasionally being bottle-fed mother’s milk by a nurse. (Is she suggesting that death itself is a type of food?) The phrase “I’m dying” will be painted over and over on the wall behind the casket, the way a recalcitrant student writes “I will never talk in class” 100 times on a blackboard. When Montano is not in the casket, a plastic skeleton wearing the artist’s life mask will take her place. “It’s just a natural spiritual transformation; you either get bitter or better,” says Montano about aging. One of her motifs has been impersonation: she has performed dressed as Bob Dylan, Mother Teresa, and other notables. Now she is impersonating an aged woman, with a “mask” created by time itself. Also in the exhibition will be seven dolls that Montano made from her mother’s clothing. Each doll will lie in a little bed next to a message expressing gratitude for one aspect of life, such as: “I am grateful for money because it helps me feel secure.” Visitors to the gallery are asked to gaze at each doll and contemplate their own benefactors. A large screen will show a number of
Montano’s videos on the subject of mortality and healing, including Mitchell’s Death (1977) and I’m Dying—My Last Performance (2015). She has worked with video artist Tobe Carey for 25 years. Montano is best known for “Seven Years of Living Art,” a performance spanning seven years involving the chakras. Each year she dressed in the color of a particular chakra and spent hours a day in a room of that color, meditating on a particular tone associated with that chakra. Montano was a pioneer of durational art— performance that takes place over an extended period of time. In fact, she helped redefine performance. There’s no such thing as an opera lasting seven years. Montano was raised in Saugerties, and returned to the area in 1998 after teaching at the University of Texas. She now lives in the house where she grew up, which she has renamed “The Art/Life Institute & Transfiguration Hospital.” “As she gets older, and death is inevitable for everyone, it’s a very interesting twist in her career to, instead of talking about art/life, to start talking about art/death,” observes Anastasia James, who curated the show. “How can she carry art into death? I think it’s very brave of her.” “Linda Montano: The Art/Life Hospital” will be exhibited at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz from January 23 through April 14. An opening reception and performance will be held on February 9 at 5pm. (845) 257-3844. —Sparrow
Dying to Perform LINDA MONTANO AT THE DORSKY MUSEUM January 23 through April 14 Newpaltz.edu/museum
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With anti-anxiety, anti-inflammatory, and general peace-inducing effects, cannabidiol (CBD) is the cure to our modern condition. In recent years, the hemp extract has cropped up in everything from coffee to tea to gummies and matcha shakes. Marbletown-based entrepreneur Konstanze Zeller was one of the early local adopters of this trend, creating a line of CBD-infused cacao bites and adaptogenic elixirs for her wellness company Cocorau. On January 26, Zeller will host a Winter Feast at her 300-year-old stone home to showcase the versatility and benefits of CBD. Catered by The Upstate Table, this eight-course meal will incorporate Hudson Hemp’s full-spectrum CBD into a plant-based tasting menu that kicks off with CBDinfused cocktails and appetizers and concludes with CBD chocolates for an indulgent, moodaltering evening. $198. 7milestokingston.com
DANCE
Jungle Rave The Hudson Valley has long been home to herbalists and hobby horticulturists. But on January 3, Connie Dasilva of Whole Clarity will introduce a whole new way to commune with flora—Dance with Plants. Billed as a “new, high vibe dance party,” this event will transform the upstairs of BSP into a lush jungle wellness lounge with live plants, plant-based art, and healthsupportive products ranging from kombucha to superfoods to aromatherapy mists. The evening kicks off with a singing bowl meditation and then ramps up with a drum circle dance warm-up, before DJ Adrian Barrin of Brooklyn fame takes the floor to spin house dance beats. A longtime devotee of the plant kingdom and recent city transplant, Dasilva was inspired to organize this dance party by the “distinct lack in alternative nightlife upstate.” Embodying a modern holistic approach to wellness, Dance With Plants offers a unique space to refresh, recharge, and dance hard. 6:30-10pm. $20. Bspkingston.com
FILM
Dinner Rush Director Bob Giraldi knows a thing or two about restaurants, having been a partner in quite a few of them, including Jean Georges, Vong, and Patria. In 2001, Giraldi turned his insider knowledge of the service industry into Dinner Rush, starring Italian everyman Danny Aiello as a restaurateur and part-time bookmaker who runs afoul of the Mob. (Sandra Bernhard steals the show as a demnading food critic.) Think Big Night meets “The Sopranos.” Giraldi, who's perhaps best known for directing the video for Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” will be on hand for a screening of the film at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on January 13, followed by a reception at Market Street around the corner. Upstatefilms.org
WORKSHOP
New Year Reflections with Elena Brower Though an arbitrary spot on the calendar, the beginning of the year offers an entry point for contemplation as we begin another journey around the sun. Renowned yogi, teacher, and author Elena Brower leads an afternoon of yoga, art, and self-reflection at Magazzino in Cold Spring on January 5 from 3-5pm. Presented by Ascend Center, the workshop will explore methods for charting a personal course in the new year— one founded on physical, mental, and emotional alignment. Participants will receive a copy of Brower’s best-selling Practice You: A Journal, which offers a contemplative, creative pathway to tap into one’s inner wisdom and intuition. Elenabrower.com
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Performances by the Metropolitan Opera are broadcast live at venues all over Hudson Valley.
