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42 capsule reviews of films
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23 beinhart’s body politic: the revenge of atbri, the grotesque!
46 local directors profile: 9 pianos
Larry Beinhart wonders why all the bad Republican ideas come back to life.
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29 the garden Michelle Sutton advises on planting trees and shrubs in fall. 32 the craft Jennifer Farley talks with antique home restorer Silas Adams.
95 doing good while doing well
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A bright light shines on the banks of the Esopus in northeast Ulster County.
When did bread become public enemy No. 1? Wendy Kagan looks for answers.
98 flowers fall: back to school quiz
70 cornwall & washingtonville: heavenly havens
David Neilsen gets advice on socially responsible investments.
96 gluten-free nation
34 saugerties: bright lights, cool town
Four parts Mayberry RFD and a liberal dash of Camelot in Orange County.
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87 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 90 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 99 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.
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Lou Harrison (1917–2003) was an American original. The three works on this program offer a generous glimpse of his musical world: Solo to Anthony Cirone, Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, and La Koro Sutro. Presented by New Albion Records and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.
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56 nightlife highlights Roger McGuinn at The Egg, The Jam Messengers at The Spotty Dog, So Percussion at Bard College, and Lucky Tubb.
57 cd reviews Michael Eck reviews the compilation album Unison Arts Center: 35 Years. Jeremy Schwartz reviews an eponymous release by The Jonny Monster Band. Sharon Nichols reviews Great American Gingerbread by Rasputina.
58 books Esmerelda Santiago shares her literary journey with Nina Shengold.
60 book reviews Anne Pyburn reviews Misery Bay by Steve Hamlton and Hotel No Tell by Daphne Uviller. Marx Dorrity reviews One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina.
62 Poetry Poems by Carla Carlson, Steve Clark, Maggie Coughlin, Robert DiLallo, William Hayes, Mala Hoffman, Tony Howarth, Jay Klokker, Shideh Lennon, Arlene Gay Levine, Dennis Maher III, Sophie Strand, Joanna Vogel, Tom Winninger. Edited by Phillip Levine.
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GUSTAVO SANIN (L) AND IVAN VELILLA (R) AT THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY/WEDDING CELEBRATION IN PHOENICIA ON SATURDAY, JULY 16.
Wherever the gay action was, Gustavo Sanin and Ivan Velilla were there, for better and for worse. They were at the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village in 1969 when persecuted gays fought back in the infamous riot that launched the gay rights movement. They were part of the wild New York City scene of the 1970s. They watched their friends die one after another when AIDS came along in the ‘80s. In 1985, Velilla and Sanin purchased a magical cabin in the woods of Phoenicia. They moved to the Hudson Valley full-time in 1992, opening an antiques store— “Velsani,” an amalgam of their two last names—on Route 28. In 1996, they moved their shop to Uptown Kingston. Over the years, they became known locally for their exquisite taste in art and antiques, and for their annual White Party, held each July, where guests wear white and celebrate under the pines and moonlight. Sanin and Velilla kept Velsani in Kingston until 2010, when they relocated to the Emerson Hotel in Mt. Tremper. The one thing the native Colombians did not do during those many decades of work, play, and love was get married—because they couldn’t. And then, this year, all that changed. On a balmy July evening, they had their grandest White Party ever. At the ages of 65 and 83, respectively, Velilla and Sanin celebrated 50 years of committed partnership by taking wedding vows under the guidance of a Buddhist priest. I caught up with Sanin and Velilla shortly after the ceremony to chat about the wedding and, more broadly, the saga of their lives. Velilla, the more extroverted of the two, did most of the talking. —Carl Frankel
This year’s White Party was the culmination of 50 years together. What were your feelings that night? We actually got married in Connecticut a few months before the White Party. Gay marriage wasn’t legal in New York State yet and we didn’t know if or when it would be. We were married in Connecticut in a small office by a justice of the peace. We were very happy to be married and they were very nice people, but we also felt an emptiness. We wanted our friends and families to be there, and we also wanted the ceremony to reflect who we are. Over 500 people attended this year’s White Party, and this made us very happy. And of course, it was thrilling not only to be married, but to have the right to be married. It’s so unfair to have two people’s love for each other be socially rejected. How old were you when you got together? I was 16 and Gustavo was 33. Let the record note that I pursued Gustavo, not the other way around! And that the age of consent was 14. Why did you leave Colombia and come to the United States? People couldn’t accept our relationship in Medellín. One evening we went to an expensive restaurant and a women said loudly to her friends, “I know all about their relationship—it looks like Gustavo can buy anyone he wants.” Comments like that are what brought us here. What are the three most memorable moments of your time together? One is when my mother rejected me. I loved my mother very much and couldn’t
bring myself to tell her I was gay. When I moved to New York City with Gustavo, I told her that he was a friend and roommate. A friend of ours, a closet gay who was married to a woman, was jealous of our happiness. He told my brother about us, and my brother went to my mother. She said to me, “I have to choose between my favorite son and God. I have to go on the side of God. I consider you a sinner.” I said to her, “But you are my mother!” And she said, “Yes, but Jesus is my God.” I became physically ill. I couldn’t hold food down. I lost weight. I finally went to a doctor, a wise woman who told me I was depressed and said, “Many mothers will react this way. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you. Be patient. All mothers come back to their children.” She was right. One evening my mother, who was living in White Plains, called and invited Gustavo and me to dinner. She said, “I don’t want to talk about what happened. I love you as much as ever, and I love Gustavo too.” I later learned that her priest had told her that what she had done was wrong, that God doesn’t hate homosexuals, that God made gays the way they are. My mother loved Gustavo till the day she died. Another memorable moment? [Velilla]: When I was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 1999. I had a long course of radiation therapy at Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City. Gustavo drove me to the hospital and back five days a week for almost 10 weeks. I couldn’t even keep him
company on the return trip because I’d be exhausted and sleeping. This selflessness is one of the qualities that made me fall in love with him initially. Doctors told me I had three to five years to live. They were wrong. And the third? The Stonewall uprising. The police in Greenwich Village were constantly calling gay people awful names like “queer” and “fag” and “pervert.” You’d see a policeman and instead of feeling reassured, you’d be afraid. The Stonewall was a bar where gay people congregated. In 1969, the police raided the bar and the patrons fought back. We left as it was turning ugly. The legal status of gays has improved, but there isn’t total equality yet. For instance, if one of you dies, the other isn’t entitled to a share of their Social Security. How do you feel about this? It upsets us when any group is denied their rights, whether it’s blacks who had to sit in the back of the bus or gays today. Homosexuals are very hard workers. They employ people. They maintain their homes and neighborhoods. They support the arts. They’re good citizens. The love that Gustavo and I have is no different from the love heterosexual people feel for each other. Why don’t we have the same rights, then? Many of our heterosexual friends have been married two or three times. Our gay friends tend to stay together longer. Persecution may have something to do with this. When people are under attack, it brings them together. 9/11 ChronograM 15
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: Walking along a busy city street with my son, his hand was suddenly wrenched from mine. In a panic I looked around and saw him walking swiftly and determinedly toward a woman we had passed, sitting on the sidewalk on a street corner with a paper cup in front of her. Sensing what he was up to, I followed behind slowly, watching him carefully as we both wended our way though the crowds of walkers. As he reached the woman, who was in her 30s, and wearing a headscarf (she looked like a gypsy), he reached his hand into his pocket and pulled out a coin. He held it up the glinting metal, their eyes met, and they both smiled as he dropped the coin in her cup. He ran back to me, placing his small, strong hand in mine. And we continued walking. There was nothing to say to the boy, who had done a generous deed, arising in the moment, in response to a need he perceived, and impelled by his own will. There was nothing to say because it was an essential act and I was loath to overlay it with any moralism or interpretation. Unlike the coaching and cajoling required to get him to brush his teeth in the morning, the act had come from him, and I wanted to keep it clean. There were two interconnected ideas this event gave me to ponder. One is the preciousness of the force of will as it operates through a person, unimpeded by notions of should or could, moralism or belief—just the straight stuff of seeing a need and responding, serving from oneself, in the moment. That will is like a flower bud, that, given the right conditions, will bloom into the beauty that it is. It can’t be pried open or required to bloom. It will when it is ready, in response to the right conditions of light and air, heat and humidity. Of course a flower can be “forced,” as can the will, but the term is misleading, as the coax is simply providing the conditions that would otherwise allow it to bloom. The emergence of will in a child, which is shown in the tender being’s native interests unfolding, is a pure and miraculous event to behold. It is the embodiment of productive ease, with none of the resistance we have constructed for ourselves as adults. Through “education”—impacted psychic accretions of various sorts—we work hard to create a bevy of second-guesses to our impulses and motives, questioning whether they are correct, or pleasurable, or profitable. Children have none of this mediation in the action of their essence in the world. They simply follow their native interests, which on the whole are good, and appropriate within the context of the great matrix of life and being. I think this is what the beatitude meant in suggesting we become as little children, in the event we wish to enter paradise. The second idea the event arose for pondering is generosity. The word comes from the Latin meaning “of noble birth.” It is a kingly quality.The word has evolved to describe anything done or given selflessly, without expectation of compensation or reciprocation. Inevitably when we think of people we love or admire, alive or dead, we think of their degree of generosity. Religions make generosity an obligation, which removes its force. Compulsion turns something vital into a means of gaining social standing or feeding vanity with public displays, or conversely, being ridden with guilt for our sins. But religion is for those whose conscience is asleep.With an awakened conscience what is given is a simple gift, and at its best generosity is in secret. Generosity is the basis of what religions hold up as unattainable by all but a few prophets—unconditional love. Instead of a discipline, what if we understood generosity as a disposition, being vigilant to see what we could do for others? What if each day we intended to have our eyes open to the needs of those around us and slyly respond to the needs we perceive? What if, instead of seeking what can be gotten from each situation, we were looking for what could be given? In aiming to be generous, we step into a state of nobility, becoming more awake, alert, and ready for whatever arises. In such a state we forge a connection between our essence—the precious stuff of will—and our lives.With tiny, invisible acts we simultaneously heal ourselves and the wounds of the world. —Jason Stern
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Chronogram received a gratifying shout-out in the Metropolitan section of the NewYork Times on August 5. In an article chronicling the “Brooklynization of the Hudson Valley,” we were referred to as “green, hip, and upscale” in a sentence stringing together Dia:Beacon, the Culinary Institute of America, the area’s colleges, and the Omega Institute as examples of a shared urban arriviste sensibility. Peter Applebome, author of the piece—titled “Williamsburg on the Hudson” in print and “Hipsters on the Hudson” online—describes the Brooklynization process as “the steady hipness creep with its locavore cuisine, its Williamsburgian bars, its Gyrotonic exercise, feng shui consultants and deep clay art therapy and, most of all, its recent arrivals from New York City.” We’re grateful to the Times, and Peter Applebome (whom both the Jason Stern and I spoke to) for the kind words. It’s flattering to be grouped with the institutions we admire most, and to be singled out as a publication of note. As pleased as I am, the piece makes me sad. I don’t question the premise of the article. As financial writer Daniel Gross posted on Twitter: “The NYT, tiring of ‘Brooklyn is awesome’ articles, turns to ‘place to which Brooklynites flee is awesome’ articles.” The Gray Lady has a weakness for the thrill of discovering trends in out-of-the-way locales like Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley. The problem with the article isn’t the faulty logic behind schlepping out a dozen exurbanites who say things about the Hudson Valley like: “There’s nothing I can’t do living here, and it’s nice to fall asleep and wake to birds singing rather than trash trucks rolling down the street.” And Applebome, to his great credit, takes an offramp on the Hipster Highway to talk to some disaffected and
economically challenged locals in Beacon and Hudson about the lack of jobs before setting back off again toward NoBro (or “North Brooklyn,” what one Beaconite now calls his town because of the influx of peeps from New York). The point missed is simply this: the Omega Institute, locavorism, artist rebels, Chronogram, the CIA, even deep clay therapy, have all been resident in the Hudson Valley for many years.These things weren’t packed in an overnight bag with a Dave Eggers novel and a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon by missionaries taking the train up the Hudson. Maybe they were brought in by someone from New York years ago. Who knows? We all have to be from somewhere. I myself am from that bastion of the un-hip, Queens. And while we may lack many of the amenities of city life—odd public transport, Korean barbecue, professional basketball—the Hudson Valley is chock-full of creative, hardworking folks who can’t be defined so narrowly by the Times, nor can they be displaced by those who can. The beauty and ugliness of everything in the Hudson Valley cannot be summed up in 2,500-word piece in the Times. Thank goodness. Many thanks to Dorothy Gambrell, who allowed us to reprint the “Tall Tales” cartoon from her entertaining Cat and Girl series (updated twice weekly at www.catandgirl.com). It’s worth noting that in the final panel, the word “Beacon” was originally “Portland.” Maybe Oregon will be the next frontier for all those Kings County pioneers. I can see the headline now: “Carroll Gardens on the Columbia.” Yo Brooklyn!
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In 1972, the federal law Title IX was enacted, requiring schools at all levels across the country to allow females equal access to athletics. Yet since then, universities have been accused of denying female students fair chances in sports. The Office for Civil Rights, the federal agency in charge of investigating sex discrimination, have let the cases drag on for years. The office does have the power to take away the school’s federal funds if they violate the law, but since the law was enacted, they have not given such punishment. The office has not sent a single case to the Justice Department for additional action. “Unfortunately, what we see is that many schools are getting away with providing fewer opportunities to girls because they don’t do what they’re supposed to unless made to,” said Neena Chaudhry, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Source: New York Times Researchers at the University of Oxford in England found that taller women have a greater risk of cancer. For each four-inch increase in height over 5’1’’, the cancer risk increases by about 16 percent. The researchers suggest that levels of growth hormone might be involved, or that their bodies are comprised of more cells. “The interest in this study is in giving us a clue about how many cancers might develop,” said Jane Green, lead author and epidemiologist at Oxford. Source: New York Times
In 1979, director Franco Zeffirelli remade a 1931 film called The Champ starring Jon Voight and nine-year-old Ricky Schroder. Though unsuccessful at the theaters, it has become a must-see in psychology laboratories around the world. In the last scene of The Champ, young Schroder watches his father die in front of him. After years of studying films and people’s reactions, psychology professor Robert Levenson and a graduate student found that the film is the saddest movie in the world. Bambi was a close second. They experimented with other emotions as well and found other movies brought strong emotional responses. My Bodyguard and Cry Freedom brought out anger; When Harry Met Sally and Robin Williams Live, amusement; Pink Flamingos, disgust; The Shining and Silence of the Lambs, fear; Capricorn One and Sea of Love, surprise. Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Vancouver will be distributing clean, unused crack pipes to drug users starting later this year. The goal is to reduce the transmission of diseases like HIV and hepatitis, while also ensuring the interaction between health-care and social workers and drug addicts. The city already hands out clean mouth pieces for crack pipes, but not the actual pipes. “If you can deliver [harm-reduction programs] in a way where you can get people into other services, that’s very beneficial,” said Dr. Patricia Daly, the medical health officer for Vancouver Coastal Health. Source: Canadian Press As of September 2011, McDonald’s will shrink the size of French fries and add a serving of fruit or vegetables to every Happy Meal. The new meals will represent a 20 percent decrease in calories with options including carrots, raisins, and apples, depending on the time of year and region the meal is served. Prices will not go up with the changes. French fries will drop to 1.1 ounces of potatoes from the current 2.4. In 2010, San Francisco and Santa Clara County banned toys served with meals unless the meals met certain nutritional criteria. Beginning next year, McDonald’s will also add a nutritional message to their advertising campaigns, directed at children. The company plans to reduce the amount of sodium in its food by 15 percent, as well as reducing sugars, saturated fat, and calories. Although McDonald’s is offering healthier options, a new study by University of North Carolina researchers found that the child obesity epidemic is related to takeout food. Since 1977, calorie intake from takeout food has increased from 23.4 percent to 33.9 percent. “Eating foods prepared outside of the home has become the norm, not the exception. This makes it more critical to make healthy choices when choosing foods made away from home,” said Lona Sandon, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Source: Los Angeles Times, USA Today
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On July 26, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was sentenced to two years in jail, three years' probation, and a $10,000 fine. Two years ago, DeChristopher was arrested for bidding nearly $2 million and derailing a 2008 government auction of oil and gas leases; the activist, who didn’t have the money, was bidding to protest the sale. He was charged with two felony counts for interfering and making false representations. Before his sentence, DeChristopher told the judge, “I have no desire to go to prison, and any assertion that I want to be even a temporary martyr is false. I want you to join me in standing up for the right and responsibility of citizens to challenge their government. I want you to join me in valuing this country’s rich history of nonviolent civil disobedience.” Source: Take Part, New York Times A new health care overhaul by the Obama administration on August 1 will dramatically change health insurance coverage for women. As of January 1, 2013, a women’s prevention package will cover birth control, breast pumps for new mothers, and counseling on domestic violence, among other services, with no copays. Tens of millions of women are expected to benefit from the package. Some insurance plans may be exempt due to a provision that allow religious institutions to opt out of offering birth control coverage. Source: Associated Press On August 2, a federal judge ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former US military contractor who was imprisoned and tortured over nine months in Iraq. The man, who speaks five languages and was a translator for the Marines, was abducted by the US military without justification and was suspected of helping to pass classified information to the enemy. He was released in August 2006 without explanation and filed suit against Rumsfeld, saying Rumsfeld approved the interrogation techniques used. The Obama administration represents Rumsfeld and argues he cannot be sued personally. However, US District Judge James Gwin rejected the arguments and said US citizens are protected by the Constitution abroad or at home during wartime. Source: Associated Press The wealth gap between minorities and whites has increased due to an uneven recovery from the recession, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center. Whites have 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics. In 2009, the median wealth of white US households was $113,149; Hispanics, $6,325; blacks, $5,677. “What’s pushing the wealth of whites is the rebound in the stock market and corporate savings, while younger Hispanic and African Americans who bought homes in the last decade—because that was the American dream—are seeing big declines,” said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor. Stock holdings make up 28 percent of whites’ net worth, compared to 19 percent for blacks and 15 percent for Hispanics. Blacks also now have the highest unemployment rate, at 16.2 percent. Source: Yahoo —Zan Strumfeld
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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
The Revenge of ATBRI, the Grotesque!
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hucky, Freddy, Jason, the Children of the Corn, Aliens, the generic Living Dead, it’s always the same. At the end of the film the creature that has been stalking, killing, dismembering, and devouring normal humans—often with a particular predilection for bouncy teen babysitters—is killed. A stake to the heart, an axe through the neck, division into small body parts, doused in gasoline and set on fire, thrown into the vacuum of outer space, whatever it takes, the monster is dead. Then, just after the hero leaves the cemetery (the spaceship, the hospital, the morgue, the summer camp) a hand shoots out from beneath the earth! At the end of the Bush years, it appeared that ATBRI (All Those Bad Republican Ideas) was dead. When the Republicans came into office they had put their ideas into effect and charged directly into the guns of reality. This was the political equivalent of suicide by cop. Reality shot them down with ruthless efficiency. Tax cuts did not create jobs or prosperity. They created a bubble that became a crash. There you go, the first corpse, the idea that tax cuts, especially for the rich, are good for the economy. They are about as good for the national health as eating chicken with salmonella is for your body. Initially, the Bush administration chose the response that was correct according to free-market theologians. They let the profligate and incompetent Lehman Brothers go bankrupt. Whoops! It instantly became apparent that the whole house of cards was about tumble in after them. Laissez faire orthodoxy was instantly abandoned and the government rushed in with hundreds of billions of dollars before the entire world economy imploded. Another idiot idea shot down. Unregulated markets work as well as baseball games without umpires. Everybody steals, nobody stops it, chaos erupts, and the game is destroyed. According to Freidmanesque economists—the current orthodoxy—monetary policy is the best and only way that the government should manipulate the economy. The Fed lowered interest rates to the point where they were giving money away to the big banks. It didn’t stabilize the economy. It didn’t magically induce the banks to invest in productive, job creating businesses.The bankers just took the cash, traded in derivatives, and other paper nonsense, and gave themselves giant bonuses. There you go, an entire economic model shot down. America was the world’s sole superpower! Da-da! Dum-Dum! Our supermilitary could fix the world, one scowling third-rate country at a time! What the hell, two at a time! Turned out that while we could invade a rag-tag wasteland like Afghanistan in a flash, we couldn’t keep it conquered. It was just billions down the drain. Maybe it was time to stop spending money on military and intelligence operations that did not work. Oh, heavens, the best way to pick our leaders is their piety! With Christ to guide them, they will make the best decisions. It was God, according to George Bush, who advised him to invade Afghanistan, and then Iraq, as the correct response to an attack by a small gang of criminal lunatics. Bush never
said so, but if God was giving military advice he was probably part of the economics team as well. Frankly, if God can’t tell you which wars to fight and which ones to avoid (after all, Dwight Eisenhower could, viz., “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.”) then the idea that we should pick leaders who get their wisdom from the Lord should have been laid to rest. With a large cross at the head of the grave, of course. Yet, as we walked away from the Idiotlington, the Cemetery of Dead Ideas, ATBRI the Grotesque stirred in his crypt. A skeletal hand shot out from beneath the earth! ATBRI is risen. He has called forth his minions. We are now living in a full blown zombie movie sequel! It is the law of sequels that they must be more extravagantly bloody and gory than the original. And even less tethered to reality since the basic premises were established the first time out. So it is. They’re not only back, they’re more crazed than ever! Michelle Bachmann makes Sarah Palin seem merely cunning and ambitious, and rather fun. Rick Perry is George W. Bush stripped naked of any pretense of moderation, civility, or modernity. This is a guy who does not believe in evolution. Alright, it was established in 2008 that Republicans vying for the presidential nomination are supposed to deny evolution, so that’s not so special, but Perry literally prays for rain and commands his people to do so with him! “Now, therefore, I, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on those days for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal way of life.” Yup, that’s an official proclamation, it is not from Jon Stewart. The Tea Party Republicans in Congress would have been happy to let the government of the United States default on its debts. They want to defund the whole damn government anyway and give Social Security funds to the stockbrokers. Fox News and the right-wing think tanks are leading a campaign to raise taxes on the lower 50 percent of the population, who they claim are “moochers,” “parasites,” and “utterly irresponsible animals” on a “free ride.” Why have the dead ideas risen? Why have the legions of the undead risen up from the dust and the muck and marched into our capital, taking control and holding the last few rational people there hostage? It is because the Democrats—the Liberals, the Left, the rationalists—have no clear idea of what we should be doing and what actually works. So they stand there in horror, just retreating from the legions of ATBRI the Grotesque. Next month: Part Two: A Meaningful Liberal Economic Agenda 9/11 ChronograM 23
The House
Dream Home, The Sequel Ultimate Postmodern in New Paltz
By Jennifer Farley Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid Lia Kucera prepares a snack in the kitchen.
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aised in Red Hook but a Williamsburg pioneer since 1981—when punk rockers ruled the neighborhood—artist Paula Kucera never imagined she’d be raising 19 sheep along with two Waldorf-educated children, and long-married to David Kucera, who owns a specialty concrete business in Gardiner. But what’s truly ironic is that the family’s second attempt at building a “dream house”— this time, a zero-net-energy dwelling constructed around the skeleton of a repurposed 1850’s barn frame—effortlessly casts their activities and belongings in a way that’s actually more organically architectural than the wholly contemporary first one. The Kuceras’ debut dream home, a picturesque cube they designed, built, and ultimately sold to Hudson Valley weekenders, fortunately proved a great investment. Its timely sale also helped fund the simpler, back-to-the-land way the funky family of four lives today. In 1996, the newlyweds, who met in a Brooklyn bar, stretched financially to purchase a 72-acre farm bordering Albany Post Road in New Paltz that featured a stately white barn, grain silo and other vintage outbuildings. Soon they began designing, and actually building themselves, an extremely modern showplace at an elevated point on the property. Dream Home One Was Really a Weekend Place for City Chic Hard-working green design sophisticates who appeared to spare no materials expense, the Kuceras’ Dream Home One in increasingly trendy greater New Paltz wouldn’t look out of place on “Goldman Pond” in the Hamptons. Ultimately, it wasn’t quite right in several key ways for the Kuceras—who both had businesses to build—as a full-time residence for their family’s active outdoorsy lifestyle. “In many ways, it was our dream house, but if the kids threw a jacket on the back of a chair, the whole line of the room would look messed up,” said Paula. So they sold it. Plus half their land. At a decent profit, about six years ago, before the real-estate market tanked. To people from NewYork for whom it’s a fantasy “Green Acres” getaway. The Kuceras can still gaze at Dream Home One and admire its boxy, glassy beauty. That’s even better than living inside it anyway, according to Paula. David found it harder to part with.
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“I think David now agrees with me, but what happened was we were just taxed out. We’d made this thing worth a phenomenal amount of money and the taxes we paid were not in line with the money we made, so we sold it, downsized, and kept half the land,” she explained. Paula now has a yarn business, but she used to trot the globe as a decorative artist, sometimes painting restaurant murals. David grew up outside Philadelphia and makes architectural cast concrete. He’s done massive restoration projects for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greek and Roman Room. Unwinding from Dream Home One Unwinding from the status plateau of Dream Home One—with a full nest and growing reputation for great aesthetic taste—could have proved depressingly downwardly mobile to a less creative couple. But the Kuceras once again danced with sure-footed style straight into another hot trend: right-sized, reclaimed timber-frame construction, filled in with structural insulated panels. Windows are cut after the walls go up, providing an incredibly tight seal against the elements. Paula found an 1850s barn frame for $18,000 from Benedict Barns in Pennsylvania. David figured out the engineering logistics. Together, with only the occasional hired specialist like a plumber or electrician, the couple built another home. This time, the Kucera residence is much simplified at just 2,000 square feet, not counting the basement. It has relatively huge mud and laundry rooms. Seasonal fluctuations in wind, temperature, and light are maximized desirably by a deep deck and tiny windows on the north side, and lots of glass—shaded by deciduous trees—on the sunny south face. “Our other house looked modern, but the idea of this one is in alignment with what I feel really is,” said Paula. “There’s no interior framing, there’s all this reclaimed wood, the siting (reflects) what I learned from studying permaculture.” A behemoth two-sided stone fireplace, which throws off maximum heat via a shape that’s tall and shallow, separates the living room from the den. Off the kitchen, there’s a pair of love seats covered in a sturdy bright floral from Gardiner-based Utility Canvas Inc., owned by Paula’s friends Hal Grano and Jillian Kaufman-Grano. Ornate tin sconces found on a vacation to Utah, probably antiques from Mexico, break up the bluestone chimney expanse.
Clockwise from top left: The walk-in pantry; the dining room/living room with a two-sided fireplace; the family room where pottery by friends and family members lines the mantel.
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The Kuceras plunged financially into sustainable energy at a time when the state was giving generous homeowner credits. They invested in state-of-the-art solar panels and a geothermal heat pump, probably cash-positive in two years, ahead of initial projections. “Here’s how I found the money for the [sustainable energy systems.] I decided I’d just buy off-the-shelf tile and plumbing fixtures and everything else from places like Lowe’s,” said Paula, who doesn’t regret the compromise. David made the counterttops at his factory, adding locally sourced conglomerate to concrete and then polishing the slabs. Attractively distressed planks from their first marital bed were reused for the kitchen drawer fronts.
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How Many Waldorf Moms... “I love nests,” said Paula, showing me a collection on display in the den’s family “nature table,” which corners an oversize velveteen couch upholstered in a muted robin’segg blue. A row of elegant ceramic vessels in complementary brown tinged with teal, thrown by Armand Rusillon, a well-known Hudson Valley artist who sometimes makes pots, lines the den mantle. Son Cameron, 15, is away at Wild Earth Wilderness School, a Shawangunk camp where he’s a counselor-in-training. Paula picks another treasure off the table—presided over by a taxidermy woodpecker Cameron helped stuff—to show me. “Cameron’s great at making knives. And see these arrowheads? The kids flint-napped them,” said Paula. Both Cameron and daughter Lia, 12, attended Mountain Laurel Waldorf School in New Paltz, a prestigious early-childhood learning institution based on principals suggested by movement founder Rudolf Steiner. There are several funny lightbulb jokes about the Waldorf curriculum. The popular one about teachers includes—and this is a partial list—a gnome song, reading verse, and sounding chimes. In the parent version, dad consults with the teachers who decide natural lighting would be more beneficial to the child, while mom just screws the lightbulb in anyway. And finally, there’s the graduate version, to which the terse punchline is simply “One.” Cameron and Lia both began knitting in first grade at Mountain Laurel. The craft allegedly facilitates conversation between the right brain and left brain of a developing child. Ever the involved mother, Paula made textile art with her kids and augmented other parts of their heavily experiential education. She began growing much of the family’s food from seeds, then raising chickens, and finally keeping Cormo sheep, which grow a fine wool much like merino. They’re also small and agile, like Paula. She bought a spinning wheel and planted a dye garden. Last September, Paula opened White Barn Farm Sheep and Wool, which sells handdyed yarn and hosts knitting, felting, and spinning workshops. It’s where art meets agriculture, she says, adding that she sells fiber from other growers as well as her own. “I knew our barn had another life in it,” said Paula. RESOURCES Benjamin Moore Paint True Value of New Paltz Inc. 4 Cherry Hill Road, New Paltz, (845) 255-8481 www.truevalue.com/newpaltz. Hardware store owner Louis Benson provided the Kuceras with much advice and personal assistance. Most of the downstairs interior is painted with Benjamin Moore’s Natura no-VOC November Rain. Kitchen Cabinetry & Armoire Antiques Barn at the Water Street Market, New Paltz. (845) 255-1403; www.waterstreetmarket.com. Kitchen Countertops David Kucera Inc., Gardiner. (845) 255-1044; www.davidkucerainc.com. While David made the countertops for his own home, his company principally provides architectural cast stone and glass-fiber reinforced concrete products to businesses and institutions. Fireplace Stone Richard Decker, Kerhonkson. (845) 532-0840. Provided slabs of conglomerate and smaller pieces of bluestone for the fireplace.
Zero-Net Energy Project Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-3763 www.hvce.com. Vice-president John Wright supervised the project. installing solar panels for electricity and a geothermal heat pump for heating and cooling. Upholstery Fabric Utility Canvas Inc., Gardiner. (845) 255-9290; www.utilitycanvas.com. Owners Hal Grano & Jillian Kaufman-Grano founded the canvas-specialty company in 1990; it now has retail locations in Manhattan and Tokyo. Utility Canvas primarily sells bags and clothing. Barn Frame Benedict Antique Lumber & Stone Susquehanna, PA. (570) 756-7878 www.benedictbarns.com. Provided the 19th-century barn frame, antique hand-hewn beams, floor planks, and structural insulated panels for the Kuceras’ timber-frame house. Den Sofa & Chairs Lounge, High Falls. (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com.
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had the niftiest graduate research project. The public works crew and I planted 150 trees around the city of Ithaca, New York. We planted half of them in spring, half in fall. We chose three tree species (an oak, hackberry, and American hophornbeam) that have historically been described as “hard to transplant” or “fall transplant hazards.” Measurements over many subsequent years showed that the ones dug from the field nursery and planted—i.e., transplanted—in fall did just as well as the ones transplanted in spring, defying nursery lore about the perils of fall transplanting—at least for these three species. For a wide range of species, my adviser had observed anecdotally in her decades of planting trees in Ithaca that fall transplanting was just fine. Fall is a grand time to plant most trees and shrubs, so long as you properly prepare your planting site and give the plants proper aftercare. Good preparation means making sure the site is well amended with organic matter and the planting hole is as wide as possible so the roots have some opportunity to explore the larger soilscape. Good aftercare means watering deeply one to three times weekly, depending on how dry it is, until the ground freezes and giving the plant a wide, mulched bed so its roots don’t have to compete with turf grass. Fall planting’s virtues are many. The air is cooler, so there’s less water loss through the leaves.This is much less stressful for a newly transplanted or planted tree or shrub than being planted, say, in late spring just before a heat wave hits in June. Fall planted trees and shrubs still need deep watering to encourage root growth in their new situation, however.
Another advantage of fall planting is that while the air is cool, the soil is still warm, which enhances root growth. Root growth has been found to occur as long as soil temperatures remain above 40 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit—and keep in mind that soils cool much more slowly than the ambient air, so this soil warmth lasts well into fall. Late August and September are great times to plant, but in many cases, you can go into early October, and if you find a specimen on sale in November and you’re willing to assume a little risk, plant that plant. What makes late fall planting riskier? It depends on what kind of winter weather comes. When it comes to plants and winter damage, as woody plants professors like to say, “It’s not how cold it gets, it’s how it gets cold.” Do very cold temps come on suddenly and without benefit of snow on the ground, which serves as a kind of protective mulch over tree roots? Or does the cold come gradually and give the plant a chance to “harden off ”? How it gets cold is more pertinent. Head Start in the Fall Randy Padgett, longtime nursery manager for Adams Fairacre Farms in Poughkeepsie, says he’d like to see more of his customers enjoy the fruits of fall planting. “I tell my customers that when they plant in the fall, they’re actually planting for the following year. They’re giving the plant a head start by giving its roots time to settle in the soil and have at least some growth before the demands of the following spring. Not everyone has caught on, but those that do have a lot of success with fall planting.” Padgett says the Adams Farms landscape crew has successfully planted trees as late as Christmas. 9/11 chronogram home 29
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Left: Container-grown evergreens in the Adams Fairacre Farms nursery. Right: Butterfly bushes can be planted or transplanted in fall.
Padgett makes a distinction between planting trees and shrubs and transplanting them. Trees and shrubs that have been grown in containers in the nursery or that were dug and balled and burlapped in the spring can be planted from late August until the ground freezes. By contrast, let’s say you want to transplant your weigela shrub (deciduous) or your boxwood (evergreen) from one spot to another in your yard. Deciduous shrubs like weigela, butterfly bush, and spireas should be transplanted after they lose their leaves. Evergreen shrubs like boxwood and hollies should be transplanted earlier—Padgett recommends late August and early September for evergreen transplanting. “If something’s not performing well,” he says, “don’t be afraid to move it.” His customers find that plants can take off when relocated to another part of the yard with different conditions. Almost everything in Padgett’s home garden was planted in the fall. It’s when he has more time to attend to his home garden, and he takes home a lot of “Charlie Brown” plants that didn’t sell in the Adams nursery and brings them back to health. But even if he didn’t have the time constraints in the spring, he would still opt for fall planting. Why don’t more people engage in autumn planting? Padgett says his industry has tried to get customers over to the fall planting camp, but it’s challenging. “In the nursery business, color sells,” he says. “More plant material is in bloom in the spring.” There are some exceptions, such as when shoppers see the exquisite, prolific purple berries on beautyberry in the fall. “Beautyberry gets overlooked in the spring, but when customers see the berries in the fall, they sell out fast,” Padgett says. Other plants that get some attention in fall include viburnums and Japanese maples with their red to orange fall leaf color and Knockout roses that bloom right up to frost. Padgett says that the most important part of aftercare is watering. “Mother Nature won’t take care of watering,” he says, “and that first fall and subsequent spring and summer is really critical. In the business we say, ‘First Year, Sleep; SecondYear, Creep;ThirdYear, Leap’—so expect to see the fruits of your labors
starting in year three.” This and other wisdom is what you can expect from interactions with Padgett and his nursery staff at Adams. And if you go in the fall, when sales are undeservedly slower, you will get that much more attention. One Million Trees Can’t Be Wrong If you need more convincing on the tree front, let’s consider how many trees get planted in cities in fall. Many upstate municipalities engage in fall planting programs, but what about the metropolis behind the ambitious and visionary MillionTreesNYC planting effort? Between 1998 and 2008, nearly 150,000 trees were planted in NewYork City, and about 48 percent of them were planted in the fall. Director of Street Tree Planting Matthew Stephens says, “We’d plant 90 percent in the fall if we could. We’d leave only 10 percent in spring for the sake of the many public events that occur then.” The reason the City doesn’t plant that ideal 90 percent in fall is limited resources:There is a 10-week window of planting, starting around November 1 and going until about New Year’s, and it is a feat to get as many trees in the ground as they do. Had they unlimited labor and equipment resources, they’d do most of their planting in fall. Stephens says, “When you see the trees planted in fall (and those planted in very early spring the following year), they just look noticeably better than those planted in mid to late spring.” RESOURCES Adams Fairacre Farms www.adamsfarms.com Cornell Guide for Planting & Maintaining Trees http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/3572 Fall is for PlantingVideo with Dr. Nina Bassuk, A Cornell Sustainable Landscapes Production www.vimeo.com/16315917 Million Trees NYC www.milliontreesnyc.org Tree and Shrub Transplanting Guide www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/recurbtree/index.html 9/11 chronogram home 31
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Silas Adams, 43, grew up in a large family in West Shokan in a house that had been in his mother’s family for six generations. For years, the pediatrician’s son bounced between Manhattan and San Francisco, managing a diverse range of construction endeavors before buying an 1850 home in the Saugerties hamlet of Malden in 2008. Since then, Adams has earned a glowing reputation as the diplomatic go-to general contractor for owners of antique homes. “My neighbors are diverse, interesting, and worldly people,” said Adams, who earned a master’s in architecture from RISD in 2005. “But there are a lot of houses in the area which are in desperate need of repair.” While not a realtor, the Internet adept is using his contact network to interest potential buyers in several extreme fixer-uppers nearby that may soon become available. He’d like to ward off more tear-downs of bargain-priced properties over a hundred years old that have recently been condemned or repossessed. Impecunious hippies once populated the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, still delightfully free of McMansions. Adams’s strength lies in guiding old-house owners toward appropriate, environmentally friendly construction and renovation that also makes economic sense. Communication skills honed during the three years Adams worked in hospitality management at Manhattan’s chic Royalton Hotel clearly help. That’s also where he discovered a world of people working in niche construction trades by choice, not default, and that many held advanced degrees. Bluestone industry workers built most of the 19th-century structures in Malden, using whatever building materials were readily available, employing a pastiche of architectural styles. Typically, Malden-made bricks topped by layers of wallpaper provided the insulation. From Adams’s residence he can see the Bristol Plat House, built as laborers’ rooming during the shipbuilding boom when the village was called Bristol. That framed stone house dates from the early 1800s; the Cooper-Hewitt Museum has dated the base layer of hand-blocked wallpaper from 1790. Present owners Bill and Geri Baker bought the dilapidated structure for $5,000 three decades ago. Its preservation has proved a fascinating hobby for the retired publishing executives who primarily live elsewhere in the state. But before the Bakers met Silas, they’d had a series of experiences with contractors that were as uneven and hodgepodge as their remarkable time-warp getaway, featured on May’s Saugerties Bicentennial Historic House Tour. Together with his brother Jeremiah, Silas is currently installing a cedar-shake roof on the Bristol Plat House and structurally correcting and beautifying a dormer built by someone without the benefit of Adams’s taste and education. The Bakers sing his praises. He’s getting lots of work by word-of-mouth. “I like the problem solving aspect of what I do,” said Adams. —Jennifer Farley Silas Adams Contracting: sadams01@gmail.com.
