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SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE
14 ESTEEMED READER A psychological exercise courtesy of Alfred Orage. 17 EDITOR’S NOTE Brian K. Mahoney waits for the tide to roll out.
39 A RESOURCE FOR SUMMER EXPLORATION
NEWS AND POLITICS
EDUCATION 45 EXTRACURRICULARS IN THE CURRICULUM
18 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Foie gras, Scottish wind, and more. 19 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart on the reaction to Charlie Hebdo.
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HUDSON VALLEY COFFEE CULTURE
22 THE LOVE EDITION
71 SPILL THE BEANS
We launch our new shopping column with suggestions for Valentine’s Day.
How the arts, sports, and other “extra” activities augment classroom education from kindergarten through high school.
A photo essay of coffeehouses across the region by Thomas Smith.
WEDDING GUIDE
WHOLE LIVING
23 A DIRECTORY OF WEDDING VENUES AND SHOPS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY
82 THE LOVE DOCTORS
HOME 28 THE WRONG TURN TO THE RIGHT PLACE
Harville Hendrix and Helen Kelly LaHunt, creators of Imago Relationship Therapy, talk with Wendy Kagan about why couples stumble, what it takes to keep a relationship together, and how they overcame their own marital struggles.
Artist Kevin Paulsen found a home/studio after getting lost in Kingston.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE
KIDS AND FAMILY
74 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 76 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 86 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
36 TRANFORMING THE FAMILY TRIP
Hillary Harvey talks with parents about the high and lows of traveling with kids.
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FOOD & DRINK
54 GALLERY & MUSEUM GUIDE
72 BEST OF THE WURST
56 MUSIC: BREAKFAST IN FUR Peter Aaron profiles the New Paltz-based lo-fi folk rockers. Nightlife Highlights include Napalm Death/Voivod; Christian McBride; Ansel Meditations; Town Mountain; and Kate Pierson. Reviews of Luck Maker by Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones; Tooth of Wisdom by Gustafer Yellowgold; and Madman by Sean Rowe.
60 BOOKS: LOVE IS THE DRUG Lisa A. Phillips writes about stalking her ex in her new book Unrequited.
62 BOOK REVIEWS Reviews of Corruption in America by Zephyr Teachout, Off the Sidelines by Kirsten Gillibrand, and Publishing by Gail Godwin. Plus Short Takes.
64 POETRY Poems by Noelle Adamo, Thom Cooney Crawford, Jane Heidgerd Garrick, Tierney Greene, Ernest S. Klepeis, John Macdonald, Garry Meyers, Kirby Olson, Christopher Porpora, Izaak Savett, Elizabeth Thompson-Jones, Andrew Tully, and Kelly Welton. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
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THE FORECAST 88 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 87 The Dorsky exhibits art and ephemera from guerrilla TV pioneers the Videofreex. 88 The Vanaver Caravan DanceFest! returns to SUNY New Paltz on February 7 & 8. 89 So Percussion and Grey McMurray perform at Bard's Fisher Center. 90 Ladysmith Black Mambazo sings a cappella at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington. 91 Chris Robinson Brotherhood plays the Bearsville Theater on February 10. 92 Beth E. Wilson reviews two shows by Chris Gonyea. 94 Rachel Mason in the multimedia performance “The Lives of Hamilton Fish." 96 Actors from the London Stage perform "Macbeth" at Vassar College.
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Eric Francis Coppolino on the nonstop daily digital onslaught that surrounds us.
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Karen Pearson
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Jeff Crane eats like a German at the Gunk Haus in Highland.
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erner Pfeiffer cherishes books. He also hangs them, gags them, stabs them, and mutilates them. “I strip the books of their contents until all that is left is the carcass,” the Red Hook-based artist explains. This might seem like a complicated relationship, and it is. Books have been an intimate part of Pfeiffer’s life since he was a boy. Growing up in Germany during the 1930s, Pfeiffer witnessed books being burned, censored, and maimed. Paper was rarely available, if at all. Words were manipulated and erased—a literary crime that has influenced Pfeiffer’s art profoundly. 11:00 AM Why commit strikingly similar measures in the name of art? To send a message, says Pfeiffer. “At times, one has to play devil’s advocate to make a point. Books are one of mankind’s most treasured icons and they are disappearing.” In this digital age, Pfeiffer wonders, “Will books be different years from now? Will they be around at all?” In the interest of preserving the book as an artifact and as a symbol, Pfeiffer works with the structure and design of books in order to comment upon their physical, political, and cultural significance. It might be unsurprising that paper, the essence of books, is his chosen medium. Born out of the circumstances of his youth, Pfeiffer developed a sincere love and appreciation for paper: “Paper was scarce; paper was burned. I didn’t even know paper existed, so, later, it became beautiful to me,” he explains. Pfeiffer has a unique perspective in this way; most of us regard paper as something mundane and utilitarian. It’s seen as an ephemeral surface, easily discarded. This is not the case for Pfeiffer. “Looked at from a different angle,” he says, “paper has a structural capacity; it has sound, it has depth. There are so many ways to view it.” Pfeiffer’s work is steeped in Surrealism and Dadaism, his pieces often reflecting the blur between reality and the imagination. He likes his work to “play a coy game of hideand-seek with illusion and reality.” Pfeiffer also tries to connote the act of reading in a more dynamic way, producing what he calls Book-Objects. These pieces are hands-on and interactive, urging the viewer to get involved in deconstructing and reassembling them. “My work is part game, part readings, part artistic expression,” he explains. Most interestingly and poignantly, Pfeiffer’s Book-Objects are pure white and devoid of written words. Essentially, this is intended to draw the viewer’s attention to a world without words, much like the world of Pfeiffer’s youth. It calls to mind the book as a symbol—what it is and what it could be.Words, as Pfeiffer explains, are immensely important. “Words are more powerful than bullets,” he notes. “Words are, ultimately, what everyone is afraid of.” Nearly 200 one-of-a-kind and limited edition artist books, dimensional prints, collages, and experimental works on paper by Pfeiffer will be shown in the exhibit “Drawn, Cut, & Layered: The Art of Werner Pfeiffer,” which opens on February 6 at the Toledo Museum of Art. Toledomuseum.org. —Bridget Corso CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH a short film by Stephen Blauweiss about Werner Pfeiffer and his work.
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ESTEEMED READER Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: I reproduce here an essay by a fellow publisher, Alfred Orage, famous in the 1920s for his literary magazine The New Age. He was also a practitioner and teacher of methods of inner work and selfdevelopment.The exercise included in the essay is one I have practiced over the years with great utility. —Jason Stern Dying Daily It is said by those who have survived death that before the final plunge into unconsciousness the whole of a man’s life is unrolled before him in pictures. Not a detail of the panorama is omitted, and every color, form, and movement is reproduced in all its original luster. Whether this is true of all cases, the significance is the same. The fact clearly demonstrates the enduring quality of the impressions we receive, whether we consciously remember them or nothing. Somewhere in us, their record remains as clear as on the day they were first made. It suggests the possibility of utilizing this power of recalling the past by doing something at those moments when we are rehearsing death in the form of going to sleep. Sleep and death are alike in this, that they are states of unconsciousness into which we normally pass by a gradual process; sleeping or dying. If the moment for a pictorial review of life is death, the moment for a pictorial review of the day is sleep. It is important to realize that the review before death, as reported by the survivors, is never censorious or didactic, nor is it a subject for either thought or feelings. Strangely enough, the review appears to be made quite impersonally and impartially, with no attachments and with no comments. Further, it is in pictures, exclusively; there is no talk and there is no text. Following this hint, our nightly review of the day may be assumed to be of the same order. It is the day seen pictorially; it is the day’s events, with oneself as the central figure, reviewed without satisfaction or regret, without fear and without hope; it is impartial and impersonal. Nothing is better calculated to keep us attentive to ourselves during the day than the prospect of seeing our day pictorially reproduced at night. Suppose we were accompanied everywhere by a cinematographic camera, and the films of each day were projected upon a screen, in our bedroom every evening. Would not the prospective show-up compel us to watch our steps? The gain to the day, in point of increased attention, would be incalculable. Then too, without even any didactic object, the repetition of the day, in terms of pictures, would be of the utmost value as a lesson in self-knowledge. We should begin to be able to see ourselves as we appear to others, and, in consequence, to exercise all that tolerance of other people’s defects and awkwardnesses which now we usually give to ourselves alone. Still again, the advantage from trying to recall the day exactly is inestimable. Memory, will, concentration and the power of sustained attention are all brought into play. It is impossible to practice such a review regularly without experiencing improvements in all these respects. The exercise in other ways valuable, is invaluable in respect to mental development simply. It is almost a specific against mediocrity. There are other advantages, but they can be left to be discovered. We must now consider the method itself. Before going to sleep, deliberately try to picture yourself as you appeared on getting up that morning. You woke, you got out of bed, you proceeded to dress, to breakfast, to read the paper, catch a bus and so on. Try to follow this sequence of yourself pictorially observed, from moment to moment, exactly as if you were unwinding a film. Remember that one of our objects is precisely not to think about what we represent. Thinking not only impedes the pictorial representation but it subtly but surely falsifies the pictures. It is possible to practice the exercise until the film of the day appears to unroll itself without conscious effort. Exactly as the drowned report that the film of their lives passed before them, those who have mastered this exercise report that the events of the day, as recorded in conscious or unconscious memory, represent themselves in their original form and color. The interruptions, frequent at first, become fewer. From being an inexpert operator constantly breaking the film, the persistent student becomes expert. And his reward is not only the review of the day, but the control of mind that has made such a review possible. None of the numerous schools of mind-culture would have anything to teach a pupil grounded in this method. —from the series “Fifteen Exercises in Practical Psychology” in Psychology Magazine (New York, 1925)
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A New Web Series About the Hudson Valley Art Scene. ARTSCENE is a monthly web series that explores the artists, galleries, and museums of the Hudson Valley. Each twenty minute episode is hosted by Chronogram Editor Brian K. Mahoney and produced by independent filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss.
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ne of the most enduring topics of cocktail party conversation in the Hudson Valley is the region’s relationship to New York City (and I don’t mean Staten Island). The river itself serves as a useful metaphor for the general perception of this relationship: Powerful forces from the south flow north with the tide (of urban sensibility, of gentrification, of hipster migration, call it what you like), infiltrating life along the river all the way to the Federal Dam in Troy, like saltwater. We trade stories of the latest signs of Brooklynization—a phalanx of artisanally mustachioed gents spotted mid-week, the opening of yet another craft brewery—and debate whether this is for good or ill. This obsession with New York City is due partly to the fact that many of us are recent-ish transplants ourselves (I’ve lived here since 1996 and I put myself in this category) and look south to measure just how hayseed we’ve gone. It’s also about the anxiety of influence. While we like to enjoy some of the trappings of city life—culture, in its broadest sense first and foremost—we do not wish to ape it, which is a source of tension. How do we live an “authentic” life in the Hudson Valley? Is sushi in the country really okay? Shouldn’t I be eating only locally sourced food? Should I grow my own artisanal mustache? And it’s about pride, too. When I meet someone who’s up for the weekend, gushing about how great the Hudson Valley is (this typically means that they knew about the mountains and lakes but not about the smart and ingenious folks that live and work here), and how much they wish they could trade their $3,000/month studio that’s still a five-minute walk from the subway for a place in the Hudson Valley, my first thought is, “Well, duh! Welcome to the amazing place where I live. Life is beautiful here. I don’t need your validation.” Back to that metaphor about the river: I borrowed it from our erstwhile art critic, Beth E. Wilson, who spent 10 years championing Hudson Valley artists, is back this month with an examination of two artists, Chris Gonyea and Laura Moriarty, that are gaining notice in the city, but do not wish to run off to join the urban circus (“A River of Creativity That Flows Both Ways,” page 92). Beth pulls no punches when defending the local artistic community, and her calling out the New York Times on its recent patronizing coverage of the region’s art scene is a reminder that perhaps we’re still not taken as seriously as we should be by the scions of culture in the great metropolis to the south. Fear not, for we at Chronogram are working as tirelessly as ever to enlighten the world to the creative life in the Hudson Valley. Most recently, this has taken the form of our new web TV series, “ArtScene,” launched in January and available at Chronogram.com/TV. A collaboration with independent filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss, the monthly show focuses on visual art in the Hudson Valley. “ArtScene” takes the viewer into artists’ studios, on tours of galleries and museums, and into centers of making and creativity. In our first episode, long-time Woodstock School of Art instructor Staats Fasoldt explained his watercolor technique. Photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood and ceramics wizard Robert Hessler talked about their creative process. We
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followed sculptor Zev Willy Neuman from conception to completion on his Love Knot project. Steven Siegel, whose work appeared on the January cover, spoke from his Red Hook studio philosophical underpinnings of his work, which is influenced by the concept of deep time and the writings of evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould. The show gets deep, people. The format is short form: Five segments of approximately four minutes, hosted by the charming and sagacious editor of this magazine. This month, our second episode features more of the torrent of art that flows around us
We trade stories of the latest signs of Brooklynization— a phalanx of artisanally mustachioed gents spotted mid-week, the opening of yet another craft brewery— and debate whether this is for good or ill. in the Hudson Valley. Danielle Bliss and Joe Venditti of Wishbone Letterpress talk about their decidedly old-timely artisanal printing business. We tour the venerable Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale. Multimedia artistic tsunami Wayne Montecalvo explains his latest constructions. Neil Trager of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum walks through rich artistic legacy of Woodstock. Cover artist Werner Pfeiffer, who opens a retrospective at the Toledo Museum of Art this month, shares stories of his childhood in Nazi-era Germany and how it influenced his choice of primary medium: paper. We’ve received some very positive feedback and great suggestions for future coverage in just the first couple weeks since launching the show. As well, a couple of the segments from our first two episodes have already been picked up by PBS affiliate WMHT in Albany for broadcast on terrestrial television, so we feel like we’re on the right track. But you be the judge: please tune in Chronogram.com/TV and let us know what you think. The suggestion box is open. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM 17
fully operational despite the fact that there are zero commercial-scale CCS operations in the UK. Using renewable energy would cost nearly £1.2 less than using a CCSfitted thermal plant, at £663 million versus £1.85 billion. Currently, electricity production makes up about a third of Scotland’s emissions. Source: Guardian Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly received over half of his campaign funding from just three affluent American families: the Falic, Book, and Schottenstein families, for a total of about $130,000. The Falic family owns the Duty Free Americas airport shops, as well as a number of high-end fashion brands like Perry Ellis, Hard Candy, and Urban Decay. The Book family owns Jet Support Systems, the world’s largest independent provider of cost-maintenance programs for turbinepowered aircraft, and the Schottenstein family owns the American Eagle fashion chain. Prime Minister Netanyahu called for a dissolution of Parliament and early elections after firing his finance and justice ministers, claiming recent public criticism of his policies made the country ungovernable. The next elections will be held on March 17. Sources: Slate, New York Times
Republican State Senator Don Barrington of Oklahoma has proposed a bill that would prohibit anyone in the state from wearing a hoodie in public. The purpose of the bill is “to make businesses and public places safer by ensuring that people cannot conceal their identities for the purpose of crime or harassment.” The law would have a number of exceptions: Hoods would be permitted for “the pranks of children on Halloween”; masquerade parties; while exhibiting “an educational, religious, or historical character”; religious purposes; inclement weather; or during “exhibitions of minstrel troupes, circuses, sporting groups, mascots or other amusements or dramatic shows.” The bill would amend a law passed in 1923 that prevented people from wearing hoods, masks, or coverings “during the commission of a crime or for the purpose of coercion, intimidation or harassment,” originally meant to discourage Ku Klux Klan activity. According to the New York Times, Sen. Barrington says maskwearing protesters at the Capitol building prompted the proposed amendment, as well as masked protestors in Ferguson, Missouri. Sources: Slate, New York Times A study conducted by researchers at the Free University of Berlin concluded that listening to sad music elicits a positive emotional response. Liila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch, the authors, found that sad songs elicit a number of positive emotions from listeners, including but not limited to nostalgia (which was the most common response at 76 percent), peacefulness, tenderness, transcendence, wonder, and power. The study participants also reported a number of perceived rewards, the two most popular being “no ‘real-life’ implications’ and “empathy,” neither of which can be gained from listening to happy music. Source: Utne Reader A study published in The Lancet states that the average global human life expectancy has increased by more than six years to 71 since 1990. The number can be attributed to a decrease in deaths caused by cancer and cardiovascular disease in high-income countries as well as a decrease in diarrhea and neonatal complications in others. There has been a 40.5 percent decrease in deaths caused by communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases, an 18.5 percent decrease in deaths caused by noncommunicable diseases, and a 20.8 percent decrease in deaths caused by injuries in the 188 countries the study covered. The only significant increase in cause of death was from diabetes, urogenital, blood, and endocrine diseases, which increased by 14.5 percent. Source: Time In November 2014, wind turbines produced 100 percent of Scotland’s domestic electricity, with a 7 percent surplus. Now a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says a fossil-fuel-free Scotland isn’t only feasible, but achievable, by 2030. The report also states that renewable energy is more viable than the current policy goal, which assumes carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will be 18 18 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAM 2/15 2/15
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) published a report last month stating that more than 2,200 people die of alcohol poisoning in the United States annually— approximately six per day. The majority of those people are non-Hispanic whites, who made up 68 percent of deaths, while 76 percent of them were male between the ages of 35 and 64. Alcohol poisoning is caused by drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time. The CDC defines binge drinking as any pattern of drinking that raises one’s blood alcohol concentration to .08 grams percent or above. This typically occurs when men consume five or more drinks in two hours, four or more for women. Source: New York Times A federal judge struck down a law last month that prohibited the sale of foie gras in California for the past two and a half years. Production is still banned statewide, but the sale is once again legal. The controversial French delicacy was banned on the basis that its production was inhumane. Foie gras translates to “fatty liver” in English, and is traditionally produced by force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers swell, a process called “gavage.” An opinion piece by Mark Bittman of the New York Times titled “Let Them Eat Foie Gras” contends that while the delicacy is targeted, foie gras is statistically insignificant compared to the nation’s chicken broiler industry, in which he estimates that more chickens are killed hourly every day than ducks and geese are killed annually to produce foie gras. Source: New York Times, Atlantic Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. barred the practice of Equitable Sharing, a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department in which federal law enforcement agencies “adopted” seizures by state and local law enforcement on January 16. The program allowed state and local law enforcement agencies to use federal law to seize cash, cars, and other property while keeping up to 80 percent of the proceeds. According to an analysis conducted by the Washington Post, the proceeds from Equitable Sharing made up 20 percent or more of annual budgets for hundreds of police departments and sheriffs’ offices. The analysis also found that police spent the proceeds with “little oversight,” purchasing luxury vehicles, weapons, and military-grade gear. Holder said that seizure adoptions will still be employed by local and federal law enforcement, but only when public safety is considered at risk or criminal activity is clearly involved. Source: Washington Post The Obama Administration adopted a new set of rules on New Year’s Eve that lessen the burden of low-income patients at nonprofit hospitals. The rules clearly define that nonprofits, which make up 60 percent of the nation’s hospitals, must adhere to detailed requirements to qualify for tax-exempt status. The new rules also state that patients eligible for financial aid cannot be charged more than “amounts generally billed” to those who have private or federally funded insurance. There is no specific number assigned to each hospital, which means some may offer free care to anyone below the federal poverty level while others will offer care to those who make more than that $11,670 figure. Some hospitals may provide discounts on a sliding scale for people with incomes thrice that. In addition, nonprofit hospitals will be required to give patients at least 120 days before taking “extraordinary collection actions,” which include consulting with debt collection agencies and reporting debts to credit bureaus. Source: New York Times Compiled by Kelly Seiz
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WE ARE ALL CHARLIE HEBDO, BUT SOME OF US AREN’T.
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f anyone missed it, Charlie Hebdo is the name of a Parisian satirical magazine. It made some Mohammed jokes. Two Lunatics for Islam broke into their offices with automatic weapons.That’s not their official title. As far as know, there’s no political organization that actually uses the name LFI, or its equivalent in French, Arabic, or any other language. They killed 12 people and wounded 11. There was a strong reaction to the Lunatics. Approximately three million people marched in France, including many world leaders.Their slogan, which first appeared on Twitter, was Je suis Charlie. Their message: murdering cartoonists for their cartoons is bad. It appeared that there was a true united front for Free Speech and against Lunatics. This was a vast improvement over the last cartoon eruption. In 2005 Jyllands-Posten, in Denmark, published a set of 12 drawings; 10 depicted Mohammed. Except for some actual newspaper sellers, nobody seemed to care. Then a group of Islamic leaders decided to make an issue out of it. When they couldn’t get the Danish government to engage in censorship, a group of imams went on a cartoon tour of Islamic countries and countries with significant Muslim minorities, where they thought, correctly, they could stir up some serious rage. There were demonstrations against Danish and Austrian (huh?) attacks on Christian churches, boycotts of Danish goods, and, to top it off, riots in which about 200 people were killed. There were multiple plots to assassinate the cartoonists. None of them succeeded. America’s media found a self-righteous method for choosing the cowardly route.The NewYork Times led the way, even writing an editorial in praise of itself for not printing the cartoons: “The NewYork Times and much of the rest of the nation’s news media have reported on the cartoons but refrained from showing them. That seems a reasonable choice for news organizations that usually refrain from gratuitous assaults on religious symbols, especially since the cartoons are so easy to describe in words.” Perhaps. But not so easy to convey what they were actually like. When one of my books was reviewed in Hustler, it appeared, coincidentally, beneath a full color spread of Ann Coulter Photoshopped so that she appeared to be performing fellatio. There, that was easy to describe. But trust me, it does not convey the impact of the image. With the cartoons, the result was reversed. The descriptions said they were offensive and blasphemous, but to actually see them was to shrug and wonder what the fuss was all about. A professor at Brandeis University, Jyette Klausen, wrote a book about it, The Cartoons That Shook theWorld, published byYale University Press in 2009. Before the book went to press,Yale consulted “two dozen authorities, including diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism, and the recommendation was unanimous: The book should not include the 12 Danish drawings.” This was not We’re In It For the Money Publishers, an imprint of a subsidiary of a foreign conglomerate. No. This was a distinguished academic publisher at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. They would boldly—not even boldly—routinely, stand up for their most fundamental values: free speech and the spread of knowledge. Except they didn’t. The advisers also suggested that the press refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet, including an Ottoman print; an episode from Dante’s Inferno that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin, and Dalí; a drawing for a children’s book; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Doré of Muhammad being tormented in Hell.
Yale folded. Not a picture remained.Yale thereby demonstrated exactly where this nonsense goes. Loony imams get to dictate, through fear, what US universities publish. But this time, “We are all Charlie Hebdo.” Except those of us who are not. It didn’t take long for the reaction to set in. There were demonstrations in Pakistan. About 200 people died. In Niger, the anti cartoonies burned churches. Ten people died. There were demonstrations in Sudan and Jordan. The largest demonstration was in Chechnya. According to Russia’s state run media, RT and Tass, nearly a million people turned out. The population of the whole country is less than 1.3 million. In the last 25 years they’ve had two wars with Russia. Their capital was bombed to rubble. They’ve been ruled by crime gangs. They still have a slow simmering civil war. So it’s extra-thrilling to learn that 79 percent of the entire population, from infants to seniors, cripples, and imbeciles, turned out for “Love to Prophet Mohammed.” (The Guardian put the figure at a still hard to believe 800,000, Al Jazeera reported “tens of thousands.”) Anjem Choudary, England’s leading loony imam, called the cartoons an “act of war.” Could he be living in a world in which toons can actually carry out attacks on humans? An Islamic sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? What will ensue when he comes up against Jessica Rabbit (“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way”), with her heaving cleavage and long legs coming out from her slit skirt? The Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Co-operation is going to sue! Somewhere. Somehow. Bill Donohue, head of the American Catholic League, released an official statement that read: “Muslims are right to be angry.” Referring to Charlie Hebdo’s publisher Stephane Charbonnier, Donohue said, “Had he not been so narcissistic, he may still be alive.” All right. He’s a spokesman for a Catholic organization. So we expect stupid. But Pope Francis? The first pope that a liberal atheist could love. Not the way that Jon Stewart loves Lindsey Graham, as one of God’s gifts to satirists. Genuinely. For his sanity and humanity. Yet no one is perfect. Especially not a pope. So I must forgive him for saying that even though he believes in free speech, he doesn’t believe in it entirely. “You cannot,” he said, “make fun of the faith of others.” He didn’t quite say it was okay to shoot those who mock, but said it would be okay to punch you in the face, like if you said something about his mother. It seems to me quite the opposite.There is a necessity to make fun of faith. Our own, to be fair, as well as that of others. I’ve never come across a religious faith—one with a god, or gods, and stories about how he, she, or they muddle in human affairs—that was not based on nonsense. It might be thrilling nonsense, like Prometheus and fire; it might be inspiring nonsense like Leda impregnated by Zeus as a swan or Mary impregnated as a virgin and remaining a virgin after giving birth; or enticing nonsense like 72 virgins in heaven and an eternal erection so as to fully appreciate the eternal opportunities. To give these beliefs special status is to elevate them above reason and above facts. To give the people who babble them special status is to empower them to dictate human thoughts. That’s not a theoretical problem. It’s what they do. If it’s a lie that gives them power, they will suppress truth because it robs them of power. The moment we say they can’t be mocked, we help build the obstacles to human progress. Strangely enough, I have come to realize that the necessity for mockery is an article of faith with me. I would fight, kill, and die rather than have an imam, a priest, or a rabbi tell me that I couldn’t laugh at him. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM 19
Shopping
Well Spent: The Love Edition By Jana Martin
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e bring you Well Spent, our new shopping column, a monthly paean to retail therapy done just the way we like it: all local, all the time. No better way to spend well than with the artists, makers, sellers, bakers, doers, shops, and galleries that fill this Hudson Valley. Fittingly, our first column is dedicated to love. Here’s to a locavore Valentine’s Day, traditional to twisted.
Love Is Sweet
Feign the classic Valentine’s Day faux-pas—forgetting the chocolates and bringing home a pizza instead—with a Chocolate Pizza by Lucky Chocolates in Saugerties. Choose three toppings, such as marshmallows, dried blueberries, and candied ginger ($30). Comes in a pizza box for that oops effect. Or really push the joke with a great big Hate You chocolate lollipop ($3.50). Chocolate, strawberries, or champagne? No need to decide: Shokan’s Fruition Chocolates makes Strawberries and Champagne, intoxicating morsels of freeze-dried strawberries coated in white chocolate and unflavored pop rocks (which lend the bubbles), then dipped in dark chocolate. They’re potent explosions of flavor ($10–$12).
Love Is New
If you’re going for flowers, go extraordinary. Bella Fiori in Red Hook uses roses sourced from farms in Bogotá, Columbia—the South American region is famed for cultivating exquisite blooms. Or choose a bespoke bouquet, like ranunculus and orchids, set into an antique or modern vase from the shop’s extensive collection (arrangements start at $40). Since 1978, New Paltz’s own Colonial Flower Shop has been arming anxious lovers with heartwarming blooms. Each Valentine’s Day brings a line out the door, and the florist stays open late to serve it. Love is personal, they say, so express yourself with a profusion of spring flowers like irises, tulips, lilies, and—to be safe—a rose ($10 and up).They’ll treat the bouquet to French wrap and ribbon, and the rest is up to you.
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The massage and yoga room at Savor Spa in Woodstock.
Love Is Shiny
Hudson jeweler Shana Lee crafts edgy riffs on Valentine tropes. The men’s Anchored Heart bracelet, in black or brown latigo leather, closes with a sterling silver heart and anchor ($195). The women’s Anchored Heart necklace sports a tough-looking valentine on a glittering chain, in sterling silver, or rose or yellow gold vermeil ($110). Longtime Poughkeepsie institution Zimmer Brothers offers jewelry from estate antiques to modern designers. Valentine favorites include sterling silver secret heart earrings by Ed Levin ($165) or, for a real statement, a Hearts on Fire Fulfillment pendant—a gleaming planet of diamonds in 18k gold or platinum ($1,490 and up). Hummingbird Jewelers in Rhinebeck is filled with delicate rarities. Artisanal jeweler Denise Betesh hand makes 22k gold rings, set with white, champagne, or chocolate diamonds, that mix art and luxe ($2,000–$7,500). Gift your man some bold glimmer with a David Heston sterling silver ring that’s inset with a row of black diamonds ($2,795), or an 18k gold signet ring set with, yes, a fossilized dinosaur bone ($1,230).
