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32 BIG TIME: HUDSON’S MOMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Chris Bick as Gertrude Garnet by Keith Carollo. Video online at Chronogram.com.
10 ESTEEMED READER Jason Stern explains the living process of culture.
16 LETTERS Praise, opprobrium and corrective notes from our fans and detractors.
17 EDITOR’S NOTE Brian K. Mahoney is having problems with his neighbors.
Shane Cashman explores Hudson.
KIDS AND FAMILY 40 TRANSPARENTING Hillary Harvey explores the lives of transgender families in the Hudson Valley.
HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING 45 THE TOWN THAT CELEBRATES TOGETHER
18 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Successful uterus transplants, the rise of animal cruetly cases, the UN’s dependence on troops from the developing world for peacekeeping operations, and more of the gist of what you may have missed.
19 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC: IF YOU’RE A PEOPLE Larry Beinhart explains why a coporation should not be considered a person.
HOME 20 ARTISTIC LEGACY IN ANCRAM Shawn Hartley explores a modern artist’s studio inspires its resident.
27 THE GARDEN Michelle Sutton explores this season’s ornatmental shrubs.
Anne Pyburn Craig explains how the Rhinebeck community prepares for Sinterklaas.
HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 48 SUPPORT HUDSON VALLEY BUSINESSES AND SHOP LOCAL
WHOLE LIVING 78 BREAKING FREE FROM ADDICTION Wendy Kagan takes a stroll of 12 steps through approaches to recovery.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE GUIDE 72 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it. 74 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services. 82 WHOLE LIVING Opportunities to nurture mind, body, and soul.
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56 MUSIC: LIFE IS A CABARET Peter Aaron profiles multidisciplinary indie icon Amanda Palmer. Nightlife Highlights include ETHEL; Ace Frehley; and Suzanne Vega. Reviews of Burnell Pines by Burnell Pines; The Eel by Jeremy Baum; E’rebody by Los Doggies; and The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Raw, Vol. 11 and The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11 (Deluxe Editon) by Bob Dylan.
62 BOOKS: CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS Nina Shengold goes one-on-one with urban chronicler Sari Botton.
64 BOOK REVIEWS Robert Burke Warren reviews Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson and Marx Dorrity reviews The Forgers by Bradford Morrow.
68 POETRY Poems by Katya Biter, Matthew Gioia, William J. Joel, Daniel Brian Jones, Jessica Jones, Lyon Kennedy, Stephen J. Kudless, Perry Nicholas, Glenn Norther, Julia Ponder, Jesse Jones Dillon Rubin, Fern Suess, and William Teets. Edited by Phillip X Levine.
104 PARTING SHOT Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee, a poster from the Separate Cinema Archive.
THE FORECAST 86 DAILY CALENDAR Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 85 Julie Novak’s one-person show “America’s Next Top” at the Rosendale Theater. 86 The International Pickle Festival returns to Rosendale on November 23. 87 Half Moon Theatre’s production of "The World Goes Round" at the CIA. 88 Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (more like a fortnight) runs November 3 to 16. 90 Charles Busch’s “The Lady in Question” is staged at STS Playhouse. 91 An exhibition of Japanese manga illustration at Vassar and DCC in Poughkeepsie. 94 Poughkeepsie Day School hosts the Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Fair November 15. 95 ETHEL will debut its Jeff Buckley tribute in Hudson on November 22. 96 The Polar Express Train Ride steams into Kingston via the Catskill Mountain Railroad.
PLANET WAVES 98 THIS HOT MESS Eric Francis Coppolino raises awareness on politics and political participation.
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Growing up in suburban Illinois, Keith Carollo remembers driving with his family into Chicago and passing the billboard for the Magikist Carpet Cleaning company on their way into the city. The Magikist logo? A giant pair of red lips. Lips figure prominently in Carollo’s work, partly because of this childhood resonance—lips act as symbols of culture and urbanity—but also because of their graphic simplicity. “I can’t really draw a face,” says Carollo, “but lips are easy.” Easy or not, a couple of pairs of Carollo’s lips popped up on the sides of buildings in Kingston for the O+ Festival, part of the event’s mural program. The floating red appendages surprise the viewer in their industrial context, at once sensual, goofy, and sophisticated, reminiscent in equal parts of Milton Glaser and Francis Cugat’s book cover for The Great Gatsby. “I hope there’s some little kid who will love them and be inspired by them like I was,” he says. Carollo also has a fascination with swans, whose silhouettes often appear in his work. “I guess I’m like a big girl,” Carollo says, and laughs. “I like lips and swans.” Back in 1998, Carollo and his husband Chris Bick started e-tailer Fredflare. com, selling Urban Outfitters-style novelty gift items, clothing, and accessories. Growing the company from a start-up in their apartment to a 20-person Internet dynamo took a toll on the pair, and they sold the company earlier this year and relocated to their weekend house in Mount Tremper. This has allowed them to focus on creative adventures—for Carollo, art (“I always dreamed of going to art school,” he says); for Bick, pursuing an acting career. Bick will be starring in the STS Playhouse production of “The Lady in Question” this month. Bick is in character as the femme fatale Gertrude Garnett in the cover image. Carollo credits his stepfather, a clown by profession, for instilling in him the freedom to follow his intuition and not worry about having a traditional job. (He notes that his stepfather went bankrupt.) Simplicity is a guiding principle for Carollo, who has a background in graphic design. “I’ve always loved to play with colors, shapes, geometry,” he says. “I like getting to the essence of things.” On his Etsy page, there is currently one item for sale (Carollo hopes to have more pieces up for the holiday season), a laser-cut melamine phrase: Don’t Worry About It. Eleven inches square and a quarter-inch thick, it can be used as either wall art or a trivet. This marriage of inspirational phrases, art, and practicality is classic Carollo. “The things I make are somewhere between Ellsworth Kelly and a fuzzy kitty ‘Hang in There!’ poster,” he says. Portfolio: Keithcarollo.tumblr.com. —Brian K. Mahoney CHRONOGRAM.COM WATCH a short film by Stephen Blauweiss about Keith Carollo and his work.
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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: When we started Chronogram in 1993, we needed a tag-line, and we chose a set of encompassing terms—“Arts. Culture. Spirit.” This seemed to us to capture the image of concentric circles, or worlds, as it were, each contained within and participating in the next. In our usage, art is an action or activity that is fundamentally creative (as opposed to inventive or technical) that has the express purpose of conveying qualitative meaning. It is only art if the result is something uncontrived, and fundamentally new. Artists, or creative workers within a community give rise to culture. The biological definition of the word illuminates its meaning in a social sense. Here it is like yogurt, or a dish of bacteria wherein each organism within the overall ecosystem is a creative contributor to the whole. A culture is difficult to apprehend from the perspective of the individual. It is like a blood cell trying to fathom the form and meaning of the body whose veins and arteries it traverses, and yet the body provides the medium and net purpose of the blood cell’s existence. So too is it difficult for us to comprehend the true nature of the culture we inhabit and intentionally contribute as particular creators. The culture also swims in another medium, a still larger body in which the culture itself is an organ. In starting the magazine we chose the term Spirit to describe this etheric sphere that provides the purpose and context for all we do as communities, societies, and even for humanity as a whole. The key thing, we saw, in considering Chronogram’s tag-line as these concentric, reciprocally maintaining worlds, is that they are significant as much in terms of scale, as in their particular manifestations of content. In other words, it was important to look at each as a whole, a totality in itself. Each is structurally similar or even identical, though they look different from the perspective of each scale, like a two-dimensional being trying to fathom the nature of a being that lives in three. As such the tagline could as easily read “Local. Global. Cosmic” In his book The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler suggests the idea of the holon, a Greek word meaning “whole.” In the way that Koestler used the term he suggested that the world is constructed of autonomous totalities comprised of many smaller autonomous totalities. In the context of a body, there are individual cells, which comprise independent organs each with a particular function within the whole body. In this design there is a flow of intelligence both up and down between worlds, as each autonomous totality provides context and pattern for its constituent totalities, as well as being itself an integral part and fulfilling a particular function within a larger body or organization of intelligence. Our aim in starting the magazine was to create media and content that reflects and serves multiple worlds at the same time. Specifically this means offering content that inspires individual artists to further their work, nourishes the locale and by extension the global cultural biome, and at least in small part harkens to the cosmic context and purpose of humanity’s existence. We wanted the magazine to be well-considered the etymological sense of the word which literally means “with the stars.” Nevertheless, we saw that for our impact to be meaningful, it had to be humanscale, not national or global as afforded by the technology of digital communication and media. We saw that the effect of attenuating meaning, of trying to speak to too broad a swath of people, mitigates the effect of nourishing and supporting the growth of cultural vitality. So we made a conscious decision not to grow too much and limit our activities to reflecting and amplifying the cultural biome of our locale, the Hudson Valley. In these 20 years we have experienced first hand the power of media to cultivate a unique regional cultural biome. In this sense media is like a third, invisible force reconciling between artists and audience, organizers and participants, local business people and customers. The regular pulse of our magazine’s issuance is a way of fertilizing the soil of our local cultural ecosystem. Particularly in a small, local economy it is co-created by its participants. Contributors and audiences come and go or change places, but the fabric of the cultural commons remains. In fact all who contribute, like cells that are born and die within the overall life of the body, make the culture what it is. Like all living things the cultural biome is difficult to quantify and define. In being alive, the culture is not a thing, but a living process, with a living presence. And in this process we are all living participants contributing to the larger presence with everything we say and do, even with every breath. —Jason Stern
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Clockwise from top: Pontus Lindberg Dance performing at the Hudson Valley Dance Festival on October 11 in Catskill. Photo: Daniel Roberts. Natalie Portman, Darren Aronofsky, and Jennifer Connelly at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 18 in Kingston. Photo: Ben Rosser. Alice Waters and admirers at bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy on September 28 in Rhinebeck. Getting ready to roll at Garrison Art Center’s Rolling on the River— Steamroller Printmaking event on October 5.
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CHRONOGRAM CONVERSATIONS PODCAST Julie Novak, “America’s Next Top” Comedian and actor Julie Novak talks about gender identity on the podcast, reflecting on a life spent in-between male and female, the basis for her one-person show, “America’s Next Top,” staged at the Rosendale Theater on November 22.
DAILY DOSE “The Gate to Hell”: Photographs by Avery Danziger In the remote desert of Turkmenistan, there is a 230-foot wide flaming crater, a natural gas fire that has been burning continuously since 1971. A slide show of Danziger’s photographs appears on our website.
VIDEO November Cover Artist: Keith Carollo The graphic design creations of Keith Carollo combine the artistic instincts of the Minimalists with the sentiment of a greeting card writer. “The things I make are somewhere between Ellsworth Kelly and a fuzzy kitty ‘Hang in There!’ poster,” Carollo says.
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Real Economies, Real Freedom To the Editor: I want to congratulate Jason Stern and Larry Beinhart both for outdoing themselves last month. I thank Jason for addressing the issue of fear, and the consequent loss of conscience and common sense. But I would ask, how, in concrete terms, can those that are still on the treadmill gain any assurance that a path and a gateway and an assembly preparing to ascend the Mountain of Freedom actually exist? I congratulate Beinhart for his brilliant exposé of how status and money corrode the university. And especially how “physics envy” has corroded the humanities—especially that most humane of all subjects, economics, which, from the Greek, means “household management.” As the son of a professor who got his PhD at Cambridge University, England, and dined on the prestige that degree conferred, I can attest to the high school cliquishness of the halls of academe. And how long tenure narrows the mind. But I especially congratulate him for exposing the fraudulence of so-called “free” markets, and for recognizing that every issue is about power.We argue incessantly about what government “should” do, forgetting that the real question is how to recover the power we have surrendered to those whose only consideration is profit—which is to say, power. We the people are in the middle of a war, getting shot at from every side, and we don’t even know it. It’s called class war, but no one is allowed to say it. Instead, we are told we live in a democracy. Therefore, granting that contemporary economics is propaganda—as contemporary pundicators pundicate upon it—how can we develop a real economics that actually describes how we earn our daily bread, educate our children, and prepare for the future? In other words, that actually describes real household management? And how can we create centers of study, where those who have a desire for real learning can gather? Thomas Wanning, New Paltz Body of Christ To the Editor: Carl Frankel presented readers with a whopper of historical fallacy in the October issue when he asked where all the current sex negativity came from and answered, “You guessed it, Christianity. We’ve been taught: spirit good, body bad.” Well, if that’s what Frankel and some readers guessed, it was a poor one. Such stark dualism was never taught by orthodox Christianity. It came from elsewhere. To begin with, wouldn’t it seem to anyone with some historical knowledge of the subject that picking the only world religion that teaches the resurrection of the body was probably not the best choice? Who would want to resurrect something that is evil, something “bad?” In the Judeo-Christian view anything from God is good, indeed “very good,” and that includes the body. A much better guess would have been the Eastern religions that see the body as a despised prison or shell or husk to be escaped, shed, and discarded like trash for another and another, etc. Or perhaps various forms of Gnosticism, and definitely Manichaeism, including its Western variant, Albigensianism, condemned by the Catholic Church because they held precisely to that kind of spirit good, flesh bad dualism. They certainly taught that the body and the flesh were “bad,” in fact so bad that Jesus could not possibly have embraced them fully and become a genuine human being. But he did, and so in Christian teaching the body, flesh and blood, of themselves could never be considered “bad.” If there is any “bad” at work in them or the uses to which they are put including sex, the ultimate source is the will—not the body. The flesh-and-sex-hating asceticism and Puritanism of some of these groups had to be officially condemned by the Catholic Church more than once. All this is documented history and easily checked, and the writer should have done so Christianity holds that the human being, evolved body plus spirit together as one, is no evolutionary flash in the pan destined for the trash heap or grave or oblivious absorption into an unknowing cosmos but a creature of great dignity, love, and learning capacity, made for that reason and for eternal life with its loving Creator, destined to rise like Christ did, and much too good to be left to ultimate and permanent demise, death, decay, and oblivion. Only the will, and not the body nor its functions, can wreck this promise.Yes indeed, very bad guess. Dick Murphy, Beacon Not a Fighter To the Editor: Avid Reader. Love the publication, being an artist. Having said that, I must draw your attention to a mistake in your current issue, in the Community Pages section, “Double Life: Warwick and Orange County.” The photo of the Cessna on page 32: It is not a fighter. It is, however, the Cessna L-19 “Bird Dog.” Observation and liaison aircraft. Crew 2, power plant one 213 HP Continental C-470 4-Cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled. Max speed 151 mph at sea level. Service ceiling 18,500 ft. Max range 530 miles. Wingspan 36 ft. Length 25ft. Height 7 ft, 3 in. Weight 2,400 lbs. Armament 0. Rodni Hardison, Newburgh
LAUREN THOMAS
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he day we moved into our house 10 years ago, our 80-year-old next-door neighbor, feisty Kathleen Rice, baked us a cake. It was a simple yellow pound cake and Lee Anne and I never ate any of it (I tend toward the savory rather than the sweet—no offense to your memory, Kathleen), but the gesture floored us.Who in the 21st century bakes a cake for the new neighbors? It was a gift of a type that I was not used to either giving or receiving, the type of traditional gesture that is part formalized good will, part selfless act, part karmic downpayment of neighborliness. I never forgot that cake, and it remained in my mind every time I helped Kathleen bring in her groceries or shoveled out her sidewalk when it snowed. Courteous, quiet, conversational without being overly chatty, and willing to put up with the occasional outdoor dinner party that ran late and exceeded normal conversational decibel levels—Kathleen was the kind of neighbor one dreams of having when one lives in close proximity as we do here in Kingston, in our neighborhood at least. When Kathleen moved in to a nursing home five years ago, I could have cried. Looking on the bright side, however, I thought that perhaps our new neighbors might be a young couple who Lee Anne and I might befriend, share impromptu cocktails with, be intimate enough to borrow the proverbial cup of sugar from without the drama that comes with knowing someone too well. When Kathleen’s house was turned into a rental property, I didn’t think much of it. While I would have preferred homeowners living on the block, with all the smear of responsibility that implies, very few leave our parents’ home and go straight into home ownership. Everybody rents a place for some period of time, short or long, and there is no moral deficiency in renting. Lee Anne and I had lived in rental properties until we were in our mid-30s. The first couple who moved in next door were indeed young, in their early 20s, with two children. My designs on making friends with them were dashed as they unpacked the U-Haul, however. As the young patriarch of the clan struggled the furniture into the house, he did double duty by loudly berating his wife and ignoring his kids, who were full of questions about their new house. Over the course of the year they lived next door, we often heard adults shouting and children crying. I wasn’t sad to see the back of them when they left. The next renters moved in suddenly—I guess I was at work at the time—and with the implacability and size of an occupying army. Within days there was a rotating cast of people, women and children mostly, hanging around the house. The women yelling into cell phones, and at each other, and at the children. The children’s boisterous cries and mewling as background accompaniment to the complex and dark adult narratives playing out on the porch, in the yard, and on the street. Friends and relations pulling up to the curb with a honk— without fail with a fucking honk; the honk celebratory, impatient, or rebuking, depending upon the situation. I have received an unwelcome education in the many uses of the car horn. I have practiced forbearance. I have tried to mind my own business and not react to un-neighborliness. I have gone out into the street multiple times after being awakened at 2am and asked groups of loud people to disperse. I have done this calmly but firmly. I have called the police when this tactic has
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not worked. I have spoken with the landlord, who is polite but seems not to care. I have thought: #firstworldproblems. I have told kids to get off of my lawn. (You realize you’ve crossed a threshold in the aging process the first time you inform an adolescent that he is indeed on your grass and you are not having it: Welcome to cranky-panted later adulthood.) This annoyance as carried on for three years, modulating in intensity depending on the season and the mysterious nomadic patterns of the tribe next door. Just when I think I’m down to my last nerve, the house goes quiet for weeks or months at a time, as if sensing I’ve reached my limit.
You realize you’ve crossed a threshold in the aging process the first time you inform an adolescent that he is indeed on your lawn and you are not having it: Welcome to cranky-panted later adulthood. My neighbors were very much on my mind some weeks ago when I spoke to Will Pye for my podcast. Pye is the author of Blessed with a Brain Tumor: Realizing It’s all Gift and Learning to Receive (The Love and Truth Press, 2014), which tells the story of how his near death from cancer at 30 and subsequent spiritual journey brought him to practice something he calls radical gratitude. I wanted to find a better way to cope with neighbors than gritting my teeth or calling the cops. I was hoping, in the words of David Foster Wallace, to approach a hellish situation “as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.” Perhaps that’s putting too fine a point on it, but I thought Pye might be able to help. What he told me (available verbatim via the Chronogram Conversations podcast) boils down to a simple practice: Surrender to whatever situation you find yourself in—including imminent death in Pye’s case—and embrace all the possibilities of it rather than resisting it. Viewing everything that happens as a gift may simply be a less painful way of engaging with reality. All gifts, all the time. Even neighbors, I guess. It didn’t take long for me to be called to test my fledgling practice. Eating dinner one balmy Indian summer evening, listening to nocturnal insect noise through open windows, Lee Anne and I were forced to hear a protracted argument on our neighbors’ porch. After 10 minutes of surrendering, I went outside and asked my neighbors to stop yelling. To which one of them replied, “YELLING?! HELL, WE AIN’T STARTED YELLING YET!” Back inside, I reflected on the continual gifts that my neighbors bestow on me with their rudeness and incivility. It’s a gift, I told myself. It’s a gift. And then a revelation: If my neighbors’ bad behavior is a gift, it’s a pretty shitty gift. And just like that, I ruined my practice of radical gratitude. Now I’m trying to perfect a practice of radical giving. Maybe I’ll bake a cake. For my neighbors. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM 17
HEATHER KIDDE
Federal judge Kimberly Mueller dismissed a lawsuit brought up by the State of Missouri against the State of California over an impending law that will require all out-of-state egg producers who want to sell their eggs in California to meet the specific housing requirements for egg-laying hens. Most eggs in the US come from “battery cage” hens. These hens are often confined to a cage with 5 to 11 other hens in it. Hens spends the entirety of their 18-to-24-month lifespan unable to turn around or stretch their wings. California requires all hens to be kept in coops that have enough space to for hens to stand up, lie down, and extend their wings. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster argued that the law violated the Constitution’s interstate commerce clause. In 2010, Missouri and five other states, including Alabama, Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, sought to overturn the same law, but Mueller dismissed the lawsuit since it only harmed a small subset of egg producers. Producers outside of California are not required to build new facilities, but if they don’t comply with the state’s standards, they are unable to sell their eggs in the Golden State. Source: Washington Post The populations of non human vertebrate species such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish have dropped by more than half over the last 40 years according to the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report, a comprehensive study of planetary health released every two years. The report’s Living Planet Index, which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, has declined by 52 percent since 1970. Source: Time
Forty-five Fijian UN peacekeeping troops were held captive for a month when Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front militants invaded their outpost in the Golan Heights. The incident highlighted the underreported fact that while the UN calls upon the international community to respond in crises, soldiers from developing nations face the brunt of the burden. Troops from developing countries are more likely to be less trained, under supplied, and ill-equipped for the missions they are sent on. Simultaneously, the financial aid for these missions havs diminished, which has complicated the challenge. As of July, the five permanent UN Security Council nations (US, France, UK, China, and Russia) contributed 4 percent of the UN personnel, while the governments of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Philippines provided 39 percent of all UN forces. Source: New York Times When the video of Brooklynite Andre Robinson went viral in May, his recorded actions not only captured him punting a cat like a football over a metal fence, but also led to his arrest. Robinson has now found himself at the center of a growing debate on how the justice system handles animal cruelty cases. Animal activists have risen to the cat’s defense by continuously attending Robinson’s court hearings, gathering support via social media, and utilizing funding to raise global awareness on the issue. In the past, criminal penalties for animal cruelty have generally been minor, but as the activists’ voices become louder, those convicted of animal cruelty are facing stiffer fines and jail time. Source: New York Times Currently at 11.5 million barrels a day, the US production of liquid petroleum will likely surpass Saudi Arabian production and become the world’s largest supplier by 2015. This rise in oil may has shrunk the US trade deficit in energy and stabilized international markets by decreasing the global crude prices in the past two years, but it has also started a wave of investment in petrochemicals an other related industries such as fracking. New pipelines and drilling sites have popped up across the US and Canada, contributing to this increase in world oil supplies, but have simultaneously added to long-term environmental concerns. Source: Financial Times 18 18 CHRONOGRAM CHRONOGRAM 11/14 11/14
Strike Debt, a New York-based activist collective and subset of Occupy Wall Street, announced in mid-September that the organization had abolished $4 million worth of student loan debt as part of its Rolling Jubilee Program. The debt was bought from for-profit Everest College, part of the Corinthian College network. Strike Debt claims that the students at Everest were conned into pricey vocational programs and encouraged to take federally backed student loans as a way to pay for them, thus funneling money from public to private hands and constructing a business model that resembles legal theft. For-profit colleges make up the fastest-growing segment of higher education, accounting for 20 percent of the two-year associate’s degrees granted in the United States, up from 8 percent two decades ago. Source: Aljazeera America, New York Times Cities and towns in several states have passed bans on the sales of puppies in retail pet stores, legislation aimed at cracking down on substandard, large-scale puppy breeders. Large-scale breeding operations often place monetary value over the animal welfare, though all breeders are subject to annual USDA inspections. But animal welfare activists, like Cori Menkin of the ASPCA’s Puppy Mills Campaign, say the inspections are flawed because of lax federal regulation. “The regulation of breeders is so poor that all it really does is give consumers and the general public a false sense of security that their dogs are coming from a humane environment when they’re not,” Menkin says. The the laws are intended to encourage smaller pet stores to follow the lead of national chains like Petsmart, Petco, and Pet Supermarket. None sell dogs, but instead promote adoptions through shelters and rescue groups. Source: NPR Of the 11 uterus transplants that have been conducted worldwide, no live births were successful until recently. At age 15, a Swedish woman who was born without a uterus was told by doctors that she’d never be able to carry a child of her own. At age 36, the woman has become the first to give birth with a transplanted womb. Prior to the transplant, the woman was provided with in vitro fertilization, while her ovaries were intact and able to produce eggs. A 61-year-old woman who had already experienced menopause donated her uterus, which allowed the woman to deliver the baby by cesarean section. It has been reported that the woman took a trio of immunosuppressant medications such as Tacrolimus, Azathioprine, and Corticosteroids; to avoid long-term damage from those medications she’ll need to either try for another pregnancy or have the womb removed. Doctors who pioneered the technique claim the procedure may begin a new wave of opportunity for women are who are unable to give birth on their own. Source: NPR Compiled by Laura Farrell
DION OGUST
Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic
IF YOU’RE A PEOPLE
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ormally this column explores an idea or expresses an opinion or simply tries to entertain by laying out how astonishingly ridiculous the most smugly serious aspects of our political world can be. This time I want to start a movement. At least to plant the seed of one and ask you,The People! of the erudite and enlightened Hudson Valley!, to do what John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed to us all) did for apples, to multiply this seed electronically and then scatter the e-seeds hither and yon, amidst the forests and across the plains, and yea, even unto the cities, of our great land. It is time for a constitutional amendment that says the corporations are not people—that only people are people. That should seem so self-evident it needs no saying, let alone a declaration in our most fundamental law. But it does need saying. Obviously, I’m not the first person to think of this. Other versions that I’ve found are rather detailed and complicated with specific agendas about influencing elections and voting and such. Personally, I think it should be as simple as possible. That’s pretty much how our Constitution and its amendments are. Basic, general, and frequently open to widely varied interpretations. That’s awkward, because it can lead to controversy. But it makes for easy portability.You think that’s not important? If the Constitution got specific, it would be like the Affordable Care Act, 10,000 pages, times 10 or 100 or more. More important, it creates flexibility. Not all circumstances can be preimagined, and even if they are, times change. It should simply say, “Only people shall be considered people.” If you can’t bear something that short and sweet, it could be, “Only people shall be considered people. Other entities may be given rights and restrictions, but only human beings have constitutional and inherent rights.” But really, nothing more than that. The most important advantages of keeping it simple and general are that it makes it easier for people of all persuasions to agree on it. As furious as the Tea Party Right and What’s Left of Liberals are with each other, individuals at both extremes, as well as the great mass in the middle, can probably agree that they are all actual people, while Citibank, Time Warner Cable, and American Airlines are not people. At the same time, it’s a proposition that’s hard even for think-tank propaganda whores and our bought-and-paid-for politicians to oppose. Imagine even Rush Limbaugh screaming, “Yes, PrivatePlus Mortgage is really a person. More than Hillary Clinton anyway. I’ve talked to PrivatePlus Mortgage and he, it, she, whatever, is smart enough to advertise on my show, so they must have all people protections!” The inherent purpose of corporations is to escape responsibility. That may seem like an exaggeration, but it’s true. In many ways it’s a good thing. It makes investing in businesses and the operation of businesses much safer. If you or I fail or make a mistake, all we possess— indeed, our rights, our liberties, even our lives, may be at stake. Let’s say I sell, or rent, or loan you a car. I happen to know that the wheels sometimes fall off this particular vehicle. You go for a ride, a wheel does indeed separate itself from the axle, causing you to crash and die. Or if I drive the car, crash into you, and take your life, I can be charged
with vehicular homicide, go to prison, be humiliated, eat the worst food in the world, possibly be subjected to violence. Possibly in an institution run for profit by a corporation that has spent large sums of money to influence legislation that will send more people to prison. But if it is a corporation that has rented or sold you the car, well, then the liability is limited. You might sue and even bankrupt the company, but not me. There are currently 23 deaths linked to accidents caused by General Motors’ defective ignition switches. They knew about the problem but did nothing about it. Which seems—in my unqualified, nonlegal opinion—to be negligence. People are dead. So that would be manslaughter, at least. I am entranced by the vision of General Motors in an orange jumpsuit, waiting on line to use a pay phone to make just one call a day, and have to make it collect. But it will never happen. The nonhuman entity that is the corporation will merely pay some fines and keep on rolling. It is not a person and does not deserve to be treated as such. Below is a short version of this diatribe. The right length for today’s short attentions spans. Suitable for cutting, pasting, sticking in an e-mail, and sending to every single real, actual, flesh-and-blood human being you know. Thank you. The American courts have decided that corporations are people. With all the rights of people. Often with more rights than people. But corporations have no feelings. No patriotism. No loyalty. No families. No children. They are essentially required by law to care for nothing but their own profits. It is good corporate governance to engage in criminal behavior if the profits outweigh the penalties. It is merely the cost of doing business. If a person kills another person through negligence, indifference to normal safety standards, by knowingly putting them in dangerous situations while pretending it’s safe, they can go to prison for it.When a corporation kills people, they might face a fine. In bumper-sticker language, “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” For whatever reasons, the justices of the Supreme Court are in love with corporations. All congresspeople are in debt to corporations for campaign contributions and jobs after they leave office. Only people can say that corporations are not people. The only way to do it is to pass a constitutional amendment that says,“Corporations are not people.” This is something that the Left and the Right, from socialists to the Tea Party, should be able to agree on. If you do agree, please pass this on to everyone you know. And urge them to pass it on. Hopefully it will spread geometrically, like a chain letter or a pyramid scheme. Hopefully it will get people talking. And it will get into the hands of people who like to organize and politicians looking for an issue. So please, cut and paste this, or use the link, and pass it on. And tell everyone who receives it to pass it on. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM 19
The House
Chaleff’s only two-dimensional work, a series of large clay tablets, hangs in the gallery of the studio and residence he shares with his wife, author and professor Haesook Kim.
