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VIEW FROM THE TOP

KIDS & FAMILY

13 ARTSCENE TV

42 PLAYING PUSH-PULL

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

14 ON THE COVER Nadine Robbins reveals her subjects’ hidden indulgences in her latest series.

16 ESTEEMED READER Jason Stern takes a lesson from Sufi cosmology.

21 EDITOR’S NOTE Brian K. Mahoney finds a catalpa bean pod with a madeleine-like effect.

NEWS AND POLITICS 22 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Medical marijuana in New York, leper armadillos, Cecil the Lion, and more.

23 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC

HOME & GARDEN 44 BRINGING THE OUTSIDE IN

24 BOTH SIDES NOW

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54 GROWTH SPURT

Taking a look at the Town of Cornwall and Newburgh’s creative revival .

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FOOD & DRINK 80 IN (THE BELLY) WITH THE NEW

From Southern comfort to rustic charm, we survey some of the most interesting newcomers to the Hudson Valley dining scene.

WHOLE LIVING 92 THE POT RX

Wendy Kagan reports on the highs (and lows)of New York’s recent legalization of medical marijuana. Pot will be available for medicinal purposes in 2016.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 87 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 88 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 96 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.

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51 THE TASTIEST BULB

Larry Beinhart discusses the 15-year war and what little we have to show for it.

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Hillary Harvey navigates a difficult time period: the loaded lives of preteens.

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FALL EVENTS 2015

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An unprecedented mash-up of J. S. Bach and the Great American Songbook from Cole Porter Fellows Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl, this oneof-a kind collaboration explores the unlikely common ground between two leading talents from opposite ends of the jazz spectrum. October 30

Leon Botstein conducts the inaugural season of The Orchestra Now (TO¯ N), invoking a new generation of musicians to break down barriers between modern audiences and great orchestral music of the past and present. 2015-16 Series subscriptions available.

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ARTS & CULTURE

THE FORECAST

64 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE

100 DAILY CALENDAR

70 MUSIC: ON THE WAY UP

Johnny Irion reveals his new band, U.S. Elevator, debuting at Helsinki Hudson this month. Nightlife Highlights include Bibi Farber, Vieux Farka Touré and Julia Easterlin, Lucius, and the Julliard String Quartet at Howland Chamber Music Circle. Reviews of Hungry Ghosts by The Nice Ones; Grateful by Open Book; and Mixed Motion by Tani Tabbal.

74 BOOKS: THE XY FILES

Books Editor Nina Shengold sits down with author and journalist Guy Lawson.

76 BOOKS REVIEWS

Reviews of Cut And Cover by Kevin Hurley, Not On Fire, Only Dying by Susan Rukeyser, and Valerie Martin’s Sea Lovers: Selected Stories.

78 POETRY Poems by Simone Andolina, Gary Beck, Jay Erickson, Karen Corinne Herceg, Dean Goldberg, Kristen Henderson, Anthony G. Herles, Kelly Lee, Ze’ev Willy Neumann, Will Nixon, Dina Peone, Robert Phelps, Giles Selig, Abigail Thomas, Elizabeth Thompson-Jones. Edited by Phillip X Levine.

120 PARTING SHOT Richard Segalman’s Black and White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes was born of the darkest imaginable pallete.

Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 99 Over 70 artists put together animal-friendly sculptures at Saunders Farm to complement the surrounding landscapes through the end of October. 101 The 2015 Drum Boogie Festival takes place September 12. 103 The Woodstock Comedy Festival will be held from September 18-20. 104 Over 40 independent films will be screened at the Beacon Independent Film Festival from September 18-20. 105 “Whistler’s Mother: Grey, Black, and White” will be on display at the Clark Art Institute through September 27. 106 The Woodstock Film Festival celebrates its sweet sixteen this year. 108 The 19th Annual Fall for Art takes place on September 10. 109 The Hudson River Craft Beer Festival returns on September 19 at Riverfront Park in Beacon 108 WDST celebrates its 35th anniversary with the Speed of Sound festival. 111 The four-hour Sacred Earth Festival on September 6 is a benefit for the Green Brain Initiative’s initiatives: poverty alleviation and environmental conservation. 112 The 25th family-friendly Taste of New Paltz festival takes place on September 19 at the Ulster County Fairgrounds.

PLANET WAVES 114 POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

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116 HOROSCOPES

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Wendy Kagan wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip X Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com KIDS & FAMILY EDITOR Hillary Harvey kidsandfamily@chronogram.com DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION & DIGITAL STRATEGY Teal Hutton teal@chronogram.com EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kelly Seiz EDITORIAL INTERNS Jessica Jones, Jake Swain PROOFREADER Barbara Ross CONTRIBUTORS Karen Angel, Mary Angeles Armstrong, Larry Beinhart, Stephen Blauweiss, Caylena Cahill, Eric Francis Coppolino, Anne Pyburn Craig, Larry Decker, Deborah DeGraffenreid, Roy Gumpel, Ron Hart, Annie Internicola, Jana Martin, Karen Pearson, Fionn Reilly, Seth Rogovoy, Sparrow, Alexander M. Stern, Michelle Sutton, Jesse Turnquist, Robert Burke Warren, Saundi Wilson

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ad habits and guilty pleasures are the aspects of ourselves that get swept under the rug, those we give shameful yet satisfying attention in solitude. Everyone has a vice, whether we like to admit it or not. Somewhere in NewYork City there is a dancer noshing donuts during downtime; a model who smokes too much marijuana; and poet Matthew Hittinger donning his She-Ra: Princess of Power crocheted crown to assume his alter ego. Somewhere outside of Rhinebeck, Nadine Robbins is craving a cigarette and maybe reading a romance novel or finishing off a box of Cheez-Its. Frequent indulgence of guilty pleasures should be less embarrassing to admit, Robbins believes. “I’m only human,” she says. “I just have to be who I am.” Strikingly accurate, minuscule details in Robbins’s paintings convey lifelike aspects of her subjects’ personalities, reflections of the contemporary world. Torturously layering the details, getting lost in each painting until perfection, normally takes Robbins upward of 60 hours. Rather than fret over what reaction it will produce in her audience, Robbins’ current “Bad Habits and Guilty Pleasures” series focuses on preserving “that moment between a pose and a mistake that captures a person’s true essence,” in the midst of his or her vices. This moment occurs as Robbins asks her subjects to share sides of themselves that are rarely viewed in public. In the case of Hittinger, the reserved poet opened up to Robbins after putting on his She-Ra crown. By interviewing her subjects while she is photographing them, Robbins is able to translate their regular mannerisms and reactions in an unstaged way. Robbins is selective when choosing her subjects. “Some people just exude a certain something,” says Robbins. This was the case with model Kaitlin Naylor, who posed for Mrs. Fries, the painting that prompted the artist to inquire after individuals’ bad habits and guilty pleasures. Naylor and Robbins broke for lunch at McDonald’s during a photo shoot, and bonded over the greasy, salty fries. Always one for a laugh, Robbins suggested Naylor pose with the fries because “she had that sultry, innocent, ‘I’m eating French fries,’ kind of look.” Exposing the lighthearted side of a guilty pleasure struck a chord in Robbins; she hopes future projects in what she intends to be a 10-to-12 piece series stir up laughs and allow people to examine their own bad habits from a different perspective. Nadinerobbinsart.com. —Jessica Jones CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH a short film by Stephen Blauweiss about Nadine Robbins and her work.

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Mr. Zimmerman, my 11th grade chemistry teacher, was nearing retirement, and his impatience with the profession was beginning to show. As he taught the Periodic Table and molecular structure I would lose interest and become distracted by his formidable black mustache bobbing with his upper lip as he spoke, rising and falling like seaweed floating on ocean waves. But there was one lesson that stayed with me from the year I spent in his classroom. Mr Zimmerman, or “Zeke” as we called him with ironic affection, placed a glass beaker on the black-topped lab desk. From a paper bag he poured gravel, filling it to the rim, and asked, “Is this beaker full?” “Yes,” came the tired response from the group of 11th graders. He took another bag, and began to pour in fine white sand. He shook and tapped the beaker to allow it to fill in, until the sand reached the rim of the vessel. There was space for a surprisingly large quantity of sand in the gaps between the pieces of gravel. “Is this beaker full?” Zeke asked again. “Yes!” we all replied, now with some wonderment. Next Zeke took another smaller beaker, this one full of water. He poured for a long time, as we watched the level of water slowly rise up the inside of the transparent glass to the top. “Now is it full?” he asked. “Yes!” we shouted, exasperated. “Perhaps,” he said, “but what else can we fill it with?” He placed the beaker over a burner and sparked the gas into flame. “We can still add heat,” he said. The lesson stayed with me, and I remembered it when I began to study Sufi cosmology, which describes a similar series of overlapping, interpenetrating “worlds,” all coexisting and occupying different gamuts on the spectrum of materiality, one within the other.The worlds are equally real and material but conduct different kinds of energy and corresponding degrees of intelligence. Each world exists within a medium with its own logic, spatial/temporal scale, and mode of action; and all these worlds are available to our experience. The first, what the Sufis call alam-i-ajsam, is the world of bodies. Our science calls this the “real world” and has to do with the way physical objects interact—the laws that govern them and the forces that affect them. Next, the alam-i-arvah, the world of energies, goes beyond what scientific instruments can measure and enters the realm of the inner life—sensation, feeling, and thought—which the finer human instrument of being and consciousness can know and measure.The alam-i-imkan is the substrate of will or “world of possibilities”; it is a template or codex of all possible formations, a seedbed of perfect ideals from which everything grows. In the Sufi worldview, all of these worlds are present and available to the human experience. They are fully operative in each of us, though we may not be conscious of inhabiting them. In this sense, we are not functioning as complete human beings until we function consciously in all three worlds. Only then, the Sufis say, are we full, in the way the chemistry beaker was full only when it was saturated with gravel, sand, water, and heat. The tragedy, the Sufis say, is that we live mainly in one world only—the world of bodies. Though we experience our inner life of being and underlying will as real, we relegate their operation to the subconscious and remain as though blind to the subtler dimensions that are the media of the finer, and actually more real, worlds. But what we see and experience in the world of bodies, which alone do we call “objective,” is instructive as an analog to the finer interpenetrating worlds. Recently riding a fine old motorcycle, I felt the delight of propelling my body through space with intention and technique on the back of a powerful, smooth-running machine. Further, I noticed a pleasure in extending my sense of identity to the welldesigned conveyance of a bygone era, one built without the aid of computers, designed by native human intelligence and creativity. The appeal of this particular vehicle to me is uniquely subjective, but it points to our collective fascination with vehicles. As a society, we are continuously occupied with the way in which we transport our bodies from one place to another. We see vehicles as an extension of our person, whether the vehicle is a car, boat, bicycle, the clothes with which we decorate our bodies, our bodies themselves, or even the ideas, opinions, and preferences with which we adorn our personalities. Vehicles don’t exist only on the level of bodies, there are also vehicles in the realms of being and will. What are they, and what are they for, and where are they designed to go? The whole human instrument, with its overlapping worlds, is a kind of supervehicle. This points to two vital questions: Who is being conveyed in these magnificent human vehicles? And, what are human beings for? —Jason Stern

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“When from the distant past nothing remains, after the beings have died, after the things are destroyed and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, yet more vital, more insubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of everything else; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the immense architecture of memory.” —Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

roust had his madeleine, the cookie that crumbled in his tea and released the legendary flood of memories in his masterwork. Walking through the park one August morning, I spotted a catalpa tree. The sight of its enormous dangling green beans was enough to send me tumbling through the years till I spilled out on the lawn of my childhood home, a boy again, underneath the massive leafy crown of the catalpa I knew growing up. There are two species of the tree in North America, the Southern catalpa (catalpa bignonioides) and the Northern catalpa (catalpa speciosa). The trees are very similar in appearance, though the Southern trees’ flowers are more purple, and the Northern species is slightly larger, growing up to 100 feet tall. The name catalpa comes from the Creek word for the tree, kutuhlpa, meaning “winged head”—a full grown catalpa in bloom looks like an elaborate candelabrum, its white blossoms amidst big heart-shaped leaves. When the blossoms fall, the ground looks like it’s covered in snow. Also known as the “cigar tree,” it’s the catalpa’s seed pods that are its signature feature. Long and thin as drumsticks, the pods of the catalpa stay on the tree long after its leaves fall, creating a wind chime of dried husks in the late fall, often the last rustling of the year in the treetops. The catalpa on the grounds of the ancestral Mahoney estate in Queens where I grew up reigned over the side yard. Planted just at the turn of the 20th century (I’m guessing), it is the largest specimen of its type I have ever encountered, and had to be over 100 feet tall and five feet wide at the base, much taller than the maples and oaks that lined the sidewalk on either side. My friends and I staged swordfights with beans we pulled off the lower branches, whipping each other with our amazingly resilient vegetal épées until we descended into ripping off all the beans we could reach and simply flinging them at each other until someone got hurt or we grew exhausted. (This tactic was also employed in our horse chestnut battles, with chestnuts stolen from Mr. Garvey’s yard and pried free from their spiny exteriors to be used as handfired ammunition. Someone usually went home crying from these fights, either with a welt on the forehead or a deep bruise on the back obtained after a block-long pursuit through a dozen backyards and a plea for mercy.) As a child, the beans seemed literally marvelous. They were a marvel, something otherworldly. None of the other trees had anything close to these foot-long seed sticks. (And no one else in the neighborhood had a catalpa tree. We might have had the only one on Earth for all I knew of my tiny world.) The

beans were like something out of prehistoric times, akin to the horseshoe crabs we’d vex and harass at low tide on Little Neck Bay. We pretended to smoke the beans like cigars, too, imitating characters we were aware of—stock characters from black-and-white films like W. C. Fields, comic book hero Sgt. Rock, General George S. Patton, and most of all, Clint Eastwood of the spaghetti Western films. We all wanted to be Clint Eastwood. Joey DiSimone lived down the block and was held in high esteem for his ability to whistle, impeccably, Ennio Morricone’s main theme for The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. As you might imagine, we fought a lot about who would get to play the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Joey, also known as “The World” for his impressive girth in a pre-rampant-childhood-obesity era, despite his elevated status, would often be stuck playing “the Ugly.” Joey became so incensed at his ongoing typecasting one day that he started to chase Tommy Flynn, who was teasing him, around the yard. But before I continue with Joey’s attempt to throttle Tommy, you should know a couple things about Tommy. Tommy Flynn was the youngest of eight kids and lived right across the street from me. We were sort of best friends when we were kids: great pals one day, rock-throwing mortal enemies the next.Tommy was a couple of years younger than the rest of the kids on the block but had more spine than any of us given his being the youngest in his family. He took a lot of physical and emotional grief from his older brothers and it toughened him up. It also turned him into a stellar athlete, having to play one-on-one basketball against his brothers all the time. In our group, Tommy was the fastest on his feet and with his mouth. He could cut you down with a stinging verbal jab and run away laughing, knowing you’d never catch up to him. Back to the chase: Joey was lurching after Tommy and Tommy was putting on a good show of it, letting Joey stay just close enough to him to keep it interesting, but everybody knew Joey didn’t have a chance and he’d eventually just tire and sit down and we’d then get on with our reenactment of our beloved Clint Eastwood film. Joey and Tommy did a couple more laps around the catalpa’s tire swing,Tommy running backward and taunting Joey the whole time, Joey’s face a combination of anger, exertion, and hurt. Tommy then slipped and fell, caught himself with one hand, and realized that Joey was about to be on top of him, administering his patented one-man Malachi Crunch. Tommy bolted upright and turned around in one swift movement and ran headfirst into the catalpa. It knocked him out cold for a full minute, and we all stood over the amazing Tommy Flynn flat on his back, an egg growing in his temple. Somebody shook Tommy awake and he walked home in a daze. The rest of us did too, unsure what penalty might be awaiting us if Tommy was really hurt. Tommy turned out fine and went on to set a single-season scoring record for basketball at his high school. I don’t know what happened to Joey, or any of the other kids on the block with great names—Jimmy Saia and Pat Donohoe and Nick Barbagallo and Chris Leyendecker. I wonder what they think of when they see a catalpa tree. 9/15 CHRONOGRAM 21

Billionaire Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner is funding an initiative to discover life on other planets. Milner has invested $100 million into the project called the Breakthrough Initiatives, and its first phase, Breakthrough Listen, launched in late July. Using two of the world’s most powerful telescopes, Breakthrough Listen is the most comprehensive and intensive search for extraterrestrials ever undertaken. The program will survey the 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth with hopes of finding conditions suitable to life. It is expected to be 1,000 times more effective than any other search for life on other planets. Phase two of the initiative, Breakthrough Message, will focus on what to transmit into space for possible ETs to hear. It is a question that Milner will open to the public to answer, offering a million-dollar award to the individual(s) who create a digital message that best represents humanity. Source: Techcrunch In early July, the famous and beloved Zimbabwean lion Cecil was killed. The culprit behind Cecil’s death is Minnesota dentist and real-life Francis Macomber Walter Palmer, who, along with hired hunting guides, lured the black-maned lion outside a national park, where it would have been illegal to kill, and shot him with a bow and arrow. Cecil is believed to have bled out for 40 hours before Palmer and his guides tracked him down and shot the lion at point-blank range. Palmer has claimed that he didn’t know the lion was a protected local favorite until after the hunt had ended—a hunt that he paid $50,000 to go on. “The saddest part of all,” says Johny Rodrigues, head of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, “is that now that Cecil is dead, the next lion in the hierarchy, Jericho, will most likely kill all Cecil’s cubs so that he can insert his own bloodline into the females.” Walter Palmer and the professional guides that he hired are facing poaching charges for the untimely death of Cecil the Lion. Source: Guardian (UK) Beware the armadillos! Health officials in Florida have warned people to avoid contact with the creatures, which spit when afraid, as nine cases of leprosy were linked to armadillos this year as of July. That is double the normal number of reported cases. Leprosy, a bacterial disease that affects the skin and nerves, can be spread through saliva. Although most of the population is immune to the disease, which is treatable, leprosy can be fatal if left untreated. Source: BBC The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in July that drug-sniffing police dogs should no longer be trusted. Questions about how much reliance should be placed on canine sniffing skills were raised after an appeal by Larry Bentley Jr. of St. Louis, who is serving 20 years for cocaine possession. He argued that the search of his car by Bloomington police during a traffic stop was illegally triggered by Lex, a 10-year-old Belgian Malinois. Throughout his career, Lex has signaled 93 percent of the time that drugs were present; he was wrong in more than 40 percent of cases. The court upheld Bentley’s conviction in part because other indications at the traffic stop may have separately justified a search but expressed concerns that Lex’s overall performance likely rose just above minimally acceptable levels according to criteria laid out by the Supreme Court. 22 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAM 9/15 9/15 22

Source: Associated Press Five organizations have been awarded medical marijuana licenses by the New York State Health Department. Each organization plans to open four dispensaries statewide, including in New York City, and are required to be doing business within six months. Outlets are planned to open up in the Bronx, Queens, Nassau County, Albany County, and Long Island—just to name a few. The Compassionate Care Act, signed by Governor Cuomo in 2014, authorizes the five marijuana dispensers to do business, who were chosen out of a pool of 43 companies after a rigorous review of prospective purveyors. To some, like health commissioner Dr. Howard A. Zucker, the Health Departments decision marks a “major milestone” in the state’s medical marijuana program. Others, however, believe the plan is too small to reach the thousands of potential patients that will have to travel huge distances for their medicine—an unrealistic prospect for the disabled or terminally ill. Source: New York Times Board members of the Delaware County Fair refused to ban Confederate flag sales in August. The flag has become an increasingly controversial symbol associated with the white supremacist movement. The mass shooting at a Methodist church in Charleston, South Carolina, this June by Dylann Roof, who had posted a racist manifesto as well as photos of the Confederate flag on a website, triggered debate on its modern display. The flag has since been removed from South Carolina’s statehouse and many national retailers such as Wal-Mart have stopped selling anything associated with the flag; the New York State Fair banned sale of the flag this summer. Leslie Kauffman, a 4-H Club leader and co-superintendent of the rabbit barn at the fair, requested that the Delaware Valley Agricultural Society, the governing body of the Delaware County Fair, ban the flag. “The more of them, the better,” replied Director Norm Kirkpatrick; other directors cited the flag’s historical relevance in their refusal to ban its sale, as well as the fact that it would be impossible to ban the flags, as vendor contracts for the fair were signed several months prior to the event. Source: Watershed Post Animal rights activists triumphed in August when a federal judge in Idaho lifted a ban on undercover surveillance inside the state’s factory farms. Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled that the “ag-gag” law violated citizens’ right to free speech. Footage captured in 2012 by an undercover advocate of the Mercy for Animals group revealed cruelty—workers beating cows, and using tractors to drag cows with chains around their necks—at Bettencourt Dairies, Idaho’s largest dairy factory farm. Several workers were then charged with animal cruelty and the case caught national attention, causing several major food suppliers to reform their policies. Outraged, Idaho’s dairy industry mobilized to convince state legislators to pass a law making it illegal to film inside agricultural facilities; Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter signed it, effectively criminalizing whistleblowers and silencing free speech. Animal and civil rights activists lobbied to lift the ban. Judge Winmill agreed that the “ag-gag” law violated First Amendment rights and the equal protection clause as it was motivated in part by resentment toward animal welfare groups. Source: Guardian (UK) Compiled by Jessica Jones and Jake Swain

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hen I was a young lad, I was a fan, along with my father, Ernest Hemingway, and Winston Churchill, of C. S. Forester’s rousing seagoing adventure tales, featuring Horatio Hornblower. Hornblower was a fictional British Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars. His exploits, I later learned, were based on real ones, primarily by Lord Cochrane, an astonishing fellow if there ever was one. I presume that Hornblower’s entire fictional world likewise had its roots in reality. As a standard of comparison, far more so than reality TV. One of the most striking features of the stories was that every time something went wrong—a ship sunk, a battle lost, even a victory won in a way that defied orders—Hornblower would be called up before a court martial. The term had less of the criminal connotation than it does today. It was more like a board of inquiry, but it was very stern and very severe. So, although he was always right—and we, the readers, knew it—Horatio was always at risk of never having a command again. Presuming this was an accurate portrait, it is also clear that these ruthless reviews and severe standards had to have been a vitally important factor in the success of the British Navy, one of the most successful forces in military history. What about our heroes? The real-life ones, in real-life military actions today. Jim Gourley, the military culture correspondent for Foreign Policy, wrote: “It is incontrovertibly evident that the US military failed to achieve any of its strategic goals in Iraq. Evaluated according to the goals set forth by our military leadership, the war ended in utter defeat for our forces. The cost of the war alone accounts for 10 percent of the current US national debt, and cost 176,000 lives by conservative estimates. Throughout, the military has repeatedly bungled the care of its service members and their families, wounded and otherwise.” Thank you, Jim, for stating that so clearly. He summed it up: “Our leadership can’t figure out how to win a war.” What’s the military done about itself? The best military journalist we have, Thomas Ricks, wrote in the Atlantic, that “hundreds of Army generals were deployed to the field, and the available evidence indicates that not one was relieved by the military brass for combat ineffectiveness.” It must be noted here, that there is another narrative. Websites like Americawake-up.com and Standupamericaus.com, are alarmed, very alarmed, and you should be too, that an unprecedented 197 senior officers have been dismissed in five years! Actually, the list contains mostly commanders and captains, even a command sergeant major. It is a “purge” by Obama, who is “intentionally weakening and gutting our military.” It portends “radical change,” even preparation for Obama’s war against the United States. Almost all of them were dismissed for bits of misconduct—sexual indiscretions leading the tally, but also such oddities as using counterfeit chips at a casino and claiming it would be treason to criticize a particular aircraft to members of Congress. (These can’t be the real reasons, according to right-wing websites.) The list does reveal two officers relieved for “combat ineffectiveness,” Marine Major Generals Sturdevant and Gurganus, both for failing to adequately protect their troops from a Taliban attack in Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. But what of the greater failures? We’ve had a 15-year war in Afghanistan. It appears to be in a greater shambles— in terms of US interests—than when it started. Remember, the point of that war was primarily to get Osama bin Laden. We’ve had great celebrations, including a major motion picture, over finally killing him. But wait, it took 10 years! Back in 2002, I offered the Beinhart chal-

lenge, give me $20 billion and I’ll get the guy. This was something I was grossly incompetent to attempt, so the point was that anyone with $20 billion—and no consequence for their actions—should be able to kill anyone else. Actually, it cost at least $400 billion, maybe even twice that much, over 1,000 US soldiers dead, over 9,600 wounded, before we “got” bin Laden. Who are the people who spent so much, in money and blood, to accomplish so little? Every few weeks there’s a story about Iraqi troops collapsing when opposed by…well, anyone. They were American trained. By whom? Which general? Who signed off on them and said, “They’re ready to go!” Since both George W. Bush and Barack Obama accepted the idea of pulling US troops out of Iraq, it is fair to assume that their military advisers did not say, “Well, sure, but it’s going to be good for Iran and good for some new radical groups, and expect the place to fall to pieces.” Going back further, what about the officers who thought you could have an invasion of Iraq without an occupation? And when it became painfully obvious that one was necessary, didn’t know how to plan or carry one out, even though they have their own manuals on the subject from WWII. The only senior officers I know of, beyond the two cited above, who have suffered any consequences for anything are David Petraeus, prosecuted for adultery (We’re kidding, right? He of The Surge, the only Hero General of the two wars, dismissed for having sex! With someone who was both an adult and a female!); Stanley A. McChrystal, who spoke too frankly in front of a Rolling Stone reporter; and General Eric Shinseki, who told Rumsfeld, correctly, that the invasion of Iraq needed more troops. This last, the dismissal of Shinseki for being right, by Rumsfeld, one of the crew of the Always Wrong, indicates that there is a complex overlap of the military, the intelligence industry, and civilian politics. So, yes, there’s lot of blame to go around. But does that mean that the military has no responsibility? That they must always be heroes no matter how egregious their failures? Horatio Hornblower must be rolling over in his fictitious grave. Or dying—all over again—of envy, to live in a system where there are no penalties for failure. We will have a debate about the military. The Republicans will thump their chests, cry that Democrats are wimps about invading more countries, and say we must give the military more money. The Democrats will say they love our troops just as much and, yes, bombing people in foreign lands is justice and feels so good (though not as good as it makes Republicans feel). The debate we should have is about what the military can accomplish. How can they effect different missions? Can we develop an officer class that can actually bring success? Or are we stuck with corporate social climbers? But we won’t have that debate. Why not? Although, based on results, military intelligence is still the classic oxymoron, we, the people, love our military. According to Gallup, about 75 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the military, while only 33 percent trust the medical system and a mere 7 percent trust Congress. So, if you were a politician, would you criticize a group of people that the voters like 10 times more than they like you? So, incompetents rise through the ranks. Vast sums are spent. Much of it going to contractors who get richer and richer, producing nothing. We, the taxpayers, love them and give them more and more money. Who’s the moron? 9/15 CHRONOGRAM 23

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case could be made for the city of Hudson and the village and town of Catskill as the gateway to the “real” upstate, econo-cultural centers and seats of their otherwise rural counties that are past the outer limits of all but the most determined commuters. In the later mid-20th century, when heavy industry nosedived, both experienced periods of shuttered storefronts and tough, bleak times. Hudson found its stride first. Upstate’s Downtown has always been a place for the brave, from the Quaker whalers who settled it to the painted ladies of the Diamond Street district, and those who claimed it in the name of art and excellence and simply refused to give up. Mixed-use urban planning and waterfront reclamation began in the 1980s; in 1991, activist artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce opened alt-arts programming there, claiming a former bakery for their “dream child,” Time and Space Limited. If international performance art star Marina Abramović ever opens her planned institute in Hudson, she’ll have the city’s pioneering gallerists like Carrie Haddad to thank. Sustainable mass has long since been reached, and the star of this historic, walkable gem just keeps on rising. “Travel like Katy Perry and Usher,” began New York magazine’s 2015 travel feature on Hudson; their 2010 expedition found “a slew of new galleries and bars moving into dated factories,” which was not new news for local folk. From morning cuppa to after-hours soiree, with a tasty filling of boutique and gallery exploration, Hudson has become nothing less than a five-star destination. Meanwhile, across the bridge, Catskill has awakened from a longish catnap and is pouncing on its own bright future. And, as in the day when a young Frederic Church was mentored by Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, artistic contagion is ragin’. As in Hudson, the day’s won and made by the makers. When Etsy opened administrative offices in Hudson a couple of years ago they called the place an “obvious fit,” noting “it seems like everyone you talk to makes something.” In 2014, three former factory buildings in Catskill were reborn as the Catskill Mill (a project of Etsy founder Rob Kalin), providing space for clay, wood, 26 COMMUNITY PAGES CHRONOGRAM 9/15

Cat of the Baskervilles by Stephen S. Martin, part of the Cat’n Around Catskill project..

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metal, leather, electronics, textiles, and fiber arts creatives. A restaurant and hotel are in the works, to be furnished and equipped by the products of the resident artisans. Hudson Valley magazine tagged Catskill one of “8 Hot Hometowns” in 2013, citing “Now Open” signs downtown, historic architecture, and two sweet riverfront parks. The Catskill Local Development Corporation, which has been facilitating discounted rent and other perks for new small businesses since 2012, and the Heart of Catskill Association, which sponsors Music in the Park concerts and themed Second Saturday strolls, have gained satisfying traction. There were naysayers along the way. There always are when ideas are bold, like decorating downtown with whimsical cat sculptures or advertising a year’s free rent on a classic café to a chef who’d bring topflight skills and a concept, or filling your upstate Main Street with the art of Occupy Wall Street, as the Greene County Council on the Arts did as part of their “Masters on Main Street” series. But the bold ideas have won the day, like a plump tabby materializing around a Cheshire grin, and Catskill is taking its place alongside Hudson as a destination that lives up to sharing its name with one of the region’s top two iconic natural highlights. Verdigris Tea, beloved in Hudson for its hot beverages, smoothies, chocolates and baked goods, has opened a Catskill branch. There’s a restaurant and wine bar, 394 Main, joining the Catskill Mill food truck (their restaurant is in the works) as new additions to a burgeoning foodie scene. And Catskill has landed the avant garde Bridge Street Theatre, dream baby of John Sowle and Steven Patterson, who’ve been producing acclaimed theatre in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco as Kaliyuga Arts since the 1980s. Renovation of their 12,000-square-foot factory began with a space they call the Speakeasy; their location, neighboring the high school, has educators excited. Over Labor Day weekend, you can catch the acclaimed “Dirty Paki Lingerie,” and on September 26, a Gallimaufry fundraiser, which Sowle describes as “a bunch of theatre groups, musicians, magicians, and midway stuff that patrons will wander through, a bit of New York’s ‘Sleep No More’ in Catskill.” From either side of the river, wander across the Hudson’s other walkway, the Rip Van Winkle Skywalk on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, and take in unparalleled panoramas of the scenery that inspired an entire school of art in the mid-19th century. Touching ground on either shore, you can immerse yourself in the life of it—150 years young, growing stronger all the time.

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Catskill and Hudson The connection between Catskill and Hudson is invoked in the very name of “River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home,” an exhibit happening through November at Olana in Hudson and the Cedar Grove Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill. Get to Olana on Saturdays by 11 for an artist-led tour; catch the free shuttle to Thomas Cole’s digs, where September 20 is Community Day, with music, eats, and kid stuff. It’s easy enough to trace Hudson’s name back to an explorer named Hendrick, but the question of who put the Cat in Catskill is a little murkier. One theory traces it to Dutch poet/magistrate Jacob Cats, but that’s just one theory. One thing’s sure: the “kill” part definitely refers to the creek. And residents of this river town still face the need to explain that they live in Catskill, not The Catskills. Some of the first signs of Hudson’s solid resurgence came from the antiques sector. Warren Street’s been an A-list antiquing destination for several decades; today’s Hudson Antique Dealer’s Association has five dozen member shops. There’s an equally splendiferous array of vintage, ultramodern, and custom home design specialty places. Dina Bursztyn and Julie Chase turned a Catskill fried chicken restaurant into their Open Studio 10 years ago and have been doing free-range outsider art (and selling eclectic cool stuff) ever since. It’s a place unlike any other. At the moment they’re having fun with kachina dolls, abstract planters, and Dina’s latest book, When I Was a Tree.

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Hudson is home to the best music and nightlife scene along the whole length of the river, what with 10 (yes, 10) live performance venues within its two square miles. There’s the 1855 Hudson Opera House, the sleek Club Helsinki, and the industrial chic of Basilica, where you can catch the Soundscape “antifestival” this month. Then there are more intimate spots like the Half Moon and Spotty Dog Books and Ale. Catskill is where you’ll find the solution to your gluten-free and other specialized dietary needs and wants. At Pamper Thyme Country Store, they will create your personal food tolerance profile and craft you custom baked goods, made from locally sourced organics in a kitchen that meets National Celiac Foundation standards. Before you catch one of those great live shows in Hudson, dine at any of a couple dozen topflight eateries offering a world-map of cuisines from Asia, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas. After the show, hit a pub or wine bar for a nightcap. Or two or three, if you’ve been clever and booked a room at one of Hudson’s assorted B&Bs and boutique hotels. You can dine elegantly in Catskill too: on the water, at Frank Guido’s Port of Call or the Creekside, in rustic splendor at the Barnwood, or at the new 394 Main. Catskill’s also got some good Italian options, and there’s a nice selection of casual grub like pizza and diner. Hudson has a top-notch recording studio, Waterfront Studios, run by famed sound engineer/producer Henry Hirsch. And Publication Studio Hudson (in Catskill)does custom, on-demand book production for writers and artists. Then there are a halfdozen cutting-edge digital design outfits.