Love Is Hot
Mermaids are so in right now. Dip into the trend with über cute mermaid panties by Meerwiibli, from The Tailored Mermaid in Beacon:Y-front boy briefs in black or red, or bikini panties in black or pink, S–XL (on sale, $20). Vidakafka Boutique in Woodstock’s got you covered (or uncovered): Get serious with a red silk G-string by Only Hearts, embellished with roses and lace, S–L ($28); go glamorous with silk crepe and charmeuse pajamas by Anne Klein in fuschia or black, XS–L ($298); or turn on the flirt with a risqué garter skirt by Felina in black or ivory, S–L. ($36). Joovay in Rhinebeck stocks gorgeous couture silk georgette robes by Andra Gabrielle. Hand-embroidered, hand-beaded, and handpainted, in shades like lustrous cream and a dreamy, smoky blue, no two are alike ($295).
Top: Fruition Chocolates’s Strawberries and Champagne, freeze-dried strawberries coated in white chocolate and pop rocks, then dipped in dark chocolate. Middle, left to right: Facial treatment at Buttermilk Falls Spa in Milton; mermaid panties by Meerwiibli from The Tailored Mermaid in Beacon. Bottom, left to right: A Valentine for Charlie Brown from The Golden Notebook in Woodstock; rings by Denise Betesh from Hummingbird Jewelers in Rhinebeck.
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Barkery dog treats from Pause Dog Boutique in Rhinebeck.
Love’s for Animals Treat those critters to some unconditional love of their own. Send your pent-up pooch on a Fun Walk with Trinka Lee Whittaker of Pet TLC—a full hour of running and romping on leash. ($25 the first dog, $5 extra the second). Reward your pup with yummy Barkery treats by Claudia’s Canine Cuisine, such as heart-shaped Canine Sweethearts, Puppy Kisses, and PupCup cupcakes. Made from all-natural ingredients (topped with yogurt frosting), they’re packaged in a gift bag. From Pause Dog Boutique in Rhinebeck (treats, 60 cents–$2 each). Treat your kitty to a can of special BFF Tuna and Pumpkin Valentine dinner by Weruva ($1.34 for 5 oz.) and serve it in a heart-dotted pink and red Bella Bowl ($6.99)—both from The Barnyard in Kingston. Sore pup? Creaky kitty? New Paltz Animal Hospital’s holistic vet, Dr. Beatrice Ehrsam (Dr. B to her fans), works wonders with acupuncture and laser treatments ($65 plus consultation exam). Especially for horses, equine massage therapist Noni VanSon of The Right Touch, based in Ancram, travels throughout the Hudson Valley (and beyond), healing steeds with her skilled hands ($100 for initial massage).
Love Is Healing
Soothe each other at the Buttermilk Falls Spa in Milton, an eco-friendly wonderland of treatments, including Shiatsu or bamboo massage, raindrop healing therapy, and an array of facials and body wraps. Plus, they serve complimentary glasses of Prosecco for the occasion (prices vary). Get your mutual melt on at Savor Spa in Woodstock, which offers a couples massage for Valentine’s Day. Choose from Swedish, deep-tissue, prenatal, Hawaiian Lomilomi—whatever your fancy, including locally made, organic, chemical-free Om Aroma skin-care products, like divine Chardonnay body cream and heat-activated cinnamon arnica oil ($210).
No turntable? Grab a new-old-stock concert T-shirt from Dig. The Saugerties boutique unearthed a trove of band shirts straight from the merch table—from Sonic Youth to the Eagles, men’s S–XL (approx. $28). Great for everyone: universal sap Charlie Brown gets romantic in A Valentine for Charlie Brown, lovingly reissued by Fantagraphics, at The Golden Notebook ($9.99). And for a darker read there’s Elisa Albert’s After Birth, a witty novel about the flip side of new motherhood: a cautionary tale that’s humorously apropos ($22.50).
Love Is Warm
Sweater from Woodstock General Supply.
For your lumbersexual, Woodstock General Supply has Made in America pure wool crewneck sweaters in lighthouse red, knit at a mill in Maine, men’s S–L (on sale, $112). Warm those hands with fleece-lined, red Shetland wool gloves by local knitters, with deerskin palms,
unisex Small or Big ($45). In Hudson, De Marchin has cozy-luxe mohair blend scarves for her by Delphine Quirin from Belgium, in romantic hot pink, red, or dark purple ($89), and exquisitely soft French angora neck warmers, hand knit by MarciaTownsend ($125).
Love’s All in Your Head
In Kingston, Outdated has personalized gewgaws and whatnots to set your lover’s heart aflutter. Peruse the ever-changing assortment for that perfect Victorian / Industrial / Farm Primitive something ($50 and under). Geek your royal in a Game of Thrones-y way: a brass Heart Seal from Rhinebeck’s Paper Trail makes a sexy smack when plunged into hot wax.What a way to seal a love letter ($12). Impress your music lover with ultra-rare vinyl from Rocket Number Nine in Kingston, such as the first US pressing of Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, or the original mono recording of John Coltrane’s Kulu Se Mama (both $50). 22 SHOPPING CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Pet Screw from Play in Beacon.
Love Sucks
Dateless, mateless, sick of romance? Then, from Play in Beacon, Grow a Boyfriend or Girlfriend—“never argues, always agrees” says the package—by dropping the toy figure in water ($2.99), or trot out your Pet Screw, a 1972-era spoof on the Pet Rock craze that’s, well, a big bolt in a little cage—for lovers, enemies, or friends ($3.99). CHRONOGRAM.COM SHOP For links to all the retailers mentioned in this article, visit Chronogram.com.
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Wrong Turn to the Right Place AN ARTIST’S HOME AND STUDIO By Susan Piperato Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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t took a few wrong turns to bring artist Kevin Paulsen to his rightful place in Uptown Kingston. Back in 1997,while living in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Paulsen began scouting for loft space in the Hudson Valley. “I wanted a really big studio,” says Paulsen, a muralist and painter who is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. “I was tired of Nantucket, tired of the isolation of island living. A few of my clients were still on-island, but I had a lot of off-island work and was showing at galleries in New York, so probably 50 percent of my work was elsewhere. It was just easier to be on the mainland and get the space that I needed to do murals and big paintings.” Initially, Paulsen says, he headed to Hudson, which was then beginning its resurgence. “One morning, I looked at a building in Hudson and I actually put $1,000 ‘earnest money’ down on it, on lower Warren Street,” he recalls. Then he got back on the road, planning to head to New York City. But that afternoon, when Paulsen tried to make a routine rest stop in Kingston, he got lost—and, in the process, changed his life. “Getting off the Thruway, there are all these one-way streets in Uptown Kingston, and it’s confusing if you don’t know the area,” he says. “I got lost on Wall Street, and I liked the look of it.” That afternoon, Paulsen asked a real estate agent to show him a storefront Uptown and signed a lease to rent the three-story, 4,500-square-foot building, built in the early 1900s. 28 HOME CHRONOGRAM 2/15
“I changed my mind immediately [about Hudson] after seeing this building,” he says. “It was big and cheap and had an open floor plan. I liked the old buildings on the street, and I liked the quiet.” An added bonus was the building’s location. “It’s close to the Thruway, and closer to New York. That extra hour’s drive between Hudson and New York was troubling, anyway,” Paulsen admits. Gradual Conversion The building housed a small computer business on the ground floor but had long been home to a small department store called Flanagan’s, Paulsen recalls. It had a small restroom on the second floor, but no bath or shower; lacked heat on the upper floors and electricity on the third floor; and had been sitting empty for decades, but none of that fazed Paulsen. Over the next year, he made the long drive often from Nantucket to Kingston to work on gutting the building to create living and workspaces. Paulsen quickly decided to make the second floor the living space. Formerly the location of the department store’s dressing rooms, that floor has a 14-foot ceiling. He chose to turn the third floor, once a garment-making shop, into a studio space. There, the ceiling is 10 feet high at the front of the building and 15 feet at the back. Paulsen’s first tasks were to bring the heating system upstairs and dismantle the shuttered walls that had been built to cover the east- and west-facing win-
This page: Rather than install cabinetry, Paulsen opted for open, artful arrangements in the kitchen. Artists featured above the sink include Kevin Paulsen, Ray Pohl, and Bonnie Marie Smith. Opposite: Kevin Paulsen at work in his third-floor studio in Uptown Kingston.
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Paulsen’s studio, illuminated by natural light from both eastand west-facing windows, is chockfull of completed paintings and works-in-progress.
The living area also functions as an art library and gallery. Artists whose work is shown include Gregory Amenoff, Lucy Mink Cavello, Denise Orzo, Joe Concra, John Phillip Abbott, Ice Man, and Brad Woodfin.
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Working Studio Everywhere throughout the living space, which is painted sage green in rich contrast to the kitchen’s deep crimson, hang a multitude of artworks from Paulsen’s ever-growing collection. Paulsen is a longtime art collector and the former owner of the now closed OO Gallery, which was located on Wall Street. Next year, the Rockland Center for the Arts will show selections from his extensive and eclectic art collection, which includes local works by Joe Concra, who is Paulsen’s neighbor and friend, and Scott Danielson of Beacon; New Orleans photographer David Halliday; 19th-century American painter Thomas Chambers; and contemporary painters Souther Salazar, Fred Stonehouse, Esther Pearl Watson, Brad Woodfin, Gary Taxali, and John Phillip Abbott. In the top-floor studio, Paulsen installed electricity, but chose not to bother with heat. Since the building shares walls its north and south sides and the alleyway at the back protects against winds, “the studio is stable at about 50 degrees, even in the dead of winter,” says Paulsen. “I don’t mind it.” While Paulsen’s latest commissioned atmospheric interior mural covers one studio wall, and his large-scale paintings-in-progress are placed throughout the space. It’s a still-raw but calm space with gray floorboards and plenty of natural light—a far cry from the “tar-papered-over broken windows and dust-covered dead space” that Paulsen first found there. Today, music plays on a sound system and the space is a hive of creative activity. There, Paulsen creates the murals he has been commissioned to do for the likes of National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell as well as the paintings and collages he shows at the galleries Gráficas and Nantucket House Interiors in Nantucket and Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Larchmont, as well as at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. When it comes to life in Kingston, Paulsen has had a front-row seat for nearly 18 years. “There was a time when nobody was here,” he says. “You could park anywhere. You could walk to the Mohican green grocer.” Although he worries sometimes that Kingston’s increasing popularity will ultimately make it unaffordable for other, newer artists, he’s also pleased to see Uptown flourishing, and works to bring street art to the now nationally known O+ Festival. “I like Kingston a lot,” he says. “It’s always had interesting folks. There’s just more of them now.”
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TRANSFORMING THE FAMILY TRIP TRAVELING WITH YOUR KIDS, YOUR PARENTS, YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR FRIENDS’ KIDS By Hillary Harvey “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” —Augustine of Hippo “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” —Ernest Hemingway
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usually rank among the highest in Expedia’s annual vacation deprivation study, afraid that bosses and coworkers will penalize us for days off. The stress from work causes health issues and less productivity and costs us family time. For Jenss, it’s a function of cultural values. He asks, “Why is it a virtue to work harder than someone else?”We value possessions over experience, but Jenss feels we should value a balanced life. Family travel is an opportunity to experience something unavailable at home. “Travel shouldn’t just be recreational, it should be transformational.” For parents who worry that kids will only remember the inane aspects of an expensive trip, like the gelato in Italy, and miss the majesty of the Sistine Chapel, Jenss warns, “Don’t underestimate your kids.” It’s about going for the authentic experience. Travelers who stay local through house rental outfits like Airbnb find a more personal, family-friendly experience. “When we were in Greece, we lived in someone’s house,” Jenss says. “We looked around the supermarket. It forces you to be more exposed.” Family travel opens up the possibility of meeting locals, who are often especially friendly toward travelers with kids. “What’s undersold and underappreciated about travel is that what’s most memorable are the people you meet.”To help his children become invested in the world trip, Jenss involved them in the planning process with books and movies. He had each child bring their own camera to connect with what they’re seeing, a tip that works universally for engaging kids. But the ultimate goal, Jenss reminds, is “at the end of the day, you’re creating positive childhood memories.” As someone hardwired to track travel trends, Jenss cites one that actually merges two: multigenerational travel and the gift vacation. “People want to spend quality family time together, and travel is a gateway to do that. One clear reason multigenerational travel is growing is that grandparents have the money, and they’re paying for these trips.They’re more active, healthier, living longer, so they want to spend more time with their kids and grandchildren.” Mohonk Mountain House, the Hudson Valley’s all-inclusive mountain resort in New Paltz, has long been a destination for this type of informal reunion. Eric Domitrovits, director of sales, says that it’s a significant amount of their business. “We’re a family-owned resort, and people appreciate that, so we have families who come back year after year.” With a vast array of activities, family
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Above: Traci Suppa of the blog, Go Big or Go Home, travels with her two children to the World’s Largest “whatever”—this time, a Goodyear tire in Maryland. Opposite: Rainer Jenss with his family in 2008 in Kyoto during their around-the-world tour.
members can be as active or relaxed as they choose. And it’s the simple things that prove popular: going on a boat ride around the lake together, or playing a family board game in one of the cozy nooks scattered throughout the hotel. Staying in adjacent or adjoining rooms, family members leave notes for each other, and meet up for tea and cookies each afternoon in the gathering room. Domitrovits says it’s a popular option for people during the holidays because it’s the perfect place to come together. “We do all the planning for them, the meals. They just show up and enjoy.” Teaching Wanderlust or The Teachings of Wanderlust “Travel is so rich when you’re prepared for it,” says Joanne Rendell, a fiction writer who splits her time between New Paltz and Manhattan. What started as an extension of family visits (Rendell is British, with family all over Europe) and homeschooling, grew into a lifestyle. After her 11-year-old son, Benny, took classes on the ancient Americas, they saw ruins first-hand in Guatemala. A study of ancient Greece led to a trip to Athens and Delphi. The Renaissance guided them on a self-designed art tour of Italy. She knows it sounds extravagant, and is sure to mention they’re on a budget, saving money with house swaps and hostels. “In Assisi, we stayed in a simple convent. We never spend over $70 a night on a room.” She plans in partnership with her husband, Brad Lewis, an NYU professor, who joins them on most trips. Rendell does the legwork, researching flights and getting visas, while Lewis gathers the content. “You have to know your kids. You don’t spend 10 hours in the Uffizi and then take the tour. You punctuate museum visits with a nice meal and work out a way to temper what the parents want to see with what the kids will enjoy.” In India, after visiting temples, they’d lounge beneath a banana tree, reading. “There’s this stereotype that kids can only enjoy corporately packaged Disney gods,” Rendell says, “but you can make history interesting to them. When we saw the art in Italy, they’ve all got great stories, and if you’re prepared, you can help kids access it.” For Lewis, travel is a way to break through the ethnocentric barrier and develop a cosmopolitan perspective. “You live here, but you have a sense of the larger diversity of cultures. You can have that experience with a book, but
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travel is another way that adds a sensory dimension to it: the scents, rhythms, the getting your feet wet in another place.” Rendell knows all the travel feeds Benny’s anthropological imagination. “Travel makes you ask questions about your own culture. In India, we saw a different style of living. There was poverty, but also a different way to eat, live, and be in sync with nature. And then you reflect back. We had these conversations like, ‘What are they thinking of me with my camera?’” In NewYork, Benny has classes and Brad works. “Some of our happiest times are when we’re traveling,” Rendell says. “There’s the solidarity of being in a different place and relying on each other, the shared experience.” It draws them closer, as does the preparation. At the time of publication, the family will be just stepping off a plane from India’s classic golden triangle: Delhi, Jaipur, and Agra. It’s a cultural-immersion experience since this time they’re traveling with friends who have family there. Benny is curious about the Taj Mahal. “I’ve seen pictures and videos, and I think, ‘Why is this one of the seven wonders of the world?’ But when I see it, I’ll believe it.” He knows because that’s how he felt at seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time. Lewis says he used to just get on the bus, listen to the tour guide, and go to the main hot spots. “It never occurred to me to make it a locus of study through the six months before and afterwards. But having done it that way with Benny, it’s like adding sound to a movie.” They’re traveling with Benny’s friend, and the boys are looking forward to seeing a Mughal fort. “It’s fun for them to share it with a kid their own age,” Rendell says, sparking the next item on her bucket list. She’s on the board of the Shakespeare youth theater New Genesis Productions, and has sights set on a tour of England with the troupe. Rendell’s inspiration came while traveling there last year with Lesley Sawhill and Ron Aja, NGP’s creative director and producer, respectively. “I was the tour guide, but seeing theater with people who have a deep background, we came out talking about the production aspects of it, which I wouldn’t have noticed first.” Uniting Sawhill’s knowledge with Rendell’s travel know-how offers a profound experience. Rendell feels that for the kids in NGP, many of whom have been working together for years, to see the Globe for the first time together would breathe life into it. “Nothing would top that.” RESOURCES Family Travel Association Familytravel.org Mohonk Mountain House Mohonk.com New Genesis Productions Newgenesisproductions.org
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HUDSON VALLEY
SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE
In the Hudson Valley, the camp experience has been transformed from simply getting outside to a genuine exploration of who our kids are, and what truly captivates them. chestnut ridge
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Back to Nature
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Nature Camp @ Primrose Hill School
Summer Programs as Unique as Your Child
Primrose Hill School’s Nature Camp is an outdoor summer
Summer, with its sunny days and sense of freedom, tempts us
program for 3 to 6 year olds located on 9.5 acres in the Village
to trade routine for time outdoors. Our teachers understand the
of Rhinebeck. Our Waldorf trained teachers lead the children
young child’s desire to daydream, explore, and wade in streams
in nature crafts, stories, songs, outdoor exploration, water play
during these days. They plan experiences that allow children
and animal care on our farm. The children enjoy free play to engage their imagination as well as guided activities. At the farm, cows, horses, a goat, and a sheep, greet the children. They love to feed compost to Bucky the Pig and collect eggs from our chickens! Monday through Thursday, 9:00am to 2:00pm.
to unwind from the school year into a new mood, space, and rhythm. Designed to complement our September through June programs, Green Meadow Waldorf School’s summer offerings bring experiences that extend the school year for four- to seven-year-old children, and meet students with a balance of activities that engage and challenge their developing skills and
There is a 3 week session starting July 6, 2015 and 2 week
capacities. In a loving, safe, beautiful environment, children
session starting July 27, 2015. For details, contact (845) 876-1226
work on the farm and with animals, participate in cooking and
or info@primrosehillschool.com. Online registration is available at:
crafting, make new friends, and more. Contact Kim Frattura at
PRIMROSEHILLSCHOOL.COM/SUMMER-CAMP/.
(845) 356-2514 x315 or email kfrattura@gmws.org. GMWS.ORG
Alpine Endeavors
Joy of Discovery
Gunks Adventure Camp
Livingston Street Early Childhood Community
New Paltz, NY (845) 658-3094 info@alpineendeavors.com alpineendeavors.com Let Alpine Endeavors and the Inner Wall of New Paltz show your child the wonders of the region. Our AMGA accredited programs start with indoor rock climbing to get everyone prepared, then
Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 livingstonstreet.org Livingston Street offers a six week summer program for children ages 2 years/9 months through 5 years old. Utilizing the local resources, Livingston Street spends a large portion of the day outdoors in our natural playgarden and discovering our
move outdoors for rock climbing, hiking, scrambling, and other
neighborhood. We also include activities in the arts, sciences,
adventures. Sessions: July 6 - August 21, 2015.
sensory play, and making life-long friends. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE 39
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claryville
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Hillcroft Day Camp A Family Run Camp Since 1950 A camp is where children can learn new skills, make new friends, experiment with ideas and grow in self-esteem. Camp Hillcroft, under the guidance of our mature and supportive staff, helps children achieve these goals. Camp Hillcroft prides itself on not only having a superior program but also in facilitating the growth of friendships, values and community awareness. Since 1950, Hillcroft has been a caring and nurturing family-run camp where children “learn by doing”. Children have the opportunity to experience a full range of enrichment activities: creative arts,
Frost Valley Equestrian Camp
swimming, outdoor adventure, theater, dance, farming and a full
An Equestrian Camp for Girls
children pre-K through 9th grade in Dutchess County. Come see
sports program. Camp Hillcroft, located on 165 acres, serving what everyone is talking about. For details and to schedule a tour,
Frost Valley YMCA’s summer Horse Camps allow girls to increase or develop their riding and horsemanship abilities, while building confidence and leadership skills. The two overnight camps — Mustang Village and East Valley Ranch — are led by an experienced and supportive all-female staff, and feature more than 80 well-trained horses. At the end of each session, campers leave with an increased aptitude for riding, a nurtured sense of self-assurance, and lifelong friendships. Mustang Village, located at Frost Valley’s main camp, caters to younger riders ages 7-10 (no experience necessary) who also want to participate in traditional camp activities. They’ll spend half of each day with an assigned horse, perfecting their riding technique and learning horse care. The rest of the day is open to other activities such as swimming, hiking, arts and crafts, sports, rock climbing, and more. East Valley Ranch, located a few miles away from main camp, provides a secluded environment for girls to truly focus on their equestrian skills. Novice and beginner riders will learn wrangling, feeding, grooming, tacking, ring lessons, and trail rides. A portion of each day is dedicated to hiking, crafts, games, swimming, and other activities. Experienced riders ages 12 and up can try a four-week program that builds strong leadership skills while teaching challenging techniques for riding, in-depth classes on horse health and care, and more. Each of our programs are accredited by the American Camp Association and Certified Horsemanship Association (CHA) and upholds the highest safety standards. For more information, please visit FrostValley.org. 2015 Summer Camp Session Dates: Session 1: June 28-July 10 | Session 2: July 12- 24 Session 3: July 26- August 7 | Session 4: August 9- 21 For details and registration, call (845) 985-2291 ext. 240, or email Horses@FrostValley.org. Visit us online at FROSTVALLEY.ORG 40 SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 2/15
call (845) 223-5826. CAMPHILLCROFT.COM
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Poughkeepsie Day School Joyful Learning and Exploration PDS offers a wide array of unique summer camps for children and young adults. Our camps for ages 4–11 focus on joyful learning and exploration in the arts, adventure, nature and sports. A Young Scholars program for children in grades 2–4 offers enrichment in math or literacy in a creative, fun environment. Maker camps for ages 7–13 include programming, game design, 3D Printing, Minecraft, LEGO® Mindstorms®, stop-motion animation, building, tinkering, homesteading and fiber arts. Young musicians ages 12–18 may choose our highly regarded Jazz Camp featuring professional musicians and amazing guest artists. Our SAT camp for college-bound young adults features veteran instructors and individualized attention. Multiple Sessions: June 15–August 21. For details and registration, call (845) 462-7600 or visit WWW.POUGHKEEPSIEDAY.ORG/CAMP
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Camp Huntington Autism Summer & Weekend Camp Camp Huntington is a co-ed, residential program for children and young adults with special learning and developmental needs. Summer and weekend programs are designed to maximize a child’s potential, locate and develop strengths and hidden abilities. Campers enjoy fun-filled days, while learning practical social and life skills. Our unique programming approach of adaptive therapeutic recreation, combines key elements encouraging progress: structured and instructional programming, nurturing care, a positive setting, and academic instruction for IEP goals. Our health clinic dispenses medications and provides healthcare. Daily activities stimulate a child’s awareness and interest in their environment and relationships, motivating them to build important foundations of self-confidence, self-efficacy, personal growth and independence. Spaces fill early. To register or schedule a tour, contact Michael Bednarz, Executive Director: (917) 710-4285 or mbednarz@camphuntington.com. CAMPHUNTINGTON.COM
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Fun and Science in the Forest! Black Rock Forest Consortium Summer Science Camp Black Rock Forest Consortium welcomes middle and high school students this summer for authentic, week-long learning experiences in nature, working directly with scientists and artists. Our focus is on understanding nature through scientific observation and investigation. Our classes allow students to explore subjects of interest without the pressure of a grade. Classes are developed and taught by subject experts and provide an opportunity to explore college and career possibilities in the natural sciences while having fun in Black Rock Forest, a private 4,000 acre preserve in Cornwall, NY. Our offerings include classes on birds, turtles, insects, trees, writing, art and photography. Both day-camp and overnight options are available. Visit blackrockforest.org to see our brochure and to register. Camp runs July 6-10 for Middle School and July 13-17 for High School. Contact Kate Pavlis at (845) 534-4517 x18 or email kpavlis@blackrockforest.org. BLACKROCKFOREST.ORG
Frost Valley Adventure Camp An Exciting Summer Adventure Whether your teen has shown interest in exploring the great outdoors, or in service projects that benefit a greater good, there’s a Frost Valley YMCA Adventure Trip waiting for him or her this summer. Adventure Trips are divided into nine overnight sessions based on age, interest, and experience. Young teens looking for a basic or introductory outdoor experience can go swimming, climbing, biking, sailing, hiking, and/or kayaking in locations such as New York’s Adirondacks, West Virginia, Vermont, or Maine. Experienced outdoor enthusiasts can head to New Hampshire to climb renowned cliffs and learn technical kayaking skills. High school-aged thrill seekers can try the Advanced Trip to the Adirondack Mountain Summit Multipitch, where they’ll spend 11 days backpacking before a full week of climbing the range’s highest peaks — including the east coast’s highest cliff face. From these experiences, campers discover newfound confidence and strength. They learn how to trust in themselves and each other, as they work together to explore, problem-solve, and achieve common goals. Teens interested in giving back can try one of two Service Trips that include up to 35 hours of volunteer service. During the Habitat for Humanity Catskills trip, campers gain building and repair skills while giving back to the community. They’ll also spend time climbing at Mohonk Preserve and biking through Minnewaska State Park. The Maine Trail Builders trip leads campers to scenic Acadia, Maine where they’ll volunteer in parks and trails. In their free time, they’ll go climbing by the ocean and bike nearby carriage roads. Sessions are available during specific weeks throughout the summer for the each program. Visit Frostvalley.org for dates and details. Frost Valley YMCA is located at 2000 Frost Valley Road in Claryville, NY. For details and registration, call (845) 985-2291 ext. 265, or email Adventure@FrostValley.org. Visit us online at FROSTVALLEY.ORG 2/15 CHRONOGRAM SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE 41
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Camp Ulster
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Ulster Community College Stone Ridge, NY (845) 339-2025 campulster@sunyulster.edu sunyulster.edu/campulster For over 25 years we have offered a variety of specialty camps, keeping the favorites and adding new ones. Camps are staffed by faculty, local teachers, and college students. Other camps are offered in partnership with franchises and companies. We have something for everyone – art, computers, sports, science and more. Check out our website for descriptions, dates and times.
Nature Inspires The Ashokan Center Olivebridge, NY (845) 657-8333 info@ashokancenter.org ashokancenter.org The Ashokan Center is the ideal place for outdoor fun in the Catskills. The summer is a great time to experience what we have to offer: 385 acres of forests and the Esopus Creek, our new H2Go Trip Camping exploring the water and wilds of the
Building Reverence for Life Summer Camps at Hawthorne Valley Hawthorne Valley offers a variety of residential and day camping experiences for children ages 4 – 15. Our camps seek to build reverence for life and community awareness through living, playing and working together. Campers care for farm animals, spend time in our gardens, and explore the fields, forests, and streams on our beautiful 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County. Kinder Camp (ages 4-6): Delight in the daily, seasonal rhythm of songs, stories, crafts, and play. This day camp runs Monday through Friday from 9am to 1pm with an extended day option to 2:30. One week session June 22 – 26; two week sessions: June 29 – July 10, July 13 – 24, and July 27 – August 7. Meadowlark Adventure Camp (ages 7-9): Adventures through fields, forests, meadows, streams, and ponds! This day camp runs Monday through Friday from 9am to 2:30pm. Two week sessions: June 29 – July 10, July 13 – 24, and July 27 – August 7. Kids Can Cook Day Camp (ages 8-13): Kids really can cook…and cooking opens doors to healthier lifestyles – connecting children to the wonder and beauty of nature while learning about nutrition, food, farming, and traditional crafts. Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 2:30pm; in three 2-week sessions: June 29 – July 10, July 13 – 24, and July 27 – August 7. Hawthorne Valley Farm Overnight Camp (ages 8-15): Children live, play, and work on our farm while strengthening their bond to nature and to one another. Camp begins June 28 with one, two and three week sessions available. For details and registration, please call (518) 672-4790 or visit hawthornevalleyassociation.org/events/summer-camps/ Hawthorne Valley: 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY. 42 SUMMER CAMPS GUIDE CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Catskills, and a wide variety of family music & dance camps. Contact us for an unforgettably fun family-friendly summer!
