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22 while you were sleeping
58 grow your own community
The rich are more likely to steal candy from babies, Nestle goes natural in the UK.
23 beinhart’s body politic: Wag the santorum
In American politics Jesus Christ suffers from DID: dissociative identity disorder.
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money & INVESTING 91 Unlocking the inner landlord Jeffrey Alexander explains how a buyer’s market offers investment opportunities (as well as pitfalls!) for prospective rental property owners.
28 house profile: Minimalist Barn, maximum view
Jeff Daly and Gary Delemeester's contemporary Ancram barn.
31 the garden: Shady in the right places
Michelle Sutton explains how to plant trees to shade your house from summer's heat.
36 the craft: Lindsay Pietroluongo examines Megan Camp's updated antiques.
whole living guide 98 A better ending
community pages 42 Coldspring, garrison, and mahopac
Erik Ofgang visits three Putnam County towns on the water.
74 Hudson And Columbia county
The movement toward self-sustaining communities is taking root in the Hudson Valley. Paul E. McGinniss talks with the forward thinkers behind the Transition movement.
Peter Aaron highlights Columbia County's urban and rural hotspots.
beauty & fashion 51 Byrdcliffe in Bloom Fashion blooms this spring in Woodstock. Photos by Kelly Merchant.
100 flowers fall: The Wheel of Samsara goes round and round.
Bethany Saltman and A. on The Six Realms of Existence on the Wheel of Samsara.
Community Resource Guide 38 education Help for planning the big day. 86 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 94 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 102 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.
Our spring photo shoot in Woodstock featuring looks from local merchants. Model Alexandra Jay Snyder is pictured inside the Byrdcliffe barn in clothes from DIG in Saugerties. BEAUTY & FASHION
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arts & culture 62 Gallery & museum GUIDe 64 music Peter Aaron interviews a modest piano virtuoso: Vladimir Feltsman.
67 cd reviews Jeremy Schwartz reviews War Paint by Battle Ave. Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson reviews The Incredible Honk by Roswell Rudd. Robert Burke Warren reviews Songs for the New by Two Dark Birds.
food & Drink 82 Pain de Siècle: Café Le Perche
Peter Barrett visits Paris in Hudson at this European-style bakery with a 17-ton oven flown over from France and reassembled on-site by French masons.
85 where we're eating now: A few of Chronogram's favorite local eateries.
the forecast 109 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.)
68 books Nina Shengold profiles Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors and headliner of the Woodstock Writer's Festival.
70 book reviews Robert Burke Warren reviews Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side by Ed Sanders. Jana Martin reviews Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy.
72 Poetry Poems by Cassia Berman, Loretta Burns, c.c. Condry, Alice Rose George, Kerry Giangrande, Sari Grandstaff, C. Green, William P. Hayes, Tony Howarth, Mark Thomas Kanter, Gilles Malkine, Mark Mitchell, Philip Nobel, William Seaton, Joshua Sweet, Eileen Van Hook, and Daniel Wininger.
128 parting shot Entropia (review), a lithograph and screenprint by Julie Mehretu.
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PREVIEWS 107 The "Wall Street to Main Street" art installation brings Zuccotti Park to Catskill. 109 All the arts find a home under one roof at The Saugerties Performing Arts Factory. 112 "Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters" exhibits at Bethel Woods. 114 Acoustic urban sould duo Einat Betzalil and Hakim Boukhit in Rosendale. 115 Hunter Mountain hosts Tap NY—a festival featuring New York State beer. 118 Rosendale Theatre's Short Plays Festival stages the work of local writers. 119 Michael Rhodes takes on the title role in "The Good Father" at Tangent Arts. 120 Skywriter/Fire Dean and the Brooklyn Garden Club at Market Market.
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beyond the shadow feminine Eric Francis Coppolino addresses the recent bouts of misogyny in the media. horoscopes What do the stars have in store for us this month? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.
Blue Castle by Jingyi Lui is part of "Exposure," the 9th Annual National Juried High School Photography Exhibition at the Mill Street Loft's Gallery 45 in Poughkeepsie. The show's 76 images were chosen from 285 entries by high school students across the Northeast. galleries & museums
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Saturday, August 11 program two program three
Sunday, August 12
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Saint-Saëns and His World
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AUGUST 10–12 AND 17–19 Photo: Camille Saint-Saëns, c. 1875. Adoc-photos/Art Resouce, NY
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Chamber works by Saint-Saëns
Performing, Composing, and Arranging for Concert Life
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Liszt, and others
Saint-Saëns, a French Beethoven?
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor. Orchestral works by Saint-Saëns
The Organ, King of Instruments
Works for organ by Saint-Saëns, Adam, Widor, Franck, and others
Art Gallica and French National Sentiment
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Chausson, Magnard, Duparc, and others
Zoological Fantasies: Carnival of the Animals Revisited
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Sibelius: Conservative or Modernist?
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Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, Fauré, Debussy, and Hahn
La musique ancienne et moderne
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Rameau, d’Indy, Dukas, and others
The Spiritual Sensibility
American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor Orchestral works by Saint-Saëns, Schmitt, Boulanger, and others
From Melodrama to Film
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns and Berlioz
Unexpected Correspondences: Saint-Saëns and the New Generation
Chamber works by Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Stravinsky
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American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor. Performance of Saint-Saëns’s opera Henry VIII
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Esteemed Reader Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a phenomenon in children which parenting author and counselor Kim John Payne calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;soul fever.â&#x20AC;? It is a state very much like physical fever, but in the emotions. The signs of the malaise are intense irritability, being â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of sorts,â&#x20AC;? hyperactivityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; every encounter with parents or others seems to turn into a conflict or a fight. It is a state all parents know well, and recognize in memories from our own childhoods, if not our adult lives. In Payneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, there is a simple response needed when children become overstressed: Love them. As he says in his book, Simplicity Parenting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When your child seems to deserve affection least, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when they need it most.â&#x20AC;? Creating a space where the child can slow down, rest, and feel nurtured and lovedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;holding her potential state instead of her behavior in mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;inevitably allows her to relax, come back into balance, and reveal the sweetness that she is. Recognizing the parallels between the description of a child with soul fever and the state of humanity is inevitable. Humanity is overwhelmed, unable to assimilate the volume of data that pours into our collective psyche. We are alienated from the only true bearing that can create peace and balanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ourselvesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, by extension, one another and other beings. The living connection to our nature, and the natural world of which we are a part, is supplanted by a virtual reality of dogmas, media narratives, institutions, and the myriad games we play, with the result that the world is on fire with conflict and insatiable craving to fill our emptiness with unmediated consumption. Throughout history teachers have appeared that offer a method for harmonizing ourselves, and by extension, harmonizing with one another.Their message is always the same:Transcend your petty differences, and love one another. Some even go so far as to suggest a method for accomplishing this. To paraphrase, they say: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You occupy only the most superficial part of yourself. This is the realm of likes and dislikesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;attraction to pleasure, and rejection of pain. But you need not be an ass on a treadmill, chasing the carrot and fleeing the stick. You can go deeper, and occupy a part of yourself that is beyond opposites, where the real treasure lies.â&#x20AC;? In this direction, I offer a special text that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read and pondered and attempted to practice in recent months. It sets out a program that, on first glance, sounds impossible. But, like all outcomes that are inconceivable at the outset, glimmers of possibility appear in the effort to work it out. What follows is J. G. Bennettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s introduction to a task given to a small group of students. TASK: To replace all negative attitudes toward the existing world with a feeling of confidence and love towards the new world that is being born, towards the still unborn child that is the future humanity. To arouse in oneself constantly this love for mankind. Every time one has a feeling of negativity, take this as a reminder that we human beings live on this earth to serve, particularly to serve the future. And to serve with love, with hope, with confidence, so that it is possible for mankind to be born again. Such a positive attitude could enter into our behavior, into our speech. But if this is to have some force for us we have to deprive ourselves of something else. That is, to acknowledge that one really can work against negativity. To take away energy which at present flows into negative thought, postures and feelings and transform them to the other. This is a very hard thing that I am proposing to you because in all of us negative thinking is so ingrained. In the midst of feeling compassion one finds oneself judging, finding fault. This is a disease that has overcome humankind and we are all infected by it. Some very lucky people have escaped this disease. It is very fortunate to know such people. It is an extraordinary thing to see such healthy souls in the midst of so much disease. Very few have this robust love towards their enemies, but some have. It is a technical matter. It is not a matter of thinking it would be nice to be like that. It is a matter of knowing how to bring oneself to that place where our attitudes are under our own control. Where it is possible for us to say: This, not That. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;J.G. Bennett, London, 1972 Bear in mind that Mr. Bennett is offering a taskâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not simply a matter for consideration. He offers a suggestion of something to be put into practice in our lives. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jason Stern Thanks to the J. G. Bennett Foundation, Inc. for permission to quote the above passage.
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Military-Chronogram Complex To the Editor: I had hoped your inclusion of a half page ad for the NewYork Military Academy was a one-time fluke, but no—there it was again in the March 2012 issue. I realize Chronogram survives by its advertising money, but really?! a military school that takes children as young as 12 years old (7th grade) and makes them into “young leaders who have a competitive hunger... utilizing the military model...as a[n] department of the army” is so far outside everything that Chronogram appears to stand up for! Please don’t let a few hundred dollars from one ad compromise your ideals, and our children’s safety and sanity, so horribly. —Trina Porte, Canaan
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pring, and a young(ish) man’s fancy turns to thoughts of resiliency and the forms that resiliency takes. The daffodils and forsythia are in bloom again, the nonevent that was winter is behind us, and our backyards and the streets of our neighborhoods affirm nature’s ability to regenerate. Surely this is why so many of us prefer this season to winter’s (sometimes) white wonderland, summer’s hot riot of flora, and fall’s brilliant but fading grandeur. Spring embodies the hope, especially keen as we age, that we can not only survive but thrive in a changing world; and that we might change too, take the next step on the path of personal becoming. Change was certainly on the minds of the people who gathered in Zuccotti Park last fall. While the Occupy Wall Street protestors were the New York branch of a worldwide movement, their demonstration caught the world’s attention and spawned many kindred encampments here in the US. (Protest is a very resilient form.) And with spring, the protestors return like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano. Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD are making it difficult for the Occupiers to take root again in a public place, but in Catskill, an art exhibit has created a space for dialogue on the issues of economic justice brought to the fore by Occupy. “Wall Street to Main Street,” which our correspondent Sparrow previews on page 107, is an outgrowth of the Masters on Main Street project that has employed Catskill’s empty storefronts to good use as pop-up galleries. The “Wall Street to Main Street” project began on St. Patrick’s Day and will continue through the end of May, with workshops, concerts, and exhibits. Geno Rodriguez, founder of the Alternative Museum, curated an introductory exhibit at Brik Gallery that links OWS to other protest movements (the Wobblies, the Suffragettes, et al.) and highlights the vanguard role of artists in protests. (Art is another resilient form.) Rodriguez believes that the time has come for artists to control their own creative destinies and create a new economic paradigm. “The 99 percent do not buy art,” Rodriguez says. “The 1 percent buy art. Artists become slaves of the 1 percent. Therein lies the contradiction:You cannot cater to the likes and dislikes of the 1 percent and be an Occupier.” Rodriguez envisions a broadbased art that is not controlled by the gallery system (“Only one in a million art students becomes Cindy Sherman,” Rodriguez says), and take art to the people—in the senior centers, at Walmart, anywhere to connect with the 99 percent and tear art down off its narrowly patronized pedestal. Joel Richardson is an artist who’s taken his work to the streets. Literally: Richardson’s grafitti-esque stencils are currently wheat-pasted up around Catskill. His signature image, Suitman, which appears on the cover this
month, defies the typical Occupy rhetoric of the evil banker. Richardson’s 1 percenter not only has a briefcase full of gold, but a heart of one as well. Suitman embodies his hope in the 1 percent and the possibility of peaceful societal evolution, rather than disruptive, throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater revolution. Richardson’s inclusiveness points a way toward resiliency: Believe in the better angels of those we may conflict with politically, even if we don’t believe in angels. Resiliency in the face of crisis is something 1 percenters probably don’t worry much about. If there’s a flood, they can live in their other house. If there’s a fuel shortage, they’ll stockpile gas. Ditto for food and other essentials. Wealth creates a bunker for those who can afford it. For the rest of us, future uncertainty won’t be so easy to manage. We’ll need help. The Transition Towns movement, which might be considered a form of occupying the future of one’s own community, is about creating local resiliency through mutual interdependence.With Community gardens, alternative energy sources, and the shared intelligence and resources of your neighbors actively planning for the possible challenges to come. The Transition Towns movement is taking hold in the Hudson Valley, as Paul E. McGinniss reports (“Grow Your Own Community,” page 58), with concerned citizens gathering to discuss a shared future rooted in collective action. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition movement, doesn’t believe that this model of nonhierchical, self-replicating, self-governing groups will solve all problems. “We don’t know if this works,” Hopkins tells McGinniss. “Transition is an invitation to be part of an experiment on an historic scale with people who are all around the world trying to figure out what to do at this really crucial point in history to make the places we live more resilient and less vulnerable.” In his report on Transition Towns, McGinniss also notes Tom Shadyac’s documentary I Am:The Shift Is About To Hit The Fan, which cites research stating that humans function at a higher level and remain healthier when expressing positive emotions. Speaking for myself, I imagine I’d find it more ennobling of my soul to stand shoulder to shoulder with my neighbors sowing crops than I would chasing them off my lawn with a shotgun. Shaydac’s film also mentions the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, the man who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”—no doubt a concept that eases the conscience of many a 1 percenter as they pocket their enormous bonuses each year. I deserve this. I am the most fit, therefore I deserve a larger share and others deserve less. In Darwin’s classic work Descent of Man, he employs the phrase “survival of the fittest” twice. Yet the word “love” appears 95 times. Love, still the most resilient form there is.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center issued a report on February 28 stating that the number of hate groups and anti-government organizations has grown since last year. The report showed a large rise in the number of groups that identify with the patriot and militia movements, whose beliefs include a strong distrust in the government. The farright patriot movement grew after the election of President Obama and the beginning of the recession. In 2010, Antigay groups were shown to have risen from 17 to 27. The states with the most active hate groups are California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York. Source: New York Times
According to recent studies, the rich are more likely to take candy from children, break the law while driving, lie in negotiation, cheat to win, and promote unethical behavior in the workplace. In the candy test, 129 undergraduates were asked to view themselves as either upper class or lower class, then presented with a jar of candy. The participants could take as much as they wanted, with the remainder going to children in the room next door. The participants who believed they were of a higher income took more than those who believed they were of a lower income. In another study researched observed cars at an intersection. Drivers in more expensive vehicles were more likely to cut off other drivers and less likely to stop for pedestrians. Source: Washington Post Two years after the devastating BP oil explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, deepwater drilling is regaining momentum—this time on a larger scale. There are more than 40 rigs drilling in the Gulf, compared to 25 last year, and drilling is expanding waters off Mexico and Cuba. Oil companies are also moving into new areas off the coast of East Africa and in the Mediterranean after an abundance of natural gas was discovered. Amy Myers Jaffe, associate director of the Rice University energy program said, “We need the oil. The industry will have to improve and regulators will have to adjust, but the public will have to deal with the risk of drilling in deep waters or get out of their cars.” Source: New York Times The sale and consumption of alcohol is banned at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation located on the southern border of South Dakota—home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and one of the poorest places in the country. In Whiteclay, Nebraska (population 14), just across the state line, an average of 13,000 cans of beer and malt liquor are sold everyday. Tribal officials say most of the alcohol sold ends up on the reservation or consumed by its residents. In February, the tribe filed a lawsuit against Whiteclay’s distributors along with Anheuser-Busch and other large American brewing companies. In a population of 45,000, the tribal police made 20,000 alcohol related arrests last year. Tribal data says four in five families on the reservation have a family member with alcoholism, and one in four babies is born with alcoholrelated disorders. Source: New York Times Nestle has gone natural in the UK. The first major candy manufacturer to do so, Nestle has removed all artificial ingredients from their product line, replacing them with natural ingredients including carrot, hibiscus, radish, and lemon to provide color or flavor to treats such as Rolo, Kit Kat, and Smarties. The changeover was prompted by the UK backlash against the use of food dyes and additives in Nestle products such as the 2007 Ban the Additives campaign, which followed research finding that children become hyperactive when they consume a diet of sweets, cakes, and sodas that often contain additives. Source: Good News Network
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A long range study examining the eating habits of over 110,000 adults for more than 20 years found that any amount of red meat can increase mortality rate. Unprocessed red meat causes a 13 percent greater chance of premature death, while processed meat including salami and bacon causes a 20 percent increased risk. The study suggests that substituting a serving of nuts instead of red meat is associated with a 19 percent lower risk of dying, whole grains was linked with a 14 percent reduced risk, low-fat dairy or legumes at 10 percent, and fish at seven percent. Source: Los Angeles Times On February 28, the New York Civil Liberties Union released a report “Protecting Patient Privacy” citing that New York State’s system allows hospitals and doctors to upload patient information into regional databases without patient consent. New York’s approach is that once a patient gives consent to access their electronic medical records, their doctor is able to view everything. There is no way to share some records and hide others, but the NYCLU wants patients to be able to control what medical information doctors have access to. With consent, healthcare providers can view all patient records including sensitive reports about psychiatric care, abortion, and sexual health. About 65,000 hospitals, doctors, and providers statewide participate in regional networks for sharing medical information. The Capital Region’s network, Healthcare Information Xchange New York, processes 27,000 new consent forms from willing patients. Source: Albany Times Union According to AARP’s report issued on February 28, the price of popular drugs used most widely by older Americans rose nearly 26 percent from 2005 to 2009. The price of generic drugs fell nearly 31 percent yet the price of brand-name drugs grew 41 percent, and specialty drugs rose over 48 percent. Source: New York Times Former University of California, Berkeley quarterback Joe Ayoob made the throw of his lifetime when he exceeded the world record paper airplane distance by 19 and a half feet. His 226-foot, 10-inch toss trumped the previous Guinness World Record of 207 feet, 4 inches set by Stephen Kreiger in 2003. John Collins aka “The Paper Plane Guy” was the brains behind the design of the plane, artfully folded to float an astonishing distance. Sources: The Guardian (UK), Huffington Post Experts at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago said an estimated 30 to 50 percent of food produced in the world is thrown away. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, the average American throws away 33 pounds of food each month, which translates into 400 pounds of discarded food per person in a year. In many countries people can’t afford the food that’s being produced. Patrick Woodall of Food and Water Watch said, “Even in 2008, when there were hunger riots around the world, there was enough food to feed people, it was just too expensive.” EPA experts and other groups have proposed various solutions to help control food waste including clarifying “sell by” and “use by” dates to prevent consumers from disposing of food too soon, some food could be “rescued” for soup kitchens, certain leftovers could be used for animal feed, and increasing compost production could boost soil health and reduce the size of landfills. Source: MSNBC —Compiled by Molly Lindsay
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In America, Jesus Christ suffers from DID, dissociative identity disorder. It’s defined in the official literature as “the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of behavior.” When DID is portrayed in movies or on TV, it’s usually called multiple personality disorder. There is, for example, the Jesus I used to hear about when I was young— the “Prince of Peace,” who loved the poor and was into humility, love, and compassion. He went on to march with Martin Luther King Jr. and is still very active in the black community. Then there’s the Jesus who loves capitalism at its most rapacious, figures poverty is the result of sloth and sin, gets hysterical around homos and upset if anyone has sex just for fun, “supports the troops” (a euphemism for being pro-war), is virulently patriotic, and hates illegal aliens. In 1979, “three Catholics and a Jew” decided to recruit Jesus and use him to awaken religious conservatives from their electoral slumber. Such people, they hoped, would vote on cultural issues—sex and God and whatever euphemisms for racism were going around at the moment—instead of, and even against, their own economic self-interest. Republicans could, therefore, woo them, without compromising their core mission: re establishing wealth inequality. The three Catholics were Paul Weyrich, who founded the Heritage Foundation with beer mogul Joseph Coors’s money; Richard Viguerie, the king of direct mail fund-raising; and Terry Dolan, the closeted gay leader of NCPAC, the National Conservative Political Action Committee. Dolan, who died of complications from AIDS in 1986, helped turn homophobia into a political tool. To an outsider, this seems as strange as a Jewish political consultant in the Weimar Republic advising the Nazi Party to use anti-Semitism to “get out the vote.” But homosexual Republicans and conservatives frequently align themselves with homophobes, so they apparently aren’t troubled about encouraging others to drench them with slurs and deprive them of equal rights. The fourth was Howard Phillips, a failed politician and a successful pundit, usually two steps further to the right than the regular Right. He was born a Jew but had converted to evangelical Christianity by then. They selected Jerry Falwell to head up the new movement. They even gave the movement its name, the Moral Majority. Falwell was the minister of a large church, host of the TV show “The Old Time Gospel Hour,” and founder of his own university.Traditionally, Baptists were nonpolitical on principle, but Falwell was already moving to change that. He was strongly opposed to gay rights and, at least through the '50s and '60s, was regularly associated with, and supported, mainstream segregationists. It is impossible to know how sincere any of these players were. Did they truly believe that the decline and fall of the American Empire was at hand due to lewdness, licentiousness, integration, and taking prayer out of public schools? Were these cynical machinations? Or some combination of the two? In any case, it was wildly successful. Because of vague and shifting definitions, they’re a difficult group to turn into a statistic. However, by 1994, something more than 25 percent of actual voters identified themselves in exit polls as “white evangelical Christians.” It’s stayed there, plus or minus a few points ever since. Usually, two-thirds of them vote Republican. That’s a significant voting bloc. It represents 16 percent of actual voters who support Republicans. They
overlap with other groups, interests, and demographics. Still, it is fair to say that in any election that is actually contested, that Republicans go onto win, “white evangelicals” provide the margin of victory. The Religious Right and the Republican Party, are, at the very least, codependents. While they might represent 16 percent of the electorate in a general election, in this most recent round of primaries, they probably have accounted for 50 percent of the vote. Any Republican candidate in a contested primary has to have them. Naturally, the candidates compete for them, moving further and further to the right each time they open their mouths. If you’ve watched the debates, you’ve seen that it’s the voters—as represented by the audiences—who are pushing the candidates to the right, not the candidates conning the voters. Any sign of sanity or humanity provokes instant opprobrium. Mitt Romney created the best state health system in the country. He has been disavowing it through the whole campaign. Rick Perry got half crucified because Texas let illegal aliens living in Texas pay in-state tuition rates for college. But he redeemed himself to cheers when he took pride in the record-setting number of executions in his home state. If someone failed to buy insurance and then gets into an accident, should we just let him die? This audience cried out “Yes!” at a recent debate.They also booed an active-duty gay soldier serving in Iraq. We’ve seen the party morph in a matter of months. Opposition to abortion has become opposition to birth control. Planned Parenthood has become a new enemy that needs to be destroyed along with socialists, terrorists, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Public education is under attack. Teachers are the enemy. Going to college is “elitist”—unless you’re rich and pay for it out of pocket. Living proof that evolution can go backward as well as forward. The tail, dare I say it, appears to be wagging the dog. The rabid rabble that hate and fear modernity, unleashed for the purpose of splitting the Democratic coalition, is now pounding wedges into the Republican Party while it drags their platform back to the 17th century. Their best-funded and best-looking candidate is a Mormon. At some point they may wake up and notice that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are Catholics. To those of us who are none of the above, these may seem to be distinctions without a difference. But it will require a definite leap of faith for evangelical Protestants to consider either Mormons or Catholics to be actual Christians. A few months ago it seemed that Obama was the most vulnerable president since Jimmy Carter. Now it looks like the Republicans are going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The realist might say, “That’s what happens when you take faith over facts.” The rationalist might think, “It never made any sense anyway, and it’s about time that became clear.” The ironist will rub his hands with glee and chuckle to himself. The comedians—even if they are atheists—will thank God for large favors. But even if they lose, they’ve changed the dialogue. If loony extremists can get mainstream politicians to echo their ideas, the media will repeat them as a credible part of the national dialogue. Abortion, contraception, public education, the separation of church and state—issues of national import thought settled years ago—are all back on the table now. 4/12 ChronograM 23
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couple, who prefer to eat out at least five times a week, began to find urban life less compelling. Their daily routines were almost wholly career-based. So after 30 years at the Met, Daly decided to retire from the relentless pressure of updating the exhibits at one of the world’s most renowned museums. At the time, Delemeester was producing television commercials for a major advertising agency, and eager to exit that grueling schedule, too. Desirous of residing full time in Ancram, Daly needed an office for the museum-design consulting business he soon launched. So they hired a highly regarded architect, Dennis Wedlick, a resident of both Hudson and New York, for their rather unusual renovation project. The task: add a home office, and make everything else better. However, for tax reasons, don’t enlarge the house more than necessary. Before going out on his own, Wedlick worked for 12 years with the late Philip Johnson, a giant of modern architecture. Johnson’s masterpiece, The Glass House in New Caanan, Connecticut (1949), designed as his own residence and now a museum, is essentially a tangible architecture-theory essay, in which landscape views function as walls. Vastly more livable, Wedlick’s clientfocused interpretation of the legendary Johnson aesthetic is however notably on display at the Daly-Delemeester home. The couple was too modest to mention this, instead electing to regale me with stories about mid-century modern furniture bargains found here and there.Yes, as true believers in specialists, they had indeed hired a color consultant—in fact, they’d hired two!—and that’s why the paint colors are so rich yet subtly soothing. True fact: that’s an authentic Hudson River School oil, but see, it’s a depiction of the Swiss Alps, and “something Jeff inherited it from his aunt, of which we’re very fond,” says Delemeester. But having noticed some of the other art on display, and given their sophisticated backgrounds, it didn’t take much digging to link Wedlick to Johnson. $200,000 for 200 Square Feet, Plus Myriad Upgrades With the proceeds from the sale of their Manhattan apartment, Daly and Delemeester could afford to substantially elevate their weekend retreat. In the end, the couple spent a seemingly profligate $200,000 to add 200 square feet to the original 1,800-square-foot footprint and make other improvements. But once again, they’re confident they’ve invested wisely. The
Clockwise from top left: Locally quarried fossil stone make up the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foundation and walls on the property. Daly and Delemeesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cat Sam dozes in the guest bedroom. Delemeester, Daly, and Sam at the dining room table with a view to the east behind them through cathedral windows. Opposite: A glassy saltbox transformed from a weekend retreat to a country home through.
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Three views of Megan Camp’s space at the Hyde Park Antiques Center, featuring a collection of items found in an historic Rhinebeck barn used as a flower nursery from the 1940s to the 1960s: terra cotta pots with patina, wooden apple boxes with “Rhinebeck, New York” tags, little berry baskets with faded green rims, vintage garden tools, seed envelopes, and hand-stamped planting tags.
Everything Old Is New Again Meagan Camp’s Antique Revisions By Lindsay Pietroluongo
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f Meagan Camp’s shop wasn’t located in the Hyde Park Antiques Center, you wouldn’t realize that she’s selling authentic relics. You’d think you stepped into Restoration Hardware or Pottery Barn, stores that are full of brand new, antique-looking items. Camp has combined the best of both worlds: truly vintage pieces displayed in an airy, clutter-free, sweet little nook. Owe it to the childhood years she spent examining her mom’s home catalogs with a magnifying glass. Or to the display and exhibit design degree she received from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Or to her current job as an interior stylist for an agency in San Francisco. Whatever’s responsible, Camp’s youthful, contemporary vision is changing our perspective on antiques. “I’m trying to make antiques fun again,” Camp says. After living on each coast, she settled in Rhinebeck, taking along the West Coast vision she adopted. “In California, people enjoy their life. Nothing is too perfect. See this silverware? It’s a bit tarnished.” Camp is partial to lived-in elegance, evident by the worn baseball mitts, stacks of stained clay flowerpots and delicate church windows that adorn her coop at the Antiques Center. For her work as a stylist, Camp is always scouting for props. “I’m constantly on the hunt for beautiful and interesting items,” she says. “I found myself con36 home ChronograM 4/12
stantly frustrated with the stereotypical ‘dark’ and ‘dusty’ aesthetics that seem to follow the world of antiques.” Instead of old-fashioned, musty objects, her nook is outfitted with crisp paper seed envelopes, faded berry baskets, and a gray, wooden fruit ladder. White Chinese lanterns hang overhead and torn out pages from nature books line the walls. The white fireside chair and rare birdcage can be credited to the antiques picker she works with, Mary Ellen Dean of Fiddlehead Farm. Camp has only been at Hyde Park Antiques for two months, but she’s already eager for a second plot. To fit the limited space, she skillfully edits her collection to create each installation. For this spring’s display, Camp cleared out the 1762 Strawberry Hill barn in Rhinebeck, which was used as a lilac nursery in the 1940s.The current garden-style antiques for sale reflect Camp’s soft spot for all things fresh. “I keep coming back to that word, fresh,” she says. Camp’s work has been seen in Rue and HudsonValley Magazine, and she has an upcoming shoot with Country Living. Eventually, she hopes to turn her antiquing side job and Telesca jewelry business into a bone fide lifestyle and vintage shop she can call her very own—with all of the space she could possibly need. For more information, visit Camp’s website at Meagancampstyle.com, or read her blog at Meagancamp.blogspot.com.