Artistic Legacy in Ancram
THE HOME AND STUDIO OF A LEADING MODERN ARTIST INSPIRES ITS CURRENT RESIDENT, SCULPTOR PAUL CHALEFF By Shawn Hartley Hancock Photographs by Deborah DeGraffenreid
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he ascent up Poole Hill Road in the tiny town of Ancram in southern Columbia County provides a view of rolling fields and farm hedgerows that’s so exquisite (especially during foliage season), it seems conjured from a fairy tale. Country houses and estates of all types and styles are tucked in along the rise, including one made conspicuous by the large four-piece sculpture in its front garden. This house is conspicuous for other reasons, too. Since it was built in 1984, it’s been home not just to one artistic genius, but two. Back in the 1980s, modern English sculptor Anthony Caro, once an assistant to artist Henry Moore, built a studio and small apartment on the property as his American headquarters. Caro made important breakthroughs in his sculpting career shortly after arriving in the US that cemented his reputation as one of the world’s leading modern artists. He soon shifted his work to make brightly colored horizontal assemblages of welded steel and industrial materials, many of them large in scale. He was able to realize his vision in part due to the gantry crane he installed at the Ancram property. Knighted by the Queen in 1987, Sir Anthony decided to sell the studio and its surrounding gardens in the mid-1990s to move back to London. He died last year, leaving behind an impressive body of work. Live Like an Artist Enter Paul Chaleff. The Caro studio was a perfect fit for his large-scale work in clay, which at the time was also inspired by industrial forms. In fact, the two
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artists had been good friends for years, regularly discussing artistic issues and consulting each other on projects. Not everything about the property was to Chaleff’s liking, however. “When I purchased the place in the late 1990s, I did extensive renovations that changed the exterior, and I redesigned the interior completely,” Chaleff says. “That included new window placement to make better use of light and views.” Chaleff did all the design himself, contracting with local builders to do the work. Chaleff’s renovation kept the studio largely intact, but added square footage for a large gallery and a more spacious and elegant living space. He and his wife, Haesook Kim, an author and professor, decorated it themselves, balancing Eastern and Western influences with quiet simplicity, rich textures, and lots and lots of books. Even still, the living quarters occupy only 20 percent of the overall structure. In the living room, large curtain-free windows frame the impressive, everchanging view down the valley. A pair of matching metal-and-mica lamps by Tom Hoff give a kick to soft leather upholstery, while a two-legged Nakashima chair adds whimsy and a Frank Stella print gives a punch of color to the kitchen wall. “There’s a Taoist philosophy that advises one to defend tranquility and nourish goodness,” says Kim, who developed the Asian Studies program at Long Island University in Brooklyn, where she also teaches sociology and anthropology. What does that mean? Live like an artist, she says. “It’s a great privilege to be with Paul and to live in a place that is so beautiful and connected to nature. Our
Top: Created by Chaleff to celebrate the couple’s wedding in 2007, the four-piece sculpture, Eleven Eleven, defines the front landscape. Bottom: Floor-to-ceiling glass frames the north view, allowing lots of natural light into the residence.
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Clockwise from top: The artist at work on one of the large clay sculptures that have become his signature. “I like the combination of working with my brain and my hands,” Chaleff says. A conical clay piece inspired by a rock-drill bit. In the 1990s, Chaleff added a wood-fired kiln to the open-air studio built by Sir Anthony Caro in the 1980s.
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Chaleff and Kim’s pottery collection ranges from pieces from 4,500 BCE to work by contemporary Americans like Karen Karnes.
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home is just perfect.” In 2007, Chaleff and Kim were married here under that prominent four-piece sculpture, which, by the way, is titled Eleven Eleven for the 11-foot height of the stacks. “This is my paradise,” Chaleff says of the property. Kim agrees. “The whole house carries the spirit of art,” she says. A Place for Boy Toys A near-drowning experience at age 20, which took the life of his best friend, inspired Chaleff to become an artist. “I wanted to be very good at something. I also wanted to be very simple and very honest.” The Hudson Valley soon beckoned. “At the time, Pine Plains was the closest town to New York City with no zoning,” he says. “Artists often have to find alternate ways to do their art.” Chaleff also figured out how to incorporate water into his work as a way of making peace with the accident. Many of his sculptures function as fountains. On the Ancram property, Chaleff uses the gantry crane and other hoists and lifts installed by Caro to move his materials and completed pieces. “The studio is definitely a place full of boy toys,” he says, smiling. Everything here is on wheels, including work tables and what seem like dozens of laundry-cart-size plywood boxes that hold tools, materials, and works in progress. Like Caro, Chaleff’s artistic genius has blossomed in Ancram, in part thanks to the 30-by-40-foot wood-fired kiln he built for firing massive clay sculptures. After studying in Asia early in his career, Chaleff became a champion of unglazed pottery, which he has helped popularize in the West. His study and experimentation in the medium of clay has allowed him to reach new horizons artistically, particularly with heavy large-scale pieces that require scientific and technical knowledge to be successful. What happens to clay at a certain size when it’s fired? How much shrinkage will there be? Where are its limits in terms of shapes, mineral content, glazes, and other variables? He’s answered these questions for each new series of work over the course of his 50-year career. What about those large sculptures that dot the gardens? It turns out a series of internal clay boxes are the best way to support their massive structure. Battles, Artistic and Otherwise In the upper story of the studio, which is part gallery and part assembly room, busts of six soldiers sit on a pedestal, part of an exhibit honoring the first one thousand American killed in the 2003 war in Iraq. Chaleff used only black-andwhite photos of the soldiers for reference, but chose each soldier by the date he died—April 4, 2004. (Many were immortalized in the book by Martha Raddatz, The Long Road Home [Putnam, 2007]. “What’s significant but not understood in the West is that in Japan, Korea, and other Asian cultures, the number four is a homonym for death. Choosing April fourth in 2004, or 4/4/04, was very meaningful.” Chaleff is himself a soldier in an artistic battle. In the West, the art world views clay as more of a craft medium than an artistic one. “That’s a prejudice that doesn’t exist in Asia,” says Kim. “The Met and MoMA have his work in their collections, but Paul has this pioneering spirit and the courage to do new things with or without public adoration or praise.” The outcry among clay artists for recognition is what Chaleff calls a reasonable over reaction. He participates on a committee at the Metropolitan Museum, where discussions about label review get the younger artists riled up. They want no mention of “process” in exhibition labeling, because they want their art viewed as art, not craft. Chaleff’s studio opens directly into a large professional gallery with high clerestory windows for natural light. Here hang the artist’s massive tablets, the largest pieces of fired clay ever created and one of his more recent projects. Chaleff spent three years making adjustments to the materials and firing process in order to get them just right—all before summoning his artistic talent. For 20 years before turning to sculpture, Chaleff made pottery, much of it on a large scale, but he insists that humankind used clay to make art long before pottery. “The oldest pots in the world are 18,000 years old,” he says, “while the oldest clay art is 31,000 years old.” Whether he’s hoisting a 5,000-pound sculpture or testing the compressive strength of a clay formation, Kim says, “the studio is where Paul is most happy.”
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Niche Modern Factory Sale 5 Hanna Lane, Beacon Niche Modern has built its reputation on providing lighting structures that exemplify elegance and innovation in their hand-blown glass lighting fixtures. Often paired with playful color palettes and odd angles, each lighting fixture is an original creation, meaning no two fixtures are the same. From 12pm to 6pm on November 8, Niche invites the community to take part in their twice-yearly factory sale, with 50 to 80 percent off factory seconds, including handmade pendant lighting fixtures and the new tabletop collection. There will also be live glass-blowing demonstrations and tours of the factory. Nichemodern.com. NOVEMBER 17
Holiday Wreathmaking Workshop Deyo Hall, Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz Nothing dresses up the home with holiday spirit quite like a wreath. Traditional and sentimental with being treacly or garish (leave those ugly Christmas sweaters in mothballs, please!), wreaths decorate a home with beauty and warmth, providing an open invitation to the holiday season. On November 17 at 7pm, the New Paltz Garden Club hosts Bonnie Champion Finkenaur, who will guide participants in workshop on how to create a wreath that is original and suitable to the creator. Clippers, gloves, wire, and decorating materials will be needed; ribbon will be provided. (845) 2556436; Newpaltzgardenclub.org NOVEMBER 22-23
Hudson Valley Hullabaloo 467 Broadway, Kingston Hullabaloo curator Danielle Bliss is on a mission to transform the staid atmosphere of the craft fair. Dig the tagline: “A Shopping Event Where Arty Meets Party.”The second annual event moves to the Andy Murphy Midtown Neighborhood Center in Kingston and features work by over 50 regional artists, designers, and craftspeople, as well as food and drink from local artisanal purveyors. A family-friendly event, Hullabaloo, will also have multiple photo booths and a DIY project space for crafters, young and old alike. Hvhullabaloo.com. NOVEMBER 28-30
Basilica Farm & Flea 110 South Street, Hudson Last year, 3,500 people jammed Basilica Hudson over Thanksgiving weekend for the urban-chic-meets-new-rural extravaganza, Basilica Farm & Flea. This year, in collaboration with craft curators Hudson River Exchange, the Farm & Flea promises another stellar shopping be-in, bringing together 80 vendors, from jewelers to furniture makers and all manner of artisans in betwixt. The fair kicks off with a “Black Friday Soiree” on November 28, with cocktails from 5pm to 9pm, and then picks back up the next morning with two days of shopping, music, craft demos, food and drink, and incredibly creative company. (518) 822-1050; Basilicahudson.com.
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sure berry production, you need one or two males in the mass, but sometimes you don’t even need that, because the pollen can travel quite far.” Pollination is aided by the fact that winterberry occurs natively in our woodlands—you may have noticed colonies of them aflame in late fall and winter.They are often found in low, wet areas—which tells you that they could be used in wet areas in your yard, too. They tolerate clay soils, which tend toward poor drainage. Interestingly, winterberry hollies can also tolerate dry soil well. This dual resiliency is exhibited by the two plantings at Vassar—the patch on low ground by Sunset Lake, where the soil is seasonally wet, and the patch on high ground near the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, where the soil can be quite dry. Depending on the variety of winterberry, the height can reach from only two to three feet—as with the extra showy cultivar ‘Red Sprite’—to eight feet or more, as with the more subtle native colonies. (The width is generally in the same range as the height.) In a landscape situation, Horst recommends using a mass of winterberry holly plants in front of an evergreen backdrop. They make good hedging shrubs and excellent rain garden plants. Although they can tolerate pruning when needed, Horst recommends planting them in spaces where they can reach their full genetic potential without pruning. Horst says, “I see them around the beaver pond at our camp near Brant Lake in the Adirondacks, and they are majestic when allowed to grow to natural dimensions.” Winterberry holly shrubs are cold hardy to USDA Zone 3, which means they are sufficiently hardy to be used anywhere in the Hudson Valley. Winterberry holly can grow in full sun (six or more hours of direct sun a day) to part shade (three to six hours of sun each day). They have no significant pests or diseases. The one thing they can’t abide is highly alkaline soil; they prefer neutral to acidic soil. In addition to ‘Red Sprite,’ some promising cultivars of winterberry holly include ‘Winter Gold’ with its apricot-colored berries, ‘Berry Heavy’ with its heavy fruiting on tall stems, and the tried-and-true ‘Winter Red,’ which matures to eight feet tall and stays berried up all winter. See Resources for a list that gives the best male pollinator for a given winterberry holly selection. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM HOME 29
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hen asked how the city of Hudson has changed since she first arrived in 1991, Linda Mussmann says, “People talk about real estate now and not as much about art.The gentry, to some degree, has landed.” Mussmann has run Time and Space Limited, a multidisciplinary art warehouse, with partner Claudia Bruce since 1993, planting the first artistic seeds of the latest wave or creative regeneration. Mussmann and Bruce created an environment for edgy art (political theater, independent films, and inyour-face exhibitions) and community resources for underprivileged kids that continues to this day. “The goal is to have the opportunity to work until we die,” Mussmann says. “We’re never finished.” What defines Time and Space Limited, like much of the rest of this city percolating with hope and hype in equal measure, is the spirit of creative entrepreneurship: Hudson has the highest self-employment rate in New York state—almost 10 percent—and is ranked 83rd in the country. It’s a place where you’ll find antique stores and auction houses alongside vintage clothing and record stores, and an empty lot where a handful of food trucks have created an impromptu food court. Hudson even has its own version of a neo-vaudevillian circus troupe: Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. The city’s commercial roots are in whaling: Hudson became a bustling seaport in the early 19th century, when ships from Nantucket would winter in the town’s sheltered bay on the Hudson River. As the whaling trade died out, Hudson became known as a center for gambling and prostitution. After a period of decline in the mid-20th century as manufacturing dried up, antique dealers began opening shops on Warren Street, the city’s two-mile main thoroughfare, in the 1980s. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON 33
Clockwise from top left: Rae Hatch tries on a dress at LALOON in Hudson; Laleh Khorramian makes handpainted clothing at LALOON; the extrerior of LALOON.
Hudson has since earned a reputation as an antiques mecca, boasting dealers such as Stair Galleries, 3FortySeven, and Arenskjold Antiques Art. Warren Street is also home to the internationally renowned Ornamentum gallery, featuring art jewelry by master craftspeople including Silke Spitzer, Eunmi Chun, and Gerd Rothmann. Geoffrey Good is an exemplar of the latest wave of creative regeneration to hit Hudson. After living in Brooklyn for almost a decade, in 2012 Good relocated his family and handcrafted jewelry business 125 miles upriver to the city being called—enthusiastically or pejoratively, depending on your perspective—Brooklyn North. Good’s eponymous atelier, also on Warren, is part of the architectural treasure trove lined with art galleries, restaurants, cultural centers, antiques dealers, and design and housewares stores reflecting the influx of design-savvy ex-urbanites over the past five years. Kasuri, a clothing shop that opened at the north end of Warren Street this spring, featuring designs by esteemed clothiers like Comme des Garcons and Vivienne Westwood, cements the city’s fashion credibility, joining the ranks of other high-end clothing retailers like De Marchin “Warren Street is fairyland in a way,” says Good, describing the city’s style as “deceptively sophisticated.” Good’s child attends the nearby Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School (the experiential-based Steiner education is a popular educational choice for local artisans), and his house is a 10-minute walk to his storefront. “Hudson is an odd place. There’s a strangeness to it that’s a good thing,” says jeweler Geoffrey Good. “You never know what’s going to happen on any given day. There’s a great sense of possibility here.” Carrie Haddad, a longtime Hudson resident and owner of Carrie Haddad Gallery, which features contemporary work by regional artists, notes that the city is only 2.2 miles square. “There’s something so intimate about living in a small town. If your dog goes missing, someone will bring it back, because they know where you live.” 34 HUDSON CHRONOGRAM 11/14
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The cultural life of the city has flowered as energetic creatives in multiple disciplines have moved in and opened businesses. Food celebrity Zak Pelaccio, of Fatty Crab fame, opened his farm-to-table temple Fish and Game in 2013. The restaurant’s service is a seven-course tasting menu, different each evening, crafted around locally available ingredients. A year earlier, two protégés of molecular gastronomy guru Wylie Dufresne, John McCarthy and Ben Freemole, opened Crimson Sparrow, an adventurous take on New American cuisine that combines techniques honed at Manhattan’s WD-50 with a locally grown ethos. An intrepid diner would have to spend several weeks on Warren Street before she sampled all of its fare, from the freshbaked goods at Bonfoglio & Bread and Café Le Perche to the Texas-sized BBQ portions at American Glory and the seriously locavore diner fare at Grazin’. Musicians have also found a fertile outpost in Hudson, and the city has recently become home to a number of well-known names, including Melissa Auf der Maur, bassist for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins. In 2010, Auf der Maur and her husband, filmmaker Tony Stone, bought a sprawling former glue factory across from the city’s Amtrak station and turned it into a cultural space. Basilica Hudson has booked national music acts and presented art shows and dance performances, as well as organizing its own craft fair, Basilica Farm + Flea. The inaugural event was held last Thanksgiving weekend, showcasing more than 50 artisans from across the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires. This year, Basilica Farm + Flea kicks off on November 28, Black Friday, with over 80 vendors in the weekend-long alt-shopping environment. Next door to Basilica, a new generation is being introduced to craft at Kite’s Nest, a learning resource center that provides free and low-cost programming integrating the culinary arts, design, recording, and broadcasting, as well as traditional crafts. One recent workshop teamed up middle school students with Boatwright Nick Zachos of Hudson Sloop Club to build their own boats out of simple materials, which they proceeded to launch on the Hudson River.
(On November 7, Kite’s Nest will host its annual benefit, the Alimentary Feast, prepared by co-director and chef Nicole LoBue.) It’s fitting that a city brimming with artisans would attract Etsy. The e-commerce craft giant opened a satellite office in a converted industrial space in 2012, where about 40 Etsy staffers tap at keyboards on large mapletopped group desks. Etsy sourced most of its furniture from local stores, and the maple desks were made by Rob Williams of Grain, a local woodwork and design studio. Williams moved to Hudson from Philadelphia in 2004, drawn by a creative scene in its infancy. “I started to fall in love with Hudson the more time I spent here. It’s a great spot for creativity,” says Williams, noting that artists can rent an entire building or storefront in Hudson for the amount they would spend on a tiny studio in Brooklyn. The movement of urban creatives to “the country”—Hudson is surrounded by some of the most picturesque farmland in New York—has been termed “rurbanism” by Ann Marie Gardner, editor of Hudson’s Modern Farmer magazine, a sumptuously designed journal for the skinny-jeans farming set that launched in 2013 and covers topics like GMO labeling and local flour movements. This admixture of simple living and design savvy carries into the marriage of natural and industrial elements used by many artisans. Hudson is a melting pot of the American maker movement, from milliners creating handmade vintagestyle hats (Behida Dolic´Millinery) to outsider artist Earl Swanigan, who sells his whimsical animal portraits on the street, to bespoke blacksmithing at Metal by David DeSantis to impeccable outposts of modernist woodwork, jewelry, and design such as Chris Lehrecke’s showroom. Hudson seems poised for its coming-out moment on a larger stage. This is perhaps most readily apparent in the Rem Koolhaas-designed museum that performance artist Marina Abramovic is planning to build. The opening of the Marina Abramovic Institute, housed in a former tennis academy and tentatively slated for 2016, is generally viewed as a gamechanger for the city, adding a world-class fine art tourist attraction—and another bit of catnip for creatives. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM HUDSON 39
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round the age of three, it was apparent that either S was gender variant or trans. We just had to wait to see how it would emerge,” Jipala says as she and Nathan alternate addressing their five-year-old, A, and me on the back porch of Nathan’s house. Jipala and Nathan, both 30-something, live separately in Kingston, but they co-parent their two children. Nine-yearold S is in another room, working up the courage to come greet me. S knows I’m there to learn about her situation. S was born with male anatomy, but as soon as she could talk, made it known that she was a girl. When she went to camp at the age of six, S transitioned, sporting a full girls’ wardrobe and switching to female pronouns. Everyone knows: her school, friends, and family. But Jipala and Nathan recognized that their story would need to enter the public sphere, too. “You make yourself available to advocate,” Jipala says. “I have to answer questions in a certain way. ‘I’m so happy you asked.’” While the impulse is to help educate, the necessity for explanation can be exhausting, too. S was unsure about being the subject of a magazine article, so the use of her first initial and just her parents’ first names is their compromise to provide some privacy.
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Arlene Lev, LCSW-R, of Choices Counseling and Consulting in Albany, specializes in issues related to sexual orientation, sexuality, and gender identity and expression. She says, “There’s a broad spectrum of children who are gender nonconforming.” Research points to differential fetal development of the sex organs and gender identity in the brain, but Lev questions the benefit of searching for the causes of being transgender. “We’re just beginning to understand how the brain works,” says Lev. “Personally, I find the research interesting, but understanding how to make use of it clinically is more complex. What we know is that people who cross gender rules have existed in every culture since the beginning of time. The fact that a small, stable portion of the human family has this experience is just who we are.” She says parents worry about even subtle differences in gender expression that break societal rules. “We want to create a culture with greater acceptance of gender expression,” says Lev. “Then the world would be safer for kids who are trans or have gender dysphoria.” Lev is a family therapist, with extensive training in how family systems work and how what happens to one member affects everyone. For the parents,
the decisions surrounding transgender youth can cause distress. Sometimes when parents quell the feeling of gender discontent, children act out or become depressed, and transgender people suffer from an alarmingly high suicide rate. Same-sex couples face added judgment from a society that often doubts their capacity for parenting. For Jipala and Nathan, a big challenge is the common belief that it’s a phase. As proof, people say they didn’t let their kids be firemen or dinosaurs. “It’s not an argument you can compare to what’s happening with a trans kid,” Jipala says. “Trans is not self-expression; it’s primarily identity.” “And parents do let kids dress up as a fireman for a whole year,” Nathan points out. “Most parents want to make their children’s lives as easy and healthy as possible,” Jipala says. “The cultural norms are so strong and so ingrained, maybe you’ll go against them for yourself, as an adult, but you wouldn’t electively choose to put your child through them. Unless it’s a necessity.” Jipala and Nathan want what we all want for our kids: to support S as best they can, so she’s a healthy, productive adult. When S mentions that she doesn’t want facial hair, Nathan lets her know, without too much detail, that there are options. They’re researching hormone blockers, which S can take for two years with minimal side effects. When discontinued, puberty resumes naturally. “That’s manageable for me to think about, as a parent,” Jipala says. “The goal is to give the kid more time.” As a child enters adolescence, the need to mitigate puberty for a potentially trans adulthood becomes important, because once sex characteristics develop, those features remain. In a system where counselors are needed for assessment before hormone treatment or surgery can be approved, Lev is, more than diagnosing, helping people to see if the challenges of transition are worth it for them. What Nathan understood of being transgender was from pop references, where someone was usually the butt of a joke: a father who became a woman but still had a beard, or the character of Chandler’s dad in the TV show “Friends.” Unlike with LGBQ issues, where people can often balance what they hear with personal experience, only 8 percent of Americans say they know someone who is transgender, a statistic that’s probably area-specific. “When I realized that it was more than experimenting,” Nathan says, “there was a lot of emotion around it: projecting what the dangers might be; a little bit of a mourning period where you have to let go of the gender you thought your child was. All the projections you had about what your child’s life was going to be like.” “There’s also A to consider, as far as being S’s sibling,” Jipala says. A’s awareness is particularly mature around the issue, and he’ll advocate for S in his own five-year-old way. As a younger child growing up with a trans sibling, it’s just the way it’s always been. “He did ask questions about it when he was three or four,” Jipala says. “‘Mom, you get what you get and you don’t get upset. I’m a boy, and I’m not upset about it.’ I explained that some people are just born like that.” “It took him a year to get the pronouns right,” Nathan says. “And sometimes when he gets mad at her, he’ll use it against her.” “But he apologizes,” Jipala says. When S enters the room, she goes straight for Jipala’s lap, and we talk about her summer camp, which is just for gender-nonconforming kids. With arts and sports activities, it’s a traditional summer camp experience. “There was karaoke,” S says, “and Kate the Great came. She’s trans. She made all her props.” They learned about it at the annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference— three days of workshops and activities each June, now in its 14th year. Though people have mostly been accepting of their family, the bathroom at S’s private school was a hot issue for a few. “Adults tend to sexualize everything,” Nathan points out. Most trans kids don’t want to draw attention to themselves in the bathroom, generally afraid of anyone seeing their genitals. The school figured out and implemented within a month of S’s enrollment that having one bathroom be gender neutral for everybody was a quick and simple solution. Gender Fluidity When James Rios walks confidently away from the camera at the end of the short film Passing Ellenville he says, “I don’t care what everybody else sees. This transition is about no more acting, just being myself, and not worrying about anybody else.” The film documents two transgender youths from Ellenville:
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celestial beings—but a fabulous person with a knack for them stepped up.” When Fleming, a celebration artist, was first asked to craft an event to replace the relocated crafts fair that had been Rhinebeck’s major draw, she knew buy-in would be crucial. A brainstorming session with 100 people defined the community’s desires: it should be a holiday event with Dutch roots and a focus on children. The celebration of Sinterklaas (this year on December 6), a beloved Dutch holiday built on legend that predates the American version of Santa by centuries, seemed made to order. The earliest iteration, nearly 30 years ago, was simply called Old Dutch Christmas. “Twenty-eight years ago, people said, ‘Nobody will get Sinterklaas, it’s a weird foreign word,” Fleming laughs. Old Dutch Christmas flourished for a while and fell by the wayside, but by the early 2000s, kids with fond memories of its delights began entering the business community. It was time for a revival. “I knew going in that I would need the whole-hearted approval of two particular groups: the business community and the Jewish community,” Fleming says. “I brought together a committee of the local Jewish leadership—rabbis, people like the Vanavers. We went round and round. One person, who I think of as the Rabbi of Rhinebeck, said, ‘I wish we could have some totally fresh new symbol that could unite us all.” That night I dreamed about the stars.” Stars to carry in the parade are sold for $10 apiece on festival day, the only fundraising that takes place on behalf of the event itself. There is no admission charge. Local nonprofits are encouraged to find creative ways to capitalize on the influx of thousands of visitors. “Churches, ski clubs, the Whale Watch— they fed 600 people last year at $10 a pop,” says Fleming. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING 45
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Three locations…Worldwide The Rhinebeck Artist’s shop is proud to announce the opening of it’s new Kingston Store. Like our New Paltz and Rhinebeck stores, the Kingston Store at 793 Broadway is full of creative gift giving opportunities and the best deals on art supplies plus expert picture framing services. Whether shopping for a professional artist, a hobbiest or a beginner we have what your special artist needs, for less. Come discover our great selection of stocking stuffers and fun creative gifts to make your holidays even brighter.
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Sunday December 7th 11am - 4pm Holiday Cheer, Crafters, Good Food, Outdoor Fun. • Outdoor Craft Market Place • Star Penny Puppetry • Gift Making • Children’s Games • Outdoor Barbeque • Roasted Chestnuts • Candle Dipping • Music and More
Mountain Laurel Waldorf 16 S Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 | www.mountainlaurel.org
Offering handmade crafts and unique jewelry by local artists and artists from around the country. Cozy scarves, festive tablecloths, holiday wares, beeswax candles, organic teas and tea accessories, bath items, glassware, toys, chimes, women’s clothing, paper goods, and so much more! You are sure to find gifts to delight everyone on your holiday list! Find us on Facebook!
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The Museum Shop at Historic Huguenot Street Located in the DuBois Fort Visitor Center on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, the Museum Shop at Historic Huguenot Street specializes in unique early-American and local interest gifts, including books, stationery, jewelry and accessories, artisan goods, and home décor. Open Saturdays and Sundays, 10am – 5pm, November and December. 81 Huguenot Street, New Paltz | (845) 255-1889 | www.huguenotstreet.org
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galleries & museums
REFLECTIONS Presented by the Sharon Land Trust
OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 16, 2014 A group exhibition featuring original art and objects created by regional artists and artisans with wood milled from the iconic “Twin Oaks”of Sharon, Connecticut
November November Sales of artwork will benefit the Sharon Land Trust, formed in 1982 to preserve the rural heritage of Sharon, Connecticut. sharonlandtrust.org
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November November November Through November
Coming soon: December 6, 2014 - January 18, 2015 HotcHkiss in 50 objects: selected works from tHe collection
tremaine Gallery at tHe HotcHkiss scHool 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, Connecticut ~ open daily (860) 435 - 3663 ~ www.hotchkiss.org/arts
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Through November
STORM KING ART CENTER
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Mark di Suvero, Jambalaya, 2002-2006 Mark di Suvero, Figolu, 2005-2011. Photography by Jerry L.Thompson
ARTS &
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CULTURE
Miki Orihara performing Martha Clarke’s “Nocturne.” Orihara will perform at Kaatsbaan’s Starburst of Dance Gala on November 15.
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galleries & museums BCB ART 116 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-4539. “Shin Creek.” Photographs by Benjamin Swett. Through November 9.
BERTONI GALLERY 1392 KINGS HIGHWAY, SUGAR LOAF 469-0993. “The Organic Perspective.” Sculpture exhibit by Mark Hauge. Through November 16.
BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS 200 HUROADROAD, BETHEL 454-3388. “Remembering Woodstock: A Timeline of Reunions.” Through December 31.
BOSCOBEL 1601 ROUTE 9D (BEAR MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY), GARRISON BOSCOBEL.ORG. “CURRENT 2014” Sculpture exhibition. Through November 17.
BYRDCLIFFE KLEINERT/JAMES CENTER FOR THE ARTS 36 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2079. “Henrietta Mantooth: Jail Birds and Flowers.” Features a large installation about the prison system in the United States and other large paintings. Through November 24.
CAFFE A LA MODE 1 OAKLAND AVENUE, WARWICK 986-1223. Paintings by Diane Kominisk-Ouzoonian. Through January 5, 2015.
CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY 622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Landscapes & Bodyscapes.” Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Bruce Sargeant & Dan Rupe. November 5 through December 14. Opening reception November 21, 5:30pm-8:30pm.
CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON BARD.EDU/CCS. “Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatan.” Curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason. November 6-December 19.
CROSS CONTEMPORARY ART 81 PARTITION STREET, SAUGERTIES 399-9751. Peggy Cyphers and Catherine Howe. November 7 through December 1. Opening reception November 8, 5pm-8pm. Peggy Cyphers, Woodpecker, acrylic, sand, gold on canvas, 68” x 48”, 2013 From the Peggy Cyphers/Catherine Howe two-person show at Cross Contemporary Art in Saugerties.
DUCK POND GALLERY 128 CANAL STREET TOWN OF ESOPUS LIBRARY, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Watercolorists.” Barbara Bergin, Claudia Engel, Nathan Milgrim and Judith Pedatella. November 1-29.
EAST FISHKILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY 510 WARREN ST GALLERY
510 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-0510. Kate Knapp: The Manhattan Paintings. Through November 30. Opening reception November 8, 3pm-6pm.
ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART GALLERY
22 EAST MARKET STREET SUITE 301, RHINEBECK 876-7578. The Luminous Landscape™ 2014: 17th Annual National Invitational. In Solo: James Coe, On Location & Fall Salon: Tom Sarrantonio, Christie Scheele, Gary Fifer, Karl Dempwolf & Friends. Through November 2.
AMITY GALLERY
110 NEWPORT BRIDGE ROAD, WARWICK 258-0818. A Gathering in Thankfulness: Ian Sharp and Friends. November 1-30. Opening reception November 8, 5:30pm-8:30pm.
ANN STREET GALLERY
104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 784-1146. “Narcissism and The Self-Portrait.” Through November 22.
ANVIL GALLERY AT TECH SMITHS
45 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON TECH-SMITHS.COM/ANVIL-GALLERY. “Your Turn, Dear.” In response to the hyper-competitive art game, Cindy Hoose and Jacinta Bunnell played with their art to create the 52 pieces taking turns on each painting in a manner reminiscent of Exquisite Corpse. Through November 30.