Youth Theater New Genesis Productions Summer Shakespeare Intensive (845) 657-5867 23 Vision Path, West Shokan newgenesisproductions.org A highly respected youth theater company specializing in Shakespeare is offering its popular two week, full immersion day camps for youths this summer. Explore Shakespeare’s world— train, rehearse & perform on an outdoor stage near Woodstock! Ages: 7-12 (June 29-July 12) Comedy of Errors. Ages 12-14: (July 13-26) Two Gentlemen of Verona. Teens: 14-17 (July 27-August 9) Merchant of Venice. For details, visit newgenesisproductions.org.
FUNdamentals Summer FUNdamentals at Bishop Dunn Memorial School Newburgh | (845) 569-3494 sumfun@bdms.org. www.bdms.org/sumfun Located on the Campus of Mount Saint Mary college, Summer FUNdamentals offers flexible enrollment choices with a variety of programs including: engaging, unique academic classes; entertaining arts and recreation options; swimming; and sports. Half day academic intervention program available. State-of-the-art college amenities. For more information, please contact our school.
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Stockbridge
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educational foundation. Tea T cher hers integrate a multisensory and multi-disciplinary app approach to academics, art, music and movement which h fosters independent thinking, self confidence and a love of learning. The Th e ear early ly chi chilldh dho ood curri urric cullum emphasizes imaginative play and regular activ activities in nature.
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Primrose Hill School early childhood through grade 4 845-876-1226 primrosehillschool.com
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Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School / Berkshire Waldorf High School Babies through grade 12 413-528-4015 or 413-298-3800 gbrss.org and waldorfhigh.org
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Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School early childhood through grade 12 518-672-7092 x111 hawthornevalleyschool.org
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Mountaintop School early childhood (starting at 18mo) 845-389-7322 mountaintopschool.com
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Acorn Schoolhouse early childhood (ages 2-6) 845-443-1541 acornschoolhouse.com
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School early childhood through grade 8 845-255-0033 mountainlaurel.org Housatonic Valley Waldorf School early childhood through grade 8 203-364-1113 waldorfct.org
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Green Meadow Waldorf School early childhood through grade 12 845-356-2514 | gmws.org
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Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs pre-School through grade 12 518-587-2224 waldorfsaratoga.org
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Triform Camphill Community serving special needs youth (ages 18-28) 518-851-9320 triform.org
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he neurological connections between science and math and the arts are so evident that there is a push to reframe STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education as STEAM education; leaving out the “A,” it has been realized, is a serious mistake. Even the No Child Left Behind laws recognize the arts as essential core curricula. But what about other extras? They’re often viewed as the gravy, not the roast; public schools often consider them a reward for academic performance, and they’re too often considered expendable at budget time. But a growing body of research indicates that an enormous amount of all-important emotional education results when kids are engaged in extracurriculars of whatever sort they love best, whether their pursuits are artsy, athletic, or social. And among educators, that too is no secret.
“We use the term ‘extra,’ but we think of these activities as an integral part of the education we offer,” says Bill Porter, director of admissions at the Harvey School near Katonah. “Talent shows up in the most unexpected ways. I used to teach history and coach baseball; I’d discover talent on the playing field and help the student bring that back into the classroom. Kids are multifaceted. Of course, education comes first—but if they’re excited to get here for a play rehearsal or a UN trip, they’re still showing up excited and receptive, and it carries over. I’ve seen it time and time again.” Harvey actively recruits faculty who can “wear different hats,” Porter says, and students are encouraged to start things they’d like to see happen, as well as having access to resources like an in-house TV studio and a newly built performing arts center that hosts both school and community events. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 45
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At South Kent School in Connecticut, the goal is “personal transformation— finding the hero within and developing the courage and strength of character to set out on an individual Hero’s Journey,” explains Communications Director Tom Javery. South Kent has an Innovation Center where students study sustainable farming, design, and community building. Sports are big, and so are arts, which are incorporated into the heroic journeying via the “Call to Explore.” Clearly the heroes being polished here are neither static nor one-dimensional. At Canterbury, a Catholic prep school in New Milford, many students get up early and start the day playing or singing. “We have a block of time in the morning set aside for the music program. There’s an elite choral group, an orchestra, a chamber ensemble, a blues band, and a rock band,” explains Sue Roberts, director of studies. “Studio art is part of the regular day schedule; theatre meets in the evenings. And athletics aren’t extracurricular, they’re cocurricular. Entering third-formers (ninth graders) take three full trimesters of sports. Older students can opt for a trimester of some other interest – journalism, robotics, whatever club or activity they prefer. We also do a lot of service trips. Students travel to Nicaraugua or Costa Rica and then come back with a global perspective that enriches their education and our whole campus culture.” At Woodstock Day School, Upper School Director Matthew Essery explains, the “extras” are central. “It’s more than enriching, it’s necessary,” he says. “Content is significant, but communication skills and the ability to work with others will get them ahead just as much as academic knowledge. So we dedicate a lot of time to electives. They’re just as important as math, English, and science—and it’s all integrated. Kids are intelligent in so many different ways. You can use art to teach science and music to teach math. The question isn’t ‘Are you smart?’ but how you’re smart. We encourage kids to use strong points as access points. We have a robust media arts program, and kids use 2/15 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 47
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SUMMER 2015 ART | SCI, ART + SCIENCE PRE-COLLEGE INSITUTE This is a STEAM program (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) and is focused on engaging precollege youth in arts technology integration that will better prepare them for advanced study and work in the 21st Century. STEAM focuses on the hybridization of art and science and develops critical creative thinking. These courses are designed to encourage self-expression, collaboration, and innovation. Students are the makers and will combine manual and digital skills to realize a take-away portfolio project. Please see our website www.sunywcc.edu/peekskillyouth for more information. Call us at 914-606-7300 or email peeskill@ sunywcc.edu. For information regarding summer adult classes, please see www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill.
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those media to demonstrate their knowledge of chemistry or biology. And in their senior year, each student develops an extensive project, including a 20-page paper and a 30-minute presentation, on a topic of their own choice. ” Montessori schools, child-centered by definition, have enrichment tactics at their disposal that flow from that model. “Our classrooms are mixed-age in a three-year cycle, so the older students teach the younger ones a lot,” says Arietta Thorne, assistant director at Montgomery Montessori School. “There’s a three-hour independent individual work period in the morning when they choose what they want to work on, and the environment is prepared so that no matter what they choose, they’ll be learning and growing. A lot of it is very hands-on. They’re guided to the extent that when they master one thing, we offer them an extension or a question as a prompt. If they ask us a question, rather than just answer it we encourage them to find their own solution through experimentation and independent research. During that time, they’re allowed to do art if that’s their choice, but there are times set aside for art and music throughout the week. “They’re constantly inspired. They constantly inspire us. When children have the means available, they challenge themselves and develop awe-inspiring inner drive and pride.” The Waldorf approach developed by Rudolf Steiner is another that lends itself to a nearly seamless blend of academics and other pursuits. “When learning their alphabet, the children sculpt the letters out of beeswax; they paint and draw their letters before writing them. Times tables are taught as early as first grade through rhythm and song, jumping rope, and hand-clapping games; science begins in first grade with natural observations of phenomena outdoors,” explains Waldorf educator Nina Personius, music director at Primrose Hill in Rhinebeck. “For every academic subject, the class teacher looks for relevant songs, poems, and games. This artistic way of teaching continues through the grades, and a teacher seeks never to abandon these methods in favor of dry recitations or rote memorization of information.” Teens required to puzzle through Shakespearean English and memorize plot points for tests may be forgiven for finding the Bard a chore. Not so
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the students of Berkshire Waldorf High School, who’ve been immersed in a residency with the adults of Shakespeare & Company, studying the fun stuff like stage combat techniques. The residency will culminate in a Valentine’s Day performance. “We focus on trying to develop the whole student, intellectually, artistically, physically, and emotionally, and we do that with a very robust fine and practical arts curriculum. It might be ‘extra’ in another setting, but here it’s embedded,” says John Cronin, faculty chair at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf. “The whole high school gets together and sings twice a week; then there are extras they can take beyond that, like a capella or orchestra or jazz. “It’s fluid. We have a social action committee that used to be after school that’s now part of regular classes. Our campus chapter of Amnesty International grew out of that. Students choose senior projects at the end of junior year, and many choose something related to service work. It varies. Some write books. One built a synthesizer. We had a student who went to Africa and worked in an AIDS orphanage, another who went to the slums of Mumbai.” “One of our biggest goals is that they be happy and enjoy school,” says Thorne, “not because they fool around all day but because they become fascinated. You should hear the first graders talking about the desert biome! We want them to love learning and realize how fascinating finding the answer can be—and that you can always find an answer.” Facts may be teachable in a classroom setting, but it seems that emotional intelligence is best mastered on a playing field, around a game board, or while putting a literature mag together or a show on. “The root of the word ‘educate’ translates as ‘to draw out,’” Porter muses. “If we can help them draw out whatever their true inner selves and talents may be, they’ll have fine lives. That’s where the thrill is.” 2/15 CHRONOGRAM EDUCATION 51
Keith Edmier, A Dozen Roses, 1998, cast resin, satin ribbon
Love is Coming ! ! !
Love: The First of the 7 Virtues
Opening Reception: Sat, Feb 14th, 5 – 7 PM Exhibition dates: Feb. 14 - Dec. 6, 2015
galleries & museums
HVCCA launches a year of exhibitions and education programs exploring the artistic representation of Love: The First of the 7 Virtues.
Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction
Seher Shah, Red Fold (from the series “Capitol Complex”), 2014, Collage on paper
January 21 – April 12, 2015 Opening reception: Saturday, February 7, 5-7 pm
Love is part of an FWMA (Fairfield Westchester Museum Alliance) collaboration.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ
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Crawford Gallery of Fine Art
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Number 57 IV, Scott Nelson Foster, oil and acrylic on panel, 2008 Foster’s painting is part of the the “American Dream” exhibit, showing through February 27 at the Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown.
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galleries & museums
Two images from the exhibition “Komic Kreators of the Hudson Valley” at Arts Mid-Hudson: Joe Sinnott’s Thing ‘85 and Fred Hembeck’s SpidermanSplashS6.
510 WARREN STEET GALLERY
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. “Black and Blue.” New work by Peggy Reeves. Through February 22.
36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “re: Member.” The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s annual members’ exhibition. All media. Through February 22.
ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146. “An Aberrant View.” Through February 7.
ARTS MID-HUDSON 696 DUTCHESS TURNPIKE, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-3222. “Komic Kreators of the Hudson Valley.” Komic Kreators of the Hudson Valley preview party. Meet the artists, preview original inkings of comic art; costumes encouraged. Light buffet and festive beverages. $15/$25 for two. Friday, February 13, 6pm-8pm.
ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON (ASK)
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Cityscapes.” A group show of urban scenes painted in oil and acrylic by Margaret Crenson, Darshan Russell, Arthur Hammer, Robert Goldstrom, Dan Rupe, Joseph Maresca, Bill Sullivan, Patty Neal, Edward Avedisian, and Richard Merkin. The show will also feature unique burned and scorched works on paper by Paul Chojnowski and watercolors by Scott Nelson Foster. Through March 31.
CATSKILL CENTER FOR CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Black and White.” Members show. Opening reception February 7, 5pm-8pm.
ROUTE 28, ARKVILLE CATSKILLCENTER.ORG. “Hemlocks: The Backbone of the Catskills.” An informational and artistic exhibit celebrating the past, present and future of a quintessential Catskills’ species, the Eastern Hemlock, created by The Catskill Center and The Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership. Through April 24.
BARRETT ART CENTER
CLARK ART INSTITUTE
55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Four for Four.” Four solo shows appearing simultaneously in four galleries. Through February 27.
225 SOUTH STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-2303. “Monet | Kelly.” The first exhibition to consider the influence of Impressionist painter Claude Monet on the works of leading contemporary American artist Ellsworth Kelly. Through February 15.
BCB ART 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Round Up.” Group show that highlights the past years’ exhibition and previews the coming 2015 schedule. Through February 28.
BEACON ARTIST UNION
COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. On & Off the Wall. Through March 21.
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 222-0177. “From Small to Large.” Works by Lori Adams. February 14-March 8. Opening reception February 14, 6pm-9pm.
DIA: BEACON
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM
DUCK POND GALLERY
39 SOUTH STREET, PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 443-7171. “If/Then.” This new exhibition is all about inspired rule-breaking and the exploration of irrational creativity. Through May 10.
128 CANAL STREET TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Klyne Esopus Museum Exhibition.” February 7-28. Opening reception February 7, 5pm-8pm.
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3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100 “Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010.” Through March 9.
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY
348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION 226-2145. Paintings by Nancy Woogen. February 5-28.
EVERPRESENT MAGIC STUDIO
77 CORNELL STREET #201, KINGSTON 240-8472. “Fierce Devotion.” Grand Opening of Everpresent Magic Studio featuring the art of Sheri Ponzi, live music, and an art giveaway. Saturday, February 7, 5pm-8pm.
FIELD LIBRARY
4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1212. “Local Color: A Field Gallery Retrospective.” Through February 8.
FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5237. “XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection.” Through March 29.
THE GALLERY AT R&F
84 TEN BROECK AVENUE, KINGSTON 331-3112. “Inside/Outside: Work by Lisa Pressman.” Featuring Pressman’s recent encaustic, pigment stick and mixed-media paintings.. February 2-April 18. Opening reception March 7, 5pm-7pm.
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66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Show the Love.” Artists will celebrate February, the month of love, by featuring works that celebrate the ‘rouge’ tones of red, purple and pink. February 6-March 1. Opening reception February 6, 6pm-9pm.
GOOD PURPOSE GALLERY
40 MAIN STREET, LEE, MA (413) 394-5045. Works by Rebecca Weinman and Michael Vincent Bushy. Through February 16.
GRAND CRU BEER AND CHEESE MARKET
6384 MILL STREET, RHINEBECK. “I Love Beer, I Love Barns.” Photographic exhibit features barns of the Hudson Valley by photographer, Samantha Sapienza of Park Avenue Art & Photography. Saturday, February 14, 4pm-8pm.
THE HARRISON GALLERY
39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 458-1700. Small Paintings. A diverse showing from serious contemporary by Ben Shattuck, to florals by Kimberly Applegate, Gail Sauter, to new originals by Applegate’s latest portfolio of animal caricatures, to a new artist from the south, Mandy Johnson. February 7-28.
HEADSPACE SALON & GALLERY
12 MARKET STREET, SAUGERTIES 247-3924. “Flick the Valley.” A group photo show exhibiting work from some of the Hudson Valley’s most prolific photographers. Featuring Louis Shotwell, Jeremy Jordan, Todd Jordan, Catello Somma, David Garaffalo, Justin Schmidt, Matt Petricone, Karissa Coffey. Through March 29.
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY
10 UPPER MAIN, SHARON, CT (860) 364-5041. “Northwest Corner Holiday Show.” Through February 7. “Race, Love, and Labor.” February 3-March 3.
HOWLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY
313 MAIN, BEACON. “Lynn Seeney: Obstructed Memories.” Mixed media works on paper by Lynn Seeney. Through March 1, 5pm-7pm. Opening reception February 14, 5pm-7pm.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (KMOCA)
103 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. KMOCA 3rd Annual Fundraiser. Our wonderful community of artists have donated art for you to purchase at breathtaking prices in order to help KMOCA bring you another year of amazing exhibitions. All art priced at $25 or $50. Featuring the works of over 25 artists. Opening reception February 7, 2pm-6pm.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY
17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Hardie Truesdale: The Shawangunks to Cape Cod.” Through March 7.
MCDARIS FINE ART
623 WARREN STREET, HUDSON MCDARISFINEART.COM. “Queen of Serpents: Myth Interfaces Routine: A Fashion Exhibition.” Fashion designer Vilma Mare explores contemporary meanings through a lens of Baltic mythology. Through February 22.
THE MOVIEHOUSE GALLERY
48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON THEMOVIEHOUSE.NET. “Resonance: Paintings and Drawings by Elizabeth Seewald Hill.” Through April 9.
NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM
222 MADISON AVENUE, ALBANY (518) 574-5877. “The Shakers: America’s Quiet Revolutionaries.” Over 150 historic images and nearly 200 Shaker artifacts, including artifacts from three Shaker historical sites. Through March 6.
OBER GALLERY
6 NORTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CT (860) 927-5030. “Russian Art: Then and Now.” Paintings by by Vitaly Komar. Through March 1.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY
SUNY ORANGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Orange County Arts Council Members Show.” Through February 7.
ORANGE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
707 EAST MAIN STREET, MIDDLETOWN 333-1000. “American Dream.” Angela Basile, Erica Hauser, David Levy, and Scott Nelson Foster. Through February 27.
PALMER GALLERY
VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVE., POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “Teen Visions ‘15.” More than 60 paintings, drawings, and photographs by local high school students who participated in the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft’s summer Art Intensive Program. These students represent more than 30 regional high schools and will exhibit their work in this juried show. Through February 19.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY
172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “City Dreams.” Paintings by Basha Maryanska. Through February 8.
SAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON
111 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 562-6940. Works by Artist Bruno Krauchthaler. Through March 31.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. “Videofreex.” February 7-July 12. “Geometries of Difference.” February 7-July 12. “Grace Hartigan.” February 7-July 12. “Maverick Festival at 100.” February 7-July 12. Opening receptions for all exhibitions February 7, 5pm-7pm.
SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
23 WHITE OAK DRIVE, SUGAR LOAF 469-9459. “Laws of Sympathy: New Works by Katarina Riesing.” Through March 14.
327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-4181. 18th Annual Juried Art Show. The CCCA annual juried art show celebrates the diversity and quality of the work being produced by Columbia County and regional artists. Through February 15.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
TIVOLI ARTISTS GALLERY
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Love: The First of the 7 Virtues.” Love takes many forms, but in the 20th-21st centuries varying kinds of love are more overt in presentation and more openly discussed. $5/members free. Fridays-Sundays. Opening reception February 14, 5pm-7pm.
60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 845 757 2667. “Erotic Art Show.” Gala opening reception for the very popular annual Erotic Art Show. Erotic edibles with lively cabaret entertainment.This year includes a montage from “Carnival of Dreams”, a performance piece by Cait Johnson and Friends. Music, belly dancing, songs and more. Adultsonly fun for the voyeur in all of us. Festive attire and cross dressing are welcome. $10. Opening reception February 7, 7pm-9pm.
HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
VASSAR COLLEGE
300 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 331-5300. LongReach Arts at the Center. Through March 31.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY
362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. McWillie Chambers: Paintings. Through February 1.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY
16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “A Solo Exhibition” by Wendy P. Carroll. Through February 7.
KAPLAN HALL
57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. John Cleater: Rafter. Through March 22.
124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE VASSAR.EDU. “The Age of Alice: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, and Nonsense in Victorian England.” Exhibit to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland. February 12-June 15.
THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
15 LAWRENCE HALL DR., WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 597-3055. “72°: LA Art from the Collection.” Work by artists in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s. Forging various West Coast aesthetics that included assemblage, Finish Fetish, and Conceptualism, these artists departed from traditional modes of representation by exploring materials in new ways. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays.
WIRED GALLERY
SUNY ORANGE, NEWBURGH 431-9386. “Garden of Metamorphosis.” Works by Daniel Giordano. Through February 28.
11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. “Group Show #9: Color Galaxy.” Works by 35 artists fueled by color. Curated by Meredith Rosier. Through February 22.
KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART
WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART
134 JAY STREET, KATONAH (914) 232-9555. “Yellow Orb/Homage to Van Gogh.” Ruppert transforms prison-grade chain link fabric into large vessel-like forms. Through May 25.
2470 RTE. 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Student Exhibition I.” Work by students of a selection of Woodstock School instructors. February 7-March 14.
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Music
Listen to the Warm Breakfast in Fur
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lthough we live in a nonstop pop world of ant-sized attention spans, for most bands artistic growth still tends to happen gracefully and gradually over the span of several albums. Generally it’s a long, slow arc, and rarely does an act go from the simple charms of Surfin’ Safari to the grand aspirations of Pet Sounds in the downtime between a mere two releases. Thus, when a still-young band—the members only in, say, their late 20s— manages to successfully reinvent their sound with the arrival of their second record, it’s a truly gratifying surprise. And that’s precisely what’s occurred with New Paltz outfit Breakfast in Fur, as the contrast between their 2011 eponymous debut, a jangly jumble of lo-fi dorm-room folk rock, and Flyaway Garden (Bar None Records), their new, epically scoped full-length, so colorfully plays out. At times, it doesn’t even sound like both records were made by the same act. “Our sound really started to change and we became a real band when we started playing live,” explains singer and guitarist Dan Wolfe about what began as a home-recording effort. “We were living in Rosendale and playing at Market Market a lot, which was great. They let us do anything we wanted to there. That was after most of the music on the first record had been recorded, and by then I’d already been writing songs for a while.” A long while. Wolfe, the band’s singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter was raised in Syracuse and introduced to music via his older brother, a bass player in fusion and jam bands. “The jam band thing was really big there because of the college [Syracuse University],” Wolfe says. “There was also a big hardcore punk scene, but I didn’t really get into that music until I was in college, which I guess is really late for someone to get into punk.” Hearing Radiohead in high school inspired him to write his first songs, but Wolfe didn’t get serious about composing until he’d moved into a friend’s laundry room in Ithaca and acquired an old Tascam four-track recorder. There, influenced by the bands associated with the Elephant 6 collective—Neutral Milk Hotel, the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control—he holed up and went to work, developing a similar style of basement psychedelia. In the summer of 2007, after an interim in Albany to study art, Wolfe matriculated to SUNY New Paltz to major in English, and the next chapter of Breakfast in Fur’s hirsute history began. Not long after his arrival, Wolfe heard painting student Kaitlin Van Pelt sing in a performance of Orff’s Carmina Burana and later met her at a campus party. “Dan was starting to work on the music that ended up being on the Breakfast in Fur EP then, and he asked me if I’d sing on it,” says the Long Islandreared vocalist and keyboardist, who’d been schooled in folk and country by her parents. “So we started hanging out, playing and listening to music. We watched [D. A. Pennebaker’s 1967 Bob Dylan documentary] Don’t Look Back together, and Dan turned me on to [Harry Smith’s seminal 1952 compilation] the Anthology of American Folk Music. Hearing that had a really big effect on me.” The connection between the couple was deeper than Wolfe had sensed at the outset. “I originally wanted to call the band the Green Typewriter, after an Olivia Tremor Control song, which I thought was a pretty obscure reference,” he says. “And [Van Pelt] knew the song! I thought that was really cool.” Eventually Wolfe drew on his art background, naming the project for Surrealist Meret Oppenheim’s 1936 sculpture of a fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon. Guitar player Michael Hollis was Wolfe’s roommate at the time he and Van Pelt were layering tracks in his home studio. Before long, Hollis was contributing to the recordings and urging Wolfe to perform the music live. One of the guitarist’s fellow jazz studies majors, drummer Chris Walker, was roped in, along with a constantly morphing cast of other players that turned Breakfast in Fur into more of a collective than the pared-down unit it currently is (the group’s ranks have at times swelled to as many as 10 players). “It’s sort of the nature of a being a band in a college town,” muses Wolfe.
“Members come and go.” The early, communal edition of Breakfast in Fur did its Rosendale residency and further figured out its sound by performing at other local venues. The group’s self-titled EP, comprising six whimsical, intimate tracks featuring toy instruments, clinking percussion, and hushed vocals, initially appeared as a handmade CD-R given away at gigs and via counter displays at New Paltz record stores. One copy was snapped up by the entrepreneur behind Washington, D.C.’s Analog Edition label, who loved the music enough to rerelease it on 10-inch vinyl. The band began making the trek down to play venues in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side, gaining attention with its ramshackle, psychedelic indie-folk sound, and recorded three cuts for New Paltz label Team Love’s 2012 compilation, Die Pfalz. “Nate Krenkel from Team Love has been really supportive since when we first started playing out,” Wolfe says. “And, really, the whole scene has. It’s not competitive here, like it is in bigger cities. Bands help each other out.” Again recorded in Wolfe’s home studio (with outside assistance from Kevin McMahon of Marcata Recording and Dean Jones of No Parking Studios), Flyaway Garden sees the group maintaining its strong melodic hooks while lessening its previous, cabin-bound acoustic folk textures in favor of a sprawling, more electrified sound that takes in the edgy postpunk of Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine and the panoramic pop symphonies of Phil Spector. It’s a direction that caught the ear of Accord resident Rob Norris, the bassist of 1980s Hoboken, New Jersey, legends the Bongos, the all-star East of Eden, and Hudson Valley bands Tallulah and Living with Elephants. “I’m friends with Mike [Hollis], and he’d play me the stuff that they’d been recording,” says Norris, who recommended his old Hoboken friend Glenn Morrow of Bar None Records check out his younger neighbors. “It had men and women playing together, which I always enjoy, and it was like everything good about the ’80s wrapped up into one band. I heard a big Feelies influence, which I knew Glenn would also love because the Feelies are so important to Bar None. He wanted to sign them right away. I felt like a proud father.” If the new disc has a contiguous theme, according to Wolfe it’s that of time and the way time is interpreted. “Shape,” the album’s clattering opener, was mostly written on the clock at his day job as a security guard at Dia:Beacon (both he and Van Pelt are employees at the sprawling art complex). “Looking at all of these massive sculptures there got me thinking about time as a physical entity, something that you can see or feel in the changes that embody objects and people,” he explains. Touching on the concept, the record’s cover image, made by Van Pelt, depicts a four-year-old, not-yet-rock-star Wolfe at the height of geekdom in oversized glasses and bowl haircut. The band’s been touring considerably, going as far west as Chicago and south to Washington, D.C. , as well as other points on the East Coast, and plans to hit the road again in earnest now that the new album is out. Most local bands, once they get serious, tend to pull up their home-base stakes and head for the bright lights and big smoke of Brooklyn. Has Breakfast in Fur been tempted to follow suit? “Not really,” Wolfe says. “Up here, we’re close enough [to Brooklyn] and it’s been such an accommodating area for us. I mean, this band just feels like a Hudson Valley band.” Flyaway Garden is out now on Bar None Records. Breakfast in Fur will headline a record release party at Snug’s in New Paltz on February 6 and will perform at BSP Kingston on February 27. Breakfastinfur.com. CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH the official video for “Shape.”
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Ansel Meditations plays Bearsville Theater on February 7.
SYRACUSE/SIEGEL DUO SERIES
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February 4, 11, 18, 25. Bassist Rich Syracuse and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel are two of the most sought-after sidemen in the Hudson Valley, between them having worked with Mose Allison, Kenny Burrell, Lee Shaw, David “Fathead” Newman, Nick Brignola, and more. But what do they do when they’re not on the road with the big names? Why, jam with some of the area’s other top-flight musicians, of course. Gotta keep those chops up, after all. And this month-long Wednesday-night gig at Catskill Mountain Pizza Company has chops aplenty, as it finds the ace rhythm section joined by a rotisserie of hand-picked players. (Bluegrass nights are on Tuesdays.) 9pm. Donation requested. Woodstock. (845) 679-7969; Catskillmountainpizza.com.
February 8. Yeah, yeah, we know we just highlighted a metal show at the Chance last month. But this bill is just too dang good to go unheralded. Hailing from Birmingham, England, grindcore gods Napalm Death have been hammering away since 1981, leaving a trail of crushed skulls and shattered eardrums with every one of their Cookie Monster-voiced albums. (Full-length number 15, Apex Predator—Easy Meat, was just released.) Canadian prog-thrash masters Voivod have been at it nearly as long (since 1982), and have kept their unique futuristic sci-fi metal speeding along despite the 2005 death of guitarist Denis “Piggy” D’Amour. Also on the two bands’ co-headlining Through Space and Grind tour are Exhumed, Iron Reagan, Ringworm, Black Crown Initiate, and Blast Furnace. (The Extreme Guitar Tour has Uli Roth and more February 7; Juelz Santana brings the flow February 27.) 5pm. $17.50. Poughkeepsie. (845) 471-1966; Thechancetheater.com.
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE February 5. Speaking of exceptional jazz cats, Christian McBride emerged on the New York scene not long after enrolling at Julliard in 1989, rising through the ranks at a meteoric rate to become one of the music’s most in-demand bassists. Only six years later, after performing with Bobby Watson, Benny Golson, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove, Benny Green, and Ray Brown, McBride was leading his own band and had released his debut on the vaunted Verve label. But the musician, who here plays the Iron Horse Music Hall, hasn’t limited himself to the jazz world, having collaborated with James Brown, Sting, the Roots, Carly Simon, D’Angelo, and many others. (Albert Lee lays it down February 8; James Cotton wails February 22.) 7pm. $25. Northampton, Massachusetts. (413) 586-8686; Iheg.com.