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water, water everywhere Cold Spring, Garrison, and Mahopac by Erik Ofgang photos by David Morris Cunningham
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n Moby-Dick, Herman Melville writes that “meditation and water are wedded for ever,” and the celebrated writer would have had plenty of time for thought and reflection in the waterside communities of Mahopac, Garrison, and Cold Spring. In these Putnam County villages there is a rich sense of history and a vibrant arts and culture scene, all set against the backdrop of stunning water views. In Cold Spring and Garrison views of the mighty Hudson River and the surrounding hills and mountains abound, while in Mahopac the river views are replaced by views of Lake Mahopac, the hamlet’s namesake. The communities offer visitors ample opportunities for hiking, shopping, art gazing, and dining. They are all wonderful destinations for day trips, but travelers be warned: Visits to these villages may be habit forming. Cold Spring This picturesque village is located in the town of Philipstown and has the exciting waterside feel of a Florida beach settlement. The village is located on a hill that slopes gently right up to the banks of the Hudson River. Because of the slope, views of the river and the mountains on the river’s west side are visible from nearly every spot on Main Street. The scenery of Cold Spring extends well beyond the river. Outside the village center, at Stone Crop Gardens, horticulture enthusiasts can lose themselves gazing at 12 acres of painstakingly planned and manicured gardens. The community is also home to the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum, which is
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view of boscobel restoration from the south. built in 19th century by States Dyckman, boscobel is considered an outstanding example of the Federal style, augmented by Dyckman’s extensive collection of period furnishings. The mansion is open for tours and events are held on the property throughout the year, including the hudson valley shakespeare festival.
located on the grounds of the historic West Point Foundry. (Read a profile of Museum Director Mindy Krazmien on page 49). A noted destination for antique buyers, Cold Spring’s Main Street is home to many beloved antique shops, including Cold Spring Antiques Center and the charming Country Clocks, where time flows on to the beat of many different ticks, tocks, and chimes. The village is also home to an active art scene. At the Marina Art Gallery there are regular contemporary art exhibits, and the gallery also offers fine art restoration. The Living Room is an art gallery and performance space that supports the arts in almost every discipline. Last June the place opened with a bang when indie rock stars The National—whose members are old friends of the Living Room’s owner Nathalie Jonas—performed a surprise set. Jonas said the vision for the venue could only work in a place like Cold Spring. “Cold Spring was the only place we considered opening a business. We [Nathalie and her boyfriend Philip Nobel and their 4-month-old baby] live above the store on Main Street, and we love this town and want to see it become as vibrant as it can be.” There’s far more to Cold Spring than the shops and restaurants. Hiking paths that lead to stunning mountaintop views of the town and river are within striking (and sometimes minor climbing) distance of the village. Two popular hikes are the trails up Mount Taurus and the Breakneck Ridge Trail. For those willing to venture onto the Hudson by boat or kayak, ample sightseeing opportunities await. Hudson Valley Outfitters on main street rents kayaks and does
christopher staples at the look | art gallery. paintings by james b. sparks and mary ietaka at hudson valley outfitters
judy gordon at simply elegant
wood sculpture by augustino della vecchia
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guided tours of the river. Kevin Semple, assistant manager of Hudson Valley Outfitters, says, “One of our most popular kayak tours is the marsh tour, which actually takes you into Constitution Marsh, which isn’t a place you can get to easily on foot and you can’t take motorized boats there.” Constitution Marsh Audubon Center & Sanctuary is a 270-acre marsh that is home to many different species of wildlife. Outdoors men and women tired from kayaking and hiking have plenty of food and dining options to help regain their energy in Cold Spring.You can taste fine Italian dining at Cathryn’s Tuscan Grill or head to the Hudson House where you can enjoy American cuisine and also spend the night at the historic inn located only about a hundred feet from the river.You can also drink in the river view along with a cocktail at Cold Spring Depot’s large outdoor patio overlooking the Hudson. Tired hikers can also recharge themselves on Main Street with a cup of exquisitely made coffee at Cup O Cino or refresh themselves with the unique popsicle creations of Go-Go Pops, which offers healthy and tasty frozen-juice pops. The shop is owned by husband and wife Lynn and Greg Miller. They have more than 70 different flavors of pops and about 20 flavors are offered on any given day. Many of the flavors have no or very little added sugar. “We keep the sugar content really, really low to try to let the flavors of the fruit and the vegetables that we use really come out instead of being masked by the sugar,” says Lynn Miller. GARRISON Heading south from Cold Spring on route 9D takes you through Garrison. Here the views of the Hudson River are just as spectacular. Above the two-lane road hugging the mountainside, historic estates stare out across the river. One of these is Boscobel (Italian for “beautiful woods”), where both the house and grounds are open to the public. The house was built in 1808 for the States Dyckman family and is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Federal architecture in the country. The mansion and surrounding estate are available for weddings and often host public events, including concerts and the annual Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, which stages professional theater six nights a week late June through early September. Another former estate open to the public is the Manitoga/Russel Wright Design Center. Once the home of designer Wright (one of the best known industrial designers of the mid 20th century), the center offers four miles of trails on 75 acres of designed landscape. Visitors can also tour Wright’s home and studio and gain an insight into Wright’s design philosophy. At Roundup Texas BBQ on Route 9 diners can feast on authentic smoked barbecue straight from the heart of the Lone Star State. At the Tavern at Highland Country Club, the menu features local, sustainable New American cuisine that’s sourced from the Hudson Valley, including produce from the restaurant’s own five-acre farm. At The Stadium Sports Bar visitors enter a shrine to the hallowed halls of sports history. The bar boasts one of the largest individual sports collections in the country. On display are two Heisman trophies, Mickey Mantle’s Triple Crown award, six Gold Glove awards, two Cy Young awards, and many, many more pieces of sports history. Manager Megan Clark says that when people come in for the first time they are completely shocked by the sports memorabilia. “It’s so great to see the people who have never been here before just kind of in awe of the collection,” Clark says. “Even if you’re not a sports fan, you can definitely appreciate the surroundings.”
Leonora Burton says her business isn’t about making sales, it’s about making people smile. “If I can make one of my costumers laugh or smile I’m happy, and if I can make two of them laugh that’s even better,” she says. Burton is the outgoing and sincerely friendly owner of The Country Goose and Highland Baskets in Cold Spring. The Country Goose is a restaurant and kitchen supply store and Highland Baskets sells popular custom-made gift baskets that are shipped all over the country. Burton’s store and her colorful character have long been fixtures of Cold Spring’s Main Street. A native of Newport, Wales, Burton—who lives in Garrison—moved to the United States more than 40 years ago. At first she settled in New York with her husband and sons, but about 30 years ago her aging motherin-law decided to come live with them. Her mother-in-law was in her late 80s and came from a very small village in Wales. “She would have not enjoyed the city,” says Burton. “We had to find a village where my husband could commute and where our five-year-old twin boys could go to school. We found Cold Spring.” Burton bought the Country Goose from a friend 28 years ago. At first, business was good but it started to decline after a Walmart opened in nearby Fishkill. To combat declining sales Burton, took a seminar on making gift baskets and opened Highland Baskets out of the same location as The Country Goose. The baskets quickly took off and Burton designs each basket to fit the personality and any dietary needs of the recipient. Today both of Burton’s business are thriving. “We’re now back into the kitchen ware business because more and more people are eating at home [and] we have enough locals who just love shopping locally,” she says. After almost three decades Burton is part of the fabric of Cold Spring’s Main Street and she couldn’t be happier about that. “I’m looking down the road across the river, it reminds me of being back in Wales. It’s just so beautiful, the people are so lovely, it’s just a great place to be,” she says. “I get parents who call me up and say ‘I’m letting my little Charlie down into the village by himself for the first time, can you just keep an eye on him?’ I feel like the grandmother because I’ve been here so long and I just know all these little kids, actually I know all the parents who were little kids who used to come to the store. It’s a very, very close knit and a very friendly place to be. It’s unique.” Highlandbaskets.com
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MAHOPAC Mahopac is a hamlet in the town of Carmel. The town is located alongside the picturesque 587-acre Mahopac Lake. During the Revolutionary War, Mahopac served as a crossroads between key Colonial garrisons. More recently, it served as the location for several scenes in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman film Tootsie. It’s easy to see what attracted the filmmakers to the waterside town. At the Mahopac Chamber Community Park at the corner of Routes 6 and 6N there is a gazebo, fountain, playground, and walking paths and benches. At the Dish Bistro and Wine Bar on South Lake Boulevard, husband and wife Georges and Eileen Zidi bring their passion for food, farming, wine, and entertaining to the public. Nearby, the Terrace Club at 825 South Lake Boulevard offers stunning lake views and a seafood-centric menu. Mahopac also has a rich artistic history. In the late 1940s Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to design a house on Petre Island in Lake Mahopac. Wright claimed this house would surpass his famed Fallingwater House, but the original owner could not afford the costs of the house. The design idea was scrapped until the late 1990s, when Joseph Massaro purchased the property and set out to complete Wright’s dream. Wright’s plans were incomplete, so Massaro hired Thomas A. Heinz, an architect and Wright historian, to complete the unfinished design. Today, the house, called the Massaro house, is a striking lakeside attraction. And the arts are still expanding in Mahopac. The Look Art Gallery just opened in February. The artist-owned gallery was opened by nine area artists with the goal of making “art more accessible for people in the lower part of the county,” said Susan Zoon, the media director for the gallery and one of its founding artists. Zoon said the gallery hopes to partner with other organizations in the town that display artwork, including the Mahopac Public Library and the Putnam Arts Council’s Belle Levine Art Center. All of these venues are located relatively close to one another, and Zoon says she’d like to create “a little triangle in the middle of Mahopac to start to make Mahopac a destination for people who are looking at art.”
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Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Also taking place at the Boscobel House is the beloved annual festival which will take place from June through August. Three different productions are staged simultaneously during that time. This year’s shows are “Love’s Labour’s Lost” “Romeo and Juliet” and “The 39 Steps” which is not written by the Bard but is instead based upon the novel by John Buchan and the Alfred Hitchcock movie. Hvshakespeare.org
Chapel of Our Lady of Restoration The Greek Revival style chapel, built in 1833, sits high above the Hudson River and hosts cultural performances from April through December. 2011 featured readings and performances by Mary Gaitskill and the Rob Scheps Core-tet. Chapelrestoration.com
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Mindy Krazmien, director of the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum, says the more she studies the history of the region, the more she finds that draws her in. “The history of the entire county is fascinating because it has been such a big part of major events in American history basically since Europeans arrived on this continent.” She adds, “Henry Hudson passed Cold Spring on his way up the river, and pretty much ever since then, its been right in the thick of what is key to the country. ” Krazmien’s passion for the region’s storied past is evident as she points out some of the area’s historic highlights. While in command of West Point, Benedict Arnold was headquarted in Garrison at the home of Beverly Robinson. Arnold planned to surrender the fort at West Point to the British, but his plot was exposed and Arnold fled from Garrison and escaped to the river. Cold Spring is home to the West Point Foundry, which is where the Parrott Gun—a revolutionary cannon used extensively in the Civil War—was invented and manufactured. “Many historian’s credit [the Parrott Gun] with helping the North win the war,” says Krazmien. Krazmien said her job is helped by the fact that local residents have such a deep interest in their own history. “You have this amazing community of people who are incredibly loyal to this community and have been here for many generations. You meet people whose grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather ran a sloop up and down the Hudson River that was well documented as the fastest sloop working the river in the late 19th century.” Krazmien moved to the area in 2006, when she got the position as director of the Putnam County Historical Society. Prior to that, she worked as the exhibitions manager at the Queens Borough Public Library in New York City. The Foundry School Museum is located at the West Point Foundry’s school building, which was built around 1830 and is adjacent to the West Point Foundry Preserve. In addition to permanent exhibits the museum displays two temporary exhibits each year. On display through June 14 is “America the Beautiful: Women and the Flag,” examining the relationship between patriotism and feminism Krazmien lives in Cold Spring with her husband, Daniel A. Miller, a documentary filmmaker, and their two children. She said the area is special because of its deep sense of community. “It doesn’t just apply to people’s sense of place and their interest in history. It really applies across the board,” Krazmien says. “People are very sociable. It’s a very open community—people are out at night and throughout the day interacting with one another.” Pchs-fsm.org
The second annual Putnam County International Wine & Food Fest will take place on Saturday, August 11 and Sunday, August 12, at the Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park, 201 Gypsy Trail Road, Carmel. The festival offers a fun-filled weekend featuring wine from a variety of wineries, a beer garden, an ecovillage, children’s entertainment, arts and crafts vendors, and informative cooking demonstrations on both days of the event. Putnamcountywinefest.com
Garrison Art Center Fine Art Crafts Fair Garrison Art Center’s 43 rd Annual Fine Crafts Fair will take place on August 18 and 19 at the riverfront park at Garrison’s Landing. Located across the river from West Point the fair features a diverse array of handmade work from ceramics to paintings to jewelry and decorative art. Garrisonartcenter.org
Putnam County 4H Fair For four decades this country fair has delighted families in Putnam County and beyond. This year’s event take place on July 27, 28, and 29. The event is located at the Putnam Veterans Memorial Park 201 Gypsy Trail Road, Carmel, set on beautiful, rolling green lawns. The Fair provides an atmosphere of a day in the country. Billed as a true “country fair” it features Civil and Revolutionary War reenactors, plant sale, animals, livestock show, pony rides, crafts, food, demonstrations antique tractors, hay rides, a country living auction, and much more. As an added attraction there is no charge for parking or admission to the fair. Counties.cce.cornell.edu/putnam
Cold Spring by Candlelight Each December, this self-guided walking tour of historic homes and sites is a benefit for Partners with PARC, helping to fund programs and services with people with developmental disabilities in Putnam County. Dip into boutiques and pick up holiday gifts or hop on the trolley to tour the sites in comfort (rides are only 50 cents each). Caroling and holiday music, storytelling, ice carving demonstrations, and a visit from St. Nick himself will get you in the Christmas spirit. Partnerswithparc.org.
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Transition Movement Takes Root in the Hudson Valley By Paul E. McGinniss
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he Walking Dead,” AMC’s series about surviving among the undead, is a cult hit, announcing the arrival of the zombie apocalypse as a pop culture phenomena. It’s not difficult to read between the lines for the metaphor about society’s collective fears for the future. The growing “prepper” movement takes those TV fears to the bunker. Preppers are serious about survival (weapons and ammo are de rigueur) and strive for self-sufficiency, going off the electric grid, hoarding precious metals, and storing food against a possible apocalypse, currency collapse, or post–peak oil societal breakdown. Die-hard survivalists make it clear: If desperate, unprepared neighbors knock on their fortified doors, these unfortunate souls might as well be flesh-eating zombies. Because they’re not getting any of the stored grain, water supply, or stockpiled medical supplies. Beyond the Bunker Enter the Transition movement. Spawned by worries about peak oil and fears of economic collapse, it’s an “anti-zombie apocalypse” response to concerns about uncertainty. Transitioners prefer to build more resilient communities rather than domestics bunkers. With over 100 US initiatives and hundreds more in 34 countries, Transition has grown rapidly since its birth in Totnes, England. Transition educates and organizes communities to be more resilient and selfsustaining, and less dependent on outside sources of food, fuel, and other necessities. "Transition initiatives have spawned community gardens, farmers markets, and even winter farmers markets," says Carolyne Stayton, executive director of Transition US. "Some have created some schemes around seed saving and seed sharing as well." Groups have also focused on home weatherization and clothes swapping. In Los Angeles, the Transition community swaps clothing and other goods and they coin their efforts “Recession Relief.” Stayton says, "Other community benefits are bicycle repair coops, reskilling workshops of all kinds, plus a number of efforts focused on aging such as Aging in Place and Elder Salons that provide both community and resources." The Marbletown Transition Initiative grew out of a series of community awareness film screenings organized by Deena Wade. At a recent meeting, Michelle Hughes,
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director of the High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, said her biggest concern was “giving children a positive vision of the future.” Transition is also percolating in New Paltz, Woodstock, Kingston, and Saugerties. Woodstock’s Kevin Kraft reports: “Our initiating group has been in touch with over 200 residents. Groups are forming which are concerned with permaculture, food supply, water, and energy.” The Hudson valley is poised to become a Transition hub and a model for regional resiliency planning. Cornelia Wathen and Fay Loomis, who helped initiate Transition Marbletown, reported over 20 health professionals volunteered to start the Rondout Valley Holistic Health Center, which will open one day a month at the Marbletown Community Center. The community response was so strong people called months before opening to make appointments at the free clinic. Loomis notes: “Transition is not just a lot of buzz. People are ready to jump in.” Affordable, locally grown food is a big concern. Marebletown Transition attendee Jacob Diaz has a CSA in Lamontville. Organic chef and food producer Lisa Jones wants to launch a community grain project. Rik Flynn, president of the volunteerplacement group Ulster Corp, stresses, “No one should be hungry in Ulster County,” and was already working to bring local produce to food banks serving a hungry population that needs help now, not in some dystopian future. Marbletown Town Supervisor Michael Warren says enthusiastically, “Transition Marbletown is a great addition to our community.” A Global Movement While Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition movement and author of The Transition Companion: MakingYour Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times, has become the voice of the movement, Transition initiatives, much like Occupy, are self-replicating and nonhierarchical. It’s self-governing with different local manifestations. “With Transition we have a cheerful disclaimer: We don’t know if this works,” Hopkins says. “Transition is an invitation to be part of an experiment on a historic scale with people who are all around the world trying to figure out what to do at this really crucial point
in history, to make places we live more resilient and less vulnerable. And what that will look like in New York will look very different than anywhere else.” Transition by its very manifestation asks the question: Should we be paranoid about the future or oil depletion in the first place? Besides increasing community action on things like renewable energy and energy efficiency, there’s much hope from advancing technology. Futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil says, “We are applying nanotechnology to solar panels. And the cost per watt indeed is coming down at a rapid rate. The amount of solar energy we’re producing is on an exponential rise. It’s been doubling every two years. It’s only eight doublings from meeting all our energy needs.” From Scarcity to Abundance Similar optimism is reflected in the book Abundance, co-written by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis. The authors hope to “help change the world’s conversation from its current pessimistic focus on scarcity to abundance.” Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil co-founded Singularity University, which aims to “facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” Hopkins is not as sanguine as Diamandis and Kotler on the ability of technology to solve future problems. “Transition is not anti-technology, but technology is also not a silver bullet,” Hopkins says. “Transition is in effect an international movement of communities that are relocalizing. It’s a global movement of communities localizing but sharing it globally using the web and all of the available resources. It’s quite and interesting juxtaposition of things made possible by technology.” While not giving up techno fixes, many are embracing a simpler life and Transitionlike positive thinking. Tom Shadyacs documentary film I Am:The Shift Is About to Hit the Fan emphasizes that “humans actually function better and remain healthier when expressing positive emotions such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude versus their negative counterparts anxiety, frustration, anger, and fear.” The film notes that while Charles Darwin is best known for the phrase “survival of the fittest,” he used it only twice in The Descent of Man. The world “love” appears in the book 95 times. Have Your Pie in the Sky and Eat It Too Transition advocates are not just pie-in-the-sky optimists. Wolf Bravo, in Marbletown, wants to start a tool-sharing scheme where people who can fix or build things will trade resources. Because of climate change, freak weather, and economic uncertainty Transitioners know society could break down. Surely many members of Transition initiatives worldwide own guns and have a well-stocked larder. But instead of fretting over converging catastrophes à la James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency, advocates from Brazil to Brooklyn are developing concrete plans to become more resilient. Rob Hopkins contextualizes Transition as an empathetic preparation for potential future shocks: “Transition is a compassionate response," Hopkins says. "It’s not a selfish response." When discussing the bunker mentality prevalent in some peak oil survivalist groups he says, “The idea that peak oil means inevitably the irrevocable crash and collapse of absolutely everything is really quite dangerous. We are saying, ‘Well actually there is another way to do this,’ which is about rebuilding community assuming there is good in the people around you, assuming that actually they have skills and insights and connections that you can all benefit from sharing.” Whether or not we’re one of the many living month to month and one step away from a financial crisis—or one of the lucky with a nest egg to fall back on—we’re all pulled between the doom and gloom of James Howard Kunstler and Ray Kurzweil's techno-optimism. But if Darwin was actually more Woodstock than Omega Man, things might just be looking up. Transition and other groups like Green Drinks are connecting face to face and on Facebook, creating on- and offline communities, and seeking local connections to solve worldwide problems. Corneila Wathen of Transition Marbletown explains what Transition means for her: "Community is the heart of Transition—joining our hearts to create a happy, abundant life together.” Preppers might think Transition types touchy-feely. Hopkins says he got a lot of flak about being naive when he wrote the blog post “How Survivalists Got It All Wrong.” Are we naive to think we can prepare for the future and survive it—without barricading ourselves in homes? Personally, I’d rather help build a local grain mill as opposed to a fallout shelter. I mean, if I’m going to survive the zombie apocalypse I’ll need a few friendly neighbors, a fresh locally made baguette now and then to keep my mojo going, and some locally produced spirit to get through all those dark and lonely nights. Hopkins says, “If it’s just about everything breaking down and people living in bunkers with four years of baked beans, I don’t really want to be around to see that." 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KINGSTON 340-8625. “Children’s Mixed Media Art Show.” April 16-May 14. Opening Saturday, April 21, 5pm-7pm.
59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Canaries.” Photographs by Thilde Jensen. Through April 22. “PhotographyNow 2012.” Through April 22.
45 NORTH FRONT STREET
COLUMBIA COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS GALLERY
KINGSTON (917) 882-3441. “Shift: Kingston.” The work of Adie Russell, Angela Rose Voulgarelis, Christina Osburn, Carla Rozman, Melissa Halvorson, Jojo Ans, and Veleta Vancza. April 7-22. Opening Saturday, April 7, 4pm-9pm.
ADAMS HORSE STABLE WEST BRIDGE STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-1618. “Photographs by Jeanne C. Hildenbrand, Jeannie Bachor, and Keith Kopycinski.” April 26-May 31. Opening Thursday, April 26, 6pm-8pm.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART UPSTAIRS GALLERIES 22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 505-6040. “15 Ulster County Artists.” A two-gallery showcase of new and recent work. Through April 22.
ANN STREET GALLERY 140 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 ext. 119. “Bill Yost: A Retrospective.” Through April 21.
THE ART AND ZEN GALLERY 702 FREEDOM PLAINS ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 473-3334. “Paintings by Grace E. Diehl.” April 6-June 30. Opening Saturday, April 21, 4pm-7pm.
ARTPOP GALLERY
209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “My America: America the Way it Used to Be.” A solo exhibition by Herb Rogoff. Through May 21.
COLUMBIA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1 NORTH FRONT STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4417. “Photographic Works by Chad Weckler.” Through May 11. Opening Saturday, April 21, 5pm-7pm.
Dia Beacon 3 Beekman Street, Beacon (845) 440-0100. “Opus + One” Jean-Luc Moulène. Through December 31, 2012.
Darren Winston Bookseller 81 Main Street, Sharon, CT (860) 364-1890 “On the Street Where You Live,” Collages of found art by Terry Rosen. Through April 15.
DAVIS ORTON GALLERY 114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON www.DavisOrtonGallery.com. “Drag Queens / Jacques Cabaret.” Keiko Hiromi. April 6-May 13. Opening Saturday, April 21, 6pm-8pm. “The Liminal Portrait.” Richard Edelman. April 6-May 13. Opening Saturday, April 21, 6pm-8pm.
7505 NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK redhookcan@gmail.com. “Small Works, Big Ideas.” Through April 22. Opening Monday, April 16, 5pm-7pm.
Samuel Dorsky museum of art
ARTS UPSTAIRS
THE FIELDS SCULPTURE PARK
60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Nobody’s Fool.” A group show with Valerie Owen in the solo room. April 21-May 13. Opening Saturday, April 21, 6pm-9:30pm.
BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “‘I Remember’ Thought Bubbles.” New works by Carla Goldberg. April 14-May 3. Opening Saturday, April 14, 6pm-9pm. “Marina@BAU.” Members of Marina Gallery show at BAU. Through April 8.
BEARSVILLE GRAPHICS SUDIO GALLERY 68 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 684-5476. “The Unstill Still Life: Mezzotint Engravings by Carol Wax.” April 7-May 6. Opening Saturday, April 14, 3pm-7pm.
BETSY JACARUSO STUDIO 54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Aqua Estuary.” With new work by Cross River Artists. Through April 7.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Photography: New Work.” April 19-May 27. Opening Saturday, April 21, 6pm-8pm. “Richard Merkin on Literature and Film: A Survey.” Through April 15.
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1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz (845) 257-3844 “Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist.” Through July 12. OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER, GHENT (518) 392-4568. “Stanley Whitney: Six Paintings.” April 7-June 3. Opening Saturday, April 7, 1pm-3pm.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Beyond Landscape.” Featuring recent mixed media cloth collages that express a blend of abstract and decorative art. April 5-29. Opening Saturday, April 14, 1pm-5pm.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “Space, Time and Narrative: Mapping Gothic France.” Through May 20.
GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Susanna Briselli: Still Life, Photo-Paintings.” April 13-May 21. Opening Saturday, April 14, 5pm-7pm.
GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Inside Out.” Paintings by Deborah Buck. April 7-May 6. Opening Saturday, April 14, 6pm-8pm.
MID-HUDSON HERITAGE CENTER 317 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 485-8506. “3x3.” An exhibit by the 19 artists that make up Longreach Arts. April 1-30. Opening Saturday, April 14, 4pm-7pm.
Mill street loft’s gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, poughkeepsie 471-7477. “Exposure.” Beacon artists show in Cold Spring. Through April 1.
MUROFF-KOTLER GALLERY SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Water.” An art show juried by Portia Munson. Through April 20.
The Museum at Bethel Woods Bethel (800) 745-3000 “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters” A retrospective of the work of David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick. Through July 22.
THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “Boundaries and Openings.” An abstract photography installation by Carl Berg. Through May 2. Opening Sunday, April 1, 3pm-5pm.
PROJECTSPACE 209 3670 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE 633-0815. “E Equals.” Exhibit in honor of Emily Dickenson, honors both the small and the daily while at the same time illuminating the spiritual, sexual, and universal in woman’s work. April 5-28. Opening Saturday, April 14, 5pm-7pm.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “Hudson River Landscapes.” Paintings by Rick Gedney. Through April 8.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART A photograph by Val Shaff, from the “Rokeby Show” at Tivoli Artists Co-op, April 6-29.
1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “The Leonardo Series: Drawings by Anthony Panzera Based on the Work of Leonardo da Vinci.” Through April 15. “BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibition I.” April 27-May 1. Opening Friday, April 27, 5pm-7pm.
SCENIC HUDSON’S RIVER CENTER GCCA CATSKILL GALLERY 398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “Outside the Lines.” Celebration of the best of Greene County’s K-12 student creativity. Through April 14. “Wall Street to Main Street.” Visual art and design exhibits, performances, workshops and panel discussions developed in collaboration with Occupy Wall Street artists. Through May 31. “Transmittal.” Exhibition using radio waves as a visual arts medium. April 28-June 2. Opening Saturday, April 28, 5pm-7pm.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Paintings by Anda Styler.” April 7-30. Opening Saturday, April 7, 5pm-7pm.
HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “Joe/Brains/Lamar.” Through April 1.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS GALLERY 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Mike Childs and Patricia Zarate.” Through April 8.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Unnatural Selection.” Gammy Miller. Through April 29.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “CIRCA 1986.” 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Through July 31.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Paul Hamann: Photographs.” Through April 22.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Works by Mimi Graminski and Bibian Matheis.” April 14-May 19. Opening Saturday, April 14, 4pm-6pm.
8 LONG DOCK ROAD, BEACON 471-7477. “Hudson River Waterfronts; Beacon & Newburgh, Yesterday & Today.” Paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of the Beacon and Newburgh waterfronts from the 1860’s-present. Through April 29.
THE SMALL GALLERY AT VALLEY ARTISANS MARKET 25 EAST MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE (518) 677-2765. “Paintings and Other Art by Jon Segan.” Through April 4. “People, Places and Things.” Paintings by Carolyn Kibbe and Kate Torpey. April 27-May 22.
STORM KING ART CENTER OLD PLEASANT HILL ROAD, MOUNTAINVILLE 534-3115. “Light and Landscape.” April 4-November 25. Opening Saturday, May 12, 10am-12am.
TEAM LOVE RAVENHOUSE GALLERY 11 CHURCH STREET, NEW PALTZ www.tl-rh.com. “The Monstrous Among Us: Folly | Excess | Collapse.” Large scale works on paper by Paul Spadone. Through April 19.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-7465. “Worlds Between: Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot.” April 29-October 28. Opening Sunday, April 29, 3pm-5pm.
TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Rokeby Show.” April 6-29. Opening Saturday, April 7, 5pm-7pm.
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CONNECTICUT (860) 435-3663. “Rock, Paper, Scissors.” Sculptural paintings, installation, and mixed media works by James Meyer. Through April 22.
WOLFGANG GALLERY
21 SOUTH MAIN STREET, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 927-3989. “Members’ Show I.” Through April 22.
40 RAILROAD AVENUE, MONTGOMERY 769-7446. “Three Voices, Three Visions & Three Mediums.” Works by Nancy Reed Jones, Marge Morales, Marylyn Vanderpool. April 14-May 4. Opening Saturday, April 14, 6pm-9pm.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORSES
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM
37 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON 340-0501. “2nd Annual Charlie Chaplin Tribute.” Chaplin photos, articles, music, books, films & memorabilia. April 7-28. Opening Saturday, April 7, 5pm-8pm. 988 SOUTH LAKE BLVD., MAHOPAC lookartgallery.com. “Works by Painter James Sparks and Sculptor Augustine Della Veccia.” Through April 8.
28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Paintings by Thomas Sarrantonio.” Through April 8. “Case Studies from the WAAM Permanent Collection.” George Alt, Marion Greenwood and Ezio Martinelli; Recent Work by WAAM Members. Juror: Ed Smith; Solo Show: Landscape Photography by Thomas Teich; Active Member Wall: Painting and Sculpture by Franz Heigemeir; Small Works Show. Juror: Nancy Azara; Youth Exhibition Space: Works by local High School Students. Through June 10.
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KENT ART ASSOCIATION
LOOK ART GALLERY
153 main street, cold spring marinagallery.com. “New Work.” Tim D’Aquino and Grace Kennedy. April 13-30. Opening Saturday, April 13, 6pm-8pm.
65 MAIN STREET, WARWICK www.WarwickFA.com/events. “Collage by Glenn Freedman.” April 1-30. Opening Friday, April 13, 5pm-8pm.
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Music
The Well-Tempered Cavalier Vladimir Feltsman By Peter Aaron Photograph by Fionn Reilly
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t shouldn’t take more than an hour, my life is not all that interesting,” quips Vladimir Feltsman when scheduling our interview. Oh, sure. A man who is universally recognized as one of the greatest pianists of our time. One who’s performed with every leading orchestra in America. Someone who endured the choking, Cold War-era cultural suppression of his homeland and emerged to play for presidents, headline at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and perform at the planet’s most prestigious concert series and music festivals. An artist of inconceivable technique, whose head-spinningly voluminous repertoire stretches from Baroque to 20th-century composers and boasts a growing discography that currently swells to nearly 40 recordings. The guiding founder and artistic director of SUNY New Paltz’s internationally celebrated PianoSummer festival. No, not a very interesting life at all. With due respect to the maestro, we beg to differ. Born in Moscow in 1952 to prominent theatrical composer Oscar Feltsman (“the Russian Irving Berlin”) and a musician mother, Vladimir Feltsman grew up two blocks from the Kremlin and was introduced to the keyboard long before his feet could reach the pedals. A particular, life-long affinity for Johann Sebastian Bach also came early. “Bach makes up the pinnacle of Western culture, along with Dante, Shakespeare, DaVinci, and Joyce,” maintains Feltsman, who has recorded a wide swath of the German composer’s oeuvre, including both mammoth books of TheWell-Tempered Clavier (issued as an acclaimed four-CD set by Nimbus Records in 2009; imminent plans include completing his survey of Bach’s clavier works with the recording of 16 more such CDs for Nimbus). “Bach dedicated his life to his music, which has a resonance that transcends any written or spoken language. His music is the ‘poetry of knowledge.’ As a musician or a composer, through an understanding of his music you can automatically comprehend any other music.” Yet despite his love of Bach, it was Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that Feltsman performed when he debuted with the Moscow Philharmonic at age 11. “I remember [the concert] feeling wonderful; I loved being on stage and I was not nervous at all,” he recalls, adding, with a grin, “of course, as I got older and became more aware of everything, then I started to get nervous.” At 17 Feltsman entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied under preeminent professor Jacob Flier before next enrolling at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Conservatory. In 1971 he took the grand prize at the esteemed Marguerite Long International Piano Competition in Paris, and the resulting attention soon saw him touring extensively throughout the Soviet Union, Europe, and Japan. His visits to the latter regions, however, were a stark reminder of how different things were back home, where the stifling censorship he and other Soviet artists faced was endlessly frustrating. “I am not a patient person to begin with—my wife will tell you this—so this was very hard for me,” says Feltsman. “It was like George Orwell’s 1984. Under the government at that time even [the music of] Liszt was considered ‘decadent’—let alone someone like [avant-gardist Alfred] Schnittke. Just to write or perform new, original music would bring problems. You could say I am ‘allergic’ to this kind of a system.” By 1979 the pianist had had enough and applied for an exit visa. The response? An immediate limit by the state on his performances and the suppression of his recordings. Fortunately, however, a growing number of music lovers and political figures in the US, including Senator Jack Kemp, were following his plight and made it a cause célèbre. The interest culminated with a 1982 “debut in absentia” concert at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, in which a spotlight was shone on a lone grand piano as a recording of Feltsman played over the venue’s PA. Local critic, DJ, and Parnassus Records chief Leslie Gerber brought the story to the attention of then SUNY New Paltz President Alice Chandler. “Jerry Gillman, who was then the head of [radio station] WDST, suggested that I visit with Feltsman on a trip to the Soviet Union I was planning and invite him to come to New Paltz,” says Chandler, who retired in 1996. “Feltsman was being punished for having asked to emigrate. Despite his extraordinary talent, he had become an ‘unperson.’ Instead of performing in concert halls, he was being forced to perform in factories and day care centers in places like Siberia. It was important symbolically that he come to America as a rebuke to Soviet authoritarianism and as a sign of support for artistic freedom. Sitting in his small apartment in Moscow, I asked him if he would like to perform in the
college’s summer music festival. ‘You have a false passport?’ he joked. ‘I will go with you immediately.’” It didn’t quite happen immediately, but, eight months of negotiation later, in 1987, Feltsman was at last granted permission to leave the USSR. Through Chandler he secured a teaching position at SUNY New Paltz, and later that year was warmly welcomed to the White House to give his first North American recital. “My guess is there was some kind of a deal that was done behind the scenes with [the Russian government], and they got something, I don’t know what, in return,” he says. “This is just a feeling I have, I’m sure I’ll never know all the details. But I will always be thankful to President and Mrs. Reagan for what they did for me and my family.” With a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut later that year, appearances on “60 Minutes” and other TV shows, and lucrative contracts with Columbia Artists Management and CBS Records, Feltsman indelibly established his Western arrival, although he now admits he was initially thrown by the social, patrondriven aspects of the American classical scene. But since the moment he arrived at JFK carrying his four-year-old son atop his shoulders, the pianist has continued to send swooning US audiences into the stratosphere with his exquisite, every-note-felt-deeply performances. A Tribute to Rachmaninoff (2011, Nimbus Alliance Records), the passion-wrought document of a 1992 concert with the Russian National Symphony Orchestra—his first since emigrating to America—is enough to tingle the flesh and water the eyes. (The emotional homecoming was chronicled in the PBS documentary Journey from Home: Vladimir Feltsman in Moscow.) Feltsman paid tribute to his origins in 2003 with the acclaimed “Masterpieces of the Russian Underground,” an unprecedented, nine-day, cross-genre series at Manhattan’s 92nd StreetY that surveyed music, film, poetry, and photography created under the Soviet regime.The choice of composers covered in the program, which Feltsman has called “unavoidably personal,” ranged from influences like Shostakovich to such friends and contemporaries as Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina, many of whom never considered their art a political act. “Myself, I am not interested in politics, I much prefer to stay out of politics,” says Feltsman, who in addition to holding the position of Distinguished Chair of Professor of Piano at SUNY also serves on the faculty of Mannes College of Music. Nevertheless, when asked about the recent, controversy-tainted re-instatement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the former Russian citizen is decisively dismissive, calling the election “a meaningless circus.” In 1994 Feltsman launched New Paltz’s PianoSummer festival, which every year draws musicians, teachers, and students from around the world. An integrated, three-week performance/instruction program, PianoSummer includes master classes, lectures, demonstrations, student recitals, and concerts. The majority of the events are open to the public, thereby affording students the opportunity to learn how to perform and present themselves before a receptive but discerning audience. In homage to his own teacher, he also created PianoSummer’s grand-finale segment, the Jacob Flier Piano Competition, which sees the winner performing with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic (conducted by Feltsman). This season’s schedule promises concerts by renowned pianists Alexander Melnikov and Jeremy Denk. As a lead-up to the festival, Feltsman will perform at a benefit concert and reception at the college on April 14. Held in conjunction with the inauguration of the college’s eighth president, Donald P. Christian, the music planned for the evening includes selections from Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and works by Liszt and Schubert. In his review of a 2010 recital of Chopin’s four Ballades, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns observes that Feltsman “plays a piano as though he is speaking through it.” The pianist himself, however, feels that ultimately it is he who is the vessel for the music, not his instrument. “There are two kinds of artists,” he offers. “There are the ones who express themselves, and there are the ones who see themselves as being a conduit of the music—which is how I see myself.” Vladimir Feltsman will perform at Studley Theater on the campus of SUNY New Paltz on April 14 at 4pm; the concert will be followed by a reception with the artist. Funds raised will be used to support musical, theatrical, artistic, and other cultural events and activities that enrich the experience of students.Tickets for the concert only or for the combined concert and reception are available. Newpaltz.edu/inauguration. 4/12 ChronograM music 65
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Matt Finley & Rio JAZZ April 3. Did you know April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Yep, we have a month for that, too—which of course we should, for jazz is seen around the world as America’s greatest art form. And this 25th-anniversary concert at Dutchess Community College’s Drumlin Hall by trumpeter/flugelhornist Matt Finley’s Rio JAZZ is a fine way to celebrate. Finley, a former DCC instructor, has been playing for over 50 years; his Brazilian-flavored ensemble also stars pianist Peter Tomlinson, guitarist Jeff Ciampa, bassist Don Miller, drummer Joel Rosenblatt (ex-Spyro Gyra), and percussionist Tomas Martin Lopez. 7:30pm. Free. Poughkeepsie. (845) 431-8050; Riojazz.com.
