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VIEW FROM THE TOP
FASHION
11 ARTSCENE TV
35 FARM TO LABEL
A preview of our monthly video series highlighting Hudson Valley artists.
12 ON THE COVER Kingsley Parker discusses how he handles topical issues in his art.
NEWS AND POLITICS 16 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
HOME & GARDEN 42 THE HOUSE NOSTALGIA BUILT
New birth control for men, bugs in our homes, and more you may have missed.
18 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Donald Trump busts out the “L” word on the campaign trail.
We paired farmers with local boutiques for our annual fashion shoot.
On the banks of Sturgeon Pond in Rifton lives Frank Basile—collector of 1960s memorabilia, Three Stooges expert, and pop-culture historian.
FOOD & DRINK 66 PUCKER UP: SOUR BEERS ON THE RISE
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20 NOW, WE NEST
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KIDS & FAMILY 22 RESTORING COMMUNITY
A community of social justice activists are turning school discipline upside-down.
EDUCATION GUIDE 24 A RESOURCE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, PROGRAMS, AND CAMPS
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Erk Ofgang reports on the renaissance of an ancient beer style.
76 SING, ACT, DANCE, HEAL
Creative arts therapy can open new pathways of healing, connection, and joy.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 71 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 72 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 78 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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54 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE
82 DAILY CALENDAR
56 MUSIC: ELVIS PERKINS
The singer/songwriter remains positive despite tragic losses in his life. Nightlife Highlights include Riyaaz Qawwali, Titus Andronicus with Craig Finn, Wanda Jackson, and Meat Loaf. Reviews of Random Acts of Kindness by Chris Pasin; After the Thaw by Lorkin O’Reilly; and 01 by Natalie Forteza.
60 BOOKS: ROBERT BURKE WARREN
Nina Shengold talks with rocker-turned novelist about his bildungsroman.
62 BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews of Roadie by Howard Massey, The Big Rewind by Libby Cudmore, and What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin. Plus Short Takes.
64 POETRY Poems by Noelle Adamo, Steven Baltsas, Laurie Byro, Alissa Chanin, Cornelia DeDona, Alice Graves, Robert Bernard Hurwitz, iANThe, Nathanial John, Jay Klokker, Jack River O’Neill, Michelle Rodriguez, Howard Sage, George J. Searles, Shutup Sheeley, Lucy Tarver, and Patrick Walsh.
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Too-Late, a piece by Nina Katchadourian included in the exhibit “Nest” at the Katonah Museum of Art.
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Comprehensive listings of local events. (Updated daily at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS “The Nest," is exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Art through June 19. Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is back, March 7-20. Venerable indie rockers Yo La Tengo play Club Helsinki March 26. Vassar College hosts the “Spark! A Feel for Creative Science” exhibit. Jon Bowermaster’s latest environmental activist film, Dear President Obama, screens at multiple venues this month. The Mountain Goats performs its quirky folk-pop at the Bearsville Theater. Comedian and podcast celebrity Corinne Fisher yuks it up at Market Market. Here Come the Videofreex, a documentary about the pioneering guerilla video journalism collective, screens at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck and Woodstock.
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92 HOROSCOPES
What are the stars telling us? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
96 PARTING SHOT
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Each month, filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss produces “ArtScene,” a monthly video web series with short segments on artists, galleries, and museums in the Hudson Valley. Here, Stephen gives an outline of this month’s film. Check out the film and others from the ArtScene series at Chronogram.com/TV. This month’s film features artist Grey Ivor Morris. Morris works in a vast variety of media, from traditional to digital, but I have focused on his recent mosaic pieces and colored pencil portraits in this film. Creativity runs in the Morris family. “I come from a very artistic family; everyone was always working on a project somewhere in the house. Creativity is an essential part of being human; a lot of people lose that ability when they ‘grow up.’ I think it’s a mistake to do that,” Morris says. After spending several years almost exclusively creating his art digitally, he made the decision to revisit more traditional art forms, like drawing and painting. He refers to it as “returning to analog.” Now he prefers to jump back and forth, doing design work for hire on the computer and regularly working on his mosaic tile pieces and portrait illustrations. “You’re creating a picture,” Morris says, “but out of small pieces; it’s like putting together a puzzle. I find it meditative.” Morris sees mosaic fragments as real-world pixels, and finds a digital connection in this ancient art form. “Even though mosaics seem detailed, the first step in creating them is to simplify the image—distill it down to convey the essence.” In contrast to the mosaics, Morris’s drawings can be extremely detailed. With the drawings, the closer you look, the more there is to discover. “l love drawing old people, which is kind of funny in our youth-driven culture. I feel history is written in their faces. I also find old people are much easier to draw because they have a lot of landmarks in their faces,” Morris says with a laugh. With his commissioned art as well as his computer design work, he often comes up with visual solutions in ways that he might never have considered while brainstorming alone. “Making art with, or for, someone else is a great way to stretch yourself as an artist or creative person. Faced with a problem that needs a solution, you push into more new areas and new perspectives than you are used to,” Morris says. “No matter what I work on,” Morris says, “I like to think of myself as an intuitive artist. There is an interesting dichotomy in the creation of art. Art is often a solitary activity during creation, but when completed, the sharing and enjoyment of it is communal. I think it’s one great way to relate and interact with others.” Portfolio: Greyivor.com. Sponsored by:
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f the dolphins in Kingsley Parker’s drawing Pod, look a bit hemmed in, that’s because they are. “They are encircled in a small area,” he says. “They frolic, they’re playful. And I have another version of this, in a dark hole—that one is called Trust. But there’s no real message to this one piece—I just like the image. The body of work it’s from is a little more pointed.” That series, titled Oceans Apart, is a multimedia installation currently taking over the Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham. It’s a departure for the gallery, which normally features group shows, and is a thematic exploration of the current state of our oceans by an artist in love with the water. “I’ve never done an entire show on one topic, and it’s different, but fun,” says Parker. “It’s a complicated topic with a lot of aspects. I think everybody’s got love for the ocean, but we’d all be shocked if we considered what was going on; by 2020, scientists predict the ocean will contain more plastic than fish. But I also just wanted to make interesting visuals. It’s art; I’m not on a soapbox. And I try for a light touch, to keep a bit of humor in it.” Born in Ohio, Parker gravitated to New England as a young man in the early ‘70s, studying American literature at Middlebury College, then moving on to Hartford, Boston, and Manhattan to study sculpture, etching, and lithography. When he completed his MFA at Hunter, it was with honors for distinguished graduate work. The art world began to pay attention in the late ‘80s, and since then his work has been exhibited repeatedly in Manhattan and beyond. He’s found a home in Hudson. “We were weekenders for seven or eight years, and we built a barn ourselves, in Hillsdale,” he says. “Then we decided we wanted to live up there full-time and gravitated to Hudson—it has a wonderful scene, a lot of New Yorkers, and a lot of creative people. It’s a nice renaissance; meanwhile, the surrounding area is still struggling.” His riverbank train rides back into the city to his work as a professor of Communication Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology inspired a 2011 installation at the Museum Gallery there: Up River, a 63-foot-long representation of sailors’ navigational routes. “We haven’t treated it well,” he says of the Hudson River. “It’s a fine line, touching on issues in art. It’s not that I think it’s going to change anything, but people seem pleased to find this kind of content. We can be entertained and also get better; there’s still time to change.” —Anne Pyburn Craig CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH a short film by Stephen Blauweiss about Kingsley Parker and his work.
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ESTEEMED READER Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I’ve been teaching a meditation class to a group of 11-year-olds. Inasmuch as the children are energetic and rambunctious, they seem to have access to an equal quantity of stillness. They go from yelling and beating one another with meditation cushions to deep quiet in a matter of minutes. In this they show me the need to have a broad range of states, from dynamic to calm, and how it may be that access to deep meditation may be related to being able to access a well of exuberant energy. After meditating, the children discuss what they have seen. They quickly identify qualities of their inner life, saying things like “it’s so vast and peaceful, like a wide open space,” and “even though my thoughts were loud, I could still follow my breath.” In one class, I suggested that when a person is born she is like a lump of dough, and our task in life is to knead ourselves, and then bake into a fresh loaf of bread. This is the role of meditation. Sitting and resisting the urge to move, watching thoughts and emotions without getting carried away by them, is like the heat that cooks us into a good loaf, and it can be done in life inasmuch as on the cushion. This inner work, I said, is the necessary task of nurturing and developing ourselves. This last word got a rise out of one of the children. “My parents tell me I’m selfish, and that I only think of myself,” he said, “but I see there’s a difference between paying attention to what I want and paying attention to what I am.” As a teacher its easy to imagine I am the one who’s supposed to know things, but I am often surprised at the wisdom that comes out of the mouths of students, particularly children, who seem closer to essential wisdom. The 11-year-old’s insight has stayed with me. Like so many words in our language, selfishness has two completely opposite meanings. When we are focused on the contents of our minds and hearts, we are selfish in the ordinary sense. In this state we seek to impose wants and desires on others and on the world in general because we identify with them as ourselves. Conversely, when we place our focus on something beyond thoughts and feelings, like breath, not excluding wants and desires, but instead seeing these contents without getting caught by them, another kind of selfishness becomes possible. In this latter state, we begin to see our impulses as separate objects in the same way as we see things and people outside ourselves. We identify “myself ” not as what we think, feel, and want, but as consciousness—that in us which is fundamentally aware, and prior to all the functions of our inner life. It is in this state that our inner and outer life enjoy a level playing field, and it becomes possible to actually consider the needs of others, and the world in general. By becoming selfish in this truer sense, we actually become selfless. From the New Age rhetoric about finding your bliss to the blistering conceit of corporatism, imperialism, and consequent violence played out in the geopolitical arena, we live in a time of shallow selfishness. Our collective identification with possessions— be they state of being, physical objects, abstractions like money, or adornments like diplomas, rewards, or positions—leads us along a path of destruction. Meanwhile the self we promote is a fiction, an idea of “me” that feels like a reality. It’s dominance steers us to trade real value for abstraction, life for death. The antidote is not a rejection of selfishness, but an expansion of consciousness to include a larger experience of self. The discernment is in seeing what is self—consciousness itself—and what is not self—everything else. With tastes of the freedom inherent in consciousness itself, comes the recognition that consciousness is not localized in “me”; that consciousness is non-local, pervading all beings and all things. The ancient rishis of Indian Vedanta who created the Upanishads had some direct insight into the question of the self, and selfishness. This is from the Eesha Upanishad, translated to English by the Irish poet W B Yeats: They that deny the Self, return after death to a godless birth, blind, enveloped in darkness. The Self is one. Unmoving, it moves faster than the mind.The senses lag, but Self runs ahead. Unmoving, it outruns pursuit. Out of Self comes the breath that is the life of all things. Unmoving, it moves; is far away, yet near; within all, outside all. Of a certainty the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow. How can a wise man, knowing the unity of life, seeing all creatures in himself, be deluded or sorrowful? The Self is everywhere, without a body, without a shape, whole, pure, wise, all knowing, far shining, self-depending, all transcending; in the eternal procession assigning to every period its proper duty. —Jason Stern
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aise your hand if, sometimes, you get overwhelmed by the world. And by “the world,” I mean all the forces that must be reckoned with, both internally and externally: work, finances, marriage, family, physical and mental health, school shootings, climate change, childhood trauma, politics, ambition, social injustice, fear of death, and on and on. Your trigger issues around overwhelm may be different from mine. Perhaps you’re struggling to deal with parents in decline, or relationship failures, or seasonal affective disorder. Combine this with the incessant input of news and information across ever-expanding multimedia platforms, and it can have a frenzying effect akin to listening to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” on repeat until you go slightly bonkers. For me, it takes the form of feeling paralyzed by the devastating effect humans are having on the planet. There are specific stories, like the one I read in mid-February about a baby dolphin being passed around on an Argentine beach so people could take selfies with it. The dolphin reportedly died of dehydration. Or the larger story that Elizabeth Kolbert tells in her shattering The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, about the mass extinction of other species we are currently perpetrating. Kolbert estimates plant and animal loss by the end of the 21st century to be between 20 percent to 50 percent of all living species on earth. Homo sapiens rules the earth with cruel indifference to other animals (save our beloved pets) and for the future of our own species. It’s more than enough to make me feel as if I’ve fallen in a hole, or to develop a sudden and troubling interest in hiding in one. Thankfully, the human psyche runs on hope, a seemingly limitless fuel source that helps us envision change and work toward its implementation— regardless of whether or not we have any chance of success. It’s easy to lose sight of how empowered we are, what degree of change is possible, and how many people are advocating new solutions to old problems. Part of our mission at Chronogram is to shine a light on people and projects that seek to redefine the status quo through imaginative engagement, to tell stories that chart new paths through creativity, curiosity, and empathy. (The metaphor of light here reminds me of that never-say-die proverb: It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.) To my ongoing amazement and gratitude, these lightworthy tales are thick on the ground—too many to cover comprehensively in a monthly magazine, even a regional one.
The process of change and adaptation begins with imagination. Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, a renowned trauma expert and author of several books, including The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, says “Imagination is everything.” In “Sing, Act, Dance, Heal” (p. 76), Wendy Kagan examines how creative arts therapy can be a portal to healing and growth that is unavailable through conventional talk therapy. In April, van der Kolk is leading an experiential workshop at the Garrison Institute on exploring the healing of traumatic stress through the arts. Creative expression, be it acting, writing, or dancing allows participants to embody new possibilities and rewire the brain to create new connections. Because of the neuroplasticity of our brains, we can literally become the change we wish to see. For those of us raised within rigidly structured social environments, mental flexibility isn’t always our first response. For a kid who went to Catholic school like myself, it’s tough to imagine a mode of discipline in an educational environmental other than one based on crime and punishment. If you get caught breaking the rules, you suffer the consequences. It’s just like our legal system, and similar in how it deals out penalties but not accountability. But a approach to discipline in the schools has been taking shape over the past couple of decades, one that puts the emphasis on responsibility over punishment. In “Restoring Community,” (p. 22), Hillary Harvey reports on the restorative justice movement, which is influencing how schools use empathetic self-governance as an alternative disciplinary model. As Mika Dashman, founder of the Restorative Justice Initiative, tells Harvey, “We need to disentangle the concept of punishment from accountability. We live in a culture that equates those two things. We make this assumption that when we put someone away, they’re going to reflect on what they did and the harm they caused, but that’s not necessarily what’s happening at all.” Restorative justice envisions the school as a stakeholder group who all take equal responsibility for maintaining their community. If harm is done by someone in the community, the group seeks justice as a way to restore the community, not punish an offender. This is an especially important development for black students, who are suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than are white students. (This ongoing practice of isolating of minority students from pre-K through high school has earned the name the “cradle-to-prison pipeline.”) When faced with the enormity of the challenges facing us, it’s refreshing to remember that we have the opportunity to imagine a different future than what we’re living now, and the capabilities at our disposal to strive for it. Think of it as a restorative justice model for the planet. It’s like the mindscience Willy Wonka drop in the film: “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” We may not realize all of our ambitions, but we can begin by dreaming. 3/16 CHRONOGRAM 15
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released a report titled “Why Can’t New Yorkers Get Tickets?” detailing a three-year-long investigation of the online ticket market. In the report, Schneiderman discusses the rigged system in which scalpers and presales make tickets to popular music and sporting events inaccessible to the ordinary citizen. The attorney found that one high-tech scalper bought more than 1,000 tickets for a U2 show at Madison Square Garden last year by using an a scalper bot computer program. The report poses ways to alter the online ticketing system in order to make tickets more accessible to the general public. Source: New York Times A startup in Austria has launched a business around eating bugs. Livin Farms has created a desktop insect breeding unit, the Hive, that allows people to harvest their own insects to eat. The Hive is 24 inches tall and comes with mealworms (“micro livestock”) that are high in protein but neutral in taste, according to the designers. The unit consists of eight stacked compartments. The mealworms are placed in the “pupation compartment”—the top drawer—where they are fed vegetable scraps and oats. The built-in vibration technology divides the insects as they mature. The unit is controlled by a button, which triggers the microclimate to ensure the worms receive fresh air and the right temperature. Roughly 500 grams of mealworms can be harvested per week. The team plans to ship units later this year. Source: Good Magazine Fahrenholzia pinnata, the common louse, under a light microscope. Photo by Vincent S. Smith. A study published in January revealed the truth about bugs in our homes. In North Carolina, researchers visited 50 houses within 30 miles of Raleigh to collect any arthropods they could find. More than 100 species of flies, spiders, beetles, lice, and other arthropods were found in each house. Researchers wore kneepads and headlamps as they crawled along the floor, using forceps and an aspirator to collect samples for further inspection underneath the microscope. In total, 579 morphospecies were found from 304 different families of insects. The gall midge, a fly that is four one-hundredths of an inch long, was found in every home. “The vast majority of the arthropods we live with are not pest species,” Dr. Trautwein said. “They are not going to suck your blood, eat your food, or destroy your house.” The scientists are expanding their study to include houses on all seven continents. Source: New York Times During January in Texas, an investigation into an accusation against Planned Parenthood took an unexpected turn. Videos released last July claimed to reveal Planned Parenthood officials illegally profiting from the sale of fetal tissue. Director of the Center for Medical Progress David R. Daleiden, 27, posed as a biotechnology representative to record Planned Parenthood officials during his attempt to purchase fetal tissue. Another employee of the center, Sandra S. Merritt, 62, was also involved in the videos. Both employees had made and presented fake California driver’s licenses for their April meeting at Planned Parenthood in Houston. Planned Parenthood sued the center, Daleiden, and other anti-abortion members involved in the videos, accusing them of engaging in a three-year criminal enterprise targeting the group. Daleiden was charged with a felony for tampering with a government record and a misdemeanor charge for purchasing human organs. Merritt was also indicted on the same felony charge. Source: New York Times German inventor Clemens Bimek has created a new form of birth control—for men. The Bimek SLV, a small, valve-like device, is designed to sit beneath the skin of the scrotum, giving men the power to allow sperm in and out of their ejaculatory system like a light switch. When the device is inserted, the severed ends of the vas deferens are fitted into the valve, and then held in place by a connector—similar to the way a garden hose fits into a spout. When the device is turned on, some sperm cells are left in the spermatic duct. It takes at least 12 weeks—or just 20 to 30 ejaculations—for the remaining sperm cells to die. Bimek has already implanted this device within himself. His team is accepting volunteers to test the device. Bimek hopes that by 2018 he will have medical certification to begin manufacturing the device. Source: Good Magazine 16 CHRONOGRAM 3/16
Major airlines are profiting more than ever due to falling oil prices. Four of the largest airlines earned around $22 billion last year, which is a huge turnaround from previous decades of bankruptcies and cutbacks. While this shift has allowed low-cost carriers to lower its rates, major airline executives have made it clear that their number one priority is to continually improve their financial performance in order to pay back longstanding debt. While these airlines claim that they are improving their services, they are maximizing their income by providing additional seating and offering fees for priority boarding. To make up for these increased charges airlines such as American and United will once again start giving free snacks to coach passengers on domestic flights. Source: New York Times Mars, Incorporated is changing its ingredients to satisfy a shift in consumer demand for natural food. The company is removing artificial colors from its human food products, encompassing over 50 brands, such as M&Ms, Skittles, Wrigley’s Gum, Snickers, and Twix. Company officials will meet with suppliers to investigate new, natural ways of coloring their products. The process is expected to take place slowly over the course of five years. Source: Fortune James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, admitted that agencies may in fact employ smart household devices to increase their surveillance efficiency. “Intelligence services might use the [Internet of Things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” stated James. Many other countries such as Russia and China have more sophisticated cyber programs than the US that have been able to track online threats against certain regions. While items such as automobiles, dishwasher, and alarm systems are nowhere near in advancing their security components, the US government is taking measures to encourage the manufacturers of laptop, tablet, and smartphone devices to feature an update or digital switch that could track communications with online attackers. Source: Guardian (UK) This year, 271 concussions were detected in NFL players across preseason and regular-season games, which is a 31.6 percent rise from last year. The NFL has increased its surveillance on players by forcing athletic trainers to pay closer attention to their athletes’ injuries, as it has been discovered that many players will opt to play while having a concussion. There has been more neuro-trauma consultants placed on the sidelines of games to make sure that the players are in fact well enough to go out on the field. These increased precautions most likely led to the higher accumulation of detected head injuries in NFL players that in other years probably would not have been discovered. Source: New York Times Compiled by Leah Rabinowitz & Diana Waldron
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THE “L” WORD
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onald Trump is doing something absolutely wonderful. I wouldn’t say it outweighs his racism and xenophobia. Or, if you’re considering him as a president, that relying on his promises—“I would build a great wall, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall” and “I will be the greatest jobs president God ever created”—would be like loaning him money for projects like the Trump Taj Mahal (filed chapter 11 bankruptcy), Trump Plaza Hotel (went bankrupt), Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts (bankrupt), and Trump Entertainment Resorts (also bankrupt). I note—because it is very important to Donald—that he, personally, did not go bankrupt. He just bankrupted the companies. Now, on to his greatness. Donald Trump has used the “L” word. Yes, the “L” word, “Liar.” It was during the South Carolina debate, run by CBS. It was a perfect place to do it. The event was lively and entertaining, and the candidates could barely open their mouths without something misleading, deceptive, or an outright lie coming out. It began with the issue of replacing Justice Scalia. John Kasich, going first, said, “If I were president we wouldn’t have the divisions in the country we have today.” Well, sure. But he doesn’t say it’s because it’s Republicans who have dug in and vowed never to let Obama accomplish anything, even if it means bringing the government to a crashing halt.Then he moved to the main Republican talking point about the empty Supreme Court seat, that the people should have a voice in the selection by electing a new president. It somehow imagines that electing Obama twice does not count as the people expressing their will. The moderator moved on to Ben Carson and asked him, since he’d recently written a book on the Constitution (that was a surprise),what the Constitution says about it.With that background, you’d figure Carson would whip out Article II, Section 2, which is simple, clear, and direct: “The President…shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate…[to] appoint…Judges of the Supreme Court.” But Carson said, “The current Constitution actually doesn’t address that particular situation.” On one side, we have to remember that these debates are by Republicans, for Republicans. They’re more like auditions to become Fox News commentators than about governing the nation. But this debate wasn’t Fox News or Fox Business. I could tell because the female journalists had normal eyelashes, not the gigantic batwings that female Fox journalists attach to their lids. This was CBS, home of “60 Minutes” and Walter Cronkite. So when Ted Cruz trotted out the next why-Obama-can’t-do-what-the-Constitution-says-he-should-do Republican talking point, that it’s been 80 years (mostly due to the randomness of when justices have died or become too sick to hobble to the bench) since there’s been an appointment in an election year, moderator John Dickerson pointed out that Ronald Reagan had an appointee confirmed during his last year in office. Dickerson politely apologized for interrupting, with the explanation that, “I just wanted to get the facts straight for the audience.” At that point the audience booed. Loudly. Dickerson didn’t try to ruin a talking point with facts again after that. It was left to the Donald to confront prevarication and mendacity. When Marco Rubio said George Bush “kept us safe,” Trump hit him with a
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sack of obvious: “How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center—the World—excuse me. I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down during the reign of George Bush. He kept us safe? That is not safe. That is not safe, Marco. That is not safe.” Dickerson did quote what Trump said back in 2008 about the former president: “For the war, for the war, he lied, he got us into the war with lies.” But the newsman wasn’t doing it to say that a president had lied. It was to ask Trump if he would stand by what he said. Trump dodged, but bluntly stated another truth: “Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake. We spent $2 trillion, thousands of lives. We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East.” It was earlier in the debate that Trump had broken out the “L” word, to confront Ted Cruz with, “Why do you lie?” The prohibition on being honest about mendacity was shattered. Rubio was next with the new way of talking. “Ted Cruz has been telling lies,” Rubio said. “He lied about Ben Carson…lies about Planned Parenthood…lies about marriage.” Trump used a variant on Jeb Bush. Jeb’s response is too precious not to repeat. BUSH (calling on the moderator): He called me a liar. DICKERSON: I understand, you’re on deck, Governor. BUSH: Also, he talked about one of my heroes, Ronald Reagan. Not every fabrication and prevarication was called out by Trump or by anyone else. When John Kasich did his routine about how Ohio’s recovery should be a model for the nation, no one mentioned that job growth in his state lagged behind the national rate, so that Kasich’s policies should be counted as a minus against Obama’s successes. Ted Cruz said the “nonpartisan Tax Foundation” estimated that his tax plan was a miracle that would produce “4.9 million new jobs… increase capital investment by 44 percent…lift everyone’s income by double digits.” No one noted that the Tax Foundation was started by the president of Standard Oil and the chairman of General Motors, and that its current chairman is an employee of the Koch Brothers. The economist R. Glenn Hubbard is also on the board. He can be seen in the documentary Inside Job explaining that derivatives—which contributed mightily to the Crash of ’08—made recessions milder and refusing to acknowledge that his employment by financial institutions could be a conflict of interest. Nor did anyone even twitch when Ben Carson closed out the show with a quote from Josef Stalin that was totally made up. One last Trumpism needs mention. Paul Krugman once wrote that “if there was an Economist’s Creed, it would surely contain the affirmation ‘I advocate Free Trade.’” No serious political candidate challenged it. Now Trump has, and he’s advocated—like Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and yes, Bernie Sanders—vigorous protectionism. This is not to say, in any way, that Donald Trump would make a great president. He is as quick to deny his own lies as to point out those of others. But I’ve been waiting decades to hear the blunt, and beautiful, “L” word in our public political debates where it so much belongs. It is a job journalists should have taken on, but haven’t, and so we had to wait until they’d been trumped.
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Now, We Nest. By Jana Martin Portrait by Roy Gumpel Enter Exit Nineteen No self-respecting urban renaissance is complete without a great home and decor store. Why? That brand of visual deliciousness makes us want to buy a place just to furnish it, or at least run home and redecorate. Enter Exit Nineteen, which brings a well-curated pizzazz to Uptown Kingston. As owners John Krenek and Jamie Niblock saw it, Kingston was ready. “Five years ago, we set up a pop-up shop near Boitson’s, and it was a huge success,” explained Krenek. “But the response to the new store has just been overwhelming.” He and Niblock are also the driving force behind Rhinebeckbased Spruce Design + Decor, a well-established interior design firm marked by elegantly inviting spaces and a top-shelf client list: Clearly, this pair knows how to work a room. Within their 2,200-square-foot Kingston shop, they also get to spread their wings. Exit Nineteen feels a bit like four stores in one: a quartet of furnished vignettes all offer different flavor and flair yet flow together, variations on the same theme of measured, eclectic exuberance. The mid-century modern area features terrific examples of great design. The country cabin section is stalwartly rustic, but without overdosing on tropes like buffalo plaid. The Asian modern collection is serene yet seductive. Last but very not least is a whole section devoted to the art and furnishing of the dinner party. “Everyone wants to have a party, but there wasn’t a venue where you could purchase it all, from table to cocktail napkins,” noted Krenek. Mix in dinnerware, crystal, tableware, and dining chairs, and the demand, particularly from Kingston’s new breed of transplants, is so brisk that the section is set to expand in the coming months. What marks Exit Nineteen is a studied, well-curated kind of more-is-more. It’s a refreshing antidote to the austerely “Let’s be Norwegian” look that isolated 20 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 3/16
John Krenek and Jamie Niblock of Exit Nineteen in Kingston.
artisanal objects can suffer when left all alone; but it’s also a skilled lesson in how to combine this, that, and everything else into a cogent whole. Consider the many styles filling Hudson Valley homes: Hippie Global, New-Era Americana Handcraft, Farmhouse Rickety,Ye Olde Fusty. Here’s a shop that teaches us how to make it look like the mix is intentional. And, in fact, that’s what they go for as interior designers. “We definitely have a strong point of view,” said Krenek. What also makes it work is that they start with great pieces:You won’t find design tragedies here, such as disastrous refurbishments. They source pieces for condition as well as quality, so little in the way of redone: A few marks are a sign of a life well lived. A recent visit to the shop found a handsomely proportioned oak and leather seat Arts and Crafts rocker in its original condition ($1,150), gleaming with respectable patina. In the window, a snazzy herd of reproduction Asian lidded ginger jars held court on a sleek rosewood and glass table. The jars come in a range of sizes (small $240; large $325), adding festive, strongshouldered appeal. There was an astonishing set of rare ribbon chairs by Frank Gehry ($2,250 apiece). And just begging for an occasion, a full range of Canvas brand dinnerware that looks like old campfire tin but is made of microwaveable and dishwasher-safe solid ceramic—a witty upgrade on hobo-classic (dinner plate, $17.50). The air was kissed with the scents of piñon and fir, wafting from coconut wax and cotton-wicked candles by Haus ($35 each). Everywhere you look in Exit Nineteen, there’s something inviting, tactile, attractive; it’s a seductive place. So don’t be surprised if you walk in and just feel like staying a while. As Krenek and Niblock might say, make yourself at home. Exit Nineteen 309 Wall Street, Kingston (845) 514-2485
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Monkey lamp from Burkleman in Cold Spring. Below, from left:: Quilted blanket from Utility Canvas in Gardiner; Penco pencil from Mutiny in Hudson.