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The Back to School Edition By Jana Martin

hat hint of fall in the air can only mean one thing: it’s back to school time for Hudson Valley kids. Public schooled, private schooled, home schooled—that studious spirit settles on everyone. Here’s a tip: skip the mall melées and head to these local havens instead. They have everything from notebooks to cleats, dresses to pink ombre hair to James Baldwin to lunchboxes. Happy September!

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Catskill Art and Office Supply (locations in Poughkeepsie, Woodstock, and Kingston) stocks color-drenched Clairefontaine notebooks in snazzy orange, apple green, bright purple and more. Kids love assembling a whole range of shapes and sizes, from little memo books ($5.25) to thick spiral notebooks, a different color for each subject ($12.50). There’s also a faux leather style for that seriously serious look. The shop also stocks money-saving refills for pens you never thought were refillable, such for as the Pilot G2 (in tons of colors), as well as so many different kinds of pencils, you could create your own museum: sketch, mechanical, eraser-topped, and more. Catskillart.com

Art projects

Sketch Hudson (in Hudson) has loads of great art supplies and craft projects to get those creative juices flowing, including Caran d’Ache Neocolor crayons, which can be used as watercolors and safe face paint too. Set of 15 in a metal case, $35. Creativity for Kids makes super-fun project kits for ages 5 and up, including the ever-popular Pirate Ship ($6.49), Color-n-Tattoo Party with over 40 temporary tattoos ($6.99), and the Mini Pop-Up Book kit, which lets kids create the very own pop-up books ($6.99). Sketchhudson.com 36 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 9/15

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Required reading

Here’s a smart way to stock up on required reading: head to Magpie Bookshop in Catskill and find it on the shelves. The stacks are packed with gently used books—from children’s favorites to all that 20th-century lit the English teacher’s just called for—Orwell, Wright, Woolf, Plath, Baldwin, and much more ($2-$5). There are also great British authors, full sets and singles of beloved series, Newbery Award winners, picture books, young readers—you name it. If you’re not a book lover, you may become one by the time you leave. Magpiebookshop.com

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In that way some kids love to carry the coolest things ever, the Golden Notebook in Woodstock has two treasures with great appeal. The Fender Amplifier lunchbox is a bestselling, miniature metal model of that classic Fender amp and lends instant Rock Academy cred ($14.99). And a new book about scientist Marie Curie, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout turns reading into a multifaceted and science-positive experience—the illustrations were made with the same technique Curie used in her laboratory, and the accompanying website is riveting ($21.99). Goldennotebook.com

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Boom Baby boutique in High Falls is not just for babies. There’s plenty for older kids too, including lots of school-ready accessories, like charming animal print lunch bags and bento boxes by Green Sprout in canvas, cotton, BPA- and PVC-free materials ($6.95-$17.95). There are also lunch bags, drink cups and backpacks by designer Penny Scallan in adorable patterns such as Russian Dolls and Apples, all made from BPA-free, 100 percent cotton ($25-$55). Thebarnabas.org

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Forget the preppy look: at the Groovy Blueberry in New Paltz your tyke can turn into a happy little hippie. The shop’s hand-dyed, US-made clothing is vibrant and fun: T-shirts in long and short sleeves are tie-dyed with blues and purples, oranges and reds and more, and emblazoned with raucous hearts and starbursts; kid-hipster swirl hoodies tell a psychedelic story; and the insideout seam dresses are local little girl must-haves. There are plenty of yoga pants too. Sizes 2R to 14 (shirts, $12.99-$19.99; hoodies, $45.99; dresses and pants, $22.99 and up). And you’ll find tie-dye at a discount at the store’s local outlet shop. Groovyblueberry.com

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Quackles Baby and Children’s Boutique in Poughkeepsie offers all manner of footwear to keep your children moving, from school uniform shoes by Stride Rite, Merrell and Pedipeds to a dazzling array of colorful, fun and (most important) cool sneakers. Among the most coveted are bright colored Saucony sneakers for both boys and girls; the latest Star Wars Force Speed sneakers in black and citron (for boys, $58) and Disney Winter Silver sneakers a la Frozen (for girls, $55), both by Stride Rite. There are also superhero, plain, and of course, light-up sneakers—the better to match every kid’s sneaker desires. Quackles.com

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From the littlest kickers on up to varsity, outfit your aspiring champion at Goal Evolution Athletic Supply in Hopewell Junction. There’s everything for football, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, and more for both girls and boys, from practice and warm-up to spiffy team uniforms, including all the right gear, footwear and apparel. Sizes start at youth and girls small and go right up to adult, and a helpful staff to boot. GoalEvolution.us

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Get the kids a back to school haircut they can be proud of at Le Shag in uptown Kingston. You won’t find shopping-mall, cookie-cutter shearings here: the team of friendly and talented stylists will work nearly any magic your child wants (with your approval), from a streak of pink to long tresses in front. Children’s hair styling is more creative and versatile than even, so don’t be surprised if you’re fielding a request from Timmy for blue streaks—and if you choose to oblige him, rest assured all the processes are safely done. Depending on the haircutter, cuts range from $15-$30. Call for an appointment: (845) 338-0191. LeShagBeauty.com

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THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A TWEENAGER Text and photo by Hillary Harvey

With all the social posturing, it can be hard to read tweens. But it’s worth it.

weens are the first to tell you they have it rough. Amid the temper tantrums and eye rolling, they’re straddling childhood and adolescence. But in the face of all its ensuing challenges, it’s a transition where adults largely close their eyes and hold their breath until it passes. Basically created for product marketing, even the label tween, meaning roughly 10- to 12-yearolds, suggests something’s coming and kids have to get ready. It also suggests that something’s coming and kids have to get ready. “It creates anxiety,” says Amy Frisch, a psychotherapist with offices in New Paltz and Montgomery. “If you’re not ready in the pace of our culture, there’s judgment around that.” There are endless investigations about the teen years, but at its brink, all we have to say is, “Watch out!” Three local programs are geared toward the real, developmental needs of our tweens. It’s a Girl Thing A secret adorned the back of the T-shirt. The circle of eight 12-year-old girls were a few weeks into a 10-week support group. Each week had a theme (for example, healthy communication, relationships with parents, and school transitions), and the T-shirts were an exercise. On the front, the girls depicted something that they show readily to the world; on the back, they revealed something they usually kept hidden. That’s when one girl confessed that she kept her Polly Pockets dolls hidden under her bed. She didn’t always play with them, but she liked to have them there. “It was an incredible moment,” says Frisch, the group’s facilitator. “They’re afraid of getting older. They’re moving too quickly into the adolescent world and feeling pressure. Then there’s this tender moment where the girls could say, ‘I just want to be seven again.’” Most endocrinologists agree that the onset of puberty, which is still wholly individual, is generally happening earlier. And with that comes increased hormonal activity at a time when kids aren’t mature enough to handle it. It can be painful for parents when kids need space and aren’t able to communicate that politely. “The call of adolescence is to leave childhood behind,” says Frisch. With that, comes the desire to give up parents, too. But Frisch notices that parents 40 KIDS & FAMILY CHRONOGRAM 9/15

also get tripped up in that belief, usually because they’re tired at that point in their parenting from giving so much already. We nudge tweens to place more importance on their friendships than their family relationships, essentially using their rawness as an excuse to push them away. “It comes down to parenting—the limits set and how far they’re allowed to explore,” Frisch says. Because they develop at different rates, tweens often worry about how they’re perceived. And Frisch feels those expectations start with adults. Adults joke about arranged marriages and feign disgust when tweens’ personal hygiene and style fall outside of cultural norms. They’re subtle cues, but kids seek them. “It’s based on what adults allow kids to do. It’s unspoken. But that’s why that secret that was disclosed in my group was so golden. Even with mature kids, it’s fun to play. And we don’t value play for tweens in the same way.” When 10- or 11-yearolds hit the toy store, they’re offered movies, devices, and arts and crafts. There are a lot less manipulative toys developed for that age group. But play remains, as it did when they were little, an important activity for developing social skills, creative problem solving, focus, and an outlet for blowing off steam. In her adolescent support groups, which create a safe community for peers to give and get support, Frisch helps the girls to slow down and play. “These are formative, critical years, and they need space and permission to just be girls.” Frisch runs weekend retreats at a private residence in Montgomery each summer in early July. There’s a labyrinth and a fire pit. They swim at midnight, play their music too loud, sleep in tents, and cook their own vegetarian meals. They try walking meditation, yoga, and expressive arts, like journaling, movement, and music, which allows them to articulate their innermost feelings. “Girls want to know that they’re okay at their core, that they’re loveable and worthy, that they fit in somewhere,” Frisch says. “We all have emotional debt. We all have a story. The threads in those stories are similar, and that’s what helps girls feel connected.” GoodLife Youth Journal When one of her son’s friends passed away, Catherine McNamara responded by creating a print magazine for the Hudson Valley where the content would be

entirely provided by young people, ages 10 to 20. Her younger son photographs for it, and her older son writes a column of interviews with artists.What started three years ago with five printed pages and research hanging from a clothesline in her living room has grown to a quarterly print run of 7,000 and a small office in the center of Woodstock. McNamara sees in their submissions that “tweenagers” are becoming socially conscious and want to impact the world. She takes them seriously. Using support from advertisers and her own funds, McNamara pays the young contributors. “They have a lot of insight and passion. It’s a very pure, heartfelt place they’re coming from. It’s wonderful.” McNamara feels kids bring new ideas to the table that will ultimately change the way things function, and the GoodLife’s readers seem refreshed by the creativity with which young people approach issues. “We’re living in a time where kids are very knowledgeable and hyperconnected,” McNamara says. “But we’re doing everything the fast way.” McNamara feels people need positive outlets. She’s an advocate of the slow arts of talking and sharing, and GoodLife is about creating a community around that. Kids want to be heard, and adults want to hear them. It’s as simple as creating a venue to make it happen. Wild Earth The fawn-skin bag at Wild Earth has a five-year story.The fawn was hit by a car and, during camp, some kids chose to skin it as an elective activity. Over the course of a few more programs, the skin was made into leather and a bead was crafted for the closure.Wild Earth’s programs director, Alisha Mai McNamara (no relation to Catherine), sewed the bag. Then the girls in the Artemis Moon program gathered goldenrod, polkweed, and black walnut, dyed yarn that they’d collected, and wove the bag a strap. “People’s older sisters were involved in the beginning of the bag,” says Mai. “It’s more than just an object; it becomes a story of us being together and improving our skills over time.” The bag is used in a variety of ways during programming, and the kids lovingly fight over who gets to carry it. It’s a constant reminder of their agency, that they have tangible skills and can make something that they will love, or improve something that they don’t. Mai feels it gives the Wild Earth kids, beyond being consumers, a sense of capability that fosters leadership, and that is the true work of the Wild Earth programs. The tweens are the only age group that Wild Earth separates by gender (with inclusivity and respect for gender-fluid kids), because confidence-building becomes fragile at that stage. In mixed gender groups, girls tend to hang back and don’t always seize leadership opportunities. And boys sometimes show off, making it harder to encourage their vulnerability and connection with one another. “We find that everything goes better if they have this moment of relative emotional safety,” Mai says. Simplifying their social landscape is about integration. Within the desire to construct an identity, tweens can embrace all parts of themselves and don’t have to fit neatly into any category. Tweens can wear the skill of fire building or archery in the same way they’d claim to be a skateboarder. Building those skills infuses the social posturing that tweens do with a deep selfawareness and strength. “There are so many layers of complexity in taking care of yourself,” says Mai. “But in camping, it’s pared down to context. As a child, you can chop the wood, cook dinner, and really contribute as the adults do.” The tween experience is ultimately about branching out, and the relationships fostered at Wild Earth serve as an access point—not just with other kids, but also with mentors. Both Frisch and Mai encourage parents to help kids establish relationships with other adults. This is the time when extended family, godparents, teachers, and older teens come into play, because those friendships can blossom and support kids through these tender years. At any stage of development, but especially with volatile tweens, it’s important to have a solid foundation. In his book Nature and the Human Soul, which influences Mai’s work with young people and the ideas that run through everything they do and teach, Bill Plotkin writes, “It’s essential to see that, by rebelling, these teens are not trying to push their parents away. Rather, they’re trying to push themselves away—to shove off from the launching pad (whether exemplary or shoddy) that their parents helped them build. Healthy early teens are ready to launch themselves into the wider world—and they need to. Parents must stand firm so that their kids have something solid to push against.” RESOURCES It’s a Girl Thing Itsagirlthinginfo.com GoodLife Youth Journal Goodlifeyouthjournal.com Wild Earth Wildearth.org

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y mom is an amazing gardener,” Jason O’Malley says as he guides me through his vibrant and verdant two acres in Kerhonkson. We follow a bluestone gravel path leading from the driveway, around a corner that swells to encompass a circular fire pit with aged wood lounge chairs, to a simple but elegant deck. “This is great for coffee in the morning. We are out here all the time.” I understand why. Skirting the walkway and deck, crawling up the dark wood stained sides of the cabin to the bright red-trimmed windows, and popping up like wild islands of color in a sea of perfectly manicured green are lush perennial gardens. Hostas and black-eyed Susans, rhododendrons, and bearded iris artfully intermingle with peonies and ornamental grasses like a collection of paintings. Almost all were imported and planted by O’Malley’s mother, Ida. “My parents live in Michigan, and every summer they come to visit and dog sit while we vacation. Every year, she brings new plants, and when we return there is always something added.” The display is well guarded by O’Malley and his partner J. R. Craigmile’s two dogs, miniature pinscher Tino and a Black Mouth Cur named Leo, who keep the deer away. 42 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 9/15

caption tk Above: The new screened-in porch is where we Craigmile and O’Malley spend most of their time when it’s warm enough. Below: The vintage red vinyl lounge chair with bentwood arms imported from Michigan by O’Malley’s parents. Pillow by Judy Ross.

The addition of the new deck made a previously little used and sloped part of the backyard a great place to BBQ and and hang out.

A pair of Wassily chairs by Marcel Breuer flank a vintage Kartell Componibili storage module. Craigmile collected the cherry bombs and vans framed pieces by noted outsider artist Gregory L. Blackstock.

A vintage Paul McCobb sideboard serves as the bar. Sconce is from Schoolhouse Electric. Smiths poster by Swissted.

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Above: the former screened-in porch is now the new dining room. Sconces by Cedar and Moss. The banquette is by West Elm. Walnut topped Saarinen table. Vintage Eames Molded Fiberglass side chairs. Below: A mini mud room with dog towels in the crate, and unidentified outsider art on the walls.

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The Mettacahonts Creek bubbles along the southern edge of the property. “This is the whole reason we fell in love with the place,” O’Malley says, pointing to a bend in the creek where the water widens into a six-foot-deep swimming hole. “The great thing is that it’s always running and you can usually see the bottom.” After Irene, the creek and yard flooded, so the couple added massive boulders to the bank that are both visually striking and an insurance against future storms. The deck is just one part of O’Malley and Craigmile’s latest renovation. It was a project that grew the house’s livable space considerably while keeping within the circa-1980 cabin’s footprint and the couple’s budget.The successful blend of style and practicality could be said to represent the couple themselves. O’Malley, an illustrator with a background in design, worked with the contractor to expand the original dining room into the former screened porch and then building a new screened porch over the original deck. Then the new deck was built on land too sloped to be usable. Craigmile (an accountant for the film industry) and O’Malley bought the house in 2004 and began living in it full-time in 2007. Technology has made it possible for both men to become kind of “rural modernists” (Jason’s Twitter and Instagram handle)—keeping their city-based careers viable, while learning to live in, and love, the country. However, full-time living, especially in winter, requires more space—thus the recent renovation. From the deck, a gray staircase climbs to double screen doors, trimmed in the same bright red as the windows. (“One thing I’ve learned,” O’Malley advises, “is don’t skimp on doors or windows.”) They open onto a 14’ by 20’ rectangular screened porch where fresh, white, wooden beams frame the landscape and a grand wicker sofa is comfortable enough to lounge or even sleep on. It’s the perfect outdoor room. “Now we really just live out here,” he says. The couple elected to keep the original deck’s wire goat fencing, and the combination of wood and wire gives the porch a rural-meets-industrial edge. A set of French doors leads from the porch into the reimagined dining space—a sun-drenched room with a white oval dining table large enough to seat eight. “I didn’t want a formal dining room that we would only use on special occasions. My goal here was a space we could use all the time,” O’Malley says. “By doing the banquette with the table, after dinner everyone just wants to chill out here.” The gently curved banquette sofa provides both table and window seating. “In the morning, the light here is amazing.”

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Top: View of open plan kitchen and living room. The Bertoia barstools are by Knoll. O’Mallley’s vintage globe collection sits behind a sofa and chair by Room and Board. Pillows by Orla Kiely. Bottom: The pink poster is by Massimo Vignelli circa 1963. The bird serigraphs are by noted mid-century modern illustrator Charley Harper. The abstract paintings are by O’Malley. On the table, carved figures by outsider artist Sulton Rogers stand next toa collection of wooden folk art figures by Alexander Girard.

The rest of the house—a generous living room with open kitchen, two bedrooms, and a large walk-out basement area with office—is decorated in a harmonious blend of the couple’s differing styles. “I’m basically a modernist. I like clean lines,” O’Malley says. Serigraphs by Charley Harper and a collection of wooden figures by Alex Girard, as well as some of Jason’s own paintings, are displayed behind a wood-burning stove. O’Malley’s white-and-blue pottery—created at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, intermingles with a collection of antique globes. The living room also displays a collection of oil paintings rendered in an elemental but distinctive style. They are a small sample of Craigmile’s extensive outsider art collection. While the various artists may not be formally trained, they are certainly not unpracticed. Intriguing portraits with an abstract edge and bright landscapes hang throughout the house. It’s a passion Craigmile developed while visiting auctions and galleries down South, and his favorite artists include Sam Doyle, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Gregory Blackstock, Sulton Rogers, and local painter Bill Miller. Now he is contemplating ways to share his large collection with a wider audience. Craigmile has found one solution: His company, Manhattan Friday Productions, recently opened an office in Uptown Kingston. “I have so much of this art, because I’ve been collecting it for 15 years now. It’s under the sofas! When I got this new space I finally had another vehicle to show the work.” Both men love Kingston and are excited to see its recent blossoming. Still, Craigmile says, “It makes me crazy that there aren’t more galleries. I plan to open up the front of my business into a pop-up gallery this fall.” An installation of fanciful illustrations by O’Malley from the book Big Gay Ice Cream (Clarkson Potter, 2015) by Bryan Petroff and Douglas Quint is currently on display at the Bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy in Rhinebeck. He also recently designed and illustrated Mary Giuliani’s new lifestyle and entertaining book, The Cocktail Party, for Random House, out in October. However, O’Malley especially loves his work creating personalized portraits. “I love drawing dogs and I love drawing people. It is so rewarding for me.The portraits end up being really meaningful to the clients and I’m able to see it.” And if he were to do a portrait of himself and Craigmile? “Oh, of course we’d be out here!” he says referring to the screened-in porch where we end our tour, “with the dogs, and cocktails—a Martini for me and a Manhattan for J. R.” No doubt he’d add some of Craigmile’s favorite paintings. Even, perhaps, around the edges, a peak of their other “outsider” art collaboration—those lovely gardens. 46 HOME & GARDEN CHRONOGRAM 8/15

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Anthony J. Scalise and Jim Clements at Prima Pizza in Cornwall.

It isn’t hard to work up an appetite when the surrounding forests, towering mountains, and the Hudson River beckon from the backyard. Scenic trails wind through Black Rock Forest and Storm King Mountain, both of which are open dawn ’til dusk to hikers and bikers. Aquatic adventurers can book a tour with Storm King Adventure Tours for a day on the river, exploring the surrounding marshes and Bannerman’s Castle. For twice the view with none of the work, a winding drive on Route 218 jutting out over the Hudson offers heart-stopping views from the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge to West Point. As night falls, the Newburgh waterfront lights up, Melissa McGill’s public art installation “Constellation” emerges from the ruins of Bannerman’s Castle, and a quiet sea of stars rolls in gradually overhead. The Newburgh Waterfront is the nightlife hotspot for the older crowd: If Cornwall is “The Brady Bunch,” then Newburgh is more “Freaks and Geeks.” The city is currently in the throes of a modern artistic and cultural revival, an influx of young creative types rewriting previously crime-ridden headlines. Similar to Cornwall, Newburgh’s epicenter radiates out from a single main street that stretches the length of the city. Broadway is home to or kitty-corner from a number of prominent art galleries, including Teran Studio, Ann Street Gallery, and a new “community workspace” called Space Create, a hybrid art gallery, conference center, cafe, bike rental hub, and collaborative space for resident artists. The City of Newburgh is shedding its criminal cocoon, evolving into a colorful amalgam of artistic endeavors, coffee shops, and hip hole-in-the-wall cafés and music venues, notably The Wherehouse, Newburgh Brewing Company,

and Cafe Macchiato. The popular coffee shop 2 Alices, a Cornwall favorite, recently opened a second location on Newburgh’s Hudson Street equivalent. A solid cup of coffee and a tasteful soundtrack are never more than a block away from Broadway. With the largest historic district in the state, a stroll through Newburgh sheds light on its history as an industrial hub, a commercial port, and the “birthplace of the republic” during the Revolutionary War. Along with Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh is home to the Ritz Theater, where legendary performers like Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball debuted precelebrity. A number of museums covering a variety of subjects are scattered throughout the city, notably the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, the world’s largest private holding of original culturally significant documents; and the Motorcyclepedia Museum, a more kid-friendly option that houses more than 500 motorcycles in every shape, size, and color. (There’s also Orange County Choppers, a complex including a retail shop, café, and bowling alley dedicated to the works and legacy of the Teutul clan of motorcycle manufacturers.) The social, cultural overlap in Newburgh is most evident in its food scene, mixing high-end restaurants like the newly established Blu Pointe and the classic Italian Cena 2000 with delectable, melt-in-your-mouth $1.50 tacos from Ixtapa Taco Truck. Dozens of ethnic food options are guaranteed to sate any palate, ranging from fresh, vegetarian Ayurvedan dishes served by Bliss Kitchen to traditional Peruvian cuisine at Machu Picchu. Bring your appetite, an artistic streak, a sense of adventure, and the kids. Explore. Learn something.You’re guaranteed to stay awhile. 9/15 CHRONOGRAM COMMUNITY PAGES 57

This page, clockwise from top: Andrea Davis at Billy Joe’s Ribworks in Newburgh; Nafie Jallow at Lettuce Serve You in Cornwall; Amani Rodriguez and Ava Mercurio at Fiddlesticks Cafe in Cornwall; Emily Waterfield-Buttner and Sean Petters at 2 Alices in Cornwall. Opposite page, clockwise from top: Christy Kirkpatrick and Alyssa Rowell at Motorcyclepedia Museum in Newburgh; Gail D. Parrinello at Cornwall Yarn Shop; Wherehouse in Newburgh; Bernadette Montana at Bird’s Closet in Cornwall; works by Ryan Roa at Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh.

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Jones Farm Since 1914

JONES FARM & COUNTRY STORE HOMEGROWN PRODUCE, OBSERVATION BEEHIVE, LOCAL & GOURMET FOODS GRANDMA PHOEBE’S KITCHEN HOMEMADE BAKED GOODS CLEARWATERS DISTINCTIVE GIFTS PERSONAL & HOME ACCESSORIES,CANDLES, TOYS, JEWELRY & MORE • A DESTINATION FOR HANDMADE & FAIR TRADE CLEARWATERS GALLERY & CUSTOM FRAMING ARCHIVAL FRAMING • ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY TERRI A. CLEARWATER

“Baked & Grown, Just Like Home.” 190 Angola Rd. Cornwall, NY 12518 • www.Jonesfarminc.com Phone: 845-534-4445 Fax: 845-534-4471 Open Daily

Gallery Talk with artist Ryan Roa Saturday, September 26 6:30 p.m. 104 Ann Street • Newburgh

Transforming lives and building communities through housing and the arts 845.784.1146 • www.safe-harbors.org

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Cornwall and Newburgh A Cornwall tradition returns with the 42nd Annual Fall Festival (also known as “The Sidewalk Sale” by locals) on September 20 along Main Street. Food, creative crafts, and other goods are sold and distributed by local businesses, special-interest groups, clubs, nonprofits, and more alongside street performances, kidfriendly activities, and myriad forms of entertainment.

Since 1981, Leo’s Italian Restaurants have been serving authentic Italian food in Orange and Dutchess county. We invite you to join us for lunch or dinner daily. We have a full menu including pizza, hot & cold subs, pasta, seafood, veal, chicken, appetizers, salads, beer and wine. In addition to a full menu, Leo’s caters for all occasions, whether in our location or yours. Eat in or take out. Delivery is also available.

On the last Saturday of every month through October, Newburgh shops and art galleries keep their doors open until 8pm or later along Broadway, Liberty Street, Grand Street, Ann Street, and the Waterfront, allowing visitors to get a taste of the local art scene by simply strolling the neighborhood. “Newburgh Last Saturdays” are part of the city’s alliance with Art Along the Hudson, an organization that aims to make art more accessible in participating Hudson Valley towns. Halloween is just around the corner, which means Cornwall residents are preparing to defend their title as the number one town for trick-or-treating in the United States. The Daily Meal crowned Cornwall as the best place in the country for candy and mischief last year.

Full bar and formal dining room at the Wappingers Falls and Cornwall locations. STADIUM PLAZA, RT 9D, WAPPINGERS FALLS (845)838-3446

The Cornwall Farmers’ Market is held on the front lawn of Town Hall on Wednesdays from 12 to 6pm and Saturdays from 10am to 2pm from June to October, featuring fresh local fare, prepared gourmet foods, specialized crafts, and, occasionally, snuggles from a local celebrity: Eli the Edgwick Farm Goat.

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Newburgh debuted a professional baseball team this year in the North Country Baseball League (NCBL)—the Newburgh Newts. Despite losing their home field due to financial issues three weeks into the season, they were crowned the first NCBL champions last month. Nineteenth-century author, editor, and poet N. P. Willis built a 14-room cottage in Cornwall-on-Hudson and named it “Idlewild,” which would later inspire his 1855 novel, Outdoors at Idlewild. Other celebrated Cornwall residents include Olympic speed skater Bonnie Blair and General David Petraeus, while former Major League baseball pitcher Rob Bell and architect/landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing originally hailed from Newburgh. After school and on the weekends, the kids of Newburgh and Cornwall can be found on the field or in the gym, depending on the season. Both towns offer a variety of seasonal and yearround recreational and athletic youth programs. The high school and middle school programs are competitive, with both the Cornwall Dragons and the Newburgh Goldbacks consistently earning high ranks in the Section 9 division. No matter where you are in the country, you can get your hands on a New York slice thanks to Prima Pizzeria in Cornwall. They ship their pizzas overnight via “Air Prima FedEx” nationwide. The pies are fully cooked, never frozen, and use all-natural ingredients and zero preservatives. Storm King Adventure Tours in Cornwall is the official kayaking company for viewing Melissa McGill’s “Constellation” art installation over Bannerman’s Castle on Pollopel Island, providing an on-the-water, fully immersive experience on Fridays and Saturdays through October, weather permitting. Private tours may be arranged during the week for groups of four or more. When Henry Hudson and his navigator, Robert Juet, sailed up the Hudson River in 1609, Juet reportedly called the site of Newburgh “a pleasant place to build a town,” though some historians argue that he may have actually been referring to the area in front of Cornwall-on-Hudson. Either way, the waterfront towns were most likely indistinguishable since they shared the same geographic features. Regardless, we agree—both areas proved to be perfectly pleasant places to settle.

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SHOPPING GUIDE It just makes sense that the Hudson Valley is such a tremendous shopping destination. We’re home to a creative class of entrepreneurs who are making and selling singular products that express the distinctive spirit of the region, from jewelry to treasures of all types.

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Dörrer Jewelers

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A family tradition going back more than 186 years

When Bruce and Peggy Lubman opened Hummingbird Jewelers in 1978 they had a vision – to create a jewelry store/ gallery that featured local artisans, and elevated the concept of jewelry to fine art. Four decades later, their vision has blossomed into an award-winning destination for stunning and unique handmade jewelry from artists around the world. Bruce and Peggy still run their store with their daughter Jamie, and personally curate their collection; each piece is chosen for its quality, artistry, unique design, and inspiring beauty. From custom jewelry designed by their onsite goldsmith Bruce Anderson, using ethically sourced gems, conflict-free diamonds and recycled metals to the diverse collection of elegant engagement and wedding rings, they still put the same loving care into maintaining their vision.”

Dörrer Jewelers follows a family tradition going back more than 186 years. The family business was found in 1827 by Wagner Dörrer. He was a watch maker and Goldsmith in Crailsheim Germany. The business continued through the family. William Dörrer came to America in 1927 and established a watch repair and Jewelry business in Fort Plain, New York in 1932. Fredrick Dörrer took over from his father William and ran the family business until 1999. Now Fredrick’s son David is caring on the Dörrer tradition for the past 14 years and has opened a second location in Rhinebeck New York. Bracelet above by Freida Rothman. Fredia’s intricate development process was mastered as she showcases her vision of industrial details in an unexpected yet glamorous way. The core designs are crafted in sterling silver matte with yellow gold.

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Sierra Lily

Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store

1955 South Road, Suite 6, South Rd Square Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601 (845) 297-1684 www.sierralily.com

7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205, ext. 133 Hours: Tues.-Fri. 10am-5pm Sat. 10am-6pm www.cagcny.org

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You never know what you’ll find at Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store! From vintage to contemporary designer label clothing, jewelry, housewares, furniture and collectibles, our inventory changes on a daily basis! Proceeds directly benefit Greene County residents through the programs offered by Community Action of Greene County, a 501(c)3 non profit organization! All donations are tax deductible!

store! After 35 years in business, we have evolved and so has the wonderful selection of merchandise we proudly provide. Jewelry, handbags, fashion accessories, beautiful gifts for the home, and the best selection of something ‘just different’ from everything else. We look forward to meeting you! 62 RESTAURANT GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 8/15

Handmade and More

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6 North Front Street New Paltz (845) 255-6277 Hours: 10am-7pm Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm Sun www.handmadeandmore.com

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246 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520 For more information or to make an appointment call 845-401-5443

Light House 86 Partition Street, Saugerties (845) 246-1000 Hours: Mon-Thurs 11am-7pm, Fri 11am-9pm, Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 10am-6pm www.lighthousestyle.com

Off Premise Special Events Caterer

Light House is a store filled with kitchen and entertaining essentials; home decor; luxurious bath and body products; gourmet foods; and beautiful gifts for babies, children and everyone you know! Light House is not just a “store”, it’s an experience. Come experience Light House for yourself. Open 7 days a week. Check our website for seasonal change in hours.

Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe Two locations: 31 Main Street, Warwick 89 Windmere Ave, Greenwood Lake yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com 845-544-7183 Ye Olde Warwick Book Shoppe proudly features local authors from the Orange County and Hudson River Valley area and frequently hosts book signing events for their latest creations. This is the place where a reader, an author, and a book meet and a magical journey begins. This is the place where you’ll find a treasure on every shelf.

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CREEKSIDE RESTAURANT Located on the Catskill Creek less than a mile from the mouth of the Hudson River in the Hop-O-Nose marina. The waterfront dining experience is spectacular. Open year round, Creekside serves an extensive selection of American favorites and a mean Calamari, the best in the area. Comfortable atmosphere, excellent service, wonderful food overlooking the marina.

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thE hotchKiSS School 2015

Faculty

Exhibition September 5 - october 18

ann Villano charles D. noyes terri l. Moore colleen MacMillan Greg lock brad Faus Delores coan Sarah anderson lock

opening reception: September 5, 4 - 6 p.m.

11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, ct | Open Daily | 860.435.3663 | hotchkiss.org/arts

Jervis McEntee:

Painter-Poet of the Hudson River School Curated by Lee A. Vedder

Jervis McEntee, Journey’s Pause on the Roman Campagna, 1868. Oil on canvas mounted on board

August 26 – December 13, 2015 Opening reception: September 12, 5–7 pm SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ

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CULTURE

Top, tomas Huber, mixed media on panel, 36” x 48”, 2015. From the exhibit “Merge” at Matteawan Gallery in Beacon. Opens September 12.

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galleries & museums

3 stills from Own This, Erica Magrey, HD video (TRT: 09:29), 2011. From the exhibit “Hand/Made: The Digital Age and the Industrial Revolution” at the Kleinert/James Center For the Arts in Woodstock. Opens September 5.

510 WARREN ST GALLERY

510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “Road Less Traveled: Landscapes by Doris Simon.” Acrylic on canvas, landscapes. September 4–27. Opening reception September 5, 3-6pm.

AKIN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM

AKIN LIBRARY AND MUSEUMS, PAWLING 855-5099. “5th Annual Art Exhibit Meeting Past.” September 13–October 18. Opening reception September 13, 1-5pm.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY

22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. “Annual Summer Salon.” Through September 20.