ANSEL MEDITATIONS February 7. As a member of legendary Jamaican harmony group the Meditations, vocalist Ansel Meditations has backed up a Who’s Who of reggae music that includes Jimmy Cliff, Gregory Isaacs, the Congos, and Bob Marley (that’s him on “Punky Reggae Party,” “Blackman Redemption,” and “Rastaman Live Up”). The singer, who graces the Bearsville Theater this month, opened for Marley at the legendary 1978 “One Love” concert that saw bitterly opposed political candidates Michael Manley and Edward Seaga shake hands on stage before thousands of surprised and delighted Jamaicans. Perhaps this concert will inspire some of our own divisive politicians to do the same. (Hey, we can hope.) DJ Queen Tubby spins. (The Chris Robinson Brotherhood rocks February 10; 420 Funk Mob tears the roof off February 22.) 9pm. $25, $30, $40. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.
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TOWN MOUNTAIN February 14. High lonesome hearts will be all a-sangin’ when bluegrass outfit Town Mountain makes this Valentine’s Day visit to the Rosendale Café. The quintet of Robert Greer (vocals, guitar), Jesse Langlais (banjo, vocals), Phil Barker (mandolin, vocals), Bobby Britt (fiddle), and Nick DiSebastian (bass) has been a featured act at some of the most prestigious festivals in the country, MerleFest, Grey Fox, Rockygrass, Suwannee Springfest, and the Targhee Bluegrass Festival, to name a few. Last year’s album Town Mountain: Live at the Isis earned the band a nomination for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s 2014 Emerging Artist of the Year, a natural follow-up to their two 2013 IBMA Momentum Awards. (Krewe de la Rue roils February 7; the KC Three swings February 21.) 8pm. $15. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.
KATE PIERSON February 24. Dance this mess around! B-52’s singer Kate Pierson makes an unheard-of (well, at least not since her early days beneath that fabled beehive wig) small-club appearance, and right down the dirty back road from her long-time Mt. Tremper digs. The diva has a brand-new solo album out on Kobalt Records, Guitars and Microphones, which features Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi, “Late Night with Seth Meyers” band leader Fred Armisen, and Australian pop sensation Sia. Will any of these guests be in attendance at this sure-fire sellout by the 52 Girl at BSP Lounge? Better grab a ticket fast if you want to find out. (The Felice Brothers bring the love February 14; Arc Iris makes indie-folk February 26.) 7pm. $15 advance, $20 day of show. Kingston. (845) 481-5158; Bspkingston.com.
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GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD’S WISDOM TOOTH OF WISDOM (2014, APPLE EYE PRODUCTIONS)
The true test of “family music” is how often you can stand to hear it. That’s you, not your kids, who could probably replay Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” so many times even that would drive you insane. Kids are just like that; they ruin everything. Illustrator/songwriter MorganTaylor aka Gustafer Yellowgold, however, has figured out how to appeal equally to four-year-olds and 40-year-olds without compromising his musical integrity for either audience. On his latest recording, a kind of dental concept album, he combines the giddy, piano-based melodicism of Ben Folds with the uncanny pop instincts of Paul McCartney and the childlike worldview of They Might Be Giants to make for a unique fusion that actually repays the repeated listening to which parents will inevitably be subjected. Songs range from the XTC-like harmonic pop of “It Suits You” to moody Radiohead-ish electro-rock of “Smilefield” to bouncy, horn-laden, Beatles-esque antics of “I Can’t Feel My Face.” The package comes with an audio CD and a full-length DVD featuring the songs accompanied by Taylor’s animated drawings, lending the entire project a kind of “Yellow Submarine”-meets-Terry Gilliam aspect. You just may want to pack the kids in the car and head out on the long and winding road to enjoy this multimedia extravaganza as a family unit. It’s even possible your kids will grow up having better taste in music for it—and cleaner teeth, too. GustaferYellowgold.com. —Seth Rogovoy
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LARA HOPE AND THE ARK-TONES LUCK MAKER (2014, INDEPENDENT)
“Jump, Jive, and Harmonize” was a long-ago single from Chicano beat combo Thee Midnighters, but the title would aptly serve as a mission statement from Hudson Valley music scene prime movers Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones. Anyone who has seen them perform, be it on a Hudson street corner, a pop-up freak-show beer hall in Kingston on NewYear’s Eve, or juke joints in most of the continental 48, can testify to their powerfully joyous live show. Matt “the Knife” Goldpaugh (upright bass), Chris Heitzman (Guitar), Dave Tetrault (drums), and the inimitable Hope (vocals), have a remarkable chemistry; the instrumental interplay is almost jazzy in its spontaneous and intuitive execution. This album is pretty special, not simply for the strong songwriting and talents of the core group, but also for the superb crystalline production of the band, as recorded by Adam Armstrong at Dreamland Studios, and the guest talents of a half-dozen local musical luminaries, including Haydon Cummings (saxophone), whose horn injects some extra bawdiness and soulful menace on three numbers. Broadly classed in the Americana/roots genre, the Ark-Tones are adept at taking in disparate elements of indigenous music and spitting out freshly funny, intense, and dynamic music. Perfect example: The sole cover song is “Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” made famous by the Andrews Sisters. Abetted by Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper (clarinets), the Ark-Tones throw klezmer, German beer hall music, and a dash of polka in the bouillabaisse and come out rocking it Weimar Republic style. The band will play the Rosendale Cafe on February 28. Larahopeandtheark-tones.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
SEAN ROWE MADMAN (2014, ANTI- RECORDS)
A fine basso profundo voice is a rare thing, andWynantskill’s Sean Rowe possesses one of the most distinctive in modern music; soulful as Barry White, edgy as his label mate Tom Waits, powerful as Righteous Brother Bill Medley. Rowe’s supple instrument can prowl the subbasement of emotion, fill a room with masculine heat, and then soar to precipitous heights. That voice is the first thing you notice on Rowe’s latest, Madman, and it’s quite a calling card. But you’ll stay for the tunes, like the rough-hewn pop gem title cut, a kind of manifesto for the off-the-beaten-track lifestyle that’s made Rowe a house concert star: “The city has a way just to make you forget about all the things you love and you don’t know yet.” The sonics on Madman, courtesy Rowe and co-producer Troy Pohl, are rawer than previous efforts, inspired by Rowe’s ragged-but-right adventures on the road: fret buzz here, squeaky chair there, rustle of a shirtsleeve, clearing of a throat.These homey intimacies, paradoxically, heighten the drama of Madman. The journey gets gutbucket blues on the Mississippi Hill-country-inspired “Shine My Diamond Ring,” but Rowe throws a delightful curveball with the Philly soul-styled nugget “Desiree,” which would not be out of place on a Top 40 list from, say, 1975. But this hardcore troubadour really shines with the sit-down hymnal folk material, like the love elegy “Razor of Love” and the gorgeous father-son ballad “My Little Man,” as spiritual as any prayer ever sent heavenward. —Robert BurkeWarren
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Books
LOVE IS THE DRUG Lisa A. Phillips Unpacks Women’s Romantic Obsessions by Nina Shengold Photograph by Roy Gumpel
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isa A. Phillips lives so close to Woodstock’s Maverick Concert Hall that on summer evenings, she can hear music waft through the trees. That’s hard to imagine today, when ice covers the path to a porch flanked by tall stacks of firewood. The author of Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession (Harper, 2015) opens the door to an idyllic room with a woodstove aglow in one corner. Built by her artist-husband Bill Mead, with a cheerful display of family photos featuring their 10-year-old daughter Clara, the house is a vision of domestic bliss. This is, in Phillips’s own words, the “happy ending” part of a story that’s had some distinctly dark turns. Unrequited opens with her younger self banging so insistently on her beloved’s door—at six on the morning—that he opens it with a baseball bat in one hand and a phone in the other, threatening to call 911. “How did this happen to me?” Phillips writes of the obsession that “changed me from a sane, conscientious college teacher and radio reporter into someone I barely knew—someone who couldn’t realize that she was taking her yearning much, much too far.” Unrequited love is a near-universal experience; one researcher cites survey responses of more than 90 percent. “But that’s not obsessive romantic love,” Phillips explains. “That could just be the guy in your math class who you wanted to notice you, but he never did.” What separates the starry-eyed suitor from the delusional stalker? How did Phillips—and so many others—step over that line? “I wanted to answer the question of why this happens, not only to me, but to people. I’m particularly interested in women because there’s a double standard, a different response,” she explains. While men who stalk women are seen as psychotic creeps, “For women it’s neurotic spinsters and bunny boilers. The attitude is mocking, disrespectful: What’s going on with that stupid woman holding on to that stupid dream? Well, she’s not stupid and the dream isn’t stupid.” Unrequited paints obsessive love as a complicated cocktail of circumstance and neurochemistry, akin in some ways to a substance addiction. Phillips interviewed dozens of women who’ve been in obsessive love, men who’ve been the object of such obsessions (including her Catskills neighbor James Lasdun, author of Give Me EverythingYou Have: On Being Stalked), psychologists, and neuroscientists. She also examines literary archetypes ranging from Dante’s Beatrice to Disney princesses, the medieval concepts of chivalric love and erotic melancholy, and the more modern ones of pathological limerence, OCD, and addictive behaviors. The resulting book—part memoir and part reportage—is indelible reading. But it took Phillips years to revisit the subject. “The last thing I wanted to do was write about it. I wanted to put it behind me,” she says.When obsession struck, she was still immersed in the novel she’d started for her MFA thesis, a stranger-in-town tale called Posings. Besides, she reports, “I didn’t think it would be good material. I was just some girl who’d lost her shit over a boy.” When Phillips met “B.” (not his real first initial), she was a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. In a touch most fiction writers would call heavy-handed foreshadowing, they met in a class on Tragedy, which Phillips had chosen because of her fondness for Shakespeare. The relationship started platonically. She’d just gone through a painful breakup, and B. was involved in a fading long-distance relationship. But as he continued to send out mixed messages, Phillips fell harder and harder, persuading herself they were meant for each other. Even the baseball bat didn’t convince her (or him, apparently, since he let her inside). At long last he drew a firm line, telling Phillips never to call him again. She got violently ill, and “felt like the devil had left me.” A few weeks later, she left for a residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, where she met her husband-to-be. Their stays overlapped by just a few days, but it was enough to spark a potential romance and eventual marriage. Ten years ago, shortly before Clara was born, Phillips wrote the first words of what would become Unrequited. She’d told her husband about her obsessive past early on. “I just gave him the broad brush: I was hung up on this guy,” she says. In 2006, she picked up the thread again, writing an essay titled “I Couldn’t Let Go of Him. Did It Make Me a Stalker?” for the NewYork Times’ Modern Love column.
“I didn’t think of it as brave,” she says now. “And the proof of the pudding is that people didn’t look at me in shock. They said ‘I can relate to that,’ or, ‘I’ve done much worse.’ When you can air a taboo, that’s an important step. We can’t get a handle on these difficult emotions until we can talk about them.” Did she hear from “B.?” “Not a peep,” Phillips says, adding darkly, “It won’t come from me.” After the column came out, she assumed she was done with the subject. She’d just published her first book, Public Radio: Behind the Voices (Vanguard Press, 2006), and was juggling three jobs as writer, SUNY New Paltz professor of journalism, and mother. “I had all the sane credentials, particularly for Woodstock,” she says. “I thought, what about her? What about that girl who banged down doors and was so obsessed? In a way, I didn’t feel fully known.” She was also raising a daughter, and feared for her future romantic entanglements. In a chapter called “Crush,” Phillips describes her mix of pride at Clara’s performance in The Little Mermaid and fervent wish that the plot didn’t feature a girl who sacrifices not only her voice but also her species for the prince of her dreams. Mother and daughter had long rated storybook princesses as “smart” and “not smart”; Ariel looked like a poster child for Door Number Two. Phillips herself outgrew storybooks early. Growing up in small-town Connecticut, she was “socially awkward,” walking around with a heavy backpack and a violin case. Her parents were both avid readers, and she helped herself to their basement library. “I read The Thorn Birds at 10, and a lot of guy books—Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, books my dad liked. I read Gone With theWind 11 times.” She graduated from college in 1990, and found her first radio job at an NPR affiliate in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The station was housed in a blue mobile home, “probably not tornado-proof,” recalls Phillips, who “drove into town with a futon on top of my station wagon,” garnering stares from the locals. As one of only six staff members, she learned on the job. “I would get up at 3:30am, arrive at four thirty to turn on the transmitter and let it warm up a few minutes before we signed on at five.” She read the morning news and local weather, along with Bob Edwards’s national newsfeed. Then she went out and reported on local events. She describes this as “a very enriching, interesting, but lonely time.” Her boyfriend lived three hours away in Iowa City, so she hung out with artists and nuns, “the intellectuals of the community.” After three years in Iowa, she moved to Pittsburgh. Her studies went well, but she didn’t relish the prospect of moving again after graduation. “It was that turning-30 thing where everyone’s getting into their corners. People were pairing up, my grad student community was dispersing. That’s a lot of emptiness to face.” For a few intense months, B. seemed destined to fill that void. How does Phillips feel after writing the book on obsessive love? “Do I understand it better? Yes. Am I still in love with him? Definitely not. But I guess it’ll always be part of me. I don’t feel you just turn the page, or whatever that metaphor would be.” She looks out the window, where afternoon shadows are starting to gather. At one point, she thought about trying to interview B. to hear his side of things, but decided against it. “It’s hard to imagine him completely not knowing, especially after the book comes out, but that needs to be a question I don’t answer. I think it’s okay to say there are some people you should not be in touch with. He feels the same way about me, I’m sure.” Phillips’s takeaway from the experience isn’t one-sided. Unrequited love can be destructive, but it can also spur personal growth. “At any given moment, you can find an unwanted woman who makes art out of lost love at an open mike night, or in a community poetry workshop, or in the Top 40 rotation on the radio,” she writes. Or at your local bookstore. She calls Unrequited “the book I wish I’d had. The Rules came out around the same time I was going through this. I would never have been the kind of person to read that book. I would never say don’t ask a guy out.” Phillips pauses. “I might say don’t ask him out 20 times.” Appearing 2/7 at 6pm, Golden Notebook,Woodstock; 2/13 at 7pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck; 2/17 at 6pm, Honors Center, College Hall, SUNY New Paltz; 3/21 at 2pm,Woodstock Writers Festival journalism panel with Benoit Denizet-Lewis & Guy Lawson, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 61
SHORT TAKES Six Hudson Valley authors send literary Valentines to a wide variety of passions.
FLIRTING WITH FRENCH: HOW A LANGUAGE CHARMED ME, SEDUCED ME & NEARLY BROKE MY HEART WILLIAM ALEXANDER ALGONQUIN, 2014, $15.95
Dutchess County author Alexander is a serial obsessive. Moving from home-produced food (The $64 Tomato and 52 Loaves) to the language and culture that’s always entranced him, he sets his linguistic beret at a jaunty angle and plunges into an amour fou with the intricacies of gendered nouns and other things French. His quest for midlife fluency may be as quixotic a dream as the unassailable garden or perfect bread crust, but he finds unexpected rewards.
FISHING STORIES: A LIFETIME OF ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES ON RIVERS, LAKES, AND SEAS NICK LYONS, ILLUSTRATED BY MARI LYONS SKYHORSE PUBLISHING, 2014, $24.95
Veteran angler and former publisher Lyons fell hard for fishing when, as a small boy, he hooked his first trout in the shallows above Kaaterskill Falls. These 33 tales cover all kinds of waterfronts, from the verdant Upper Peninsula stretch that inspired Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” to an English fly-fisherman’s saga of hooking a cow by the ear, always returning to his beloved Catskills. Lyons’s prose glints and sparkles like fast-moving water.
WINTER MUSIC SUSAN QUASHA & ROBERT KELLY ‘T’ SPACE EDITIONS, 2014, $24
The minimalist navy covers of this limited-edition fine art book open to visual riches. Quasha’s luminous, spontaneous photos inspired Kelly’s equally loose, glowing texts; they’ve dubbed this collaborative interweaving of visions templations (from templum, a place marked off as special). “We made this world to share with you,” Kelly writes opposite fog-draped trees. We are grateful. Reading and slide show at Kleinert/James Art Center 2/15 at 4:30pm.
THE RELUCTANT PSYCHIC SUZAN SAXMAN WITH PERDITA FINN ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, 2015, $25.99
The owner of Woodstock’s White Gryphon knew from earliest childhood that she saw things others didn’t, that her “real voice” was that of an elderly Englishwoman and no one must hear it. Stifling her gifts didn’t work; releasing them brought other challenges. In fluent prose channeled by “soul sister” Finn, Saxman reveals her extraordinary lives, past and present. Appearing 1/31 at 6pm, The Golden Notebook, and 3/24 at 7pm, Mirabai, Woodstock.
PLANT POWER: TRANSFORM YOUR KITCHEN, PLATE AND LIFE WITH MORE THAN 150 FRESH AND FLAVORFUL VEGAN RECIPES NAVA ATLAS, PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANNAH KAMINSKY HARPERCOLLINS, 2014, $29.99
Bestselling Hudson Valley powerhouse Atlas brings her trademark warmth to this user-friendly guide to a plant-based lifestyle. The first section walks new and experienced vegans through the ethical, nutritional, and practical benefits of eating fresh whole foods rather than heavily processed meat substitutes. The second offers dozens of inventive recipes, plus such useful tips as how to tackle hard-skinned winter squash without borrowing a chainsaw (bake it first).
LIVING PASSIONATELY: 21 PEOPLE WHO FOUND THEIR PURPOSE—AND HOW YOU CAN TOO! MARIA BLON, COORDINATING AUTHOR, FOREWORD BY DR. IVAN MISNER TWO HARBORS PRESS, 2014, $19.95
Charting her own journey from Middletown math teacher to SPARKS entrepreneur, Blon leads off this anthology of writings by people who faced personal challenges by turning outward, volunteering in earthquake-stricken Haiti, joining Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, becoming healers. Misner’s foreword asserts, “Givers Gain,” and 15 percent of profits go to Haiti’s HEART school. Appearing 2/7 from 1pm to 4pm, Orange City Choppers Café, Newburgh. 62 BOOKS CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World Kirsten Gillibrand
Ballantine Books, 2014
Zephyr Teachout
Harvard University Press, 2014
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n these two timely books, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout expose unsavory aspects of American politics. Gillibrand engages via her own remarkable story-in-progress, while Teachout relates a jaw-dropping history of lobbying and bribes at the highest levels of US government. Both women are expectation-defying comers; Gillibrand’s 2006 win over a Republican incumbent for New York’s 20th district congressional seat was a historic upset, and Teachout’s 2014 grab for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, while unsuccessful, went better than expected. Albany-born Gillibrand’s Off the Sidelines is a candid memoir of an ambitious Type A personality whose father, a renowned Republican lobbyist, nicknames her “Loudmouth”; her mover-shaker mother and grandmother inspire her to use her natural chutzpah to gain political power. During Gillibrand’s stint as a high-powered lawyer in Manhattan, she encounters gender bias, which she ultimately challenges. A life-changing encounter with Hillary Clinton clarifies her call to service, and she works on Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. After Obama appoints Clinton secretary of state, Governor David Paterson selects Gillibrand, a happily married mom of two, as her replacement. She wins a second term in a landslide, making a name as an effective crusader against sexism and lax attitudes toward rape, all while regularly making dinner for her family. While her superpowers sometimes make her seem unreal (especially to struggling parents), she endeavors to reveal her own foibles, including her compulsions to drop the F bomb and micromanage her loved ones. Teachout isn’t quite so personal. Corruption in America is a lively textbook history of the bane of her professional life: political malfeasance. With infectious zeal, Teachout offers interesting, if occasionally dry, anecdotes detailing fights to keep our republic from becoming a plutocracy. The story begins with France’s King Louis XVI’s gift of a diamond-encrusted snuffbox to Benjamin Franklin in 1785. This exchange represents two worlds colliding—the old, crooked European monarchy and the emerging American democracy, founded on a refusal to allow such influence to distract representatives from their constituents. Thereafter, various cases chipped away at this ideal of influence-free democracy. The most devastating case, Teachout emphasizes, is Citizens United, which redefines the word “speech” as “money,” a travesty about which, she says, we should all be deeply concerned. These two distinct voices offer vigor and hope to the political conversation, a welcome change to the numbing racket of sound bites and tweets, which, like these two women, history did not predict. —Robert Burke Warren
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ail Godwin has written 14 novels. Three were nominated for National Book Awards. Five made the New York Times Bestseller list. She’s also written nonfiction and two story collections, and her archives live at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She built her Woodstock house with book profits. She’s been on the Today show, NPR, and in the New York Times. She’s been featured in this magazine and her local appearances are occasions not to be missed. She’s the essence of successful, it seems. But as she writes in Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir, none of this came easily. She has never been able to rest on her laurels, not in the 45 years she’s been publishing, not for a single page. But she’s also never lost her way, or her heart. Godwin dreamed of being a published writer as a young girl. In 1958, while a college student at UNC, her plucky first attempt met with crisp rejection. “The scout’s manicured fingers (polished with a sophisticated shade of brownish mauve) were actually touching my pages,” she writes with a pitch-perfect blend of detail and empathy. She attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where Kurt Vonnegut bemusedly told her he didn’t think she had it in her to be crude. She wrote in obscurity, fending off discouragement: “If I could not be a published writer, maybe I could earn my living teaching literature until I was 65 and then I would decide whether I wanted to go on living.” She soon began a long, fruitful association with the astute agent John Hawkins, and in 1970 published her first novel, The Perfectionists. Just as Godwin settled into her career, publishing began its stormy sea change. Her editors would be canned mid book, a publisher swallowed by a conglomerate. How she and Hawkins navigated “the new publishing ethos,” as Godwin drily puts it, is an object lesson in canny survival. Infuriatingly, both the hardcover editor at Morrow and the paperback editor at Avon, her publishers for Father Melancholy’s Daughter (1990), separately sent her suggestions for cuts, a brash move previously unheard of. “Her title just doesn’t shout big book,” Morrow’s then-president told Hawkins, though Godwin, who yielded on cuts, held her ground on the title. Years later, Godwin endured another title debate when Random House rejected the title of her 2009 novel, The Red Nun: A Tale of Unfinished Desires. Tormented, Godwin consulted the I Ching, which presciently warned against compromise. But the editor relented, and Godwin gave in—to Unfinished Desires. “That was my caving moment,” she writes. “It seems to me now that The Red Nun would have attracted more of the kinds of readers who would have appreciated such a book. There are still thousands of them out there who went to school with nuns, many of them likely to eschew a title smacking of a bodice ripper.” Aside from the irresistible territory of art vs. commerce, what makes Publishing most enjoyable is Godwin herself. She’s a captivating storyteller, providing all the elements here, including love and loss, without overwhelming or lecturing. Though she’d have a right to, she never delves into snark — or sentimentality. Line drawings by the architect Frances Halsband (who illustrated Godwin’s evocative Evenings at Five) provide a quietly intimate accompaniment, so that we feel like we’re in a room with Godwin, sharing a bottle of good wine. It’s a terrific room to be in. —Jana Martin
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THE MOON IN THE DOORYARD
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I don’t really know what a dooryard is I suspect it’s the lawn around a house, contextualized a meaning from the words of fingertips that work much better than mine in the moonlight I’ve felt the cold wet grass wisping against my ankles And known I was on a property, a sought out, fought for place Weeds beaten back with sprays and powders and gasoline cans But all I saw was the blueish light skimming the tips and bends of the blades I heard the coyote pack cheering at a football game my very first time, and wasn’t sure they wouldn’t come past the tree line. I saw plastic toys with doors open, children running for the TV or the toilet The yellow and red Flintstone car grayed beyond color in the dark, parked with one wheel off the pavement I’ve watched men and women pushing mowers through the jungle, height adjusted for desired effect and minimum damage I’ve had parties in the dooryard before I knew it was called that. Before I melted into the vernacular of a new story and floated into the night.
Some nights, after work, he comes home in a cab. Mom’s already asleep, so I get the door,
—Kelly Welton
NEW YEAR’S 2015 At 85 I saw my youngest grandchild at seven In her Princess Leia dress, barefoot, outside. The Christmas tree Pushed through the window, Star Wars again, A space journey for her and my sixteen others. At 2:54 on the Hudson Line the river Glistening, not yet frozen, returned me With the excitement of memory To GRAND CENTRAL STATION, “Crossroads of a thousand lives,” Didn’t the radio of the early 1940s announce? One more look at the electric trains, But the door shut on New Year’s Day. At the bottom of the escalator, Crowds at the few eateries open. One tall man in a white shirt reaches into a barrel, Fingers from the corner of a cardboard a mouthful. At the next barrel, a dark man in dark clothes Stores a plastic box for later. Closer to my fourth floor apartment In the locked entrance to the Chase Bank, On Broadway, On the floor, A man, safe and warm, sleeps.
running back to my TV dinner, before my sister can steal my chocolate pudding. We can hear him in the kitchen, shaking the can, popping the top, and pouring it in a glass with one ice cube. Drink in hand, he marches into the den, orders us to turn off the tube, calls us to attention, and props us on his legs. We glance at each other, the clock, and back to our padded, stuffed animal feet. Nightly, the same slack tie hangs from his neck, flatfish bored by his stories. His button-down looks like he slept in it. Sipping and slurping, he clinks ice against glass, rifles through shirt pockets for crinkled cellophane. Retrieving a yellow Bic, from cavern pants pockets, he puffs away. Disciples, we sit rapt for hours, until feet tingle and shoulders slump. We’ve heard it all before, but remain transfixed: Working in a concrete factory, a shingle mill, then fighting in Korea, he can’t start a family and save a company. We don’t understand why he makes us feel the plate in his leg. —Andrew Tully
A COOL NIGHT It is a cool night, and I am glad to be in it. Love, and its many complications. But it is not complicated—love. People complicate it—love. But it is a cool night, and I am glad to be in it. It is a cool night, and I am glad to be out in it. To be out in the night, cool, amidst the complications of love. Amidst the complications of love, I am glad to be out in the coolness of night. To be out in the coolness of night, amidst the complications of love, is a cool night, and I am glad to be in it. —Christopher Porpora
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THE GUNSLINGER
NOEL 2014
AIRBUS
You came to me with the effortless swagger of an arms dealer. You lifted me up and polished my brass knuckles. I laughed, at the blood on your boots. It hadn’t even dried yet. Bruised, bloodied and bent at awkward angles, I ran. I would have gotten away too, if my mouth hadn’t caught on a piece of barbed wire.
A titan taught me. A giant with a banjo.
I have gunpowder on my lips and I feel the cold steel click against my molars. Stop me, before my teeth become a necklace. Stop these words from ripping through my throat, exposing and showering our audience with what normally hides behind skin, bones, and lipstick.
This was his dream.
On this last day, a last thought before the board; a kindness that breaks the heart. You must leave to see the sun back home. Identical only in passing, I must let you go.
Instead, crack your ribs, my love, and show me where it hurts. I’ll show you the way my grenade ticks right after you pulled the pin. Let me feel the heat from the napalm you call a soul. Let it flush my skin like some messed up rouge. Don’t you know? Agent Orange is the new black. —Elizabeth Thompson-Jones
ADVICE FOR A FRIEND How now, Old Pal. Don’t frown, Stand proud One down Not last bow How now Old Pal Talk loud With closed mouth. Stand out, Quiet down. Breathe in, Breathe out Show them how Act now Things green, Now brown. Old shop Closed down. You’re here Right now. Calm down Old Pal. —Tierney Greene
I had bobby socks on my feet. Forgiveness takes strength, he said to the words of Jose Marti—that song that begins as a love story and in the end, offers roses to the enemy. The chords sent shivers up his spine each vertebra at a time, just to sing with Everybody like that in the same language.