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“Nowhere in the Empire State is there a prettier spot than Saugerties. Located in the northeastern part of Ulster County at the foot of the famous Catskill Mountains, where the gentle Esopus Creek empties itself into the lordly Hudson River, and lying on an eminence commanding a fine prospect of all the surrounding country, a more charming place can scarcely be imagined.” —The Saugerties Post, November 1898
Early on, savvy business folk recognized that the flow of the Esopus was liquid gold. Lumber and bluestone, paper and paint and brick have fed generations of Saugerties families here in what was recently proclaimed “One of America’s Ten Coolest Small Towns.” Possibilities elegantly realized are a Saugerties trademark—and it’s those possibilities that have turned into plenty of good reasons to celebrate.
Shine On Saugerties
The historic lighthouse at the mouth of the Esopus Creek in Saugerties—the oldest one on the Hudson— has been continuously shining since it was built in 1869. Open to the public, today, the Saugerties Lighthouse is a working beacon, a charming bread-andbreakfast maintained by the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy, and the luminous inspiration for the current Shine on Saugerties outdoor public art installation presented by the Saugerties Area Chamber of Commerce and Saugerties Town/Village Economic Development Committee. Thanks to local artists, woodworker Marcus Arthur, and Native Lumber in Saugerties, dozens of uniquely designed and decorated wooden lighthouses, with operating solar lights, are illuminating the streets of the historic village business district as part of this bicentennial celebration year marking the town’s 1811 incorporation. October 1, the lighthouses go to the highest bidders at the “Shine On Saugerties” gala and benefit auction held at the Kiersted House on Main Street.
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TABLE TALK “Saugerties has always had oddly high-end organic,” muses Daisy Kramer-Bolle, who recently served up fresh homemade pizza on the grill from her deck overlooking the Esopus during the fourth annual Decks and Docks Tour, a popular summer fund-raiser put on by the Esopus Creek Conservancy that welcomes visitors to select waterfront homes where food and drink are served, along with the chance to see some of the town’s hidden treasures. “It started with Tamayo, “ she continues. “Now it’s really popping. You have Moroccan and Mediterranean at Fez. Love Bites is just fabulous. That’s where Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig ate when they came to town.” The foodie scene is riding a rising tide of taste: The proprietors of Miss Lucy’s Kitchen—the farmhouse restaurant and bar that features a daily market menu with local meats and produce—have just opened Cue, an open-air barbecue and live music venue. There’s fresh seafood at Mirabella and at Stella’s, signature chicken potpie at Hudson Valley Dessert Company, live music and Mexican fare at Main Street Restaurant, and award-winning bacon, egg and cheeseburgers at the Dutch Ale House. High end organic to traditional fare, it’s all here: You can alternate your noveau cuisine with pizza at the historic Exchange Hotel, dogs with everything from Dallas Hot Weiners, or a classic diner meal at the newly expanded and renovated Main Street Diner. In food, as in other areas, Saugerties makes new friends and keeps the old with style. “I absolutely love Lucky Chocolates,” says Kramer-Bolle. “When they first opened, I knew it would be great. I didn’t find out until later that they’re the same people that ran my favorite shop in LA.”
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RIVIERA REDUX “I used to live in St. Tropez,” says Daisy Kramer Bolle, the proprietor of Dig, a trend-setting fashionista’s paradise on Partition Street, “and my personal nickname for Saugerties is ‘The New Riviera.’” Bolle made a name for herself as a stylist in Los Angeles, dressing the likes of Jessica Alba and Hilary Duff, before returning to her Hudson Valley home turf to raise a family and open what she thought would be a small shop in Saugerties with her husband, Van Bolle. “I pictured this really laid-back scene, but it took me by surprise. People were shopping! Plus, there’s a young, hip crowd that’s tech-savvy, blasting the Saugerties message from the rooftops.” “What’s neat is the way the business community here works together,” she explains. “And we’re symbiotic, not that weird competitive junk. There are other clothing stores, but we’re all so unique. We have vintage and plus-size vintage at Sugartown, old-fashioned jewelry stores, batik, and original designs by Juda Leah. Then there’s Rock Star Rodeo [owner William Yosh]—he’s good friends with Jimmy Fallon, so we’re always getting these great shout outs for Saugerties.” Rock Star Rodeo advertises “vintage eccentricities,” home design items, and creative consulting for businesses. Historic, friendly Saugerties, as the welcome-to-town signs proclaim, has been a destination of note for antique lovers for years, with the eclectic cuisine of Cafe
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Tamayo and the classic lines of businesses like the Orpheum Theatre—built in 1890 as a vaudeville house and now a movie theater— and Montano’s Shoe Store helping define the historic downtown experience. The antique emporiums, too, partake of the benefits of entrepreneurial symbiosis that has energized the town. In Saugerties, along with a bevy of broad-spectrum purveyors of the old and fine, you’ll find niche antiquaries like Fed-On Lights, specializing in refurbished lighting pieces, and From Europe To You, an international concern handling unique pieces from Europe and Asia. Saugerties has the antique thing down cold but its prestigious reputation gets constantly bolstered by new growth like Green, a fanciful emporium of mid-century modern that blends vintage with new items made entirely from recycled materials. Green in Saugerties isn’t just about one store. In its bicentennial year, the town can point proudly to a thriving farmers’ market, a right-to-farm law, a completed open space plan, and a handful of cleantech firms. And recycling isn’t just about sorting cans and bottles. Kid Around Consignment is an exchange point for clothes, toys, and furniture that even offers a personal shopping service. Three playgrounds, a skate park, an ice rink, a sports auditorium, a sandy beach on the Esopus, and community celebrations are just a partial list of many kid-friendly offerings, including parental stress relievers like Shakti Yoga, where you can just walk in and take a class for $5.
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ART SMART & EVENTS HAPPY Art, too, nourishes the citizenry. The annual Saugerties Artists Studio Tour features works by an eclectic mix of sculptors, photographers, illustrators, potters, painters, furniture designers, and others, with new openings and shows going on in galleries and studios throughout the year. Each summer, the whole historic village becomes a gallery for public art. This year, the “Shine on Saugerties” theme celebrates the town’s classic lighthouse, one of literally hundreds of historic examples of the builder’s art that make up the town’s classic bone structure. Artlab, founded in 2004 by four local moms and their families, is dedicated to bringing high-quality arts to the children of Saugerties. In many towns, a car dealership is a rather workaday concern, but in Saugerties, Sawyer Motors turns the entire village into a giant classic car show once a year—just one of the many special events that run the gamut. Kids and Family Day September 10 at Cantine Field and the Mum Festival, an incredible collection of flowers planted in the public gardens of Seamon Park that has drawn thousands each weekend in the fall since the mid 1960’s, are community based. Then there are the gigantic magnet festivals that attract visitors from everywhere. The 2011 Hudson Valley Garlic Festival September 24-25 brings some 50,000 people to Cantine Field. From May to September, Saugerties hosts HITS (Horse Shows In The Sun), a world-class equestrian gathering that draws thousands of horsemen and riders to town. Success builds success, and the Saugerties that has won the hearts of equestrians will welcome a state-of-the-art hotel and conference center this fall, the Diamond Street Project. A recent collaboration between the Dominican Sisters, the Esopus Creek Conservancy, and Scenic Hudson has opened Falling Waters—a tranquil and ecologically important property blessed with rare Hudson River views and two sparkling waterfalls on a 192-acre preserve with more than a mile of riverfront—to the public. It’s yet another draw for a town that already welcomes visitors to its 1869 lighthouse, 1727 Kiersted House (home of the Saugerties Historical Society), and Opus 40—a quirky and wonderful sculptural extravaganza and nationally known earthworks built on six acres of abandoned bluestone quarry, a spectacular achievement and a fitting eulogy to what was once a major industry in Saugerties. Harvey Fite, the sculptor who spent 37 years crafting the magnificent Opus 40, might be amazed to hear his historic, friendly hometown described as the “New Riviera.” But Bolle is utterly serious. “How many towns have a place where the biker crowd hangs with the families eating ice cream? That would be Stella’s,” she says. “I love this town. We have everything. You don’t even need to go near a big-box for hardware; we’ve got Smith Hardware for that. Europeans who are traveling come here and they say it feels like home.”
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For Reel woodstock film festival preview By Jay Blotcher
Now in its 12th year, the Woodstock Film Festival (September 21-25) is an autumn tradition in the Mid-Hudson Valley, as vital and colorful and nurturing as the local harvest. For five days, it will be omnipresent, beckoning you with premieres, concerts, seminars, and parties. Once again this year, Chronogram’s preview of WFF offers a road map to the festival veteran and newcomer. Capsule reviews and interviews allow you to navigate through the week’s offerings more effectively. For specific show times, late-breaking information, and ticket sales, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com or call (845) 810-0131. Each year, WFF manages to skirt the growing pains that other independent festivals suffer, and re-emerge as a no-frills gathering of the faithful. Celebrity-politicos and indie studio icons are lauded, counterculture phenomena are celebrated and cult actors walk around Woodstock and Rhinebeck to polite acclaim. Let other film festivals grow in size and self-importance, WFF clings with the stubborn pride of an ageing hippie to its slogan “fiercely independent.” The leftie values of WFF, in place from the beginning, are merely reaffirmed year after year, to the delight of unreconstructed rebels, veteran counterculturists, and musicians who seek a liberal oasis from Tea Party rhetoric and baffling stances by a president who once seemed poised to undo the nightmare of the previous eight years. As the optimism of Election Night 2008 continues to erode, filmmakers have turned their fears, concerns and frustrations into a number of new narratives and docu-
mentaries that address our current plethora of follies: war born of religious strife, corporate corruption, middle-class poverty, the energy crisis, environmental pollution, and the multiheaded hydra known as celebrity culture. These topics and similar dilemmas will be screened at WFF, as will works that spotlight people who take a leap of faith and rush to the aid of their fellow earthlings. Festival co-founders Meira Blaustein and Laurent Rejto continue their benevolent reign. Like any labor of love, the festival remains a grass-roots affair; eager volunteers will try once again in vain to contain the surging lines of ticketholders for a buzzworthy screening. And once again, some yearning first-time director will receive a statue at the Gala Maverick Awards Ceremony (September 24) and dare to create a more audacious film next time. While WFF tends to emphasize substance over glitz, there is always star power in attendance, albeit of the hip, indie caliber. Ellen Barkin, fresh from a Tony win for the revival of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart,” will appear in the family drama Another Happy Day and accept the WFF Excellence in Acting Award. Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo will show up to receive the first honorary Meera Gandhi Giving Back Award for his honest and egoless work to fight fracking in New York and Pennsylvania. (See the Chronogram interview with Ruffalo on page 50.) The opening night film is the US premiere of Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding. In this film by WFF 2010 Honorary Maverick Award recipient Bruce Beresford (Driving
Miss Daisy) Catherine Keener plays a conservative lawyer who takes her teenage children to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother (Jane Fonda) in Woodstock. Shot and produced here, the opening night film will take place Thursday, September 22, at the newly renovated Woodstock Playhouse. Beresford, along with writers, producers and select cast will attend the Q&A after the screening. Last year, I joked that future Woodstock Film Festivals may dispense with screens and download its roster to your nearest smartphone. As multinational companies subsume a larger market share of new media, certain films that expose their environmental, fiscal, and ethical violations may find themselves without a mainstream venue, banished from megaplex screens, corporate-owned network television, certain websites and even your own iPhone. A sobering reminder that independent festivals like WFF are often the only forum for certain films that corporate America, in its infinite wisdom, prefers you not see. While less than a quarter of the WFF 2011 films were made available to me by press time, I spent the better part of my summer watching 34 different documentary and narrative works. Some will thrive briefly on the festival circuit. Others will deservedly find mainstream distribution. Too many others, however, owing to the uncompromising honesty of their subject matter, as well as a nonexistent marketing budget, may undeservedly disappear, to our detriment as filmgoers and as citizens of the world.
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weekend reunion, but the appearance of the gay prodigal son and his lover tests the family’s cohesion, especially that of his older brother, a minister. Fine ensemble acting and honest situations offer insight into family dynamics, as do several musical numbers. A heartfelt plea for compassion among all members of the family of man. Troy Schremmer stands out as the conflicted brother Thomas.
is 35, still living with his father and fighting off the passive-aggressive attentions of the daughter of a former high school friend (the engaging Brie Larson). At times wryly funny and at other times self-consciously gonzo, the film benefits from a game cast that exuberantly sells its quirky plotlines. Like the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, you’ll either loathe this tale or deem it a work of genius and a touchstone for life. Based on the novel by Douglas Light.
Of a Woodstock Film Festival roster of nearly 150 films this year, the following 34 were made available for Chronogram preview, as of a mid-August deadline. While the number of movie house screens receptive to indie films continues to shrink, small-budgeted, big-hearted projects still get their day in the sun at festivals like this one. These candid assessments, while occasionally harsh, are not meant to be deterrents. Everyone has a right to find his or her own bliss in a darkened cinema. • = denotes a Festival must-see by your Chronogram film critic
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COMING UP ROSES, directed by Lisa Albright Broadway musical legend Bernadette Peters plays a delusional woman whose theatrical triumphs lay behind her. Fantasizing of a comeback, she selects unworthy men to buoy her ego and buttress her clinical depression. One daughter has already fled the house in horror, yet another stays on, while slowly realizing there must be a better life out there. This tale is tough sledding, the bleakness almost incessant, but director Albright rewards our patience with some lighthearted moments and perceptive insights into adolescence. DOWNTOWN EXPRESS, directed by David Grubin A tale of the transformative powers of music and romance. Sasha (Philippe Quint) is a Russian émigré, playing violin in the subway with his father and brother. But he has dreams of classical virtuosity and studies with a Julliard School instructor. All that changes when he falls for Ramona (Nellie McKay), a rock singer. Recalling the plot of The Jazz Singer, a clash between old- and newworld values ensues. Guess which wins out? A genial cast with a lot of heart tries intently to put over this conventional love story.
• AN ORDINARY FAMILY, directed by Mike Akel At last, a film about homosexuality and religion where neither party is summarily demonized nor easy answers perfunctorily reached. A Texan Episcopal family holds a
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EAST FIFTH BLISS, directed by Michael Knowles Michael C. Hall leads a distinguished cast, including Lucy Liu, Peter Fonda, and Chris Messina in a slice of twisted life in New York’s East Village. Morris Bliss (Hall)
• LOSERS TAKE ALL, directed by Alex Steyermark A snarky but affectionate valentine to `80s punk-pop bands, this film tracks the rise and fall of The Fingers, a fictional band that picks up the scent of possible fame, fortune and endless groupie sex. So they take to the road and everything goes wrong. This low-budget gem faithfully recreates the `80s and catalogues the many standard characters on the rock scene: the double-crossing manager, the cheating girlfriend, the sleazy record company boss. A shaggy-dog tale buoyed by a lively cast of unknowns who deserve greater exposure.
• PAPER BIRDS, directed by Emilio Aragón An elaborate and sumptuous look at life among a traveling band of vaudevillians—two men and a boy—during Franco’s dictatorship in 1930s Spain. Originally an actor and TV director, Aragón has a predisposition to jerking tears and tickling funny bones with plot twists you can see from miles away. But the historic details, period dress and powerful performances in this grand story are so satisfying, they will persuade you to bend happily with the elaborate manipulations.
• THE LIE, directed by Joshua Leonard You recycle your garbage, dabble in New Age beliefs, and toe the line as a liberal, Southern California neohippie. And you still can’t win. Lonnie feels hemmed in by his job, wife and unfulfilled dreams. In retaliation, he concocts a terrible lie that brings a flood of support from neighbors and co-workers. But what will happen when the truth emerges? A provocative meditation on modern-day morality begins promisingly, abetted by a strong ensemble cast, but director (and lead) Leonard becomes hamstrung by the plot device, which eventually draws unwelcome laughs. Still, an interesting character study that augurs well for future projects. Adapted from a T. C. Boyle short story.
PONIES, directed by Nick Sandow Based on a play by Michael Batistick about the obsessive world of off-track betting, this film is a showcase for a fine ensemble of New York actors who enliven a too-familiar tale. The stand-out is lead John Ventimigla, who throws everything into his depiction of Drazen, a man possessed by get-rich-quick schemes. Equally an indictment of America’s treatment of immigrants and gambling. Tonye Patano is especially powerful as a surly window cashier. • SAHKANAGA, directed by John Henry Summerour Based on a true-life incident in 2002, this film has the biting observations and eccentric characters of a Southern Gothic short story. The director has a keen eye for stark, unsettling imagery—and a taste for raw irony—as he unfurls a tale of funeral home corruption in Walker County, Georgia.
96 MINUTES, directed by Aimée Lagos A harrowing tale of a chance (or inevitable?) collision between two classes of people: college students and townies—in Atlanta. Within one evening, four lives are changed forever. The director does not soft-pedal the violence and bigotry that thrive in this area, although her observations can often smack of good `ol white liberalism. A powerful cast surmounts the recurring simplicities of the script, especially Brittany Snow as Carly, Evan Ross as Dre, David Oyelowe as Duane, and J. Michael Trautmann as Kevin. THE OFF HOURS, directed by Megan Griffiths A literary-minded trucker, a divorced dad trying to make amends, a restless waitress, a Serbian expatriate who protects her heart while offering her body freely. Lost souls all, they congregate at a highway greasy spoon to stumble through their lives. Griffiths has a painter’s eye for exquisitely composed scenes and stories keenly observed. While the performances are delightfully understated, the storylines begin to meander aimlessly. A Grand Hotel for the mumblecore generation.
• SILVER TONGUES, directed by Simon Arthur A sadistic couple wanders the Eastern seaboard, colliding with hapless people and subjecting them to extreme psychological hoaxes. Director Arthur seems intent on unnerving filmgoers as well, layering the story with dark and unpleasant details. Lee Tergesen (“Oz”) and Enid Graham fearlessly play the twisted husband and wife, matched by a powerfully nuanced performance by Broadway musical veteran Harvey Evans. Not a likable film by any stretch, but its raw storytelling commands a begrudging respect.
• BOMBAY BEACH, directed by Alma Har’el The most compelling documentary of this year’s festival, this film follows the families who inhabit a desolate area on the edges of Salton City, California, a model community that flourished briefly in the 1960s. Poverty and its attendant companions—alcoholism, violence—dog these people, some who have given in and others who hope for a better life. These poignant, compassionate, but never cloying portraits are leavened by eerily beautiful cinematography and spasms of choreography directed by Paula Present. A very special look into hurting lives. • CAPE SPIN, directed by Robbie Gemmel & John Kirby A 2008 plan to install 130 wind turbines in Cape Cod’s Nantucket Sound raised NIMBY protests from the seersucker set that summers nearby, and resulted in some dubious alliances between environmental boosters and Big Energy. This film briskly and vividly documents the protests, the hearings, the propaganda, and the science behind the controversy, pointing out the downsides of each contingent’s solution. The saga is laid out with an upbeat irreverence, which helps somewhat in easing the pain of viewing this depressingly honest tale of a matter still unresolved.
• CORMAN’S WORLD, directed by Alex Stapleton The king of Hollywood budget pictures from the `50s through `70s, Roger Corman must be pleased with this cinematic tribute: While titans such as Scorsese, Bogdonavich, Howard, and Demme are interviewed—they all once worked for Corman—the settings are no-frills or sometimes even on the fly (Bruce Dern holds forth while having his hair cut). Despite a reputation for churning out horror and sex films, Corman has watched time burnish his legend (he finally was given a Lifetime Achievement Oscar). Now lauded as a pioneer of indie cinema, he dissects his career and its motivations with dignity and humility. A dazzling and rightfully irreverent portrait of an unlikely hero of modern cinema.
• TILT, directed by Viktor Chouchkov, Jr. Youth gang life in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989. Between skateboarding and dubbing black-market porn, Stash, Angel, B-Gum, and Snake are trying to stay ahead of the Communist police. But there is a traitor among them, tipping off the cops to their next scheme. Restless adolescence in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, about to topple. A sprawling, kinetic account of honor among thieves and love against all odds. Familiar themes are jacked up by arresting cinematography and a sexy and gifted ensemble cast, especially Yavor Baharoff as the idealistic Stash and Ivaylo Dragiev as the traitorous Angel. • ON THE ICE, directed by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean A gang of friends talks ghetto slang, smokes weed, gets drunk at parties and raps and then discovers crack. But this isn’t the inner city: This is Barrow, Alaska, life among Inuit teens. When a simmering rivalry results in tragedy, two friends go to extreme lengths to conceal the truth. This film effectively weaves together ancient codes of honor with modern social problems in a tale of moral conflict. An effective cast, most of them amateurs, gives this story its substantial heft. Starring Josiah Patkotak as the compassionate Qalli and Frank Qutoq Irelan as his troubled friend Aivaaq. The most engaging of the narrative films screened for the festival.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES ADVENTURES IN PLYMPTOONS, directed by Alexia Anastasio The sly, anarchic cartoonist Bill Plympton has gotten the biography he and his artwork merit: a down-and-dirty, low-budget affair that includes merciless roastings by some very special friends: Terry Gilliam, Ed Begley Jr., Moby, Keith Carradine, Martha Plimpton, and Ron Jeremy, the latter appearing in flagrante during the interview. We learn that Plympton’s quirky genius was on display from the start of his Oregon childhood, allowing his talent years to flower into the joyous nihilism we now behold.
• DEAF JAM, directed by Judy Lieff In a school for hearing-impaired teens in Queens, a new program will teach students to marry their sign language to poetry slamming. The result is a powerful means of communication that is equal parts therapy and entertainment, touching on issues of deaf identity, politics, and self-awareness. As the group hones its craft and attends poetry slams across the city, Aneta Brodski, a Russian Jew from Israel, emerges as a charismatic, beautiful, and eloquent poetess. A joyous celebration of personal expression that also takes note of the recurring challenges facing the hearing impaired.
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• DOLPHIN BOY, directed by Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir An Arab teen from Eilat, Israel, beaten by neighbors into a traumatic mental retreat, is coaxed back into life by the ministrations of dolphins that repair his shattered mind and restore his faith in other living things. Profound but not didactic, moving but not mawkish, this film simply records the miracles that nature proffers.
losophy. Yet when he attempts to tell people he is a liar, they tune out the confession. How Gandhi extricates himself from a persona that people have come to love and trust suggests the dilemma facing Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, and the result is equally bittersweet, revealing volumes about human nature. Alternately laugh-out-loud absurd and unexpectedly touching, Kumaré is—dare I say?—a revelation.
infant deaths that go on for years. When USMC Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger, who lost a daughter to this negligence, launched a private investigation in 1997, he was stonewalled by the very institution he had pledged eternal allegiance. Told methodically and sensitively but without unseemly dramatics, this powerful story will raise your blood pressure and have you screaming for justice. • SKATEISTAN, directed by Kai Sehr Most of us just fret over the fiscal and diplomatic black hole known as Afghanistan, which wrenches $91 million in operating costs from America every day. Australian Oliver Percovich had another reaction, akin to lighting a single candle rather than cursing the darkness. His disarming act of genius was to introduce the country’s teens to skateboards. A piece of fiberglass with two wheels became the great equalizer for young lives torn apart by poverty and religious conflict. Cinematographer Ralf K. Dobrick grabs breathtaking tracking shots, closely following the children’s swift flights through traffic, across parks, and through the trash of this savaged landscape. A life-affirming film.
• FAT COWS, LEAN COWS, directed by Meni Elias Yossi, an Israeli, has run a dairy farm not far from Gaza since 1958. His assistants are a Bedouin and a Thai man. They live in peace, while Hamas continues its terrorist attacks nearby. But Yossi is ailing and there are imminent changes to the farm. With a spare visual eloquence that veers easily into the poetic, the director captures moments of conflict, love, and indecision among these co-workers and friends. A powerful and profound meditation on life that will haunt you long afterward. FIGHTVILLE, directed by Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker This portrait of the men from Louisiana who participate in mixed martial arts benefits from staggering cinematography that fetishizes muscles, sweat, and blood. Detractors call this sport human cockfighting, and there are scenes from several bouts that justify such an appellation. But the members of Gladiators Academy defend their careers and achieve eloquent, if self-delusional, heights in doing so. For all the high-minded talk about catching dreams, attaining fame, and being noble warriors, this is ultimately just about men with a surfeit of testosterone who get paid for beating the crap out of one another. Anybody opposed to such carnage will not have their minds changed by this film. FREAKS IN LOVE, directed by David Koslowski & Skizz Cyzyk The `80s New York City band Alice Donut made discordant music like any self-respecting punk-art group, but they split off from the rabble by sporting a sense of humor, as witnessed by albums titled Revenge Fantasies of the Impotent and The Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children. Nurtured by Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, the band called its quits years ago. But in 2009 they reunited for a tour, which propels this film, a lively and irreverently adoring tribute not only to the band but also to the East Village, a war zone that spawned similarly transgressive acts.
• KUMARÉ, directed by Vikram Gandhi As audacious as Borat but ultimately more kindly, this film sprang from a battle with religious skepticism. Unable to feel at home in his Indian religion, Gandhi embarks on a quest for knowledge that also happens to be an elaborate hoax. He assumes the identity of a fake guru, Sri Kumaré and ventures forth to find the faithful. People believe his made-up yoga moves and pretzel-logic phi44 woodstock film festival ChronograM 9/11
MORE TO LIVE FOR, directed by Noah Hutton Three men suffer from cancer and their lives depend on a bone marrow transplant. The film follows their search for the perfect match, while their efforts awaken others to the need for bone marrow donations. We meet Grammy-winning saxophonist Michael Brecker, entrepreneur James Chippendale, and Nigerian athlete Seun Adebiyi. Unflinching in its documentation of their plight and unstinting good cheer in the face of the setbacks, the film ultimately instills a sense of hope.
SOMETHING VENTURED, directed by Dan Geller & Dayna Goldfine Geeks and financiers alike will thrill to this history of venture capitalists that bankrolled fledgling companies such as Intel, Cisco, Atari, Genentech and Apple in the 60s and 70s, resulting in our current cyber-civilization. But for the rest of us, these privileged white men in suits offer no insight as to why they dug into their deep pockets for such iffy projects. Also missing is the human drama that would enliven such a retelling. Archival footage and graphics alleviate the torpor somewhat. But the moral of the story seems to be: It takes dull people to make money.
9 PIANOS, directed by Gillian Farrell with Ana Beinhart Practicing random acts of kindness is more than mere bumper-sticker advice. Kingston-based piano teacher and tuner Adam Markowitz lived it, donating nine instruments to New Orleans residents, schools, clubs, and churches. (See sidebar on page 48.) THE OTHER F WORD, directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins Would you take your favorite punk rocker as seriously if you saw him changing a diaper? For those musicians who didn’t self-destruct, fatherhood became the second act. This film is an unexpected delight, examining the identity crisis that comes from being a veteran rebel who now must instill civility in his offspring. Wise, witty, and rueful observations on being a model daddy are offered by Jim Lindberg of Pennywise and Flea of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as members of Rancid, blink-182, Bad Religion, and Total Chaos.
• POETRY OF RESILIENCE, directed by Katja Esson Modern verse can often reflect narcissism, but the works of the poets depicted here say much more: They bear witness to political injustices as they occurred in Rhawanda, Mao’s China, Japan’s Hiroshima, the Holocaust, Vietnam, and 1980s Nicaragua. Thirty poets from wartorn countries gathered in Massachusetts to share their poetry, which served as catharsis, accusation, and an exhortation to never forget. This film is effortlessly moving and simply rendered, the verses emerging and fading on the screen as they are recited. SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL directed by Rachel Libert & Tony Hardmon Yet another salient example of how the military betrays its faithful. At Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in the 1970s, the improper disposal of solvents led to water contamination, resulting in a rash of birth defects, cancers, and
• TAKING A CHANCE ON GOD, directed by Brendan Fay Would you believe there was a time when Catholics fought for racial justice and protested the Vietnam War, marched against nuclear proliferation and delivered food and clothes to the ghettos of America? John J. McNeil did all of that, plus more: He called for church compassion towards homosexuals. How McNeil handled his subsequent expulsion, while making literary history and scaring the church elders again, is the subject of this brisk, concise, and even-handed tribute to a low-key iconoclast. UNRAVELED, directed by Marc H. Simon While Bernard Madoff earned the world’s scorn for his multibillion bilking, Manhattan attorney Marc Dreier’s hedge fund fraud case, unfurling at the same time, was overshadowed. In a series of merciless interviews, conducted in Dreier’s Upper East Side penthouse before he was sentenced in July 2009, the Machiavellian huckster revisits his fall from grace with an unsettling intelligence, eloquence, and sangfroid, intent on obtaining the cushiest prison sentence and accommodations possible. Simon has constructed a fascinating psychological portrait of a complex but still repellent man. THE WELCOME, directed by Kim Shelton & Michael Meade On Memorial Day weekend 2008, 24 veterans from several American wars gathered in Oregon for a special weekend of healing. Drawing equally from Native American culture and psychological analysis, the moderator asked each person to share their stories, of the traumas they faced in war and the punishing reentry into civilian life. “I don’t want to be defensive,” veteran Eli Painted Crow yells. “I just want to be heard with your hearts.” Potent psychodrama follows, but so does reconciliation through the beating down of demons in this thoughtfully composed film.
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An interview with Gillian Farrell and Ana Beinhart Since New Orleans began its slow but determined slog back from oblivion in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (and governmental neglect), there have been many humane gestures directed toward this wounded phoenix. While most assistance efforts have tried to address pragmatic needs such as food and shelter, New Orleans has needed help in healing its soul as well. One of the more simply expressed, but profound, contributions to that end came from the Mid-Hudson Valley. Adam Markowitz, a Kingston-based piano dealer, recognized that the devastated city needed an immediate transfusion of music to rejuvenate its people. So Markowitz selected nine pianos from his inventory and drove them down to The Big Easy, accompanied by his dog Walter. Woodstock-based directors Gillian Farrell and Ana Beinhart accompanied man and dog to record Markowitz’s quest. 9 Pianos unfolds as a small series of miracles that restore hope and will in the form of eighty-eight keys. 9 Pianos tugs unabashedly at your heart, but it will also beckon your feet to follow as the churches, schools, and homes that received the Markowitz pianos return to life. 9 Pianos will have its world premiere at WFF. In an e-mail interview, Gillian Farrell said, “Music is the heartbeat of New Orleans.” Her film demonstrates how Markowitz conducted nine very special heart transplants. “In the face of such adversity, everyone was looking for the key to a greater victory,” she added. “Now they had 88.” Farrell first learned of Markowitz’s plan on the front page of the Woodstock Times. Having worked primarily in theater, she then established the artist-inresidence program at SUNY Ulster. At one point, she combined her artistry and progressive beliefs for a cable access show on Free Speech TV, “In Your Face.” The show highlighted politicians and musicians like Maurice Hinchey and Pete Seeger. Farrell began making short films for the show, learning the craft as she progressed. 9 Pianos was the first time she considered a fulllength documentary, but the purity of Markowitz’s mission inspired her: “I felt it was a lovely film idea.” Farrell had a history with the city; her first Actor’s Equity job had been there, performing opposite Roddy McDowall at an old gambling casino-turned-theater. “My life changed (for the better and in a big way) in New Orleans and I felt this was an opportunity to give back something to the city I love.” Within two days, Farrell and Beinhart were trailing the piano van down the Thruway. (Farrell had been back five years ago, volunteering at city hall after the devastation, sorting out water and power bills that were being sent to homes that no longer existed.) “One of the things I noticed in those first few months after Katrina,” Farrell said, “was that there were more musicians playing on the streets and more music than ever before.” Markowitz’s musical donations will continue to contribute to the city’s renaissance, she said. “This uncommon man had such determination in bringing literally tons of pianos to New Orleans,” Farrell said. “He was unstoppable, methodical, and got the job done. He delivered nine pianos in a day all throughout New Orleans.” Farrell returned to the city at a later date to interview the beneficiaries. Farrell and Beinhart had no game plan, save for documenting what unfolded in real time. The strategy worked. “I planned nothing. I shot what was in front of me. I got some set pieces on New Orleans, but one of the things I learned as an actress is to be in the moment. What I got, I got. What I missed, I missed, and my job was to eventually make what I did shoot work.” Maintaining a documentarian’s distance for 9 Pianos was not Farrell’s agenda. “It was actually an honor to be in New Orleans at that crucial time,” she said, “with so many people in desperate need and when so little meant so much—and when a piano could make the difference between the vast silent wasteland and that same space being filled with the sound of music and hope.” —Jay Blotcher 46 galleries & museums ChronograM 9/11
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I want to get a sense of how this began for you in terms of taking a stand. Did it happen even before becoming an actor? I see that your father comes from the Baha’i faith. Social justice is a big part of that. I was actually raised in a Catholic household. My grandmother was a born-again Christian, evangelical. All three of those religions were steeped in social justice, especially coming out of the `70s, the civil rights movement. The Baha’is really saw that what you do to your neighbor, you’re doing to yourself, you’re doing to your brother. It’s definitely the teachings of Christ. Whether I really attach myself to any religious beliefs right now, those kind of beliefs resonated most deeply with me as a boy and growing up. It became a great part of my moral compass. To what extent do you separate these two worlds: your acting and your political work? Do they overlap? Has there been a time where, for instance, you didn’t take a role because you objected to it politically? I haven’t been put in the position yet where my activism has come up against the culture of acting. Although I do find myself being pulled to things that interest me on a deeper level than just being an actor. I can say that there’s one place where I’ve been able, as an actor, to help shape the debate culturally on an issue that’s been important to me, which is gay marriage. That’s something that I’ve also been fighting for, marriage equality, starting with Proposition 8 in Los Angeles when I was living there and back in New York. The movie The Kids Are All Right I thought was a really beautiful movie that illustrated the beauty and the commonality that a gay couple has with just about every other family. I think that that movie, in a way that wasn’t a polemic, helped shape the debate of gay marriage and has helped usher in a time of tolerance for gay marriage. And I’m really proud of that.