Mamalama CD Release Party April 7. Led by singer-harpist Elizabeth Clark-Jerez, Saugerties/Woodstock-area band Mamalama weaves together threads of Anglo-European folk and classical, Renaissance/ medieval, psychedelic, modern Minimalist, and South American, West African, and Native American music, adorning this tapestry with dashes of mystical poetry. This night at the Bearsville Theater heralds the release of group’s sophomore album, The World of Color and Light, which shimmers with violin, cello, dulcimer, frame drums, hurdy-gurdy, and other organic instruments. Marc Sloan opens. (The Farewell Drifters roll in April 12; the Hope’s Fund benefit aids women in need April 27.) 8pm. $15. Bearsville. (845) 679-4406; Bearsvilletheater.com.
Adrienne Haan April 20. Germany’s Adrienne Haan is one of the brightest torchbearers of her homeland’s cabaret tradition, a lineage that harks back to Berlin’s Weimar Era. However, her new show, which here saunters into the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, focuses on our own Great American Songbook. Titled “’Til the End of Time,” the evening is a “swinging show accompanied by a four-piece band that promises to take the audience on a flight of a lifetime.” Time to bust out the silk and sequins. (Babette Hierholzer performs with the Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra April 15; Jennifer Muller/The Works dance May 5.) 7:30pm. Call for ticket prices. Tivoli. (845) 757-5106; Kaatsbaan.org.
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Tuesday 4/17 – SawYer FaMilY and BoneTHrower 9:30PM. Friday 4/20 – Padre Madre 9:30 PM. Saturday 4/21 – BaBY g 9:30 PM. Sunday 4/22 – conTinenTal 9:30PM. Friday 4/27 – lara and Her HoPe’alongS.
Jem Cohen Film Premiere April 27. Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s numerous music-oriented works include the Fugazi doc Instrument, the Elliot Smith portrait Lucky Three, the ghostly eulogy Benjamin Smoke, and others on R.E.M., Cat Power, the Butthole Surfers, and Vic Chesnutt. His newest such offering is We Have an Anchor, a “documentary-based” multimedia project that combines footage of Nova Scotia with poetry, found text, and live music by a band that for this premiere at EMPAC includes Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Dirty Three’s Jim White, and the Quavers’ T. Griffin. (John Zorn blows solo April 3; Colin Stetson and Tyshawn Sorey jam April 5.) 8pm. $18. Troy. (518) 276-3921; Empac.rpi.edu.
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April 21. It seems the Upstate music festival season is upon us a little earlier this year, with the launch of the Capitol Region’s new MOVE Music Festival. Taking place at venues throughout Downtown Albany, the day-long indie event promises sets by 100 bands, along with guest speakers and a trade show. Acts slated to play include The Show, the City Never Sleeps, Echo & Drake, Bern & the Brights, Freak Owls, Skeletons in the Piano, Wild Adriatic, Runaway Dorothy, Spaceship Days, Jolly, The Blind Spots, Black Mountain Symphony, and more. (518) 227-1155; Movemusicfest.com.
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German chanteuse Adrienne Haan sings cabaret standards at Kaatsbaan on April 20.
cd reviews Battle Ave War Paint (2011, Independent)
Like tangled vines of a blue passion flower enveloping a rusty chain link fence, the sound of New Paltz’s Battle Ave fuses gritty urban realism with a symphonic, ethereal dynamic on its debut long player. The band brings an eclectic array of tools to build this creation, with Samantha Niss (drums, percussion), Noah London (bass guitar), Adam Stoutenburgh (guitar, organ, keyboard, trumpet), and Jesse Alexander (vocals, guitar, keyboard), augmented with session support of violin, cello, piano, and even more guitars. This is not easy-listening, do-the-chores background music. Battle Ave demands your full attention. With the quiet/loud dynamic, facile comparisons could be made to grunge acts, but these are inadequate in describing War Paint’s drawn-out epics, which with their multiple time changes and melodies, make each individual composition feel like several numbers in one.The group’s live shows must be a raucous interplay of these components. “Complications with Traveling” begins as small as the crack of dawn; with skeletal piano and vocals and tom-toms gradually building, dissonant guitar soon grinds the song to a pulp, before dissolving into the mist. Alexander’s slurred vocals are an acquired taste, but there is certainly nothing saccharine about them. A plaintive, two-note guitar explodes into a fist-shaking rock riff on “Whose Hands Are These?” before pausing just long enough for Alexander to feverishly intone “And I nearly killed you / just to see if I felt it” before the angry guitars explode once more and dissolve into the fuzz of radio static. Battleave.net. —Jeremy Schwartz
Roswell Rudd The Incredible Honk (2011, Sunnyside)
The Incredible Honk is trombonist Roswell Rudd’s latest release, a collection of his transnational indulgences in music that reach beyond our AM/FM signal. Given his will and pleasures at this time in his life, would anyone begrudge him these? Ever the consummate collaborator, the 76-year-old Rudd personalizes each composition, not just with his brashy sound, but with his choice of chums. “Bro,” “Ngoni Vortex,” and “Airborne” are with spirited Malian ngoniba player Bassekou Kouyate and his group. (Rudd met Kouyate in Mali in 2000.) Other welcome guests include Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet and his band BeauSoleil, who create a gentle, easy sway with “C’etait dans la Nuit.” One of Rudd’s current band mates is keyboardist Lafayette Harris Jr. His solo during “Berlin, Alexanderplatz” is as humble as Rudd’s muted and open playing is unfettered. Another Rudd buddy is Sunny Kim, whose vocal nuances (“Alone with the Moon”) are like gossamer. Even her paced delivery on the kiddish “Kerhonkson: The Muse-ical” is cherishable, with the song’s title hinting at her role with Rudd. Two of the traditional compositions that Rudd includes on The Incredible Honk are “Blue Flower Blue,” a Chinese folk song with sheng and vocals by Wu Tong; and “Airirang,” a Korean piece featuring Kim, Harris, and the bassist of the group, Ken Filiano. With such an appetite for melody, it’s not surprising what Rudd’s next project will be: Trombone for Lovers. He’s launched a Kickstarter (Kickstarter.com) campaign for it. Sunnysiderecords.com. —Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson
Two Dark Birds Songs for the New (2011, Riot Bear Recording Company)
Songs for the New, the sophomore release from Hudson Valley-based chamber-pop-folk-rock quintet Two Dark Birds, achieves the remarkable feat of rendering domesticity, maturity, and country life every bit as compelling as, say, abandonment, wanton drunkenness, and stealing. The not-so-secret weapon is front man Steve Koester, gifted with the ability to convey shadowy subtext, whether he’s offering tantalizing rearview glances at a reckless past, a paean to the disarming beauty of the Catskill Mountains, or an ode to his daughter. It helps that he can turn out rare wordsmithery like “It was a knockdown, drag-out good time / At the Lake they call Algonquin / And the smoke moved off the mountains / Like the trees were breathing” (from “Lake Algonquin”). Koester co-produced Songs for the New with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jason Mills. In cahoots with bassist Jude Webre, guitarist Don Piper, and pianist Ben Wildenhaus, Koester and Mills embrace the rich Catskill Roots Music template; Songs for the New abounds with sonic nods to The Band, Van Morrison’s Tupelo Honey, and the epic gestures of Mercury Rev. Fuzzy keyboards and fingerpicked acoustics rub against violins and horns, and then it’s just Koester and Co. unplugged, offering a one-two punch of loss and exuberance over the metallic caress of a dobro. From barnburner to ballad, the full-grown men in Two Dark Birds execute these tunes with edgy intensity and hard-won grace. Riotbearrecordingco.com. —Robert Burke Warren
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WRITING WITH SCISSORS
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ugusten Burroughs is cleaning jade. Gemology is one of the RunningWith Scissors author’s many obsessions, and he’s immersed in the task. So immersed, in fact, that he’s forgotten he scheduled an interview atTriBeCa’s Odeon Café half an hour ago. A cell phone reminder prompts a gasped, “Oh my God. I’ll be there in 20 minutes.” Burroughs pushes through the door and approaches the corner booth, dripping apologies. “I am so sorry. I’m so not that person.” He shucks his leather jacket, revealing a skull-patterned T-shirt, two tattooed forearms, and a neck thickly covered with ginger stubble. A baseball cap with an embroidered beaver logo shadows his ice-blue eyes. He orders the first of two Diet Cokes and starts talking. Burroughs’s conversational style is a disconcerting mix of effusiveness and distance. His gaze often drifts upward, away from his listener—he finds eye contact challenging, due to a self-described spectrum disorder—and he tends to lock onto a subject and run at it from all directions until he feels he’s got everything said. Though he can be scathingly funny in print, his scattershot monologue is heartfelt, his voice sometimes rising in near-evangelical fervor. At one point, he looks over his shoulder at the couple in the next booth, explaining, “I tend to shout.” The object of Burroughs’s excitement is his forthcoming book, This Is How: Help for the Self: Proven to Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. ForYoung and Old Alike. It launches May 8, and Burroughs’ upcoming appearance at the Woodstock Writers Festival is a sneak preview of what his website calls a “Big-Ass National Tour.” He loves doing author events. “People always apologize for asking the same questions, but they’re never, never, never the same,” he attests. “I don’t get jaded or tired of it.” Lucky for him. Since he published his first novel, Sellevision, in 2000, he’s fired off three bestselling memoirs—Running With Scissors (2002), Dry (2003), and A Wolf at the Table (2008)—and three volumes of black-comic personal essays—Magical Thinking (2003), Possible Side Effects (2006), and You Better Not Cry (2009).That’s a lot of ink to give to one fortysomething life, but Burroughs’s past is as gothic as his tattoos. Literally all the adults in his childhood orbit were wildly dysfunctional—not just eccentric or quirky, but DSM diagnosable. In RunningWith Scissors, he describes his mother (played by Annette Bening in the 2006 film adaptation) as “a rare psychotic-confessional-poet strain of salmonella.” Between mental breakdowns, she gives her son up for adoption to her priapic shrink, whose treatment methods and family lifestyle are outlandish even by 70s standards. One of his longtime patients, a man in his thirties, becomes 14-year-old Augusten’s first sexual partner. Burroughs’s alcoholic philosophy-professor father, a shadowy figure in Scissors, takes center stage in A Wolf at the Table, emerging as an icy, sadistic sociopath. The stablest presence in Burroughs’s young life may be his much-older brother, John Elder Robison, who has Asperger’s syndrome (subject of his own memoir, Look Me in the Eye). Burroughs emerged from this Dickensian childhood determined to “live a big life.”Though he left school after sixth grade, he earned a GED at 17, legally changing his name from Christopher Robison (Augusten, he writes, has “the subtle sheen of celebrity to it”; Burroughs was after a favorite computer). After a brief flirtation with community college, he moved to New York City, where he worked in advertising and nearly drank himself to death; Dry is a chronicle of bottoming out, rehab, and recovery. The anguish of losing a friend and ex-lover to AIDS triggered a relapse. What finally allowed him to break the cycle was the writing cure. “When I decided to be a writer, I thought, ‘I’m going to be writing the rest of my life.This is it.’ I knew I would get published, because I knew I would never stop writing,” he says. “Writing about difficult experience can be painful, but it’s never harmful. People get afraid of reliving intense emotion, afraid to go back into that experience, but the dread of it is so much more significant than the act of it. Especially if you have been victimized, especially at an early age, there is wired in—you can’t even call it mistrust, that’s too many syllables—a really tender vulnerability that you don’t want your writing to expose.You’re afraid to let that exposure happen, but writing strengthens you.” Burroughs’s writing has strengthened his readers as well. “Over the years, people have been telling me that Running With Scissors or Dry was such a huge help to them, and I feel like I’m giving out some lookalike celebrity’s autograph. I didn’t write any of my books to be helpful. But now, I’ll give you helpful!” he says with a Wicked Witch of the West cackle. This Is How may be the first self-help book written by someone who hates affirmations (“the psychological equivalent of sprinkling baby powder on top of the turd your puppy has left on the carpet. This does not result in a cleaner carpet”). Though he frequently uses his life’s thorny path to illustrate points, This Is How is not about Augusten Burroughs. It’s about you. Rather, it’s about all of us: flawed,
self-judging, in-our-own-way human beings. “This Is How is an example of the thing I’m absolutely the best at,” Burroughs avers. “This is who, I am with my friends. I’m very, very good at common denominators—not math, I can’t do math at all—but maybe because of how I was raised, without school, outside of society, without any adult guidance... you learn how to figure things out when you’re in survival mode.” He pops a piece of nicotine gum into his mouth, displaying a bright flash of jade in a striking gold ring. “This is a book that’s going to help people improve themselves and their lives. And it’s really going to work, because I’ve done it.” Done what, exactly? What could possibly conquer the host of ills in that neoVictorian subtitle? Burroughs’s magic bullet is unflinching honesty. “Recognizing the very deepest truth of your circumstances is what allows you to change them, or accept them,” he says. “Truth is accuracy. We’ve kind of lost, as a culture, a tight hold on the core of truth. It’s become, ‘Well, it’s your truth...’There’s this question of legitimacy about memoir: Did you make it up?” This is a loaded question. The family known as “the Finches” in Running With Scissors took Burroughs to court, seeking $2 million in damages for invasion of privacy and defamation, claiming that some of the book’s incidents were fabricated. The lawsuit was settled in 2007, and while Burroughs agreed to acknowledge the family’s conflicting versions of events and apologize for “unintentional harm” in an author’s note, the entire text remains intact. Burroughs considers the settlement a victory, calling his book “an entirely accurate memoir.” “Truth is both absolute and often unknowable,” he says. “It varies depending on your point of view. Either the tree fell on the car and crushed the roof, or it didn’t. There’s no ‘your truth or my truth’ there. But there are different vantage points. You’re in the car, or you’re outside at a distance, or you’re outside up close. Each vantage will deliver a different narrative.” Running With Scissors’s breakout success—eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, rave reviews—surprised even Burroughs’s publishers at St. Martin’s Press. “They published very few copies. They liked it, which was great, but we had no idea it would connect to people the way it did. For me, it was that that history wasn’t just going to be tossed away. I wanted my side of the story to be told.” “Writing about being a child is easy, because I have complete recall of being that age, in sensory detail. I have not lost it. Growing up and becoming yourself is a very active thing. Thing?” Burroughs says, frowning. “I don’t have the right noun. This is why we write. Writing gives clarity.” Indeed, his prose is clear as a bell. And while This Is How is studded with quotable aphorisms (“Everybody feels a bit like a dented can inside”), it rises into a blaze of sincerity: “We are all, every one of us, living on a round rock that spins around and around at almost a quarter of a million miles per hour in an unthinkably vast blackness called space. There is nothing else like us for as far as our telescopic eyes can see. In a universe filled with spinning, barren rocks, frozen gas, ice, dust, and radiation, we live on a planet filled with soft, green leaves and salty oceans and honey made from bees, which themselves live within geometrically complex and perfect structures of their own architecture and creation. In our trees are birds whose songs are as complex and nuanced as Beethoven’s greatest sonatas. And despite the wild, endless spinning of our planet and its never-ending orbit around the sun–itself a star on fire–when we pour water into a glass, the water stays in the glass. All these are miracles.”
Is it risky for somebody famous for gallows humor to turn earnest? Burroughs doesn’t care. “I didn’t feel I needed to be funny.Where the book leads— I take it really seriously. I didn’t care about being entertaining. I cared about being clear.” His voice rises to warn-the-next-booth levels. “I feel better about this than any book I’ve written. It’s the most me. I’m certainly not a shining example of mental health—in some ways it’s the blind leading the blind. But if you’ve just gone blind, who would you rather have leading you? Someone who knows how to be blind.” Augusten Burroughs will appear at the Bearsville Theatre 4/21 at 8:30pm, hosted by Jonathan Van Meter. Admission $12/$35/$59 (includes author reception). For more information and festival schedule: Woodstockwritersfestival.com. 4/12 ChronograM books 69
SHORT TAKES Literary locavores will savor this tasting sampler of Hudson Valley history, memoir, and homegrown zombie fiction. Ulster County, New York: The Architectural History & Guide, 1660-1950 William B. Rhoads Black Dome Press, 2011, $24.95
SUNY New Paltz professor emeritus Rhoads provides an authoritative overview of three centuries of local structures, ranging from colonial stone cottages to stately riverfront mansions and mountaintop hotels. Entertaining and informative, its town-by-town organization and wealth of historical photos invite readers to stash a copy in the car for satisfying road trips. Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley: Stories from the Albany Post Road Carney Rhinevault and Tatiana Rhinevault The History Press, $19.99
Anyone who finds history dry hasn’t read the Rhinevaults’ tale of a thieving aristocrat with an ear fetish who, as Nieuw Amsterdam’s governor from 1702 to 08, was apprehended by his own soldiers while wearing a dress. Traveling up the post road, you’ll find rent wars, gypsies, an unsolved murder, and Poughkeepsie’s shocking 1963 burning of $3 million in antique books after their owner’s eviction. Episodes from a Hudson River Town: New Baltimore, New York Clesson S. Bush Excelsior Editions, 2011, $12.95
Thornton Wilder would smile on this detailed portrait of a small Greene County town “not famous for anything in particular,” where “townspeople have lived their lives, worked hard, endured tragedies, and celebrated triumphs.” Farming and shipbuilding rise and fall, as does the perilous ice-cutting industry, powered by draft horses, pulleys, and scrappy men with ice saws. Uncharted Journey: Our Decade Living With Breast Cancer Elizabeth Holland Kern & Patrick Kern Secret Garden Publishing, 2012, $16
What could be more local than one’s own body? This fearless, plain-spoken, and frequently heart-rending account of a Phoenicia couple’s decade-long battle with metastatic cancer is a testament to the power of love and the everyday heroism of living hopefully in the shadow of deadly disease. All book profits go to Benedictine Hospital’s Oncology Support Program. Ulster County Railroads Stephen Ladin and Glendon Moffatt Arcadia Publishing, 2011, $21.99
In its heyday, Ulster County was crisscrossed by five different railroads, carrying tourists upstate and Rosendale cement, fresh milk and meat to the city. Vintage photos and informative captions lovingly conjure the past lives of the Walkway Over the Hudson, the Rosendale Trestle, and miles of Rail Trail. Arcadia Images’ recent releases also include Trudie A. Grace’s evocative Around Cold Spring. HVZA: Hudson Valley Zombie Apocalypse Linda Zimmermann www.hvzombie.com, 2012, $12.95
Hold onto your brain! Ghost Investigator Zimmermann’s feisty undead novel takes place right here and now, moving swiftly from headlines of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to a zombie outbreak in Peekskill. Before long, the whole Hudson Valley is crawling with creepies. Dr. Rebecca “Becks” Truesdale is an intrepid researcher and a crack shot, both useful skills in the AZA (After Zombie Apocalypse) end days.
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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side
Ed Sanders
Da Capo Press, 2012, $26.99
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n the first pages of Fug You, Ed Sanders recalls the City Lights Books publication of his Poem from Jail, composed on toilet paper during his 1961 incarceration for attempting to swim aboard a nuclear submarine and “conduct a peace vigil atop its missile hatches.” After this, we will follow him anywhere. (He was not rehabilitated.) Sanders gamely squires us to the streets, parks, and stages where he and a host of captains courageous, including Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jean Genet, courted clampdown with provocative art and peaceful demonstrations against the Vietnam War. While Sanders claims not to have been “an integral part of anything” as much as “an experimental participant. . . daring to be part of the history of the era,” one comes away from Fug You with renewed faith in the efficacy of sheer ballsiness. Yes, their heroes were slain (Sanders argues persuasively against “lone nut” assassination theories), pot was not legalized, and the war dragged on, but through court cases, publicity coups, and inspirational boldness, Sanders and Co. made the world safer for artists and other mischief makers. Sanders’s ticket from his native Kansas City to the Beatnik-breeding Lower East Side was NYU. While conducting “total assault on the culture,” holding down a couple of jobs, and starting a family, he graduated in 1964 with a BA in Greek. Remarkably, significant drug and alcohol use, plus erotomania, coincided with all of the above. But despite the cannabis-and-sex-scented chaos, Sanders documented and saved much (and stayed married to wife Miriam, going on 50 years). At 72, the longtime Woodstock resident is far from burned out; his brisk, economical reportage, free of “memoirist angst” and including many illustrations, conveys fathoms of swept-under-the-rug history (Lenny Bruce’s travails, the rise of the CIA/FBI), spiced with frequent bacchanalia. Sanders’s hieroglyphic-festooned Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts looms large. This venture featured Sanders’s own rich text and erotic glyphs, plus works by Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Burroughs, and dozens of others. Due to his penchant for what he readily calls smut, it also got him arrested for obscenity— his case was dismissed—and led to cops breaking into his apartment and stealing much of his property, including some amateur porn flicks (never recovered). Not long after Fuck You hit the streets, Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore, later bugged by the FBI. (Sanders obtained his surveillance records through the Freedom of Information Act.) Sanders cops to craving “the white stag of fame,” and with the formation of “satiric proto-folk-rock group” The Fugs, he got it. The band toured the world, sharing stages and smoke with Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, and the MC5, and getting in trouble for bawdy lyrics. This celebrity, combined with the escalation of war, the RFK assassination (the book is dedicated to “the presidency of RFK”), and the introduction of heroin into the counterculture, finally tuckered Sanders out, at least temporarily. Throughout Fug You, Sanders maintains a refreshing conviction that evil exists. In the aftermath of the Manson murders, he stopped writing poetry and headed west to cover the shock and “come up close to (evil’s) clear and present manifestations,” asserting that the experience “helped me to grow up.” His resulting book, The Family, is widely regarded as the best account of the dark side of the hippie dream. Yet Fug You pulses mostly with triumphant fun and hope, eliciting a sense of gratitude that Ed Sanders still walks among us, well versed in darkness, sustained by light, and still beckoning to The Future. —Robert Burke Warren
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ChangĂłâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes William Kennedy
Viking / Penguin Group, 2011, $26.95
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our May issue is April 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
“Where’s Attle? I don’t see Attle.” (Upon arriving at a much anticipated trip to Seattle)
Cassia Berman I am saddened to share that my friend, poet, teacher, and light to many, Cassia Berman, passed this past March. She will be missed. —p
—Daniel Wininger (3 years)
JabberWiki
Oedipus After Colonus For Carey Harrison and Dylan Thomas
‘Twas blackberry, and the texty tweets Did leech and seed in the infosphere: All munge were the friending freaks, And the blogblogs hid in fear. Beware the JabberWiki, my son! The wrists that flip, the fingers that flutter! Beware the rootkit worms, and shun The google viral sputter He drank his coffee and poked the wall: Long time the spindling snivitz did reboot So rested by the server sprawl, And slouched a while to recoup And wireless, he streamed In a Cyberdelic glow The JabberWiki waxed the web And braindumped to and fro One two! and Redyellowblue The pixels went out with a click and a crash He left it dead and with his pen The library he did dash ‘And hast thou slain the Jabberwiki? Come back to social grace To myths and dreams before the screen When humans were not replaced ‘Twas blackberry, and the texty tweets Did leech and seed in the infosphere: All munge were the friending freaks, And the blogblogs lived in fear. —Loretta Burns
Amherst Dream I dreamed myself in Emily’s room— her walls were white her curtains—cream. Her air smelled of baking poems. I saw myself at Emily’s tomb— her small gray stone in her small gray street. Sweet Emily—who stopped before she reached home. —Mark J. Mitchell
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Out from under classless classes The bearded sage, naked to the waist in the Woodstock Times, Beckons his flock. Gone the last traces of Theban thought His daughter distraught In her coral dress, Gone are the eyes blinded by sight Long longed for pupils Regard a plum. Gone are the wounds of the kindly ones His shoulders adorned With new flesh, Apollo’s silver sacred leaves Tremble to see His igneous step. —Mark Thomas Kanter
Buddha Say Standing on the grassy path By the stage, alone Waiting for her turn Ms. Erin McKeown Picked up a stick, Bent over the path, And saved a large earthworm From a squishy aftermath She placed it in the tall grass Safe, out of harm’s way To conduct its wormy business For one more earthy day Although I’ve never met her And her mind to me’s unknown I know all I’ll ever need to About Ms. Erin McKeown —Gilles Malkine
Mother Lakshmi’s Poem If you would give as I do, give from the place where nothing can be taken away from you— give from the place of the spirit. See everything as formed from that inexhaustible spirit for the moment that it’s given, lasting as long as its purpose is. Have faith that nothing is taken away from you that has not outlived its purpose. Relinquish the idea that you have anything to do with it and in that way your clinging and self-doubt will fall away. —Cassia Berman
Getting to Sleep Early I dreamt of returning to work in the laboratory where we had tested pigments laced with chloride for its incredible whitening qualities for industrial use and the work being light raced cars or played cards a couple of hours a day My boss was as thin as ever though George his assistant looking much older and somewhat heavier had taken to wearing his shirts open at the neck and kept wanting to shake my hand for some reason I can’t explain it was a dream The faces were all very small there inside my head mysteries and memories a storehouse of imaginary suns planted in the airless sky the rest of my thoughts I plant here in the garden where the light is very good and it rains almost every morning. —William P. Hayes
Día de los Muertos On Día de los Muertos some here choose to picnic with their loved ones by their graves, and some then strive with Gallo beer to kill mosquitoes of the mind that can draw blood. Out front a wobbly Rambo sheds his shirt and dares the other men to come and fight. In corners of red eyes I see bright tears. Thin dogs with hanging dugs pace back and forth. Their glance tells me there’s nothing more to say. —William Seaton
Passover seder my youngest son has one more question
a woman, aged ripen to wine
—Sari Grandstaff
—Joshua Sweet
Against Spring
Rebels All
It’s Not Like I Believe And
How unlike my spirits this abundant freshness of spring, each green an experiment, like a girl trying on, first time, lipstick and stockings. How old I feel against the heavenly blue of days, the late light picking up jewels of early blooms, softening limbs performing in space like dancers. I lost my slippers years ago —perhaps in the fire that led to womanhood—so I do not join the chorus. I pull on a metaphysical cigarette, sip harsh scotch, wear rolled socks and blue jeans taste the coarse green of bitterweeds— what the cows eat that makes their milk sour.
We’re young. God we’re young. We’re young and rebels all. Rebels with every cause and to every glorious effect. We melt the sun away, And howl at the moon. We carry our dreams in our jeans, Our heads in our hearts. Screams soaked in ocean surf— The highest highs and lowest lows as but tide on our toes. The big black always behind us, The big bang always ahead. We cut the chains of a criminal cage, Search for the red in our veins; In all of us a personal summer, Pushed by fear of future winters. A timeless truth over a thousand permutations, A thousand generations, a thousand germinations: We are. We are fires in the night, stars in a sublunary sky. We are mutable gases born by open wind, We are illumination, awakening, engendering. We seek the world and spurn the rest. We are young. God we’re young.
my heart feels like a wave that never crashes and it’s really not okay but i am trying hard to remember that all flesh is grass. remember it like i remember the first time i heard “ghosts.” not the ones that sit in the corners of rooms and just watch and watch me, but the song. though both kinds sing, loud and quiet. i was in a cement walled room and my heart was pregnant and bleeding. she sang it over and over because that’s how i played it. she sang, we died and then we woke up hungry. our selves stayed up in our heads and then flew right over everything else alive. i miss you like death. yes i think i know that song and i really do want to listen but i want to die more. he’s asleep in the bed and i’m on the floor cause i like it here and i think i wish you were near me because you make me feel like who i am, good or evil, peaceful or a wild rumpus, margot, brod, the sky opening, the ghosts that broke your heart before i met you, whatever. i miss your heart like a million pounds of concrete pouring. all flesh is grass. all flesh is grass. all flesh is grass. my heart is the forest and the wilderness is good and perfect. the flesh is grass. but no. i miss you like a nightmare-eaten child whimpering in its sleep. how do you entice infinity? please, i can take it, i was made for it. it is a thing in a room you cannot call for, its already there, like the song, like the devil waiting and waiting. 5:25 am, 5:36 am, 5:39. “i used to eat your breath” you said, and just like that, i was removed. flesh is not, was never really grass and the wilderness is just gods metaphor for what my insides feel like, looking quiet but feeling loud. who can breathe me now? i move. and who eats up my wilderness now? do as done, there’s nothing else left to be but here.