ARTBAR GALLERY
674 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 430-4893. “Introspective Retrospective.” Solo exhibition by Sara Harris. November 1-30.
ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON (ASK)
97 BROADWAY, KINGSTON 338-0331. “Table Top.” Food and stil lifes group show. Opening reception November 1, 5:30pm-8:30pm.
ATHENS CULTURAL CENTER
24 SECOND STREET, ATHENS (518) 945-2136. “Wage/Working.” A jukebox-based installation featuring stories and sounds from the working lives of residents of Greene and Columbia counties. Through November 30.
BARRETT ART CENTER
55 NOXON STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-2550. “New Directions.” National exhibition of contemporary art in all visual art media, showcasing the current work of established and emerging artists. Through November 8.
BAU GALLERY
506 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584. “Out to Luncheon.” New work by Gary Jacketti and Grey Zeien in Galleries One and Two. “It’s Really All About Me.” work by Eric Davis Laxman in the Beacon Room. November 8-December 7. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-9pm.
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348 ROUTE 376, HOPEWELL JUNCTION 226-2145. Works by East Fishkill Library Photography Workshop. Through November 26.
EXPOSURES GALLERY 1357 KINGS HIGHWAY, SUGAR LOAF 469-9382. “Cuba: Forbidden Fruit.” Works by photographer Nick Zungoli. Through December 31.
FDR PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY 4079 ALBANY POST ROAD, HYDE PARK 486-7751. “Veteran Arts Showcase.” A celebration of multiple arts and how they heal and create. November 21-23. Opening reception November 21, 5:30pm-8:30pm.
FIELD LIBRARY 4 NELSON AVENUE, PEEKSKILL (914) 737-1212. “Larry D’Amico: Themes and Variations on a River.” Landscape paintings. Through December 8.
FLAT IRON GALLERY 105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “The Right Time and Place.” Retrospective featuring framed black and white photographs and color prints on canvas by Bob Pliskin. Through November 30.
GALERIE BMG 17 CRICKET LANE, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Unlocking Whimsy.” New photographs by Leah Macdonald and paintings by Kathleen McGuiness. Through January 4, 2015.
GALLERY 66 NY 66 MAIN STREET, COLD SPRING 809-5838. “Layers Upon Layers.” Rebecca Darlington and Anita Jacobson. November 7-30. Opening reception November 7, 6pm-9pm.
GALLERY ON THE GREEN 7 ARCH STREET, PAWLING 855-3900. “A Fowl Moon: A Sleepless Journey.” Insomniart by Chris Bazzani. Through November 15.
GARDINER LIBRARY 133 FARMER’S TURNPIKE, GARDINER 255-1255. Landscapes by Andrea McFarland. Through November 12.
GARRISON ART CENTER 23 GARRISON’S LANDING, GARRISON 424-3960. “Judy Pfaff: Visting Artist Exhibition.” Through November 9.
Dick Polich: Transforming Metal Into Art
Roy Lichtenstein, Lamp on Table
Through December 14, 2014
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galleries & museums
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398 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. Myths and Milagros: The Art of Leah Rhodes. Through November 15.
HOTCHKISS LIBRARY 10 UPPER MAIN, SHARON, CT (860) 364-5041. Photographs by Catherine Noren. Through December 4.
HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Our Collection Features: Harley Davidson, Racers, Police, Military, 1880s & up, Choppers, 1901-1953
1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Art at the Core. Through December 7.
JOYCE GOLDSTEIN GALLERY 16 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-2250. “Adam Brent: Sculptures.” Through November 8.
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KINGSTON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (KMOCA) 103 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON KMOCA.ORG. “In Plain Sight.” New Work form Kate Hamilton, Lisa Alt, and Jessica M. Kaufman. November 1-30. Opening reception November 1, 5pm-8pm.
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KUNST GALLERY 21 PARK PLACE, HUDSON (917) 733-8598. “On the Off Chance.” New paintings by Steve Rosenzweig. Through November 9.
Catskill Mountain Life a celebration of community paintings by
Alix Hallman Travis & a new group show of Longyear Gallery Artists
Oct 24 - Nov 17 opening reception
Saturday October 25, 3-6pm
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galleries & museums
GALLERY HOURS: Fri, Sun, Mon 11am-4pm, Sat 11am-6pm 785 Main St, Margaretville NY (845) 586-3270 Upstairs in the Commons WWW.LONGYEARGALLERY.ORG
LONGYEAR GALLERY 785 MAIN STREET, MARGARETVILLE 586-3270. “Catskill Mountain Life.” Paintings by Alix Hallman Travis. Through November 17.
MARK GRUBER GALLERY 17 NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “A Different Point of View.” Paintings by Vince Natale and Carolyn H. Edlund. Through November 22.
MATTEAWAN GALLERY 464 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7901. “Chemistry” Jill Enfield, Anne Arden McDonald, Amanda Means, S. Gayle Stevens. November 8-21. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-8pm.
MCDARIS FINE ART 623 WARREN STREET, HUDSON MCDARISFINEART.COM. “Landmark.” Paintings by Patrick Terenchin. Through November 9.
MERRITT BOOKSTORE 57 FRONT STREET, MILLBROOK 758-2665. “Lynda Youmans : Beginnings.” Through November 22.
MILDRED I. WASHINGTON ART GALLERY 53 PENDELL ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 431-8610. “World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires.” Through November 21.
THE MOVIEHOUSE GALLERY 48 MAIN STREET, MILLERTON THEMOVIEHOUSE.NET. “Reconstructing Memory: The Paintings of Patty Mullins.” Through November 30.
THE MUROFF KOTLER VISUAL ARTS GALLERY @ SUNY ULSTER 491 COTTEKILL ROAD, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Grace Wapner: Recent Work.” Through November 7.
NEUMANN FINE ART 65 COLD WATER STREET, HILLSDALE NEUMANNFINEART.COM. “Warren Street.” Paintings by Ken Young. November 8-December 6. Opening reception November 8, 6pm.
NOBO GALLERY 558 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 671-6777. “Lucinda Abra: Gathering of the Tribes.” November 15-30. Opening reception November 15, 4:30pm-7pm.
OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE AND CAFÉ 639 ALBANY TURNPIKE ROAD, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “James Coe exhibit.” Rural landscapes. Through December 3.
PALMER GALLERY AT VASSAR COLLEGE VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVE., POUGHKEEPSIE PALMERGALLERY.VASSAR.EDU. “World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires.” Through November 21.
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PS 209 3670 MAIN STREET, STONE RIDGE PSPACE209@GMAIL.COM. Works by Christopher Kurtz, Martin Puryear, Jeff Shapiro. Prints and sculptures. Through November 16.
RED HOOK CAN NORTH BROADWAY, RED HOOK 758-6575. “Red Hook Sculpture Expo.” Through November 21.
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60 MANOR AVENUE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7900. “The House is Open.” A pop-up exhibition of installation and performances. Discover installations and performances in parts of the building not normally open to the public—you’ll be free to wander through hidden areas of the Fisher Center as if you were in a gallery—and return as many times as you like over the weekend. $30/$10 students. November 20-23.
RIVERWINDS GALLERY 172 MAIN STREET, BEACON 838-2880. Transcendental. New oil paintings by Kevin Cook, an accomplished landscape painter whose style is strongly influenced by Hudson River School artists of the nineteenth century. Through November 2. 111 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 562-6940. Works by Artist Bruno Krauchthaler. Through March 31, 2015.
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SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ NEWPALTZ.EDU/MUSEUM. Worlds of Wonder, Hudson Valley Artists 2014. Hudson Valley Artists exhibition, is curated by Ian Berry, Dayton Director of the Tang Museum at Skidmore College. The participating artists are: Fern T. Apfel, Gabe Brown, Loren Eiferman, Adriana Farmiga, Holly Hughes, Kay Kenny, Mison Kim, Mike McGregor, Reuben Moore, Douglas Navarra, Stephen Niccolls, Caitlin Parker, Sean Sullivan, Judy Thomas, Linda Stillman, and Angela Voulgarelis. Through November 9.
SELIGMANN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 23 WHITE OAK DRIVE, SUGAR LOAF 469-9459. Juanita Guccione: Defiant Acts. Featuring the art of 20th Century surrealist painter, Juanita Guccione. Through November 2.
STOREFRONT GALLERY 93 BROADWAY, KINGSTON THESTOREFRONTGALLERY.COM. A Painter’s Dozen. 13 portraits of baked goods by Bud Lavery. November 1-22.
STORM KING ART CENTER 1 MUSEUM ROAD, NEW WINDSOR STORMKING.ORG. “Evoking Tradition.” Zhang Huan. Through November 9. “Outlooks.” Virginia Overton. Through November 30.
TEAM LOVE RAVENHOUSE GALLERY 11 CHURCH STREET, NEW PALTZ TL-RH.COM. Rachel Blumberg: I Dreamt Your Were a Horseshoe Crab. An exhibition of works on paper and dioramas. Through November 30.
THE CHATHAM BOOKSTORE 27 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3005. Roger Mason Paintings of Chatham and Beyond. November 1-January 12. Opening reception November 7, 5pm-7pm.
THEO GANZ STUDIO 149 MAIN STREET, BEACON (917) 318-2239. Extrication. An exhibition of paintings by Sunok Chun. Through November 2.
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 218 SPRING STREET, CATSKILL 518-943-7465. Thomas Cole & Frederic Church: Master, Mentor, Master. Through November 2.
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY
TREMAINE GALLERY AT THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL 11 INTERLAKEN ROAD, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-3663. Reflections: Presented by The Sharon Land Trust. The exhibition will include works by regional artists and artisans with wood milled from the “Twin Oaks”, beloved Sharon icons that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Through November 16.
UNFRAMED ARTIST GALLERY 173 HUGUENOT STREET, NEW PALTZ, 12561. What’s on Your Mind, What’s in Your Heart. This is a Children’s Art show, ages 4-18. Saturdays, Sundays.
UNISON 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. John Laurenzi & Herb Rogoff: Rhythm in Color. Through November 30.
VASSAR COLLEGE 124 RAYMOND AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE VASSAR.EDU. “Never Before Has Your Like Been Printed: The Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493.” Through December 10. Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540. Through December 14.
WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. Along the Farm/Art Trail with Marge Morales and Janet Howard Fatta. November 1-30. Opening reception November 8, 5pm-7pm.
THE WHITE GALLERY 344 MAIN STREET, LAKEVILLE, CT (860) 435-1029. “An Artist’s Journey to the Gate to Hell.” Photographs by Avery Danziger. Through December 31.
EN MASSE November 22, 2014 - January 4, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22, 4pm-6pm JOHN CLEATER January 10, 2015 - March 22, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 4pm-6pm gallery hours: Thursday - Monday, 11am-5pm Open late Fridays until 7pm Gallery closed entire month of February 57 main street, chatham, ny 12037 518-392-3336 www.thompsongirouxgallery.com
THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 15 LAWRENCE HALL DR., WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (413) 597-3055. “From the Land of the Buddha to the Geisha.”Through December 14.
WIN MORRISON 63 JOHN STREET, KINGSTON 339-1144. Paintings by Barry DeBaun. Through November 30.
WIRED GALLERY 11 MOHONK ROAD, HIGH FALLS (682) 564-5613. Group Show #9: Color Galaxy. Works by 35 artists fueled by color. Curated by Meredith Rosier. November 29-February 22. Opening reception December 6, 5pm-7pm.
WOMAN’S STUDIO WORKSHOP 722 BINNEWATER LANE, ROSENDALE WSWORKSHOP.ORG. The Would/Lands. Women’s Studio Workshop presents an installation along the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail by internationally-acclaimed performance artist Pat Oleszko. Oleszko’s multidisciplinary work interweaves social commentary with eccentric presentations that include elaborate costuming and linguistic jests. Through December 4.
WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Georges Malkine: Perfect Surrealist Behavior.” A retrospective of the work of Georges Malkine (18981970) who was the only visual artist named in the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism as a founding participant in the Surrealist movement. The exhibition features 31 paintings and drawings. Through January 4, 2015.
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57 MAIN STREET, CHATHAM (518) 392-3336. “Search Portrait.” Works by Dan Devine, Margot Curran, John Hampshire,. Mark LaRiviere, Jack Shear. Through November 16. “En Masse.” Group show. November 22-January 4, 2015. Opening reception November 22, 4pm-6pm.
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W
e first encounter Amanda Palmer at a local bar. She’s scrunched up quietly in a corner. Loud music and revelry swirl around her stool, where she’s intently perched, facing the wall—pen in her hand, draft beer at her side. If anyone else in here recognizes the celebrated solo artist and front woman of the Dresden Dolls, they’re letting her be. And that’s fine. She’s not here to sign autographs, or to party. Instead, the manuscript of her new book, The Art of Asking (Grand Central Publishing), designed to “inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love,” lies spread open before her. Palmer, engrossed in its pages, is here to edit the thing. For a music editor used to the tomb-like solitude of his hermetically sealed garret, the thought of attempting to work within the eye of such a Koyaanisqatsi-esque hurricane brings vertigo and nausea. “Oh, I’ve always written in bars and cafès,” Palmer says casually a few weeks later. “I work well around the energy of people.” Whatever environments Palmer chooses in which to create her art, which includes not only includes her music and other books but also numerous theatrical productions and performance art projects, they’ve clearly been conducive. One of today’s most thought-provoking indie icons, Palmer regularly headlines theater-scale venues around the world and is the recipient of racks of awards. Her fervent fan base can’t get enough of the singer-songwriter’s provocative aesthetic and edgy brand of punk cabaret, a phenomenon borne out by the 2012 Kickstarter campaign for her sophomore album Theatre Is Evil (8ft. Records), which netted nearly $1.2 million— the most money ever generated for a single music-album project via the popular crowd-funding website. But perhaps Palmer’s greatest art is how she’s helping redefine the concept of how to truly be an independent musician. Instead of relying on the rapidly eroding traditional music industry or futilely fighting file sharing, she’s encouraging fans to take her music for free online—with the proviso that they contribute what they can out of goodwill. For Palmer it’s merely a grand-scale evolution from her beginnings as a street performer and the DIY world in which she’s long operated. “The media asked, ‘Amanda, the music business is tanking and you encourage piracy! How do you get all these people to pay for music,?” she says in a video of her talk at a 2013 TED Conference. “The real answer is: “I didn’t make them, I asked them.’ Through the very act of asking, I connected with people. And when you connect with them, people want to help you.” Palmer grew up in the Birthplace of American Liberty: the Boston suburb of Lexington, Massachusetts. “I knew I’d be a performer when I was still in the womb,” she jokes. “I’ve just always loved performing, and music.” Both of her parents are lovers of the stage who took her to local musicals and encouraged her to take part in community theater. But she credits her mother with nurturing her musical obsession. “I remember being five or six and wearing headphones, listening to my mom’s records,” says Palmer. “The Beach Boys, the Doors, and especially the Beatles—I was always more Beatles than Stones.” Piano, which she learned to play by ear, arrived earlier. “We had [a piano] in the house,” the keyboardist recalls. “It was this magic machine, you pushed the buttons and music came out.” The real magic, however, came in high school, where she joined the drama department and met her mentor, the teacher Steven Bogart. “Before that I’d only ever done ‘safe’ community theater, and Steven was uninterested in that stuff,” Palmer explains. “In his class, we were given permission to really explore and create. He only wanted to do real work, not bullshit. There were no productions of ‘Our Town.’” Palmer later enrolled at Connecticut’s Wesleyan University, where she felt alienated by the college’s traditional theater program and “did my own thing, some one-woman shows.” After graduating in 1998, she started the Shadowbox Collective, an experimental theater troupe that appeared at Boston’s alternative venues, and began performing as the Eight Foot Bride, a miming character in white pancake makeup and a wedding dress who stood atop a milk crate in Cambridge Square handing out daisies and longing looks to donating passersby. The Bride had a five-year run and was a pivotal role, in more ways than one, for the developing musician-actor. “People would yell at me from their passing cars, ‘Get a job!’ and I’d be, like, ‘This is my job,’” she recounts. “It made me fear that I was somehow doing something ‘unjoblike,’ shameful. I had no idea how perfect an education I was getting for the music industry [while standing] on top of this box.” At a Halloween party in 2000 she met drummer Brian Viglione. “The moment Brian walked in and I saw him I knew [collaborating] was meant to be,” says Palmer. The two immediately started working on songs, debuting as the Dresden Dolls soon after. With their striking steampunk image, piano/drums configuration, and Palmer’s dark, often humor-laced songs, the band became the Brechtian doyens of the Boston club scene and a touring dynamo, releasing 2003’s A Is for Accident and The Dresden Dolls (both 8ft.) before signing with major indie Roadrunner for 2006’s Yes,Virginia… and 2008’s No,Virginia…. Tangentially, Palmer began developing her solo career, in 2007 unveiling Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Roadrunner). The critically hailed disc generated controversy with the tracks “Oasis,” a semi autobiographical song about rape and
abortion, and “Leeds United,” whose midriff-baring video Palmer alleges label brass wanted to doctor because they felt she looked fat (the latter dispute caused fans to stage a “ReBellyOn” by posting pictures of their own bellies and supportive messages online).The last straw broke when Roadrunner told the Dolls their newest album had sold “only” 25,000 copies upon release and was being branded a “failure” by the label. In 2008 the duo, fried from constant touring, parted ways with Roadrunner and decided to take a break. “[The Dresden Dolls] still play shows every once in a while; there’s definitely no bad blood between us,” says Palmer, who reunited with Viglione for a 2010 world tour. “I don’t think we’ll ever totally stop playing together. We love each other too much.” Soon, another kind of love entered Palmer’s life. In 2009, while she was working with musician Jason Webley in the short-lived duo Evelyn Evelyn, Webley introduced her to one of his friends, the award-winning author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Stardust, Coraline). “We knew each other’s work and both had this sort of ‘cultyfamous’ background,” says Palmer. “And we share the same kind of sensibilities in what we do. We started hanging out, one thing led to another, and one day we woke up married.” The pair now live in the Hudson Valley—though not together. “Just because we’re married doesn’t mean we want to be roommates,” says the singer, who has collaborated with her husband on the books Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence and The Bed Book (2009 and 2014, respectively; both Eight Foot Books) and on the live album An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer (2013, 8ft. Records). “To us it feels normal. The way most other married couples live is weird.” Theatre Is Evil’s Kickstarter drive made international news, not just because of its stratospherically successful results, but also for what followed. While setting up a tour to support the album, Palmer invited fans who played string instruments to perform “in exchange for love and tickets and beer” with her band the Grand Theft Orchestra at points along the tour. Although Palmer maintains it was intended as a gesture of communal thanks to her devotees, the act generated a firestorm from certain quadrants of the Internet, its venomous detractors raging that Palmer, who’d just raised over $1 million online, was insulting and exploiting musicians in asking them to play for free. The backlash was a monumental misunderstanding, she says: “[The critics] couldn’t see the exchange that was happening between me and my crowd—an exchange that was very fair to us, but alien to them.” Eventually, however, she decided to silence the haters by paying the players anyway. Despite her busy musical career, Palmer has never abandoned the theater. In 2006 and 2007, in conjunction with the American Repertory Theater and with live accompaniment by the Dresden Dolls, she staged “The Onion Cellar,” a musical based on Gunter Grass’s novel The Tin Drum. She also reunited with Bogart to produce the play “With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart” (inspired by The Diary of Anne Frank and the Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea) and a hugely successful adaptation of the Broadway evergreen “Cabaret.” In 2012 she began a fertile relationship with Bard College, where Gaiman teaches, and developed Theatre Is Evil’s live show while in residency. This month at Bard she and Bogart will debut “The Bed Show,” an original musical starring Palmer, with new songs and a cast of 13 students. “Acting requires you to be in a vulnerable place,” says actor and grad student Harry Beer. “But with Amanda and Steve we’ve learned so much about supporting each other. There hasn’t been anything we’ve been afraid to try.” “As an artist Amanda is fearless,” echoes Gideon Lester, Bard’s director of theater programs. “She’s equally in love with the creative process and the actual results.” Such artistic courage and affinity for drama’s down-’n’-dirty development side have been imperative to “The Bed Show,” which began with only a loosely defined concept— Palmer and cast are enticingly evasive on what it is—the substance conjured almost entirely through cathartic rehearsals. What should audiences expect? “To be confused, awakened, and confronted with pain,” the creator says. “It’s a graphic piece, with heavy content. It’s not for children, unless you’re the kind of parent who wants to expose your kids to the elements.” Should we anticipate more taboo-trouncing button pushing from an artist known for occasional on stage nudity? Palmer squints her famously filigreed eyebrows. “I don’t like pushing people’s buttons,” she says. “I like making myself feel things, and making other people feel. That steps on buttons accidentally. But it’s usually not the intention.” Whatever surprises Palmer has in store, the odds are good they’ll have us talking long afterward. “The Bed Show” will run at the Bard College Fisher Center for the Arts in Annandale-onHudson on November 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 7pm and November 8 at 2pm. Fishercenter.bard.edu. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Group) is out now. On November 29, Palmer and Neil Gaiman will appear at area bookstores the Golden Notebook (Woodstock), Oblong Books (Rhinebeck), and the Spotty Dog Books & Ale (Hudson). 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BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND THE BASEMENT TAPES RAW: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOL. 11 LEGACY RECORDINGS $19.88
THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOL. 11 (DELUXE EDITION) LEGACY RECORDINGS $127.98
Since its beginnings as part of the first notable rock bootleg, released in 1969 and known simply as Great White Wonder, the legend of Bob Dylan’s recordings with his backing group formerly known as the Hawks in their rented pink house in West Saugerties has grown to become one of the most treasured tales in rock-n-roll folklore. One that continues to paint a sense of romanticism among rock fans in a way not unlike Laurel Canyon, where the likes of Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Byrds, and Frank Zappa lived and jammed. “It was a different vibe for them up there,” explains author Sid Griffin, formerly of the seminal Los Angeles alt-country outfit the Long Ryders, whose definitive book, Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes, (Jawbone Press) has been updated and revised for 2014. “They were relaxing. The guys were getting up at a reasonable hour and having breakfast, doing all these things they never got to do as The Hawks and being on the road all those years. The context of where your situation is means everything, and for them it was living rooms and basements, which informed their writing. And between that and the countryside, you have this beautiful music that is The Basement Tapes.” Now, after nearly 20 years of requests from fans and Dylanologists the world over, the entirety of these storied sessions chronicled during the time Dylan was on the mend from a near-fatal motorcycle accident have finally been made commercially available as the 11th volume of the singer’s acclaimed Bootleg Series collection. The deluxe edition of this set, at six discs and 139 tracks with extensive, insightful liner notes written by Griffin, is by far the most robust set put together for the series thus far, salvaging just about every usable recording from the tapes. Garth Hudson worked closely with Canadian music archivist and producer Jan Haust to restore the tapes to their finest quality yet. The holy grail of this collection, however, are the 30 tracks never before released commercially, on the black market or otherwise, including a first take on “Odds and Ends,” loose renditions of the Carter Family’s 60 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM 11/14
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and the blues standard “One Kind Favor,” and an alternate version of “I Shall Be Released” that arguably rivals the official cut in every way. Also among the recently unearthed and rescued reels is a handful of pre-Big Pink material recorded in the “Red Room” of Dylan’s home in Woodstock. To hear these sessions in their entirety like this really offers the listener a keen sense of the friendship and revelry that went down in and around the confines of the otherwise rural residential nature of the men’s surroundings. “An old-timer, a dealer/sculptor I knew growing up along the Katterskill Creek, told of an August day when all six of them went for a swim at Fawn’s Leap [a legendary swimming hole] to escape the heat of the basement and the trappings of West Saugerties,” recounts Simone Felice, whose work as both a solo artist and a member of the Felice Brothers has established him as one of the biggest breakouts from the Catskill region in recent memory. “I just like to think of them there in the dappled summer light, diving in cut-off jeans, laughing and getting high, young and relatively free—when it was about the music and the hushed sanctuary of the woods, back when they were all still friends.” English alt-rock stalwart Robyn Hitchcock, who released an album of Dylan covers in 2002 called Robyn Sings and has been playing a slew of songs from The Basement Tapes on the road in recent months, also attributes the dichotomy between the distinct styles of Dylan and The Band as separate entities uniting as one to the magic of the Tapes as well. “There’s this great warmth to The Band,” he explains. “And Dylan seems generally hard to please as a person. His songs are always complaining about something. He’s a bit of a kvetch, if you know the Yiddish term, but a brilliant one. But the stuff he did with The Band, it seems more content to just live. The music feels untreated, like food that’s not been filled with monosodium glutamate or highfructose corn syrup.” —Ron Hart
CD REVIEWS BURNELL PINES BURNELL PINES (2014, INDEPENDENT)
Sunlight plays catch-me-if-you-can beneath the thick canopy of evergreen boughs. It’s at least a little dark, even during the day, and the tang of wood smoke nestles in against the weather. There’s a small cabin, but it’s wired for sound. With its debut album, Burnell Pines, the latest incarnation of Jeremy Bernstein’s musical imagination, captures both the rustic glory of Americana and the still-beating heart of pop music, sometimes sticky sweet like pine sap, but with the same earthy overtones. The opening “Ode to a Young Man,” for example, evokes Ben Folds, while the follow-up, “Another Sky,” fairly screams Jeff Tweedy. Elsewhere, on, “Home,” the album’s virtual and spiritual core, there’s even a tense whisper of Blue Oyster Cult’s Buck Dharma, circa 1973. The bushy-bearded Bernstein has enlisted some heavy aid in building his Burnell Pines cabin. Long-time cohort Adam Widoff (who formed Stoney Clove Lane with Bernstein) is here, but so are Hudson Valley hotshots Byron Isaacs, Dean Jones, Sara Lee, the inimitable Ben Perowsky, and the Merenda family. Keyboardist David Baron produces and co-writes much of the material on the disc, offering a stately piano anchor. And Will Lytle’s pen-and-ink artwork captures the feeling of the record, extending to the spare, barely informative website, where more drawings are featured. A fine companion for late nights or long rides, Burnell Pines, as long as either finds you in the forest. Burnellpines.com. —Michael Eck
JEREMY BAUM THE EEL (2013, FLYING YAK RECORDS)
The title track of Woodstock-born keyboard wizard Jeremy Baum’s latest outing, The Eel, is a funky barnburner with a Hendrix-inspired guitar solo—courtesy of Myles Mancuso—that perfectly encapsulates everything that’s great about the album: For all of its eclecticism and genre hopping, The Eel remains rooted in greasy soul jazz. Baum’s career, which features stints from artists ranging from Levon Helm to Shemekia Copeland, is a testament to his comfort in a variety of musical settings. On The Eel, he tackles a strong set of originals and covers with a changing lineup of sidemen, including guitarists Mancuso, Chris Vitarello, and Scott Sharrard, drummers Eric Kalb and Chris Redden, and reedsman Jay Collins. It is an indication of Baum’s skill as a leader that the album coheres as well as it does, especially given the wide-ranging musical territory he covers. There is a gentle acoustic reading of Orleans’s soft-rock staple “Dance with Me” featuring the harmonica of Dennis Gruenling, while the original “Three More Bottles” features guest vocals from Chris O’Leary and some Allen Toussaint-esque piano from Baum, bringing to mind a different kind of Orleans. Covers of Beck’s “The New Pollution” and James Brown’s “Aint It Funky Now” allow Baum to let loose with his funky organ chops. Perhaps the most remarkable performance, however, is the gorgeous reading of Prince’s anthemic “Purple Rain,” on which Vitarello’s guitar soars. There is a great deal to enjoy on Baum’s latest. Don’t let it slip away. Jeremybaum.com —Alexander M. Stern
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LOS DOGGIES E’REBODY (2014, INDEPENDENT)
As you might surmise of a group that claims to have coalesced in the late ’90s “writing 60-second pop songs for their house band’s answering machine,” Los Doggies are cut from a slightly different cloth. The New Paltz trio of Jesse Stormo (guitar/vocals), Evan Stormo, (drums/vocals), and Matt Ross (bass) have unleashed their fourth album, (pronounced “air buddy’’) into the ether. And, like trying to bottle air, classifying this dozen-track package of concepts and sounds might be a fool’s errand.This is metamusic to the max; many songs have lyrics and instrumentation that explain/deconstruct their own structure. “Black Unstemmed Note Heads” is a fine example, blasting out of the gate with the outrageously catchy couplet, “A six-string guitar’s got a high E / a five-string bass’s got a low B / a grand piano’s got 88 keys / and this song’s got three-part harmony” backed by music that explains the lyrics and vice versa. No detached artist’s point of view: Los Doggies are living these songs in the here and now. Each number is packed with a sonic density that could explode into two dozen other songs and played with childlike enthusiasm and expert technical dexterity. A charming example is “Farted On,” a meditation on the singsong musicality of playground games and taunts. This sophomoric suite veers from staccato rock to loose-limbed funk to electronic bleeps and guitar histrionics worthy of Steve Vai. Counting down from “10 Mississippi” in a game of freeze tag never sounded so righteous. Losdoggies.com. —Jeremy Schwartz CHRONOGRAM.COM LISTEN to tracks by the bands reviewed in this issue.
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NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS Handpicked by music editor Peter Aaron for your listening pleasure.
SUZANNE VEGA November 8. In 1987, Suzanne Vega’s “Luka,” the gargantuan smash from her second album, Solitude Standing, was pretty much inescapable—unexpected, for a song that’s basically a commentary on child abuse. Not exactly feel-good fodder for a platinum single, despite the chipper, chirpy sound of the music. Perhaps this is something to ponder, her unlikely rise to fame via a track shedding light on a serious, shadowy topic released in the soma-soaked era of Ronald Reagan and Phil Collins. And ponder it you can, when Vega makes this unusual small-club appearance at the Towne Crier. (Steve Forbert holds forth November 1; Melissa Ferrick visits November 9.) $50, $55. 8:30pm. Beacon. (845) 855-1300; Townecrier.com.