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Well turned Form follows function at Roxbury General Store in (yup) Roxbury. The classic farmhouse pitcher by master potter Michael Boyer is glazed in peppery brown and cream. At 7.5” high it’s the perfect size for pooling cream over berries, syrup across pancakes, or grog into goblets ($45). A hand-carved wood cutting board made from local black walnut adds a touch of rustic wabi-sabi to any table. And why relegate it to chopping when it’s this good-looking? Use it as a sleek cheese and charcuterie board too ($100). Roxburygeneral.com
Fuss-free Utility Canvas combines smart workmanship with an unfussy aesthetic in goods for home, kids, and grownups. At their Gardiner warehouse: cotton canvas curtains in bright orange, a creamy natural, or go-with-everything charcoal, with convenient grommets along the top. Sized for a shower, they’d be great on a window too ($98). Well-designed soft and sturdy quilted throw blankets get a refreshing pop in orange ($135); see the website for 17 other colors. Utilitycanvas.com
Tongue in cheek Modern home and design shop Burkelman in Cold Spring kicks up the homey skirts with tongue-in-cheek storage canisters that look like tin cans but are made of silver-glazed porcelain. Quite functional, with airtight lids, they’ll clever up your bathroom or kitchen. Set of three, designed by Selab and Allessandro Zeletti ($28). Celebrate the Year of the Monkey (2016) with these curiously riveting electric monkey lamps, disconcertingly lifelike but in ghost-white resin. Sitting, standing or (our favorite) hanging ($398). Shopburkelman.com 3/16 CHRONOGRAM SHOPPING 21
Kids & Family
RESTORING
COMMUNITY Text and photo by Hillary Harvey
Students and faculty during Team Time at Urban Dove Charter School in Brooklyn.
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one are the days of writing one hundred times on the classroom blackboard, “I will not…” With zero-tolerance discipline policies at school heightening since their introduction in the 1980s, disruptive kids sent down to the principal’s office are more often automatically suspended. That student at the back of class might be disobeying the dress code, texting, or using profanity with the teachers—not ideal behaviors but not unquestioningly cause for suspension. Slinking back to class after serving the punishment, the child is often labeled a troublemaker, re-accepted warily, and more prone to future escalating reprimands. More and more, social activists are understanding how we discipline in school sets a tone for the community. Restorative justice is a direct response. First coined in the 1950s as an alternative theoretical model for criminal justice, Howard Zehr’s Changing Lenses–A New Focus for Crime and Justice (1990) framed restorative justice as a shift away from a popular view of crime. Rather than being against the state, offences were seen in terms of people and relationships. By the end of the decade, it was applied in a variety of ways. In the criminal justice system, after extensive preparations, crime victims voluntarily meet with offenders to discuss the impacts of the crime, often as a strategy for rehabilitation post-sentencing. In schools, it looks more like restorative practices: community circles developed outside of incidents; harm circles in response to incidents; judicial committees democratically run by students as well as faculty and administration. The focus becomes about inspiring empathy. A basic premise of restorative justice is that there’s a relationship to restore. “We’re trying to build a really strong community,” says Anna Smith, a teacher at Urban Dove, a charter school in Brooklyn. “So that when kids do something to harm it, there’s something to fix.” It requires a cultural shift in the school environment, where practices are incorporated into all school activities. The onus is on the teachers, who build a classroom society where there’s free choice, clear expectations, and a focus on developing personal relationships. “That means not looking at punishing students or using intimidation or power struggles,” says Smith. “Because a lot of times, when kids do get into these situations, you can follow the bread crumbs back, and there was a moment that staff may have been able to avoid the issue.” It’s a responsibility that many teachers find rousing, especially those who feel dismayed by the results of punitive environments. A December 2014 study published in the American Sociological Review found that the academic scores of “good” students decreases with the rate of suspensions handed out to their classmates. The authors of the study theorized that an excessively punitive school culture has a negative effect on all students. Plus, suspensions decrease a student’s chance of completing high school, and statistics 22 KIDS & FAMILY CHRONOGRAM 3/16
show that, depending on the circumstances, that can prime kids for incarceration. As schools increasingly hire unarmed police forces deputized to make arrests, a direct feed from the schools to the criminal justice system has developed that hasn’t existed before, particularly in urban districts with large minority populations. According to a 2014 US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights study, black students are suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. It’s come to be called the school-to-prison pipeline. And because this punitive system begins in preschool, where black students represent 18 percent of the population but 48 percent of children receiving multiple out-of-school suspensions, many call it the cradle-to-prison pipeline. Rather than isolating and tracking the offender into future negative behaviors, restorative justice allows for redemption. “One of the reasons there’s increasing interest in restorative justice and practices in schools is now that they’ve started looking at their own numbers and realizing the unintended consequences of these zero-tolerance policies, districts around the country have become motivated to develop alternatives,” says Mika Dashman, founder of Restorative Justice Initiative, an organization based in New York City dedicated to building networks between restorative justice practitioners and supporters in New York. “We need to disentangle the concept of punishment from accountability. We live in a culture that equates those two things,” says Dashman. “We make this assumption that when we put someone away, they’re going to reflect on what they did and the harm they caused, but that’s not necessarily what’s happening at all.” “Schools that have implemented restorative justice practices have had remarkable success in improving student overall performance and graduation rates,” says chairperson of the Ulster County Human Rights Commission David Clegg, whose private law practice handles social justice issues. Clegg’s been working to promote restorative practices within the Kingston City School District through forums and presentations to the Board of Education because he appreciates how restorative discipline promotes responsibility and builds compassion. “Restorative justice importantly works to make the victim whole and treats both parties with respect.” Shailly Agnihotri, the founder and executive director of the Restorative Center based in Newburgh, comes to restorative justice with a heavy heart. A prosecutor and public defender for over 20 years, she lost faith in the criminal justice system’s exclusionary practices. “We indoctrinate certain people to accept that they’ll be spending a night in jail for hopping a train to get to school or being in a park after dark,” she says. Agnihotri feels we’re all responsible as a society in how we raise future generations. So last November, she sat with 15 students
in a Bronx classroom, passing a talking stick. One student opened a copy of Nelson Mandela’s The Long Walk to Freedom and randomly read a passage. Some of the teens spoke of their mothers’ resiliency. After sharing their thoughts, the kids remarked, “I can’t believe how quickly we opened up with each other.” The circle wasn’t in response to any incident. It was an example of the Newburgh Model of Restorative Justice developed by the Restorative Center, which runs regular community circles in the city of Newburgh. “What we’re really doing is developing the muscle of being responsive,” explains Agnihotri. “We’re taking out of the equation the quick reaction. They fall into another rhythm with their thoughts. It might be thirty minutes before they speak, so that shifts the energy to waiting and processing before responding.”That’s a pivotal teaching for teens. Best Practices A wide stripe of the school’s colors, orange and navy, are painted down the length of the walls at the Urban Dove Charter School in Brooklyn. Large signs with words like Energize, Empower, and One Mic, decorate the hallway. Motivation is key to the school culture, which achieves it through a sports-based youth development model. Aside from two teachers per classroom, each homeroom also has a coach who instructs two hours of gym daily and facilitates group circles that create a team environment. “So if you don’t have it at home, and we don’t want you to get it from a gang, we give you that feeling of belonging here,” says Principal Atim Bahl. Drawing students from all over the city through relationships with organizations who work with at-risk and court-involved youth, Urban Dove recruits students who struggled in ninth grade. Designed with a longer day, small class size, and trimester system, the program helps students make up missing credits so they can graduate on time. “We’re giving them a second option and a restart, right when they show that they’re about to go off track,” says Bahl. New to Urban Dove this year is restorative justice. Team Time builds team spirit using discussion questions to prompt conversations. They engage harm circles after a minor incident. There’s also a Justice Panel class, part of the English Language Arts curriculum, where students perform judicial roles in determining reparations for real-life incidents at school. “One case, a student had an altercation with a science teacher,” says 16-year-old Essence. “So we had them build a planetary model together.” The staff at Urban Dove feels that even without complete buy-in by the students, just going through the motions of teaching what people need to hear when harm is done is important. “The restorative approach is also about teaching behavior like a skill, the same way we teach math or English,” Smith says. Another teacher, Melissa Morales adds, “It’s really good for them, as young people transitioning into the really big decisions that they’re going to be making.” Eighteen-year-old Ricky is hoping to go to Hunter College next fall for engineering. When he transferred into Urban Dove, his school life seriously improved. “Here, if you look like you’re down, the teachers will actually ask, ‘What’s going on?’”That support is key for kids whose behavior can be the result of external stressors or a need for attention. Forty percent of Urban Dove’s student population are kids with disabilities. According to that US DOE study, in other school settings, they’re more than twice as likely to be targeted for out-of-school suspensions, and more than half of all discipline cases where students are placed in seclusion or involuntary confinement, often using mechanisms designed to restrict movement. School social worker Kelly Schaffer says, “I would assume that every student here has experienced trauma in their lives, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder looks a lot like both Attention Deficit Disorder and anger issues.” During a judicial panel hearing where a student forged his name on some passes that staff hand out as good behavior incentives, a student jurist asked the teacher who brought the case if she felt betrayed. The student prosecutor explained, “He took her kindness for weakness.” The students considered all the emotions at play. In another room, a team of girls reflected on the qualities of a leader and a follower during their circle. “Everyone says something negative about being a follower,” one girl mused. “But I think it’s good sometimes to be inspired by somebody.” The impetus for restorative practices in schools stems from a desire to right a wrong, but it also has the capacity, through its inclusive, democratic approach, to function as a social-emotional teaching tool where kids learn how to heal relationships.
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EDUCATION GUIDE Hudson
The Hudson Valley is home to a diverse set of independent schools that are mission driven and embody unique educational philosophies to serve their communities. From after-school programs and community colleges through day schools and summer camps, you’ll find it here.
Chestnut Ridge
First graders at the Rose Ceremony that opens each school year at Green Meadow Waldorf School. Photo by Fernando Lopez
Columbia-Greene Community College
Green Meadow Waldorf School
Tomorrow, Today.
An Education as Unique as Your Child
Columbia-Greene Community College is foremost in teaching. The campus is 21st century, yet teaching remains student centered. That winning formula has produced one of the best success records among students who transfer to SUNY baccalaureate schools. Choose from 40 dynamic, affordable programs, including teacher education, medical assisting, business (online), fine arts, computer graphics, automotive technology, nursing, computer security and forensics, computer science, and math/science. Campus life is vibrant, with sports, student activities and clubs that are shared by the college’s diverse student body. Approximately 36 percent of C-GCC’s students are adult learners. In addition, some 80 percent of all students receive some form of financial aid, a majority of which comes from grants, which do not have to be repaid.
4400 Route 23, Hudson (845) 828-4181 x5514 info@mycommunitycollege.com, mycommunitycollege.com
Summer at High Meadow
Recognized internationally as a leading Waldorf school, Green Meadow Waldorf School is one of the oldest, largest Waldorf schools in the US, with about 375 students from Nursery through 12th grade. Green Meadow students go on to top colleges, fulfilling careers, and are known for their resilience and creativity. Through a curriculum of academically challenging lessons, infused by the arts and informed by a unique understanding of a child’s developmental needs, Green Meadow Waldorf School educates its students to become well-rounded individuals capable of bringing purpose and direction to their lives, ready to think on their own, stand for themselves, and act with empathy toward others. Our beautiful 11-acre wooded campus draws students from 13 counties and approximately 90 towns in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as from several countries around the world. Busing from Manhattan and Tarrytown in 2016-17!
307 Hungry Hollow Road, Chestnut Ridge (845) 356-2514 ext.302, gmws.org
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community
Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 highmeadowschool.org June 27th through July 29th
20 Livingston Street
For children ages 4 - 12! Unique and exciting experiences in the arts, athletics, and open ended play including nature exploration, low ropes course games, and weekly visits to Rosendale Pool. Our 9 acre campus, complete with science pond, nature trail and bird sanctuary provides the idyllic setting for an unforgettable and meaningful summer experience. Drop in for a day or spend the summer with us!
Offering full-year programming for children ages 2 years/9 months through 5 years old in Kingston. With a focus on emotional/ social development, communication skills, and community, Livingston Street creates an enchanted and engaging learning environment that is appropriately challenging and fun for children. Activities at Livingston Street include outdoor play, the arts, early literacy games, dramatic play, reading, sensory play, making friends, and much more!
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Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 livingstonstreet.org
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School New Paltz
The Waldorf Curriculum Is Broad And Comprehensive Mountain Laurel Waldorf School located in beautiful and historic New Paltz, is fully accredited by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America and is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. Structured to respond to the three developmental phases of childhood – birth to 6 or 7 years, 7 to 14 years and 14 to 21 years – Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf Education, stressed to teachers that the best way to provide meaningful support for the child is to comprehend these phases fully and to bring “age appropriate” content that nourishes healthy growth for the Waldorf student. Music, theatre, science, math, literature, legends and myths are not simply subjects to be read about and tested. They are experienced. Through these experiences, Waldorf students cultivate their intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world. Teachers in Waldorf Schools are dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child. This eliminates the need for competitive testing, academic placement, and behavioristic rewards to motivate learning and allows motivation to arise from within. It helps engender the capacity for joyful life-long learning. Waldorf Education is independent and inclusive. It upholds the principles of freedom in education and engages independent administration locally, continentally and internationally. It is regionally appropriate education with hundreds of schools worldwide today.
GRADES OFFERED: Parent/Child, Nursery, Kindergarten - 8th Grade. CONTACT: For further information, contact Judith Jaeckel, Administrator and Enrollment Director at: mtlaurelwaldorf@aol.com or (845) 255-0033 x101. PARENT & CHILD CLASS Joyful Beginnings • Expectant Parents - Baby - Toddler - Preschool • Facilitated by experienced Waldorf Early Childhood Teacher. Meets once a week on Fridays, February through May. 9:30am - 11:30am • Free introductory class for prospective families. Sip a cup of tea while your child plays near you in a beautiful home-like setting. Through quiet observation, parents deepen their own intuitive knowledge and discover new ways of being with and loving their children. Special attention is given to support the unfolding of children’s interests, motor abilities, social interactions, and problem solving skills.
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Amenia
Ghent
The Kildonan School & Camp Dunnabeck at Kildonan Empowering Students with Dyslexia since 1969 The Kildonan School is a leading co-educational boarding and day school for students with dyslexia and/or language-based learning differences, grades 2 through grades 12 and PG. Located two hours north of Manhattan on a beautiful 150-acre campus, it offers daily 1:1 Orton-Gillingham tutoring and a competitive curriculum, which includes integrated assistive technology, athletics, and the arts. The inquiry-based subject matter curriculum provides interdisciplinary, active, collaborative learning for all students with a small class size and Orton-Gillingham-trained faculty. Students in grades 11 and 12 can choose to study in the Edge program, an independent self designed year long study. In the Summer, Camp Dunnabeck at Kildonan offers a 6 week summer program with daily 1:1 Orton Gillingham tutorials coupled with fun-filled camp activities such as horseback riding, archery and water sports. Join us for an Open House April 9th Make the Change...Love School Again 425 Morse Hill Road, Amenia www.kildonan.org
Cold Spring
Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School Nurturing Living Connections Situated on a 500-acre Biodynamic farm in New York’s Hudson Valley, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School is an early childhood through grade 12 day school with boarding and exchange programs for high school students. The diverse, integrative curriculum is aligned to meet the needs of developing children, helping them to grow academically, artistically, and socially into the independent, creative individuals needed in today’s complex world. An All School Spring Open House will be held on Saturday, March 12, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tour the campus, learn about Waldorf education, meet members of the faculty, and view the unique student work. The Magical Puppet Tree performs the Ukrainian tale, “Twiggy” at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. All are welcome. 327 Cty Rte 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 x 111 hawthornevalleyfarm.org
Amenia
The Manitou School
Maplebrook School
Engaging, bilingual education
We Make the Difference
The Manitou School is a growing and expanding independent Elementary & Middle school, with a thriving preschool program. Located on a gorgeous, historic 5-acre property in Cold Spring, NY, Manitou offers a full-immersion Spanish and English bilingual program, uses progressive teaching methods, and features a warm, engaging environment where children can learn and grow. At Manitou School, you will find motivated teachers, a focused curriculum, indoor and outdoor learning spaces, and a diverse community giving children every opportunity to thrive. The school’s curriculum provides a highly integrated, interdisciplinary learning experience that combines music, art, movement, science, and storytelling into every lesson, every day, in English and in Spanish.
Maplebrook School serves students with complex learning disabilities such as expressive and receptive language disorders and/or ADHD. Maplebrook School is a 21st century school. Through small group, personalized instruction and individualized reading programs, faculty use iPads and other technology to emphasize multisensory teaching, allowing each student to reach his/her academic potential. Students are engaged in the Responsibility Increases Self Esteem (RISE) Program to help foster strong social skills and personal responsibility. For 70 years, Maplebrook has provided a quality education complete with academics, the arts, athletics and extra-curricular activities that complete a well-rounded education. For more information on the various programs Maplebrook has to offer, scholarships available and to come to our open house in April, please contact the Admissions Office.
1656 NY-9D, Cold Spring, (845) 809-5695 manitouschool.com
5142 Route 22, Amenia (845) 373-951 1 admissions@maplebrookschool.org, maplebrookschool.org
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Stone Ridge
Berkshires
Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School 45 Years of Waldorf Education in the Berkshires Voted “Best School in the Berkshires,” the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School (GBRSS) provides hands-on learning in a vibrant community for toddlers through 8th grade. Starting with Parent-Child, Pre-K and Kindergarten in the early childhood building surrounded by gardens, fields and woods, children learn through all their senses in nature and colorful classrooms. Across the 32-acre campus, the Lower School’s Waldorf curriculum integrates strong academics with fine and practical arts, biodynamic gardening, Spanish and German, movement, drama, games, music and three-season intramural sports. Summer programs available. Educating the whole child culminates in the academic and artistic rigor of our nearby Berkshire Waldorf High School, a collegepreparatory, coeducational day school that inspires learning in an atmosphere of openness and mutual respect. For Parent-Child through 8th Grade, contact Robyn Coe (413) 528-4015 x.106, admissions@gbrss.org, GBRSS.ORG. For 9th through 12th Grade, contact Tracy Fernbacher (413) 298-3800, admissions@berkshirewaldorf.com, WALDORFHIGH.ORG
High Meadow School Discover, Engage, Empower Walking onto the High Meadow School campus you will first
New Paltz
be struck by the school’s beauty: a landscaped, state-of-the-art playground framed by school buildings– including a converted 19th century brick mansion and a 260-seat Performing Arts and Athletic Center– set amid nine private acres of trails in the heart of historic Stone Ridge. High Meadow School is a not-for-profit, NYSAIS accredited, progressive independent school for children Pre-K through Eighth. Each child is placed at the center of a continuously challenging curriculum. In addition to our multi-disciplinary and intensive core arts program, HMS excels in its teaching of math and sciences and provides opportunities for exploring advanced studies through electives in the upper school. Led by a visionary Head of School, the extraordinarily gifted
Camp Huguenot
and committed teaching staff shine with a sense of vocation.
July 18 - July 22
The engaged parent body is bonded by a commitment to a
Discover a fun-filled summer on Historic Huguenot Street! Learn about the site, its unique history, and the individuals who settled New Paltz over 300 years ago. Campers will work with others, alongside real archaeologists, searching for artifacts left behind by the original Huguenot settlers and the Native Americans who came before them. By excavating, cleaning, and cataloging their archaeological finds, they will learn the basic principles and practices of archaeology, as well as its modern day significance and relation to the understanding of past cultures. Additional time will be spent on historic crafts, indoor and outdoor games, related educational activities, and tours of the historic site. 81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz (845) 255-1660 huguenotstreet.org/camp-huguenot
community that develops the whole child. High Meadow School is a place where children, from three years through eighth grade, learn, create, and truly love to be. Want to see what we are all about? Come for a tour! They are available all year round. Just give us a call and we will schedule one for you. IMPORTANT DATES: Thurs., March 10, Upper School Informational Breakfast, 9:15 - 11:00 Sat., April 2, Bright Ideas Festival, 1:00 - 5:00 Sun., May 15, Lower School Open House, 11:00 - 1:00 Summer Camp Registration NOW OPEN! 3643 Main Street, Stone Ridge (845) 687-4855 highmeadowschool.org contact@highmeadowschool.org 3/16 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION GUIDE 27
The Wayfinder Experience
Kingston
61 O’Neil Street, Kingston (845) 481-0776 info@wayfinderexperience.com wayfinderexperience.com
Barcone’s Music
We offer after-school and in-school enrichment classes as well as library programming. Your favorite book characters come to life with our literary adventure scavenger hunt! Learn to think on your feet with our unique brand of Improv theater, or how to sword fight with our play-safe weapons! We also offer magical summer camps and year round weekend events.
Big Box Value, Local Business Service Barcone’s Music represents a tradition of musical excellence for over 125 years, here in the Hudson Valley. We proudly work with schools from Westchester County up through Greene County, providing instrument rentals, repairs, and sales. We provide the highest quality brands, including Conn, Selmer, Bach, King, Eastman, and Amati just to name a few! The Barcone’s Music Experience means Expertise: A combined 80 years of experience in repairs. Several employees are active professional musicians, and many have degrees in music. The Barcone’s Music Experience means Tradition: With a foundation started in Italy in 1890, the Barcone Family are into their 5th generation in the business. The Barcone’s Music Experience means Diversity: We are a full-service shop, with a wide range of products on-site. 528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089, barconesmusiconline.com
Montgomery Montessori School Preschool - 8th grade 136-140 Clinton Street, Montgomery (845) 401-9232 admin@montgomeryms.com Montgomery Montessori School is a learning community where children are inspired to realize their academic, personal, and social potential to become global citizens. The historically proven Montessori educational model supports the whole child, creates lifelong learners, and educates for peace. The resulting academic excellence is supported by a prepared environment that inspires self-paced, individualized discovery, and a love of learning; as well as respect for self, others, and the environment.
Woodstock Day School Summer Adventure Camps (845) 246-3744 ext.120 info@woodstockdayschool.org woodstockdayschool.org Woodstock Day School is a progressive independent school on a stunning campus in the Hudson Valley offering a powerful educational experience that respects each student equally as an individual and as a member of a community. Purposefully small class sizes and a committed faculty empower students to shape and achieve their personal goals and make a difference in a complex world. Approximately 50% of WDS families receive financial aid. 28 EDUCATION GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 3/16
Dutchess Arts Camp / Art Institutes (845) 471-7477 millstreetloft.org facebook.com/millstreetloft Mill Street Loft offers weekly arts camps, July - August, at four locations: Red Hook, Beacon, Millbrook, and Poughkeepsie. Educational, arts-driven fun (ages 4-14). Jr. Art Institute (11-14) and Art Institute (14-19) summer sessions on Vassar campus provide opportunities to develop advanced skills in the visual arts. Early bird thru 4/1/16. Year-round art courses offered.
Renaissance Kids, Inc. Summer Camps 1821 Route 376, Poughkeepsie (845) 452-4225 www.renkids.org We provide creativity, unique programs, and a small-group, nurturing atmosphere to students and families every day at Renaissance Kids, Inc. Our programs include year-round classes in music and art, private instrument lessons, summer camps, birthday parties, and workshops. All levels, from beginner through experienced, are welcome. Registration is ongoing, and new students are accepted throughout the year.
Next Step College Counseling Hyde Park, NY (845) 242-8336 smoore@nextstepcollegecounseling.com nextstepcollegecounseling.com Sandra M. Moore, M.A., a former college admission director and life-long educator, provides expert assistance with all aspects of the college search and admission and financial aid application processes. Member: HECA, IECA, NACAC. Don’t just dream. Achieve.
Art+Science Summer Course
South Kent, CT
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Tpk., Millbrook (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org/students Students will explore the relationship between art and science in this weeklong summer course taught by artist and conservation biologist Hara Woltz. This course will offer an alternative to the traditional summer camp and will be a transformative experience for students looking to deepen their understanding of the environment they live in. Session 1: July 25-29, 6-9 grade, Session 2: Aug. 1-5, 9-12 grade.
SUNY Ulster 491 Cottekill Rd, Stone Ridge (845) 339-2025 sunyulster.edu/campulster Start here, go far at SUNY Ulster! Camp Ulster provides kids and teens new learning experiences, fun challenges, creative opportunities and a chance to make new friends. We offer half-day and full-day specialty camps in Stone Ridge and Kingston led by creative and energetic faculty, and local instructors as well as Mad Science, and Snapology. Visit our website, www.sunyulster.edu/campulster, for camp details.
South Kent School Excellence for Boys
Poughkidsie 50 Springside Avenue, Poughkeepsie (845) 243-3750 poughkidsie.com info@poughkidsie.com Poughkidsie offers classes and workshops in art, science, reading and more. Our 5,000 square-foot space in the Arlington area of Poughkeepsie has been designed with both children and parents in mind, including creative activities for all ages, free Wifi, and the best coffee around. Visit our website for the event calendar or walk in anytime for creative play and crafting.
Open Doors Educational Advocates (845) 978-7970 trieshaopendoors@gmail.com pattyopendoors@gmail.com opendoors-sped.com Helping families navigate Special Education services Every child deserves success in school. For children with special needs, additional supports are necessary to help them to reach their potential. Open Doors Educational Advocates are there to help families access the supports their children need. We offer: IEP review, School/family collaboration, CSE representation, Evaluation analysis, Due process support.
WHY BOYS? South Kent School embraces unique learning styles of boys to create a boys centered curriculum that leads to success. South Kent School’s education program stresses rigorous academics and personal transformation to foster and develop knowledge, courage and strength of character. We call this the Hero Path and it serves as the fundamental building block towards future success in college, one’s career and family. South Kent encourages students to discover, improve upon and showcase new creative talents through a variety of outlets. Dramatic performances, art, musical theater, dance, and multi-media programs enable students to explore and develop talents in a productive and nurturing environment. The mission of the Center for Innovation is to teach students sustainability, resilience, and wholeness through the spheres of Sustainable Earth, Sustainable Design, and Sustainable Community. The CFI shows students how to promote change in their lives while simultaneously ensuring that they have a positive impact on the world around them. Programming includes a farm-to-table organic food program, bee keeping, entrepreneurship classes, 3D printing, drone technology, robotics, and more. Special programs: College Level Courses through Syracuse University iPad Program, Advanced Media Group, Affinity Program— Adventure: Rock Climbing, Hiking & Snowshoeing, Overnight Camping; Service: On-campus Service, Habitat for Humanity, Helping the elderly; Explore: Plays, Musical performance, Video production. GRADE 6 - GRADE 12 & PG
40 Bulls Bridge Rd, South Kent, CT, (860) 927-3539 admissions@southkentschool.org, southkentschool.org 3/16 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION GUIDE 29
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u All Sport Camp FIT SUMMER DAY CAMP CAMP FIT offers the perfect camp setting for campers to make new friends, develop new skills, experience and appreciate the outdoors and have FUN! Campers are divided up into age appropriate groups and participate in activities including: recreational swimming, sports & games, arts & crafts and special theme activities. Special events and guests make for more fun! TEEN TRAVEL CAMP Teens will take part in new and exciting activities outside of camp. Under the guidance of our camp staff, campers will take two trips during regular camp hours to local recreation sites and still have time to enjoy traditional camp activities on site. TENNIS CAMP Quick start tennis camp is the fast, fun way to get kids into tennis. During the morning campers will focus on the fundamentals of the game. Afternoon hours are spent participating in our regular Camp Fit activities. Rain or Shine Camp! Contact: Karen@allsporthealthandfitness.com • (845) 868-2355
The Liberi School 3521 Route 9, Livingston 518-697-5065 director@liberischool.org liberischool.org The Liberi School is an independent K-8 school currently accepting applications for admission. Our contemporary holistic educational vision innovates the one-room schoolhouse model. An integrated multi-age curriculum focuses on intellectual freedom, creativity, and personalized learning. We believe in liberating our children by teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
Health & Wellness GUIDE coming in April
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Boys - Grades 7-12 / Postg raduate
July 5–30, 2016 At Trinity-Pawling, we believe great men are needed everywhere. And you are one of them. Greatness lives in you.