New York’s Metropolitan Opera isn’t the oldest classical music organization in America. But, with its massive symphonic orchestra, chorus, and children’s choir, as well as numerous supporting and leading solo singers and regular freelance guest performers, it is America’s largest and, arguably, its best known. The company was founded in 1880 by a breakaway group of nouveau riche industrialists/arts patrons that included members of the Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Roosevelt families, all of whom had found themselves shut out of the resentful, old-money scene at the already established Academy of Music. The Metropolitan Opera—commonly known as the Met—opened the first Metropolitan Opera House, at 1411 Broadway, in 1883, which swiftly eclipsed its stuffy predecessor (the Academy closed in 1886). In 1966, the Met moved to its present, iconic Lincoln Center location, from where it began beaming highdefinition live video broadcasts of its productions via satellite to select theaters and other venues around the world in 2006. “We started carrying the live Saturday matinee broadcasts the first year they were available, and they’ve been really, really successful,” says Linda Mussman, cofounder of Hudson multiarts venue Time & Space Limited (TSL), which also screens live events by the Bolshoi Ballet and National Theatre in HD. “Right away, the attendance was really good, and people have been coming from all over the area. A lot of them are people who’ve loved seeing the Met in New York but can’t get down to the city as easily now. We get a lot of young people who have been curious about opera, because they screenings are so accessible. I think opera is the most democratic art form: If you can sing well enough, you’ve got the part. It doesn’t matter what you look like.” The Met’s repertoire spans from the bedrock classics of the 18th and 19th centuries to
the Minimalist works of the 20th century. This year’s season includes Cilea’s “Adrian Lecouvreur”; Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande”; Bizet’s “Carmen”; Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” and “Don Giovani”; Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmelites”; Verdi’s “Otello,” “Falstaff,” and “Rigoletto”; and more. “The broadcasts are shot using 13 cameras, with all of these amazing angles and closeups and backstage scenes—elements you’ll never see even if you’re in the audience at Lincoln Center,” says Chris Silva, executive director of the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, which likewise began streaming the Met’s performances in 2006. “And since it’s the Met, no expense is spared, in terms of the sets and costumes. It really is one of the best ways to see an opera.” The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-2019 season continues through May 10. The live broadcast schedule can vary, depending on the outlet. (See websites for more information.) —Peter Aaron MET LIVE VENUES Time & Space Limited (Hudson) Bardavon 1869 Opera House (Poughkeepsie) Ridgefield Playhouse (Ridgefield, Connecticut) Regal Crossgates Stadium (Albany) UPAC (Kingston) Galleria Mall Stadium 16 (Poughkeepsie) Moviehouse (Millerton) Mahawie Performing Arts Center (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) AMC Lowes Danbury 16 (Danbury, Connecticut) Regal Colonie Center Stadium 13 & RPX (Albany) Beacon Cinema (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
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Linda Montano, I’m Dying–My Last Performance, 2015, video, color, sound. Video still copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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exhibits
Antonio Listening to Bea Lillie sing Paree, a 2012 line drawing by Jeff Miller.
Jeff Miller at Gallery at 46 Green Street “Whatever else you may say about his art, you can’t deny the purity of his line.” Some critic wrote that about Aubrey Beardsley, an early hero of Miller’s. Unsurprisingly, Miller has chased that “purity of line” as an ideal throughout his career, and through thousands of drawings. This month at Gallery at 46 Green Street in Hudson, Miller’s highly stylized, imaginative line drawings— expressive yet still representational—exhibit their playfulness and elegance. Through January 20. Ryan Cronin at Unison Arts Center Cronin’s painting walks the tightrope between Pop Art and abstraction, incorporating bright colors, text, elements of graphic design, and folk art. The work is also serious fun, as if a precocious kindergartener realized an ecstatic vision of a new iconography. David Hockney, Philip Guston, and Robert Indiana are clear influences on the New Paltz-based artist, whose work draws as much inspiration from 20thcentury masters as it does from street art. January 6-February 28.