JONATHAN RICHMAN November 14. Note to the United States Postal Service: Thanks for the great stamps of Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, et al, but when the time comes—and we certainly hope it won’t be anytime soon—you need to do one of Jonathan Richman. The Boston area-bred singer-songwriter, who here performs at the Rosendale Theatre, is legendary as one of America’s most idiosyncratic and influential artists. Since his years fronting proto-punk greats the Modern Lovers (“Roadrunner,” “Pablo Picasso”) in the early ’70s, Richman has worked in a more subdued, acousticbased mode and continues to make audiences swoon with his confessional tunes and unironically earnest persona. (Some may also recognize him from the 1988 comedy There’s Something About Mary.) Frank Bango opens. (National Theatre Live presents “A Streetcar Named Desire” November 23.) $15. 9pm. Rosendale. (845) 658-8989. Rosendaletheatre.org.
SHUFFLE November 16. I thought to myself,” says SHUFFLE leader Eliran Avni, who came up with the concept for his unique classical ensemble one day when his mp3 player flipped between the Pretenders and Prokofiev, “‘How incredible it would be to perform a concert…where the entire program would be based on these extreme stylistic juxtapositions.’” Thus, when the Rhinebeck Chamber Society presents the unit of piano, oboe, violin, soprano voice, clarinet, and cello this month at the Church of the Messiah, it will be the audience members, and not the performers, who will program the set from a song list that includes everything from “Stravinsky to ska.” $35 ($5 students under 23; children under 13 are free). 3pm. Rhinebeck. (845) 876-2870; Rhinebeckmusic.org.
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ACE FREHLEY November 14. If you’re an American male who came of age in the 1970s, odds are Kiss was your band during those crucial preteen years. Which isn’t to say the appeal of those four original makeup-festooned, platform-booted arena gods doesn’t extend to other genders, locales, and age brackets, as the multiplatinum, millions-grossing group’s ticket and record sales so loudly attest. And any Kiss Army member worth their dues knows guitarist Ace Frehley was the quartet’s coolest member and that the band never recovered artistically after he left in 1982. Indeed, when the famed foursome simultaneously released four solo albums in 1978, it was Frehley’s that was the best by far, even scoring a Top 20 single with “New York Groove.” It’s a cinch the Starchild will reprise that glammy stomper as well as faves by Kiss and his later outfit Frehley’s Comet when he rocks the Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center this month. Anyone up for a little “Cold Gin”? (Foreigner’s Lou Gramm heats up November 8; ABBA MANIA brings the hits November 15.) $57, $47, $37. 8pm. Sugar Loaf. (845) 610-5100; Sugarloafpac.org.
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November 28. Washington-based singer-songwriter Zoe Muth has been lovingly dubbed “Seattle’s Emmylou,” and it’s not hard to hear why. Her 2009 debut, Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers, and her haunting 2011 sophomore disc, Starlight Hotel, ended up in alt.-Americana bible No Depression’s “Top 50 Albums” list, and her newest, World of Strangers, was called “one of the year’s best country albums, even as it steps outside the genre” by The Fader. Muth makes this date at the Rosendale Cafe, and it’s certainly a great pairing of artist and venue: The vegetarian bistro is equally known for booking top roots artists and for having audiences that actually listen. (The Bluegrass Gospel Project testifies November 14; Jim Kweskin and Happy Traum duet November 22.) $15. 8pm. Rosendale. (845) 658-9048; Rosendalecafe.com.
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Books
CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS Sari Botton’s Literary Juggling Act By Nina Shengold Photograph by Roy Gumpel
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need a chocolate pistachio cookie,” Sari Botton says, gazing into the bakery case of Kingston’s outdated: an antique cafe. In the acknowledgments of her justpublished anthology Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York (Simon & Schuster, 2014), Botton thanks outdated for keeping her “in gluten-free treats and rocket fuel-grade coffee as I hung out and worked for hours on end.” (The adoration is mutual: The café displays a poster-size bookjacket and flyer for her October book launch.) Botton has a jaunty, unmistakable style, her intense gaze brightened by pale cat’s-eye glasses and two-tone hair. As she discusses her many careers—awardwinning anthology editor, journalist, Rumpus columnist, bestselling ghostwriter, TMI workshop leader, gallery curator, ukulele band singer—the reason for all that caffeine becomes clear: This woman is busy. “I’ve always been a juggler,” Botton says. But today, she’s relaxed and aglow from a five-day retreat at the Omega Institute’s Women’s Leadership Center, which she calls “restorative and productive in equal measures.” She’s also thrilled that Never Can Say Goodbye is gaining the same must-read buzz as its predecessor, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork (Seal Press, 2013). Named after Joan Didion’s iconic 1967 essay, the Indiefab and Village Voice award-winning anthology features Ann Hood, Dani Shapiro, Emma Straub, and 25 other women. Never Can Say Goodbye adds men to the mix and includes such A-list names as Rosanne Cash, Alexander Chee, Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Lopate, and Susan Orlean. It’s been a wild ride for Botton, who conceived of Goodbye to All That eight years ago. “Everyone said, ‘It’s a great idea, but you shouldn’t do it—you’re not well-connected enough,” she says. But she was convinced her idea would fly. “So I polled writers I knew: ‘If I were able to set this up, would you write a piece?’” When Seal Press snapped up a three-page proposal with an informal list of potential contributors, Botton recontacted everyone who’d made a verbal commitment. Among them was her fellow Rumpus columnist Cheryl Strayed (aka “Dear Sugar”), who’d agreed to participate long before Wild went global. “I said, ‘Okay, if I get this deal, would you still do it, even though Oprah just restarted her book club for you?’ And Cheryl said yes.” Botton’s voice fills with emotion. “It was one of the most generous gifts I have ever received in my life.” Goodbye to All That launched in October 2013, in a flurry of glowing reviews and multiauthor events. Within three months, Botton had a contract for a follow-up, ASAP. “In January I have shingles and the flu and I’m in bed, and I get a deal with an April first deadline,” she says. “I had to get the writers, negotiate contracts, edit their pieces, write my own piece, write the intro. My to-do list was a spreadsheet.” Still, she was glad to continue the dialogue. Goodbye to All That had ardent fans, but some found the viewpoints too similar. Though Seal Press had wanted an allfemale list, Botton ensured that Never Can Say Goodbye included writers of different genders, ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds. “New York is the most diverse city in the world,” she says. “I wanted to mix it up with a more diverse chorus of voices.” She also wanted to correct anyone who mistook Goodbye to All That for a parting sneer in the rearview mirror. Let there be no mistake: Sari Botton is “crazy in love” with New York. And the fact that she’s lived in the Hudson Valley for nearly a decade does nothing to dim the torch. Botton grew up in various Long Island suburbs, 45 minutes and a world away from Manhattan. “All the houses in my town looked alike,” she recalls. “All the kids had the same sneakers, the same lunchbox.” She remembers her first trip to New York with her grandmother, before she turned six. They visited her “garmento” grandfather’s Seventh Avenue office, and went shopping at Gimbels. Right from the outset, the city felt magical. She wanted in. As a teen, she’d sneak into the city, with friends or alone, trying to pass for a local. “I looked to the East Village as my very own dork rehabilitation program,” she writes in her essay “New York Cool.” Botton went to SUNY Albany to study theater, but after she won a competitive internship at Newsday, “suddenly I was a journalist.” She also interned at I Love NY, where her mentor nicknamed her “City Mouse” because she was always trying to get to Manhattan. After college she worked at Women’s Wear Daily, but chafed at the daily routine. “I have a freelance soul,” Botton says. “I don’t like office politics, I don’t like fluorescent lighting, I don’t always function at the same hours of the day.” So she multitasked as a ghostwriter, ad copywriter, and freelancer for the VillageVoice, New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and others. In 2007, a NewYork Times “Modern Love” column vaulted her into the spotlight. The subject? How she met her husband, Brian Macaluso, by refusing to play
by The Rules. Ignoring the ubiquitous (and wincingly sexist) dating guide, Botton forged a lasting connection with someone she clearly adores. They left Manhattan together, buying a house in Rosendale and recently moving to uptown Kingston. It’s hard to imagine two lives that cross-pollinate more, or in more different genres. Botton runs the Anvil Gallery at Macaluso’s IT business TechSmiths. Their ukulele duo Loveypie recently played at the Rosendale Street Festival. And Macaluso wrote a hilarious essay called “The Shvitz at the End of the World” for Never Can Say Goodbye, after honing his skills at the TMI Project, the acclaimed storytelling nonprofit led by Eva Tenuto, Julie Novak, and Botton. After directing Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” for three local fundraisers, Tenuto invited actresses to write and perform autobiographical monologues at the Rosendale Theatre. “Too Much Information” was an immediate smash, and attendees clamored to tell their own stories. Tenuto’s partner Novak proposed bringing Botton on board as a writing coach and editor. It was a perfect fit; Botton calls it “a mind-meld.” The TMI Project took off like a rocket, offering storytelling workshops for all-female and mixed groups, then adding outreach programs for domestic abuse victims, cancer patients, incarcerated women, at-risk teens, people with mental health issues. They’ve held “TMIdol” story slam contests (see listing below) and developed “What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting,” a touring show on reproductive rights to benefit Planned Parenthood. “It’s grown exponentially in less than four years,” Botton says. TMI’s breakout success both enriches and complicates her freelance juggling act. “We get a lot of vicarious trauma working with people who have been so traumatized, sometimes 30 of them at a time. I’m really proud of the work we do. It’s very gratifying, but it’s also very, very taxing.” She’s also frank about freelance economics in the digital age. “I’m having to work two or three times as hard to make half as much money,” she says bluntly. “I plant seeds for a lot of things and hope they come up, and sometimes they all come up at once.” What would she do if she had no other commitments? Botton’s answer is unhesitating: “My own book.” She’s currently writing “a memoir in essays and/or fiction stories,” which took on new urgency when she learned that writer and spoken word legend Maggie Estep had died of a heart attack, three days after reading at a Goodbye to All That event at Oblong Books & Music. Botton’s voice wavers. “I didn’t know that was even on the menu,” she says. “She was 50. I’m turning 49 next week. Both my grandmothers died in their early fifties. And Maggie was this person I’d idolized for so many years. It just blew my mind. It’s still blowing my mind.” (She dedicated Never Can Say Goodbye to Estep.) Botton takes a deep breath. “I’ve been putting off writing my own book—not 27 writers and me, not hiding as a ghost writer, but getting over my fear of putting myself out there and worrying about what other people will think. It’s time to get over this shit and do it. This is it, girl. Put up or shut up.” She also wants to edit a new anthology about reproductive rights (Botton collaborated with Kim Wyatt on last year’s Get Out of My Crotch!) and a book based on her Rumpus column “Interviews with Writers Braver Than Me.” Will there be a third New York anthology? Botton hesitates. “I don’t know if I’m done,” she admits. She’s quick to add that she “really loves” living upstate, and “the feeling of being part of a smaller, more tightly knit community.” But she still longs to attain NewYork cool—to be “permanently, irreversibly cemented to the place”—no matter where she gets her mail. “It’s similar to upstaters’ perception that even if you’ve lived here for 20 years, you’re not really a local. How do you accumulate enough cred to be considered a New Yorker, an upstater, a Rosendalian?” The question may be rhetorical, but Botton recently found a surprising deep root. She knew her maternal grandmother had been born “on a farm upstate,” but had no specifics. “I was going through a box of old photos, and some had ‘Kingston’ on the back, watermarks from a photography studio on Wall Street. I have family buried in the Kingston Jewish Cemetery.” Sari Botton grins. “So I’m a fucking local. I got cred.” Spoken like a New Yorker. Sari Botton will appear 11/6 at 6pm at Word Café, at outdated: an antique café, 314 Wall Street, Kingston; admission $15. For more information,Wordcafe.us. On 12/9 at 7pm in December, she will chost TMIdol Story Slam “NewYork in the Rearview Mirror” at BSP, 323 Wall Street, Kingston; admission free. For more information:Tmiproject.org. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM BOOKS 65
SHORT TAKES Give thanks and rejoice! A seasonal bounty of Hudson Valley books about food.
ORGANIC: FARMERS & CHEFS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANCESCO MASTALIA, INTRODUCTION BY GAIL BUCKLAND, FOREWORD BY MARK RUFFALO, PREFACE BY JOAN DYE GUSSOW POWERHOUSE BOOKS, 2014, $49.95
Mastalia’s luminous photographs cross-pollinate with eloquent words in this stirring and beautiful book. Ambrotypes produced with 19thcentury technology, they give work-worn faces the textured patina of Civil War portraits. Aesthetics and subject meld perfectly as 21st-century women and men reembrace the beauty of old ways. Buckland writes, “Sunlight and patience with a dash of love. What is true for the farmer is true for the photographer.” Book launch 11/9 at 4pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
SIMPLE RECIPES FOR JOY: MORE THAN 200 DELCIOUS VEGAN RECIPES SHARON GANNON, FOREWORD BY KRIS CARR AVERY, 2014, $40
From its mad tea party cover, vibrant purple and orange graphics, and recipes for seven Chakra Smoothies featured at Gannon’s Jivamuktea Café, it’s abundantly clear that this cookbook embraces life. “There is no more direct and powerful way to make a positive impact than being vegan,” Gannon writes; her unfussy, delectable recipes will bless your Thanksgiving table with compassion. Appearing 11/8 at 2pm, Mirabai, Woodstock; 12/5 at Golden Notebook, Woodstock.
GARLIC, AN EDIBLE BIOGRAPHY ROBIN CHERRY ROOST BOOKS, 2014, $16.96
“Other foods may have fans; garlic has lovers,” writes Red Hook food and travel writer Cherry, whose ardent pursuit of “the Lord Byron of produce” has taken her from Central Asia to Saugerties. Studded with lively historical anecdotes, vampire lore, planting tips, and 75 internationally reeking recipes, this is a fitting tribute to “the world’s most pungent food.” Appearing 11/16, 11am-1pm, Rhinebeck Farmers Market.
SPICES & SEASONS: SIMPLE, SUSTAINABLE INDIAN FLAVORS RINKU BHATTACHARYA, FOREWORD BY SUVIR SARAN HIPPOCRENE BOOKS, 2014, $35
“Cooking in Westchester” blogger and journalist Bhattacharya and her husband maintain a backyard garden that, supplemented by farmers’ market bounty and well-chosen spices and herbs, keeps their family “eating the rainbow” all year. Her straightforward, flexible approach to Indian cooking is “about flavors, freshness, and love.” Too much eggplant in your CSA share? Beets going wild? Try a smoky Baigan Bhartha or Cardamom-Scented Beet Halwa. Your palate will thank you.
FRESH COOKING: A YEAR OF RECIPES FROM THE GARRISON INSTITUTE KITCHEN SHELLEY BORIS, FOREWORD BY ROZANNE GOLD, PHOTOGRAPHS BY CAROLINE KASTERINE MONKFISH BOOKS, 2014, $29.99
Housed in a former Capuchin friary, the Garrison Center is a retreat center for “scientists, rinpoches, Zen archers, teachers, doctors, students, and the general public.” All are well-fed by Shelley Boris, who left foodie Manhattan behind to make bountiful, vegetarianfriendly locavore meals in Garrison’s kitchen. Here are a year’s worth of seasonal menus to try in your own, from Onion Soup with Sprout Creek Cheese and Sour Rye Toast to Flourless Chocolate Cake.
POISONED APPLES: POEMS FOR YOU, MY PRETTY CHRISTINE HEPPERMANN GREENWILLOW, 2014, $17.99
There’s one in every bunch. Food has its dark side, and Heppermann’s razor-sharp, sometimes wickedly funny poems speak to young women who writhe in the grip of the beauty myth. Intermingling Grimm’s fairytales with the Abercrombie dressing room, she conjures “a girl who longed to be brave / enough to stick her finger down her throat, / to measure herself by the teaspoon, / to shrink to the size of a serving.” Appearing 11/16 at 4pm, Hudson Valley YA Society at Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck.
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Marilyn Johnson Harper, 2014, $25.99
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rchaeologists are obsessive, stubborn, frequently unkempt, opinionated, and usually poor. Nevertheless, Marilyn Johnson will make you want to be one, or maybe marry one. Her enormously entertaining Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble gets up close and personal with those who spend weeks, months, even years, in graves, ancient garbage, infested jungles, brutal deserts, capricious seas, and other inhospitable situations, all in the name of connecting the dots of human history (much further apart than you think, those dots). Such situations sound harsh (they are) and one might think our intrepid explorers crazy (they kind of are), but Johnson’s style, both witty and informative, renders her subjects charming, and their exploits fascinating. Even when she delivers the bad news that Indiana Jones-style glory is a fantasy, and a living wage unlikely, you’ll still want to sign up for a dig. She did. The Westchester author previously immersed herself in the travails of obituary writers (The Dead Beat) and librarians (This Book Is Overdue!), revealing both professions as compelling indeed. Similarly, with Lives in Ruins, she is game for anything, contagiously enthused, and adept at playing up the cool aspects of a job. She doesn’t just sit down with archaeologists, nor does she “tag along” on digs. Johnson trains, studies, gets filthy and sore, helps butcher a lamb with handmade stone tools (to better understand primitive man), and cozies up to the people who can’t rest with the knowledge that something is there. In the field, we meet mercurial SUNY Stony Brook professor John Shea, teaching students to track animals, craft tools, and dress a carcass (after schooling Johnson at butchery, he says, “Now you’re a human being”); hunky Grant Gilmore, deducing volumes of data from Caribbean pottery shards; octogenarian Sarah Milledge Nelson, multilinguist pioneer of digs in Korea; Mike and Rose Fosha, fighting to preserve the last remnants of Chinese immigrant culture in Deadwood, South Dakota; sexagenarian marine archaeologist and former cleaning lady Kathy Abbass, determined to find Captain James Cook’s 18th-century ship Endeavour in the waters off Rhode Island; charismatic Joan Breton Connelly, excavating what she believes is a temple to Cleopatra in Greece; contractor Bill Sandy, discoverer of Revolutionary War graves on the proposed site of a strip mall in Fishkill; brave forensic specialist Erin Coward, sifting the blighted dirt in the remains of the World Trade Center. The memorable personalities and exotic locales are great fun (except, of course, the WTC), but Johnson doesn’t shy away from the tough stuff, although she wisely waits until midway through the book to do so. Aside from the aforementioned lifestyle issues and real danger (mostly from bugs), archaeologists are in a constant race with a wily nemesis: the looter. The multi-billion-dollar antiquities black market thrives on looters, and those who would pay astronomical sums to illegally display a priceless piece in their home rather than allow it to be studied. Boo. Hiss. But mostly, Lives in Ruins pulses with people who love, love, love what they do, and will forsake security and comfort to do it. “It’s not romantic love, bathed in hopeful illusions,” Johnson writes of her archaeologists, “but something fiercer, that costs dearly.” Indeed, but the cost they accept, the years of their lives spent searching, offers the chance to shine light on buried pages of the human story, and we need all the light we can get. Appearing 11/9 at 2pm, White Plains Public Library; 11/15 at 4pm, Village Bookstore, Pleasantville; 1/12/15 at 4pm, Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. —Robert Burke Warren
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The Mysterious Press, 2014, $24
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he Forgers, a beguiling new crime novel by Bard Center Fellow Bradford Morrow, ushers readers into a world of rare holographic manuscripts where obsessed bibliophiles seemingly stop at nothing for a fix. The book opens with a murder, the victim’s hands excised and notably missing—as if they had “become a pair of wings, and flown away across the gray Atlantic.” Although Morrow’s narrator, a one-time convicted forger with a specialty in “Conan Doyle and Sherlockiana,” is not above suspicion in the unsolved case, the whimsy in his tone combined with an unpretentious air of connoisseurship have the effect of exculpating him somewhat. The question of his involvement in the brutal deed is nevertheless disquieting, and it presses on the reader with a Moriarty-like persistence. In the acknowledgments, Morrow tells of his experience in the antiquarian book trade and attests to the high-mindedness of book dealers he has known. The disclaimer strikes us as necessary. In the age of social media, the solitary hours spent by bookish types might well be perceived as corrupting or alienating, even by those who are themselves addicted to the printed word. One is reminded of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s 1993 biblio-detective classic El Club Dumas, which takes measure of the reduced social relevance of literature, and makes the tradition’s remnants into a bastion for deadly occultists. Not inspired by demons, or even money, Morrow’s forger is an oddity among criminals. Beneath his educated ease, he struggles with the temptation to duplicate the cursive quirks of great writers. He got hooked young, “when I lowered my nib to the virgin paper was the most erotic feeling I could possibly imagine.” Now a father-to-be with an itch, he is pressured both from inside and out to resume the game: “The sirens might be singing to layer in another fine cliché, but I knew their song by heart and kept their invitation at bay.” His literate quips, often limp as a Nereid’s tendrils, give indication of his hand-tied state. It dawns on us that what most people find valuable in books is not really so important to him, even though he has the ability to tell by a turn of phrase if a note attributed to Henry James is authentic or not. When he receives a spuriously autographed volume of Yeats, a disturbing gift from a less talented forger, one meant to shake him up, he does not recognize the very famous “dancer from the dance” verse used in the bogus inscription. Though unsettling, the gap in knowledge is understandable, not criminal. His is a visual enterprise, what matters are “the nuances of calligraphic art, a refined sense of historical materials, the science of empathy.” For this charecter, the difference between William Faulkner and Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs boils down to the fact that Faulkner is easier to copy. There is a gleam in this storyteller’s voice—less than victorious, but a shade above mere contentment—as he imparts the lessons of his art. We are told the British Parliament debated making forgery a capital crime in the 19th century, and are encouraged to weigh the case ourselves. His muffled regrets, the shame that would have fallen on his book-loving parents were they alive, the strained acceptance of his tarnished integrity—the psyche of a con artist is terrain in which Morrow excels. —Marx Dorrity
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POETRY
Edited by Phillip X Levine. Deadline for our December issue is November 5. Send up to three poems or three pages (whichever comes first). Full submission guidelines: www.chronogram.com/submissions.
First Snow The sky has painted white on white and colored in all the colors —p
The sky has a very high ceiling. —Piper Jaden Levine (4 years)
AND THAT IS THAT Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. —John Lennon Somewhere near the end of August, or in September, one leaf falls, to show that autumn’s soon to come and winter’s waiting in the wings. We went to high school as honor students, it’s hard to believe; sat through the same classes, same tests, and same homework, then graduated and that was that.
DECONSTRUCTION
OH MY AMERICA
We understood how the hours gnaw (relentlessly) Like hosts of ravening, unstoppable termites. But never, never could we believe, (as it is now) That this, we, would collapse, In a heap of broken timbers and dust.
Mama Duke…Mama Dukes…I’ve been shot through my heart. Oh, my God…oh, my baby…what’s happened to you? I don’t know, Mama…I’ve been shot…is that my blood…am I bleeding? Why, in God’s mercy…oh, my only son…why? I don’t know mama…don’t be mad…I was just buying candy. Oh, my baby…what has happened…? Yes, you are bleeding. Mama… I was buying candy…don’t be mad…I was only buying... Oh, my baby…oh, my son…oh, my God...this can’t be true… Oh My America.
—Stephen J. Kudless
—William Teets
And now he’s gone, at 56, from cancer says the obit. John is gone; just like that, and we’re still standing, spread out across the country, living lives, some full, some not, but living none-the-less, and John is not.
GREAT GOD HERB
And that is that. —William J. Joel
But he never gains weight (one of his manifold mysteries) though some blaspheme as obese
AND I WAS JUST A BOY
Encountering his uncovered belly. Further, they might profane him as lit or somewhat tipsy
Have you prayed? —Li-Young Lee The first dead person I ever saw wore a handkerchief over his face because he could not afford a coffin as he was carried across the cobblestones by four Greek men, when I was just a boy. And I was just a boy when I experienced my first big lie, the one about tolerance toward others who were darker and different than us, watching my mother chase away an Indian kid with a hose. The very last time I saw my father almost set himself on fire in drunkenness, revving the engine, tires stuck in the mud, I didn’t run as I should have, but steeled myself like a man, though I was just a boy. I answered the question, have you prayed, every Sunday as an altar boy after I found weekly faith is not always dreamlike, or if it is, often too thick to see through, especially by boys. When I realized I would feel young even though I was decades to the wind, and prayer wouldn’t make a tiny difference, I learned to tuck in my wings, land and roll, always a boy in a man’s shell, saved. —Perry Nicholas 68 POETRY CHRONOGRAM 11/14
The true God is named Herb; he lives on the topmost floor, and drinks and eats as he pleases
But unbelievers lie! Each time I visit, he awakes from trances, traversing every land… Sometimes talking in tongues as proof of his spirit travels but not in boastful display! Dearest Buddha and Jesus could learn such humility from most beloved Herb For when he speaks, it’s true because he is Herb, the one, without peer, omniscient
SIBYL Love me like you would love your enemy, Tear every fiber and sinew from my bones Till nothing remains but broken ribs, tame Tibia, and empty skull. Aren’t you alone? Look into my eyes and spit, I want our Liquids mixed. Please blind me if you can. When I wake up I’d like not to see. Devour My best parts in the worst way. Then, Take all the rest; Finger nails, pinky toes— I’ve got two. Don’t turn away; you’ve already Begun to unbutton my dress. Don’t slow Down. I’m sorry I brought it up. Everybody Says I toss and turn in my sleep, but I’m Sure you can cure me. Just one night, don’t Leave. Leaving me here would be a crime. I said I’d never beg again, but my bones Ache so. He says I toss and turn—Please, don’t go—Provide me silence, I’m pleading.
Herb, Father of all, to descend one day to deliver every soul from sin, Amen.
—Julia Ponder
—Lyon Kennedy
THIS LIFE WILL SAND YOU
LIFE WITH YOU A day of light, today I cleaned the room, sat around and smoked, had time to be small and grateful for this life with you. —Daniel Brian Jones
i sat there with a collection of rocks and shells, victims of the ocean, the magic in being worn down —Katya Bitar
SEDIMENT Poems co-created using Google autocomplete. Prompts in italics. I want to dig for gold. I want to dig up a grave. I want to dig my way to hell. I want to dig dig dig. I want to dig in my yard. I want to jump your bones. I want to jump out of my skin. I want to jump off a building. I want to jump higher. I want to drink your blood. I want to drink that shot of whiskey. I want to drink myself to death. I want to drink from the clearest clear water. I want to drink so bad. I want to kill my dad. I want to kill my sister. I want to kill my dog. I want to kill my mother. i want to find love i want to find my father i want to find my iPhone i want to find god. I want to try weed. I want to try coke. I want to try acid. I want to try something new. I’d like to teach the world to sing. I’d like to buy the world a coke. I’d like to get to know you. I’d like to check you for ticks. I have a very particular set of skills. I have a very bad feeling about all this. I have a very dry cough. I have a very high libido. I need to lose weight. I need to get laid. I need to know now. What should I do when I’m bored What should I do when I’m high What should I do when my throat hurts What should I do when I grow up Is there a good way to break up? Is there a good way to make money online? Is there a good way to reheat french fries? Is there a good way to pop pimples? Is there a good way to die? Is it possible to fly? Is it possible to have red eyes? Is it possible to be allergic to water?
Is it possible to have black hair? Is it possible to lose a pound a day? When will the winter end? When will the world end? When will my life begin? When will I get my refund? How can I dig a hole in frozen ground? How can I dig a well? How can I dig for gold? —Matthew Gioia
WHAT’S ALL THE S--- ABOUT GLORIOUS FREAKIN’ AUTUMN? Why all the waxing beatific over colored leaves? And pulling out gnarly sweaters from ten years ago in hopes they’ll resemble the current fluffy flock of boiled wool smelly pullovers? All the petunias shriveling, teetering pathetically on scrawny browned stems like old men on tanned limbs, embarrassed alongside predictable mums wearing couture colored faces Everyone sauntering with thick socks showing bragging about cool nights and good sleeping or the smell of wood stove’s hickory stink (as though ham were in vogue) Summer’s vegetables sprawl exhausted like swollen nine month women everyone giving or receiving or cooking or baking or refusing or throwing away…zucchini. exchanging recipes and “putting up” Paranoid squirrels careen from tree to shaking tree miserly gathering acorns pitching excess on our heads Everyone is looking brown and orange And the mandatory talk about winter’s coming and snow and ice old accidents new trepidations Winters that were, childhoods that weren’t mitten clips, chapped lips cold feet looking for warm feet pumpkin pies, garlic jam raking leaves, runny noses What’s all the s--- about glorious freaking autumn?
FOUND IN LA TIMES An unknown broke into Fresno Foster Farms killed and mutilated 920 chickens with nothing but a golf club It wasn’t much of a contest Him and those chickens bound for slaughter “Must have been pretty sick” deputy sheriff Curtice pointed out “It would take a long time to do it” Fresno Foster Farms released a statement “the chickens were going to be killed anyway” But they do stuff like that humanely of course as if killing 920 chickens at once was a barn door closing itself on a windy night —Jesse James Dillon Rubin
DOWN WITH THE OLD FOLK’S HOME They call us senior citizens, old folks who are over the hill, but age is not a number; it’s a matter of the will. And we Will to play full sets of tennis, to swim a few miles if we please. No stereotyping sobriquet will bring us to our knees. No rocking chairs for us yet; we’ll rock the house instead. We can still dance the night away, cause rock’n’roll ain’t dead. We have tai chi and photo classes activities every day and all we need is a bathroom nearby. And our daily quart of Bengay. —Glenn Northern
REPUGNANCE A fortnight ago I was contemplating the black fruit fly in apartment 4, imagining him shattering into tiny, wicked shards. -Jessica Jones
—Fern Suess
11/14 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 69
Food & Drink
How to Eat a Dumpling Authentic Manchurian Jiaozi in Wappingers Falls By Nicole Hitner Photographs by Thomas Smith Pork dumplings with spicy sauce at Palace Dumpling in Wappingers Falls.