Thank you Pete
—John Macdonald
—Jane Heidgerd Garrick
SIMPLE SEDUCTION TO YOU If I could only bear down The light to you Uncover the stolen word That once brought in the dawn Now lies under the stone of silence And if I could foster its profound On a love sound union From my lips I would be of you This music Of what a lover Always has been Lastingly from the very earth To the very ascend —Thom Cooney Crawford
L’EAU DES MERS From the country we came to read lines from old songs and hear old voices l’eau des mers wailing in the night at our rain soaked porch as the cigarette smoke rose l’eau des mers we spoke softly in the crowd wiser to our whispers meeting in the dark corner l’eau des mers traveling to new york and meeting our families for moments forever l’eau des mers Mais ces chansons ne sont pas complètes et ne sera pas dans ce verset L’eau des mers —Ernest S. Klepeis
Today I recognize everyone. I have access to each smile and there is nothing to do but to shop the streets for more, to relax at the relief of connection, and to remember that while some of us may quickly look away, none of us can imagine being apart. —Noelle Adamo
POETRY IS FOR ALL A businessman in a Rolls in Manhattan, a housewife in a Mercedes-Benz in New Paltz, a beatnik in a vomit-splattered VW in Woodstock: prose comes by bicycle, horse-drawn carriage, by zeppelin, by motorboat, by hang-glider. Poetry prefers to walk. —Kirby Olson
AT THE START At the start when the open window tickles the radiator top with giggling white curtains buoyed by the breeze, I always want to get on a bicycle and ride around till I find clods of green that mean it’s not my nose imaging that green smell. —Thom Schwarz
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HUDSON VALLEY COFFEE CULTURE TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS SMITH
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offee shop. Coffee house. Café.There are a variety of ways to describe establishments that serve coffee, but coffee drinkers understand that the name isn’t important. What is important is the common thread that the best of these places all share: a communal atmosphere filled with ideas, creativity, and human connection. I set out to capture the region’s coffee culture, a mission that took me to Kingston, New Paltz, Beacon, Cornwallon-Hudson, and Peekskill. Hudson Valley Coffee Traders, located in Kingston, is known among regulars as the “courthouse coffee shop,” because of the proximity to the courthouse. But even on a holiday—as it was when I visited—the shop was vibrant and bustling. The staff knew almost everyone who came in. I witnessed staff and customers hug, high-five, and dance—and this was all before their morning Joe. Next stop: Bank Square Coffeehouse in Beacon, where talented barista Jeff Raffensperger hands me a latte with a smiling turkey drawn in the foam. “Once I start making them I can’t stop,” he says, as he creates several more examples of “latte art”: flowers, a heart, and even a bear.There are other coffee establishments on the opposite side of town, but near the river, Bank Square is only place to sit down and enjoy some java. Bank Square owners Katy and Buddy Behney have lived in Beacon their whole lives, and say the biggest perk of owning the coffee shop is that they feel so close to their community. When I arrived at Mudd Puddle in New Paltz, I couldn’t even get in—the line of hungry patrons was out the door. Inside, breakfast sandwiches and lattes
were being served up three, sometimes four at a time. Owner Michelle Walsh explained the process of coffee roasting, which she does in-house, all while effortlessly steaming milk and pulling shots behind the bar. She handed me a “black-eyed Earl,” a combination of Earl Grey tea, espresso, and vanilla, as she told me that she invented the pumpkin spice latte. It seemed unbelievable at first, but after hearing her case (and tasting her drinks), I’m convinced that Mudd Puddle is the kind of café that doesn’t follow trends—it sets them. Peekskill Coffee House was visually breathtaking—I felt as if I had stumbled onto a Hollywood café set. Before I could even say hello, their hip, tattooed baristas were serving me up a cup. Despite the café’s size (the building was a car showroom in a previous life), there was not one open seat to be found. It seemed to be Peekskill’s community meeting place. Families, couples, friends, and laptop-bearing headphone-wearing freelancers filled the space. The only thing more diverse than the crowd was the décor, which owner Sunny Cover has been curating from secondhand stores all her life. The final stop on my highly caffeinated journey: Cornwall-on-Hudson, a unique community situated five miles south of Newburgh. 2Alices Coffee Lounge is exactly what it sounds like—a cozy space with a collection of comfortable chairs and delicious coffee. It was easy to imagine coming back day after day, and after speaking with some of the regulars, I learned that many people do. Owners Aurelia Winborn and Mikey Jackson make their patrons feel like they are literally at home, allowing them to sit back, relax, get work done, and of course, stay caffeinated. 2/15 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON VALLEY COFFEE CULTURE 67
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Opposite, top row left to right: Ethan Kern of The Peekskill Coffee House; Katherine Scarlett of Mudd Puddle in New Paltz; Laura Hertel at 2Alices Coffee Lounge in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Middle row, left to right: Michelle Walsh at Mudd Puddle; Jenna Benincasa at Hudson Valley Coffee Traders in Kingston; Danni Cortes at 2Alices Coffee Lounge. Bottom row, left to right: Buddy Behney and Jeff Raffensperger at Bank Square Coffeehouse in Beacon; Emily Duttner at 2 Alices Coffee Lounge.
This page, clockwise: Espresso brewing at Mudd Puddle in New Paltz; Coffee beans are roasted in-house at Mudd Puddle using this micro-roaster, which shoots beans out after they reach the desired temperature. In this case, its 445 degrees; unroasted beans at Mudd Puddle.
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Top row from left: Erin Williams hangs out at the The Peekskill Coffee House with her friends; The Peekskill Coffee House is the hangout of choice for Cristina, who enjoys a coffee while chatting with friends; Sunny Cover, owner of The Peekskill Coffee House, opened the shop when she first moved to Peekskill so that people in the community could have somewhere to hang out. Middle row from left: Candace Rivera is a regular at 2Alices Coffee Lounge. She works at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall; It may be a Monday morning, but Jessica Pierce is delighted to be in her favorite coffee shop, Hudson Coffee Traders in Kingston; A Cornwall-on-Hudson police officer comes to 2Alices Coffee Lounge while he is off-duty. Bottom: Katy and Buddy Behney own two businesses in Beacon. When asked why they chose to open Bank Square Coffeehouse, they reply, “For the community.�
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Food & Drink
The Best of the Wurst Gunk Haus in Highland Story by Jeff Crane Photos by Karen Pearson
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hat is “American food?” As a nation of immigrants, the United States lacks anything that might be called a “national cuisine.” Of course, there are regional favorites, many of which are informed by the traditions of the people who brought the dishes that their mothers and grandmothers (and perhaps a few grandfathers) made in the Old Country. For this reason, dining out for Americans is often a kind of “gastro-tourism,” even if we never leave our shores, much less our neighborhood. The question “What shall we have for dinner tonight?” is often followed, not by particular dishes, but by a list of national traditions: Italian? Chinese? Mexican? And more and more often, German cuisine is among the options we consider. In some ways, German food is as close to a “national cuisine” as we have. When one thinks of American food, hot dogs—sausages with origins in Frankfurt and Vienna—and hamburgers, from—you guessed it—Hamburg, top the list. Many of the people and traditions of the American Midwest have their origins in Mitteleuropa, not to mention the Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch, actually) and the Central European Jews who began selling hot dogs to Brooklyn Dodgers fans back in the day. German food is simple, hearty, filling, and comforting. Since we have begun to recognize that “healthy food” has much more to do with the origin of our meat and vegetables and the size of our portions and less to do with labels like “fat-free,” which often mask processed foods that really aren’t good for us, and that fat is an important part of our diet and that processed carbs are the real danger to our bodies, German food can be considered healthy as well. Anyway, the fat’s where the flavor is. Here in the Hudson Valley, we have a couple of wonderful options when you’re feeling like something spaetzle. Of course, the Mountain Brauhaus in Gardiner has been serving authentic German staples like sauerbraten and schnitzel for 60 years. And for nearly five years now, co-owners Elizabeth Steckel and Dirk Schalle have been serving up hearty, comforting, delicious meals in an atmosphere inspired by Dirk’s native Bavaria at their Gunk Haus in Highland.
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“We both really like beer,” says Elizabeth, “and we wanted something that really paired well with it.We knew that we didn’t want to be just a bar, we wanted to be a restaurant, but it really was the beer that drove the concept. Since Dirk is German, German cuisine became the focus. When we were trying to figure out what kind of restaurant we wanted to open, we tried to be very practical about it.We knew that there was a lot of growth in the craft beer market.When I talked about how America was experiencing this great craft beer revolution, Dirk would scoff and say, ‘We’ve always had that—We’ve always paired beer with food!’ I can’t say we were that prescient, but it seems like a lot of people were thinking similarly, because you see more and more German restaurants. I think German food goes hand in hand with people’s interest in craft beer, which is still very strong, and it also ties in well with the whole farm-to-table, DIY, start-from-scratch movement. So it just seemed natural to us: Dirk grew up in that kind of environment in Germany, watching his uncle slaughter pigs and so on.” The restaurant evokes the kind of country inn one might find traveling through Central Europe which, as Bavarians and Bohemians alike will confirm, greatly resembles the terrain and climate of the Hudson Valley. To those new or unfamiliar to our region, Gunk—as phonetically Teutonic as it may seem—refers to the Shawangunk Ridge, of which Gunk Haus, set upon a hilltop in the Marlboro Mountains of Highland, offers splendid views and breathtaking sunsets that can be enjoyed while sipping craft beers from the deck in summertime. “We knew we had to have really great burgers and fries,” says Elizabeth. The 8 oz. Haus Burger ($12) is made from local, all-natural pastured and hormonefree beef raised in Stone Ridge and comes on a “Haus-made” pretzel bun. Other staples of the gastropub-style menu include a Roast Pork Loin Sandwich ($13), Hungarian Goulash ($19)—pork cooked slow and low in a spicy Hungarian paprika sauce served over herb spaetzle, and a Sauerbraten Sandwich ($13), slowbraised brisket in a traditional sweet-and-sour gravy on a pretzel bun.
Clockwise from left: Waitress Kaelea Fairweather; grilled duck breast, plum sauce, grilled endives, and roasted red potatoes; Lynne Faurie and Barbara Masterson at the bar with co-owner Dirk Schalle Opposite: Darren Unger in front, Stephanie Skiadas in background.
On a recent visit, I began with a glass of the Rushing Duck Beanhead Porter ($6.50), an aged dark beer enriched with coffee beans, and a cup of the Chorizo and Red Bean Soup ($4), while my partner had the Curried Green Lentil Soup ($3)—a vegan option among several others on the menu. Both were rich and flavorful and served hot (how often is that not the case?). For the entree, I chose the Jaeger Schnitzel ($18), a lightly breaded and sautéed boneless pork loin served with a mushroom ragu over herbed spaetzle, while my partner had the Mixed Grill ($23), a sampling of German cuisine that included bratwurst, weisswurst, and smoked kielbasa, served with warm German potato salad and sauerkraut with bacon. Both meals were delicious—the schnitzel was piled high with mushrooms and the sautéed spaetzle—something between a dumpling and a noodle—was more comforting than the backseat of a Mercedes. It paired beautifully with the Great Divide Colette, Belgian-Style Farmhouse Ale ($6.50). All of the sausages in the Mixed Grill are made locally by Mark Elia in Highland, and all were moist and tasty with a lovely, fine texture and paired well with the local Brotherhood Pinot Noir. For dessert, I ordered the Apfel Strudel ($6), built from local Empire apples on a flaky pastry with a gorgeous espresso caramel sauce and a generous dollop of freshly made whipped cream—probably the most sumptuous strudel I’ve ever enjoyed. My partner ordered the Flourless Chocolate Cake ($6), which won’t disappoint even the most discerning chocolate lover. “We know we can’t be all things to all people,” says Elizabeth, “but we try to keep the menu in the German context, and to keep it local and seasonal.” The couple has done considerable research into the history of their restaurant. Today’s Gunk Haus began as a single-family-home in the 1870s, and was converted to a boardinghouse after the Civil War. Known as the Hollywood Hotel, it remained a boardinghouse until the 1930s, when it was purchased by an Italian family who operated it as the Hollywood Bar and Grill, which it remained until 1967, when it was purchased by a Jamaican family who kept the name but ran it as a Jamaican restaurant. In the 1990s, it became well
known as a reggae club, as unlikely as that might seem in the apple orchards of the Hudson Valley (there were many Jamaican immigrant families working in the orchards). The couple discovered the building when they came up to the Hudson Valley to visit Elizabeth’s sister and brother-in-law. “My brother-in-law drove me past this place and I started to laugh—‘No way!’ I said. Dirk and I were heading to Germany that week, but on the way out of town we drove by the restaurant and I said to Dirk, jokingly, ‘Oh, by the way, that’s the place Ted wants us to buy.’ We barely paused on the road and didn’t discuss it any further. So we left for Germany—I don’t really speak German, but I can understand a bit, and after a while I began to realize that he was telling everyone he had found his dream restaurant. I said ‘Dirk, are you talking about the Hollywood Bar?’ And he said, ‘Oh yeah—I loved it—that’s the place!’ It looked like it needed so much work that I didn’t take it seriously, but he recognized the potential from the get-go. When we were renovating, so many people stopped by and wanted to take a look at the place, saying they had been interesting in buying it but that it looked like too much work. Every time we heard that, we got more and more discouraged. But in the scheme of things, the work was largely cosmetic. The beautiful old wood floors were here, but they had about two layers of linoleum on top of them. There was a drop ceiling that we took out, which revealed the original rafters.” The interior of the Gunk Haus is open, light, airy, and spare, with the relaxed atmosphere of a country pub. Whether seated at a banquette or at one of the long, pub-style tables, your eyes are drawn up to the rafters. The walls have been freshly plastered (with actual plaster—something of a lost art that is experiencing a revival), which contributes to the Old World feel of the place. The bar is lively, with a semi regular, semi local crowd, but the emphasis is on the restaurant. “For the first year, we didn’t even have bar stools,” says Elizabeth. “It’s just not something you would ever see in Bavaria. People sit together at long tables.” Gunkhaus.com 2/15 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 73
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Art Galleries & Centers The Arts at Hotchkiss The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-4423 www.hotchkiss.org/arts slock@hotchkiss.org The Hotchkiss School, situated in the nortwest corner of Connecticut at the foothills of the Berkshires, offers a wealth of arts programming September through July of each year. Whether you are interested in world-class musicians who visit as part of our Hotchkiss Concert Series, innovative art exhibitions in our beautiful Tremaine Gallery, contemporary dance performances by dynamic companies and choreographers, student dramatic productions, film festivals, choral and orchestral concerts - the Arts at Hotchkiss has something you will love. All are welcome and the vast majority of our programming is free.
Crawford Gallery of Fine Art 65 Main Street, Pine Bush, NY (845) 744-8634 Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 www.newpaltz.edu/museum sdma@newpaltz.edu Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 788-0100 www.hvcca.org Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com 76 BUSINESS DIRECTORY CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Mill Street Loft Poughkeepsie, Pawling, and Red Hook (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply 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
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 Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Fleet Service Center 185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812 Kinderhook Toyota 1908 State Rt 9H, Hudson, NY (518) 822-9911 www.kinderhooktoyota.com info@kinderhooktoyota.com K i n d e r h o o k To y o t a h a s b e e n offering honest, friendly ser vice in Columbia County since 1967. We’re your hometown source for your next vehicle.
Beverages Binnewater (845) 331-0504 www.binnewater.com
Books Monkfish Publishing 22 East Market Street, Suite 304 Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores 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
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Acorn School 2911 Lucas Avenue, Accord, NY (845) 626-3103 www.acornschoolhouse.com motria@acornschoolhouse.com
John A Alvarez and Sons 3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 www.alvarezmodulars.com
Bard College at Simon’s Rock (800) 235-7186 www.simons-rock.edu/admit admit@simons-rock.edu
N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
Bard MAT Bard College (845) 758-7151 www.bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
Glenn’s Wood Sheds (845) 255-4704
Robert George Design Group 27 West Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-7088 robertgeorgedesigngroup.com Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Business Services Tracking Wonder - the art & science of captivating creativity Jeffrey Davis, Founder, Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com We build business artists. We help people build up online & offline audiences, master their work flow, and author captivating books without falling into traps of rigid thinking. 5 consultants + website team.
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery Street Route 9 Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
Clothing & Accessories Columbia Costumes 66 North Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996 www.columbiacostumes.com Pegasus Comfort Footwear 10 Mill Hill Rd. Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2373 27 N. Chestnut St. New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0788 3 E. Market St. Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7474 www.pegasusshoes.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths 45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 www.tech-smiths.com
Bishop Dunn Memorial School (845) 569-3496 www.bdms.org Canterbury School 101 Aspetuck Avenue, New Milford, CT (860) 210-3832 www.cbury.org admissions@sbury.org Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 www.caryinstitute.org Center for Metal Arts 44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 www.centerformetalarts.com/blog Center for the Digital Arts at Westchester Community College Peekskill, NY (914) 606-7300 www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill peekskill@sunywcc.edu Columbia-Greene Community College 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1481 ext.3344 www.mycommunitycollege.com Green Meadow Waldorf School (845) 356-2514 www.gmws.org Harvey School 260 Jay Street, Katonah, NY (914) 232-3161 www.harveyschool.org admissions@harveyschool.org Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org info@hawthornevalleyschool.org Located in central Columbia County, NY and situated on a 400-acre working farm, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School supports the development of each child and provides students with the academic, social, and practical skills needed to live in today’s complex world. Also offering parent-child playgroups and High School boarding. Local busing. Nurturing living connections, from early childhood through grade 12.
High Meadow School Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org Housatonic Valley Waldorf School Newtown, CT (203) 364-1113 www.waldorfct.org Montgomery Montessori School 136-140 Clinton Street Montgomery, NY (845) 401-9232 www.montgomeryms.com Montgomery Montessori encompasses students from PreK-8th grade. We believe that every child has the right to go to a school that is a perfect match for them. Montessori is a philosophy with the fundamental principle that a child learns best within a social environment, which supports each individuals unique development. We are committed to the “whole child” approach to education as well as the enrichment of the mind, body, and spirit.
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 www.mountainlaurel.org Mountain Top School Saugerties, NY (845) 389-7322 www.mountaintopschool.com
Primrose Hill School - Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 www.primrosehillschool.com Rudolf Steiner School 35 West Plain Road Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-4015 www.gbrss.org South Kent School 40 Bulls Bridge Road, South Kent, CT (860) 927-3539 x201 www.southkentschool.org SUNY New Paltz (845) 257-7869 www.newpaltz.edu SUNY Purchase 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY www.purchase.edu The Manitou School 1656 Route 9D, Cold Spring, NY (646) 295-7349 www.manitouschool.org
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Events Durants Tents & Events 1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com Kaatsbaan International Dance Center www.facebook.com/kaatsbaan www.kaatsbaan.org New Genesis Productions www.newgenesisproductions.org Woodstock Writer’s Festival www.woodstockwritersfestival.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adam’s Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300 765 Dutchess Turnpike Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org storeadmin@hawthornevalleyfarm.org A full-line natural foods store set on a 400acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery, Kraut Cellar and Creamery. Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. MondaySunday, 7:30 to 7.
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Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd. 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
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Trinity - Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 www.trinitypawling.org
Meadowscent Gardiner & New Paltz, NY (845)-255-3866 www.meadowscent.com
Ulster BOCES (845) 331-6680 ulsterboces.org mschroed@ulsterboces.org
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Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org
Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs Saratoga, NY (518) 587-2224 www.waldorfsaratoga.org
Hair Salons Allure 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Francis Morris Violins Great Barrington, NY (413) 528-0165 www.francismorrisviolins.com
Le Shag. 292 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0191 www.leshag.com
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Insurance Devine Insurance Agency 58 N Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7806 www.devineinsurance.com
Interior Design New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 www.nydfo.myshopify.com
Interior Design & Home Furnishings Cabinet Designers, Inc. 747 State Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com info@cabinetdesigners.com
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Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts 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
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Motorcyclepedia Museum 250 Lake Street (Route 32) Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065
Performing Arts Bardavon 1968 Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org The Falcon 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com Mid-Hudson Civic Center Poughkeepsie, NY www.midhudsonciviccenter.org 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 worldrenowned 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.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
Photography
Geoffrey Good Fine Jewelry 238 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (212) 625-1656 www.geoffreygood.com
Artcraft Camera & Digital 520 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3141 www.artcraftcamera.com
Hudson Valley Goldsmith Corner of Academy Street and Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5872 www.HudsonValleyGoldsmith.com David@HVGoldsmith.com
Corporate Image Studio 1 Jacobs Lane, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5255 www.mgphotoman.com mgphotoman@gmail.com
We create custom one of a kind fine jewelry including engagement and wedding rings using recycled precious metals, conflict free diamonds and unique gemstones. All jewelry is made in front of you in our open studio. We are also a full service jewelry store offering repairs, resizings, and gold buying, all done on premises. Also featuring many fine jewelry artists from across the US.
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 78 BUSINESS DIRECTORY CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.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 Certified Picture Framer, has been framing since 1988. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Real Estate Artist Workspace at the Shirt Factory 77 Cornell Street, Kingston, NY (845) 340-4660 mike@mpiazzarealestate.com Catskill Farm Builders catskillfarms.blogspot.com Paula Redmond Real Estate Inc. (845) 677-0505 (845) 876-6676 www.paularedmond.com
Record Stores Rocket Number Nine Records 50 N Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-8217
Summer Camps Alpine Endeavors Gunks Climbing & Adventure Camp New Paltz, NY (845) 658-3094 alpineendeavors.com Black Rock Forest Consortium Cornwall, NY (845) 534-4517 www.blackrockforest.org Camp Hillcroft Lagrangeville, NY (845) 223-5826 www.camphillcroft.com Camp Huntington Hudson, NY (917) 710-4285 camphuntington.com Camp Ulster at Ulster Community College Stone Ridge, NY (845) 339-2025 sunyulster.edu/campulster Frost Valley YMCA 2000 Frost Valley Road, Claryville, NY (845) 985-2291 ext. 205 www.FrostValley.org info@frostvalley.org Livingston Street Early Childhood Community Kingston, NY (845) 340-9900 www.livingstonstreet.org The Ashokan Center 477 Beaverkill Road, Olivebridge, NY (845) 657-8333 x10 ashokancenter.org
Sunrooms Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com
Tutoring Hudson Valley eTutor (845) 687-4552 ScienceTeachersOnline.com Need help with science or nursing classes? Fulfill Regents lab time with NY State Certified Biology & Earth Science teachers. Learn from certified teachers, college professors & other educators highly trained in their field. Access assistance through an educational online platform. LIVE, PERSONALIZED, PRIVATE EDUCATION.
Weddings Byrdcliffe Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660 Liberty Farms Contact Jennifer Houle, Ghent, NY (917) 690-9911 eventslibertyfarmsny@gmail.com Pelmo Vineyards 202 Strawridge Road, Wallkill, NY (914) 755-5980 www.pelmovineyard.com Roots & Wings / Rev Puja Thomson P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies puja@rootsnwings.com
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Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss (845) 339-7834 www.hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com
Writing Services Peter Aaron www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org Wallkill Valley Writers New Paltz, NY (845) 750-2370 www.wallkillvalleywriters.com khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com Devote a full day to w riting with WVW on March 21—Write Saturday. Registration information available at www.wallkillvalleywriters.com or by email: khymes@wallkillvalleywriters.com.
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interaction with your caretakers in childhood. So you’ll move toward that person because there’s this unconscious expectation that you’ll get your needs met.You might go into couplehood and maybe marriage with this person, and there will be great sex and powerful emotions. And then, of course, the process is that you will get frustrated with this person, because they are similar to the parents with whom you were frustrated in childhood. We think that’s normative; this is what’s supposed to happen. You can’t change it, unless you decide to marry someone that you don’t really like or that’s neutral to you as an attractor. All of this happens at such a primitive level in our brains. How can we make it more conscious? Hendrix: Unfortunately, there’s a cultural ignorance of this process. Romantic love is romanticized, rather than understood to be an on-ramp to healing and wholeness. Couples need to normalize their conflict because everyone who falls in love is going to go through a disillusionment—that’s the nature of the beast. Then couples need to understand what needs they have that didn’t get met in childhood. These are the complaints that you have [in your relationship] that are expressed over and over with emotion. I need to get clear on what my need is and what your need is. My marriage agenda, or partnership agenda, is to stretch into meeting that need for you and for you to stretch into meeting that need for me. Hunt: In fact, the need Harville has is actually very hard for me to meet, and vice versa.The point of a relationship is to grow, so you can meet your beloved’s needs. We often say that incompatibility is the grounds for a relationship. Conflict isn’t a bad thing: It’s growth trying to happen. It’s a beautiful transformational process. The Imago [relationship therapy] process is based on dialogue—the whole idea of taking turns talking.The three steps of Imago Dialogue [mirroring, validating, and empathizing] enable an individual to become curious about their partner so they can eventually be motivated to make a change to meet their needs. Is it possible to ask for change without sounding critical? Hunt: We invite couples to use what we call a behavior change request. Instead of describing to your partner what you don’t like, you can flag an issue and say, “You and I see this differently.You want x and I want y. I wonder if we can both get what we want?”You can become good at asking for what you want and need. Most people are great at critiquing their relationship for what’s missing—they’re brilliant for knowing what’s wrong with their partner. They’re not great at asking for the little, incremental changes that will meet their needs. We put the onus on the person with the problem to really become artful at making requests of their partner for what they want. They need to make a request for something their partner can actually do. If you say, “I wish I felt more loved by you,” they won’t know what to do. But if you approach your partner and say, “I remember that when we were dating you used to rub my shoulders. Maybe you could give me a little massage
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like that every now and then?” That they can do. The most important ingredient in a relationship is safety. If your partner feels attacked, then they can’t do the growth that they want to do. You once found yourselves—the marriage experts—on the verge of divorce. Hunt: We woke up about 15 or 18 years ago and realized we had failed to put into our personal life what we were so wanting other people to do. We went to therapy and the therapist threw up his hands and called us the couple from hell. We had four therapists tell us that we were untreatable, so we were talking to divorce lawyers. Harville said, “Gee, I feel like we’ve laid out a banquet table for so many other couples, and we just get the crumbs.” At the Imago conference, we announced to [our community of] therapists that we couldn’t do our own system. We were pretty clear that it was hopeless. For me, the change came from reading the neuroscience at the time and realizing how empowering it was to take control of your own thoughts: You can’t change your first thought but you can change your second thought.The second thing was recognizing negativity in our relationship. I didn’t think I was being negative; I thought I was helping Harville improve. Out of the charitable nature of my heart, I was offering counsel. Harville was miserable, and I was miserable. Hendrix: So we developed, with Helen as the leader, the idea of a zero-negativity process. Helen suggested we have a calendar and each day we monitor our relationship to see if it got a put-down during the day. And we started to identify, monitor, and remove negativity from our interactions.When we succeeded, we’d get a smiley face on the calendar. We’ve done that every day now for about 15 years. Every day we also offer each other three appreciations. We do that no matter how tired we are or where we are. I think that’s what has grown us into a feeling of safety that we can count on. Now we can both say we have the marriage of our dreams. We have couples that have taken the [zero-negativity] pledge who are in contact with us, signing it and practicing it, and all of them report that after about three months they were back in love with each other. That’s because they felt safe enough to be vulnerable and to engage on a very authentic level.They were giving each other positive strokes and having fun together. Hunt: This stuff can be taught in school. Our little motto here is there should be four Rs—reading, writing, ’rithmetic, and relationships. Harville and I have recently begun to take this workshop in a condensed form to populations that don’t go to therapy. What we’ve done is extract the essence of the workshop and made it into an educational process. We’re disseminating information free of charge to financially stressed cities—we’ve picked Dallas, where we both have some roots. We’re seeing, can we bring relationship skills to a whole city? We’ve done that with about 1,000 couples so far. How can we keep passion alive? Hendrix: The media assumes that all relationships that are great are romantic. We struggle with what is realistic. Here’s what Helen and I have concluded: Our basic human nature is that we are social creatures and connecting is not what we do—it’s what we are.We can lose awareness that we’re connecting and interconnected, but we cannot not connect. When we’re aware that we’re doing it, that awareness is joyful. We’re feeling safe, experiencing connecting. We think that’s the original relational experience between the baby and the caretaker. The place where this connected reality returns is in romantic love—that feeling of joyful aliveness. It’s not an illusion but in fact a retasting of being, a retasting of connecting that was originally lost and now we have it again. What sustains joy is safety. If we don’t feel safe, joy turns into anxiety. Internally, we pull down a shade. Safety is the nonnegotiable on-ramp to a passionate romantic relationship that’s an everyday experience. The way to maintain it is zero-negativity, and the second thing Helen and I learned is you have to do something—interactions that trigger endorphins in your bloodstream. That can be being playful, giving backrubs, giving appreciations, caring behaviors, anything that says you’re safe with me and I affirm your value. I do that by getting Helen a cup of coffee, picking her up from a meeting. I could say I’m busy, but Helen is my priority. When we’re holding hands, just chatting, relaxing—for us, that’s living a passionate life.
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Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAc 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive oneon-one 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 trigger-point acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of non-toxic, eco-friendly materials.