Sharon Lindenfeld at Garrison Art Center Contemporary printmaker Sharon Lindenfeld’s abstract etchings revel in the subtle and expressive frequencies of the subconscious in the exhibition “Iterations: Solo Printmaking” at the Garrison Art Center, featuring large-scale and small-scale prints. Ambiguous, dreamlike landscapes are peopled with strange figures, objects, and architectural elements. Within the plentitude of printmaking techniques and forms, Lindenfeld has developed a varied body of work with a distinctive ethereal painterliness. January 26-February 24. Betty Parsons at Art Omi Best known as a dealer of midcentury art through her eponymous gallery, Betty Parsons (19001982) championed Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman. Parsons was also a painter herself and maintained a rigorous artistic practice. This is the last chance to see her ongoing investigation of landscape through the lens of abstraction at Art Omi in Ghent. Also included in this exhibition are some of Parsons’ painted driftwood constructions. Through January 6.
“The imPerfect Poetics of Place” at Hudson Beach Glass Eleni Smolen of Theo Ganz Studio curates a group show at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon featuring Joseph Ayers, Samantha Beste, Cathy Cook, Jill Enfield, Elana Goren, Kevin Kearns, Meelia Kelly, Flynn Larsen, Herman Roggeman, Ooloosie Saila, and Emma Tapley. Works include video, film, photography, etching, sculpture, drawing, painting, and found object takes on landscape and place. January 12-February 3. “Death is Black and White” at HVMoCA Serena Staus curates a selection of stark monochromatic photography and video art from the Marc and Livia Straus Family Collection at HVMoCA in Peekskill. The exhibition takes a focused look at how the examination of mortality illuminates what it means to be alive. Featured artists include: Dieter Appelt, Gilles Berquet, Larry Clark, Martin Eder, Ion Grigorescu, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Maria Marshall, Shirin Neshat, and Mike and Doug Starn. Through January 20.
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exhibits Birds Feeding 1, a Japanese woodblock print by Karl Volk.
Karl Volk at Art Society of Kingston Born in Brooklyn in 1932, Kingston-based Volk has been exhibiting his paintings in the Hudson Valley for the past 50 years. This retrospective at the Arts Society of Kingston caps a career that began with studies with Mark Rothko, Burgoyne Diller, and Kurt Seligman and includes countless shows at regional galleries like Tivoli Artists Gallery, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, the Garrison Art Center, and the Barrett Art Center. January 5-31.
510 WARREN ST GALLERY
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM
GALERIE GRIS
"Janet Pumphrey: Exposure Exposure Exposure." January 4-27. Opening reception January 5, 3pm-6pm.
"Josh Simpson: Galactic Landscapes." Innovative works by renowned glass artist Josh Simpson. Through January 6.
"The Singular Elegance of Trees: New Paintings by Katie DeGroot." Through January 18.
ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY
GALLERY 40
"Landmark." Featuring 10 contemporary visual artists and 7 writers responding to our relationship with the natural world and Thomas Cole’s greatest written work "Essay on American Scenery." Through February 25.
"Inner Visions. An exhibition of new watercolors by Betsy Jacaruso. Through January 31.
"The Sublime and the Beautiful." Mark Cohen and Judy Winter. January 18-February 22, 6-9pm. Opening rceeption January 18, 6pm.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
737 ALBANY-SHAKER ROAD, ALBANY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK "The Luminous Landscape 2018: 21st Annual National Invitational. Featuring Karl Dempwolf, James Coe, Crista Pisano, James Ransome, Christie Scheele. Through January 31.
ALBERT WISNER PUBLIC LIBRARY MCFARLAND DRIVE, WARWICK
"Hazda: The Roots of Equality." Hadza daily life, culture, and knowledge through photography, an immersive soundscape, text and artifacts. Through January 12.
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM 258 MAIN STREET, RIDGEFIELD, CT
"Helena Hernmarck: Weaving in Progress." Through January 13. "How Art Changed the Prison: The Work of CPA's Prison Arts Program." January 27-May 27.
ART SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON
"Karl Volk: A Retrospective." January 5-31. Artists reception January 5, 5pm-7pm.
BEACON ARTIST UNION
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON "Natural Selection: Curated By Russ Ritell." Through January 6.
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39 SOUTH STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435.
621 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
40 CANNON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
GALLERY AT 46 GREEN STREET
"Annual 5x7 Show." Through January 6.
"Out of Line! Drawings by Jeff Miller." Through January 20.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
GARRISON ART CENTER
"Landscapes: Capturing the View." Through January 6.
COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
"Iterations: Solo Printmaking Exhibition by Sharon Lindenfeld." "SEWAN: Paintings and works on paper by Tad Wiley." Both shows: January 26-February 24.