—c. c. Condry —Alice Rose George
Indian Point Joy Ride after two years living far apart feeling his father beside him, gripping the bicycle seat picking up speed he looks back over his shoulder his father stands thirty feet behind waving at him the boy yelps zig zags, recovers keeps himself upright turns the bike to wobble back his father’s arms grab him tight the bike rolls out and away as his father whirls him around —Tony Howarth
If we were to find one day that electrons were finite, rare that the bright bits stripped in dynamos sent out through the body of copper to the world moving our trains lighting our lights stirred the dreams of lovers or the dead reborn, scattered as there’s air breathed by Napoleon or Elvis in every breath, would we shut it all down the world a sanctuary for holy motes or would we turn up the volume worship our radios fire great lights into night skies tempered dark the place for final resting? —Philip Nobel
Gangs What happens to the energy of lost potential? Human actualization thwarted and twisted by violence, stopped dead by the impact of steel on flesh.
—Kerry Giangrande
Crow There’s a rustling in the shadow that oily, iridescent crow harbinger of all that I dread fluttering trapped inside my head and always just behind my back a flash of wing, a smudge of black fear clawing, cawing harsh and low one gleaming feather in the snow reminding me, lest I forget the cunning crow is no one’s pet. —Eileen Van Hook
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Where Historic Meets Hip Hudson and Columbia County by Peter Aaron
clockwise from top left: hawthorne valley farm store; crandell theater in chatham; leucantha a sculpture by philip grausman at the omi international arts center in ghent; a doorway on columbia street in hudson
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ne could easily say Columbia County encapsulates all the best things about the Hudson Valley. Yes, the entire greater region is vibrant, beautiful, and variously marked by the pockets of charm its residents and visitors love. But what makes Columbia County so unique is the way in which the many assets found spread throughout the Hudson Valley as a whole all come together in one exceptionally active, geographically varied, 648 square miles. Starting from the riverfront edge of its core capital of Hudson, the county fans out eastward and rises to meet the Taconic and Berkshire mountains along the Massachusetts border as it encompasses wide swaths of agricultural acreage, numerous parks and protected areas, and dozens of idyllic rural towns and villages. As with everywhere else in America, Columbia County’s first residents were Native Americans. They were the Mahicans, whose name translates as “people of the waters that are never still”—a clear reference to the Hudson River, and one that assumed a double meaning when the influx of European settlers caused the native people to go elsewhere. In 1609 Captain Henry Hudson’s Dutch-hired vessel the Half Moon stopped for repairs along the river that would later bear his name, and within a few years waves of traders had begun to colonize the adjacent land.The Dutch arrived first, naming the waterfront area Claverack Landing, and were followed by the English. Officially chartered in 1785, the city of Hudson was largely developed by New England whalers and merchants who mapped out the busy port city’s gridded streets as it grew to become, for a time, America’s 24th largest city. Today, Columbia County is in the throes of an
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economic and cultural rebirth driven by a new breed of settlers: hip transplants and weekenders of varied backgrounds, many of them New Yorkers pulled north by the county’s comparatively affordable properties, eye-pleasing architectural and natural surroundings, and agreeable pace of life. Diamond District Although Hudson now basks in its Sunday-spread profile as a hipster’s haven, for decades the city was branded with a different, much less welcome reputation. From the “disorderly women” who strolled the now-gone Vinegar Hill and the vice dens that catered to sailors during its earliest years, up until the dawn of the 1950s, when the blocks of brothels and gambling houses that flourished on Diamond Street (since renamed Columbia Street) were raided and shut down by the state, Hudson was known worldwide as a red light district nonpareil—“the Las Vegas of the Northeast.” While trying to find its feet in the 1960s and ’70s, the city descended into a steep decline that lasted until the mid ’80s, when antique dealers began opening stores on Warren Street, its main artery, and buying and refurbishing the disused estates built by whaling magnates. Along with new waves of dealers and residents came restaurants, artists and galleries, and a buzzing nightlife scene. “Besides being easy to get to, there are a lot of things that make Hudson uniquely appealing as a destination,” says Karen Squire, co-owner of the multi-dealer Carousel Antique Center, whose dozens of neighboring dealers include Hudson Supermarket,
ioan smith and dan smith at john jennifer houle at cafe le perche
paul amash jr at hillsdale general store
andrews farmhouse restaurant
dana wegemer & mary di stefano tarja taylor at lea’s
at mod restaurant
melinda slover at liliandloo
eliszabeth roshkowska-lachmann cathi breneau at main street grainery
at roshkowska galleries
mark orton & karen davis at davis|orton gallery
chris herbert at hudson supermarket
kaarin lemstrom-sheedy at pookstyle
tim slowinski at limner gallery
Stair Galleries, Moderne, Benjamin Wilson Antiques, and A Collector’s Eye. “There’s a real diversity of stores, and a lot of nice restaurants and B&Bs, all within one very walkable mile. And the diversity of the architecture is also something people really love.” Indeed, the staggering range of historic architectural styles in central Hudson— everything from 18th-century stone structures to 19th-century brick row houses, stoic Federals, and gingerbready Victorians—is rivaled by few other US cities. Also rarely rivaled is the selection of places to eat in Hudson, among which number fine-dining establishments like Swoon Kitchenbar, DABA, and Ca’ Mea; casual boites like Le Gamin cafe, Baba Louie’s (wood-fired organic pizza), Mexican Radio, locavore burger joint Grazin’, Red Dot, Park Falafel and Pizza, and American Glory BBQ. In the warmer months, hip street food trucks Tortillaville and Truck Pizza operate on an open lot in Warren Street’s 300 block. (Reportedly, similar vendors offering Indian and Thai cuisine are in the works.) For hot beverages head to Verdigris tea shop, Nolita, Parlor Coffee & Tea House, or Swallow, which shares space with LOAF artisan bakery. If you’re nursing a sweet tooth in the spring and summer, the place is to go is scoopsized ice cream shop LICK. Looking to burn off all those calories you just enjoyed? Sign up with Hudson Barbell, the area’s only CrossFit training-affiliated gym. Hudson’s many tony boutiques include new apparel stores like White Rice and de Marchin Cothing, artisanal cheese monger Olde Hudson, children’s store The Bee’s Knees, and Shana Lee Jewelry. A handful of vintage clothes stores include Sideshow and Five & Diamond, and in addition to music shop Musica and used
record stores John Doe and Devil in the Woods, the town has three bookstores: Fairview Books (in nearby Greenport), Hudson City Books, and the Spotty Dog Books & Ale, which not only boasts a bar but doubles as a vital music venue booking edgy experimental and indie acts. Speaking of venues, on Columbia Street is Helsinki Hudson, which houses a 250seat nightclub that consistently presents music’s foremost legends and a world-class restaurant with outdoor summer dining. Across from Helsinki is the venerable Time & Space Limited, a multi-discipline arts/community center that bravely pioneered Hudson’s renaissance when it opened in 1973 and screens Met Opera broadcasts and indie films. Standing since 1855 is the grand Hudson Opera House, New York State’s oldest surviving theater, which holds performances, lectures, exhibitions, after-school programs, classes, and other events. Nearer to the river is Basilica Hudson, a colossal foundry remade into another adventurously curated arts and performance center by its owners, who include ex-Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The town is still abuzz from the recent news that artist Marina Abramovic tapped architect Rem Koolhaus to transform the former tennis center on Columbia Street she bought into the international Center for the Preservation of Performance Art. Alongside all the arts and entertainment growth has been smart business growth. New and socially responsible companies that have opened in town include large-scale sustainable fish hatchery Local Ocean and handmade/vintage goods e-retailer Etsy, which looked to Hudson when it wanted to expand from its Brooklyn offices. “[Found4/12 ChronograM columbia county + hudson + chatham 75
er] Rob Kalin has family in the area and knew it has a vibrant arts community, which is very important to us,” says office manager Ami Lahoff, who oversees operations at the firm’s office, opened last year in a brick Industrial Age factory. “Our Brooklyn employees love coming up—having the train [Amtrak] in town definitely doesn’t hurt.” South of the Hud Of course, Hudson’s top-notch arts scene didn’t start in the 1980s. Below the town’s main district is Olana, the stunning 19th-century Persian-style home and studio of Hudson River School painter Fredric Church. Now a State Historic Site, the house is open for tours, and the heart-stopping view from its grounds is perhaps the best in the Hudson Valley. In the early 1700s English colonists brought approximately 1,200 Palatine German pine-tar harvesters to what was then called Livingston Manor, a site that later came to be called, for obvious reasons, Germantown. Brimming with Norman Rockwell cuteness, this diminutive spot is anchored by Otto’s Market, a restored 1927
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LOCAL NOTABLES Community Bloggers Carole Osterink and Sam Pratt
“If the human race is still here in 100 years, it will be because of lots of people doing lots of little things,” said Pete Seeger in the February 2011 issue of Chronogram. One could certainly say the rise of local and hyper-local blogs, which see individuals passionate about their communities stepping up to give voice to news and views not being adequately addressed by traditional local media, as a perfect example of what the legendary activist-folksinger had in mind. Generally speaking, local blogs tend to focus on a slightly larger region (a city or town and its outlying areas), while hyperlocals zero in on a specific neighborhood, in some cases covering a microscopic radius of just a few blocks. On the web, Columbia County has a handful of such sites, but perhaps the two most prominent are The Gossips of Rivertown and SamPratt.com. “I started The Gossips of Rivertown in January 2010,” says Carole Osterink, a school textbook editor and former City of Hudson Common Council member, “because I found it frustrating that a lot of the people I knew here in town, especially the newer ones, viewed local government as ‘the establishment’ and weren’t getting enough information about it.” Billed on its banner as “News and Commentary about the City of Hudson, New York,” The Gossips, which could be considered a hyper-local due to its focus on mainly intracity topics, evolved out of an earlier blog, First Ward Hudson. In her religiously daily posts, Osterink covers general neighborhood doings as well as those at and behind town and planning board meetings; the often heated intersection of development and historical preservation is one of The Gossips’s central concerns. A journalist whose resume includes Esquire, SPIN, New York magazine, and other noteworthy publications, Sam Pratt has been blogging in some form or another since 2003. Well known as a watchdog activist, he’s led numerous successful grassroots battles, most notably the thwarting of the Saint Lawrence Cement company’s plans to build a massive, potentially toxic, coal-fired plant in the area. His local blog, SamPratt.com, encompasses subjects within the county seat, but also casts its net beyond Hudson’s city limits to take in smaller Columbia County towns (such as Taghanik, where he lives), as well as those in Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, and other neighboring counties. Although much of the content at the site that bears his name is serious in nature, Pratt, who tends to post less frequently than Osterink (“Sometimes I’ll wait four days, if nothing strikes my fancy”), also covers sports, music, nightlife, dining, humor, human interest, and lighter topics. “It’s a combination of news and the random overflow of my brain—whatever feels like it might be interesting,” explains Pratt. “When it comes to issues like open local government, taxation, or development, there usually isn’t enough looking done at the underlying causes of those things. It’s important to get that information out there, for people to be reminded of.” Gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com Sampratt.com
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neighborhood grocery store that sells local and organic products within its periodaccurate decor. “After having a sensational 17-year career at Whole Foods Market, I had a good ol’ mid-life crisis,” says owner Otto Leuschel, an ex-vice president at the chain. “I happened upon [the former] Central Market while driving around looking at farm properties. The minute I walked in, I knew it was what I wanted to do.” By June, he expects to open the Germantown Variety Store, an old-style general store, across Main Street from the grocery. Around the corner from Otto’s, on Church Avenue, is Eve’s International Flea Market, an eclectic shop filled with vintage finds, and further up Main Street is the historic Central House inn. Eastern Attractors An eastbound jaunt from the Hudson hub first takes you through the town of Claverack, whose nine hamlets include the similarly named Claverack and Claverack-Red Mills. The town has its own throwback grocer, Claverack Market (inside, there’s a formidable display of model trucks and cars), and Mexican restaurant Coyote Flaco. It’s also the headquarters of smart quarterly Our Town. “Each issue has a universal theme, such as media, animals, or family,” says co-publisher Enid Futterman, who started the magazine in 2004. “Judging by the feedback we get, it feels like we’ve been successful in our aim of creating a magazine appealing to everyone.” In the Village of Philmont is the restored 1860 Vanderbilt House inn and restaurant, which is neighbored by the Main Street Public House, a roadhouse-style pub serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also in town is the innovative farm-to-table eatery Local 111, whose entrees are as surprising as the structure in which they’re served: a converted gas station. The village also contains the High Falls Conservation Area, with 47 acres and the county’s tallest waterfall. Zipping Along For more outdoor activities head farther east to Hillsdale and visit Catamount, a ski resort and aerial adventure park with zip lines. Opened since January is CrossRoads Food Shop, a full-service restaurant that prepares locally sourced fare four days a week; the nearby Hillsdale General Store provides unique housewares and gifts. To the northeast is Ghent, site of the acclaimed Hudson-Chatham Winery and the truly wondrous Omi International Arts Center, a sprawling, 300-acre sculpture park open year-round that hosts dance, music, literary, and visual art residencies and has a sleek modern indoor gallery and cafe. Ghent’s Harlemville section is home to the Hawthorne Valley Association, a progressive education and agricultural complex with a 400-acre biodynamic vegetable and dairy CSA farm (with its own market) and diverse schooling for children from nursery level through grade 12. “Our major emphasis is on providing children with opportunities to learn in nature and on the farm, where they literally get to see where their food comes from,” says Hilary Corsun, Hawthorne Valley’s marketing director. “Along with making stronger connections between the kids themselves, we also strive to make stronger connections between kids and adults.” Newer to the area is Camphill Ghent, billed as “the only elder community in the world that welcomes all income brackets, denominations, and ability levels.” Charming Chatham Six minutes north of Ghent (and about 15 minutes northeast from Hudson) lies Chatham. Its diminutive downtown is triangulated by three major thoroughfares and populated with small businesses, as well as the historic Union Station railway station (reopened as a bank in 1999). The fiber arts are big in Chatham: Among its quaint shops is knitter’s paradise the Warm Ewe, and nearby are wool producers Chatham Alpacas (visitors welcome). Eateries include the 1859 Chatham House, world-fusion bistro Blue Plate, the Peint O Gwrw tavern, and Ralph’s Pretty Good Cafe. Muchloved back alley microbrewery Chatham Brewing Company is open Saturdays from 11am to 5pm, or, says co-owner Jake Cunningham, “whenever you come by and see the door open,” adding that, “we hope to extend our hours, though. We’ve been here since 2007 and offer 10 different beers.” The town’s architectural anchor, however, is the Crandell Theater, the county’s oldest movie house (ca. 1927), which shows mainstream and indie films and every October hosts the five-day international Film Columbia festival (directed by author and film historian Peter Biskind). Close by is the 350-seat Mac-Haydn Theater, which has been presenting musicals and children’s theater since 1969; the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, makers of award-winning sheep’s milk cheese and yogurt; artisanal family-run bakery Our Daily Bread; and scenic Borden’s Pond Conservation Area. Slightly afield is the Village of Valatie, a subdivision of the Town of Kinderhook (birthplace of Martin Van Buren), among whose notable spots are gourmet pizzeria Mark’s Pizza (toppings include alligator and crawfish) and gift shop the Cross Eyed Owl. Like Chatham, Valatie has a small-batch maker of “hand-made hootch”: Harvest Spirits Distillery, which is run by a third-generation apple grower. “A big part of what makes Columbia County such a great place to visit and live in is that it’s basically equidistant to Boston and NewYork,” says Colin McConvill, Harvest Spirits’s assistant brewer. “Everything you need is here, but it’s also just a great place to come unwind.”
Events Sutherland Pond Bird Walk Tim Dormady of the Alan Devoe Bird Club leads this April 7 walk organized by the Columbia Land Conservancy to scout for migrant waterfowl, rough-legged hawks, and osprey around Sutherland Pond at Ooms Conservation Area in Chatham. Wear boots and bring binoculars. The Conservancy sponsors events throughout the year. Clctrust.org Antique and Classic Bicycle Auction and Swap Meet Pedal over to Copake Auction for this annual two-day tribute— this year it’s April 21 and 22—to all things two-wheeled and people-powered. Even if you’re not in a buying mood, the many rare, unusual, and beautiful vintage bikes on view are worth the trip. Copakeauction.com The Chancellor’s Sheep and Wool Showcase The grounds of Clermont State Historic Site are the grand and gorgeous backdrop of this April 21 celebration of historic fiber arts, culture, and crafts. Shearing, spinning, dyeing, knitting and weaving demonstrations, exhibitions of sheep and other wool-bearing animals, artisans, shops, music, and food. Friendsofclermont.org Hudson Children’s Book Festival Held at Hudson Junior and Senior High School on May 5, this commendable confluence boasts appearances by over 85 children’s and young adult authors and illustrators, author and illustrator presentations, crafts, workshops, live music—and hundreds of books! Hudsonchildrensbookfestival.com Hudson Pride Parade and Festival June 15 and 16 are the dates for this year’s Hudson Pride Parade and Festival, a city-wide event for all organized by LGBTadvocacy group the Hudson Pride Foundation. Dance parties, drag performances, and good vibes abound. (On June 17 is the spinoff Hudson Family Pride Day, which offers live music for kids, storytellers, continuous crafts, sidewalk chalk art, and more.) hudsonpride.com West Lebanon Raceway Looking for a different kind of drag, perhaps? Nearby East Nassau (Rensselaer County) has the roaring Lebanon Valley Dragway (open April through October), but Columbia County boasts West Lebanon Raceway (open April through September), which features sanctioned dirt-track car and kart racing. Lebanonvalley.com Hudson Music Festival Last year marked the successful debut of this three-day explosion of live music, which sees mostly local Upstate acts gracing indoor and outdoor stages throughout Hudson in the afternoons and evenings. The 2012 schedule is still being booked, and this season’s festival runs August 10-12. hudsonmusicfest.com Winter Walk on Warren Street Sponsored by the Hudson Opera House, this extremely popular early December happening brings Warren Street to life with holiday lights, horse-drawn carriage rides, street performers, and even live reindeer. Shops and other businesses stay open and offer refreshments, and the Santa Parade officially welcomes the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Claus and their elves. Hudsonoperahouse.org
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RESOURCES Clermont State Historic Site FriendsofClermont.org Columbia Land Conservancy Clctrust.org Jeffrey Neumann Jeffreyneumann.com Ramp Fest Rampfesthudson.com White Rice White-rice.com Kinderhook Farm Kinderhookfarm.com 510 Warren Street Gallery 510warrenstgallery.com CafĂŠ Le Perche Cafeleperche.com American Glory Americanglory.com Countryside Car Service Countrysidecarservice.com Tango in Hudson Hudsontango.com Ghent Wood Products Ghentwoodproducts.com
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LOCAL NOTABLE HVADC Executive Director Todd Erling
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With an office on the 200 block of Warren Street in Hudson, the not-forprofit Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation (HVADC) was founded in 2007 to encourage “the development, promotion, enhancement, and retention of the agricultural industry and its associated economic and environmental benefits within New York’s Hudson Valley.” The organization offers technical aid, business development support, financial resource coordination, and other means of assistance to agribusiness-related enterprises in Columbia, Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster Counties. In its first year alone, the foundation helped bring to fruition such projects as a farmer-owned vegetable processing facility, a feasibility analysis for a local biodiesel manufacturing plant, business support for a renewable fuels-related biotechnology start-up, and fundraising for a local dairy processing cooperative. “Our objective is to offer to agriculture businesses all the economicdevelopment tools and programs that have been available to traditional businesses,” says founding HVADC Executive Director Todd Erling, whose background includes academic studies in environmental design, community and economic-development efforts, and working in his family’s orchards while growing up. “For agriculture to thrive and survive in the Hudson Valley, it’s important for these opportunities to be accessible.” Passionate about protecting the region’s open space and contributing to its economic vitality by preserving its longstanding agricultural tradition, Erling is a member of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Agricultural Working Group, Congressman Chris Gibson’s Agricultural Advisory Board, the New York Agribusiness Development Corporation, the Columbia County Farm Bureau, the Hudson Valley Agriculture Partnership Steering Committee, and other related bodies. He lives and works on his wife’s family farm in Livingston. With its backing provided by government and private grants, the HVADC focuses its programming on six core efforts: production agriculture; value-added food processing; agro- and culinary tourism; agricultural biotechnology and related research; and agriculturally related marketing and distribution; agriculturally related alternative energy production. One of HVADC’s signature components is its AgriBusiness Incubator Without Walls program, which offers financial assistance to qualified businesses, along with access to the organization’s large network of related entrepreneurs and on-call advice from local business planning, marketing, and financial experts. “Incubator Without Walls is unique in the ways it helps farmers and other businesses,” explains Erling. “It has a very strategic approach, with very specific business planning and marketability assessment.” Other HVADC staple imperatives include the Hudson Valley Regional Agribusiness Development Strategic Plan; the Hudson Valley Biofuels Feasibility and Biodiesel Refinery Analysis program; the Hudson Valley Dairy Forum; and its Columbia, Orange, and Dutchess County Farm-toChef programs. While the Hudson Valley’s rich soil, favorable growing climates, and ready access to large urban markets have long made it a thriving area for farm-based businesses, the balancing of its growing population and development issues continue to present local agriculture with challenges. Thankfully, Erling and the HVDAC are steadfast in their mission of strengthening farms and related businesses—and in turn the agriculture at large. On a further positive note, the director sees more good growth in the future. “We plan to increase our range of coverage and move into serving areas in the Northern Hudson Valley,” he says. “Of course, when it comes to agriculture, your work is never done.” Hvadc.org
Food & Drink
Pain de Siècle Café Le Perche By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May
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he European model of grocery shopping every day is becoming a thing of the past. In France, there has been some concern expressed at the decline of the local boulangeries; more and more villages and neighborhoods are losing their small bakeries as customers buy all their food at supermarkets, which offer pale imitations of the archetypal baguettes made by real artisan bakers. Vending machines that dispense bread are even proliferating, though connoisseurs are unimpressed with their offerings and the very idea seems like the sort of thing that would cause incensed farmers to protest en masse by dumping truckloads of melons in the streets. In this country, however, bakeries are opening. As more people develop a taste for real bread, not the flaccid simulacra churned out by supermarkets, a new generation of bakers is working to provide their neighborhoods with authentic, high-quality baked goods. A superb example of this trend can be found on Warren Street in Hudson, where a team of young people is producing top-notch artisanal breads and pastries made from local, organic flour. Crusty, chewy bread with deep flavor and real character, traditional pastries, and sturdy bistro fare: Café Le Perche is something every town should have. Open for less than a year, the café is the result of owner Allan Chapin’s love for the baguette du Perche, which he was captivated by on one of his regular trips to France (he has a house in Paris as well as Claverack). Chapin brought David Lambert, the man who baked that baguette, over to meet with Don Lewis at Wild Hive Farm, carrying bags of French flour so they could figure out how to duplicate its protein content, flavor, and character using local grains. Lewis arrived at a blend of soft white winter and hard red spring wheat, ground quite fine: “The flour that [Lambert] brought from France was very fluffy,” Lewis says. “Besides matching the gluten levels, which is easy, there’s a particular feel to it.” To maintain consistent results throughout the year, Lewis has to adjust the blend and grind depending on the season and the weather.
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To ensure a steady supply of flour with no interruptions, Café Le Perche is participating in Lewis’s CDA (Consumer-Driven Agriculture), paying a percentage up front to reserve their supply for the year. This helps guarantee a steady income to the farmers throughout the year and keeps farmland viable. Lewis has calculated that one acre of wheat makes enough flour for 3,000 baguettes. At current rates of production, the bakery uses an acre’s worth of Hudson Valley wheat every 15 hours of baking: a tangible illustration of the effect that local food can have on the landscape. In the carriage house behind the café sits the pièce de résistance: a 17-ton woodfired oven made by Manuel Muñoz in Anjou. A hot, hulking presence—it fills the room and throws off enough heat that an open door on a cold day goes unnoticed—the oven has a rotating hearth 11 feet in diameter, operated by a shiny steel wheel to the left of the door. The oven is the same kind that Lambert uses, and baker Nichole Cooley speaks enthusiastically about what it allows her to achieve: 200 baguettes an hour, with fabulous crust and consistent results. Chapin found the oven on a farm near Le Perche, bought it, and had it taken apart and shipped to Hudson.Two French masons flew over as well to reassemble it on site. The oven’s firebox—which is below the baking chamber; there’s no fire inside like a pizza oven—consumes a cord of wood a week, and the bakery orders the wood custom cut into the largest possible sizes to ensure a long, steady burn. Such is the efficiency of the oven that even when left alone overnight it only drops below the baking temperature of around 450˚F on the coldest of nights. It takes over a week to cool completely. A brick revetment was recently added, cladding the oven in appealingly weathered bricks that were salvaged from the renovations of the property and Chapin’s house. Besides obvious aesthetic appeal, the bricks also add another layer of insulation that keeps heat inside where it belongs. Cooley, 32, recently spent two weeks studying with Lambert at his bakery in Bretoncelles, learning the techniques and artistry behind his breads and pastries. She
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Above: Manager Jennifer Houle with freshly baked pastries at Café le Perche in Hudson. This page: Hannah Otten carries freshly baked baguettes through the dining room at Café le Perche. Opposite: Nichole Cooley, head baker at Café le Perche, preparing baguette du Perche in the bakery. At 9:30am, this was the end of Cooley’s nine-hour shift.
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began baking with her grandmother, who “had a real sweet tooth,” making pies and cakes of all sorts. Later in life, studying computer programming at Columbia-Greene Community College, she says at 23 she had an epiphany that she needed to get a job that did not involve sitting in a chair. So she enrolled at the CIA. “Growing up here, I always wanted to move away, but Hudson has become so hip and beautiful. I love living here now.” Most of her dough undergoes a one-hour autolyse, or rest, before salt is added. This gives gluten a big head start, as salt impedes its development. Then the dough is kneaded in one of the big industrial mixers against the wall, and then retarded overnight in the refrigerator. This allows the dough to attain a lovely sourness before it is proofed and baked the next morning. Cooley uses a time-honored technique to add further tangy character to her bread; she keeps all the dough scraps and trimmings and adds them to the next day’s dough, so that 10 percent of each batch has had another day to ferment and sour. This technique, known in French as pâte fermetée, is essential to the baguettes du Perche, which have been awarded a prestigious appellation d’origine contrôlée classification. With a hydration of 75-80 percent (which is quite a wet dough), Cooley says “Lambert told me ‘you have to touch it like a lady’ and handle it very delicately.” It can be tricky to slide the loaves off the peel without losing their shape. “It takes a lot of flour and a strong wrist,” Cooley laughs. While the Perchian brewads have a delicate, sour complexity, Cooley also makes sourdough using a wild yeast starter, which is even tangier. Lambert was skeptical of some of Cooley’s additions to the repertoire—he didn’t like sourdough—but he enthusiastically endorsed her versions of his traditional loaves, saying they were better than his competition back in France. The bakery has a few wholesale accounts, and they’re just the beginning; Manager Jennifer Houle, 34, says they are about to buy a delivery van and begin distributing throughout the area.They will also be doing a number of farmers’ markets throughout the region beginning in the spring when the season gets going. The café is available to rent–there’s a private room upstairs for smaller functions—and they hope to be able to do some off-site catering in the future. Cooley says that “If the demand was there, we could add another shift and produce three to four times as much bread as we are now,” which means that there’s plenty of room still to grow; the oven is so efficient that it’s hot all the time and they are eager to use every BTU they generate. But both Cooley and Houle express concern about growing too large too fast and losing the quality that has earned them such praise so far. This has been a problem for other bakeries; as production and shipping distances increase, maintaining the handmade character and fresh-baked crust can be difficult. Chapin was a regular customer of Houle’s when she was manager at a Le Pain Quotidien store in Manhattan. He watched her work, and eventually proposed hiring her to run the new venture. “I was skeptical, but I loved Hudson,” she remembers, and after 12 years in Brooklyn she was ready for a change. In February of last year, she moved up and oversaw the renovations: “The building was a shell; we did a ton of work.” A local carpenter matched existing molding and paneling, and they used as much as they could of the original woodwork; some of the tellers’ partitions from when the building had been a bank became the bar. It’s charming, full of light, with an airy dining room in back and a large patio outside that offers al fresco dining with a view of the carriage house. The menu is a local, organic take on French café fare, with many items, like crostini and sandwiches, featuring the bread. Staples like coq au vin, steak au poivre, and garbure round out the menu. Chef Robert Pecorino, 28, worked in Atlanta before coming to Hudson, and enjoys combining French tradition, Southern comfort, and local products: “Our climate here in the Hudson Valley is very similar to that of Le Perche; we grow a lot of what they grow. And honestly, in Hudson, if we weren’t doing local, we’d be oddballs.” And it’s popular; the business is beginning to make money and locals and visitors alike are delighted to have such quality in town. “We have very loyal regulars,” Houle says. “When we closed for two weeks [during Cooley’s trip to France] there were some meltdowns and we got nasty e-mails” from frustrated wouldbe customers. Café Le Perche is a small story, true, but it represents some trends that have big implications: Young people are moving upstate from New York City, the flour is keeping Dutchess County land agricultural, and people who don’t bake at home can buy bread that is as good as any anywhere. As Hudson continues to grow and develop, this and other businesses will only add to its prosperity. It’s a formula that other towns would do well to emulate. “Besides profit, it’s a way of giving back to the community,” Chapin says. “We have 20 employees, and they’re all locals; if they weren’t before, they are now.” Café Le Perche 230 Warren Street, Hudson (518) 822-1850; Cafeleperche.com Open Sunday to Thursday from 7am to 8pm; Friday and Saturday, 7am to 10pm.
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Caffé Macchiato While many people expect the top restaurants in Newburgh to be lined along the riverfront, Caffé Macchiato is a jazzy little breakfast and lunch spot located across from Washington’s Headquarters. The intimate eatery offers a warm atmosphere to enjoy a panini with a lightly dressed organic salad and a glass of wine with a friend. The cinnamon latte macchiato is also irresistible. Breakfast- and brunchgoers can choose from a variety of pastries, frittata, and smaller dishes, but when crepes are listed on the specials menu you’re in for a treat. Caffemacchiatonewburgh.com —Melissa Esposito Flatiron Two years since my last visit and I had forgotten about the creamed spinach. A side dish can so often be an afterthought, but not spinach brought to the point of an effervescent bubbling creaminess by chef/ co-owner Craig Stafford. Attention to detail is a specialty of the house, from the fresh oysters (Martha’s Vineyard on a recent visit) to the expansive, airy space they’re served in. Barbecued rabbit was on the specials board recently, and the steak frites is among the best in the region. The ground duck burger served with fried egg and cracklins is a delicious novelty worthy of the trip alone. Flatironsteakhouse.com —Brian K. Mahoney
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Karma Lounge Karma Lounge is Poughkeepsie’s latest (and possibly first) gastropub. One-part flower child and one-part rocker, Karma’s brick walls are lined with electric guitars, skull-painted canvases, and Moroccan touches. Savory cocktails like the Thai Chili Blood Orange Margarita and Black Currant Basil Mojito are little meals in themselves. An all-tapas menu includes the popular Wild Game Sliders made with elk, Kurobuta pork, Kobe beef, and duck, topped with crumbled blue cheese, caramelized onions and black bean BBQ sauce. Tomato-onion relish and fontina cheese garnish the bacon-wrapped knockwurst Karma Dog, nestled into a soft pretzel bun. Outdoor courtyard in the summer. Karmalounge.us —Lindsay Pietroluongo Sunfrost Juice Bar & Café Wholesome and delicious meals featuring local and organic ingredients are on tap at Sunfrost Juice Bar & Café, the (wheatgrass) watering hole where everybody knows your name. Musicians and handymen sit beside yogis fresh from class to enjoy salads, soups, wraps, smoothies, and breakfast served all day—including a fragrantly curried tofu scramble that has garnered a cultish following among the vegetarian set. A black bean burrito enfolds homemade guacamole and mango salsa, while specials might include wild-caught salmon or Caribbean Kale Soup with a coconut base. Washed down with a ginger-laced green drink, this is good, clean food that will leave you feeling nourished and energized in true Woodstock style. Sunfrostfarms.com. —Wendy Kagan
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Crafted Kup 44 Raymond Avenue #1, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-7070, www.craftedkup.com
The Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm 989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY (518) 239-6234, www.heather-ridge-farm.com Great lunches right on the farm! Enjoy views of the Catskill Mountains from shaded picnic tables or eat inside our 1820s farmhouse. Our own grassfed meats and pastured poultry lovingly prepared with local organic produce and cheeses. Café and farm store open Saturdays and Sundays, Mem. Day through Col. Day Weekends. Menu and schedule on website. “Soup Kitchen” Saturdays, Nov-April.