Red Carpet Agitator An Interview with Actor-Activist Mark Ruffalo When actor Mark Ruffalo initially learned that hydraulic fracturing was coming to his hometown of Callicoon Center, a Sullivan County burg that sits above the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, he thought it seemed like a good idea. But when Ruffalo ventured beyond the propaganda disseminated by the energy industry and learned about the hazards of fracking, he did an abrupt about-face. He began visiting communities damaged by fracking, hosted screening parties for the Josh Fox documentary Gasland, spoke to reporters, and requested meetings in Albany and Harrisburg. For his troubles, he was tailed by the Department of Homeland Security and slammed by conservative media. But Ruffalo was not cowed; he had already taken stands against the Iraq War and in support of marriage equality, all the while drawing plaudits for a growing body of film work, includes roles in Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shutter Island, and The Kids Are All Right, which earned him an Oscar nod. For his exuberant and eloquent community activism, Mark Ruffalo will be honored at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival’s Gala Maverick Awards Ceremony with the first Giving Back Award, named for and presented by director and social activist Meera Gandhi. Ruffalo said of the distinction, “I’m very humbled by it; it belongs to hundreds of thousands of other people, equally as it belongs to me.” Ramsay Adams, executive director of the environmental group Catskill Mountainkeeper, said of his ally, “Mark is the real deal.” After a chance meeting in a diner, Ruffalo pledged his support to Adams. It wasn’t mere lip service; Ruffalo has since spoken at several Mountainkeeper antifracking events and now sits on its board. “He is a true champion and voice for the underdog.” Speaking by cell phone in mid-July from the New Mexico set of his new film, The Avengers, Ruffalo reflected, over a half-hour interview, on his responsibility as an artist, how childhood shaped his social conscience, and why he’s unlikely to follow other film stars into electoral politics. —Jay Blotcher We live in a celebrity-driven era and people are more likely to listen to celebrities than politicians, which makes your mission an effective one. [Laughs.] Yeah, it’s unfortunate that we’ve come to a place where celebrity has more credibility than most politicians. But that’s where we find ourselves. But the place of an artist has always been, historically, fighting for social justice, for civil rights, usually for the greater good. I was taught from [famed acting coach] Stella Adler that that was part of your responsibility as an actor, that you had a responsibility to the people and the culture that you operated in. And it was an enormous responsibility. You were expected to pay back, give back to that in some way. What I’m doing, it’s what I was taught to do, it’s what I believe an artist should do. 48 galleries & museums ChronograM 9/11
Any temptation to enter politics? No, I’ve spent a lot of time in Albany, I’ve spent a good amount of time in Washington, DC. Those are tough places. I’m beginning to wonder how effective you can be within an office. I don’t know for sure; I don’t know if you can be more effective outside of an office, in the capacity that I’ve been trying to be effective. You talk to a lot of the politicians and there’s a real broken feeling from a lot of them. I had a very prominent Democratic congressman basically close the door and say [to me], “Hey listen, Washington, DC, is awash in gas and oil lobbyist money. I’m totally on board with what you’re trying to do, but all I can do is wish you luck.” And that’s the culture that they’re operating in. I don’t think I could do that. Part of what keeps me going is the belief that it can get better. If I didn’t have that hope, I don’t know that I’d be effective at all. Mark Ruffalo will receive the Giving Back Award on September 24 at the Gala Maverick Awards Ceremony at Backstage Productions, 323 Wall Street in Kingston. For attendance information, visit www.woodstockfilmfestival.com.
Mark Ruffalo in Shutter Island.
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euphorbia, naomi teppich. part of “the farm project 2011: collaborative concepts at saunders farm,” an exhibition of over 70 artists on a 140-acre working farm in garrison, september 3-october 30.
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WEST BRIDGE STREET, SAUGERTIES 246-1618. “Works by Wayne Sittner.” September 22-October 23. Opening Thursday, September 22, 6pm-8pm.
129-600 MAIN ST, BEACON www.beaconarts.org. “Windows on Main Street.” Art exhibition displayed in storefront windows located along Main Street. Through September 10.
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22 EAST MARKET STREET, RHINEBECK 505-6040. “Christie Scheele: Fullness of Time - Celebrating a Twelve-Year Gallery Partnership.” Through September 11. “The Luminous Landscape™ 2011.” 14th annual invitational exhibition; solo exhibit: Arnold Levine. September 24-November 12. Opening Saturday, September 24, 5pm-8pm.
521 KENNICUT ROAD, MAHOPAC 628-3664. “2011 Fall Photography Show.” September 11-25. Opening Sunday, September 11, 3pm-5pm.
ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940x119. “Breaking Boundaries: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics.” Through September 24.
ARTS UPSTAIRS 60 MAIN ST., PHOENICIA 688-2142. “Meadows and Mountains.” Through September 13. “Paintings by Liz Smyth.” Through September 13. “Square Deal.” Rita Schwab. Through September 13.
BARRETT ART CENTER 55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “Barrett Art Center Faculty and Student Exhibition.” September 10-October 8. Opening Sunday, September 11, 2pm-4pm.
BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Perfectly Imperfect.” Michael Gaydos, Works on Paper and Catherine Welshman, New Gouache Paintings. Through September 4. “Surrealism, Expressionism and Candy Boxes.” New work by Grey Zeien. September 10-October 2. Opening Saturday, September 10, 6pm-9pm.
BROTHERHOOD WINERY 100 BROTHERHOOD PLAZA DRIVE, WASHINGTONVILLE www.brotherhood-winery.com. “Beyond the Horizon.” Peer-reviewed fine art photography. Through September 22.
CABANE STUDIOS FINE ART GALLERY AND PHOTOGRAPHY 38 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-5490. “Works by George Neher.” New photographs made in and around Shandaken, NY. Through September 16.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Natural History.” Archeological sculptures by Linda Cross, mixed media paintings by Ragellah Rourke, and linear color paintings by Ralph Stout. September 22-October 30. Opening Saturday, September 24, 6pm-8pm.
CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK 59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957. “Rewriting Loss.” Photographs and film by Carla Shapiro. September 10-October 9. Opening Saturday, September 10, 5pm-7pm.
CHATHAM HOLISTIC HEALING ARTS 3 RAILROAD AVENUE, CHATHAM (518) 392-3339. “From Waiting Rooms to Freedom: An Outsider Exhibit.” Through September 9.
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116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “New Works by Bill Pangburn.” Through September 11. “New Works by Renee Magnati.” Through September 11.
209 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6213. “Food for Thought.” Interpretations and thoughts about food expressed through art in this multimedia show celebrating the joy of bounty and connection to food. September 16.
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DIA 3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON. 440-0100. “Dan Wilson: The Pure Awareness of the Absolute/Discussions.” September 3-October 1. “Franz Erhard Walther: Work as Action.” Through February 2012.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Landscapes and Still Lifes.” Elaine Ralston, pastels. September 3-25. Opening Saturday, September 3, 5pm-8pm.
THE farm project 2011 saunders farm, 853 albany post road, garrison 528-1797. A show featuring 70 artists produced by Collaborative Concepts. September 3-October 30. Opening Saturday, September 3, 1pm-6pm.
FOVEA EXHIBITIONS 143 MAIN ST, BEACON 765-2199. “Children of the Cheyenne Nation by Emily Schiffer.” Medium format black & white photographs as well as photographs by her students. Through September 4. “September 11: Photography of Hale Gurland.” September 10-November 6. Opening Saturday, September 10, 5pm-9pm.
THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum.” European drawings. September 16-December 11. Opening Friday, September 16, 6pm.
GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Lynn Bianchi: Continuum.” Through September 26.
THE GALLERY AT PRUDENTIAL NUTSHELL REALTY 3056 RT. 213E. & RT. 209, STONE RIDGE 687-2200. “Horse Eye to Eye.” Pat Travis, pastel drawings, Connie Fiedler, oils. Through September 10.
THE GALLERY AT STILL RIVER EDITIONS 128 EAST LIBERTY STREET, DANBURY, CONNECTICUT (203) 791-1474. “Moments of Grace: Portraits by Ben Larrabee.” Photography show. Through October 28. Opening Thursday, September 8, 5:30pm-7:30pm.
GALLERY ON THE GREEN 7 ARCH STREET, PAWLING 855-3900. “Dog Days.” Exhibition of dogs in art in tribute to the late artist Leslie Enders Lee. Through September 17.
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77 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 514-2923. “Brooklyn-Kingston Exchange Project.” Video art, music/performance, paintings and object-based work by emerging conceptual artists from the Brooklyn and the Kingston area. September 10-25. Opening Saturday, September 10, 5:45pm-8pm.
GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Current 2011: Summer Sculpture Exhibition.” Through October 10.
THE HARRISON GALLERY 39 SPRING STREET, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 458-1700. “Watercolors: Peter Hussey.” September 3-28. Opening Saturday, September 3, 5pm-7pm.
HEALING ART GALLERY ELLENVILLE REGIONAL HOSPITAL, ELLENVILLE 647-6400 ext. 286. “Expansion Series 2011.” Mixed media assemblage of recent works by Diane Boisvert. Through September 9.
HUDSON BEACH GLASS 162 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-0068. “Insum Kim: Sculpture.” Through September 5. “Sheilah Rechtschaffer: Pastels and Paintings.” Through September 5.
HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “Pre (History).” Maureen Cummins and Quinn Cummins-Lune. Through September 24.
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. September 18-July 31. Opening Sunday, September 18, 4pm-7pm.
JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. Peter McCaffrey, Ben Butler, Susan Chrysler White, Fran O’Neill and Christopher Walsh. Through September 11. La Wilson, Drew Goerlitz, Gillian Jagger, Margrit Lewczuk, Craig Olson, Liv Aanrud. September 15-October 9. Opening Saturday, September 17, 6pm-8pm.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Mysterier.” Leonor Anker, Elisa Jensen, Natalie Moore, Torild Stray. Through September 24.
KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON www.kmoca.org. “Visceral: Recent Works and Reactions.” By Alicia Mikles, Sigrid Sarda, and Deborah Zlotsky. September 3-30. Opening Saturday, September 3, 5pm-7pm.
KLEINERT/JAMES ARTS CENTER 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “The Medium and the Message.” Digital art. Through September 4. “Eccentric Portraits.” September 9-October 16. Opening Saturday, September 10, 4pm-6pm.
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LA BELLA BISTRO 194 MAIN STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-2633. “World Illuminations.” Photographs by Jillian Brown; landscapes near and far illuminating a fresh world view. Through September 22.
LONG DOCK BEACON BEACON 471-7477. “The Great Hudson River Exhibition.” Through September 4.
LOVEBIRD STUDIOS 430C MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE 594-4505. “The Garden of Eden and After.” Paintings by Michael X. Rose. September 3-30. Opening Saturday, September 3, 6pm-9pm.
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MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Simply Complex.” Pastel paintings by Marlene Wiedenbaum. September 10-October 17. Opening Saturday, September 10, 6pm-8pm. “There’s A Summer Place.” Summer-themed works. Through September 6.
MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. “Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.” Through March 19.
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE 5720 STATE ROUTE 9G, HUDSON (518) 828-0135. “FARM: Agricultural Life of the Hudson Valley.” Photographer Brandt Bolding. Through October 30.
ORANGE HALL GALLERY ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, MIDDLETOWN 341-4790. “Mending Wall.” a nostalgic, pen and ink reflection of dedication and commitment, as characterized by Orange County’s agriculture community by Robert Harry Score. Through September 15. “Watercolors of Times to Remember.” Paintings by Walter Bill. Through September 15.
RE INSTITUTE 1395 BOSTON CORNERS ROAD, MILLERTON www.theReInstitute.com. “Vade Mecum.” Works by Virginia Lavado and Camilo Rojas. Through September 4.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. “The Horizon Line.” New paintings by Ellen A. Lewis. Through September 5.
ROOS ARTS 449 MAIN STREET, ROSENDALE (718) 755-4726. “Re:location.” New work Nancy Murphy Spicer. Through September 17.
SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART
SCOTT AND BOWNE FINE ART AND FURNISHINGS 27 NORTH MAIN ST. #1, KENT, CONNECTICUT (860) 592-0207. “The Four Seasons of the Field.” George Wittman. Through September 5. “Up, Up, and Away.” David Klein. September 17-October 16. Opening Saturday, September 17, 5pm-7pm.
SOLAQUA 343 ROUTE 295, CHATHAM (518) 392-4000. “Eco Artist Exposition.” Through September 18.
THADDEUS KWIAT PROJECTS 1536 ROUTE 212, STUDIO #C, SAUGERTIES (917) 456-7496. “Anthony Krauss.” Small works for larger installations. Through October 2.
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SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ 257-3858. “Hudson Valley Artists: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty.” Through November 13. “Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium.” Through December 11. Opening Saturday, September 17, 5pm-7pm.
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60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Invitational: Greene County Council on the Arts.” Through January 30. “Never the Same.” Exhibit of paintings and prints by Marie Cole. September 16-October 9. Opening Saturday, September 17, 6pm-8pm.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ 255-5482. “Monochrome.” Explore the beauty and tension between black and white. Through October 9.
UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “American Earth.” Artwork of John Bridges, curated by Eileen Hedley and April Warren. September 9-27. Opening Friday, September 9, 5pm-7pm.
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VASSAR COLLEGE’S JAMES W. PALMER GALLERY RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5370. “Long Reach Arts at Vassar College.” September 29-October 16. Opening Thursday, October 6, 5pm-7pm.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Drawn to Paint.” Featuring the works of Bob Oliver and George Hayes, and introducing Emerging Artist Gloria Detore-Mackie. September 3-30. Opening Saturday, September 3, 5pm-7pm.
WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION 330 MORTON ROAD, RHINEBECK 876-4818. “Modern Art & the Romantic Landscape.” Through October 31.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Cats and Caricatures.” Peggy Bacon. Through October 9.
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WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD 34 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Quick, Down and Dirty.” Focus on outdoor furniture & landscape/ garden accessory constructions, many of them site-specific. Through November 6.
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Colossus Among Us Sonny Rollins
sonny rollins at the new jersey performing arts center in newark on may 13, 2011.
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ay 13, 2011. Sonny Rollins is about to step onto the stage of Newark’s immense, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The air in the packed hall crackles with electricity. The jazz icon doesn’t play out as much these days, and everybody knows it’s going to be a great night for music. The creator of some of the most innovative, beautiful, and life-affirming sounds ever etched onto the canvas we call the universe, the titanic tenor saxophonist and composer of such jazz standards as “St. Thomas,” “Oleo,” “Doxy,” and “Airegin” is also, at 81, one of the last-standing figures of the original bebop and hard bop eras. When the maestro at last appears it’s to the thunderous love of the audience, and he’s every inch the legend. Somewhat bent with time and carrying his horn as he ambles out, Rollins wears shades, a loose, white, smock-like shirt, and a wonderfully tousled head of pure white hair. As he arranges the band’s charts onto their music stands, the effect is that of a cool Albert Einstein handing out worksheets to his students. But the professorial image soon evaporates when he puts the reed to his lips and kicks things off with an impossibly buoyant bounce through the calypso-tinged “Nice Lady.” As he propels the band, which tonight includes ace guitarist Peter Bernstein and longtime bassist Bob Cranshaw, through a nearly 20-minute version of the tune, as the leader dances around the stage, pumps the air with a fist, and blows one golden solo line after another. Then, with barely a pause, it’s straight into another long, up-tempo number, a goose bump-inducing “They Say That Falling in Love is Wonderful.” And, with a few heart-stopping ballads along the way, that’s pretty much how the show goes—and goes and goes. It closes with a reprise of “Nice Lady” that gets the audience out of its chairs and pressed against the lip of the bandstand as Rollins steps right up front to honk and wail above their bobbing heads. All of this from a man who reportedly said he’d planned to retire six years ago. “Did I say that? I must’ve been having a bad day,” quips Rollins a few months later, adding that, despite the fact that the Newark concert ran nearly two hours, “At my age, I can’t play as long as I’d like to.The ideas in my mind might be flying, but my embochure [the lip technique of wind instrument players] might be giving me trouble on a certain day. But I’m still always trying to play something new. I’m still a student myself.” “Sonny Rollins is arguably the greatest long-form improviser in the history of jazz,” says WKCR’s Phil Schaap, the “Dean of NewYork jazz radio” for over four decades and a Grammy-winning producer and archivist. “His influence is incalculable. There’s so much Sonny in other saxophonists’ sounds that they don’t even realize how much is in there themselves. [Rollins] is the primary reason many players have become improvisers. He’s truly one of the chosen few. And he represents the jazz story as well as any living person.” Rollins’s parents emigrated from the Virgin Islands to Harlem, where he was born in 1930. Inside the household his mother would sing her native calypsos—a vein he’d later famously mine for “St. Thomas” and other compositions—and, outside, the Sugar Hill neighborhood was at the peak of the Harlem Renaissance that nurtured so much great art. “I used to listen to Fats Waller on the radio, he’s what first pulled my coat to the beauty of jazz, you might say,” recalls Rollins, who at a young age briefly took lessons on the family’s player piano. “Later on, my friends and I would go the Apollo Theater, which was very close by, to see all of the big bands: Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine when Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon were with him.” When he wasn’t watching bands Rollins was often in movie houses, where, via the big-production musicals of the day, he began to cultivate his legendarily voluminous repertoire of Great American Songbook classics. At age 13 Rollins started on alto saxophone, in emulation of proto-R&B/jump jazz king Louis Jordan. It was a decisive period. “As soon as I started playing,” he remembers, “I knew that this was what my life was going to be.” He soon switched to tenor after falling under the spells of Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins, especially the latter. It was while playing in a high school band with fellow future legends altoist Jackie MacLean, pianist Kenny Drew, and drummer Art Taylor that Rollins began to cultivate his style, a sound that, while evincing the bold, advanced harmonic technique of Hawkins and the fleet, supple phrasing of Young, somehow also transcends both. In the 1940s bebop was emerging in NewYork and Rollins was right there with it. “I heard [saxphonist] Don Byas’s record of ‘Ko-Ko,’ a Charlie Parker tune,” says Rollins. “I didn’t know anything about Charlie Parker then, but I loved the tune. So from there my friends and I started to get onto what he and Dizzy Gillespie were doing, and we started to follow their gigs and meet other musicians.” Rollins’s first recording session was in 1948 with vocalist and Beat poet Babs Gonzales; dates with Parker, drummer Art Blakey, trumpeter Fats Navarro, pianist Bud Powell, and others soon followed. In 1951 he joined Miles Davis’s band, with whom he recorded several key LPs for the Prestige label. “I remember I’d just gotten into Miles’s band, and we were in the studio,” Rollins says. “Miles didn’t really give a lot of direction. If you were in his band it was because he saw something simpatico in you, that was why you were there. He had this habit where if you did something he liked he’d focus his attention on it, to let you know. So we were recording, and something I played made Miles look over at me. And he smiled in admiration. I realized I’d arrived, I’d really achieved something.”
It was an intoxicating time in the jazz world, with Rollins and his peers taking the music from the breakneck athletics of bebop into the earthier, soulful realm of hard bop. But, unfortunately, due to the encroachment of hard drugs for many musicians the period was also intoxicating for much darker reasons. Rollins was among them, and was even briefly imprisoned on related charges. But in 1953, after kicking his habit, he came back like a fiery hurricane. He signed on with another giant, Thelonious Monk (“He saw something embryonic in me that I didn’t quite know I had yet”), and collaborated with the Modern Jazz Quartet. By 1956 he was in the top-flight Clifford Brown/ Max Roach quintet while concurrently leading his own trio through the albums that cemented his legend: Tenor Madness, featuring John Coltrane, and Saxophone Colossus (both Prestige Records). Writing about the latter’s “Blue 7,” composer and essayist Gunther Schuller praised the piece for displaying a new method of “thematic improvisation,” in which the soloist reworks motifs based on the theme. This approach would become an influential door-opener for a new generation of players. “I was first saw Mr. Rollins at [New York club] Birdland in 1963,” recalls Poughkeepsiean multi-reedist Joe McPhee. “The impact on me, personally, was immeasurable on many levels. As a result of that experience, when I got the opportunity I recorded a version of “Oleo,” which is arguably one of my best efforts.” Rollins’s surprising arrangements of the cowboy pop songs “I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grand)” and “Wagon Wheels” on 1957’s top-selling Way Out West (Contemporary Records) remade them from “corny” show tunes into hip jazz standards, while 1958’s cathartic Freedom Suite (Riverside Records) heatedly voiced the discontent of the civil rights movement. As the ’60s approached Rollins was soaring, winning one Down Beat poll after another and mounting in international popularity. But then he did something that would become almost as much of a career trademark as his music itself: He walked away. Over the course of his nearly 70 years behind the horn, Rollins has become known for taking lengthy sabbaticals to reassess his music and reflect on his life path. The first and most notable of these breaks came in 1959, when, unhappy with both the music business and his own playing, Rollins retreated for two years. So as not to disturb a pregnant neighbor, he began practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge—unintentionally creating the now archetypal image of a lone saxophonist blowing soulfully in the urban night.When he re-emerged it was with the tellingly named The Bridge (1962, RCA Victor Records), one of his biggest-selling LPs. “I wouldn’t want to say that [taking career breaks] is the right thing for everyone, but it has been for me,” says Rollins. During the 1960s he enjoyed a fruitful period with trumpeter Don Cherry and made more revelatory recordings, including one with his hero Coleman Hawkins, 1963’s Sonny Meets Hawk (RCA). His sublime soundtrack work for the 1966 movie Alfie connected him with an even bigger audience, before he entered another time-off period to study yoga, meditation, and Eastern religion in Japan and India. He resumed playing in the early ’70s with a run of successful records combining contemporary and fusion jazz, and later played, uncredited, on “Waiting on a Friend” and two other tracks on the Rolling Stones’ TattooYou (1981, Virgin Records). Rollins and his late wife, Lucille, bought a house in 1972 in Germantown. Until the events of 9/11, they had an apartment in Lower Manhattan. “We lived six blocks away from the World Trade Center,” he recalls. “When we heard the explosions, I grabbed my horn and we ran out. We were very lucky to have someplace else to go.” In 2004 he was awarded his second Grammy for Without a Song:The 9/11 Concert (Four Star Records), a powerfully profound set taped four days after the attacks (his first Grammy was for 2000’s This Is What I Do on Universal Distribution). While international recognition still floods in—Sweden’s Polar Music Prize in 2007, Austria’s Cross of Honor in 2009—Rollins continues to cherish his local community, and earlier this year played at Hudson’s Club Helsinki to benefit Columbia Memorial Hospital. Rollins’s newest offering is Road Shows, vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy Records), which costars guitarist Jim Hall, drummer Roy Haynes, bassist Christian McBride, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and fellow saxophone behemoth Ornette Coleman on awe-inspiring performances from an 80th birthday concert in NewYork and two shows in Japan. It’s an album every bit as searching and affecting as his vanguard records. Before launching into the final tune of the Newark concert, Rollins, seemingly sensing the unease of the dark and uncertain world outside, tells the audience, “There’s nothing to worry about.You have nothing to fear. If you can look the man in the mirror in the face, then everything’s going to be okay. I’m not afraid of anything.” When asked about it later, he chuckles. “Sometimes at the end of my concerts I feel like I want to connect more with the audience,” he explains. “I meant that you have to be able to face your creator, whatever that means to you. To have a clear conscience. It’s easy to lose sight of that. To be able to separate your body from your soul while you’re still here, it’s really a big leap of faith.” And as an artist whose art and life is defined by one leap of faith after another, does Rollins have anything he’d like to add to those show-closing words? “Not really,” he says. “I think I’m just gonna go clean my horn and practice.” Road Shows, vol. 2 will be released September 15 on Doxy/Emarcy Records. www.sonnyrollins.com. 9/11 ChronograM music 55
nightlife highlights Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
Roger McGuinn Fri, 9/2 8:30pm MITCH WOODS & His Rocket 88s; guest Petey Hop Sat, 9/3 8:30pm GANDALF MURPHY & THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS Sun, 9/4 7:30pm ERAN TROY DANNER Band Fri, 9/9 8:30pm SPAMPINATO BROTHERS, of NRBQ; guest Latini & Nowak Sat, 9/10 8:30pm JOY KILLS SORROW; guest Brett Randell Sun, 9/11 7:30pm SHOWCASE EVENING Wed, 9/14 7:30pm Acoustic STRAWBS Fri, 9/16 8:30pm STEVE FORBERT Sat, 9/17 8:30pm CHRIS O’LEARY Band
Sun, 9/18 4:00 pm THE CHAIN GANG, performing• music of The Beatles Fri, 9/23 8:30pm AZTEC TWO-STEP Sat, 9/24 8:30pm ELLIS PAUL Sun, 9/25 7:30pm MARIA MULDAUR & her Red Hot Blusiana Band Fri, 9/30 8:30pm NENAD BACH Band; guest Marci Geller Sat, 10/1 8:30pm DEBBIE DAVIES Blues Band Sun, 10/2 7:30pm HOLLY NEAR Fri, 10/7 8:30pm HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN
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September 9. In the mid 1960s the Byrds, led by singer and guitarist Roger McGuinn, whohere lands once again at the Egg, blended the sounds of the Beatles and Bob Dylan to become the leading architects of folk rock—and even ended up influencing the Fabs and the Bard, themselves. By adding elements of Eastern music, avant jazz, and electronic experimentalism to their lush vocal harmonies and ringing guitars, the Byrds also helped forge psychedelia and paved the runway for Tom Petty, R.E.M., and anyone else who’s ever plugged in an electric 12-string. (James Farm, featuring Joshua Redman, jazzes it up September 22; original “Rent” cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp perform September 24.) 8pm. $29.50. Albany. (518) 473-1845; www.theegg.org.
The Jam Messengers September 14. According to their MySpace page, international blues-punk duo the Jam Messengers—front man Rob K and drummer/singer/guitarist (all at the same time!) Uncle Butcher—are “on a mission: nothing less than resuscitating the sorry carcass of rock ’n’ roll! This once proud music has been abandoned to angst-ridden crybabies and buckhungry charlatans.” Word. And these guys have the pedigree to revive the rock: Rob K was the singer and bassist of ’70s DC punks the Chumps and New York’s Workdogs, who frequently backed up Jon Spencer; Brazil’s Uncle Butcher had been plying his primitive one-man band act across several releases before the pair formed. (Barn Owl swoops in September 12; Japanese Gum and Avondale Airforce take off October 1.) 7pm. $5. Hudson. (518) 671-6006; www.thespottydog.com.
Jazzstock with Sheila Jordan and Cameron Brown September 11. The Colony Cafe’s Jazzstock series, curated by local chanteuse Teri Roiger and bassist John Menegon (“Fathead” Newman), has been presenting top talent since June and culminates with a weekend blowout next month. September’s installment features vocalist supreme Sheila Jordan, who got her start nearly 50 years ago with Herbie Nichols and has worked with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow; this date finds her paired with another frequent partner, bassist Cameron Brown, a veteran of the bands of Art Blakey, George Russell, Booker Ervin, Donald Byrd, and others. (Joe Lovano closes the series’ two-day finale October 9-10.) 7pm. $15. Woodstock. (845) 679-5342; www.jazzstock.com.
Lucky Tubb September 17. The great nephew of country immortal Ernest Tubb carries the twangy torch of his proud lineage while spicing up his namesake’s honky tonk flavor with rockabilly, Cajun, and Western swing. Here, in support of the newish Damn the Luck, Lucky and his Modern Day Troubadors make a welcome return to the Basement. The quintet’s classic sound of guitar, fiddle, slap bass, pedal steel, dobro, and mandolin will have you scootin’ in your boots and cryin’ in your beer. (The All-Out Surf Luau Party brings the Icepicks, Rebel Surfers, Mighty Surf Lords, and more September 2; Drag the River and Lenny Lashley rock September 27.) 9pm. Call for ticket info. Kingston. (845) 338-0744; www.basementvenue.com.
So Percussion September 18. The innovative So Percussion’s four members, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Beach, were recently appointed co-directors of the Bard College Conservatory’s new percussion department. The group, which this month plays the Richard B. Fisher Center’s Conservatory Sundays series, is best known for performing works by “serious” composers like Steve Reich, Arvo Part, and David Lang, but it also collaborates with such edgy rock acts as the Dirty Projectors, Dan Deacon, Matmos, and Glenn Kotche. (The Merce Cunningham Dance Company dazzles September 9-11.) 3pm. $15, $20. Annandale-on-Hudson. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu.
so percussion play the fisher center at bard college on september 20.
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cd reviews Rasputina Great American Gingerbread (2011, Filthy Bonnet Co.)
This eighth Rasputina release is a limited-edition compilation by the quirky rock band led by Hudson songwriter/ vocalist and one-time Nirvana cellist Melora Creager, the corset-clad goth queen who has also churned out such weird wonders as “Transylvanian Concubine” (heard on TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and subsequently remixed by Marilyn Manson). The 14-track B-side beauty she’s offering up here is something the 17th-century songstress has kept under her skirts for quite awhile. Mostly recorded in the early 2000s, this is a delightful stash of unreleased soundtrack material (instrumentals “On My Knees” and “Loom”), haunting covers (“I Go to Sleep,” a Pretenders rendition of a Kinks song), unused demos (two versions of the whacked-out “Black Hole Hunter”), and songs pulled from compilations. Combining chamber music, hard rock, punk, and pop with oddly layered vocal harmonies, this diehard-fan record also features a sparse yet screeching remake of old favorite “Gingerbread Coffin” (“Pudding Crypt”), the funny and frisky “Do What I Do,” “The Ballad of Lizzie Borden,” which Creager wrote when she was seven, and one of her ever-bizarre spoken-word pieces, “Mysterious Man-Monkey,” based on a BBC newscast about a creature terrorizing New Delhi. A bonus DVD of an intimate 2002 gig at the Knitting Factory in New York shows one of Rasputina’s earlier lineups performing old favorites, a Q&A session between songs, and, of course, Creager’s idiosyncratic wit, which has charmed audiences for the past 15 years. www.rasputina.com. —Sharon Nichols
The Jonny Monster Band The Jonny Monster Band (2011, Independent)
Trafficking in the kind of amped-up, gutbucket electric blues rock perfected by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter, New Paltz trio the Jonny Monster Band puts forth a convincing take on a venerable style on its self-titled debut. Comprised of guitar maestro Jonny Monster (aka John Klenck) and bass player Rob Kissner of Hudson Valley reggae/rocksteady faves the Big Takeover, along with drummer Roger LaRochelle, the JMB wrings every last drop of emotion from the blues rock rag on the 10 tracks featured on this long player. Monster/Klenck has the world-weary, cigarettes-and-alcohol vocals that suit this material just fine. Songs like “Drunken Joke” and “Bad Cream” are set at a lurching, lugubrious pace, all the better for some serious, note-bending solos that give convincing resonance to lyrics of lives shattered on the rocks of booze, smokes, and bad romance. The up-tempo numbers are some of the best on the album. “Whiskey and Smoke” features some visceral, slashing slide guitar swathed in a buzz of distortion. “Not So Magic” opens with a funky bit of drum kit bashing, giving way to some great bass-guitar interplay amid multiple tempo changes. “Money Tree” has the kind of focused shuffle that recalls the sides cut for Sun Records by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two. Closing track “We Could Rule” features the best dynamics of any song, with a slinky bass line, catchy riff, and an intensity that gains momentum to a climax of squalling, feedback-drenched guitar pyrotechnics. www.jonnymonsterband.com. —Jeremy Schwartz
Various Artists Unison Arts Center: 35 Years (2010, Independent)
Odetta, Artie Traum, and Betty McDonald are gone. Their music lives on, though, not least of all on 35 Years, a compilation recording from Unison Arts Center. Odetta’s stately voice intones Sippie Wallace’s “You Got to Know Her,” calling from the past yet as timeless as ever; Traum’s effortless guitar percolates beneath “Rusty Iron Bridge,” still speaking with strength and grace; and MacDonald honors every musical ghost with her Billie Holiday tribute, “Sweet Gardenia.” It’s not unusual for longstanding venues to celebrate their own history with live albums, and Unison’s effort—recorded over a span of seven years on location at the center’s own theater, as well as at anniversary celebrations at SUNY New Paltz—fits right in that mold. As a listening experience, 35 Years may be a bit too eclectic for its own good—with Samite of Uganda sharing space with John Gorka, and the Assad Family bouncing up against Patrick Street—but as a representation of Unison’s breadth, quality, and vision it’s a wonderful document. Dala’s “Red is the Rose,” for example, is a sparkling vocal workout, redolent with youth and suggesting a bright future for the duo and for the center. Howard Levy’s remarkable solo harmonica rendering of “Amazing Grace” speaks to the craft of great musicians, the deep history of American song, and the value of small stages willing to keep every stripe of music alive. And David Mallett’s stone classic “The Garden Song” reminds all that life is hardly worth living if we don’t sing along. www.unisonarts.org. —Michael Eck
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smeralda Santiago is in transit. This isn’t unusual for the bestselling author, who often commutes between northern Westchester and coastal Maine, but in the weeks since her new novel Conquistadora (Knopf, 2011) was published, her travel map has included a bicoastal swath of American cities. Conquistadora’s book tour began in Puerto Rico, where most of the novel is set—and where Santiago’s memoirs When IWas Puerto Rican (Da Capo, 1993) and Almost a Woman (Vintage, 1999) are frequent flyers on high school curricula. The reception was “awesome, amazing. Big crowds,” Santiago reports. “Readers love to tell me their own family stories. My signings are marathon affairs. They like to talk, I like to talk—it can go on for hours.” Set in the mid-19th century, Conquistadora launches a projected series following multiple generations of the same family through the twists and turns of Puerto Rican history. Its complex, willful heroine, Ana Cubillas, dreams of leaving her native Spain for the island where one of her ancestors landed with Ponce de Leon. Marrying one of a pair of identical twins who covertly share her affections, she becomes mistress of an ill-fated sugar plantation, Hacienda los Gemelos. Ana chafes at her oppression by men, but willingly accepts her role as a slaveholder, even while forming deeper human connections with certain slaves than with her own son. Even Severo Fuentes, the sensual plantation manager who falls in love with Ana, describes her as “hard, hard, hard.” Her unswerving passions are land and legacy: “She never asked why she’d focused all her energy and sorrow on the fate and fortunes of Hacienda los Gemelos. She only knew that from the moment she saw it, the land and everything and everyone within its borders were essential to her existence. It couldn’t be questioned, challenged, or explained. It just was.” “Women like this exist today: CEOs, political women,” Santiago observes. “This is what they must do. If a man did it, it would be okay, but if a woman is single-minded, willing to sacrifice her personal life to reach her goals, that’s negative.” Though she clearly admires her heroine’s drive, Santiago says, “I don’t think she would like me. I’m not as focused and visionary—I have a lot of family and close friends who are important to me. She deliberately isolates herself to follow her vision.” So does the author, in shorter stints. Santiago and her husband of 31 years, documentary filmmaker Frank Cantor, share a spacious, art-filled house in Katonah and a second home overlooking a working lobster pound outside Port Clyde, Maine. Though she and Cantor frequently go there together or with their two grown children, Santiago also uses it as a getaway for solo writing binges, during which her car may sit in the driveway untouched for a week between grocery-shopping excursions. She keeps in touch with her husband by phone and iChat, with an occasional neighbor dropping by to make sure she’s all right. Other than that, her only companions are the voices in her head. They’re extraordinarily talkative. Santiago’s previous books include a third memoir, The Turkish Lover (Da Capo, 2005), the just-filmed novel America’s Dream (HarperCollins, 1996), and the children’s book A Doll for Navidades (Scholastic, 2005); she’s also co-edited two anthologies with Joie Davidow. Though she’s not sure exactly how many novels will follow Conquistadora, Santiago has mapped out the saga of Ana’s descendants in an ambitious long arc. Her narrative employs multiple viewpoints, including the unexpected perspectives and heartbreaking stories of several African slaves. “From the very earliest, I wanted to write about one character and her story, but also how others see her,” she says. “When we look at ourselves in a mirror, sometimes the image we see is different. We learn more from how others see us.” The oldest of 11 children, Santiago was born in the San Juan suburb Santurce and spent most of her childhood in rural Macun, “uncontaminated by American culture.” (In When I Was Puerto Rican, she describes the first incursion of norteamericano school meals to hilarious effect.) Her mismatched parents eventually split up, and her mother moved her brood to New York when Esmeralda was 13. “There was a concerted effort on the part of the government to get rid of millions of poor Puerto Ricans,” she says. “They used to give people a one-way ticket.” When I Was Puerto Rican vividly evokes the sights, smells, and sounds of island life and the culture shock of relocating to wintry Brooklyn. Still struggling with English, the feisty teenager auditioned for LaGuardia Perform-
ing Arts High School, where she majored in drama and dance. In 1976, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Santiago still has a theatrical presence, and it’s easy to superimpose her earthy, strong-featured beauty and distinctive dark brows with the photographs of her younger self adorning the covers of all three memoirs. Of the photo for When I Was Puerto Rican, she says, “That photographer wanted me to be his muse, his model. I was 18, very flattered he followed me around. I didn’t realize he wanted to get in my pants.” She laughs. “When I found out, I was so offended! I was so innocent. I was not allowed to date, I didn’t think that way.” Almost a Woman’s cover photo was taken by her niece; The Turkish Lover’s, by Cantor, shortly after they met. There’s a large reproduction of it on the staircase to Santiago’s writing office, a lushly feminine nest full of silk pillows and draped rebozos, family photos, a dangling Balinese mermaid, and an informal altar with carved Buddhas, incense, and amethyst. The bookshelves are labeled with librarian neatness, and two walls are covered with dry-erase whiteboards, one with word lists for a bilingual alphabet book, the other with timelines for Conquistadora and copious post-its. Above is a quotation from Middlemarch—“A Mind Weighted With Unpublished Matter”—while below, a stand displays rows of Victorian studio portraits, purchased for five dollars at a Maine garage sale. “They’re from the same time as my characters,” Santiago explains. “One of the reasons I live in Maine is that I have many weird and peculiar habits that if I did around my family, they’d have me committed. I call the muses forth. ‘Okay, what’s up with you guys? Come!’ I clap, I ring temple bells to call them in. If speaking doesn’t work, I tickle my bells. These kinds of rituals are very, very helpful for a writer,” she says with a shrug. “I’m not a drinker or drug taker, so I have to come up with something.” Santiago finds the creative process mysterious. “I really don’t believe I’m creating anything. What I’m doing is setting down something that’s coming to me from some mystical source that I don’t understand, but don’t want to get mad at me.” Her laugh is full and rich. “I really believe your muses as an artist are these forces that are there to help you and nurture you, but you have to help them, too. I call them my duendes.” Santiago came late to publishing. After her graduation from Harvard, she and Cantor formed CANTOMEDIA, a film and media production company specializing in educational documentaries about artists and environmental issues, with Santiago as writer and producer to Cantor’s cameraman/director/ editor. Eventually, she also started to write for newspapers and magazines. An autobiographical essay in the Radcliffe Quarterly caught the eye of book editor Merloyd Lawrence, who invited her to write a memoir about her childhood. There was only one problem: Santiago couldn’t remember it. “I’d made a huge effort to block out the less pleasant aspects of life—I just consistently move forward,” she says. “I’m very Taurean that way, just plowing ahead. But the more I looked back, the more I saw.” Writing down the details of her few clear memories unlocked many more. It was a deeply emotional process. “I cry a lot, especially with the memoirs. Not just little tears, but gut-wrenching, my God.You need to experience it in the writing, but there’s a whole other level you reexperience in order to write it. When you’re writing, are you reliving it? Yes. That’s why memoir is so hard, and scary, if you’re honest.” “You have to develop confidence you don’t have,” Santiago attests. “Every book I’m going to write is already written in my head. As writers, we work against that—our confidence falters, we fall into procrastination, we get distracted. I have to really trust the fact that I know what I’m doing. It’s there, you just have to get it out. And nobody else can get it out but you.” In Cantor’s documentary Writing a Life, Santiago is addressing an auditorium full of Bronx high school students when a young man stands up and says that her book was the first one he’d ever finished. She’s heard the same thing in copious e-mails from readers, both Spanish and English speaking. “It’s fantastic. They read one book, and they love it, and discover they love reading. I get just chills when I get those sort of messages,” she exults. This may be why the rigors of an extended book tour don’t faze Esmeralda Santiago. After 10 years of intensive research and a long stretch of wrestling with her duendes, the author is eager to share the fruits of her labors. “It’s really exciting to know that it’s out there and people are reading it. It’s not just inside my head.” Esmerelda Santiago will read at the Katonah Library on 9/27 at 7:30pm. 9/11 ChronograM books 59
SHORT TAKES Small press publishers are a breed apart. Celebrate their literary vision with these outstanding new books by Hudson Valley writers. Jesse’s Ghost
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Heyday, 2011, $20
Longtime Vassar professor Bergon pulls no punches with this gritty tale set in California’s San Joaquin Valley. His working-class antihero, a two-fisted brawler with a tortured conscience, narrates “the story of how I came to kill my best friend” with a hardscrabble eloquence that recalls John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie. Reading 9/9 at 7:30pm, Oblong Books, Rhinebeck. Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of TÁhirih Janet Ruhe-Schoen Baha’i Publishing, 2001, $18
In 1848, the same summer that suffragists gathered in Seneca Falls, an Iranian poet named Táhirih (“the Pure One”) entered a tent full of men with her face unveiled, provoking howls of outrage, death threats, and an onlooker’s suicide. Beacon author RuheSchoen revisits this feminist martyr in prose that sings and soars. Reading 9/15 at 2pm, Howland Public Library, Beacon My Reach Susan Fox Rogers Cornell University Press, 2011, $21
A kayaker has an especially intimate relationship with her surroundings, and Tivoli resident Rogers is a peerless observer of life on the Hudson, including her own. Like the craft she favors, her graceful memoir seems to glide effortlessly yet constantly dips below the surface, moving fluidly from the sound of katydids and the tidal habits of spatterdock to revelations of loss and love. Reading at 9/23 at 7:30pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck Janet Planet Eleanor Lerman Mayapple Press, 2011, $16.95
What better way to celebrate Mayapple Press’s arrival in Woodstock than this peyote-fueled saga of rebirth on Tinker Street? NBA-nominated poet Lerman’s eponymous heroine, a youthful devotee of a fictionalized Carlos Castaneda, encounters a blast from her past on the Village Green. Who says there are no second acts in American lives? Reading 9/16 at 7pm, Golden Notebook at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. The Mommy & Me Fishing Trip and Other Plays Terry M. Sandler JAC Publishing, 2011, $6.75
Newburgh actor/teacher Sandler is a bold playwright, unafraid of sentimental or spiky emotions. In the title one-act, a mother coddles and rants as her son catches nothing but boots; after her death, he hooks something miraculous. “Two Boys and a Balloon” is a witty theatrical riff on aggression; “Duck Talk” deals with relationship anxiety, and “When the Bedbugs Bite,” with unspeakable loss. Bravo! Pancake Hollow Primer: A Hudson Valley Story Lawrence Carr Codhill Press, 2011, $15
A Gulf War veteran inherits a neglected farmhouse, “Handing down its history to those who take the time / to take the time.” In this deft interweaving of poetry, prose, journal entries, and eloquent lists, SUNY New Paltz professor Carr digs deep as his hero sifts through the house’s vertical history, unlocking its secrets and slowly releasing his own. “A gift was given, and the house stood sound and safe.”