"The Earth from Above." Recent wax and oil paintings by Joy Wolf. Through March 30.
GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
"Salon & Handmade Holiday Gifts Exhibit and Sale." Featuring original artwork 24 x 24” or less in size. Through January 12.
622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
4400 ROUTE 23, HUDSON
348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION "Brighid Graves." Scrap wood. January 1-31.
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE ART CENTER 82 NORTH BROADWAY, NYACK
"Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching for Light." Inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and his relationship with his wife, Josephine (Jo) Nivison Hopper. Through February 17.
FLETCHER GALLERY
40 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK "Hongnian Zhang" Paintings. Through January 13.
46 GREEN STREET, HUDSON
23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON
398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL
HOLLAND TUNNEL ART
46 CHAMBERS STREET, NEWBURGH "Jacques Roch: Esperanza." Esperanza features a selection of small format paintings and drawings from several decades, curated by Antony Roch and Paulien Lethen. Through February 17.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON
"The imPerfect Poetics of Place." Curated by Eleni Smolen. Joseph Ayers, Samantha Beste, Cathy Cook, Jill Enfield, Elana Goren, Kevin Kearns, Meelia Kelly, Flynn Larsen, Herman Roggeman, Ooloosie Saila and Emma Tapley. January 12-February 3. Opening rceeption January 12, 6-9pm.
exhibits
Tibetan Women, an oil painting by Hongnian Zhang.
HUDSON HALL
PLACE
"Scott Benedict: Kahnscious—Photographing Architecture." Through January 20.
"Johanna Lindsay: Photographs" January 12-March 3. Opening reception January 12, 5-9pm.
HUDSON VALLEY MOCA
RHINEBECK ANTIQUE EMPORIUM
"Death is Black and White." Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Family Collection. Curated by Sarena Straus. A selection of stark monochromatic photography and video art. The exhibition takes a focused look at how the examination of mortality illuminates what it means to be alive. Through August 2.
"Emporium Sculpture Park." This new sculpture park exhibit curated by Franc Palaia includes 14 sculptures by 11 regional artists. Through May 31.
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL
THE INN AND SPA AT BEACON 151 MAIN STREET, BEACON
"Works by Keith Gunderson." Representational landscape and still-life paintings. Through January 6.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON
23 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON
5229 ALBANY POST ROAD (RT 9), STAATSBURG
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ
"Linda Montano: The Art/Life Hospital." January 23-April 14. Artists reception February 9, 5-7pm.
THE ART EFFECT
Hongnian Zhang at Fletcher Gallery Chinese-born painter Hongnian Zhang moved to Woodstock in 1991 and has been a fixture of the regional artistic scene ever since, as his students at the Woodstock School of Art well know. A realistic painter in the Western academic tradition, Zhang’s epic narratives are sweeping tableaux of Chinese and American historical and contemporary scenes. Several of his large-scale epic paintings on Chinese history have been featured in National Geographic magazine. Through January 13.
45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE "Teen Visions Exhibition." January 4-18.
"Tiny Mirrors: Paintings by Brian Rego." January 5-27. Opening reception January 5, 6-8pm.
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
"Appetites for Change: Foodways in Post-War America." Studentcurated exhibit. Through July 31.
WINDHAM FINE ARTS
"Holiday Salon: A Group Show." Featuring over 20 artists and artisans. Through January 28.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
"Work of Art: Cue Gerhard Guitars." Through January 13.
MOTHER GALLERY
"Outspoken: Seven Women Photographers." The work of Nadine Boughton, Blake Fitch, Nancy Grace Horton, Marky Kauffmann, Tira Khan, Rania Matar, and Emily Schiffer. Through January 13.
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ
18 WEST MAIN STREET, BEACON "Wind-Scoured Scribes." Group show curated by Kari Adelaide. Through February 2.
OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER 1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT
"Betty Parsons: Blue sky very high." Abstract paintings. Through January 6.
1946 CAMPUS DRIVE, HYDE PARK
11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT
UNISON
5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM
WIRED GALLERY
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS "To Know the Light." A group show featuring the work of 15 local artists. Curated by Mary Jane Nusbaum. Through April 1.
68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ
WOMENSWORK.ART
"Ryan Cronin Paintings." January 6-February 28. Artists reception January 6, 4-6pm.
Art Is For Everyone: Small Works holiday sale. Through January 4.
4 SOUTH CLINTON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE
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time & space limited indie, foreign, and documentary films
Shoah: Four Sisters • Becoming Astrid Detour (’45) • Inquiring Nuns (’68) ...& More!
live broadcasts
Met: Adriana Lecouvreur • Carmen Bolshoi: La Bayadère / Stage Russia: King Lear NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard II
community
Screening Shoplifters, Golden Globe nominee for
TSL Book Space • Seated Yoga Best Foreign Language Film. “Superb” – NY Times
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Make Your Voice Heard! A Free Vocal Production Class with KATIE BULL!