AMITY GALLERY

110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK 258-0818. “Patricia Foxx and Family.” September 3–27. Artist Lecture September 13, 7:30pm.

ANN STREET GALLERY

104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146. “Mélange.” Solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Ryan Roa. Through September 19.

ANVIL GALLERY AT TECH SMITHS

45 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON TECH-SMITHS.COM/ANVIL-GALLERY. Exhibit by New Yorker Cartoonists Michael Crawford and Carolita Johnson. Through September 30.

ARTS MID HUDSON

696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-3222. “I, Too, Sing Shakespeare.” Ceramic sculptures inspired by the work of William Shakespeare from Judy Sigunick. September 12–October 30. Opening reception September 12, 5:30-7:30pm

BEARSVILLE GRAPHICS FINE ART GALLERY

68 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 684-5476. “Rooftops, Streets, and Bridges: Block Prints by Karen Whitman.” Through September 20.

BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS

200 HUROADROAD, BETHEL 454-3388. “Written in Stone: Sculptures by Harry Gordon.” Through October 12.

BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO & GALLERY

43 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 516-4435. Paola Bardi. September 4-30. Opening reception September 19, 5pm-7pm.

BOSCOBEL

1601 ROUTE 9D (BEAR MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY), GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG. “Every Kind of a Painter: Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871).” Through November 29.

BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS

36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “HAND/MADE: The Digital Age and The Industrial Revolution.” September 4–October 18. Opening reception September 5, 3pm.

CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Paper.“ Group exhibit. Through October 4.

CATALYST GALLERY

137 MAIN STREET, BEACON 204-3844. Michael X. Rose and Scott Michael Ackerman. September 4–28. Opening reception September 12, 6pm-9pm.

COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. Roosters and Pears. Through September 26.

ARTS UPSTAIRS

COOPER-FINN GALLERY

60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Abstract Paintings by Harper Blanchet.” Through September 13.

24 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 416-8342. “ECO-ART.” September 4 and September 5, 1-4pm.

ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER

CORNELL STREET STUDIO

24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136. “Shifting Ecologies II.” Through September 6.

BABYCAKES CAFÉ

1-3 COLLEGEVIEW AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8411. “The Invasives.” Works by Penny Dell, printmaker. Through September 28.

BCB ART

116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “The M.Van Dyke Group: Monoprints of the 1980’s.” Through September 13.

BEACON 3D

164 MAIN STREET, BEACON. BEACONARTS.ORG “Beacon 3D.” 20 artists exhibit their work. Through October 15.

BEACON ARTIST UNION

506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “David Link: Lines in Space.” September 12-October 4. Opening reception September 12, 6-9pm.

BEACON INSTITUTE’S CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND EDUCATION 199 DENNING’S POINT, BEACON BIRE.ORG/INSTITUTE/BUILDING1.PHP. “Following Rivers.” Through October 3.

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168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 679-8348. “There Will Be No Ants.” Featuring new pastel work by Theresa Drapkin. Florals, fruit and flâneurs. Through September 4.

CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART

81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. “Works by Katherine Bowling.” Through September 20.

DIA:BEACON

3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 845 440 0100. “Robert Irwin, Excursus: Homage to the Square3.” Through May 31, 2017.

ELENA ZANG GALLERY

3671 ROUTE 212, SHADY 679-5432. “Joan Snyder: Works Large & Small.” September 5-October 5. Opening reception September 5, 2pm-5pm.

THE EMPORIUM ANTIQUES & ART CENTER

319 MAIN STREET, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA (413) 528-1660. Works by Amy Cohen Banker. September 3-27.

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY

1315 MASS MOCA WAY, NORTH ADAMS, MA (413) 346-4004. “Roberto Lugo in Ghetto Garniture: Wu Tang Worcester.” Through October 12.

Landscapes

of the Upper Hudson Valley

PORTRAIT

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Tom Nelson September 26 – October 25, 2015

Opening Reception Saturday September 26, 4-7pm Artist in Attendance

North River Gallery

29 Main Street, Suite 2B, Chatham, NY 12037 • 202.466.3700 twp@northrivergallery.com • www.northrivergallery.com Gallery Hours: Friday, noon – 7pm • Saturday, 11am – 5pm Open Sunday October 25 for FilmColumbia, Also By Appointment

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FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE

THE MOVIEHOUSE GALLERY

FRG OBJECTS & DESIGN

THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER

124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument.” September 25–Dec. 13. 217 WARREN STREET 2ND FLOOR, HUDSON. “Zen Dot Energy.” September 5-Nov. 30.

FRIENDS OF HISTORIC KINGSTON

63 MAIN STREET, KINGSTON 339-0720. “Jervis McEntee Retrospective.” Through October 31.

THE GALLERY AT R&F

84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Frames of Reference: Works by Lynette Haggard.” Through October17.

GALLERY 66 NY

48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON THEMOVIEHOUSE.NET. “Diane Love: Explorations in Art.”Through October 8. 491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Works by Norm Magnusson.” September 4-25. Opening reception September 4, 5pm-7pm.

NEUMANN FINE ART

65 COLD WATER ST., HILLSDALE 413-246-5776. “The Eight: Group Exhibition.” A group show of the gallery’s best selling artists. Through Sept. 27.

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE

5720 ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “River Crossings.” Through November 1.

66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Passing Storms & The Evolution of Shape.” September 4–September 27. Opening reception September 4, 6pm-9pm.

OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER

GARRISON ART CENTER

ORANGE HALL GALLERY LOFT, SUNY ORANGE

23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “The Vision of One, The Power of Two, Champions of Millions.” Through November 8.

GREEN LIGHT GALLERY

240 HUDSON STREET, CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON 534-4164. “Travel.” Featuring the work of photojournalist Chet Gordon. Through September 13.

GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY

398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “The Hidden Worlds in the Catskills.” Photos by Jill Skupin Burkholder. Through September 5.

GREGORY JAMES GALLERY

93 PARK LANE ROAD, NEW MILFORD, CT (860) 354-3436. Works by Robert Ferrucci. Through September 30.

THE HARTS GALLERY

20 BANK STREET, NEW MILFORD, CT (917) 913-4641. “Love and Sacrifice.” Through September 30.

HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY

313 MAIN, BEACON 831-1134 “Paintings by Allison Wiand.” September 12 through October 3.

HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY

162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Itty Neuhaus I C LVL. Eyes Sea Level or I See Level or Icy Lovers.” Through September 5.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE

327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518)-822-1438. Ramon Lascano. Paper and book creations. Through September 27. Opening reception September 5, 5pm-7pm.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Hermann Nitsch’s: Leviticus.” Through December 6. Opening reception September 12, 5pm-7pm.

HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.

300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 331-5300. “Sites and Sights: Photo-Based Images by Arlene Becker.” September 1 through November 29. Opening reception September 12, 3pm-6pm.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY

362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “William Ransom: Sculpture.” Through September 13.

JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY

16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Works by Laura Battle.” September 12 through October 17. Opening reception September 12, 4-6pm.

KEEGAN ALES

20 ST. JAMES STREET, KINGSTON 331-2739. “Shadows #1-6: Original Art by Justin Wixson.” Through September 30.

KINGSTON, NY

296 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 514-7989. “2015 Kingston Sculpture Biennial.” 40 works by 34 artists will be displayed outside around Kingston. Through October 31.

LABSPACE

2642 NY ROUTE 23, HILLSDALE LABSPACEART.BLOGSPOT.COM/. Exquisite.” A group exhibition of collaborative works on paper, all 15 x 22”. Through September 19.

DOWNTOWN BEACON

MAIN STREET, BEACON. “Windows on Main Street 2015.” 34 local artists work within the theme of “Metal/Industrial” to create site-specific art installations. Through September 12.

MATTEAWAN GALLERY

464 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. Works by Thomas Huber. September 12-October 4. Opening reception September 12, 6pm-9pm.

THE MAXON MILLS

37 FURNACE BANK ROAD, WASSAIC WASSAICPROJECT.ORG. “Deep End.” Wassaic Project’s 8th annual exhibition. Through September 20.

MERRITT BOOKSTORE

1405 COUNTY ROAD 22, GHENT (518) 392-4747. “The Crayon Miscellany.” Outdoor sculpture exhibit. Through September 27. THE CORNER OF WAWAYANDA AND GRANDVIEW AVENUES, MIDDLETOWN 3414891. “Colleagues: Hidden Talents.” September 2–25. Opening reception September 15, 12-2pm.

ORANGE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

707 EAST MAIN STREET, MIDDLETOWN 333-1000. “Mary Flad: Woven Wonders.” Through September 17.

PALMER GALLERY

124 RAYMOND AVE., POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “Lost and Found.” Oil paintings and works on paper by Eric Brown. Through September 16.

RED HOOK CAN

NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK 758-6575. “Red Hook Community Arts Network: PHOTOgraphy 2015.” September 25-October 18. Opening reception September 26, 5pm-7pm.

RETROSPECTIVE GALLERY

727 WARREN STREET, HUDSON RETROSPECTIVEGALLERY.COM. “Works by Trudy Benson and Russell Tyler.” Through September 20.

RIVERWINDS GALLERY

172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Selected Breed: Oil Paintings by Mary Smoot Souter.” Through September 6.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART

1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “The Stories We Tell: Hudson Valley Artists 2015.” Through November 8.

SAUNDERS FARM

853 OLD ALBANY POST ROAD, GARRISON FACEBOOK.COM/PAGES/SAUNDERSFARM-GARRISON-NY. “Farm Project 2015.” September 5-October 31. Opening reception September 5, 2pm-6pm.

THE STOREFRONT GALLERY

93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-8473. Behind the Seen: the Photography of Deborah Mills Thackrey. September 5-26. Opening reception September 5, 5pm-8pm.

THE RE INSTITUTE

1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON (518) 567-5359. “... and I Feel Fine.” Through September 12.

THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY

57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “To Each Their Own.” Group exhibition. Through September 6.

TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY

60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667. “The New York Landscape Show.” September 25-October 18. Opening reception September 26, 6pm-8pm.

TULIP GALLERY

6406 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-2212. “Portrait Photography of Dudley Reed.” Through September 8.

UNFRAMED ARTISTS GALLERY

173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, 12561. “Drawn: Black and White Drawings.” September 12-October 31. Opening reception September 12, 4-7pm.

THE WHITE GALLERY

344 MAIN STREET, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-1029. “Dunlop & Dunlop: A Family Affair.” Featuring collaborative works by father and son painters David and Max Dunlop. Through October 11.

WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION

330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK 876-4818. “Modern Sculpture & the Romantic Landscape.”Through October 31.

WINDHAM FINE ARTS

5380 MAIN STREET, WINDHAM (518) 734-6850. “Summer Show.” Through September 30.

WIRED GALLERY

11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Contextual Threads.” Through September 27.

57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665. “G.A. Mudge Photographs of Marguerite Delacorte Memorial and Sophie Irene Loeb Fountain.” Through September 30.

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WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART

MULTIPLE PARKING AREAS, NEW PALTZ MOHONKPRESERVE.ORG. Robert Lobe’s “Field Studies” Exhibition. Through October 18.

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28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Music in the Woods: One Hundred Years of Maverick Concerts.” Through September 26. 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Instructor’s Exhbition.” Works by the faculty. Through September 5.

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Music On the Way Up Johnny Irionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. Elevator By Peter Aaron Photo by Fionn Reilly

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t’s a boiling 86 degrees in the Berkshires hamlet of Washington, Massachusetts, and Johnny Irion needs to hit the road. But first there’s this interview—and about half a fotball field of overgrown lawn that needs to be mowed. It’s the latter that’s consuming him when your music editor and photographer roll up. “Okay, I’m ready,” jokes the sweaty, shirtless singer-songwriter as he stomps over to meet us. “You guys wanted to get some shots of me looking like this, right?” After changing into dry duds and grabbing an iced tea, Irion sits down in the shade and explains how he’s going a little nuts. He’s about to drive three days straight to Santa Barbara, California, where he and his wife and musical partner, singer Sarah Lee Guthrie, have a second home; their daughters Olivia, 13, and Sophia, 8, will be starting their first years of West Coast school and the house there needs to be prepared for the family. But first this one needs to be battened down for the winter. And then there’s the matter of the upcoming first tour by Irion’s new band, U.S. Elevator. If he looks a bit like a Grapes ofWrath farm worker in his straw hat and threeday stubble, it certainly fits this day of toil. The analogy is related, so to speak, in another way: Irion is the great-nephew of John Steinbeck, as his aunt married the legendary novelist’s son, Thomas Steinbeck (also an author), in 1994. “I was aware that it was a big deal when they got married, but I hadn’t really read any John Steinbeck then,” says Irion, who grew up in Durham, North Carolina. “Now he’s one of my favorite writers. But in high school his books were part of the stuff that was forced upon us, so that had made me resistant to reading them. In 1984, Durham was a weird place to be if you were a snotty kid with a skateboard who listened to Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Minor Threat.” Prior to his rebellious teen hardcore years, it was the Beach Boys and the Beatles that had initially transfixed him. “I remember looking at the poster in the White Album while I was listening to it at my aunt’s house, memorizing all [the Beatles’] names,” he says. When he was 21, Irion’s dual loves of Brian Wilson- and Lennon/McCartney/Harrison-inspired melodies and aggressive punk came together in his first band, the pop-grunge group Queen Sarah Saturday. In the 1990s the RaleighDurham-Chapel Hill Triangle attracted a lot of label love as an alt-rock hot zone, and it wasn’t long before the quartet was picked up by major indie Thirsty Ear. Despite the attention garnered when “Seems,” a song from Queen Sarah Saturday’s first album, Weave, was featured in the hit 1995 film Empire Records, the band was quickly dropped from their label and broke up not long after. Irion jumped to another local buzz band, Dillon Fence, for a European tour supporting the Black Crowes. Although that group as well would soon get dropped and split up, during the tour Irion befriended Crowes front man Chris Robinson, who encouraged him to move to Los Angeles. “That’s where Chris lived and he was producing this band from Monterey called the Freight Train,” says Irion. “They needed a guitar player and I wanted to move to L.A., so in 1997 I went out there.” Unfortunately, in yet another crash-and-burn story, the Freight Train went off the rails not long after Irion’s arrival. But the move would prove fruitful in a different way. Through his fellow Southern singer Robinson, the North Carolinian met his future wife and collaborator, who is the Western Massachusetts-reared daughter of folk great Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of American musical icon Woody Guthrie. “We started hanging out and playing together, and listening to stuff like Graham Parsons, the Byrds, and David Crosby’s [1971 Atlantic Records album] If I Could Only Remember My Name,” recalls Irion. “The first song we sang together was [Parsons and Emmylou Harris’s version of the country classic] ‘Sleepless Nights,’ which sounded really good. It’s a hard song to sing, so I figured, ‘Wow, if we’ve got this one down already there’s definitely something here.’” Surprisingly, Guthrie credits Irion, and not her father, with motivating her to perform. “I was kind of a punk rock chick—I didn’t wanna follow in my dad’s footsteps, like I thought people expected me to,” says one of the heirs to America’s best-known folk dynasty. “But all of sudden Johnny and I were singing Flying Burrito Brothers songs, he taught me some chords on guitar, and the next thing I knew was singing Cisco Houston songs with my dad and my brother [Abe Guthrie]. It felt right. As a songwriter Johnny works really hard at crafting his songs. Sometimes he’ll be up at 3am, writing and making demos. I tend to be kind of lazy and picky about my writing, and he always pushes me to do more.” The couple’s romance blossomed alongside the folky, acoustic-based music they began making together and as individuals on tour and on disc. Their solo debuts appeared on two different labels —Irion’s Unity Lodge onYep Roc in 2001;

Guthrie’s eponymous set on Rising Son in 2002—and an acclaimed children’s album featuring unearthed Woody Guthrie lyrics, GoWaggaloo, came out on Smithsonian Folkways in 2009. Most of the husband and wife’s output, though, has been on their own Rte. 8 imprint, home to 2011’s country rock breakthrough, Bright Examples, which features Jayhawks Gary Louris and Mark Olson and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic and Otto Hauser, and 2013’s WassaicWay, which was coproduced byWilco’s Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone, both of whom also perform on the album. While new in Los Angeles, Irion also gave acting a shot, doing bit parts in the short-lived Dennis Leary cop series “The Job” and Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 comedy GhostWorld, starring in the latter as the bass player in—yes!—Blueshammer, the bar band in one particularly funny scene starring Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch. Irion seems happily taken aback when told of the mythic status Blueshammer has acquired among rock scribes; the fictitious foursome has become a shorthand stand-in for archetypally clueless, heavy-handed, blues rock bands around the world. “People ask me about that and I just kinda shrug and laugh,” says the musician. “What I remember most [about shooting the film] was how fun it was in the green room, hanging out with Scarlett Johanssen and Steve Buscemi.” But despite the faux-rock detour with Blueshammer and the touches of heartfelt rock that color his last two albums with Guthrie, in recent years Irion had found himself longing to reconnect more strongly with his own rock side. “My friend Zeke Hutchins, who was the drummer in Queen Sarah Saturday and now works in artist management, pointed out that Sarah Lee and I will always be more strongly identified as a folk act because of her family name, so we should just embrace that, and that maybe I should put my rock stuff somewhere else,” Irion explains. “That was hard to hear at first, because I thought Sarah Lee and I had really found our sweet spot with WassaicWay. But the more I started to think about it, the more I saw that Zeke was right.” Although U.S. Elevator is new to the world, the concept had actually been lodged in the front man’s head for quite some time before it became manifest. “Oh, God, the U.S. Elevator band name was something Johnny had been talking about almost since I met him,” says Guthrie. “For at least 15 years.” And by fall 2014 it was time for the project to enter the real world. “I had just done a paid writing session with a well-known artist in L.A., and the whole thing was done on computers,” Irion remembers, grimacing. “It got me thinking about how Zuma [NeilYoung and Crazy Horse’s 1975 album on Reprise Records] is one of my favorite records. Listening to that album, which sounds like it was done mostly live in the studio, it’s, like, ‘Hey, they made a mistake and the drummer’s a little off—but so what? They’re having fun.’ And that’s the kind of record I wanted to make with this band.” So after some casual rehearsals, the fun began the following February when Irion and a gang that included ex-Freight Train bassist Nate Modisette and guitarist and producer Tim Bluhm (the Mother Hips, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers) borrowed a 24-track tape machine that had once belonged to Jackson Browne and set it up to record in Modisette’s home.The sessions yielded the 11 tracks that make up U.S. Elevator (Rte. 8 Records), which will be officially released this November. On the album, the stoned ghost of NeilYoung is definitely in the house via the lazy, Laurel Canyon shuffle of “Can I Make It Up toYou?” and the wrenching, substance-and-the-damage-done heartbreak of “Cry for Help.” And add to this a bit of humor: “Community Service” chronicles the predicament of a band member who can’t go on tour until he’s served out his civic sentence. “Johnny’s a brilliant songwriter, I think,” says Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert Deleo, whose band U.S. Elevator will support on tour following their inaugural show at Club Helsinki this month. “His songs bring me back to the first music I really got into as a kid: Cat Stevens, Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jim Croce, that whole era of music.” Deleo, who also divides his time between the Berkshires and the West Coast, recently collaborated with U.S. Elevator on music slated for a follow-up release. Perhaps most importantly, though, what do Irion’s daughters think of this whole music thing? “They love it,” he offers. “In fact, Olivia just got a turntable. That’s what she wanted for her 13th birthday.” For the present, however, the family DJ session will have to wait. It’s time for Daddy to roll. U.S. Elevator’s debut performance will take place at Club Helsinki in Hudson on September 12 at 9pm. Darren Jessee (Hotel Lights, Ben Folds Five) will open. Helsinkihudson.com. U.S. Elevator is out November 3 on Rte. 8 Records. Uselevator.net. 9/15 CHRONOGRAM MUSIC 71

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

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR/BASILICA SOUNDSCAPE

September 8 and 11, 12, 13. It’s another blockbuster September at Basilica Hudson, thanks to dates featuring two of the artistically searching multimedia performance center’s most cherished returning attractions. Up first is the long-awaited second visit by Montreal’s masters of modern, epic, orchestral psychedelic rock, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. If you attended the collective’s incredible 2012 Basilica show, you already know the facility’s soaring, cathedral-like ceiling makes it a, well, God-given space in which to hear such expansive music. Xylouris White opens. Later that week, the complex will once again be taken over by the Pitchfork-co-curated Basilica SoundScape festival, with Haxan Cloak, Wolf Eyes, Viet Cong, Health, Perfume Genius, Actress, Weyes Blood, and more. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: September 8. 8pm. $20 (special $60 discounted weekend pass to SoundScape available to all GY!BE show attendees). Basilica Soundscape: September 11, 12, and 13. See website for schedule. $70 weekend pass, $40 for September 11 or 12 only, $30 for September 13 only. Hudson. (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.com.

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VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ AND JULIA EASTERLIN

September 12. Guitarist and singer-songwriter (and stilt walker!) Bibi Farber spent most of her teens in Sweden, where she started down her musical path with postpunk band the Container Club. A Television obsessive, she returned to her birthplace of New York and began taking lessons from Television guitarist Richard Lloyd in 1983—and soon realized a dream when Lloyd asked her to join his band and offered to produce her solo debut, Firepop. Lately, Farber, who splits her time between Manhattan and the New Paltz area and does this date at Market Market, has been creating music for commercials and TV shows, blogging about her pet bunny, and playing in hospitals with volunteer organization Musicians on Call. (Tributon night is back to pay homage to another selected artist September 19; Seth Davis and the Librarians are booked for September 26.) 10pm. $5. Rosendale. (845) 658-3164. Marketmarketcafe.com.

September 17. Although Vieux Farka Touré is the son of the Malian musical legend Ali Farka Touré, his dad, surprisingly, wanted him to become a solider instead of a musician. Thankfully, family friend and kora master Toumani Diabate helped convince Vieux’s late father to give his son’s musical aspirations a paternal blessing, and the two collaborated for the younger guitarist’s first album in 2007. Singer and performance artist Julia Easterlin hails from Augusta, Georgia, and began making her Björk-esque pop in Boston before going on to play at Lollapalooza (2011) and a TED conference, work with Cuban musicians, and climb the Himalayas. The pair, who here visit Club Helsinki, met during an impromptu 2014 studio session in New York and soon formed the creative alliance that led to the acclaimed Touristes. (Lake Street Dive returns September 5; U.S. Elevator heads up September 12.) 8pm. $22, $28. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; Helsinkihudson.com.

LUCIUS September 16. Fronted and founded by harmonizing singers Less Wolfe and Holly Laessig, Brooklyn’s Lucius is emblematic of the borough’s new wave of intelligent indie pop, although the two women have actually been vocalizing together since their college days in Boston. “We started singing in unison because we were always drawn to doubled vocals on recordings,” says Wolfe. “We figured it couldn’t hurt to try it in a live setting, and it just felt like our voices were supposed to be sitting together—an automatic vocal kinship.” The group, which plays the Bearsville Theater this month, debuted in 2013 with Wildewoman, which attracted luminous praise from the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and NPR. (The Antlers poke in September 5; Heartless Bastards rock September 13.) 8pm. $20. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.

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JULLIARD STRING QUARTET AT HOWLAND CHAMBER MUSIC CIRCLE September 20. This 22-year-old chamber series once again returns to the sonically and architecturally spectacular Howland Cultural Center to kick off its 2015-16 season in high style. Opening the run is the group that’s considered by many to be the quintessential American outfit of its kind: the Julliard String Quartet, which was founded in 1946 and is presently composed of violinists Joseph Lin and Ronald Copes, cellist Joel Krosnick, and violist Roger Tapping. The quartet’s program for the concert at the 1872 venue is strikingly diverse, promising Schubert’s Quartettsatz alongside works by Debussy and Elliot Carter. (See website for complete series schedule.) 4pm. $80 adults, $10 students. Beacon. (845) 7625-3012; Howlandmusic.org.

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In pop music, stealth and restraint often go unheralded, yet these qualities are every bit as important as flash and dazzle; subtlety, in the right hands, can pack as much punch as obviousness. Husband-and-wife duo Michele and Rick Gedney, aka Open Book, know all of this, and their third CD, Grateful, exemplifies the low-key power of haunting melody buttressed with expansive harmony, the satisfaction of adroit wordplay entwined with skillfully understated musicianship. Perhaps you’d forgotten the deep pleasures of a pulsing beat switching from straight time to cut time, an undistorted Stratocaster layered over a bed of acoustic strumming, a lap steel mournfully keening at the edge of a song. Grateful will remind you. Ace drummer Dave McNamara captured Grateful at the Gedneys’ home in Cold Spring. He populates it with some of the Catskills’ finest Americana musos, and their additions of color and feel help make this radio-ready collection shine. All originals but one are Michele’s, and her distillation powers are impressive indeed; the title track is both longing and celebration; “This is Yours Now” makes loss a thing of breathless beauty; “The Earth Will Move” is whispered, but potent, encouragement. Meanwhile, Rick’s accompaniment—as distinctive harmony vocalist, co-arranger, and guitarist—cannot be underestimated. Those Gedney harmonies get showcased to great effect on Open Book’s take on Lennon and McCartney’s “The Night Before”—rebooted here as a great ballad—and the Richard Thompson/Neil Finn folk-pop gem “Persuasion.” Bittersweet rarely sounds so good, or necessary. Openbookmusic.com. —Robert Burke Warren

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Since relocating from their origins in Northwest Connecticut to the Dutchess County town of Millerton, indie-prog outfit the Nice Ones have been taking the town the NewYork Times once dubbed “Williamsburg on the Hudson” by storm. But if you are thinking this competent quartet of outstanding musicians can be pegged as the area’s resident answer to the National, you would be doing a great disservice to the band and their acerbic spin on the indie-rock idiom. There is a myriad of styles within the construct of their all-too-brief five-song EP Hungry Ghosts. If you listen to songs like “Ava” and “Black Haired Stranger at the Charlotte Airport,” you can definitely hear an affinity for the Dismemberment Plan’s more pop-oriented fare, while the slinky funk of “Big Sexi” undoubtedly shows why they are welcome at Darryl’s House Club. Meanwhile, the influence of Frizzle Fry-era Primus is highly evident in the hard-driving bass pops of the group’s resident four-string whiz kid, Dillon Morrison Halas, on the EP’s most impressive cut, “Dogs.” The glue that holds these tunes together, however, is the commanding combination of guitars and vocals from Patrick “Pastor Dan” Surdam, who is on his way to landing himself a place alongside Be Bop Deluxe’s Bill Nelson and Television’s Tom Verlaine with the seamless way by which he pulls double lead duty. Indeed, it will be interesting to see what these Nice boys do across the din of a full-length LP. Theniceones.bandcamp.com. —Ron Hart

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TANI TABBAL MIXED MOTION (TABBALIA SOUND, 2015)

Veteran drummer Tani Tabbal’s Mixed Motion is a perfect example of jazz’s curious place in the 21st century. Tabbal’s album is adventurous and uncompromising, consisting almost entirely of original compositions—just the sort of album that a major label would have a hard time selling. Of course, the Internet itself is indirectly responsible for this state of affairs. With production and distribution taken out of the hands of record labels, leaving only promotion to justify their existence, only the most marketable artists get signed. Still, the lack of bean-counting oversight means artistic freedom for Tabbal and company. The music generated on this album by Tabbal and his band—bassist Lew Scott, alto saxophonist Adam Siegel, and tenor saxophonist Ben Newsome—is impeccably composed and executed. “Thin Mid Fat Mid Thin” is a very challenging piece that might turn off a casual listener, but “March for Gloria,” with its subtle interaction between the horns, and “Zycron,” which features a superb solo from bassist Lew Scott, are much more accessible. It’s appropriate that Tabbal chose to close the album with an achingly beautiful version of Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman.” Recorded before the master’s passing, it nevertheless serves as a fitting tribute, since Coleman’s spirit is everywhere on this album. Hopefully, it will find the audience it deserves. Tanitabbal.com. —Alexander M. Stern CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the bands reviewed in this issue.

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ournalist Guy Lawson writes about men you don’t want to meet: gunrunners, Wall Street scammers, Mafia cops, drug-dealing wrestlers, Hezbollah suicide bombers. Unless the screenwriters have invented new characters, the forthcoming film of his latest book, Arms and the Dudes, starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller and directed by Hangover auteur Todd Phillips, is sure to flunk the vaunted Bechdel Test (must have at least two women in it, who talk to each other about something besides a man). Author and commentator Sarah Vowell, a friend, once told Lawson, “You’re the most ridiculously male-oriented writer in the world.” Even his name is hypermasculine: guy, law, son. So who is this Guy? Anyone expecting a Central Casting testosterone cowboy is in for a pleasant surprise. The lanky, bespectacled man poring over a stack of newspapers at Rhinebeck’s Bread Alone is a Cambridge graduate with an affable smile and a forthright, intelligent gaze. He dotes on his wife, Indian food entrepreneur Maya Kaimal, and twin daughters. His sport of choice is walking, which he calls “a meditation.” He doesn’t drink coffee. Even his name defies expectations: “Guy” is pronounced in the French style—rhyming with bee, not buy—as his leftist parents’ homage to Trudeau-era Canadian multiculturalism. Though Lawson acknowledges that his “specialty is groups of men doing fucked-up things,” he’s also stalking the story behind the story. His foreground subjects wheel and deal, trying to hustle a buck, and wind up as pawns in a much larger game, exposing deep strata of institutional corruption. Arms and the Dudes (Simon and Schuster, 2015) is a case in point. Its subtitle, “How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History,” promises an outrageous, stranger-than-fiction romp, and the book doesn’t disappoint. Expanded from Lawson’s 2011 National Magazine Award-nominated Rolling Stone feature, Arms and the Dudes follows the jawdropping misadventures of three “wake and bake” stoners, former yeshiva boys barely out of their teens, who won a $300 million dollar Defense Department contract to supply guns and ammunition to the Afghan military. “The dudes are the personification of the adolescence of American foreign policy: young, naive, and in way over their heads,” Lawson says. He first encountered them in a front-page New York Times article on March 28, 2008. C. J. Chivers reported the Pentagon’s bust of Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizki for fulfilling their defense contract with illegally repackaged Chinese ammunition that had been stored for decades in Albanian mountain caves. It was a great story:These cocky young guys had tried to game the system, and they’d been caught. But Lawson wondered why they’d been hired in the first place. As he researched, he realized that the dudes and other small-timers were middlemen and eventual fall guys for a shadowy linkage between the Pentagon and illegal arms dealers. The Times story, in essence, had mistaken the puppets for puppeteers. Could this be the reason the newspaper of record has not yet reviewed Arms and the Dudes, although it ran reviews of Lawson’s first two books, The Brotherhoods:The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia (Scribner, 2006; with William Oldham) and Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, andWall Street’sWildest Con (Crown, 2012), not to mention that Octopus made the Times’ bestseller list and an A-list movie of Arms and the Dudes will open in March 2016? “Call and ask them,” says Lawson. “I’d love to hear what they say.” The Times has not blackballed him; Lawson is currently writing a feature for the Sunday Magazine. But the omission is striking, especially to a journalist whose stock in trade is skepticism about the official version of anything. In sequential books, he’s examined corruption and greed in the NYPD, Wall Street, and the Pentagon, limning “a 21st-century collapse of American institutions.” Lawson was born in Canada to expatriate parents from Australia and New Zealand. “My father was deeply anti-American,’ he recalls. “I grew up drinking soda in cups that said ‘Nixon Drinks Canada Dry.’” After his partents divorced, Lawson lived with his mother until she remarried; as a teenager, he moved to Australia to rejoin his father, a one-time journalist and political speechwriter who wrote topical songs in the Tom Lehrer vein. “My father didn’t succeed,” Lawson says bluntly. “A lot of my animation and ambition comes from that realization.” He graduated from the University of Western Australia, then studied law at Cambridge. Moving to New York, he passed the bar exam on the first try and

went to work for a big Wall Street firm. “I was a great law student and a terrible lawyer,” he says now. “I was working on things called ‘derivatives’ that destroyed Wall Street 15 years later.” He recalls sitting in on a billion-dollar deal at age 24, looking at a big pile of microfiche and thinking, “This could all be a fraud.” Years later, this legal training and insider knowledge would be invaluable in interviewing rogue trader Sam Israel for Octopus. But long before he started writing nonfiction, Lawson quit his six-figure job at the law firm to write his first novel, Pilgrim’s Plummet, which he now calls “terrible—a Bright Lights, Big City kind of thing, your classic failing writer writing about a failing writer.” He moved back to Montreal, living in a neighborhood so lousy he was burgled three times in six months (“They stole my dirty laundry,” he says, still incredulous). Canadian author Merrily Weisbord, a family friend, introduced him to the producers of TV Ontario’s literary talk show “Imprint,” which wanted to replace its departing host with a complete unknown. “I fit the bill,” quips Lawson. He hosted the show a year. “I was the Charlie Rose of Canada,” he says. “I experienced worldwide fame in a 16-block stretch of downtown Toronto.” Though he got to hang out with writers like Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis, he didn’t enjoy being a celebrity interviewer. He wanted to write. Lawson’s first journalism gig was covering the Quebec referendum for a Toronto alternative weekly. As luck would have it, he was staying down the hall from legendary Australian journalist Murray Sayle, who was covering the same story for the New Yorker. “Murray loved to talk, loved to share stories. And he had great stories—he’d found Che Guevara’s campsite in the Bolivian jungle, broke the Bloody Sunday story. By anyone’s lights he was one of the bravest Vietnam war correspondents, this long-legged, amazing guy,” Lawson says of his mentor. “The biggest compliment I’ve ever received from anybody is when he said I had promise.” Lawson’s cell phone rings, and he glances at it. “This is actually my movie agent.” He answers, “Hey man, is it something quick? I’m doing an interview.” He agrees to call back and hangs up, saying, “I didn’t stage that.” He’s smiling. Who wouldn’t? After that first gig, the young reporter landed—and nearly blew—a commission from Harper’s. “I was trying to play with the form, to be artful,” Lawson recalls. A shrewd editor gave him a second shot, and Lawson went to the library, “trying to give myself an MA in journalism in a weekend.” He discovered a penchant for fly-on-the-wall observation. “I found out I could vanish: it didn’t have to be about me,” he says. “If I became a conduit— the glass instead of the water—the piece would work much better.” His breakthrough story for Harper’s, an in-depth feature about the hardscrabble lives of small-town Canadian hockey players, led to jobs at GQ and Rolling Stone. Lawson met Kaimal, then a photo editor at Saveur magazine, at a party in New York. They married in 2001. Shortly after their honeymoon, she lost her job. Lawson encouraged her to start a business making Indian sauces and condiments. Maya Kaimal Foods was launched in their Clinton Hill apartment, with a manufacturer in Saugerties. In 2004, the couple had twin daughters and moved upstate. They’ve lived in Rhinebeck for six years now. Lawson starts his workday answering e-mails at home, then heads to an office in the village to write. He works best in spurts. “If you can get four hours of productivity out of it, that’s a good writing day.” Clearly he’s been having a lot of good writing days. Four of his books and magazine features have been optioned for film, with a possible fifth in the wings (hence that call from his agent): Octopus will be adapted for HBO by “Breaking Bad” scribe Peter Gould; The Brotherhoods was optioned by Warner Brothers; and New Line just optioned his recent Rolling Stone article “The Dukes of Oxy,” with teen heartthrob Ansel Elgort attached. The action has been as nonstop as a Guy Lawson story. But the author finds himself now with an odd slice of freedom. “For years I’ve been kind of a hardcharging guy. After banging your head on the wall for 15 years, it feels odd to stop.” He’s thought about making a documentary, possibly based on the story he’s writing for the NewYork Times Magazine about a gruesome triple homicide. “My wife says, ‘Would you just write about something happy?’” Is there anything like that on his horizon? Maybe, says Lawson. “There’s a wonderful cooking school in South Africa which I hope to do next.” He pauses a beat. “There’s a murder in it.” 9/15 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 75

SHORT TAKES Local, international, intergalactic—wherever you’re going, a Hudson Valley author has just the right book for the journey.