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Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446
Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant 35 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7026, www.mahoneysirishpub.com
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Seoul Kitchen 469 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-8596
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Terrapin Catering & Events 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 889-8831, www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Local. Organic. Authentic. At a Terrapin event, you can expect the same high quality, award-winning cuisine and service that you know and love at Terrapin Restaurant. Terrapin’s professional event staff specializes in creating unique events to highlight your individuality, and will assist in every aspect of planning your Hudson Valley event.
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.
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Since our founding in 1860, Rhinebeck Savings Bank has been an integral part of economic growth along the Hudson River and a driving force for commerce. We were vital then and have since become a financial leader in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
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Money & Investing
Unlocking the Inner Landlord A Buyer’s Market Beckons Prospective Rental Property Owners By Jeffrey Alexander
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earching for new income sources can be problematic during a challenging economy, but decreased property prices offer individuals an opportunity to purchase reasonably priced homes as investment vehicles. Elda Zulick, principal broker at Grist Mill Real Estate in Saugerties, believes the timing is right for purchasing multifamily homes and even entering the landlord business. “It’s a buyer's market. The average two-family home in Saugerties is $188,000. People look at properties and will want something that generates income right away but when you buy, you’re buying for the long run,” she says. Zulick has been in real estate since 1974 and owns income property. She knows what it takes to manage the business end of property ownership. “To keep good tenants, you have to be a good landlord and have mutual expectations in your leases,” Zulick says. “We know our boundaries from the get-go. When I look at new tenants, I want to rent to someone that will be compatible and have commonality with tenants I have. In all my years, I’ve only had to evict tenants twice.” Overall, she felt her experiences were positive and offered the following advice to prospective buyers. “You need a realtor that listens, a structural person to check out the property, and an attorney who looks out for the buyer’s interest. It’s very important to have a mortgage officer who knows what the underwriter needs, as well as a reliable banker.”
Eyesore to Income According to Zulick, income properties can be beneficial to communities because a formerly neglected property can be rehabilitated and offer new opportunities. “If something is in disrepair, there are investors who come and maintain buildings and fix a former eyesore to create a decent place to live, which can only improve a community,” Zulick says. Michael Maroney echoed Zulick’s belief that the current market offers reasonably priced properties. Maroney is a licensed realtor with Win Morrison Realty in Kingston and spoke favorably of the city. “Kingston is reinventing itself and it has a lot to offer everyone,” says Maroney. “People will always be looking for apartments or homes to purchase, to sell, or to rent.” According to Maroney’s research, Kingston property prices vary and offer prospective buyers with many options. “Two-family properties vary in price from $90,000 to $280,000. Prices for four-family properties are as low as $100,000 to as high as $350,000.” He said researching population growth can help prospective buyers make an informed decision. “Find an area with good population growth where rental prices are such that you can turn a profit,” Maroney says. “If the funds are available, hire a property management company. Most charge a flat rate or fee between 4 to 12 percent of the rental fee per month.” 4/12 ChronograM money & investing 91
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Don’t Get Emotionally Involved Megan Park grew up with the belief that real estate was a good investment and purchased three two-family homes in 2001 with her husband. “We bought one in Kingston, one in Highland, and one in Gardiner that we lived in ourselves,” Park says. “About a year later, we bought a fourth in Saugerties.” Park purchased the properties prior to the real estate boom and recalled having good credit and helpful mortgage brokers assisting throughout the process. “We also had a checklist of things to consider, from pests to buried oil tanks to flood plains to noise levels. It also helped us figure out cash flow from forecasted rents, expenses, and maintenance. The real estate boom had not reached its fever pitch, so all of our houses were really reasonably priced.” Asked what difficulties she has faced being a landlord, Park reflects on one issue that resulted in unanticipated expenses. “I’ve had one eviction. One family, after getting behind, moved out in the night and did not tell me. I didn’t find out until a week or so later, when the other tenant mentioned the things left around the house,” says Park. “I couldn’t believe what they had left behind. I had to rent a Dumpster to clear out the junk—furniture, clothing, toys—that they left. It was sad and upsetting.” Park recommend not getting emotionally involved when issues arise. “Stay on top of rents. If people fall behind, get on them and get them out. It doesn’t get better. Don’t get emotionally involved or attached.” Park said despite challenges, the overall experience allowed her to leverage money and create certain freedoms. “It has given us a certain amount of freedom with work,” she says. “When things are running smoothly, money appears in the mailbox every month and it’s a wondrous thing. But when something goes wrong, it’s often a big thing and very stressful. We sold the house in Gardiner for a nice profit in 2006. We sold the house in Saugerties a year after we bought it and broke even.” Opportunities Galore Purchasing income property can be daunting, but realtors agree that the current market offers prospective buyers more opportunities than before. “I would take an optimistic view of the market. Now is an opportunity, especially for young people, to live in one part of a property and rent the other out. This gives them a step up in building equity and maintaining good credit,” says Zulick. She adds that calculating appropriate rents relies on many factors. “Who pays for heat and other utilities can cut into profits. In the Village of Saugerties, the water rates just went up, and that has cut into my profit margin.” Park recommends that buyers focus on purchasing the newest properties they can afford, which can boost profit. “If you are going to buy residential rentals, buy as new as you can afford, with as many amenities as possible. Amenities are important. Stay on top of repairs, and if you are not handy, find a handyman you can trust.” She says renting to vacationing families can be especially lucrative. “There was a time when we rented our own house in Gardiner as a vacation rental. It was the perfect retreat from the city. I love the vacation renters. They send a big deposit and their rent in advance.Vacation renters have the money to spend on a week away, and they are generally no trouble.”
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business directory Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com The new Aspects Gallery Inn resides in the heart of the historic artists’ colony of Woodstock, NY, nestled in the famed Catskill Mountains ski and summer resort region. Aspects provides a unique and exclusive sensual retreat with two private luxury two-bedroom apartments joined to a 2,000 square-foot cathedral ceiling, cedar-and-glass enclosed, climate-controlled spa with 40’ saline pool, Jacuzzi and therapeutic infrared sauna.
Diamond Mills 25 South Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 www.DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com
Art Students League 241 Kings Highway, Sparkill, NY (845) 359-1263 www.theartstudentsleague.org
Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts 36 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 www.byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org March 2 – 25 100% Byrdcliffe: Members’ Show Opening Reception: March 3, 4-6 pm March 10 – Mike + Ruthy and Friends, 8 pm
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March 30 – April 29 NYFA Mark II Show Opening Reception: March 31, 4-6 pm
Exposures Gallery
Sky Lake Lodge Bed and Breakfast
1357 Kings Hwy, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 469-9382 www.exposures.com Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11 to 5
On the northern crest of the Shawangunk Ridge, Sky Lake Lodge Bed and Breakfast offers a unique setting of natural beauty and comtemplation. Sky Lake Lodge is a Shambhala Buddhist Meditation Center with spacious grounds, pond, indoor and outdoor meditation areas, and sumptuous organic breakfasts from local farmers. Rest and Renewal.
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Internationally recognized and the Hudson Valley’s pre-eminent landscape photographer, Nick Zungoli’s work has been widely collected since 1979 when he opened Exposures Gallery. To date he has sold over 50,000 prints to corporations and celebrities such as Steven Spielberg and Quincy Jones. Along with images from the Hudson Valley, his new special exhibit “Mekong Journal” can be viewed this season. Visit online at exposures.com for Photo Workshops in Sugar Loaf and Italy.
Catskill Animal Sanctuary
Garrison Art Center
316 Old Stage Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 336-8447 www.CASanctuary.org
23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org
Antiques Fairground Shows NY P.O. Box 3938, Albany, NY (518) 331-5004 www.fairgroudshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com
Architecture
Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY www.grayowlgallery.com
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45
(845) 265-3073 www.madeleinesanchezarchitect.com madeleine@madeleinesanchezarchitect.com
North River Architecture
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com
Art Galleries & Centers 510 Warren St Gallery 510 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-0510 www.510warrenstgallery.com
Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 784-1146 www.annstreetgallery.org facebook.com/annstreetgallery Bill Yost: A Retrospective. The Ann Street Gallery is hosting the first major gallery exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of artist William Yost. The exhibition, which will only be seen at the Ann Street Gallery presents an
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Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum
Sierra Lily 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 www.hotchkiss.org
Vassar College: The Frances Lehman Loeb Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5632 fllac.vassar.edu
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Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys, 30 East 33rd Street, 4th FL, New York, NY (212) 213-2145 fax (212) 779-3289 www.newyorktrafficlawyers.com
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Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services
Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies (845) 688-4358 www.aghbuilders.com
Associated Lightning Rod Co. (518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com
Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Arlington Auto & Tire
Countryside Custom Builders
678 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2800 www.arlingtonautotire.com
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Ghent Wood Products
Countryside Car Service (518) 325-3505 www.countrysidecarservice.co
483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com
Excel Auto Glass Corp. - Kingston
Herrington’s
1789 Route 9W, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 626-9659 www.excelautoglass.com
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2694 Route 199, Pine Plains, NY (518) 398-7493 www.wheelsoftimeinc.com
Banks
Gray Owl Gallery
45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org
Madeleine Sanchez Architect
Artisans
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Pig Hill Inn
22 Hillcrest Lane, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8556 www.skylakelodgebnb.com www.skylake.shambhala.org
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Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com
Book Publishers Monkfish Publishing 22 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 www.monkfishpublishing.com
Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock
Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com
Will III House Design 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0869 www.willbuilders.com office@willbuilders.com
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2515, 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock (845) 679-6608, NY www.upstatefilms.org
23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com
American Cleaners
The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore,
(845) 594-1505 www.howtocleandrapes.com
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Mold Mitigations
Woodstock Writer’s Festival
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Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores
Hudson Valley Outfitters
Adams Fairacre Farms
63 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-0221 www.hudsonvalleyoutfitters.com
1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
NYC Flair Fashions 190 South Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 561-3550
White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500
Woodstock Design 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com
Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com
Consignment Shops Past N’ Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44) , Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com
What’s New Again 1177 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 462-2085 www.whatsnewagain.com
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Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com
Dance Instruction Tango in Hudson 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY
327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon - Sat 7:30 to 7, Sundays 9 to 5 A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery 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. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: 518-672-7500 x 231.
Mother Earth’s Store House 1955 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 296-1069, 249 Main Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-9614, 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5541 www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!
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Rosendale Earthfest and Expo Rosendale Recreation Center, Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7477 rosendaleearthfest@yahoo.com
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Farms Common Hands Farm Hudson, NY (518) 929 -7544 commonhandscsa.com/
Kinderhook Farm Ghent, NY (518) 929-3076 www.kinderhookfarm.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
Florists Good Old Days Eco Florist 270 Walsh Avenue, New Windsor, NY (845) 562-2820 www.goodolddaysflorist.com
Gardening & Garden Supplies Bloom Fine Gardening
(845) 255-1559 www.unisonarts.org
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2734 www.bloomfinegardening.com bloomfinegardening@gmail.com
West Point Band
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68 Firehouse Lane, Red Hook, (845) 876-1559, (845) 255-0050
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Pennings Farm Market & Orchards
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Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
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A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.
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Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com
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1160 Platte Clove Rd., Elka Park, NY (518) 580-5014 www.ravenswoodfarm.org
Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com
Hair Salons A William Anthony Salon 29 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-4950 www.wasalon.net
Allure 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Androgyny 5 Mulberry Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0620
Dazzles Salon & Day Spa
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Moxie 544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653 www.nowthatsmoxie.com
Historic Sites
37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY
Clermont State Historic Site One Clermont Avenue, Germantown, NY (518) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org
Home Furnishings & Decor Freight Liquidators
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Doug Motel, Author, Speaker & Marketing Wiz www.SiteOptimized.com 845.363.4728
DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
Site Optimized (845) 363-4728 www.dougmotel.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Art to Wear 75 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-4469 www.arttoweartoo.weebly.com
Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Highland Baskets at the Country Goose 115 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-2122 www.highlandbaskets.com
The Gift Hut 86 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (518) 537-2589 www.hudsontango.com tangohudson@gmail.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com
Landscaping Augustine Landscaping & Nursery 9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com
Coral Acres, Keith Buesing — Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634
Lawn Doctor of Ulster & N.W. Dutchess Counties
702 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-3070 www.freightliquidatorshv.com
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Lounge
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High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
Archipelago at Home 119 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-3992 www.archipelagoathome.com
Slip Covers & More (845) 546-6503
Home Improvement Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com
Hudson Valley Contracting Group Inc. 2713 Route 17M, New Hampton, NY (845) 294-8242 www.hudsonvalleykitchens.com
Sheeley Roofing (845) 687-9182 www.sheeleyroofing.com
William Wallace Construction (845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
Interior Design Architectural Stylist (914) 213-1598 www.architecturalstylist.com amy@architecturalstylist.com
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Santini’s Lawn Care
Woodland Landscapes (917) 239-8644 www.woodlandlandscapes.com
Lawyers & Mediators Jane Cottrell (917) 575-4424 www.janecottrell.com Mediation is the best opportunity for the disputing parties, not courts or juries, to control the outcome of a dispute. Experienced lawyer and mediator certified in US and UK. Choice of mediation techniques. Landlord/tenant, debtor/ creditor, commercial/business, wills/trusts, arts/ creative, employment. Free consultation.
Jane Cottrell (917) 575-4424 www.janecottrell.com
Pathways Mediation Center 239 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-0100 A unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or families in conflict with the innovative, combined services of 2 professionals. Josh Koplovitz has 30 years as a matrimonial & family law attorney and Myra Schwartz has 30 years as a guidance counselor. This male.female team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultation to find out about us.
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Music JTD Productions, Inc (845) 679-8652 www.JTDfun.com
Rondout Music Lounge 21 Broadway Kingston, NY 845-421-8250
Music Lessons Helena Baillie Tivoli, NY (646) 724-0840 helenabaillie@gmail.com
Musical Instruments
Pet Services & Supplies Hurley Veterinary Hospital 509 Hurley Avenue, Hurley, NY (845) 331-7100 www.hurleyveterinaryhospital.com
Pet Country 6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000
Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 www.fionnreilly.com
Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7995 www.photosensualis.com
iGuitar Workshop
Picture Framing
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Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
Organizations Columbia Land Conservancy (518) 392-5252 www.clctrust.org
Country Wisdom News (845) 616-7834 www.countrywisdomnews.com
Rhinebeck Science Foundation Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebecksciencefoundation.org/
Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY (800) 745-3000 www.bethelwoodscenter.org
Eisenhower Hall Theatre - USMA West Point, NY www.ikehall.com
The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 www.aquajetpools.com
Ne Jame Pools, Ltd. (845) 677-7665 www.nejamepools.com
Printing Services TonerHog.com & Wow4Color.com www.wow4color.com www.tonerhog.com
Real Estate Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg. 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (845) 399-1212 Contact Bill Oderkirk (owner/manager) 3991212@gmail.com
High Meadow School
The Living Room 103 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 270-8210 www.coldspringlivingroom.com
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu
New Paltz / High Falls area, 845-256-9830 www.wildearthprograms.org info@wildearthprograms.org Wild Earth, a not-for-profit located in the Shawangunk Ridge region of the Hudson Valley, joins inspired leaders in offering multi -generational programs and events that strengthen connections with ourselves, others and the Earth while building ecological, social and cultural resilience. Our programs, which draw on a broad spectrum of teachings from indigenous cultures to modern natural sciences, offer adventure and fun, primitive skiils and crafts, awareness games, and story and song to boys and girls ages 4 to 104.
Specialty Food Shops East Fishkill Porkstore 10 Dorn Road & Route 55, LaGrangeville, NY (845) 724-5005 www.aporkstore.com
Stained Glass DC Studios
Summer Camps
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High Falls, NY (845) 687-0215 www.epworthcenter.com
330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 www.hawthornevalleyschool.org
120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com www.artworksbyjudy.com
Wild Earth Wilderness School
Quinipet Camp at Epworth
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A BETTER ENDING When time is short, some say that medicine needs to cure less—and care more. by wendy kagan illustrations by annie internicola
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f Death could hire a PR agent, he would do well to choose Suzanne O’Brien. A Pine Plains-based hospice nurse and motivational speaker with a fiery passion for her work, O’Brien is attempting what is perhaps the ultimate public image makeover. She’s looking to transform the way we view and handle the end of life—taking the fear and denial out to reveal it as the natural, beautiful process it was meant to be. It was while tending to patients at a hospital oncology unit less than 10 years ago that she found her calling. “I was blown away by how the medical profession in general was treating patients with interventions and procedures until literally the person’s last breath,” says O’Brien. “I’m talking about people who you know, and the doctors know, are not going to get better. I would see these beautiful elder people having poison pumped into their veins, or hooked up to machines. They couldn’t eat; they were so weak. And I thought, ‘What is going on here? It doesn’t have to be this way.’” Slowly, the medical world is owning up to the fact that the way we handle end-of-life care has to change. Palliative medicine—or supportive care that does not attempt to cure but instead manages the symptoms of any chronic progressive disorder—is so new that it didn’t exist in this country until about 15 years ago. Hospice, which started in England as a grassroots movement set in motion by a nurse-cum-physician named Cicely Saunders, didn’t become standard in the US until the 1980s. The two fields often (though not always) go hand in hand, as many palliative-trained doctors work through hospice teams—a network of physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual counselors, and music and art therapists trained in easing pain and allowing patients to live as fully as they can until the end. It’s a valiant goal, preparing people for one of the most important journeys of their lives, but hospice often gets a cold reception initially. “Hospice doesn’t mean hopeless. It’s about living, not dying,” says O’Brien, whose recently published book Life, Love and Transition: Guidance for the End of Life takes root in her experiences as a hospice worker. Yet for various reasons, resistance to this kind of model persists. Many people don’t realize that palliative care is even available. (Imagine: an entire branch of medicine dedicated to keeping you comfortable under any conditions.) And most terminal patients arrive at hospice too late to fully receive its end-oflife-enhancing benefits. If people like O’Brien have anything to do with it, this won’t always be the case. Powerful Choices There’s a story that O’Brien likes to tell about two men in their eighties, both diagnosed with lung cancer within a month of each other. Robert, a businessman in Boston, went into aggressive treatment immediately; surrounded by top physicians, he hardly gave a thought to the decision and put his trust in the
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paternalistic medical system. Lee, a psychologist in New York, said to himself, “Okay, I’m 80 years old. I’ve had a good life, and this is what it is.” He enrolled with hospice and went home to his wife. Robert, meanwhile, was in and out of the hospital many times. A few months into his treatment, his doctor said the present chemotherapy wasn’t working and started him on a new one. Lee was at home doing things in his garden, seeing family and friends; a hospice nurse came to visit once a week. Initially, he wasn’t having a lot of symptoms. But Robert really took a hit from his treatments. He missed a lot of family functions and was very pale. Robert died a little over a year after his diagnosis; Lee was still alive and making jokes. He was getting weaker but it was a slow progression; he could still connect with his loved ones. He lived a just few months longer than Robert, but his last year was a full one. Whether it’s better to choose hospice over aggressive care is not exactly O’Brien’s point. “I just want people to know that they have choices,” she says. The feeling is similar among palliative care physicians, who often find themselves at odds with the standard medical infrastructure. “‘Keep fighting until the end’ is the idea of some doctors and some families,” says Eugene Perlov, MD, a palliative care doctor in Manhattan and a weekend resident of West Hurley. “Doctors are trained to save lives and do as much as possible. But it should be discussed. Given the choice, many people would just stay at home and pursue less aggressive treatment.” With lack of awareness, however, and sometimes surrounded by families that are not ready to let them go, most patients find themselves swept up into the seemingly unstoppable momentum of Western medical interventions. With $3,000-a-day intensive care and $5,000-an-hour surgery upholding the system, the economic incentives are hard to ignore.Yet other forces are at work too. Often, patients have not written advanced care directives (such as do-not-resuscitate orders, or the assignment of a health care proxy), so the medical system shifts into default mode to keep them alive at any cost. “I want to empower people,” says O’Brien, who has taken her message to local rotary clubs and other groups. “I don’t want another person who didn’t want to be in a hospital at the end, to be treated at the end, to be there.” The Rise of “Comfort Care” As palliative care and hospice both gain ground, new research is revealing their benefits in surprising ways. In a study of 4,493 Medicare subjects in hospice, patients with congestive heart failure lived an average of three months longer than non-hospice patients. A Massachusetts General Hospital study showed that integrating palliative care early in the treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer not only improved their mood and quality of life but also extended
their lives by almost three months. And in some rare, lucky cases, simply having comfort care on hand can help defy the odds of what seem to be the direst situations. Ruchira Chandra, MD, hospice medical director for Dutchess County and a palliative care consultant at Vassar Brothers Hospital, has seen patients who were told they had two weeks or two months to live go on to survive for a year or more with the hospice program. One of her patients was a woman in her seventies with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who wasn’t expected to survive much longer. After she enrolled with hospice and received at-home symptom management, her condition stabilized enough that she could live comfortably and go out to eat occasionally (portable oxygen in tow); she survived this way, amazingly, for a year. “This was someone who was being hospitalized almost on a monthly basis before we got involved,” says Chandra. To enroll in hospice, you need a doctor to say that you have a life expectancy of six months or less. But rather than a death sentence, hospice can be a life extension cord in some cases. Still, if choosing hospice seems too much like giving up, palliative care is an option at any stage—and can even be pursued alongside aggressive treatment. “The issue should be discussed at the time of diagnosis for any debilitating disease,” says Chandra, who adds that patients usually don’t get to her until too late. “Palliative care focuses on your quality of life, not just the end of life.” Talking with the patient to determine what he or she needs is an essential component of the palliative approach, which aims to treat the whole person. After discussing goals with a patient, Chandra will often look at the person’s prescribed medications (“Polypharmacy, or too many medications causing side effects, can be a problem,” she says). A “comfort pack” containing morphine, anxiety medications, and other remedies might be provided instead, especially to hospice patients, with the purpose not to treat disease but to keep the patient comfortable in later stages. Yet often Chandra will find that pain goes beyond the merely physical. “It might be ‘total pain,’ which can also be spiritual or psychological,” she says. “We address this too, and focus on everything that the patient wants or needs.” Letting-Go Lessons The way we live may differ vastly from person to person, but when it comes to our passage out of this world, most people want exactly the same things. Surveys of patients with terminal illness reveal a common wish list: All want to
die free of pain and suffering, without becoming a burden to others. We prefer to die peacefully at home, mentally clear and with loved ones by our side, rather than hooked up to machines under bright hospital lights.Yet our culture often fails to deliver these ultimate requests. Instead, sometime over the last one hundred years, death has been medicalized—and perhaps it’s our collective fear that keeps us quietly complicit in the process. “In society in general we don’t talk about death or illness or dying; it’s hush-hush,” says O’Brien. “So when it does come up, unfortunately it makes for a very unhealthy passing, because everyone is dealing with their own issues and can’t be present for that loved one. For something that is a natural part of our journey, to not be able to talk about it is an injustice to all of us.” There’s an ease emanating from someone like O’Brien, who has walked so many people to the end of their path—who has looked death in the face and said there’s nothing to fear. “I’ve seen some really beautiful experiences,” she says. “There’s something called the spiritual eye; there’s an energy around the person that becomes prominent toward the end of life. They have a knowing. I’ve seen people figure out what this life thing is about. They realize it’s about unconditional love—learning to give and receive it. They have these aha moments. ‘Oh, I get it!’ The lessons, the hurt—that’s all part of it in order to learn to forgive and come to a higher place.” Simply by starting the conversation, suggests O’Brien, we can loosen the fear grip and neutralize the stigma that holds us back from receiving these powerful messages. “People need to hear about the beauty; they need to not be afraid, because we’re all getting there,” she says. “This is what I hope: that everyone has what you call a good death. What makes a good death is a good life. No regrets. Live passionately every day and love the people that are around you. And that way when your time is called you can say, Okay.” Join Suzanne O’Brien at the Rhinecliff Hotel at 7pm on May 18, in an event to benefit the Africa Hospice Initiative, providing end-of-life care to Zimbabwe communities ravaged by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. For information, call (845) 337-0389. RESOURCES Suzanne O’Brien, RN, www.lightenup444.com Ruchira Chandra, MD, (845) 483-6428 4/12 ChronograM whole living 99
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
A. recently caught on to what I think is one of the coolest, most helpful of the Buddhist teachings:The Six Realms of Existence, which we traverse as we spin around and around (and around and around) on the Wheel of Samsara. Samsara, which literally means whirlwind, refers to the endless cycle of birth and death, and the source of our perpetual discontent. From the subtle feeling that something is off, to the horrors of global genocide, we suffer because we believe we are separate, and we, thus, attach to that which we erroneously (impossibly) wish to attain. If it (world peace, a clean house) is not separate, how can we ever get it? Press Repeat. The wheel contains six distinct, though related realms—hell, animal, human, hungry ghost, jealous gods, gods— in our minds, psychologies, and, if you can go there, cosmically. Rebirth, then, refers to our thirst-driven propensity to keep transmigrating through the various realms, literally, as in our different lifetimes, and also within this lifetime. It is only a fully realized Buddha who gets off the wheel for good, attaining the state of the “nonreturner.” And for the rest of us? We bring our awareness to these states of being as we experience, embody, resist, and crave them. Since A. recently drew her six-year old version of theWheel, I just couldn’t resist sharing it and her commentary as we launch ourselves into Spring. Oh, the sweet smell of earth; Oh, the sound of peepers in the dark; Oh, desires…they are truly inexhaustible.
The Wheel of Samsara Goes Round and Round This little brown squiggle is the head ofYama, the Lord of Death, also known as the Monster of Impermanence, who holds the wheel. His arms and legs are peeking out on the sides and the bottom. I love that A. placed the human realm at the top, though usually it is the realm of the Gods here. Her human realm is a girl playing with a Barbie. The sun is shining. This is the only realm where we can practice and realize the dharma.Yeah, humans!
This is two girls, one with a Barbie, one without. The Jealous Gods.
This is the hungry ghost realm, the land of creatures with huge bellies and tiny mouths and necks.You get it.
This is a wolf, howling at the moon in the Animal Realm. Animals want what they want when they want it. There’s no reasoning with a wolf.
This is A.’s God/Heaven realm: a happy face, filling the universe. It’s kind of like that. Spiritual bliss. Not very real.
A. says, “I think there are a lot of torches in hell.” Sounds good to me. Hell (of which there are at least 16 hellish levels) is filled with aggression and rage. The top half of A.’s wheel is happy, which indicates the upper regions of samsara. This usually includes Humans, Gods, and Jealous Gods, but due to my personal affinity with the Hungry Ghosts, I am grateful for the promotion. The bottom is sad (and wearing false eyelashes?!), indicating the lower realms, usually relegated to hell, animals, and hungry ghosts. In the middle is the three poisons—greed, anger, and ignorance—shown in the form of the pig, the snake, and the rooster. This is the hub of our despair. Traditionally the three beasts are eating one another. The yellow and blue is “the wind,” A. says, “turning the wheel.” 100 whole living ChronograM 4/12
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Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L Ac 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.creeksideacupuncture.com Private treatment rooms, attentive one-on-one care, affordable rates, many insurances, sliding scale. 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.
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060
New Paltz Community Acupuncture, Amy Benac, L Ac 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $25-$40 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford). As a community-style practice, treatments occur in a semi-private, soothing space with several people receiving treatment at the same time. This allows for frequent, affordable sessions while providing high quality care. Pain management, relaxation, headaches, TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, fertility, muscle tension, cancer support, immune support, asthma, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.
Port Ewen Acupuncture Center. Beverly Halley, L Ac 232 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-2964 Why suffer needlessly? Affordable treatments in a community acupuncture setting. Offering a sliding scale of $15-$35 per treatment. Acute and chronic conditions, smoking cessation,
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stress-related conditions, preventive medicine. 25 years’ experience using needle and nonneedle techniques.
Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body & Skin Care Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com
Kathy’s Skin Care 23 Livingston St, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 464-0290 Kathyskincare@hotmail.com
Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist. In addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call Dr. Ness today.
Counseling Claudia Coenen, MTP, CT (914) 475-9695 www.thekarunaproject.com claudia@thekarunaproject.com
IONE‚ Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a Spiritual Teacher, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com.
Phoenix Counseling Services 243 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255.6180
Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Robert Danz 5 McKinstry Place, Hudson, NY (518) 828-0115 www.drdanz.com
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Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG), offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
Holistic Health Center for a Healthy You Poughkeepise, NY (845) 462-4555 www.centerforahealthyyou.com
John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com
Kary Broffman, RN, CH Karyb@mindspring.com (845) 876-6753 15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.
Master Elaine Ward, Worldwide Representative of Master Sha Hyde Park, NY (845) 702-0456 Elaine3396815@gmail.com facebook.com/HealTheSoulFirst “Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow,” is the key foundation teaching of Soul Healing. Soul Healing brings divine love and light to transform every aspect of life, including health, relationships, finances, and more. Experience the power of Soul Healing with Elaine Ward, Worldwide Representative of Master Sha. A heart-centered Soul Healer and teacher with advanced Divine Healing Hands abilities, Elaine has the authority to read the Akashic Records and to offer Divine Soul Healing. Call 845.702.0456 for a Soul Healing or Soul Reading consultation, and a list of upcoming events.
Nancy Plumer, Energy Healing and Spiritual Counseling Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net Nancy is an intuitive healer, spiritual counselor and long time yoga teacher. Would you like to relieve stress, anxiety, fear, pain and increase your vitality, joy, balance and connect to one’s True Self? Nancy guides one to release blocked or stuck energy that shows up as disease/illness/anxiety/discomfort/fear and supports one
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Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-of-the-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals. With the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley, other specialized programs include: The Family Birth Place, Wound Healing Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, Cardiology Services and Stroke Center.
$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford) Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info
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Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com
Center for a Healthy You 1984 New Hackensack Rd. Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 845-462-4555
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Hypnosis for Health Hudson Valley & New York City (212) 627-5861 www.selfpsych.info
Massage Therapy Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
Nutrition House of Nutrition 5 College View Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7712
Optometrists Rhinebeck Eye Care 454 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (845) 828-0215, 6805 Route 9, Rhinebeck NY (845) 876-2222 www.drsmadiganandgibbons.com
Treat your clients in a professional, affordable, tranquil environment
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John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.
New Paltz Community Acupuncture
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“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
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Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.
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Vanessa Bahmani, We Are the 99%, photographs of Occupy protesters, from "Wall Street to Main Street" in Catskill.