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ach adventurous restaurant-goer has her own version of the Authenticity Test. Some of us like to scroll through reviews on social media sites before dining out, others hunt online for proof of the chef’s pedigree. Put to these types of tests, Palace Dumpling certainly looks attractive.Three and a half years out of the gate, this humble dumpling house in Wappingers Falls has four and a half stars on Yelp, a veteran dumpling chef hailing from northern China’s Dongbei region, and loyal patrons who know a thing or two about Chinese delicacies. Nevertheless, hopeful diners might have second thoughts about the restaurant’s location (in a strip mall, next to a pizzeria and a bowling alley) or its sparsely decorated dining room. But if authentic food is what you’re after, neither Internet acclaim, nor location, nor even a chef’s ethnic background will tell you what you want to know about a restaurant’s quality. Suruchi Indian Restaurant in New Paltz, for example, has been delighting both local and Indian diners for nearly a decade. Chef Peter Fagiola may be an Italian from Long Island, but he makes a damn fine curry, made to order, using locally sourced ingredients, and people keep coming back for more. (Go figure.) In the end, good food is about only one thing: good cooking. And when it comes to dumplings, cooking is something Palace Dumpling chef Jenny (Yanmei) Hu does exceptionally well. Hu, a sturdy middle-aged woman with a radiant smile, has been making dumplings since she was five. Growing up in northern China’s Heilongjiang Province, she began by helping roll out the dough in her mother’s kitchen and graduated to kneading as she got older. By the time Hu met her husband, Joe Conetta, a recently retired environmental pathologist, she had been running her own fish dumpling establishment for over seven years. After marrying Conetta, Hu emigrated to the States, and it wasn’t long before they decided to open a dumpling house in the Hudson Valley. Conetta, an endearing man with a penchant for storytelling, runs the front of the house; Hu manages the kitchen. Together, they devote the restaurant to time-honored traditions and recipes that have been in the Hu family for nearly a century.
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Cooking with Care It’s a Tuesday afternoon in early autumn, and the Palace Dumpling kitchen is preparing for dinner service. One prep chef puts on a pot of rice before returning to the dough table, where little nibs of freshly kneaded dumpling casing stay moist under a protective cloth. I watch as she flattens one of the sections with the palm of her hand and then switches to a miniature rolling pin, passing it over the dough until it has become perfectly round and wafer thin. Each and every piece gets this individualized treatment before it is stuffed, sealed, and either steamed or sautéed.You would think, what with the restaurant’s routinely busy weekends, the kitchen would have quit making each dumpling to order, but this is evidently the only way to ensure consistently high quality. If Hu were to roll the dough out into one big sheet and use a ring form to punch out the casings cookie-cutter-style, some would be too thick and result in a doughy or undercooked dumpling, while others would be too thin and cause the dumpling to fall apart. On the opposite counter, another prep chef is busy flattening small chunks of shrimp with the broad side of a butcher’s knife. This, too, appears to be a painstakingly slow process. When I ask Conetta why the prep chef doesn’t just put the shrimp in a food processor, he shakes his head in protest. “No, no. By hand is better; you get a better texture. A food processor would make it too bland, too much like putty.” Meanwhile, Hu herself prepares fried rice for a customer, adding shrimp and thin slices of Chinese pork sausage to the wok. Unlike the fried rice so often found at take-out joints, this rice is still white when it leaves the service window. No food coloring, and no other shenanigans either. Between Hu’s culinary standards and Conetta’s past as an environmental pathologist, the kitchen works with only fresh ingredients sourced from traditional and Asian markets in the region. Hu says it’s expensive, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.
A freshly pressed dumpling before it’s sent to the steamer.
Humble Fare, Bold Flavor Palace Dumpling offers over 30 varieties of dumplings alongside a host of soups, salads, noodle dishes, and tea. For between $8 and $13, you get a plate of 12 dumplings, enough to fill you up on your lunch break or accompany with a salad for dinner. In contrast to the doughier baozi dumplings of Cantonese dim sum fame, Palace’s Manchurian jiaozi consist of thin, nearly translucent wheat casings filled with moist, explosively flavorful vegetable and meat medleys. Done right, the filling will release a savory broth during the cooking process and lend the dumpling an extra burst of flavor. Conetta advises diners to resist the urge to cut into a dumpling— what he calls “doing a biopsy.” “If you cut into it, the broth goes all over, so the way to do it is to eat the dumpling whole.” Among the most popular dumplings is the shrimp with pork, which is similar in flavor to the Cantonese shrimp shumai. Unlike shumai, however, these dumplings have bite; you’ll encounter whole chunks of shrimp in every mouthful. The menu also features dumplings pairing lamb with vegetables like squash, mushrooms, or watercress. While lamb is uncommon in southern Chinese cuisine, it appears frequently in recipes from the north. Also of note are Hu’s salmon with chive dumplings. Remember, fish is her specialty, and these dumplings are a testament to her skill. Vegetarians will relish the eight-ingredient vegetable dumplings, which dance on the palate with earthy notes and swells of ginger. Recently added to the menu, the egg, mushroom, and sweet pepper dumplings are worth having pan-fried for an extra dollar, as the sear pairs well with the dish’s pronounced shitake flavor. The dumplings are delicious on their own but may also be paired with one or more of the complementary homemade sauces. The simply named Dumpling Sauce, sharp and mustardy, goes especially well with the pork dumplings. The Sweet Dumpling Sauce, a medley of soy, ginger, garlic, and family secrets, nicely accents the fish and shrimp plates. Even the Hot Pepper Sauce goes above and beyond the call of duty with its toasted sesame seeds and mellow heat.
Even though Palace’s kitchen was short-staffed the day I visited and has apparently made it common practice to do all the necessary work by hand, our dumplings arrived at the table in under 10 minutes. Vivian, our server, answered questions about the menu in a friendly manner and drew our attention to the restaurant’s salads, which get almost as many rave reviews as the dumplings. (Spicy food fanatics: the Tiger Vegetable Salad may be your undoing. It’s Hu’s Western twist on a traditional Dongbei dish, a mélange of jalapeño, onions, scallions, and cilantro tossed in a wasabi dressing.) People come from as far north as Greene County and as far east as Connecticut to enjoy Hu’s cooking and the relaxed dining environment.The restaurant is also popular among students at the Culinary Institute of America, who have to drive past a veritable procession of other Asian restaurants to get to Palace on Route 9. Even without a kid’s menu, the restaurant manages to attract families with young children. In other words, Palace is the Chinese equivalent of that little hole-in-the-wall Italian bistro nobody knows about but which makes the best carbonara this side of the Atlantic. Except at Palace, there’s enough seating to accommodate a party of 18. So perhaps some of our Authenticity Tests could use an overhaul. It’s bad when our instincts lead us to a disappointing meal at an otherwise class-act restaurant, but it’s even worse when they keep us from culinary diamonds-inthe-rough. Should you choose to visit Palace Dumpling, you will likely listen to an accordion play Pachelbel’s Canon while you consult the menu, and you will likely hold conversation under its token Chinese lanterns while you wait. But you will not wait long, and you will not be disappointed. Palace Dumpling 1671 Route 9 Ste 1,Wappingers Falls (845) 298-8886; Palacedumplingny.com. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week: Sunday‑Wednesday, 11am to 9pm;Thursday to Saturday, 11am to 10pm. No reservations, no delivery, no alcohol. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM FOOD & DRINK 71
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The Rhinecliff 4 Grinnell Street, Rhinecliff, NY (845) 876-0590 therhinecliff.com reception@therhinecliff.com Farm to table Gastropub on the Hudson, beautifully restored historic railroad hotel. Outdoor seating, riverside patio. Favorites include – Ploughman’s Board, Steak Frites, Grilled Ribeye, Fish ‘N’ Chips, “Sticky Toffee Pudding.” Extensive wine/beer list. Bkfast & Dinner Daily (Lunch- Memorial Day - Labor Day) Sat Brunch & Sunday Live Jazz Brunch. Off-premise catering . Weddings/Special events. All rooms enjoy river views, and private balconies.
Suruchi–A fine taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 suruchiindian.com Homemade Indian cuisine served in a beautiful, serene setting in the heart of New Paltz. Includes Local, Organic, Gluten-Free. Fine Wine, Craft Beer. Buffet Dinner Wednesdays (a la carte available). 10% Discounts for Seniors, Students, and Early Birds (1st hour weeknights). Monday/Wednesday/Thursday 5-9pm, Friday 5-10pm, Saturday Noon-10pm, Sunday Noon-9pm.
Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 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.
Tuthill House 20 Grist Mill Lane, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-4151 tuthillhouse.com
The Would Restaurant 120 North Road, Highland, NY (845) 691-9883 thewould.com
Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 yoborestaurant.com
Wine Bars Jar’d Wine Pub Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY jardwinepub.com
Always open until midnight Eclectic wines and craft beer Sundays $5 mimosas
www.jardwinepub.com Craft Beer & Artisanal Fare
458 Main St, Beacon (845) 440-8676 www.thehopbeacon.com
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Red Hook Curry House ★★★★ DINING Daily Freeman & Poughkeepsie Journal ZAGAT RATED
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Biting Spain elephant FOOD & WINE
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Accommodations Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa 220 North Road, Milton, NY (877) 7-INN-SPA; (845) 795-1310 buttermilkfallsinn.com
Diamond Mills 25 South Partition Street Saugerties, NY (845) 247-0700 DiamondMillsHotel.com info@DiamondMillsHotel.com
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Antiques Hudson Antique Dealers Association (HADA) Hudson, NY hudsonantiques.net
Architecture
Motorcyclepedia Museum 250 Lake Street (Route 32) Newburgh, NY (845) 569-9065
Neumann Fine Art 65 Cold Water Street Hillsdale, NY (413) 246-5776 neumannfineart.com
Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 stormkingartcenter.org
Thompson Giroux Gallery 57 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3336 thompsongirouxgallery.com
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School
(845) 443-0657 BuildingLogicInc.com
11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-3663 hotchkiss.org
Irace Architecture
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
Warwick, NY (845) 988-0198 IraceArchitecture.com
Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 byrdcliffe.org events@woodstockguild.org
BuildingLogic, Inc.
Richard Miller, AIA 28 Dug Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4480 richardmillerarchitect.com
Art Galleries & Centers Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3844 newpaltz.edu/museum
Eckert Fine Art - CT Inc. 34 Main street, Millerton, NY (518) 592-1330 eckertfineart.com
Longyear Gallery 785 Main Street, Margaretville, NY (845) 586-3270 longyeargallery.org
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 markgrubergallery.com
Art Supplies Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston, NY: (845) 331-7780, Poughkeepsie, NY: (845) 452-1250 Woodstock, NY: (845) 679-2251 catskillart.com
Rhinebeck Artist’s Shop Locations in Rhinebeck, New Paltz, and Kingston. rhinebeckart.com
Artisans
Assisted Living Centers
Book Publishing
Camphill Ghent
Monkfish Publishing
2542 State Route 66, Chatham, NY (518) 392-2760 camphillghent.org
22 East Market Street, Suite 304 Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4861 monkfishpublishing.com
Attorneys Traffic and Criminally Related Matters. Karen A. Friedman, Esq., President of the Association of Motor Vehicle Trial Attorneys 30 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor New York, NY (845) 266-4400 or (212) 213-2145 k.friedman@msn.com www.newyorktrafficlawyer.com Representing companies and motorists throughout New York State. Speeding, Reckless Driving, DWI, Trucking Summons and Misdemeanors, Aggravated Unlicensed Matters, Appeals, Article 78 Cases. 27 Years of Trial Experience.
Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply markertek.com
Auto Sales & Services
Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 mirabai.com
Olde Warwick Booke Shoppe 31 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 544-7183 yeoldewarwickbookshoppe.com warwickbookshoppe@hotmail.com
Broadcasting WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock Woodstock, NY wdst.com
Building Services & Supplies Cabinet Designers 747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 cabinetdesigners.com
Gentech LTD
185 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4812
3017 US Route 9W, New Windsor, NY (845) 568-0500 gentechltd.co
Kinderhook Toyota
Glenn’s Wood Sheds
1908 New York 9H, Hudson, NY (518) 822-9911 kinderhooktoyota.com
H. Houst & Son
Fleet Service Center
Beauty Supply
(845) 255-4704 Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 hhoust.com
Arts Mid-Hudson
Columbia Beauty Supply
John A Alvarez and Sons
696 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-3222 artsmidhudson.org
66 North Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-4996
3572 Route 9, Hudson, NY (518) 851-9917 alvarezmodulars.com
Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire
Binnewater
Poughkeepsie, NY makerfairepoughkeepsie.com
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Beverages
Millbrook Cabinetry & Design 2612 Route 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3006 millbrookcabinetryanddesign.com
N & S Supply nssupply.com info@nssupply.com
Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD williamslumber.com
Business Services Tracking Wonder - the art & science of captivating creativity Jeffrey Davis, Founder, Accord, NY (845) 679-9441 trackingwonder.com We build business artists. We help people build up online & offline audiences, master their work flow, and author captivating books without falling into traps of rigid thinking. 5 consultants + website team.
Cinemas
Stephen Fabrico Ceramic Designs: Ceramic Studio established in 1980 76 Church Street, Bloomington, NY (845) 853-3567 (2 miles North of Rosendale) Functional pottery, garden objects, bird houses, feeders, baths, planters, garden sculptures (Various sizes). Garden tours by appointment. Call for details and directions.
Upstate Films
Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY lindalny.com
Dance Lessons Got2LINDY Dance Studios
Clothing & Accessories de Marchin 620 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-2657
Kasuri 1 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 291-9901 kasuri.com
Rooster Tees 1 Kavalec Lane, Warwick, NY (845) 987-1133 roostertees.com
Rue de Papier (917) 940-7205 mail@ruedepapier.com
Computer Services Tech Smiths 45 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 443-4866 tech-smiths.com
Craft Galleries Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 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.
Shared Office
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Contact April Tiberio: 845-383-0890
Education Bard MAT Bard College (845) 758-7151 bard.edu/mat mat@bard.edu
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies 2801 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5343 caryinstitute.org
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Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY rosendaletheatre.org
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Center for Metal Arts 44 Jayne Street, Florida, NY (845) 651-7550 centerformetalarts.com/blog
Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School 330 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7092 hawthornevalleyschool.org info@hawthornevalleyschool.org Located in central Columbia County, NY and situated on a 400-acre working farm, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School supports the development of each child and provides students with the academic, social, and practical skills needed to live in today’s complex world. Also offering parent-child playgroups and High School boarding. Local busing. Nurturing living connections, from early childhood through grade 12.
High Meadow School Route 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-4855 highmeadowschool.org
Millbrook School 131 Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8261 millbrook.org
Montgomery Montessori School 136-140 Clinton Street, Montgomery (845) 401-9232 montgomeryms.com Montgomery Montessori encompasses 11/14 CHRONOGRAM BUSINESS DIRECTORY 75
students from PreK-8th grade. We believe that every child has the right to go to a school that is a perfect match for them. Montessori is a philosophy with the fundamental principle that a child learns best within a social environment, which supports each individuals unique development. We are committed to the “whole child” approach to education as well as the enrichment of the mind, body, and spirit.
Mountain Laurel Waldorf School 16 South Chestnut Street New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0033 mountainlaurel.org
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Primrose Hill School Elementary and Early Childhood Education inspired by the Waldorf Philosophy 23 Spring Brook Park, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1226 primrosehillschool.com Located on 7 acres in the village of Rhinebeck with a farm, Primrose Hill School is currently accepting applications for our mixed age kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grades. Please inquire if you are interested in grades 3 and higher. Contact (845) 8761226 or info@primrosehillschool.com
Trinity - Pawling School 700 Route 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-4825 trinitypawling.org
327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY (518) 672-7500 hawthornevalleyfarm.org storeadmin@hawthornevalleyfarm.org A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic Bakery, Kraut Cellar and Creamery. Farm-fresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more. Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. MondaySunday, 7:30 to 7.
Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com
Farms Shalimar Alpacas 164 East Ridge Road, Warwick, NY (845) 258-0851 shalimaralpacas.com
Financial Advisors Third Eye Associates, Ltd. 38 Spring Lake Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 752-2216 thirdeyeassociates.com
Firewood Cord King (845) 797-6877
Equestrian Fox Run Farm Lynn M. Reed (845) 494-6067 fox-run-farm reedlmr@aol.com Premier facilities located between Rhinebeck and Millbrook NY and Ocala Fla feature indoor/outdoor rings, jumping fields and trails. We offer advanced training for competitions at elite venues, instructions for all levels, quality horses for share board lease or sale.
Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores
Gardening & Garden Supplies Mac’s Agway (845) 876-1559, 68 Firehouse Lane Red Hook, (845) 255-0050
Graphic Design
New York Designer Fabric Outlet 3143 Route 9, Valatie, NY (518) 758-1555 nydfo.myshopify.com
Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dorrer Jewelers 54 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 516-4236 dorrerjewelers.com
Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 DreamingGoddess.com
Frazzleberries 24 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-5080 frazzleberries.com
Handmade and More 6 North Front Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0625 handmadeandmore.com
Top Shelf Jewelry 206 Canal Street, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-4661 info@topshelfjewelryinc.com
Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 warrenkitchentools.com The Hudson Valley’s culinary emporium for anyone who loves to cook or entertain. A selection of fine cutlery, professional cookware, appliances, barware and serving pieces. An assortment of machines for fine coffee brewing. Expert sharpening on premises. Open seven days.
Annie Internicola, Illustrator
Landscaping
aydeeyai.com
Hair Salons Allure 47 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7774 allure7774@aol.com
Home Furnishings & Décor
Adam’s Fairacre Farms 1240 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 569-0303, 1560 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-6300, 765 Dutchess Turnpike, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-4330 adamsfarms.com
Classic Country
Beacon Natural Market
(845) 832-6522 huntcountryfurniture.com
348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288 beaconnaturalmarket.com
Interior Design
Hawthorne Valley Farm Store
2948 County Route 9, East Chatham, NY (518) 392-2211 431 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1600
Hunt Country Furniture
Insurance
Berkshire Co Op Market
Devine Insurance Agency
42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 berkshire.coop
58 N. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-7806 devineinsurance.com
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Coral Acres, Keith Buesing, Topiary, Landscape Design, Rock Art (845) 255-6634
Windham Mountain Outfitters 61 New York 296, Windham, NY (518) 734-4700 windhamoutfitters.com
Performing Arts Bardavon 1968 Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 bardavon.org
Basilica Hudson 110 S Front Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1050 basilicahudson.com
Falcon Music & Art Productions 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 liveatthefalcon.com
Half Moon Theatre 2515 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY halfmoontheatre.org
Helsinki on Broadway 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-4800 helsinkihudson.com
Hudson Opera House 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 822-1438 hudsonoperahouse.org
Kaatsbaan International Dance Center 120 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5106 kaatsbaan.org facebook.com/kaatsbaan
Mid-Hudson Civic Center Poughkeepsie, NY midhudsonciviccenter.org
Tangent Theater Company Tivoli, NY tangent-arts.org
The Irish Culturalal Center Hudson Valley icchv.org
The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio
8 West Hurley Road, Woodstock, NY woodstock.org
339 Central Ave, Albany, NY (518) 465-5233 thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.
Outfitters
Pet Services & Supplies
Organizations Green Chimneys 400 Doansburg Road, Brewster, NY (845) 279-2995 greenchimneys.org
Hudson Valley Current HudsonValleyCurrent.org
Woodstock Library Symposium
Kenco 1000 Hurley Mountain Road Kingston, NY (845) 340-0552 atkenco.com
Natural Pet Center 609 Route 208, Gardiner, NY (845) 255-7387 thenaturalpetcenter.com info@thenaturalpetcenter.com
Shoes
Pet Country 6830 Rt. 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-9000
Photography Fionn Reilly Photography Saugerties, NY (845) 802-6109 fionnreilly.com
Pico Aulicino Photography (845) 513-5163 facebook.com/ PicoAulicinoPhotography
Pegasus New Paltz (845) 256-0788, Woodstock (845) 679-2373, NY PegasusShoes.com
Specialty Food Shops Quattros Game Farm and Store Route 44, Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-2018
Tourism Columbia County Tourism
Tom Smith heytomsmith.com heytomsmith@gmail.com
Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com
Pools & Spas Aqua Jet 1606 Ulster Avenue, Lake Katrine, NY (845) 336-8080 aquajetpools.com
Real Estate Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate Cold Spring, NY (845) 265-5500 houlihanlawrence.com
Mondello Upstate Properties 7 W. Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 758-5555 mondellorealestate.com
Office Space Available in Uptown Kingston Front & Fair Kingston, NY (845) 334-9700 kingstonoffice.com
Paula Redmond Real Estate, Inc. (845) 677-0505, (845) 876-6676 paularedmond.com
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Historic Huguenot Street Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1660
Transportation Metro North (877) 690-5114 mta.info/mnr
Wine & Liquor Hetta (845) 216-4801 hettaglogg.com
Kingston Wine Co. 65 Broadway on the Rondout Kingston, NY kingstonwine.com
Miron Wine and Spirits 15 Boices Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 336-5155 mironwineanspirits.com
Workshops Hudson Valley Photoshop Training, Stephen Blauweiss (845) 339-7834 hudsonvalleyphotoshop.com
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A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renee Burgevin, owner and Certified Picture Framer, has been framing since 1988. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.
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BREAKING FREE FROM ADDICTION RECOVERING FROM DRUG OR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY TAKES PERSISTENCE, FLEXIBILITY, AND A VARIETY OF APPROACHES.
by wendy kagan
illustration by annie internicola
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or addiction medicine specialist Mark Willenbring, MD, no two cases are exactly alike. There are the middle-aged women who tip back five or six drinks a day; most of the time they’re functional and nobody knows they have a problem. There are the young people hooked on opiates, seeking a swift way to nix their habit in this age of instant gratification. For a growing number of addicted adults, the substance of choice is a prescription drug like Vicodin, often available from ill patients who sell their surplus on the side for easy cash. And then there are those with severe alcohol dependency who will consume a liter of vodka a day, or the equivalent of 24 drinks; if they keep going, they’re headed down a deadly road toward cirrhosis of the liver or pancreatitis. Once a substance user recognizes that he has a problem and wants to get well—which can take months or years—the route to recovery can be long, bumpy, and riddled with backtracking detours.The risk of relapse looms large: Most in-patient rehab centers in this country report that only about 40 percent of their “graduates” remain clean a year later. There’s a spectrum of severity, but addiction is deadly: Every year in the US, about 120,000 people will die from it. That’s 350 people a day. Recovery, experts agree, isn’t about finding a cookie-cutter, quick-fix solution. Says Willenbring, “There are about as many ways to recover as there are people who need to.” The (Tough) Love Approach Jim and Sue Cusack, co-founders of Villa Veritas, an inpatient rehab clinic in Kerhonkson, have been in the business of addiction recovery since the days before it was really a business—and certainly not a money-making one. In his recently self-published memoir, Trouble Is a Gift: A Story of Addiction, Recovery, and Hope (S and J Publishing, 2013), Jim, 85, recounts the rough-and-tumble years of his teens and early 20s as a hard-core alcoholic. He had his first drink at age four at one of his family’s Irish weddings; snuck wine in the sacristy when he was an altar boy; boozed his way through a stint in the Army; and hit bottom when his first wife booted him out. The road to sober took him 12 years. “There wasn’t a field back then; there wasn’t any success with drunks,” says Sue. “Jim vowed that if he could get himself together he would help other alcoholics.” His prayers were answered (both Jim and Sue are devout Catholics) when he was given a 30-bed facility. Sue was one of his early clients—though it was a few years after when they fell in love and married. Later, Jim worked with alcoholic NewYork City police officers in what was perhaps the city’s first employee-assistance program.Years after, Jim and Sue purchased the Catskills resort that would become Villa Veritas. Since it opened in the early 1980s, the Villa, as Jim and Sue call it, has grown to an 85-bed rehab facility that draws heavily on the Twelve Steps, the philosophy behind Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). The structure of their 28-day program has changed very little over the past three decades. First patients “dry out” and detox, then they attend Twelve Step meetings and have group
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and individual therapy. “A lot of fads and trends have come and gone, but it’s the basics that work,” says Sue—though in recent years Villa Veritas has added yoga, arts and crafts, exercise, nutrition, and nicotine reduction. There are also an indoor and an outdoor pool. It might sound like a spa, but to Sue, it’s school. “It’s a very structured daily program that consists of getting discipline back into our lives. It’s kind of like going to college for a month, a crash course on how to live a sober life.” In a way, it’s also a bit like church: An AA brand of love and spirituality is a big component. Inpatient rehab is infamously expensive, but the Cusacks say they keep their program affordable with insurance coverage and payment plans. “We’ll work with anyone who wants to get well,” says Sue. Since relapse prevention is such a big concern, Villa Veritas sets people up with outpatient programs and alumna in their area, and strongly recommends regular attendance in a Twelve Step program. “Here, people are immersed in a family; they feel the power of the group and they start to like themselves. If they go home and don’t follow up, they go back into the isolation, and the drinking or using can start again,” says Sue. Addiction medicine, or the use of prescription meds to ease withdrawal symptoms, is not something you’ll see at Villa Veritas. (“Abstinence is the way to go, we feel. Chances are they’ll be uncomfortable, but that’s okay. No pain, no gain.”) In the end, it’s people helping people, says Sue. “I’m 45 years recovered and proud to be. No doctor or psychiatrist gave that to me.” The Science Approach Mark Willenbring has been on a mission to change addiction care in this country since he was director of the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)—and saw a lot of good research about addiction sitting on a shelf, unused. “The most common treatment, which is based on what’s called the Minnesota Model, or Twelve Steps, was developed in the 1950s, when there wasn’t any science and there wasn’t any treatment,” he says. “Because this model is based on people in recovery who are sharing their stories, these folks don’t look to science as a way to advance treatment outcomes.” Willenbring finds the rehab model equally unscientific, comparing it to the 1920s sanatorium “cure” of fresh air and sunshine for people with tuberculosis. Moreover, he says, rehab has become a standard treatment when it’s really meant for extreme cases—the sickest 10 percent, or those with the most refractory addiction. “Saying that everyone [with an addiction] needs rehab is the equivalent of saying that everyone who has asthma needs to be put in the ICU on a ventilator.” Earlier this year, Willenbring opened Alltyr clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota— “to basically demonstrate what 21st-century addiction treatment looks like.” The goal is to provide a scientifically based model that looks, sounds, and feels like other medical specialties. Designed as an outpatient clinic with low-intensity care that’s individualized and extended over time, Alltyr offers
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every evidence-based treatment available, says Willenbring. That includes medications for drug or alcohol relapse, which he recommends to just about everyone who comes in—but it’s not just about pharmaceuticals. A team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and recovery coaches also offer individual and group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (i.e., coping skills), and treatment for coexisting disorders such as anxiety and depression. The program is not authoritarian, but rather all about the patient’s free choice—what Willenbring calls the cafeteria model. “It’s like saying, okay, there’s chicken, there’s pork, there’s tofu—take your pick [of treatments], take what you like. The emphasis is on engagement, retention, and working with people as long as it takes.” And sometimes it takes a long time. “When abstinence is a goal, it usually isn’t so mystically achieved all of a sudden,” he says. Most often, people need to struggle and make a persistent effort over a protracted period of time, with multiple quit attempts, until they get it. The last thing he wants people to do is stay away from him or his staff if they have a recurrence because they’re embarrassed or ashamed. Because addiction is a brain disease, he explains, there are forces at work beyond sheer will and discipline: The mechanisms that control intake of a particular substance get disregulated. “People literally watch in horror as they behave in a way that’s going to destroy them,” he says. The aim is to catch it at earlier and milder stages of illness—and to address it in primary care. “It turns out that for opiates and alcohol, and tobacco or smoking, we already have medication treatments that are pretty good,” he says. “It really depends on the severity and complexity of the disorder.” The Spirit Approach When Kevin Griffin set out to recover from a drug and alcohol addiction three decades ago, he was happy to discover that AA encouraged meditation. Even before he got sober, Griffin had a spiritual side, a longing, which led him to explore Buddhism. So he already had a meditation practice—which is part of AA’s Eleventh Step—under his belt. As his practice progressed, he was eventually asked to teach at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California’s Marin County. Says Griffin, “My own experience of working a Twelve Step program naturally seeped into my teaching.” He wrote a two books—One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps (Rodale, 2004) and A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery (Hay House, 2010)—and built a following. Some of his students want to learn meditation to help them with recovery, yet Griffin’s views also appeal to many people who struggle with AA’s theistic orientation. “The Twelve Steps obviously talk a lot about God,” he says, “so a lot of people who have those difficulties with the Steps are drawn to my work. They have trouble with the language and want to find an alternative approach to it.” AA mentions “surrendering to a higher power” in order to recover—but Griffin offers a different take on that, too. “Recovery gets somewhat mystified when it’s, ‘Oh, through the grace of God I got better.’ Okay, how does that work? I don’t accept those kinds of generalities. Because if God got me sober, then God can change his mind, I guess.” In Griffin’s understanding of the Twelve Steps, there’s more agency on the part of the practitioners; rather than waiting around for God to fix things, they’re taking action. “It’s about making choices, moment by moment, to think, speak, and act differently from your addictive tendencies,” he says. “That’s how you recover and that’s how you grow spiritually.” Connecting the process of recovery with Buddhism and mindfulness is a natural fit for Griffin—and perfectly in line with the Buddha’s teachings about pleasure, attachment, suffering, and letting go. “When you’re letting go of alcohol, it’s not a renunciation in the sense of, ‘I really want to do this, but I’m going to stop because it’s good for me.’ That kind of sobriety won’t last very long. The reason you give up alcohol is because you see the truth of suffering in your addiction. When you see the truth of suffering really clearly, there’s a natural letting go; many people will say their craving for drugs and alcohol has been lifted. That’s what I think needs to happen for long-term or successful recovery.” None of it is easy to achieve, says Griffin—and none of it has to be perfect, either. “Having a meditation practice is hard. Recovery is hard, being human is hard,” he says. “Just keep showing up. It gets better.” Kevin Griffin Kevingriffin.net Villa Veritas Foundation, Inc. Villaveritas.org Mark Willenbring, MD Alltyr.com
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HOLISTIC GYNECOLOGY T R E AT I N G W O M E N Ages 1 0
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Stone Ridge Healing Arts 3457 Main St., Stone Ridge, NY jenna@jennasmithcm.com (845) 430-4300
Acupuncture Creekside Acupuncture and Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, LAc 371A Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 creeksideacupuncture.com
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L Ac 87 East Market Street, Suite 102 Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 highridgeacupuncture.com Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060 Transpersonal Acupuncture (845) 340-8625 transpersonalacupuncture.com
Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy
Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 planetwaves.net
Body and Skincare Dermasave Labs, Inc. 3 Charles Street, Suite 4 Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-4087 hudsonvalleyskincare.com
Chiropractors
Eight Conditions linked to being Overweight or Obese 1. Heart Disease & Stroke 2. Gout 3. Osteoarthritis 4. Cancer 5. Diabetes 6. High Blood Pressure 7. Sleep Apnea & Asthma 8. Gallbladder Disease & Gallstones
Dr. Bruce Schneider 4 Deming Street, Woodstock, NY Water Street Market, New Paltz, NY (845) 679-6700 drbruceschneider.com Dr. Bruce has developed a precise protocol using Chiropractic, Cranio-Sacral Therapy and NeuroEmotional Technique (NET). These complimentary modalities effectively locate and release patterns of unresolved stress in the body. Experience the improved health and vitality that emerges naturally when these barriers to health are removed. Address the cause upstream instead of managing symptoms downstream. Dr. Bruce has been in practice for 28 years. Call (845) 679-6700.