STICK TO LOCAL FARMS COOKBOOK: HUDSON VALLEY MARIA REIDELBACH STICK TO LOCAL BOOKS, 2015, $9.95

Author and local food activist Reidelbach designed Kerhonkson’s Homegrown Mini-Golf roadside attraction, including the Guinness Book’s first world record holder for Largest Garden Gnome. A grown-up companion to her popular Stick to Local Farms sticker map, this visually appealing collection of seasonal recipes will send you to your CSA or farmstand filled with new cooking ideas, from spring’s Pea Pesto to Frozen Maple Souffle. Five percent of all profits go to support agricultural nonprofit Rondout Valley Growers.

NOTES FROM THE OTHER SIDE MARC B. FRIED GREEN PRESS, 2015, $21.95

Acclaimed regional historian and naturalist Fried has culled a delightful selection of his long-running Shawangunk Journal columns into a lively book that’s part memoir, part local lore, and all Marc Fried. Appearing 9/1 at 6:30, Thrall Library, Middletown; 9/16 at 7pm, Pine Bush Library; 9/19 at 4:30pm, Gardiner Public Library; 9/25 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds New Paltz; 9/30 at 7pm, Stone Ridge Library; 10/9 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds Saugerties; 10/24 at 5pm, Woodstock Public Library; 10/28 at 6:30pm, Ellenville Public Library.

SUFFERING THE SILENCE: CHRONIC LYME DISEASE IN AN AGE OF DENIAL ALLIE CASHEL, FOREWORD BY DR. BERNARD RAXLEN NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2015, $17.95

Chronic Lyme ravages the body in countless ways, but its sufferers bear an additional burden: coping with medical misinformation and blame-the-victim dismissal. Bard graduate Cashel, infected at age seven, describes her ordeal from the inside, then spirals outward to include stories of other chronic Lyme patients and doctors, urging advocacy. Terrifying, essential reading for those living in “Lyme Ground Zero.” Appearing 9/28 at 7:30pm, introduced by Mary Caponegro, at Bard College’s Weis Cinema, Annandale.

DANCING WITH DIANA JO SALAS CODHILL PRESS, 2015, $15

A boy and girl share a five-minute dance. Seems simple enough, but Alex has cerebral palsy, and the young blonde who gives his wheelchair a courteous spin is the future Princess Diana. Alternating Alex’s narration with an intricate account of Diana’s last hours, this debut novel by Playback Theatre co-founder Salas has the buoyancy of the handicapped dance company she describes: “I felt the swoop and spin, the speed of air on our skin, our laughing together, the bliss of the dance.” Appearing 9/18 at 7pm, Inquiring Minds, New Paltz.

THE BUDDHA’S WIFE: THE PATH OF AWAKENING TOGETHER JANET SURREY, PHD AND SAMUEL SHEM, MD BEYOND WORDS/ATRIA BOOKS, 2015, $23

When Prince Siddhartha went off to seek enlightenment, he left a wife and newborn son child behind. He became the Buddha. What happened to her? This multilayered book explores the virtually unrecorded journey of Princess Yasodhara, first as a stirring fictional narrative, then as a parable of selflessness, reconciliation, and relational spirituality, offering meditations and practical guidance for seekers. Appearing 9/13 at 2pm, Izlind Integrative Wellness Center & Institute of Rhinebeck in collaboration with Oblong Books & Music.

INTRO TO ALIEN INVASION OWEN KING & MARK JUDE POIRIER, ILLUSTRATED BY NANCY AHN SCRIBNER, 2015, $17.99

A bucolic Vermont campus with no cell service, an astrobiology major crushing on her hetero roomie, a skeevy professor in clogs, and an outbreak of shape-shifting space insects: What could go wrong? Aliens crunch and the dialogue pops in this hilarious, hip graphic novel by a troika of pop culture mavens; a hot-girlturned-alien-host attacks with the cry “Full retail!” Destined to be a cult classic at a campus near you. Appearing 9/16 at 7pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck; 10/15 at 6:30pm, Word Cafe, Kingston.

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Cut and Cover

Not on Fire, Only Dying

Kevin Hurley

Susan Rukeyser

Skyhorse, 2015, $25.99

Twisted Road, 2015, $14.95

uckle up, Hudson Valley noir fans. Two powerful new voices have emerged. We meet Cut and Cover’s John Rexford at an uber foodie Westchester winery, where he learns details of a planned attack on the lower Hudson Valley: blowing up tanks of chlorine gas, ruining Manhattan’s water supply, and detonating its gas mains. The potential loss of life would overshadow 9/11. Rexford lives on his Marine Corps disability near the Ulster/Delaware county line. He’s a fanatical mountain biker, a blacksmith, and a highly trained assassin whose “retirement” is deep cover for wetwork that needs doing on American soil. The biking and ironwork are Zen self-medication techniques that help his rampaging PTSD. Hurley crafts a world of top-secret espionage and deadly contests taking place beneath the surface of everyday life. The backdrop is meticulously rendered, from the bullyboys in their pickup truck to Woodstock’s Village Green; you may never eat somewhere trendy again without wondering what those guys in the corner are really talking about. Too often, spy thrillers start with a baseline acceptance of global conflict and unexamined assumptions about who the good guys are. Cut and Cover has a deeper take: Are we in a perpetual war for oil, or is that a cover story for the naked lust for power? How much good do do-gooders really do? What are the benefits and limits of international law? The deadly struggle between Rexford and sociopathic mercenary Yoda is developed deftly; violence is not overdone, but when it happens, it’s nightmarish, and even the deserving recipients aren’t cardboard targets but human beings. Rexford battles crisis with one hand and his own issues with the other. So does Marko, the noirish hero of Rukeyser’s Not on Fire, Only Dying. We meet Marko in the greasy, dusty entry of Salty’s Salvage and Supply, a failing business in a river city’s faded downtown. The woman he’s desperately in love with lurches in, claiming her baby’s been kidnapped from his stroller in front of the dive bar across the street. On parole after 20 years, Marko is an underground medicine man and sometime day laborer, walking the streets in an oilskin duster with postpolitical aphorisms about wolves and sheep pinned to the back. His convict status only compounds the wary alienation he’s always felt as a Roma descendant; his therapy of choice includes random acts of gallantry, deep conversation, and good herb. Marko’s love Lola is a mental health client whose improvised medication cocktails cloud her memory like Rondout fog, leaving everyone—including her—unsure if her baby ever really existed. Suspense builds in layers: Is the baby alive? Was he ever? Will Marko’s love for Lola strengthen her tenuous grip on reality? Will he be pushed into violence, and possibly back into a cage? The author’s poetic, laser-focused empathy unmasks life on the urban edge of Ulster County as Steinbeck’s did Cannery Row, revealing “normal” as a shoddy sham. Rukeyser, who used to own Kingston’s Frog Alley bookstore and spent hours gazing out the window, has written a love thriller. Hurley, a Catskills resident from a multigeneration military family, has written a high-stakes espionage piece. Both debut novels transcend genre, blending multilayered philosophical meditations on violence, machismo, 21st-century living, and the things we do for love into rip-roaring, nutritious page-turners. —Anne Pyburn Craig

Wednesday Afternoons

Sea Lovers: Selected Stories

NEW, USED & RARE BOOKS COLLECTABLES & CURIOSITIES

Valerie Martin

Doubleday, $25.95, 2015

he dozen stories in this collection by longtime Millbrook resident Valerie Martin were penned over a 30-year span, as the author helpfully explains in her introduction. They reflect her growth as a writer and the evolution of her obsessions: animals, nature’s power and fury, the lives of artists. The last concern, she writes, was inspired after “reading Chekhov’s stories avidly … for the first time, I consciously raised the ante of the conversation I’d been having with myself about the short story.” Such candor reflects an author who is not only prolific but apparently never bored. It’s hard to imagine her ever staring into space; if she does, it must be to see something fantastic and possibly ruthless in her mind’s eye, such as the many soulful creatures that populate these stories. Sea Lovers is divided into three sections: “Among Animals,” “Among the Artists,” and “Metamorphoses,” another helpful bit of context setting that encourages us to swim with confidence into the depths. Thus we come to consider not just the story, but the marvelous particulars of its form: constrained yet super charged, eschewing a long arc for a concentrated plunge. Possibly Martin is also demonstrating that our imaginations need not be bound by so-called realism. If the prose is grounded in precision and certainty, it’s a steady navigation system, and cantilevers the most remarkable flights of fancy with what we recognize as all-too-human behavior. The characters of her roiling, black seas and steamy, buggy summers are palpably real: Creature, human, or hybrid, they’re moody and flawed. In the title story, a lonely mermaid watches a couple’s late-night swim turn tragic in slow but predictable motion. In “Et in Acadiana Ego,” titled after a 17th-century painting, a centaur is all mixed up. Driven by passions both equine and human, he clomps about his lover’s grand old bayou house, drinking so much it proves his undoing. Martin seems as fascinated by the concept of a man-horse felled by drink as she is by the concept of a man-horse. As she writes, “The question, ‘Are we animals, or are we something else?’ has engaged my imagination throughout my writing career.” In this remarkable story, a spirited woman (she refuses to get married) and the centaur (he’s rocked to the core when he hears opera) fall in love. The setting is the Acadian swamps of Louisiana, a place where anything could happen. So it does, answering Martin’s question: Whatever we are, our spirits are bound in a churning alchemy of conflicting natures. We carry the needs of both the animal and the something else within, and their rivalry may well bring us down. When the centaur takes to drink, he rages, shattering his lover’s amazing old house with his hooves. Alcohol and pounding take a double toll. As the centaur’s spirit founders, so do his hooves: “Founder” is an excruciating, potentially fatal condition in fragile-footed horses (the great Secretariat was felled by it). If you want to further appreciate Martin’s employment of language and all its layers, crack open an Oxford English Dictionary: To founder also means to be swallowed up or engulfed. Don’t be surprised if you feel that way after a dive into this enthralling book. —Jana Martin

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POETRY

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

I wanna take my dreamcatcher away for one night, so I can have a nightmare. —Jack River O’Neill (7 years old)

HOW TO HAVE SEX WITH AN AMPUTEE, OR WHAT TO DO WHEN ALL LIMBS CANNOT BE KEPT INSIDE THE RIDE for Jillian Weise I. Foreplay It doesn’t matter which hand. Touch her neck. This will remind her that she has a head. Inch across the collarbone. Squeeze the shoulder. Caress the bicep. Switch to your lips. Careful not to tickle or startle the amputee. Keep going. Do not stop at nothing—that is—when you reach the terminal parts, tongue along a stream of air until you’re out of the room. II. Intercourse Do not be offended by the silence. You should consider it spiritual. Pause. Look the amputee in the eyes. Act like you know a secret. Remember: you are inside, where it counts. III. Afterwards Once you dismount and reconnect with the air, your partner might continue to writhe. Do not be alarmed. You can ask questions. She is not possessed but visited by your phantom. Give her some space. Soon it will pass and then you can rejoin your parts. —Dina Peone

GOOD POEM Sit, roll over, here’s

i put on all the postage i could afford and still it comes back —p

THE ARCADE GAME POLAR BEAR

—Big Bubble Laundromat

Sure, I was made in China, but I’m white as Arctic ice & have an appetite for lonely hearts drawn to our orgy of stuffed animals in the arcade game case by the door, purple fish with kissy lips & parrots tough as oven mitts. Countless kiddies have begged quarters off their mommies for two tries at the joy stick that drops the three-pronged claw of God into our midst to grab a furry prize, yet almost always comes back empty. We’re not easy like lobsters in the tank. We’re cheap flirts preying on your cuddly desires. Even you with graying hair, slipping fifty cents in the slots, don’t you see my button eyes bold as lies? I’m not the ghost of your teddy bear. Real love spreads you thin across the ice. —Will Nixon

MIRROR In my younger days, I was much more careless about things and looked out of windows far less than I do now. In those days I would fall into the street with an easy grace— not thinking so much as to where I was going, but just eager to wander around America, full of a wild, childlike arrogance, ready for anything at all. —Dean Goldberg

your treat. —Kristen Henderson

PANTOUM WITH A TWIST Her husband’s picture gives her heart a throb Old passion gives her blood an instant twist His suit shows off his young and thin physique Which gives her skin a tingle and an itch. Old passion gives her blood an instant twist His smile arouses memory of a tryst Which gives her skin a tingle and an itch Remembering her anxious need some time ago. Her smile arouses memory of a tryst Of her soft touch and quick and eager kiss Remembering his anxious need some time ago Desire for life and love and passion’s goal. Of her soft touch and quick and eager kiss He feels lighthearted and his knees go weak This photo of their past gives both of them a throb They understand their instant blood rush as a twist. —Anthony G. Herles 78 POETRY CHRONOGRAM 9/15

TATTOOS You carve promises on your body that you cannot keep you turn your body to blue from pink your identity comes through the needle that pokes your arms your neck your chest your back your leg but not your palms every corner of your body is covered with statements, true or false, there is no denying it no soap or eraser nor scratching will do only on second thought you might realize that you’ll have to wear long sleeve shirts all summer long. —Ze’ev Willy Neumann

SEASONAL YEARNING When winter gifts its killing cold and distant hopes of spring grow old, I know that I will surely miss the blossoms of the clematis. —Gary Beck

PRAXIS

BETRAYER

So I met this poet. Or perhaps he was a martyr, I get the two confused. He smiled with his tongue between his teeth. He lost himself, he said between cheap champagne and singing lessons. So I began to look.

The truth is this is a fearful place, constant trembling flanked with platitudes, with magical thinking, failure drowning in cocktails, lust laughing in a sophomoric comedy and smoke curling the clouded forbidden air. There’s a lot of leftover hippie love and broken philosophies. We assent to camouflage, a whimsical toast, a sea of well-wishing, the rejuvenation of a spa weekend. Before the dusk of empty bottles, pill-prompted memories, a closing door, we consider praying again. Levels of redemption kicking us back onto the cross always just shy of resurrection.

I looked under couch cushions and between dying maples. I asked phytoplankton and talked to the great Okapi. I caught pieces that fluttered down like tapering winter’s ash. I fished them out of raindrops and the grooves of that Stones record you promised we’d dance to. I flipped over cigarette butts and the caps of cheap beer. All that’s left for him to find is the way back to me. It shouldn’t be too hard, baby. Look to the place where the glass glows gold, amethyst, sapphire, like your sunsets. The place by the park, drenched in light and ice that shimmers. Follow the chickadee and mourning dove to where I stand. Look for the ink in my curls and I’ll show you what I found. —Elizabeth Thompson-Jones

MEET ME IN THE DREAM OF YOU blue afternoons filled with slow guitar tunes that float above fields smeared with wildflowers we can walk to a pond crowded with life Joe Pye weed raising purple turrets high above the lilies, squadrons of slender dragonflies patrolling the space where water becomes air and nymphs emerge to dry their wet wings on rocks let us forget the danger all around us and in us for one blue afternoon —Jay Erickson

—Karen Corinne Herceg

NYX Warm palms. Her hands. They cover my eyes, Closed now, exhausted from the shriek of light; And the whisper: Lay back your head Into my lap. I am Nyx. I will coax Your eyes back behind today into a Freefall, down into the hall of dreams, Away from the schemes and screams You’ve endured all day. Forget all For these few hours, and welcome The strange and wondrous Dance of the dream, and the Faceless gondolier who will guide you On the bent ebb of night, Through the wink and lapping of

THE SCHOOLING OF KALIEF BROWDER

—Rikers Island Blues

From the seeds of our strange fruit, bleed the sprouts of our youth. Exceptionally painful— Kalief.... you were once me and I was once you R.I.P. —Kelly Lee

LENORE SAYS THE POET IS ACTING LIKE A SHOE SALESMAN On his knees adjusting the strap across a white instep praising the slimness of the ankle, comparing it to music and birds, pushing a new line of shiny goods, hoping for a fit. Shoes, poems. Honey, we’re all selling something. —Abigail Thomas

“YELLOW BRICK ROAD” people of color with blue collars & no green card meet red white & blue smiles

head on

Moonlit nocturnal canals. Your own Venice.

in white collars who use invisible ink to redline & blackball

—Robert Phelps

all in

the same stroke

I SHALL SING

—Saleem Abdal-Khaaliq

May you hear these words every day I shall sing the song of you awakening the meeting of our eyes I shall sing the song of you gazing the sensual twinkle of your eyes I shall sing the song of you smiling the promise of the heart I shall forever sing the song of you loving and Be-loved in return —Simone Andolina

DREAMER, DOER I am a dreamer: Dreaming is what I do. I am a doer: Doing is what I dream. —Giles Selig 9/15 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 79

Food & Drink

The vegetarian pizza from Garden House in Rosendale.

In (The Belly) With the New Recent Restaurant Openings By Karen Angel Photos by Caylena Cahill

long with the Hudson Valley’s growing fame as a food producer, it has become a magnet for restaurateurs eager to put their personal stamp on the farm-to-table movement. Not that long ago, the local diner or bar was often the best (and only) option in town for eating out. Now even small hamlets like Germantown are home to eating houses run by Brooklyn expats (see Gaskins, below). New eateries are popping up all over, putting their creative spin on local ingredients—whether it’s Garden House’s eggplant carpaccio or Frogmore Tavern’s pastrami tacos. There’s greater emphasis on setting, too. As the competition has heated up, so has the focus on polished décor and outdoor seating, with enchanting patios increasingly common. From Southern comfort to rustic charm, we break down some of the most interesting newcomers to the Hudson Valley dining scene. COMMUNE SALOON, SHINDIG, and TINKER TACO LAB Woodstock’s culinary revitalization is in full gear, with new restaurants emerging around town, the Garden Café under new ownership, and the Bearsville Complex’s renovated courtyard open for business, complete with food service and fire pit. Overlooking the courtyard, the new Commune Saloon serves up tasty, seasonal small plates, such as the grilled Black Horse Farms asparagus with Dijon vinaigrette and cured egg, and exquisite craft cocktails like the pickled ramp martini. Just down Tinker Street is Shindig. The tiny storefront eatery is packing in locals and tourists alike with modest prices and modern takes on comfort food. The mac and cheese offers a rich blend of Gruyère, Fontina, béchamel, truffle oil, and a Parmesan bread-crumb crust—for just $10. Steps from Shindig, Tinker Taco Lab is breaking new ground with its authentic Mexican street tacos and tamales. Owner James Jennings makes his 80 FOOD & DRINK CHRONOGRAM 9/15

cheese, cream, pickled vegetables, and tamale and taco dough in-house. Try the best-selling pork-belly confit taco with jalapeno jam. Commune: 297 Tinker Street,Woodstock; (845) 684-0367. Shindig: 1 Tinker Street,Woodstock; (845) 684-7091. Tinker Taco Lab: 54h Tinker Street,Woodstock; (845) 679-8226 FROGMORE TAVERN Frogmore Tavern’s new rooftop patio is reason enough to check out this eatery. The sleek pine patio and bar seat 65, neatly doubling the restaurant’s capacity. Inside, Frogmore—note the frog figurines above the door—has the dark good looks of an English pub, but save for a nod to the UK with its ultrarich Scotch eggs, the menu smacks of Southern comfort. Here you’ll find BBQ shrimp and grits, poutine with fried chicken livers and crispy pork belly, and housesmoked pastrami tacos with pickled jalapeno—as well as many other freshly smoked meats. If these dishes don’t fill you up, pile on a side of hush puppies or a bowl of dirty rice. 63 N. Front Street, Kingston. (845) 802-0883 GARDEN HOUSE Opened last summer by the owners of Rosendale’s popular Big Cheese shop, Garden House takes the concept of community gathering place one step further with a huge outdoor garden—the centerpiece of which is a woodfired oven that produces such delicacies as goat cheese pizza and grilled red snapper. Chef Naheda Hamdan, a Dubai Hilton alumna, is Jordanian, and her

Gaskins in Germantown.

Knockwurst, a blend of pork and veal sausage, served with curry ketchup and caramelized onions at Schatziâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Poughkeepsie.

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Rough Cut Brewmaster Kayne Konecny

Summer is Here! Stop in to celebrate the season with great food and drink in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere of our dining room. Enjoy outdoor dining on our newly opened rooftop deck complete with a full bar. Our banquet room is open and available for special events and parties. Make your reservation now! Hours: Sun 11-9 • Mon-Thur 12-9 • Fri/Sat 12-10 63 N Front Street, Kingston 845-802-0883 FrogmoreTavern.com

The Schatzi’s burger, a blend of chuck and short rib, topped with crispy pork belly, melted cheddar, a special sauce and a potato pancake.

Middle Eastern influence permeates delectably seasoned dishes like the kofta kabob with parsley, garlic, onion, and freshly whipped lemon-garlic sauce. Among the numerous satisfying vegetarian plates is a roasted half eggplant with chopped tomato smothered in tahini. In cooler months, the restaurant’s cheery farmhouse-style interior makes for an inviting refuge. 4 Hardenburgh Lane, Rosendale. (845) 658-3131 GASKINS Comfort food has found a new mecca in the Columbia County hamlet of Germantown at Gaskins.Veterans of Brooklyn stand-outs Diner and Marlow & Sons, Nick and Sarah Suarez have brought urban chic to country dining.The restaurant space is airy, sleek, and rustic all at once, with a marble-topped bar offset by rough-hewn wooden tables. Gaskins’ connection to local farmers is strong—it sources from 20 farms, including Hearty Roots, Common Hands, and Montgomery Place Orchards—and this shines through in the simple fare. Heirloom tomatoes are tossed with peaches, basil, and chorizo. Fried chicken is served with slaw and honey-butter hot sauce. Mussels and clams are roasted in the wood-fired oven and served with potatoes. Shishito and padron peppers are coated with sea salt and lemon. Gaskins has a well-developed cocktail program and a list featuring small-batch natural wines. There’s a small deck on the street for al fresco dining. 2 Church Avenue, Germantown. (845) 537-2107 LUCOLI PIZZA For locals lamenting the area’s scarcity of thin-crust pizza (Pizzeria Posto in Rhinebeck notwithstanding), Lucoli to the rescue! Syrian-Italian owner Nobile Attie is not just a longtime Hudson Valley restaurateur—he’s also a designer of wood- and gas-fired ovens for top chefs like Bobby Flay and JeanGeorges Vongerichten. In keeping with Lucoli’s industrial vibe, the restaurant’s two brick ovens are front and center when you walk through the door—and also key to the taste of his crispy, superflavorful pizzas. Customers can choose from more than 20 toppings, among them Mediterranean staples like olives, artichokes, feta, tahini, and eggplant.The healthful emphasis extends to housemade mozzarella and roasted-tomato sauce, organic ingredients, homegrown herbs, and gluten-free and whole-wheat crust options. Among Attie’s innovations is his popular Lucoli, a folded-over pizza “sandwich” stuffed with goodies. 7476 South Broadway, Red Hook. (845) 758-5600

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OSAKA JAPANESE RESTAURANT RHINEBECK TIVOLI 22 St. 74Garden Broadway (845) (845) 876-7338 757-5055

TIVOLI RHINEBECK 74 Garden Broadway 22 St. (845) (845) 757-5055 876-7338

osakasushi.net osakasushi.net “4.5 “4.5 STARS” STARS” Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie Journal Journal

“BEST “BEST SUSHI!” SUSHI!” Chronogram Chronogram & & Hudson Valley Hudson Valley Magazine Magazine

Rated Rated “EXCELLENT” “EXCELLENT” by by Zagat Zagat for for 20 19 years

Voted Best Indian Cuisine in the Hudson Valley

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

HUNDI BUFFET

TUESDAY & SUNDAY 5-10PM

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

OPEN EVERY DAY Lunch: 11:30am-3:00 pm Dinner: 5:00pm-10:00pm Fridays: 3:00pm - 10:00pm

Catering for Parties & Weddings • Take out orders welcome

A NEW HUDSON VALLEY TAVERN OPEN FOR DINNER THURSDAY–MONDAY 5–10pm N O 2 CHURCH AVE. GERMANTOWN, NY 5 1 8 5 3 7 2 1 0 7 GASKINSNY.COM

Classic Italian Food Prepared with Considerable Refinement Outdoor Garden Now Open Now Serving Dinner: Wed. - Sat 5:00pm - 10:00pm Sunday 4:00pm - 9:00pm Wed. & Thurs. Prix Fixe Menu

Street style tacos, our way. 38 JOHN STREET KINGSTON, NY 12401

(845) 338-2816

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in addition to regular menu

22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3055 www.puccinirhinebeck.com Private Parties | Catering

H A N D C R A F T E D C O C K T A I L S | L O C A L FA R E | R I V E R S I D E D I N I N G O U T D O O R O R I N D O O R S C E N I C W E D D I N G S | C O R P O R AT E E V E N T S 20 GRISTMILL LANE GARDINER, NY 12525 | 8 4 5 · 2 5 5 · 4 1 5 1

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CATERING FOR ALL OCCASIONS

MAYBELLE’S Opened about a year ago in a space once occupied by an Art Deco soda fountain, Maybelle’s retains many of those period touches, including the chevronstyle mirrors and light fixtures. The food here is equally artful and emphasizes farm-fresh ingredients (as does co-owner Jamie Parry’s Milan outpost, Another Fork in the Road). Among the playful savory-sweet combinations are the carrot salad roasted in coffee with Thai basil pesto, and the pan-seared scallops with English peas, pea tendrils, blackberries, and shiso. The housemade mozzarella with warm bread and olive oil is simple but inspired. For now, Maybelle’s is BYOB with a liquor license pending, but it plans to serve a smoky black lager and other interesting artisanal beer.

845-255-4949

355 Main Street, Catskill. (518) 719-1800

We are proud to be offering the freshestlocalfareoftheHudson Valley, something that is at the core of our food philosophy. OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK

Serving breakfast & lunch all day 8:30 - 4:30 PM Closed Tuesdays

2356 RT. 44/55 Gardiner NY 12525 VISIT US ON-LINE

www.miogardiner.com

Fine Food • Great Beer • Good Friends • Live Music

OLE SAVANNAH SOUTHERN TABLE & BAR Riding the Hudson Valley BBQ trend, Ole Savannah has taken over the Steel House Restaurant’s former space in the stately Cornell Steamboat building, along with one of the most scenic waterfront settings in Kingston. The restaurant, co-owned by Mark Guido of Mariner’s Harbor, combines BBQ and comfort food, another big buzz phrase these days. Guido and his two partners brought in culinary consultant Kenny Callaghan, former executive chef of New York City’s celebrated Blue Smoke BBQ restaurant. The result: tasty Southern classics like pan-seared blackened catfish, house-smoked pulled pork shoulder, and fried green tomatoes with buttermilk ranch dressing. Not Southern enough for you? Add a side of collard greens or house-baked biscuits. Bonus: Kids eat free Sunday through Thursday. 100 Rondout Landing, Kingston. (845) 331-4283

Craft Beers

Vegetarian Fare

Charcuterie

4076 Albany Post Road • Hyde Park, NY • 12538 845-229-TAPS (8277) • www.hydeparkbrewing.com

LANDMARK INN

ROUGH CUT BREWING CO. Brothers Jesse and Bart Cummings closed Oscar restaurant in the tough economy of 2011, but in June, they reopened in the same location with a can’t-miss concept: a brewpub that serves delicious, inventive food, along with plenty of inexpensive bar options. The duo teamed up with homebrewer/carpenter Kayne Konecny, who gave the space an artful rustic-industrial makeover and concocts ambrosial beverages—think Pomme d’Orange Belgian Tripel with orange blossom honey and homemade candy sugar. Chef Bart Cummings douses steak in rich sauces like green peppercorn and brandy cream and tops his tasty lamb burger with figs, red onion, and feta. 5945 Route 44/55, Kerhonkson. (845) 626-9838

Distinctive Cuisine

Served in a 237 Year Old Country Inn. Rustic and refined dining with emphasis on fresh locally grown ingredients. Located one mile north of the Village of Warwick. Serving Dinner Tuesday thru Sunday • Closed Mondays 526 Route 94 • Warwick, NY • 845.986.5444 • Landmarkinnwarwick.com

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SCHATZI’S PUB & BIER GARDEN Looking for a little slice of Bavaria? Schatzi’s is the closest you’ll come in the Hudson Valley. This pub serves up five types of German sausage, from an Andouille with spicy cheddar to a slow-smoked pork and beef brat. Or try the schnitzel—instead of the traditional red cabbage, it comes with a sweet braised purple-cabbage aioli, a creative twist that characterizes many of Schatzi’s dishes. With 15 tap lines—11 dedicated to craft beer and four to German beer—there’s plenty of good cheer flowing here. Take a jaunt on the Walkway over the Hudson, then plop yourself under an umbrella on Schatzi’s bluestone patio with a Hefeweizen and a warm Bavarian pretzel with creamy homemade beer cheese. 202 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. (845) 454-1179

EAT HEALTHY & ENJOY EVERY MOUTHFUL.

FINE ASIAN CUISINE

Grown from our own garden ROUTE 300, NEWBURGH, NY

(845) 564-3848

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YOLO BISTRO The mission of Yolo—You Only Live Once—is to offer unique fusion dishes served in chic surroundings. Chef Joseph Barlow has done his fair share of traveling, and it shows in creations such as the five-spice-crusted salmon napoleon with warm Asian slaw, sesame soba noodles, and crispy wontons. Even theYolo Burger has foreign flair thanks to its Brie stuffing. The newly renovated space, former home of Indian restaurant Cinnamon, pays homage to the Hudson Valley with soothing earth tones, a stacked-stone wall, and a granite-and-stone bar with an opalescent glow. It’s the perfect setting for sipping one of Yolo’s inspired craft cocktails. 260 North Road, Poughkeepsie. (845) 345-9230

EVOLUTION! Elephant, it’s not just for tapas anymore!

elephant FOOD & WINE

310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 Tues - Sat 5-10pm www.elephantwinebar.com

New American Cuisine Fine Dining in Casual Elegance Catering for Events: Wedding on Premises 120 North Road, Highland, NY 845.691.9883 www.thewould.com Taking Reservations online

Open Tues-Sat at 5 for dinner {Available for private events 7 days/ week } Prix-fi xe menu $24 • Tuesday - Thursday

APPLE BIN Farm Market

• Breakfast & Lunch Sandwiches • Apple Cider Donuts All Year • Pies, Muffins, Local JB Peel Coffee • Homegrown Fruits, Local Produce • Plants, Trees • Gluten Free Products

Authentic Barbecue & Comfort Food with a Modern Twist OleSavannah.com | 845-331-4283 Historic Rondout Waterfront Dining

of Full Line uts C ld o C Organic Cooking e m o H d an en Delicatess

79 Main Street New Paltz 845-255-2244 Open 7 Days

Local Organic Grass-Fed Beef • Lamb • Goat • Veal • Pork • Chicken • Wild Salmon

No Hormones ~ No Antibiotics ~ No Preservatives Route 9W - 810 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY (845) 339-7229 www.theapplebinfarmmarket.com

Custom Cut • Home Cooking Delicatessen Nitrate-Free Bacon • Pork Roasts • Beef Roasts Bone-in or Boneless Ham: smoked or fresh Local Organic Beef • Exotic Meats (Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich) • Wild Fish

@ The Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY 845-464-0756 Dohnutbrothers.com

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Since 1960 Always open until midnight Eclectic wines and craft beer Sundays: $5 mimosas & industry night with $5 draught beer and wine www.jardwinepub.com water street market, new paltz

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The Hudson Valley’s premier source for wine & spirits, from everyday items to unique and extraordinary finds.