Zuccotti-on-Hudson Occupy Wall Street began as a guerrilla action last September 17, and quickly spread over the globe. But with the advent of winter, and internal struggles, the movement has receded. What will be the next phase of OWS? pundits ask. The answer lies in the Greene County town of Catskill. “Wall Street to Main Street” is an art show in a dozen storefronts, plus a 10-week festival of performance and workshops, ending May 31. This is the first legal collaboration between the Occupy movement and a town. Catskill was chosen for numerous reasons: its proximity to New York City, its economic troubles, the presence of an arts community, and it’s the home of Thomas Cole (founder of the Hudson River School of painters). “There are ‘Main Street’ issues that play out on our Main Street,” observes Fawn Potash, director of Masters on Main Street. “It makes sense to talk about those things here.” Potash was on the curatorial committee organizing the festival. Since the police raid on Zuccotti Park, art has played a larger role in the movement. One cliché about Occupy is that it is “a protest without demands”—which is attractive to artists. For what is art if not a protest without demands? The community at Zuccotti Park struck many artists and critics—myself included—as a giant artwork, a “living sculpture” or “temporal work of performance politics.” One such artist, Jessica Eis, documented the encampment, the police raid, and its aftermath, with video and still photography in “Sights and Sounds of Zuccotti Park.” Emily Bruenig makes books from ephemera found at Occupy Wall Street: yellow police tape, stickers, flyers, etc. Two California artists from the Great Tortilla Conspiracy collective will place any drawing on a tortilla at a tortilla making demonstration on April 28 But you get a choice: art or food. “They’ll either print it in ink, so you can keep it, or in chocolate, so you can eat it,” explains Potash. Sam Truitt, managing director of Station Hill Press, has organized “Occupy
Books,” a storefront library seeded with books from Zuccotti Park. Truitt compiled a bibliography of 108 volumes relevant to the movement, many of which will be on sale by local bookstores Inquiring Mind, The Spotty Dog, and Oblong Books. “It’s a 10-week experiment in communal reading,” says Truitt. Patrons of this self-creating library are invited to write quotations, notes, or other remarks on the walls in magic marker. The room will become a collective three-dimensional notebook. Laurie Arbeiter and Sarah Wellington print slogans such as RECLAIM CULTURE and WAKE on t-shirts. They will lead a walk from Woodstock to Catskill, culminating in a potluck dinner on May 27. Judy Thomas creates art from discarded plastic bags. She will lead a workshop teaching children to make colorful garlands, then create a banner styled on a Tibetan prayer flag for the Catskill community garden, to scare away deer. During the spring break at the local schools, “Wall Street to Main Street” will present numerous children’s programs, including a puppet show, culminating in an art opening at the Catskill Community Center entitled “The People’s Collection.” For this show, anyone is invited to bring objects they wish to display—not necessarily drawings or paintings. It’s like a whole town becoming Marcel Duchamp! “What is art? Art could be anything that has importance,” says Potash. (Full disclosure: I myself am leading two workshops in this festival, “Listening to Poetry, Speaking to the Gods” and “The Politics of Silence.” In the latter, I will discuss John Cage’s musical composition 4’ 33”, which consists entirely of silence, and explore soundlessness as a political act.) “Wall Street to Main Street” opened in March and will continue in various locations on Main Street in Catskill through May 31. (518) 943-3400; Greenearts.org. —Sparrow 4/12 ChronograM forecast 107
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arts & culture saugerties performing arts factory Matt kohe media Above and below: The interior and exterior of the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory (SPAF); Right: Erica Price installing lights at SPAF.
Factory Girl Erica Price started making pottery a year ago at a very stressful point in her life. “You have this slab of clay and it’s all off balance—and you can’t fight with it. If you fight with the clay it doesn’t work. To find your centering you just have to let yourself go. Put a little force in it, but let the clay go where it wants. Before you know it, you're throwing a 12-foot vase you never realized you could,” she says. You might compare Price’s explanation of wheel throwing to her most recent project: revamping a 1914 factory building into an art and performance space: the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory. It starts out as a stark, empty space and the vibe is off balance from its end goal. It’s sometimes a struggle that needs a little force, but in the end, a broken down factory is transformed into a 14,000-square-foot home for the arts. Erica and husband Gerard Price bought the 21,000-foot facility two years ago to expand their Saugerties-based uniform rental and cleaning company. The idea for a performing arts center came from Lou Spina, who walked into the factory on a whim looking for a open space for his performing arts group Stella May Productions. “I was staining the floor with my respirator on and Lou Spina tapped me on the back. Startled, I turned around, ready to smack him in the face, and he said: ‘Do you have any space?’” Erica recalls. Spina, who runs a music, theater, and media production company, says: ‘This space is great, we could do so much here. That’s where the project started,’” she says. That was last November. By December, Price was hustling on the Internet trying to find curtains, chairs, lighting, and chandeliers, and building a stage to reconstruct the factory into an adequate space for the arts. The pieces joined together for the first time on March 31 for “Against the Grain,” a cooking demo with Frank Serpico and Noah Sheetz, chef to Governor Cuomo — a production of Green Peas TV. Price has always been interested in art, but with her family and uniform business, art was left on the back burner. When she and Gerard bought the factory, the stress of their business expansion was overbearing, so she started studying ceramics in order
to relax. That’s when art became a stronger focus for her, opening another field, which led to an entirely new business. On the weekend of April 20, Saugerties Performing Arts Factory (SPAF) will present their opening gala, “Arts Under One Roof,” which will feature events from myriad artistic disciplines. “The concept for the event is: all the arts will have a home under one roof,” says Spina. The gala will give a preview of what’s to come at SPAF. The event begins Friday, when Domenic Silipo takes on four to five roles in his one-man show “Miles from Somewhere,” then Bruce Grund directs a lost Eugene O’Neill play—discovered after 92 years—with actors Michael Da Torre, Eric Jagoda, Jon Lee, Leif Grund, and Douglas Koop; and is followed by jazz cabaret with Ann Osmond and Dennis Yerry. Tango champion Sidney Grant will also perform, with dancer Tara Ryan. Saturday kicks off with free children’s entertainment by magician and ventriloquist Steve Charney at 11:30am. That evening, Silipo and O’Neill’s works will be followed by a swing dance demonstration. Two jazz acts will perform—vocalist Veronica Nunn, and pianist Travis Shook with bassist Lew Scott and drummer Willard Dyson. Sunday features a fundraiser for the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice with opera selections from 3 to 5 pm. Price’s main vision is to bring art to the community and to share it. “I’m hoping that the community will surround it with love. I really want to keep the art local,” she says. She hopes gala attendees will leave inspired. “Hopefully people will be affected like I was and begin taking a course. Besides being a stress reliever, art is there to expand horizons. What better way to revitalize an old factory building? A place where people were once doing factory work is now a place for people to enjoy art,” says Price. SPAF’s opening gala “Arts Under One Roof” will be held Friday, April 20, 7:30 to 10:30 pm; Saturday, April 21, children’s show, 11:30 am to 1 pm, evening performances 8 to 11 pm; and Sunday, April 22, 3 to 5 pm. (845) 246-7723; Thespaf.com. —Molly Lindsay 4/12 ChronograM forecast 109
SUNDAY 1 Art Life Drawing with a Model 11am-2pm. $15. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. First Sunday Free Gallery Tour 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Boundaries and Openings 3pm-5pm. An abstract photography installation by Carl Berg. Old Chatham Country Store Café Gallery, Old Chatham. (518) 794-6227.
Body / Mind / Spirit Spring Awakening: A River Retreat Weekend of meditation, movement, art, drumming, nature walks, creative play, spiritual direction and breathing space. $250. Linwood Spiritual Center, Rhinebeck. www.thewellnesscircle.us. Holistic Health Treatments for Children Call for times. Acupuncturist Erika Gabriello. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Uncovering the Brilliance of Your Soul Shadow 2pm-4pm. A Jungian Archetypal Soul Journey with Dr. Craig Lennon, PhD. accompanied by Jim Davis on Celtic Harp. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Swing Class 1pm-2:30pm. Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. $15. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.
Dance Swing Dance to DJ'd Music 6pm-9pm. Beginner's lesson 6:00-6:30. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571. Tree 7pm. A dance by Susan Osberg. $15. Beacon Yoga, Beacon. 831-1832.
Events Third Annual Writer's Tea Refreshments, the writers' presentations, tea, silent auction presented by Poughkeepsie Branch of American Association of University Women. $50. Links, Union Vale. www.aauwpoughkeepsie.org. Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Third Annual HITS 5K for United Way 10am. Kids' fun run, 5k, 2k. $15-$25. HITS Show Grounds, Saugerties. www.ulsterunitedway.org. Vaudeville in the Catskills 2pm. $15. The Sullivan County Museum and Cultural Center, Hurleyville. 434-8044.
Waiting for Godot 3pm. $25. Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.
Workshops Divine Healing Hands Practitioner Training Program 10am-Sunday, April 1, 10pm. With Master Elaine Ward. $625. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 471-1438. West African Drum 12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. West African Dance 1pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Connecting with the Landkeepers 2pm-3pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
MONDAY 2 ART Hudson Valley Farmers’ Markets: Stephen Weinstein The Artist's Palate, Poughkeepsie. 483-8074.
Pilates Beginner Mat Class 12pm-1pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Pilates Intermediate Mat Class 5pm-6pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Shakespeare Sings 2pm-3pm. Students from the Taconic Hills Drama Club will read several of William Shakespeare's bestknown sonnets, which will then be sung by baritone Keith Spencer, baritone, accompanied by pianist Mark Jones. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101. Peter Pan 2pm. $18/$15. New Rose Theater, Walden. 778-2478. A Man For All Seasons 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Workshops Diabetes Self-Management Workshop 3:30pm-6pm. How to effectively use nutrition, medications, and activity to manage their diabetes. Kingston Family Practice, Kingston. 338-6400 ext. 3314. West African Drum 5:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051.
The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-7:30pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Art Play Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. For adults. Through May 2. $160. Canaltown Alley, Rosendale. 338-6503.
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Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
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Vassar College Women's Chorus 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
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John Zorn 7:30pm. Sax. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Kirtan 6pm-7:30pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Mega Media: New Paltz 10am-Friday, April 6, 4pm. Grades 3-5. $235. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 485-4480.
Artist Discussion Series 3pm-4pm. Artists James Sparks and Augustine Della Vecchia discuss their work currently on exhibition; their process, and passions. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.
Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Mega Media: Millbrook 10am-Friday, April 6, 4pm. Grades 3-5. $295. Millbrook Town Hall, Millbrook. 485-4480.
Swing Dance workshop With Linda & Chester Freeman Call for times. New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.
Songs for New Journeys by Stephen Kitsakos 6pm. $8/$6/$3. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Mirabilis in Concert: Katy Taylor and Amy Frandon 7pm-8:30pm. $10-$12. Stone Ridge Healing Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-7589.
Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
A Moment of Panic 1pm. Acoustic. Peekskill Coffeehouse, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.
Spoken Word
Music
Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Mega Media: Rosendale 9am-Friday, April 6, 1pm. Grades 3-5. $230. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
One Night of Queen 8pm. Performed by Gary Mullen And The Works. $27.50-$39.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Introduction to Modern Dance 5:15pm-6pm. Ages 8-10. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
THURSDAY 5 Art
Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Rock N Roll Resort v2: A Pysbient Soiree 12pm. Kutsher's Country Club, Monticello. www.rocknrollresort.com/v2.
Joan Osborn 7:30pm. $34.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
KinderDance I 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Visiting Artist: Jonathan Wahl 7pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/fpa.
Open Mike Night 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.
Kids
Gene Cornish and the Guitar Club 7:30pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. (518) 673-2314 ext. 107.
Yoga with Victoria 5pm-6pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683.
Music
Piano Friends Susan Fisher Wright & Peter Valentine 4pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Kids
My Career in Journalism 7pm-8pm. Lecture by Ottaway professor Andrew Lehren. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu.
Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson 4:30pm. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Kairos' Lessons & Hymns Lenten 4pm. With readings from the Old and New Testaments interspersed with hymns, motets and chorales by Victoria, Purcell, Byrd, Allegri, Casals and others. Holy Cross Monastery, West Park. 384-6660.
Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index Sprawling sculptures filmed by live cameras present a landscape of people and places that implies an overarching narrative of the 1960s to the present day. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
3rd Annual Science Fair 7pm-8:30pm. 7th and 8th Grade students describe, demonstrate and deliver unique Chemistry, Biology and Physics Projects. Rudolph Steiner School, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-4015.
Film
Classes
Spoken Word Why Ask, "How? 5:30pm-6:30pm. Lecture by Adam Goldstein, Ph.D. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu. Poughkeepsie: Meeting of Dutchess Peace 7pm-8:30pm. Dutchess Peace meets to plan activities on the first Monday of each month. All those interested in peace, social justice, and the revolution of the 99% are invited. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 876-7906.
Workshops Mindful Discipline: A Workshop for Conscientious Parents 6:30pm-8pm. $160 couple/$120. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
TUESDAY 3
Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Caregiver Support for Total Joint Replacement Patients 12:30pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 871-4101. Zumba 6pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Classes Parenting Classes 5:15pm-6:45pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Learn the Basics of Sailing 7pm-9pm. Weekly through May 23. $50. Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon.
Film Gasland 7pm. Nelly Goletti Theatre, Poughkeepsie. 575-3000 ext. 7507.
Kids Children's Spring Tea 12pm-2pm. $15/$12 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
EVENTS Women's Networking Luncheon 12pm-2pm. Columbia County Chamber of Commerce. $18/$22. The Pond Restaurant, Ancramdale. (518) 828-4417.
Art
Music
Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm-9pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Dan Tepfer: Bach's Goldberg Variations/Variations 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates Fundamentals Mat Class 10am-11am. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Hatha Yoga 1pm-2pm. $2.50. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Jazz Wednesdays 7:30pm. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424. California Guitar Trio 7:30pm. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Spoken Word
Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Accord Youth Center, Accord. 380-7345.
Popping Up Through Time and Space 4:30pm. A brief history of movable and pop-up books and a segment on how he creates his best-selling children's books with Robert Sabuda. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. http://library.newpaltz.edu.
Sun Style Tai Chi 6:45pm-7:45pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. 810-2742.
A Night of Authors 6pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Events Living Last Supper 7:30pm. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. refchurc@hvc.rr.com.
Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892. Why We Fight 7pm. Film screening. The Crafted Kup, Poughkeepsie. 483-7070.
Kids Hop-N-Healthy 11:30am-12:15pm. 18 months-5 years. $50 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Kids Yoga Spring Series 4pm. Ages 5-10. $15/$50 series. Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck. 876-2528.
Music Manhattan School of Music Amato Opera-in-Brief: Hansel & Gretel 11am. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Studio Stu 6:30pm. Jazz. Savona's Trattoria, Kingston. 339-6800. Open Mike 7pm-8pm. $4. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Colin Stetson + Tyshawn Sorey 7:30pm. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Spoken Word Andy Pitz Comedy. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. Remember the Ladies: A History of American Women in Song 12:30pm. DCC Bowne Hall, Poughkeepsie. 431-8017. Heirloom Everything: From Seed to Seed 7:15pm. Ken Greene. Orange County Community College, Middletown. 341-4891.
Workshops Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. West African Dance 6pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488. Gardening after Dark: The Perennial Gardener 6pm-8pm. An intensive exploration of perennial border gardening designed for both first-time and intermediate gardeners. It covers site selection, perennial selection and soil and bed preparation. $70/$60 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. Exploring Family History 6:30pm. Rhinebeck Starr Library, Rhinebeck. 876-5797.
FRIDAY 6 Art Photography Show: Photos of the Hudson Valley 6pm-8pm. Patricia Wind. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.
Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling 11:30am. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
music rock and remembrance Courtesy Variance Wells/Well Go USA Members of Hole, Veruca Salt, and Metallica gather at the The Molson Ice Beach Polar Beach Party in the Inuvialuit hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, Canada in 1995. L to R: James Hetfield (Metallica), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Jim Shapiro (Veruca Salt, with book), Louise Post (Veruca Salt, grey coat in first row), Nina Gordon (Veruca Salt, blue coat in rear row), Patty Schemel (Hole, back row), Lars Ulrich (Metallica, seated), Courtney Love (Hole, seated), Melissa Auf der Maur (Hole, back row), Eric Erlandson (Hole, back row), Steve Lack (Veruca Salt, front row), Jason Newstead (Metallica, back row).
Lived Through That For many, the music of Hole has been little more than the backdrop to band leader Courtney Love’s drama-filled marriage to Kurt Cobain and the rest of her tabloidtrauma, Hollywood-train-wreck public life. But there’s no denying it’s been a millionsselling, arena-packing backdrop. Formed in Los Angeles, the group straddled the grunge wave to become one of the major alternative acts of the 1990s, achieving huge commercial and critical success and motivating many an angst-ridden grrl to scream into a microphone. No doubt the hell ride of Hole is one heck of a story. And now two of the band’s members, guitarist Eric Erlandson and drummer Patty Schemel, have come forward to tell it: Erlandson via the book Letters to Kurt and Schemel by way of the documentary Hit So Hard. On April 8 the twin releases will be celebrated with “Rock ’n’ Remembrance,” an event at Basilica Hudson organized by the pair’s onetime bandmate and the venue’s co-owner, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. In addition to a reading from Letters to Kurt by Erlandson and a screening of Hit So Hard, the evening promises a rare reunion set by the three musicians. “You could say [writing the book] was cathartic, but that implies that it was uncontrolled, which wasn’t the case,” says Erlandson, who founded Hole with Love in 1989. “A lot of careful thought went into it. It was very much a meditated-upon process.” Rather than simply being a straight chronicling of Erlandson’s time with the band, Letters to Kurt (Akashic Books) instead hints at Hole’s tumultuous milieu via 52 surreal,
impressionistic prose poems posthumously penned for the late Cobain. After debuting with 1991’s corrosive Pretty on the Inside (Caroline Records), Hole hit the mainstream next with 1994’s Live Through This (DGC Records). Auf der Maur replaced bassist Kristen Pfaff, who performed on 1998’s Celebrity Skin (Geffen Records) and died of a heroin overdose two months after Cobain’s suicide. Along the way, Love’s A-list profile increasingly overshadowed her band, thanks to her film roles, notorious drug use, and the custody battle over her and Cobain’s daughter. Although the band officially split in 2002, Love has since revived the Hole moniker, assembling an entirely new lineup. For Schemel, whose own bout with heroin and the homelessness that followed her departure from Hole in 1997 are essayed in Hit So Hard, life reached some especially dark hues. “For me [watching the movie] reminds me of all the things I could’ve done differently,” says the drummer, who provided the vintage footage for the film and currently plays in LA trio The Cold and Lovely. “But we were all so young then, trying to figure out who we were as people. There are scenes of me and Melissa talking about someday having kids who play together—and now that’s what’s happening. So I guess everything’s happened the way it was supposed to.” “Rock ’n’ Remembrance” takes place at Basilica Hudson on April 8 at 6pm. Admission is $8. (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.com. —Peter Aaron
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Classes
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The Outdoors
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 380-7345.
Sutherland Pond Bird Walk 8am. Ooms Conservation Area, Austerlitz. (518) 766-2161.
Dance
Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:45pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Reading and Book Signing with Iza Trapani 2pm. Author of The Bear Went Over the Mountain. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Ballroom By Request 8pm-10:30pm. Two quality lessons in two different dances and dance practice time, hosted by seasoned teachers/musicians/dancers/performers Joe Donato and Julie Martyn. $10/$15 2 lessons. Snap Fitness, LaGrange. (610) 420-4727. Kota Yamasaki | fluid hug hug: (glowing) 8pm. Combines butoh, a Japanese dance form that embraces shadows and darkness, with traditional African dance and contemporary movement. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Events Cesar Milan: The Dog Whisperer 8pm. $90 VIP/$55/$50 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Kids Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 2pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Full Moon Meditation, Intention and the Zero Point Field 2pm-4pm. With Ricarda O'Conner. This class will takes you on a lively exploration of consciousness and intention. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Freestyle Frolic Community Dance 8:30pm-2am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.
Henry VIII 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Events
Workshops
Baby Animal Celebration 10am-Sunday, April 29, 4pm. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.
Pruning for Fruit Production 10am-3pm. $65/$55. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters Both David Edward Byrd and Arnold Skolnick designed posters for the original Woodstock festival. Skolnick’s dove perched on a guitar became iconic; the world may not have been ready for Byrd’s full frontal nude. Their other works include rock posters, posters for Broadway shows, television, movies, impressionistic oil paintings drawn from nature, fine-art compilations, and erotic nudes. Over 150 different pieces, including some of the spin-offs of the classic Woodstock logo, are on display as the Museum at Bethel Woods showcases “Byrd/Skolnick: A Tale of Two Posters” from April 1 through July 22. Go on April 28 or 29 and experience the full glory of the Rock Art Poster Fair. Bethelwoodscenter.org.
Tony Leon and his Group Son Latin 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Jeremy Baum, Chris Vitarello, Vito Luizi 7:30pm. Jazz. Ciboney Café, Poughkeepsie. 486-4690. Mike + Ruthy 8pm. With David Massengill. The Beacon, Beacon. thebeacontheatre.org. Zach Brock 8pm. Jazz. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Magic Number 8pm. Jazz/punk quartet. $10. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Jay Collins and the Kings County Band 9pm. CD release party. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Charlie Sabin Acoustic 9:30pm. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
High&Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 10am-12pm. High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
Rhonda Denet & The Bad Cats 9:30pm. R&B, soul, smooth jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.
Young Frankenstein 8pm. Eisenhower Hall Theatre - USMA, West Point.
SATURDAY 7 Art Stanley Whitney: Six Paintings 1pm-3pm. Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent. (518) 392-4568. Shift: Kingston 4pm-9pm. The work of Adie Russell, Angela Rose Voulgarelis, Christina Osburn, Carla Rozman, Melissa Halvorson, Jojo Ans, and Veleta Vancza. 45 North Front Street, Kingston. (917) 882-3441. Rokeby Show 5pm-7pm. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342. Paintings by Anda Styler 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (413) 458-1700. 2nd Annual Charlie Chaplin Tribute 5pm-8pm. Chaplin photos, articles, music, books, films & memorabilia. Little Shop of Horses, Kingston. 340-0501. Concepts and Titles 5pm-8pm. A show by Ortega. Storefront Gallery, Kingston. www.TheStorefrontGallery.com. Hot Off the Press: New Encaustic Printmaking 5pm-7pm. Demos from 2-4pm. The Gallery at R & F, Kingston. 331-3112. Karmabee First Saturday Reception 5pm-8pm. Refreshments and an eclectic selection of handcrafted items by Hudson Valley artists & designers. Karmabee, Kingston. 443-3358. Hudson Valley Farmers’ Markets: Stephen Weinstein Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
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Kirtan 6pm-7:30pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Dance
Spottiswoode & His Enemies 7pm. Opening act: Adam Falcon. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
Henry VIII 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Pilates Intermediate Mat Class 5pm-6pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411.
Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
Senior Recital 5pm. Susan Randolph, organ. Music of Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Franck, and Messiaen. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Featuring Chris Wheeling, Robert Milby; hosted by Phillip X Levine, poetry/prose/performance. Beahive Kingston, Kingston.
Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Theater
Argentine Tango Beginner: 4:30pm-5:30pm, practica: 5:30pm-7pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Music
Theater
Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring a reading by Elaine Koplow. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.
Pilates Beginner Mat Class 12pm-1pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411.
The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-7:30pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes
KinderDance II 5pm-5:45pm. Ages 5-7. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
The Crossroads Band 9pm. Rock. Lia's Mountain View, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7311.
Spoken Word
MONDAY 9 Body / Mind / Spirit
Promoting Your Business Online 7:30pm. Paid search expert Jackie Dooley will talk about optimizing your website, tracking site traffic, and monitoring leads, sales and other actions. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Kids Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Stone Soup by Kids On Stage 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Music Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Massenet's Manon 10am. Lecture followed by broadcast at 12pm. $10 lecture/$18-$25 broadcast. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. The Met Live in HD: Massenet's Mannon 12pm. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Vassar College Madrigal Singers 3pm. Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est: Songs on the nature of love. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Events High&Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 4pm-6pm. High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
Kids Mega Media: New Paltz 10am-Friday, April 13, 4pm. Grades 3-5. $295. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 485-4480.
Music Daughtry 8pm. $30.50-$50.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Spoken Word "Two-ness" and Modernity in Du Bois and Nietzsche 4:45pm. Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Voices from Iran: Contemporary Literature and Music 7pm-9pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Workshops
Body / Mind / Spirit
SUNDAY 8 Art Life Drawing with a Model 11am-2pm. $15. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Body / Mind / Spirit Holistic Health Treatments for Children Call for times. Acupuncturist Erika Gabriello. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Kore's Kids Club 9am-12pm. For all children ages 5-12 who wish to learn more about Eclectic Paganism. Akasha's Journey, Wassiac. 729-8999.
Events Rock 'n' Remembrance 6pm. Tales of survival and rebirth, Letters to Kurt Book reading by Eric Erlandson, Hit So Hard screening with Q&A, performance by Members of Hole. Basilica Hudson, Hudson. See page 111.
Music
Spoken Word
Fire Dean & The Brooklyn Garden Club 10pm. With SkyWriter. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Winter Classes Begin Call for times. 10-week session. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.
Intro to Bagua 2pm-5pm. $42. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
Dana Fuchs Band 8:30pm. $35/$30. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Levee CD Release Party 9:30pm. Petey Hop and his band. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Swing Dance Class 4-week series with Linda & Chester Freeman. Beginner 6-7, Intermediate 7-8. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.
Mindful Discipline: A Workshop for Conscientious Parents 6:30pm-8pm. $160 couple/$120. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Erin Hobson & The Compact 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
The Crossroads Band 9:30pm. Rock. Charlie O's, Red Hook. 758-2123.
Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Soul Song and Soul Dance Workshop 1pm-4pm. $20. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Idan Santhaus Big Band 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
Mamalama 9pm-4pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Classes
Reading and Book Signing with Iza Trapani 1pm. Author of The Bear Went Over the Mountain. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 255-8300.
Workshops West African Drum 12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. Intro to Organic Gardening 12pm-4pm. $50. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. West African Dance 1pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
TUESDAY 10 Pilates Fundamentals Mat Class 10am-11am. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Hatha Yoga 1pm-2pm. $2.50. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Accord Youth Center, Accord. 380-7345. Sun Style Tai Chi 6:45pm-7:45pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. 810-2742. Merkaba Activation Under the Guidance of Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. (518) 673-2314 ext. 107. Little Painters 10am-11am. $72 series/$14 class/+material fee. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. Introduction to Modern Dance 5:15pm-6pm. Ages 8-10. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Music Rebecca Martin Call for times. Featuring special guests to benefit the Queens Galley. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Open Mike Night 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828.
Kentucky Derby Art Show and Sale At Maplebrook School
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With a Special Exhibit Featuring: Tommy Hilfiger’s Private Collection of ANDY WARHOL Paintings
Enjoy “ The Juxtaposition of an Art Show, Horse Racing and Andy Warhol! ” Opening Reception May 5, 2012 4:00 - 7:30 PM
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June 2nd featuring our regional artists
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School
Maplebrook School, Route 22, Amenia, NY For More Information Call: 845.373.9511
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Connecticut Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 10 - 4 ; Sunday, 12 - 4 (860) 435 - 3663 ~ www.hotchkiss.org/arts
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Tulip Ball Honoree
Thomas A. Collins Lifetime Achievement Award
Patricia & Paul Johnson Community Outreach Award
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Billy Hart Quartet 7pm. Featuring Ethan Iverson. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Spoken Word Greening Local Energy 6:30pm. Transition Marbletown Second Tuesday Conversation. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. www.transitionmarbletown.org. Prevention and treatment of sports injuries in children and adults seminar 6:30pm-8:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
Workshops Diabetes Self-Management Workshop 3:30pm-6pm. How to effectively use nutrition, medications, and activity to manage their diabetes. Kingston Family Practice, Kingston. 338-6400 ext. 3314. West African Drum 5:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051.
FRIDAY 13
Events Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.
Kids Hop-N-Healthy 11:30am-12:15pm. 18 months-5 years. $50 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Music Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877.
Art
Collage by Glenn Freedman. WVFA Gallery, Warwick. www.WarwickFA.com/events. 5pm-8pm.
Beyond Landscape 1pm-5pm. Featuring recent mixed media cloth collages that express a blend of abstract and decorative art. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.
Body / Mind / Spirit Coming Home 3pm. A mindfulness meditation weekend for LGBTIQ communities. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. The Rose Meditation 7pm-8:30pm. $45/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Classes
Matinees & Music: Many Colors of Dolly Parton 2pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Events
Pete Levin with Dave Stryker & Adam Nussbaum 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. The Farewell Drifters 8pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
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Art
Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
The Unstill Still Life: Mezzotint Engravings by Carol Wax 3pm-7pm. Bearsville Graphics Studio Gallery, Woodstock. 684-5476. Works by Mimi Graminski and Bibian Matheis 4pm-6pm. Two artists work in their separate studios during the same hour each week. At the end of each session they compare notes on the work produced. Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham. (518) 392-2250. 3x3 4pm-7pm. An exhibit by the 19 artists that make up Longreach Arts. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 485-8506. E Equals 5pm-7pm. Exhibit in honor of Emily Dickenson, honors both the small and the daily while at the same time illuminating the spiritual, sexual, and universal in woman’s work. ProjectSpace, Stone Ridge. 633-0815. Susanna Briselli: Still Life, Photo-Paintings 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. Inside Out 6pm-8pm. Paintings by Deborah Buck. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Three Voices, Three Visions & Three Mediums 6pm-9pm. Works by Nancy Reed Jones, Marge Morales, Marylyn Vanderpool. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.
WEDNESDAY 11 Art Art Play Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. For adults. Through May 2. $160. Canaltown Alley, Rosendale. 338-6503.
‘I Remember’ Thought Bubbles 6pm-9pm. New works by Carla Goldberg. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Body / Mind / Spirit
Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 380-7345.
Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Caregiver Support for Total Joint Replacement Patients 12:30pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 871-4101.
Khenpo Lama Pema Wangdak 2pm. Chanting and prayers are following by reading and questions and answers. Palden Sakya Center, Woodstock. 679-4024.
Zumba 6pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Baby Yoga 2:15pm-3:15pm. Non-walkers. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Embodying Our Higher Self 7pm-8:30pm. Channeled meditation and guidance with Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Classes Swing Dance Class 4-week series with Linda & Chester Freeman. Beginner 6-7, Advanced at 7 and 8. Boughton Place, Highland. 236-3939. Parenting Classes 5:15pm-6:45pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683.
Events Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
Music Jazz Wednesdays 7:30pm. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.
Spoken Word Reading Objects Gallery Talk with Jaclynne Kerner 12pm-1pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. The Lenape: New York's First Inhabitants 7pm. David Oestreicher, NY Council for the Humanities Speaker. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. Tim McGee: Biomimicry: Bridging Biology to Design, Engineering, and Business for a Thriving Planet 7pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
THURSDAY 12 Art SUE-C + AGF: Infinite Jest 7pm. Film and electronic music event. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga with Victoria 5pm-6pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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Einat and Hakim What do you get when you blend an Israeli born on a kibbutz with a French-born Muslim? Acoustic urban soul, of course, if the individuals in question happen to be Einat and Hakim. Einat Betzalil and Hakim Boukhit, born on the same day, fell in love at first sight and make music of soaring purity and power that’s been stunning European audiences. Catch a Hudson Valley appearance at Taste Buds in Red Hook on Saturday April 21 in a 1 pm matinee, at 8 pm that evening at the AIR Gallery in Kingston, or Tuesday April 24 at the Rosendale Cafe at 8 pm. Reverbnation.com/EinatandHakim Student Composers' Concert 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Daphne Willis 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Farewell Drifters 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Spoken Word Zbigniew Oksiuta: A Biological Future? 12pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Lecture on the Exhibit Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist 5:30pm-7pm. Susana Torruella Leval. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Debra Humphreys 7:30pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3727. Liberal Education and the 21st Century Global Economy 7:30pm. Debra Humphreys, Ph.D. SUNY New Paltz. 257-3727.
Kids Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 2pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. KinderDance II 5pm-5:45pm. Ages 5-7. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Music The Accidental Gypsies 7:30pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Drew Kelly 8pm. Folk. Dancing Cat Saloon, Bethel. 583-3141. Vassar College Jazz Ensemble 8pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Theater
Big Joe Fitz 9pm. Blues. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
Dramatic Reading of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
Frenchy and the Punk 9pm. Bohemian cabaret. $5. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164.