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Counseling break / through career and life coaching (845) 802-0544 heymann.peter@gmail.com The Accord Center for Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 646-3191 theaccordcenter.com
Cranio-Sacral Therapy Dr. Bruce Schneider 4 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY Water Street Market New Paltz, NY, (845) 679-6700 drbruceschneider.com Dr. Bruce has developed a precise protocol using Chiropractic, CranioSacral Therapy and Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET). These complimentary modalities effectively locate and release patterns of unresolved stress in the body. Experience the improved health and vitality that emerges naturally when these barriers to health are removed. Address the cause upstream instead of managing symptoms downstream. Dr. Bruce has been in practice for 28 years. Call (845) 679-6700.
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Health Food Stores Mother Earth’s Storehouse 300 Kings Mall Court Kingston, NY 845-336-5541 motherearthstorehouse.com Mother Earth’s Storehouse with three locations in Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Saugerties is the Hudson Valley’s premier all natural and organic grocer featuring certified organic produce, bulk items, bakery and deli and vitamins and supplements. They also have in store healthy food educators to help assist you with questions and store tours.
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature 1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
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Videophones and Videomirrors, Ann Woorward, 1974, color photograph, from “Videofreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television” at the Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz
Guerrillas in Our Midst Video is a relatively new medium (the first videotape recording was made 64 years ago), but already it has a history. The Hudson Valley lays claim to a vital piece of that history: the first pirate television station in the United States (and perhaps the world!). The Videofreex collective, which broadcast in the tiny hamlet of Lanesville from 1972 to 1977, is the subject of an exhibition at the Dorsky Museum in New Paltz opening on February 7: “The Art of Guerrilla Television.” The story of the Videofreex begins at the Woodstock Festival of 1969. Parry Teasdale arrived at Bethel with a portable video camera, and soon met David Cort, who was similarly equipped. Video is an inherently collaborative medium, and the two began working together. Significantly, they avoided the iconic images of Woodstock. Instead of wailing guitars, this collective-of-two recorded the compassionate tedium of the first-aid tent. Video gravitates toward the personal. Film directors love shooting vast landscapes; videomakers love meeting new people. (Also, at that time videotape had poor sound quality—and was in black-and-white!) But once Teasdale and Cort had captured the hidden side of the Woodstock Festival, where could they show it? In 1969 three networks controlled all of television. Back in New York City, the Videofreex inherited a Soho loft where they showed videos once a week. They were gentrified out of New York before it was popular—in 1971. Their loft was getting expensive, as galleries began opening in Soho. Meanwhile, the New York State Council of the Arts was quite generous with grants, but favored upstate applicants. The collective found a 17-bedroom ex-boardinghouse called Maple Tree Farm in Lanesville. In the late 1960s hippies moved out of city slums into the countryside, often living in communes. One doesn’t think of video as part of the “back to the land” movement, but it was. This low-budget, portable medium could travel anywhere. As a favor to radical visionary Abbie Hoffman, Teasdale wrote the “Guerrilla
Broadcasting” section of Steal This Book; Hoffman rewarded him with a television transmitter. In March of 1972 Videofreex started Lanesville TV, a pirate station. Over the next five years they aired 258 broadcasts from their home-built studio. (Incidentally, “pirate” meant that the transmission was illegal.) “You could make the argument that the citizens of Lanesville—this town of 300 people—were co-creators of Lanesville TV,” suggests Andrew Ingall, curator of the Dorsky exhibit. The rather conservative community welcomed these eccentric outsiders—especially once they saw “Buckaroo Bart,” a homegrown children’s show where a local kid named Willie Benjamin played Sheriff John. But the Videofreex did have a subversive side. They filmed the Weathermen’s “Days of Rage” in Chicago in 1969, and interviewed Black Panther Fred Hampton six weeks before he was murdered by the Chicago police. At the May Day demonstration in Washington, DC in 1971, Cort was beaten by a policeman—and captured it on his Sony Portapak. The collective was also respected in the art community. Artists like Red Grooms and Carolee Schneemann visited, as well as video pioneers from as far away as Germany and Israel. Lily Tomlin, a friend of one of the Videofreex, arrived in Lanesville to rehearse a cheerleader sketch for “Saturday Night Live.” Thirty-eight years after Lanesville TV ended, the collective is having their media moment. This spring the film Here Come the Videofreex will debut. “The Art of Guerrilla Television” includes a `70s-style carousel slide show of photos taken by the Videofreex. Some of the Videofreex’s original equipment will also be on display. “Portable” back then meant “weighing 25 pounds.” “Videofreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television” will run from February 7 through July 20 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. (845) 257-3844; Newpaltz.edu/museum. —Sparrow 2/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 87
SUNDAY 1 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Lynn Seeney: Obstructed Memories Opening reception February 14, 5pm-7pm Howland Public Library, Beacon. 831-1134.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
3rd Annual Winter Hoot $30-$60. With music, dancing, food, film and art & nature activities for all ages, The Winter Hoot invites the community, one and all, for a spirit-raising good time in mid-winter. Come for a few hours or the whole weekend. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.
FILM
Buster Keaton’s “College” 3-5pm. $7. One of the last films Keaton would make as an independent. Live Accompaniment by Marta Waterman. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. Rosendaletheatre.org.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Basic Swing Dance Class 6-7pm. $80. 4-week class. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. Christine O’Leary’s Stand-Up Comedy Workshop 6:30-8:30pm. $300. Through March 23. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Pochoir 9am-4pm. $320. Through Feb. 4. Printmaking workshop with Kate McGloughlin. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
TUESDAY 3 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Breath and Movement: Yoga as Moving Meditation 6:30-7:30pm. $10. Come explore how the breath can enhance your yoga and take
MUSIC
Bounty Restaurant. 6pm. $75. Culinary Institue of America -- American Bounty Restaurant, Hyde Park. Ciachef.edu.
The Kurt Henry Band 8:30pm. Americana. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
Wise Choices for Breast Health 7-8:30pm. With Gary Mercurio. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. 687-0880.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
LECTURES & TALKS
Gallery Conversation: Scale from the Artist’s and Curator’s Viewpoint 5:30pm. Artist and Vassar College Professor of Art Harry Roseman and curator Mary-Kay Lombino bring their perspectives on matters of scale to this informal discussion. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5237.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES The Contemporary Portrait from Life 1-4pm. Wednesdays in Feb. with Claire Lambe. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Introduction to Blues Dance 6-7pm. $80. 4-week class with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578. ROBERT L. FURLONG, CAS
Cindy Sherman and Colette the Artist 3:30-5pm. $10/members free. Paul Tschinkel’s Series on Contemporary Art. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Salisbury Forum & The Filmworks Forum Present Kids for Cash 11:15am. A riveting look behind the notorious scandal that rocked the nation when it first came to light in 2009. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
MUSIC
ChoralFest 7pm. Cappella Festiva Treble Choir, Vassar College Choir and Vassar College Women’s Chorus. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone 8pm. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. JP Patrick & Friends 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
FOOD & WINE
Will Hoppey 7pm. Acoustic. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
FILM
Sunday Brunch 11am-2pm. Nicki Parrott Trio with Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
FRIDAY 6
Sound Healing and yoga with Lea Garnier First Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
A dancer from the Poughkeepsie City Ballet.
MUSIC
Concert: Percussion and Viola 3pm. Violist Ralph Farris and percussionist Frank Cassara. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Larry Moses and the Latin Jazz Explosion 2pm. $10. Jazz. Towne Crier Café, Beacon. 855-1300. Marji Zintz 8:30pm. Acoustic. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Super Sunday Party 5:30pm. $25. Watch the game on a 9-ft. projection screen with a southwestern buffet. Daryl’s House Club, Pawling. 289-0185.
SPIRITUALITY
Creative Spirit Sunday 11am-1pm. $20 includes materials and choclate. Sacred play with crayons, paints, pencils, and markers (or whatever else you might like to bring with you) is good for the soul and can help to bring more flow to all areas of your life. No experience or training necessary. Everpresent Magic Studio, Kingston. facebook.com/ events/308371566038509.
MONDAY 2 LECTURES & TALKS
Hearing Wonderland: The Strange Sounds of Alice’s Adventures 8pm. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of first publication of Alice in Wonderland, this talk examines the sound worlds created by Lewis Carroll in his book and the various ways in which filmmakers have sought to present this classic tale through film score and sound design. Presented by Justin Patch, adjunct assistant professor in music. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
MUSIC
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. 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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Vanaver Caravan DanceFest! The 23rd Annual DanceFest! will combine traditional dance forms with the unexpected: lyrical and clogging, classical and Kurdish/Turkish line dancing, contemporary and sign language. Twelve Hudson Valley dance companies will perform at McKenna Theatre at SUNY New Paltz, including a final DanceFest! performance by Figures in Flight, a youth dance troupe featuring convicted inmates through the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program. Their performance will include themes of war, suffering, separation, love, and reconciliation. Other companies include the American Youth Ballet, CaravanKids Project, and the Barefoot Dance Center. The show runs February 7 & 8. Tickets: $18 for adults, $12 for seniors/children 12 and under, are available through the individual schools and at the door. (845) 256-9300; Vanavercaravan.org. you more deeply into each posture. A Karma donation class, all proceeds benefit the Community Center. Warwick Valley Community Center, Warwick. 986-6422.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Adult Modern Dance Introduction 10:15-11:30am. The Arts Oasis, Red Hook. Thearts-oasis.com. Basic Swing Dance Class 6-7pm. $80. 4-week class. Instructors Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-7578.
WEDNESDAY 4 KIDS & FAMILY
ACTing Up 10:30-11:30am. Jessica Iva Coons will lead the workshop for preschoolers and their grown-ups. For kids ages 2-4 to explore their individuality through story-time, song, dance and movement. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136. Infant Developmental Movement Education First Wednesday of every month, 12:301:30pm. $100/series. Through awareness, communicating with your baby and play, IDME helps with sleep difficulty, digestive issues, nursing, tummy time, rolling, crawling, independent sitting and walking. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Book Club: The Beloved Country by Alan Paton 3pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
THURSDAY 5 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Inside/Outside: Work by Lisa Pressman Opening reception March 7, 5pm-7pm The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112. Lynn Seeney: Obstructed Memories Opening reception February 14, 5pm-7pm Howland Public Library, Beacon. 831-1134.
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 Transitional Community in Newburgh, (a re-entry program for those being released from prison), as well as other matters related to Mass Incarceration. The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
DANCE
Swingin’ Newburgh First Thursday of every month. Beginner swing dance lesson provided by Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios 7-7:30. Swing Shift Orchestra plays 7:30-9pm. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. Got2lindy.com.
FOOD & WINE
Drink Cocktails for the Library 6-8pm. Enjoy a fun evening with Tim Federle, Broadway actor, irrepressible bon vivant and author of Tequila Mockingbird and Hickory Daiquiri Dock. This event is free with 20% of proceeds from all book and cocktail sales going to support the Campaign for the new Hudson Area Library. Café Le Perche, Hudson. (518) 828-1792. Hedges Family Estate/Red Mountain Wine 6pm. $75. Four-course dinner prepared by Chef Robert Perillo ’86 at the American
Tournées French Film Festival: Amour by Michael Haneke 6:30pm. A staggering, profound examination of love, Michael Haneke’s compassionate film centers on Georges and Anne, longmarried octogenarians who still take great delight in each other. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5723.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Kids’ Yoga 4:30-5:30pm. $16.50. Classes blend kidfriendly postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Pre-Natal Yoga 6-7pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
LECTURES & TALKS
Ambition, Adaptation, and Risk: Making Music Your Career 4:30pm. Timothy Takach discusses his career as a singer, composer, and publisher, and the importance of being a “self-starter” to maintain a career in the arts. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
MUSIC
American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. $25-$40. Featuring Concerto Competition winners Gabriel Baeza ’18, violin, and Adrienn Kántor ’14, flute. The program includes Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4; Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Violin Concerto in D Major; and Carl Reinecke, Flute Concerto. Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-onHudson. Barnstar 9pm. An all-star collective of bluegrass and roots-music talent. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Cabaret Night 8pm. A sampling of the Great American Songbook: Gershwin, Kern, Porter, Berlin, Rodgers, Sondheim, and others. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu. Cousin Acoustic 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer 8pm. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Get The Led Out 7:30pm. Led Zepplin tribute concert. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Henderson & Osinski 8:30pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
MUSIC SO PERCUSSION AND GREY MCMURRAY’S “WHERE (WE) LIVE” AT BARD COLLEGE
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Grey McMurray performs with So Percussion at Bard this month.
Welcome Home It's one of those can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees concepts: An artist's home and the extended community in which he or she lives informs their art as much as-arguably more-than any of their stylistic influences. Whatever home environment an artist is raised in shapes who they are and what they do from the very first instant they encounter the world around them. Rarely, though, does their actual relationship with that world become the focus of a live, multimedia stage production. And yet it's that perspective that's the central theme of "Where (we) Live," which was conceived by Bard College resident ensemble So Percussion and guitarist Grey McMurray, and will be performed by them at the campus's Fisher Center on February 14 and 15. “[The show] developed over a long period,” says McMurray, who with So Percussion appears alongside choreographer Emily Johnson in the program, which is being directed by playwright Ain Gordon. “It went from being more about us improvising to us allowing chance circumstance and the environment we’re playing in to impose themselves on the performance.” Consisting of Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Cha-Beach, So Percussion was formed at the Yale School of Music in 1999. The troupe initially rose to prominence within New York’s experimental and contemporary classical scenes via their work with composer David Lang and his Bang on a Can ensemble, and in the years since has furthered its reputation by collaborating with luminary artists like Steve Reich, Arvo Part, Fred Frith, Evan Ziporyn, the Dirty Projectors, Glenn Kotche, Dan Deacon, Bobby Previte, and Medeski, Martin and Wood. In addition to their original music, So Percussion, whose members were appointed co-directors of Bard’s percussion department in 2010,
has performed works by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, and George Crumb. Based in Brooklyn, McMurray is on the sharpest edge of modern experimental guitar. Besides being a member of such avant outfits as Knights on Earth, the Exit, itsnotyouitsme, Beyondo, Bell, and Naked Brunch, he has performed and recorded with Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyondai Braxton, Martha Wainwright, Chromeo, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Wordless Music Orchestra. “Where (we) Live” debuted at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis in September 2012 and was staged later that year at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival and in Montana. For each performance, the cast includes a locally sourced artist—guests have included other musicians as well as writers, painters, knitters, blacksmiths, and woodworkers—who creates in real time on stage alongside the players. Johnson’s role includes spontaneously devising vague directives for the musicians, which she writes on note cards and passes to them—similar to Brian Eno’s famed Oblique Strategies cards, perhaps, but far more open-ended. “The audience should expect an experience where everyone performing is constantly on their toes,” McMurray says. “And, absolutely, some things that are very much unexpected.” “Where (we) Live” will be performed at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson on February 14 at 7:30pm and February 15 at 3pm. Tickets are $25 ($10 students). (845) 758-7900; Fishercenter.bard.edu. —Peter Aaron 2/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 89
Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Jukebox Junkies 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Ladysmith Black Mambazo 8pm. $45/$0 members/$35 upper balcony. With South African talk at 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Live at the Fillmore: The Definitive Tribute to the Original Allman Brothers Band 8-10pm. $29/$34. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039. Orlando Marin, The Last Mambo King 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Shakedown 7:30pm. $10. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Sonic Soul Band 9:30pm. Jazz. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
FOOD & WINE Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market First Saturday of every month, 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.
KIDS & FAMILY Saturday Social Circle First Saturday of every month, 10am-noon. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. Whether you are pregnant, have a new baby or older kids, we welcome you to join us on Saturday mornings for conversation, fun and laughter over tea and homemade cookies. There is time for socialization so you can connect with old friends and get to know new ones. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.
LECTURES & TALKS “From Isabella to Sojourner: A Slave in Ulster County,” a lecture by Ulster County Historian Anne Gordon 4-5pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Celtic Night with the Irish Mafia First Saturday of every month. Sean Griffin’s Irish Mafia and invited guests connect the Celtic tradition to Galicia, Spain. Elephant, Kingston. Elephantwinebar.com/. Concert by the Vassar Ensembles 8pm. The Vassar College Orchestra performs. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Godspell 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$17 seniors and students. The Gospel of Matthew comes to the stage of the NYCA Cabaret Theatre. New York Conservatory for the Arts, Hurley. 339-4340. New York Conservatory for the Arts, Hurley. 339-4340.
Ed Kowalcyzk Throwing Copper Unplugged 8pm. $38. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Ed Palermo Big Band’s Broken Hearts Are For A**holes! 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Impressionist Landscpes in Acrylic 10am-1pm. $35. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
Godspell 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$17 seniors and students. The Gospel of Matthew comes to the stage of the NYCA Cabaret Theatre. New York Conservatory for the Arts, Hurley. 339-4340.
Monotypes with Elana Goren 10am-1pm. $35. Cabin Fever Workshop. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
Rhapsody in Black 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
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. Start your month feeling restored, balanced and inspired! SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974.
SATURDAY 7 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Inside/Outside: Work by Lisa Pressman Opening reception March 7, 5pm-7pm The Gallery at R&F, Kingston. 331-3112.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Scrabble Sit! First Saturday of every month, 1-4pm. In the spirit of old-fashioned face time and live in-person conversation, Red Hook Public Library invites you to join a casual game of Scrabble. We have plenty of boards, including Scrabble Junior for our younger participants. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
DANCE
23rd Annual DanceFest 2015 7pm. $18/$12 children. Experience a world of dance with works presented by twelve of the Hudson Valley’s finest dance schools. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
FILM
Tournées French Film Festival: Declaration of War by Valérie Donzelli 6:30pm. Courageously mining harrowing autobiographical episodes, director Valérie Donzelli and her co-writer, co-star, and expartner Jérémie Elkaïm imaginatively relay the story of their own tumultuous romance. Susan Trumbetta, Professor of Psychology, will lead a post-screening discussion. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5723. 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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Actors Showcase Workshop 11am-2pm. $180. Through March 14. Offered by Mirage Theatre Company. This workshop will focus on scenes and monologues culminating in a showcase performance for an invited audience of family, friends, theatre directors, and other guests. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580. Alexander Technique for Musicians 1-4pm. $50. “Body Mapping” is the conscious adjusting and refining of your “Body Map” to match the accuracy of your structure. Beacon Music Factory, Beacon. 765-0472.
THEATER
Cut and Painted Paper 1-4pm. $215. Weekly through Feb. 27. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.
THEATER
The Concerts at Camphill Ghent 3pm. $25/$20 seniors/$5 students. Professional chamber series featuring Haydn, Mendelssohn and contemporary composer Sheila Silver. Camphill Ghent, Chatham. Camphillghent.org.
Jen Metzger’s 50th Birthday Dance Bash 8pm. $10-$25. Donations help sustain Rosendale-based Citizens for Local Power (CLP) in fighting the energy fight for our communities. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
A Trip to Latin America 6-10pm. $15/$10 in advance. The evening will take you on a trip to Latin America through art, music, dance, food and fashion. The art exhibition will include latin themed works in a variety of mediums including photographs, paintings, drawings, mosaics, ceramics, and jewelry. Cornell Street Studio, Kingston. 679-8348.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo Deep in the mines of South Africa, isicathamiya (is-cot-a-ME-Ya) was born. The distinct musical genre developed from miners trying to pass the six-day work week with song. Using this style, Ladysmith Black Mambazo acts as both a globally recognized a capella group and preservers of South African tradition. Known for their rich combination of history and crystalline sound, their dynamic harmonizing is one of the musical underpinnings of Paul Simon’s multi-platinum album Graceland. The group will perform selections from their Grammy award-winning album, Live: Singing for Peace Around the World at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on February 6 and will host a panel an hour before show time to discuss life in South Africa. (413) 528-0100; Mahaiwe.org Deep Air Art Series: Human Ecologies/ Changing Landscapes Peter Lamborn Wilson and Tanya Marcuse 3-5pm. $5 ages 10+. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872. Playwrights Reading at the Library: Michael Heintzman 7-9pm. Michael Heintzman is a professional actor, playwright and co-founder of TrueNorth Theatre. He is a four-time finalist at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National Ten-Minute Play Contest and is the author of one-act plays as well as full length dramatic works. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Black History Month Event: David Leeming, James Baldwin, A Biography 7pm. James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In this biography, Baldwin’s close friend & colleague David Leeming creates an intimate portrait of a complex, troubled, driven, and brilliant man. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Playwrights Reading: Michael Heintzman 7-9pm. Michael Heintzman is a professional actor, playwright and co-founder of TrueNorth Theatre Project. He is a fourtime finalist at Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National Ten-Minute Play Contest and is the author of one-act plays as well as full length dramatic works. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. Butterfieldlibrary.org.
MUSIC
American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. $25-$40. Pre-concert talk at 7pm. Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bill’s Toupee 9pm. Covers. Hurricane Grill & Wings, Poughkeepsie. 243-2222. Breaking Justice Band 7pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. Bryan Gordon 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Extreme Guitar Tour 7:30pm. $20-$30. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Leo & the Lizards 7pm. Classic rock. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227. Linda Eder 8pm. $47/$37/$32/$25/test drive ticket $15. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. The Met: Live in HD Offenbach’s Les Contes D’Hoffmann 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Open Mike and Potluck 6pm. Featured Performer: Jay Mantika. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Open Rehearsal: Mahagonny Ensembles 11am. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. O’Solo Vito 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Steve Earle 8pm. Alt-country. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Tadataka Unno Trio 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Upstate Reggae’s 31st One Love Reggae Tribute 8pm. With Harmony Legend The Meditations, Liviti and Queen Tubby Sound. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Vintage Vinyl 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
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.
Swing Dance First Saturday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 and a bonus move at 9pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377. Valentine Candle Making 1:30-3:30pm. Learn how to make your own candles. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-0010. Winter Watercolor Classes with Mira Fink 12:30-3:30pm. $150 series/$30 class. Town of Esopus Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.
SUNDAY 8 DANCE
23rd Annual DanceFest 2015 2pm. $18/$12 children. Experience a world of dance with works presented by twelve of the Hudson Valley’s finest dance schools. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
FILM
Paul Taylor: Creative Domain 3pm. $10/$9/$6. A documentary about the making of a new dance work by a master of his art. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. Robert Mapplethorpe 3:30-5pm. $10/members free. Paul Tschinkel’s Series on Contemporary Art. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body 5pm. Screening of film series by noted paleontologist Neil Shubin, renowned for his discovery of the so-called missing link between fish and land animals. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
FOOD & WINE
2nd Annual Hudson Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival 11am-5pm. $30/$25 in advance. Come sip wine and sample chocolate from all across our region Putnam County Golf Course, Mahopac. 278-7272. Local Artisan and Farm Shop 11am-4pm. Local chocolates, wine, coffee (roasted in Rosendale) honey, elixir, produce, and more. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672. Sunday Brunch 11am-2pm. Featuring Lee Falco’s Organ Grinders. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Meditation, Intention and Zero Point Healing Second Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
MUSIC CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD AT BEARSVILLE THEATER
Chris Robinson Brotherhood plays the Bearsville Theater on February 10.
Eating Crowe “That was the second show of the tour,” explains Chris Robinson about the first time he played in the Hudson Valley when the Black Crowes opened Aerosmith’s PUMP tour at the Orange County Speedway in Middletown during the summer of 1990. “We were in Pennsylvania the first night and that was day two. Aerosmith were huge champions of the Black Crowes early in our career.” Chris is calling from Los Angeles, where he and his present band, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, are rehearsing for their winter 2015 tour. It also happens to be the very day his brother and longtime creative partner Rich Robinson made a vitriolic public statement announcing the official dissolution of the Crowes on the cusp of the 25th anniversary of their classic debut Shake Your Moneymaker. But if this news reached the singer’s ears at the time of our phone conversation, it didn’t stop him from reminiscing about his now-defunct group’s robust history in our area with any less sense of fondness. “The Hudson Valley has always been a special area for creative people and music,” he muses. “The best times for me were being able to make two incredible records up there. The summer the Black Crowes spent in Shokan at Allaire Studios to make [2008’s] Warpaint was really magical. And then, of course, being at the Barn and the Levon Helm sessions that we did for our last album Before the Frost…Until the Freeze will go down in the pantheon of the coolest shit I ever got to do.” On February 10, Robinson returns to the region to play Woodstock’s Bearsville Theater for the first time since 2012, in support of the Brotherhood’s excellent new studio album Phosphorescent Harvest. Graced with a striking psychedelic portrait of the Hudson River on its cover by Larry Carlson, this third CRB LP is by far the band’s boldest statement yet, produced by acclaimed indie producer Thom Monahan (Silver Jews, Scud Mountain Boys, Beachwood Sparks, Vetiver) and encompassing a myriad of contrasting styles that really displays the growth of his new outfit—rounded out by multi-
instrumentalist and American treasure Neal Casal, one-time Black Crowes keyboardist Adam MacDougall, bassist Tony Leone, and brand-new drummer Tony Leone, who joined the group in January—as a singular creative force entirely unto its own. “People can say we sound like this or we sound like that,” he explains. “I don’t give a fuck. What we’re talking about at the end of the day in regard to what we do, and I don’t want to oversimplify, but fucking rock and roll. We play Fats Domino and the Everly Brothers and Slim Harpo and Hank Ballard and Billy Mitchell, and that’s just as classic to us as Pink Floyd or Tangerine Dream or Gong or The Gun Club. It all goes around in this electrical current, but it’s something harder to market as ‘cool’—that realism.” Yet regardless of how wildly diverse the ingredients comprising Phosphorescent Harvest may be, the Brotherhood smoothly blends it all together into a heady bisque of pure warmth, groove, and soul in a way not unlike the recipe for his old band’s sophomore masterpiece The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, a comparison Robinson attributes to the internalization of the listener’s own private history with the music they love. “Those connections are soulful ones,” he muses. “Some people just listen to music because it’s fashionable, and they change music like they change clothes. But when music’s your thing and there’s this gravitational pull, I can relate because I listen to records for all the same reasons. When I’m feeling depressed or something’s not going right, there’s a certain sound or a lyric or a voice that makes me feel like a part of humanity again and helps me realize this storm shall pass. And when I’m having the best time with family and friends, there’s music for those moments as well.” Chris Robison Brotherhood plays the Bearsville Theater on February 10 at 9pm. Tickets: $30/$49/$59. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com. —Ron Hart 2/15 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 91
ART REPORT FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY
Snowy Thicket, a diptych by Chris Gonyea from the exhibit “Winter Paintings” at George Adams Gallery in Chelsea.
A River (of Creativity) That Flows Both Ways One of the Native American names for the Hudson River, a great estuary with tides connected to the rise and fall of the Atlantic, translates as “the river that flows both ways.” But in cultural terms, for too long, the dominant narrative has contended that the metropolis of New York City is the center of the cultural universe, and everything beyond is, so to speak, provincial. The only exception would be artists who have already made good in the city, and who have used their expanding vision (and wallets) to move to more spacious studios upriver, in “the country.” These days, “rural” is a purely relative term, however. All along, there have been intelligent, creative types born and raised in the Hudson Valley, and who, with its reasonable geographic proximity to the cultural resources of New York, have been pretty well informed about the aesthetic debates on the art scene for years. The new news is that the tide has been turning of late, bringing many of our own Hudson Valley artists into a more conspicuous position in the city, and in the process helping to shake off the tenacious vestiges of the old provincial ideas that still hang on in some quarters. February will see not one but two openings featuring work by Kingston native Chris Gonyea: a solo drawing show in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at Kentler International Drawing Space, and paired with Joseph Garlock in a painting show at George Adams Gallery in Chelsea. In his early career, Gonyea was primarily an abstractionist, making paintings that included collage elements that have been described as “industrial assemblage in high relief.” A graduate of the Pratt Institute, his art was strongly influenced by the heterogeneous approach of predecessors such as Schwitters and Rauschenberg, exploring the disjunctive logics of those artists with greater emphasis on form, and less on reference. He continued in this vein even after he returning to his hometown of Kingston in the early 1990s, but eventually this native environment—which had originally lured the Hudson River School painters of the 19th century—inspired a significant shift in his style about 10 years ago, when he began to focus on the representation of nature, especially trees. These overtly representational drawings and paintings extend the same basic concerns about medium and materiality that had informed his earlier, abstract work. 92 FORECAST CHRONOGRAM 2/15
Gonyea’s tree studies, based on photographs of stands of actual trees, in actual places (often literally in his own Hudson Valley backyard, or in other places he’s spent time, such as Martha’s Vineyard), share a sense of rootedness in a specific place that characterized Cole's and Church’s work of 150 years ago, but they are not products of the Romantic sublime; if anything, they embrace the contradictions of life today in a way that would have literally been unthinkable for those historical painters. Drawing on the energy of the previous work, the repetitive patterns of branches and foliage take on a formal significance of their own, which the artist characterizes as “geometrical or rhythmic, patterns that are more the subject than the tree itself at times.” On a fundamental level, all of Gonyea’s work is abstract, but by melding that abstract sense with the familiar hook of the natural motif, he opens the door to a wider audience, and even wider possibilities of potential meaning. The Kentler show will feature his unique soot drawings, made using a process of his own invention. He catches the carbon from a dirty flame as he passes the paper over the rising column of smoke—in some of the drawings, one can discern the ephemeral feathering of the soot on the surface, which makes certain passages appear to come in and out of focus. Once the paper is coated in this way, he sets to work with an array of erasers, removing the areas left whitened (the “negative space” of the drawing), often in fine detail. By necessity, the soot works are relatively small, and involve a tremendous amount of fine detail work with the eraser, but ultimately serve to draw the viewer into a particularly close, intimate relationship with the image, heightening the one’s sensitivity to the surface texture and materiality of the work, the abstraction generated by the pattern of the branches, and an almost hallucinogenic oscillation between figure and ground. The complexity of this work refutes the typical provincialism that too often infects considerations of art made outside the artificial boundaries of the gate keepers of Culture in New York. In December, for example, the venerable New York Times dedicated an article to the laudable efforts of Arts Mid-Hudson (formerly the Dutchess County Arts Council), but did so via a lopsided, marginalizing narrative that emphasized the organization’s office located in a strip mall, and featured colorful photographs of children
Work from Laura Moriarty’s opening at the OK Harris Gallery in SoHo.