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he suicide of one’s child is an unimaginably horrible thought, and Steve Hamilton uses this simple truth to chilling effect in Misery Bay, creating a calculated trail of vengeance that his taciturn, driven investigator Alex McKnight must untangle. The setting is northern Michigan in winter, a place so bleak and punishing that the question of why anyone wants to live there (instead of, say, Kingston, New York, where Hamilton’s Night Work unfolds) might be considered a mystery in itself—one that puzzles quite a few of the residents as much as anyone. But live there they do, and enforcing the law in such a place is a chilly business. When it becomes cruelly clear that a killer is targeting cops and their children, the law enforcement establishment faces an agony that strikes home; McKnight and a police chief he’s never much liked are thrown together by the need to outpace the FBI—not for pride, but for survival. Hamilton builds the suspense like a master, bringing us into an emotional landscape as bleak as the physical surroundings, tantalizing with snippets of the unknown fiend’s point of view, twisting and turning at bobsled speed to a climax that stuns. If you like a good cop yarn, a psychological thriller, a thoughful hero, and an evocative landscape, Hamilton’s got you covered on all fronts. Hotel No Tell is as evocative of lower Manhattan as Misery Bay is of upper Michigan, and as hilarious as Hamilton’s book is grim. Daphne Uviller’s heroine Zephyr, with her first real grown up job in law enforcement among wisecracking detectives who call her “Zepha Z,” is a New York gal through and through, with a bevy of old pals from prep school, a deliciously quirky family, and a warm heart laced liberally with Attitude. When there’s foul play afoot at the Greenwich Village Hotel, Zephyr goes undercover and finds herself dealing with dysfunctional rich folks, an elderly Japanese hitwoman with a Yiddish take on life, a group of plastered New Zealanders belting out lines from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a fertility clinic, to name just a few. The fertility angle is ironic, given that Zephyr’s boyfriend and parents all think she ought to reproduce, and the idea gives her the horrors. Bright and eager to please her enigmatic supervisor Pippa, who’s given to collecting Lucite handbags and holding secret meetings on the ferry, Zephyr wades in swinging. Her worlds overlap and collide in hilarious ways. “Macy told us you might be late. She says you’re working undercover,” a prep school buddy’s famous husband blithely greets her at a party. “So did you decide to bear your lover’s children?” a suspect she’s grilling inquires at a crucial moment. People always seem to figure Zephyr out; somehow, she stays two steps ahead and gives as good as she gets. “Where’d you get your eggs?” she asks a dear friend. “I used to go to the Union Square Farmers’ Market; now I go to Stop and Shop. I still get the cage-free.” “I meant the eggs that made your children.” Not everybody could pull it off, but Zephyr can, and one hopes Poughkeepsie resident Uviller will look downriver and find more trouble for her to get mixed up in soon. —Anne Pyburn
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enyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir One Day I Will Write About This Place is a kaleidoscopic keyhole that offers fresh insights on globalism, tribalism and the decolonizing process. Director of the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College, Wainaina received the Caine Prize for Discovering Home. Spanning Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Togo, his memoir conveys the drifts in mood and consciousness that accompany political change with the assuredness of a Rift Valley cattleman reading cloud patterns: “Now that the state is failing, we are held together by small grace, by interpersonal relationships, by trusting body language.” A lackluster student while pursuing a degree in finance at South Africa’s University of Transkei during the final days of apartheid, the author portrays himself in a solitary slum of literary bohemia—rent unpaid, days spent in bed reading Nadine Gordimer and Saul Bellow amidst “crumbs of cigarette coal” and dirty cups. It is a familiar picture, a cliché that many have lived, but the voice is rangier than most: “The candle roars to light, spluttering like late-night cats fucking near the garage outside.” A devourer of mass market romance novels as a boy, he imagines early on that he probably has what it takes to publish bestsellers and enjoy a life of sports cars and pizza: “The Argentinean polo player has melting eyes and thick eyelashes ... they heat up blacker and shinier, blacker and velvetier.” Like Joyce or Kerouac, Wainaina has a knack for bending language to display the contours of a child’s perceptions: “Icing tastes in your mouth like Styrofoam sounds when it is rubbed against itself.” As he comes of age, the idea of the artist’s life begins to seem problematic. After reading Kenya’s most famous writer, the banned and exiled Ngúgí wa Thiong’o, he reflects, “I fear writers; they want to go too deep and mess up the clear stepladders to success. I cannot see myself being this sort of person. I dream of studying advertising.” His memoir, nonetheless, traces the education of a rough and tumble aesthete with decidedly antibourgeois instincts: a gourmand of barbeque goat and warm beer who parties lavishly with a rural chief; a prober of authenticity who expands vividly on the connection between corrugated metal roofing and the “rang-tang-tang” of Congolese music; an appreciator of advertorial murals and a deconstructionist of sentimentalized negritude. Recalling a painting that hung in his family’s kitchen, he observes, “That look, that slight toying smile, could not have happened with an actual Nandi woman. The lips too. The mouth strives too hard for symmetry, to apologize for its thickness.” A credible reporter on the complexities of transculturation, Wainaina recounts being on a plane seated next to a white man who chats with him in Kiswahili—”His accent is perfect; his tone, rhythm, everything. His timing is all wrong…And his exquisite politeness is rude….I must nod, and say, ‘Ndio, ahaa, eh? Yes. Ohh!’ Eyebrows up, and eyes wide in mock interest.” Reading and booksigning 9/16 at 7:30pm, at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —Marx Dorrity
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip Levine. Deadline for our October is September 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com\submissions.
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Mom: Behave! Tom: I’m being as have as I can. —Tom Wininger (3 years old)
On Marriage You feel the dead at the wedding. Imagine two families, like two oceans, crashing together from dubious ancestries. From the first “I do,” will you be two or one person? The most I can do, if you’ll indulge me, is tell you what I think about: Look at the figures on the wedding cake. Imagine them trading roles, faces. When they speak, their parents’ voices inhabit them like a nightmare. Even the beautiful, the newly inspired, find that the only way through rough seas is to cling together, which is dangerous, which hurts. You may feel there is no safe bottom holding, no release over top, no soft chair inside. You know it can be divine. You’ll know when you close your eyes. —Carla Carlson
Architecturally Speaking I would like to liken the poem its construction “cutting it out” (Olson) of the space the con fines of a sheet of Southwork paper by me or someone better equipped to do the job to the incident this afternoon on the way to the park sack slung over right shoulder filled with the incidence of moving along the road bare chested belly sucked in beltless at one point passing six men two trucks their tools grimaces the ledge behind the back seat of one an old GMC pickup lined with beer bottles empties by their look rattling to a stop beside the hole where the new water main installation had been completed days before measuring the scene its consequences potential kineticisms between their fingers the air the metallic thrump spades unloaded shovels picks scraping the rear gate lowered a gray coarse batter coming to life spilling the edges gritty the fingers whitening defining form troweling off the finishing touches stepping back at arms length the worth of it a new place to place your foot. —William Hayes
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Summer, Left Behind Once when I was summer, I rained the summer rain, rained. It shone and I became its shimmer, went glimmering. Rain rang and I pounded its loudening pelt, round rain. Oh, the grief of worlds, the thieving words at last will outlast you, spoke in frozen voices. Pry frosted pane, your fall, your lost lips. Know the unknown autumn, the parables of wind. Once when I was winter you were left behind. I ran the circus snow, snowed. Summer, you were left behind. Once I was winter’s wand, summer you were left behind. —Robert DiLallo
Queens Emerging from thick years of coffee, of gin and cigarettes, I feel like my teeth. There is nothing else at night but ages of television. The infomercials start and I masturbate to the color of your eyeshadow. New York, don’t bother me. I’m too tired from decades of bashing my head against the window frame. Most days I think, aren’t; there isn’t enough space. The pears hang thin all summer weeping from their branches. —Joanna Vogel
Lazy Sunday With My 6 + 1 “Lazy Sunday” (a digital short) by Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell originally aired December 17, 2005 on “Saturday Night Live.” Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon, Call Ragusa just to see how he’s doin’ Hello? What up Rags? Yo Mar what’s happenin’? You thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’? 6+1 man… Let’s rap it! But first my hunger pains are sticking like duct tape. Let’s hit up I-Hop and mack on some Pancakes No doubt! That restaurant’s hot like a fever I love them crepes like my daughter loves Bieber. Man that food is good but let’s focus on the issue, Writing is a thrill that involves some skill Ya see…some are blessed more so than the rest They write like they speak and they ace the test, But those who say writing is a gift never learned The six plus one so listen it’s your turn… We start with IDEAS, what’s the message? Is it clear? ORGANIZE those thoughts, use paragraphs here… Don’t forget VOICE, does it sound like you? Listen to your heart or get a clue. WORD CHOICE is key if you want to stand out, Are they specific, precise beyond a doubt? Put those four together and you’re on your way, But hey don’t forget—SENTENCE FLUENCY. Fragments and run-ons they’re just no good, It makes writing weak… Is this understood? Don’t forget grammar and spelling too, What about word usage? That’s right… These are CONVENTIONS dude! Yo, when this writing’s done, let’s have some fun. That sounds good but you forgot the plus one Plus who? PRESENTATION dude! How you representing? On paper; poster-board? I was thinking about PowerPoint…they say that’s the word. Don’t forget Publisher… That’s a good one, too. Wikis are the best! True that. DOUBLE TRUE! This is the 6+1 traits of writing… What?! I said the 6+1 traits of writing… What?! That’s right…the 6+1 traits of writing…yea! —Dennis Maher III
Waiting
As The Glider Glides
A small girl Sitting in a plastic chair The kind with multicolored straps That people use in their back yards On the edge of a crooked road Untraveled Unmoving Waiting Knowing, in her dusty skin That no one is coming Still waiting Because there is nothing else Because the merest movement of her breath Will break the chair
back and forth on the porch the afternoon sun crinkles my eyes the surgery done and my gall bladder gone I’ll count what I’ve got, not what I’ve lost phoebe has left us alone her fledglings have dropped from the rafter and fled surgery was easy tiny little hole poked in my belly button but my shoulder last year turning the handle on the cider press time slithering up on me and the glider glides in the afternoon sun what if I had never bought my daughter the bike she wanted that pitched her over the handlebars what if I had told my mother I’d rather live with my father the glider glides and a butterfly settles on the edge of the glass which encases a candle I forget what it’s called in the afternoon sun I can’t raise my hand up over my head it aches – find strength in what’s left behind not what I’ve left behind but what I’ve got left my good arm on the back of the glider the afternoon sun a cool drink the butterfly on the candle thingy and the light of my life by my side in the stillness of our home gliding together holding my hand —Tony Howarth
—Shideh Lennon
A Meditation on One One is not lonely; it is the beginning and always the end. One can meet another and ripen into two who can beget three or four, or not... They can remain two or perchance part, and become one again, but once one knows the feeling of two, its heart invariably yearns for more. This remembering sets a longing afire; even God willed to see God, and said “Let there be Light.” —Arlene Gay Levine
Jetlag After the first sleep of the longest day in Paris, I wake with the taste of Camembert still in my mouth. It is 9 o’clock. Banks that should be open at that hour are gated shut. I wobble to the Monoprix, purchase packaged croissants and milk – breakfast items. The sky darkens, impending doom, I think, but it’s only, surprisingly, night. I return to bed. —Mala Hoffman
Jack Daniels Called and Complained About His Name Being Dropped. Sit quiet now, love. My hands know exactly where to fall to make you believe this is real. —Maggie Coughlan
Let me Tell you About my Week and a Blue Heron So I get back from going there, running the fire trails, and the creditors are after me again, and I get some nasty e-mail from a supervisor. All I want is to send this message— a canoe in lily pads, dusk, the stroke of an oar and darkness descending. —Steve Clark
The Sacrifice They brought salt And it was not enough They brought the knife The bowl The child of a miner And it was not enough There were angels And seraphim And cherubim There was me And there were Old, old men with Marks on Their foreheads like Blossoms saying I have known sun Grown young under My years and before them But It was not enough The songs were too little And the feast was too soft The day was bright Enough to be a blinding Darkness And so it was night instead And it was Lacking I walked out Offered my cheese My children The milk of my one goat Took off my clothes Offered the collarbone Offered the Tiniest section of The belly Then With that and the Dawn behind me It was more Than had ever Been needed —Sophie Strand
The Day We Learn the Meaning of Tahrir Snow, a thaw, then refreezing make the sidewalk a strip of polished ice and the day a good day for hot chocolate, but we, sick of being snowbound, dislodge ourselves to conquer the North Face of Main Street before edging our way back to our base camp, the couch where you’re invited to join us as we warm ourselves with images of children at play on the turret of a tank and women in designer shades and chadors pumping their fists, demanding their Tahrir and demanding it now. —Jay Klokker 9/11 ChronograM poetry 63
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SMALL TOWN. BIG HEART. “I love living here, and I love selling real estate here because I run into people on the street and they rave about how happy they are to live here,” says Ellen Smitchger Kelly. “If a kid is looking lost, somebody will stop and ask what’s up. You really don’t need to leave. We’ve got the good doctors, recreation, groceries, the dry cleaners. You’re all set here.” “It’s a classic small town, the kind people don’t think exists anymore,” says David Clearwater of The Shops at Jones Farm. “My great grandfather started farming here in 1914, and we’ve evolved. We’ve got a gift shop, a full bakery, and an art gallery. But we’re still a working farm. People bring their grandkids to see the place they visited as children. “The town has evolved too. There used to be a carpet factory on the waterfront, now there are kayak tours. But it’s still the kind of place where the police know whose kids they’re talking to. Fourth of July here is amazing. Thousands of people come to enjoy the parade. We do a float every year. One year it was pouring; I was sure everybody would go home. But there they were, 20 deep, soaking wet and cheering and waving, proud to be American—that’s pretty neat.” Some of the patriotism in the air may be fueled by having West Point as a near neighbor. When proud parents come to visit hungry cadets, a popular destination is Painter’s Restaurant, beloved for its eclectic menu, selection of 100 beers, evening entertainment and art gallery. Art is as Cornwall as apple pie is American. The nearby Storm King Art Center in New Windsor draws visitors from around the globe to over 100 works of sculpture set in a 500-acre park. Noted painter Paul Gould operates the Hudson River Gallery, offering instruction and art restoration, along with stunning landscapes. A clue to the inspirational
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When hunger strikes, you’ve got plenty of options. Along with Painter’s, there is the classic Swiss-style cuisine of the Canterbury Inn, the fabulous breakfast-and-more offered at Fiddlestix, and the mouthwatering Italian at Leo’s, a Cornwall tradition for half a century. The Hudson Street Cafe is a great place to go if your party is as varied as Cornwall itself: they do carnivore, vegetarian, vegan, and gluten- and lactose-free with equal ease, served indoors or out. Then there’s the River Bank, the Hudson Valley Magazine pick for “Best in Orange County,” which, actually, used to be a bank; you can take a look at the original vault if you can tear your gaze from the panoramic view of Storm King Mountain. “My daughter’s moved back,” says Clearwater, with quiet, but evident, delight. “She’ll be the fifth generation. I’m pretty sure she was the only one in her graduating class at Fordham to be headed back to the family farm. She’s not the only one of her generation coming back to Cornwall, though. Kids grow up here thinking they can’t wait to get to the big city; then, when they get there, they begin to realize what they had. When it’s time to raise their own family, a lot of them come back to Cornwall.” donna hammond and anne pavek at the hudson street cafe
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products.These value-added products are made at the Smokehouse of the Catskills in Saugerties and Mountain Products in LaGrangeville. Customers can also order animals and come pick them up at the farm, either whole or butchered. There are also bison on the farm, though the herd is currently just a bull and two cows. In addition to the hoof stock, Highland Farm also raises ostrich and emu for meat and eggs. Both birds also have dark red meat that looks and cooks very much like the venison and bison. An ostrich egg is an impressive object: roughly softball-sized, with a thick shell, it’s the equivalent of a dozen chicken eggs. At $20 each, they’re expensive, but if neatly opened the durable shells can be reused for artwork or vessels. MacNamara recommends drilling holes at both ends and blowing out the eggs so the shells can be saved. Ostrich and emu meat will be available in the fall, along with the mouflon, native to Corsica and Sardinia, and considered to be one of the ancestors of domestic sheep. The males have large, elegantly curled horns, and MacNamara says mouflon tastes like lamb but is significantly smaller: a carcass might weigh just 40 pounds. Highland Farm sells boar as well, which they used to raise on site, but MacNamara says boar are difficult; they’re very destructive and need special fencing. Now he works with a farmer in Vermont who raises nothing but boar. There are advantages to raising these wild species; game is not covered under the Meat Act, and can thus be slaughtered and processed on the farm, saving considerable expense (though bison are slaughtered elsewhere because of their size). MacNamara explains that slaughter is done with no restraint; the deer are led with food into a smaller solid-walled pen behind the processing facility and shot from a second floor window with a hollow point .22 bullet. “It’s a small caliber, so it’s not too loud; they’re out there, milling around, and we drop one and the others don’t even notice.” Deer are strictly regulated by New York State, however, and checked regularly for tuberculosis and Chronic Wasting Disease, which is similar to BSE. Because of the regular veterinary visits, deer need more handling than domestic species and MacNamara developed humane restraints to immobilize the deer during exams and treatment: “I designed them for deer, but realized they would be really useful for zoo animals.”
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opposite: Elk and red deer gather at the trough at feeding time; above, clockwise from top left: Bison, Emu (with ostriches in the background; they are kept separately), and Addax, an Arabian antelope.
This insight led to his other business: making custom hydraulic restraints for large exotic hoof stock from gazelles and giraffes to hippos and even elephants. He sells his “Tamers” all over the world, and travels extensively installing them and training people in their use, as well as consulting for the zoos and animal parks who buy them. The Tamers, which are rather like dry docks for animals, are V-shaped devices that animals are led into by means of a narrow chute. The machines immobilize the beasts by squeezing them between the two padded sides and lifting them off the ground, allowing safe access to every part of them. The goal is to avoid using knockdown drugs that can harm animals, especially large ones. Imagine a sixteen-foot tall giraffe weighing more than a ton toppling over onto the ground and it’s easy to see the risk. The equipment sales help ns at the new jersey center for make the farm financially viable. performing arts in newark It’s obvious talking to him that MacNamara’s main passion is working with these exotic animals; he waxes enthusiastic about the behind-the-scenes working of zoos and how handling techniques are becoming safer and more humane in part because of the machines that he manufactures. But his love of animals clearly extends to those on the farm: “It always drives me crazy when people think that farmed animals aren’t cared for, since taking care of the animals is number one. It’s our business to keep them healthy. We call ourselves free-range and natural, but not organic. We use locallyw grown grain and corn, which we don’t control, but the animals are happy and that’s how we like it.” A large red deer carcass hangs in the center of the large processing room, looking much like a Francis Bacon painting: fleshy meat against cold geometry. The mottled pattern of the animal’s hide is still faintly visible in the subcutaneous tissue covering the muscles on the back. A few drops of blood stain the otherwise immaculate concrete floor beneath the neck. Two doors on one side lead to walk-in refrigerators full of bagged and labeled meat, ostrich eggs, and a much smaller fallow deer carcass. Despite the wide range of species on the farm, all the elk and deer is packaged and labeled as venison. MacNamara maintains that when they’re farmed, the flavor differences between the different animals are negligible, so there’s no point in labeling them separately.
The big difference with game animals is that they don’t have the intramuscular fat which gives beef its marbling. This is not to say that venison is not tender—it is, very—but it’s far less forgiving of overcooking. If you leave it too long on the grill, it will get tough. The best way to cook this meat is sous vide, so that it can be brought to exactly the desired temperature and no higher, then seared to finish. Lacking that technology, just pay attention and keep it nice and pink. Similar to duck, these meats play very well with local fruit, especially berries like currants made into pan sauces or chutneys. Brian Kaywork is the chef at the Rhinecliff Hotel, and has been using venison from Highland Deer Farm for six years: “Because it’s farmed, it has less gamy flavor than wild deer, and I think people like the milder taste.” Kaywork uses the venison to make a meatloaf with a juniper-mulled wine glaze, and enjoys cooking with it: “Their product is always top notch; they know what they’re doing.” He is looking forward to experimenting with ostrich eggs. For the curious home cook, Kaywork advises: “make something you know how to cook well, and just switch the meat,” like substituting venison loin for filet mignon in a special dinner. Kaywork wishes that Highland Farm would label the different species “so that I can get consistent results every time, ” but MacNamara responds that “if they specify in their order, we can accommodate that, but most of them don’t.” These meats all offer complex red meat flavor with much less fat and cholesterol than beef; venison loin is comparable to salmon in both. In addition to making healthy eating, they have luxurious textures and allow for all sorts of interesting new flavor pairings. Because they’re farmed humanely and sustainably, they also make it possible to eat locally while also eating exotically. Broadening one’s repertoire to include delicacies like venison, ostrich, and buffalo is the perfect recipe for enlivening home cooking. Pick up your game. Highland Deer Farm www.highlanddeerfarm.com Peter Barrett writes prolifically about cooking locally sourced food at www.acookblog.com. 9/11 ChronograM food & drink 79
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September 10 and 11. Taste the Hudson Valley at this festival’s 10th anniversary. Sample hundreds of wines from across New York and the world, including Brooklyn Winery, Clinton Vineyards, and Millbrook Vineyards & Winery. Market vendors of foods and crafts join the festival with gourmet products from Africa Trader’s Market, Luigi Oils, Poppleton Pastries, and more. Don’t miss cooking demonstrations from regional chefs, including four-ingredient desserts by Abby Dodge and a baking bread demo by Dan Leader of Bread Alone. Educate your palate with wine seminars and the gourmet food showcases featuring Reggae Boy Cafe, French Kiss Bakery, Max’s Memphis BBQ, and others. Saturday 11am-6pm and Sunday 11am5pm at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. Wine tasting ticket: one day, $30; weekend $50. Regular admission: one day, $15; weekend, $25. Children 12 and under free. (845) 658-7181; www.hudsonvalleywinefest.com.
Hunter Mountain Wine & Brew Festival
September 17 and 18. Spend the weekend at Hunter Mountain for this annual indoor festival. Over 20 wineries will fill Colonel’s Hall, including Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards, Thousand Islands Winery, and Lakeland Winery. Breweries, including Long Trail and Saranac, will be throughout the base lodge. Arts and crafts, food, and various vendors will be scattered around the festival. And don’t forget to check out the grape-stomping contest! Register in advance for the Skyride and zipline tours that will be operating all day long. Saturday 1-5pm and Sunday 12-4pm. $20 for 10 tastings. Rain or shine. www.huntermtn.com.
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Taste of New Paltz
September 18. Taste of New Paltz celebrates its 21st year of cuisine and wine sampling from the Hudson Valley’s best restaurants, farm markets, caterers, and wineries spread across the Ulster County Fairgrouns. Stay full and occupied at activities for the whole family, including Kids’ Expo with face painting and free balloons, Craft Expo with handcrafted jewelry and ceramics, and Wellness and Recreation expo with health and fitness demonstrations. Motorcyclepedia, the Orange County motorcycle museum with over 400 vintage bikes, will load up a trailer with some bikes to showcase. Live music kicks off with soulful acoustic rocker Jude Robert and wraps up with The Big Takeover. Advanced, $5. Adults, $7; children 12 and under, free. 11am-5pm. Rain or shine. Ulster County Fairgrounds. (845) 255-0243; www.newpaltzchamber.org.
La Petite Cuisine
Serving breakfast and lunch in a quaint atmosphere sweet & savory crepes croque monsieurs paninis salads espresso & cafe au lait outdoor dining during the spring, summer and fall
Jennie Bell Pie Festival
September 23 and 24. Jennie Depuy Bell’s famous home-baked pies are remembered and celebrated at this annual festival at Kelder’s Farm in Accord. Every kind of pie is available for sale at this event, and the heart of the festival is the pie contest. Categories for the contest include fruit, cream, and custard and judges will check out at the flavor, crust, and looks of the dessert. Winners’ names are added to a plaque on display at the farm. The two-day event includes a petting zoo, hay rides, games, crafts, and a music. The festival concludes with a fireworks show. Free. Friday 6-10pm, Saturday 12-10pm. (845) 626-7137; www.jenniebell.org.
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Hudson Valley Garlic Festival
September 24 and 25. There won’t be any kissing at this annual event: The smell of garlic will permeate Saugerties for the Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. Find out all of the different ways garlic can enhance your food, including chocolate, bratwurst, fried dough, french fries, ice cream (a crowd favorite!), popcorn, and nuts. There will be over 60 different types of freshly harvested and organic garlic including Asian Tempest, Chesnok Red, and Polish White. This garlic paradise will also have various garlic lectures and demonstrations as well as arts and crafts such as birdhouses and candles, of course, featuring garlic. Not-sogarlicky music will play throughout the day, including Annie & the Hedonists, The Mojo Miles Band, and Sundad. Advanced, adults, $7; seniors, $3. Gate, $10. Children under 12, free. Saturday, 10-6pm; Sunday, 10-5pm. www.hudsonvalleygarlic.com —Zan Strumfeld
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Restaurant Openings 2Taste Food & Wine Bar 4290 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park. (845) 233-5647. www.2tastefoodandwinebar.com Watch your food made before your eyes at 2Taste Food & Wine Bar’s open kitchen, featuring new American cuisine with a touch of French style. With a changing seasonal menu, Chef Dale Andrews uses local Hudson Valley ingredients and produce from Migliorelli Farm and Earth to Table Farm. Start with the popular truffle and porcini mac and cheese ($12) with herbed breadcrumb gratin. Try the pan seared sea scallops (market price) with summer corn risotto (fall potato risotto, spring pea risotto) and drizzled with balsamic glaze. Savor the slowcooked braised lamb shank with a rosemary jus, served with Parmesan gratin potatoes and roasted vegetables ($28). Finish the meal with a seasonal pie for two ($14), including blueberry, strawberry, plum, apple, and pear, depending on the season. Cafe Le Perche 230 Warren Street, Hudson. (919) 690-9911 Inspired by the Le Perche region of France, owners Allan Chapin and Jennifer Houle have opened Cafe Le Perche in an 1830 preserved building on Warren Street. Cafe Le Perche is a boulangerie, patisserie, and restaurant with a wood-fired oven that was imported from France and reconstructed in the rear carriage house of the building. Choose from an array of breads, including the baguette classic ($3.50), walnut sourdough ($6.95), and pesto rolls ($0.75), and pastries, including pain au chocolat ($3.25), raspberry coffee cake ($3.25), or apricot beignet ($2.75). Hungry for more? Try the French ham sandwich ($9) with Gruyere and Dijon mustard on a baguette, or the roasted vegetable grilled sandwich ($13) with roasted red peppers, zucchini, eggplant, and goat cheese. For a larger dish, check out the chicken paillard ($17) with arugula, shaved parmesan cheese, marinated tomato, and lemon. Cafe Le Perche sources its drinks from local Hudson businesses: coffee and espresso are from Strongtree Organic Roasters and the tea selection is from Verdigris. Liquor license pending. Cinnamon Indian Cuisine 5856 Route 9, Rhinebeck. (845) 876-7510 Husband-and-wife team Chaminda and Shiwanti Widyarathna have opened their first Indian restaurant with all high-quality, fresh ingredients from surrounding local farms. Chef Chaminda serves up a mix of different Indian regions, including Sri Lanka and southern Indian food. Start your meal with the Lasuni Gobi ($6.95), cauliflower florets tossed with aromatic, freshly ground spices. For an entree, savor the chicken Vindaloo ($14), Goan special sweet-and-sour chicken with potatoes. Or, try the Kobbari chops ($19), New Zealand lamp chops grilled in tandoor, cooked with ginger, garlic, coconut sauces and served with vegetables. If you’re not sure what to try, check out the Sunday buffet ($10) to sample a variety of dishes. Mario’s Trattoria 33-37 John St, Kingston. (845) 338-2033 Kingston gets a taste of New Paltz’s La Stazione, with the same owner, chef, and menu at Mario’s Trattoria. Mario’s mixes southern and northern Italian traditional dishes and uses fresh vegetables from Wallkill View Farms in New Paltz. Try the gnocchi Bolognese ($16), ground veal, tomato sauce, peas, and a touch of cream. Or, taste the fish with zuppa di pesce ($21) with clams, mussels, shrimp, calamari, and scungilli with marinara or Fra Diavolo sauce over linguini. Cavatelli con salsiccia e broccoli rabe brings ground sweet sausage, broccoli rabe, EVOO, garlic, and Parmigiano-Reggiano together, all for $16. Mario’s offers homemade Italian ricotta cheesecake for $6 and tiramisu ($6) as well as traditional Italian wines with a few New-World additions ($20-40 bottle, $6-8 glass). MOD 20 S. Front Street, Hudson. (518) 828-1880 www.modhuson.com After five years on Catskill’s Main Street, Mary DiStefano and Dana Wegener have moved their comfort food outpost to Hudson. Try Mary’s Meatloaf ($15), with the CH Evans Kickass Brown ale pan gravy served with caramelized carrots and your choice of white rice, potato, or homemade chips. Or try their popular Hudson Valley Mac and Cheese ($12), a blend of Hudson Valley-made cheeses like Herkimer Black Wax Cheddar with toasty panko breadcrumbs. Herbs and vegetables
are hand picked right from the restaurant’s garden and desserts focus on locally grown fruit. Spend the lazy days eating at MOD’s Sunday Brunch. Savor the berry toast ($10) with thick-cut French toast and a side of seasonal berries and bacon, or the MODWICH ($6), a farm fresh fried egg with cheddar and bacon on a roll, served with greens. Rusty Tomato Snack Bar 134 Church Street, Millbrook. (845) 264-2991 www.rustytomatobbq.com When owner/chef Chris Steiner was looking for a place to start a BBQ joint in Millbrook, he learned that Best Creations Bakery owner Beth Perry was spending most of her time at farmers’ markets and was looking for help in her shop. The two partnered up and Steiner opened a snack bar in the corner of the bakery, serving lunch. Although the luncheonette is too small for a BBQ joint, Steiner blends Southern and Latin flavors into a short, inexpensive menu. Customer favorites include the tacos with grilled beef or shredded chicken, topped with homemade salsa and queso fresco (three for $4.25) and the tartines ($4.50) with options like roasted red pepper hummus with black olives. For BBQ items, customers can order the St. Louis ribs or the pulled pork sandwich, both $5. Steiner also offers BBQ catering. The Phoenix 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper. (877) 688-2828 www.emersonresort.com Chef Curt Robair introduces his own style of cooking at the Emerson Resort & Spa: Contemporary Catskill Regional Cuisine. Taste the Hudson Valley in every bite as Robair uses fresh, local ingredients as well as herbs and vegetables from the Emerson’s garden. You never know what to expect with The Phoenix’s two menus that change weekly. The bar’s Tavern menu is offered at The Phoenix bar with options like classic calamari ($9) or a Hudson Valley Burger ($12): half-pound black angus with bacon, sauteed mushrooms, and crispy onion rings with a citrus miso-wasabi dressing. Or try the Chef’s Offerings menu: a threecourse dinner ($35), including the hand-cut spinach fettuccini with kalamata olives, capers, wild woodland mushrooms, and caramelized onions in a delicious cabernet sauvignon marinara. Enjoy your meal either inside or on the summer deck with a view of the Esopus Creek. Everything can be made for room service and nonguests are always welcome to dine. Robair also teaches weekly three-hour local gourmet cooking class at the spa ($125). Smoked 1 Landmark Lane, Kent, Connecticut. (860) 927-7141 www.smokedrestaurant.com A new restaurant and BBQ joins Connecticut’s restaurant world with husband-and-wife chef and owners Andrew Hayes and Elizabeth Owens. The pair offer fine dining and a casual atmosphere with a Southern accent. They provide all the best in local food, including farmstead cheeses from Sprout Creek Farm and Jasper Hill. Smoked changes its menu a few times a week to keep things fresh. Start with a snack like deviled egg with guanciale ($2) or the friend green tomatoes with pimento cheese ($5). Move onto an appetizer like the green gazpacho with smoked mussels and garlic croutons ($7). For an entree, try the spicy shrimp and grits ($23) with sea urchin, lobster, and basil. Don’t forget the BBQ ribs ($19) or chefs’ choice ($16). Oh, and make sure to leave room for the chocolate banana cream pie with sea salt caramel and roasted peanuts ($7). The Vanderbilt House Hotel 161 Main Street, Philmont. (518) 672-9993 www.vanderbilt-house.com A new owner and remodeling at this 1860 hotel has brought a restaurant focusing on new American cuisine. “We draw our influences for our food from all the cultures of the world,” says owner Bob Mansfield. “We believe that what made the American nation great was the assimilation of many cultures.” Vanderbilt sources food locally and recently hired a new chef, Brian Alexander, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. This fall, try new items like the port wine-braised beef short ribs with local sweet corn ragu and sauteed swiss chard ($21) or the apple Dijon-glazed grilled pork chops with braised local red cabbage and German potato cakes ($18). Taste the baked lemon-pepper tilapia with roasted beets, blue cheese, walnuts, and basmati rice ($16). Try the banana split pie ($6) or the bread pudding ($6) for a nice finish to the meal. —Zan Strumfeld
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Poughkeepsie’s 1st Gastropub! Inside & Courtyard seating. Upscale Tapas style plates, Signature Drinks, Craft Beers, Wine Bar. Live Blues & BBQ every Sunday, rain or shine. 202 main st poughkeepsie, ny 845-473-4294 www.karmalounge.us
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Bakeries Kokopelli Cookie Company 139 Main St, Chester, NY (845)610-3980 www.kokocookies.com
Cafés 2 Alices 311 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY www.2alicescoffee.com
Bistro-to-Go 948 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 340-9800 www.bluemountainbistro.com Gourmet take-out store serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. Featuring local and imported organic foods, delicious homemade desserts, sophisticated four-star food by Chefs Richard Erickson and Jonathan Sheridan. Off-premise full-service catering and event planning for parties of all sizes.