Counseling break / through career and life coaching (845) 802-0544 heymann.peter@gmail.com IONE‚ Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 ministryofmaat.org The Accord Center for Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 646-3191 theaccordcenter.com
A healthy lifestyle is achieved through nurturing mind, body and spirit, through programs that promote healthier decisions, support physical, intellectual and emotional strength. YMCA OF KINGSTON & ULSTER COUNTY
507 Broadway, Kingston, NY 845-338-3810 www.ymcaulster.org
“My job is working with dis-harmonic patterns and imbuing wellness” - Jipala R. Kagan L.Ac Accepting new clients Practice expanding
TRANSPERSONAL ACUPUNCTURE 10 Years in Practice
Call: (845) 340 8625 Accepting insurances: Empire BCBS
www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER
EACHER
PIRITUAL
OUNSELOR
“ Miracles still do happen.” —Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.” —Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations
Check John’s website for more information johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420 715 State Route 28, Kingston NY
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Private treatment rooms, attentive one-on-one care, affordable rates, sliding scale. Accepting Blue Cross, Hudson Health Plan, no-fault and other insurances. Stephanie Ellis graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in pre-medical studies. She completed her acupuncture and Chinese medicine degree in 2001 as valedictorian of her class and started her acupuncture practice in Rosendale that same year. Ms. Ellis uses a combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture and trigger-point acupuncture. Creekside Acupuncture is located in a building constructed of non-toxic, eco-friendly materials.
Astrology
Dentistry & Orthodontics
High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts
The Center For Advanced Dentistry‚ Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com
Acupuncture Herbal Medicine
Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 tischlerdental.com
Qigong and Meditation Classes Allergies Women’s Health Weight Management
Gynecology Jenna Smith Stout 3457 Main Street Stone Ridge, NY (845) 430-4300 jenna@jennasmithcm.com
Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature 1129 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fishkill, NY (845) 416-4598 EmpoweredByNature.net lorrainehughes54@gmail.com
Carolyn Rabiner, L. Ac., Dipl. C.H. Board Certified (NCCAOM) 7392 S. Broadway (Rt.9) North Wing of Red Hook Emporium
Red Hook, NY 845-758-2424
Lorraine Hughes, Registered Herbalist (AHG) and ARCB Certified Reflexologist offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.
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Some insurances accepted www.highridgeacupuncture.com
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THE WOODSTOCK PRIMARY SCHOOL FRIDAY NOV. 21st 7PM AT8 WEST HURLEY RD, WOODSTOCK, NY A WOODSTOCK LIBRARY SYMPOSIUM
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John M. Carroll 715 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 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.
Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 18 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 womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net Energy Healing and Mystery School with One Light Healing Touch in Stone Ridge begins January 2015. The School is based in Shamanic, Esoteric and Holistic teachings across the ancient wisdom traditions. Learn to increase your intuition; release old programming - hurt, grief, sadness, pain; become empowered, grounded, and heartcentered; access Source energy and increase spiritual awareness and more. Also, private OLHT energy healing and spiritual counseling sessions are available.
Seeds of Love Rhinebeck, NY (845)-264-1388 seeds-love.com
Hospitals Health Quest 45 Reade Place, PoughkeepsieNY, (845) 283-6088 health-quest.org
Hypnosis Clear Mind Arts Hypnosis (845) 876-8828 clearmindarts.com sandplay555@frontier.com Jennifer has been helping adults and children overcome obstacles and heal past trauma in private practice in Rhinebeck since 2003. Offering Past Life Regression, Expressive Arts, Medical Hypnosis, Life Between Lives™ in a safe and supportive space. Inner exploration though Hypnosis brings greater clarity, renewed sense of purpose and wisdom. Sand play bridges meditation, symbol formation and Jungian Principles to integrate experience beyond words.
Massage Therapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Hot Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s
and non-toxic cleaning products. Consultant: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster with healing statements for surgery and holistic approaches to heal faster!
Nutrition NuSpecies 427 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-7458 nuspecies.com
Orthodontics Sunshine Orthodontics 1001 NY 376, Wappingers Falls 411 Washington Avenue, Kingston (845) 592-2292 sunshineortho.com
Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge 138 East Market, Street,Rhinebeck (845) 687-7589 stoneridgehealingarts.com
Pharmacies Wellness Rx Route 213, High Falls, NY (845) 687-8500
Plastic Surgery Dr. Francis V. Winski 7 Coates Drive, Goshen, NY (845) 294-3312 drwinski.com Loomis Plastic Surgery 225 Dolson Ave #302, Middletown, NY (845) 342-6884 drloomis.com
Psychotherapy Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz (845) 255-7502 hvpi.net Kent Babcock, LMSW: Psychotherapy for Men in Mid-Life & Older Stone Ridge, NY (845) 807-7147 kentagram@gmail.com At 64, late in my career, I am focusing my practice on working with men, mid-
Rachael Diamond, LCSW, CHt New Paltz, NY (845) 883-0679 Holistically-oriented therapist offering counseling, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and EMDR. Specializing in issues pertaining to relationships, personal growth, life transitions, alternative lifestyles, childhood abuse, trauma, co-dependency, addiction, recovery, illness, grief and more. Office convenient to New Paltz and surrounding areas. Free 1/2 hour in person consultation. Sliding scale fee.
Retreat Centers Garrison Institute Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.com Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a renovated monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Tara Goleman and Daniel Goleman with Bob Sadowski and Aaron Wolf: Chemistry of Connection, November 21-23, and Healing Ourselves, Our Schools, and Our Communities: Equity, Contemplative Education and Transformation, December 12-14.
Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 ext. 0 menla.org menla@menla.org
Yoga Clear Yoga Iyengar Yoga in Rhinebeck 17b 6423 Montgomery Street Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6129 clearyogarhinebeck.com Classes for all levels and abilities, seven days a week. Iyengar Yoga builds strength, stamina, peace of mind, and provides a precise framework for a yoga practice based on what works for you. November Events: Sunday, November 2: Yoga for Scoliosis, 123pm. Sunday, November 9: Connect to your Core, 2-4.30pm. Thanksgiving Day class: 9am-10am, all levels. Friday, November 28: Abdominals and Twists, 10-11.30am. Sign up at clearyogarhinebeck.com/events.
Treat your symptoms
Hoon J. Park MD P.C.
naturally
Acupuncture Physical Therapy Pain Management Joint Injections Stem Cell Injections
Hoon J. Park M.D. is a New York State Board Certified Medical Doctor in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and a New York State Certified Acupuncturist. Most insurance accepted including Empire Plan, Medicare, most private insurances, No-Fault, and Workers Compensation. You deserve victory over pain.
1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls ½ mile south of Galleria Mall
298-6060
www.victory-over-pain.com
Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP
PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT
Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training
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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.
life and older–providing opportunities to examine life retrospectively, in the here and now, and also around issues concerning the future, including dying and death. I also specialize in working with those having or suspecting Asperger Syndrome.
At The Culinary Institute of America–Marriott Pavilion
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WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
IT’S A
WONDERFUL LIFE
Music by John Kander
The 1946 Live Radio Play by Tony Palermo
Lyrics by Frank Ebb
December 5-20
November 1-16 A high energy musical revue with hit songs like Chicago, Cabaret, and New York, New York. “A handsome, tasteful, snazzily staged outpouring of song and dance” –The New York Times
The perfect holiday show for the entire family. With Christmas carols and festive Culinary concessions! “A small triumph...amusing parodies of 1940s commercials and an agreeable bonhomie among the cast enable this production, like the angel Clarence, to earn its wings.” –The New York Times
For tickets & information visit HALFMOONTHEATRE.ORG or call 1-800-838-3006 • Tickets $35-45 THEATRE LOCATED AT: The Culinary Institute of America, Marriott Pavilion, 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY 12538
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EVENT PREVIEWS & LISTINGS FOR NOVEMBER 2014
Julie Novak performs her one-person show, “America’s Next Top,” at the Rosendale Theater on November 22.
The Androgynous Zone “Wouldn’t it be great if one day, there was so much visibility for gays and lesbians,” says actor and comic Julie Novak, “that when I was walking around, doing whatever it was I was doing, people would go: There she goes again, using her lesbian privilege to get ahead.”Novak will be bringing her raucous and revealing one-person show, "“America’s Next Top: One Top’s Hysterical Take on Life, Love, Tools, and Boxes,” to the Rosendale
Theater on November 22 at 9:30pm. An investigation of gender identity by someone who's never quite fit in to a neatly identified gender category, "America's Next Top" plays to Novak's strengths as an impressionist and singer while mining her often confusing experiences as a gender-indeterminate human being. (845) 658-8989; TMIProject.org. Listen to an interview with Julie Novak at Chronogram.com. 11/14 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 85
SATURDAY 1 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Fifth Annual UlsterCorps Service Sprint + Zombie Escape 10am. $25/$20 in advance/$15 team discount. Williams Lake Project, Rosendale. 625-9338.
DANCE
Cajun Dance with Krewe de la Rue 5:30-10pm. $15.00. THE BAYOU IS COMING TO BEACON. A benefit for St. Andrews Food Pantry & The Beacon Sloop Club. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Beacon. (914) 907-4928. Frolic Dance 8:30pm-12:30am. $5-410/teens and seniors $2-$7/ kinds under 13 and volunteers free. The Freestyle Frolic is an all-ages dance party for dance lovers: Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-83I9. Master Class with Maya Dance Theatre 3-5pm. $15. Maya Dance Theatre, from Singapore, will offer Reinventing Dance: Contemporizing traditional Asian dance forms. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 10. Salsa Lesson and Dance Party with Carlos Osorio 8pm. $12 at the door. All levels salsa class and then dance the night away. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261. Sun Ock Lee 7:30pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
LITERARY & BOOKS
Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 3:30pm. Featuring Lauren Camp. Seligmann Center for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459. Voices of Poetry Reading 5-7pm. Voices of Poetry returns for its third time to feature 5 regional poets at Kent’s Literary Landmark, House of Books with special musical guest Robert C. Fullerton. House of Books, Kent, CT. (860) 927-4104.
MUSIC
No More Silence: Stop Gun Violence NOW Second Annual Concert 1pm. Tom Chapin, Al Hemberger, Carla Springer, David Bernz and more. Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Steve Forbert Band with Kami Lyle 8:30pm. ‘70s critics compared him to Dylan and Springsteen with a Grammy nomination in 2004. Forbert continues to capture his audience. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. American Choral Directors Association Conference Performance 3pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Celtic Night with the Irish Mafia First Saturday of every month. Sean Griffin’s Irish Mafia and invited guests connect the Celtic tradition to Galicia, Spain. Elephant, Kingston. Elephantwinebar.com. Chris Bergson Band 9:30pm. Blues. 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Holiday Gift Fair 10am-4pm. Handicrafts from India and as well as newly featured local artisans. Indian snacks and refreshments will also be offered. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008. Shantimandir.com. Repair Cafe 11am-4pm. Bring your broken and beloved items, small appliances, clothes, toys, dolls, bikes, lamps, books, knick knacks, anything. Clinton Avenue United Methodist, Kingston. (914) 263-7368. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744. 2-6pm. General admission $39. 50 different breweries, over 100 different beers, and free food. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.
FILM
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 9pm. $10. A special screening of the classic silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Pianist Steven Feifke will provide original musical accompaniment to this classic film. Orpheum Performing Arts Center, Tannersville. (518) 628-4424.
FOOD & WINE
1st Annual Red Hook & The Chocolate Festival The day-long festival throughout Red Hook will be filled with competitions, tastings, art exhibitions and performances all with a central theme of chocolate. Red Hook Village Hall, Red Hook. 758-0824.
KIDS & FAMILY
LECTURES & TALKS
The History of the Hudson River Valley from Wilderness to Civil War 3pm. Reading and book signing by Vernon Benjamin. Clermont State Historic Site, Germantown. (518) 537-4240. Julian Lines Slide Show 8pm. Rock & Snow, New Paltz. 255-1311.
CHRONOGRAM.COM These listings do not include weekly recurring events, such as classes that take place every Wednesday, for example. Visit Chronogram.com for events updated daily, recurring weekly events, and staff recommendations. You can also upload events directly to our Events database at Chronogram.com/submitevent.
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A Weekend of Folk/Roots/Americana Music Enjoy a friend-filled music saturated weekend at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa. Sing, jam, relax, swap songs, learn new songs and listen to and/or play with other musicians. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.
NIGHTLIFE Day of the Dead Dance 8pm-1am. $20/$10 with costume. Benefit for Circle of Friends for the Dying, a local not-for-profit bringing compassionate, competent end-of-life care to the dying and their families. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. Bspkingston.com
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Bright Lights on Broadway Block Party 6pm. Featuring musical performance by Direct Divide. The Ritz Theater, Newburgh. 784-1199. First Saturday Reception First Saturday of every month, 5-8pm. ASK’s openings are elegant affairs with wine, hors d’oeuvres and art enthusiasts. These monthly events are part of Kingston’s First Saturday art events. Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0331.
International Pickle Festival Anything that can be pickled—from fruit to fish and beyond—will be found awash in brine at the 17th annual International Pickle Festival in Rosendale on November 23. Expect to fend off hundreds of other pickle aficionados among the tables of samples at the Rosendale Rec Center. There’ll be eating (including fried pickles, of course), a pickle-tossing contest (you’ll need a partner with an agile mouth), and a brine-drinking contest (the first to suck a 24-ounce container of pickle juice, seeds and all, through a straw is the winner). Not to mention ample entertainment, including live music and dancing. Proceeds of the Pickle festival benefit to the Rosendale Youth Center, the Women’s Club Spring Clean Sweep projects, the Food Pantry, and other civic projects. (845) 658-9649; Picklefest.com
Hudson Valley Brew Fest
It’s Magic with Andy Weintraub 2-3:15pm. $5-$14. Audience members will be amazed by their own feats of prestidigitation, through transmittal, transposition and mind over matter. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. The Great Pumpkin Patch Express The Great Pumpkin Patch Express is a special train ride to visit the “Sincere Pumpkin Patch” where visitors will enjoy meeting their favorite PEANUTS™ characters, live music, story telling, tractor rides, pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, and other family-oriented activities. Kingston Plaza, Kingston. 688-7400. Haunted Huguenot Street 4-8pm. $30/$25 seniors, members and military. Historic Huguenot Street will transform into Haunted Huguenot Street with special interpretations of the Jean Hasbrouck House, the burial ground, the Deyo House, and the Abraham Hasbrouck House. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660. Live Your Dream 7th Grade Girls’ Conference 8:45am-2:30pm. $5. A day to inspire and empower 7th grade girls with workshops, friendships, resources and role models. Dutchess Community College, Pok. 518-2713. Saturday Social Circle First Saturday of every month, 10am-noon. This group for mamas looking to meet other mamas, babies and toddlers for activities, socialization and friendship. New Baby New Paltz, New Paltz. 255-0624.
Swinging Moments Cabaret 7-9:30pm. $20/$15 senior citizens and students. The Shaut family presents the eighth annual fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. J.W. Bailey Middle School, Kingston. (914) 466-0480.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited $125/$110/$95. Special guest Doug Wahlberg Band. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Dan Shaut Swing Orchestra 7pm. Swing, big band. J.W. Bailey Middle School, Kingston. 943-3940.
Let’s Go to the Movies Gala Dinner and Silent Auction 6:30pm. Cocktails, auction, dinner and dancing. Held at the Belltower next door. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Direct Divide 8-10pm. $15. Featuring cinematic storytelling lyrics of a Hollywood film and the perfect blend of classical piano and violin melodies, hard rock rhythms, energetic guitars, and powerful female vocals. Ritz Theater Lobby, Newburgh. 784-1199.
Public Walking Tours at Vassar College 10am & 1pm. All tours run for approximately 90 minutes starting out from the front entrance to the college’s Main Building. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
The Django Festival All-Stars 8-10pm. $29/$39. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039.
The World Goes Round 2pm/8pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006. The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Peter Pan 8pm. $26/$24/$20 Sat. matinee. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Side By Side By Sondheim 8pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511. The Turn of the Screw 7pm. Part of Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Boscobel, Garrison. Boscobel.org. The Night of the Witches Wedding 6:30pm. Presented by Murder Cafe. Hudson’s Ribs & Fish, Fishkill. Hudsonsribsandfish.com.
An Evening with Bruce Hornsby 8pm. $15-$55. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Johnny Winter Rememberance Show 7pm. $29.50. Featuring the Johnny Winter Band and special guests. Leo & the Lizards 9pm. Classic rock. The Golden Rail Ale House, Newburgh. 565-2337. The Mavericks 8pm. $38-$78. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. The Met: Live in HD Bizet’s Carmen 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Bizet’s Carmen 12:45-4:15pm. $25. The Moviehouse, Millerton. Themoviehouse.net/index.php/site/special_events. Open Mike and Potluck W/Hudson Valley Sally 6pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Robbie Dupree Trio 8pm. Opener: Amanda Homi 7pm The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Robert Capowski 9:30pm. Showcasing his new record “Wild Animals” with an electric trio. The Shelter, Rhinebeck. 876-1500. Singer/Songwriter David Roth 8-10pm. $21-$28. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THEATER
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Chakra Mandala Painting Workshop 1-7pm. With Mavis Gewant. In this experiential workshop we’ll work with specific mantras and colors to create your own mandala that will balance and invigorate the chakras. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212. Landscape Design Clinic with Walt Cudnohufsky 9:30am-4:30pm. $125. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Paying for College without Going Broke 10:30am. Conducted by Stephanie Mauro, Certified College Planning Specialist. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
Swing Infusion First Saturday of every month. $10. Basic lesson at 7:30 and a bonus move at 9pm with instructors Linda and Chester Freeman. MAC Fitness, Kingston. 853-7377. Teresa Marta Costa: College of Poetry Workshop 1pm. Seligmann Ctr for the Arts, Sugar Loaf. 469-9459.
SUNDAY 2 DANCE
Maya Dance Theatre 2:30pm. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10. Zen Dance Technique: Master Class at Kaatsbaan 11am-1pm. $15. Dr. Sun Ock Lee will offer Zen Dance Technique: The Zen Quest. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 10.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. A variety of items, including re-finished furniture, antiques, vintage purses, mid-century cookware, collectible vinyl, old books, handmade jewelry, and local crafts. Beacon Flea Market, Beacon. 202-0094. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
FILM
Sunday Silents Season Opener 3pm. “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and “Frankenstein” with live accompaniment by Marta Waterman. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. Touching the Sound 2pm. Filmmaker Peter Rosen, Chronicler of Stars of the Art World, introduces his film. Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (413) 443-7171.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Alexander Yoga with Joan Arnold 10am. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393.
KIDS & FAMILY
4-H Enrollment and Harvest Fest 6:30-8pm. Dutchess County Farm and Home Center, Millbrook. Ccedutchess.org. The Great Pumpkin Patch Express The Great Pumpkin Patch Express is a special train ride to visit the “Sincere Pumpkin Patch” where visitors will enjoy meeting their favorite PEANUTS™ characters, live music, story telling, tractor rides, pumpkin decorating, trick-or-treating, and other family-oriented activities. Kingston Plaza, Kingston. 688-7400. Haunted Huguenot Street 4-8pm. $30/$25 seniors, members and military. Historic Huguenot Street will transform into Haunted Huguenot Street with special interpretations of the Jean Hasbrouck House, the burial ground, the Deyo House, and the Abraham Hasbrouck House. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.
LECTURES & TALKS
Conversation: Artist/Employees at the Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry 2pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/museum.
MUSIC
Benefit Concert for Millerton Methodist Church $15-$20/$12 students and seniors/children free. Cindy Kallet, Grey Larsen and Will Brown will give a trio benefit concert. The concert will raise funds for a new heating system in the church sanctuary. Millerton United Methodist Church, Millerton. (518) 789-4655. Bard College Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. $20/$15. Program includes Beethoven, Symphony No. 8 in F Major; Reger, Four Tone Poems after Boecklin; and Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B Minor (“Pathétique”). The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. The Best of Jethro Tull 7:30pm. $103/$68/$58/$48. Performed by Ian Anderson. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Blue Gardenia Quartet 11:30am. Jazz. Grinnell Library, Wappingers Falls. 297-3428. Indian Santoor & Tabla Concert 4-6pm. $45 Patron Reserved Seating/$20. Santoor Maestro Tarun Bhattacharya is joined by young tabla star Dibyarka Chatterjee for an exciting concert of hammered dulcimer and tabla. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2926. The Jack Grace Band 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Justin Hayward: The Voice of the Moody Blues 8pm. $38-$90. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Maria Muldaur 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Violinist Akiko Kobayashi and Pianist Eric Siepkes 3:30-5pm. $15. Poughkeepsie Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8110. A Weekend of Folk/Roots/Americana Music Enjoy a friend-filled music saturated weekend at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa. Sing, jam, relax, swap songs, learn new songs and listen to and/or play with other musicians. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers 7:30 pm. Contemporary blues-rock, street-level grit, and soul. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300.
THEATER THE WORLD GOES ROUND ANDY MILFORD
The cast of “The World Goes Round”: Christopher deProphetis, Melissa Marye Lehman, Kenneth Kyle Martinez, Lisa Sabin, and Denise Summerford.
Vital Partnership It’s an unusual love story: two separate worlds searching for a new partner without knowing where to find the other. Turns out they were only a 10-minute drive apart. The story begins eight years ago, when a group of Broadway-level artists from around the country built a small theater company in the Hudson Valley. They quickly grew into the Half Moon Theatre Company, nestling into a new home at Poughkeepsie’s Black Box Theatre. But something was missing. They were hungry to bring things to a higher level. Fast forward to this past March at the unveiling of the Marriott Pavilion, a state-of-the-art performance center on the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America campus in Hyde Park. With an 800-seat auditorium to host the college’s events and guest speakers, the cooking college also craved something to take center stage. After seeing a few HMT productions, Dr. Tim Ryan, president of the CIA, turned to his team, knowing they had found their match. “Half Moon Theatre are professionals with professional Broadway and New York City theater experience,” says CIA Food and Beverage Senior Director Waldy Malouf. “The Hudson Valley should be an area where we have that sort of level of production. We do that with our food. We thought we’d do it with [HMT] as well.” And just like that, a marriage was born. Combining two leading artistic and cultural organizations together offers an experience unlike anything in the area or the nation, says Molly Renfroe Katz, executive director of HMT. “This is like taking dinner theater to a whole new level,” she says. The new partnership kicks off this fall, lasting through February with HMT’s eighth production season. Shows will run Friday and Saturday evenings, with Saturday and Sunday matinees. Guests will have the unique experience of dining at one of the CIA’s three on campus restaurants—French cuisine at The Bocuse, farm-to-table favorites at American Bounty, or authentic Italian delicacies at Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici—with the option of a $39, three-course, prix-fixe menu for the evening performances. Some of the menu items will correlate with each performance’s theme, preparing diners for what’s ahead.
This year’s season features three productions chosen specifically to fit the space and with broad-based appeal, says Katz, with tickets ranging from $35 to $45. Highenergy cabaret runs November 1 through 16 with “The World Goes Round,” featuring Kander and Ebb’s quintessential Broadway tunes, including “All That Jazz” and “New York, New York.” Come the holiday season, “It’s a Wonderful Life: The 1946 Radio Play,” will take the stage December 5 to 20, offering a winter classic for the entire family. The final performance highlights the CIA and HMT partnership at its best with Beck Mode’s “Fully Committed,” January 16-25, a comedy following one actor playing 40 different characters at a booming New York City restaurant. Katz says they hope to bring out CIA chefs before or after the show to discuss the realities of the restaurant business. It’s okay to still want to snack during the shows too. While eating’s not allowed inside, a pre-show and intermission concession stand will offer some in-house fresh pastries, grab and go meals, and a full bar with espresso drinks. CIA students and staff are encouraged to attend the performances, but Katz says she hopes this draws in the greater community, creating a regional theater between Albany and New York City for all ages and demographics. “You feel like you’re in New York City,” she says. “We want to be a fixture that in a way can touch people’s lives through entertaining, and to provide a gathering place for families that love theater.” Larger plans are in the works for more collaborations and future productions, but right now Malouf says they’ll take their time to see how this season pans out. “Let it grow organically on its own at first. We have very high hopes for it,” he says, “and think it’s going to work very, very well.” “The World Goes Round,” Half Moon Theatre’s first performance, runs November 1 to 16 at the Marriott Pavilion at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006; Halfmoontheatre.org. For lunch or dinner reservations at the CIA: (845) 471-6608; Ciarestaurantgroup.com. —Zan Strumfeld 11/14 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 87
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Beavers 10am. Spend the morning with educator Carl Heitmuller learning about the industrious habits of these mammals. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall. 534-7781. Revolutionary War Muster Day 1-5pm. $10/$8 seniors/$7 children. Visitors can fall-in with re-enactors from the 1st New York Regiment of the Continental Army to experience army life during the American Revolution. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.
THEATER
The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. The Legend of Sleep of Sleepy Hallow 2pm. $10/$5 children. Master storyteller Jonathon Kruk. Presbyterian Church, Pine Plains. (518) 398-7117. Peter Pan 3pm. $26/$24/$20 Sat. matinee. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Side By Side By Sondheim 2pm. $39/$34. Shadowland Theatre, Ellenville. 647-5511.
THURSDAY 6
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Minds, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Blues & Dance Party with Big Joe Fitz & the LoFis 7-9:30pm. Bring your dancing shoes to the best blues in the Valley. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues 8pm. $75. Special guest Mike Dawes. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
SPIRITUALITY
Private Spirit Guide Readings with Psychic Medium Adam Bernstein First Tuesday of every month, 12-6pm. $40 30 min/$75 hour. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Dance Workshop 10:30am-noon. $84/$16 per class. 6-week workshop, all levels with Clyde Forth. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Fused Glass 6-9pm. With Barbara Galazzo. 4-week class. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
East Fishkill Library Photography Group First Thursday of every month, 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145. Exodus: Newburgh Extension First Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison reentry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). Come join us to assist the new Exodus Transitional Community in Newburgh, (a reentry program for those being released from prison), as well as other matters related to Mass Incarceration. The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
COMEDY
Capitol Steps 8pm. $55. Political humor. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
DANCE
Swingin’ Newburgh First Thursday of every month. Beginner swing dance lesson provided by Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios 7-7:30. Swing Shift Orchestra plays 7:30-9pm. Newburgh Brewing Company, Newburgh. Got2lindy.com.
ANN STRATTON
The World Goes Round 2pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Growing Food in Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden 2pm. $30/$25. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
MONDAY 3
Performance and Book Signing with Peter Yarrow and Noel “Paul” Stookey: Peter Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life 7pm. Celebrate the music of Peter, Paul, & Mary with a special evening of musical performances & stories. Barnes and Noble, Kingston. 336-0590. The U. S. Navy Band Commodores 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
SPIRITUALITY
The Power of a Loving Heart with Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg & Friends 7pm. Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Through teachings, stories, chants, guided meditations, and question-and-answer sessions, we are led within to find our own inner knowledge and to open to deeper levels of courage and wisdom. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897. Private Raindrop Technique Sessions with Donna Carroll First Thursday of every month, 11:30am-6pm. $75/one hour. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
THEATER
The Bed Show 7pm. $15/$10. A work-in-progress from Amanda Palmer and Bard students. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. 2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival $15. Festival of plays presented by Tangent Theatre Company. See website for full schedule. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Newvemberfestival.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum Symposium with a number of presenters. Bard College : CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard. edu/ccs. Script to Screen: Youth Filmmaking Workshop Series 4:30-6pm. $150. In this 6-part workshop, teens learn about stop-motion animation and filmmaking, from brainstorming and scriptwriting to editing and adding special effects, in order to produce original narrative videos in multiple media. Ages 10-13. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Dutchess One Stop 10am-2pm. One-on-one sessions with Dutchess One Stop professionals will help you develop your job search direction. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.
LITERARY & BOOKS
From Dyslexia to Pulitzer: The Narrative Gift 5:30pm. Philip Schultz will read from his poetry and his acclaimed memoir, My Dyslexia. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu. Julia Elliott Reads her Eassy “The Wilds” 2:30pm. Olin Auditorium at Bard College, Annandaleon-Hudson. 758-7003. Speaking of Books First Monday of every month, 7pm. Non-fiction book discussion group. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 471-6580.
MUSIC
Bizet’s Carmen: the Met Live in HD 5:30pm. $25/$20 members/$18 season/$15 students. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
THEATER
Me and Ella 6pm. $50. A young woman tells her story of how Ella Fitzgerald impacted her life. 721 Media Center, Kingston. (845) 338-3810.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Crafting a Thriving Venture for the New Economy 6-9pm. $70/$375 series/$300 for Etsy sellers and Re>Think Local and BEAHIVE members/scholarships available. A unique series of 6 workshops for ‘craft’ entrepreneurs and local businesses. Etsy Hudson, Hudson. Bit.ly/impactHV2014. EFT & Law of Attraction Prosperity Circle 6pm. $15. FInancial issues resolved quickly with 5,000 year old technique. TG Parker, Kingston. 706-2183.
TUESDAY 4 DANCE
Introduction to Belly Dance Class First Tuesday of every month, 7-8pm. No experience necessary! Artspace at Ed Dempsey Tattoos, Woodstock. 594-8673.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Reiki Practitioner Share First Tuesday of every month, 6:30pm. The evening begins with a centering meditation, connecting to our Reiki guides and an opportunity to share about reiki experiences. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
LECTURES & TALKS
The Environmental Defense of West Point During the American Revolution 7:30pm. Cornwall Presbyterian Church, Cornwall.