You’re Invited
Preview the Whole Body Voice (c) technique with Founder and Voice Coach, Katie Bull
Sat., January 12th 1 - 3 p.m. Kingston · For Performers & Speakers · Helping Professionals · Activists & Earth Lovers presented by
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REGISTER at www.KatieBull.com/workshop
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live music Rufus Wainwright performs live at The Egg in Albany on January 18.
FRENCHY & THE PUNK RECORD RELEASE
January 5. Frenchy & the Punk call New Paltz home, but only nominally; the Franco-American twosome of singer and percussionist Samantha Stephenson (AKA Frenchy) and guitarist Scott Helland (AKA, that’s right, the Punk) is eternally on the road, rocking renaissance faires and steam punk soirees with their can-can-kicking cocktail of cabaret folk. On the bootheels of Hooray Beret, their ninth album, the duo hits Colony to whoop it up in celebration of the release. For the jolly jubilee, they’ll be joined by their fellow dark Hudson Valley acoustic act Dust Bowl Faeries. (Arc Iris arrives January 3; Robert Burke Warren’s Acoustic Stardust honors David Bowie January 12.) 8pm. $8, $10. Woodstock. (845) 679-7625. Colonywoodstock.com
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January 16. Although Scottish postpunkers APB were championed by legendary BBC DJ John Peel, outside of their native Scotland and parts of Europe the band found their biggest fame in the New York Metro area. In the early 1980s, their singles (“Chain Reaction,” “I’d Like to Shoot You Down,” “Rainy Day”) filled the floors at Manhattan clubs like the Ritz and the Peppermint Lounge and even at venues way out on Long Island. Cut from a punk-funk cloth a la Gang of Four, Delta 5, and the Au Pairs, the group, initially a trio but at times expanded to a quartet or quintet, has been an influence on fellow Scotsmen Franz Ferdinand and other junior acts. They drop by Daryl’s House this month. (Albert Lee picks January 3; Peter Asher and Jeremy Clyde croon January 17.) 7pm. $15-$25. Pawling. (845) 289-0185. Darylshouseclub.com
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
January 18. It’s been a while since we’ve had a visit from this suave songsmith and native of Rhinebeck. Here, the Egg welcomes Rufus Wainwright back to his home region as part of its ongoing American Roots & Branches series. Blending Broadway with baroque rock, Tin Pan Alley pop, cabaret, folk, and opera (his second operatic production, “Hadrian,” premiered in 2018), Wainwright has emerged as one of contemporary music’s most significant artists— perhaps not surprising, given his lineage (he’s the son of folksingers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and the brother and halfbrother, respectively, of singer-songwriters Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche). His current tour trumpets the 20th anniversary of his eponymous debut and adds songs from his second album, 2001’s Poses. Rufus's sister, Lucy Wainwright Roche opens, and will undoubtedly join her brother for a few songs. (Enter the Haggis comes in January 4; the Jayhawks alight January 17; the Dons of Comedy—"America's best ItalianAmerican comedians"—bring the yuks on January 26.) 8pm. $45, $55. Albany. (518) 473-1845. Theegg.org
CHADWICK STOKES AND THE PINTOS
January 19. Folk rocker and activist Chadwick Stokes claims the Clash, Howard Zinn, and Woody Guthrie among his heroes, mirroring their progressive stances with his band the Pintos’ socially conscious songs and charitable actions (see their women’s advocacy initiative and Zimbabwean assistance efforts). Prior to forming the Pintos, the Boston-based Stokes fronted the popular outfits Dispatch and State Radio, whose reggae-punk-fusion songs his current group
frequently revisits. There’s also something of the Band in Stokes’s rootsy, melodic, acousticcentered music, so it feels perfectly appropriate for him and the Pintos to be paying this visit to Levon Helm Studios. With Brooke Annibale. (Rock Academy sings Stevie Nicks on January 11 and 12; Glad channels Traffic on February 2.) 7:30pm. $31-$46. Woodstock. (845) 679-2744. Levonhelm.com
ROBERT GORDON FEATURING CHRIS SPEDDING AND ROB STONER
February 1. Hear ye, hear ye: The Towne Crier welcomes some rock ’n’ roll legends. Swivelhipped New York singer Robert Gordon kicked off the rockabilly revival in the late 1970s, paving the road for the Stray Cats and scoring hits with his versions of Marshall Crenshaw’s “Some Day, Some Way” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire.” His frequent sideman, English guitarist Chris Spedding, is a leading session musician as well as a solo artist and has worked with acts as diverse as Brian Eno, the Sex Pistols, and Jack Bruce. And, in addition to being Bob Dylan’s band leader for years, guitarist and bassist Rob Stoner has, like Gordon and Spedding, done time with the late “Rumble” guitarist Link Wray. On drums is another Wray/Dylan/Gordon alumnus, “Late Night with David Letterman” percussionist Anton Fig, who has also worked with Kiss, Warren Zevon, B.B. King, Joe Bonamassa, and others. (Joe Louis Walker jams January 11; Garland Jeffreys returns January 12; Newburgh hip-hop sensation Decora January 19.) 8:30pm. $35. Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Townecrier.com