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having their faces painted for Three Kings Day. I’m certain that there are plenty of arts organizations to be found within the five boroughs with similar programming, but you’d never find them featured as representative of “the art scene” in New York. “I think people believe you have to be inside the system to change it, which doesn’t make much sense to me” says Laura Moriarty, another Hudson Valley native whose work—a unique fusion of painting and sculpture, with frequent references to plate tectonics—and innovative approach to her career subverts much of the received opinion. “I feel like I’m an odd duck because I always knew I would stay here.” But living and working in Rosendale has not hindered the visibility of her work—last January she opened a show at the historic OK Harris Gallery in SoHo, which she found to be a good experience, even if it wasn’t her ultimate aspiration as an artist. “The old system [in which an artist would find representation by a gallery, and then concentrate only on producing work] is really broken. We need to be honest about what really does matter, and to understand that the old narratives don’t hold water anymore.” What really does matter to Moriarty is for artists to address the new state of affairs by inventing new ways to develop their work and careers--in her case, doing things like self-publishing a catalog of her work featuring serious writing about it in order to clarify its critical position. Artists today need to develop an array of skills above and beyond simply making the work—they can't just sit back and leave a gallerist in charge of organizing an exhibition strategy or hope to get the attention of the ever-shrinking universe of art critics/publications: They need to take control of their own professional destiny. While the geography of the Hudson Valley is still an important component of the aesthetics of everyday life in these parts, it is increasingly encouraging to see artists like Gonyea and Moriarty who manage to move beyond the outmoded definitions of city versus country, inventing new modes of artistic expression that can help us all figure out where and what we are to be in the brave new world of the 21st century. Chris Gonyea, “Winter Paintings,” George Adams Gallery, 525-531 West 26th Street, New York, through February 28. Georgeadamsgallery.com. “Chris Gonyea: From Ashes,” Kentler International Drawing Space, 353 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, through March 29. Kentlergallery.org —Beth E. Wilson
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MUSIC
Cuboricua! Salsa Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. David Cook 8pm. $37.50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Holmes Brothers 12-4pm. A unique stew of Southern funk and Northern blues. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Karen Hudson and Jim Petri 4pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Ladysmith Black Mambazo 3pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
TUESDAY 10 BUSINESS & NETWORKING Solopreneurs Sounding Board Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9pm. donation. Struggling with a work issue? Need a perspective shift? Take advantage of collective intelligence Expertly facilitated by BEAHIVE founder Scott Tillitt and/or Lauree Ostrofsky. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. Beahivebzzz.com/events/solopreneurssounding-board-2014-07-08/.
FILM Watch out for the Car 7pm. A visually stunning example of Krushchev’s “Thaw” cinema. Owing to its depiction of criminal activity, this film, directed by Eldar Ryazanov, was shelved by the authorities at the time of its production but became an instant hit when released in 1966. With commentary by Rita Safariants,
KIDS & FAMILY ACTing Up 10:30-11:30am. Jessica Iva Coons will lead the workshop for preschoolers and their grown-ups. For kids ages 2-4 to explore their individuality through story-time, song, dance and movement. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. (518) 945-2136.
LECTURES & TALKS Music, Words, Dance and Images 3:30pm. Dance choreographed by Bella Kosmacher ’14, chamber music and readings of original prose and poetry by students from the classes of Eduardo Navega, lecturer in music and director of the program in chamber music, Jean Kane, associate professor of English and Michael Joyce, professor of English. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
100 for 100 4-6pm. $100/$25 guest ticket. Fundraiser for Barrett Art Center. Join us for wine, fine food, music and fine art. Locust Grove, Samuel Morse Historic Site, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Understanding and Caring for your Bees 10am-6pm. $110/$200 both weekend workshops. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.
MONDAY 9 FILM
The Hustler 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LECTURES & TALKS
Open Mike Poetry 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
MUSIC
Anne McCue 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ben Monder 8pm. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com. Gedeon Luke and The People 7:30pm. $28. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Michael Franti: Acoustic One Heart, One Soul Tour 7:30pm. $35-$50. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
THEATER
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman 3:30pm. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Valentine Candle Making 3:30-5:30pm. Learn how to make your own candles including floating/molded candles, dipping tapers, and container candles. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-0010. 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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MUSIC
Chris O’Leary Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dan Stokes 7pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Open Mike Night 7-9:30pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Rosanne Cash & Her Band 8pm. $45-$85. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. The Vagina Monologues 7pm. $15/$10 in advance/$5 music only after the show. V-Day Hudson Valley, a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, raising funds for Family Of Woodstock Domestic Violence Services & the Washburn House. The Anchor, Kingston. 901-9991.
Godspell 7:30-9:30pm. $20/$17 seniors and students. The Gospel of Matthew comes to the stage of the NYCA Cabaret Theatre. New York Conservatory for the Arts, Hurley. 339-4340. New York Conservatory for the Arts, Hurley. 339-4340.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Winter Lecture Series: Tussie Mussie Workshop 1-2:30pm. $24/$19 members. Discover the tradition behind creating tussie mussies, a small circular nosegay of flowers and herbs. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 418-3640.
One Book, Many Communities: “Mornings in Jenin” 6-7pm. “Mornings in Jenin” is a sweeping, heart-wrenching historical saga about four generations of the Abulheja family. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
THEATER
THEATER
Hudson Valley Garden Association Winter Lecture Series: Three Season Vegetable Gardening 10-11:30am. $10/$5 members. With Barbara Bravo, Garden Coach. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. 418-3640.
LITERARY & BOOKS
The Lives of Hamilton Fish On January 16, 1936, two obituaries in the Peekskill Evening Star appeared on the front page under the same name: Hamilton Fish. One was a well-known Westchester politician, a speaker of the New York State Assembly and a member of the House of Representatives; the other was a serial killer executed at Sing Sing for murdering a 10-year-old. These two men are the basis for Rachel Mason’s cinematic rock opera, “The Lives of Hamilton Fish,” featuring 21 original songs. Mason plays a newspaper editor, navigating the parallels between their seemingly opposite lives. The underlying psychological theme in Mason’s production is one of isolation, each character becoming increasingly withdrawn. Bold stripes of color decorate the three main characters’ faces, a representation of the Mark of Cain. There are two upcoming screenings: one at the Kent Public Library in Carmel on February 9, the other at the Hudson Room in Peekskill on March 1. Livesofhamiltonfish.com.
Vassar College Improv 5:30pm. Vassar’s longest running improvisational comedy group will present long form scenes and short form games (using characters, themes and lines from Alice in Wonderland). Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5237. Relatives As Parents Program Coffee & Conversation Support Group Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. The Coffee and Conversation support groups are designed to provide education and resources to address the needs and concerns experienced by relative caregivers. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 677-8223.
FRIDAY 13 COMEDY
visiting assistant professor of Russian Studies Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
LECTURES & TALKS
Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
MUSIC
Acoustic Open Mike 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
MUSIC The Met: Live in HD Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann 1pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. KJ Denhert 8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
SPIRITUALITY A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THURSDAY 12
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.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Anti-Cancer/Overall Wellness Ed. and Support Group 5-8pm. For any and all touched by cancer: prep, cook, eat, learn, and share about our journeys led by MaryJo Johnson. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
Adult Modern Dance Introduction 10:15-11:30am. The Arts Oasis, Red Hook. Thearts-oasis.com. Creative Expression Sessions 3-4:30pm. $60 per session. A space for teen girls to paint, play with color, be creative, make messes, and explore. Less “art instruction” and more “creative permission”. Everpresent Magic Studio, Kingston. 240-8472.
WEDNESDAY 11 FOOD & WINE
Great French Champagnes 6pm. $95.Champagne tasting plus dinner. Culinary Institute of America—Bocuse Restaurant, Hyde Park. 451-1014.
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
LECTURES & TALKS Curator’s Gallery Talk: XL: Large-Scale Paintings from the Permanent Collection 4pm. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5237. Tales of the Majestic Hudson 7pm. Rare and little known stories of the Hudson River Valley. Presented by Captain Stanley Wilcox. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481.
Jim Breuer 8pm. $35. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
DANCE
Dutchess County Singles Dance 8pm. $20. Dance lesson at 7:30 PM. There will be a wide range of music by Bronx Express and a light dinner buffet with desert and coffee. Elks Lodge #275, Poughkeepsie. Dutchesscountysingles.org. The Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre 8pm. The program will feature selections from Doug Varone’s Chapters from a Broken Novel to a score by David Van Tieghem; Steve Rooks’ new work Mosul to the music of Hans Zimmer; Katherine Wildberger’s new work entitled Shimmer to the third movement of the piano suite of Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Abby Saxon’s work I Don’t feel like Dancin’ to music by The Scissor Sisters. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
FILM
Amour 6:30pm. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. The General (1926) 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. A Screening of Original Short Films 4:30pm. Vassar Filmmakers Club and the Film Majors’ Committee present a selection of student short films from the Vassar film community. Student filmmakers will be present for a Q&A afterward. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Kids’ Yoga 4:30-5:30pm. $16.50. Classes blend kidfriendly postures, breathing exercises, relaxation techniques with story-telling and creative play. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Pre-Natal Yoga 6-7pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
ne Edmond Dantes through years of good fortune, false accusations, wile escape, and swashbuckling revenge on his accusers. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
KIDS & FAMILY
Valentine’s Day screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s 7pm. $7. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040.
Cub’s Place 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. Children engage in age-appropriate supervised games and activities facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
MUSIC
Cathy Young 5pm. Acoustic. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Chris Bergson Band 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Dorraine Scofield, JB Hunt and Larry Balestra 9pm. Acoustic. Keegan Ales, Kingston. 331-2739. Explorations of the Unforeseen: Musicians, Dancers, Visual Artists and Poets (and the Audience) in Spontaneous Creation 8-9:30pm. Come and take part in a one of a kind performance that utilizes the power of uncertainty as its creative guiding force! Conduct the players, provide written prompts, contribute to the artwork and even join with the musicians, artists, poets and dancers in creating an event never before envisioned. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 687-8707. The Kurt Henry Parlour Band 8pm. Singer/songwriter. Main Street Restaurant, Saugerties. 246-6222. Living Colour Synthesia 2014 8pm. $47. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Second Friday Jam with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8-11:30pm. The duo, who have been playing together since before the term Jam Band was coined, will be playing and hosting something a little more experimental than the usual fare. Special guests include The Larry’s (Larry Balestra and Larry Federman). High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Will Smith Trio 8pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505.
THEATER
The Illustrated Man 7pm. $15. Student production of adaptation of Ray Bradbury Short Stories. CunneenHackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. The Vagina Monologues 7pm. $15/$10 in advance/$5 music only after the show. V-Day Hudson Valley, a benefit production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, raising funds for Family Of Woodstock Domestic Violence Services & the Washburn House. The Anchor, Kingston. 901-9991.
SATURDAY 14 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Subzero Heroes noon. Jump into an icy lake to help raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease! Registration starts at 10 am with hot soup and drinks after your jump. Jump in as a Hero or help (and not jump) your Hero raise funds as a Sidekick. All Heroes must raise a minimum of $100 in order to jump. Berean Park, Highland. (800) 272-3900.
COMEDY
The Gender Defenders Valentine’s Comedy Show 9pm. $25-$50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
DANCE
The First Annual Freestyle Hudson Heart Red Ball Featuring live bands and DJd music. MidHudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
FILM
Silent Film Series with Live Musical Accompaniment by Cary Brown 7-9pm. 1922 film Monte Cristo starring John Gilber. This film, thought to have been lost but rediscovered in 2006 and beautifully restored, follows the Count of Monte Cristo
KIDS & FAMILY
Parents Night Out: Kids’ Valentines Dance Party 6-10pm. $25. Ages 3 and up. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Lisa A. Phillips, Reading from Unrequited Love: Women and Romantic Obsession 6:30pm. Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Featuring Cheryl Rice and Glenn Werner. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
MUSIC
Dan Tepfer’s Goldberg Variations/ Variations 7pm. $35. Valentine’s Day benefit concert, ticket includes a post-performance reception with the artist. Proceeds to benefit Classics on Hudson. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181. Goldberg Variations/Variations: Dan Tepfer, Piano/Jazz Piano 7pm. $35. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181. Joey Eppard, Raised by Wolves 9:30pm. Acoustic. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. Legs 8pm. Blending modern indie pop with Staxworthy hooks, they are a mobile cauldron of everything retro and cosmopolitan. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Leo B. 9pm. The Publik House, Ellenville. Thepublikhouseny.com. Leon Russel 8pm. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Little Sparrow and the Eagles 2-4:30pm. $5. Join the Delaware Highlands Conservancy for live Americana music and a fascinating Live Birds of Prey presentation from Bill Streeter of the Delaware Valley Raptor Center. Enjoy “Close Encounters with Eagles and Winter Raptors,” and experience the majesty of hawks, falcons, owls, and eagles up close. Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg. 583-1010. The Met: Live in HD Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle 12:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Met: Live in HD Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle 10:30am & 2:30pm. $18-$25. On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. The METLive: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta/ Bartok’s Bluebears’s Castle 12:45pm. $25. On the heels of her triumphant Met performances in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022. Michael Del Vecchio and Maria Hickey 7:30pm. Pamela’s on the Hudson, Newburgh. 562-4505. My Funny Valentine: Jazz for Valentine’s Day 8pm. The Brian Mann Trio. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. $6/$5 members. Featuring Lydia Adams Davis followed by open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Rock Tavern, New Windsor. Uucrt.org.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
So Percussion and Grey McMurray: Where (we) Live 7:30pm. $25/$10 students. Blends music, video, and storytelling in a theatrical creation The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7900.
Hawthorne Valley Farm Winter Camp $610-$700. Through Feb. 20. Your child will love spending mid-winter break at Hawthorne Valley Farm! When Mother Nature shares the beauty of winter’s snow and ice with the farm, activities are endless - snowshoeing, sledding, building igloos, Winter Olympics and more. Winter Camp is a residential camp experience for boys and girls ages 9 to 11. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent. (518) 672-4790.
Soul City Motown Revue St. Valentine’s Day Dance Party 8-11:30pm. Soul City performs this true American art form with three lead vocalists that re-connect you to those romantic soul and gospel riffs and a powerful four piece rhythm section sure to rock your soul. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Soul Purpose featuring Linda Richards 8pm. $10. Motown, R&B. Unframed Artist Gallery, New Paltz, 12561. Steve Black 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Town Mountain 8pm. $15. Bluegrass. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
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
LECTURES & TALKS
Presentation by Thomas Nozkowski 2pm. $9/$7. Nozkowski has had 70 oneperson shows and his work is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Phillips Collection, the Morgan Library, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art among many others. Includes wine and cheese. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Book Reading with Rita Foley 2-4pm. Canaan writer/photographer Rita Foley reads from her new book, “Revolutionary Retirement: What’s Next for YOU?” The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. (518) 392-3005.
Chris Botti: Valentine’s Gala 5:30pm. $125/$110. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
MUSIC
HeART and Soul 6pm. $75/$550 table of 8. The Vassar Haiti Project in partnership with Poughkeepsie Ice House and Novella’s presents a special Valentine’s dinner to celebrate women in our community & strengthen a community of women in Haiti. Honoring Caryn Halle, Molly Katz, and Kristy Grimes with the Heart and Soul of the Community Award. Novella’s, New Paltz. 255-2122.
Leon Russell 7pm. $35-$55. Rock and roll. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
THEATER
The Illustrated Man 7pm. $15. Student production of adaptation of Ray Bradbury Short Stories. CunneenHackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. Melancholy Play 3pm. The Philaletheis Society performs a semi-staged reading. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Constructing/Deconstructing the Landscape 9am-4pm. $227. Through Feb. 16. with Christie Scheele. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Drawing with Thread and Love 10am-1pm. $35. Cabin fever workshop with Mary McFarren. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
SUNDAY 15 FILM
Kiki Smith and Louise Bourgeois 3:30-5pm. Paul Tschinkel’s Series on Contemporary Art. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. No Turning Back 7:30pm. $10. Warren Miller’s ski film pays homage to the 65 years of mountain culture and adventure filmmaking around the world—back to a time before skis had edges and mountains had condos. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body 5pm. Screening of film series by noted paleontologist Neil Shubin, renowned for his discovery of the so-called missing link between fish and land animals. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
FOOD & WINE
Nicole Atkins 9pm. Indie-rock singer-songwriter. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Local Artisan and Farm Shop 11am-4pm. Local chocolates, wine, coffee (roasted in Rosendale) honey, elixir, produce, and more. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
Robbie Dupree Trio 7pm. Opener: Gabrielle Sterbenz. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Sunday Brunch 11am-2pm. Featuring Big Joe Fitz & The LoFis. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Jeffery Broussard & The Creole Cowboys 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Lydia Adams Davis & The Whispering Tree 4-6pm. Performing Pete Seeger favorites and powerful new songs. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. So Percussion and Grey McMurray: Where (we) Live 3pm. $25/$10 students. Blends music, video, and storytelling in a theatrical creation. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
THEATER
Chef Robert Irvine Live 7pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. The Illustrated Man 3pm. $15. Student production of adaptation of Ray Bradbury Short Stories. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.
MONDAY 16 KIDS & FAMILY
Homeschoolers: Olana’s ARTic Adventure for Youth! 9am-3:30pm. $100/child. Three-day adventure. Join us for a special vacation add on to Brickman’s workshop for youth who want to make a play at Olana. Bag lunch, and good outdoor play clothes are required. Ages 5-12. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
3-D Underwater Worlds: Art Making with Robin Brickman 9am-3:30pm. $45. This day-long retreat for young people will start by reading a children’s book Water Babies by Richard Kingsley (1860s). Students will study one painting that is an underwater scene. From the outline and sketch, students will create a 16 x 20” underwater scene. Students will also take a hike around Olana’s lake, and snack on fish and gummy worms. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872.
TUESDAY 17 FILM
Classic Movie Series Third Tuesday of every month, 2-4pm. We know it’s cold but wouldn’t it be nice to get out of the house? Bring your own refreshments, the heat’s on us. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Community Holistic Healthcare Day Third 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. Marbletown Community Center, stone ridge. www.rvhhc.org.
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LECTURES & TALKS
Beer Via Hudson Valley Foodshed 6-7pm. After learning from Scenic Hudson Senior Vice President Steve Rosenberg about our bold strategy to conserve lands critical for sustaining supplies of fresh, local food to valley and New York City residents, Emily Watson of Plan Bee Farm Brewery in Fishkill will explain why she relies exclusively on locally sourced ingredients to craft her beers. Scenic Hudson’s River Center, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
The Chain Gang 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Adult Modern Dance Introduction 10:15-11:30am. The Arts Oasis, Red Hook. Thearts-oasis.com. Creative Expression Sessions 3-4:30pm. $60 per session. A space for teen girls to paint, play with color, be creative, make messes, and explore. Less “art instruction” and more “creative permission”. Everpresent Magic Studio, Kingston. 240-8472.
SATURDAY 21
FILM
Some Like it Hot (1959) 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Through a Lens Darkly 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Tournées French Film Festival: Blue is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche 6:30pm. Explosive, explicit, and profoundly empathic, Abdellatif Kechiche’s loose adaptation of Julie Maroh’s 2010 graphic novel. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5723.
FOOD & WINE
Carnevale: Lunch 11:30am. $55. At our Carnevale, you will enjoy a glass of Prosecco, entertainment by street performers, and a decadent meal created by Chef Alberto Vanoli in Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici. Culinary Institute of America -- Ristorante Caterina de Medici, Hyde Park. 451-1014.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Pre-Natal Yoga 6-7pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
DANCE Ballroom By Request Dance Lesson 8-9p.m.; Dance 9-11pm to DJ Joe Donato. Coaching corner for beginners to Ballroom dance from 9-10 p.m. Refreshments included. Hudson Valley Dance Depot, Poughkeepsie. 204-9833. Frolic: All-Ages Ecstatic Dance 8:30pm-midnight. The Freestyle Frolic is an alternative to the club scene for dance lovers: a not-for-profit all-volunteer monthly dance that is alcohol-free, smoke-free, and drug-free, which keeps the focus on dancing. Dancers of all kinds attend, DJ’d music. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-83I9.
FILM Tournées French Film Festival: Mauvais Sang by Leos Carax 6:30pm. Leos Carax’s second film, from 1986, is a salute, at once moody and ebullient, to the cinema of the past (particularly the Nouvelle Vague). Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5723.
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KIDS & FAMILY
MUSIC
THURSDAY 19 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). Come join us to assist the new Exodus Transitional Community in Newburgh, (a re-entry program for those being released from prison), as well as other matters related to Mass Incarceration. The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
FOOD & WINE
Carnevale: Dinner 6pm. $75. At our Carnevale, you will enjoy a glass of Prosecco, entertainment by street performers, and a decadent meal created by Chef Alberto Vanoli in Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici. We encourage you to wear festive dress and don a mask as you enjoy the pleasures of the table with us. Culinary Institute of America -- Ristorante Caterina de Medici, Hyde Park. 451-1014.
MUSIC
John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Koko Jones & Soul Spirit 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Marc Broussard with Jamie McLean Band 8pm. $40. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FRIDAY 20 COMEDY
Bobby Collins 8pm. $38-$48. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
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Decoda 8pm. The dynamic chamber group performs works by Mozart, Brahms, Britten, Hersant, and the world premiere of “Distractions,” a sextet written for Decoda by Richard Wilson. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Jazz Vespers with Rob Scheps, Tom McCoy, Lew Scott 5:30pm. First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown, Cold Spring. 265-3220. Kristen Thien 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Lonestar 8pm. $67. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Lucky House Duo 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Zip Zap Circus 5:30pm. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Daddy Long Legs with Schoemer Formation 9pm. $5. The Half Moon, Hudson. (518) 828-1562.
Umphrey’s McGee 8pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Frozen 3pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
SPIRITUALITY
Chris Jackson 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Three Centuries of Guitar Music with Eric Roth & Ray Andrews 7pm. $10. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
FILM
Julie Corbalis 8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Professor Louie and The Crowmatix Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. 914739-0039.
Actors from The London Stage Perform “Macbeth” The Scottish play gets a modern twist from the Actors From The London Stage, one of the oldest touring Shakespeare companies in the world, which draws its members from the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Five actors cover four to six roles each in their treatment of “Macbeth,” transforming scene to scene using minimal props and no set. By diminishing the number of distractions, the audience has the chance to focus solely on Shakespeare’s language—a facet of his productions occasionally overshadowed by elaborate costumes and over-the-top stage sets. There will be three performances from February 26-28 at the Martel Theater at Vassar College. The performances are free, though reservations are required. (845) 437-5599; boxoffice@vassar.edu.
Learn and Serve Open House 10am-noon. Enjoy a light brunch while getting acquainted with Scenic Hudson’s education and volunteer programs. Scenic Hudson’s River Center, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
SPIRITUALITY
Conscious Community 2-3:30pm. Their long term aim is to introduce a growing number of people to sustainable living and food security through ecological transformation and veganism. Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, Mount Tremper. 679-5358.
THEATER
LECTURES & TALKS
FOOD & WINE
Kingston Farmers’ Winter Market Third Saturday of every month, 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. 338-6759.
Cynthia Hopkins: A Living Documentary 7:30pm. $25/$10 students. Cynthia Hopkins presents her latest music-theater performance. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
MUSIC
KIDS & FAMILY
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Dave Stryker’s Eight Track Project 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Marji Zintz 8pm. Acoustic. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. The New Original Hudson Valley J azz Ensemble Call for times. The Dautaj, Warwick. (856) 986-3666. Reality Check 9pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singersongwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 3380311.
THEATER
Cynthia Hopkins: A Living Documentary 7:30pm. $25/$10 students. Cynthia Hopkins presents her latest music-theater performance. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
2015 Vegetable Gardening A-Z 6:30-9pm. $95. Weekly through March 20. Are you interested in taking a vegetable gardening class? Vegetable Gardening A-Z is for gardeners with some experience growing, but who would like to learn a lot more. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org.
The Little Engine That Could 11am & 2pm. $15. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Mask-Making Workshop 2-4pm. $25. Ages 5-11. We all wear many masks in life and sometimes begin to think we are those masks. This workshop will explore the healthy role that our masks play in life but will encourage children to look deeper to their truest self. Each child will make two masks—one to represent their outer self and one the inner. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Percussion From Around the World 10:30am. Listen to Jeff Haynes play musical instruments from Africa, Asia, and every continent and learn new sounds and rhythms with vocalist Timothy Hill. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
LECTURES & TALKS
The Genesis of a Comic Image/Strip 1-3pm. $10. Charles Barnett III is a comic book artist who works primarily in inks. He has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and others on titles such as Star Trek, Thor, The Avengers, and the Teen Titans. Arts Mid Hudson, Poughkeepsie. 454-3222.
MUSIC
Art for the Ears 5-7pm. Great Blue, Dave Hull, and Chick’s Candy Store. Belle Levine Art Center, Mahopac. 803-8622. Buckwheat Zydeco 8-10pm. $34, $44 (including all tax/ fees). American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr. (a.k.a. Buckwheat Zydeco ) is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana’s zydeco music. Opening:
Action/Abstraction 9am-4pm. $235. Through Feb. 22. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. Attracting Pollinators to Our Yards 9:30-11am. Free film, panel, and Q&A. Learn about the decline of bees & pollinators and what you can do to help. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Hallieschwab@gmail.com. Introduction to Watercolor 10am-1pm. $35. Cabin fever workshop with Linda Barboni. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Simple Elegant Jewelry 10am-1pm. $35. Cabin Fever Workshop. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
SUNDAY 22 FILM
Alice Neel and Eric Fischl 3:30-5pm. $10/members free. Paul Tschinkel’s Series on Contemporary Art. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body 5pm. Screening of film series by noted paleontologist Neil Shubin, renowned for his discovery of the so-called missing link between fish and land animals. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
FOOD & WINE
Local Artisan and Farm Shop 11am-4pm. Local chocolates, wine, coffee (roasted in Rosendale) honey, elixir, produce, and more. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
MUSIC
Berstein Bard Trio 2-3pm. $10. This performance will include your favorites, and new music in a tremendous acoustic setting. Bring a friend and share this music filled afternoon. Refreshments will be served following the concert. All proceeds are solely used to support the performers and to maintain the concert series. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. Leo B. 8pm. Acoustic. The Golden Rail Ale House, Newburgh. 565-2337. LineUp Atlantic 7pm. $10. Dark After Dawn, J.A.H.G. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Madison String Quartet 3pm. $25/$20 under 18. Ulster Chamber Music Series. The Program includes Miguel Del Aguila: “Life is a Dream”; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet Op. 76 No. 4 “Sunrise”; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 26; and Aldemaro Romero: Fuga con Pajarillo. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 384-6660. Mavis Staples 8pm. Soul/Gospel. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Met: Live in HD Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle 12:30pm. $18-$25. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 644-9040. The Met LIve: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta/ Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle noon. $25/$20/$18/$14. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Sunday Brunch 11am-2pm. Featuring The Pete Levin Quartet. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Tisziji Munoz Quartet 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Ulster Chamber Music Series 3-5pm. $25$20 seniors/free under 18. The Ulster Chamber Music Series presents the Madison String Quartet on Sunday, February 22 at 3pm in a program of Del Aguila, Haydn, Korngold and Romero. Following the program, there will be a reception to meet the artists. Church of the Holy Cross, Kingston. 336-8013.