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Hudson Street Café 237 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-2450 www.hudsonstreetcafe.com hudsonstreetcafe@gmail.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.
Catering Terrapin Catering 5371 Albany Post Road, Staatsburg, NY (845) 889-8831 www.terrapincatering.com hugh@terrapincatering.com Escape from the ordinary to celebrate the extraordinary. Let us attend to every detail of your wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, corporate event or any special occasion. On-site, we can accommodate 150 guests seated, and 250 for cocktail events. Off-site services available. Terrapin’s custom menus always include local, fresh, and organic ingredients.
Delis Jack’s Meats & Deli 79 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2244
Restaurants American Glory BBQ 342 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com American Glory is a restaurant specializing in “legendary wood smoked regional BBQ of the United States, and classic American
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The Artist’s Palate 307 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-8074 www.theartistspalate.biz
Installed in a building once occupied by a Golden Era clothing store, M. Schwartz, one philosophy two approaches one philosophy two approaches The Artist’s Palate restaurant has brought one philosophy two approaches back life to Main Street in Poughkeepsie. one philosophy two approaches Designers have reworked the interior space of the 70-seat dining room to one philosophy two approaches combine cosmopolitan elegance with an edgy industrial accent. Like the décor, the Inspired Seasonal Inspired Inspired Seasonal Inspired Seasonal Seasonal menu showcases innovation: An extensive RefinedComfort Comfort Food Refined Comfort Foo Refined Comfort Food American Cuisine American Cuisine American Cuisine Refined Food American Cuisine Tavern at Highlands Country Club array of wines, handcrafted beers and Valley Restaurant at The Garrison Tavern atClub Highlands Country Clu Tavern Country Tavernat at Highlands Highlands Country Club Tavern Highlands Country Club Restaurant at The Garrison Valley Restaurant Restaurant at at Valley The Garrison Valley Restaurant at The Garrison 955at Route 9D ˙ Garrison, NY Valley The Garrison 2015 Route 9 ˙ Garrison, NY 955Route Route 9D NY Route 955 9D ˙ Garrison, NY 955 9D NY unique cocktails complement our revolving 2015 Route NY NY 955 Route 9D˙ Garrison, Garrison, NY ˙˙ Garrison, 2015 Route9 ˙9Garrison, www.highlandscountryclub.net 2015 NY ˙ Garrison, 2015 Route Route 99 ˙˙ Garrison, Garrison, NY www.thegarrison.com www.highlandscountryclub.net www.highlandscountryclub.net www.thegarrison.com www.highlandscountryclub.net Reservations: 845.424.3254 www.highlandscountryclub.net www.thegarrison.com www.thegarrison.com Reservations: 845.424.3604 ext. 25 ˙ ext.1616 Inspired Seasonal seasonal menu. www.thegarrison.com Reservations: 845.424.3254 ˙ ext. Reservations: 845.424.3604˙˙ ext. 25 Reservations: Reservations: 845.424.3254 ext. 16 845.424.3254 ext. 1
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517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155 34 Depot Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 499-2400 www.BabaLouiesPizza.com Handcrafted with fresh, all natural ingredients. Italian brick-oven woodfired pizzas made with sourdough crust & fresh mozzarella. Choose from our creative signature pizzas or build your own! Heaping salads with fresh greens, house made soup, pasta specials, lunchtime sandwiches & ciabatta panini. Family friendly! Delicious gluten-free and vegan options available everyday!
Babycakes Café 1-3 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-8411 www.babycakescafe.com
Bistro Lilly 134 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-2810 www.bistrolilly.com
Brasserie 292 Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-0292 www.brasserie292.com
Bull and Buddha 319 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-4848 www.bullandbuddha.com Bull and Buddha restaurant fuses an urban interior with exotic design elements of the East nestled in Poughkeepsie’s revitalized downtown. Served under the watchful eye of a hand-carved two-ton Buddha, the Asian-themed menu reflects the bounty and diversity of the Hudson Valley: an inspired dining experience in a chic yet casual setting. Upstairs is Orient, Hudson Valley’s newest and most elegant Ultra Lounge. Orient sets a new standard for destination nightlife and an experience once unavailable outside of Manhattan’s Meat Packing district.
A casual, elegant bistro in downtown Goshen serving fresh and delicious fare.
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18 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.goshengourmetcafe.com
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159 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 615-1118
comfort foods.” In addition to the extensive BBQ fare, the menu includes a wide selection of grilled burgers, Catfish & Oyster Po-Boys, steaks and fish, along with an assortment of fresh salads, vegetarian options, and numerous side dishes like collard greens, garlic mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cornbread, and creamy ole country coleslaw. All menu items are prepared fresh daily and all BBQ is smoked on site using local wood.
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thirsty? try one of our 12 local micro brews from our frost covered beer taps, or sip the area’s finest selection of rare tequilas, kentucky bourbons and single malt scotches.
948 route 28, Kingston | 845-340-9800 | bistro@hvc.rr.com
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310 Wall Street Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 Tues - Sat 5-10pm www.elephantwinebar.com
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My family invites your family to dine at Kingston’s own Ice and Bottled Water Supplier featuring: Leisure Time Spring Water
Check out our new spring & summer dinner menu
New look,old feel,same great food! HOURS: Mon. 7am-4pm, Tues.-Sat. 7am-9pm, Sun. Closed
DOWNTOWN Goshen • 845-294-5561 • www.howellsdeli.com • Like Us Today 88 tastings directory ChronograM 9/11
also: Mountain Valley Spring Water and Arctic Glacier Packaged Ice 25 South Pine St. Kingston NY 12401 (845) 331-0237
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Give your customers the best snacks and we’ll give you the best service. Call DSD Services, Inc. handles over 3000 items
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1.877.642.5622 www.mistersnacks.com
The Culinary Institute of America
Rock & Rye Tavern
1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845) 452-9600 www.ciachef.edu/restaurants American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of the Americas; Apple Pie Bakery Café, sumptuous baked goods and café cuisine; Escoffier Restaurant, culinary traditions of France with a contemporary touch; Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, seasonal ingredients and authentic dishes of Italy; and St. Andrew’s Café, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.
215 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7888 www.rockandrye.com
Elephant
Sushi Village
310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com
26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245
The Garrison
Sushi Village serves authentic, great tasting Japanese food and sushi with friendly service and great prices. Located near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sushi Village offers all-youcan-eat sushi and lunch specials.
2015 Route 9, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3604 www.thegarrison.com
Gilded Otter 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700 A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!
Golden Buddha Thai Cuisine 985 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055
Howell’s Café
Karma Lounge 201 Main Street, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 473-4294 www.karmalounge.us
Kavos 4 North Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473 4976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com
Kismat 50 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 473-5850
La Petite Cuisine 20 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY (845) 988-0988 www.lapetitecuisine.biz
LaBella Pizza Bistro 194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com LaBella Pizza Bistro voted Best Pizza in The Hudson Valley. We serve more than just great pizza, including catering for any occasion. Our dishes feature LOCALLY GROWN organic produce! We offer a healthy WHOLE GRAIN PIZZA CRUST! Vegan Pizza is now available as well.
Leo’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria 1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446
Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given 4.5 stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.
Painters Restaurant 266 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, (845) 534-2109 www.painters-restaurant.com
Rusty’s Farm Fresh 5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-8000 www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com
Suruchi Indian Restaurant 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com
www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com
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TIVOLI 74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 RHINEBECK 22 Garden St (845) 876-7338
Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 16yrs • “4.5 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal
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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.
Toad Holly Pub 713 Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-2097 www.toadhollypub.com
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We Specialize in Catering • Free Delivery • We Serve Full Menu
50 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 845-473-5850
Toad Holly Pub Offers International Cuisine with Backwoods of the World recipes that’s why Gastronomical Pleasures are us. We offer Catering in house and all of our menu is available To Go! Check out our European Style Bar, Happy Hour Daily, and Drink Specials. Come Dine with us.
Towne Crier Café Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com
Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 www.tuthillhouse.com
Vanderbilt House 161 Main Street, Philmont, NY (518) 672-9993 www.Vanderbilt-House.com info@vanderbilt-house.com
Woody’s All Natural 30 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-1111 www.woodysallnatural.com
Enjoy Thai cooking by Real Thai Chefs
The Would Restaurant 120 North Road, Highland, NY (845)691-9883 www.thewould.com
Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com
Snacks Mister Snacks, Inc. 500 Creekside Drive, Amherst, NY (800) 333-6393 www.mistersnacks.com steve@mistersnacks.com
“Golden Buddha Restaurant gets Rave Reviews!” ~Poughkeepsie Journal 7/10
Sun & tues-Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm Fri & Sat 11:30am-10:30pm Let our family Closed Mon serve yours 985 Main St, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055
On Route 52, only 1/2 mile from I-84 exit 12 Next to the beverage store, directly across from Chase bank (cvs plaza)
Cooking classes now in progress - call for reservations serving beer and wine
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27 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-5561 www.howellsdeli.com
“Best Sushi”~Chronogram & Hudson Valley Magazine
business directory Accommodations Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com
Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc. (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com
Animal Sanctuaries Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Willow, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org
Antiques Fed On Lights Antiques Corner of Market & Livingston Streets, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8444 www.fedonlights.com
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Scott and Bowne 27 North Main Street #1, Kent, CT (860) 592-0207 www.scottandbowne.com info@scottandbowne.com SCOTT & BOWNE is the ultimate hybrid gallery of fine art and furnishings in conveniently located downtown Kent, CT. We showcase an eclectic mix of beautiful, distinctive, and fascinating art and furnishings, from antique to modern and contemporary. The gallery will present six to eight art exhibitions a year by emerging & established artists, including work by talented local artists.
Appliances Firescapes 445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845)863-0013 www.firescapesny.com
Gentech LTD 3017 Route 9W, New Windsor, NY (845) 568-0500 Gentechltd@yahoo.com
Architecture North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com
Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 784-1146 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@annstreetgallery.org Breaking Boundaries: A Survey of Contemporary Ceramics: A group exhibition of contemporary ceramics runs through to Saturday, September 24. The exhibit explores the creativity of contemporary ceramic artists who wish to elevate awareness of the ceramic arts, explore the possibilities of working with clay, while charting new ground in which they break through boundaries imposed by the art establishment. Artists features: Dylan Beck, Maureen Burns-Bowie, Ruth Borgenicht, Bryan Czibesz, Carole Epp, Raymond W. Gonzalez , Doug Herren, Priscilla Hollingsworth , Liz Howe, Roxanne Jackson , Calder Kamin, Debbie Kupinsky ,Julie Malen, Kate Missett, Wendy Olson, Vince Palacios, Jesse Ring, Benjamin Schulman, John Williams, Alyssa Wood , Jennifer Woodin, Jindra Viková and Matthew Ziemke.
Artview Gallery
Artisans
Center for Photography at Woodstock 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-9957 www.cpw.org Info@cpw.org
Collaborative Concepts (845) 528-1797 collaborativeconcept@optonline.net
Audio & Video
Country Gallery 1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684
Dia: Beacon, Riggio Galleries 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0100 www.diaart.org
Green River Gallery 1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311
Hudson Valley Gallery 246 Hudson Street, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY (845) 534-5ART www.hudsonvalleygallery.com Paintings and limited edition prints of the Hudson Valley and beyond by Paul Gould. Changing exhibits of representational paintings, sculpture, and photography by established and emerging artists. Gallery offers painting and frame restoration services and art instruction in all media, beginners welcome. Gallery open Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm or by appointment.
Lady Audrey’s Gallery 52 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1303 http://ladyaudreysgallery.com
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com
Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.
RiverWinds Gallery 172 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845)838-2880 www.riverwindsgallery.com
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum
Scott and Bowne 27 North Main Street #1, Kent, CT (860) 592-0207 www.scottandbowne.com info@scottandbowne.com
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org
Vassar College: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5632 fllac.vassar.edu
Vivo Fine Art
Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500
Ruge’s Subaru 6444 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com
Banks 87 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-7000 www.sawyersavings.com
Banks Ulster Savings Bank (866) 440-0391 www.ulstersavings.com
Beverages (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst. com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!
Bookstores Golden Notebook 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY www.goldennotebook.com
Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY www.wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com
Four Seasons Insulators, IN
Wallkill Art Gallery
Ghent Wood Products 483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com
H. Houst & Son
14 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-0999 www.artviewgalleryny.com
Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Rhinebeck & New Paltz, NY www.rhinebeckart.com
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com
Back Door Studio
White Barn Farm
Hollenbeck Pest Control
9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com
815 Albany Post Road, New Paltz, NY (914) 456-6040 www.whitebarnsheepandwool.com
(845) 542-0000 www.hollenbeckpestcontrol.com james@hollenbeckpestcontrol.com
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L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479-1400 www.broweasphalt.com
N & S Supply www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com
Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com
Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org
Upstate Films 6415 Montgomery St. Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 132 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-6608 www.upstatefilms.org
Esotec
105-A Mill Hill Rd., Woodstock, NY www.vivofineart.com
Art Supplies
17 Van Kleeck Drive, Poughkeepise, NY (845) 471-6480 www.kitchencabinetco.com
Sawyer Savings
445 Robinson Ave, Newburgh, NY (845)863-1484 www.fourseasonsinsulatorsinc.com
1351 Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY (845) 895-2564
Kitchen Cabinet Company
Clothing & Accessories Christina Faraj: The Bra Fit Expert www.thebrafitexpert.com
Crystal’s Closet 1081 Route 55, Lagrangeville, NY (845) 471-4700 www.crystalscloset.com
Dig 89 Partition Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-3833 www.facebook.com/digsaugerties
Echo Boutique 470 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0047
Joanne Klein Vintage Clothing Clinton Corners, NY (914)489-8228 info@joanneklein.com
Lauren and Riley 462 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-3862 www.larenrileyco.com
New York Eyewear 47 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6284 www.newyorkeyewear.net
Rhinebeck Department Store 1 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5500 www.rhinebeckstore.com
Waddle N Swaddle 41 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5952
Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com
Computer Repair All Computer Services 158 Vineyard Ave Highland, NY (845) 834-2351 www.ACSguys.com Is your computer running slow or infected? We can fix that!! We do web design, remote assistance as well as computer networking. We can also repair cracked screens as well as charging ports. We offer a FREE DIAGNOSIS. Ask about our membership program for only $20 a month.
Consignment Shops Encore Inc. Consign for a Cause Cornwall Plaza, 45 Quaker Avenue, Suite 100, Cornwall (845) 458-8313 www.encoreconsign4acause.cmo encore@consign4acause.com
Past N’ Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com 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.
Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People
Custom Home Design and Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com
Equestrian Services Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com
Events Big Gay Hudson Valley Wedding Showcase www.biggayhudsonvalley.com/weddings
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc Katonah, NY (914) 232-1252 www.caramoor.org
Crafts at Rhinebeck (845) 876-4000 www.dutchessfair.com
Drum Boogie Festival Cornell Park, Kingston, NY www.drumboogiefestival.com
EMPAC at Rensselaer Troy, NY (518) 276-3921 www.empac.rpi.edu
Film Columbia Chatham, NY (518) 392-3446 www.filmcolumbia.com info@filmcolumbia.com
Hudson Valley Wine Festival www.hudsonvalleywinefestival.com
Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989
Unison Arts & Learning Center (845) 255-1559 WWW.UNISONARTS.ORG
Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY www.woodstockinvitational.com
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845)569-0303 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com
Beacon Natural Market 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 www.beaconnaturalmarket.com
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Berkshire Co Op Market 42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop
Earthgoods Natural Foods Inc. 71 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5858 www.earthgoodsmarket.com
Harvest Spirits 3074 US Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-7683 www.goldenharvestfarms.com
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 518-672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon-Sat 7:30am to 7pm, Sundays 9am to 5pm A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic bakery and dairy. Farmfresh 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.
Emily@RomanceLanguageTutor.com Visit: www.romancelanguagetutor.com for details and pricing
Hudson Valley Bounty (518) 392-9696 www.hudsonvalleybounty.com
Kingston Farmers’ Market Wall Street, Uptown Kingston, NY (845) 853-8512 www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org
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!
Orange County Farmers’ Museum 850 Route 17K , Montgomery, NY (845) 457-2959 www.ocfarmersmuseum.com
Pennings Farm Market & Orchards 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy. And so much more!
Farms Jones Farm 190 Angola Road, Cornwall, NY (845)534-4445 www.jonesfarminc.com
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262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.
Woodstock Invitational LLC
Discover Historic Hyde Park Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Kelder’s Farm and Homegrown Mini-Golf
5755 Rte 209, Kerhonkson, NY www.kelderfarm.com
Kinderhook Farm Ghent, NY (518) 929-3076 www.kinderhookfarm.com
Financial Advisors JSA Financial Group
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7 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1923 www.jsafinancial.com jeff@jsafinancial.com We are an independent financial firm that has been helping people establish & maintain their long-term financial goals through all aspects of Financial Planning. We also offer our clients the option to utilize socially responsible investments. Securities & Advisory Services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network® Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.
Third Eye Associates, Ltd 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 www.thirdeyeassociates.com
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Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com
Hair Salons
2722 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 297-5900 738 Route 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill, NY (845) 897-5100 www.dazzlessalon.com
Moxie 544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653 www.nowthatsmoxie.com
Home Furnishings & Decor Lounge High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com
Silken Wool 36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.com
The Futon Store
Jodé Susan Millman Civil Wedding Officiant
10 Circular Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 471-3282 jodem54@aol.com Joining Hands and Hearts since 2003 92 business directory ChronograM 9/11
Interior Design Van Maassen Interiors 3304 Route 343, Suite 1, Amenia, NY (845) 373-8400
Internet Services DragonSearch (845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net
Site Optimized (845) 363-4728 www.dougmotel.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts
44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com
Dazzles Salon & Day Spa
List your wedding business today! 845-336-4705 | judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com
(845) 750-7335 www.williamwallaceconstruction.com
Dreaming Goddess
12 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
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William Wallace Construction
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(845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com
1 Depot Street, Washingtonville, NY (845) 496-6868
29 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-4950 www.wasalon.net
A Complete Wedding Planning Resource
Certapro Painters
Corner Candle Store
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(845) 564-0461 www.basementshv.com
(518) 755-1086 www.deerdefeat.com mail@deerdefeat.com
Graphic Design
HudsonValleyWeddings.com
Basement Solutions of the Hudson Valley
Deer Defeat
181 South Plank Road, Newburgh, NY (845)561-GROW www.crossroadshydro.com
www.HistoricHydePark.org
Home Improvement
Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933 www.thefutonstore.com
Green 92 Partition St., Saugerties, NY (845) 418-3270 GreenInSaugerties@gmail.com
Hudson Valley Finds 41 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3020 www.hudsonvalleyfinds.com
Wickham Solid Wood Studio 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com
Landscaping Coral Acres, Keith Buesing — Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634
Language Lessons The Romance Language Tutor www.romancelanguagetutor.com emily@romancelanguagetutor.com
Lawyers & Mediators Jane Cottrell (917) 575-4424 www.janecottrell.com Mediation is the best opportunity for the 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.
Schneider, Pfahl & Rahm, LLP Woodstock: (845) 679-9868 New York City: (212) 629-7744 www.schneiderpfahl.com
Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
Martial Arts Woodstock Aikido At the Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8153 www.woodstockaikido.com A traditional United States Aikido Federation affiliated dojo situated in the Byrdcliffe artist community in Woodstock, NY. We have the extreme privilege of training under Harvey Konigsberg, Shihan.
Moving & Storage Hudson Power Movers (845) 380-2203 www.hudsonpowermovers.com
Musical Instruments Imperial Guitar & Soundworks 99 Route 17K, Newburgh, NY (845) 567-0111 www.imperialguitar.com
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Doing Good While Doing Well Investing Your Money Sustainably and Ethically By David Neilsen
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n today’s tumultuous economic climate, investors may feel a natural urge to find a safer haven in which to park their money and wait out the cascade of financial misery. But for many, a safer investment isn’t enough. “What we find consistently in our clients is that they have a desire to do the right thing and they have a desire to make a difference in the world,” says Beth Jones, a registered life planner and owner of Third Eye Associates. Enter the concept of Socially Responsible Investing, also known as Sustainable Investing. “Sustainable and Responsible Investing, which we generally call SRI, is an investment discipline which in addition to looking at traditional financial criteria, also looks at environmental, social, and corporate governance criteria in selecting companies for investing portfolios and analyzing investments,” explains Meg Voorhes, deputy director and research director at The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (formerly the Social Investment Forum), a nationwide association of professionals, firms, institutions, and organizations engaged in socially responsible and sustainable investing. SRIs have grown in recent years and now make up almost 10 percent of the market. “There are funds that have become popular in the past 10-20 years as people become more conscious about the environment, about consumer protection, human rights, that sort of thing.” Says Louis F. Conti, investment advisor representative for Ulster Savings Bank. “They’re willing to possibly give up a little return to do a little more in other areas.” According to Jeffrey Scales, a certified financial planner and managing principal of JSA Financial, SRIs offer investors more than peace of mind; they offer a strong financial return. “We have found for years now that our clients who have invested with a more sustainable approach have done as well, and in many cases better, than those portfolios that really didn’t factor that in any way,” he says. “It’s not just a niche marketing strategy, or some kind of alternative investing category. It’s actually a viewpoint on what’s the best way to achieve a [strong] market performance over the long term.” Scales agrees. “[In the past], SRI was defined in terms of what it didn’t invest in,” he says. “But sustainable investing is more about what you are investing in. When companies are functioning properly and markets respect how they interact with their workers, their customers, their community, and the overall environment, they are going to be more durable and more sustainable in the long run.” The key for sustainable investing is a company’s ESG values, which stands for environment, social welfare, and corporate governance. A company that has healthy practices in these three areas is seen as a company that is a good bet to be around for the long haul. Scales uses the example of water, a precious and dwindling resource heavily used in manufacturing. “If a company that deals with manufacturing doesn’t have some kind of sustainability report [dealing with their water usage], that really looks at the environmental factors, then that company is at risk.” How a company fares in the ESG categories can tell a lot about how it will weather a financial storm, such as the current climate. “Our investors are looking for companies that are well managed, that are looking at a broad array of issues such as environmental management, reducing their waste, reducing
their energy levels, promoting energy efficiency,” says Voorhes. “In terms of the human component, making sure that companies have good labor practices, have a workforce that is inspired to work for the company, is loyal. That they don’t have labor problems or labor abuses in the supply chain.” A company with good labor practices and solid environmental management has less of a chance that they’ll end up with an unexpected disaster that could decimate their stock price. An investor looking to enter the SRI world today has a lot more options than they did just a few years ago. “It used to be that there weren’t a lot of options for socially responsible investing, or they were mediocre options.” Says Jones. “Now there’s a full field of very competitive companies that are doing the right thing.” Many mutual funds now take sustainable investment practices into account, and many financial advisors now work with SRIs every day and are very knowledgeable. “One of the things to make it a lot easier for you is, you can look to mutual funds that offer sustainable investment as part of the criteria they use for asset management,” says Scales, who points to such SRI mainstays as Calvert Investments, Parnassus Investments, PAX World Investments, and Portfolio 21 Investments as some quality examples of companies specializing in sustainable investing. The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment website (www.ussif.org) is a wealth of information for anyone interested in SRIs. “We list our members’ mutual funds so you can see the performance of these funds over the last year, last three years, last five, and last 10 years,” says Vorhees. In addition, many of The Forum’s publications are available for free download, including the executive summary of their 2010 Socially Responsible Trends in the United States. The site also includes the ability to look up mutual funds by issue, so if you have an issue that is important to you, you can find a fund that works with companies dealing directly with that issue. So there is no longer a need to choose between making money and making the world a better place. “Those sustainable investments have to compete, dollar for dollar,” says Scales. “They have to be performance competitive with the non-ESG type of investments.” An SRI fund that doesn’t perform doesn’t last, plain and simple. When Jones explains this to her clients, they are generally become quite enthusiastic about investing sustainably. “Most people have thought that there wasn’t a possibility to do both and still make a living,” she says. “So when it comes to investments, people are often thrilled to find out that they can invest with their heart and still get a very respectable returns. My personal opinion is that if we’re not [investing responsibly], then we’re asleep at the wheel. It’s important that we do the right thing at every level. If we’re not doing that, then we’re part of the problem.” RESOURCES Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment www.ussif.org Third Eye Associates www.thirdeyeassociates.com JSA Financial www.jsafinancial.com Ulster Savings Bank www.ulstersavings.com 9/11 ChronograM money & investing 95
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GLUTEN-FREE NATION Since when did a loaf of good bread become public enemy No. 1? by wendy kagan illustration by annie internicola
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t seems that the kitchen icons of America have a new face. Duncan Hines and Betty Crocker, first names in near-instant cakes and brownies since the domestic heyday of the 1950s, have introduced gluten-free mixes to supermarket shelves. Bisquick now pedals a gluten-free avatar that can be whipped up into your comfort food of choice, from biscuits and dumplings to strawberry shortcakes. Chain restaurants, too, have stepped up to the plate. Olive Garden, the strip-mall mainstay that is a shrine to starch, now offers a special menu showcasing gluten-free pasta dishes and salads sans croutons. And if you’re a gluten-sensitive brew-swigger, this Bud’s for you: Anheuser Busch has come out with Redbridge, a wheat-free and gluten-free beer. How did we get here? Once nonexistent, and more recently relegated to health food stores redolent of vitamins and patchouli, gluten-free products have infiltrated the nation’s mainstream food purveyors. They wouldn’t be there without a profit margin. Enter a nascent consumer base: New diagnoses of gluten sensitivity and celiac disease are on the rise in the US and beyond.The Center for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland estimates that approximately 6 percent of Americans, or 18 million people, suffer from gluten sensitivity—in which consumption of gluten can lead to an array of reactions from abdominal distress or skin rashes to headaches and fatigue. Meanwhile, an additional three million Americans across all races, genders, and ages have been diagnosed with celiac disease—an autoimmune disorder that’s triggered by gluten consumption. Add to the mix a vogue of low-carb diets that make bread a villain, whether it deserves to be or not, and you’ll find yet more shoppers hungry for the “GF” label. All told, these once-niche foods are more ubiquitous—leaving us to sort through fact, fiction, and ambiguous lab tests to get to the heart of the gluten controversy. Diagnosis: Celiac Adored by bakers for giving bread its structure and fluffiness, gluten is a complex protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. Since it’s just about everywhere, in everything from sandwiches and pizza to muffins and pancakes, lucky are those who can eat it without ill effects.Yet more and more people are coming out of the kitchen woodwork with a varied array of reactions to the protein. At the milder end of the spectrum you’ll find people who can eat gluten yet respond with a rash or nagging stomach complaints. On the acute end are celiac patients, who cannot tolerate even a crumb of gluten in their diet and for whom consistent ingestion will lead to inflammatory damage throughout the small intestine. Ann Byrne of Wappingers Falls, author of the PoughkeepsieJournal.com blog “Gluten-free in the Hudson Valley,” was plagued with digestive problems 96 whole living ChronograM 9/11
for years before she arrived at her diagnosis for celiac disease. “I had severe abdominal bloating, gas, diarrhea—it wasn’t sexy! But no one had really heard of celiac 20 or 25 years ago,” Byrne says. So she suffered in silence. “I always just said, ‘I have my father’s stomach.’” Sadly, her father died of a digestive cancer eight years ago, likely related to untreated celiac disease. But lucky for Byrne, a 2009 blood test would save her from a similar fate. “After the results came in, my doctor called and said, ‘Put down the gluten—you have celiac.’ I walked away from it forever. I was on the new diet about two months before I felt completely better. It takes that long for the villi in the intestines to stand up again.” Other symptoms like mouth sores also disappeared as Byrne’s gut healed from the chronic assault of years of gluten consumption. Byrne is lucky indeed. According to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, a staggering 97 percent of celiacs are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome. “The delay in diagnosis is years,” says Lori Brown-Halbert, a family nurse practitioner who treats many gluten-sensitive and celiac patients at the Digestive Disease Center in Poughkeepsie and Fishkill. “It used to be up to 11 years, but we’ve gotten better. Now it’s about seven years. It can be a very difficult diagnosis to make.” False-negative results are a common problem with the battery of tests that many suspected celiac and gluten-sensitive patients take—from a blood test and upper endoscopy with biopsies to an elimination diet or tests for genetic markers. (Celiac runs in families; in fact, 17 percent of patients have an immediate family member who also has celiac.) Yet Brown-Halbert cautions against trying out a gluten-free diet if you suspect celiac or a similar diagnosis. “It’s extremely important to see a medical professional before going on a gluten-free diet,” she says. “Once you’re on a gluten-free diet, all the tests that we do will become unreliable and there’s no way we can make an accurate diagnosis.” Radioactive Eggs & More Rachel Slater, 48, of Kingston (whose name has been changed by request for this article), knows a thing or two about medical tests. Dogged with digestive issues since she was about 12 years old, she has been poked, prodded, scoped, and scanned dozens of times since adolescence. There was even an infamous “egg sandwich test” in which Slater was instructed to eat a sandwich of scrambled eggs injected with a radioisotope so the doctor could monitor its passage through her system. Although the test was to determine her rate of gastric motility, all that it revealed was a case of claustrophobia brought on by the closed-lid scanning machine. One doctor made Slater feel like the symptoms were all in her head and prescribed antidepressants that killed her sex drive.
Running short on patience, Slater heard about a good team at Albany Medical College’s Division of Gastroenterology, so she called and asked the receptionist, “Who’s going to treat me as if I’m not completely out of my mind?” That’s how she met Susan Sampson, FNP, who went through test results with Slater and alerted her to the possibility of false negatives. Under Sampson’s guidance, Slater gave a gluten-free diet a try and hit pay dirt. Although her response to the new regimen was favorable, indicating irritable bowel syndrome with gluten sensitivity, other aspects of her condition remain ambiguous. Her health is much improved on the new diet, but not perfect.Yet for now, she can take a break from those pesky lab tests. At times like these, a celiac diagnosis looks good: It’s definitive and requires no drugs or surgery. Just a lifelong gluten-free diet will do the trick. For those on the more equivocal end of the gluten-reactive spectrum, like Slater, the picture can be hazy. Symptoms of gluten sensitivity can range from abdominal pain, fatigue, and headaches to “foggy mind” and tingling of the extremities. Doctors are still looking for ways to better diagnose and treat this murky subgroup—which undoubtedly includes more people than we think. Gluten: Friend or Foe? Meanwhile, the gluten-free marketplace is growing at a rate of about 28 percent a year. Bob’s Red Mill brand, a health-food store staple, now includes some 70 gluten-free items in its line of grains and flours and has seen sales rise 35 percent annually for four years running. The customers are there. But are celiac disease and gluten sensitivity really on the rise, or are we simply more aware now of a range of gluten-related maladies? “It’s controversial in the medical community whether these disorders are increasing or if we’re just better now at diagnosing them,” says Brown-Halbert. “We do believe they’re more prevalent than they have been in years past. Yet improvements in diagnostic ability have also made the numbers increase.” So the question remains: Is bread to blame? “Our intestinal tracts were not set up to manage the large amounts of gluten that we consume in the American diet,” says Brown-Halbert. “None of us have the ability to digest it well. Does that mean it’s making us all sick or damaging us? No. Celiac disease is sickness with damage. Historically, the high level of gluten in our diet goes back to the advent of farming. I don’t know that it actually increases the amount of celiac disease that we’re seeing, but you have to be exposed to gluten to develop celiac disease.” Some healthcare providers express even stronger opinions when it comes to America’s favorite grain. “Wheat is not what it used to be; it’s been hybridized for higher gluten content so we can have big, fluffy things to eat,” says
Susan Turner, a board-certified Ayurvedic medicine practitioner and former registered nurse based in Monterey, California, who consults with patients nationwide. “Manufacturers store wheat sometimes for over a year and it has to be sprayed and preserved. Then there are the ever-present GMOs, a big unknown. People are having problems digesting wheat and gluten for many reasons, not just one cause.”Turner estimates that 80 percent of her patients suffer from gluten intolerance, adding, “Gluten tends to be the first thing people become allergic to when they have compromised immune, gastrointestinal, neurological, and endocrine systems.” New Comfort Foods It’s still not easy being gluten-free in a wheat-saturated world. Dining out is fraught with peril. Most packaged and processed foods are untouchable. Newly diagnosed patients face an existential despair, refraining, “What am I going to eat? There’s nothing I can eat.” Only three months into her new diet, Slater is struggling. She’s replaced gluten-laden starches with things like grilled sweet plantains for breakfast and baked and mashed potatoes at dinnertime. And she turns to her favorite brand of gluten-free sandwich cookies more often than she cares to admit. Healthcare providers like Brown-Halbert wag an admonishing finger at cookie dependence like this. “These are comfort foods; they have a role,” she says. “They make the transition easier for the newly diagnosed person. But they’re no healthier than regular cookies and cakes; in fact they’re higher in calories and fat than foods made with gluten. I tell my patients not to rely on them. Instead, eat more fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and high-fiber grains.” But what really gets Brown-Halbert’s goat is the sudden trendiness of the gluten-free movement. “Gluten-free is not a fad diet,” she warns. “No one should use it as such.” Meanwhile, comfort in the form of good, actionable information is becoming more available to those who need to eat gluten-free for health reasons. Ann Byrne’s Poughkeepsiejournal.com blog, “Gluten-free in the Hudson Valley,” serves up tips, recipes, and restaurant finds in a spirit of fun that says, “Yes, you can eat well without gluten.” RESOURCES Lori Brown-Halbert, FNP (845) 452-9800 Susan Sampson, FNP (518) 262-5276 Ann Byrne http://blogs.poughkeepsiejournal.com/glutenfreeinthehudsonvalley Susan Turner / Living Ayurveda (831) 375-7625 9/11 ChronograM whole living 97
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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan
Back to School Quiz: What is Attachment Parenting, Anyway?