Learn more at www.trin itypaw ling.org
CONNECT. OPEN HOUSE Saturday, March 12 10am-2pm
Forman Summer is a four-week camp for
Meet the Teachers Enjoy a Craft Tour our Campus Meet the Animals Children are Welcome
students who learn differently. Our program offers academic strategies and afternoon activities that promote confidence and fun throughout the summer experience. • Coeducational • Entering grades 7-11
Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy on 7.5 Acres in the Village of Rhinebeck Now Accepting Applications PreK-4th Grade (845) 876-1226
www.primrosehillschool.com 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck
• Boarding and day options Experience the Magic of a Waldorf Education
Forman School 12 Norfolk Road • Litchfield, CT 06759 860.567.1802 • formanschool.org/summer
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Friday, March 11 at 7 p.m. This important documentary reveals how invasive pests like the emerald ash borer and Asian longhorn beetle are wreaking havoc on America’s trees. Learn how community efforts can make a difference. Q&A with filmmaker Andrea Torrice and forest ecologist Gary Lovett to follow the film. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. World-class conservatory training in
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Anne Eschenroeder Anne Eschenroeder owns and operates Big Little Farm just outside of Kingston. 2016 will be Eschenroeder’s 11th season farming, and her dog Rosir’s sixth. Big Little Farm uses organic practices to grow vegetables of all kinds and operates as a freechoice CSA with on-farm pickup. Biglittlefarm.com Clothes: Kasuri, Hudson: Rick Owens Lilies Jacket ($2,250); Rick Owens Leather Leggings ($2,061); Rick Owens Ankle Boot ($1,635) Hair: Rebecca Whitaker; make-up: Lisa Lukaszewski
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Wesley Hannah Wesley Hannah has been farming in the Hudson Valley for six years, currently as field manager at Hearty Roots Community Farm in Clermont. Together with his fiancé Bryn, he also co-owns and operates Solid Ground Farm in Catskill. They grow and sell microgreens and shoots for the Kingston Farmers’ Market and wholesale clients, raise pastured chickens, and are starting a new vegetable CSA in the Catskill/Saugerties area. Solidground.farm. Clothes: Hudson Clothier, Hudson: American Apparel henley, ($26); Filson moleskin vest ($148); Utility Canvas waxed Moto jacket, ($224) Hair: Rebecca Whitaker; make-up: Lisa Lukaszewski
Bryn Roshong Bryn Roshong and her fiancÊ Wes have partnered with cattle farmer and mentor Jimmy Bulich at Pathfinder Farms in Catskill, where they’ve moved their operation, Solid Ground Farm. She also works as Operations Manager at the Farm Bridge, a co-packing facility in Kingston that processes millions of pounds of Hudson Valley produce each year. Solidground.farm. Clothes: Willow Wood, Rhinebeck: Frnch sleevless printed pleather dress, ($105); Gansvoort Farm, Germantown: Lamb pelt ($200) Hair and make-up: Kara Eletto
Leanna Mulvihill Leanna Mulvihill operates Four Legs Farm in Germantown, where she raises sheep, pigs, and cows for meat shares. The animals are pasture raised in a management-intensive system with only non-GMO grain. She has meat-share distributions at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, in the Village of New Paltz and in Germantown. Fourlegsfarm.com. Clothes: Style Storehouse, Beacon: Voile and Lace trapeze slip ($88); Blank NYC brain bleach shirt ($760) Hair and make-up: Briana Baresi
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Claire Wolf Claire Wolf grew up on a multigenerational dairy farm in Wisconsin and moved to New York to pursue biodynamic agriculture. She currently supports Long Table Harvest, a farm gleaning organization that brings excess farm produce to local communities. She also works for Rock City Mushrooms in Chatham, growing shiitake and oyster mushrooms. Rockcitymushrooms.com Clothes: Karinna Megan dress ($108) Hair: Rebecca Whitaker; make-up: Lisa Lukaszewski
Jesse Tolz Jesse Tolz runs VIDA Farm in Ghent, where he produces vegetables, herbs, flowers, seeds, and geeky farming experiments. His aim is to build healthy soils as well as grow resilient and nourishing plants in the context of this ecosystem. Tolz is also the marketing manager for Field Goods, a food hub that aggregates and delivers local produce. Vida.farm Clothes: Kasuri, Hudson: Yohji Yamamoto Jacket ($2,780); Yohji Yamamoto Pant ($1,675); Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Shirt ($314); Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Shoe ($684) Hair: Rebecca Whitaker; make-up: Kara Eletto 3/16 CHRONOGRAM FASHION 39
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We teamed up with Le Shag for hair and makeup on our fashion shoot. Thisbeauty haven on Fair Street in Kingston is the flagship location of stylist Jennifer Donovan’s mix of beauty and fun. Since opening in 2005, Donovan has moved from designing on the Broadway stage to a stylized hipster-chic street location with eight stylists who work alongside her. Le Shag clients can radiate with glossy blowouts from the blowout bar in just 30 minutes, shine with color from European color lines that are PPD-free, environmentally safe, and not tested on animals, or collaborate on a sophisticated on-trend haircut that is completely “wash and wear.” Leshag.com
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KayCee Wimbish KayCee Wimbish is a farmer, a teacher, and a community builder. She lives and works in midtown Kingston, running the Kingston YMCA Farm Project. Between the railroad tracks and the YMCA, she grows food for the surrounding community and provides hands-in-the-dirt education to kids and youth. Kingstonymcafarmproject.org Clothes: Haldora, Rhinebeck: Lightweight bleached cotton denim duster ($268); high-waisted pant ($212); linen fitted tank top ($198); bleached denim throw ($198) Hair and make-up: Kara Eletto
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The House Nostalgia Built A COLLECTOR IN RIFTON by Lynn Woods Photos by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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leven years ago, writer/producer Frank Basile left his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and moved full-time to his weekend house in Rifton. The house sits on a secluded peninsula overlooking the Sturgeon Pool, a dammed lake surrounded by undeveloped land owned by Central Hudson. Windows on three sides provide a panoramic view of shimmering water and wooded mountains. But after stepping inside the cathedralceilinged living room, it’s the pop ephemera—the jukebox; the ventriloquist’s dummy Jerry Mahoney, a popular fixture on children’s TV shows in the 1950s, grinning from the sofa; the vintage wooden radio; the memorabilia from the 1939 World’s Fair; the Snoopy phone—that catch your attention. “All of the toys and musical machines work,” says Basile as he inserts a quarter into the jukebox, punches in a number, and plays Brenda Lee’s “I Wanna Be Wanted.” Though his digs are drenched in nostalgia, Basile is a very busy man (he commutes to his Manhattan office a few days a week). I recently heard him interviewed on the Fox Oldies radio station for his nine-part DVD series on the Three Stooges, Hey Moe! Hey Dad! Narrated by Moe’s son, Paul Howard— Basile has been a fan since age six, when he saw the Stooges perform live in the Bronx—and with commentary by Whoopi Goldberg and film critic Leonard Maltin, among others, it’s a fascinating look at the careers and psychology of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe’s brothers Shemp and Curly (Curly’s manic talent and self-destructive tendencies eerily prefigure another tragic figure, John Belushi). Basile is currently putting the finishing touches on his documentary American Parade, a portrait of the West Point Band. In February, he began filming the new productions at Lincoln Center Theater for the center’s archives, part of his 16-year gig as the center’s videographer. And he is working on two films, a celebration of Guy Lombardo’s legendary, decades-long New Year’s Eve broadcasts from the Roosevelt and Waldorf hotels and a teleplay musical of Tiny Tim, based on the one-man show by Spats White. Tiny Tim continues to fascinate audiences because of “his musical knowledge,” says Basile. “He’s a walking, talking encyclopedia of American folk and early popular music.”
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Top: Basile programs his Rowe AMI R-80 jukebox. Bottom: Bottle stoppers bearing the heads of Kennedy and Krushchev commemorate the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Top: Basile’s collection of 1960s metal lunch boxes. Bottom: The living room overlooks Sturgeon Pond and features a Victorian stove, early 20th-century sofa with wood inlay, and Roseville ceramics. Ventriloquist’s dummy Jerry Mahoney relaxes on the couch.
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Some of Basile’s thousands of records are stored in the Record Room.
From Renter to Renovator Basile, who’d camped out on the grounds of the Mohonk Mountain House as a teen (owner Albert Smiley charged $1 a night), began renting the cottage in the peaceful lakeside community in 1990 and purchased it two years later. He raised five cats in the weekend house and expanded it, with a step-down addition to the living room that extends down to a deck over the lake and is heated with a Victorian-era stove. A bedroom over the garage takes similar advantage of the lake views. Basile installed red oak floors in the living room and covered the vaulted ceiling with boards, lending a rustic warmth. Like the panaroma he enjoys from his living room, Basile’s career has also been expansive. The duration of his productions range from five seconds to nine hours. His ability to sniff out a good story resulted in Nuremberg: Reflections and Resonance, a project commissioned by Yeshiva University to film a forum that blossomed into a full-fledged 2006 PBS documentary, including interviews with the original prosecutors, Walter Cronkite, and Nazi hunter Lord Janner, as well as Stalin-commissioned Russian footage of the trials. In Gyroplane Refrain, former CBS anchorman Rolland Smith learns to fly a gyroplane, a low-cost, alternative technology to the helicopter, while Ruben Stoddard: Ain’t Misbehavin’ provides a behind-the-scenes look at the rehearsals of an “American Idol” winner in his first theatrical role. The films garnered Basile three Telly Awards, the premier prize for TV film and video programs aired regionally, locally, and on cable. 44 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 3/16
Broadway Bound His first big break was getting hired by Ash/LeDonne, then New York’s top Broadway promotion agency, where Basile made theatrical commercials for Broadway, a job that involved, among other things, periodically tracking down and recording Broadway legend Elaine Stritch. He continues to create broadcast ad campaigns for dozens of shows, most recently “The Producers” and “A Christmas Story: The Musical,” along with providing high-quality footage for “The King and I” for press and marketing. Basile subsequently worked as a writer/producer at HBO/Cinemax, where he made dozens of featurettes and trailers. Later, at the A&E network, he wrote extensively for “Mission Impossible” star Peter Graves, which led to additional collaborations, including a series about New York destinations called “On the Town.” “You never know where the jobs will lead,” says Basile. “This business is really about relationships.” It’s also about being fast on your feet: “I’ve had to be inventive, to repackage old stuff,” says Basile. “And sometimes there’s a lot of pressure to be original and distinctive.” Basile did the wraparounds for two dozen of Jerry Lewis’s movies on TV, in a Cinemax series called “Laugh a Lot”—Lewis was a perfectionist and consummate professional, Basile recalls—and produced a promotional video for Broadway hoofer Tommy Tune. When he was producing radio spots for Frank Sinatra promoting his concerts at an Atlantic City resort, one of the singer’s road managers was behind bars, which slightly complicated things.
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rank Basile’s lakeside house is a theater of nostalgia, with its teeming population of TV and music characters, shelves full of Looney Tunes glasses and other cartoonware, the working jukeboxes, games and toys, and piles of brown papersleeved 45s. A diminutive John, Paul, George and Ringo, complete with synthetic mop tops, boogie on the Victorian mantle, while the pair of John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev dolls, a rare souvenir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, frown or smile— depending which way you turn their heads—from atop the sideboard. Woody Woodpecker crops up everywhere—in posters, as a figurine, wristwatch, mug, back scratcher, clock, bubble bath container, light—you name it—and is beloved for what he represents: “He was created by an independent cartoon studio that stood up to Disney. He’s an upstart,” Basile says. Down the hall, one enters the Record Room, named for the 3,000 records that line the shelves—mostly rhythm and blues, jazz, American popular standards, ethnic music, rock and roll, and disco, including a collection of vinyl played at Studio 54, the famous late-1970s New York nightclub. A Mr. Magoo doll sits atop the German-made Wurlitzer Princess jukebox. Two midcentury Danish chairs and an array of plastic vintage toys, including Mr. Machine, a Dadaist-style robot that was one of Basile’s favorite childhood toys, complete the illusion you’re traveled Aurora’s model monsters from the 1960s on display in the bedroom.
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An Urban Education A Bronx native, Basile attended the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia College, where he majored in urban studies. In the early 1980s, he produced his own weekly public-access cable show, featuring everyone from Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, to Broadway stars to Times food critic Mimi Sheraton. Even after he had a day job, he tended bar evenings at JG Melon, a popular drinking hole on the Upper East Side. “Working at Melon’s in combination with attending those two schools constitutes a triumvirate of a solid education,” Basile says. Regulars at the bar included JFK Jr., Nathan Lane, and Sam Shepard. “Once I served Muhammed Ali a glass of milk and we chatted about the neighborhood,” says Basile. “When he left a $10 tip, his then-manager Bundini Brown said ‘That’s too much,’ to which Ali smilingly replied “Shut up’ and left it anyway.” Eschewing the corporate world, Basile always worked as a “permalancer,” which enabled him to oversee the execution of a piece and stick to his high standards. He relished the writing and planning as well as the layering and refining, a process that’s akin to “a good cook knowing how much to caramelize the onions.” In Hey Moe! Hey Dad!, that search for richness and polish led him to replace the piano music accompanying the theme song with a 16-piece orchestra. (The music was written by composer Steve Margoshes, a Drama Desk Award winner and frequent collaborator. Basile contributed the snappy lyrics.) Looking back, the most satisfying moments of his career were getting the perfect shot in that one window of opportunity. Such a moment occurred back in 1983, when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton exited the back door of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre after a performance of Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” The couple had just gotten back together, and an adoring crowd gathered as they slipped into a waiting limousine and drove off. “I got it on film for the TV commercial I was doing for the play and went to Sardi’s afterwards, feeling very happy that one of the prickly roses excitedly thrown by an extra at Ms. Taylor did not hit her in the face,” Basile recalls. “When the Tony Awards need obits, they come to me. I have a lot of footage.” 3/16 CHRONOGRAM HOME & GARDEN 51
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galleries & museums FRONT STREET GALLERY
21 FRONT STREET, PATTERSON (917) 880-5307. “Shadow.” Through March 31.
THE GALLERY AT R&F
84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Reverse Migration & Other Stories: Works by Lori Van Houten.” Through April 16.
GALLERY 66 NY
66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Plastic Harvest.” A collaborative work by Cassandra Saulter and Michelle Mercaldo. Through March 31. Opening reception March 4, 6pm-9pm.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS
162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. Political Theater. Photographs by Mark Peterson. Through March 6.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Word.” HVCCA’s first open call juried exhibition. Through July 31.
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY: THE SCHOOL
25 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK JACKSHAINMAN.COM/SCHOOL. “Winter in America.” A multimedia group exhibition. Through March 30. From “I’m Tired,”a project by Paula Apkon and Hariet Evans at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill. The show runs through July 31.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Scrap Wrenn: Fall in to Whole.” March 5-31. Opening reception March 5, 6pm-8pm.
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART
134 JAY STREET, KATONAH 914-232-9555. The Nest. An exhibition of art in nature. March 6-June 19.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Whimsy and Gesture.” Recent work by Dick Crenson, Travis Jeffrey & Christopher Albert. Through April 9.
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KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER
34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. Shimmering Substance: Selections from Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantees of the Hudson Valley. March 11-May 1. Opening reception March 12, 4pm-6pm.
4338 ALBANY POST ROAD, HYDE PARK 914-456-6700. “March Madness Exhibition.” March 5-31. Opening reception March 5, 5:30pm-7:30pm.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON
MATTEAWAN GALLERY
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0333. “Nancy Campbell: Paintings of Italy, Discoveries and Connections.” March 5-31. Opening reception March 5, 5pm-8pm.
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17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Looking Back—40 Years, 40 Themes.” Through March 26. 436 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. Marieken Cochius: Invisible Nature. Through March 6.
MID-HUDSON HERITAGE CENTER
1-3 COLLEGEVIEW AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8411. Works by Stacey Flint. Through March 13.
317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8506. Loving the Earth.” March 19-April 23. Opening reception March 19, 6pm-8pm.
BEACON ARTIST UNION
OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. The Akio Project. Through March 6.
BEACON INSTITUTE FOR RIVERS AND ESTUARIES
199 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-1600. Along the Mt. Beacon Incline Railway: Past, Present & Future. Through March 6.
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM
39 SOUTH STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 413-443-7171. “BerkshireNow: Stephen Dietemann.” March 5-May 22.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY
43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435. Shades of Light. New work by Cross River Artists. Through March 31.
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Shimmering Substance. Selections from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantees of the Hudson Valley.” March 11-May 1. Opening reception March 12, 4pm-6pm.
CAFFE A LA MODE
1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. Anne Lindberg: Fold and Unfold. Sculpture and drawings. Through March 13.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY AND LOFT, SUNY ORANGE
THE CORNER OF WAWAYANDA AND GRANDVIEW AVENUES, (GPS: 24 GRANDVIEW AVE.), MIDDLETOWN 341-4891. North East Watercolor Society Members 2016 Exhibition. Mondays-Fridays. Reception March 6, 1pm-4:15pm.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY FRINGE
SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4891. Watermarks: Watercolors by Pat Morgan. Mondays-Fridays. Opening reception March 6, 1pm-4:15pm.
PALMER GALLERY
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “Spark! A Feel for Science.” Through March 6.
ROCKLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS
27 SOUTH GREENBUSH ROAD, WEST NYACK 358-0877. Winter Theorems & Beautiful Nonsense. Through April 3.
1 OAKLAND AVENUE, WARWICK 986-1223. Photography by Keith Marsiglia. Through May 31. Opening reception March 13, 5pm-7pm.
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622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. Mark Beard, David Dew Bruner, Joseph Maresca, Harry Orlyk and Lionel Gilbert. Through April 3. 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3. Site-specific work. Through May 31, 2017. 128 CANAL STREET TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. Ulster County Photography Club. March 5-26. Opening reception March 5, 4pm-7pm.
FIELD LIBRARY
238A WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5825. “One Hundred Tikis.” New paintings by Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Through March 13. 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Andrew Lyght: Full Circle.” Through April 10. 115 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 590-1931. “Out of Shape.” Through March 26. 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM 518-392-3005. John T. Kelly: Snowscapes. Oil paintings. Through April 3.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY
4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1212. Muaueen Winzig: Promise of Spring. Paintings. Through March 27.
57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. Oceans Apart. Installation exhibition by Kingsley Parker. Through March 27. Opening reception March 5, 4pm-6pm.
FRANCES DALY FERGUSSON DANCE THEATER
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE
WOODSTOCK FRAMING GALLERY
VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE VASSAR.EDU. “American Stories 1800–1950.” Through April 17.
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Fluid Ecologies: Hispanic Caribbean Art from the Permanent Collection.” Through May 8.
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28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Directors Choice: The Responsive Eye.” Through May 1.
31 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-6003. “abc@WFG.” An exhibition of text-based art curated by Norm Magnusson. March 5-April 10.
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Music
Birthright Elvis Perkins By Peter Aaron Photo by Danielle Aykroyd
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t’s Elvis Perkins’s birthday. February 9. to Los Angeles. Then 9/11 happened. Understandably, it took him some years “This is a funny place,” he says over the phone from the city where he to attempt to come to terms with his mother’s murder and the overall pall of was raised. “Los Angeles essentially exists to support the make-believe.” the events of that day. This procedure culminated in his self-released 2006 deYet for all the make-believe going on in Hollywood, the wrenchingly surreal but, AshWednesday (reissued in 2007 by XL Recordings), although, despite how life of the now 40-year-old singer-songwriter has been one that even the most the press has presented it, Perkins stresses that not all of the album’s songs are imaginative screenwriter wouldn’t fathom. A life that can be heard, felt, and about the loss of his mother. “It’s essentially just a collection of songs, arranged glimpsed in his dreamlike, highly literate music. Perkins’s third and newest al- chronologically,” he says. “About half of them were written before she died and bum, I Aubade (MIR Records), is the perfect portal into this weird, wistful world. about half were written after. Of course, the post-9/11 songs are more than (To his credit, its maker eschews the term “singer-songwriter,” which dredges slightly darker. But there are love songs, joke songs. Songs I’m not sure what up images of “open mike nights and coffee shops and lazy chord structures.” He they are. The title track is equally about the day after 9/11 and the fumigation prefers, simply, “recording artist.”) I Aubade’s softly strummed, acoustic-based of our family’s home.” songs have a sad-happy cast. They shimmer like afternoon sunlight as it dapples Ash Wednesday won instant acclaim for its sparse, brooding folk pathos upon through trees, bringing back the half-napping release, by which time Perkins was back at car-seat warmth of family drives on visits to Brown. “I wanted to get out of LA and I sensed Elvis Perkins is the son relatives in the country. Its tracks—“& Eveline,” that I’d be touring because of the attention the of actor Anthony Perkins, record was getting,” says Perkins. “So I re-en“I Came for Fire,” “Gasolina”—flicker, crackle, and float with Perkins’s distant coo swaddled in rolled, basically as a way to get back to Proviwho died in 1992 of oscillating radio waves and other found sounds. dence and form a band with some guys I’d been AIDS-related pneumonia, playing with there.” The band, although cheekily Think Leonard Cohen meets Syd Barrett in a vat of Vick’s VapoRub. named Elvis Perkins in Dearland, was further and photographer Berry There’s no easy or delicate way to broach this: comprised of multi-instrumentalists Brigham Perkins is the son of actor Anthony Perkins, who Berenson, who perished as Brough, Nick Kinsey, and Wyndham Boylandied in 1992 of AIDS-related pneumonia, and Garnett, and had a shared dynamic the leader a passenger on American had missed during his time as an unaccompaphotographer Berry Berenson, who perished as a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11 when Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11. nied solo performer. Elvis Perkins in Dearland terrorists crashed it into the World Trade Centoured in support of Ash Wednesday, recorded an ter’s north tower on September 11, 2001. Unsurprisingly, those events have eponymously titled follow-up for XL in 2008, and did more roadwork in North dramatically colored the singer’s life and his music. But they’re far from the America and Europe. only events that have done so. Born in New York, he and his older brother OsThe rootless Perkins got to know the Hudson Valley while staying at Kinsey’s good (a drummer, actor, and, coincidentally, a screenwriter), moved with their family’s home in the Dutchess County hamlet of Stanfordville between tours. family to Los Angeles when Elvis was four. “I remember the confusion of being “Wyndham’s also from the area, so with both of those guys having graduated I in a new house, the relative spaciousness and the smell of the magnolia trees,” wasn’t gonna go back to Providence,” he says. “This neck of the woods began he says. “In LA, I just became a kid and I grew up. But I’ve always had a compli- to feel like home.” He made one more release for XL, the 2009 EP Doomsday, cated relationship with [the city].” His father, who also played piano and made and rented a place in Germantown. There, he settled in to begin work on the pop records before his defining role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s batch of intimate, self-recorded songs that comprise I Aubade (its title a pun on 1960 film Psycho, was a huge Elvis Presley fan, although Perkins maintains it the word aubade, meaning a morning poem or song, and the phrase “I obeyed”) was his mother’s idea to name him after the rock ’n’ roll king. “At first they and harken back to four-track experiments he’d done in his early 20s, long weren’t intending to name me Elvis—it was a joke that got out of hand,” says before Ash Wednesday. Sojourns took him back to Los Angeles and other spots the singer, who, admittedly, once rebelled against his moniker. “Eight out of ev- to record with friends and collect some of the incidental sounds mixed into the ery 10 times I introduce myself to someone there’s a reaction of disbelief. For songs on the new album (the mysterious radio waves on “AM” were picked up a while, when I lived in Santa Fe, I went by my middle name, which is Brooke. in a mobile home in Ojai, California). But the bulk of I Aubade was cut in GerBut that’s a girl’s name, so it wasn’t any better. And to my friends I was always mantown and at his current apartment in Hudson, where he taped the sounds Elvis, anyway. So I guess it just means I’m probably doing what I’m supposed of fireworks and thunder by sticking a microphone out the window. to be doing. If I’d been named John, who knows what would have happened.” “Elvis definitely has an individual approach,” says Kinsey, who contributes Perkins started doing what he does at a young age, taking piano and saxo- percussion to the disc. “Even now, after playing with him for 10 years, his songs phone lessons before studying guitar with Prescott Niles, the bassist of power- still reveal new things to me.” pop greats the Knack. Although his parents had an excellent record collection, At the time of the interview for this writing, Perkins was in Los Angeles especially when it came to musicals, the sounds that first grabbed him were a to work on the soundtrack of February, his brother’s second film as a director, bit less intellectual. And they came with visuals. “I grew up in the heyday of and to perform at a benefit concert for Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, the West MTV, so I watched music more than I listened to it in the beginning,” he recalls. Coast-based charity organization that assists uninsured musicians with medical “It’s a funny way to get music. So I was a big fan of appearance then. I was defi- costs. Speaking to the Guardian in 2007, he remarked, “I’d never call myself nitely the intended audience for hair metal.” He and his brother formed some happy or sad.” But, having heard his recordings, which are indeed sometimes basement bands with high school friends, although at that point he was simply sad, and having seen his performances, which are often euphoric and uplifting, a guitarist and not yet a songwriter. Still, playing music was a helpful outlet for it’s tempting to say he’s both. both the typical growing pains of teendom and the processing of his father’s “Well, we all have an equal potential to express a range of emotions,” he passing. “Because of my dad’s work, my brother and I weren’t really supposed offers. “But I’m definitely not inclined to be a downer when I’m in the position to talk about him being sick,” Perkins says. His initial songwriting inspirations of entertaining people.” were Tracy Chapman, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, and the Traveling After all he’s been through with the tragic loss of his parents, wouldn’t it be Wilburys, the last a door into Dylan and the Beatles. “The first time I heard easy to be bitter? Simon and Garfunkel was when I was riding in the car with my parents,” he “It would seem a terrible waste to be bitter,” he says, after pondering a bit. remembers. “The parts in their songs had a special force and were powerful “My parents were amazing people, and I feel very lucky to have arrived on while doing very little musically.” Earth literally through them. To be bitter would be a path that wouldn’t honor He attended Brown University, taking “random” courses in ethnomusicolo- them, or my own life. Or the mystery looming behind it all.” gy and philosophy and playing in the school’s gamelan ensemble. Dropping out after a year, he started writing songs in earnest and performing, and returned I Aubade is out now on MIR Records. Elvisperkinssound.net. 3/16 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 57
NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
PRINCE RAMA March 2. Brooklyn experimental “Now Age” art-pop duo Prince Rama (aka artist sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson) love a goofy ruse. Google their name and you’ll find claims they were 1) raised in a Hare Krishna-centric Florida community; 2) attacked by raccoons in Central Park; and 3) wrote their new album, Xtreme Now, while “living on a black metal utopian commune on Vormsi, a remote island off the coast of Estonia in 2012.” But what does seem reasonable to believe about the pair, who early this month bring their neon indie-dance beats to BSP, is that they formed in 2007 and have released eight albums, three of them produced by Animal Collective’s Avey Tare for his Paw Tracks label. With Shana Falana. (Chris Maxwell celebrates his new album March 4; Rising Appalachia rambles March 30.) 7:30pm. $10, $12. Kingston. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com.
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March 17. Qawwali is the intensely hypnotic Sufi devotional music of South Asia that dates back to the 13th century and was made famous in the West by the late vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Texas’s Riyaaz Qawwali, who here appear at the Garrison Institute, are one of America’s most celebrated qawwali parties (such an ensemble is traditionally known as a party). The standard setup of an eight- or nine-piece qawwali party is a lead singer, one or two side singers / handclappers, harmonium, and percussion (tabla or dhoka); Riyaaz Qawwali adds a fiddle. “In our group, there are people from Indian, Pakistani, Afghani, and Bangladeshi identity,” lead singer Sonny, who, like his bandmates, goes only by his first name, told NPR. “But we’re all American today. And religiously, we’re Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs, agnostics, atheists.” Preconcert talk by Pir Zia Inyat-Khan. 7pm. $25 concert only or $50 concert and dinner. Garrison. (845) 424-4800; Garrisoninstitute.org
March 23. New Jersey-bred punk juggernaut Titus Andronicus has strong ties to the Hudson Valley; they recorded three albums, including 2010’s breakthrough, The Monitor, with area producer Kevin McMahon. Last July, the group topped the heights of their previous epic works by releasing the three-LP The Most Lamentable Tragedy. Brooklyn’s Craig Finn is the front man of the similarly Springsteenesque quintet the Hold Steady, and is himself no stranger to our region via his band’s many local appearances. In September 2015, he released his second solo album, Faith in the Future. Vocal fans of each other’s music, it was only a matter of time before Titus and Finn toured together, and here they are with this date at the Hollow. (The Moth and the Flame flutter in March 9; DMA’s dazzle March 26.) 9pm. $18. Albany. (518) 426-8550; Thehollowalbany.com.