The largest selection in Kingston,NY of small production, naturally made wines.

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Real Smoke BBQ, Brisket, Pulled Pork, Baby Ribs & so much more THURSDAYS: ALL U CAN EAT WINGS $12.00 FRIDAYS: ALL U CAN EAT SNOW CRAB $23.95 Open Lunch & Dinner. Closed Mondays. We now offer OTB & Quick Draw.

Open Mondays-Fridays 12-6pm, Saturdays & Sundays 11-6pm

www.elsies-place.com 1475 Route 208 Wallkill, NY • 845.895.8975

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tastings directory Bakeries Alternative Baker

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

Ella’s Bellas Bakery

418 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8502 www.ellabellasbeacon.com

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

Jack’s Meats & Deli

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

Cafés Bistro-to-Go

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

Catering Fresh Company

Landmark Inn

566 Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-5444 www.landmarkinnwarwick.com

Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria

1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446

Main Course

175 Main Street, New Paltz, NY www.maincoursecatering.com

Ole Savannah Table & Bar

100 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4283

Osaka Restaurant

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

Phoenicia Diner

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

Puccini Ristorante

22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3055 www.puccinirhinebeck.com

Red Hook Curry House

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

Ship to Shore

15 West Strand, Kingston, NY www.shiptoshorehudsonvalley.com

The Hop

Garrison, NY (845) 424-8204 www.FreshCompany.net

458 Main Street, Beacon, NY www.thehopbeacon.com

Grounded NY

20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com

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

Pamela’s Traveling Feast

(845) 562-4505 www.pamelastravelingfeast.com

Restaurants Cafe Mio

2356 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4949 www.miogardiner.com

Diego’s Taqueria

38 John Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2816 www.diegoskingston.com

Elephant

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

Elsie’s Place

1475 Route 208, Wallkill, NY (845) 895-8975 www.elsies-place.com

Frogmore Tavern

63 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 802-0883 www.frogmoretavern.com

Hyde Park Brewing Company 4076 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY (845) 229-8277 www.hydeparkbrewing.com

Tuthill House

Would Restaurant, The

120 North Road, Highland, NY (845) 691-9883 www.thewould.com

Yolo Bistro

260 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 345-9230 www.yolobistrony.com

Yum Yum Noodle Bar

275 Fair St, Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 338-1400

Specialty Food Shops Dohnut.

at the Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY (845) 464-0756

Immuneschein Tea Haus

446 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (828) 319-1844 www.immune-schein.com immuneschein@gmail.com

Kingston Candy Bar

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

Wine Bars Jar’d Wine Pub

Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.jardwinepub.com 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 87

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Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply

(845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

Animal Sanctuaries Catskill Animal Sanctuary

316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASanctuary.org

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary 2 Rescue Road, High Falls, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org

Antiques Beacon Flea Market

Beacon, NY www.beaconflea.blogspot.com

Hudson Antiques Dealers Association Hudson, NY www.hudsonantiques.net hudsonantiques@gmail.com

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

Newburgh Vintage Emporium 5006 Route 9W, Newburgh, NY

Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250, Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251

Olivieri’s Arts Crafts Coffee 63 Broadway , Kingston, NY (845)383-1663 www.olivieriart.com

Painted Piece, The

393 Main Street, Catskill, NY (201) 970-6618 www.thepaintedpiece.net

Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys

30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com newyorktrafficlawyer.com Representing companies and motorists throughout New York State. Speeding, reckless driving, DWI, trucking summons and misdemeanors, aggravated unlicensed matters, appeals, article 78 cases. 27 years of trial experience.

Audio & Video

Outdated

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

Pay it Forward Community Thrift Store - A Division of Community Actioin of Greene County, Inc.

Architecture

www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center

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

Kinderhook Toyota

1908 New York 9H, Hudson, NY (518) 822-9911 www.kinderhooktoyota.com

Books Monkfish Publishing

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

Bookstores

Irace Architecture

Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 www.IraceArchitecture.com

Art Galleries & Centers Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org

Crawford Gallery of Fine Art 65 Main Street, Pine Bush, NY (845) 744-8634

Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org

Dorsky Museum

SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu

Gallery 66

66 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5838 www.gallery66ny.com

Mark Gruber Gallery

New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com

Art Galleries & Centers North River Gallery

29 Main Street, Suite 2B, Chatham, NY www.northrivergallery.com

Mirabai of Woodstock

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

Olde Warwick Booke Shoppe

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

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

Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

Cabinet Designers

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

Cord King

(845) 797-6877 cordkingllc@gmail.com

Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704

H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com

Herrington’s

Sierra Lily

Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325.3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828.9431 www.herringtons.com

Storm King Art Center

John A Alvarez and Sons

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684 (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org

Woodstock Museum

13 Bach Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-0600 www.woodstockmuseum.com

3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com

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

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

Center for Metal Arts

N & S Supply

44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com/blog

New Leaf Treehouse Company

Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com (518) 526-6675 NewLeafTreehouseCompany.com

Paul G Fero Plaster and Paint

731 Oliverea Road, Big Indian, NY (845) 254-4175 All kinds of plaster work and repair. Unique fresco; beautiful, durable colored plaster. All types of paint and finishes, Some finish carpentry.Building Services & Supplies

Robert George Design Group

23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com

Events Ahimsa Music and Yoga Festival 19 Resort Drive, Windham, NY www.ahimsayogafestival.com

Artrider Productions Woodstock, NY artrider.com

27 West Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-7088 www.robertgeorgedesigngroup.com

Center for Performing Arts

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

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

Film Columbia

Chatham, NY (518) 392-3446 www.filmcolumbia.com info@filmcolumbia.com

Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective

Hudson Valley Wine & Food Festival

Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

(845) 658-7181 www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com

Upstate Films

Kaatsbaan International Dance Center

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

www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org

O+ Festival

Kingston, www.opositivefestival.org

Clothing & Apparel

Woodstock Comedy Festival inc.

Antilogy Design & Screening

www.woodstockcomedyfestival.org

Columbia Costumes

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockinvitational.com

Woodstock Invitational LLC

(845) 255-2200 antilogydesign@gmail.com

Woodstock Peace Festival

66 North Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 www.columbiacostumes.com

Woodstock, NY woodstockpeacefestival.org

de Marchin

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores

620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657

Adam’s Fairacre Farms

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

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

Next Boutique

Apple Bin Farm Market

Lea’s Boutique

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

Newburgh Mall

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

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

Pleasant Valley Department Store

Beacon Natural Market

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

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

Willow Wood

38 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4141 willowwoodlifestyle@gmail.com

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

Computer Services

Pennings Farm Market & Orchards

Tech Smiths

161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com

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

The Shops at Jones Farm

Craft Galleries Crafts People

262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

Custom Home Design & Materials Atlantic Custom Homes

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

Dance Instruction D’amby Project

7270 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY (845) 705-4345 www.thedambyproject.com

190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com

Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd

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

French Lessons Emily Upham‚ French Lessons

(518) 537-6048 uplandvl@valstar.net Learn to speak French‚ not scary! Private lessons; groups, toddlers to adults. Tutoring available. All levels, weekenders welcome. Emily Upham: French Interpreter, U.S. State Department and AP French teacher, The Millbrook School.

Gardening & Garden Supplies The Crafted Garden

(845) 858-6353 www.thecraftedgarden.com

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7856 Route 9W, Catskill, NY (518) 943-9205 www.cagcny.org5 fohle@cagcny.org Gently used and vintage clothing, jewelry, furniture, housewares and collectibles. From shoe shine boxes to mohair suits, you never know what you will find. All proceeds benefit the programs of Community Action of Greene County, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization serving Greene and neighboring counties since 1967. All donations are tax deductible.

Markertek Video Supply

Education

Millbrook Cabinetry & Design

Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.annieillustrates.com

Hair Salons Androgyny

5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620

Le Shag.

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

One on One Salon

Musical Instruments

Hoppenstedt Veterinary Hospital

Francis Morris Violins

Pet Country

528 Broadway, Kingston, (845) 331-6089 www.barconesmusiconline.com Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com

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

23 East Market Street Suite D, Rhinebeck, NY www.oneoneonesalon.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Ethan Allen

Route 32, 94 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 565-6000

Hunt Country Furniture

16 Dog Tail Corners Road, Wingdale, NY (845) 832-6522 www.huntcountryfurniture.com

Light House

86 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-1000 www.lighthousestyle.com

Nest Egg County Store

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

Tender Land Home

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

Interior Design LAD Interiors

Pawling, NY www.ladinteriors.com

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

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Bop to Tottom

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

Dorrer Jewelers

54 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 516-4236 www.dorrerjewelers.com

Dreaming Goddess

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

Genter’s Jewelers

248 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2100 www.gentersjewelers.com

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

GHS Jewelers,Inc.

1 Idlewild Ave, Suite 1, Cornwall On Hudson, NY (845) 534-8344

Handmade and More

6 North Front Street, New Paltz, NY www.handmadeandmore.com

Hudson Valley Goldsmith

11 Church Street, 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

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

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

Music Daryls House

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

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Pet Services & Supplies

Barcones Music

Organizations Buy In Greene

www.buyingreene.com/catskill

Catskill LDC

422 Main Street, Catskill, NY nrichards@villageofcatskill.net

Go>Local

www.rethinklocal.org

Greene County Council on the Arts 398 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-3400 www.greenearts.org

Kingston Library

55 Franklin Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0507 www.kingstonlibrary.org

Motorcyclepedia Museum

250 Lake Street (Route 32), Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065

Re>Think Local

www.rethinklocal.org

Wallkill Valley Writers

New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com Write with WVW. Creative writing workshops held weekly and on some Saturdays. Consultations & Individual Conferences also available. Registration/Information: www.wallkillvalleywriters.com or khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com.

YMCA of Kingston

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

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

Bardavon 1869 Opera House

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

Basilica Hudson

110 S Front Street, Hudson, (518) 822-1050 www.basilicahudson.com

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org

Falcon, The

1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com

Half Moon Theatre

2515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY www.halfmoontheatre.org

Helsinki on Broadway

405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-4800 www.helsinkihudson.com

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.

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org

Shadowland Theater

157 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-5511 www.shadowlandtheatre.org

3040 Route 32 South, Kingston, NY (845) 331-1050 www.hoppvet.com 6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000

Photography Corporate Image Studio

1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz, NY (845)255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com mgphotoman@gmail.com

Montgomery Montessori School

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

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

Schools Mount Saint Mary College

Kenro Izu Studio www.kenroizu.com

330 Powell Avenue, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-3225 www.msmc.edu

Woodstock Picture Studio

Oakwood Friends School

(845) 679-5913 www.woodstockpicturestudio.com

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing

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

Pools & Spas Aqua Jet

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

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

South Kent School

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

Wild Earth Wilderness School New Paltz / High Falls area, (845) 256-9830 www.wildearthprograms.org info@wildearthprograms.org

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

Specialty Food Shops Savor the Taste

527 Warren Street , Hudson, NY (845) 417-6776 www.savorthetasteoilandvinegar.com

Printing Services Beacon Fine Art Printing

Beacon, NY (914) 522-4736 www.beaconfineartprinting.com

Real Estate Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg.

Tourism Columbia County Tourism

(800) 724-1846 www.columbiacountytourism.org

Historic Huguenot Street

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

275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com

New Paltz Chamber of Commerce

Lawrence O’Toole Realty

(845) 562-6940 www.safe-harbors.org

30 John St, Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 338-5832 www.lawrenceotoolerealty.com

Willow Realty

120 Main Street, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7666 www.friendlycircle.weebly.com LWillow@Aol.com

Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217

Recreation Apple Greens Golf Course 161 South Street, Highland, NY www.applegreens.com

Catskill Cycles

347 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-7433 www.catskillcycles.com

Storm King Adventure Tours

Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-7800 www.stormkingadventuretours.com

257 Main Sreet, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltzchamber.org

Safe Harbors of the Hudson

Wine & Liquor 1857 Barber’s Farm Distillery Middleburgh (518) 827-5454 www.1857spirits.com

Benmarl Vineyards

156 Highland Avenue, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-4265 www.benmarl.com

Kingston Wine Co.

65 Broadway on the Rondout, Kingston, NY www.kingstonwine.com

Miron Wine and Spirits

15 Boices Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5155 www.mironwineanspirits.com

Nostrano Vineyards

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

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

Schools Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org

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

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

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AMID A VAPOROUS HAZE OF ANTICIPATION, MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS COMING TO NEW YORK.

by wendy kagan

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f you followed the local news in July 2014, you would’ve seen the photo op: a button-cute 10-year-old girl blushing happily next to Governor Andrew Cuomo as he signed legislation that would bring medical marijuana to the Empire State.That was Amanda Houser, of Suffern, who seems every bit of a normal preteen, if not for the seizures that she endures daily from Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. Her family hopes that medical marijuana— now legal in our state, though not available until at least early next year—will help reduce the number of seizures that Amanda must hurdle during her life of school and play and Teen Beach movies. It’s been over a year since that moment in the spotlight with Cuomo, and her condition has spiraled down. “Lately, it’s gone rampant,” says her mother, Maryanne Houser. “She’s had so many seizures that we don’t know what to do.” Hearing about other children with epilepsy who’ve improved with medical cannabis, Amanda and her parents are eager to access the alternative medicine. If all goes as planned, they won’t have to wait too much longer. A Toke for What Ails You NewYork State’s Department of Health granted the first licenses to five cannabis growers in July of this year after a rigorous application process that weeded out (pun irresistible) 38 other manufacturers that didn’t make the cut. It was the first move in a state program that will be very tightly regulated, making marijuana available only to people with certain medical conditions. (The current list includes cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, spinal cord injury with spasticity, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathy, and Huntington’s disease.) The five growers, who will each operate one manufacturing facility and four dispensaries, for a total of 20 scattered across the state, are expected to have products available by January 2016. Given how fast marijuana grows (about 60 days from seed to harvest), that’s not impossible, though in the meantime there are doctors to educate and patients to register. When the program is up and running, the cannabis-eligible will have access to whole-plant products that can help tame everything from nausea to muscle spasms to chronic pain. It’s a lot more dignified than buying a dime bag on a dimly lit street corner—up to now one of the only (illegal) options for people seeking sweet, weed-induced relief. Not that you’ll be smelling the telltale scent of a joint in public places, or seeing bongs in locations other than college frat houses.The medical marijuana available in New York won’t be smoked—rather, it will take one of five forms, all of them made from cannabis oil extracted from the plant. “We’ll have a pill form, a vaporized pen [or vape pen], oral mucosal sprays, aerosols, and tinctures,” says Amy Peckham, CEO of Etain, LLC, one of the newly licensed manufacturers of medical marijuana, which will open one of its dispensaries on Route 28 in Kingston. “It’s a very controlled product with very defined efficacy. I think what New York is trying to do through heavy regulation is give 92 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 9/15

consumer protection and product warranty, which is a good thing. Ours will be pure, natural, and organic—and made in New York, which is very exciting to say.” Something unique about Etain is that it will offer one product that is pure CBD, or cannabidiol—a component in marijuana that has anti-inflammatory and antispasticity properties, but that doesn’t get you high. It’s the CBD in the plant—not the psychoactive agent THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)—that some researchers believe to be most useful in treating conditions like epilepsy. Of course, many of New York’s medical marijuana products will contain THC as well, because many health conditions benefit from the mood enhancement that THC brings. The goal is to outfit each dispensary with trained pharmacists who can guide customers toward the product that will best serve them. “Someone in a hospice situation will need a different medicine than, say, a child with seizures,” says Peckham, whose mother’s ordeal with ALS sparked her interest in medical marijuana. “It gives you the ability to reduce the number of medications that many terminally ill people are on, and to reduce the side effects of [conventional] painkillers. Doctors have their prescriptions, and when they work, they work—but when they don’t, it’s a beautiful thing that people will have this option. It’s real alternative care.” High Time for Science Amanda Houser and her family know all about the downsides of relying on pharmaceuticals. If she has a grand mal seizure, her mother reaches for an emergency medicine that stops it in its tracks, yet that comes with horrendous side effects. “The medications that I give to Amanda to stop her seizures make her wasted—she’s totally drunk, can’t walk, and says her stomach hurts. If we can avoid even that part, it would be a plus,” says Maryanne. “We’ve heard so many good stories about kids out in Colorado who are using medical marijuana oil. They’re going from hundreds of seizures a month to just one a month. I would love that—one a month with nothing in between. Amanda has these little ones that riddle her day.” Hopes are high—yet the science behind cannabis remains in the babystep stages in this country. “With medical marijuana, there have been a lot of anecdotal reports [about its benefits]. But in the world of research and medicine, we really like having objective data to see if something is effective or not,” says Kelly Knupp, MD, a pediatric neurologist and the lead researcher on a three-year cannabis study with epilepsy patients at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Although the medical form is now legal in 23 states, marijuana remains illegal at the federal level and is considered a Schedule 1 drug by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), making it very difficult to study. Researchers cannot carry out the double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that is considered the gold standard, so instead they must do the next best thing: an observational study.

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“We’re asking families who are providing medical marijuana products to their children to keep seizure diaries before and after treatment is started, which allows us to observe in a more rigorous way whether there are any benefits to the products,” says Knupp. “Everybody is hoping that the products will decrease seizures or lead to seizure freedom.” Still, most doctors won’t prescribe or formally recommend marijuana to their patients. “I tell them we don’t really know whether this works or not. If we have patients choosing to try these products, we will try to provide as much safety around that as we can.” That said, Knupp and her colleagues did conduct a retrospective study that reviewed the charts of 75 patients who were using medical marijuana; in that study, 33 percent of patients reported a 50 percent reduction in seizures. Interestingly, patients who moved to Colorado to obtain medical marijuana were three times more likely to report an improvement. Still, says Knupp, “We need a body of science for recommended doses, side effects, and precautions. That science hasn’t been done yet.”

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Pure Hemp, Pure Relief For Susan Rusinko, of Auburn, who has been living with multiple sclerosis since 2000, waiting for the science has never been a priority. “I played the game with my neurologist, trying this medication and that. By 2003 I was on about 17 different pharmaceuticals. It just wasn’t fun anymore,” she says. “I had young kids and I couldn’t keep up with them. I said to my doctor, ‘I’m not living my life, I’m on my couch in your prescribed drug-induced haze. I want a medication vacation.’ He said, ‘What do you think you’re going to do?’ I said, smoke marijuana.” With her doctor’s guidance, Rusinko weaned herself off most of her pharmaceuticals; to help with the withdrawal as well as her MS symptoms, she medicated with marijuana every day—and still does. “From then, my life has improved tremendously. I got off pharmaceutical drugs. I lost 60 pounds. I kayak. I’ve been to every one of my kids’ concerts, every all-star game. That’s why I had children—I wanted to enjoy them.” After years of keeping it a secret from almost everyone except her husband, Rusinko came “out of the closet” after her kids graduated from high school. Then there was no stopping her—she went on the news and even went to Albany to speak to senators at the capitol. “I said, ‘I’m an illegal marijuana user and I’m a better person for it.’” After lobbying hard for a medical marijuana program in New York, Rusinko is finally seeing it come to pass—but it’s not the program she was hoping for. “They’re still treating it like an illicit drug and not the medication that it is,” she says, noting the program’s many restrictions. Just 20 dispensaries, she adds, is not enough for a state of this size; some people with serious illnesses will have to drive three hours to get to one. “There’s more work to be done. My hope is, once they see how well it goes, they’ll open it up more. And please, let them include PTSD veterans. They fought for our freedom, and we’ve left them out.” On a recent trip to Colorado, Rusinko got a taste of a medical marijuana program that’s been up and running since the early 2000s. “I was able to go to a dispensary and it was very well run, like a medical office. It wasn’t a freefor-all.The people behind the counter were very knowledgeable.”While there, she had the opportunity to try different forms of cannabis—including a vaporized form that worked almost instantaneously. “It’s called dabbing, where the marijuana is taken down to its purest form in an oil and then put on a heating element, so you’re breathing in the vapor.Within 30 seconds the spasticity was completely gone in my legs, I could move my hand. It was incredible.” Still, she won’t go so far as to call marijuana a miracle drug. “It’s not. But it’s helped me live my life. I had an MRI last April and I had no new lesions. That means I’m doing something right.” A Leafy Green Future With almost half of US states adopting medical marijuana programs, the terrain around the therapeutic plant is shifting. Big change could happen if Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Rand Paul, and Cory Booker succeed at passing their proposed CARERS Act, a bill that would deregulate marijuana at the federal level. If that happens, marijuana will no longer remain a Schedule 1 drug, and researchers can conduct the in-depth scientific studies that we need to explore its safety and efficacy. One little girl has been waiting with great expectations. “Amanda wants it—she wants the medicine, she wants the seizures to stop,” says Maryanne Houser, whose family won’t move to Colorado, and who won’t get cannabis illegally through the black market. “It’s going to happen here; it’s just a matter of time. For now, we’ll just wait.” 9/15 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING 95

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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 non-toxic, eco-friendly materials.

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L Ac 87 East Market Street, Suite 102, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com

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

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

Counseling Kent Babcock, LMSW Stone Ridge, NY (845) 807-7147 kentagram@gmail.com At 65, as an older therapist, I now work exclusively with men—mid-life and older. I counsel men who are taking stock of their lives, supporting them in the here-and-now to reassess the past and re-contemplate the future. I also have a par ticular interest a n d e x p e r t i s e i n A s p e r g e r ’s S y n d r o m e, d i a g n o s e d o r n o t . Sliding scale.

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

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Medical Center Poughkeepsie, NY westchestermedicalcenter.com/mhrh

Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com

Hypnosis Clear Mind Arts Hypnosis Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8828 www.clearmindarts.com sandplay555@frontier.com In a safe and supportive space, adults and children find tools to help dissolve emotional tangles and heal. Inner exploration though Hypnosis and Expressive Art brings greater clarity, a renewed sense of purpose and wisdom. Sand play bridges meditation, symbol formation and Jungian Principles to bring integration beyond words. Offering Medical Hypnosis, Life Between Livesâ&#x201E;˘ and Certification in Hypnosis.

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, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!

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

Retreat Centers Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

Spirituality AIM Group 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5650 www.sagehealingcenter.org Jewish Federation of Ulster County Wiltwyck Golf Club, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8131 www.fallforart.org info@fallforart.org Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com

Midwifery Jenna Smith Stout 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 430-4300 www.jennasmithcm.com

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

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

Yoga Anahata Yoga 35 North Front Street, Kingston, NY facebook.com/anahatakingston Clear Yoga Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck 17b 6423 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6129 www.clearyogarhinebeck.com Classes for all levels and abilities, even days a week, including weekly beginner classes. Iyengar Yoga builds strength, stamina, peace of mind, and provides a precise framework for a yoga practice based on what works for you. July 4 class 10-11.30am. Weekend workshop with Manouso Manos, Friday July 24-26.

The Yoga House 57 Crown Street, Kingston, NY (845) 706-9642 www.theyogahouseny.com Woodstock Yoga Center 6 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8700 www.woodstockyogacenter.com 9/14 CHRONOGRAM WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY 97

half moon theatre at THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA—MARRIOTT PAVILION presents

An Evening with

SUTTON

FOSTER

September 26, 2015, 7:30 pm

Marriott Pavilion The Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park

Tickets ($40–200) at www.halfmoontheatre.org or call 1-800-838-3006

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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR SEPTEMBER 2015

Bison,a sculpture by Sal and Nancy Moccia constructed from found heavy plastic, steel, tire treads, aluminum and steel cans, part of the Collaborative Concepts art installation.

Field & Dream Black angus cows and horses roam all 140 acres of rolling fields at Saunders Farm in Garrison. The 18th-century estate offers majestic vistas of the Hudson Highlands as each season’s hues unfold. As if the scene couldn’t be more archetypal of the region’s rustic reputation, an art installation by Collaborative Concepts on the farm in September and October integrates sculpture with nature, reflecting the area’s historically artsy roots. Over 70 artists from the Hudson Valley and beyond have assembled animal-friendly sculptures to complement the surrounding landscapes—grazing cows and horses are imagined to admire the pieces while they dine. Installations of various media and sizes seem to crop up out of the earth or sprout from the trees; some past works have been wrought from aluminum, brick, concrete, glass, fabric, mirrors, reeds, steel, and stone. To protect the cows and horses, artists were forbidden from using cables, holes, or sharp edges in their work. This is the 10th anniversary of Collaborative Concepts exhibits at Saunders Farm. A not-for-profit, this nonmembership organization is dedicated to fostering artful accomplishments that provide the community with prodigious cultural experiences. “It’s a wonderful creative extravaganza for the locals,” says Sarah Haviland, board member and participating artist since 2006. Her sculptures, winged women composed of cement, metal, and mesh, have evolved over the years to include tones of blue, green, gold, and

red. “I know I’m not alone in this, but I’ve used the farm to experiment with my work,” says Haviland. This year's selected artist is Herman Roggeman, one of the founding members of Collaborative Concepts. The owner of Metconix, a metal fabrication business in Beacon, he founded Collective Concepts in 1999 with fellow artist Peter Clark. His featured work, Silver, is an immense steel sculpture. Each sculpture’s relationship to its backdrop is intimate; Collaborative Concepts board members coach the artists on making their work suitable to be displayed outdoors. New and regular participating artists learn as they go, some creating site-specific projects out of durable materials, conscious of the high winds and other elements out in the fields. Less than one sculpture per two acres is allowed across the exhibit. According to Haviland, knowledge of the terrain and the ability to fashion pieces that coexist with rather than overpower the landscape are important. An opening reception on September 5 features performance art from 2 to 6pm in the fields, with staged music from 3:30 to 6pm. A midrun reception on October 3 will also feature dance, opera, and theatrical performances. All installations at Saunders Farm are impermanent, so as not to disrupt native ecosystems, and many sculptures are for sale. Visitors are welcome from 10am till dusk through the end of October. (845) 528-1797; Collaborativeconcepts.org. —Jessica Jones 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 99

TUESDAY 1 HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group

First Tuesday, Thursday of every month. Open to women with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. (800) 532-4290.

Chair Yoga 6:30-7pm. Using chairs for support, Kathy Foley will guide you through relaxing and meditative yoga poses. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

KIDS & FAMILY Autism & ADHD Support Group

First Tuesday of every month, 6:30pm. This support group is designed to meet the psychosocial needs of parents with children affected by autism and/or ADHD. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

LITERARY & BOOKS Open Mike

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

Readings and Book Signing 6:30-7:45pm. Reading/book signing of Notes from the Other Side. Middletown Thrall Library, Middletown. 341-5454.

MUSIC Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire

7:30pm. $37.50-$109. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Counting Crows 7pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

SPIRITUALITY The Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat

Learn the art of mindfulness, to deepen your practice, and to taste the joy and peace of practicing as a community. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785

Private Spirit Guide Readings 12-6pm. $40, 30 min./$75, 60 min. With psychic medium Adam Bernstein. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6-7pm. $80/Four-week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

WEDNESDAY 2 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Coxsackie Earth Day Movie Series

First Wednesday of every month, 6-8pm. Free environmental movies/documentaries. Jeffrey Haas, Coxsackie. (518) 478-5414.

FOOD & WINE Culinary Adventure: Mushrooms, Cheese, & Barolo Wine

11:30am. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Mama & Me Yoga

12:15-1:30pm. $18/drop-in, $150/10 class card.Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

Prenatal Yoga 10:45am-12pm. $18. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

LITERARY & BOOKS Gardiner Library Book Club

Programming EMPAC: The First 4,158 Days Book Launch 5:30pm. Drinks, snacks and copies of the book will be available. At 6, President Shirley Ann Jackson will speak about EMPAC’s core vision and the future of experimental media at Rensselaer. Director Johannes Goebel will then speak about the realization of this vision in EMPAC’s first 4,158 days and beyond. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

MUSIC The Fixx

8pm. $38. 80s music. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Radio Woodstock Presents: Keb’ Mo’ 7:30-11pm. $35-$65. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 691-5900.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII

$5/children free. Horse show. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833.

SPIRITUALITY Blossoming into Awareness

9am-9pm. In this 4-day workshop, our perception will blossom into the awareness that we are the constant in every relationship we are in; thus we are the constant opportunity for either conditional love or unconditional love in life. With on Miguel Ruiz, Jr. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.

The Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat Learn the art of mindfulness, to deepen your practice, and to taste the joy and peace of practicing as a community. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785 Private Soul Listening Sessions 12-6pm. $40 30 min./$75 60 min. With Celestial Channel Kate Loye. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Seminar on Dams

9am-noon. Presented by Cornell Cooperative ExtensionThe speakers will cover topics related to dams. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Dams.eventbrite.com.

THURSDAY 3 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Exodus: Newburgh Extension

First Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison re-entry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). Come join us to assist the new Exodus The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.

DANCE Swingin’ Newburgh

First Thursday of every month. 7-7:30. Beginner swing dance lesson. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. Got2lindy.com.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group

First Tuesday, Thursday of every month. Support Connection, Inc.Open to women with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. (800) 532-4290.

3-4pm. H is for Hawk, a memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

MUSIC The Moutin Factory Quinte

Kingston Spoken Word 7-9pm. $5. Donald Lev reading the poetry of Enid Dame, and performances by Marguerite & Andres San Millan. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.

Open Mike Night 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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

OUTDOORS & RECREATION HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII

$5/children free. Horse show. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833.

SPIRITUALITY The Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat

Learn the art of mindfulness, to deepen your practice, and to taste the joy and peace of practicing as a community. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Playing with Voice and Rhythm with Pete Blum and Bill Ross

First Thursday of every month, 8-9pm. $10. An opportunity for musicians and those with no prior musical training at all to explore some of the basic ways that we can communicate non-verbally through the beautiful medium of pure vocal tones and rhythmic improvisations. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

FRIDAY 4 DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. No experience or partner needed. Taught by professional teachers Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS 10th Annual Festival of Books

The festival features a giant used book sale, two days of readings and book signings by nationally known and local authors, and a children’s program. See website for complete schedule. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. Spencertownacademy.org/events.

FILM Within the Eye of the Storm

7-9pm. Films of Palestine Series sponsored by: Middle East Crisis Response. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. (518) 291-6808.

Woodstock Museum’s 16th Annual Free Film Festival 6pm. See website for specific films and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. WoodstockMuseum.org.

FOOD & WINE Taste NY at Todd Hill Outdoor Farmers Market

Taste NY at Todd Hill, Poughkeepsie. Ccedutchess.org/agriculture-horticulture/ taste-ny-market-at-todd-hill-1.php.

KIDS & FAMILY Family Fun Nights

First Friday of every month, 5:307:45pm. Catskill Recreation Center, Arkville. 586-6250.

LECTURES & TALKS A Modern Hudson River School Painter 12pm. Given by Kevin Cook. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.

THEATER Bird-On-A-Cliff: “A Unique Adaptation of The Wizard of Oz” 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. birdon-a-cliff@hvc.rr.com

“Carousel” 8pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. “Dirty Paki Lingerie” 7:30-8:45pm. $15, $10 Students/Seniors. After sold out shows in NYC, London, Toronto, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE comes to Bridge Street Theatre. Playwright/Performer Aizzah Fatima and Director Erica Gould explore the American experience through the eyes of six Pakistani-American Muslim women ranging in age from 6 to 65. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. “The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. “The Tempest” 6-8pm. $15/$12 senior citizens/$8 ages 5-18/under 4 and members free. Savor the last weekend of summer with a sunset production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Presented by the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. Stormking.org/ tempestsept4.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES African Dance

First Friday of every month, 6:157:45pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

Healing Circle to Nourish Your Soul First Friday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $35. A sacred circle to connect, explore and expand. Acupuncturist and intuitive healer Holly Burling will guide you through a soulful healing experience – acupuncture, meditation, aromatherapy, crystals, mantras and writing in a beautiful and serene setting. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974. Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep 11am-3pm. $60. Learn how to clean up hives, and look for problems that might weaken your bees. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.

SATURDAY 5

MUSIC 12th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival

ART Art Studio Views

8pm. $15 sugg. donation. Featuring The Art of the Duo. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. Wallstreetjazzfestival.com.

11am-5pm. Free, self-guided tour of artists in Northern Dutchess and Southern Columbia counties. Artstudioviews.com.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 6-9pm. Closing out this hotel’s annual Cans & Clams music series, the band will be doling out two sets of the finest country rock this side of 1973. The Andes Hotel, Andes. 676-3980.

DANCE Benefit Ballroom Dance

Donna the Buffalo 8pm. $35/$25. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock. 679-2744.

Hudson Valley English Country Dance 7:30-10:30pm. $10/$5 FT students with ID. Workshop at 7pm. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 679-8587.