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n the last two issues, I wrote about the anniversary trip T and I took to Italy without five-year-old A (who is going into kindergarten this month and will now receive the privacy of an abbreviation), and how A responded. Since part of my process included describing Naomi Aldort and her megaattachment-parenting-style comments on so-called separation anxiety, quite a few people have opened up to me about their own parenting styles and thoughts about “attachment parenting,” the term coined by Dr. William Sears, the pediatrician who turned so many of us on to baby-wearing and family beds. While what Sears points to is true—yes, babies develop most happily within the secure base of a physically close, well-attuned caregiver—he has created an unfortunate schtick, making it seem like if you don’t follow his suggestions, you won’t be bonding with your child. As if there is any kind of parenting other than “attachment parenting.”
Research in psychology and neuroscience shows that attachment is a human process, for which we all hard-wired. And like other instinctive processes such as walking or talking, the process can go well, or not so well, depending on our parents, our genetics, or, according to other fine folks, our karma. I appreciate the good work Sears has done in sharing his, shall we say, streamlined approach to attachment, but I feel frustrated that it is presented in such a way as anyone might feel Oh, attachment’s not for me. When in fact, if we removed attachment from the parenting equation, however we manifest our own flavor of it, we are left with a pretty rote, if not sociopathic, mode of raising human beings. The point is this: We humans attach to others, to varying degrees of success. With our without Dr. Sears’ advice. And so in honor of the upcoming school year, let’s take a quiz about where all this attachment stuff comes from.
1) In developmental psychology, “attachment” refers to: A) The early bond between mother and infant. B) Proof to some that women should not work “outside of the home.” C) An instinctive, empirically study-able bonding style that babies learn in relation to their mothers that can be categorized (secure or insecure, and within insecure, attachment can be avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized) and used as a predictor of later behaviors, and also repaired in adulthood. D) All of the above.
4) Before John Bowlby’s attachment theory gathered mainstream acceptance in the 1970s, many therapists and analysts believed: A) Early separations from mothers, even through death, didn’t necessarily affect a child. B) Neurosis was the result of thwarted and complex inner drives more than relationships with others. C) Conditions in the home, unless in cases of extreme violence or neglect, were irrelevant in understanding a child’s behavior. D) All of the above.
2) “Cupboard Love” was a term used by Anna Freud (1895-1982), daughter of Sigmund and child therapy pioneer, to refer to: A) Childhood obesity. B) The fact that children love their mothers because they feed them. C) When a young girl’s Oedipal urges are sublimated and surface as an obsession with food. D) An early term for male homosexuality, which was considered the result of prolonged breast feeding. This evolved into the term “in the closet.” 3) What did attachment founder John Bowlby think most significant in a newborn duckling’s behavior, and how did this observation inform his radical concept of attachment? (First choose what he noticed from column A, and then draw a line to how it relates to humans in column B) A The duckling instinctively bonds to the first moving thing it sees, regardless of who feeds it. The duckling can walk just hours after hatching. The duckling has very poor eyesight, which often results in nipple confusion.
Most male ducks are silent, and few other either sex actually quack.
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B Human mothers respond to both male and female cries equally. A human baby can find its mother’s nipple in the dark. Due to the large size of our heads, in relation to the small size of our bipedal hips, in order for mothers to survive childbirth, human babies need to be born early, immature, and totally helpless. Thus, the first three months of an infant’s life is termed the “fourth trimester.” Human infants instinctively seek and require a loving attachment figure, regardless of who feeds them. In other words, babies need love.
5) Which expert said this: “There were very loving mothers who had bottle-fed their babies and some very rejecting mothers, women who were obviously very hostile, who had breast-fed their babies.” A) John Bowlby (1907-1990), the founder of attachment theory. B) William Sears (1939- ), the founder of attachment parenting. 6) One of the most common reasons for an insecure attachment between a mother and her child is: A) The child was placed in an electronic bouncy chair. B) The mother had an insecure attachment with her mother. C) The child was sleep trained. D) The mother did not provide enough “floor time.” 7) The Buddha taught that in order to free ourselves, we must renounce all worldly attachments, including our children. Where does this leave us? A) Stuck in the wheel of samsara forever. B) Hoping our kids will understand that our love of (and obsession with) the dharma is for their own good. C) Attaining merit by serving the monks in our communities, and praying to be reborn in conditions more ripe for liberation (i.e., male, single, childless). D) It’s a good question.
ANSWERS 1) D 2) A 3) A: The duckling instinctively bonds to the first moving thing it sees, regardless of who feeds it. B: Human infants instinctively seek and require a loving attachment figure, regardless of who feeds them. Babies need love. 4) D 5) A 6) B 7) D
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New Paltz Community Acupuncture
Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac. Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com
Acupuncture
Port Ewen Acupuncture Center. Beverly Halley, LAc
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, stress-related conditions, preventive medicine. 25 years’ experience using needle and nonneedle techniques.
(845) 340-8625 www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Alexander Technique Institute for Music and Health Rhinebeck & Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5871 www.judithmuir.com.com
(845) 679-0512 joanapter@earthlink.net
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L Ac 87 East Market Street, Suite 102, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com
Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060
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Rodney Wells, CFP 845-534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com
See also Massage Therapy.
Art Therapy Deep Clay Art and Therapy New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women.
holistic spa 323 Warren St. Hudson, NY
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Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net
Body & Skin Care
New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L Ac
Essence MediSpa, LLC — Stephen Weinman, MD
21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com
222 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-3773 www.EssenceMediSpa.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,
21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz TEL: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter
10 years in Rosendale - new name and location! Specializing in the treatment of chronic and acute pain, fertility and gynecological issues, pregnancy support, digestive issues, and addictions and other emotional issues. Private treatment rooms. Sliding scale, nofault, many insurances.
Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info
Transpersonal Acupuncture
44 West Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7860 www.bluestoneacupuncture.com
371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 http://www.creeksideacupuncture.com
Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting
232 Broadway, Port Ewen, NY (845) 338-2964
Bluestone Acupuncture,PLLC
Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAc
$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford)
Made with Love
Imago Relationship Therapy
(845) 674-3715 Handcrafted skin care products using natural ingredients, pure essential oils and phthalatefree fragrance oils. No parabens, petroleum or carcinogenic chemicals are used.
julieezweig@gmail.com
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Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica. ART® is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up. ART® works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART® doctors are trained in over 500 hands-on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART® doctors attend yearly continuing education and recertification by ART®.
TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, muscle tension, chemo relief, immune support, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.
Roya Karbakhsh, MD Adult ,Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dentistry & Orthodontics
Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley
Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD
166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com
107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com
Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.
Chiropractic
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Healing Mind Psychiatric Care
Dr. David Ness
Diagnostic evaluation • Psychopharmacology Consultation • Psychotherapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Child Consultation • Couples & Family Therapy • Children Play Therapy Stress Reduction Skills • Mindfulness • Coherent Breathing
(845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com
Serving Ulster & Dutchess counties since 2000! Saturday appointments available
addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr.
ANNOUNCING NEW OFFICE IN RHINEBECK 8 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY
NEW PALTZ 222 Main Street, New Paltz, NY
phone: 845.255.1117• fax: 845.255.1190 • web: www.nphealingarts.com
Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist.
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Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and
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tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non
20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0901 www.mtnviewstudio.com mtviewstudio@gmail.com
surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call
The Joy of the Yogini: Women’s Retreat Colleen Saidman Yee sept 16-18, 2011 Working with Your Enemies Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman sept 23-25, 2011
Empowered By Nature
Red Hook, NY (845) 758-3600
(845) 416-4598 www.EmpoweredByNature.webs.com lorrainehughes@optonline.net
16 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-9331 www.walentinchropractic.com
Counseling IONE, Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, 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
The How of Sustainable Health & Happiness patricia moreno, Laurie gerber, Frank Lipman & robert Thurman november 11-13, 2011
offices. For appointments contact Kellie at
Annual New Year’s Yoga & Meditation Retreat Faculty TBD December 29 - January 1st, 2012
New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com
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CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner
Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle
Catskill Mountains Phoenicia, New York For more information and to register please visit: www.menlamountain.org Tel. 845-688-6897
approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.
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Herbal Medicine & Nutrition
Healthy Place
Walentin Chiropractic
Challenge Your Body, Mind, & Spirit: A Hiking, Yoga, & Cleansing Spa Retreat sept 8-11, 2011
Fitness Trainers
adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments,
Dr. Ness today.
Upcoming 2011 programs
I believe in expansion and gentle forces. Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plaque and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign. I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted. Payment plans available.
Lorraine Hughes — Herbal Wellness Guide, 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 John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com 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.
Kara Lukowski, CAS, PKS, E-RYT 243 Fair St, Kingston, NY 845-633-0278 www.karalukowski.com kara@karalukowski.com Kara Lukowski is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist who helps clients with disorders of digestion, weight, circulation, skin, reproduction, chronic fatigue, emotional instability and more. Offering one-on-one counseling with supportive guidance you will receive a personalized nutrition
plan, lifestyle recommendations, custom organic herbal formulas, aromatherapy, yoga therapy and body therapies.
Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 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.
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 dis-ease/illness/anxiety/discomfort/fear and supports one to open to greater self-acceptance, integration and wholeness. Next One Light Healing Touch School begins January 2012.
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change your outlook. Gain control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.
Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.
Life & Career Coaching Victoria Lewis — My Coach for Creativity (212) 875-7220 www.mycoachforcreativity.com victoria@mycoachforcreativity.com
Massage Therapy Bodhi Holistic Spa
Quantum Herbal Products
323 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2233 www.bodhistudio.com
(845) 246-1344 www.quanumherbalproducs.com
Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy
Hospitals 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-ofthe-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.
Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com
Sharon Hospital 50 Hospital Hill Road, Sharon, CT (860) 364-4000 www.sharonhospital.com
Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org
Hypnosis
Manufacturers of Extraordinary Herbal Tinctures
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(800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org
Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT
692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).
Hands On Massage & Wellness, Inc. — Heather Kading, LMT, CIMI 258 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-6820 www.hands-on-massage.org handsonmassagewellness@yahoo.com Heather specializes in prenatal/postpartum massage. Recently having her first child, she understand what a woman experiences physically, mentally and emotionally when pregnant and/or caring for a newborn. Heather is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, so she can teach you how to bond with your new bundle of joy. She also teaches women how to prepare for the marathon of labor and how to lose their mummy tummies. Heather and the other therapist also specialize in pain & stress management and sports massage. Ask about our monthly massage memberships.
Hudson Valley Therapeutic Massage — Michele Tomasicchio, LMT, —Vesa Byrnes, LMT
Dr. Kristen Jemiolo
7 Prospect Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 hvtmassage@gmail.com
Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2
Do you have chronic neck, back or shoulder problems? Headaches? Numbness or tingling? Or do you just need to relax? Utilizing
Natural Healing & Herbal Medicines as Alternatives to Pharmaceutical Drugs Organic, Aged, and Handmade Full-Spectrum Extracts Made from Whole Plants, Just as they occur in nature Local Whenever Available
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A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence:
relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more. Group sessions include expressive art activities - it’s not all talk!
John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER
PIRITUAL
OUNSELOR
“ 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
Tuesday Evenings New Paltz, New York
“ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
Facilitator: Amy Frisch, LCSW
Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez
for more information
See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events
www.itsagirlthinginfo.com | (845) 706-0229
MA, LCAT, TEP
PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT
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classical yoga & meditation
Acupuncture by M.D.
Hoon J. Park, MD, P.C. Board Cer tified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Auto and Job Injuries • Arthritis • Strokes • Neck/Back and Joint Pain • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Acupuncture • Physical Therapy • Joint Injections • EMG & NCS Test • Comprehensive Exercise Facility
johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420
Judy Swallow
Private Counseling * Women’s Circles * Ministerial Studies with IONE
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298-6060
1772 South Road Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 ½ mile south of Galleria Mall
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2 commerce court #3 wappingers falls, NY 12590 227-3223 • yogaway@earthlink.net • www.yogaway.info adults • prenatal • baby/toddler • children • special events
Celebrating our10 t h year of Service
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Yoga Nude in Albany
Ensure your child’s eyes see clearly. Much of what your child learns in school is presented visually. Clear vision, can make a big difference in their academic performance.
Visit Drs. Madigan & Gibbons for an attentive and careful assessment of your child’s vision to rule out any problems that may interfere with their vision development. Schedule an appointment today.
Dr. Madigan & Dr. Gibbons Optometrists 454 Warren Street
6805 Route 9
HUDSON 518-828-0215
RHINEBECK 8458762222
5th Ave behind Nolita
private session: 518-577-8172 www.YogaNudeinAlbany.com
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Astor Square
www.DrsMadiganAndGibbons.com
Integrated Health Care for Women Healing mind, body, and spirit combining traditional medical practice, clinical hypnotherapy, 12-step work, and Reiki energy healing. stress-related illness
hypertension • asthma • headache gastrointestinal disturbance • chronic fatigue fibromyalgia & chronic lyme
anxiety/depression
panic • phobia • insomnia
eating disorder, weight loss, and smoking cessation
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Kristen Jemiolo, MD American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Certification Poughkeepsie (845) 485-7168 For more information visit: http://mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2
Get started on your path to wellness today!
Bluestone Acupuncturepllc Clinic and Herbal Dispensary Acupuncture has been used for centuries to manage stress, allergies, illness, fatigue, pain and so much more. Come see what it can do for you!
Call Today for a Free Consultation
845-986-7860
www.bluestoneacupuncture.com
44 West St, Warwick, NY Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, Saturdays by appointment
• Integrating Talk & Body-Centered Therapy • IMAGO Couples Relationship Counseling • Blended Family Counseling • Integrated Kabbalistic Healing • Exceptional Marriage Mentoring (couple to couple)
Irene HumbacH, LcSW, Pc Office in Poughkeepsie (845) 485-5933
Be t t e r B a l ance Be t t er He a lt h
Judith Muir M.M. M.AmSAT Alexander Technique Private Lessons from a founding member of AmSAT
Judithmuir.com (845) 677-5871 Rhinebeck, Millbrook
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Claudia Coenen, MTP CREATIVE COUNSELING FOR TRANSFORMATION
a blend of soft tissue therapies, we can help you resume the activities you need to do and love to do with freedom from discomfort and pain.
Joan Apter
Specializing in loss, transition, death and life changes Offering companionship and inspiration on your life’s journey back to wholeness. Featuring individual sessions, workshops, inspirational talks.
www.thekarunaproject.com 914-475-9695 (cell) claudia@thekarunaproject.com
(845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.
Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482
H YPNOCOaCHING m I N d / B O d Y I N T e G r a T I O N Hypnosis • Holistic nurse consultant• coacHing Manage Stress • Apprehensions • Pain • Improve Sleep Release Weight • Set Goals • Change Habits Pre/Post Surgery • Fertility • Gentle Childbirth Immune System Enhancement Past Life Regression • Intuitive Counseling Motivational & Spiritual Guidance
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Relax • Release • Let Go • Flow
HYPNOSIS
f O r B I rT H I N G Kary Broffman, r.N., C.H. 845-876-6753
New England Patient Resources P A RT N E R S I N C O M M U N I C AT I O N
Need help reviewing medical bills and benefits? Some 80% of medical bills contain errors. Let us help you with this and other medical issues. We are a full-service patient advocacy agency. Many of our services are available nationwide. Our network includes physicians, nurses, psychologists, insurance experts and many others.
www.newenglandpatientresources.net 518-398-0051
You are truly prosperous to the extent
that you are experiencing health, freedom, happiness and plenty in your life. – Dr. Christiane Northrup Visit our website for information on upcoming events www.teamnorthrup.com 845-489-4745
THYROID? Free info at www.thyroidfix.com
Free Thyroid Seminars Call for times: 845-758-3600
Ford F. Franklin, DC Neurology-Based Chiropractor
Discover the secrets of the health-wealth connection
102 W. Market Street Red Hook, NY 12571 845-758-3600
RedHookChiropractor.com
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Optometrists Rhinebeck Eye Care 454 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (845) 828-0215 6805 Route 9, Rhinebeck NY (845) 876-2222 www.drsmadiganandgibbons.com
Organizations Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. 38 East Market Street, 2nd fl., Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-2626 rsvp.mhvs.org rsvp@mhvs.org, info@mhvs.org The Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. works to promote the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, educating the community about the benefits of a plant-based diet and showing how to change to a more healthful, crueltyfree lifestyle. Members and friends participate in talks, potlucks, a youth group, and other activities; and get discounts at participating stores and restaurants.
Osteopathy
Psychics Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com
Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy D Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023 Offering therapy for individuals and couples, adults and adolescents. Insight-oriented approach with focus on understanding patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with life satisfaction and growth. Licensed psychologist with doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of post-doctoral training and certification in psychoanalytic work with adults, young adults, and adolescents. Located across the street from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.
Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, LCSW New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229
Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.
Healing Mind Psychiatric Care 8 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY 222 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1117 www.nphealingarts.com
Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC
Stone Ridge Healing Arts
(845) 485-5933
Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com
Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.
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.
New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com
Physicians New England Patient Resources (518) 398-0051 www.newenglandpatientresources.net
Pilates
Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well
Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Spirited Midlife Women. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation. Newsletter sign up on website. FB page: www.Brigidswell.com/facebook.
Conscious Body Pilates
Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP
692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com
25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613
Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semiprivate apparatus sessions available.
Julie Zweig, MA — Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com
Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW
Retreats supporting positive personal and
Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com
social change in a monastery overlooking the
I work with adolescents and adults struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disordered behaviors, loneliness and life transitions. I’ve helped teens and adults with substance abuse and trauma connected to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. My approach is psychodynamic, linking the painful past with current and cognitive problems which reframes negative beliefs allowing for positive outcomes. I also practice EMDR, a technique for relieving distress by exploring critical memories.
October 7-10, and Gail Fitzpatrick-Hopler and
Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC
Tarot-on-the-Hudson — Rachel Pollack
New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com 25 years experience providing individual and group psychotherapy and inter-modal expressive arts therapy. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women.
Reflexology
Hudson River. Featuring Gelek Rimpoche: Healing Practice of the Medicine Buddha, Fr. Carl Arico: Heartfulness - The Contemplative Christian Journey, October 21-27.
and breathe…
Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 www.menla.org menla@menla.org
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FREE PUBLIC EVENTS The Grand Canyon: Power and Perseverance Friday, September 23 at 7 p.m.
Explore the Grand Canyon through a special evening of science and music. Aquatic Ecologist Emma Rosi-Marshall will discuss her field experiences in the Grand Canyon reach of the Colorado River; Cellist Rhonda Rider will perform a selection of original music inspired by the canyon. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; post-event reception.
Forest Ecology Walk: Hudson River Valley Ramble Sunday, September 25 at 10 a.m. Connect with nature while learning about how past land use practices have shaped Hudson Valley forests. Led by Forest Ecologist Dr. Charles Canham, this event will meet at the Cary East (Gifford House) parking area, located at 2917 Sharon Tpk. (Rte. 44) in Millbrook, NY. Reservations suggested. Call (845) 677-7600 x121 Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies • 2801 Sharon Turnpike • Millbrook • N.Y.
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charles leirens Marc Chagall in High Falls, in 1948, working on Liberation.
The Chicken Painter of High Falls Marc Chagall built an illustrious career as a multidisciplinary artist creating works in an encyclopedic variety of media, from stained glass to stage sets. He made a name for himself as one of the premier early Modernist artists of the 20th century. He narrowly escaped the Holocaust by fleeing France to awaiting international notoriety awaiting in New York City. And then, he stopped painting. For nearly two years, Chagall “the artist” essentially disappeared as he grieved the death of his beloved wife, Bella. That is, until 1946, when he found a new lover and sanctuary in a quiet, quaint hamlet in Upstate New York: High Falls. “To understand Chagall’s art you have to understand him. The key to understanding the works of art he produced here in High Falls is you have to know the story of his presence in High Falls,” says Rik Rydant, a retired history and English teacher. The two-year painting binge Chagall went on in High Falls produced some of his most critically acclaimed pieces, like Four Tales from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights. It’s also a pocket of his life largely untold, says Rydant, which is why he and Gary Ferdman created “Chagall in High Falls,” a documentary exhibition of art, photos, and ephemera on display during September and October at the D&H Canal Museum Chapel. “If people want to view his art it’s available, but what we really want to do is tell the life story of Marc Chagall in High Falls, which hasn’t been told,” says Rydant. The exhibit opens on September 2, the anniversary of Bella’s death, a pivotal moment in Chagall’s life and career. The following night, September 3, Chagall’s granddaughter will be on hand from 5 to 8 pm for a special opening reception to celebrate two months of art, family photos, educational programs, and oral history. There will even be a Chagallinspired meal when Rydant and Ferdman host an exhibit fundraiser on September 17 at 6 pm at the Depuy Canal House with restaurateur John Novi. “It’s going to be a very rich experience. A lot of people will be very surprised at this aspect of local history,” says Ferdman, who lives kitty-corner to Chagall’s former home.
“We’re in touch with several people who have wonderful stories, recollections, family myths about Chagall.” The live documentary will expose a side of High Falls that many outsiders don’t even know existed, says Ferdman. And, if they do know of Chagall’s unintentionally mysterious time in town (locals called him “The Chicken Painter” because of a notorious rooster painting), the exhibit is sure to conjure up some memories and answers. “He painted outside but not too many people saw what he painted because the artwork went directly from his studio to a gallery in New York City,” says Rydant. “The community knows that he was here and knows a little bit about him, so this presentation is to bring it all together for the community so they know the complete story instead of bits and pieces.” Rydant and Ferdman hope the exhibit will draw untold Chagall stories out of the woodwork. And, perhaps, even an undiscovered painting. “There’s speculation he gave a painting to a neighbor. Several people indicated they knew people who were offered paintings by Chagall in lieu of payments, as a barter,” says Ferdman. “It’s possible there are Chagall paintings in attics or barns or basements somewhere in the High Falls area.” Curious visitors will see 13 reproductions of Chagall’s colorful, High Falls-era lithographs. There will be a collection of family and professional photos of Chagall walking down Mohonk Avenue, Chagall nose-to-nose with a cow, and Chagall with the barely mentioned woman who helped revive his career, Virginia Haggard. “This will be one of the few times Virginia is given a proper role in Chagall’s life and art. We’re trying to right a historical wrong by doing this,” said Rydant. “Chagall in High Falls,” will be exhibited from September 2 through and October at the D&H Canal Museum Chapel. —Alyssa Jung
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THURSDAY 1 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5:30pm. Exhibition closing lecture and reception. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Private Astrological Readings 11:30am-6pm. $90. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. The First Step: Letting Go of the Past 6:30pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Film On Paper Wings 7pm. $5. Litchfield Hills Film Festival “Pop-Up Gallery,” New Milford, CT. hillsfilmfestival.org.
Chris Talio Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. In The Pocket 8pm. Covers. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. The Virtuoso Composer 8pm. Ilya Yakushev, piano. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. The Providers 8pm. Blues. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring Lyn Hardy and Brendan Hogan. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142. The 8th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival 2011 Kickoff 8pm. Featuring Teri Roiger, Marilyn Crispell, Judi Silvano, and John Menegon, with some very creative use of duos, trios and quartets. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. Jude Roberts 8pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's 8:30pm. With special guest Petey Hop. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Sonny Sings Old School Style 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Steve Earle and the Dukes 9pm. $60/$50/$40. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Sound Bath: 4 Directions Sound Healing 7pm-9pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier, Peter Blum, Naaz Hosseini and Thomas Workman. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet 7pm. Opening: Mark & Glenn Zaleski. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. The Andy Polay Quintet 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Elton John and his Band 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones Original Lineup 8pm. $25-$66. Belleayre Mountain, Highmount. (800) 942-6904 ext. 344. Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams 8:30pm. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300. Steve Black 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. An Evening With Bob Weir 9pm. Solo acoustic. $60. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Shadetree Mechanics 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Madam Mozart and Company 10pm. With Grasshopper, Vamp, and Flynn Strada. $15/$10. Bridgewater Bar and Grill, Kingston. 340-4272.
Dance
Spoken Word
Parsons Dance 7:30pm. $40/$35 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Poetry on the Loose 4pm. Featuring James F. Cotter. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085. Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Featured artists: Donald Lev and others. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 246-8565.
The Farm Project 2011Opening Reception 1pm-6pm. Collaborative Concepts. Saunders Farm, Garrison. 528-1797. Visceral: Recent Works and Reactions 5pm-7pm. By Alicia Mikles, Sigrid Sarda, and Deborah Zlotsky. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org. Watercolors: Peter Hussey. 5pm-7pm. The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA. (413) 458-1700. Drawn to Paint 5pm-7pm. Bob Oliver, George Hayes, Gloria Detore-Mackie. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Landscapes and Still Lifes 5pm-8pm. Elaine Ralston, pastels. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580. The Garden of Eden and After 6pm-9pm. Paintings by Michael X. Rose. Lovebird Studios, Rosendale. 594-4505.
Body / Mind / Spirit
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. Featuring Don Haynie & Sheryl Samuel, Eric Erickson and TJay. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Bright Eyes 8pm. $30+fees. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Rob Scheps/ Jamie Reynolds Duo 8pm-11pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com. Live Music Showcase 9pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Mojo Myles Mancuso 9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Theater
Theater The Comedy of Errors 7pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Bosocbel, Garrison. 265-9575. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
FRIDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Portals to the Center: The Medicine Wheel as Lifeway Call for times. With Joan Henry & Jon Delson. $240. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Projective Dream Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Open Life Drawing 6pm-9pm. Practice and refine technique in drawing or painting. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance Jane Comfort and Company 7:30pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 437-7470.
Events Woodstock Songwriter Festival Concerts, performances for family audiences, hands-on workshops for children, art, food and dancing. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. Woodstocksongwriterfestival.com. On Earth 'Tis a Heaven: Shaker Spiritual Life Tour 2pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137. Chatham Farmers Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/GREENMARKET.cfm.
Film
Mastering Creative Anxiety with Eric Maisel Need to expand or master your creative mind? Learn how with Eric Maisel at a talk and signing for his latest book, Mastering Creative Anxiety. Living in a creatively engaged environment can bring on stress and anxiety—two factors that can halt your career if you don’t nip them in the bud immediately. Maisel explains 24 lessons for writers, painters, musicians, actors, and everyone else on how to manage creative pressure. Mastering Creative Anxiety will be offered at 10 percent discount the day of the event. September 10. 3pm. Mirabai of Woodstock. (845) 679-2100; www.mirabai.com. Gumhead 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Maria Hickey Band 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. Madam Mozart and Company 10pm. With Swank and Flynn Strada. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Seth Branitz 10pm. Market Market Café, Rosendale. 658-3164. Taboo Fridays 10pm. Dance music. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.
Theater As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org. Around the World in 80 Days 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. 265-9575. Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118. Highlights from the Footlights: 8pm. Musical theater. $45. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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New Works by Brook, Toren, and Larsen 6pm-8pm. Hudson & Laight Gallery, Hudson, New Mexico. (518) 828-1700.
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Workshops Sounds of Africa 8pm. With Sanga of the Valley. $20/$18 members. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
SUNDAY 4 Art
12th Woodstock Museum Annual Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, events and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600. Garland Jeffreys Duo 7pm. Urban folk-pop. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.
As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Real (Desperate) Housewives of Columbia County Musical 7pm. Dinner theater. $40. Lighthouse Marina and Restaurant, Copake. (518) 325-1234. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Hay Fever 8pm. Presented by VOICEtheater. $20/$17 students and seniors. 13 Wittenberg Road, Bearsville. www.voicetheater.org. Hamlet 8pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. $46. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Garrison. 265-9575. Highlights from the Footlights 8pm. American Songbook. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Ian Wilson: The Pure Awareness of the Absolute Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Events Woodstock Songwriter Festival Concerts, performances for family audiences, hands-on workshops for children, art, food and dancing. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. Woodstocksongwriterfestival.com. Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring Crafts on John Street. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
Film 12th Woodstock Museum Annual Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, events and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.
Kids Audience Participation Magic Show 11am. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Music Lyric Piano Quartet Call for times. Windham Chamber Music Festival Season Finale. $25/$20 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham. (518) 263-5165. Matthew Hogan 1pm. Blues. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Woodstock Concert on the Green 1pm-6pm. Greg Englesson aka Mr. E, Venture Lift Finley & Pagdon, Dave Kearney, Charles Lyonhart, Comfy Chair. Woodstock Village Green, Woodstock. 679-3224. The 8th Annual Wall Street Jazz Festival 2011 6pm. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. The Maverick Chamber Players 6pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
Walking Salons 11am-1pm. Art tour with 2-4 artists, writers, curators, poets. Open Studio, Catskill. (518) 943-9531. First Sunday Gallery Tour 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844.
Body / Mind / Spirit CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.
Dance Parsons Dance 7:30pm. $40/$35 members. PS21, Chatham. (518) 392-6121.
Events Woodstock Songwriter Festival Concerts, performances for family audiences, hands-on workshops for children, art, food and dancing. Vivo Fine Art, Woodstock. Woodstocksongwriterfestival.com. Kingston Sailing Club Fall Racing Series 10am. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-1264. Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Locally grown produce, grass fed meats, specialty foods. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. ewcoc.com/ewcocmarkets12428.aspx. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. The Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Traditional farmers market. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Film 12th Woodstock Museum Annual Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, events and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.
Music Open Mike to Bob Dylan Tunes 10am-2pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. The Doug Marcus Trio 10:30am-2pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Betsi K 1pm. Singer/songwriter. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
photography carla shapiro image provided An untitled image from Carla Shapiro's "Obituaries to Prayer Flags" series, part of Shapiro's "Rewriting Loss" exhibition this month at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Blowin’ in the Wind Photographer Carla Shapiro was teaching at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute the day the World Trade Towers came down. “I wanted to photograph it, but I wasn’t a journalist and couldn’t get a pass,” she recalls. Instead, she constructed her own memorial, hand copying more than 2,500 obituaries from the New York Times on vellumlike sheets of paper, a labor that took over five months. She then hung the nine-by-six-inch sheets from 25 clotheslines suspended across the brook behind her house in Chichester and spent a year photographing them. More than a dozen of those photographs will be on display at the Center for Photography at Woodstock from September 10 to October 9, in a show titled “Rewriting Loss.” The notion of recording the gradual dissolution of the hand-written script in black ink (she used nontoxic Varsity pens) reflects Shapiro’s fascination with the passage of time and the decay: among many other subjects, the artist, who still teaches at Pratt, has photographed people of advanced age, finding beauty in their wrinkles. She shot the dense rows of vellum sheets, which as they faded resembled Tibetan prayer flags—they also suggest the transience of clothing and the human body, as well as the shapes of tombstones and the skyscrapers of Manhattan—in sunlight and rain, frost and wind. “They were frozen, snowed upon, gleaming in the light,” Shapiro says. “They were shattered and ripped.” All of the photographs are in color, which lends a sepia richness to the close-up shots of the faded writing, which bleeds off the frame entirely, as if it were the fragments of an ancient, mysterious text, partially decoded. One’s associations with that day are ironically summoned up in images that Shapiro captured entirely from the sylvan surroundings, thanks to ambiguities of light, space, and texture she achieved from creative vantage points (some shots, for example, were taken from a ladder placed in the stream). Smoke
wafting up toward the prayer flags (from a fire kindled in her streamside stone hearth) signifies the burning of the towers; an aerial view of reflections of scintillating orange sunlight beneath the suspended flags suggests the splotches of brilliant mercury light one sees flying into Kennedy Airport at night; a close-up of darkened, jagged-edged vellum, which frames a bleary, setting sun, could be of battered asphalt roof tiles, with nary a tree in sight. In another photograph, formations of erect clothes pins are standins for business workers, their flesh tones the color of human skin and their metal clips echoing the lines of crisply tailored suits. Other photographs point to grief and the transcendental: sun rays shooting from a leafy height above the rows of flags, ink collecting in thick black drops along the bottom edge of the vellum, a clump of snow that seems to be levitating in space. Subjecting the flags to the full force of the weather over four seasons was a humbling process that evoked healing, since “nature’s eternal,” Shapiro says. The exhibit also includes a five-minute black-and-white film of the surviving flags Shapiro recently made using an 8 mm camera, accompanied by a soundtrack featuring a composition by John Adams and a layered recording of Shapiro reciting the obituaries. The film ends with a flag dropping off the line into the creek, which is instantly carried away by the rapids—an image of surprising violence, with its echo of falling bodies, yet also expressive of an immortal truth: our own inevitable fall into the currents of invisible spirit. “Rewriting Loss” will be exhibited at the Center for Photography at Woodstock September 10 through October 9. An opening reception and artist's talk will be held on September 10 from 5 to 7pm. (845) 679-9957; www.cpw.org —Lynn Woods
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Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.WoodstocksBirds.org. Sunday Fundays 4pm-8pm. Live music. $5. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Daedalus String Quartet 4pm. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217. Cyclops - A Rock Opera! 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Folk-Troubadour Tom Pacheco 7:30pm. Presented by Flying Cat Music. $15/$13 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453. Madam Mozart and Company 9pm. With Swank, Vamp, and Flynn Strada. $10/$6 21+. Bridgewater Bar and Grill, Kingston. 340-4272.
Events
The Outdoors
Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.Woodstockfarmfestival.com.
Pith in for Parks 5:30pm-7:30pm. Falling Waters Preserve, Saugerties. 473-4440 ext. 273.
Kids
The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Theater
Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.
The Ladies Man 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Highlights from the Footlights 3pm. American Songbook. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. As You Like It 5pm. Bird-On-A-Cliff's Woodstock Shakespeare Festival. Comeau Property, Woodstock. www.birdonacliff.org. The Comedy of Errors 6pm. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. 265-9575.
Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Music Ian Axel with Bess Rogers & Allie Moss 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Rhinebeck Choral Club Open Rehearsal 7:30pm. All music-skill levels may join. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. (917) 685-7602.
Theater
Workshops Goals & Affirmations Workshop 6:30pm-8pm. Using Transformational Kinesiology, explore what makes for a powerful and effective goal, and learn how to use and apply goal setting. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. Living in the Now: It's About Time to Change 6:30pm-8pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
FRIDAY 9
Spoken Word
THURSDAY 8 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Art Documenting a Decade: From 9/11/01 to Today Call for times. New York State Museum, Albany. (518) 474-5877. Exceptional Art for an Exceptional Price 5pm-7pm. Small works sale. Kent Art Association, Kent, CT. (860) 927-3989. American Earth 5pm-7pm. Artwork of John Bridges, curated by Eileen Hedley and April Warren. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.