MEAT LOAF March 21. Nothing quite says shameless ’70s radio-rock excess like “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth,” or “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” the monster singles off Meat Loaf’s platinum-selling 1977 album Bat Out of Hell (the singer swears he saw a ghost while staying next door during the Todd Rundgren-produced sessions at Bearsville Sound Studio). Before he became a Wagnerian AOR rocker, Loaf, who heats up UPAC this month, performed in stage musicals, fronted the bands Popcorn Blizzard and Floating Circus, and starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He hooked up with songwriter Jim Steinman to make Bat Out of Hell and had a huge comeback hit in 1993 with the ballad “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).” (The Met screens Puccini’s Manon Lescaut March 5; Los Lobos perform March 12 with Ballet Folklorico Mexicano.) 8pm. $79-$230. Kingston. (845) 339-6088; Bardavon.org. 58 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM 3/16
WANDA JACKSON March 24. The living queen of rockabilly, Wanda Jackson has one of the fiercest voices in music, an alley-cat growl that sounded capable of making her 1950s rock ’n’ roll-cofounder peers like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, and, on a good day, maybe even Little Richard run for the hills. But the 78-year-old Jackson, who pays us a not-to-be-missed visit with this turn at Club Helsinki, has a softer side, too; her discography also boasts stacks of sweet traditional country and gospel recordings. But it’s the wild and raw rockabilly of tracks like “Let’s Have a Party,” “Mean, Mean Man,” “Fujiama Mama,” and “Funnel of Love” she’s best known for, and it’s that era of her career that’s led to a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain’t Over, and even a slot opening for fan Adele (?!). (Aaron Neville arrives March 17; Lady Moon and the Eclipse land March 18.) 8pm. $25, $35. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.
CD REVIEWS CHRIS PASIN RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS (2015, PLANET ARTS RECORDS)
The seeds of Ulster County-based trumpet man Chris Pasin’s excellent new solo album transpired from an offer by Planet Arts for the veteran musician to put on a concert of his original compositions in October 2014. As an artist, the NewYork-born Pasin first picked up the horn at age nine and studied under the tutelage of such masters as the legendary brass teacher Carmine Caruso, West Coast jazz great Jimmy Giuffre, and renowned music theorist / bandleader George Russell, whose orchestra he performed with during a residence at the Village Vanguard. And that’s not to mention being a key member of one of Buddy Rich’s last big bands in the ’80s. One can hear all of these influences come to the fray upon listening to Random Acts of Kindness, recorded in Kingston at bassist John Menegon’s Upland Recording Studio in an inspired twomonth span following the aforementioned performance. Working on his own rendition of the classic quintet lineup featuring a guitarist (the immensely talented Mark Klienhaut) instead of a saxophone, this seven-song program is rounded out by Kansas City’s Wayne Hawkins on piano and drummer Dave Berger. The group gracefully traverses a litany of Pasin’s trumpet influences, be it Don Cherry (“OCDC”), Kenny Wheeler (“Fragile Creatures”), or, of course, Miles Davis, whose spirit can be heard all over songs like “Kayte Sunrise” and “Nature of the Beast.” Random Acts of Kindness is the quintessence of a most memorable career for this talented man with a horn. Planetarts.org. —Ron Hart
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He may call Hudson home, but Lorkin O’Reilly’s music exudes the Scottish terrain from whence he recently came with naught but a guitar on his back, a head full of song, and hands schooled in UK folk avatars John Martyn and Nick Drake. Which is not to say his spare, gorgeous debut EP After the Thaw sounds purely vintage. It does not. Although it could hold its own against, say, Pink Moon, O’Reilly weaves in a distinctly postmodern ache, a la Elliott Smith, and the occasional turn of 21st-century phrase. All is lovingly swaddled in quietly defiant lo-fi production courtesy of Jesse Lauter and Kenny Siegal (Johnny Society), whose Catskill studio/record label, Old Soul Studios, proudly offers the services of a tape machine. Thus, each song on this too-short offering begins and ends with distinctive, rarely heard hiss, conveying unfussy analog warmth, left in like sweet, tobacco-tinged breath. After the Thaw’s five tunes feature mostly just O’Reilly, with minimal overdubs of resonator guitar, plangent cello, understated percussion, and subtle mystery sounds. The effect is bracingly intimate, allowing the depth and considerable power of the tunes to rise unimpeded to the fore. Lyrically, the man is a wily poet. He may only be 22, but O’Reilly’s been through some shit. Yet for him, it’s only amplified the beauty of life. Lorkinoreillymusic.com. —Robert Burke Warren
(2015, DIAMOND LULU MUSIC)
Over the course of just four songs on her debut recording, Lower Hudson Valley native Natalie Forteza introduces herself as a commanding vocalist and songwriter of considerable impact. Aided and abetted by Grammy Award-winning producer Michael League of Snarky Puppy, who impeccably contextualizes her voice in a brilliant bath of crystalline acoustic and electronic textures, Forteza shines here with her dynamic range of rhythms and emotions. Obvious touchstones are Sade and Norah Jones, but I hear glimpses of Stevie Wonder, Astrud Gilberto, and Anita Baker as well. Songs range from the gauzy ballad “Man on the Moon” to the funky, riff-fueled urban storm throwback “Feels So Good.” “Kiss” kicks off with a heavy bass vamp and ominous keyboards, atop which Forteza sings hauntingly, recalling some of Sting’s jazzier solo efforts of the 1990s, climaxing with circular Afropop guitar lines. Album closer “Too Late, Too Soon” is dreamy and heartbreaking. The instrumental accompaniment by keyboardist Akie Bermiss, bassist Anthony Candullo, and drummer Erik Perez, with producer League and Bob Lanzetti sharing guitar duties, is both rich and minimalist—not an easy feat to pull off. But it works perfectly here and serves Forteza’s sonic palette and her unique stylistic blend of soul, jazz, Latin, Afrobeat, and pop instincts on these four love songs that leave a listener hungry for 02, or whatever else she has planned as a follow-up. Natalieforteza.com. —Seth Rogovoy CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the bands reviewed in this issue.
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WORDS AND MUSIC Robert Burke Warren Rocks His Debut Novel by Nina Shengold Photo by Franco Vogt
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obert Burke Warren lopes into the Phoenicia Diner a few minutes late, hair windblown. He sprawls in a booth, orders black coffee and steelcut oats, and says with a grin, “Let’s talk with our mouths full.” Warren has the easy charisma of someone who’s stood on a lot of stages. Two things are making him happy today: It’s his son’s 18th birthday, and his first novel Perfectly Broken (The Story Plant, 2016) is racking up stellar reviews. That running order is not accidental. Warren has been many things—bass player for (among others) RuPaul and the Fleshtones, East Village bartender, Buddy Holly on London’s West End, Gregg Allman’s ghostwriter, children’s music phenom Uncle Rock, freelance writer for Chronogram—but the hat he wears with most pride may be family man. Married to music writer and editor Holly George-Warren, Warren was a stay-at-home dad before SAHD was an acronym. “Well, we didn’t stay at home that much. We had a circuit,” he says of the days when he toted young Jack around New York’s still-edgy East Village. Perfectly Broken follows Grant Kelly, a rocker turned SAHD, and his publicist wife and young son from the East Village to the Catskills, where midlife takes unexpected directions. Anybody we know? Warren is quick to dismiss autobiographical assumptions. And though his fictional village shares floodplain DNA with the creek that runs past this diner, “Mt. Marie is not Phoenicia. It’s a distinct place I invented, like the characters.” He’s been over this turf as a singer/songwriter. “No matter what you say when you’re introducing the song, if it’s in first person, people think it’s about you,” he explains. “It’s a grand literary tradition to invent a character in circumstances similar to your own life and put him in situations that never happened. Grant does some shit I would never do.” Also, he points out, “If you write memoir, people don’t believe it’s true. If you write fiction, they don’t believe it’s not true. At the end of the day, these are not really problems. I know what problems are.” Warren grew up in urban Atlanta, the younger of two brothers. His parents were young too, creative and troubled.When he was seven, his father drove off the Interstate in a drunk-driving accident. Tall and lanky, with oversized glasses, Warren picked up the bass at 14 and joined RuPaul’s club band Wee Wee Pole three years later. “My dear friend Todd, my Huck Finn, had crossed into Atlanta’s New Wave Queer Underground,” he recalls. They loved Prince, Bowie, Rocky Horror floor shows. Wee Wee Pole did well, traveling to New York to play Danceteria and the Pyramid Club; Warren booked the tour from his grandmother’s kitchen. In 1983 he started college in Athens, joining another NewYork-bound band Go Van Go. “I fell in love with New York, plain and simple,” he says. “I was so lucky. Unbeknownst to me, I was in the last wave of people who could move to Manhattan and live cheaply.” He worked at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (“kind of a queer punk-rock Cheers”) and played for two years with the Fleshtones. When they double-billed with all-female punk polka band Das Furlines, he bonded with guitarist “Holly Hemlock.” “This is crucial, because literature brought us together. I was reading The Vampire Lestat, and I was riveted. Holly was a big Anne Rice fan. She thought that was cool.” Smitten, Warren watched their set. “She was...adorable. She was playing a 1958 Fender Jazzmaster, crazy hat, bustier, little black boots.” After the gig, he wondered if he should kiss her good-bye. “We’d spent hours talking about vampires. So I bit her on the neck.” Ten days later, she showed up at his bar. Between bartending, bands, and woodshedding original songs, he took acting classes, eventually landing “this crazy gig to go to England and play Buddy Holly for a year” in the hit musical Buddy. “I think I was Buddy number 13.” He applied to Rosanne Cash’s “Essence of Songwriting” workshop at the Omega Institute, attending three times. “Those workshops really changed my life,” he says gratefully. Cash “was a mentor but also a friend.” After trading long e-mail letters, she told Warren, “You really should sharpen your prose pencil.” He took her words to heart, but not right away. Holly was working long hours as head of Rolling Stone’s publishing imprint, and they agreed he’d be Jack’s daytime caregiver. Despite turning down gigs in touring bands, he has no regrets. “One of the only hardcore certainties I ever felt was that this time
would not come again, and there was no better way to spend it.” (The fictional Grant is a lot more ambivalent.) In 2002, the Warrens lost their apartment to landlord greed and moved to a cabin in Chichester, then a rambling Phoenicia Victorian. Warren found work as a preschool teacher—expertise that would help create Perfectly Broken’s pitch-perfect kid characters—and launched Uncle Rock. The “kindie rock” persona took off, generating five albums and major airtime on Sirius. He often performed with Jack. “I used to tell people, ‘We don’t go fishing, we don’t throw a ball, we don’t hunt—we make music together.” They also read together. “Holly and I read to him every night,” Warren says. “When he was about eight, he and I started making stuff up together.” For Jack’s ninth birthday, his father wrote a five-page story starring characters they’d invented. First reader response? “Dad, you have to keep going!” By the following birthday, he’d finished a fantasy novel called Yelloweye. Holly’s agent Sarah Lazin forwarded it to a colleague. Under her tutelage, Warren revised extensively and started another YA novel, Angel Blues. He also joined long-running writers’ group Glaring Omissions and started his novel for grownups. “In my 40s, I noticed the intensity of stories playing out among my peers, whether they were plumbers or singer/songwriters, lawyers, financial analysts, or waitresses. They were stories I found fascinating and beautiful, full of pain, heroism, loss, and forgiveness. How does anyone reconcile being betrayed by the person they love most?” he asks. “I wanted to write a book about changing relationships, including families and kids, but with a strong erotic undercurrent.” Indeed, Warren’s sex scenes may raise readers’ body heat, blending the raw and the awkward with vivid carnality. And anyone who’s hung out with musicians will recognize his characters, authentic from the opening words (“The ache in my thighs reminds me of jumping off speaker cabinets during a show”) to the smorgasbord of mind-altering substances, legal and otherwise. While writing the book, he met Story Plant publisher Lou Aronica at a Woodstock party. “We just hit it off,”Warren says.When he sent a few chapters from his work-in-progress, Aronica loved it. Bookjacket designer and sometime Catskill 45s bandmate Mark Lerner gave Warren some studio time to record songs that function as plot points in Perfectly Broken (free download at Robertburkewarren.com). “There’s an aspect that’s cool about imaginary songs, but I thought, ‘What if they were real?’” Warren says. “People don’t have to hear them—it’s not necessary to reading the book—but if they want to, they can. I’m a full-service provider.” Appearing 3/5 at 7pm, Kleinert/James Auditorium,Woodstock, book release party with reading and music; 3/25 at 7pm, Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson, reading with music; 4/1 at 7pm, reading with Weeklings contributors, TechSmiths, Kingston; 4/9 at 2pm,WoodstockWriters Festival Fiction Panel (see sidebar). SPRING LITERARY FESTIVALS BERKSHIRE FESTIVAL OF WOMEN WRITERS Now in its sixth year, this female-centric festival includes nine days (March 12 to 20) of workshops, readings, events, and performances throughout Berkshire County, featuring such outstanding writers as Ruth Reichl, Jane Yolen, Sonia Pilcer, Breena Clarke, Jennifer Browdy, Rachel Siegel, and dozens more. Berkshirewomenwriters.org WOODSTOCK WRITERS FESTIVAL Four days (April 7 to 10) of literary dynamite, including one-day intensive writing workshops with Ann Hood, Beverly Donofrio, Gail Straub, and others; panels on fiction, biography, spirituality, memoir, addiction, and music; cocktail parties; brunch with Abigail Thomas and Bar Scott; and the infamous Story Slam (2016 theme: “We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.”) Woodstockwriters.com HUDSON CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL New York State’s largest book festival features more than 75 authors and illustrators, live music, and hot subs. Junior/Senior High School, 215 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson, May 7, 10am to 3pm. Hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com MILLBROOK LITERARY FESTIVAL The eighth year of this family-friendly festival features readings, panels, and events for readers of all ages on May 21. New this year: the Scott Meyer Writing Award; submission deadline 4/1. Millbrook Public Library, 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook. Millbrookliteraryfestival.org
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SHORT TAKES Location, location. New fiction by Hudson Valley authors takes to the road, exploring places far and near.
A WELL-MADE BED ABBY FRUCHT & LAURIE ALBERTS RED HEN PRESS, 2016, $15.95
Thelma and Louise with Peruvian cheese in the trunk? “Breaking Bad” in Vermont? Yes, and that’s just the beginning. Linked by a childhood trauma, home-schooled odd duck Jaycee and Pakistani doctor’s daughter Noor cross paths as struggling adults, sliding sidelong into a spiral of crime. Novelists rarely team up, but Frucht and Alberts share the wheel of their wild ride like naturals. Appearing 3/10 at 6pm, The Golden Notebook, Woodstock.
WRECK AND ORDER HANNAH TENNANT-MOORE HOGARTH BOOKS, 2016, $25
Elsie Shore announces her privilege in the opening sentence (“My father inherited a small fortune when his mother died, and on my twenty-first birthday he handed me a card with a check inside”) and proceeds to upend assumptions. Praised by Amy Hempel and Claire Messud, this smart, assured, and disturbing debut novel portrays a young woman who hurts and loves furiously, cutting a swath from the California coast to Sri Lanka. Appearing 3/2 at 6pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
DOG’S MERCURY CAREY HARRISON DR. CICERO BOOKS, 2015, $18
Woodstock playwright, novelist, and literary magus Harrison conjures the singular voice of an English history teacher who becomes a “dosser,” a rural vagrant, relinquishing speech as he goes. Roadside plants and compulsive counting become his religion, until he witnesses a murder on the Dunwich Cliffs and forms a bond with the guilty man, cracking open his insular world. A forager’s banquet of language, served al fresco under “the corbelled vault of the sky.”
SEMITONES DEREK FURR, ART BY ANDRES SAN MILLAN FOMITE BOOKS, 2015, $15
Bard College professor Furr follows his ambitious Suite for Three Voices with a polyphonic blend of fiction, poetry, and essay, rooted in musical structure and ranging from Renaissance religious painting to an eloquent Nova Scotian sparrow. San Millan’s delicate line drawings incorporate written phrases, a literal fusion of word and image. “Funneled in, spiraling out: the function of accidentals is alertness to the beauty of resolution, just as the rationale for climbing is flight.”
WIFE OF THE DAY DAPHNE UVILLER BROWNSTONE BOOKS, 2016, $11.95
What is Zephyr Zuckerman—accidental detective and echt New Yorker—doing in a used car lot outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa? Going undercover, of course. The irrepressible Greenwich Village heroine of Super in the City and Hotel No Tell is back, newly married and doing her best to unravel a case that seems to send tendrils in every direction at once. Dutchess County author Uviller serves up a twisty comic mystery with the lightness and fizz of a perfect egg cream.
SWIMMING: STORIES KARL LUNTTA EXCELSIOR EDITIONS, 2015, $16.95
Albany novelist and Peace Corps veteran Luntta crafts an international suite of stories as startling as an Olympic pool in the Kalahari Desert, the subject of his title story. “A Virgin Twice” takes place in a Botswanan village steeped in jacaranda scent, acacia cooksmoke, and cultural misunderstandings. Race also informs Luntta’s American settings, like the South Boston of “Blue Jays,” where “skin was an elemental fact of life.” Bold and thoughtful, these stories reverberate.
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ROADIE
THE BIG REWIND
Howard Massey
Libby Cudmore
Coral Press, 2016, $28
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William Morrow, 2016, $14.99
hen we meet Roadie’s Bernie Temkin, he’s downright annoying to himself and everyone else: a career ghostwriter and “fat, balding schlub” past his deadline on a book contract and surrounded by several flavors of shallow, including, he believes, the aging rock icon he’s meant to be writing about. Temkin’s not a bad guy, and resolves with a sigh to do his best. Through notes he’s taken in interviews with a dying man—the titular “Cody the Roadie”—we get to know three talented, fresh-faced kids as they form a trio and start making music; meanwhile, Temkin’s off to Europe in a last heroic effort to track down said icon in person. A veteran music journalist, Howard Massey understands the machinations that ensue when talent is seen as a commodity and creativity, corporatism, and downright criminality come together. He takes us into dive bars, backstage at concert halls, into studios and swanky offices with a native touch. In Cody’s reminiscences, we hear a tale of betrayal and dirty dealing. In real time, the icon’s whereabouts are a mystery, and Temkin’s suddenly right in the middle of it. The plot twists, the pace builds, and we’re caught up by the scruff of the neck and thrown into a gritty world where, it turns out, love and talent still matter—but will they prevail in time? The climactic moments are breathtaking; anyone who’s ever thrilled to a solo riff or had a true friend will blink back tears. Libby Cudmore’s debut novel The Big Rewind approaches music from the receiving end, so to speak. Heroine Jett is a tender-hearted twentysomething who aspires to be a music journalist. For now, she’s doing temp work for investigators and living in the hipster heart of Brooklyn, her life defined by the constant flow of music on her phone and her retro turntable. In Bernie Temkin’s world, cell phones are still newfangled. Jett, by contrast, is a digital native accustomed to processing emotional life via playlists—deeply personal blends of artists old and new that would have corporate tastemakers tearing at their thinning hair. When Jett winds up with a mixtape meant for her friend KitKat, tries to deliver it, and finds KitKat brutally murdered, she believes that the tape may hold clues. The police have a suspect; she’s sure they’re wrong. Trying to prevent a wrongful conviction, Jett relives her own mixtape moments, ripping scabs off wounds, plumbing the depths of love and deception in her post-postmodern world. Cudmore blends the suspense of investigation and romance into an artful mix of her own, set in Barter Street, where brilliant sincerity and blatant hypocrisy clash over coffee and wine, where nothing says tomorrow like retro. She’s an artful hostess, and self-deprecating, doggedly determined Jett navigates the absurdities and brilliance of her hipster subculture with at least half her mind on guys at any given moment as she fights for justice. The battered true believers of Massey’s world would be joyfully stunned by the hold of music, corrupt though the industry may be, on the caring and subversive young listeners of Cudmore’s Barter Street. Some things are just too good to get beaten down, no matter who’s trying—and lovers of a good story will welcome two new Hudson Valley novelists who make kickass literary mixtapes of music and mystery. —Anne Pyburn Craig
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What Remains of Me Alison Gaylin
HarperCollins, 2016, $25.99
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oodstock author and Shamus Award-winner Alison Gaylin’s new pageturner What Remains of Me is driven by true suspense, an unforgettable character, and a virtuosic double timeline. Set in 1980 and 30 years after, chapters flip-flop between decades, both time frames allowing the story to build. We see both a quiet girl and her future self, a fierce survivor of a woman, full of secrets, moving through a city of extreme lights and darks. Gaylin’s hands are skilled, deft, and a little scary; it’s hard to avoid saying “masterful precision” to describe her craft. This is, in fact, a thriller written with very masterful precision. And like the best movies (hint), it’s an experience you sink into with relish. It gets under your skin. It feels like a dream state you want to stay in. Hollywood, 1980. In a chilling example of “still waters run deep,” Kelly Michelle Lund is that girl you barely notice, unlike her far more attractive young starlet of a sister, who, tragically, has taken her own life. But then, on a night that’s broilingly hot even for SoCal, 17-year-old Kelly shoots and kills a man—an Oscar-nominated director—seemingly in cold blood. She’s a mere teenager; the crime appears shocking and inexplicable; and it thrusts Kelly into a limelight that won’t let her go. A former tabloid reporter, Gaylin’s clearly an aficionado of tawdry gossip venues—her own versions are pitch-perfect in their lurid, damning enthusiasm. Actually, she’s a great channeler of all forms of media, so pertinent to the story and so authentic in tone that you’d swear they actually exist. Girl goes to jail, gets released decades later, and marries. Strangely enough, her father-in-law is of a similar ilk to the first murderee, another Mister Hollywood. Which means that when he is murdered, the spotlight turns to Kelly again. Is she innocent, a victim of the media’s ability to rob a person of any identity but “convicted murderer”? Or—? To reveal more would verge on spoilers. And the path this story takes is convoluted, rank with unsettling discoveries. At one point, the plot turns on the presence of mere seconds of security-cam video, a filmy image of a person in a hoodie—a smoking gun, or is it? And then there is no turning back, either for the characters or the reader. Every great thriller has its hook, or in this case, its hoodie. What Remains of Me is a book writ scrumptious with tasty cultural references: 1980s adolescents toke to Joy Division and the Knack; Ambien is a vexing and constant 21st-century crutch; a mysterious tattooed neighbor does chainsaw art; TMZ shrills horribly; Kelly’s day job is writing fake profiles on a hookup site for philanderers. Still, the book is about far more: tragedy buried deep, rumbling quietly, as if everyone lives on a fault line (which they do). It’s also about the toll power takes on tender hearts. With her crystalline imagination and crisp ability to propel a story forward, Gaylin has created a shooting star of a tale. Perhaps in the end she’s loyal to those rules of fiction indeed. In a nod to both Flannery O’Connor and Anton Chekhov, everything that rises does indeed converge, and yep: If there’s a gun, it’s going to go off. —Jana Martin
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our April issue is March 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
Whenever I’m near kindergarteners I get nervous. I don’t know why. —Jack River O’Neill (7 years)
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YOU SHOULDN’T RELATE TO THIS POEM
THEY ARE NOT SHIELDS
Fog creeps over trees Boughs tinseled with ice yet still Wearing yellow buds
It’s funny how beautiful we can be to each other when we meet, when we are new. I look at you and see your light and possibility, the sweetness that’s inside and think what a jewel.
The primal sensual lingers close to the softened hand. It cannot be holding anything.
Has winter arrived Or is spring lingering long After its promise
To have found love is such treasure. And so we meet and mutually decide that we are so much fun together that we will meet again. And on and on until we are knowing each other. I will say I know you. And you will say you know me. And as we continue in our knowing, time will pass and I will know some things about you that are darker. I will bump into some edge, be isolated by a shadow.
Screens, don’t let in enough light. Barely any protection.
Must I wear mittens Or shed scarf and overcoat To dance in the sun —Lucille Orzach
BROOKLYN DAWN Again, against odds the world makes just enough room for your happiness. —Jay Klokker
AFTER EMERSON “No one suspects the days to be gods.” A part les jours, je ne connais pas les dieux, et les jours n’ont aucune destination; je les aime pour eux-mêmes. —Howard Sage
FOUR SEASONS In a nest of twigs Baby birds open their mouths; Blind, hopeful, chirping. A red apple sits On the sill of the window, The orchard beyond. A tiny field mouse Covers himself in dead leaves Frightened by my step. Snowfall overnight— Bird tracks with prints of cat paws Following softly… —iANThe
I will still laugh with you and love you. And you will love me. And we will know each other more fully, but not ha-ha funny. I will know that that is how you are and that you will always be that way and that we will go so far but not farther and that in order to love you I have to sit here and wait. Like Godot waiting. Cuz I’m waiting for nothing. Cuz this is something that never changes and this is you and we said we love each other and now this is it. I started dreaming alone. I am traveling somewhere. I am in Morocco. You’re in bed. I speak Arabic, I’m taller. I’m eating insects cooked on the street in Thailand, my tongue burns from ancient peppers and you’re crying because I never had dreams like this before and I tell you I didn’t know these were my dreams and I didn’t know the only dreams we were supposed to have need to have happened before we were 10. You are getting older and I am still alive. I feel the muscles in my thighs as I stand and I know I am strong. I see across the room, into the other room and through the window outside to the tree as a cardinal lands on a branch. You say, “I’m tired. I’m going to bed.” I could go to bed. I could give up. People can wish themselves dead. You were my mirror when we met. I knew I was alive and beautiful because I could look into you, straight into and see you, all of you, forever. Our laughter was embarrassing. We were ridiculous. And then something changed. Me. I think most humans are static and done. Maybe that makes me less human? But what of the humans that keep dreaming and traveling? I opened my shadows for you to see, I moved them, crossed them out. I let in the light and grew to be more, for you and for the stars. Tonight, I let you go, release you to sleep. May you find dreams again or sleep soundly and rest. Tonight, I fly to the moon. –Shutup Shelley
20 YEARS LATER a red bird flew in front of the car today. not entirely rare, but enough so to be special. and I wished again that the world was magic enough that I could say, “every time I see a red bird that means you’re thinking of me,” but I don’t think it is, really. Really, it’s only me thinking of you every time I see a red bird or blue or brown. —Lucy Tarver
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Sometimes we touch, with fingers that have no contact with skin. We type, with words that have no adherence to the heart. We must discard them, wear down cruel stones and fantasy, or rage like roses that go unnoticed while we fight the invisible casual pain. This is more than adolescent sense— More petals, fewer thorns, please. Those that know the rising sun’s caress pray beside the moss. They share more than they hide. So feel your warmth with another. Learn to read palms. —Noelle Adamo
OCEAN WAVES Ocean waves rake sand Crab defies the tide, digs in The shore holds the line. —Robert Bernard Hurwitz
FREE WILL Last week I stayed in a Boston hotel in a room on the 31st floor. To my surprise, I was able to open one of the windows all the way. I could easily have thrown one leg over the sill, then the other, and been gone, no problem. It was wonderful; there was nothing stopping me. Nothing. —George J. Searles
AFTER MY GRANDMOTHER’S LOVE LETTERS
RISTRETTO
“What cannot letters inspire? It is a dangerous and contagious disease.”—Heloise and Abelard Poet, what made me do it on that April morning, leaning across the railing of the ship, surrounded by souls, my grandmother’s love letters rising in a wisp of fog, lanky suitors—one with a serious moustache, his eyes absinthe green and pitying. One or more are frail, pigeon-chested, no substance, not one capable of taking liberties, I feel one stroke my wrist, he tries to quiet my pulse. Poet, I should be afraid; they ask me to leave this place, to join them. Theirs is a second chance, a salty womb, bright trumpets and angels. Unadorned tendrils of sargassum become our dreams, how freeing to rest here. If letters are souls, we have much to answer for. Poet, make an epistle of yourself. Be adrift in your own music.
a spastic eel of Arabian crude becomes a suede medallion a Krugerrand in diameter floating atop a mouthful of aromatic mahogany —Patrick Walsh
—Laurie Byro
WE PLANT SEEDS NOVEMBER 5TH, 2015 We will always be chest to chest, hearts beating loud, never close enough. —Michelle Rodriguez
I NOTICE YOUR JAW I notice your jaw Silhouetted against the fanned driver’s window thirty miles east of the Mississippi. —Alissa Chanin
I AM NOT A BOWL My card is The Fool Standing on the edge of a cliff eyes fixed on the sky dog at his side, barking a warning. The Fool believes there is unlimited potential in every moment Faith rules if I follow my heart Yesterday I left a bowl on the table’s edge It toppled and shattered. Now I hover over a precipice The edge of new beginnings
We plant seeds. We fill needs. We work key. We cost see. We fix fate. We stay late. We swap rage. We slow age. We rough scheme. We bright dream. —Cornelia DeDona
I am not a bowl. —Alice Graves
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AMERICAN HOSPITALS:
At night, the house was a different person. A foot would make the marble floors creak. Light from one lit room would cast shadows into the others And you would swear someone was waiting in these shadows Staring at you.