Workshops
Rhett Miller with Mike and Ruthy 9pm. Americana. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Doody Calls! 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Spoken Word
Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Evening of Poetry 7pm-9pm. Peter Bergmann reading from his poems, followed by open mike. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
West African Dance 6pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
Theater
Gardening after Dark: The Perennial Gardener 6pm-8pm. An intensive exploration of perennial border gardening designed for both first-time and intermediate gardeners. It covers site selection, perennial selection and soil and bed preparation. $70/$60 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Henry VIII 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Dramatic Reading of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
Toddler/Preschool Yoga 3:30pm-4:30pm. Through age 4. $16.50. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. VortexHealing: Divine Healing Energy Through the Magic of Merlin 5pm-6:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 4:30pm-5:30pm, practica: 5:30pm-7pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance Emergent Improvisation 4pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Swing Dance 7:30pm. Lesson at 7:30 and performance by Chester's Cool Cats & Kittens at 9pm. $10. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 236-3939.
Events 2012 Kids Klassic 8am-1pm. Short runs, long runs, long jump sponsored by the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. www.ymcaulster.org. Art as Evidence for Assessment and Reflection: The 7th Annual Art Education Symposium 9am-3pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Beacon4Obama Meeting 10:30am. Bring together Beacon residents to turn out the vote November 6 through phone calls, door-to-door, work in Pennsylvania, etc. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Film Charlie Chaplin Birthday Costume Party & Films 5pm-9pm. Little Shop of Horses, Kingston. 340-0501. Soul Masters 7pm. Dr. Guo and Dr. Sha are two powerful healers, each committed to a sacred childhood vow: find the key to healing anyone, anywhere, anything. Beahive Kingston. 418-3731.
Kids Angelina Ballerina, The Musical 10am. $22/$20/$15 children. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Stone Soup by Kids On Stage 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Angelina Ballerina, The Musical 1pm. $22/$20/$15 children. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Music Benefit Concert with Pianist and Conductor Vladimir Feltsman Call for times. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3972.
food & drink tap ny festival photos provided Scenes from past TAP NY festivals. This year's TAP NY takes place on April 28 and 29 at Hunter Mountain.
Beer, All That You Can Bear In 1900, there were about 2,000 independent breweries in America. Beer was made locally for a local market, and every brew had its own style that reflected its historic origins. Some top-fermenting ales dated back to the Colonial era, while many others, especially cold-fermented lagers with names like Pabst, Schlitz, and Busch, were a product of immigration from Germany and Central Europe. Closer to home, Matthew Vassar founded what was, by 1836, the country’s largest brewery in Poughkeepsie. Today, fewer than 20 of those breweries remain. However, in the past couple of decades, there has been an enormous resurgence of independent breweries in the United States, and a great many of these can be found here in New York. From Brooklyn to Buffalo, Long Island to the Finger Lakes, there are independent breweries of various sizes throughout the state as well as restaurants and pubs with microbreweries like The Gilded Otter in New Paltz and the Hyde Park Brewing Company, producing fresh beer served up locally. TAP New York, on April 28 and 29, at Hunter Mountain celebrates the world’s third-most-popular beverage (after water and tea), and highlights the achievements of independent breweries from all over New York. Now in its 15th year, the event, which began in 1997 as the Hudson Valley Beer and Food Festival, will feature over 45 New York breweries. Originally hosted at the Culinary Institute of America, the event moved to Hunter Mountain after two years, where it has been ever since. Bill Woodring, president and co-founder, coordinates the F.X. Matt Memorial Cup and Matthew Vassar Cup competitions, giving awards for Best Brewery in New York State and the Hudson Valley, respectively. “There are many things to enjoy at TAP New York,” says Woodring, “but for me the thrill is the opportunity to introduce new brewers to our guests. This year we have over 15 brewers in New York who were not producing beer last year at this time and most of them will be attending as we host their coming-
out party. TAP New York is unique in that it is a New York brewer only event, although several times in the past we have invited some from out of state to participate.” This will be the ninth year at the festival for Keegan Ales of Kingston. “We were just getting started our first year at TAP New York,” says Tommy Keegan, the affable owner of the brewery, one of Kingston’s favorite haunts. When asked what he likes most about the festival, Keegan says that “on a professional level, the event draws so many people, not only locally but also from the surrounding region, from New Jersey and Connecticut. This has been very important to us in building brand recognition in those markets. On a more personal level, the event brings together so many brewers and brewery owners under one roof—it gives me the opportunity to catch up with my colleagues and the entire beer-making community.” The economic boost to Greene County is immense. During the TAP New York weekend just about every hotel room in the Hunter area is booked and restaurants are packed. The organizers estimate that approximately 5,000 people will attend. The culinary theme this year is Caribbean regional cuisine, and there will be cooking demonstrations from esteemed Hudson Valley chefs, including Ric Orlando of New World Home Cooking in Woodstock and Marcus Guiliano of Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville. Festival grounds will be open from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday and 12pm to 4pm on Sunday. Advance ticket prices are $64 for Saturday, $52 for Sunday with $20 designated driver tickets available. Hunter’s Skyride will also be operating over the weekend, allowing festival-goers to take the chairlift to the summit of the resort. Leave the kiddies at home—you must be 21 years of age or older to attend TAP New York. No infants, children, or pets will be permitted to enter. Tickets can be purchased at Tapnewyork. com and HunterMtn.com. —Jeff Crane 4/12 ChronograM forecast 115
Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD Verdi's La Traviata 11am. Lecture followed by broadcast at 1pm. $10 lecture/$18-$25 broadcast. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. The Met: Live in HD Verdi's La Traviata 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Senior Recital 1:30pm. Lilli Cooper, soprano, Greg Shapiro, tenor, and Greg Sullivan, tenor. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano. Music of Mozart, Gershwin, Sondheim, and others. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Keith Newman 2pm. Acoustic. Bashakill Vineyards, Wurtsboro. 888-5858. Paul Rishell and Annie Raines 3pm. Blues with Big Joe Fitz. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646. Benefit Concert Featuring Pianist Vladimir Feltsman 4pm. $80/$40. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Senior Recital 4pm. Tiffany Shi, piano. Music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Sheila Jordan Duo 7pm. With Niels Vincentz. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. Kevin Burke 8pm. Irish fiddler. $15. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Babywearing Bonaza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Matt Finley & Rio Jazz 7:30pm. Brazilian jazz. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050.
Composting for Gardeners: Designing an Active Compost Pile 1pm-3pm. $27/$22 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Spoken Word
Organized Bliss 2pm-3:30pm. Join Lori Nutting, a local Professional Organizer, for an afternoon of exploring your personal style and how best to use it in creating more time and less stress. $3. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
SUNDAY 15 Art Life Drawing with a Model 11am-2pm. $15. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Body / Mind / Spirit Holistic Health Treatments for Children Call for times. Acupuncturist Erika Gabriello. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Medical Intuitive Connection 2pm-4pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Love Poetry 3pm-4pm. From the Ancient Egyptians to Cole Porter, with James Kraft and Wendy Power Spielmann. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
Theater Henry VIII 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Lion in Winter 4pm. A staged reading by The Over The Pond to Poughkeepsie Ensemble. $15. Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-3248.
Workshops Making More Plants: Notching, Rossing, Cutting 10am-12pm. $45/$37 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926. West African Drum 12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. West African Dance 1pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Pitch in for Parks: Invasive Species Removal 5:30pm-7:30pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 273.
Spoken Word Red Hook Community Arts Network Literary Event Village Hall, Red Hook. rebekah@aronson.net. Reading and Book Signing with Iza Trapani 11am. Author of The Bear Went Over the Mountain. Barnes and Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224. Reading of New and Published Work by Kay Ryan 2pm. Poetry. Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. 534-3115. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring contributors to WPS Anthology: lifeblood, open mike and Annual Business & Planning Meeting. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. Reading and Book Signing with Iza Trapani 2:30pm. Author of The Bear Went Over the Mountain. Barnes & Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood: Whose Line is it Anyway? 8pm. Comedy. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088. Contradance 8pm. Quena Craine calling, with music by The Russet Trio. $10/$9/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121. Geno Bisconte and David Drake 8pm. Comedy. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
Classes Cha Cha Class 1pm-2:30pm. Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios. $15. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 255-3631.
Art Small Works, Big Ideas 5pm-7pm. Artpop Gallery, Red Hook. redhookcan@gmail.com.
West Coast Swing Dance 7pm-9pm. Beginners' lesson at 6:30pm. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.
Art and Sculpture in Landscape 7pm. Chris Lewis. Deyo Hall, New Paltz. 255-1660.
Events Hudson Valley Horrors Roller Derby Hyde Park Roller Magic, Hyde Park. www.horrorsrollerderby.com. Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. Hudson Valley Wedding Expo 1pm-4pm. Dutchess Manor, Beacon. (866) 251-1564. Kiwanis Kingston Classic 1pm. Includes a 10k course which is USATF certified and a 2.1 mile fun run/walk. $25/$20/$15/$10. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. www.kiwaniskingstonclassic.com.
Music Erik Lawrence with Pete Levin & Lee Falco 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
Strawberry Hill Fiddlers 3:30pm. $10. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110.
Henry VIII 8pm. $20/$18 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Babette Hierholzer, Piano 4pm. Performing Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 1 with Trumpet and String Orchestra Stephen Luck, trumpet. $25/$10 children. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107.
Moldmaking and Sculpting with Darren Fisher Call for times. Center for Metal Arts, Florida. 651-7550.
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West Coast Swing Workshop 5:45pm-6:30pm. $12. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.
Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.
Workshops
Homeopathic First Aid Remedies for Pets 2pm-4pm. Brenda Seldin. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Dance
The Kent Singers 3pm. $10/$8 students and seniors/children free. St. Andrew's Church, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 619-8110.
Dramatic Performance Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov 8pm. Martel Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-5902.
Lifespring: Saugerties Adult Learning Community Classes Opening day for 55+, session runs through May 22. $40 session. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. www.lifespringsaugerties.com. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Events
Music
Rosendale Theatre Short Plays Festival Theater just doesn’t grow any homier than this: pieces by local writers at the Rosendale Community Theater. Out of 35 submissions from local writers, 10 winners were chosen (including award-winning author Laura Shaine Cunningham); each piece features the theater itself as inspiration, setting, or theme. The festival of 10-minute shorts by Ulster County authors is the brainchild of Susan Einhorn, who’s coordinated nine themed festivals in Manhattan. The Plays Festival will take place on Saturday, April 21 at 8pm and again on Sunday, April 22 at 3pm and 7:30pm. Admission is $15. Tickets are available at Rosendaletheatre.org and will be available in April in the box office.
Theater
24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project 8pm. 5 new short works by women playwrights in written in 24 Hours. $15. Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, Massachusetts. (413) 637-3353.
Classes
Introduction to Modern Dance 5:15pm-6pm. Ages 8-10. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Halley's Comet 8pm. Around the Piano with Mark Twain and John Davis. $15/$10. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
The Outdoors
Transformation Through Kinesiology 7pm-9pm. Explore a particular theme and use Transformational Kinesiology to access and clear subconscious blocks. $20-$40. The Sanctuary, New Paltz. www.mytrueplace.com.
KinderDance I 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
The Malone Brothers 8pm. $24. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Buckeye Rooster 9:30pm. Bluegrass. Quiet Man Pub, Wappingers Falls. 298-1724.
Sun Style Tai Chi 6:45pm-7:45pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. 810-2742.
A Brown Bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle 10am. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
Talking Machine 8pm. Acoustic. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.
Blues Buddha Band 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Accord Youth Center, Accord. 380-7345.
Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. (518) 673-2314 ext. 107.
Miss Tess Bon Ton 8pm. $12-$16. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
Creation 9pm. Covers. Copperfield's, Millbrook. 677-8188.
Hatha Yoga 1pm-2pm. $2.50. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Kids
An Evening with Leo Kottke 8pm. $48. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Bohemian Slackers 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Pilates Fundamentals Mat Class 10am-11am. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411.
The Dutchess County Holistic Moms Chapter Meeting 6:30pm-8:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Vassar College Choir 8pm. Featuring Gorecki's Totus tuus, Bielbl's Ave Maria, and works by Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and others. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Joe Louis Walker Band 8:30pm. Featuring Murali Coryell. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Kids' Open Mike Night 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates Beginner Mat Class 12pm-1pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 6796411. Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 8765952. Pilates Intermediate Mat Class 5pm-6pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 6796411. Kirtan 6pm-7:30pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. The Gurdjieff Expansion Series 6pm-7:30pm. An approach to inner work with Jason Stern. $10/$100 series. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Workshops Mindful Discipline: A Workshop for Conscientious Parents 6:30pm-8pm. $160 couple/$120. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
TUESDAY 17
David Mallet 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $30/$25. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Art
James Carter Organ Trio 7:30pm. $28. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.
Works by James Sparks & Augustine Della Vecchia 6pm-8pm. Look|Art Gallery, Mahopac.
Open Mike Night 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Spring Choral Concert 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music.
Spoken Word Minimally Invasive Surgery Options Seminar 6:30pm-8:30pm. Find out the latest developments in minimally invasive surgery for everything from cancer & gallbladder surgeries to hernia repairs. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
Workshops Diabetes Self-Management Workshop 3:30pm-6pm. How to effectively use nutrition, medications, and activity to manage their diabetes. Kingston Family Practice, Kingston. 338-6400 ext. 3314. West African Drum 5:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051.
WEDNESDAY 18 Art Art Play Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. For adults. Through May 2. $160. Canaltown Alley, Rosendale. 338-6503.
Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Caregiver Support for Total Joint Replacement Patients 12:30pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 871-4101. Peace Work 1pm-4:30pm. Utilizes experiential exercises in specific ways, to grow personal insight, interpersonal skill & community. Queens Gallery, Kingston. 853-4023. Zumba 6pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345. Divine Healing Hands 7pm-9pm. Master Zhi Hang Sha. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 246-5805. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Classes Parenting Classes 5:15pm-6:45pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683.
Events
Workshops
Cuba Today and Tomorrow: The Individual Caught Between Nations 12pm-8pm. Music, screening of Hero Traitor Madness, discussion, panel. Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. arendt@bard.edu.
Supply and Demand! 1pm-2pm. Pumping workshop. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
High&Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Volunteer Training 3pm-5pm. High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. West African Dance 6pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
Music
Gardening after Dark: The Perennial Gardener 6pm-8pm. An intensive exploration of perennial border gardening designed for both first-time and intermediate gardeners. It covers site selection, perennial selection and soil and bed preparation. $70/$60 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Jazz Wednesdays 7:30pm. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.
Photoshop Workshop 7pm. 90-minute presentation from Stephen Blauweiss, who has been using Photoshop since its inception in 1990. $20. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Kids A Brown Bear, A Moon and a Caterpillar 10am. Stories by Eric Carle. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Spoken Word Ryan + Trevor Oakes Panel Discussion: The Periphery of Perception 6pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Cancer Risk and Prevention: What You Need To Know 6:30pm-8:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. The Writers Circle 6:30pm-8pm. Writers meet-up group. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Visiting Artist Lecture: Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich 7pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/fpa.
Workshops Newborn Essentials 7pm-9pm. Hospital procedures, newborn appearance, senses and temperament, communicating with your newborn, daily care including bathing, feeding, sleeping, diapering and swaddling, babywearing, mother care and necessary equipment. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
THURSDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga with Victoria 5pm-6pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Meditation Workshop 7pm-8pm. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Events Woodstock Writers Festival Writers Performances, workshops and more. Woodstock. www.woodstockwritersfestival.com. Inner Knitters 7pm. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Symposium: Orientalism 7pm. Lecture Center 104, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/fpa.
Film Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892. Dead Man 7:30pm. Jim Jarmusch's re-imagining of classic Hollywood Westerns, featuring Johnny Depp and an eerie, improvised soundtrack by Neil Young. $6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Music Violin Fest 9am-3pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/music. Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Kate McGarry 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Spoken Word Stars, Planets, and In Between: The Mysteries of Black Dwarfs 4:30pm-5:30pm. Dr. Emily Rice. Coykendall Science Building, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu. Rock 'n' Roll Story Slam 7pm-10pm. Each story must run under 3 1/2 minutes, like an old rock 'n' roll song, and must contain the line "by the time I got to Woodstock...”$5. Oriole 9, Woodstock. Rock and Roll Story Slam 7pm-10pm. $5. mail@marthafrankel.com.
FRIDAY 20 APRIL Body / Mind / Spirit Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. New Moon Sound Healing 6pm-7pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Mice Parade 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Mustard Seed Magic 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Spoken Word Writing and the Art of Resilience 3:30pm-5:30pm. Panel discussion how writing can help move us through fear, critical illness, crisis, and disenchantment to a place of fearlessness, resilience, and unabashed vibrant living. $20. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Theater Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Next to Normal 8pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111. Work O' The Weavers 8pm. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
Workshops Woodstock Writers Festival Writers Workshops 9am-2:30pm. Rick Tannenbaum: So You Want To Publish Your Own E-Book. Woodstock. www.woodstockwriters.com.
SATURDAY 21 APRIL Art
Classes
Children's Mixed Media Art Show 5pm-7pm. 291 Wall Street, Kingston. 340-8625.
The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Photographic Works by Chad Weckler 5pm-7pm. Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, Hudson. (518) 828-4417.
Dance
Paintings by Grace E. Diehl 5pm-7pm. The Art and Zen Gallery, Poughkeepsie. 473-3334.
Ballroom By Request 8pm-10:30pm. Two quality lessons in two different dances and dance practice time, hosted by seasoned teachers/musicians/dancers/performers Joe Donato and Julie Martyn. $10/$15 2 lessons. Snap Fitness, LaGrange. (610) 420-4727. Tool is Loot 8pm. Choreographers/dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey come together in this duet with their identities simultaneously undone and strengthened. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Events 9th Annual IDMH Conference: Building Capacity: Managing and Mitigating Responder Stress 9am-5pm. $115/$45. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/idmh/conference.html.
Film Open Hive/Film 7pm. A film with a message, each month at this intimate, informal gathering at the hive. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731. A Coal Miner's Daughter 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Kids Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 2pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. KinderDance II 5pm-5:45pm. Ages 5-7. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Music Ben Van Gelder Quintet 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Till the End of Time 7:30pm. Adrienne Haan songs from The Great American Songbook. $25. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5107. Dorian Wind Quartet 8pm. $20. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Photography: New Work 6pm-8pm. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Drag Queens / Jacques Cabaret 6pm-8pm. Keiko Hiromi. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. www.DavisOrtonGallery.com. The Liminal Portrait 6pm-8pm. Richard Edelman. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. www.davisortongallery.com Nobody's Fool 6pm-9:30pm. A group show with Valerie Owen in the solo room. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.
Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Fat City 9pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.
Music Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. A.i.r. Studio Gallery, Kingston. 331-2662. Senior Recital 4pm. Gretchen Eng, soprano. Assisted by David Alpher, piano. Music of Handel, Liszt, Strauss, Milhaud, and featuring Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Trade Winds: From China with Love 6pm. Liu Fang performs traditional selections on the Chinese counterparts to the lute and zither, and is joined by cellist Yehuda Hanani. $40/$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Jay Mankita 7pm. Knox Trail Inn, Otis. (413) 269-4400. Super Strings 7pm. With Garfield Moore, Malcolm Cecil and Dan Rothstein. $8. Arts Center Theater, Hudson. (518) 828-4181. Tony Romano & Larry Del Casale 7:30pm-10:30pm. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Albany Symphony Orchestra 7:30pm. $9-$54. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. English Songs of Devotion and Nature 8pm. Benjamin Britton and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Geoff Muldaur 8pm. Tom Humphrey Guitar Series. $25. Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 107. The Bacon Brothers 8pm. $55. Lycian Center, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. The Crossroads Band 8:45pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.
The Black Dirt Band 10pm. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11am-1pm. Town of New Paltz Community Center, New Paltz. 616-1219. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
The Outdoors Audition: Legally Blonde 1pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Spoken Word
Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:45am-1:45pm. Workshop will cover postures, breath, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to yoga practice. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Dara Lurie 7:30pm. Author of Great Space of Desire: Writing for Personal Evolution, a memoir and workbook for writers of all levels. Oblong Books and Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Experience the Power of Soul Language 2pm-4pm. With spiritual teacher, master healer, Elaine Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Occupy Your Heart 8:30pm. An evening with Augusten Burroughs. $19/$25/$55. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. www.woodstockwriters.com.
Harmonic (Overtone) Singing 6pm-8pm. The soul and science of sound with Timothy Hill. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 4:30pm-5:30pm, practica: 5:30pm-7pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Dance Tool is Loot 8pm. Choreographers/dancers Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey come together in this duet with their identities simultaneously undone and strengthened. $18. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Freestyle Frolic Community Dance 8:30pm-2am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/volunteers and children free. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. www.freestylefrolic.org.
Events
Third Annual Kingston Clean Sweep 9am-12pm. Kingston, Kingston. 339-0720.
Theater
The Magic Trunk with Sylvia Fletcher 11am. $9/$7 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 380-7345.
Geoff Muldaur 8pm. Folk-rock. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Occidental Gypsy 8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Andrea & the Armenian Rug Riders 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Early Childhood Open Morning Call for times. For parents and children up through age 6. Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 111.
Rethink Pink 8pm. Recreating Pink Floyd's 1977. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
The Robinsons: Wildlife World 10:30am. Live raptors and other wildlife visit us the library. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
Body / Mind / Spirit
ASK for Music 8pm. Featuring MarcVon Em, Neil Herlands and Too Much Fun (Mira, Jerome and Friends). $6. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 8pm. $20/$5 students. Bard College. 758-7216.
Kids
Kingston Farmers' Winter Market 10am-2pm. Old Dutch Church, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org. Antiques Roadshow 12pm-4pm. To benefit the Woodstock Library. Appraisals $5/$2. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 679-2213. Walk with Faith 8pm-8pm. Fundraiser for Faith Christian Academy. $25/$50 family. Dutchess County Rail Trail, East Fishkill. 462-0266.
Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Next to Normal 8pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111. Rosendale Theatre Plays Festival 8pm. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. Tica Maroo Space Cadet: Kung Fu Amazons of Doom 8pm. The Air Pirates Radio Theater. $20. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Work O' The Weavers 8pm. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
Workshops Poetry Workshop: Getting Poems Started, Keeping Them Going, with Mark Wunderlich 10am-1pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101. Family and Friends CPR and First Aid for Children 1pm-3:30pm. $45. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Supply and Demand! 1pm-2pm. Pumping workshop. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. 2012 Astrological Cardinal Cross 2pm-4pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Eating for Energy 2pm-4pm. $20/$30 two. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
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Art
New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Art
Life Drawing with a Model 11am-2pm. $15. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Art Play Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. For adults. Through May 2. $160. Canaltown Alley, Rosendale. 338-6503.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Classes
Body / Mind / Spirit
Holistic Health Treatments for Children Call for times. Acupuncturist Erika Gabriello. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683.
Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Yoga for Mama with Baby 10am-11am. $65 series/$12. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Events
Dance
Volunteer Training for Earth Day 9am-12pm. Long Dock Park, Beacon. 473-4440 Ext. 273.
Swing Dance to The Love Dogs 8:30pm-11:30pm. Beginner's lesson 8:00-8:30. $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
Community Style Acupuncture 10am-12pm. $30. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Kids If You Really Love Polar Bears 3pm. In Partnership with Making Books Sing. Ages 6 and up. $8. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
Music Jazz at the Falls 12pm. Featuring John Simon & Bill Crow and The Greater Ellenville Jazz Trio. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Indian Music: Ray Spiegel & Aashish Khan 2pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. $20/$5 students. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. Four Nations Ensemble 3pm. Music from the Renaissance through the Viennese Classical masterpieces of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 336-8013. Music with a Hebrew Accent 4pm. Ron DeFesi and his ensemble. $15/$10 seniors and children. Temple Sinai, Middletown. 343-1861. Moran Katz: Clarinetist 4pm. Featuring the Brahms Clarinet Trio. Church of Messiah Parish, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckmusic.org. Greg Westhoff's Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Avett Brothers 8pm. $43/$38. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
The Outdoors Audition: Legally Blonde 1pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Driftwood to Devine Art on Earth Day 1pm-4pm. Join Scenic Hudson and artists from Mill Street Loft Arts for a family friendly afternoon of shoreline cleanup. Long Dock Park, Beacon. 473-4440 Ext. 273. Early Spring Wildflowers 2pm-5pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word In Dialogue: Gregory Amenoff, Francesca Di Matteo & Josephine Halvorson 3pm-4pm. Join us for a lively discussion between artist and Chair of the Columbia Master of Fine Arts Department Gregory Amenoff and two of his former students Francesca Di Matteo (represented by Salon 94) & Josephine Halvorson (represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co ). Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100. Peter Kane Dufault Reading 3pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
Theater Cabaret 2pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Honky Tonk Angels 3pm. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Next to Normal 3pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111. Rosendale Theatre Plays Festival 3pm. $15. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops
Kids Media Monsters Newburgh 4:30pm-6pm. Grades 3-5, weekly through June 5. $120. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. 485-4480.
Music Chamber Jazz Ensemble 1 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.
The Outdoors Audition: Legally Blonde 7pm. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Workshops Mindful Discipline: A Workshop for Conscientious Parents 6:30pm-8pm. $160 couple/$120. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Dream Boarding 7pm-9pm. A Dream Board is simply a visual representation or collage of the things that you want to have, become, or do in your life. $25/$40 for two. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
TUESDAY 24 Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates Fundamentals Mat Class 10am-11am. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Hatha Yoga 1pm-2pm. $2.50. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Accord Youth Center, Accord. 380-7345. Sun Style Tai Chi 6:45pm-7:45pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. 810-2742.
Classes Learn to Meditate 7pm-9pm. 4-week series. $51. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Kids Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents Ages 9-11. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. (518) 673-2314 ext. 107. Little Painters 10am-11am. $72 series/$14 class/+material fee. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. Introduction to Modern Dance 5:15pm-6pm. Ages 8-10. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Open Mike Night 7pm-10pm. Emerson Organic Spa, Mount Tremper. 688-2828. Chamber Jazz Ensemble 2 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & The Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
West African Drum 12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. West African Dance 1pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Spoken Word
MONDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates Beginner Mat Class 12pm-1pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Pilates Intermediate Mat Class 5pm-6pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Kirtan 6pm-7:30pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
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Zumba 6pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345. Message Circle: Receive Messages from the After Life 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Soul Masters Film Screening and Divine Healing Hands Blessings 7:15pm-9:15pm. Master Zhi Gang Sha. $10. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
Dutchess Doulas Meeting 10am-11am. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. New Developments in Sleep Disorders 6:30pm-8:30pm. Home testing: is it right for you? Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.
Workshops Diabetes Self-Management Workshop 3:30pm-6pm. How to effectively use nutrition, medications, and activity to manage their diabetes. Kingston Family Practice, Kingston. 338-6400 ext. 3314. West African Drum 5:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. West African Dance 6:30pm. $15. Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Paltz. 255-0051. Introduction to the Spring Sky 7:30pm. With Henrike Holdrege. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.
Darwin The Dinosaur 10am. Innovative children's theatre by New Orleans' Corbian. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Hop-N-Healthy 11:30am-12:15pm. 18 months-5 years. $50 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Darwin The Dinosaur 12:30pm. Innovative children's theatre by New Orleans' Corbian. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100. Rosendale Movie Makers 4pm-6pm. Grades 6-8, through June 7. $140. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 485-4480.
Music Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Jam Session 1pm-2pm. Bring an instrument to play with other musicians. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Classes
Chamber Jazz Ensemble 3 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3880.
Parenting Classes 5:15pm-6:45pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683.
Jim Campilongo Acoustic Duo with Steve Cardenas 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
Events
Spoken Word
Spring Information Session 9:30am. Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie. 462-4200.
Woodstock: Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7pm-8:30pm. The Middle East Crisis Response is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 876-7906.
Kids Media Monsters Stone Ridge 4pm-5pm. Grades 3-5, through June 6th. Stone Ridge Town Center, Stone Ridge. 485-4480.
Music Jazz Wednesdays 7:30pm. Guitarist Tom DePetris, Jody Sumber on drums and Allen Murphy on upright bass. Dave's Coffee House, Saugerties. 246-8424.
The Outdoors Wednesday Wandering 10am-11:30am. Borden's Pond Conservation Area, Ghent. (518) 392-5252 ext. 202.
Spoken Word Leslie Vosshall: Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and Not Others 6pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Preparing Your Body for Baby 6:30pm-8:30pm. Pre-conception through nursing. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001. Visiting Artist Lecture: Joel Ross 7pm. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. www.newpaltz.edu/fpa.
The Dutch and Native American Contact Period 7:30pm. Joe Diamond. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
Theater Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Workshops Babywearing Bonanza 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Euro Dance for Seniors & Others 1:30pm-2:30pm. $5/$8 couples. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. West African Dance 6pm. $15. M*Power Studios, Poughkeepsie. 399-6488.
FRIDAY 27
Theater
Art
Beacon Comes to Broadway 12pm. $25. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
BFA/MFA Thesis Exhibition I 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844.
Workshops
A Little Space for Artists 6:30pm-7:30pm. Artists meet-up group. Pawling Free Library, Pawling. 855-3444.
Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
THURSDAY 26
Music
Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Not-so Extreme Couponing: How to Save 25% on your Grocery Bill and Purchase Items You Actually Need 2pm-3:30pm. $45. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
Caregiver Support for Total Joint Replacement Patients 12:30pm-1:30pm. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 871-4101.
Kids
Art Photographs by Jeanne C. Hildenbrand, Jeannie Bachor, and Keith Kopycinski 6pm-8pm. Adams Horse Stable, Saugerties. 246-1618.
Body / Mind / Spirit In The Caravan of Rumi: An Introduction To Sufi Poetry & Practices Call for times. Miriam's Well, Saugerties. 901-9301. Mama's Group with Breastfeeding Support 1pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Yoga with Victoria 5pm-6pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Prenatal Yoga 6:15pm-7:15pm. $90. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly conversation/contemplation. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Body / Mind / Spirit Individual Readings with White Eagle 11am-6pm. Channeled readings and/or energy healing via James Philip. $110. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. Practice safely throughout your pregnancy using a curriculum designed specifically for the expectant mother. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.
Classes The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6:30pm-8:30pm. $350. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Film American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art 7pm. $8/$6. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
An Intimate Evening with White Eagle 7pm-9pm. Group Channeled Healing and Messages via James Philip. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Jem Cohen 8pm. A documentary-based hybrid built from film footage of Nova Scotia, various texts, and live music. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Film
Kids
Wisdom's Way DVD Series 7pm-8:30pm. Author Guy Finley. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.
Music Together Babies Only: Birth - 9mo 10am-10:45am. $145 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Open Hive/Film 7pm. A film with a message, each month at this intimate, informal gathering at the hive. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 12:30pm-1:15pm. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
theater the good father image provided Michael Rhodes stars in the Tangent Arts production of "The Good Father," at the Carpenter Shop Theater in Tivoli in May.