MONDAY 5 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75 60min/$40 30 min. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Learn to Meditate: Raja Yoga Meditation 6:30pm-7:30pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000. Women's Healing Circle 6:30pm-8pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Film 12th Woodstock Museum Annual Film Festival Call for times. Check website for specific films, events and times. Woodstock Museum, Saugerties. 246-0600.
Music Sonny Sings 8:30pm. The return of the "Rat Pack” and all your Italian favorites. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.
TUESDAY 6 Body / Mind / Spirit Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. Medium Adam Bernstein. $75/$40. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. High Frequency Channeling: Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Music Greg Melnick 6pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699.
Spoken Word Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
WEDNESDAY 7 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000. Qi Gong 7pm-8pm. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
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The Italian Band Roberto Milanese & Greg Buono 6pm. St. Mary's Hall, Kingston. 338-3972. Gilad Hekselman Quartet 7pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. Mary Crescenzo Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. EARBRAINS: Sonic Research Underground 8pm. Featuring Fat Worm of Error, Jason Lescalleet/ Graham Lambkin, Caboladies, David Shively, and Keith Fullerton Whitman. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. Roger McGuinn 8pm. Folk. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845. Spampinato Brothers 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Saints of Swing Chamber Trio 8:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Conjunto Sazon Quartet 9pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. Jonny Monster Band 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Joy Kills Sorrow 9pm. Acoustic. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Harvest Band 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Petey Hop & the Jackrabbits 9:30pm. Pop, soft rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Women's Poetry Reading 7pm-8:45pm. Jan Schmidt and other readers. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Reading by Frank Bergon 7:30pm. Author of Jesse's Ghost. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
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Studio Techniques for Painters 1:30pm-4:30pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Friends of Maverick Event 3pm. Maverick Concerts' regular season-closer, a gift to its donors; open to Friends of Maverick only. Maverick Concerts, Woodstock. 679-8217.
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Phoenicia Rotary Dinner 7pm. Food, open bar, dancing, entertainment. Al's Restaurant, Phoenicia. 688-5944.
“Gillian Jagger: Reveal” An unusual exhibit of sculptural work fills the John Davis Gallery. Artist Gillian Jagger displays her new sculpture, Reveal, a 15-foot piece of a tree cut into five vertical segments within three floors of a 19th-century historic horse carriage elevator. With the sculpture’s large shape and size, visitors can view the sculpture from above, below, and from the side. The show also includes a three-dimensional horse eye and enlarged horsehair swirls. September 15 through October 9. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907; www.johndavisgallery.com. Fall for Art 15th Annual Art Show & Sale
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6pm-9pm. Benefits Jewish Federation of Ulster County, Family of Woodstock, Queens Galley and Food Bank of the Hudson Valley. $40/$35 in advance. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.
Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Medical Intuitive Connection 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Body / Mind / Spirit Transformational Kinesiology Clinic 9am-4pm. 90 minute, 1-on-1 Transformational Kinesiology sessions with Elana Davidson. $90. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Soul Breathing 7pm-9pm. Robert Winn. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Events Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. Featuring Doug Alan Wilcox, Sandy McKnight and Helen Avakian. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Pete Levin Organ Trio 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Rob Scheps/ Tom McCoy Duo 8pm-11pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com. Open Mike with Steve Chizmadia 8:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Lara Hope and the Champtones 9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Open Life Drawing 6pm-9pm. Practice and refine technique in drawing or painting. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour 8pm. $25/$35/$45/$55. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Zydeco Dance 8pm-11pm. Music by Planet Zydeco. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.
Events Catskill Chill Music, Camping and Arts Festival Featuring 35 music acts. $105/$90/$40. Camp Minglewood, Hancock. www.catskillchill.com. 2nd Annual Mid Hudson Animal Aid Golf Tournament 10:30am. All proceeds benefit Mid Hudson Animal Aid and Essie Dabrusin Cat Sanctuary in Beacon, NY. $125. Casperkill Golf Club, Poughkeepsie. www.midhudsonanimalaid.org. Rumble at the Renegades 1pm-1pm. The Bronxchester Boxing Club annual boxing show. $25/$15/$10. Dutchess Stadium, Wappingers Falls. 838-0094. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/GREENMARKET.cfm. Chatham Farmers Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.
The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Good Body 8pm. Play by Eve Ensler,author of "The Vagina Monologues." $15. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Too Much Information 8pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops Self Care for the Caregiver Artist 7pm. Basha Ruth Nelson. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.
SATURDAY 10 Art Cairo Bears & Butterflies, Bear-A-Fair Auction Call for times. Riedbauer's Resort, Round top. www.cairosbears.com. Fourth Annual Catskill Artists Studio & Gallery Tour 11am-5pm. Self-guided tour featuring over 20 artists in the Village of Catskill and surrounding hamlets. catskillartiststour.com. Eccentric Portraits 4pm-6pm. Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Rewriting Loss 5pm-7pm. Photographs and film by Carla Shapiro. Center for Photography, Woodstock. 679-9957. Nights of 9/11 5pm-9pm. Photographs of Hale Gurland. Fovea Exhibitions, Beacon. 765-2199. Brooklyn-Kingston Exchange Project 5:45pm-8pm. Video art, music/performance, paintings and object-based work by emerging conceptual artists from the Brooklyn and the Kingston area. Gallery One Eleven, Kingston. 514-2923. Simply Complex 6pm-8pm. Pastel paintings by Marlene Wiedenbaum. Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1241. Surrealism, Expressionism and Candy Boxes 6pm-9pm. New work by Grey Zeien. Bau, Beacon. 440-7584.
Body / Mind / Spirit Energy Cultivation, Body Preparation and Shaping for Healing and Personal Power 11am-5pm. Hawks Brother Kirouana Paddaquahum. $65. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. This workshop offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. VortexHealing: Divine Healing Energy Through the Magic of Merlin 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Linda Raphael. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
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Classes Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-3pm. $50. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. Spirit Doll Class 2pm-4pm. $65. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 657-4065.
Dance The Farm Project Dance Program Call for times. Collaborative Concepts. Saunders Farm, Garrison. 528-1797. Berkshire Dance Collective 7:30pm-11pm. Guided warm up with featured artists followed by free-form dancing to DJ'd music. Sruti Berkshire Yoga Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 329-4933. Contradance 8pm. Kathryn Wedderburn with music by Eclectic Dance Orchestra. $10/$9 members/kids half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121. Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour 8pm. $25/$35/$45/$55. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Events Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Healthy Eating Series: Salads as Meals. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Guided by Lantern Graveyard Tours 10am. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. 3rd annual Taste of Hudson 11am-2pm. Over 22 eateries offer tastings of their menus. Warren Street, Hudson. www.belo3rd.com. Green Stories to the Rescue 3pm-6pm. Creative arts to invite local activists and average citizens for some fun and encouragement to protect our land and waters in the mid Hudson-Valley. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071. Windows on Main Street Closing Reception
Mastering Creative Anxiety 3pm. Book talk and signing wth Eric Maisel. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100. Reading by Jennifer Castle 7pm. Author of the Young Adult novel The Beginning of After. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
Theater Audition: The Man Who Came to Dinner Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. The Ladies Man 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Good Body 8pm. Play by Eve Ensler,author of "The Vagina Monologues." $15. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079. Too Much Information 8pm. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.
Workshops Canning & Food Preservation with Jay Levine 10am-2pm. $35/$15 materials. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Scenic Hudson's Annual Ramble Sunset Event 4:30pm-7pm. Featuring Edie Meidav reading from her latest novel, Lola, California, with Kevin Salem, composer of the novel's soundtrack. Performing will be dancer Amii LeGendre and musician Brielle Korn. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 473-4440 ext. 273. B2SF 2011 2pm. Festival features 21 artists in a range of genres. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Stolen Heart 5pm. Summer Sunset Concert Series sponsored by Millbrook Arts Group. Millbrook Village Green, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org. Catskill Cabaradio Celebrates 20th Show 6pm. Potluck dinner precedes the show. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. KJ Denhert & The New York Unit 7pm. Opening: Adam Falcon. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Peter Calo 7:30pm. Singer/songwriter. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. 3 of a Kinf 8pm. Classic rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Keith Newman 8pm. Covers selections by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead . Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000. 3 of a Kind 8pm. Classic rock. Lily Logan's, Wappingers Falls. 831-1333. Marilyn Miller 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Hart Attack 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Back to the Garden 1969 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
The Outdoors Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.
Spoken Word Restorative Environments with Naomi Sachs 10am. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600. Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival 2pm. Featuring poets David Messineo and Dennis Wayne Bressack. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
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Music Harvey Kaiser and The KC Four & More 10am-2pm. Jazz. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.WoodstocksBirds.org. Sunday Fundays 4pm-8pm. Live music. $5. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. The Temptations 5pm. $25/$20. HITS Show Grounds, Saugerties. 473-2072. Sheila Jordan and Cameron Brown 7pm. $15. The Colony Café, Woodstock. 679-5342.
The Athens Lighthouse Project What’s the best way to bring a community of local artists together? Birdhouses—or so Athens has shown. The Athens Lighthouse Project handed out 30 unpainted birdhouses shaped like the historic Hudson-Athens Lighthouse to local artists to decorate. Designs include Ray Carucci’s A Shell of a Lighthouse, covered completely in shells, and Jared Aswegan’s Greene Blooming Lighthouse, an homage to master gardener Barbara Matera covered in silk leaves and flowers. Check out the birdhouses at a showing and auction in support of the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society and the Athens Cultural Center at 4pm on September 11. Athens Cultural Center, Athens. www.athenslighthouseproject.org.
4pm-6pm. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.
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Kingston Sailing Club Fall Racing Series 10am. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-1264. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. The Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Traditional farmers market with a diverse craft village, offering music and educational programming. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Rebirth and Resilience: A 9/11 Observance 3pm-5pm. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
A Shell Of A Lighthouse, Ray Carucci
Canning Workshop 10:30am. Learn how to preserve the harvest and enjoy the delights of summer throughout the year. Phillies Bridge Farm, New Paltz. 256-9108.
SUNDAY 11 Art
Stone Temple Pilots 7:30pm. $39.50-$69.50. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Shanghai String Quartet 8pm. Playing the Mozart "Hunt" Quartet, Bartok Quartet No.3 and the Schubert G Major Quartet. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.
Fourth Annual Catskill Artists Studio & Gallery Tour 11am-5pm. Self-guided tour featuring over 20 artists in the Village of Catskill and surrounding hamlets. catskillartiststour.com. Barrett Art Center Faculty and Student Exhibition 2pm-4pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. 2011 Fall Photography Show 3pm-5pm. Belle Levine Art Center, Mahopac. 628-3664.
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Audition: The Man Who Came to Dinner Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Ladies Man 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Lend Me a Tenor 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Shamanic Training: Connecting to the Consciousness 10am-4pm. With Special Guest Julie Palmer. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Full Moon Energy Healing with the Sound of Crystal 5pm-6pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Dance Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour 2pm. $25/$35/$45/$55. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Events 3rd Annual Airing of the Quilts Call for times. 2 quilts, Quilt of Remembrance and a Quilt of Celebration & Nature, to be assembled from blocks made by the community. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Annual Fall Show Call for times. Woodstock Riding Club, Woodstock. 657-8005. Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Locally grown produce, grass fed meats, specialty foods, cooking classes, live music weekly, monthly visits from master gardeners. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. ewcoc.com/ewcocmarkets12428.aspx.
Reading by Kate Messner 12pm-2pm. Author of Sea Monster's First Day. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. 2nd Annual Locals' Reading 4pm. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.
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MONDAY 12 Body / Mind / Spirit The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup Group 7pm-8:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Studio Techniques for Painters 1:30pm-4:30pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Events Roast Pork Dinner 5pm-7pm. $12/$10 seniors/$5 children. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.
Music Hue Manatee's Quest 7pm. Acoustic musical tale for all ages. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499.
Theater Audition: The Man Who Came to Dinner Call for times. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
TUESDAY 13 Body / Mind / Spirit 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 Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Music Dale Fisher 6pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
WEDNESDAY 14 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Qi Gong 7pm-8pm. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000. Heart Opening Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. 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.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.Woodstockfarmfestival.com.
Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Music Rhinebeck Choral Club Open Rehearsal 7:30pm. All music-skill levels may join. Ferncliff Nursing Home, Rhinebeck. (917) 685-7602.
Spoken Word Civil War Medicine: Myth and Reality 7pm. Dr. Matt Farina. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.
THURSDAY 15 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Spirituality and the Environment, Part 2 7pm. Buddhist and Islamic Perspective. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600.
Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Events B2B BASH: A New Approach to Business Networking 5:45pm-9pm. $20/$15 with RSVP/$10 in advance. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.
Film Soul of a People 7pm. $5. Litchfield Hills Film Festival “Pop-Up Gallery,” New Milford, CT. hillsfilmfestival.org.
Music The Rhinecliff's 3rd Anniversary Celebration Call for times. Featuring The Robanic Steel Drum Duo and special guests. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. Featuring John Martucci, Seth Davis and Don Sparks. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Terell Stafford 7pm. Opening: Emi Meyer. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Rob Scheps/ Cameron Brown Duo 8pm-11pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com. Four Tet and Jon Hopkins 8pm. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
dance merce cunningham dance company stephanie berger The Merce Cunningham Dance Company performing "Antic Meet" at the Joyce Theater, March 2011. The company will perform at Bard's Fisher Center September 9-11.
Spiritual Exercises in Physical Form On January 1, 2012, in accordance with the wishes of Merce Cunningham, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will cease to exist. The “Legacy Plan,” revealed in 2009 prior to Cunningham’s passing at age 90, included instructions for licensing works, the creation of “Dance Capsules” (digital packages containing taped performances, notes, lighting, set and costume designs, interviews), and the stunning announcement that after a worldwide tour the company would disband. Cunningham stated at the time: “It’s really a concern about how do you preserve the elements of an art which is really evanescent, which is really like water. It can disappear.” There will be one last opportunity to see the company perform in the area: September 9-11 at Bard College’s Fisher Center. A practitioner of Zen and the Tao (as was his partner and collaborator, composer and musician John Cage), Cunningham’s cessation of his company is emblematic of the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence, while his Dance Capsules are emblematic of the Taoist principle of yin and ying, balanced opposing forces. Trained in Martha Graham’s technique, with fleet movements and extraordinary jumps, Cunningham joined her company and originated roles in classic works for six years. Ultimately injured by her technique and unsatisfied artistically by her narrative idiom, he created a movement style and technique both remedial and challenging. Juxtaposing everyday movements with complex ways of dancing and holding in stillness, it continues to be taught and revered by dancers worldwide. Creating 50 dances and over 800 site-specific “Events,” Cunningham was inspired by the Taoist I Ching to use coin tossing as a vehicle to employ “chance” as a choreographic tool. Finding it as equally filled with artistic possibilities as deliberate decisions, chance was used to determine phrase sequences, directions, entrances/exits, and not exposing the dancers to the score until they stepped onstage. Cunningham explained, “It opened possibilities I was not aware of, rather then repeat what I already knew,” and “It was very clear that this was a different way to act: not being dependent upon the music but equal to it. You could be free and precise at the same time.”
With its nonnarrative choreography and collaborations with preeminent avant-garde artists and musicians, including Brian Eno, Morton Feldman, Lou Harrison, Pauline Oliveros, Radiohead, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol, the Cunningham oeuvre can be an acquired taste, but it is also one in which audiences are invited to co-create, as any interpretation of his work is a valid one. Adept with colored pencils (publishing Other Animals: Drawings and Journals in 2002), Cunningham also had a keen interest in computer-generated dance art. As co-creator of the first software tool for choreography, DanceForms, he used it to create every work since 1991. For “Biped” (1999), he used motion-capture technology combining computer imagery of company members dancing with their live counterparts. Receiving a profusion of honors for his work nationally and internationally (two of France’s Légion d’Honneur medals, named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress, numerous university degrees), the magnitude of Cunningham’s accomplishments are mind-boggling. Photographer Mark Seliger noted after a 2009 shoot with Cunningham, “Even though he’s in a wheelchair and doesn’t dance anymore, there’s still this incredible joy of movement around him. He still had this great ability to move with his hands.” The Fisher Center program includes “Antic Meet” (1958), with costumes including a four-armed sweater (originally knit by Cunningham) and a chair strapped to a dancer’s back; “Suite for Five” (1956), which original cast member Carolyn Brown likened to Cunningham’s statement “Dancing is a spiritual exercise in physical form”; and “Sounddance” (1975), of which Cunningham said, “I felt like doing something vigorous, fast, complex.” Bon voyage, Maestro. The Merce Cunnigham Dance Company performs at Bard’s Fisher Center on Friday, September 9, and Saturday, September 10, at 8pm, and on Sunday, September 11, at 2pm. Tickets: $25, $35, $45, $55. (845) 758-7900; www.fishercenter.bard.edu. —Maya Horowitz 9/11 ChronograM forecast 113
Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. We Must Be 9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Spoken Word
Art
Buddhist and Islamic Traditions Regarding the Environment 7pm. Denning's Point, Beacon. 838-1600 ext .15.
Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. New Works by Stephen Brook, Shira Toren, and Brooke Larsen 6pm-8pm. Hudson & Laight Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1700. Works from the Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858. Up, Up, and Away 5pm-7pm. David Klein. Scott and Bowne Fine Art and Furnishings, Kent, CT. (860) 592-0207. Appetite: 4th Annual Mini Works Show 5pm-8pm. Unison Gallery, New Paltz. 255-1559. Rosendale Gallery Crawl 5pm-10pm. 6 art shows on one block. Rosendale. lexilux@yahoo.com. Never the Same 6pm-8pm. Exhibit of paintings and prints by Marie Cole. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342. New Exhibit Openings 6pm-8pm. Opening for 6 exhibits. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907 Pause 6pm-8pm. Emily Adamo. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.
FRIDAY 16 Art A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum 6pm-12am. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Damien Wynne the Irish Spirit Healer 7pm-10pm. The Light-Grids Activation and Group Clearing Evenings. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Evening of Clairvoyant Channeling 7pm. Clairvoyant channeling with Rev. Betsy Stang. $25/$20. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Open Life Drawing 6pm-9pm. Practice and refine technique in drawing or painting. Work on anatomy and gesture through short and long poses of the nude model. $100/$90 series/$20/$18 session. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance September Swing 6pm-10pm. The Healthy Lifestyle Wellness Club presents an evening of dancing dinner and laughter for ages 50+. La Mirage Catering and Restaurant, Ulster Park. 334-3182.
Events Tsoknyi Rinpoche Call for times. With Sharon Salzberg. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800. Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/GREENMARKET.cfm.
Film Pizza and Movie Night 5pm. Films to be announced. Phillies Bridge Farm, New Paltz. 256-9108.
Music Alexis P. Suter Band 7pm. Roots, blues. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Fred Smith Jazz Ensemble 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Classical Guitar with Daniel Lippel 8pm. $18/$14 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Providers 8pm. Blues. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943. Steve Forbert 8:30pm. Singer/songwriter. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300. Fat City 9pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Jim Weider's Project Percolator 9pm. With The Connor Kennedy Band. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Greyhounds 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. Reality Check 9:30pm. Classic rock. Millbrook R&B, Millbrook. 224-8005.
Spoken Word Liquid Assets: Exploring the Diversity and Values of Wetlands in Ulster County 6:30pm-8pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071. Author Readings 7pm. With Larry Carr, author of The Pancake Hollow Primer, and Barbara Adams, author of The Stone Man and the Poet. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Reading by Binyavanga Wainaina 7:30pm. Author of One Day I Will Write About This Place. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Theater Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
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Put New Paltz on your Calendar STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT NEW PALTZ www.newpaltz.edu/fpa 845.257.3860 THEATRE THREE SISTERS October 13-23 NEW PLAY SERIES November 4-6
Unknown, Standing Animal, ca. 2000-1200 BCE Clay
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Body / Mind / Spirit Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. Hudson Valley Community Reiki 11pm-1pm. New Paltz Recreation Center, New Paltz. www.HVCReiki.org.
Exhibitions, museum tours, gallery talks, music
Events
MUSIC
A Passage to India Call for times. Fundraiser for Vanaver Caravan trip. An evening of music, dance, food, and a photography auction. Opus 40, Saugerties. 256-9300. Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Warwick Children's Book Festival Call for times. 50 children's book authors and illustrators. Park Avenue Elementary School, Warwick. 986-1047 ext. 6. 4th Annual G. Chipperfield Memorial Golf Outing 8am. Golf while supporting the memorial scholarship fund. $85. Scott's Corners Golf Course, Montgomery. 457-9141. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Storytelling Series with Maggie Whelan. Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. 2011 Tour of Historic Barns and Working Farms 10am-4pm. Presented by The Winnakee Land Trust. $45/ children free. Welwyn Stables, Rhinebeck. 876-4213. 15th Annual Craft Fair & Apple Festival 10am-4pm. Apple pie sale, entertainment, refreshments, mums, car show, craft vendors. Golden Hill Health Care Center, Kingston. 340-3818. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Franz Erhard Walther's First Work Set: Actions, Instructions, and Presence, 1963-1969 11am-5pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100. Mud Day on the Hudson 11am-5pm. Make mud art. $5. Hudson Landing Park, Highland. egviola@optonline.net. An Afternoon in the Garden 1pm-5pm. Benefit for the Greene County Council on the Arts. Music, buffet and cash bar. Beattie-Powers Place, Catskill. (518) 943-3400. Fun at Firemen's Field 3pm. Field games and chili cook-off. Rhinecliff Fire Co, Rhinecliff. 876-5738. Eat, Drink and Be Arty 3pm-8pm. Block party with art, music and food. Water Street Market, New Paltz. 255-1559. Pilot Club Gala Cocktail Party and Auction 4pm-8pm. Honoring Joan Davidson and “Our Hudson;” food, special exhibit. $75. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071. Guided by Lantern Graveyard Tours 8:30pm. Professional narrators and actors will conduct tour of St. James' churchyard collaboratively, with special emphasis on interred persons of note. $5. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.
Kids Children's Stream Ecology Workshop 10am. Ages 8-12, on the Esopus Creek. Hurley Town Hall, Hurley. 331-1422. Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 12pm-1pm. Non-walkers. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Amy Chang, Lust Caution, 2009 Oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist
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Concert, recitals, bands, ensembles, vocal fests, jazz and more
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Kurt Elling will perform at Vassar College in a free concert on October 1.
It’s well known that many of the great black jazz vocalists—Ernestine Anderson, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughn, Al Jarreau—got their start singing in church. Which makes perfect sense: Thanks to its rich gospel tradition, the institution has always been as much a musical incubator as a center of African-American spiritual and community life. But for Kurt Elling, a white Midwesterner, the story is remarkably similar. Born in Chicago, the Grammywinning singer, who will perform at Vassar College on October 1, discovered his calling through his father, the music director of a Lutheran church. “I actually don’t remember a time I when was not singing,” says Elling, who found his voice in choirs and at an early age learned to play violin, piano, drums, and French horn. “I was singing before I knew I was singing, and I was in love with singing before I knew I was in love with it.” In high school he studied classical voice and continued to sing in the church choir, before attending Gustavus Adolphus College, where he participated in the 70-voice Gustavus Choir. It was also there that he first became interested in jazz via recordings by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Brubeck, and others. Elling “jumped in with both feet,” sitting in with various bands and doing regular gigs at now-defunct Chicago basement club Milt Trenier’s at night while working as a graduate student toward a master’s degree in philosophy of religion by day. He finally left school in 1992—one credit short of completion—and landed a weekly engagement at the sainted Green Mill alongside his present pianist, Laurence Hobgood. While assimilating the music of pioneering stylists like Mark Murphy and Chet Baker and the poetry of Jack Kerouac, he began to hone his idiosyncratic blend of scat and vocalese during his now-legendary Green Mill gigs. With the iconic Von Freeman on tenor sax, Elling in 1995 cut a nine-song demo that made its way to Blue Note Records, which signed the singer right away and released the tracks as Close Your Eyes. The debut gained Elling a Grammy nomination as well as instant critical acclaim, and was followed by The Messenger (1997; with a version of the Zombies’ “Time of the Season”), the defining This Time It’s Love (1998) and Man in the Air (2003), and three other sets for Blue Note. As he toured the world, Elling continued to develop his hip presentation and smooth, line-weaving delivery by exploring rock and soul gems as well as jazz standards and original compositions. He signed to Concord Records for 2007’s Nightmoves and 2009’s Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. The vocalist’s newest offering is this year’s Don Was-produced The Gate (Concord Jazz), a warm-and-cool late-night session that includes bassist John Patitucci and tenorist Bob Mintzer and takes on tunes by the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Joe Jackson, and, believe it or not, King Crimson. Kurt Elling will perform at Vassar College’s Skinner Hall of Music on October 1 at 8pm. Admission is free. (845) 437-7294; www.music.vassar.edu. —Peter Aaron
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Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 1:15pm-2:15pm. Toddler through age 3. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Music Drum Circle at the Drum Boogie Festival 9am-11am. Cornell Park, Kingston. www.drumboogiefestival.com. Ben Allison Band with Steven Cardenas & Jenny Scheinman 7pm. Opening: Sandy McKnight. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Tony Pastrana and NY Latin Jazz 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Festival of the Harvest Fall Equinox Musical Celebration 8pm. Featuring Aleah Long & En Full Circle. $12/ free with workshop registration. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Mahavishnu Project 8pm. With special guest Jesse Gress. $20. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. The Metropolitan Hot Club 8pm. Jazz manouche. $21/$16 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Reality Check 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Reddan Brothers Band 9:30pm. Rock. National Hotel Bar and Grill, Montgomery. 457-1123. Reservoir Pogs 9:30pm. 90's rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
The Outdoors The Garden Conservancy's Open Days Program Explore three private gardens in Catskill, Saugerties, and Ulster Park. $5/garden. Call for location. www.opendaysprogram.org. Esopus Bend Nature Preserve Walks 8am. Easy 2.5 mile hike. Esopus Bend Nature Preserve, Saugerties. 247-0664. Guided Kayak Paddle on Rondout Creek 10am. Moderate 6.6 miles. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-9321. Walkway Over the Hudson Loop Tour 11am. Easy 3 mile walk. Walkway Over the Hudson, Highland. 454-9649.
Spoken Word Reading by Isabel Gillies 7:30pm. Author of A Year and Six Seconds. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Chris O'Leary Band 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Theater The Farm Project Theater Play Debut Call for times. Collaborative Concepts. Saunders Farm, Garrison. 528-1797. GetBack! Cast of Beatlemania 7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800. Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Air Pirates Radio Theater 8pm. $20. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.
Workshops The Beauty and Drama of Still Life in Oil Weekend Workshop Call for times. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Using Art to Bring Nature, into School Projects 9:30am-12:30pm. Workshop for classroom teachers and education majors. Scenic Hudson's River Center, Beacon. info@teachingthehudsonvalley.org. Discover the Power of Your Authentic Sound and Movement 3pm-6pm. With Aleah Long and Yaniyah Pathfinder Pearson. $65. Backstage Studio Productions, Kingston. 338-8700. Sunset Seining and Song 5:30pm. Clearwater Educators will take you into the water to catch fish in the magic hour of sunset. Call for location. 797-2847. Introduction to Using Jose Arguelles' 13 Moon Peace Calendar. 7pm. Presented by Susannah Shaw. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5030.
SUNDAY 18 Art CIRCA 1986 4pm-7pm. 70 artworks from more than 40 international artists who emerged with significant artworks between 1981 and 1991. Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill. (914) 788-0100.
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Body / Mind / Spirit CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. This workshop offers postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques, along with an overview and approach to practice. $15. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Restorative & Sound Healing Yoga 2pm-4:30pm. Lea and Philippe Garnier . $35. Bliss Yoga Center, Woodstock. 679-8700. Meditation for World Peace 7:30pm-8:30pm. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Dance West Coast Swing/California Mix Dance 7pm-9pm. Intermediate Workshop: 5:30-6:30 ($12) Beginners' lesson at 6:30pm. $8/$6 FT students. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. (914) 475-0803.
Events Shalom! On Grand Call for times. Empowered by nature. Jewish Community Center of Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie. www.jccdc.org. Bike for Cancer Care Call for times. To benefit the Rosemary D. Gruner Memorial Cancer Fund. Features a 5 mile family ride, a 25 and 50 mile ride. Dietz Stadium, Kingston. www.bikeforcancer.org. Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Locally grown produce, grass fed meats, specialty foods, cooking classes, live music weekly, monthly visits from master gardeners. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. ewcoc.com/ewcocmarkets12428.aspx. Kingston Sailing Club Fall Racing Series 10am. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-1264. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. The Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Traditional farmers' market with a diverse craft village, offering music and educational programming. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.
Film The Catskill Mountain House and the World Around 2pm. Documentary film by Tobe Carey. Discussion with Greene County Historian Ted Hilsher. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson. (518) 719-0633.
Music Marc VonEm 10am-2pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Joe Tobin 1pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500. Music Faculty Recital 3pm. Todd Crow, piano, performs music of Schumann, Liszt, and Bartsk. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.WoodstocksBirds.org. Sunday Fundays 4pm-8pm. Live music. $5. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Father Charlie Coen 4pm-7pm. Celtic night Irish music. $5. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Unplugged Acoustic Open Mike 4pm-6pm. $6/$5 members. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Rebecca Martin's Songwriters-in-the-Round 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Robby Hecht 7:30pm. Presented by Flying Cat Music. $12/$10 in advance. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-9453.
The Outdoors D&H Canal 5 Lock Walk Trail 2pm. Easy family-friendly walk. D&H Canal Museum, High Falls. 687-9311.
Spoken Word Reading by Neil Abramson 4pm. Author of Unsaid. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
Theater Medal of Honor Rag 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Chapter Two 2pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Life on the River 3pm. Sea shanties and scenes performed by the Riverfront Players. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071.
Workshops
Workshops
Reiki II Certification 1pm-5pm. Reiki training with Lorry Salluzzi; Reiki I certification required. $100/$85. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Stream Monitoring Workshop 1pm-5pm. Mt. Marion Park, Mount Marion. (914) 474-2759.
MONDAY 19 Body / Mind / Spirit Reflexology Sessions Call for times. $45/45 min. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.
Classes Ten Ways to Clay 10am-12pm. With Katie Scott-Childress. Through Nov. 11. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Studio Techniques for Painters 1:30pm-4:30pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550. Throwing a Tea Party 3pm-6pm. With Megan Sauve. Through Nov. 11. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Dress up your clay 6pm-9pm. With Ruth McKinney Burket. Through Nov. 11. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133.
Music Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499.
The Outdoors Monday Night with the Stars 7:30pm. Learn to orient yourself in the night sky with Henrike Holdrege. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.
TUESDAY 20 Body / Mind / Spirit High Frequency Channeling 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Intermediate/Advanced Wheel Throwing 6pm-9pm. With Marybeth Wehrung. Through Nov. 11. Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale. 658-9133. Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
Events Third Annual Volunteer Fair 11am-3pm. Sponsored by UlsetCorps. Career Resource Center, New Paltz. 257-3266.
Music Mark and Adam 6pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Concert: Faculty Showcase 8pm. $8/$6 seniors and faculty/$3 students. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Workshops Home Stormwater Management Class 6:30pm-8:30pm. AWSMP Office, Phoenicia. 688-3047.
WEDNESDAY 21 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Qi Gong 7pm-8pm. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Freedom from Painful Emotions 7pm-8:30pm. Buddhist teachings explain that suffering is caused by uncontrolled and painful states of mind. $10/$5 seniors and students. Friends Meeting House, New Paltz. 856-9000. Talking Stone Dream Circle 7pm-8:30pm. $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.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers' Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.Woodstockfarmfestival.com.
Film Grassroots 5:30pm-8pm. Sneak peak of this new film followed by discussion with filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal. Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Chattahoocie: From Water War to Water Vision 7pm. AWSMP Office, Phoenicia. 068-8304.
Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
THURSDAY 22 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632. Works by Wayne Sittner 6pm-9pm. Adams Horse Stable, Saugerties. 246-1618.
EMPAC 2011
Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Time Out 6:30pm. Take time out of your busy day and give yourself a gift. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Film Open Hive/Film 7pm-10pm. A film with a message, each month. Drinks and conversation before and after screening. Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731. Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm-8:30pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892.
Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. Featuring Rebecca Kessler, Mitch Katz and Dorrain Scofield. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Erin Hobson Compact 9pm. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848.
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Friday September 9 8 pm
EARBRAINS: Sonic Research Underground A rare underground concert of experimental and live electronic music in an above ground setting featuring Fat Worm of Error, Jason Lescalleet/Graham Lambkin, Caboladies, David Shively, and Keith Fullerton Whitman.
A Day in My 18th Century Clothing 7:30pm. Hurley Heritage Museum, Hurley. 338-5253.
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Theater Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops The Spirit of Numbers 7pm-9pm. Numerology workshop with Adam Bernstein. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
FRIDAY 23 Art Beacon Open Studios Kickoff Party 7pm-10pm. Hudson Beach Glass, Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.org.
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Body / Mind / Spirit An Exploration of Healing in the Sufi Tradition Call for times. With Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami & Melissa Clare. $10 lecture/$15 concert/$375 weekend. Blue Deer Center, Margaretville. 586-3225. Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Open Life Drawing 6pm-9pm. Practice and refine technique in drawing or painting. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Dance The Big Blue Big Band 8:30pm-11pm. Beginners' lesson 8-8:30 East Coast Swing (free with dance); intermediate workshop with Nathan Bugh 6:30-8 ($15). $15/$10 FT students. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie.
Events Chatham Farmers' Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/GREENMARKET.cfm.
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September 10th & 11th
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Music Peter Prince & Moon Boot Lover 7pm. Opening: Fido. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Mama Tried 8pm. Bluegrass. Babycakes Café, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411. Aztec Two-Step CD Release Party 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
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Steve Chizmadia 8:30pm. Acoustic. $7. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Bookends Trio 9pm. Classic rock. Ruben's Mexican Café, Peekskill. 739-4330. 4 Guys in Disguise 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277.
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
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5K Run/Walk for Mesothelioma Research 3pm. Sponsored by The Community Partnership for A Safer New Paltz. Rail Trail, New Paltz. 417-8236.
Social Work Practice with Veterans Through the Life Span 8am-5pm. Conference; keynote speaker: Jim Martin, Ph.D., Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), Professor, Social Work & Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. Hancock Center, Poughkeepsie. adelphi.edu/sw-veterans. Birds and Beans: Simple Ways to Save Migratory Birds 7pm. Scott Weidensaul explores migration and simple ways we can preserve birds, from what we plant in our gardens to what we pour into our morning mug of coffee. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919. The Grand Canyon: Power and Perseverance 7pm. Evening of science and music. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343. Reading with June Pierce 7pm. Author of Keeping Secrets. Inquiring Mind Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Reading by Susan Fox Rogers 7:30pm. Author of My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.
22nd Annual International Wine Showcase 2:30pm-9pm. Presented to by Greystone Programs to raise money for therapy programs for people with disabilities. $125. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 452-5772 ext. 119.
Phantom Limb: 69°S 8pm. Phantom Limb unites puppetry, dance, film, history, and photography with contemporary music to create a stunning vision of Antarctica's past, present, and future. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Workshops Astrology Fundamentals 2pm-4pm. Workshop with Alexander Mallon. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Beacon Open Studios 12pm-6pm. City-wide art event invites the public into artists' studios. Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.org. The Luminous Landscape™ 2011 5pm-8pm. 14th annual invitational exhibition; solo exhibit: Arnold Levine. Albert Shahinian Fine Art Upstairs Gallery, Rhinebeck. 505-6040. Natural History 6pm-8pm. Archeological sculptures by Linda Cross, mixed media paintings by Ragellah Rourke, and linear color paintings by Ralph Stout. Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915.
Body / Mind / Spirit Qi Gong Class 9am-9:45am. $10. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. Reflexology 10am-4:30pm. 45 minute sessions with Lorraine Hughes, treatment uses acupressure and massage, focusing on hands and feet to relieve tension and treat imbalances in the body. $45. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. How to be at Peace With Your Parents 1pm-4pm. Cary Bayer. $30. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Classes Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/Winter Prep 11am-3pm. $50. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113. Spirit Doll Class 2pm-4pm. $65. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 657-4065.
Medal of Honor Rag 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
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Gabriel Kahane 7pm. Opening: Selzrosa. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro.
Beacon Open Studios 12pm-6pm. City-wide art event invites the public into artists' studios. Beacon. www.beaconopenstudios.org.