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Roasted butternut squash soup with candied pecans at Mill House Brewery in Poughkeepsie.
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week We don’t hold it against our friends at Valley Table magazine that Restaurant Week is actually a fortnight (November 3 to 16)—that just gives us an extra week to eat at the 200 restaurants between Westchester and Albany participating in this culinary adventure. We’ll be taking advantage of the three-course prix fixe lunch ($20.95) and dinner ($29.50) menus at some of favorite restaurants (Terrapin, The Would, Henry’s at the Farm) and trying out some new ones we’ve been meaning to get to (Frogmore Tavern, Valley Restaurant at the Garrison, Bluestone Bistro). Chefs focus on producing meals made with local products, drawn from the 2,500 farms in the seven-county Restaurant Week area. Hudsonvalleyrestaurantweek.com
WEDNESDAY 5 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
RAPP Coffee & Conversation First Wednesday of every month, 5:30-7:30pm. The Relatives As Parents Program (RAPP) implements monthly Coffee and Conversation support groups for grandparents and other relatives raising children. The Coffee and Conversation support groups are designed to provide education and resources to address the needs and concerns experienced by relative caregivers. Immaculate Conception Church, Amenia. 914-3738.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Toddler-Preshcool Yoga 10-10:45am. $50/3 class series. 18 months-5 years. A fun, energetic class where we join together, grownups and children, exploring the concepts of yoga in a playful way. Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223. Veteran’s Retreat Through Nov. 9. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush.
LECTURES & TALKS
“Caniba-Cariba: Cannibalism, Ecology and Gender Difference in Early Colonial Latin America 5:30pm. Presented by Scholar Patricia Ferrer-Medina. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
MUSIC
Lindsey Webster 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Syracuse & Siegel 8-10:30pm. With special guests. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
THEATER
The Bed Show 7pm. $15/$10. A work-in-progress from Amanda Palmer and Bard students. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Bereavement Support Group 5:30-6:30pm. This expressive support group is open to the community and led by Adrienne London, LCSW-R. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-3101. Laryngectomy Support Group First Thursday of every month, 11am-noon. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 483-7391. Pre-Operative Spine Education Sessions First Thursday of every month, noon. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 204-4299.
LECTURES & TALKS
The Role of Jewish-American Patriotism in Shaping American Music 7pm. Panel discussion. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Author Elizabeth Rosner: Electric City 5pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Author Reading: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 11:45am-1pm. Author of the story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262. Book Club: The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto 3pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Elizabeth Bishop Lecture: Poet Mark Strand 6pm. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu. Word Cafe 6-7pm. $15/$150 series of 12. Hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. This unique blend of reading series, author interview, and writing class will meet every Thursday this fall. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. 331-0030.
MUSIC
Cafe Singer Showcase with Barbara Dempsey & Dewitt Nelson 7-9:30pm. Barbara and Dewitt welcome three individual performers to the Cafe Showcase. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Compact’s Radio Release Party 7-11pm. $15/$12 in advance. Special musical guests, as well as press, radio, friends, and fans will be attending this big event. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
FRIDAY 7 ART GALLERIES
Roger Mason Paintings of Chatham and Beyond Opening reception November 7, 5pm-7pm The Chatham Bookstore, Chatham. (518) 392-3005.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Saugerties First Friday 6-9pm. Make sure to visit Main and Market to celebrate art, beauty and fresh veggies. Several new galleries are hosting openings and there is music galore. Downtown Saugerties, Saugerties.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
HV: Create First Friday of every month, 8:30am. Designers, artists, writers, teachers, coaches, musicians, scholars, & other intellectually curious, creative-minded people gather for facilitated round-table conversations, riffs on creativity & work, Icarus Sessions, community announcements. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 679-9441.
DANCE
Cajun Dance to Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew 8-11pm. $15/$10 FT students. Beginners’ lesson at 7pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061. Swing Salon 8-11pm. $12. Dance lesson from 8-8:30pm by professional swing dance instructors, Linda and Chester Freeman of Got2Lindy Dance Studios followed by an evening of dancing to classic and contemporary swing music. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 236-3939.
FILM
Films of Palestine Series: To See If I’m Smilin 7-8:30pm. This film is the personal account of six women in the Israeli Defense Force who served in the Occupied Territories. The documentary explores the moral challenges female soldiers face in being part of the oppression of the Palestinian people. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884. Warren Miller’s No Turning Back 8pm. $23. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Williamstown Film Festival 8pm. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
MUSIC
British Singer-Songwriter Bobby Long 8pm. The Linda WAMCs Performing Arts Studio, Albany. 518-465-5233. Joanna Mosca and Peter Calo 8:30 pm. Name one of the Top 10 Female Country Singers To Watch for 2014 by Examiner.com and Digital Journal. 8:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe. (845) 855-1300. David Bromberg Big Band 8pm. $39-$65. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Get The Led Out 8pm. $45. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. James Maddock 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
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Rick Birmingham 8pm. Acoustic. Hopped Up Cafe, High Falls. 6874750. Salsa Night with Los Mas Valientes 8pm. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. SugarBad 9:30pm. Funk. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Todd Rundgren Promises An Unpredictable Evening 8-10:30pm. $59.50/$79.50. Singer/songwriter. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914)739-0039.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Making Musical Memories Cabaret 7pm. $50. Proceeds to benefit Support Connection and The Barbara E. Giordano Women’s Health and Education Foundation. Step back in time for an evening of cabaret! Enjoy performances by Helene Kelly, Paul Greenwood, and renowned blues/jazz singer Randa McNamara. Cash bar, raffles, silent auction. Trattoria 160, Pleasantville. (914) 962-6402.
SPIRITUALITY
Kirtan with Krishna Das 8-10:30pm. $35. Krishna Das is known as the Chant master of American Yoga. Layering traditional Indian kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
Blau Gallery “Out to Luncheon” New work by Gary Zeien in Galleries One and Two. “It’s realy All About Me.” work by Eric Davis Laxman in the Beacon Room. Opening reception November 8, 6pm-7pm. Beacon. (845) 440-7584. Beacon Second Saturday A city-wide celebration where galleries and shops stay open until 9pm, most along Main Street. Free gallery talks, live music, and wine tasting. Beaconarts.org.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Green Eileen 11am-3pm. Shop a collection of gently worn Eileen Fisher clothing. Your purchases support organizations that uplift the lives of women and girls. Fiberflame Studio, Saugerties. 679-6132.
COMEDY
Comedian Kathleen Madigan 8pm. $15-$34. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum Symposium with a number of presenters. Bard College : CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard. edu/ccs. Group Healing Sessions to Nourish Your Soul First Friday of every month, 6:30-8pm. $35. A sacred circle to connect, explore and expand. SkyBaby Yoga & Pilates, Cold Spring. (646) 387-1974.
SATURDAY 8 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Landscapes & Bodyscapes Opening reception November 8, 6pm-8pm Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-1915. Kate Knapp: The Manhattan Paintings Opening reception November 8, 3pm-6pm 510 Warren St Gallery, Hudson. (518) 822-0510. A Gathering in Thankfulness: Ian Sharp and Friends Opening reception November 8, 5:30pm-8:30pm Amity Gallery, Warwick. 258-0818.
dance the night away. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
FILM
Silent Film Series: Dragnet Girl 7-9pm. Jazz musician Cary Brown creates and plays a live, original score for each of the films in this series. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040. Warren Miller’s No Turning Back 8pm. $23. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
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The Ball: Hudson River Harvest Concert 4:30-6:30pm. Pianist Diane Walsh and Four Nations Director and harpsichordist Andrew Appel accompany 4 dancers in the dances of the day in 19th century Vienna and 18th century Paris. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10.
Bushwick 8pm. 6-piece Indie rock band/collection. The Anchor, Kingston. 901-9991. Cory Henry Trio of Snarky Puppy 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Foreigner’s Lou Gramm 8pm. $55/$45/$35. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Hudson Valley Philharmonic Lincoln’s New World 8pm. Bardavon Opera House, Pok. 473-2072. Leo B 9pm. Acoustic. The Publik House, Ellenville. Thepublikhouseny.com.
Warren Miller’s “No Turning Back” 8pm. $23. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
The Machine performs Pink Floyd 8pm. $30-$48. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
FOOD & WINE
The Paul Green Rock Academy 1pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
American Patriotic Dinner and Show 5-9pm. $20. Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 895-2952.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Breath Body Mind: Stress Reduction Workshop 10am-3pm. $45/$40 members. Includes snacks and light lunch. YMCA, Kingston. 338-3810. Dropping Down into Stillness: An Afternoon of Deep Relaxation and Restoration with Donna Sherman 2:30-5pm. $25. This rejuvenating afternoon is designed to usher you into a profoundly restorative state of equanimity. You will be compassionately guided into body/brain practices that are designed to quiet your mind and settle your nervous system. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 255-8212.
KIDS & FAMILY
Elska 8pm. Music for kids. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
LECTURES & TALKS
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8:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300
The Lady in Question Drag icon Charles Busch is best known for starring in the film Die Mommy Die and writing the Tony Award-winning “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.” His idiosyncratic camp style owes an equal debt in equal parts to femme fatales like Lana Turner and the exaggerated productions of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company. “The Lady in Question,” a Busch farce from 1988, blends a sensational retro spoof with a psychological thriller, following the tale of selfabsorbed Gertrude Garnett, who is forced to battle her narcissistic behavior when aiding a handsome American bent on rescuing his mother from Nazi Germany. The play will be staged at the STS Playhouse in Phoenicia November 1 to 16, with performances Thursday through Sunday. Tickets are $16 for students, seniors, and members of the STS Playhouse, and $20 for general admission. Reservations are recommended. Stsplayhouse.com; (845) 688-2279.
The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare 7:30-9pm. $15, $10 Students. Kaliyuga Arts presents The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) production of Shakespeare’s epic poem The Rape of Lucrece, Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. 518-943-3818.
7th Annual Circles of Caring Conference 8:30am-3:30pm. $25/includes breakfast and lunch. Healthy aging and care-giving: speakers, workshops, experts, community, tips. Garden Plaza Hotel, Kingston.
Suzanne Vega with special guest Joe Crookston
Salsa Lesson and Dance Party with Carlos Osorio 8pm. $12 at the door. All levels salsa class and then
Peter Pan 8pm. $26/$24/$20 Sat. matinee. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Abraham & The Groove 9-11:30pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Brother Sun 8pm. $23/$5 children. Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock, and a cappella singing, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest of male singing traditions. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815.
New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Sara Mearns and Jared Angle 7pm. Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, Poughkeepsie. Vassar.edu.
The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival $15. Festival of plays presented by Tangent Theatre Company. See website for full schedule. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Newvemberfestival.com.
MUSIC
DANCE
THEATER
The World Goes Round 8pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.
Simple Recipes for Joy: A Book Talk, Signing and Party with Author Sharon Gannon 2pm. Mirabai of Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-2100.
Bill’s Toupee 9pm. Covers. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646.
The Power of a Loving Heart with Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg & Friends 7pm. Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Through teachings, stories, chants, guided meditations, and question-and-answer sessions, we are led within to find our own inner knowledge and to open to deeper levels of courage and wisdom. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
The Bed Show 7pm. $15/$10. A work-in-progress from Amanda Palmer and Bard students. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.
Playing Charlie Cool 6-7pm. Award-winning local author Laurie Boris reads from her new book. The Golden Notebook, Woodstock. 679-8000.
Silas Rossi Slide Show 8pm. Rock & Snow, New Paltz. 255-1311.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Now and Yesterday: New York Gay Life in a Memoir and a Novel 5-7pm. Authors Felice Picano and Stephen Greco take a fond look-sometimes sharp, often humorous–at New York’s gay life today and in the 1970s. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
Quiet in the Head 8pm. $5. Original acoustic music. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Roger Hodgson and Band 7-10pm. $125-$150. Roger Hodgson, legendary vocalist and singer-songwriter from Supertramp. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Singer and Trombonist Glen David Andrews 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Sitar Concert with Partha Bose 7-9pm. $25/$10 students. Partha Bose will enchant with the sounds of the Sitar. Shanti Mandir, Walden. 778-1008. Slam Allen 8pm. $15. Blend of soul and blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Dave Fields Band 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Valerie Capers Quartet 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Voices of the American Musical Theatre: Ya Got Me: Songs for Two or Three 8-10pm. $18-$26. Americn songbook featuring local favorites Molly Parker-Myers, Kevin Archambault and Victoria Howland. Musical direction by Paul Schubert. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Foreigner’s Lou Gramm 8pm. $37-$57. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. (845) 610-5900.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Golden Autumn Auction 1-4:30pm. $5. Annual silent and live auction. Offerings include gift certificates to local restaurants, bookstores, Hudson River Cruises and many hand-crafted items. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884. Native American Basket Workshop and Thanksgiving Potluck 10am-3pm. $35. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Sinterklaas Star Party 5:30-7:30pm. First appearance of the honored animal an the illuminated star, many activities, story telling and more. Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn, Rhinebeck. Sinterklaashudsonvalley.com. Used Jewelry Sale 10am-2pm. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Outdoor Skills Workshop 10am-5pm. $65/$30 ages 11-17/+$10 at the door. We teach you the necessary skills for a successful and safe camping trip in the woods. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. (914) 482-5771.
SPIRITUALITY
The Power of a Loving Heart with Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg & Friends 7pm. Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897.
THEATER
2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival $15. Festival of plays presented by Tangent Theatre Company. See website for full schedule. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Newvemberfestival.com. The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. The Night of the Witches Wedding 6pm. Presented by Murder Cafe. Knights of Colombus, Wappingers Falls. 297-9049. Peter Pan 8pm. $26/$24/$20 Sat. matinee. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare 7:30-9pm. $15, $10 Students. Kaliyuga Arts presents The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) production. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. 518-943-3818. The Bed Show 7pm. $15/$10. A work-in-progress from Amanda Palmer and Bard students. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. The World Goes Round 2pm/8pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Color and Energy Through Nov. 9 with Karen O’Neil. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum Symposium with a number of presenters. Bard College : CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard. edu/ccs. Learn How to Crochet with Peggy Norton 1-2pm. $40. Learn three basic crochet stitches: chain, single, and double as you make a simple scarf during four 1 hour sessions. Students must bring worsted weight yarn, at least 210 yards of one color, or at least 105 yards each of two different colors, plus a crochet hook size H-8/5mm. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 863-4632. Making More Plants: Propagating Your Own Woody Plants 10am-noon. $40/$35. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
SUNDAY 9 COMEDY
Comedian Ralphie May 8pm. $45. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
DANCE
Sunday Afternoon Tango with Ilene Marder Second Sunday of every month, 3pm. $12 at the door. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261. Swing Dance to a Live Band 6:30-9pm. $12/$6 FT students. Lesson at 6pm. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. A variety of items, including re-finished furniture, antiques, vintage purses, mid-century cookware, collectible vinyl, old books, handmade jewelry, and local crafts. Beacon Flea Market, Beacon. 202-0094. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744. 43rd Annual Railroad Exposition 10am-3pm. Adults $5, Children under 12 $2. Operation layouts, modular layouts, hobby exhibits and more. Event supports restoration and operation of the historic 100 year old 191 Hyde Park Train Station Museum. (845) 297-0901.
ART SHOJO MANGA
Above: Miyako Maki, Maki no Kuchibuye (Maki’s Whistle), 2006, (originally published in 1960). Right: Akimi Yoshida, Banana Fish vol. 19, 1994, (originally published in 1985-1994).
A Perfect Day for Banana Fish Japanese pop culture is one of the weirdest, most fertile, most unpredictable artforms on earth. Twentysomethings who read manga, watch anime, and sing karaoke—while collecting Hello Kitty dolls—intuitively recognize the strength of Japanese popular art. Manga (the Japanese graphic novel) is the largest cultural export of Japan. Over a quarter of all publications in Japan are manga. Shojo manga means “manga for girls.” An exhibition of Japanese illustration, “World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires,” is now at Vassar College and Dutchess County Community College. The show covers manga from the 1950s to the present, with earlier pieces displayed at Vassar and later artwork at DCCC. Shojo manga began in magazines like Ribbon and Asuka, which publish numerous serials weekly or monthly. If a storyline is popular, the episodes will be collected into a book—and if that succeeds, the story could be animated (anime). The magazines are very precisely marketed; as a Japanese girl moves from middle school to high school, she may switch from reading Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams) to Derakkusu Maagaretto (Deluxe Margaret). The word “manga” was originally applied to satirical sketches by the artist Katsushika Hokusai published in 1814. He defined the term as “brush gone wild.” Manga suggests caricature and comedy—almost exactly like the term comic book, which is still current, though few American graphic stories are comical. The quintessential manga girl, with big eyes and a lithe, adolescent body, was invented by Japanese magazine artists in the 1930s. “Some illustrators studied in France and other European countries, so they used those Western techniques,” explains Vassar professor Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, who brought “World of Shojo Manga!” to the Hudson Valley. “They also had a traditional Japanese-style lyricism; so it’s really a blend of Western and Japanese drawing styles. And that continued to shojo manga.”
Before World War II, girls’ manga consisted of short comic strips in magazines. After the war and the American occupation (1945-52), cartoons became longer and explored serious themes. In the 1970s, feminism hit manga, largely because women began writing and drawing the comics. Visually, the girl protagonists still maintained a façade of wide-eyed innocence, but they struggled to balance career and love. Popular shojo manga concern sports, such as skating, badminton, and hockey. Typically, the boyfriend of the heroine encourages her to excel. Not all girls’ manga have female protagonists. The cover of Banana Fish 19 by Akimi Yoshida shows two dashing young men with tousled hairdos—one blond, one blackhaired. The novel’s storyline begins during the war in Vietnam, when an American soldier goes mad and guns down his fellow soldiers. Since then, the only words he has uttered are “banana fish.” The story, which spans 19 volumes, involves gang war in New York City, a pedophile Mafia chieftain, and a series of puzzling suicides. (The title suggests that Yoshida read J. D. Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.”) To avoid showing naked women, manga artists depict gay male sexuality. Thus the handsome men on the cover of Banana Fish are probably lovers. Japanese cartoons combine the familiar and the exotic. “In manga, we have the ‘sound of silence,’” Dollase reveals. “Manga, in general, tend to use a lot of onomatopoeia—and they even have a sound effect for silence. They write ‘Shin,’ which means ‘complete silence.’” “World of Shojo Manga! Mirrors of Girls’ Desires” will be exhibited at the James W. Palmer Gallery at Vassar College and at the Mildred I. Washington Art Gallery Duchess County Community College through November 21. Vassar: (845) 437-5370; DCCC: (845) 431-8000. —Sparrow
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FILM
TUESDAY 11
SPIRITUALITY
Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity 3pm. $10/$9 members/$6 children. Take an exhilarating journey with MacArthur “Genius” daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers as they push the boundaries between action and art in pursuit of human flight. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. Riding My Way Back 4pm. High and Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Alexander Yoga with Joan Arnold 10am. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393.
KIDS & FAMILY 43rd Annual Railroad Exposition 10am-3pm. $5/under 2 free. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
LECTURES & TALKS Fall Nature Walk and Picnic 10am-1pm. Join Linda Atkins and Pearl Broder of KEEP Conservation, and Conrad and Claudia Vispo of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program for a leisurely walk through the preserve. Germantown Library, Germantown. (518) 672-7994.
MUSIC The Battlefield Bnad 7pm. Eighth Step @ Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. Ben Sollee 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Bernstein Bard Quartet 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Greg Westhoff’s Westchester Swing Band 5:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Melissa Ferrick with special guest Linda Draper 7:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Jazz at the Falls: Bill Bannan & Friends 12-3pm. Host Bill Bannan takes the stage for this installment of the Jazz at the Falls Sunday Brunch series. Backing up Bill is Paul Duffy on piano, John Menegon on bass, and T Xiques on drums. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Kairos: A Consort of Singers 4pm. J.S. Bach’s B-Minor Mass. St. Joseph’s Church, New Paltz. 255-5635. Ladies of the Valley Concert 7pm. $75/$50/$35/$25. To benefit Family of Woodstock’s Crisis Hotline & Walk-In Center. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.
The Power of a Loving Heart with Krishna Das, Sharon Salzberg & Friends 2pm. Cultivate your natural capacity for faith, compassion, and love with Krishna Das and Sharon Salzberg. Menla Mountain Retreat & Conference Center, Phoenicia. 688-6897. Women’s Full Moon Gathering 7-8:30pm. $10. We will hold circle in the Ceremonial Tipi. Our Circle is a gathering of women, coming together to draw upon the powerful, rich energies of the full moon. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
THEATER
2014 NEWvember New Plays Festival $15. Festival of plays presented by Tangent Theatre Company. See website for full schedule. Carpenter Shop Theater, Tivoli. Newvemberfestival.com. The Lady in Question 2pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Menopause The Musical 2pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Peter Pan 3pm. $26/$24/$20 Sat. matinee. Rhinebeck Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare 7:30-9pm. $15, $10 Students. Kaliyuga Arts presents The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC) production. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. (518) 943-3818. Story Faces 2pm. Catering to family audiences, Christopher Agostino shares discoveries from his 30-year adventure in theatre, storytelling, and painting faces. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. Bethelwoodscenter.org/ events/detail/story-faces. The Bed Show 2pm/7pm. $15/$10. A work-in-progress from Amanda Palmer and Bard students. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7900. The World Goes Round 2pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Abstract Comics with Meredith Rosier Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum Symposium with a number of presenters. Bard College : CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson. Bard. edu/ccs.
Piano Concert by George Winston 7:30pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1061.
Triple Threat Acting Intensive 9am-6pm. $60. A half day program geared toward students with a strong passion for the performing arts. Dutchess County Performing Arts Center, Wappingers Falls. (212) 592-0197.
Ray LaMontagne 7:30pm. $39.50-$59. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Jazz & Conversation with Laurel Masse 2-4pm. $15-$25. Laurel Masse was 1/4 of the legendary Manhattan Transfer. With Vinnie Martucci. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Trio Cavatina 4pm. Their program will include trios by Beethoven and Schubert and a newly commissioned work by Douglas Boyce. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988. Vassar College and Community Wind Ensemble 3pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Winds in the Wilderness 3pm. Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Copake Falls. (518) 329-3674.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS Ottaway Family Champagne Brunch noon. $100. The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum will be celebrating the Ottaway Family, represented by Jim Ottaway, Jr., as a “First Family for the Environment in the Hudson Valley. Powelton Club, Newburgh. 561-4481.
MONDAY 10 Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network! (ENJAN) is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston.
FILM
The Goonies 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Gay In The Great War 6pm. Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie. A program combining literature and music from World War I will provide a dramatized reading from Flower of Iona presented by author Lance Ringel with period music by Chucck Muckle. Freee admission. RSVP to events @artsmidhudson.com or call (845) 454-3222.
MUSIC
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 8pm. With special guest Bill Payne. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Hot Rize.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
7:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300.
7th Annual Fall Harvest Race Proceeds benefit Guiding Eyes for the Blind and other site and hearing causes. A 7.5 mile scenic challenge run, a walk/run and a Kids Run for 9 and under. Village of Cornwall, Cornwall. Fallharvestrace.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Family Volunteer Landscape Day 10am-3pm. Help us clear leaves from the stone steps and trail leading from Mary’s Meadow. We’ll enjoy a bonfire, toasted marshmallows and hot cider as the last leaves fall. Manitoga, Garrison. 424-3812.
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Crafting a Thriving Venture for the New Economy 6-9pm. $70/$375 series/$300 for Etsy sellers and Re>Think Local and BEAHIVE members/scholarships available. A unique series of 6 workshops for ‘craft’ entrepreneurs and local businesses. Etsy Hudson, Hudson. Bit.ly/impactHV2014. Red Cross Shelter Training Exercise 1-4pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. Https:// classes.redcross.org/Saba/Web/Main. Where It Grows, Where It Goes: Achieving Local Food Security 9am-4:30pm. $50/$25 student and farmer/$100 vendor. Join us for a dynamic and cutting-edge conference that offers abundant opportunities for dialogue and networking. We will offer presentations, roundtable discussions and panels discussions. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. (800) 772-6646. EFT & Law of Attraction Prosperity Circle 6pm. $15. FInancial issues resolved quickly with 5,000 year old technique. TG Parker, Kingston. 706-2183.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Solopreneurs Sounding Board Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9pm. donation. Struggling with a work issue? Need a perspective shift? Take advantage of collective intelligence (“hive mind”) and an inspiring meeting place to work out creative solutions to problems. Beahive Beacon, Beacon. Beahivebzzz.com.
LECTURES & TALKS
Animals and other Creatures of the Japanese Enlightenment 5:30pm. Presented by Japanese history expert and Harvard professor Ian Miller. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Monthly Open House with Dharma Talk Second Tuesday of every month, 7pm. free. Shambhala Buddhist teachers talk on a variety of topics at our Open House. Second Tuesday of every month, after community meditation practice. Meditation: 6-7pm, Talk 7pm, followed by tea, cookies, and converation. Sky Lake Lodge, Rosendale. 658-8556.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Afternoon Book Club Second Tuesday of every month, 2:30-4pm. Discussion of a different book each 2nd Tuesday of the month. Please see website or call for current title and details. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241. Mark Scarbrough’s Fall Book Discussion Discussing A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, CT. (860) 364-5041.
MUSIC
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams 8pm. With special guest Bill Payne. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Piano Riot 8pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Dance Workshop 10:30am-noon. $84/$16 per class. 6-week workshop, all levels with Clyde Forth. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Tea and Stones Second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Come experience an hour of connecting to the magic of the mineral kingdom over a cup of herbal tea. Each month we’ll explore a different stone from our vast collection, we’ll learn all about their healing qualities, history and ways to incorporate them into our daily lives. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206.
WEDNESDAY 12 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network! (ENJAN) is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Stroke Support Group Second Wednesday of every month, 11am-noon. Is for patients and family members to share information, express concerns, and find support and friends. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 483-6319.
KIDS & FAMILY
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book #9: 6:30pm. $16. This event will take place at Bulkeley Middle School, Rhinebeck. To make this a fun and safe event, everyone (including parents, siblings or chaperones) will be required to have a ticket. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. Oblongbooks.com/ WimpyKid.
MUSIC
Brian Lynch & Emmet Cohen 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Classical Music Concert-Guitar 7pm. Works of Paganini, Giuliani, Mertz and other composers will be performed on a reproduction Panormo guitar based on an original 1830 model. Historical background of the music, instruments, and composers (contemporaries of Beethoven, Schubert and Rossini), will be provided. Rosendale Public Library, Rosendale. 658-9013. Eric Roth 7pm. Classical music guitar concert. Syracuse & Siegel 8-10:30pm. With special guests. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
The Northern Dutchess Hospital Mothers’ Club Fashion Show 6:30pm. $60. The Mothers’ Club event includes cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a runway show featuring clothing and accessories from many local merchants modeled by Marist College’s fashion club. Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn, Rhinebeck. 871-1711.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Munay-Ki Rites Series 6:30-8:30pm. $150 series/$45 session. Rhianna Mirabello will be facilitating this in-depth four evening series. The series will include receiving of all nine Munay-Ki rites, receiving your own Pi stone through
which your rites with be transmitted, along with fire ceremonies and other ways of strengthening the rites. Dreaming Goddess, Poughkeepsie. 473-2206. Terrain for Garden Shoppers: Terrarium Demonstration and Shopping Experience 10:30am-1:30pm. $45/$40. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
THURSDAY 13 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Vassar Haiti Project 5:30-8pm. Vibrant Haitian art, live entertainment, from Vassar student musicians and cuisine from Twisted Soul. The reception funds the staffing, supply, and operation of a medical center in northwest Haiti. Vassar College Ulumni House. (970) 946-7614.
BUSINESS & NETWORKING
Hudson Valley Garden Association Monthly Meeting Second Thursday of every month, 7pm. Shawangunk Town Hall, Wallkill. 418-3640. Women in Business Luncheon 11:30am-2pm. Presented by Hudson Valley Magazine. Sheila Appel, IBM’s U.S. regional director of corporate citizenship will be the keynote speaker. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 462-4600.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Kingston-Rhinebeck Toastmasters Club Second Thursday of every month, 7-9pm. Practice public speaking skills. Ulster County Office Building, Kingston. 338-5184. Meeting of Middle East Crisis Response 7-8:30pm. The Middle East Crisis Response is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined together to promote peace and human rights in Palestine and the Middle East. Woodstock Library, Woodstock. 679-4693. Office for the Aging Community Meeting 1pm. Saugerties Senior Center, Saugerties. The Relatives As Parents Program Support Group Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8440.
LECTURES & TALKS
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority 5:30pm. Historian Ellen Wu. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370. Writers Reading at the Library: John Cronin & Susan Fox Rogers 6-8pm. Author Susan Fox Rogers and environmentalist John Cronin will read from and discuss their work about the Hudson River. Julia L. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring. 265-3040.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Publication Studio: Reading by Craig Dworkin 7pm. Dworkin reads from his work and shares insights into the “infraordinary.” The Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. (413) 597-2430. Word Cafe 6-7pm. $15/$150 series of 12. Hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. This unique blend of reading series, author interview, and writing class will meet every Thursday this fall. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. 331-0030.
MUSIC
Arlo Guthrie 7:30pm. $15-$42. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945. Yarn with special guest Jack Grace. 7:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Bucky Pizzarelli & Ed Laub Duo 8pm. Opener: Glenn Roth. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. A Sufi Festival of Music & Dance 4-9pm. Through vibrant music and dance workshops; spellbinding performances; Sufi storytelling, and guided meditation, we will come together in community and friendship. Enjoy delicious, organic meals, and witness autumn sunsets over the hills. The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon. (518) 794-8095. Jazzed Up 11am. Featuring NYC JazzReach’s Metta Quintet and the Poughkeepsie High School Jazz Ensemble. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Steve Hackett, Genesis Extended 8pm. $75. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Thunderhead Organ Trio 7:30pm. Jazz. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
3D Printer Class: Make. Model. Create. Print 6:30pm. Field Library, Peekskill. (914) 737-1212. Enchanted Mosaics Workshop 7-9pm. $95 includes supplies. This workshop is hosted by a local artist. Learn how to mosaic every day items into beautiful pieces of art. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 702-4472.