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WELCOME TO THE NEW NORMAL January 2019 begins a new energy cycle, and after the latter half of 2018’s many retrogrades and readjustments, comes not a moment too soon. Uranus stations direct January 6, leaving us with no retrograde planets through early March. It’s a running start on the new year—one we’ll need to create momentum for, for the next big leap forward. The Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Capricorn on January 5 initiates manifestation, inviting us to get grounded, get real, and get going. Where exactly are we going? As John Lennon said to his bandmates: “To the toppermost of the poppermost!” Our ascent begins with action-hero Mars entering his home sign of Aries on New Year’s Eve, refreshing and reinvigorating us with initiative, inspiration, and vitality. Venus’s transit into Sagittarius on January 7 joins Jupiter in his home sign as these two traditional beneficent planets operate in tandem, enhancing and expanding our capacity for beauty, joy, creativity, and camaraderie. The Lunar Eclipse / Full Moon at zero degrees Leo on January 20 is a Supermoon, and the final eclipse of the Aquarius-Leo eclipse cycle, which dominated the last 19 months. This is the climax of the previous eclipse cycle’s emphasis on the dynamic tension between the individual and the collective, the final exam in the Master Class you’ve been enrolled in, the subject of which has been “Me vs. We.” The Sun and Mercury enter Aquarius on the 20 and 23 respectively, emphasizing friendships, affinity groups, and community. If you’re mourning those who became estranged because of political/ideological differences, the good news is that the “New Normal” includes an enhanced ability to tolerate a wider range of views without having to agree on every jot and tittle of some dogmatic credo. Now’s the time to reach out and reconnect!
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TAURUS (April 19–May 20)
Transiting Mars in your Solar 12th House brings energy and attention to what’s been percolating in your subconscious / unconscious mind during the last year. Mercury in fellow Earth-sign Capricorn between January 6-25 helps tease out the tendrils and unravel the threads of thought from the ether-world into the realm of form and function. The Moon in Taurus January 14-15 illuminates the missing link in your quest to manifest your dreams. Clues are being thrown at you like breadcrumb trails on the forest floor—follow them! Don’t take that detour towards the gingerbread house at the fork in the road!
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GEMINI (May 20–June 21)
Venus and Jupiter in Sagittarius this month set up party headquarters in your Solar 7th House of Partnerships, and they’ve invited all their rowdy friends. Are you the recipient of unbelievably good luck or “too good to be true” temporary good times? That will depend on your ability to discern fact from hyperbole, and true gems from glittery bling. Nobody knows better than you how mercurial, multifaceted personalities need a broad spectrum of stimulation. That spectrum gets significantly broader this month as relationship options multiply like rabbits, and expanded understandings of romantic intimacy may transform former friends into current lovers.
CANCER (June 21–July 22)
Answers to the questions which have been brewing inside of you since the Full Moon in Cancer on December 22 begin to appear during the Solar Eclipse/New Moon in Capricorn on January 5. You’ll see things differently after the eclipse conceals and then reveals the light again, but this event is just one of a series of revelations due to unfold over the next 18 months, after which you’ll emerge with a transformed selfunderstanding. Diffuse the emotional charge you feel around issues of change by allowing yourself to be a curious observer of your own feelings and perceptions
LEO (July 22–August 23)
The final eclipse on the Leo-Aquarius axis occurs January 20, which is a Lunar Eclipse/Supermoon in your home sign. Conjoining the Sun’s ingress into Aquarius and trining Mars in Aries and Venus/Jupiter in Sagittarius, this final, powerful push is the last one in the new-you birth cycle! It’s time to emerge from the birth canal complete, cut the cord, and be announced: not “it’s a girl” or “it’s a boy,” but “it’s a new ball game and a new, hard-won level of self-awareness!” Gifts for the newborn you may include a spotlight, a microphone, or a bully pulpit.