New Moon Sound Healing 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Artist Walkthough of the Palermo Exhibit 2pm. Cheryl Donegan. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
Classes
Midnight Slim and The Strangers 7:30pm. Blues. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Music Faculty Recital 8pm. The Sweet Sorrow: Musicke for harps and voices heralding from the Celtic Isles. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Honoring the Sea Goddess: Daughters of Cybele 8pm. Featuring Southern Italian ritual drumming and chants in honor of the Black Madonna and the women healing trance dance Pizzica Tarantata. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048.
Body / Mind / Spirit CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-12:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls. Akashic Records Revealed 2pm-4pm. With June Brought. The recording of our soul imprint revealed . $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Studio Techniques for Painters 1:30pm-4:30pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Music Mid-Hudson Women's Chorus Open Rehearsal 7:15pm. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 382-2499.
Workshops Manifesting Your Dreams Through Conscious Awareness 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
TUESDAY 27 Body / Mind / Spirit High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron & Master Teachers 7pm-8:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623. Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.
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The Vanaver Caravan at Opus 40 The Shilpgram Festival is on of the most prestigious music and dance gatherings in India. This year, the Vanaver Caravan, the Hudson Valley's ambassadors of multiculturalism, are heading to Shipgram, the first non-Indian troupe to be invited to the festival. While in India, the Caravan will also teach in the local schools and assist in the creation of the Shakti Academy, a performing and helaing arts center in the city of Udaipur. On September 17, from 5-8pm, the troupe will perform at Opus 40 in Saugerties to help propel their passage to India. (845) 256-9300; www.vanavercaravan.org.
The Avett Brothers 5pm. $40. Ommegang Brewery, Cooperstown. (800) 544-1809. Perry Beekman Trio 6pm. Jazz. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Café, Rosendale. 658-9048. Primus 8pm. Rock. $29.50/$34.50/$40. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Spoken Word Steve Lackey 8:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Steve Wexler & the Top Shelf 9:30pm. Motown, funk, Latin, swing. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
The Outdoors Walkway Over the Hudson Loop Tour Easy 3-mile walk. Walkway Over the Hudson, Highland. 454-9649. Farmland Cycling Tour 9am. Pedal from Poets' Walk Park through the beautiful, rolling countryside of Dutchess and Columbia counties. 7-50 mile rides. Poets' Walk, Red Hook. 473-4400 ext. 273. History Walk with Jim Heron 10am. Educational and enlightening tour of Denning's Point. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600. Esopus Meadows Walk and Wade 1pm. Moderate one-mile hike followed by a beach seine program on the Hudson River beach. Esopus Meadows Point Preserve, Esopus. 473-4440 ext. 270.
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Meet the Animals Tour Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447. Kingston Farmers' Market 9am-2pm. Featuring the Healthy Eating Series: Beneficial Beans . Kingston Farmers' Market, Uptown Kingston. 853-8512. Millerton Farmers' Market 9am-1pm. Local food, music, demos. Dutchess Avenue and Main Street, Millerton. (518) 789-4259. Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Let's Go Deutsch! 10am-4pm. Celebrate Palatine German heritage. $5/children free. Palatine Farmstead, Rhinebeck. 876-8172. Fall Festival 10am-4pm. Children's activities, farm tours, visits with the farm animals, food, and live music. Phillies Bridge Farm, New Paltz. 256-9108.
Artist Talk: Kaira Cabanas on Blinky Palermo 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.
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Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. Phantom Limb: 69°S 8pm. Phantom Limb unites puppetry, dance, film, history, and photography with contemporary music to create a stunning vision of Antarctica's past, present, and future. $18/$13/$6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
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Forest Ecology Hike: Hudson River Valley Ramble 10am. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343. D&H Canal 5 Lock Walk Trail 2pm. Family-friendly 1-hour tour. D&H Canal Museum, High Falls. 687-9311.
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Gallery Talk: Hudson Valley Artists 2011 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Ledig House Fall Readings International Writers and Translators 5pm. Omi International Arts Center, Ghent. (518) 392-4568.
Theater Chapter Two 8pm. A Neil Simon comedy directed by Michael Frohnhoefer. $15/$12 seniors and children. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491. Lend Me a Tenor 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup Group: Psychic Enrichment Circle 4:30pm-6:30pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Events Kingston Sailing Club Fall Racing Series 10am. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-1264. Ellenville Farmers' Market 10am-2pm. Locally grown produce, grass fed meats, specialty foods, cooking classes, live music weekly, monthly visits from master gardeners. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. ewcoc.com/ewcocmarkets12428.aspx. The Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Traditional farmers' market with a diverse craft village, offering music and educational programming. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Guided Walking Tour 2pm. Old Main Street. $3/children free. Hurley Reformed Church, Hurley. 331-4121.
Music Kristin Graves 10am-2pm. Folk/pop singer/songwriter. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Jazz at the Falls 12pm. High Falls Café, High Falls. 687-2699. Bianca Uribe and Richard Wilson 3pm. Stravinsky, featuring the Sonata for Two Pianos, Concerto for Two Pianos, and Petrushka. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Woodstock Birds Drum Circle 3:30pm-4:30pm. Women's drum circle and class. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.WoodstocksBirds.org. Sunday Fundays 4pm-8pm. Live music. $5. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 337-4848. Maria Muldaur and the Red Hot Blusiana Band 7:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Michael Century: Extraordinary Freedom Machines: Vignettes in the History of a Multimedia Century 12pm. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-392.
WEDNESDAY 28 Body / Mind / Spirit T'ai Chi Chuan 6pm. $10. Pine Hill Community Center. 254-5469. Qi Gong 7pm-8pm. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494. Delivering Messages from the Other Side 7pm-8:30pm. With Adam Bernstein. $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.
Events Woodstock Farm Festival 3:30pm-8pm. Farmers' Market, children's activities, food by local chefs, live music, entertainment. Maple Lane, Woodstock. www.Woodstockfarmfestival.com.
Kids Kid's Yoga Class 5pm-6pm. Ages 5-12. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Spoken Word James Elkins: Visual Practices Across the University 6pm. Talk and dinner: observer effects. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
THURSDAY 29 Art Late Night at the Lehman Loeb 5pm-9pm. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.
Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Gathering with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly meeting & conversation on excess and Green living in the Mind Body Spirit. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Events
The Farm Project 2011 Mid-Run Reception
New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care Call for times. Compassion and ethics. Garrison Institute, Garrison. 424-4800.
1pm-6pm. Collaborative Concepts. Saunders Farm, Garrison. 528-1797.
Film Wisdom's Way DVD series 7pm-8:30pm. Featuring videos of Guy Finley's presentations on how to find a life of inner freedom and true happiness. New Windsor Community Center, New Windsor. 764-6892. Onedotzero: Citystates 10 + Robotica 7pm-9pm. Film screening. $6. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921.
Body / Mind / Spirit Weekly EFT and Power of Attraction Healing Circle 2pm-4pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.
Classes Maintaining a Healthy Hive: Fall/Winter Prep 12pm-4pm. $50. HoneybeeLives, New Paltz. 255-6113.
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Meet the Animals Tour
Melissa Stylianou/ Jamie Reynolds Duo 8pm-11pm. Jazz. The Silver Spoon, Cold Spring. www.silverspooncoldspring.com. Miss Angie's Karaoke 9pm. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
Call for times. 90-minute tour and talk. Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Saugerties. 336-8447.
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Pine Island Black Dirt Farmers' Market
Goethean Science and Social Process 7:30pm. Craig Holdrege and Henrike Holdrege give a talk based on their experiences in South Africa. $12/$8 students and seniors. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.
Theater Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.
Workshops Back to the Garden 6:30pm-9pm. Become a co-creator of the world of our dreams. Peace Village Learning and Retreat, Haines Falls. (518) 589-5000.
FRIDAY 30 Art Open Studios Kick Off Party Philipstown, Cold Spring. www.coldspringarts.com.
Body / Mind / Spirit Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Introduction to Cranosacral 6pm-9pm. With Lea Garnier. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.
Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. Open Life Drawing 6pm-9pm. Practice and refine technique in drawing or painting. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.
Woodstock British Car Show 9am-4pm. Over 100 classic British cars. Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock. 679-4101. 10am-2pm. Pine Island Town Park, Pine Island. www.pineislandny.com. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. Historic Hudson's 6th Annual Old House Tour 11am-5pm. Featuring 6 historic houses. Reception to follow from 5pm-7pm. $45 tour/$75 reception/$100 both events. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Kids Kids Expo 2011 10am-4pm. Two-day event that provides hands-on fun and educational activities for children and their families. $8. Poughkeepsie. www.kids-expo.org.
Music John Abercrombie 7:30pm. Jazz. $10. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Blues Guitarist-Singer Debbie Davies 8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
The Outdoors Farm & Forest Trail and South Family Hike 3pm. $27/$24 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA. (800) 817-1137.
Theater Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Glass Menagerie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Events Chatham Farmers Market 4pm-7pm. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353. Gardiner Greenmarket 4pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. www.townofgardiner.org/GREENMARKET.cfm.
Music Split Bill - The Hal Galper Trio 7pm. Live@The Falcon, Marlboro. Jamaikit Funky 7:30pm. Motown/R&B. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Music Faculty and Guest Recital: Mozart 8pm. Arnaud Sussmann and Lily Francis, violins, Roger Tapping, viola, and Sophie Shao, cello. Skinner Hall, Poughkeepsie. 437-7294. Reality Check 8pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985. Jeffrey Foucault and Kris Delmhorst 9pm. Country and blues. Club Helsinki Hudson, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Chimps in Tuxedos 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. Fat City 9:30pm. Blues. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636.
Spoken Word Jim Gaffigan 8pm. Comedy. $65 Gold Circle/$55/$50 members. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.
Theater Medal of Honor Rag 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Glass Menagerie 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER Art Cold Spring/Garrison Open Studios 12pm-6pm. Studios open all over the town. Call for location. www.coldspringarts.com.
Events Kingston Sailing Club Fall Racing Series 10am. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 331-1264.
~~~~ Trinity Players Fall 2011 Shows ~~~~
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.
Written by Roger Bean Orchestrations by Michael Borth Arrangements by Roger Bean & Brian William Baker Stage Director: Cory Ann Fasano-Paff Musical Director: Joel Flowers Choreographer: Mary Beth Boylan
The Harvest Festival 11am-4pm. Traditional farmers' market. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. 2011 Annual Kingston Historic Bluestone Festival
Featuring the Talents Of: Susan Beberwyk, Cory Ann Fasano-Paff, Joanne Fenton, and Maria Hickey
12pm-6pm. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston. 338-0071. Community Foundations 2011 Garden Party 3pm-6pm. Catered affair publicly recognize the community service and contributions of citizens in Dutchess, Ulster and Putnam Counties. $140. 29 Rombout Road, Poughkeepsie. 452-3077 ext. 15.
Kids Kids Expo 2011 10am-4pm. Two-day event that provides hands-on fun and educational activities for children and their families. $8. Poughkeepsie. www.kids-expo.org.
The Natural Kitchen Call for times. Join a peaceful food revolution. $125. Omega Institute, Rhinebeck. (800) 944-1001.
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Cold Spring/Garrison Open Studios 12pm-6pm. Studios open all over the town. www.coldspringarts.com.
All Performances at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center 12 Vassar St. - Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
10am-2pm. Market and Center Street, Ellenville. ewcoc.com/ewcocmarkets12428.aspx.
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Trinity Players, Inc. PO Box 142 LaGrangeville, NY 12540 845-227-7855
8:30pm. Towne Crier Café, Pawling. 855-1300.
Theater Medal of Honor Rag 2pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Glass Menagerie 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
Adults Students / Seniors / Children $14.95 reserved $12.95 reserved $15.95 at door $13.95 at door
Wait Until Dark Friday September 23 - 8:00pm Saturday September 24 - 2:00pm and 8:00pm (two shows) Sunday September 25 - 2:00pm
Adults Students / Seniors / Children $18.95 reserved $15.95 reserved $19.95 at door $16.95 at door
The Marvelous Wonderettes Friday Saturday Sunday
October 28- 8:00pm October 29- 8:00pm October 30- 2:00pm
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Camille Pissarro, Cocotte, Reading, oil on canvas, 1899. The exhibition "Pissarro's People" will be on display at the Clark Art Institute through October 2.
A People Person Most art lovers have heard of Camille Pissarro. But when asked to name their favorite Pissarro painting, they picture ... an empty canvas. “Pissarro’s People,” an exhibition at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, seeks to fill that canvas. In his own time, Pissarro was eminent. He was one half of the famous Salon des Refusés in 1863 (along with Cézanne): painters rejected by the academic Paris Salon. He was the only painter shown in all eight Impressionist exhibitions. In fact, some believe Pissarro to be the inventor of Impressionism. Cézanne called him “humble and colossal.” One problem is that there are a dozen Pissarros: Pissarro the Impressionist, Pissarro the neo-Impressionist, Pissarro the pointillist, etc. A distinctive style like Renoir’s is memorable, even if it’s nauseating. Pissarro was ceaselessly restless, searching for a newer art. Born in 1830 to Jewish parents in St. Thomas, then part of the Danish West Indies, Pissarro attended a Moravian school along with Afro-Caribbean students, until he was 12. Then he was sent to boarding school in France. When his schooling ended, Pissarro’s father wished him to enter his business, but Pissarro rebelled. At the age of 22, he took off to Venezuela, to work as an artist. By the age of 25, he was living in Paris; soon, he was studying with Corot and Courbet. In 1871, Pissarro married his mother’s maid, Julie Vellay, with whom he would eventually have seven children. Pissarro was a lifetime anarchist, and his art reflect his beliefs. Often he painted agricultural tasks. “He believed in the nobility of manual labor, such as farming, and indeed he saw his own work as a painter as being no more elevated than that of the farmer. He used images of workers—often workers in the field, but other types as well—to illustrate his belief that labor could be harmonious with a life of health and leisure,”
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observes Kathleen Morris, director of exhibitions at the Clark. Pissarro reminds us that peasants work together not from fear of a boss, but to achieve a collective goal. Also, he embeds a subtle feminism in his agricultural paintings, the women and men working in harmony. Other works show a future utopia reminiscent of Jehovah’s Witness art in which multicultural Christians are eternally picnicking on a perfect earth. But Pissarro imagined work even in a paradise. Views of crowded rural markets, often done in gouache, convey serendipity and chaos. The Marketplace (1882) distracts us with the colorful headscarves of farm women engaged in pressing conversation. On market day, a village becomes momentarily a city. This exhibit includes a remarkable document titled The Social Disgraces, a series of 28 pen and ink drawings executed to enlighten his young nieces on the evils of capitalism: a man begs in the street, drunks stumble out of a bar, a millionaire hangs himself, a family starves. The final drawing depicts an “insurrection.” This series has rarely been shown. “Pissarro’s People” is the first show to study Pissarro’s interest in the human figure. From all accounts, the artist was a kindhearted man. “In his paintings, I see faith in humanity, openness to new ideas, and a desire to be supportive and empowering,” notes Morris. Pissarro refuses to exploit or glamorize anyone, even naked women. Perhaps nice guys finish last in painting, too. Without a massive, self-aggrandizing ego, an artist is ignored. (Is this one reason few women painters are famous?) “Pissarro’s People” will be exhibited at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, until October 2. (413) 458-2303; www.clarkart.edu. —Sparrow
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o here we are, at the 10-year mark of the September 11 incident. Wars are still being fought, there is chaos in the Middle East, and everyone who boards an airplane or makes a phone call is still a potential terrorist. Politicians will lay wreaths and many will take the opportunity to put a little more yeast in the brew of hatred, but I wonder what we’ve learned. And I wonder who is asking questions about what happened on September 11, 2001, why it happened, and how. I’m one of the people who doubted the official story of September 11 before I even heard it. Once I started reading the explanations, I knew there were problems with everything that was being said. I anticipated that I would be involved in a long investigation, and I have. My first breakthrough came seeing the astrology for the incident. Reading that chart, I warned that the “secret enemy” who had done this horrid thing would be morphing to suit political convenience, and had an oddly intimate relationship to the government. I had my second breakthrough looking at the picture above, which is a Department of Defense photo of the Pentagon crime scene from September 14, 2001. This came into my hands six months after the incident, in early March 2002. Maybe you saw the e-mail titled “Find the Boeing” published by the French website Asile.org that passed around the link. It’s easy to search online. The premise of “Find the Boeing” was, okay, if this event at the Pentagon is an airplane crash, then where’s the airplane? Where did it strike? Where did the 100 tons of composite aluminum and titanium go? Where is the impression of the wings, and those enormous jets? What about all the fuel on a plane that was bound for the West Coast? How come that big pile of rubble isn’t a burned-out bonfire? During March 2002, I studied this photo night and day for a week (I had fewer deadlines back then). At the end of the week, one really weird thing stood out. How is it possible that an airplane hit that building at a minimum of 250 miles per hour, but all the rubble collapsed outward? When you see a photo of a car that’s been driven through the wall of a house, you don’t expect to see the debris all over the lawn. Most of it plunges inward and follows the direction of travel of the car. Here, the wall looks like it tumbled outward, which is what it did. This debris goes in the wrong direction— that is, if something large from the outside plunged in. To see an airplane crash here, you really have to use your imagination. You can
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pretend that the airplane is under the rubble. You can pretend that it plunged into the building and disappeared. You can pretend that it’s invisible, like Wonder Woman’s airplane. You can tell yourself that something had to happen to it—but it must be there someplace. But to do any of these things, you have to pretend. After I did this work, studying dozens of other photos, I knew there was a problem with the official story. Through the first week after the September 11 incident, I consoled myself by listening to Steve Inskeep on NPR. He had been standing next to the Pentagon for the first three days after whatever happened there. I knew and trusted Steve from my days covering the state capital, and I clung to his sane, moderated voice; I thought I would ask him. Steve was in Afghanistan when I called, but my phone rang six months later and—faithfully—he was returning my call. I told him what I was thinking and asked for his honest opinion. Was I crazy? He told me that he was one of the first people at the Pentagon after whatever happened. He was called to the scene of an explosion—not an airplane crash. He said it didn’t look like an airplane crash, but then, not all of them do. However, he thought my theory was plausible and worth following up. I will save those stories for another time. While the Pentagon presents a mystery, it’s not the most interesting one. By far, the most interesting and persistent mystery of September 11 is what happened to 7 World Trade Center. Most people don’t know that three towers of the World Trade Center fell down on September 11. We’ve all seen the two big Twin Towers fall down again and again, but there was a third—a 47-story structure called the Salomon Brothers Building. It was not hit by an airplane. Across the plaza from the Twin Towers, 7 World Trade Center suffered some damage when the two other towers fell, but not especially severe. There were some scattered fires in the building. Then at 5:20pm, it collapsed at near-free-fall speed into its foundation, landing in its footprint in just under seven seconds. The impressive thing is how it just elegantly cascades to the ground. It implodes and lands in a tidy heap. For that to happen, all 18 or so vertical beams would have to be cut at the same time. There are lots of video clips of this on YouTube. There are clips of newscasters saying the building had fallen down when it was still standing; the most famous is the BBC live broadcast. On the local Fox News channel in DC, the reporters are saying
it already fallen down while looking at a live feed of the New York skyline—then 7 World Trade Center collapses while they’re talking. Building 7 was never part of the official September 11 inquiry. This is true despite the tenants of the building, including the FBI, the SEC, the IRS, the Secret Service, the New York City Office of Emergency Management, and a diversity of banks and insurance companies. If it’s true that World Trade Center 7 collapsed from some damage and a few fires, one would think that there would be a major investigation into the structural integrity of skyscrapers, because such a thing had never happened before. In a PBS interview done for America Rebuilds, the one-year anniversary special, the owner of the building, Larry Silverstein, admits that one of the fire department commanders called him up and told him they had to pull the building—and he gave his consent to “pull it.” (This video is easily available on YouTube, and I purchased the original from PBS to make sure it wasn’t a fake.) The owner admits the building was demolished intentionally, but I’m wondering how it was possible to get a crew into the building and prepare it for demolition in a few hours in the midst of the Ground Zero catastrophe. I’m wondering how you just demolish a structure with a tenant list like that, without emptying the structure first—you know, the files and the safes and vaults and data centers and other secret bits. In order to accept that World Trade Center 7 was not demolished, you have to pretend. For example, I once got into a heavy argument with a Wikipedia administrator, who said that what Larry Silverstein really meant when he said “pull it” was that the fire department could pull its men out of the building because it was about to collapse. Since when does the fire department need a landlord’s permission to get its own men out of imminent danger? (For more information on World Trade Center 7, visit a website called BuildingWhat.org, named for the judge who had never heard of the thing and asked, “Building what?”) There are a lot of other problems with the official story of September 11. In a 2007 article, Robert Fisk, the eminent Middle East reporter for the Independent in the UK, states: “Even I question the ‘truth’ about 9/11.” He starts by saying he hates conspiracy theories, but these questions here are too big to ignore. Fisk asks about the plane crash in Pennsylvania: “Why did Flight 93’s debris spread over miles when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a field?” He asks, “If it is true, for example, that kerosene burns at 820 C under optimum conditions, how come the steel beams of the Twin Towers—whose melting point is supposed to be about 1,480 C—would snap through at the same time? (They collapsed in 8.1 and 10 seconds.)” And, “What about the third tower—the so-called 7 World Trade Center Building (or the Salomon Brothers Building)—which collapsed in 6.6 seconds in its own footprint at 5:20pm on 11 September? Why did it so neatly fall to the ground when no aircraft had hit it?” Then there are the firemen who said that there was molten steel flowing in the rubble of the Twin Towers “like a foundry.” I could go on and on—I’ve only described some of the more prominent questions. An organization called Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth has been asking a lot more of them, though they have a special focus on World Trade Center 7. (You can visit their website at AE911Truth.org.) The story that some terrorists from Afghanistan attacked us because they resent our freedom is the product of a nifty picture of world politics. (Actually, most of the terrorists accused were from Saudi Arabia.) If we look at the writing of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) published in the late 1990s, we find out about the need for a “new Pearl Harbor” so that the United States could fight a multifront war early in the 21st century. Most signers of PNAC, which is basically a vision for perpetual war, became the Cheney/Bush administration. Once you start gathering them, the facts are so obvious, they can speak for themselves— that is, to anyone who wants to listen. Yet here is what I call the spiritual problem, though. It’s the implication of any of this information, if you accept it. If we shift the narrative of what happened on September 11, 2001, we have to change our worldview. If we accept that there’s a problem with the official story, we have to open up to the possibility of another version of events—such as the whole thing was a premeditated false flag event. I mean, it didn’t just happen all by itself. If, hypothetically, there were explosive charges put into buildings, and they had to be placed in advance, who did it? And why? This is too big of a psychological barrier for most people to cross over. Once you go down that road, as someone said to me the other day, you don’t know where you’re going to end up—or rather you do know and it’s not a pretty place. Your whole notion of both society and politics will change, and as a result, you will change. This makes the issue deeply personal—just like we experience it. You can start by doing something easier, which is calling the September 11 incident what it is, which is something that you don’t fully understand. That takes the pressure off of you to have the answers. If you want to know more, there will be a screening of a new, long-anticipated documentary prepared by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth at the Woodstock Community Center at 7pm on Wednesday, September 7. I am planning to be there.
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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) I suggest you become more curious about your sense of emotional injury. Usually we avoid investigating this kind of thing when we can. Yet recent events might have stirred you up a bit, and that’s an invitation to go deeper. This is especially true if you’ve had any of those “I’m feeling something deep but I really don’t know what it is” moments in the past three or four weeks. Your charts give a clue: The picture shows a relationship between your sense of pride, the sensation of being hurt, and a particular way you tend to get stuck. Somewhere in your distant past, you were told it was wrong to be self-centered, which you took as meaning “centered in yourself.” The result, of course, would have been to knock you off-center, as if that were somehow good for yourself or anyone else. Self-centered vs. centered in yourself has many equivalents. I suggest you also sort out arrogant from confident; narcissistic from self-loving; needing attention from craving meaningful passionate contact with others. Underneath these distinctions is a deeper value. The first concept in each pair is about alienation, and the second is relational. The first involves a sense of injury and the second is about healing. Yet they’re not really opposites; they are related like shadow and light, which depend on one another to exist. If you want the light, it’s necessary to embrace what’s going on in your shadows. Both, treated with awareness, are sources of nourishment and wisdom.
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There comes that point when the mental realm breaks through into the physical, as desire, decision or action—and you are at this point. The inner realm of ideas can be a lot of fun, considering what is possible and making plans for the future. It’s true that there are many possibilities, and you have many ways to express yourself. But thinking about things only goes so far. Suddenly experience becomes the journey, because it must. In my lexicon, experience means a direct experiment. Experiments start with a plan, but the whole point is that you don’t know the outcome. It’s easy to control one’s mind; it’s more challenging to guide it to be free. In an odd way, this takes discipline, which means focusing your desire to make an inquiry that is liberated from rules about the outcome. That’s when the experiment can really begin—and in a sense, it already has. You’ve been passing through a series of gateways, or more like choke points, and as you emerge through each of them you’re born into a slightly new awareness—each one closer to your body than your mind. These passages have served to wake you up to what is possible. When it comes to the actual, conscious experiment, you get to let go again, on a deeper level, sometimes involving another person—and sometimes for only a brief experience that teaches you a lot. Be sensitive to what each particular experience calls for.
Gemini
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Mercury is still cooling down from its recent retrograde. You will be working out the adventures and misadventures of the summer for the next few weeks, in a house that for you is about your immediate vicinity and your day-to-day affairs. Make sure you put extra emphasis on resolving unfinished business, despite your desire to move forward. There may be a particular ending that you need to focus on. One crisis of our society is how little attention we pay to closure. We leave the past behind as if it never happened, or in the alternate, slowly go mad with resentment. As a result we often live with the festering wounds of our families (in particular) for much of our lives. You’re at a point where a new kind of power is coming to you. You’re being summoned to unusual achievements, which is another way of saying that you’re activating your talent, potential, and quest for the future. To focus that influence, it’s vital that you be clear about the meaning of your own history. I will give you a clue: It means less than you think, but for that to actually be helpful, you must be clear and see the influences for what they are. Your family—neurotic and contradictory as it was—is what made you unique. This is not a matter of discarding or moving beyond anything, but rather of integrating, accepting, and making creative use of everything you’ve experienced in all of your time on the planet.
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Everything comes down to self-esteem. It’s the quality that mediates your relationship to yourself, to the world, and to all the people in it. I’m not one for claiming that something is a panacea, but for many reasons it would be wise of you to considered any question you face through the context of how you feel about yourself, and the degree to which you respect yourself. I believe this is true for everyone, but due to certain facts of your chart, and certain elements of the moment now, how you feel about yourself is the obvious, palpable tipping point of your existence. Notably, this inner quality will influence everyone around you. But self-love itself is not so obvious, and it’s wrapped in many taboos that you must violate in order to get where you’re going. I suggest you think not in terms of a goal or ultimate destination, but rather a feeling, and a sense of purpose that you can travel with. What practical actions have you already taken toward that end? What have you already accomplished? Look for specific examples, and then look for the pattern. You’ve accomplished more than you think. Where you’re at now is more about valuing and building on what you’ve started rather than starting anything new. Yet at the same time you may have a strong sense of starting over. To the extent it’s true, you’ve developed tools that you’re learning how to use. You are starting to understand something about your power: mainly—above all else—from where you stand right now, that you have the ability to choose.
Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) Doubt does not work as a way of life, because doubt is not creative. Therefore, keep sending yourself positive messages about where you are and what you can accomplish, in that order. The “who you are” piece is one of those lifelong meditations for Leos. I know, it can be so certain, then so tenuous. Your sign is associated with gold, and your “planet,” the Sun, is a star—the center of our solar system. But the doubts and questions you’ve been addressing are human to the core. It’s strange how small disturbances, even those you forgot or thought you had resolved, can create a much deeper state of doubt than seems possible. What you have learned the past month, and are still discovering as Mercury works its way through your sign, is how to get out of your own way. This is a trick of the mind; so, too, is paralyzing doubt (or regret, or any form of anxiety). Yet when doubt seems to fixate on a deeper injury, or events from the past that still haunt you, that’s the time to be aware and make a decision. The past is gone, but a copy of it still exists as if written in a book. What you’re doing is rereading and reinterpreting the past—take that up actively. Be bold looking at old things, and old problems, in new ways. As you do this, one particular goal will come into focus, as will your faithful determination to make it real.
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
You are strong enough, and feel beautiful enough, to be yourself in your relationships—100 percent yourself and nobody else. It might mean stating your desires honestly. It might mean standing up to someone in a way you never have before. It might mean making a decision based on nothing other than what you know to be true. One of the great challenges of human existence is creating a state of equality in our relationships. But there’s only one way to get there, as far as I can tell, which is calling ourselves fully present into our own lives. There comes a point where you know it’s better to be in no relationship at all than one that is not healthy for you, and that is the moment when equality is possible. This is a way of saying you have nothing to lose by being real, and it’s a way of saying you’re ready to offer yourself fully to the right situation. Now is the time to experience that sense of wholeness and self-sufficiency. In truth this idea goes far deeper than relationships, which get too much emphasis as the core meaning of life. Yet existence itself is a relationship—which might be between you and the other, between you and yourself, or between you and all that you don’t know. Being fully yourself means summoning your commitment to existence.
Libra (September 22-October 23)
There’s a fantastic musical from 1970 called The Me Nobody Knows. It explores the secret lives of inner-city kids who put their feelings, observations and experiences into words. The play has no plot—only characters and a theme. In a similar way you come to the world with your own deeply introspective journey, your observations, and certain experiences that don’t seem to rise to the level of a story. Being totally open with yourself about this dimension of your life will help you feel strong, clear, and grounded. Go beyond the familiar routines of your life directly into the feeling of existence. As you do, imagine what it would be like to speak your truth to the people around you, even as you discover it. Feel how bold and tentative this is at the same time. When you speak from an unfamiliar place, and step out onto the edge of your awareness. That is the creative state: a kind of poignant unknown that you cannot hide from yourself. Shorn of intent or desire, something actually new can emerge. Shorn of judgment, you can allow your fears to come to the surface, where they have less power over you. Be aware of your sense of ambivalence and give it space to exist. There is indeed a you that nobody knows, and you’re discovering who this person is. Don’t rush; rather, listen and feel. You have no role to play, but rather a place to find where you are met by others who look at you through honest eyes.
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Scorpio (October 23-November 22)
You tend to be picky about your friends, and you hold them to a high standard. How much of that, I wonder, is a response to your feeling like you’re being judged and scrutinized by others? It looks like this scenario is starting to relax. If you’re feeling more welcoming of others on a social level, you can be sure they’re feeling more welcoming of you. It may seem that this is about letting go of social pretenses, and on one level it is. But the deeper aspect of that is about having reached the point where you have no option other than to be real. That’s drawing you out of your shell and giving you the courage to take a chance on a new kind of vulnerability. Making contact with your own creative force, and the deeper currents in your imagination, is a potent force for making contact with others in a way that is fully authentic. As you do this you will notice the people around you are more embracing than they’ve ever been, or rather, than you’ve ever noticed them being. Your own inhibitions played a role in isolating you from others, and in assuming that they were looking at you askance. Even if that happened in reality, sooner or later you will have to leave your impressions behind and proceed through life free of the prejudices past experiences burdened you with. Take the risk of creating your life in every moment. Life will return the favor by re-creating you in every moment.
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Sagittarius (November 22-December 22) This is a complicated time for you personally—but don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of a moment when the door is open to a great achievement or two. It’s often true that the energy in all aspects of your life increases at the same time. On a personal level, you’re sorting out some potentially troubling, at the very least challenging, questions. Here is one. If you excel in the world, and shine in your chosen profession, does that make you a self-centered, egotistical so-and-so? Of course it doesn’t, but there are family influences (overt or sly) you might want to investigate, which propagated a belief that success is a sign of bad character. From the look of your charts, you’re in the somewhat uncomfortable position of being compelled to find your individuality, while at the same time pushing back against conditioning that until now you only had a scant clue existed. You will discover more of these influences as you continue to push—they are part of the same self-discovery process. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say a self-creation process, which feels a lot like taking back space that was taken from you. I reckon that as you do this, opportunities will open up in the world around you that match your inner growth. Just remember: Even if you seem to get a lucky break, you worked for it—and you will need to put some focus into developing it.
Capricorn (December 22-January 20)
Someone close to you may be acting like the human trampoline. I reckon they’re about done, none too soon, either. You cannot really control others, but you can definitely set limits on what you’ll tolerate. Meanwhile, you have more important matters on your mind, and you want to maintain a thoughtful and productive environment. That said, avoid an “all business” attitude. Keep your flexibility and sense of play. You’re in a position of leadership, and that starts with holding a vision and then acting on it. That means bringing people around you into focus—and that is why anyone whose primary function is to rock the boat needs to spend a little time in the water. Yet make sure that you’re not contributing to any games. Be clear about what you want, first with yourself and then with others. At the same time, make careful note of how others influence you. Make sure that their lack of confidence does not become your own. You certainly might have empathy with someone who is feeling less than confident of themselves, but don’t have too much. The chances are that their crisis of confidence isn’t quite what they think it is. Therefore, don’t fall for it—and then if their state of mind influences you or anything you’re doing, address the matter directly with them. This is a moment for you to be steady and stable as a top priority, and though life has thrown you a few curves lately, you’re up for the challenge.
Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
You seem to be working a particular edge of your presence in the world. The feeling is something like “This is so new and strange, but I’m sure I’ve been here before.” Both are true. I want to suggest something bold, which is that you’re currently in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual initiation. This is the challenging, painful, beautiful, interesting, and necessary process of emerging into the world as the person you always knew you were inside. This may feel tentative and subtle at times, bold and inevitable at others. In this stage, the most meaningful thing is not what you accomplish or do in the world—rather, it’s tuning your perceptions and responses to a new frequency and feeling tone. For the moment, life is all about how you respond to it. You may notice yourself easing out of any competitive tendencies into more collaborative ones. You may be noticing the prevailing fear-based consensus reality for what it is—and in the same gesture understanding that this is simply not your way. Note that how you distinguish yourself and your individual nervous system from the toxic cloud of anxiety is by becoming more sensitive, not less. I know this feels like a big gamble in a world where so many people seem poised to assault at the least opportunity. Part of your evolutionary mission is to be on the forefront of people who actually feel safe on the planet.
Pisces
(February 19-March 20)
You live closer to the dreamtime than many people—indeed, nearly everyone. By this I mean that you stand with one foot in the unseen world, and the “real world” often looks misty and strange to you. This moment in your life is about going as far beyond the veil as you can, into that other world, and then taking that insight and grounding it in tangible form in the physical plane. One of the gifts you have is the ability to sense the transient, delicate quality of the existence that we share. You may feel like you’re straddling two worlds, one that everyone agrees exists and another that few people believe is real. Remember, that doesn’t make it or your experience any less real. But as someone tapping into an alternate realm of knowledge, you may feel moments of isolation or exclusion. Part of how you’re working through that is by keeping at least one foot and part of your mind in the local world of experience, no matter how strange it seems. There is deep wisdom in exploring that quality of standing apart. I suggest you not rush through it. In order to feel your deeper connection to this world, it’s sometimes necessary to feel your sense of separation from it. This will give you perspective. With that perspective you will be able to sense where you are coming from—I mean that literally—and in the same gesture, have an unusually clear vision of where you are going. 126 planet waves ChronograM 9/11
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Russ Rowland, Going Postal, digital print, 2010
It took half a century for Russ Rowland to find his passion. After working as a PR agent and dabbling at music, something clicked when the 53-year-old Manhattan resident started taking photos two years ago. Rowland is particularly fascinated by ordinary scenes that are often overlooked. “I think I’m like a little kid, really. Things still surprise me and tickle me,” he says. While walking to Brighton Beach one day, he passed a cockeyed mailbox whose legs were bent like they were about to move. Going Postal, shot with a Nikon D90 and part of Rowland’s “Signs of Life” series, documents an object that harbors the ghost of human intervention. In “Signs of Life,” Rowland explores the unintentional messages
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in everyday settings. A bicycle sign painted on the road reveals a smiling face upside down; a sombrero hangs from a park bench, waiting like a lost child. “To me that’s a big part of what’s interesting in photography,” says Rowland. “It allows you to elevate something you might not stop to look at.” Going Postal will be on display at Garrison Art Center in Garrison from September 10 through October 2, part of the third annual juried exhibition PHOTOcentric 2011. The image won the Juror’s Humorous Mention Award. (845) 424-3960; www.garrisonartcenter.org. Portfolio: www.rrsnapshop.com. —Zan Strumfeld
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