Hospital One, Ann Arbor, he was born in 1977, and he was still a babe. Something was wrong. But not serious. Not super. We drove in the Datsun 210. The boy next to him was super serious. It rained and I hardly knew my brother at that point.
The blue, quiet hum of the TV would scream, And you could hear the icemaker weeping. Pink tile from the mermaid bathroom faded, As dried roses were resurrected. Little cherub soaps conversed alone against a wood panel backdrop, The electric streaks of cars outside reached Into the parlor and grabbed the marble statues. The chandeliers with their flickering, streaming bulbs Observed the bizarre routine. The fake fireplace would cycle Over and over. And the doorbell would press itself.
Hospital Two, Salt Lake City, she was hit by a car. We passed notes later, from locker to locker, decorated with paisleys And Depeche Mode quotes But for now she was black and blue, and her leg had a pin through it. Where it entered her leg the flesh was a dead yellow. It seemed serious. Hospital Three, Poughkeepsie, he couldn’t get his oxygen levels up. I was there when he was born. Now I drive him to school in an electric car and we read Wrinkle in Time at night. But his lungs are not great, not super. They put tubes in his nose, and he looks me in the eye to discover how serious. Not super, I smile. —Nathaniel John
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Matt Coats
Food & Drink
Pucker Up
Sour Beers on the Rise By Erik Ofgang
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our beer is not the easiest to brew. This ancient, tart, wine-like style is generally made with lactobacillus, a type of bacteria also used to sour pickles, yogurt, and sauerkraut that inoculates the beer in ways that can be difficult to control. In addition, sour beers are mostly fermented with wild-style yeast, or true wild yeast (yeast that literally flies in through an open window and starts fermenting the beer). These wild yeast strains are generally a type of yeast called Brettanomyces—referred to affectionately as “Brett” by beer lovers—which imparts a barnyard earthiness, or good “funk,” when properly incorporated but can create a moldy, rotten cheese flavor when it goes astray. Brett can also spread to other, nonsour beers infecting them and the otherwise sterile brewing equipment, which is why generations of breweries worked hard to keep these strains out of the brewery. Often sours are aged in barrels for months or even years and sometimes the hard-to-control process results in overly pungent bad batches that have to be poured down the drain. After all those long months of waiting and experimenting when the beer finally reaches the lips of a beer drinker the reaction is…well…if that beer drinker is not a sour fan already, often one of distaste. “I think it’s almost like when you’re a kid when you try coffee for the first time you don’t like it, but then clearly we all develop a taste for it,” says Adam Watson, co-owner of Sloop Brewing Co. in Elizaville. For the ever-growing number of sour-beer disciples, very few drinks can compare with the tart, refreshing, intriguing, and sometimes downright inspiring experience of sipping a good sour. “I think sour beers are a part of almost everybody’s repertoire now, to varying degrees, especially at newer breweries,” says Christopher Basso, brewmaster at Newburgh Brewing Co. Breweries in the Hudson Valley and surrounding area are no exception to that trend and are
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Evan Watson of Plan Bee Farm Brewery pouring a sour Bouquet into a tasting glass.
producing an assortment of great sours—from approachable to complex— that are among the best examples of the style you can find anywhere. Gateway Sours Some sour-beer styles, such as a Gose or Berliner Weisse, are mildly sour beers with an almost lemonade quality. Simple Sour, brewed by the Peekskill Brewery, is a Berliner Weisse that’s a very popular and approachable sour that’s developed a cult following in New York City. “It sells better in the summer here, but in Brooklyn it’s all year round,” head brewer Matthew Levy says. Peekskill also produces a wild fermented aged sour that is created with wild yeast by means of a coolship—a traditional fermentation system that allows the beer to be infected/inoculated by yeast that blows in through an open window. This process is used to create the brewery’s lambic-style ale, which is offered once a year. This year’s batch will be released in August, and Levy expects it to be an intense sour with unique flavors. Sloop Brewing brews sours including the Black Razz, black sour ale brewed with raspberries and aged in oak and the Saur Peach, a Berliner Weisse brewed with peaches. Watson says the demand for sours from customers has allowed it to become a specialty at Sloop. “We always loved sour beers even before we started the brewery, and we knew that was a style we were going to focus on [but] it’s turning into a focus for sure.” Many of the mild sour beers on the market are created with what’s called the kettle-sour method, where beers are soured by lactobacillus bacteria (which eats the sugars and converts them to acids to produce the desired pucker) earlier in the brewing process. This is quicker, less expensive and less likely to infect the brewing system than the traditional method, but it produces markedly different flavors. “It’s a little more one-dimensional in a way, [but] it gives a really nice acidity and it can be really refreshing,” Basso explains of this
Clockwise from top left: Inspecting hops at the Brewery at Bacchus in New Paltz; Peekskill Brewery’s Lempbeek, a spontaneously fermented sour beer; Newburgh Brewing Company’s Checkpoint Charlie, Christopher Basso inspects the brewing operations at Newburgh Brewing Company.
method. At Newburgh Brewing Co. he uses the technique to create beers like the Checkpoint Charlie Berliner Weisse, and CAFE Sour, a sour brewed with Ethiopian coffee beans and teff, a popular Ethiopian grain. The more traditional and time-consuming method of brewing sours is barrel aging, and entails adding the lactobacillus brewing later in the process and letting it react with the beer over a period of months in a wooden barrel. “Over time in the wooden barrel they’re going to produce that acidity as well as lots of really interesting, complex, earthy funkiness,” Basso says. Because of the time it takes to age these beers, Newburgh has only recently started releasing beers brewed in this fashion. One of the brewery’s first barrel-aged sours is called Sur Lie and is currently available. But it’s far from the only barrel-aged sour produced in this area. Barrel-aged Sours Some of the most sought-after aged beers in the region are produced at the Brewery at Bacchus in New Paltz. Head brewer Mike Renganeschi explains that their sours are all barrel aged, with the youngest being released after nine months and the oldest having surpassed its two-year anniversary. Once a beer is aged it is often blended with other younger or older beers to create the desired flavors. “Our flavor profile is mainly a bright lemony essence,” Renganeschi says. But that’s about as much as he can narrow it down with a general description as the brewing process is designed to be unpredictable. “In regular beer making, there’s usually one single organism at work, one yeast strain that makes pretty much one flavor, and that’s how you get the repeatability of a lot of beers,” Renganeschi says. “In sour beer there are hundreds, if not thousands, of bacteria and yeast working and all these micro ecosystems of yeasts, so if one outperforms another it changes the character of that beer over time.”
Regular beer series at Bacchus include the Et Cetera, a farmhouse sour, and Lilith, which is aged for more than a year with raspberries. Each batch of these beers is numbered to indicate that the beer flavor changes. Plan Bee Farm Brewery in Poughkeepsie brews sour and wild ales and is dedicated to producing its beers with 100 percent New York ingredients. “[That] includes grains and hops and fruits but also yeast,” says brewer Evan Watson, who owns the brewery along with his wife Emily. “It’s kind of a historic way of brewing without the laboratory technology of isolating single cells of yeast. [In the past] beers were much more wild then they are now—now they’re very homogenized.” Plan Bee’s sours are made with a coolship and aged in fermenters that were custom-made from New York white oak. Captain Lawrence Brewing in Elmsford has a celebrated sour-beer program that has inspired several Hudson Valley brewers including Watson and Levy, who both worked there. Captain Lawrence owner and brewer Scott Vaccaro says one of the secrets to brewing good sour beers is having a willingness to pour batches that don’t turn out well down the drain, instead of trying to mix them with better-tasting batches. The aged sours offered by Captain Lawrence include Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal winners such as the Cuvee de Castleton and the Barrel Select Gold, a lightly sour, almost saison-tasting brew. Vaccaro says these beers don’t pay the bills but have paid dividends in prestige. “They’re a very tiny percentage of our overall business but we’ve garnered a lot of notoriety for making them—we’ve won four gold medals from the Great American Beer Festival for sour beers: For that I love them and for the flavor I love them,” he says. Erik Ofgang is the author of Buzzed: Beers, Booze, and Coffee Brews (Islandport Press), a guide to the best craft beverages in New England that will be released by this spring. 3/16 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 67
Adam Watson in the tasting room at Sloop Brewing in Elizaville.
SOUR-BEER TASTING NOTES These are five great examples of sour beers being brewed in the area, but there are certainly some excellent sours not on this list and more great ones on the way. Last year, Kent Falls Brewing Co., a farmhouse brewery in Kent, Connecticut, opened and started offering a variety of wild-yeast-powered, lightly sour beers. Later this year, Suarez Family Brewery will open outside Hudson. This brewery will specialize in mixed fermentation, and owner/brewer Dan Suarez is an alum of legendary Vermont brewery Hill Farmstead.
Chef/owner Mark Grusell’s off-the-wall culinary style, along with awesome cocktails and quite possibly the best coffee in town, is sure to excite the pleasure - seeker in all of us. And if breakfast or lunch isn’t enough, come for dinner on the first Friday of every month when it’s Thai night, Love Bites style. Open Thurs-Tues 8:30am-5:00pm. 69 Partition St, Saugerties • (845) 246-1795 lovebitescafe.com
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Newburg Brewing Co. Beer: Checkpoint Charlie Berliner Weisse ABV: 3 percent Named for the crossing at the Berlin Wall, this beer is brewed in the style of the Berliner Weisses made in Berlin. It has a light body with a tart finish and bright, refreshing flavors. Perfect for a new sour-beer drinker or any drinker looking for a light, easy-drinking beer. Peekskill Brewery Beer: Simple Sour ABV: 4.5 percent Brewed with wheat, corn, and Brettanomyces (“Brett”) this excellent brew has garnered accolades from the NewYork Times and many others. It has a light finish with a quick mouthfeel that doesn’t linger on the tongue as long as some other sours. It makes for great summer drinking but also works as a year-round option. Sloop Brewing Beer: Black Razz ABV: 5.6 percent This black sour ale brewed with raspberries and aged in oak is a step up in terms of sour intensity from your standard Berliner Weisse, thanks to the boldness of the raspberry flavor. But it’s still a brew with a nice balance, and only a hint of wild-ale funk—it won’t leave your eyes watering from the acidity. Brewery at Bacchus Beer: Lilith ABV: 9 percent Just glancing at its biblically inspired name and no-joke 9 percent alcohol content lets you know this beer means business. Aged in oak in a blend of whisky barrels and wine barrels, it has a darker character with strong (and yes, tart) raspberry flavors powered by the approximately 25 to 30 pounds of raspberries that are used for each barrel of beer. Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. Beer: Cuvee de Castleton ABV: 7 percent One of the more intense tasting sours from Captain Lawrence, this beer took home the Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal in the American, or German-style sour category in 2007. Made with muscat grapes, it has a particularly wine-like quality with a fruity, acidic flavor and aromas of apples and honey.
Heart-warming French bistro open all day. Featuring freshly baked breads and pastries from our wood-fired oven and to-die-for bistro specialties. Live music coming soon!
CAFE LE PERCHE Winter Hours:
Tues—Thurs 7AM—4PM Breakfast and Lunch
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HUDSON HIL’S Breakfast • Lunch Fresh, local ingredients served in a relaxed atmosphere Open six days week - Closed Tuesdays
12-131 Main St, Cold Spring, NY • 845-265-9471 • www.hudsonhils.com
CULINARY INSTITUE OF AMERICA - RESTAURANT Choose Your Pleasure PANGEA, our pop-up restaurant, is now open with a brand new menu!
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1946 Campus Drive (Rte 9), Hyde Park, NY On the campus of The Culinary Institute of America
Voted Best Indian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley
Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED
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4 Vegetarian Dishes • 4 Non-Vegetarian Dishes includes: appetizers, soup, salad bar, bread, dessert, coffee & tea All you can eat only $12.95 • Children under 8- $7.95 28 E. MARKET ST, RED HOOK (845) 758-2666 See our full menu at www.RedHookCurryHouse.com
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VAULT Our menu concept pays homage to the Hudson Valley by locally sourcing vegetables, meats, cheeses, and other artisanal products. Flavor profiles would be compromised without using global and national products, but, when the Hudson Valley is at its peak season, we strive to utilize our community resources in every way possible.
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Butchers Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, (845) 876-7338 or (845) 757-5055, 74
Eclectic wines, spirits, craft beer & tapas Happy Hour Monday—Friday, 3 to 6 $5 mimosas all day Sundays www.jardwinepub.com water street market, new paltz
Broadway, Tivoli, NY www.osakasushi.net
Cafés
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foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
Restaurants Cafe Le Perche
Phoenicia Diner 5681 NY-28, Phoenicia, NY www.phoeniciadiner.com
Red Hook Curry House 28 E Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2666 www.redhookcurryhouse.com
230 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
Ship to Shore
(518) 822-1850
15 West Strand, Kingston, NY
www.cafeleperche.com
www.shiptoshorehudsonvalley.com
Culinary Institute of America
The Hop at Beacon
1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY
458 Main Street, Beacon, NY
(845) 471-6608
www.thehopbeacon.com
www.ciarestaurantgroup.com
The Vault
Hudson Hil’s
446 Main Street, Beaon, NY
12-131 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY
(845) 202-7735
(845) 265-9471
www.thevaultbeacon.com
www.hudsonhils.com
Love Bites
Wine Bars
69 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY
Jar’d Wine Pub
(845) 246-1795
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY
www.lovebitescafe.com
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Y O U R B R A N D , I L L U M I N AT E D . L U M I N A RY M E D I A . C O M DIGITAL STRATEGY. WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT. BRAND DEVELOPMENT. GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGN. EVENT PRODUCTION. BUSINESS STRATEGY.
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Hudson Solar
Art Supplies
Antiques
de Marchin
Cabinet Designers
Haldora
747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
28 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6250 www.haldora.com
(845) 778-2121 www.jacobowitz.com
Glenn’s Wood Sheds
Kasuri
Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys
Herrington’s
Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251
Attorneys
Milne’s At Home Antiques & Gallery 81 Broadway , Kingston , NY (845) 331-3902 www.milneathomeantiques.com
Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Action of Greene County, Inc. 7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org
Hudson Antiques Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com
Rarities, etc
(845) 987-0443 rarities.etc@gmail.com
Art Galleries & Centers Cross Contemporary Art
81 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 399-9751 www.crosscontemporaryart.com
Dorsky Museum
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu
Jacobowitz & Gubits
30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, , New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 newyorktrafficlawyer.com k.friedman@msn.com
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
Books Monkfish Publishing
22 East Market Street, Suite 304, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Mark Gruber Gallery
New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.woodstockguild.org events@woodstockguild.org
Clothing & Accessories
Berkshire Products, Inc.
Catskill Art & Office Supply
(845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Building Services & Supplies
Bookstores
884 Ashley Falls Road, Sheffield, NY www.berkshireproducts.com
(845) 255-4704
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
1 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 291-9922 www.kasuri.com
Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 www.herringtons.com
Lea’s Boutique
Ingrained Building Concepts
Millinery Treasures
(845) 224-5936
John A Alvarez and Sons
33 Hudson Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-4666 739 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (646) 286-3092
3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
Style Storehouse
L Browe Asphalt Services
Willow Wood
(518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design
2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 www.millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com
N & S Supply
www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
Williams Lumber & Home Center 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
484 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.stylestorehouse.com 38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths
45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes
2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com
Cinemas
Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe
31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 www.yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films
6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608 (845) 876-2515 www.upstatefilms.org
Education Bard MAT
Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org
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Alternative Energy
Center for Metal Arts
SUNY Ulster
The Falcon
Columbia-Greene Community College
Trinity - Pawling School
JTD Productions, Inc.
44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com/blog 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (845) 828-4181 www.mycommunitycollege.com
700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
Forman School
Wayfinder Experience
12 Norfolk Road, Litchfield, CT (860) 567-1802 www.formanschool.org
61 O’Neil Street, Kingston, NY www.wayfinderexperience.com
Garrison Institute
1430 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3744 x103 www.woodstockdayschool.org
14 Mary’s Way, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org
Green Meadow Waldorf School (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org
High Meadow School
Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org
Education Hotchkiss School
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org/arts
Kildonan School
Amenia, NY (845) 373-2012 www.kildonan.org admissions@kildonan.org
The Liberi School
3521 Route 9, Livingston, NY (518) 697-5065 www.liberischool.org
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community
business directory
SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-5262 www.sunyulster.edu
Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 www.livingstonstreet.org
Woodstock Day School
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms
1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 5690303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org
1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com
Mid-Hudson Civic Center
Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org
Musical Instruments
38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Graphic Design & Illustration
Stamell String Instruments
7 Garden Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-3030 www.stamellstring.com
Stockade Guitars
41 North Front Street, Kingston, NY
Organizations
Re>Think Local
www.rethinklocal.org
Walkway Over the Hudson
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
Performing Arts
Allure
Manitou School
1656 Route 9D, Cold Spring, NY www.manitouschool.org
47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
Maplebrook School
Le Shag.
Center for Performing Arts
Lush Eco-Salon & Spa
136 Clinton Street, Montgomery, NY (845) 401-9232 www.montgomeryms.com
2 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 204-8319 www.lushecosalon.com
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School
16 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org
Next Step College Counseling
Hyde Park, NY (845) 242-8336 www.nextstepcollegecounseling.com smoore@nextstepcollegecounseling.com
Open Doors Educational Advocates (845) 978-7970 www.opendoors-sped.com
Poughkidsie
50 Springside Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 243-3750 www.poughkidsie.com
Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com
Randolph School
Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5600 www.randolphschool.org
Rudolf Steiner School
35 West Plain Road, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org
South Kent School
40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 x201 www.southkentschool.org
SUNY Purchase
735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY (914) 251-6000 www.purchase.edu
Home Furnishings & Decor Tender Land Home
64 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-7213 www.tenderlandhome.com
New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
The Nest Egg
84 Main Street, Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-5851 www.nesteggshop.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess
44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.dreaminggoddess.com
Hudson Valley Goldsmith
2/18/20162/18/2016, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.hudsonvalleygoldsmith.com
Hummingbird Jewelers
23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com
Music Bearsville Theater
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4406 www.bearsvilletheater.com
Daryl’s House
130 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 289-0185 www.darylshouseclub.com
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Peekskill Artist District (917) 991-5749 peek12media@gmail.com
Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Shoes
www.rethinklocal.org
YMCA of Kingston
Montgomery Montessori School
3056 Rt. 213 East, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2200 www.nutshellrealty.com
Go>Local
Luminary Media
292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
Real Estate
The Corcoran Group Real Estate
Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com
www.annieillustrates.com
Route 22, Amenia, NY (845) 373-9511
1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Francis Morris Violins
528 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com
Poughkeepsie, NY www.walkway.org walkway@walkway.org
Hair Salons
Aqua Jet
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Nutshell Realty
Annie Internicola, Illustrator
314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 334-8600 www.luminarymedia.com
Pools & Spas
Barcones Music
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates Ltd.
over 25 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabricwrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org 661 Rte. 308, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 232-2320 www.centerforperformingarts.org
Half Moon Theatre
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Specialty Food Stores Immuneschein Tea Haus
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Summer Camps Renaissance Kids
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Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
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The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
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SING, ACT, DANCE,
HEAL
CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY CAN OPEN NEW PATHWAYS OF WELLNESS, CONNECTION, AND JOY. by wendy kagan
illustration by annie internicola
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n January 2011, a 9mm bullet, fired point-blank from the gun of a mentally ill assailant, passed through the left rear of Gabrielle Giffords’s head and exited just over her left eye. The Arizona congresswoman, who had been meeting with constituents in front of a supermarket near Tucson, would survive—despite massive trauma to the left side of her brain, the regions that control vision, movement, and speech. After surgery and intensive therapy, some 10 months later Giffords could respond to TV journalist Diane Sawyer’s interview questions with mostly one-word answers—yet she could sing all the lyrics of “Tomorrow” from the Broadway show “Annie.” Struggling to find language, she would call a chair a “spoon,” but she could belt out all the words to Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” It was music that helped pave a road back to speech, and it was music that—in the form of a guitar-strumming therapist by her side to help organize her movements—even supported Giffords’s steps as she relearned how to walk. In a brand of health care that dovetails with the beaux arts (think “doctor turned artiste”), creative arts therapies are cropping up everywhere these days, from hospitals and rehab centers to group therapy and workshop settings. Expressive arts such as music, drama, dance, writing, and the visual arts have a wide range of applications and can be tailored to help people with such diverse diagnoses as autism, anorexia, and post-traumatic stress. Music therapy in particular has some solid research behind it:The neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about his studies on the subject in Musicophilia (Vintage Books, 2008), a book that brims with Sacks’s remarkable experiences with patients whose relationship to music deepened after being struck by lightning, or while coping with diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Scientists have long suggested that while language is largely held in the left side of the brain, music activates regions in both hemispheres, as well as areas deep within the brain that hold memory and emotion. That’s why song lyrics can act like a superhighway (or a bumpy country road, as the case may be), connecting music and speech for people suffering from stroke, dementia, or brain injuries like Giffords’s. It is this unique “whole brain” approach that makes music, and perhaps some of the other expressive arts too, so richly promising therapeutically. Healing the Hurt Psyche with Drama and Song Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk—a renowned trauma expert and author of several books, including The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma (Viking, 2014)—contends that drama, song, writing, and other expressive activities are more effective than talk therapy. “We’re always looking for new ways of opening in the dark. Traditional therapy doesn’t always do that; it clamps people down and makes them behave,” says the Dutch-born and Boston-based doctor, who is leading an experiential workshop at the Garrison Institute from April 29 to May 2 for health professionals, artists, and anyone interested in exploring the healing of traumatic stress through acting, 76 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 3/16
songwriting, movement, and other modalities. “This is about people opening up and being free to feel what they feel and know what they know. It’s allowing yourself to feel your body, hear your voice, and speak your truth.” For people recovering from trauma, this is a radical departure from their usual experience. “The issue with trauma is that you’re not allowed to feel what you feel because it’s too dangerous,” explains van der Kolk. “It’s overwhelming—it’s too much to know that you’ve been raped, or you’ve been beaten by people who are supposed to care for you. To actually find your voice is an act of assertion, and, in a way, of defiance. Doing this through song is an age-old tradition. The civil rights movement was founded on people singing ‘We Shall Overcome’; music has always been an important part of people asserting their reality.” Part of what makes group arts like dance, drama, and song so powerful is that they are “synchronized” activities—they help people to be in synch with themselves and others. “The function of our brain is to be in synch with each other. When you get traumatized you get frozen; you get stuck in hyperarousal.You lose this synchronicity to yourself and to people around you,” says van der Kolk. “For veterans, their brains and bodies have changed from being in gear with fighting wars and killing people. When they come home they’re out of synch with other people. It’s a deep internal feeling of alienation, of being godforsaken, that people don’t get me.” One of his favorite synchronized activities for trauma survivors is theater: The workshop at the Garrison Institute will include a program called the Feast of Crispian, which teaches postdeployment service vets how to play roles in a Shakespeare play. “It’s people moving together, adjusting their bodies to each other in the play situation. They rediscover how to be in synch after dealing with horrendous things.” When it comes to getting in synch with yourself, there’s a specific area of the brain dedicated to just that: It’s called the default mode network. Van der Kolk describes it cognitively as “this feeling of knowing yourself, feeling good about yourself; it’s that self-loving, self-aware part of yourself.” For those who have experienced trauma, the brain’s hub for self-compassion can get knocked out, and people can become consumed with worry, anxiety, and self-hate.Yet with what we know now about neuroplasticity—the ability of the brain to rewire itself and create new connections—it’s possible to bring the default mode network back on track. “Experience changes the brain,” says van der Kolk. “Yakking doesn’t necessarily change the brain, but actually doing something that helps your brain to have a different reality and to live in a different space— this changes the neural connections.” Drama in particular involves having to change and adapt yourself, “to imagine what it feels like to be a hunchback or an elegant woman or a soldier,” says van der Kolk. “You embody new possibilities, so you become a more open and resourceful person. More imaginative. If you have a shut-down imagination, then you have nowhere to go. Imagination is everything.”
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Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L.Ac. 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive one-onone care, affordable rates, sliding scale. Accepting Blue Cross, no-fault and other insurances. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and triggerpoint acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of nontoxic, eco-friendly materials.
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body Work Patrice Heber 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-8350
Counseling Clear Mind Arts Rhinebeck, New York clearmindarts.com jenniferaxinnweiss.com 845-876-8828 sandplay555@frontier.com A safe and supportive space offering tools for adults and children to process life experience and heal. Inner exploration though Hypnosis, somatic awareness, sand play and expressive art brings greater clarity, renewed sense of purpose and wisdom. Address issues for positive change ranging from greater success in public speaking to releasing addictive behavior. Providing Medical Hypnosis, beyond time exploration, and Life Between Livesª Sessions. Offering Certification in 78 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 3/16
Hypnosis throughout the year. Beginning in January at Izlind in Rhinebeck.
Kent Babcock, MSW, CSW Stone Ridge, NY (845) 807-7147 kentagram@gmail.com At 65, as an older therapist, I now work exclusively with men—mid-life and older. I counsel men who are taking stock of their lives, supporting them in the here-and-now to reassess the past and re-contemplate the future. I also have a particular interest and expertise in Asperger’s Syndrome, diagnosed or not. Sliding scale.
Dentistry & Orthodontics Center for Advanced Dentistry 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com
Tischler Dental Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com
Dermatology Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5273 www.medicalaestheticshv.com
Energy Healing The Art of Energetic Healing School www.energyhealingschoolny.com
Fitness Centers All Sport Health and Fitness 17 Old Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-5678 www.allsporthealthandfitness.com
ClubLife Health & Fitness 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 320-7885 www.clublifefi t.com
Funeral Homes Copeland Funeral Home Inc. 162 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1212 www.copelandfhnp.com
Health Coaching Take Control Health Coaching (845) 758-6067 www.takecontrolhealthcoaching.com
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature 1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor, , Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!
Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
Holistic Health Cassandra Currie, MS, RYT‚ Holistic Health Counselor 41 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 532-7796 www.holisticcassandra.com
Resorts & Spas Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA (845) 795-1310 www.buttermilkfallsinn.com
Retreat Centers
John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com
Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com
Hospitals Health Quest 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
MidHudson Regional Hospital Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5000 www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/mhrh
Life & Career Coaching Peter Heymann (845) 802-0544 www.breakthroughwithcoachpete.com
Massage Therapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Hot Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery,
Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.com Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Sharon Salzberg, Ali and Atman Smith, and Andres Gonzalez: People Who Care for People, March 4-6; and Special Event on March 17: Riyaaz Qawwali Concert with a pre-concert talk by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan. Dinner at 6pm; Talk & Concert at 7pm.