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Mars in your solar opposite Aries energizes your Venus-ruled self to integrate those seemingly opposite Mars-like attributes into your conscious self from where they’ve been banished to your shadow-side. Boldness, courage, audacity, and assertiveness needn’t be brazen, blowhard, pushy, or aggressive when tempered with your natural inclination for peace-making, partnership-building, balance, and compromise. Moon in Libra January 25-26 gifts you with extra emotional confidence as you make your case in the courtroom of love. Whether as plaintiff or defendant, you’ll win by using your superpowers of personal charm and graceful diplomacy, delivering the knockout punch to your opponent: Fearful McDoubter.
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SCORPIO (October 23–November 21) Venus in the final degrees of your sign through January 7 puts the finishing touches on the giftwrapped package that contains all the hard-won independence and personal sovereignty you’ve fought for since early September. The first test of your new self-awareness comes at the Last Quarter Moon in Scorpio on January 27, when a deal you thought had previously been signed, sealed, and delivered returns for recalibration. This is not a threat to your status, it is a test of your resolve. You know what’s right for you! Don’t settle for less or allow another to bully you into acquiescence.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22–December 22)
It’s an open bar and all-you-can-eat buffet when Venus and Jupiter party together in your home sign after January 7. The Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse/Supermoon of January 20 triggers your inner drama queen: Will it be someone coming to your emotional rescue or you playing the part of knight in shining armor? Consequences of the open tab and catering bills don’t appear until mid-February, but to avoid a heart attack prior to that, try to keep the excess down to a dull roar and remember: You’re in this for the long haul, so best to pace yourself.
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The big, bold steps you took in December were brave and good, and your courage pays off this month in the form of a new level of respect and recognition from others who may not have taken you as seriously as you deserve before you took a stand and declared your intentions. Moon in Pisces January 9-11 extends your ability to dream big, and Jupiter, your classical co-ruler in expansive Sagittarius, encourages and enables you to boldly go where no one has gone before. You’re on much more solid ground than you normally are accustomed to. Trust in the process.
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Green Meadow Waldorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Nagele, Knowles & Associates . . . . . . . . . 82
Aba’s Falafel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Adams Fairacre Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Halter Associates Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Osaka Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Albert Shahinian Fine Art . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Harney & Sons Fine Teas . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Pamela’s on the Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Angelina’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Harvey School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Peekskill Coffee House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Aqua Jet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Hawthorne Valley Association . . . . . . . . . 54
Peter Aaron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Atlantic Custom Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Poughkeepsie Day School . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Bakery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Historic Huguenot Street . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Primrose Hill School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Bank of Greene County . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Holistic Natural Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Red Hook Curry House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bard College at Simon’s Rock . . . . . . . . . 50
Hollenbeck Pest Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Red Mannequin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Bard MAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Hotchkiss School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Refinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Bardavon 1869 Opera House . . . . . . . . . . 14
Hudson Highlands Veterinary Medical Group . 23
Regal Bag Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Barefoot Dance Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Hudson Hills Montessori School . . . . . . . . 54
Rhinebeck Kitchen and Bath . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BarlisWedlick Architects . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Hudson Trailer Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Rock Da Casbah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Beacon Bread Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Hudson Valley 5 Rhythms . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Rocket Number Nine Records . . . . . . . . . 93
Beacon of Light Wellness Center . . . . . . . . 66
Hudson Valley Cancer Genetics . . . . . . . . 91
Rockland County Tourism Office . . . . . . . . 44
Berkshire Co-op Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Hudson Valley Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Roost Inn Stone Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Berkshire Hathaway, Bronte Uccellini . . . . . 93
Hudson Valley Sunrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Rosendale Theater Collective . . . . . . . . . . 82
Berkshire Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Hurleyville Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Rudolf Steiner School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Best Western Plus Kingston Hotel & Conference Center . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Jack’s Meats & Deli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . 84
Jagerberg Beer Hall and Tavern . . . . . . . . 30
Schatzi’s New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bistro To Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
John A Alvarez and Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Schatzi’s Poughkeepsie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bodhi Spa, Yoga, & Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
John Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Silver Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Buns Burgers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
JTD Productions, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
South Kent School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Kaatsbaan International Dance Center . . . . . 18
Southwood Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Cabinet Designers, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Kary Broffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Stamell String Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Calmbucha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Kasuri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Stewart House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Cassandra Currie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Katie Bull . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
SUNY Delhi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Catskill Art & Office Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Kingston Ceramics Studio . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SUNY New Paltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Catskill Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kingston Consignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Third Eye Associates Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Chateau Hathorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Kol Hai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Tiki Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Christopher Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Leed Custom Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Time and Space Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
CO. Rhinebeck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Liza Phillips Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Tito Santana Taqueria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Colony Woodstock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6
Lola’s Cafe & Gourmet Catering . . . . . . . . 29
Transcend Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Community Access to the Arts . . . . . . . . . 52
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Transpersonal Acupuncture . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Conscious Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Maggie’s Krooked Cafe & Juice Bar . . . . . . 30
Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP . . . 90
Daryls House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center . . . . . . . . 52
Tuthilltown Spirits LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Dental Office of Drs. Jeffrey & Maureen Viglielmo . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Main Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Unison Arts Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Manitou School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Upstate Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries . . . . . . . . . . 84
The Mariandale Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Vegetalien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
embodyperiod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Mark Gruber Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Villa Vosilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Emerson Resort & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Megabrain Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
WAMC, The Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Exit Nineteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
MidHudson Regional Hospital . . inside back cover
Wildfire Grill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Falcon Music & Art Productions . . . . . . . . 88
Mikel Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
William Pitt Sotheby’s Real Estate . . . . . 36, 50
Fionn Reilly Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Mill House Brewing Company . . . . . . . . . . 6
Williams Lumber & Home Center . inside front cover
First Day Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Mod66 Salon & Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Windham Mountain Ski Resort . . . . . . . . . 45
The Garrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Mohonk Mountain House . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild . . . . . . . . . . .
Glynwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Monkfish Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
YMCA of Kingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Graham & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Montgomery Veterinary Hospital . . . . . . . . 93
Yoga on Duck Pond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Green Cottage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School . . . . . . . . 54
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New cold-weather cocktail alert: Bourbon, cider reduction, cinnamon, ginger, and lemon.
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“Every now and then you can get lucky and see how still the Hudson River can be. Here you can see Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant at work.” Local artist Sienna Martz was featured in the December issue of Chronogram in a feature on up-and-coming contemporary artists of the Hudson Valley. We think she approves. lamereclothingandgoods Beacon, New York
Stay sleek with trendy shoes, apparel, and home goods from La Mere boutique.
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In honor of Ghent’s bicentennial, Richard Beaven took portraits of 275 people in the community, or around 5% of the population.
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Balayage is a hair-dying technique that creates graduated, natural-looking highlights. The stylists at this New Paltz salon are balayage experts. 1/19 #CHRONOGRAM 95
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Crossed Paths, Ryan Carpenter, drawing
For 27 years, artist and curator Jeffrey Greene has organized Connecticut’s Prison Arts Program, which is part of Community Partners in Action (CPA), a non-profit that focuses on behavioral change of both current and past inmates of the state’s prison system, in addition to advocating for criminal justice reform. Green’s approach to the program emphasizes artmaking rather than academic rigor, focusing on giving voice to inner worlds and personal histories, and the belief that learning and growth are primarily achieved by the making of art, not by learning technique. “The inmates in the program stop thinking of an artist as someone they could become, but someone that they could draw out of themselves,” says Greene. “They stop thinking of art as something in the center of a piece of paper, but rather something that could span from their cell to the moon. In the oppressive environment of the prison, they need something that they control; they need to express and confirm that they are still themselves; they need to send out into the world something that states their wish to love and be loved. They have every reason to make art.” On January 27, “How Art Changed the Prison: The Work of CPA’s Prison Arts Program,” an exhibition of visual art borrowed from current and former inmates as well as private collections, will open at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and remain on view through May 27. Aldrichart.org
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Our heart is with yours. Here. Westchester Medical Center Health Network, home to the Heart & Vascular Institute, is the largest multi-specialty cardiovascular practice in the Hudson Valley. Now, you have local access to exceptional care for a full spectrum of heartrelated conditions at MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie and HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston. Plus, a seamless connection to advanced cardiovascular services at WMCHealth’s flagship Westchester Medical Center.
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For questions or appointments, please call MidHudson Regional Hospital at 845-483-5720, HealthAlliance Hospital at 845-210-5600, or visit WMCHealth.org/Heart.
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Westchester Medical Center Health Network includes: WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER I MARIA FARERI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL I BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER MIDHUDSON REGIONAL HOSPITAL I GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL I BON SECOURS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ST. ANTHONY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL I HEALTHALLIANCE HOSPITAL: BROADWAY CAMPUS HEALTHALLIANCE HOSPITAL: MARY’S AVENUE CAMPUS I MARGARETVILLE HOSPITAL
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“TAKE ME TO VASSAR.” Introducing the Movement Disorders Program. Led by Dr. Michael Rezak, a renowned neurologist specializing in movement disorders, it’s the only program in the Mid-Hudson Valley and northwest Connecticut to offer Deep Brain Stimulation to control the tremors associated with Parkinson’s and related diseases. Don’t leave it to chance. Make it a choice. Find out more at TakeMeToVassar.org