Daddy Dearest Tangent Arts was born with the new millennium, a collaborative effort of playwright/ actor Michael Rhodes and producing director Andrea Rhodes. Tangent’s well-received downstate productions included classic pieces like Edward Albee’s “Zoo Story.” But the couple, who’d graduated from neighboring Dutchess County high schools and met at a friend’s wedding there, felt professionally and personally drawn back upstate. “We had done the city and loved it. It was time to move on,” says Andrea. Meanwhile, an equally powerful magnetic force was calling from across the Atlantic, and they made their first trip to Ireland in 2006, discovering the wonderful Dublin tradition of the pub reading, which they first imported to Mr. Dennehy’s, a West Village watering hole. Relocating Tangent and their lives to Tivoli three years ago, they found receptive pub-reading venues at the Black Swan and later at the Dubliner in Poughkeepsie. Ireland has become “a second home,” says Andrea Rhodes. “Michael has roots there, and we’ve found the most wonderful people, a Dublin theater company called About Face. Michael has performed with them over there, and a couple of their members have moved to New York and work over here. It all started because I had this crazy whim to find and e-mail some Irish theater people and see if we could meet them.” Meanwhile, their first home in Tivoli has proven fertile soil indeed for their endeavors. “When we moved in where we live, part of the building was an actual carpenter’s shop,” Rhodes explains. “We really loved the space, so we asked the owner if he’d mind if we did some theater in it.” Tool benches were relocated and the Carpenter Shop Theater, intimate and flexible, was born in 2011. “Our landlord moved all his stuff to the garage and gave us this raw space to rework; he’s happy to be a part of it. The whole village of Tivoli—the mayor, everyone—has been so welcoming. It’s an amazing, eclectic place to begin with. These woods are full of weekenders and city
expatriates—actors, writers, directors, journalists—it’s nice to be back where our roots are and find so much support.” Reading through an anthology of Irish plays not long ago, Michael Rhodes discovered “The Good Father,” written by acclaimed young Irish playwright Christian O’Reilly and produced to considerable critical acclaim in Ireland, Europe, and Canada, but never before in the United States. “The Good Father” is the story of a mismatched couple and an unplanned pregnancy. “It’s a gorgeous play,” says Rhodes. “It’s lovely and poignant and sweet, just a quintessential Irish love story.” Pub readings at the Dubliner were well received last year. Now, the couple is excited to be bringing the American premiere of “The Good Father” to the Carpenter Shop this May, with direction by Greg Skura and Michael Rhodes in the title role. Playing opposite him will hopefully be a genuine Irish lass with whom Rhodes performed in an American-written play the couple produced with their About Face pals in Dublin. “They had a wonderful synergy, professionally and personally, and when Michael read Good Father he said she’d be his ideal female lead,” Andrea says. “We figured it was a long shot, but she wrote back and said she’d come over and do it.” “Christian’s play is perfect for us, a very ‘Tangential’ study,” says Michael Rhodes, “offering an emotionally truthful look at two very human characters, where love isn’t a storybook, and hopes and fears are obstacles in a struggle to connect.” Vin Roca, the technical director of Bard’s Fisher Center, will be lighting the Carpenter Shop for the occasion. “The Good Father” will be staged May 3 through May 26, Thursday to Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, at the Carpenter Shop Theater, in Tivoli. Tickets are $20. (845) 230-7020; Tangent-arts.org. —Anne Pyburn 4/12 ChronograM forecast 119
Waddle n Swaddle Play Group-Dance Party 2pm-3:30pm. Ages 0-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. KinderDance I 4pm-4:45pm. Ages 3-5. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. KinderDance II 5pm-5:45pm. Ages 5-7. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621.
Music Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Rock for Veterans Call for times. A three-day concert featuring 18 live bands, raffles, auctions and more. $15/$10 under 18/$35 weekend pass/$25 under 18 weekend pass. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Kuumba Dance and Drum 11am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Fundraising Benefit for Hope's Fund 6pm-2am. Reception, silent auction, monologues, DJ dance party. $45/$30/$10 DJ dance party. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Phoebe Snow: A Tribute 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Vassar College Orchestra 8pm. Eduardo Navega, conductor. Featuring performances by winners of the Concerto Competition. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294.
Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 4:30pm-5:30pm, practica: 5:30pm-7pm. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212. One Day Intensive Labor 10am-4pm. $155. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Creation 9pm. Covers. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005. The Feelies 9pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. The Trapps 9pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Dance
The Spampinato Brothers 9pm. Rock, jazz rock, power pop. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Dancing for The CENTER- A Lineage of Love 8pm. $20/$10 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Beyond the Wall 9:30pm. A Pink Floyd Tribute. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Events
The Outdoors
2nd Annual Pine Bush Area UFO Festival 2012 10am-11pm. Music, exhibit, Earthlings and Aliens Ball. Check website for event details. Pine Bush. www.UFOPineBushFestival.com. Brigade of the American Revolution Encampment 10am-4pm. Revolutionary War historians, dressed in period clothing, perform military drill and battle demonstrations. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Beacon4Obama Meeting 10:30am. Bring together Beacon residents to turn out the vote November 6 through phone calls, doorto-door, work in Pennsylvania, etc. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Carriage Road Bike Ride 10am-12pm. Ages 15+. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Spoken Word Byrd/Skolnick: A Conversation with Stephanie Plunkett 2pm. $5. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Barry Wallenstein 4pm. Distinguished Visiting Poet of 2012, accompanied by Steve Carlin. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.
Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and
Theater Once on this Island 8pm. A calypso musical tale. $20/$17 children and seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Next to Normal 8pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111. Artifacts of Consequence 8pm. Box Car Play Series. $10. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh.
SATURDAY 28 Art Bethel Woods Poster Fair 11am-4pm. $10/$5. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Artist Demonstrations 4pm-6pm. Three exhibiting artists will present demonstrations of their craft. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Galleries, Rhinebeck. 505-6040. Transmittal 5pm-7pm. Exhibition with experimental artists using radio waves as a visual arts medium. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Focus on Nature XII Photography exhibit. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Whale Oil to Whole Foods Eco art exhibit. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.
Body / Mind / Spirit Zumba 10am. $10. Rosendale Recreation Center, Rosendale. 380-7345. Spring into Health Health Fair 11am-2pm. Music, screenings, information sessions. Andy Murphy Neighborhood Center, Kingston. 334-3182. Introductory Orientation Workshops 11:45am-1:45pm. $15. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. Chakra & Yoga Balancing 2pm-4:30pm. $35. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. Creating Enchanted Mosaics 6pm-9pm. $95. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998.
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Events Rhinebeck Winter Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Rhinebeck Town Hall, Rhinebeck. www.rhinebeckfarmersmarket.com. 2nd Annual Pine Bush Area UFO Festival 2012 10am-3pm. Music, chili cook off, car show. Pine Bush, Pine Bush. www.UFOPineBushFestival.com. Brigade of the American Revolution Encampment 10am-4pm. Revolutionary War historians, dressed in period clothing, perform military drill and battle demonstrations. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765. Spring Sprint 5k Trail Run 10am-12pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 Ext. 273.
Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. The Putnam Chorale Presents: Samson 3pm. $15/$12 students and seniors. Temple Beth Elohim, Brewster. 279-7265.
Calamity Jane 9pm. Modern rock. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123.
An Evening of Comedy With Darrell Hammond 8pm. $29.50-$49.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Dancing for The CENTER- A Lineage of Love 3pm. $20/$10 children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
The Saints of Swing 11am. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.
American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Witold Lutosawski's Concerto for Orchestra, Christopher Brubeck's Prague Concerto for Bass Trombone, Howard Shore's Mythic Gardens, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. $40/$35/$25. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Spoken Word
2012 All-County Dance Celebration 3pm. Orange County dancers, choreographers, dance companies and dance studios have been invited to participate in this one day performance. Paramount Theater, Middletown. 647-1772.
Rock for Veterans Call for times. A three-day concert featuring 18 live bands, raffles, auctions and more. $15/$10 under 18/$35 weekend pass/$25 under 18 weekend pass. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700.
Esopus Chamber Orchestra 8pm. $20. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.
Toddlers on the Trail 10am-12pm. Ages 2-6. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.
Dance
Music
Cantus 8pm. Pawling concert series. $30/$15 students/children free. Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling. www.pawlingconcertseries.org.
The Outdoors
Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-4pm. With June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Skywriter/Fire Dean and the Brooklyn Garden Club Skywriter—Dan Green on bass, Dave Weintraub on guitar, Bradley Gunyon on drums, and Dave Doobinin on vocals and guitar—delivers lush, conscious poetry in tight sweet harmony, mostly to Manhattan audiences. Sweet, melodic and smart, their new EP has cuts entitled “Peace Angel” and “One Tiny Rocket.” Fire Dean and the Brooklyn Garden Club (this crew does urban greenery in Park Slope when not playing “wordy anti-folk injected with Moog”) start things up at 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 at Market Market in Rosendale; Skywriter is scheduled to take the stage at 11. Music to soothe the nerves whilst firing neurons. Marketmarketcafe.com. 2nd Annual Cupcake-a-Palooza 12pm-4pm. $5. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Film
seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Cabaret 8pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Stick Men 8pm. Featuring Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter. $25/$20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Spoken Word Poetry Reading and Discussion with Rebecca Wolff 3pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.
Theater Cabaret 2pm. $20/$18/$9 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Next to Normal 3pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111.
Workshops
Kids
Next to Normal 8pm. Two Of Us Productions. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. Hudson High School, Hudson. (866) 811-4111.
A School Amidst Forest and Farm Call for times. Nature based activities for ages 7-13. Hawthorne Valley School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 111.
Joan Rivers 8pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
West African Dance 1pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
Workshops
Kindermusik Development through Music: Birth to 24 months 11am-11:45am. $225 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.
Transplanting Shrubs and Planting Small Ornamental Trees 10am-1pm. $42/$35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
Reading and Book Signing with June Pierce 2pm. Author of Buford the Bully. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Doody Calls! 1pm-2pm. $10. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.
Hellzapoppin 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Music Einat & Hakim Call for times. Acoustic urban soul. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Rock for Veterans Call for times. A three-day concert featuring 18 live bands, raffles, auctions and more. $15/$10 under 18/$35 weekend pass/$25 under 18 weekend pass. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Pedro Giraudo Jazz Orchestra 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Andrew McKnight 7:30pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. www.uucrt.org. Premik Russell Tubbs 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. The Princes of Serendip 7:30pm. Acoustic. Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342. American Symphony Orchestra 8pm. Witold Lutosawski's Concerto for Orchestra, Christopher Brubeck's Prague Concerto for Bass Trombone, Howard Shore's Mythic Gardens, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. $40/$35/$25. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Seeds and Sustainability: The Basics of Biodynamics in Your Backyard 1pm-3pm. $10. Camphill Village, Copake. (518) 329-7924 ext. 116. Gimme Shelter: Architects Design for Shade 5pm-7pm. $25. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 298-3926.
SUNDAY 29 Art Life Drawing with a Model 11am-2pm. $15. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438. Bethel Woods Poster Fair 11am-4pm. $10/$5. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Worlds Between: Landscapes of Louis Remy Mignot 3pm-5pm. Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill. (518) 943-7465.
Body / Mind / Spirit Holistic Health Treatments for Children Call for times. Acupuncturist Erika Gabriello. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. 331-9683. Reiki I 10am-4pm. With Reverend Diane Epstein Multiple sessions. Reverend Diane Epstein, Kingston. (914) 466-0090.
West African Drum 12pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.
MONDAY 30 Body / Mind / Spirit Pilates Beginner Mat Class 12pm-1pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Mama’s Group with Breastfeeding Support 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Pilates Intermediate Mat Class 5pm-6pm. $12. The Moving Body, Woodstock. 679-6411. Kirtan 6pm-7:30pm. InBody Yoga, Woodstock. (202) 549-6621. Creating Enchanted Mosaics 6pm-9pm. $95. InnerLight Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 229-9998. New Mother's Adjustment Support Group 6pm. $100/$80 members. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Zumba 6:30pm. $10. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 380-7345.
Classes Argentine Tango Beginner: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.
Film Dr. No 7pm. $5. Bond’s screen debut. Classic Connery. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
SPRING BREAK MATINEE! The Secret World of Arrietty $5| 2 pm DOCUMENTARY: An Ecology of Mind; Q&A with filmmaker $15 | 4:30 pm VIEWS FROM THE EDGE: 95 Years of Buster Keaton $7 | 10 pm OPERA IN CINEMA: Puccini’s La Boheme $20 | 2 pm
The Rosendale Theatre Plays $15 | 8 pm The Rosendale Theatre Plays $15 | 3 & 7:30 pm DOCUMENTARY: Soul Masters $10 | 7:15 pm NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: She Stoops to Conquer $12/$10 members | 2pm DOCUMENTARY: Pushing the Elephant $10 | 7:15 pm Asbury Shorts’ New York Film Concert $10 | 7:30 pm
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Beyond the Shadow Feminine
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t’s been easy to notice the misogynist rampage of the Republicans lately. Watch cable news for 20 minutes and you get inundated with it. Last month, for example, the Republican-controlled Senate in Utah successfully pushed through a law effectively banning sex education courses from covering the subjects of contraception, premarital sex, and homosexuality, forcing schools to teach only abstinence and heterosexuality or not have any sex education program. Note, this crap has been going on since 1981, costing American kids worlds of pain and costing the taxpayers billions of dollars. In South Carolina, some politicians tried to make a rule that nobody who has had premarital sex can run for office. This is the kind of thing I would think of for an April Fool’s Day prank and be rather pleased with myself; but it seems like many politicians are hell-bent on outdoing the cartoonists who ridicule them. Given that spring is the season of Beltane, when passionate lovemaking and sex out in the fields is an offering to the Earth in the spirit of planting the seeds of abundance, it’s little wonder that we’re having economic problems. Humans are part of the natural cycle of fecundity, which means fruitfulness. Sexuality is not only natural; it’s related to everything we do and in some way soaks into or sweats out of every relationship we have, particularly to life itself. Unless you’re Dolly the Sheep, you’ve been sexed into existence. OMG. It would seem that by banning most forms of sex, information about sex, discussion of sex, health services related to sex, choices about sex, and feelings about sex, the goal is to cut people off from their potential, the expression of their natural feelings, and from abundance. And you might think: Men! Leave it to men! This is misogyny! Women are being oppressed! Except for one thing. In the politics of love, the “male party” has been cast as the one that is pro-promiscuity and against marriage, and the “female party” is the one that’s supposedly pro-marriage and against dallying around. These, of course, are the official party lines, and now they seem to be reversing: It seems to be predominantly men advocating for the marriage-only option. That said, I know very few men who pressure their peers into marriage, and many, many women who succeed in pressuring their female peers into marriage—no matter how miserable they think it’s made so many people around them. Now a contingency of men is trying to enforce codes of morality and bodily control over everyone, but it seems that the female body is the specific target of the attack. We might say that’s because it’s the one where pregnancy happens, but I’ve also heard that people think that the men in question are intimidated by female sexual power. Men Embodying Female Shadow I have another theory: The men involved are providing a voice and a projection screen for women’s denial of their own sexual power. The attempt by men to ban the discussion may be a reflection of women’s refusal to take up the discussion, to educate
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themselves and one another, to educate their children, and to insist on honest sex education in schools. It is girls and women, after all, who actually get pregnant—they have the most at stake. I am aware that there are some enlightened women who really give their children the tools they need. But I know too many young women whose mothers refused to give them any tools at all, who turned them against sex and their bodies, and who indoctrinated them into compulsory heterosexual monogamy. Then there are those who allow their daughters to be injected with Gardasil, which is a neurotoxin and poses the risk of sterility. My theory is that these Republican dudes who want to probe female bodies with ultrasound devices and ban contraception and sex education and force women to carry the child of their rapist, well, they’re just expressing a much deeper level of misgiving and ignorance. They’re acting out the drama for us; they’re our elected oppressors because that’s what you need if you’re going to be oppressed. Basically, I’m saying we let these ugly people do the dirty work for us. If many—indeed, most—of the secrets of fertility and childbirth are contained in the female body, and we now have this voice trying to enforce ignorance, and a ban on pleasure, freedom of choice, and self-determination (including the ongoing war against midwives), maybe these men are acting out the shadow feminine—the attributes of femaleness that many women themselves tend to deny. It’s easy to say, “Men are afraid of female power and mystery,” but that begs the question—how do women feel about these things? If, as seems to be the case, men are trying to say that women must exist within a universe of no sexual choices whatsoever except (perhaps) whom to marry, what is the other side of the discussion? Obviously, sexual autonomy goes a lot further than the right to birth control and abortion—but the discussion rarely goes any further. It’s as if all women can do is defend their right to these two basic choices—however meekly that’s happening—but outwardly expressing the right to pleasure and sexual choices is still considered slutty, pervy, or subject to shame. I recognize that we have all been subjected to the guilt and shame campaign (and we still are). Yet just like the feminists I knew as a teenager explaining to me that the opposite of anti-abortion is not pro-abortion, it’s pro-choice, the opposite of guilt is not being anti-guilt—it’s affirming freedom and pleasure. Why Masturbation Is Still Taboo—and What That Reveals Before I embark on the taboo side of this subject, I want to acknowledge the progress that has been made on masturbation and, in particular, female masturbation, the past 40 years. The world has had a lot of help from one person—Betty Dodson—who was the first person to come out publicly as a masturbator and advocate of self-given orgasm. She did not do this to teach “sexual technique.” She has been clear that this is about your holistic relationship to your body and to existence. Betty teaches masturbation as the core component in a holistic vision of life.
Anyone concerned that pornography is violent or demeaning should be gratified by the honoring (indeed, reverence) for female masturbation in contemporary pornography. Websites like Beautifulagony.com and Solotouch.com honor both men and women, though on many “traditional” porno sites you could watch women masturbate nonstop for months, until your computer eventually needs to be restarted. There is a proliferation of woman-centered sex toy stores, including Babeland and Good Vibrations, with many independently owned “sexuality boutiques” getting started as well. Yet despite the emergence of a masturbation subculture, I believe the taboo is still going strong—embodied in abstinence-only indoctrination of teenagers, and all of the religious philosophies at its core. The obsession with marriage that we all see is an attempt to teach young people that masturbation is wrong and that it’s not “real sex”—the kind you supposedly have when you’re married. This also includes the indoctrination that every other form of sexual exploration (especially same-sex play) is wrong. Antisex crusaders understand that masturbation is same-sex play, and therefore (in their minds) it must be just one little shade away from being queer. Now, the truth is that you can’t prevent people from masturbating, but you can do your best to make them feel guilty about it, and that in turn associates all sex with shame. This “teaching” has made its way into public schools in 49 states in the form of abstinence indoctrination, which our society has sponsored since 1981, when Ronald Reagan put it through Congress. Yet note that when anti-sex forces want to go for the jugular, they go for masturbation. It’s not just the Mormons, but they are famous for their vicious abuses of children and teens on this topic. In fact, with rare exceptions, nearly all branches of Christianity wage open war on masturbation, as do many other religious sects. Masturbation is the conservative nightmare of sex. You don’t need anyone else to do it. It exists far outside the health care system; it’s inherently disease and pregnancy proof; there is no way to tax, prosecute, or regulate it. It’s nice to have a vibrator, but God-given fingers work just as well. There are three reasons I believe that masturbation presents a persistent controversy. And these are the same three reasons that I believe masturbation must be at the heart of any sex education program, or any attempt at sexual enlightenment by anyone at any age. Reason One. Masturbation leads to self-knowledge. It starts with knowledge of what makes you feel good, and how your body works, as well as what you want. If you know what makes you feel good, you’re less likely to do what hurts. If you can take care of yourself, you’re less likely to need someone else to take care of you. Yet if approached consciously, masturbation also leads to a depth of self-awareness that is essential for navigating life. Part of the self-knowledge offered by masturbation is what happens in the unspeakable cosmic self-communion of orgasm. Reason Two. Masturbation is impossible to regulate. This is true of the physical experience; at least in Western society, it’s possible to find some time alone every now and then. But it’s especially true for the mental and emotional aspects of the experience, which as you know are total, unmitigated anarchy. Within your own mind, you can do anything you want to, with or for anyone you want. This includes people of any sex, gender, or species, such as trisexual space alien fantasies or the little hottie who works next to you. Obviously, this universe of imagination is not constrained by availability, appropriateness, whether anyone might reciprocate, or whether other intelligent life exists in the universe. Reason Three. Masturbation subverts marriage and encourages independence. It doesn’t prevent marriage—it opens up your relationship to yourself, and then points to the existence of every form of sexual expression other than what is allowed under the terms of the marital sex license. By giving anyone control over their orgasm, it subverts all forms of codependent relationships. Christine O’Donnell, the former senatorial candidate from Delaware, was onto this one in that famous MTV video when she said, “The reason you don’t tell them that masturbation is the answer to AIDS and all these other problems that come with sex outside of marriage is because, again, it is not addressing the issue. You’re going to be pleasing each other. And if he already knows what pleases him, and if he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?” Exactly! She gets it! You would think that if the problem is premarital sex, overuse of birth control pills, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and too many abortions, the solution would be teaching young people about masturbation—and proposing that it’s a viable option. But the fact that masturbation is considered as damnable as any other form of sex reveals the true agenda. We seem to have no problem asserting that men are terrified of women being sexually free. But I would ask women: How do you feel about being sexually free? How do you feel about the men in your life being sexually free? How do you feel about your fellow women being sexually free? Unless you’re willing to stand up for the people you love, your choices on your own behalf will have little positive energy behind them. When you assert your freedom, and power of choice, you also assert the freedom of others.
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries
(March 20-April 19)
You could look at the whole human drama as a struggle with awareness. We already have the solutions to most problems; many of the most persistent have been solved at least 100 times. What stands between an issue and finding the answer is awareness, and often that translates to self-awareness. You have the answers you need; what you don’t have, you can invent. You may not believe that, though to test the theory you merely need to slow down and be with your existence in a conscious way. Do this often, and with a touch of faith that might feel like “suspending disbelief.” While your astrology certainly is illustrating an exciting trip through the outer world, other factors are pulling you deeper into yourself. Don’t get too distracted by all the activity and drama—keep your focus on your soul, which I assure you will be easier than you think. You may even have a breakthrough, which could feel like accessing a deeper part of your consciousness that offers you better information about yourself than you’ve ever had. Yet this is about far more than yourself—being invited into a contact point reminds you that in waking up, you’re not alone— many other people are reaching a similar place within themselves. You’ll recognize them more by the look in their eyes than by face; more by their tone of voice rather than the words they say.
Taurus
(April 19-May 20)
The concepts “Taurus” and “change” sometimes seem to have nothing in common, but this is the season when you may shock yourself with how much stuck energy you can move in a short time. This month, Venus ingresses Gemini, where it will be until August—a long time for Venus to be in one sign. This is an extended special occasion, which includes Venus retrograde and the Venus transit of the Sun—a rare event that will be visible during daylight hours. One theme is a sudden, liberating release from the past. This includes moorings into history deeper than you remember, which will allow you to do something else—make contact with a point of origin or what you can think of as your original instructions for this lifetime. Don’t worry if today you don’t have any notion of what that means; live your life as normally as you can, but be responsive to opportunity, to chance encounters, and to anything that has an odd sense of familiarity. In essence, the theme of this season is staying open to the experience of existence. Notice what seem to be random encounters, desires that come out of nowhere, and people who you find unusually moving. Experiment with new activities or going deeper into the ones that you love but have not had time for. What influences your life in these very days has the power to do so deeply, and in ways that can truly shift your reality.
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Venus enters your sign this month, where it will be making some spectacular moves later in the season. These come along with eclipses in your sign and your opposite sign, Sagittarius—all of which I can sum up in one word: progress. This whole sequence of events is about getting all the seemingly separate parts of yourself talking to one another, working together, and gaining the kind of strength that comes from integrity. Whatever may change in the external world, remember that it’s part of a deeper inner project, a growth project whose time has come. We’re now at the very beginning of a long sequence of events that will gradually transform your life. The charts for April have a few bold reminders: One is to be flexible. This might include stretching out in the morning, considering different possibilities when you’re making a decision, and being circumspect when considering an important subject. Another hint is to listen. Be receptive to what other people say, and listen to what you say. Hear your own words and consider their meaning. Get a feeling for where you’re coming from. Part of the shift you’re making is from mental intelligence to emotional intelligence—and all factors are pointing in that direction. How you feel about what is said to you, or what you say to others, is just as meaningful as the content of the words. Of course, this is so obvious, most of the time only dogs notice that it’s true, but we all have a lot to learn from them.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Maintain your devotion to your professional path—the one you’re on, the one you’ve chosen, or the one you want. Do this diligently, as if something larger than you depends on your actions. Follow the momentum of your life as it carries you, and add extra focus, as if you’re tending a fire that might go out, or might go out of control. You may not be able to see your destination (some would say destiny), and you may not be sure how to think about what you’re doing—as regards “thinking” the most significant thing you can do for yourself is be conscious and review events carefully, though without being too critical or trying to judge. There’s a difference between judging and assessing; between criticizing and paying attention to details. Be particularly conscious of your use of language, which you can consider a kind of firepower. You’re visible right now—visible to more people than you might imagine, or more than your present circumstances might suggest. That, of course, is not a good enough reason for maintaining your integrity, but it’s as good as any. Over the course of the month, you begin to establish solid contact between your ideas and your aspirations. Old concepts that had merit come to life, and you will begin to see that there was a plan in motion all along. I’ll emphasize again that much of your success comes from your precise and careful use of language. Creativity will follow from precision—so say what you mean and mean what you say. 124 planet waves ChronograM 4/12
Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) You’re near the end of a phase of sorting out. It’s good to go through these from time to time, so you can establish your real priorities. Sometimes the sorting is imposed on you, such as when you’re moving house and must decide what to keep and what to toss. Other times it’s an internally driven experience, which seems to be what happened this winter. Note, this assessment is not quite over—it will take all month for you to prepare your final report to yourself. Be aware that what you’re doing is establishing a kind of contract with yourself about what is the most important to you. You’re deciding what you want to do with your precious time and energy, and moreover, you’re making the decisions now that will influence your life for at least two years. There is part of you that wants to take a conservative approach, avoiding risks and staying to one side of a fine line. There’s another voice in your mind that’s saying now is the time to open up a bold vision and explore the world in a new way. The magnificent bird’s-eye view offered by astrology is suggesting that these two values need not conflict. You can remain true to your most basic values and ethics while pushing open a new world of possibilities. Here is a hint: Your experience will follow your personal development. You will discover something about yourself, and your agenda will follow that revelation.
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Virgo (August 23-September 22) Mars retrograde in your sign has been a long quest into yourself, that has taken you through many layers of yourself, and you’ve had a chance to get to witness your own process of conflict creation and resolution. In the process, you’ve passed through many different elements of your psyche: your nature, how and whether you have faith in yourself and others, and the interconnections between many seemingly separate things in your world. Yet this quest has had a deeper mission: learning how you experience and ultimately create your most intimate relationships. Many of the more painful questions of the past decade are starting to resolve themselves as you claim your strength with partners and loved ones. One element of this is recognizing what an integral role you play in the lives of the people you love; another is recognizing the ways in which you seek and offer healing in those situations. Yet the most meaningful information has come in understanding how significant it is to remain in contact with one fact: what you want. Desire in any form is often subject to a kind of guilt attack, especially for you. Yet you’re waging nothing less than a revolution against this unnecessary, unproductive state of affairs, and in the process you’re regaining the ability to guide your life in healthy ways. You have learned that you cannot leave this to chance, nor can you leave it to others to decide what is good for you. Said another way, your life is your life.
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One thing you’ve likely discovered is that no matter how strange life gets, or how unpredictable, you’re standing on a solid foundation. Though this theme is emphasized now, I trust that it’s a gift you’ll take with you even as one phase of planetary history melts into the next, and the next. Yet what is strong can always be stronger; what functions well can always be refined. That’s the theme of the season that’s just begun, and that will arrive with some of the most interesting developments for many years. All eyes will be on Venus, the planet that represents you in your own chart. You are on a quest that involves assembling the different elements of what seem to be competing visions for yourself. The coming astrology, as it influences you and all things Libran, is so astonishing I am reticent to make any predictions—except I can offer a couple of thoughts. One is that elements of life, and your ideas about life, that you thought had to compete with one another, actually support one another. You can let go of many “either/or” types of equations; they are simply no longer valid. Yet as you transition from that as an idea to that as a fact of your life, a kind of miracle happens. Many other nagging issues resolve themselves. You will redefine your notion of what a problem is to the point where you recognize you have exceedingly few of them—or maybe none at all.
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As you know, we live in a culture obsessed with image, too often lacking any expression of what is real or meaningful. Anytime you try to make an impression on someone, or lead them to believe something about you, stop and ask yourself why. Image is powerful, even dangerous, and for you this power must be applied to honest and worthy causes. Given that you stand at a major signpost of your life, it’s time to inquire: Who or what do your actions serve? Mars stationing direct (after a long retrograde which began in January) in an angle of your chart that includes the themes of service and your vision for your life is a reminder that (in the words of Dylan) you’re gonna serve somebody (or something). That fact you cannot alter, though you get to decide what that something is, based on your true values. I don’t just mean what might be external to you—I mean searching your depths for what you want to offer to the world. Mars retrograde in Virgo has infused your traditional ruling planet with all of the properties of that sign: attention to detail, devotion to healing, tempering aggressive impulses (particularly toward yourself), and the integration of your masculine and feminine sides. And then there is the famous Virgo theme of devotion to something beyond yourself. Yet what this really suggests is that you’re expanding your concept of yourself and can now bring together many elements of life you might have thought were separate.
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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) One really beautiful element of your astrology right now is a rediscovery of what commitment means to you. You’ve had your ideas—and you know how well they’ve worked. You’re now expanding into a whole new concept. It’s more open-minded and expansive than your prior ideas; you can think of the new concept as a house with many doors and windows, that allows in the light, and where everyone has enough room to exist comfortably. Said another way, commitment is about who you are rather than what you promise. When you offer yourself, that’s something you do with your entire being. One recent lesson involved taking care of the details in advance, so that you can proceed with that full sense of engagement. The old astrology books sometimes tell us that Sagittarius likes to skip the details, being more concerned with the broad strokes. Yet one message of the current Mars retrograde is that the details can set you free—if you address them before they become problems. They are opportunities to refine your goals, and with Mars about to complete its long retrograde through your house of ambition, you’ve been doing a lot of that. Make sure that you condense and consolidate your smaller objectives and never lose sight of what inspired them in the first place, or what they add up to when you consider them together. This is likely to come down to one significant decision you make right around April 14—no sooner.
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One thing about living on this planet is that it helps to make friends with chaos. I don’t mean warfare or pandemonium—I mean that slight sense of overwhelm, of not being able to keep your house neat, of orderly theories not quite fitting together with what we think of as reality. I am talking about the fertile chaos of not quite being sure what to do, and then you have a real idea. Or the feeling of figuring out that a whole bunch of what you believed in the past isn’t true, which shakes your moorings—and in that moment you figure out something that is actually true and relevant for you. Travel can have this effect on us, by cutting us loose from familiar moorings, which in turn allows us to have a different experience of being. One expression of fertile chaos this month involves certain long-held goals. Some elements are working for you and worth keeping; others on review need to be updated or discarded entirely, to make room for new ideas. One cue to observe for the points of chaotic creative contact are stumbling blocks. When something gets in the way, stop and rethink your plan. When you are typing and type a wrong word, read what that word is and see if you’re trying to tell yourself something. If you lose track of your plan, ask yourself what your objective really is. And most significantly, if someone randomly tries to mess with your idea, listen carefully.
Aquarius
(January 20-February 19)
Many years of relentless pressure have left you in possession of a secret. You hold the key to understanding evil. By this I mean the force within the psyche that guides people to treat one another badly, or unfairly, or dishonestly. I’m also speaking of the impulse to deny oneself, or to deny others. And I am speaking of that strange thing that encourages people to give up their power and go against their own values. You understand the concept of a motive. There are other ways to grasp this, though if you think about it starting with the dark end of the concept, you have the orientation you need to guide your experience into the light. You’re able to remember the one thing that everyone wants to forget, and that many are trying desperately to conceal from themselves—and because of this, you have a distinct advantage. One way to say this is that you’re not trying to fool yourself, or that your learning has reached the point where you see the danger of trying to. Whatever you may be doing, one thing to remember this month is that you’re in a position of leadership. This may not be about formal authority—rather, it’s a leadership of ideas. You are setting the example of what it means to have a responsible worldview, and also one that’s oriented in the future. One of your most valuable teachings is reminding people that we must do better than “every man for himself”.
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Pisces (February 19-March 20) This time in your life is an experiment with what it feels like to have an enhanced sense of self-esteem. This is the sensation that you belong on the planet, that you have a mission, and moreover, that you possess the personal resources to accomplish it. When we talk about the lack of self-esteem, these are the elements that are most often missing. I’m not sure, on the personal level, what it is that can make up for the loss; though it’s easy to see in your solar chart that you’re well on the way to doing precisely that. There are of course pitfalls that you’ll encounter along the way, but if you know what they are, you won’t need to step into them— you can go around them. For example, you may be accompanied by some persistent questions about your existence. These can be turned to strengths. You may have the sensation that few others understand you. Yet if you’re alert for those who have similar values as you do, or similar motivations, you will feel a greater sense of companionship. As for personal resources: I do mean personal. This includes creativity, intelligence, problem-solving ability, and ethics. Yet the bridge you will be crossing every day is the one that goes over the gap of applying these things to real-life situations. Your job is to put your mind to work—and this is about making a conscious and ongoing choice.
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