The Doobie Brothers & Greg Allman 7:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330. Mambo Kinkongo 9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. The Rhythm Future Quartet 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. Shayna Steele 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII

$5/children free. Horse show. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833.

SPIRITUALITY The Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat

Learn the art of mindfulness, to deepen your practice, and to taste the joy and peace of practicing as a community. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785

First Saturday of every month, 7:30pm. Proceeds go towards our scholarship fund. Music Institute of Sullivan & Ulster Counties, Inc. MISU, Ellenville. 399-1293.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS 10th Annual Festival of Books

Crystal Trunk Show 11am-6pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Phoenicia Flea 11am-6pm. Parish Field, Phoenicia. Phoeniciaflea.com.

FILM Woodstock Museum’s 16th Annual Free Film Festival 6pm. See website for specific films and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. WoodstockMuseum.org.

MUSIC DRUM BOOGIE FESTIVAL

Jack DeJohnette will perform at the 2015 Drum Boogie Festival in Woodstock on September 12.

Percussive Effect Even to those who regularly attend multiple outdoor music happenings on any given summer, the concept of a festival centered mainly on the musical element of percussion may seem a bit, shall we say, offbeat. “I guess it might, yeah,” says organizer Garry Kvistad about the event, which will pound off at Andy Lee Field in Woodstock on September 12. “But in a way that’s exactly the reason we do this: to offer and expose people to something they may never have known existed before. Besides being very high-quality, the music at Drum Boogie is very diverse.” Quality and diversity in music are two things Kvistad knows well. Both are signature aspects of his lengthy dual careers as a member of the renowned percussion ensemble NEXUS and as the co-founder and CEO of local manufacturers Woodstock Chimes. Drum Boogie is a free festival celebrating rhythm itself and the strikingly varied styles of music, dance, and voice from around the world in a family-friendly setting. In addition to a set by NEXUS (called “the high priests of the percussion world” by the New York Times), the program includes legendary jazz drummer and “festival anchor” Jack DeJohnette with bassist Matt Garrison and Gambian kora player and griot Foday Musa Susa; vibraphonist Joe Locke; Mandara featuring Valerie Dee Naranjo (Saturday Night Live Band, “The Lion King”); Aanadhha with Indian tabla player Dibyarka Chatterjee; Caribbean steel pan ensemble NYU Steel; Japanese taiko drum/American tap dance group Cobu; the Great American Fife and Drum Band; the Gamelan Giri Mekar All-Stars with special guests (authentic Balinese gongs, metallophones, drums, cymbals, and flutes, with Balinese

dancers); the youth-populated POOK (Percussion Orchestra of Kingston) with Energy Dance Company; and, ending the percussive proceedings with a bang, Hudson Valley reggae faves the Big Takeover, who Kvistad says will be sporting an extra percussion player for the performance. “[The festival’s] very well organized and keeps growing, but it’s not too slick or overly commercial,” says Kvistad, a virtuoso on bells, marimba, glockenspiel, cymbals, drums, vibraphone, and other instruments who also performs with composer Steve Reich. “It’s sponsored by local business and state arts grants, so it’s very down-to-earth.” In 2009, he and New York State Assemblymember Kevin Cahill established the festival, which takes place every other year to celebrate musical and cultural richness and present monies raised by the Woodstock Chimes Fund, a project Garry and his wife, Diane, created in 1986 to help area human services causes. This year at the festival, the Woodstock Chimes Fund will present a hefty check to Family of Woodstock, the donation earmarked for the charity group’s domestic violence assistance efforts. “Over the years, we’ve tried to retain [musical] elements that hold things together,” Kvistad explains. “But, at the same time, we always try to give people a new experience to walk away with.” Drum Boogie will take place at Andy Lee Field in Woodstock on September 12 from 11am to 8pm. Admission is free. (845) 594-6518; Drumboogiefestival.com. —Peter Aaron 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 101

KIDS & FAMILY Grasshopper Grove: Outdoor Art

10am. $3. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Saturday Social Circle First Saturday of every month, 10am-12pm. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624. Storytime and Booksigning 2-4pm. Join local author/illustrator Iza Trapani for a storytime and booksigning of her new picture book. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224.

LITERARY & BOOKS Picture Book Story Time With Children’s Author & Illustrator Matthew Van Fleet 12pm. Matthew Van Fleet’s innovative books have been introducing children to basic concepts for more than twenty years. His uniquely designed board books invite toddlers to touch, press, pull, lift, and even sniff as they explore colors, shapes, numbers, letters, opposites, and more. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

MUSIC 12th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival

6-10pm. Featuring Jaki Byard Project, Dena Derose Trio, Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen Quintet, and Estrella Salsa. Uptown Kingston, Kingston.

Foghorn Stringband 8pm. $15. Old-time American stringband music. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Happy Traum with John Sebastian, Byron Isaacs, and Cindy Cashdollar 8-10pm. $25-$50. Celebrating the release of their new CD, Just for the Love of It. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. James F. Brown Day: From Slave to Mr. Brown, A Celebration of Freedom 12-5pm. $12/$10 seniors/$8 ages 12 thru 18; $4 ages 6 thru 11; free for children under 6 and Mount Gulian members. The public is invited to celebrate the life of James F. Brown, an escaped slave from Maryland who made his way to freedom and full citizenship in the Hudson Valley. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172. JD Samson 8pm. $16/$10 in advance/$5 members and students. A member of the legendary electro-feminist-punk project Le Tigre, the singer and producer JD Samson is an articulate champion of social causes and a party waiting to erupt. Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Lake Street Dive 9pm. 9pm. Unique fusion of jazz, classical, pop, swing and soul. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. September Songs 8pm. $35. An evening of music, theater, wine, and surprises to benefit Performing Arts of Woodstock. Featuring Lindsey Webster. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-7900. Tal National 7pm. Afrobeat. Opener: Leni Stern African Trio. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Tom Pacheco 7:30pm. $18/$15 in advance. Songwriter. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS First Saturday Reception

First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.

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OUTDOORS & RECREATION 2nd Annual Newburgh Draught Day 5M

11am. $48 day of/$38 after Aug. 2/$32 Early reg. 5 mile road race that runs through the City of Newburgh and ends right at the front door of the brewery. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. 561-2327.

Artful Hike with Musician David Rothenberg 4-5:40pm. $10. This special hike will begin at the Wagon House Education Center and go to the top of Crown Hill and back (about 1.5 miles of easy, gentle walking, appropriate for all ages). There will be rests along the way and crisp apples and ice water at the end. Olana State Historic Park, Hudson. Guided History Tours 11am-12:30pm. Tours will focus on the foundry’s 100-year history, its operations and diverse workforce, and Scenic Hudson’s efforts to protect and interpret the remains of this industrial powerhouse while preserving the land’s natural beauty. West Point Foundry Preserve, Cold Spring. 473-4440 ext. 273. HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII $5/children free. Horse show. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833. Stockade District Walking Tour First Saturday of every month, 1pm. $10/$5 children. Walking tour highlights include viewing the many eighteenth century limestone houses still standing in the Stockade District. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.

SPIRITUALITY Kirtan

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

The Miracle of Mindfulness Retreat Learn the art of mindfulness, to deepen your practice, and to taste the joy and peace of practicing as a community. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785

SPORTS 1st Annual Elizaville Tennis Tournament and Clinic

9am. Join Shawn Holzmann and the Break Point Tennis staff with special guest Umang Chadda for a tennis clinic and tournament. All ages. Camp Scatico, Elizaville. 389-3924.

THEATER Bird-On-A-Cliff: “A Unique Adaptation of The Wizard of Oz” 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. birdon-a-cliff@hvc.rr.com

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Swing Dance

First Saturday of every month, 7:3010:30pm. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 and a bonus move at 9pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377.

Tong-Making with Patrick Quinn 9am-4pm. Two-day course. Learn the basics of forging your own tongs, and how to choose the proper tongs to maximize efficiency and safety for different tasks. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.

SUNDAY 6 ART Art Studio Views

Sunday Brunch: Saints of Swing 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Tom Pacheco 7:30pm. $18/$15 in advance. Songwriter. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453. Van Halen 8pm. $43.50-$166. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

11am-5pm. Free, self-guided tour of artists in Northern Dutchess and Southern Columbia counties. Artstudioviews.com.

Zac Brown Band 7:30pm. Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs. (518) 584-9330.

DANCE Swing Brunch

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Adult Chess Club

First Sunday of every month, 10:30am2pm. $12.95. Eagle’s Nest 2 at Dinsmore, Staatsburg. 475-4689.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS 10th Annual Festival of Books

14th Annual Hooley on the Hudson 11:30am-9pm. The annual Hooley, the festival of all things Irish - music, song, dance and storytelling, has been held since its inception on the Sunday before Labor Day at Kingston’s T.R. Gallo Memorial Park on the historic Rondout Creek, where the Irish disembarked more than 100 years ago. Rondout Waterfront, Kingston. 338-6622. Phoenicia Flea 11am-6pm. Parish Field, Phoenicia. Phoeniciaflea.com.

FILM Woodstock Museum’s 16th Annual Free Film Festival 6pm. See website for specific films and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. WoodstockMuseum.org.

FOOD & WINE Callicoon Farmers’ Market

11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. Manager@ sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

HEALTH & WELLNESS CPR and First Aid Class

10am-2pm. $65. Germantown Library, Germantown. (518) 537-5800.

Interpersonal Mindfulness Retreat 9:15am-4:30pm. $50. This retreat focuses on bringing mindfulness to all of our communications. Woodstock Mindfulness, Woodstock. 389-3850. Sound Healing and Yoga with Lea Garnier First Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

MUSIC The Power of Uncertainty: Hosted by Impertus, A Forum for Artistic Spontaneity

7:30pm. Come and take part in a one of a kind performance that utilizes the power of the unknown as its creative guiding force! Conduct the players, provide written prompts, contribute to the artwork and even join with the musicians, artists, dancers and poets in creating an event never before envisioned. Live at the The Falcon, Marlboro. 687-8707.

A Concert for the Friends of Maverick: Dover Quartet 4-6pm. $50+. Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Leos Janaek: String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”; Robert Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41, No. 1. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Helsinki on Broadway Cabaret Series: Charles Busch 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Jim Lauderdale 7:30pm. Americana. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. West Point Band’s Labor Day Concert 7:30pm. End-of-the-summer concert with fireworks. West Point Military Academy, West Point. Usma.edu.

First Sunday of every month, 1:30-3:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII $5/children free. Horse show. HITS Showgrounds, Saugerties. 246-8833. Nature Walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve 9-10:30am. Free. Join us for free nature walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. Farm.vassar.edu/ news/announcements/2015-2016/150701announcement.html.

SPIRITUALITY Satsang

9am-12pm. A vegetarian meal follows and everyone is welcome to participate. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.

Together We Are One: Day of Mindfulness 10am-4pm. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush. 213-1785

SPORTS 1st Annual Elizaville Tennis Tournament and Clinic

9am. Join Shawn Holzmann and the Break Point Tennis staff with special guest Umang Chadda for a tennis clinic and tournament. All ages. Camp Scatico, Elizaville. 389-3924.

THEATER “Carousel”

3pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Bird-On-A-Cliff: “A Unique Adaptation of The Wizard of Oz” 5pm. Comeau Property, Woodstock. birdon-a-cliff@hvc.rr.com “Dirty Paki Lingerie” 7:30-8:45pm. $15, $10 Students/Seniors. After sold out shows in NYC, London, Toronto, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE comes to Bridge Street Theatre. Playwright/Performer Aizzah Fatima and Director Erica Gould explore the American experience through the eyes of six Pakistani-American Muslim women ranging in age from 6 to 65. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Presents: “The Tempest” 3-5pm. $30/$25 kids and seniors. Audiences of all ages will revel in the circus-like atmosphere created by HVSF’s young artists in our 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s enchanting tale of a magical island full of monsters and fairies. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. “The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

MONDAY 7 FAIRS & FESTIVALS 10th Annual Festival of Books

The festival features a giant used book sale, two days of readings and book signings by nationally known and local authors, and a children’s program. Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown. Spencertownacademy.org/events.

FILM Woodstock Museum’s 16th Annual Free Film Festival 12-6pm. See website for specific films and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. WoodstockMuseum.org.

COMEDY WOODSTOCK COMEDY FESTIVAL

Jo Firestone of the Upright Citizens Brigade will perform at the Woodstock Comedy Festival on September 18.

Something’s Funny in Woodstock Woodstock is home to artists of all types: painters, writers, musicians, dancers—the list goes on. But amid all the profound lines of poetry, delicate brushstrokes, and anarchic folk songs, a question hangs: Where’s the funny? Two years ago, the Woodstock Comedy Festival formed to bring a weekend of humor to a town that might take itself too seriously. The festival is the brainchild of Chris Collins. “Woodstock has a lot going for it,” he says. “It has a writers’ festival, a goddess festival, a poetry festival. I realized the one thing it didn’t have was a comedy festival.” Woodstock is indeed home to a barrage of festivals—the most famous of which took place in 1969 and wasn’t even held there. But the motivation driving Collins to create the weekend of comedy wasn’t only to round out Woodstock’s catalog of festivals. The Woodstock Comedy Festival is a not-for-profit that supports two charities: Polaris, which works to combat human traffickers and provide support for the victims, and Family of Woodstock, an organization that focuses on crisis intervention services for victims of domestic abuse. “I wanted to do something that was bigger than myself,” Collins explains. “I grew up with five sisters, so I know at least a little bit about what women go through and wanted to do something about it.” Its philanthropic drive is why the festival can label what it does “comedy for a cause.” This year’s headlining comedian is Robert Klein, who will appear at the Bearsville Theater on September 19. Klein is famous for his “I can’t stop my leg” routine and starring in HBO’s first stand-up comedy special. “Robert Klein can take any topic and make it funny,”

says comedian and festival producer Josh Ruben. Ruben worked with the comedy sketch group College Humor and started his own group, Dutch West, before getting involved with the festival. “There’s something about seeing comedy live,” Ruben says. “It’s a really visceral feeling, being in that room, looking around and seeing all the faces there.” The festival opens on Friday night with Laughingstock!, a night of stand-up and improv at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts featuring Jo Firestone of the Upright Citizens Brigade as well as Megan Gailey, Brendan Eyre, Robert Dean, Jeffrey Joseph, Shane Torres, and Audrey Rappoport. The Kleinert/James Center will also host panel discussions, including a tribute to Joan Rivers with Hester Mundis, and a discussion of growing up funny with Janna Ritz, Pat Cooper, and Patrick Carlin. New to this year’s festival are two competitions, Faces of Comedy, for stand-ups, and Funny Eye, for filmmakers. “Now in our third year, we are still young but thriving and want to foster young, thriving comedic talent,” Collins explains. The grand prize for Faces of Comedy is the opportunity to perform on AXS.TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live,” the runner-up to perform at the Woodstock Comedy Festival. The winner of Funny Eye will have their film premiered at Upstate Films Woodstock on September 20 and participate in a Q&A after the screening. The Woodstock Comedy Festival will be held September 18-20 at venues throughout the town of Woodstock. Woodstockcomedyfestival.org. —Jake Swain 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 103

FOOD & WINE 10th Anniversary Celebration

9am-7pm. Live music, great raffle prizes, gift baskets, sampling, demos, Kombucha on tap, giveaways, deviled eggs & more. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

MUSIC Mid Hudson Women’s 2015 Open Rehearsals 7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

SPORTS 1st Annual Elizaville Tennis Tournament and Clinic

9am. Join Shawn Holzmann and the Break Point Tennis staff with special guest Umang Chadda for a tennis clinic and tournament. All ages. Camp Scatico, Elizaville. 389-3924.

TUESDAY 8

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6-7pm. $80/four-week series. With professional instructors Linda & Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. New series begins every four weeks. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep 11am-3pm. $60. Learn how to clean up hives, and look for problems that might weaken your bees. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.

WEDNESDAY 9 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist

Young Women’s Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Second Wednesday of every month, 7pm. Support Connection, Inc., a not–for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer. Open to women who have been diagnosed with breast, ovarian or gynecological cancer at a young age. Support Connection, Yorktown Heights. (800) 532-4290.

BUSINESS & NETWORKING Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting

LECTURES & TALKS Portrait History in Western Art: A Painter’s Study

COMEDY Colin Quinn

7:15-8:30pm. Portrait artist Cynthia Harris-Pagano gives an overview from her perspective as a fine art painter of how portraiture has evolved throughout history. Orange Hall Gallery, Middletown. 341-4891.

FOOD & WINE 10th Anniversary Celebration

BUSINESS & NETWORKING Solopreneurs Sounding Board

9am-7pm. Live music, great raffle prizes, gift baskets, sampling, demos, Kombucha on tap, giveaways, deviled eggs & more. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

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

MUSIC Godspeed You! Black Emperor

8pm. $20. Legendary, operatic post-rock band from Montreal. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.

Mary Halvorson and Ches Smith 9pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Music on the Mountain A week-long medley of musical days and nights. Enjoy a fabulous selection of music featuring three concerts each day, including classical, jazz, Broadway, reggae, and a finale performance by Natalie Merchant on Friday. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (866) 910-7739.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Safe Harbors Informational Tours

Second Tuesday of every month, 9am. The tours highlight how Safe Harbors’ transformative supportive housing, awardwinning contemporary art gallery and performing arts theater is instrumental to the revitalization of downtown Newburgh. Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-6940. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.

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8pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

9am-7pm. Live music, great raffle prizes, gift baskets, sampling, demos, Kombucha on tap, giveaways, deviled eggs & more. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. Assisting persons/couples understand fertility and options available to them. Hudson Valley Fertility, Fishkill. 765-0125 ext. 304.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Free Healthcare Day

LECTURES & TALKS Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk

7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Understanding Your Options for a Sucessful Conception

FOOD & WINE 10th Anniversary Celebration

Lymphedema Support Group 7-8:30pm. An educational forum and support group for people living with lymphedema and their care givers. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 871-4380.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response

Sunset Sensations: A Unique Wine & Food Sampling Series 5:30pm. Enjoy samplings from Hudson Valley chefs, and wine pairings from around the world, in this popular year-long culinary series. Locust Grove, Samuel Morse Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9pm. donation. Take advantage of collective intelligence (“hive mind”) and an inspiring meeting place to work out creative solutions to problems. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. Beahivebzzz.com/events/solopreneurssounding-board-2014-07-08/.

Second Tuesday of every month, 4-8pm. A wide variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners are available. Appointments can be made on a first-come, first-served basis upon check-in, from 4-7:00PM. Though no money or insurance is required, RVHHC invites patients to give a donation or an hour of volunteer community service if they can. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 679-5984.

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

KIDS & FAMILY Support Groups for Relatives Raising Children

Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. The Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP) implements monthly Coffee and Conversation support groups for grandparents and other relatives raising children. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8440. Beacon Independent Film Festival Over 40 films, shorts, and documentaries, 12 of which come from the minds of Hudson Valley locals, will be screened from September 18 to 20 at the University Settlement Camp in Beacon. The films are broken down by theme or genre into 12 categories including Conviction, Identity, and Fright Night. Featured in Fright Night is Beacon Bigfoot, which investigates the unsettlingly high number of Sasquatch sightings in the Hudson Valley. Films from the Valley are scattered throughout the weekend, but the weekend’s final screening is titled “The 845” and presents six movies by local directors. An opening night gala at Dogwood Bar & Restaurant ushers in the weekend of cinematic fun. Tickets range from $10 to $25. (845) 418-3992; Beaconindiefilmfest.org. policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8204.

FOOD & WINE 10th Anniversary Celebration 9am-7pm. Live music, great raffle prizes, gift baskets, sampling, demos, Kombucha on tap, giveaways, deviled eggs & more. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Feel Calmer, More Relaxed and More Confident Using the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Second Wednesday of every month, 6:308:30pm. $67/$57 early reg. Jeff Schneider, New Paltz. 255-4175.

Mama & Me Yoga 12:15-1:30pm. $18/drop-in, $150/10 class card. Babies younger than 18 months are welcome. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368. Meditation and Intention Circle Second Wednesday of every month, 6:307:30pm. Susan Linich will guide you through a meditation on love of self. Emotional Rescue, Poughkeepsie. 243-0168. Prenatal Yoga 10:45am-noon. $18. All levels of yoga experience are welcome. Drop-in at any stage of pregnancy. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

MUSIC Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters

MUSIC Afternoon Tea House Tour, Tea & Garden Stroll

1:30-3pm. $32.50/$22.50 children. Enjoy a formal tea service in the grand setting of the Summer Dining Room of the historic Rosen House, overlooking the romantic Spanish Courtyard. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.

Black Violin 7:30pm. $45/$40. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

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

Colin Quinn 8pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Dumpstaphunk 8pm. $24.30. Funk. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

David Kraai 9pm. Birdsall House, Peekskill. (914) 930-1880.

Dustbowl Revival “With A Lampshade On” 9pm. American swing. Opener: Little Birds. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Music on the Mountain A week-long medley of musical days and nights. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (866) 910-7739.

Music on the Mountain Sep. 11. A week-long medley of musical days and nights. Enjoy a fabulous selection of music featuring three concerts each day, including classical, jazz, Broadway, reggae, and a finale performance by Natalie Merchant on Friday. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (866) 910-7739.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Orange County Citizens Foundation’s 44th Annual Meeting

Wednesday Morning Concert Flamenco 11am-11:45pm. Tour & lunch: $52.50/$22.50 concert only. Our Wednesday Morning Concert Series includes an exceptional 45-minute concert in the stunning Spanish Courtyard, followed by a docent-led tour of the Mediterraneanstyle Rosen House and its vast collection of fine and decorative art amassed by our founders, Walter and Lucie Rosen. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.

10am-2pm. The students of High and Mighty will be demonstrating their skills in both equitation and games at our second annual Horse Show and Demo Day. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.

THURSDAY 10 ART Fall For Art

6-9pm. Fundraiser for Jewsih Federation of Ulster County. Juried art show and sale. Witwyck Golf Club, Kingston. Fallforart.org.

5:30pm. $75. Honoring 2015 Seligmann Award recipient Anne M. Coon. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Third Annual Horse Show

THEATER “The Extra People”

7pm. An immersive theater performance where 15 audience members sit and watch another 15 onstage. After half an hour, they find themselves replacing those onstage, only to discover that another 15 have appeared in the seats they’ve left behind. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

“The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

ART WHISTLER'S MOTHER

Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (detail), James McNeill Whistler, oil on canvas,1871. Museé d'Orsay, Paris. Image © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

The Mother of All Portraits Did you know that the most iconic American portrait is not (usually) on American soil? It hangs at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and its actual title isn’t in English. A small bronze plaque on the frame bears the phrase “Portrait de la mère de l’auteur” [Portrait of the artist’s mother]. This was the first American painting ever to hang in the Louvre. But now it’s at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, until September 27, part of a larger show including 20 of James McNeill Whistler’s prints and sketches, and Japanese woodcuts that inspired him. “Whistler’s Mother” became renowned partly because it is in Europe. When the painting was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1932, it was wildly popular. MOMA sent the canvas on an 11-city tour of America, where it was received by saluting Boy Scouts and admiring throngs. Whistler retroactively became a protoNorman Rockwell. If his mom’s portrait had been sitting idly in the Metropolitan Museum for decades, it might have been forgotten. And another thing: It’s not really named “Whistler’s Mother.” “We had a big meeting about the title of the show,” admitted Jay A. Clarke, a curator at the Clark Institute. Whistler titled his painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother). He had an affinity for music, which is reflected in his titles. Another question: Which spelling of “grey” to use—the British or the American? The Clark stuck with the original (the English). The curators’ final decision was to call the exhibition “Whistler’s Mother: Grey, Black, and White.” Whistler was the Andy Warhol of his time—a bohemian eccentric who lived with his mother. When a model failed to show up in his London studio in 1871, the artist asked his mom to pose, standing. For three days she persevered, then asked to sit. Her son

agreed, and Whistler’s mother remained seated for the next three months of painting. Anna Mathilda Whistler came from that generation of women who dressed in mourning after their husbands died, and remained in their “widow’s weeds” the rest of their lives. (You can see her gold wedding ring on her left hand.) What makes a painting iconic? If you think about the Mona Lisa, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, and Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, each has one central figure against a neutral background. Canvases depicting 37 people aren’t usually world famous (Rembrandt’s The Night Watch a notable exception). Also, an image must reproduce well. (One reason new paintings don’t become iconic is that we live in an age of video, not newspapers and magazines. On Facebook we share two-minute clips of funny cats, not reproductions of Damien Hirst paintings.) The Clark Art Institute, which is always good for a startling aesthetic insight, points out the connection between “Whistler’s Mother” and the River Thames. The artist’s studio was on the river, and the composition includes a small picture of the waterway, hanging on the wall behind Mrs. Whistler. It’s James McNeill’s own etching, Black Lion Wharf, from a series depicting the Thames. (The original is in this show.) But why bother seeing “Whistler’s Mother” for yourself? “There’s a strange quality to the paint surface which you never get in reproduction,” noted Clarke. “It’s actually like you’re looking at it through a fog or a haze.” Whistler himself once said: “Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass.” “Whistler’s Mother: Grey, Black, and White” will remain at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, until September 27. (413) 458-2303; Clarkart.edu. —Sparrow 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 105

FILM WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

Hannibal Burress, Aaron Nee, and Kyle Gallner in 2015 Official Selection Band Of Robbers, directed by Adam and Aaron Nee.

Sweet Sixteen: Woodstock Film Festival Award-winning screenwriter/director Ron Nyswaner, best known for his screenplay for Philadelphia, has been involved with the Woodstock Film Festival since its birth in 2000. “I was the MC at the first awards ceremony,” he recalls. “It was very small, and the way it’s grown has been perfect; so much bigger, but it still feels very warm and personal, still got more movie lovers than people trying to do business. Yet it’s become prestigious, sophisticated, and well recognized. It’s grown just perfectly, in ways that haven’t damaged its core.” “We were only in Woodstock the first year,” says festival co-founder and executive director Meira Blaustein, “and we showed about 75 films. Audiences were much smaller. It was a 100 percent grassroots effort made out of love, sweat, and tears, and it was basically a miracle that it happened.” The festival, beginning this year on the last day of September, now screens 125 films and holds multiple events at venues across the five towns of Woodstock, Saugerties, Rhinebeck, Rosendale, and Kingston. Putting it together, says Blaustein, is “an extremely complex and enormous undertaking. There are so many different aspects, so many people involved—besides seasonal staff, we have well over 300 wonderful volunteers who come from all over. Our volunteer coordinator is from San Francisco, for example.” Nyswaner now lives in Los Angeles, and loves it. But he’ll be “thrilled” to be back in Ulster County presenting his documentary, She’s the Best Thing In It. “There’s something very exciting about sitting in a Woodstock screening room waiting for the film to start,” says Nyswaner. “The panel sessions are so enlightening and friendly, without that pretentious crassness of people trying to figure out what’s trending before they decide what they think. You walk down the street, run into friends who saw another movie, swap reactions. It’s a wonderful celebration.” Sweet sixteen, still unspoiled despite being named to Indiewire’s Top 50 Film Fests in 2013, this year’s WFF will stay true to its people-centric, fiercely independent roots. 106 FORECAST CHRONOGRAM 9/15

Notable film folk from all over the world are struck by the topnotch hospitality, yet organizers never forget that on some level it’s all about the audience. “It was never created to sell anyone anything, or for any selfish reason,” says Blaustein. “People know they will discover authentic work and filmmakers who make films because they have to make them. The true heart of filmmaking has to do with its wide resonance with those who are not filmmakers but who appreciate passionate, interesting stories well told. This festival wears its heart on its sleeve. There’s no BS.” Nyswaner’s documentary is one of several films being presented this year with strong local ties. “I worked on She’s the Best Thing In It for five years,” he says. “It’s my first documentary. It’s about acting. The main character is my friend [Tony Award winner] Mary Louise Wilson from Stone Ridge. We met in Ulster County 25 years ago; we both belonged to the writers’ group of Actors and Writers. It’s being shown worldwide, but this will be our most celebratory showing of all.” Locally made films being presented include Good Ol’ Boy, shot in Kingston by director Frank Lolito, the story of the 10-year-old son of an Indian family trying to become a good ol’ boy for the sake of love; I Dream Too Much, filmed in Saugerties, about a young woman who finds herself Upstate caring for her reclusive aunt, and Paradise is There, a self-directed memoir by beloved homegirl Natalie Merchant. The festival’s sister notfor-profit, the Hudson Valley Film Commission, is devoted to facilitating Hudson Valley production; their website lists 65 locally made feature films and notes that there are many more. “People travel to Woodstock for the festival, see the area, and want to film here,” says Nyswaner. “It’s become a vibrant, burgeoning culture.” Other highlights include East Coast premieres of The Adderall Diaries, directed by Pamela Romanowsky, in which a writer’s estranged father resurfaces to claim he’s lying about his dark childhood; The Automatic Hate, centered on cousins striving to uncover the secrets of their fractured family; Touched with Fire, about a romance born on the psych ward; and Band of Robbers, in which a modern-day Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

Clockwise from top: Jason Lee and Roni Akurati in Good Ol’ Boy, directed by Frank Lotito; Duncan Bridgeman speaks with an Islamic Musician in 1 Giant Leap II: What About Me?, directed by Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto; Carlos Varela and Jackson Browne from The Poet Of Havana, directed by Ron Chapman; Deborah Ann Woll and Joseph Cross in The Automatic Hate, directed by Justin Lerner; a still from 2015 Official Selection She’s The Best Thing In It, directed by Ron Nyswaner.

are reunited as adults after Huck has done time and Tom has become a corrupt cop. New this year is the World Cinema Competition, bringing entries from the Netherlands, Sweden, Israel, and a Russian/Irish collaboration. To catch a festival film, Blaustein recommends getting tickets well in advance—but if you haven’t, don’t despair. Venues reserve space for spur-of-the-moment folks like you. “Even when the website says a film is sold out, if you arrive early and get on the standby line, you’ll often get in,” she says. “But if you don’t want that uncertainty, buy early. We post trailers and photos, a lot of information about the films. We’re very audience friendly; we want to make sure people get to see what they want to see.” The festival’s also loved for its music tie-ins (a highlight this year will be a UPAC concert following a screening of Ron Chapman’s The Poet of Havana at which the subject, Cuban star Carlos Varela, will perform with four bandmates and special guest Jackson Browne) and its freewheeling panel discussions. This year’s will include Film as Memoir, BMI Music for Film, Enough Already! Changing the Status of Women in Film and TV, and Actors/Directors. “The panels are always lively, substantive, in-depth conversations,” says actress and director Mary Stuart Masterson, who’ll be part of the Actors/Directors panel moderated by Martha Frankel. “I find the audience in Woodstock always has lots of great questions, which isn’t always the case at festivals.” Masterson’s directorial debut, The Cake Eaters, premiered at WFF 2009. Director Romaowsky was a finalist in the youth shorts competition in 2011; now she’s back with a little something starring James Franco and Christian Slater. With Nyswaner and a star-studded roster of fellow film folk, they’ve become regulars; during the WFF, you just never know who you might see, or what they might be up to next. One thing is sure: It’ll be worth watching. The Woodstock Film Festival takes place September 30 to October 4 at multiple locations in the region. Woodstockfilmfestival.com. —Anne Pyburn Craig 9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 107

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Volunteer Training

6-8pm. We would love to serve more very special children and adults, but we need additional volunteers. Please wear sturdy shoes and be prepared to be outdoors. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.

Word Cafe 6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us.

FRIDAY 11 COMEDY Sinbad

8-10pm. $40/$50/$60. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.

DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes

MUSIC An Evening with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason

6-10pm. $30. The acclaimed duo will entertain the Friends and guests for an evening of music and refreshments on the Senate House lawn. Senate House and Museum, Kingston.

Gedeon Luke and The People 8pm. $20. Soul. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers 7pm. Blues and rock. Opener: Dylan Doyle. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Music on the Mountain A week-long medley of musical days and nights. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (866) 910-7739. Salted Bros 9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

SATURDAY 12 ARTS & CULTURE “Reflecting on Art from the Site Lines of Nature”

9am-7pm. Live music, great raffle prizes, gift baskets, sampling, demos, Kombucha on tap, giveaways, deviled eggs & more. Beacon Natural Market, Beacon. 838-1288.

will exhibit works on the Catwalk grounds. Catwalk Institute, Catskill. (518) 943-3010.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Friends & Family CPR AED Course

2-5pm. Catwalk Residents, past and present,

Wanderings & Wonderings 2-3pm. Gavin Kroeber;s imaginative exploration of Storm King. Storm King art Center, Mountainville.534-3115.

COMEDY Vic DiBitetto: The Italian Hurricane with Fred Rubino and Tim Hayes

8pm. $42-$62. The comedian churns energy, honesty and humanity into nonstop laughter at a frenetic pace. DiBitetto will be joined by both Fred Rubino and Tim Hayes. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

5pm-2am. $40-$70 weekend. Perfume Genius, Haxan Cloak, HEALTH, ACTRESS, Jenny Hval, Weyes Blood, Circuit des Yeux and more. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.

6pm. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.

Rhyme Time by The Hudson 9:30-10:15am. $45/$30 members per session. Ages 1-5. 3 week session. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org.

LECTURES & TALKS 9/11 Memorial

12:15pm. Come together with President Alan Roberts, faculty, staff and student leaders in this annual remembrance ceremony. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

McEntee’s Studio Cottage and the Studio Homes of the Hudson River School 12pm. Presented by William Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of Art History, SUNY New Paltz. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.