Omega Institute Rhinebeck, NY (800) 944-1001 www.eOmega.org
Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org
Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston
Hot Spot 33 N. Front St., Kingston, NY (845) 750-2878 www.hotspotkingston.com hotspokingston@gmail.com
Dancing into Your Greatest Potential The therapeutic dividends of the expressive arts can extend to just about everyone; not just people with a diagnosis will benefit. That’s why Theresa Haney, a Red Hook–based creative arts therapist, has expanded her practice to cater to the general public. “I’m trying to create an environment where you don’t have to have something wrong with you to get better,” says Haney, who spent 12 years supervising the creative arts therapy program for Bronx Lebanon Hospital’s child and adolescent psychiatric unit; later, she moved upstate and built a thriving practice working with children on the autism spectrum. At the Izlind Integrative Wellness Center & Institute of Rhinebeck, Haney is offering three creative arts therapy workshops that will begin in mid-March: “Passion & Purpose ” for twentysomethings, “Align & Shine” for ages 30–59, and “Ageless Wisdom” for ages 60-plus. “This is the kind of work that I would want, so I’m sure other people do too,” says Haney. “It’s all about personal growth and self-care, so people can feel better about themselves and really thrive.” Before she became a creative arts therapist Haney was a dancer, so movement figures largely in her work, which also incorporates art, music, drama, and creative writing. Dance, Haney finds, is a perfect way to begin: “You get people in their body and their whole world changes.They have more access to their emotions when they move their body.” Rhythmic synchrony—people moving in rhythm together—is probably dance therapy’s most powerful tool, she says. “It breaks down the barriers to communication, and it helps people find connection without words, building trust and a sense of belonging.” This is intimate work, and Haney is careful not to take people out of their comfort zone. If she’s working with a group that is selfconscious, the movements might start simple, such as walking in a line together. Particularly with older groups, inhibition is not a problem (“55 and over, they’re like, let’s groove it!”). Each session is different, and Haney takes cues from the people around her to see what direction they’ll take. After some movement to get the juices flowing, the group might sit down and have a conversation, or they might move into drawing or drama. With drama, Haney will often call up one of her biggest influences, the Law of Attraction, which is based on the premise that “what we think about and what we focus on, whether we’re conscious of it or not, tends to become our experience.” She might ask each person in the group what they’d like to see happen in their lives, and then invite them to act it out as if it’s already happened. It’s about getting clarity on what you want, and then letting it go with a kind of radical trust—an understanding that “the universe is going to provide me with something even greater than I can imagine, and I can’t wait to see what it is,” says Haney. She’s seen this shift in mindset have transformative effects. “When you focus on health, you get more health. It’s the idea that you can’t fix a problem with the same mind that created it. So let’s talk about what’s working in your life and expand on that.” Recruiting the power of imagination and visualization, participants can become artist-creators of their own lives. The Gift of Getting in Synch With the creative arts de-emphasized in our public schools, where kids’ performance on tests is deemed more important than theater and music and movement, there’s a real risk that these forms are fading from our culture.Yet nothing can quite replace the sense of connection they bring. “When I grew up, everybody sang,” says van der Kolk. “Kids sang, families sang. Part of what singing and other synchronized activities do for people is that you cannot help but giggle and laugh. Synchrony equals joy. You get a sense of pleasure and joy as you try to sing a piece of music together, or try to harmonize. There’s a sense of relaxation when you get in synch with other people around you. That, of course, gets destroyed when people get upset and frightened, so you want to reintroduce that capacity that’s built in all of us, that synchrony equals pleasure.” While many kids and adults these days prefer to synchronize with computer and phone screens rather than with people, the experience is not the same. “There’s no mutuality, and the pleasure in life comes from mutuality, when you and I get each other,” says van der Kolk. Beyond their clinical applications, such as helping to rewire the brain after trauma to the head or to the psyche, creative arts therapies offer a different kind of payback. They seek to restore a sense of connection and play, of exploring possibilities and expanding awareness. The very things that make us human.
The Art of Energetic Healing School Est. 2000 One year certificate course with Suzy Meszoly, CHHC, DSH
New course starts April 23, 2016
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Have you ever wondered why people act and behave the way they do? The science of face reading with John Carroll may give you insight.
3-Day Intensive Morphology Workshop: April 29, 30th & May 1st Join John for a class on this ancient science that dates back 4,000-5,000 years to ancient Egypt and is used as a diagnostic tool in the medical world in France. The face you were born with reveals the temperament and personality you were given in this lifetime.
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5pm- 9pm, sat: 9am-5pm, sun: 9am-4pm, 715 Rt. 28, Kingston Cost: $350
Please call John’s office at (845) 338-8420 to reserve your space in class. johnmcarrollhealer.com
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H Y P N O S I S - C OAC H I N G Kary Broffman, R.N., C.H. 845-876-6753 • karybroffman.com
RESOURCES Garrison Institute Garrisoninstitute.org Theresa Haney Theresahaney.com Izlind Integrative Wellness Center & Institute Izlind.com Bessel van der Kolk, MD Besselvanderkolk.net 3/16 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING 79
THECENTERFORPERFORMINGARTS (845) 876-3080 • www.centerforperformingarts.org ATRHINEBECK For box office and information:
Angels in
AMERICA
March 4-13
8pm Fri & Sat | 3pm Sun | Tickets: $24/$22 Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America was called by Patrick Healy of The New York Times “the most influential American play of the last two decades.” Directed by Marcus D. Gregio for CENTERStage Productions, this program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults and therefore may be unsuitable for children under 17.
March 18-20
American Irish Dance
8pm Fri & Sat | 3pm Sun Tickets: $20
A celebratory and imaginative show revealing possibilities, hopes and dreams, moving in complexity, yet absorbing and entertaining. Vibrant, talented and highly trained dancers perform Deidre Lowry’s exquisite choreography to a diverse musical score that features some of the most innovative and traditional Celtic composers and musicians of our time.
SATURDAYMORNINGFAMILYSERIES SATURDAYS AT 11 AM • Tickets: $9 adults; $7 children in advance or at the door
Celtic Heels Irish Dance Origami Tales March 5 March 12 Pirate School: A Pirate’s Life for Me! March 19 The CENTER is located at 661 Rte. 308, 3.5 miles east of the light in the Village of Rhinebeck
See you at The CENTER!
ROSEN DALE THEATRE 408 Main Street Rosendale, NY 1 2472 845.658.8989 rosendaletheatre.org MAR. 1 NATIONAL THEATRE FROM LONDON LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
$12/$10 members, 3:00 pm
MAR. 6 SUNDAY SILENTS PRESENTS THE GOLEM: HOW WE CAME INTO THE WORLD
3:00 pm
MAR. 8 & 9 MUSIC FAN FILM SERIES PRESENTS ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA (1985)
7:15 pm
MAR. 13 DANCE FILM SUNDAYS PRESENT BOLSHOI BALLET IN JOHN NEUMEIER’S EMOTION PACKED “LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS”
$12/$10 members/$6 children, 3:00 pm MAR. 27 NATIONAL THEATRE FROM LONDON AS YOU LIKE IT
$12/$10 members, 3:00 pm
UPCOMING MOVIES: CREED; CAROL; THE LADY IN THE VAN; THE REVENANT; REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM; HAIL CAESAR
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Sharon Beals' Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster brewsteri), a photograph from 2008 of egg shells, grass, sticks, seaweed, and bones collected in 1925. Courtesy of the artist and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology.
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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR MARCH 2016
Birds of a Feather Why are there bird-watching societies and not squirrelwatching societies, or snakewatching clubs? The human compulsion to stare at feathered beings, and listen to their jazzlike music, is ancient. “The Nest: An Exhibition of Art in Nature” at the Katonah Museum of Art starting March 6, approaches nesting from several viewpoints: art, ornithology, archaeology, and personal bird obsession. Sharon Beals photographs nests in scientific collections, with an eye for the absurd and the visually pleasing. In one photo, a house finch nest includes bits of plastic, cellophane, and discarded fabric (plus four eggs!). The effect is whimsical, chaotic, and cheerful, like a skillfully curated pile of trash. Judy Pfaff’s large installation Time Is Another River, combining cardboard, foam, and plastic into a festive nestlike oval, shows a strong house finch influence. This exhibition questions our very definition of art. When a bird chooses a pretty ribbon to add to her nest, is that an aesthetic decision or simply an “instinct”? (And perhaps our compulsion to make art is also “instinct”?) Contemporary art has incorporated scientific artifacts at least since Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), an installation with an actual shark in formaldehyde. “Nest” offers bird nests on loan from the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, including works by horneros, weaverbirds, and eider ducks. South African designer Porky Hefer creates human-size nests using the methods of weaverbirds. Nest Sculpture is a rounded womblike capsule hanging from jute ropes. (It’s possible that humans learned to weave by copying weaverbirds.) The show features a collection of pre-Colombian feathered garments from Peru, the oldest dating from 300 CE: a tunic, three loincloths, and a ceremonial headdress. “The visual parallels between these textiles and much of contemporary art is astonishing,” remarks associate curator Elizabeth Rooklidge. “Each of them is totally abstract, and
the color contrasts are deeply considered.” Plus it’s mind-boggling to gaze at an artifact made of feathers that’s lasted 1,700 years! Walton Ford’s neo-Victorian paintings are tributes to 19th-century scientific illustration. Tale of Johnny Nutkin is an etching centered on an agitated owl protecting her nest from nine rapacious squirrels. The bird majestically fans its left wing to fend off the mammalian intruders. Kiki Smith’s tapestry Guide shows two bald eagles rising effortlessly above a seashore. Birds are often metaphors for human types. A person may be “proud as a peacock,” “hawk-eyed,” “dovelike.” (Full disclosure: I myself am a bird metaphor, or at least my name is.) There are a number of political works in the show. Fiona Hall is an Australian artist who makes realistic-looking nests out of shredded American dollar bills, suggesting a pun on the phrase “nest egg.” Sanford Biggers, an African-American artist originally from South Central LA, creates “ghetto bird tunics,” jackets covered with feathers that offer spiritual protection against LAPD surveillance helicopters, which are known as “ghetto birds.” The jacket in this show is baby-sized. A black-and-white photograph by heroic East Village AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz shows two soiled, bandaged hands, one of which cradles a nest. Even this quintessentially urban artist found consolation in a bird home. Bird-watching has adapted to the Internet age. “Bird-cams” allow curious humans to observe birds 24 hours a day (and also hear them), usually while the subjects are nesting. These reality TV shows often resemble an avian version of “Waiting for Godot.” “The Nest” will include bird-cam monitors. “The Nest, An Exhibition of Art in Nature” will be at the Katonah Museum of Art March 6 though June 19. (914) 232-9555; Katonahmuseum.org —Sparrow 3/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 81
TUESDAY 1 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Reiki Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. For Reiki practitioners to replenish your reserves. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
KIDS & FAMILY
ADHD/Autism Support Group 6:30-8pm. Provides a supportive and educational environment. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500. After-School Art Classes 4-5:15pm. After School Art Classes that are fun and skill building. Supportive environment where self expression is emphasized. Curriculum based on montessori and waldorf teaching methods. be. studios, Gardiner. 419-5219. Cub’s Place 5-6pm. For children grades K-5 going through a difficult time at home. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
LECTURES & TALKS
Sharon Maxwell: It’s Time to Have “The Talk” 7:15pm. Our children are overwhelmed with information and stimulation by a culture that pushes them to be sexy before puberty begins. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.
On Screen/Sound: No. 12 7pm. $6. On Screen/Sound No. 12 gets speechless with a selection of films that work in sound and image but without the use of words. From a dance-film to a live video score, the event culminates in a cult classic featuring lush imagery and washes of sound. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Empac. rpi.edu/events/2016/spring/screensound/ screensound-no-12.
FILM
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Blues Buddha Big Band The Hudson Room, Peekskill. Hudsonroom.com. Gabriel Butterfield Band 7pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Heather LaRose, Megan Taley and HaleyJane Rose 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. MMRHS Band Pops Concert 8pm. $12. The Monument Mountain Regional High School Band and Jazz Ensemble, both under the direction of Jeffrey Stevens, present their 33rd Annual Pops Concert. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Holistic Self-Care Class 7-8:30pm. What is Thai Yoga? An introduction to ancient healing wisdom with Elizabeth Gross. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 687-0880.
KIDS & FAMILY
Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve 10am. The Visitor Center is a great place for toddlers to be this winter. Cozy up in the Discovery Room for a nature-themed story and an activity. Hear about napping animals, hungry birds, or icy tracks and celebrate the snowy season while we wait for spring. This program is for children ages 2-5 with their parents or guardians. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Field of Dreams 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
KIDS & FAMILY
Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance 10:30am. $18-$62. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
MUSIC
The Westchester Whiskey Sour from Madison Kitchen in Larchmont.
Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Bones and Friends 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Super Bernie Party 8-11:45pm. The fun-filled evening coincides with 11 States and Samoa reporting Bernie Poll numbers. BSP, Kingston. 481-5158.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Home Composting Class 3-5pm. $10. How to create quality compost from garden, lawn and kitchen waste; Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org. Sock and Sweater Darning 6:30-8:30pm. $30. Learn this basic woven darning technique tDrop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com.
LECTURES & TALKS
How to Reach your Healthy Lifestyle Goals 6pm. With certified health coach and registered nurse Justin Zadro. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903. Keeping Food Local 7pm. A discussion with Eric Steinman Editor of Edible Hudson Valley Magazine, Chef Serge Madikians of Serevan Restaurant, Patricia Wind of F2T, and Kimberly Hart farmer from Starling Farms. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
MUSIC
Open Mike Night Hosted by Don Lowe 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Princess WOW CD Release with Roland Mousaa 7pm. Folk rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 3 FILM
NT LIve: Hangmen by Martin McDonagh 7-10pm. $21/$18 members. Following a sell-out run at London’s Royal Court Theatre, Olivier and Martin McDonagh returns to the West End with Matthew Dunster’s production of his deeply funny new play Hangmen, broadcast live to cinemas by National Theatre Live. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
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SATURDAY 5 DANCE
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 34th Annual Gala 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
FILM
From Madness to Music 7pm. A short documentary film. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. The Met Live: Puccini’s Manon Lescault 12:45-4pm. $26/$23 members. Puccini’s obsessive love story. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
FOOD & WINE
Pasta Making with Mamma + Papa Cilio 4-8pm. $55. Join Papa Cilio + Mamma Rosetta for a hands-on class on making pasta. Please bring your own wine. Casa Hudson, Haverstraw. 219-1698.
KIDS & FAMILY
MUSIC
WEDNESDAY 2 Zen Meditation 5:45-7pm. Meditation in the Rinzai Zen tradition every Wednesday in February. There will be a short talk before the sitting with an interval of walking meditation. Beginners welcome. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-5436.
Meditation & Art with Sheri Ponzi 6:30-7:30pm. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Pigment Stick Monotype $275. Two-day workshop The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
Children’s Program: Making Your Own Seed Packets to Plant 2:30pm. Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030. A Saturday Morning in the Nursery/ Kindergarten 9:30-11:30am. Experience a typical morning in an accredited Waldorf Early Childhood classroom. Bake bread, watch a puppet show, and talk to faculty while children enjoy creative play. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. Gmws.org. Saturday Social Circle 10am-noon. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624. Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance 10:30am & 2:30pm. $18-$62. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
LITERARY & BOOKS
HEALTH & WELLNESS
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week In 2006, 70 restaurants participated in Hudson Valley Restaurant Week. This spring, over 200 restaurants throughout the region are joining together for this moveable culinary feast hosted by Valley Table magazine. Between March 7 and March 20, participating restaurants are offering special three-course dinner menus for $29.95. Many also offer three-course lunches for $20.95. There are no tickets for this event—diners can call any restaurant directly to make a reservation. A list of participating restaurants is available at Valleytable.com/hvrw.
LECTURES & TALKS
Salsa Night with Cuboricua 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Sister Sparrow & Dirty Birds 9pm. Bluesy Americana. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Spirit of Michael Jackson 7:30pm. $47.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. US Navy Band 7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
MUSIC
NIGHTLIFE
Isreali Singer/Songwriter David Broza 7:30pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Gina Sicilia 7pm. Blues. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Lone Bellow 8pm. $30-$35. Indie-folk. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. SUNY Ulster Music Faculty 7:30pm. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
The Blues Buddha Big Band feat. The Lagond All-Stars 9:30pm-midnight. A mash-up of area crooner Tom Dudley (aka The Blues Buddha) and sax man Charlie Lagond’s all star band,. The Hudson Room, Peekskill. (914) 788-3663. Sip & Paint 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & great memories! High Falls Cafe, High Falls. Vinevangogh.com/. Sip & Paint for a Cause 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & fun, to raise money for the Hudson Valley Parents of Performing Students. New Rose Theater, Walden. Vinevangogh.com.
THEATER
SPIRITUALITY
First Thursdays in the Archives First Thursday of every month, 12-2pm. Welcoming visitors to learn more about the library’s special collections. TCulinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430. Tim Stanley: Native Pollinators: The Unstung Heroes 6-7pm. Tim Stanley—founder of Native Beeology—will reveal the hidden world of our native pollinators and bring much deserved attention to their importance in the ecosystem. Long Dock Park, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
Jerry Seinfeld 8pm. $48-$150. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
FRIDAY 4 DANCE
Fusion Dance Class 7:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 per session. We’ll be fusing together Latin, Africa, Indian, classic, modern and flamenco dance traditions — in short, it’s going to be a good time. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. Ceramics.artcentro@gmail.com.
Red Tent Gathering 7pm. $10. Join us in a journey of creating magical, safe, loving, supportive encouraging space for Women to gather. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THEATER
Opera Double Bill 7pm. $15-$35/$100 VIP. Higglety Pigglety Pop! by Oliver Knussen and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
The Barrelhouse Blues Band 8pm. Smokin’ Pony BBQ, Saugerties. 246-6328. The Compact 9pm. Modern rock. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 8:30-11:30pm. Country rock. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Eric Garrison 2pm. Contemporary, singer-songwriter. Hyde Park Library, Hyde Park. 229-7791. Ida Blue 8pm. $15. Soul and blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Ken Winokur’s Psychedelic Cinema 8pm. $10-$28. Ken Winokur of Alloy Orchestra visits with his new film and live music project, Psychedelic Cinema. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. The Met: Live in HD Puccini’s Manon Lescaut 1pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. The Met: Live in HD Puccini’s Manon Lescaut 11am & 1pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Nat Adderley, Jr. 8pm. $25. R&B and pop. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199. Neko Case 8pm. $35/$15 students. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Rob Bartlett 8pm. $40-$50. Blend of comedy and music. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Salted Bros 9:30pm. Blues. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Sister Sparrow & Dirty Birds 9pm. Sou and funk. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Adrien Reju and Silver City Bound 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Warren Haynes 8pm. Folk. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Y&T 8pm. $20-$30. Classic rock. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS “Too Broke for Daytona” Party 11am-5pm. Food, tropical drinks, fun. Woodstock Harley-Davidson®, Kingston. 338-2800.
MUSIC YO LA TENGO
Yo La Tengo performs at Club Helsinki in Hudson on March 26.
They Still Have It Despite the dream, even mainstream, multimillion-dollar success doesn’t guarantee longevity for a band. In fact, the roaring rocket of fickle fame has hastened the implosions of legions of bands, their demises brought on by managerial pressure, the loss of their private lives, and a disconnect with what they originally thought they loved doing. It can all begin to feel like a job, and you get into rock ’n’ roll because you don’t want a job. The ideal thing, then, is to reach a level where you can keep making artistically satisfying music while maintaining a steady, clued-in fan base. Most bands flame out long before they get there. So Hoboken indie institutions like Yo La Tengo, who will perform at Club Helsinki on March 26 and recently celebrated their 32nd year of performing, are a true pillar of inspiration. More than three decades in rock. There must be an awesome feeling that comes with that. “I don’t really think about it much,” says singer and guitarist Ira Kaplan. “But there was a moment during one of the anniversary shows we did at Town Hall in New York. We were doing the first song we ever played live, a cover of ‘Surfin’ with the Shah’ by the Urinals, and we had about 25 people on stage with us who’d been really important to our music, like Tony Maimone from Pere Ubu, Clint Conley from Mission of Burma, Gene Holder from the dB’s. I wasn’t emotionally prepared for that.” Yo La Tengo—the name is Spanish for “I have it”—was formed as a duo in 1984 by Kaplan and his wife, vocalist and drummer Georgia Hubley. The pair soon found collaborators who shared their formative influences (Kinks, Soft Boys, Velvet
Underground, Mission of Burma, Love) in lead guitarist Dave Schramm and bassist Mike Lewis, who joined prior to their 1986 debut, Ride the Tiger (Coyote Records). Schramm and Lewis soon left, and Kaplan and Hubley continued as a trio with other bassists, releasing 1987’s New Wave Hot Dogs and 1989’s President Yo La Tengo (both Coyote), Schramm briefly rejoined for the 1990 covers album Fakebook (Bar None Records) and bassist James McNew came in soon after. Across 14 albums, the band has traversed straight-up pop, tender acoustic sparseness, raging punk, instrumental soundtracks, dreamy psychedelia, and abstract noise. Their newest release is 2015’s Stuff Like That There (Matador Records), another covers disc featuring Schramm. In addition to songs by Hank Williams, the Cure, and Sun Ra, the group revisits tunes from their own Electr-O-Pura and I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1995 and 1997; both Matador). “[Reprising the older originals] comes out of a certain reflection, I guess,” muses Kaplan, whose band backed up Ray Davies on tour and portrayed the Velvet Underground in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol. “But not in a linear way—more impressionistic.” “[In Hudson] we’ll be doing one set of quiet songs and one of loud songs,” says the singer. “You never know what people will like. Hopefully, they’ll enjoy both sets equally.” Yo La Tengo performs at Club Helsinki in Hudson on March 26 at 9pm. Tickets are $35 and $48. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com. —Peter Aaron 3/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 83
ASK First Saturday Reception 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331. Pices Party 9pm. $10/free for Pices. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Sip & Paint for a Cause 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & relaxation, to help us to raise money to support the Good Will Fire Department. IGood-Will Fire Department, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com. Sip & Paint for a Cause: Relay for Life, Love for Chloe Rose 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & relaxation, to help raise money to support Chloe Rose. VFW Kingston, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
21st Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade 1pm. Wappingers Falls, Wappingers Falls. Dcsppc.org. Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
NIGHTLIFE
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint 2-4:30pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting, drinks & relaxation. Robibero Family Vineyards, New Paltz. Vinevangogh.com/ product/sip-paint-at-robibero-winery/.
Sip & Paint 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. TGI Friday’s, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-at-tgifridays-newburgh-030716/.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
TUESDAY 8
Sip & Paint for a Cause 1-3:30pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting & fun, to help support The Ellenville Little League. Gaby’s Restaurant, Ellenville. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paint-for-acause-ellenville-little-league/.
FILM
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
THEATER
Opera Double Bill 2pm. $15-$35/$100 VIP. Higglety Pigglety Pop! by Oliver Knussen and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
The American Dreamer 8-10pm. $10. Documents the rebel filmmaker Dennis Hopper, Q&A with director Lawrence Schiller following the screening. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. 418-3731. Ornette: Made in America 7:15-9:30pm. $7/$5 members. Documentary of Ornette Coleman’s life and a symphony concert event in his hometown, Fort Worth, Texas in 1983. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
LECTURES & TALKS
Author Talk Cut and Cover: Kevin Hurley 6:30-7:30pm. A book talk about the novel, Cut
COMEDY
Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White 7 & 10pm. $65/$242 VIP. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
FILM
Love Marriage in Kabul 7:30pm. $5-$9. Mahboba Rawi is a strong-willed Afghan-Australian who dedicates her life to helping orphans in Afghanistan. . MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
DANCE
Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 34th Annual Gala 3pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Kids’ Day in the Sugarbush 1-3pm. $5. Join the Longbotham Family, Mohonk Preserve Volunteers, and come along for a short hike and a sweet treat as you join in the fun of maple sugaring! Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. New Shanghai Circus 4pm. $40/$35 children. Shanghai’s acrobats, jugglers and contortionists. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Sesame Street Live: Let’s Dance 1pm. $18-$62. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
MUSIC
Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fis 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dust Bowl Faeries 8pm. Gothic folk. 8pm. Gothic chamber-folk. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Marji Zintz 8:30pm. Acoustic. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Sari Schorr featuring Chris Bergson 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra 3pm. $15-$37.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
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Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 6:30-9pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting, drinks & relaxation. Raccoon Saloon, Marlboro. Vinevangogh.com/.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
SUNDAY 6
KIDS & FAMILY
NIGHTLIFE
THURSDAY 10
High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 10am-noon. Learn to assist people with special needs through equine assisted activities. Ages 14+. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202. Solarize Northern Dutchess Kick-Off 12-2pm. Decide whether solar makes sense for you. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 489-4214. Solarize Saugerties Kick-Off 3-5pm. Decide whether solar makes sense for you. Saugerties Senior Center, Saugerties. Solarizesaugerties@gmail.com.
Just Dance 2:30-4:30pm. DJ activated non-stop contagious expression. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
Dennis Stroughmatt et l’Esprit Creole 7:30pm. $14. A blend of Celtic, Canadian, and Old Time sounds. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501. Open Mike Night Hosted by Don Lowe 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
HEALTH & WELLNESS
MUSIC
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Playwrights Reading at the Library featuring Michael Heintzman 7-9pm. Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
The Golem: How He Came Into the World 3-5pm. $7. Rabbi Zoe B. Zak of Temple Israel, Catskill, will introduce the film and accompaniment by the piano virtuosity of Marta Waterman. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. NT LIve: Hangmen by Martin McDonagh 1-4pm. $21/$18 members. Matthew Dunster’s deeply funny new play. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
Mark Morganstern Reads Selections from Jump: A Work in Progress 7-8:30pm. Rosendale Library is proud to host Mark Morganstern, author of the recently published and well-received book of short stories, “Dancing With Dasein”. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. Walk Through The Grades 8:15am. Sit in on classes, tour the school’s 11-acre campus, and speak to Administrators and faculty. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.
SPIRITUALITY
THEATER
FILM
LECTURES & TALKS
Human Torso, polychrome plaster, manufactured by Les Fils D’Emile-Deyrolle in Paris, c. 1900.
Spark! A Feel for Creative Science This exhibition at Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery through March 6 explores the intuitive, creative side to scientific experiments and inventions. “Spark!” displays materials demonstrating the creative leap—featuring a serpent-shaped Renaissance horn, large prints of the moon taken from Paris in 1906, old medical charts, hand-colored bird slides, and many other devices, such as the Winogradsky Column (used to culture microorganisms), as well as sound diffusers, which manipulate the way sound moves throughout a concert hall. The exhibit is curated by Richard Jones, co-director of the Vassar College Artifacts Project. Vassar.edu.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
First Sunday School 12:30-2pm. A unique Buddhist-oriented Class for children ages 5+ and their families. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444. Surface and Form with Tara Hagen 3-6pm. $365/$330 members. Through May 1. Learn to hone your decorative skills with basic demos on slip, underglaze, and glaze. Then we’ll take it a step further with specialized techniques such as printing on clay, making stamps, and using wax resists. Demonstrations alongside personalized instruction make it easy to turn any piece of clay into a work of art. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133.
MONDAY 7 FILM
Midnight Cowboy 7pm. $5. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Movement & Strength , 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Next Year’s Words First Monday of every month, 7:30-9:30pm. $2. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. Npnextyearswords@gmail.com. Speaking of Books 7-9pm. We are the Fellowship’s non-fiction book club. We will be discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book “Between the World and Me.” Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.
MUSIC
Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
and Cover written by the author as well as a brief preview for his new book, Le Tour Finale. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk 7pm. Free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
MUSIC
Nap Eyes The Half Moon, Hudson. (518) 828-1562.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Four Ways to Clay 7-9pm. $190/$170 members. Through March 29. Here, we will pinch, stretch, pound, drape, cut, punch, push, and pull clay into form. All skill levels welcome. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133. Tea & Stones 6:30-7:30pm. Each month we explore a different stone from our vast collection. You’ll learn about their healing qualities, some history and folklore and ways to incorporate them into our daily life. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
WEDNESDAY 9 FILM
Ornette: Made in America 7:15-9:30pm. $7/$5 members. Documentary of Ornette Coleman’s life and a symphony concert event in his hometown, Fort Worth, Texas in 1983. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
KIDS & FAMILY
Teen Advisory Board Meeting Second Wednesday of every month, 4-5pm. Fre. Do you need to fulfill volunteer hours? Come to this monthly meeting to volunteer and advise the library on what teen programs, teen books, music and movies we should be looking at. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580 ext. 1003.
Effective Communication Strategies 2:30-4pm. Educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter. Alzheimer’s Association office, Poughkeepsie, . (800) 272-3900. Movement & Strength 7-8:15pm. $20/bulk discounts available. For individuals that want to improve their balance, strength, and total overall body movement and range of motion. All strength and fitness levels welcome. Diamond Gymnastics, Poughkeepsie. 416-2222.
KIDS & FAMILY
Nature Museum’s Preschool Hosts Wildlife Rehabilitators Open House 3:30-6pm. For 2016-2017 Young Naturalist Preschool Program. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve 10am. The Visitor Center is a great place for toddlers to be this winter. Cozy up in the Discovery Room for a nature-themed story and an activity. This program is for children ages 2-5 with their parents or guardians. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
LECTURES & TALKS
Chris Bowser: Tracking the Great Migration 6-7pm. DEC Hudson River Estuary Program Science Education Specialist Chris Bowser will discuss the eels and their long journey, Long Dock Park, Beacon. Scenichudson.org. How Much Does College Really Cost? 6-7:30pm. Free and open to the public. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 242-8336 (presenter); 845-297-3428 (library). The Serious Side of Food 7pm. A monthly reading and discussion series. Tivoli Free Library, Tivoli. 757-3771.