SPIRITUALITY
Akashic Records Revealed with June Brought Last Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
MONDAY 23 FILM
The Three Stooges Film Fest The original knuckleheads return to the Palace as we once again present the best of Moe, Larry, and Curly (and sometimes Shemp) in six of their funniest short films. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LECTURES & TALKS
Open Mike Poetry 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
MUSIC
A French-American Musical Exchange 7-9:30pm. A spirit of cultural exchange brings French saxophonists Nicolas Prost and Anne Lecapelain to the United States for a collaboration with American saxophonist Christopher Brellochs and pianist Cynthia Peterson featuring French composers Debussy, Ibert, and Milhaud. Dutchess Community College, Fairview. Christopherbrellochs.com.
TUESDAY 24 LECTURES & TALKS
Food + Social Enterprise Panel and Discussion 6-8pm. Join established and emerging leaders for an interactive discussion on developing a food-based social enterprise in the Hudson Valley. Learn more about the historic Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, under development as a new home for food and arts social enterprises and seeking inspired and inspiring entrepreneurs. Sponsored by BEAHIVE, Middle Main Poughkeepsie and Re>Think Local. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. 418-3731. Native Pollen Bees; The Unstung Heroes 6-7pm. Tim Stanley will bring welldeserved attention to bees—and spotlight
their importance in the ecosystem. Scenic Hudson’s River Center, Beacon. Scenichudson.org.
Deborah Emin reads from her coming of age Scags series. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
MUSIC
Beth Hart 8pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
The Dangling Success 9pm. Jazz-funk dance party. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Juelz Santana 7pm. $20. With special guests: Kyle Benjamin, C Hall, Y.O. and more. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
Acoustic Open Mike 8:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760.
Adult Modern Dance Introduction 10:15-11:30am. The Arts Oasis, Red Hook. Thearts-oasis.com. Creative Expression Sessions 3-4:30pm. $60 per session. A space for teen girls to paint, play with color, be creative, make messes, and explore. Less “art instruction” and more “creative permission”. Everpresent Magic Studio, Kingston. 240-8472.
WEDNESDAY 25 MUSIC
Chris Raabe Band 8pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. One Night of Queen 7:30pm. $49/$39/$36. Performed by Gary Mullen and The Works Theater. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Rob Scheps, Rick Syracuse and Jeff Siegel 8:30-11:30pm. Jazz. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Encaustic and Paper 9am-5pm. $375. 3-day class. Learning a few basic methods of saturating various kinds paper with encaustic medium, tinted medium or paint, can bring depth and life to your work. R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston. (800) 206-8088.
THURSDAY 26 HEALTH & WELLNESS
The Bridge Jazz Festival $15-$60. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Keb’ Mo’ Band 8pm. $48-$78. Blues. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. One Night of Queen 8pm. $67.50. Performed by Gary Mullen and The Works. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Oz Noy Trio 7pm. With The David Letterman Band’s Anton Fig & Will Lee. Opener: Ife & Danny. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER
La Cage Aux Folles 8pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Macbeth 8pm. Performed by actors From The London Stage. Reservations required. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
SATURDAY 28 BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Hudson Valley Green Drinks 5-8pm. the Hop at Beacon, Beacon. 440-8676.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Laura Ludwig Presents Performance Art and Poetry 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
One Book, Many Communities: “Mornings in Jenin” 6-7pm. “Mornings in Jenin” is a sweeping, heart-wrenching historical saga about four generations of the Abulheja family. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693.
MUSIC
MUSIC
British Invasion: 50th Anniversary Tour 8pm. $48-$69. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
THEATER
Macbeth 8pm. Performed by actors From The London Stage. Reservations required. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
FRIDAY 27 FILM
Tournées French Film Festival: The Past by Asghar Farhadi 6:30pm. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s latest film is set in a working-class suburb of Paris. Sarah Kozloff, Professor of Film, will lead a post-screening discussion. Vassar College: Vogelstein Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5723.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Author Readings 7pm. Award-winning poet and novelist Sweta Vikram shares some of her latest work and
Senior Recital: Patrick Brady, Tenor 4pm. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano. Music of Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Sondheim, and more. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
NIGHTLIFE
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Healthy Happy Hour 5-8pm. Green drinks, meet local health and wellness practitioners, light fare, wine, and treats. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys 7pm. Opener: Pirates Canoe The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Senior Recital: Lydia Ciaputa 1:30pm. Featuring works by Handel, Faure, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Schubert, Fields, Barber, and Bernstein. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
I Have a Dream: Arts in Education 10am & 12:15pm. $10. For grades 3-8. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Rick Springfield 8pm. $90/$85. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Rob Scheps Core-tet 7-10pm. 7-10:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Cabaret 9pm. Featuring a variety of circus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
18th Annual Chili Bowl Fiesta 2-7pm. $5 2-4 pm/free 4-7 pm. The Women’s Studio Workshop will transform the Rosendale Community Center with a vast and colorful landscape of hand-crafted pottery. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 658-9133.
John Simon and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio 7pm. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
Rob Scheps Cor-Tet 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Peter Madsen’s CIA Trio 7pm. Jazz. The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-4423.
Anti-Cancer/Overall Wellness Ed. and Support Group 5-8pm. For any and all touched by cancer: prep, cook, eat, learn, and share about our journeys led by MaryJo Johnson. Creative Co-op, Rosendale. 527-5672.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Rick Springfield “Stripped Down” 8-10pm. $69, $64, $54 (including tax/fees). Springfield has toured for over 30 years, handdelivering the hits to millions of fans worldwide via his dynamic live shows. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
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 Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Bryan Gordon 8pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. David Kraai 7:30-10:30pm. Country folk. Social On 6, Mahopac. 803-8193. Eric Erickson 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees 7:30pm. $15-$60. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Keith Newman 9pm. The Publik House, Ellenville. Thepublikhouseny.com. Melissa Ferrick 7pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. The Met: Live in HD Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg noon. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Midge Ure: Breathe Again Tour 8pm. $22. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Paula Poundstone 8pm. $60/$50. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Snowshoe Walk 1-3pm. $10/$5 children. Enjoy the beauty of winter along the scenic carriage drives at Olana State Historic Site. Perfect for beginners and families. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-1872 ext. 105.
THEATER
La Cage Aux Folles 8pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Macbeth 8pm. Performed by actors From The London Stage. Reservations required. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Flowers and Turkish Marbeling 10am-1pm. $35. Learn how to marble tulips or other patterns for mini-flower paintings. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Learn to Swing Dance Workshop 6-7:30pm. $30/$25 in advance. With Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. APG Pilates, Newburgh. (917) 403-3136. 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.
SUNDAY 1 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
34th Annual Toy & Train Show 10am-3pm. $3/under 6 free. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481.
FILM
John Chamberlain 3:30-5pm. Paul Tschinkel’s Series on Contemporary Art. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Sound Healing and yoga with Lea Garnier First Sunday of every month, 2-3:30pm. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
KIDS & FAMILY
Masters of Illusion: Believe the Impossible 7pm. The live stage magic phenomenon born from the multi-award winning television series. You’ll believe the impossible when Masters of Illusion brings you grand illusions, levitating women, appearances and vanishes, escapes, comedy magic, sleight of hand and beautiful dancers. Paramount Theatre, Middletown. 346-4195.
MUSIC
North Mississippi Allstars and Anders Osborne 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
THEATER
La Cage Aux Folles 3pm. $27/$25. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Planet Waves ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO
In the Belly of the Internet
F
ebruary arrives at the depth of winter in most of the Northern Hemisphere, when we live in the shadow of cold, rain, and snow. Within February’s first few days lies one of the four high holidays— or sabbats—of the pagan calendar, called Imbolc in Celtic times. Its corresponding holidays are Beltane (or May Day, May 1, or May 5, depending on your tradition), Lammas (also called Lambess, Lughnasa, first harvest, or second planting in agricultural communities, August 1), and Samhain (also called Halloween, October 31, aka Days of the Dead). The cross-quarter days lie at the midpoints between the equinoxes and the solstices. Imbolc, traditionally honored on February 2, is right near the halfway point of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice and the spring equinox. The equinoxes and solstices are called the “quarter days,” so the midpoints are called “cross-quarter days.” Imbolc, also called Midwinter, literally means “in the belly,” and at this time we are deep in the belly of winter, held in a kind of gestation for the coming spring at the vernal equinox on March 20. The sun crosses the middle degree of Aquarius at Imbolc, the symbolism of which we will visit in a moment. Think of Imbolc as the tipping point where the energy of spring starts to be felt more strongly than that of winter. If you’re paying attention to your environment, you will notice that each of the cross-quarter days contains a shift in momentum. For example, think of the sensation of Halloween, when autumn is giving way to winter. It’s almost as if there are really eight mini seasons rather than the four we normally think about. In the contemporary world, we associate early February with Groundhog Day, which hardly gives a clue to the importance this holiday held not long 98 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 2/15
ago. For most people, the day passes unnoticed, except for a photo in the local paper of a cute little critter in Pennsylvania who has wiggled out of his hole for a breath of fresh air, just like he does every other day, only this time confronted by 100 TV cameras. Which is kind of a funny comment on Aquarius. His “stirring to life” in midwinter is bullshit; groundhogs don’t hibernate. The media, though, are practicing the tradition of weather divination; all of the cross-quarter holidays are associated with some form of augury or communing with the spirit world. Astrologers know that Imbolc falls with the Sun at the midpoint of the sign Aquarius, the Water Bearer, who lives today as the astrological symbol of individuality and eccentricity. Yet Aquarius is also one of the signs most prominently associated with technology, in particular, digital technology. In addition to the theme of individuality, Aquarius also embodies the theme of order, conformity, and regimentation. This is one of the things we experience with digital technology, wherein everything is reduced down to code that does not think for itself and must perform perfectly or it may not do anything at all. The constellation Aquarius, known to be among the oldest named configurations of stars, stands, according to Catherine Tenant, “with his foot on the head of the great Southern fish, into whose mouth his waters pour.” She traces the god Aquarius back to Babylon, noting that he rules over a huge area of the sky where are gathered the Southern fish, the dolphin, the zodiac fishes (Pisces), the River Eridanus (the River of Night), and Cetus the sea monster. These ancient waters and their primal creatures were “seen as the source of life, through which the Sun passed during the rainy season.” Today it seems like the
primal waters in which humanity is swimming are entirely digital. If we are in the belly of anything, that would seem to be the G4 network. As the Sun moves through the sign Aquarius, so too is the planet Mercury transiting here, only in reverse—Mercury will be retrograde through February 11. One of the fairly typical manifestations of Mercury retrograde is to make apparent the environment that is usually invisible, transparent, or taken for granted—that of technology. That’s one way to consider the “things get weird when Mercury is retrograde” phenomenon—we notice the digital and electrical environments. We also notice the mental environment, which might account for how Mercury retrograde is associated with technological glitches as well as a check you’re expecting in the mail getting stuck between the pages of the Pennysaver. I’m not sure how Aquarius came to be the sign associated with technology, but while I’m on the topic let’s see if I can figure it out. In the oldest English-language astrology text, called Christian Astrology, the only clue we get is that Aquarius is associated with mines and places that minerals are dug up—an activity essential to all technology except maybe milking a cow, but then, the bucket is made of metal. We may have a warmer clue in that British astrologer and publisher Robert Cross Smith, who wrote under the pen name Raphael (namesake of the ephemeris), spontaneously declared Uranus, the first planet discovered by science, the ruler of Aquarius early in the 19th century. There was no precedent for that; Saturn was and remains the ruler of Aquarius. Planetary rulership of signs was settled before the days of Ptolemy. But it stuck, and Uranus is very much a planet associated with technological breakthroughs—for example, its own discovery. By that kind of intergenerational telekinesis (and PR chicanery), we wind up with Aquarius being the sign of technology. Thomas Edison, whose Sun was in Aquarius, comes to mind. Notably, checking my chart files, many more scientists have their Moon in Aquarius than have their Sun there. Anyway, Aquarius, with its waves of transmission and association with being plunged into a river of something technological, seems to be an excellent fit as the sign describing the Internet. Aquarius is, in modern astrology, also the sign of social patterns. And if any one thing impacts the shape, the scale, the movement, and the feeling of society, it is technology. An English professor named Marshall McLuhan, who I mentioned in this space last month, was the first person who described the impact of technology on society to society. Other people had things to say, but McLuhan managed to get the word out. All this stuff we surround ourselves in and fill our senses and our heads with, from books to magazines to radio to TV to billboards, not only affects the state of mind of individuals; it shapes society. And it does so irrespective of content. It’s not the content that is shaping society, McLuhan said ,it is the medium itself—an idea for which many people wanted to skewer him. One example McLuhan gives is how roads were paved during the Roman Empire in order to deliver messages from the capital to the remote regions of the country. The messages were written on papyrus. So it was papyrus that led to roads. When Egypt split off from the empire and the supply of papyrus failed, Rome went into decline because government orders had no way of being conveyed; and as a result, the roads crumbled. We are experiencing something similar with digital technology, which can also be described as the digital environment. This environment is so pervasive that it’s soaked its way into everything we do. I used to joke about the Japanese rice steamer that comes with an IP address and USB port. Now if you sold a rice cooker that was Bluetooth compatible nobody would blink. They would just be thrilled they could control it from their “smart” phone. Some sensitive people are questioning this onrush of technology. What most of them are not saying is that humanity has never gone through anything like this before—there has never been a technological onslaught that came on this
fast, this ferociously and this fully. We all must adapt, every day. The digital era is a tide that keeps rising. I have been on the Internet for 20 years (incredible, isn’t it) and publishing there (here) for 19 years. It seemed like high tide when the dot-com bust happened in 2000. Then there was the high tide of Google, of Apple, of Facebook, and Duck Duck Go (the next big thing). We are now at the point where we live our lives through a gigantic robot, which keeps time in nanoseconds and remembers everything we write, nearly everything we say, many things we see, and knows nearly everything we do. This robot is warping the shape of society around itself, but nobody that I know really understands what that impact is. How could they? We could look to McLuhan for some information. In his 1964 book Understanding Media he suggested that someday a computer would track all details of an individual purchasing and chewing a stick of gum (hello, Amazon Prime). He said that the users of media would become the content of media (hello, Facebook, YouTube, Vine, Snapchat, and Instagram). He suggested that we shape our tools and then our tools shape us. We create the media, and then it creates us. This has always been true, but it’s now happening at a pace so fast, nobody can keep up. And digital media is coming very close to fully merging with the biological realm (from life support devices to injectable plasma nanocomputers to biotechnology to the way that the digital environment is shaping brain function). One thing that’s clear is that the digital environment is very, very different from the television environment that preceded it. The television environment was (and remains) like a living dream, an inner trip that you could just lie back and watch 24 hours a day, endlessly, without even changing the channel. It does not end. Anyone old enough to remember the test pattern that came on at 3am could get a laugh out of anyone young enough to think that’s weird—that TV would stop for some reason (after playing the “Star Spangled Banner” to a crusty black-and-white image of the American flag flying). The question is, in what ways can we see that our nonstop involvement with digital technology is shaping us? On a positive note, it demands nearly total involvement. You have to move the thing along by typing, mousing, talking, or dragging your fingers along the screen. If you don’t, it kind of just stalls out. People communicate through it a lot. I jabber with friends all day while I’m working, and it’s great fun. I work in the realm of ideas and I am fed constantly—and I feed the robot back. Thanks to the Internet, I have met all kinds of people in all kinds of places—real people, in person. On the other hand, we have all seen people who get together and everyone is sitting around texting someone else, somewhere else. In Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch, there is a part that I think of as the Atlantis passage. “As I have said, this isn’t the first time your civilization has been at this brink,” God says. “I want to repeat this, because it is vital that you hear this. Once before on your planet, the technology you developed was far greater than your ability to use it responsibly. You are approaching the same point in human history again. It is vitally important that you understand this. Your present technology is threatening to outstrip your ability to use it wisely. Your society is on the verge of becoming a product of your technology rather than your technology being a product of your society. When a society becomes a product of its own technology, it destroys itself.” We are definitely the products of our technology, in rapidly increasing degrees. Whether we destroy ourselves or save ourselves with that technology remains to be seen, and there may be a very thin line between the two.
We are now at the point where we live our lives through a gigantic robot, which keeps time in nanoseconds and remembers everything we write, nearly everything we say, many things we see, and knows nearly everything we do.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) You seem to be getting involved with people in new ways. This may look like a rearrangement of your social life, perhaps as canceled plans, then other things coming up spontaneously. You may find yourself in different social circles, or arrive somewhere and say gee whiz, how did I get here? You’re in the midst of a reshuffling experiment, and while you’re there you can have great fun. Yet what I see happening is that you’re engaging with people in a different way, for a different purpose. That new purpose obviates certain kinds of social activities and opens you up to other ones. The difference between old and new will seem like you are relating on a lighter but simultaneously more meaningful level. There is a focus on authentic communication. You’re able to express and evoke from people opinions that they might not ordinarily share. Energetically, the shift within you may feel like this. Normally you relate through Mars, which has a distinct polarity. Currently you are relating through Mercury, which is many possible valences and thus can relate on equal terms to more people in more diverse ways. If there’s a focus on language, much of that involves a different type of listening—the kind that evokes trust, because people get that you understand that that you care.
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You’re getting a chance to experience what it’s like to be driven by a purpose you are fully confident in. When that happens, there is a certain ease involved because you don’t have to think much about what to do, or why. There is often conflict involved in the need to consciously prioritize, and if you ease into this experience you can take a ride on the sensation of when what you have to do is so obvious, there is no question about it. Though some of this is driven by an idea or a task, really a deeply compelling factor is how you feel by certain people you’re surrounded by. You have one of the most palpable, distinct experiences of connection going for you right now. This is connection that has a purpose extant on many levels, though the deepest level is the human bond that, for whatever reason, exists on a truly deep level. I would point out one thing, that for most people, it’s a rare experience to experience a social bond that embraces love, purpose, and a sense of mission. I think that once you tune into this reality, you will never want anything less. And since it’s something that you ultimately contain as a capability within yourself, you have no need to have anything less—and you may discover that a great deal more is possible.
GEMINI
(May 20-June 21)
Belief is a power that I suggest everyone be familiar with the workings of, and the effects of. I would rate belief as anything from a necessary psychological tool to a volatile chemical capable of conjuring many strange effects. The problem with belief is that it’s often taken for granted. You might think something is true, not know how you got there, not notice what possibilities you’re preempting and therefore have no way to test your theory. Belief too often goes unnoticed and therefore unquestioned. Mercury moving retrograde in Aquarius is provoking you to inquire into something you may not have noticed you were carrying around. It looks like a mental pattern that was acting like a perceptual filter. That filter was creating a bias in your observations. The beauty of the moment is that you’re getting some evidence of the existence of this thing, through some kind of glitch or interference—for example, a disagreement over something that seems ridiculous. Or it might be that your bias comes into focus when you bump into something that makes it obvious, potentially by showing you something else that’s far more important to you. It is this encounter that sends a ripple through one particular belief and, as a result, all of your beliefs, proving that it pays to question them—and even just to observe that they exist.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) Pay attention to your various transactions, be they monetary, sexual, social, barter, or business. There is a lot of movement going on in the house of your chart associated with all of these things. While you might get the feeling that you are vulnerable to some kind of exposure, what you may really be feeling is a mental or psychic penetrating power that you have into the affairs of others. Using this gift properly is not about minding their business, it’s about minding yours. Knowing the mental state and the intentions of the people around you is vital to your success. That awareness is in itself a form of currency, and it will be worth considerably more the more comfortable you feel with yourself. Another useful thing to remember is the extent to which you’re not actually driven by money. You like money—it’s good for things like food, heat, warm boots, and helping people. But that’s different than being driven by it. The thing to remember is that other people may indeed be motivated specifically by monetary impulses, and you are in a rather priceless teaching moment where you get to demonstrate through some simple gestures that there is something much more important, useful, and beautiful. That would be actually caring, offering your energy for some inherent purpose, and acting as if to hold the world together.
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LEO (July 22-August 23) It seems that despite an inconvenience or some external need to rearrange your relationships, you’re feeling an outpouring of devotion to the people in your life. This is coming along with a sense of blessing, as if something truly unusual is happening to you—something unexpected that you know will change you forever. The most vivid sensation coming through your charts is a kind of abundance. This is rooted on a nonphysical level—what you might call spiritual or perhaps emotional. Yet it’s having a way of overflowing into other aspects of your life, such as the seemingly more material ones. A few different equations may be at work—such as when you find out how little you really need, you figure out how much you have. Or when you give of yourself, you can find out how much you have. Or how you will tend to love who and what you take care of, and discover that there is plenty (of whatever) to go around. The idea coming through is that to experience that abundance, you merely need to practice it as a way of life. You may have those moments where you wonder whether that’s really true, and when in doubt, test the theory. The proof will come from the experience, and I trust that will be compelling enough to shift your perception of existence.
VIRGO
(August 23-September 22)
You may need to consciously focus yourself on staying on-task with work, and in harmony with your intimate relationships. You may not be sure which is a distraction from the other. In truth, neither is a distraction and both seemingly different facets of your life are offering you something unusual right now. On one level this seems like a question of balance. It’s as if you have these tasks requiring this kind of focus and setting, and those other things you do, requiring a different kind of focus and setting. Seen as different, they will tend to compete for, if nothing else, your time and energy. But that competition involves a deeper conflict than may seem obvious on the surface. The solution is to guide yourself to the common ground of all your experiences, which is you. You are not two different people, the “relationship person” and the “work person.” You are one entity, and the common ground of all your experiences is the ground of your being. If facets of your life seem to take energy from one another, reach for that terrain your life is built on. Once you get there, you will feel like you’re standing on a solid hilltop, where previously you may have been trying to balance on an idea. From there, you may notice you feel far less pull and tension.
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) So much of some things, so little of some others. The odd bit is how fast the proportions change, never seeming to find equilibrium. You are often able to get closer to a stable place by being willing to give up certain experiences, even ones you love the most, by reminding yourself it’s only temporary. You’re not the only one going through this; the entire society around you, and your community on every level, is on this wild ride of nothing ever stabilizing. You, at least, are experiencing a conscious overflow in many areas of your life. Right now you have some incredible wealth in a dimension where many people feel the most frustration: meaning. In fact you have so much meaning that you may take it for granted. You may think it’s just weird when people relate to you the ways they feel that they exist without purpose. Rather than wonder, go directly to relating to others on the level where every detail of life has inherent value. What you may recognize as particularly insane is that the greatest shortages seem to occur relating to love and work—potentially the two most fulfilling areas of life that there are. Love often relates back to sex, and work relates back to creativity. That is the direction to guide things, closer to the original impulse that grows the whole garden.
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SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) One reason self-esteem is such a difficult issue to get a hold on is because of this other thing called projection. Most people look to others for validity of who they are, for affirmation of their worth. Yet when others reflect that worth back to them, it doesn’t necessarily align with how they feel inside. The result can be a weird differential, a gap, a disconnect. Is this person lying? Are they making things up? Are they just passionate about everything, and I am coming along for the ride? I suggest you experiment with considering the appreciation that others feel for you as actually saying something about you. Imagine, for a moment, that it’s a source of information, of verification, and a kind of lesson in life. More than that, when someone is excited about you, you get the opportunity to explore yourself. True, you’re exploring in the context of another person; but when you do that, you’re really swimming within your own consciousness, and your own possibilities. Everything you experience becomes your own. I suggest you be generous about reflecting that back, as confidence, as happiness, and as consciously offering your journey as something that others around you can get a taste of. One thing you may be aware of is that when people have a mutual experience, it changes both of them. Yes, indeed—that’s the idea.
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SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 22) Conventional astrology would say that Saturn in your sign may be describing certain limitations or boundaries. I would say that Saturn, particularly in Sagittarius, is describing your potential. What you may be feeling is that what you want the most is not going to “just happen.” When Saturn is present, optimism alone is not going to do the job. Saturn in the style of Saturn is the willingness to make an authentic effort, and not being deterred because results may take a while. Effort is less about an arduous exertion of energy. It’s more about focusing your mind, your intentions, and your interests. Along with this, the concept of “boredom” must be revised into time available to invest in the result I’m seeking. Delay becomes an occasion to troubleshoot—or the opportunity to do something else. Sagittarius is a sign known for its fast pace. This quality has a way of breeding distraction, and often a frustration with being spread too thin. Saturn’s presence in your sign is a direct calling to concentrate your efforts. It’s offering some instruction that you must consciously think about the ways you use and structure your time. Most of all, it’s the reminder that you are the only person who can take command of your life. You no longer have any need to give that power away.
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CAPRICORN (December 22-January 20) The message of your chart seems to be: There is no value other than inherent worth. In other words, the notion of “secondary value,” such as, “This is useful, and it can be sold,” is (at least temporarily) out of the question. That idea would be revised to “This is useful.” Yet what we’re really talking about is your inherent worth, which in turn translates to your devotion to being alive. You’re being called inward, to respect your own inherent worth, as your most vital asset. Said another way, I’m talking about respect for existence, commencing with your existence. What’s so interesting about how this appears in your chart is how quickly that respect radiates out into your community. It’s not a secondary effect—it’s right at the origin of the idea. One of your reasons for being on Earth, I would propose, is to experience directly the way that you are integral to your community. It is not the same without you and you are not the same without it, because you are one and the same. Now, one possible sticking point is defining community. I would say: It is anything to which you are connected in an integral way. For that reason, I suggest you offer yourself, count yourself in, and understand the mutual nature of the relationship.
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One of the most distinctive shifts from the old year to the new year is that of externalization. Saturn, primary the planet that serves as a reference for Aquarius, has changed signs from Scorpio to Sagittarius, in essence emerging into the light, and into a space where everyone can see you. Looked at another way, you’re being given a chance to learn a new method of leadership, one where it’s no longer lonely at the top. One where you lead by example rather than by authority. One where you are immersed in an environment where the thing being expressed and exchanged is meaning. It’s difficult to quantify the magnitude of this shift, though I suggest you explore the new territory you’re in with some eagerness. What I suggest you remember is that if you’re relating to people on the level of meaning, that meaning comes from you first. Where there is dedication to a purpose, that starts with you. The flame you radiate is your own inner fire. Therefore, tend to your hearth, and notice its warmth. More than tend to it, speak to it and listen to the response you get—as if you’re approaching the Oracle within yourself. Over the next few years, the scenario that develops involves the discovery (or confirmation) that your inner point of contact is reflected in the deeply significant role you play in the lives of others.
PISCES (February 19-March 20) Step out of your own way and allow your radiance to light up the landscape around you, and guide others to you. You need to make no special effort; you merely need to be available and observant. It’s likely that you would underestimate the influence that you have on others, which is why I suggest you look, and be open, rather than try to guess. Because you’ve decided to step up to challenges perhaps greater than you ever have, the way you relate to others is essential. Few people accomplish much alone. People whose minds are rich with ideas, in particular, benefit from the support of others who are able to carry a vision in a creative way. You, in particular, place a high value on collaboration. This is less about getting others to do work for you and more about what is possible when different approaches combine to form something more brilliant, more original, more helpful. I suggest that you put some trust into how much nourishment other people receive just from being around you. Now, in particular, you’re focusing a creative energy reaction that pulses out into your surroundings. This is vividly noticeable given that it’s set amidst a world of entities, many of which merely drain energy. You offer heat, light, nourishment, and a measure of reassurance to others. But don’t believe me! Look and feel. 102 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 2/15
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From the exhibit “Braving Ebola,” a portrait of Kenyan emergency nurse Pares Momanyi, 30, at the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit in Suakoko, Liberia, on October 12, 2014. Daniel Berehulak for the New York Times/Getty Images Photographer Daniel Berehulak spent five weeks in Monrovia, Liberia, in the fall of 2014 documenting the Ebola outbreak that has claimed thousand of lives in West Africa. His stark black-and-white portraits show the faces of Ebola workers and survivors. Sweat drips down from grave diggers and doctors alike. Some look defeated, some determined; they all appear to be looking beyond or through the camera—at the future or the past, it’s hard to say. There’s a lingering spiteful bitterness in those few subjects who smiled for the camera, an existential joke they’re either laughing with or at. Berehulak’s exhibit “Braving Ebola,” presented by Fovea, is on display through February 8 at Hudson Beach Glass in Beacon. Foveaeditions.org. —Kelly Seiz
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