LITERARY & BOOKS Alan W. Moore—Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

In a Nutshell Storytelling Night Every third Friday, 7pm. Something that happened to you while walking down the street, a noteworthy limerick, a piece of writing that’s ready to flee from the sheet, or even a tale you’ve read that deserves to be made audible for a reflective audience. Ten minute maximum. Michel’s Coffee Shop, Poughkeepsie. 454-5176. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.

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KIDS & FAMILY Geology Hike

LECTURES & TALKS Dia:Beacon Gallery Talk: Omar Berrada on Robert Smithson

FOOD & WINE Culinary Adventure: Game Birds & Burgundies

Second Friday of every month, 6-7:30pm. Activities and support for children in grades K-5 and their parents dealing with a serious family illness or crisis. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

What does that food label say? 2:30-3:30pm. $75/$50 early reg. Be a detective! With Dr. Wanda Jeanty. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

Storytime and Booksigning 3-5pm. Join local author/illustrator Iza Trapani for a storytime and booksigning of her new picture book- an extended version of Old King Cole. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Soundscape

KIDS & FAMILY Cub’s Place

8:30am-12:30pm. Cost: $35 includes text & materials. This Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only® CPR, child CPR with breaths, AED use, infant CPR with breaths and relief of choking in an adult, child or infant. You must call to register & pay – class sizes are limited. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. 475-9742.

10am. Learn about more than a billion years of New York State history. For adults and families with children ages 7 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. New series starts every four weeks. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.

Taste NY at Todd Hill Outdoor Farmers Market Taste NY at Todd Hill, Poughkeepsie. Ccedutchess.org/agriculture-horticulture/ taste-ny-market-at-todd-hill-1.php.

FOOD & WINE 10th Anniversary Celebration

The Little Pink Ribbon by Glenn Grubbard, one of the pieces at the Fall For Art event. Fall for Art Twenty-six Hudson Valley artists will gather at Wiltwyck Golf Club to discuss their creative processes, drink cocktails, and sell their wares at this 19th annual fundraiser for the Jewish Federation of Ulster County. “Art helps sustain you,” says Barbara Cohen, chair of the event. A myriad of media will be featured, such as: ceramic, fused glass, jewelry, photography, watercolor, and more. Proceeds benefit local nonprofit organizations, including the Hudson Valley Food Bank, Family of Woodstock, CASA, People’s Place, Angel Food East, and Jewish Family Services. As the 2015 special recipient, HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Mental Health Services will select $1,000 worth of art from the show to display in their Kingston facility. “The Fall for Art event introduces the community to some of its best local artists,” says Mira Fink, a participant featuring her watercolor works. The 19th Annual Fall for Art will take place from 6 to 9pm on Thursday, September 10, at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston. General admission tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the door. (845) 338-8131; Fallforart.org.

Shawn Colvin 7pm. Singer/songwriter. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185. Soul Purpose 8pm. Motown, R&B. Unframed Artists Gallery, New Paltz, 12561. Spirit Family Reunion 9pm. $12-$15. Up-lifting, raw, ramshackle, backyard country band. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158.

SPIRITUALITY Precious Garland of the Supreme Path: A Weekend Teaching

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Soundscape

7pm-2am. $40-$70 weekend. Perfume Genius, Haxan Cloak, HEALTH, ACTRESS, Jenny Hval, Weyes Blood, Circuit des Yeux and more. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.

Beacon Second Saturday Second Saturday of every month. The BAUsters have something special this month - the celebration of 10 years of continuous monthly offerings. In honor of the event we have assembled an excellent show - a joint effort of all the represented BAU artists. Downtown Beacon, Beacon. Beaconarts.org.

7-8:30pm. $120/$96 members/single sessions $30/$25 members. Teacher: Tulku Damcho Rinpoche. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 3.

Drum Boogie Festival 11am-8pm. Family-friendly multi-cultural music festival, celebrating rhythm and diverse styles of music, dance and voice from around the world. Andy Lee Field, Woodstock. Drumboogiefestival.com.

THEATER “Romeo and Juliet”

Hudson Valley Wine and Food Festival 11am-6pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Hudsonvalleywinefest.com.

8pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

“Carousel” 8pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. “The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Live Well, Be Well 10am. In addition to promoting an overall healthy lifestyle, the festival is focused on yoga. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

MUSIC Annie and the Attaboys

6:30pm. Blues. Village Market and Bakery, Gardiner. 255-1234.

FESTIVALS Esopus Annual Tugfest

12-3pm. Model tugboat auction, music by Murali Coryell, meatball cook-off. Wine tasting. Headless Horseman, Ulster Park.

2-3pm. Omar Berrada is a writer, a translator, and the director of Dar alMa’mûn, a library and residency center for artists, scholars, and translators located on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco. Dia:Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

An Evening With Martín Prechtel 7pm. A leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people, Martín Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q& A & Book Signing Bill Clegg

7pm. Did You Ever Have a Family is an absorbing, unforgettable tale that reveals humanity at its best through forgiveness and hope. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

MUSIC Annie and the Attaboys

6:30pm. Blues. Village Market and Bakery, Gardiner. 255-1234.

Buffalo Stack CD Release 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Kraai 2-2:45pm. David Kraai returns to this awesome restaurant and music venue to dole out a solo set during Psychedelic Zombie Bar-B-Que 5! Music will be taking place all day indoorThe Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240. Leaf Peeper Concert Series: Fountains of Fine Sound 7:30pm. $25/$80 series. Our Lady of Hope, Copake. Leafpeeperconcerts.org. Marc Black and Warren Bernhardt 8-10pm. $25-$50. 8pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Roy Book Binder 8pm. $15. Blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Woodstock Concerts on the Green 1-5pm. Village Green, Woodstock.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Early Fall Fungi on the Byrdcliffe/Mount Guardian Trail 10am. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Nature Hike 9am. The Thomas Cole National Historic Site invites you to join them on a Hudson River School Art Trail hikes. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. Thomascole. org/current-events.

PETS Blessing to the Animals

11am-2pm. Local religious leaders to bless pets. Pet-friendly vendors are invited to attend. Jeffrey Haas, Coxsackie. (518) 478-5414.

SPIRITUALITY Grief & Praise: An Evening with Martín Prechtel

7-9pm. $20/$15 in advance. Author and spiritual teacher Martín Prechtel will offer a Book Signing & Reading from his new Book, The Smell of Rain on Dust. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 594-1060.

Kirtan 7:30-9pm. We welcome everyone to an ecstatic evening of Kirtan and meditation. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008. Precious Garland of the Supreme Path: A Weekend Teaching 10:30am-noon, 2:30-4 & 3:30-5pm. $120/$96 members/single sessions $30/$25 members. Teacher: Tulku Damcho Rinpoche. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 3.

HEALTH & WELLNESS AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course

9am-2pm. $75. This course covers basic CPR techniques, maneuvers for choking victims and how to use an Automated External Defibrillator. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 475-9742.

Meditation, Intention and Zero Point Healing Second Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

KIDS & FAMILY Booksigning

SPIRITUALITY Satsang 9am-12pm. Free. A vegetarian meal follows and everyone is welcome to participate. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.

THEATER “Romeo and Juliet” 3pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

11am-1pm. Join local author/illustrator Iza Trapani for a booksigning of her new picture book. Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market, Rhinebeck. 876-7756.

“Carousel” 3pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Naturalist Walk and Talk 10am. A fun, engaging walk and talk through our trails with a Museum Educator. For families with children ages 5+. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

“The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

SUNDAY 13 DANCE 2nd Sunday Swing Dance

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

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Basilica Soundscape

10am-3pm. $40-$70 weekend. Perfume Genius, Haxan Cloak, HEALTH, ACTRESS, Jenny Hval, Weyes Blood, Circuit des Yeux and more. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. (518) 822-1050.

Hudson Valley Wine and Food Festival 11am-5pm. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. Hudsonvalleywinefest.com. Mexico and Central America Independence Day Celebration 12-6pm. Ethnic food offerings, crafts, live music, dancers, singers and car show. Kingston Midtown Farmers’ Market, Kingston. 242-9772.

FOOD & WINE Callicoon Farmers’ Market

11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. Manager@ sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Jazz Brunch 1pm. $35/$25. Reimagining Benny Goodman featuring Oran Etkin. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

LITERARY & BOOKS Poetry Reading by Elizabeth Cunningham

7pm. In So Ecstasy Can Find You, novelist Elizabeth Cunningham leads us on an intimate journey into forest and mountain, garden and dream, along a hidden stream bed and beside a friend’s deathbed. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

2-5pm. $280+$48 materials and firing fees. 8 Tuesdays. Learn new techniques on and off the potters wheel. Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-2529.

“Romeo and Juliet” 8pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep 11am-3pm. $60. Learn how to clean up hives, and look for problems that might weaken your bees. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.

6:30-8pm. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 388-5580.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Advanced Wheel Level II with Deborah Lecce

“Carousel” 8pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

10am-1pm. $50/$300 for entire series. This course is a great introduction to the fruit plants of the world as well as the fruits in your own backyard. Wild Earth, New Paltz. 256-9830.

LECTURES & TALKS Gluten-Free and Paleo Diets: What does it mean, and should you be doing it?

6-9pm. Bring your own portable handcraft project of any type to work on, or come work on one of our group projects. Drop Forge & Tool, Hudson. Dropforgeandtool.com.

6-8pm. Mona and guests will read excerpts from her play, “Becoming Something.” Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Edible Landscaping

5:15-6:45pm. $200/$48 materials fee. 8 Tuesdays. An introduction to clay exploring basic methods of hand-building. Age 7-14. Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-2529.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Handcrafts Night

THEATER Playwrights Reading at the Library Featuring Mona Z. Smith

“The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

TUESDAY 15 KIDS & FAMILY Kids N’ Clay with Jon Torres

Hudson River Craft Beer Festival Showcasing over 200 brews from more than 85 craft breweries, the third annual Hudson River Craft Beer Festival beckons visitors to the Beacon waterfront for a celebration of suds. Standard tickets are $45, including four hours of beer sampling from 1 to 5pm, a souvenir sampling glass, and live music entertainment. Allow time for even more hops to tantalize taste buds with a VIP ticket, which includes five hours of beer sampling from 12 to 5pm, and an official Hudson River Craft Beer Fest t-shirt to go with the souvenir sampling glass and live music entertainment. Breweries include Lagunitas, Dogfish Head, Smuttynose, Sam Adams, Allagash, and Naked Flock Hard Cider. Get your groove on at the Silent Disco tent, where visitors don headphones and dance like no one is watching. Experience it all at on Saturday, September 19, at Riverfront Park in Beacon. Americaontap.com.

LECTURES & TALKS Vanderbilt Garden Tea 2-4pm. $45. Guests are invited to wear period clothing from the early 1900’s, party garden wear, or even a fancy hat. Vanderbilt Garden Association Inc., Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q& A & Book Signing with Dr. Samuel Shem: The Buddha’s Wife 2pm. Izlind Integrative Wellness Center and Institute of Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4713.

MUSIC American String Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.

Jason Miles & Ingrid Jensen “Kind of New” 7pm. Jazz fusion. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

MONDAY 14 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee

6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston.

FILM E.T. The Extraterrestrial: 2015 Flick Series

8:30pm. $8/$6 members/$5 18 and under. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

LECTURES & TALKS An Activist Lawyer’s Journey in the Movement Against Gender Violence 7pm. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.

Sunday Brunch: Alexis P. Suter & The Ministers of Sound 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

MUSIC Adam Rogers Group Featuring Jimmy McBride

OUTDOORS & RECREATION The Makers’ Market 2015

Mid Hudson Women’s 2015 Open Rehearsals 7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

9am-3pm. Makers Market on the Railroad Green, Warwick. Hudsonhandmade.com.

Nature Walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve 9-10:30am. Join us for free nature walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. Farm.vassar.edu/news/ announcements/2015-2016/150701announcement.html.

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

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/ Winter Prep

11am-3pm. $60. Learn how to clean up hives, and look for problems that might weaken your bees. HoneybeeLives Apiary, New Paltz. 255-6113.

Intermediate Wheel Level I/II with Deborah Lecce 6:30-9:30pm. $280+$48 materials and firing fees. 8 Tuesdays. For students who have taken a prior wheel class. Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-2529. Woodstock Writers Workshops $15/$60 series. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc., and get it published. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 16 COMEDY Latin History for Dummies

8pm. $110/$95. John Leguizamo. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

FOOD & WINE Culinary Adventure: Long Island Chowderfest

6pm. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Mama & Me Yoga

12:15-1:30pm. $18/drop-in, $150/10 class card. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

Prenatal Yoga 10:45am-noon. $18. Drop-in at any stage of pregnancy. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368. Walking Club: Put Your Best Foot Forward 4-4:45pm. Open to people living with breast, ovarian and gynecological cancers. Support Connection, Yorktown Heights. (914) 962-6402.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q& A & Book Signing Owen King, Mark Jude Poitere and Nancy Ahn

7pm. Novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Talk and Book Signing: Marc B. Fried 7-8:15pm. Reading/book signing of Notes from the Other Side. Pine Bush Library Community Center, Pine Bush. 744-3375.

MUSIC Calan

7:30pm. Neo-traditional Celtic group. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.

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Mockingbirds 6:30pm. Vassar Alumnae House, Poughkeepsie. 437-7100. Rob Scheps, John Stowell, Rich Syracuse, and Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet 8:30-11:30pm. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 879-7969.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Art of Solo Performance with Kelly Kinsella

1-3:45pm. Actress/writer/comedienne Kelly Kinsella gives a theatre workshop. Orange Hall Theater, Middletown. 341-4891.

Introduction to Clay with Jon Torres 6:30-9:30pm. $280/$48 materials fee+firing fees. 8 Wednesdays. For beginners who are interested in experimenting with both throwing on the pottery wheel and handbuilding. Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-2529.

FRIDAY 18 DANCE Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Fall Crafts

10am-5pm. $12/$11 seniors/$4 ages 6-16/ under 6 free. A full day art and shopping experience for the entire family. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.

FreshGrass Three-day festival highlighting every angle of bluegrass and roots music, returns this year. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.

LITERARY & BOOKS Jo Salas: Dancing With Diana

“Carousel” 8pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

“The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

MUSIC Joey Eppard Band

9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Marc Black Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089. Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES African Dance

Third Friday of every month, 6:157:45pm. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.

SATURDAY 19 DANCE Come On Beacon. Let’s Dance!

8:45-11:45pm. $10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 765-0667.

Gene Kelly, The Legacy: An Evening With Patricia Ward Kelly 7:30pm. $38/$28/$18. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

THURSDAY 17 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Exodus: Newburgh Extension

Third Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison re-entry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Equine Festival

FOOD & WINE Hudson Valley Food Truck Festival

Fall Crafts 10am-6pm. $12/$11 seniors/$4 ages 6-16/under 6 free. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.

10am. Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. 876-4001.

3:30-9:30pm. A festival with many food trucks from the Hudson valley, lots of music, beer & wine garden and great music. Cantine Memorial Field, Saugerties. 399-2222.

FreshGrass Three-day festival highlighting every angle of bluegrass and roots music, returns this year with a comprehensive lineup of luthiers and instrumental professionals who set up shop to share and demonstrate their craft. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.

Third Thursday Luncheon Third Thursday of every month, 11:30am-1pm. $6/$7 takeout. Luncheon includes soup, sandwich and delicious desserts. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.

Hudson Valley Apple Festival 10am-8pm. $5/under 14 free. This festival includes every apple food you could imagine, and live bluegrass by Taconic Ridge. Palatine Park, Germantown. (518) 537-6833.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Breast Cancer Support Group

Third Thursday of every month, 7pm. Support Connection, Inc., a not–for-profit organization that provides free, confidential support services for people affected by breast and ovarian cancer. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. (800) 532-4290.

MUSIC Donald Harrison Jr.: Big Chief of New Orleans’ Congo Square Nation/ Mikaela Davis and Johnny Davis 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

SPIRITUALITY Mediums Circle with Adam Bernstein and a Guest Psychic Medium

Third Thursday of every month, 7-9pm. $25. Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg., Kingston. 687-3693.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Library Knitters

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

Long-Form Improvisational Acting Workshop for Actors and Non-Actors 7-8:30pm. $300. Runs weekly until Nov. 12. For ages 18+. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. Youthensembletheater@gmail.com. Social Media Timesavers 2-4pm. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 688-6041. Teen Wheel and Sculpture with Jon Torres 5-7pm. $240/$48 materials fee+firing fees. 8 Thursdays. A great way for teens to build their 3-D portfolio! Ages 12-17. Peekskill Clay Studios, Peekskill. (914) 739-2529. Word Cafe 6:30-8pm. $15/$125 series/free for teens and college students. A master class for readers and writers hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. Wordcafe.us. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.

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The Avett Brothers play the 2015 Speed of Sound Festival at Dutchess County Airport. Speed of Sound Festival To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Radio Woodstock put on a little one-day festival, Mountain Jam, at Hunter Mountain. From humble beginnings, great things grow. For its 35th anniversary, the radio station is holding another all-day concert—Speed of Sound Festival at Dutchess County Airport in Wappingers Falls. The event’s music programming complements WDST’s roots-rock playlist. The Avett Brothers headline, with supporting performances from Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hot Tuna (Electric), Amy Helm & The Handsome Strangers, Connor Kennedy & Minstrel (who brought the house down at the Chronogram Block Party), and Elijah Wolf. Two stages will feature with continuous music from noon till midnight. A portion of the net proceeds will go towards Radio Woodstock’s continuing Pink October fundraising efforts benefiting breast cancer research at the Dyson Center for Cancer Care at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Speedofsoundfestival.com.

Kingston Night Market Third Friday of every month, 5-9pm. Pop-up street festival featuring local artists, makers, businesses, food vendors and non-profits. Lower Broadway, Kingston, Kingston. Nightmarketkingston.com.

Neon Moon 9pm. Country. The Golden Rail Ale House, Newburgh. 565-2337.

FOOD & WINE Taste NY at Todd Hill Outdoor Farmers Market

Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singersongwriters and musicians. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311.

Taste NY at Todd Hill, Poughkeepsie. Ccedutchess.org/agriculture-horticulture/ taste-ny-market-at-todd-hill-1.php.

KIDS & FAMILY Family Campout 6:30pm. $20/$17 members. Bring a tent and sleeping bags for a fun night under the stars with evening activities and s’mores around the campfire. A light breakfast snack and coffee will be provided. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

LECTURES & TALKS Hudson River Steamboats in the Age of the Hudson River School 12pm. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.

Reality Check 9:30pm. Classic rock. The Quiet Man Pub, Peekskill. Thequietmanpublichouse.com.

SPIRITUALITY Buddhism and Addiction Recovery: A Weekend Teaching

7-8:30pm. $120/$96 members/single session $30/$25 members. Teachers: Bill Alexander and Lama Losang (Lama David Bole). This program is designed for people who want to combine a Buddhist approach to living without suffering in the midst of suffering with the power of the twelve steps. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 3.

THEATER “Romeo and Juliet”

8pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

FILM Silent Film Series Featuring Live Musical Accompaniment by Cary Brown 7-9pm. Screening Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.

FOOD & WINE 25th Annual Taste of New Paltz

11am-6pm. $10/$7 in advance/children under 12 free. The adventurous gourmet will find bold and appealing delicacies; the more traditional diner will be glad to hear there are still pizza, beer and cupcakes. Ulster County Fairgrounds, New Paltz. 255-0243.

Cupcake Decorating Class 10am-noon. All equipment will be provided. Please call to register. Germantown Library, Germantown. (518) 537-5800.

KIDS & FAMILY City Winds Trio

10:30am. Join us for this joyful interactive introduction to classical music. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.

Hiking in the Hudson Highlands Inspired by William Thomas Howell 9pm. $7/$5 members. Learn about the Hudson Highlands in the early 1900’s in this history hike guided by Richard and William Vacek. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Hudson Stop-Motion Intensive 10am-4pm. Presented by Spark Media Project. Hudson Area Library, Hudson. (518) 828-1792.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q&A & Book Signing with Rinker Buck 7pm. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Talk and Book Signing with Marc B. Fried 4:30-5:45pm. Reading/book signing of Notes from the Other Side. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

MUSIC 8th Annual Flea Market and Live Music 9am-3pm. St. Luke’s Episcopal, Beacon. 831-2643.

Bully 9pm. Nashville-based rock quartet. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Crossroads Band 8:30pm. Classic rock. Whistling Willie’s, Cold Spring. 265-2012. An Evening with Jackson Browne 8pm. $49.50-$90. Joined by Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Fall Crafts

10am-5pm. $12/$11 seniors/$4 ages 6-16/ under 6 free. A full day art and shopping experience for the entire family. Lyndhurst, Tarrytown. 331-7900.

FILM Beacon Indie Film Festival

A Night at the Opera 6:30-11pm. A festive black-tie evening. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.

See websites for locations, shows and times. Downtown Beacon, Beacon. Beaconindiefilmfest.org/.

Popa Chubby 7pm. Blues rock. Opener: Chris Bowman’s CBC Trio. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

FOOD & WINE Callicoon Farmers’ Market

Street Beat 4 & 7:30pm. $37/$25 child. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Taboo 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Light into Night 5pm. Art happening, farm-to-table dinner, dance party, live and silent auction, and a “little Stars” kids’ dance party. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4747.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Farmland Cycling Tour

9am-2pm. Routes of 10, 25 and 45 miles will enable riders to pedal through the beautiful rolling countryside of Dutchess County—and Columbia County. Poets’ Walk Park, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273.

SPIRITUALITY Buddhism and Addiction Recovery: A Weekend Teaching

10:30am-noon & 3:30-5pm. $120/$96 members/single session $30/$25 members. This program is designed for people who want to combine a Buddhist approach to living without suffering in the midst of suffering with the power of the twelve steps. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 3.

11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. Manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Community Sound Healing Circle

Third Sunday of every month, 2-3pm. Facilitated by Jax Denise. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

KIDS & FAMILY Community Day

1-4pm. Thomas Cole’s home and the galleries will be open free of charge, with activities for the whole family. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. Thomascole. org/current-events.

Storytime and Booksigning 4-6pm. Join local author/illustrator Iza Trapani for a storytime and booksigning of her new picture book. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q&A and Book Signing with Brian Selznick: The Marvels

3pm. $5/members free. #1 New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist. Mahawie Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. 876-0500.

MUSIC Place Music: Sonic Explorations within the Natural World 3pm. This “hike-in concert” can be considered part nature walk and part music in the park. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 687-8707.

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

Charlie Daniels Band 8pm. $110/$95. With special guest Union Rai. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

THEATER “Romeo and Juliet”

The Feelies 2-5pm. With special guest Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. Storm King Art Center, New Windsor. 534-3115.

8pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Repair Cafe

10am-3pm. Bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired—for free. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835.

Volunteer Training 10am-noon. We would love to serve more very special children and adults, but we need additional volunteers. Please wear sturdy shoes and be prepared to be outdoors. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.

SUNDAY 20 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Occupy Peace

12pm. Intersection of Crown and John Street, NY. Occupypeace.us.

COMEDY Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood 7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.

Jazz in GTown Concert The T.K. Blue Quartet 5-7pm. $20. T.K. Blue will be performing original works from his critically acclaimed CD. Palatine Park, Germantown. (518) 537-5668. Split Bill: Women of the World and Banda Magda 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Wishbone Ash 7:30pm. $40/$35. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Equinox Celebration and Healing Circle

1-7pm. $25. A day of shamanic ritual, meditation and experimentation presented by Sacred Melting Pot and led by Hawksbrother. Marbletown Multi Arts, Stone Ridge. CometoMaMA.org.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION 3rd Annual Poetry Trail Opening

4-6pm. “River of Words” Poetry Trail, a series of unique, temporary installations along the trail that celebrates the nature-inspired poetry of local students. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

Adult Chess Club Third Sunday of every month, 1:30-3:30pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Nature Walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve 9-10:30am. Join us for free nature walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve,

Poughkeepsie. Farm.vassar.edu/news/ announcements/2015-2016/150701announcement.html.

Vanderbilt Garden Monthly Interpreter Tour 1-4pm. Vanderbilt Garden Association Inc., Hyde Park. 229-6432.

PETS PuppyUp! New Paltz Dog Walk

10am-3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Join us for a fun 2-mile walk, through our vineyards, to promote awareness of canine cancer and fundraise for cancer research to benefit both pets and people. Adair Vineyards, New Paltz. 255-1377.

SPIRITUALITY Buddhism and Addiction Recovery: A Weekend Teaching

10:30am-noon & 2:30-4pm. $120/$96 members/single session $30/$25 members. This program is designed for people who want to combine a Buddhist approach to living without suffering in the midst of suffering with the power of the twelve steps. Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, Woodstock. 679-5906 ext. 3.

Crystal Activation with Tuning Forks 2-4pm. $25/$20. With Dr. John Beaulieu. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Satsang 9am-12pm. Free. A vegetarian meal follows and everyone is welcome to participate. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.

THEATER “Romeo and Juliet”

3pm. $18/$10 student rush. Hatmaker’s Attic Production of William Shakespeare’s immortal love story. The Beacon Theatre, Beacon. 226-8099.

“Carousel” 3pm. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s romantic musical. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. “The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Meredith Rosier: Abstract Comics Workshop

9am-4pm. $121. This course explores sequential art consisting of abstract imagery that cohere into a narrative.Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

MONDAY 21 LECTURES & TALKS Gender Mattters: Accepting, Supporting & Loving Our Children Through the Maze & Mystery of Gender 7:30pm. How do we understand this work with boys, and our complementary work with girls, as increasing numbers of genderfluid children enter our schools? Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.

Polls, the Public, and Popular Perspectives on Constitutional Issues 7pm. Part of the Constitutional Lecture Series. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.

LITERARY & BOOKS Infinite Summer Last Page Party

6pm. Join us this evening to read the last page of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

MUSIC Lee DeWyze

7pm. Indie rock. Opener: Emily Barnes The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

Mid Hudson Women’s 2015 Open Rehearsals 7:15pm. No auditions required. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Coaching for Transformation: A Sampler 7:30pm. Gain valuable communication tools you can start using right away. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.

TUESDAY 22 HEALTH & WELLNESS Diabetes Management Lecture Series: Vascular Health 5-6pm. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 431-2445.

Living Passionately: Goodbye Uncertainty, Hello Clarity! 6:30-8:30pm. $49. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 313-2853.

LITERARY & BOOKS Reading by Norman Rush: Whites, Mating, Mortals, and Subtle Bodies 7pm. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6-7pm. $80/four week series. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

WEDNESDAY 23 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee

6-8pm. ENJAN is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “New Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.

FOOD & WINE Culinary Adventure: Pasta, Pasta, Pasta...and Wine!

6pm. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. 452-9430.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Mama & Me Yoga

12:15-1:30pm. $18/drop-in, $150/10 class card. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

Prenatal Yoga 10:45am-noon. $18. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

LECTURES & TALKS Pathways to Prevention: Getting Relief from Joint Pain

5:30-7pm. Get advice on how to handle joint pain and an overview of treatment options, all along a short hike on Olana’s walking trails. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

LITERARY & BOOKS Reading, Q&A & Book Signing with Eban Goodstein & Karen Washington 7pm. The Dirt: A Love Story anthology celebrates the Earth’s generous crust, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers to tell dirt’s exuberant tales. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

MUSIC An Acoustic Evening with Yo La Tengo

8pm. $34/$27/$15. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.

Bill Payne of Little Feat with Minstrel 7pm. Roots rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Encaustic Comprehensive Workshop 9am-5pm. Multiple-day encaustic workshops. The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.

THURSDAY 24 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response

7-8:30pm. MECR is a group of Hudson Valley residents that promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS White Plains Jazz Festival

8pm. Four-day celebration of jazz. Downtown White Plains, White Plains. Artsw.org/jazzfest.

FILM National Theatre LIVE: The Beaux’ Stratagem by George Farquhar 7pm. $21. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.

9/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 111

2-3:30pm. Open to people living with breast, ovarian and gynecological cancers. Pre-registration is required. Warm up two afternoons this fall at Marge’s Knitting Circle. Support Connection, Yorktown Heights. (914) 962-6402.

LECTURES & TALKS Night Sky Viewing with the Mid Hudson Astronomical Association 6:30-8pm. Join the Mid Hudson Astronomical Association on this evening for short presentation a look through telescopes. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

LITERARY & BOOKS Presentation, Q&A & Book Signing with Steven Lewis 7pm. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

Vibrant Coffee House 7pm. J. Mae Barizo reads her original poetry in performance with bassist Doug Balliett. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS White Plains Jazz Festival

12-8pm. 4-day celebration of jazz. Downtown White Plains, White Plains. Artsw. org/jazzfest.

FOOD & WINE Taste NY at Todd Hill Outdoor Farmers Market

Taste NY at Todd Hill, Poughkeepsie. Ccedutchess.org/agriculture-horticulture/ taste-ny-market-at-todd-hill-1.php.

LECTURES & TALKS Jervis McEntee’s Rondout

12pm. Presented by Eugene Dauner, Collector. Friends of Historic Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.

LITERARY & BOOKS Talk and Book Signing by Marc B. Fried 7-8:15pm. Reading/book signing of Notes from the Other Side. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

NIGHTLIFE Late Night/Date Night Fourth Friday of every month, 6-9pm. Join us for our monthly late night, open studio session for adults only. Fiberflame Studio, Rhinebeck. 679-6132.

ART Byrdcliffe Artists Open Studios

6-8pm. Byrdcliffe, Woodstock. 679-2079.

COMEDY Rosendale Comedy Tonite

Fourth Friday of every month, 9:30pm. Aspiring comics take to the stage. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

DANCE 4th Friday Swing Dance

Fourth Friday of every month, 8-11:30pm. $15/$10 full time students with ID. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Community Dances. Beginners’ lesson 8:00-8:30 pm; Band 8:30-11:30 pm; Performance 9:30 pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Beginner Swing Dance Classes 6:30-7:30pm. $80/series. Beginner Swing Dance Class Series in Newburgh. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939. CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.

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Integrative Medicine Roundtable 7:30pm. Michael Finkelstein, MD, the “Doctor of Common Sense,” and his colleagues offer intelligent, heartfelt, and wise counsel to help us approach illness as an opportunity for adventure. A book signing will take place after the roundtable. Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Rhinebeck. (877) 944-2002. “Research Vessels: Geophysical Expeditions to Antarctica and Mapping 160 Miles of the Hudson 10:30am. $5-$10/$22 post-presentation lunch reception. Presentation by Dr. Robin Bell. Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose. (914) 739-5654.

THEATER “The Last Five Years”

FRIDAY 25

3pm. Presentation by David Howell. Cragsmoor Historical Society, Cragsmoor. 647-6487.

Last Saturday of every month, 6-7:30pm. $30/$25 pre-register. APG Pilates, Newburgh. 236-3939.

6-8pm. $25/$20. With Quantum Healer/ Heart Whisperer Kristine Flones. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

LECTURES & TALKS Glaciation in the Shawangunks and Beyond

DANCE Learn to Swing Dance Workshop

SPIRITUALITY Morphic Healing Gathering

Within 2 7pm. Tarek Atoui will present his approach to performing sound in relation to anticipation, tactile sound, visual noise, gestures, and the multimodal nature of hearing. EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy. (518) 276-3921.

The Wassaic Project Last Saturday Last Saturday of every month, 5pm. The Wassaic Project, Wassaic. (347) 815-0783.

SATURDAY 26

South American Jazz Project 8pm. $20. ArtsWestchester, White Plains. (914) 428-4220.

2:30-4:15pm. Poet J. Mae Barizo talks on creating poetry, what inspires her, contacts, and getting published. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.

10:30am. Take part in orienteering, an exciting sport that uses map and compass to navigate through a course of checkpoints. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

7pm. Afro-fusion jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Vibrant Line

KIDS & FAMILY Orienteering Meet

THEATER “The Last Five Years”

MUSIC Jaimeo Brown “Transcendence”

8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Living Passionately: Goodbye Uncertainty, Hello Clarity! 2:30-4:30pm. $49. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 313-2853.

SUDESH SAROOP

HEALTH & WELLNESS Knitting Circle for Women with Cancer

Eileeen O’Hare performing a Peruvian Despacho Ceremony Sacred Earth Festival Reawaken the sacred at Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls. Bonfires, drum circles, chanting, yoga, Reiki, and Native America traditions provide attendees with the means to reconnect with the earth. The festival focuses on ecospirituality, which brings together ancient spiritual teachings and environmental activism, and the connectedness of all living things. Performances by Native American group Spirit of Thunderheart, world music ensemble Heartwood, Chris Ruhe and the Howland Wolves, and dances from Anna Mayta and the D’Amby Project will be scattered throughout the festival’s four hours. The Sacred Earth Festival starts at 12pm on September 6. All funds raised will benefit the work of the Green Brain Initiative in poverty alleviation, environmental conservation, and sustainability. (845) 849-2205; Priyacomm.com.

MUSIC The Amish Outlaws

7-10pm. $29. The Amish Outlaws sing everything from pop to bluegrass and country to rock. Putnam County Golf Course, Mahopac. 808-1881.

Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith 7pm. New Orleans jazz. Opener: Maiko Hata. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Donna the Buffalo 8:30pm. $40/$35. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. 855-1300. An Evening with Tommy Emmanuel 8pm. $35-$45. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Joe Walsh 8pm. $79.50/$49.50/$39.50. Rock guitarist. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. The Outlaws 8-10pm. $40/$50. Playing your favorite Southern rock classics. Opening Act: The Spurs All Stars. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Pilobolus 7pm. $50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. The Pontiacs 9:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Sean Rowe 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Women of Piedmont Blues 8pm. $20. Featuring Poet Gold, Eleanor Ellis, Valerie Turner, Resa Gibbs and Jackie Merrit. A memorable evening that unites some of the key practitioners of the acoustic blues on the East Coast. Presented by the ArtsW Folk Arts Program in cooperation with thecountryblues.com. ArtsWestchester, White Plains. (914) 428-4220.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Warwick Children’s Book Festival

11am-4pm. Fifty authors and illustrators of books for children pre-K through high school Village of Warwick, Warwick. 986-1047.

White Plains Jazz Festival Four-day celebration of jazz. Downtown White Plains, White Plains. Artsw. org/jazzfest.

FILM Manhattan Short Film Festival

7pm. $5/students and children free. This film fest offers families and friends (15 and over) the opportunity of viewing the Finalists [out of hundreds of entries] in this worldwide event and then voting on their favorites. Kaplan Hall, Orange County Trust Company Great Room, Newburgh. 341-4891.

Reel Expressions Film Fest 5pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Stood for the Storm 2pm. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.

FOOD & WINE Abundant Summer Supper Club

7pm. $65. 5-course tasting dinner. The Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm, Preston Hollow. (518) 239-6234.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Flex Your Memory: Mastering Names & Faces

12-1:30pm. $50/$40 early reg. Flex Your Memory is a lively, interactive workshop that will help you think faster on your feet, increase your mental agility, and enhance social connectedness. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.

The Seven-Year Cycles and the Biography of the Soul 9am-3pm. $725. Our lives unfold in sevenyear cycles related to the development of new aspects of the body, soul, and spirit. This course will give us tools to deepen our understanding of human becoming, to look back over our own biography, and find threads that weave through our life story. Five Saturday sessions from 9am3pm, 10/17, 10/31, 11/07, 11/21. Green Meadow Waldorf School, Chestnut Ridge. 356-2514 ext. 311.

LITERARY & BOOKS Jessie Sheehan & Jean Sagendorph: Ice Box Cakes

2pm. Come and taste some of these delgihtful desserts and meet authors Jessie Sheehan and Jean Sagendorph at Hammertown in Rhinebeck to hear why they decided to resurrect this gorgeous vintage deliciousness. Hammertown Barn, Rhinebeck. 876-1450.

League Of Extraordinary Readers: Rebecca Stead & Ali Benjamin 2pm. The League of Extraordinary Readers is a monthly author event series for kids ages 8-12. In Goodbye Stranger, Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead, explores multiple perspectives on the bonds and limits of friendship. The Thing About Jellyfish is Ali Benjamin’s debut novel for children. After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

MUSIC Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

8pm. Master of the Scottish fiddle and the world renown Scottish cellist. St Paul’s Hall, Red Hook.

Brazil Meets Jazz 8pm. $35/$25/$5 off in advance. Featuring Helio Alves, piano, Nilson Matta, bass and Duduka Da Fonseca, drums, with Maucha Adnet, vocals, and Mark Morganelli, flugelhorn. Presented in association with the White Plains Performing Arts Center. White Plains Performing Arts Center, White Plains. (914) 328-1600. Speed of Sound Festival 12pm. WDST 35th anniversary concert: Avett Brothers, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hot Tuna, Amy Helm and the Handsome Strangers, more. Dutchess County Airport, Wappingers Falls. Speedofsoundfestival.com. Breakaway Featuring Robin Baker Last Saturday of every month, 8-11:30pm. Music ranges from rock n roll, R&B, standards, and pop songs. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Eric Erickson 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Grupo Folklorico 12pm. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241. Hiroko Sakurazawa, Piano, and Akiko Kamigawara, Violin 8pm. $20/$18 members. Works by Prokofiev, Schubert, and Takemitsu. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079. Jeff Haynes 8pm. $20. Safe Harbors’ welcomes Jeff Haynes, Grammy Award winning percussionist and producer. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199. Johnny A 7pm. Solo rock. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS White Plains Jazz Festival

Four-day celebration of jazz. Downtown White Plains, White Plains. Artsw. org/jazzfest.

FILM National Theatre LIVE: The Beaux’ Stratagem by George Farquhar 1pm. $21. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Nature Walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve

9-10:30am. Free. Join us for free nature walks on the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. Farm.vassar.edu/ news/announcements/2015-2016/150701announcement.html.

FOOD & WINE Abundant Summer Supper Club

SPIRITUALITY Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought

7pm. $65. 5-course tasting dinner. The Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm, Preston Hollow. (518) 239-6234.

Last Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Callicoon Farmers’ Market 11am-2pm. Callicoon Creek Park, Callicoon. Manager@ sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.org.

Satsang 9am-12pm. Free. A vegetarian meal follows and everyone is welcome to participate. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008.

Leaf Peeper Concert Series: Love and Chaos 7:30pm. $25/$80 series. St. James Catholic Church, Chatham. Leafpeeperconcerts.org. Manitoga Benefit Performance: Composer and Trumpeter Ben Neill 4pm. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.

OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS North East Community Center 25th Anniversary Barn Party 7-10pm. $50. Silver Mountain Hay Barn, Millerton. (518) 789-4259.

OUTDOORS & RECREATION Nature Hike

9am. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. Thomascole.org/current-events.

The Rondout National Historic District Tour Last Saturday of every month, 1pm. $10/$5 children. Ulster County Visitors Center, Kingston.

SPIRITUALITY Kirtan

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

THEATER An Evening with Sutton Foster: Gala Event

$45-$200. Presented by Half Moon Theater. Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Hyde Park. Halfmoontheatre.org.

“The Last Five Years” 8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Living the “I AM” Presence of St. Germaine & the Ascended Masters 12-5pm. $125/$108. With author Peter Mt. Shasta. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.

Pigment Stick Mixed Media Lab 11am-4pm. $65. Our Pigment Stick Mixed Media Lab allows artists to explore the many possible applications of R&F Pigment Sticks. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088. Tai Chi and Chinese Brush Painting with Bobbi Esmark and Linda Schultz $170/$33 materials fee. Two-day workshop. Art Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston.

SUNDAY 27 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Repair Café

Fourth Sunday of every month, 12-4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.

COMEDY Craig Ferguson

8pm. $57/$45/$37. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.

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

TUESDAY 29 LITERARY & BOOKS Laura Ludwig Presents Poetry and Performance Art 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Beginner Swing Dance Classes

6-7pm. $80/four week series. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939.

Shakespeare on Camera 6-8:30pm. The Lab will be directed and taught by Roger Hendricks Simon. Also meets Oct. 6, 13, and 18. Must apply in advance. Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie. Rhsstudio@gmail.com. Volunteer Training 6-8pm. We would love to serve more very special children and adults, but we need additional volunteers. Please wear sturdy shoes and be prepared to be outdoors. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.

Tommy Emmanuel 8pm. $39.50. Australian guitarist. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.

The Southlands Foundation Benefit Gala: Sunset at Southlands 5:30-10pm. $90/$60 child/ $150 patron. Cocktails, dinner, live music, silent auction, luminaries. The Southlands Foundation, Rhinebeck. 876-4862.

MUSIC Ingrid Sertso and Karl Berger with Peter Apfelbaum: Celebrating Life

Moxie Cupcake at Taste of New Paltz. Taste of New Paltz New Paltz is home to a variety of restaurants ranging from fine dining establishments dishing out spins on classic European fare to pizzerias open well into the early hours of the morning to serve the students that stumble in. Chances are, even if you live in New Paltz, there’s an eatery you’ve never tried. But at the 25th annual Taste of New Paltz festival at the Ulster County Fairgrounds on September 19, attendees will have the chance to experience those restaurants that have evaded their taste buds for too long. Well over 100 vendors will be featured, with 25 beer and wine bars alone. Jamaica Choice, Main Street Bistro, Gadaleto’s Seafood Market, and P&G’s are among the participating local restaurants, while eateries from neighboring towns like Diego’s Taqueria and Brotherly Grub BBQ will also be featured. For just two or three dollars a pop, samples of menu highlights will be available from 11am to 6pm. A rare beer experience is also open to adults for $25 ($20 if purchased in advance) that features exotic beers from around the world. Proceeds benefit the New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce and its community projects. The festival is family-friendly, children 12 and under admitted free. (845) 255-0243; Tasteofnewpaltz.com

KIDS & FAMILY Annual Touch-a-Truck event

11am-4pm. Sponsored by Junior League of Kingston. Forsyth Nature Center, Kingston. 339-3053.

The Wonderful Woolly Bear 10am. $7/$5/$3. Learn about curious, legendary Woolly Bear caterpillars. For adults and families with children ages 5 and up. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781.

LITERARY & BOOKS Julie Chibbaro: Into the Dangerous World

4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.

MUSIC Juiliard pianists Adelaide Roberts and Matthew Odell

3pm. Four hands, one piano, with narration, performing “The Story of Babar,” music by Francis Poulenc, and “Carnival of the Animals,”music by Camille Saint Saens. St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church, Woodstock.

The Knights and Yo-Yo Ma 4-5:30pm. $30-$110. The Knights team up with the inimitable cellist Yo-Yo Ma for music that bursts with individual creativity and reaction to fresh insights. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252. The Spirit of Michael Jackson 8pm. $47.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Sunday Brunch: The Blues Farm 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Tisziji Munoz “Free Horse Trio” 7pm. Improv jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.

THEATER “The Last Five Years”

8-10pm. $39/$34 matinee. Two 20-something New Yorkers over a 5-year relationship. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES Life, Death and Transformation: Touching the Dragon

1-4pm. $30. Learn how to decode the individual language of your own dream images and symbols. RSVP requested. 11 South Street Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 516-4540.

MONDAY 28 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee

Woodstock Writers Workshops $15/$60 series. For those who write or want to write poetry, short stories, memoir, creative non-fiction, etc., and get it published. 21 Cedar Way, Woodstock. 679-8256.

WEDNESDAY 30 FILM RSCLive from Stratford-UponAvon: Othello

7pm. $21. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Mama & Me Yoga

12:15-1:30pm. $18/drop-in, $150/10 class card. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

Prenatal Yoga 10:45am-12pm. $18. Sky Baby Yoga, Cold Spring. 489-6368.

LECTURES & TALKS The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control: The Forgotten History 7-8:15pm. Saul Cornell, PhD, discusses the beginnings and today’s application of the second amendment. Rowley Center for Science & Engineering, Sandra and Alan Gerry Forum, Room 010, Middletown. 341-4891.

LITERARY & BOOKS Enterprise and Courage: The Civil War Years at Lake Mohonk with Robi Josephson 7-8:30pm. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

Talk and Book Signing with Marc B. Fried 7-8:15pm. Reading/book signing of Notes from the Other Side. Stone Ridge Library, Stone Ridge. 687-7023.

LECTURES & TALKS The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure American Liberties

MUSIC Ballet Folklorico de Mexico: de Amalia Hernandez

6:30pm. The award-winning author Dr. Carol Berkin will speak. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 339-2025.

LITERARY & BOOKS Mystery Mondays Book Discussion

11am-12pm. Detective Inspector Huss, by Helene Tursten. Boardman Road Library, Poughkeepsie. 485-3445.

Reading Allie Cashel: Suffering The Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease In An Age Of Denial 7:30pm. A living portrait of the disease and its patients’ struggles for recognition and treatment. Bertelsmann Campus Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7054.

7:30pm. $60. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.

Marine Futin 7pm. French folk jazz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Wednesday Morning Concert Mediterranean Celebration 11-11:45am. Tour & Lunch: $58.50/$28.50 concert only. Be transported to the Mediterranean for a day amidst Caramoor’s stunning architecture. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah. (914) 232-1252.

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Planet Waves BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

Jupiter transited by Io and Europa, as seen from Voyager 1 spacecraft, February 1979.

Jupiter in Virgo: Use What You Know “I’ve got good news. That gum you like is going to come back in style.” —The Man from Another Place, from “Twin Peaks,” Season 1, Episode 3

n astrology, Jupiter represents style trends, among many other things. The largest of the planets (1,200 times the size of Earth) orbits our Sun in about 12 years, exerting so much gravity on our central star that the Sun oscillates as Jupiter tugs on it. By the way, you can tell that to anyone who claims that the obstetrician exerts more gravity on the newborn baby than does Jupiter (by which logic astrology cannot possibly be true). I’ve never seen a doctor cause a star to wobble. I don’t think astrology is based on gravity, though. Reading the charts is the art of reading symbols, whether they have any mass or not. Points with no mass, weight, or size can have an influence. For example, what is a “sign”? It’s a direction in space. Is there really a young woman living up in Virgo? In our minds there is. Virgo is the astrological home of the Goddess. It’s true that other signs are ruled by Venus and that Virgo is ruled by Mercury, who is androgynous. But you might think of Mercury in this capacity as a servant of the Goddess, capable of doing something that’s nothing less than tantric: bridging the gap and opening common space between maleness and femaleness. Last month Jupiter arrived in Virgo. It was last in that sign between August 2003 and September 2004. Those were difficult times, at the peak of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, during the first term of the Cheney-Bush presidency. Despite the rawness of emotions and the still-open and infected wound of the September 11 incident, there was a feeling in the air: We must do something about this. I don’t miss the Cheney-Bush presidency, but I do miss the spirit of devotion that was infused into the peace movement, especially in the form of documentary journalism—that is to say, actual thought, analysis, and 114 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 9/15

reasoning, mainly emerging on what was then a much smaller, simpler, and decidedly less commercialized Internet. In traditional astrology, Virgo represents food and the places where food is stored, in particular, grain and dairy. For modern humans these are essential. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun passes through Virgo during the time of harvest, when the crops are coming in and being processed, preserved and stored. This is a central concept of civilization; the difference between humans roaming around as small bands of hunter-gatherers and humans as the dwellers of towns and cities is our ability to grow and preserve food. By a series of associations, Virgo in modern astrological thought includes service, medical care, healing, and teaching. In my experience there is a larger concept: Virgo and the axis it forms with its opposite sign Pisces represent the holistic principle. Everything is related to everything else. When we really want to address a situation or problem, it’s helpful to invoke whole-system thinking: that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Any aspect of the environment can also influence the whole environment. Said another way, what we think of as physical and spiritual are aspects of the same thing, accessible through each other. This idea is slowly catching on. For example, a scant few people are starting to notice how they feel after drinking two liters of diet soda, contrasted with how they feel better after drinking some water. The “mind-body connection” is a popular phenomenon most easily found in yoga. In astrology, the concept of an axis of two signs—in this scenario, the VirgoPisces polarity—is essential to understanding just about anything. What we have with Jupiter in Virgo is the planet representing Pisces visiting its opposite sign. This is relational; it’s an image of seeming opposites morphing together. It’s an image of fertility—of the cosmic waters of Pisces soaking into the earthy

territory of Virgo. Virgo and Pisces depend on each other, as do all the opposite signs. Now we get to experiment with what happens when there’s a real mutual union between them. Why I say “mutual” is that Chiron is presently in Pisces. Chiron does not “rule” Virgo, as it was not a factor in classical astrology. But it’s certainly a representative of Virgo, in terms of Chiron’s devotion to service, healing, and teaching. Chiron is still on its long but not long enough visit to Pisces (spanning from early 2010 through early 2019). This invokes the ancient astrological con cept of reception—Chiron in Pisces and Jupiter in Virgo are vibrating together, receiving each other’s energy. Planet spotters can note that the exact oppositions between Jupiter and Chiron will take place on November 3, 2015, February 23, 2016, and August 12, 2016. These dates represent potential thresholds, turning points, or peak moments in whatever relationships, projects or transformations are represented by the Virgo-Pisces dynamic. Let’s add one more thought: Jupiter also represents Sagittarius. So therefore, clever, practical Virgo is also being infused with the at once worldly and unworldly wisdom of Sagittarius. This will expand the scope of Virgo, giving it a wider range of perception and more tools to use in its journey of healing and service. Jupiter also stands for the benefits of whatever we do. With Jupiter in Virgo, it will be easier to consider the benefits of taking care of one another and taking care of the planet. I have an official sign description of Virgo, which I recently saw quoted somewhere: “Virgo is a mentally oriented, highly intelligent, nervous sign that needs to remember it’s made of the element earth, not air. That’s another way of saying that your life is a constant process of translating from idea to reality and back. Ideas are not enough. Yours is not the sign of science but applied science. “The difference is similar to that between working in theoretical physics and learning how to be a master baker, or using your skill in chemistry to be an expert hair colorist. Applying ideas can be challenging because the mental world changes so much faster than the often-stuck dynamics of the physical world, and we’re often at a loss for how to translate between the two. That would be your job: to identify ideas and how to apply them; to match up problems with corresponding solutions.” Of all my concepts of Virgo, applied science is my very favorite one. This resonates with an idea offered by Woodstock-based therapist, philosopher and gemcutter Joseph Trusso, who has Virgo rising: Use what you know. Imagine all that wisdom flowing into Virgo by way of Sagittarius and Pisces—that’s a lot of opportunity to apply the things you’ve learned to the life that you’re living, and to the world situation. Speaking of. The world situation is so dire that most people seem to have given up doing anything about it, or even wanting to think about it. There seems to be maturity and wisdom in the notion that you can’t do anything anyway. That idea, of course, is bait for apathy: So why bother? Rather, just take care of yourself, feed your habits, and either a) trust that everything will work out for the best or b) that nothing drastic will go wrong. Have a good time; don’t worry about anyone who has it worse than you, because that’s bad luck. Meanwhile, I am often amazed when I think of the number of self-help books that have been sold and read, reaching the top of the bestseller lists, and the healing workshops that have been taken by so many people, and the years and years of spiritual practice engaged in by millions of people—and meanwhile, we are still witnessing the world in what appears to be a serious slide into the abyss, much of which is emotional.

It’s also true that wars and wildfires are raging. Major economies are wobbling. The wealthy are gobbling up things like $100 million Manhattan condominiums as investments that they plan to leave vacant. There exist a vast number of people with so much wealth, they seem to have no idea what to do with it. The reality is that doing something with it—that is, taking an active role in the world, and focusing one’s mind on what we might contribute— directly contradicts the way of life of possessing, amassing, and keeping. This too is largely about matters of spiritual and emotional healing. Many seemingly different topics are drawn in, like survival, death, how we treat the other, and how far our scope of existence expands into time and space. Said another way, do you think you’re part of something larger than yourself? Do you notice the extent to which your environment actually does nourish you? What is your role in the exchange? When we talk about the concept of using what we know, and applying the wisdom we gained from so much study and reflection, we’re talking about action—that is, what we actually do. There seems to be a contemporary concept that in living the best way I can, I am doing all I can. In being the best person I can be, I am doing what I can. That is true, if we’re talking about the beginning of the process, not the end. The idea that “we’re all in this together” has taken a beating in recent years. It is directly contrary to the prevailing political views of our time, which are all about being rich, getting richer, laws that favor only the extremely wealthy, and elections determined more and more by money rather than issues. This is largely on the political level, but applying the holistic principle, we can see that politics is a method of organizing not just society but also thought and the frameworks of ideas—that is, the ideas that make up who we think we are, and therefore how we should act on any given day. Using what you know is the same as the spirit of service. That might be in service of what actually makes sense for you personally, or what makes sense for you to do within a wider concept of your environment. It means not pretending to not know what you do know, i.e., recognizing the problem with denial. The fact that denial is such a popular mental habit does not mean that it’s good for you or for anyone else. But it takes real focus and intention to come out of denial (and dealing with what you denied). You might say that’s the whole purpose of spiritual training, of therapy, of community work, of political participation, of nearly anything that requires you to say to yourself, “Yes, I get it,” and to the take the next step of doing what makes sense in the context of knowing; of getting it. I would propose here and now that a great deal of the pain or discomfort or fear or depression that you may experience from time to time, or often, could be resolved by “getting it” and doing what makes sense in that context. The 1960s were an extraordinary time in history. I don’t want to romanticize them but there was, in fact, a spirit of awakening and of action and participation. The notions that we’re all in this together and that we share a common space, and doing something with what we know, were more widely practiced. The essence of 1960s astrology involved Virgo and Pisces. There were many breakthroughs in that era, and in some ways we are still riding on its coattails. I think the most significant experience of that era was the actual sensation that we’re all in this together. We still are. And the idea that we are has never counted for more than it does today. It may be easy to live in a bubble, but I assure you, it’s lonely, and eventually you’ll run out of air. Meanwhile, it’s very likely you know exactly what to do, because you’re called to do it every day.

The 1960s were an extraordinary time in history. I don’t want to romanticize them but there was, in fact, a spirit of awakening and of action and participation. I think the most significant experience of that era was the actual sensation that we’re all in this together.

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ARIES

(March 20-April 19)

You may not make sense to others, and this is something that you’ll need to get used to. What you want, how you think of yourself, how you explain yourself—indeed, the essence of who you are—are all changing. This is happening while others may be expecting you to fit their idea of what is reasonable. It’s easy to fall for this. Being different and going through a process of change that reaches to your roots are vulnerable places to be. Often, others who are intent on conforming and doing things the supposedly right way will try to make others hold the line. The key to doing this successfully will be choosing to not worry about what others think. Get accustomed to doing this now, and then get better at it—you’re going to need this skill in the next few years. It’s not your job to live up to anyone else’s presumptions or expectations. You can go through five years of therapy or you can embrace this simple fact. This remains true no matter how much authority anyone exerts, or tries to claim. Look for any hint of religion or religiosity as the basis of the headtrip. Such rationales are almost always rooted in hypocrisy. Part of what you will learn over the next two years, beginning now, is to never, ever put up with that kind of bullshit.

TAURUS

(April 19-May 20)

Venus finally stations direct on September 7, which signals that you will soon be seeking broader horizons—especially at home. On one level you need more emotional space. You need the space to change and grow; to stretch into feelings other than the ones you’re so accustomed to. To what extent does your domestic space, and your relationship space, allow you this? If you get a change of scenery, you will get a good basis for comparison. Yet this also extends into the aspect of life that you might think of as creative and expressive. You are ready to take greater chances in whatever you think of as your true art or craft. You may be finally giving yourself permission to embark on this at all, or for the first time in a very long time. Be aware of your tendency to be cautious. It’s one thing to exercise restraint when you’re driving through the rain on a dark highway. It’s another matter entirely to contain yourself when you’re encountering a blank page or canvas. You don’t need to overthink any of that; in truth, when you want to express yourself, the less thinking you do the better. Trust what you’re feeling and connect that to what you say and what you express. Being this real with yourself might make you nervous at first, but it’s also great fun.

GEMINI

(May 20-June 21)

Saturn enters your opposite sign, Sagittarius—which reveals the quality of your relationships; it’ll be there, working the territory, for the next two years. This is an extended “get real, get serious” moment. Relationships that belong in your life will go through a series of transformations and become stronger. Those that do not will likely be cleared from your energy field. It’s in the nature of Saturn to favor action taken voluntarily and honor the boundaries of time. This is where you will need the maturity to know what’s appropriate for you and what is not; or said another way, to honor what you may have known for a long time. Every situation in your life must support your emotional growth and nourishment. Notice when you have an exchange with someone that leaves you feeling fulfilled. Notice when an encounter leaves you feeling depleted. These contrasts will encourage you to continually improve your situation.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Most people make most of their decisions on emotional grounds. They do what they think feels right; that allows for a diversity of unwholesome motives to enter the environment. It’s essential now that you do what is right, rather than what temporarily seems to feel right. Open your mind to embrace all of the facts, and the viewpoint of every person who has a stake in whatever decision you have to make. Ultimately, you must do right by yourself, and you have the choice to ignore the interests of everyone else. I would propose, however, that it’s entirely in your interest to make sure you understand where everyone else is coming from. For one thing, their feelings are likely to reflect something that’s true for you, which you may not have considered. For another, there are a diversity of common interests involved, and you’re in a position to honor the greatest good for all concerned. There is actually such a thing, especially for you now, and the only way you’re going to get there is to observe the facts and take the known data into account. There is one situation underlying everything in your environment: the emotional needs that everyone has in common. On some level everyone is longing for their mother, perhaps the mother they never had. If you remember that, it will be easier to figure out what to do.

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LEO

(July 22-August 23)

Venus retrograde in your sign for the past six weeks has been a bold reminder that it’s necessary to embody your purpose if you’re going to have one at all. Purpose is something you must eat like food that nourishes your blood, rather than wear like clothing or a mask. Yet this calls for a different kind of commitment than is currently fashionable. Most anything that’s worthwhile takes a long-range plan, and persisting through many ups and downs and unexpected twists in the plot. Your vision of “self” must expand to embrace yourself and everything and everyone you influence. You must take on a higher level of responsibility, which means accountability; the buck stops with you. At the outset and often for many years into the journey, you may question whether this process will be worth the effort, with no ready answer. Yet the reward is knowing that you are indeed engaging with this plane of reality on the level of what is meaningful to you, and what has relevance in the world around you. That, in truth, is the expression of the larger self-concept that means you’re a living part of the world and that it’s a living part of you. As I said, this is not in high fashion, though over the next year it will become an increasingly important value for you—and something you will want to honor. Begin—or continue—in earnest.

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) What does it mean to truly embrace another person? That question could also translate to: What does it mean to be fully in the world, rather than observing or allowing it to act on you? You may have noticed a tendency that humans have, which is to cut themselves off from their surroundings, including physical places, people, the weather, how a room smells, or the sounds coming in through the window. Jupiter in your birth sign means that you will be far more sensitive to your environment; in a sense, it describes you merging with everything you see, touch, and become aware of. As this happens, you will feel numb places come back to life. You will “re-member” in the sense of reattaching what you may have cut off, and allowing certain facts to percolate out of your memory and into full awareness. Given the prevailing chaos of the world, and the extent of the struggles that so many are facing, you might well question whether that’s the best approach to life. But there’s a bigger question, which is, can you do anything else, and still count yourself as alive? You came here to be involved with this dimension of reality: to allow it to change you, and for you to change it. You now have many new opportunities to do that in the most creative and constructive ways. It’s about time.

LIBRA

Sustain Your Life…Plan

(September 22-October 23)

You must check your logic carefully, at every opportunity. In order to do this, you’ll have to slow down and observe your own thought process. If you do this, you might discover places you have not taken certain facts into account, or ways you’ve jumped to conclusions without taking steps you can retrace or explain to someone else. This will be especially meaningful if you find yourself exerting effort that’s not resulting in progress. Step away from the idea that things must be difficult for the sake of paying dues, or because “that’s the way things are.” To a real degree, you get to choose the difficulty level of your life, which differs from other factors such as success and achievement. If you apply reasoning and intelligence, you will come up with another analysis. To this end, you need to be mindful of the logical steps you take toward any conclusion. Notice the way you collect observations of your environment to prove or disprove any theory you may have. While most people can get away with making assumptions or taking guesses most of the time, you need to do better. You’re accountable for what you know and for what you don’t know. You are responsible for how you assemble the facts into a theory of a conclusion. Take each step consciously, and take notes.

SCORPIO

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(October 23-November 22)

Saturn leaves your sign this month, after being with you from late 2012 through late 2014, and for three months this year. This is a good time for a review, which I can sum up in one question: Have you discovered that there’s no point in being anything but real? It is, of course, easy to play things off, to pretend, to remain silent, to look the other way, to believe what’s convenient. Saturn has made that more difficult, and revealed this approach to existence as the folly that it is. In the process, you may have been squashed a few times, as if to squeeze out a few drops of truth. You may have run head-on into authority figures, and into your own resentment. When you finally did the emotional calculus, you’re likely to have discovered that this is the result of being something other than the master of your own affairs. If you got Saturn’s message, you came into your strength and committed to living with consciousness and awareness, mostly of who you are. This month, Saturn enters Sagittarius, which is calling on you to be realistic rather than idealistic. This may seem to be a high price, though your Saturn journey continues into the phase of engaging with the world on the level of what you know is true, rather than what you wish was true. This will be easier and more productive, to be sure. 9/15 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 117

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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Have you ever had a splinter or shard of glass that took a few years to work through to the surface of your skin, and when it did, that little rip and removing the foreign object was delightful? That’s the feeling of your current astrology, only on the level of an emotional rebirth. Your recent astrology describes you embracing some dark elements of yourself—deep fears, feelings of alienation, and encountering a few moments of being totally lost. Now it’s as if all of that melts away like a dream, though one that you should write down so you remember what happened. The challenge of the coming two years will be to focus your identity and to merge that with a clear vision for your life, based in action. It’s as if who you are morphs into who you want to be, which is connected to a sense of mission unlike anything you’ve ever felt. Indeed, the combination of planetary forces influencing you has not aligned this way in your lifetime. You are in wholly new territory, though it will take you some time to get your bearings. To that end, the first thing you can do is be to take total ownership of everything in your life—and begin a deliberate, vital process of sorting what you want from what you don’t.

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Your attention is now being drawn inward; you are on an inner quest, and you will be on this journey for the foreseeable future. Yet you clearly have plenty else going on; you won’t be living in a cave in India (though you may visit one). It is therefore essential that you harmonize your inner life and your supposedly outer one. The way you can do this is by making sure that you have the confidence of people who are tuned into your deeply personal journey. It’s true that not every aspect of this can be shared, or understood. There is plenty that will be yours alone to consider and experience. Yet it’s possible to engage with others who understand the concept of the introspective quest. The ones who do will honor your sensitive interior space. They may also offer some clue about the territory you’re entering, which is as much transpersonal as it is personal. In other words, this is about you, but it’s not strictly about you, because your deepest interior space is a collective one, where many people, places, and ideas are connected. Most of all, though, you and the people around you must respect your solitude. Don’t be afraid to simply take the space you need, when you need it. Your true friends will understand and support you on that mission.

AQUARIUS

(January 20-February 19)

There’s plenty of talk in the world about right livelihood, and even some that’s sincere. You’re now fully engaging the challenges of doing what is right for you, as a participant in society. The compromises of the past, and of past generations, are behind you. You can no longer divide your life or your character in half; you are deep into the work of integrating your entire reality. This can consume plenty of energy at first, as you’ve been seeing. You’re being compelled by your choices and your circumstances to stand fully in who you are, right now, rather than pretending that you’ll be something in the future. I suggest you do this gently, persistently, and a little at a time. Small, steady steps count more than attempts at major changes. As you experience this process, remember how much of the world’s ides are negotiated on the basis of belief. You have an idea of what is true for you, though most others merely believe what they want to believe without regard for verification. You would be wise to avoid controversies that play into this difference. Work with what others believe, and don’t attempt to prove your point. Rather, demonstrate what’s true for you, and let that serve as a practical expression of what is possible. This is a universe apart from proof, and indeed sidesteps the whole issue rather neatly.

PISCES

(February 19-March 20)

By all indications (mostly, Jupiter and Saturn changing signs in the past few weeks) it’s time to stretch your potential. By that I mean it’s time to widen your conduits for emotional exchange, for productivity, and for relating to the world in all modes that involve love and work. Everything is in the right place; you will soon discover that the sometimes meandering journey you’ve taken to get here led you to the right place at the right time. For you now, there is one thing you must do above all else: Be yourself. This may seem like the most obvious idea in the world, and it is. But it’s also the idea most easily forsaken, or denied, or resented. It’s typically seen as the thing that’s “impossible” to do, because it’s seemingly so difficult, or because it will allegedly blow up on you. Here’s the thing: Nothing else will work. You cannot afford to veil yourself, or to compromise your actual reality in any way. That means: Be true to your goals, to your feelings, to the necessities of your environment, to your ethics and, most of all, what you want. Notice and track even minor compromises of your reality, and tidy up as you go. Truly great achievements are possible for you now and well into the foreseeable future. Give yourself every advantage. 118 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 9/15

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Simi Stone in White, Richard Segalman, monotype, 10 “x 10”, 2014 When an artist limits his palate to a few colors, the self-imposed restrictions can create new possibilities. Habits are broken, a new approach grown. Richard Segalman’s new book of monotypes, Black and White: Muses, Magic & Monotypes, is a collection of what happened when he limited himself to one color: black. The images are stark, mysterious—there’s a sense of something missing. Faces are often obscured or vaguely formed; long, thick shadows dominate the canvas. “I’m not interested in specifics or features,” the 81-yearold artist says. “I care about the gist, the body language.” The gist Segalman searches for he often finds from the randomness that monotyping allows. The process involves painting on a smooth, nonabsorbent surface, like glass or zinc, and transferring the paint onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together. “Sometimes I hit it on the first try, but I usually have

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to keep going for a long time, printing copy after copy. But when I hit it, it’s like Christmas.” The unpredictability inherent in Segalman’s method can be observed in the smudges and rough lines in his work. The prints are unpolished and raw and there’s a sense that the emotions he strives to convey are too. Under the surface of his prints there’s a feeling of sadness and tension that his black-and-white monotypes capture best. “I want my audience to pick up on who I am. I’m trying to connect with them in my art because I’m not sure I can do that in my life.” “Richard Segalman: Recent Monotypes” will be exhibited at Inky Edition in Hudson from September 12 to October 4. An opening reception and book signing will be held on September 12 at 6:30pm. Inkyeditions.com. —Jake Swain

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