MUSIC
John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Sip & Paint for a Cause with Vine Van Gogh 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & fun, to raise money to help the girls’ travel soft Deising’s Bakery and Restaurant, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com/product/sip-paintfor-a-cause-mid-hudson-rebels-14-u/.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Ceramic Sampler: Throwing with Cheyenne Mallo 7-9pm. $245/$220 members. Through April 14. Designed for beginning and intermediate students, this class will brush up on the basics of throwing. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale. 658-9133. Introduction to the Chakra: Series 6:30-9pm. $385. Join us as we explore this ancient system of spinning energy discs. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
FILM DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA Les Stone
What the Frack, Obama? Since 2008, the drilling and fracking industries have boomed across the United States. Currently, more than 20 million people live within a mile of an oil or gas well. Author and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster has spent the last three years crisscrossing the country documenting the effects of fracking. His latest film, Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution Is Now, narrated by actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy during his last year in office. Bowermaster and I corresponded about Obama’s environmental record in late February. Dear President Obama will be screened at the Rosendale Theater on March 15 and Upstate Films in Rhinebeck on March 17. Oceans8films.com. —Brian K. Mahoney You say that Dear President Obama is a direct appeal to President Obama as he shapes his environmental legacy. How would you describe the president’s action on the environment to date? Has he built a strong foundation for a lasting environmental legacy? President Obama has very clearly said he wanted an “all of the above” energy policy that was to include gas, oil, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, the works. Early in his first term, like many politicians across the US, he easily bought into the myth—promoted by the oil and gas industry—that fracking was going to give us access to “100 years of natural gas,” that we were “the Saudi Arabia” of natural gas. He, like many politicians, claimed this “shale gas revolution” going on across the country would deliver a neverbefore-seen “American energy independence.” Where exactly did that “all of the above” policy get us? Deepwater drilling slowed after the explosion of the BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Nuclear is a no-go, due to costs, the mess we watched at Fukushima, and the fact that no one knows what to do with all that spent nuclear waste. And the fracking boom has already turned to bust, with $27-a-barrel oil meaning layoffs, cutbacks, and bankruptcies from North Dakota to Texas, California back to Pennsylvania. On the plus side, the president does recognize the negative link between burning fossil fuels and climate change. His administration is making efforts to shut down the coal industry, and he has turned into a global leader in efforts to reduce emissions nation by nation. As his tenure closes out the president is definitely attempting to polish his environmental legacy, including declaring more wild lands to be public and putting more money into solar and wind technology research. There are more things he could do: Stop drilling on public lands. Make his EPA more accountable for investigations they’ve already conducted. And, as my fractivists friends like to say, “Real climate leaders don’t frack.” If leaving fossil fuels in the ground is the only path forward, how can we sustain our current level of economic activity relying solely on renewables? The call internationally is to leave 70 percent of fossil fuels currently in the ground—in the ground. That’s the only way we’ll be able to rein in a fast-changing climate. Is that doable? I’m skeptical. We are a rapacious species. Ever since man could walk, our favored way to create energy is burn stuff. That’s what we know. To truly adapt to an energy powered by alternatives we need to commit now. Not tomorrow. That will require sacrifice, which we’re not very good at. We drive, we fly, we overheat our homes. We continue to buy
Big Big oil and big agriculture exist side-by-side in California. produce grown several thousand miles away and are addicted to meat. In order for our energy demands to shrink, we have to use less energy. Too often we as a species only react when forced to. Let’s hope when it comes to our energy future that it doesn’t come to that. A transition to a new energy future it going to take at least two generations and will require sacrifice from each of us. Are we ready? How damaging has the widespread adoption of fracking in the US been to the switch to renewables? The false promise of the shale gas revolution—that “100 years of natural gas” turned into something between 10 and 20 years—definitely slowed investment in solar and wind and other alternatives. Sales of electric cars have dropped thanks to cheap gas at the pump, while sales of big pickups have boomed. Ironically, the innovative technology that allowed the fracking boom in the first place was funded by the federal government; one thing this president could do before leaving office is make sure federal studies of renewable technologies grows. In the oil patches, the future beyond fracking poses lots of problems: As those midsize oil/gas production companies in the fracking boom states (North Dakota, Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania) tighten their belts due to overproduction and low prices, as they lay workers off and ultimately declare bankruptcy, many will walk away from the maintenance of all those wells, pipelines, compressor stations, trains, etc., that are part and parcel of their industry. What are some big possible wins still possible on the environmental front for the Obama administration? I really think the president understands the link between our continuing to burn fossil fuels and the impact that has on climate change. Keep in mind that he’s the first president to make that link while in office. I hope that in the remaining 11 months of his term he, and Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy, are strategizing on executive orders they can put in place before he leaves office that will be good for the environment. Having interviewed scientists, economists, and health professionals across the US for Dear President Obama, what would you do on the environmental front if you were president? We’ve been working on this new film for nearly three years, which has introduced me to many of the smartest thinkers in the country focused on our energy and environmental future. If I were president, I would seek advice from many of those same thinkers, with one caution: I would not take counsel from anyone who has recently pushed through the revolving door that too often connects industry and government. I’ve often asked our experts how President Obama sometimes seems to be so illadvised (back to that "100 years of natural gas" notion), and it’s explained to me that too many of his advisers tend to come and go from the gas and oil industry. Which, in my mind, makes their counsel questionable. I was glad when President Obama ventured to Alaska last year, to see firsthand the retreat of glaciers caused by the planet’s fast-warming climate. It was good to see him in hiking boots and on a trail that didn’t involve a golf course. Ironically, I think his most powerful impacts on our environmental future may come as an ex-president, when he may feel more free to dive in as a global influencer and grassroots organizer, something he’s proven to be very good at in his past. 3/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 85
FRIDAY 11 COMEDY
Comedian and Magician Harrison Greenbaum 8pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. High Mud Comedy Fest with Tig Notaro $32-$75. A two-day laugh fest. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
DANCE
Cajun Dance with Jesse Lége, Darren Wallace and the Greeen Mountain Playboys 7-11pm. $15/$10 with FT student ID. . White Eagle Hall, Kingston. (914) 388-7048. Fusion Dance Class 7:30-8:30pm. $60 series/$15 per session. We’ll be fusing together Latin, Africa, Indian, classic, modern and flamenco dance traditions — in short, it’s going to be a good time. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. Ceramics.artcentro@gmail.com. March Uptown Swing: Heartstrings Hot Club 7pm. $10. Traditional manouche jazz. Beginners’ lesson at 8pm. BSP, Kingston. 481-5158.
FILM
Rainman 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION Astronomy: Stargazing 7:30-10pm. View the night sky away from the lights of the cities and towns of our area. Bring your own telescope or view the stars through one brought by our members. Open to the public but RSVP is required. Lake Taghkanic State Park, Ancram. Midhudsonastro.org.
THEATER Mary Poppins 7:30-10pm. $13/$11 students & seniors. The Stissing Theatre Guild at Stissing Mt. High School is proud to present a practically perfect production of Mary Poppins, a musical based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the Disney film. Stissing Mountain High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Power Hammer Techniques and Tooling Through March 13. Starting with tool making we will make flatters, fullers, butchers and radius blocks. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
Open House 10am-noon. Mountain Road School, New Lebanon. Mountainroadschool.org. Sensational Snakes 10am. $3-$10. Meet and get to know some of the Museum’s resident snakes! Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
LECTURES & TALKS
Dia:Beacon Gallery Talk: Claire Gilman on Sol LeWitt 2-3pm. Claire Gilman is senior curator at the Drawing Center, New York, where she has organized numerous exhibitions. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Robert Ryman Symposium 11:30am-4pm. $15/$13 students and seniors, $8 Dia members. In conjunction with the Robert Ryman exhibition, this two-part symposium brings together noted artists, critics, and scholars to discuss the legacy of Ryman’s oeuvre and radical materiality. Speakers on will be Courtney J. Martin, James Meyer, Allegra Pesenti, and Robert Storr. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Baby Magic Knitting, Crocheting & Meditation Circle 7-9pm. This circle is for conscious, spiritual women who want to conceive or who are pregnant, as well as their supportive sisters, girlfriends and mothers. Open to knitters and crocheters at all levels, even beginners. White Barn Farm, New Paltz. 259-1355. Empowering your Radiant Core 6-8:30pm. $45. Igniting Manipura Chakra with Lisa Bennett Matkin. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
MUSIC
Betty and the Baby Boomers 8pm. $12/$10 seniors/$8 HVFG members. Presented by The Hudson Valley Folk Guild’s Friends of Fiddler’s Green Chapter. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 758-2681. Bill’s Toupee 8pm. $5/dinner additional. Dinner/dance. The Italian Center, Poughkeepsie. The Blues Buddha Big Band The Hudson Room, Peekskill. Hudsonroom.com. David Kraai with Fooch Fischetti 6-9pm. David Kraai doles out two sets of fine country folk music with the help of Fooch Fischetti on pedal steel and fiddle. Swing by this awesome distillery’s cocktail room for refreshing beer, cider, wine & spirits that have all been produced in New York State. Orange County Distillery at Brown Barn Farms, New Hampton. 651-2929. Donny Osmond 5:30 & 8:30pm. $125. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The High East 9:30pm. Jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Miguel Zenon Quartet 7pm. Jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Premik Russell Tubbs 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
NIGHTLIFE
The Blues Buddha Big Band feat. The Lagond All-Stars 9:30pm-midnight. A mash-up of area crooner Tom Dudley (aka The Blues Buddha) and sax man Charlie Lagond’s all star band, . The Hudson Room, Peekskill. (914) 788-3663. Sip & Paint for with Vine Van Gogh 6:30-9pm. $45. Join us for an evening of painting & relaxation. American Legion, Saugerties. Vinevangogh.com/product/sippaint-for-a-cause-saugerties-high-school-classof-1981-031116/.
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OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Learn & Serve Open House/Volunteer Outreach Event 10am. Long Dock Park, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
THEATER
Mary Poppins 7:30-10pm. $13/$11 students & seniors. The Stissing Theatre Guild at Stissing Mt. High School is proud to present a practically perfect production of Mary Poppins, a musical based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the Disney film. Stissing Mountain High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
LITERARY & BOOKS
The Stash Plan 7pm. Integrative Nutritionist Elizabeth Troy presents The Stash Plan, a unique diet and wellness guide that she designed with actress Laura Prepon. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
John Tropea Band 7pm. Jazz rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Miki Hayama Trio 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Myles Mancuso Band 8-11pm. $15/$20 reserved seating. The Myles Mancuso Band will be releasing their new CD “Inside Wants Out” and be performing the songs for the first time. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Patty Griffin, Sara Watkins & Anais Mitchell 8pm. $38-$78. A celebration of American songwriting and performance. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
The Mountain Goats Historically, April 1st is a calendar date filled with goofs, gags, tricks, and jokes. But this coming April Fool’s Day, John Darnielle will be all business when he brings his longtime indie folk-rock outfit The Mountain Goats to the Bearsville Theater. He recently hinted at the idea of digging out some early gems for this short spring tour, giving hope to the many fans of this California outfit of the surprises to be enjoyed on this upcoming trek, which is happening on the 25th anniversary year of the singer’s formation of the Goats. Of course, one can also expect songs from Darnielle’s latest LP, Beat the Champ, as well. The album, which was released in April of last year, expounds upon his love for the regional professional wrestling he watched growing up on the West Coast, with songs that reference such legendary figures of the squared circle as Chavo Guerrero, The Shiek, Brusier Brody, and Luna Vachon. It’s a brilliant collection of songs that really digs deep into the psyche of these characters and their life in the ring, oftentimes—as on cuts like “Animal Mask” and “Foreign Object”—using the sport’s terminology as an allegory for more personal topics. Tickets: $25/$30. Bearsvilletheater.com.
SATURDAY 12 COMEDY
Comic Corinne Fisher of Guys We F@#$!d Podcast 10-11:30pm. $15. Corinne is 1/2 of Guys We F#@!*d: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcas. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. High Mud Comedy Fest with Tig Notaro $32-$75. Two-day laugh fest featuring a pile of performers thick with national comedic treasures and local stand-up heroes. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Ashokan Maple Fest 10am-4pm. $6/$5. Join us for an all-day pancake breakfast hot off the grill topped with Ashokan Maple Syrup. Live music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason and Story Laurie & Ira McIntosh. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333. Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday is a city-wide celebration of the arts held on the second Saturday of every month where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most of which are right along Main Street. Beaconarts.org. Downtown Beacon, Beacon.
FILM
Embracing the Greatest Challenge of Our Time 7pm. Presented by Project Native Film Festival. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
FOOD & WINE
New Paltz Winter Farmers’ Market 10am-3pm. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 383-1761.
KIDS & FAMILY
Fiesta Mexico-Americana Los Lobos with Ballet Folklorico Mexicano 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy 2pm. $15-$35. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945 2pm. $15-$35. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Patty Crane Discusses Translation of Poetry 5-7pm. Berkshires Poet Patty Crane discusses her book, “Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer.” The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. 518-392-3005. Talk and Book Signing by Lillian Rosengarten 7-8:30pm. Author of Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Poets J. Camp Brown and Raphael Kosek will be the featured readers, along with an open mike. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
MUSIC
A Nation Once Again: St. Patrick’s Day Celebration 7:30-10pm. $15 /$10 students/seniors/$25 families. Celebrate the 1916 Easter Uprising centennial that sparked the Irish War of Independence. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center, Putnam Valley. 528-7280. Armen Donelian 7:30-8:45pm. $15. A rare solo appearance by internationally renowned jazz pianist Armen Donelian. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. The Celts Celtic Roots 8pm. $47.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Crossroads Band 8:30pm. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. Frank Vignola, Matt Flinner and Gary Mazzaroppi 8pm. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Hair of the Dog with Professor Louie & the Crowmatix, 8pm. $25. Traditional Irish music, Americana, rock, folk and upbeat tunes. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335.
Repair Cafe: Kingston 11am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Clinton Avenue United Methodist, Kingston. 339-2526. Sacred Stone Grid Workshop 11am-5pm. $75. Become a Stone Whisperer and tap into the magic of crystal grids to enhance every area of your life. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. You Want Some Serious Profitability? 9am-4pm. $49.95. Join us for this sales and negotiation training, designed to give you the confidence and communication skills you need to close the big deals and meet with massive success. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 363-6432.
SUNDAY 13 DANCE
Bolshoi Ballet in HD Spartacus 12:40pm. $17. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Bolshoi Ballet in HD Spartacus 12:45-3pm. $21/$18 members. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022. In HD: Bolshoi Ballet in “The Lady of the Camellias” 3pm. $12/$10 members/$6 children. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
5th Annual “Challenge Your Colon” Chili Festival 12-3pm. $5-$80. This family-friendly event will host local restaurants serving up tasting portions of their prize chili recipes and other specialties such as cheeses, salsa, cornbread and desserts. Villa Borghese, Wappingers Falls. Premiercaresfoundation.org
FOOD & WINE
Rosendale Monthly Winter Farmers’ Market Second Sunday of every month, 10am2pm. Rosendale Farmers’ Market, Rosendale. 658-8348.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Awakening Your Springtime Spirit: Expression through Art, Yoga and Nature 9am-4:30pm. $200/$175 before Mar. 4. Join us for a day-long retreat that will leave you full of tranquility and creative zest for the new season. Garrison Institute, Garrison. (917) 991-4588. MAYfest Presents: A Women’s Day of Health and Happiness 9:30am-3pm. $80. Are you striving for a more grounded, healthful and balanced 2016? SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. 265-4444.
LECTURES & TALKS
William L. Coleman: Thomas Cole’s Country Houses 2pm. $9/$7 members. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. 518-943-7465. Women’s History Month: The General’s Lady 3pm. Program includes presentation of the Martha Washington Woman of History to Denise Doring VanBuren. Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh. 562-1195.
MUSIC
Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Amy McTear 4:30pm. New Age. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255.8212. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 7-9pm. $40, $50. Contemporary swing revival band. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914-739-0039.
COMEDY CORINNE FISHER
Girls Are Doing It for Themselves Comedian Corinne Fisher claims she’s shy and anti-social. This seems odd for someone who willingly details her sex life on the anti-slut shaming podcast “Guys We F#@$!d.” “I’ve slept with a lot of people,” says Fisher, “but not for the superficial reasons that many people believe. I did it for myself. I like to have sex. I think if everyone was a little more selfish, they’d be better off.” Candid life advice is part of what one can expect to hear in her stand-up performance at Market Market Café in Rosenddale this month on March 12. Fisher’s uninhabited honesty led to the creation of her podcast, which features Fisher and fellow comedian Krystyna Hutchinson, exploring their relationship to sex by an unconventional approach; interviewing guys they’ve slept with. Fisher claims that the intention behind the podcast isn’t to coerce women into talking about their sexual experiences in the explicit way she does, but rather to open the doors for females to be more vocal about sex in general. Fisher believes that “sex should be a priority in every relationship or otherwise your partner doesn’t differentiate from a friend. “Guys We F#@$!d” encourages women to be more frank in their sexual desires. Since the podcast began two years ago (now boasting over one million listeners), the show has moved into discussing more broader issues in relation to sex––topics ranging from abortion, the porn industry, and interviews with famous figures such as Amber Rose, Stoya, and comedian Dan Savage. What’s most appealing about Fisher’s presence on the show is her equanimity. In each episode she often lets men rant about their own experiences and ideas on women and sex––often spouting misogynistic ideals. However, she never dismisses them. She lets these men openly state their opinions without any objections, which in turn allows for a more substantial dialogue. Fisher claims that no people or topics are off limits. She would love to interview a man accused of molestation, “If you humanize someone with an unpopular opinion, especially a criminal, than you can understand the problem better and hopefully know how to change it.” Fisher considers herself a “political and aggressive comedian” and tries to veer away from discussing sex and relationships in her work outside of the podcast. She most recently has been involved in a monthly self-written show at the Standing Room in New York City called “The Comedienne Project” alongside comic Katie Hannigan. The piece encompasses 20 minutes of comedy where the discussion of sex, dating, and relationships are completely off limits. Though she has drawn most attention from “Guys We F#@$!d,” Fisher has an impressive resume for a young female comedian, who started out as a film student at New York City’s School of the Visual Arts, including an appearance on FOX’s Laughs on the special “Under 30” Episode, a segment on Last Call with Carson Daly, and a numerous amount of personal projects including a show at The New York Comedy club called “Nacho Bitches” with fellow comedian Blair Socci. Fisher attributes her success to her gender identity in a maledominated industry: “I’m a minority and I stand out more. Audiences are refreshed when they hear my voice because I have a different perspective.” Fisher will be performing at Market Market Café in Rosendale on Saturday March 12 at 10pm with dinner reservations starting at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $15 (cash only). (845) 658-3164; Marketmarketcafe.com. —Leah Rabinowitz
Corinne Fisher performs at Market Market in Rosendale on March 12..
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Elegant Versatility: Pianoforte 3pm. $15/$10 senior citizens, faculty, staff, alumni/students free. Solo selections by Beethoven and Gershwin will be played by pianist Ilya Yakushev as well as pieces for piano and cello by Rachmaninoff and Paganini when Yakushev is joined by cellist Thomas Mesa. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891. The Frank Kohl Quartet 8pm. $10. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio 4pm. Works by Beethoven, Stuchevsky and conclude with the Brahms Trio, Op. 114. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. The McCartney Years 8pm. Paul McCartney tribute experience. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 12-10pm. $45. Join us for a Brunch & Brush!!! Take Me Back Gourmet Cafe, Newburgh. Vinevangogh.com.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
THURSDAY 17
MUSIC
Concerto Concert 7:30pm. Classical and opera. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Zip it! Sew Your Own Pouch 10am-1pm. $60. We’ll cover the basics of stitching on a machine, and make some simple (or more complex if you like) zipper pouches, which are infinitely useful and make fantastic gifts. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com/workshops-list/.
WEDNESDAY 16 LECTURES & TALKS
Cognitive Science Colloquium Series 5-6:30pm. “The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking,” a talk by Dr. Cordelia Fine. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. 257-2674. How Much Does College Really Cost? 6-7:30pm. Free and open to the public. An eye-opening presentation for parents by former college admission director and the founder
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Dutchess One Stop Job Ready Sessions 2-4pm. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
KIDS & FAMILY
Thursday Tales at Ten: Story Time at Mohonk Preserve 10am. The Visitor Center is a great place for toddlers to be this winter. Cozy up in the Discovery Room for a nature-themed story and an activity. This program is for children ages 2-5 with their parents or guardians. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
MUSIC
Chris Vitarello & Friends 7pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ed Kowalczyk and his Throwing Copper Unplugged 20th Anniversary 8pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335.
2016 Thayer Hotel Wedding Show 12-3pm. Complimentary for bride and guest/$10 additional guests. Come tour the venue, meet our professional and friendly wedding team, and some of our preferred vendors. The Thayer Hotel, West Point. 446-4731 ext. 7914. Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Mary Poppins 2-4:30pm. $13/$11 students & seniors. The Stissing Theatre Guild at Stissing Mt. High School is proud to present a practically perfect production of Mary Poppins, a musical based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the Disney film. Stissing Mountain High School, Pine Plains. (518) 398-1272.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Tai Chi Demonstration by Scott Grimes 6:30pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
LECTURES & TALKS
No, I Don’t Have any Children 7:30pm. $10. Much writing by women celebrates motherhood; far less time is devoted to the blessings and challenges of non-motherhood. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-2740.
MUSIC
Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
NIGHTLIFE
Sip & Paint with Vine Van Gogh 7-9:30pm. $45. Join us for a night of painting, drinks & relaxation. Daddy O’s, Hopewell Junction. Vinevangogh.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-6610.
TUESDAY 15 DANCE
Dojo Dance Company’s Argentine Tango and Salsa 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Free Holistic Healthcare 4-8pm. Free. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Rondout Valley Holistic Health Community, Inc., Stone Ridge. 687-2252.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
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The Blues Buddha Big Band feat. The Lagond All-Stars 9:30pm-midnight. A mash-up of area crooner Tom Dudley (aka The Blues Buddha) and sax man Charlie Lagond’s all star band, The Hudson Room, Peekskill. (914) 788-3663.
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OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Ballet Master Class with Teresa Reichlen of NYCB $25. Intermediate level, ages 8 to 11, 1-2:30. Advanced level, ages 12 and up, 3-4:30 (bring pointe shoes). New Paltz School of Ballet, New Paltz. 255-0044. Ikebana The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging 1pm. $16. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-4030.
Guitarist David Bromberg 8pm. $35-$45. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Jessica Lynn 8pm. $25. Country. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Norris Brothers Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. Singer/songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg 8pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. The Weight 8pm. $32/$15 students. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Parry Teasdale of Videofreex at a May Day protest in 1971.
Here Come the Videofreex Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Two hippies meet at Woodstock and cook up a wacky idea to transform society. The particular hippies in question, Parry Teasdale and David Cort, formed the pioneering video collective Videofreex. These renegade journalists, based out of a 17-bedroom house in the Greene County hamlet of Lanesville, deployed the first handheld video cameras to file independent news reports and interviews with countercultural figures like Black Panther Fred Hampton. After being rejected by CBS, who had provided the equipment, the Freex launched their own pirate TV station, broadcasting with a transmitter given to them by Abbie Hoffman. Jenny Raskin and Jon Nealon’s Here Come the Videofreex documents this early instance of radical, homegrown media in an age long before YouTube. Upstate Films will screen Here Come the Videofreexo on March 25 (Rhinebeck) and 26 (Woodstock). Parry Teasdale will be in attendance at both screenings for a post-film Q&A. Upstatefilms.org. of Next Step College Counseling, Sandra M. Moore, M.A. Millbrook Free Library, Millbrook. 242-8336 (presenter); 845-677-3611 (library). Tarot Wisdom Gathering 6:30-8pm. $10. Join us as we journey down the path of Tarot, together, at this monthly event facilitated by Tarot whisperer Cheryl Sprague. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
MUSIC
America 8pm. $87.50. Classic rock. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Met: Live in HD Puccini’s Manon Lescaut 1pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Open Mike Night Hosted by Don Lowe 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Roots & Blues Sessions at The Falcon Underground 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Billy Joel The Stranger: Adult Boot Camp Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760. Voice Triumphant: A Writing Workshop led by Jayne Benjulian 3:30-5:30pm. $10. In Voice Triumphant we examine and practice the illusion of the spoken word in poetry, fiction and non-fiction prose. No. 6 Depot, West Stockbridge, MA. 4132320205.
John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. The Thunderhead Organ Trio 8pm. Jazz. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240. Trad O’Matics 7pm. Traditional Irish music. Elsie’s Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
The Second Dutchess County Trails Roundtable Meeting 4-5:30pm. Hosted by Winnakee Land Trust, the meeting will focus on organizing county-wide events for National Trails Day. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. 876-4213.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Library Knitters 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Tax Prep Help 2-6pm. Red Hook Public Library is teaming up with the New York State Department of Taxation to offer a series of free tax counseling sessions. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.
FRIDAY 18 MUSIC
Bagpipes Demystified 6-7pm. Learn about how the bagpipes work and demonstration. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580. The Blues Buddha Big Band The Hudson Room, Peekskill. Hudsonroom.com. Desert Highway: A Tribute to the Eagles 8pm. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Frank Kohl Quartet 7:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
33rd Annual Festival of Dance 8pm. The Festival of Dance is an electrifying, explosive, and dynamic coming together of dance companies and dance styles from around the metropolitan area and around the region. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Freestyle Frolic 7:30-11:45pm. The Frolic is an all-ages dance party for dance lovers: a not-for-profit all-volunteer freestyle dance event in the MidHudson Valley. Frolic dances are alcohol free, smoke free, and drug free which keeps the focus on dancing. Dancers of all kinds attend. The Jungle, Kingston. 658-8319. Third Saturday Contra Dance Party Third Saturday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm. $10/$5 full time students. Dances are taught, if you are new try to get there on time; the earlier dances are easier. St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Poughkeepsie. 473-7050.
FILM
Silent Film: “People on Sunday” Featuring Live Musical Accompaniment 7-9pm. Directors Curt and Robert Siodmak based “People on Sunday” on a screenplay by Austrian-born Billy Wilder. I. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Healing Power of Meditation 2:30-4:30pm. A workshop with Nomi Bachar. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212.
KIDS & FAMILY
Maple Weekend 10am-4pm. Frost Valley Maple Weekends offer families the opportunity to experience Maple Sugaring firsthand. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 217.
LECTURES & TALKS
Brunch Talk with Author Ruth Reichl 11am-1pm. $50. In 2015 she published her first novel and her second cookbook. Her path has paralleled major changes in the way America eats, and here she chronicles the journey. Hotel on North, Pittsfield, MA. (413) 358-4741.
MUSIC
Arlen Roth’s Slide Guitar Summitt 7pm. With special guest Cindy Cashdollar. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabin Fever Cabaret 9pm. Cabaret, featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Hudson Valley Philharmonic Aurora Borealis 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Bach to the Great American Songbook 8pm. $30. Experience the secret past of improvisation from Bach to the Great American Songbook Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. JENTH Power Tour: feat. the Nth Power & Jennifer Hartswick Band 9pm-1am. $20/$15. Marrying funky soul, rock, R&B, jazz, Gospel, folk and World Beat with improvisational chops. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. J.S. Bach & Sons: Legitimate and Otherwise 6pm. $45/$25. Acronym Baroque String Band; James Austin Smith, oboe; Yehuda Hanani, cello. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Kim Clarke Quartet 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Singer-Songwriter Lucinda Williams 8pm. $48-$88. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. William Tyler Mikael Jorgensen’s Quindar Nick Hallett 8pm. $8-$22. Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco teams up with art historian and curator James Merle Thomas, performer and composer Nick Hallett, and guitarist William Tyler for a new project that blends Quindar’s intergalactic sonic waves with folk fingerpicking and Fred Engelberg film. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
NIGHTLIFE
The Phantoms 8pm. Smokin’ Pony BBQ, Saugerties. 246-6328.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Sip & Paint for a Cause 3-5:30pm. $45. Join us for an afternoon of painting & relaxation to help us raise money to support The MAC Fit Kids. MAC Fitness E. Chester, Kingston. Vinevangogh.com.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
SPIRITUALITY
Women’s Full Moon Gathering 7pm. $10 exchange. Our Circle is a gathering of women, coming together to draw upon the powerful, rich energies of the full moon. Dreaming Goddess Sanctuary, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THEATER
An Evening with Groucho 7:30pm. $40. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Velocity of Autumn 7:30-9pm. $10. Rhinebeck Readers Theatre presents a staged reading of Eric Coble’s play about a 79-year-old artist in a showdown with her family Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Community Clay Day Third Saturday of every month, 1-3pm. $6. Art Centro, Poughkeepsie. 454-4525. Solar Informational Workshop 3-5pm. Learn about discounts and tax incentives currently available. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. Solarizesaugerties@ gmail.com. Repair Cafe :New Paltz 10am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835. Small Metals: Silver Soldering with Darren Fisher Through March 20. This class will focus on the basic joinery needed to construct jewelry and small hollow forms, Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
From Be Bop to Free Bop with Sheila Jordan & Jay Clayton 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Habana Sax 8pm. $30. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Joe McPhee and Michael Bisio 5:30pm. Gomen Kudasai, New Paltz. 255-8811. Music from Salem Opener: The Petrified Forest 4pm. $25. Hubbard Hall, Cambridge. (518) 677-2495. NY Philharmonic Cellis Patrick Jee and Friends 3pm. Hudson Valley Performing Arts Foundation Chamber Music Series. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Willa McCarthy Band 11am-2pm. Blues rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Maple Sugar Tours $4-$10. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
THEATER
London’s National Theatre in HD Matthew Dunster’s Hangmen 3pm. $17. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
MONDAY 21 KIDS & FAMILY
The Spring Day Camp Week-long day camp. Programming is organized by age groups 8-10, 11-13, and 1416. See website for specific activities. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
MUSIC
Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Meatloaf 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Learn to Meditate 7:30pm. Woodstock Reformed Church, Woodstock. 679-6610.
TUESDAY 22 OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Great Camps of the Adirondacks 6:30-7:30pm. With Barbara Dintruff. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Herbal Magic 6:30-7:30pm. Every herb has its own personal signature with healing properties for our physical, mental and spiritual benefit. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
SUNDAY 20 COMEDY
Christine O’Leary’s Stand-Up Comedy Writing Workshop Graduates 11am. $12. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
DANCE
Swing Dance to The Deane Machine 6:30-9pm. Beginners’ lesson at 6pm. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 255-0614.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
The Kingston Model Train and Railroad Hobby Show 10am-4pm. $6/$1 children. Andy Murphy Rec Center, Kingston. 616-0931.
FILM
Exhibition on Screen: Florence and The Uffizi 1-2:45pm. $16/$13 members. Take a journey into the city that was the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
KIDS & FAMILY
KTD/Bodhi Kids Family Day 10am-3pm. Family Days offer teachings by lamas, performing and visual arts activities, environmental education, and many other experiences that present the Buddha’s teachings. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 1012. Maple Weekend 10am-4pm. Frost Valley Maple Weekends offer families the opportunity to experience Maple Sugaring firsthand. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 217.
MUSIC
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus 3pm. Cabaret, featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Experience Hendrix 7:30pm. Featuring Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang and many more performing the best of Jimi Hendrix. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
WEDNESDAY 23 FILM
The Ten Commandments 2pm. $10. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease 6-7pm. A free educational program by the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter with information on detection, causes, risk factors, stages of the disease, treatment and more. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. (800) 272-3900.
MUSIC
Matt O’Ree Band 7pm. With guest David Bryan. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Open Mike Night Hosted by Don Lowe 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Encaustic and Paper $400. Through March 25. Learning a few basic methods of saturating various kinds paper with encaustic medium, tinted medium or paint, can bring depth and life to your work making it translucent, light filled, water and acidity protected. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
THURSDAY 24 FILM
On Screen/Sound: No. 13 7pm. $6. Berberian Sound Studio takes the horror of labor as its narrative center, albeit through the lens a Foley artist who takes a job in an Eastern European studio to do the postproduction sound design for a slasher movie. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. Empac.rpi.edu/events/2016/spring/ screensound/screensound-no-13.
Loving the Earth: Intro to Sustainability 6-7:30pm. Sustainability Coordinator Alistair Hall from Vassar College will be giving a lecture about the core ideas of sustainability. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 214-1113.
MUSIC
Connor Kennedy & Minstrel Residency 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai 7pm. David Kraai swings by this legendary Kingston venue to dole out a concert of fine country folk music. Uncle Willy’s Tavern, Kingston. 853-8049. John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. JP Patrick & Friends 8:30pm. Blues, rock, jazz fusion. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Toshi Reagon and Big Lovely 7:30pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Wanda Jackson 8pm. Classic country-tinged rockabilly. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
THEATER
Living Last Supper 7:30-8:30pm. DaVinci’s painting comes to life on Holy Thursday. Come and join us as the Apostles wrestle with Christ’s fate and their lingering questions of the Messiah’s purpose. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Patti Smith Group: Adult Boot Camp Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
FRIDAY 25 DANCE
Swing Dane Workshop with Professional Dance Instructors Fourth Friday of every month, 6:15-8pm. $15/$20 for both. 6:30-7:15 & 7:15-8:00. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Getting Started with Beekeeping 6-7:30pm. Learn the basics of beekeeping with Poughkeepsie Farm Project’s Farm Manager, Leon Vehaba. YMid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 214-1113.
MUSIC
Bill Payne & Friends 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Donna the Buffalo 8pm. $35. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
Lady Got Chops Women’s Jazz Festival:Camille Thurman Quartet 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
SPIRITUALITY
Hudson Valley Psychic Saturday Meetup 3pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
THEATER
Empty Valubles 2-3:30pm. $10. WBridge Street Theatre presents playwright/performer Bonita Jackson’s onewoman show in two acts filled with broken laughter, honest lies, and loving hatred. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. M is Black Enough 8pm. $8-$22. Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, of Kronos Quartet fame, teams up with composer and percussionist Andy Akiho and poet Roger Bonair-Agard for a work-in-progress program of spoken word and music, both complex and aggressive. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2-3:30pm. $19/$24. Shakespeare’s magical comedy about one mad-cap summer evening. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Eel Monitoring Training Day 10am-noon. The Hudson River Estuary Program and Scenic Hudson seek volunteers to monitor eels in Black Creek from March 26-June 1. Black Creek Preserve, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273. Indigenous Knowledge 1-5pm. Amazonian medicinal plants and their impact in the modern world With Eda Zavala Lopez. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880. Repair Cafe: Rhinebeck 12-4pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired for free. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. 453-2105.
SUNDAY 27 MUSIC
Akie Bermiss 11am-2pm. Neo soul piano. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Amy McTear 4:30pm. New Age. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255.8212.
MONDAY 28 FILM
The African Queen 7pm. $5. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
MUSIC
Corey Dandridge’s World of Gospel Residency 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
SATURDAY 26 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Indigenous Knowledge Amazonian Medicinal Plants and their Impact in the Modern World 1-5pm. With Eda Zavala Lopez. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 8456870880. Loving the Earth: Clothing Swap 1pm. Is your closet piling up with old clothes? Want some new threads? Come by the Mid Hudson Heritage Center for a clothing swap! Bring some of your old pieces to exchange for new ones. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 214-1113.
KIDS & FAMILY
Hippity Hoppity Bunnies 9:30 & 11am. $4-$8. Learn about the native Eastern Cottontail then take a walk in search of signs of wild rabbits. Meet a live rabbit and make a Bunny craft to take home. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Alt-Rock Pioneers Yo La Tengo 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Enter the Haggis 8pm. $28. With their signature Celtic-rock sound and instrumentation of bagpipes blazing over a powerhouse rhythm section, Enter the Haggis celebrates its 20th anniversary with its “Cheers and Echoes Tour.” The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061. Holy Crow Jazz Band 8pm. $10. Traditional American jazz music from the 1920s, throughout the 1930s. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The JB3 Trio 10pm. The Golden Rail Ale House, Newburgh. 565-2337. Jeffery Gaines 7pm. Solo acoustic. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
TUESDAY 29 MUSIC
Mokoomba! From Zimbabwe to Marlboro 7pm. Afro pop. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
WEDNESDAY 30 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Hormonal Therapy for Breast Cancer: Questions and Answers 6:30-8pm. Hormonal therapy is commonly used to treat breast cancer that is estrogen-receptor positive. Examples include Tamoxifen, Arimidex, Aromasin, Femara, etc. Hormonal therapy may be used at different points in a treatment plan, and to treat various stages of breast cancer. Somers Public Library, Somers. (914) 962-6402.
LECTURES & TALKS
RUPCO & the Lace Mill 6:30-7:30pm. RUPCO will come to discuss the renovation and creation of the Lace Mill Artist Loft building. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
MUSIC
Johnny Clegg Band 8pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Open Mike Night Hosted by Don Lowe 7pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Straight No Chaser 7:30pm. Male a cappella group. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. A study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 31 MUSIC
John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Stooges: Adult Boot Camp Beacon Music Factory (BMF), Beacon. Https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ home?studioid=41760.
3/16 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 89
Lizanne Webb
Planet Waves
ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
The Illusion and the Reality of Conservatism
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ver Valentine’s Day weekend, Antonin Scalia, who had served on the Supreme Court for 29 years, died while on a hunting vacation in Texas. The spiritual leader of the neoconservative movement, Scalia was taking a little romantic getaway and died sometime overnight or in the morning. From my review of the astrology, I don’t think he was murdered, and I do think it’s possible that he had company and died in the saddle, like other great men before him. He was traveling with a companion, not his wife. Scalia had served on the court since September 1986. That is one full cycle of Saturn, beginning when Saturn was in Sagittarius to its return to that position. There could be no better astrology to describe Scalia’s patriarchal, fundamentalist religion-based view of the law than this. That he lasted one full Saturn orbit is striking; it really says that a long cycle is complete. Scalia was appointed by Ronnie Reagan in the days before we knew about the IranContra scandal. At the time, Scalia was a relatively new federal district court judge, and was nominated to the Supreme Court to replace William Rehnquist, whom Reagan had elevated to chief justice. Scalia was so influential, and around for so long, it seemed like he had been there forever, and would be there forever.
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Writing in the Forward in 2009, J.J. Goldberg described Scalia as “the intellectual anchor of the court’s conservative majority.” If you’ve been listening to television news, you’ve been hearing him revered not just as the charismatic, affable guy that he was, but also as a titan of American jurisprudence. Scalia gave the neoconservative movement the illusion of legitimacy. He wrote the decision in Bush v. Gore that stopped the Florida recount in the contested 2000 election. He gave the election to Bush, who had lost the popular vote, and, true to his legal style, included a line about how the decision does not set legal precedent. That, of course, is one of the Supreme Court’s most important roles, but Scalia dissed it when it suited his ends. Scalia was considered the divining oracle of what he called “originalism,” meaning that the Constitution’s meaning is fixed at the time of enactment, and that’s what we must consider. He touted the idea that you have to follow the original text, not what the courts had interpreted over the next few centuries. What he really meant was that he got to be original in his interpretations of the Constitution, stretching them to mean anything he wanted. There are many examples of his votes, which always fit with what we now think of as the conservative agenda: anti-gay, anti-
abortion, anti-minority, pro-gun, pro-wealthy, pro-religion (if Christian), and pro-death penalty. If you’ve ever wondered how this particular set of issues came to be grouped together as what we think of as “conservative,” you don’t need to look much further than Scalia as the primary arbiter of reality. He was to the judicial system what Rush Limbaugh is to the conservative voter base. It makes no sense to be “pro life” and “Christian” and also support the death penalty. Contemporary conservatism is a kind of postmodern pastiche of ideas that one must be versed in deconstructionist philosophy to grasp even vaguely. If you’re Republican and you disagree even with one of them, you’re a potential liberal and considered ineligible to hold public office. But this really took some conjuring, and nonstop brainwashing. It makes more sense if you take it context of what political operative Karl Rove said in 2004 to the New York Times Magazine: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Due to Scalia’s exit, we’re about to see a turning of the tide in American politics. It will manifest first as outwardly expressed conflict. Now, for the first time in a generation, the Supreme Court is split evenly between conservative and liberal justices. Many of the most important decisions of our lifetimes have been decided on five-to-four votes, and for the moment this means of ruling the country with a majority of justices on the court is over. And if a Democrat is elected in November, it will be over for a long time. If Scalia’s main role was to turn back the clock to some imagined era of purity, moral wholesomeness, and American greatness, the hands of judicial time are now frozen in the present moment. The court has a busy calendar this term, with decisions on abortion, contraception, union rights, affirmative action, and immigration on the docket. The court will be deadlocked on these cases. This could not have come at a worse time for Republicans, who are already in chaos (Donald Trump has taken advantage of that fact). There’s a reason that Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said that any Obama nominee was DOA, and that the new president should fill the vacancy. He spoke up even before Scalia’s body had been removed from the hotel room where he died. McConnell knows that nobody like Scalia will get the job. By that I mean such a masterful, magical conjurer of illusions. Constitutional originalists are always the first people to ignore the document itself; it’s abundantly clear that the president nominates Supreme Court justices and the Senate votes to approve them. There is no exception stated for presidents who still have a year to serve. I think Obama will be clever and send over a nominee whom this Senate has already approved for a lower court posting, making it more difficult for them to block the person. Whatever happens with Obama’s nominee(s), Supreme Court appointments now become a central issue in the presidential election. Typically, appointments to the court are not among the reasons people vote for a candidate. This is now front and center, where it belongs. There are several elderly judges; the next president may get to make three or more appointments, who may serve for decades. Supreme Court justices, who are appointed for life, are the single most important legacy of any president. Remember that Scalia was part of Reagan’s legacy, set in motion by voters in the 1980 election, who were swayed by the Iranian hostage crisis. Though nobody knew this at the time, the Reagan campaign essentially bribed the evil, radical Iranian militants to keep the hostages in captivity just a little longer. He did this by promising them all the weapons they wanted for their war against our then-friend Saddam Hussein of Iraq (while campaigning on a “no arms for hostages” platform). Carter looked ineffective, and Reagan and Bush “won” the 1980 election, from which Scalia was a hangover. My observation is that what we call modern conservatism is really a form of illusionism. First of all, they never get into office legitimately. Let’s do a brief recap of recent Republican history. Nixon won in 1968 with a “secret plan” to end the Vietnam war. That turned out to be bombing Cambodia and Laos, extending the war five more years. Nixon won in 1972 due to the activities of CREEP (the Committee to Re-Elect the President) aka the Watergate criminal enterprise. He resigned just before Republicans had him step out onto the gallows of an impeachment trial in the Senate. Many in his administration were convicted of crimes. Nixon was succeeded by
Gerald Ford, who was only an elected congressman. His real credential was having served on the Warren Commission, which whitewashed the then-recent murder of John F. Kennedy. When Republicans came to power in 1980, they gained their advantage thanks to the shams associated with the Iranian hostage crisis. They then diverted the profits from weapons sales to the Iranians to the Contras in Nicaragua; that whole program became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Reagan and Bush held the White House for 12 years, till early 1993. When next Republicans came to power, it was the result of the divided Bush/Gore election of 2000. Gore got more actual votes by real-life citizens, though thanks to the Supreme Court majority led by Scalia, the recount was stopped and Bush and Cheney got to take office. I’m not sure how anyone can keep a straight face while calling this democracy. We get to live with the legacies of these people for decades. This includes someone who could write this and be taken seriously: “Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive. The Court views it as ‘discrimination’ which it is the function of our judgments to deter. So imbued is the Court with the law profession’s antianti-homosexual culture, that it is seemingly unaware that the attitudes of that culture are not obviously ‘mainstream.’” What Scalia was saying is that the majority has the right to decide what the minority does—but that’s not the purpose of the Constitution. The majority view of any society does not need to be protected. It already has the power. The American system of law is, on its face, anyway, specifically designed to protect those with unpopular views; that’s what free speech means: the freedom to say things people disagree with. On one level we might describe Scalia as a majoritarian. He believed that the majority should have rights over the minority. The problem was that his own views were not really mainstream, any more than the Moral Majority was a majority. They just claimed to be one. Among Scalia’s triumphs of “originalism” was his decision in the landmark 2008 case, District of Columbia v. Heller. This led to our current problem with guns, and consecrated the viewpoint that the Second Amendment guarantees an absolute right to carry a handgun. Scalia claimed that you can find out all you need to know from the original text, but he had to write 64 pages to say what 27 words meant. The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” “Logic demands that there be a link between the stated purpose and the command,” he wrote in his decision. So we know he knows logic exists. then he threw out logic by saying that the first part of the sentence (a well regulated militia) was merely prefatory, and the real substance was in the second part (bearing arms). He “proves” this by elaborating at length on the definitions of “keep,” “bear,” “arms,” and the phrase “bear arms.” He might as well have found that the Constitution protects the right to arm bears. In a dissent from a famous decision on abortion, he wrote, “I am sure it does not,” meaning that the Constitution does not protect that right. Why not? “Because of two simple facts: (1) the Constitution says absolutely nothing about it, and (2) the longstanding traditions of American society have permitted it to be legally proscribed.” The Constitution also doesn’t mention breathing, eating, or flying kites. And “longstanding traditions of American society” goes exactly contrary to the idea of “original intent.” It’s as close to pure hypocrisy as you can get. When I imagine a real conservative, it’s someone who practices restraint, who leaves their neighbors alone, who follows the law, and who respects the idea that everyone gets to pursue their own happiness, as long as they don’t hurt others. It’s someone who conserves the power of government to maintain a stable society, which means using the power of regulation to protect the people, the environment, and the interests of the nation. I don’t think that’s what we got, but it’s certainly what we need.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) You may have the sensation that you’re sitting out in a lobby of a theater, while the most fabulous show ever is going on right on the other side of those doors. Yet you may feel like you can’t find your way into that other room, the one where all the action is. Here’s a clue: it’s inside you. That other space, or other dimension, is your own imagination. You are not missing anything at all; what’s happening is that your potential is expanding quickly, and will continue to do so until you can’t contain it any more. This may take a few weeks; then events will begin to manifest rapidly. The best thing you can do for yourself is to stay in touch with your inner life. Recognize that the ideas you have are excellent, though they may be in nascent form. They will require development, and this will take patience and persistence. You need to have enough faith in what you’re creating to stick with the plan for long enough to get results, which will only be the beginning. Rather than slow down, the way to proceed is in tangible steps that you accomplish one at a time, which lead you forward in ways you notice. Patience and taking the long view may not be your strong suits, though there are rewards for developing these skills.
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Hold the space open around you. You’re likely to be drawing a lot of attention; and if you’re not conscious about how you handle this, you may start to feel crowded out of your own life. The focus that others place on you can be helpful, but only if you manage it carefully. It’s necessary to know who are your friends, who are your allies and who is unhelpful—and treat everyone accordingly. You seem to be developing a more self-sacrificing way of living, which is a beautiful thing, as long as you understand why you’re doing it and maintain your sense of balance. For you, the important reality checks mostly involve whether your bodily needs are taken care of, beginning with rest, nourishment and time to contemplate your existence. Your life will have a tendency to go in the direction that it’s already going, so it will be helpful to intervene as soon as possible and make sure that the mixture is correct. At a certain point you’re going to let go into what may become a rapid flow of positive creative developments. This is a form of nourishment by itself, but you know that you’re not really happy unless you’re rested, washed and fed. To that I would add giving yourself some space and time that is all your own.
GEMINI (May 20-June 21) As you know, it’s easier for you to have wide, general goals rather than specific ones. Yet in recent years, a few special ambitions have manifested and taken up a life of their own. Events this month, including a total eclipse in the house associated with your highest calling, can propel you to a new kind of success. This is, however, the kind of success for which there is no formula. Yet several things are clear. You must strive for what is important to you now. It’s easy to get caught up in old goals, or outdated images of yourself. Stay in the moment. What comes your way may be something you’ve never considered before. Real opportunities can be total surprises. You may not feel ready or creative enough; you may feel overwhelmed. Let none of that deter you. Many of the greatest successes in the world arrive at odd or inconvenient times. Many people discover talents they never would have considered unless the circumstances presented themselves. I suggest you use this extraordinary time as an opportunity to set aside your expectations, whether negative or positive, and rise to the occasion of what transpires. The world is a strange place right now, and the quantum idea that life is a dream we create was never more obvious than it is today. Dream beautifully.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) One of the most brilliant inventors of the 20th century, Buckminster Fuller, was born under the sign Cancer. What drove Fuller was his desire to take care of the world. He devoted his life to improving life on Earth, as someone who created technology that solved enormous problems. You have a strong, urgent streak of this drive to nurture the world. The truly unusual astrology of the next few weeks manifests in the most creative, passionate and visionary angle of your chart. This is the super-alignment in Pisces, complete with a total eclipse of the Sun. Consider this a dimension opening to some potential version of yourself that you always knew you could become. When it happens, it’ll feel like it was always there, right within you. Yet in the transition between now and that moment, I would remind you of a few things. One is to stay close to your erotic feelings. The sensation of yearning, craving and desire is your psychic fertility. Invite this into everything you do, and notice how you respond to every person in your environment. Next, I suggest you be aware of the power of flexibility. Any truly creative environment is dynamic: there are many variables acting simultaneously on one another. The most important one is your own awareness. You don’t need to be in control. You merely need to pay attention. 92 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 3/16
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LEO (July 22-August 23) Clinging to yourself, your ideas, your ideals, your money or your energy does not help. Your life is a collaborative venture, and there seems to be some rapidly growing influence to get more involved, and to take this to a new level. Yet in order not to be swallowed by your circumstances, or overwhelmed, you must loosen up and invite progress, healing and pleasure into your environment. Many people have something to offer you right now. Without alienating anyone, I suggest you choose carefully in terms of who has the thing you need the most. It might not be your official partner. It might be someone you hardly know, or someone who mysteriously arrived in your life. It might be someone you’ve looked up to for a long time and now you know you’re ready for this particular form of exchange. Be open and keep a loose grip on your reality. This will be mostly true on the level of what you think is important. You may need to rearrange your priorities, and more than that, act boldly on them when you figure out what’s true for you. It’s important that you do this before you feel the influence of others. This way you will recognize what is possible, and know that the motivation to change and grow is coming from you and not from others. That will be your basis of real trust.
VIRGO (August 23-September 23) You seem to be in a situation where you must handle the changes someone close to you is going through in a fully conscious way. Yet you don’t need to confuse those changes with how you think someone feels about you. Seek and you shall find the truth of that. You may have to wait a little while, and you would be wise to be supportive and refrain from judgment if any unusual events unfold. The thing to do is look for the opening, where what seems to be one thing leads to something else. Your whole environment has that potential -- of a portal through the illusion of something and into a reality that corresponds only because it was previously concealed. Use your intuition, instincts and your senses and see the world around you as it is. This corresponds closely to a world within; they are like holograms of one another; a fact that’s always true but is now becoming increasingly obvious, if you slow down enough to notice. Given that, I would suggest you take as your personal motto, “When in doubt, tune in.” Listen and feel. Your ability to influence the flow of your own life comes in your knowing when you’ve reached a point of decision and then using your power to choose. Nothing is destined. Nothing is fated. You remain the center of your reality.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) Put your health and wellbeing first, and all else will flow from there. There are, to be sure, times a person’s gotta do what they gotta do—such as when duty calls. But this is theoretical if you lack the power to respond fully, and that is what I suggest you preserve and cultivate. You are sensitive right now; your emotions and the health of your body are more closely linked than ever. It’s for this reason that I suggest you tend to the needs of your body—for nourishment, water, rest and, most of all, pleasure. You have a lot to do; the environment in which you must perform has many variables, some of which have not manifested yet. Yet you can rise not just to the occasion of your circumstances but also to the occasion of your purpose. You are closer now to that purpose than you’ve been in a long time, despite the sensation that it’s difficult to grasp. The purpose of all your creativity is to develop your own original existence. Categories like art, work, personal, business, home, office, artist, craftsman and many others are blurred in your life to the point of being meaningless. You get to explore all of these things and develop them in ways that suit the purposes that you decide are valid. You are creator and created; be bold and loving as you may.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) We have all read that Scorpio is the most sexual sign. If there’s one thing that everyone knows about astrology, that would be it. What’s not known is how other signs arranged around the wheel facilitate this, the most significant being Pisces. Your creative zone—the do it for fun, get out the paints and the champagne, the cameras and the models, let’s get this art party going—is Pisces. This stokes your imagination, melts your tendency to be restrained, and gives you a place to get into the flow of life. And this whole region of your consciousness is not only calling you, it’s like the raging river on a glorious spring day inviting you to shoot the rapids. Here’s what I suggest. Rather than telling yourself how creative, or liberated, or experienced you are, approach life as a newcomer. You’re aware by now how much has changed around you, and how nearly every previous expectation you’ve encountered has melted, faded away or exploded. Approach your existence as a learner, always seeking permission to be a little more free. It’s true that you have to let go in order to do this, but you’re not dropping anything more than a shell you no longer need, and that never really protected you. Above all, I suggest you forget psychology and any any form of rationalizing, take a deep breath and give yourself permission to feel.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) You seem to be alternating between the feeling of wanting to run coast-to-coast, and that of being backed into a corner. The first is a more accurate representation of your true state. The bit about being stuck or held down is merely because you have not yet figured out how to make the most of your circumstances. This, in part, is about an emotional quagmire connected to your family. There’s no version of ensnared as effective as the emotional dysfunctions of close relatives. What happens over the next few weeks is akin to a drain opening up at the bottom of your psyche, allowing you to drain one particular emotional pool associated with your distant past. This might even be your ancestral past. You came into this life a different person from your relatives, with a different mission and your own set of unique and vital assets. Don’t let anyone convince you that someone else’s problems are your own; but—closer to the point—don’t convince yourself. It will take some focus to step out of those influences, though the most effective way will be to step into your own life: your highest goals, your unusual style of leadership and your willingness to serve. Others who are obsessed with their problems live their way; you have your own agenda and every right to live fully.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) Your chart looks as if you’re writing the greatest novel ever created. However, if that’s not exactly what’s happening, you might pay closer attention to the idea dynamo that is your mind—and show it some authentic respect. Rather than your usual concepts of propriety and integrity, however, this is the respect that an artist in her studio would demonstrate for an infinite supply of paint and canvas: the willingness to hang loose and experiment. The ideas you’re thinking, feeling or at least capable of are not anything that’s been thought of before. What you express, therefore, has no need to be based on anything tried and true, certified wholesome or subject to the rules of grammar. You are safer in deep water than you are near the rocks and shoals of others’ expectations (or presumed expectations). The days of living up to your parents are long since gone. That revolution has happened, though freedom makes people nervous. Have you noticed that? Most people don’t trust themselves actually to be free, and so generally choose some form of confinement (usually mental, and often sexual). That policy will not facilitate the cosmic explosion going on in your mind right now—though you must. Do yourself a huge favor and face your own infinite potential. Give yourself permission to take the chance. Make up the rules as you go, the most important of which is some form of yes.
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It’s time to take a step financially. However, for this to work, you will need to make contact with money as the expression of something else, perhaps several other things; and you would decide what they are. It would seem that your fortunes are intimately intertwined with those of someone else, but that is the nature of any economic system; you are not walking around gathering nuts and berries (and even that was done with collaboration). Your own sense of your value to the world is what to focus on first. In the vast exchange process that is the whole world right now, you are giving up something old for something new. Look carefully for some element of your values that no longer works, and update it for something that is about right now: the world the way you know it is today, and who you know yourself to be today. Figure out exactly what you have to offer, from the core-center known as your soul, and then notice who will benefit from that quality. This is your point of exchange. The most vital conducting medium will be service rather than money, though correctly financing the venture is clearly in the stars. Remember at every single turn that this is about you, and it’s also about a heck of a lot more than you. That is happy news.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) You will live a year or two this month. It’s as if you’re entering an acceleration chamber, where you will be taken from where you are now, through many changes, to a new place and time. It’s therefore essential that you know the direction you’re headed, and have some idea where you want to go. This means focusing goals in tangible language. Work from your highest priorities, and put some thought into what they are. Eliminate goals that are no longer actually on your agenda. Then you might revisit certain desires, ambitions and objectives that you let go of in the past, whether because they seemed impossible or because you were not ready. You will find that some of those things seem much more practical and attainable now. The whole world is in a phase of acceleration, moving so fast that people don’t have time to think. You, however, must take the time, and consider where you’ve been, where you are, and what you want. This will invariably lead to considering who you were, who you are and who you want to be. Remember that the feeling tone of those destinations is as vital as the specific facts: tones and shades such as relaxed, loving, spacious, creative, erotic, exciting, alive, engaged, successful—mix and match your favorites, then feel your way there.
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