How to Write a Good Artist Statement 6-9pm. Part two held on Nov. 20. With Faheem Haider. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Relatives As Parents Program Coffee & Conversation Support Group Second Thursday of every month, 6-7:30pm. The Coffee and Conversation support groups are designed to provide education and resources to address the needs and concerns experienced by relative caregivers. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 677-8223.
FRIDAY 14 FILM
Airplane! 7:30pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. A Festival of Short Independent Films. Red Hook Film Festival. Through November 15. Red Hook Fire Hall. $12. (718) 596-2506. Reality, Truth, and Conscious Light 7:30pm. A beautiful new film and presentation on the Life, Teaching, and Living Spiritual Presence of Avatar Adi Da Samraj (1939-2008). Learn about His core teaching on the true nature of reality and ourselves, and the root-cause of all human suffering. Sojourner Truth Library, New Paltz. Library.newpaltz.edu.
KIDS & FAMILY
Cub’s Place Second Friday of every month, 6-7:30pm. Activities and support for children in grades K-5 and their parents dealing with a serious family illness or crisis. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.
LECTURES & TALKS
Birthright 7pm. Stephen Kellert, Senior Research Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a pioneer in the field of biophilia—the study of human beings’ inherent affinity for nature—provides a fresh understanding of how much our essential humanity relies on being a part of the natural world. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.
LITERARY & BOOKS
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. I Laid An Egg 11am. New York City’s renowned puppetry troop presents the original children’s story I Laid an Egg. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. Bethelwoodscenter.org/events/detail/double-imagetheater-lab.
Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. The World Goes Round 2pm/8pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Entering a New Chapter: Curiosity as the Foundation of Resilience Through Nov. 16. With Robert Levithan. Old Stone Farm, Staatsburgh. 876-3977.
SATURDAY 15 ART GALLERIES AND EXHIBITS
Theodore Roszak: Lithographs Opening reception November 15, 6pm-8pm John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907. Carl Andre Symposium. 11am-5pm through Sunday November 16. DIA:Beacon. Two day symposium brings together art historians and curators to discuss and debate the legacy of Carl Andre’s work. Beacon. clofrese@diaart.org
MUSIC
DANCE
Bruce Katz Band “Homecoming” CD Release 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. An Evening to Cherish! 8-10pm. $34/$39/$49. The first electric group to break through the anti-rock biases in many of the major venues across the country, The Association is one of the greatest rock vocal groups of the 1960s. Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill. (914) 739-0039 ext. 2. The Geoff Hartwell Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Gov’t Mule 8pm. $45/$35/$30. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Pianist George Winston 8pm. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 454-3388. Pythias Braswell 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006. Second Friday Jam with Jeff Entin & Bob Blum 8-11:30pm. The duo, who have been playing together since before the term Jam Band was coined, will be playing and hosting something a little more experimental than the usual fare plus a few special guest joining in. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Live! On Stage Jonathan Richman 9:30pm. $15. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. (845) 658-8989.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
25th Anniversary Center for Creative Education Show and Gala 7pm. $10/$5 students. The event will feature performances by the Energy Dance Company, POOK (the Percussion Orchestra of Kingston) and the students from the CCE’s after school dance and music programs. There will also be a special appearance by Energy alumni recreating their award-winning choreography. Kingston High School, Kingston. CCE4me.org. The Orange County Art Awards 5:30pm. Umbra of Newburgh Sound Stages, Newburgh. (855) 536 6973.
PETS
Cesar Milan 8pm. $58-$180. Cesar Millan will reveal the secrets of happier, healthier relationships between humans and their canine companions in his exciting live show. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
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The Lady in Question 8pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279.
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Bluegrass Gospel Project 8pm. $18. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
EIGHT DAY WEEK
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
Author and Psychologist Patricia O’Gorman 7pm. Presenting The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman¹s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Ace Frehley 8-11pm. $57/$47/$37. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. Ticketmaster.com.
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Voices of Diversity Third Saturday of every month, 12-2:30pm. A social network for LGBTQ people of color. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 331-5300.
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Country Dance with Eric Hollman 7:30-10pm. $15-$25. Community contra and square dancing, led by caller Eric Hollman. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Frolic Dance 8:30pm-12:30am. $5-410/teens and seniors $2-$7/ kinds un 13 and volunteers free. The Freestyle Frolic is an all-ages dance party for dance lovers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. 658-8319. Salsa Lesson and Dance Party with Carlos Osorio 8pm. $12 at the door. All levels salsa class and then dance the night away. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261. Starburst Gala of Dance $200. This one night event offers performances from Michele Wiles of BalletNext, Anna Bergman with pianist Lee Musiker, Wendy Whelan of New York City Ballet, and more. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 x10. Starburst of Dance Gala Dinner, dessert, music, and internationally acclaimed dancers. Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Tivoli. 757-5106 ext. 2 or 10.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire 10am-4pm. $10 ages 5+. The Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire is a fun and family-friendly event that celebrates what the mid-Hudson Valley is inventing, making and creating. It brings together makers, crafters, farmers, inventors, hackers, scientists and artists of all ages in one place for learning, play, spectacle and inspiration. Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie. 462-7600, ext-110. Repair Cafe-New Paltz Sep. 20, 10am-3pm. A free community meeting place to bring a beloved but broken item to be repaired. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. (646) 302-5835. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
FILM
A Film About Sol LeWitt 2pm. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111. Nicholas Roerich: Messenger of Beauty 8pm. $8. Tibetan Center, Kingston. 383-1774.
KIDS & FAMILY
Being a Magician in a Muggle World 10am-5pm. $90-$150/day. In this workshop, we’ll explore just that. Play with ceremony, hypnosis, dreaming, singing, music, puppets, and our imaginations. The instructors are known for their willingness to be playfully ridiculous and create a magically delicious learning environment. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488.
ROSEN DALE THEATRE 408 Main Street Rosendale, NY 1 2472 845.658.8989 rosendaletheatre.org
NOVEMBER 1 LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES! GALA FUNDRAISER, 6:30 pm NOVEMBER 2 SILENT FILM SUNDAY: DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (1920) $7, 3:00 pm NOVEMBER 9 DANCE FILM: BORN TO FLY: ELIZABETH STREB VS. GRAVITY $10, 3:00 pm NOVEMBER 14 LIVE! ON STAGE JONATHAN RICHMAN $15, 9:30 pm NOVEMBER 22 AMERICA’S NEXT TOP WITH JULIE NOVAK $20, 9:30 pm NOVEMBER 23 NATIONAL THEATRE FROM LONDON: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $12, 3:00 pm D O N ’ T
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LECTURES & TALKS
Behind Bars 3-5pm. A panel discussion about prisons in conjunction with the exhibition Henrietta Mantooth: Jailbirds & Flowers Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. 679-2079.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Friends Used Book Sale 10am-4pm. Books are sorted and most range from $0.25 to $1 with Sunday Sack Sale from 10am to 2pm. Grab a bag or two of books for only $5 per bag. Bags provided. All proceeds benefit the Plattekill Public Library. Plattekill Library, Modena. 883-7286. Used Book Sale: Friends of the Kingston Library 9am-4pm. Thousands of books are available, with low prices for hardbacks, CDs, and DVDs, paperbacks, LPs, and VHS, children’s items, including videos; and for magazines. The sale helps raise funds to support library programs, such as the popular children’s Super Saturday series. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507.
MUSIC
3 Men and A Baby...Grand Salute to the Rat Pack 8pm. $59.50. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. Bethelwoodscenter.org/events/detail/3-men-and-ababy-grand-salute-to-the-rat-pack. ABBA Mania 8pm. $57/$47/$37. Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center, Sugar Loaf. 610-5335. Arlo Guthrie 8pm. $65. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
Extending the Season’s Harvest Growing Vegetables for Four Seasons 9am-3pm. $55. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926. Life Drawing Intensive 10am-4:30pm. $45/$35 members. This one day life drawing intensive gives professional artists and students an opportunity to work with experienced models for the entire day. Unison, New Paltz. 687-2699. Post-Processing/Photoshop 10am-4pm. Two-day workshop by Jerry Freedner. Art School of Columbia County, Harlemville. (518) 672-7140.
SUNDAY 16 DANCE East Meets West Coast Swing Dance $8/$6 FT students. Beginner’s Lesson 5:30-6:00 and dance to DJ’d music 6:00-9:00. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. 255-1379.
Friends Used Book Sale 10am-2pm. Books are sorted and most range from $0.25 to $1 with Sunday Sack Sale from 10am to 2pm. Grab a bag or two of books for only $5 per bag. Bags provided. All proceeds benefit the Plattekill Public Library. Plattekill Library, Modena. 883-7286.
MUSIC
Arlo Guthrie 7pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 4732072. JP Patrick & Friends 8:30pm. Blues, rock, jazz. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
25th Anniversary Center for Creative Education Show and Gala 6pm. $150 VIP/$75 dinner/$25 dessert and dancing. Featuring food, drink, live music, an auction and dancing. Backstage Studio Productions (BSP), Kingston. 481-5158. Aja Monet 8pm. MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. (413) 662-2111.
THEATER
Accourding to Goldman 7:30pm. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884. Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2 & 7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476. The Lady in Question 2pm. $20/$15 students, seniors and members. Shandaken Theatrical Society, Phoenicia. 688-2279. Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. The World Goes Round 2pm/8pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award
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A Day of Jewish Learning 8:30am. Choose from a wide variety of classes on history, music, text study and more taught by cantors, scholars and others. Among the presenters, Vera Nussenbaum, will share her experiences escaping from the Nazis as a child of 12 aboard the Kindertransport rescue train. For ages 13+. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 338-8131. The Natural History of Birdsong 2pm. $10/$5 members. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
MONDAY 17
Acoustic Alchemy. 7:30pm. Pushing the limit of the acoustic guitar’s tential by embracing a spectrum of meusical styles ranging from straight-ahead jazz to folk to rock to world music and beyond. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Mid-Hudson Rainbow Chorus Concert and Meetand-Greet 5-6:30pm. $5. Come to the inaugural concert of the mid-Hudson region’s LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly four-
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Book Discussion: The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Philipp Sendker 7pm. Join us as we discuss Jan Philipp Sendker’s “The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.” Julia travels to Burma trying to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance and the subsequent discovery of letters to a Burmese woman she has never met. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
FILM
Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire The greatest show (and tell) on earth is happening on November 15, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Poughkeepsie Day School. Established and emerging “makers” (broadly defined as crafters, tinkerers, farmers, inventors, hackers, scientists, and artists) join together to showcase exhibits and installations that provide interactive and hands-on experiences at the Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire. There’ll be music, food, and educational workshops emphasizing DIY science and technology, urban farming, and sustainability. Exhibitions include Bloxes (large, cardboard Legos durable enough to build structures with), animals from Clover Brook Farm, toothpaste geysers, rockets, and much more that will engage adults and kids in learning, play, and inspiration. Admission for ages five and up is $10, and a family pass is $40 (two adults and up to three children ages five to 18). Makerfairepoughkeepsie.com
Carbon Leaf; also Chris Trapper 8:30 pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Dark Star Orchestra 7:30pm. Recreating the Grateful Dead experience. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Jon Herington Band 8pm. Opener: Paris Ray. The Falcon, Marlboro. 2367970. Pitchfork Militia 9pm-midnight. With a blend of country, blues, rock and punk, the band terms itself “Apocabilly”. This rockin’ three piece is in turns funny, raging, satirical and silly. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. The Red Violin 8pm. Celebrated violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn performs with the legendary 1720 “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius. The program includes Franz Schubert’s Rondo for violin and piano (“Rondeau Brillant”), Gabriel Fauré’s Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, Franz Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9 for violin and piano. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Rob Roy 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. The Rocket Queens 7:30pm. $10.15. Guns and Roses Tribute. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966. Sounds That Transform: The “Italian-Argentinian Bach,” Domenico Zipoli 6pm. $45 premium seating/$30. Crescendo’s 10th anniversary concert. First Congregational Church, Great Barrington. (413) 528-2740. Tulula 8pm. Acoustic. Hopped Up Cafe, High Falls. 6874750. Vassar College Choir and Women’s Chorus 8pm. Vassar Chapel, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
FAIRS & FESTIVALS Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. A variety of items, including re-finished furniture, antiques, vintage purses, mid-century cookware, collectible vinyl, old books, handmade jewelry, and local crafts. Beacon Flea Market, Beacon. 202-0094. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
FILM Swiss Family Robinson: Family Film Series 2pm. $8/$6 members/$5 children. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. Bethelwoodscenter.org/ events/detail/swiss-family-robinson.
HEALTH & WELLNESS Alexander Yoga with Joan Arnold 10am. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393.
KIDS & FAMILY Being a Magician in a Muggle World 9am-4pm. $90-$150/day. Play with ceremony, hypnosis, dreaming, singing, music, puppets, and our imaginations. The instructors are known for their willingness to be playfully ridiculous and create a magically delicious learning environment. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 750-6488. Gustafer Yellowgold’s The Tooth Will Set You Free Tour 10-11am. $10/$30 for a family 4. Celebrate the release of Gustafer’s brand new DVD/CD. Fiber Flame Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck. 679-6132. Pinkalicious the Musical 3pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LITERARY & BOOKS Community Book Discussion 7pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz event. New Paltz United Methodist Church, New Paltz. 646-302-5835. Community Book Discussion and Bagel Brunch 11am. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz event. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. 255-9817.
part chorus. Meet-and-greet begins at 5 pm, singing starts at 5:30. Refreshments served. Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Inc., Kingston. 353-8348. Rhythm Future Quartet 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Sophie Shao, Cello 3pm. Shao (adjunct artist in music) will feature Bach and Reger suites. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Sounds That Transform: The “Italian-Argentinian Bach,” Domenico Zipoli 4pm. $45 premium seating/$30. Crescendo’s 10th anniversary concert. Trinity Episcopal Church, Lakeville, CT. (860) 435-2627.
PETS
Pet First Aid, CPR & Disaster Preparedness 10am-2pm. $45. This course is ideal for all pet owners and pet caregivers. This unique course covers common health and safety-related issues for Dogs & Cats, first aid basics, CPR, choking maneuvers for pets, when to seek professional care and disaster planning steps for your pet. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. 475-9742.
THEATER
Blown Away By Poetry 2pm. $6/$3 students and seniors. Presented by Urban Stages. Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson. (518) 828-1481. Durang! Durang! 2pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. The World Goes Round 2pm. $35-$45. Revue of the music of Tony Award winning songwriters Kander and Ebb, from Cabaret to Chicago, Half Moon Theatre at the CIA, Hyde Park. (800) 838-3006. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476. Rent 2pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
Mean Streets 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
LECTURES & TALKS
The Woodstock Library Symposium on Wi-Fi 7pm. Panel discussion on the safety of Wi-Fi featuring Dr. David O. Carpenter, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany; Martin Blank, Ph.D., Special Lecturer in the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University; and Michael McCawley, Ph.D., Interim Chair of the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences at the University of West Virginia School of Public Health. Woodstock Primary School, Woodstock. 679-2316.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Community Book Roundtable Discussion 5pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz event. An interactive dialogue with SUNY New Paltz English Professor Cyrus Mulready and his graduate students. Refreshments served. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Community Book Talk 3pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz event. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030. Evening Book Club Third Monday of every month, 7-8pm. A different book is discussed each month. Check website/call for current title. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241. Mystery Mondays Book Discussion 11am-noon. The Stalking Horse, by Miriam Grace Monfredo. Arlington Branch Library, Poughkeepsie. 454-9308.
MUSIC
Vocalist Kendra Shank and Guitarist John Stowell 8pm. Jazz. Quinn’s, Beacon. Quinnsbeacon.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Silk Aquatint with Julio Valdez Through Nov. 19. Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388. EFT & Law of Attraction Prosperity Circle 6pm. $15. FInancial issues resolved quickly with 5,000 year old technique. TG Parker, Kingston. 706-2183.
TUESDAY 18 FILM
Philip Roth Unmasked: Film and Discussion 7pm. PBS American Masters documentary. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Community Holistic Healthcare Day 4-8pm. A variety of holistic health modalities and practitioners. Appointments can be made on a firstcome, first-served basis upon check-in. Marbletown Community Center, Stone Ridge. Rvhhc.org. Managing Side Effects of Breast Cancer Treatments 6:30-8pm. This program will address the questions: What are the common side effects resulting from cancer treatment? How can the symptoms of side effects be managed to maintain quality of life during treatment and beyond? Pre Registration required. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Mt. Kisco. (914) 962-6402.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Open Mike with Chrissy Budzinski 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 2465775.
MUSIC
Big Joe Fitz & the LoFis Blues & Dance Party 7-9:30pm. Bring your dancing shoes down to the High Falls Cafe for some blues by Big Joe Fitz and the LoFis. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Peter, Paul and Mary: Fifty Years in Music and Life 7pm. A mini-concert, Q&A and book signing with Peter Yarrow. Oblong Books & Music, Rhinebeck. 876-0500. Symphonic Band 8pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Collage and Sculpture 3:30-4:30pm. 4 Tuesdays with Jaynie Gillman Crimmins. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.
MUSIC ETHEL
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ETHEL will perform “Grace” at the Hudson Opera House in Hudson on November 22.
Full of Grace Given the recording’s impact on popular music, it’s almost impossible to believe that Jeff Buckley made only one proper studio album before his horrific drowning death in 1997. That magisterial debut, 1994’s Grace (Sony Music)—which was recorded locally at Bearsville Studios—now tops or ranks high on dozens of greatest-albums-of-all-time lists, including that of David Bowie, who considers it the best album ever made and one of his 10 desert island discs. A sweeping, near-operatic opus that fuses Led Zeppelin circa “Kashmir” with Astral Weeks-era Van Morrison, Grace’s soaring drama has long begged for a classical reinterpretation. But now the wait is over: On November 22, the acclaimed modern string quartet ETHEL will unveil a new program centering on Buckley’s masterwork at the Hudson Opera House. “All of us [in the group] have loved Jeff Buckley’s music for years,” says cellist Dorothy Lawson. “The word ‘grace’ was already floating around when we were putting together the program, so when we were reminded that this year is the 20th anniversary of the release of the album it just made sense to build the set around those songs and other music that embodies that word.” ETHEL, which makes its debut at the Hudson venue with “Grace,” was formed in 1998 by Lawson, violist Ralph Ferris, and violinists Todd Reynolds and Mary Rowell; the latter two players have since been replaced, respectively, by Cornelius Dufalo and Jennifer Choi. Dubbed “the string quartet that sometimes thinks it’s a rock band” for its classical-envelope-pushing approach, the New York-based group stands out for its frequent use of amplification, modern experimental bent, and flair for incorporating
emerging technology into its music. ETHEL’s identity has also long been defined by its platform principle of artistic collaboration. Along with classical performers like pianist Ursula Oppens and percussionist Colin Curie, the quartet has worked with avant-gardists Iva Bittova, Bang on a Can, and Ensemble Modern; choreographer Annie-B Parson; and composers John Zorn, Julia Wolfe, Don Byron, Phil Kline, Pamela Z, and others. From the rock world, the foursome has appeared with such artists as Joe Jackson, Andrew Bird, David Byrne, and, perhaps most notably, Todd Rundgren, performing with the one-time Bearsville boy on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and in concerts centering on their adaptations of his music. In addition to ETHEL’s arrangements of Buckley’s songs for “Grace,” at the Hudson concert the band will feature music by Italy’s seminal soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars) and further works by the modern composers Mary Ellen Chiles, Marcelo Zarvos, and Carlo Mombelli, as well as original pieces created by members of the quartet. “We always try to think of a concert in terms of its flow, with lots of highs and lows,” explains Lawson. “It should be really a journey.” In this case, a graceful journey, to be sure. ETHEL will perform at the Hudson Opera House in Hudson on November 22 at 7pm. Tickets are $25 and $22 for members. (518) 822-1438; Hudsonoperahouse.org. —Peter Aaron 11/14 CHRONOGRAM FORECAST 95
Collage and Assemblage 6-8pm. 4 Tuesdays with Jaynie Gillman Crimmins. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960. Dance Workshop 10:30am-noon. $84/$16 per class. 6-week workshop, all levels with Clyde Forth. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079. Shakespear’s Clowns with Seano Fagan & Circus Theatricks 3-4:30pm. Tuesdays through January 27, ages 9 & up. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
WEDNESDAY 19 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Breast and Ovarian Cancer Support Group Third Wednesday of every month, 7pm. Putnam Hospital Center, Carmel. (914) 962-6402. Calling Holistic Enthusiasts 6-8pm. $5 non-members. Holistic Hudson Valley brings together holistic enthusiasts, whether they are practitioners or not, to network together, learn and share their experiences. Subtle Energies, Chester. Holistichv.org. Fierce Young Adults Cancer Support Group Third Wednesday of every month, 6:30-8pm. A support group that will be holding an ongoing program for young adults who have been directly affected by cancer. The Cancer Resource Center of the Hudson Valley, Montgomery. 457-5000.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Academic Panel 5pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz. A cross discipline academic panel will focus on the role of athletics in the Nemesis story. Honors Center at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3933. Community Book Discussion 1pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz. Gerald Sorin, SUNY Distinguished Professor, author and critic, will lead the discussion. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. Word Cafe 6-7pm. $15/$150 series of 12. Hosted by Chronogram books editor Nina Shengold. This unique blend of reading series, author interview, and writing class will meet every Thursday this fall. Outdated: An Antique Café, Kingston. 331-0030.
MUSIC
Cafe Singer Showcase 7-9:30pm. Barbara and DeWitt welcome three talented musicians to the Cafe Showcase. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Chamber Jazz Ensembles I 8pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
KIDS & FAMILY
Lego Club Every other Friday, 5:30pm. Elementary through middle school aged children can let their imagination soar and engineering skills flourish as they build. Red Hook Public Library, Red Hook. 758-3241.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Community Book Discussion 4pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz. Richard Barry, writer and retired educator, will lead a book discussion. Woodland Pond at New Paltz, New Paltz. 883-9800. Storytelling with Janet Carter 7pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
“Down with the Rent!” The Anti-Rent War of New York 8pm. $20/$5 children. An Old Songs Production featuring narrative and music/verse of the Anti-Rent Wars in New York State circa 1839- 1850 Musicians include Greg Artzner, Terry Leonino, John Roberts, George Ward, Greg Clarke, Bill Spence, George Wilson, and Toby Stover. Compiled and directed by Andy Spence. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815.
LECTURES & TALKS
Community Book Discussion 11am. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz event. Professor Andrew Bush, Professor of Jewish Studies and Hispanic Studies at Vassar College, will lead the discussion. Refreshments served. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030. Next Year’s Words Third Wednesday of every month, 8-9:30pm. Next Year’s Words is a new reading forum for creative work. We aim to mix young and mature voices, juxtaposing works of fiction, poetry, memoir and nonfiction from different stages of life. Students and recent graduates will be paired with one of the many writers from the community for each event, and an open mike will assure several other diverse voices. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255-5010.
MUSIC
David Ullmann 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Mary Chapin Carpenter 8pm. $65. Special guest Tift Merritt. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795. Syracuse & Siegel 8-10:30pm. With special guests. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969. Taina Asili + Monica McIntyre 8pm. $5. Original fusions of Afro-Latin, reggae and folk sounds, as well as unique and unforgettable renditions of Spanish flamenco and Latin American folk. The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.
SPIRITUALITY
A Course in Miracles 7:30-9pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
The Gardener’s Friend: Groundcovers 10am. Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, MA. (413) 298-3926.
THURSDAY 20 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Exodus: Newburgh Extension Third Thursday of every month, 6-8pm. A prison reentry support group (formerly known as the New Jim Crow Committee). Come join us to assist the new Exodus Transitional Community in Newburgh, (a reentry program for those being released from prison), as well as other matters related to Mass Incarceration. The Hope Center, Newburgh. 569-8965.
KIDS & FAMILY
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America’s Next Top: One Top’s Hysterical Take on Life, Love, Tools and Boxes One-woman show by Julie Novak. The Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. 658-8989. The Locals Variety Show 8pm. $15/$10. Chronogram’s variety show. With musical guest Matt Pond. BSP Kingston. Facebook.com/LocalsShow.
DANCE
Remembering Pina 8pm. A dance tribute to German choreographer, Pina Bausch (1940-2009) by Susan Osberg’s Workwith Dancers Company. Ballet Arts Studio, Beacon. 831-1870. Salsa Lesson and Dance Party with Carlos Osorio 8pm. $12 at the door. All levels salsa class and then dance the night away. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261. The Hudson Valley Hullabaloo 10am-5pm. Focused on showcasing the area’s coolest, most talented designers and craftspeople, Hullabaloo brings the traditional craft fair to the next level, by adding all the components of a great party: yummy food, cool music, fun people, festive decorations, and a designated photographer to capture the memories. Andy Murphy Rec Center, Kingston. 750-8801.
Manxmouse 10am & noon. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.
LITERARY & BOOKS
SATURDAY 22 COMEDY
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
KIDS & FAMILY
Dramatic Presentation Based on Nemesis and Discussion 7pm. $7. The Mohonk Mountain Stage Company will perform a selection from the novel followed by a discussion of pride and how it impacts the actions of the main character Bucky Cantor. One Book, One New Paltz. Unison, New Paltz. 255-1559. Entreprenuerial Speaker 1-2pm. Intellectual Property attorney Rob Kunstadt will speak to entrepreneurs about how to protect their ideas and original work. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge. 687-5262.
Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
LITERARY & BOOKS
The Polar Express Train Ride Pajama-clad passengers, conductors punching tickets, and chefs serving hot chocolate board the Catskill Mountain Railroad trains reliving the enchanted experience of The Polar Express introduced to us by the Warner Bros. film inspired by the Chris Van Allsburg’s beloved children’s book. From November 21 through December 28, trains depart from Westbrook Station in Kingston Plaza at select times Friday through Sunday for a magical experience for passengers to ride along the sounds of the motion picture soundtrack as they make their journey to the North Pole. Memorable characters of the children’s tale come to life beside Santa who will board the train to greet children and provide a special sleigh bell for all who believe. Tickets are $43/$34 for adults (peak/off-peak), and $34/$27 for children. Proceeds benefit the Catskill Mountain Railroad, which is dedicated to preserving the Ulster County railroad corridor for all-season recreational use. (845) 688-7400; Catskillmtrailroad.com. Dark Star Orchestra: Continuing the Grateful Dead Concert Experience 8-11pm. $36.50/$31.50 in advance. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. Ticketmaster.com/ event/00004CF8C5339DB5. Eighth Step Open Mike and Jam 7pm. Eighth Step @ Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703. The Trapps 8pm. Opener: Seth Davis Band. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Library Knitters Third Thursday of every month, 7-8pm. Sit and knit in the beautiful Gardiner Library. Gardiner Library, Gardiner. 255-1255. Word Art with Audrey Gilbert 3-4:30pm. A visual arts and language workshop for kids 6 and up taught by artist and poet Audrey Gilbert. Children will explore the intersection of language and art as they create paintings, poems, collages, performances, prints, games, murals, and sculpture while exploring various media and techniques that incorporate letters and words. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
FRIDAY 21 DANCE
Remembering Pina 8pm. A dance tribute to German choreographer, Pina Bausch (1940-2009) by Susan Osberg’s Workwith Dancers Company. Ballet Arts Studio, Beacon. 831-1870.
FILM The Wizard Of Oz 7:30pm. Ulster Performing Arts Center (UPAC), Kingston. 339-6088. Woman of the Duat Retreat Through November 23. With Revs. Ione, Rachel, Andrea and guest ministers Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale. Ministryofmaat.org.
Banda Magda 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Nell Robinson & “The Rose of No-Man’s Land,” with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot. 8:30pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. GA3 9:30pm. Blues. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Guitar Passion 8pm. $38-$5. Evening of Latin, Brazilian, and jazz. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390.
Ann Israel Presents Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game 3pm. The first book to fully capture the story of the exotic and exciting game of Mah Jongg, offering an intimate look at the history of the game as well as the visual beauty of the tiles. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775. Discussion on Philip Roth’s Nemesis 7pm. Led by SUNY New Paltz Professor of English Rhonda Shary. Part of this year’s selection for One Book One New Paltz/ Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300. Second Saturday Spoken Word 7pm. Featuring poets Bertha Rogers and Richard Levine, followed by open mike. 7pm. $5/$2.50 with open mike. Featuring poets Bertha Rogers and Richard Levine followed by open mike. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Kingston. 331-2884.
MUSIC
“Down with the Rent!” The Anti-Rent War of NY 8pm. $20/$5 children. An Old Songs Production featuring narrative and music/verse of the Anti-Rent Wars in New York State circa 1839- 1850. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 765-2815. Bush Brothers 9pm. A combination of traditional country, bluegrass and gospel music fused with contemporary acoustic sounds and delivered with great vocals and instrumental solos. Elsie’s Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.
Judy Collins 8pm. $15-$37. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-8945.
Edlene Hart & the Soul Sisters 9:30pm. Motown, r&b. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.
Leo & the Lizards 7pm. Classic rock. Brothers Barbecue, New Windsor. 534-4227.
Greg Brown with special guest Pieta Brown 7:30pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300.
New York Uproar 8pm. Blues. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Singer-Songwriter Showcase Third Friday of every month, 8pm. $6. Acoustic Music by three outstanding singer-songwriters and musicians at ASK GALLERY, 97 Broadway, Kingston 8-10:30 pm Arts Society of Kingston (ASK), Kingston. 338-0311. Sponge, Remedy, Striven 7:30pm. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 471-1966.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Beaujolais Nouveau 2014 Launch 7-10pm. An international affair featuring French inspired food, wine tastings & an intimate performance. The Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinebeck. 876-0509.
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. Hudson River Playback Theatre 7pm. Nemesis by Philip Roth. One Book, One New Paltz. Hudson River Playback Theatre’s improvisational actors and musician will embody and reflect audience members’ real life experiences of Nemesis-related themes. Parker Theater, New Paltz. Newpaltz.edu/theatre. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476.
ETHEL 7pm. Works by Mary Ellen Childs, (USA), Marcelo Zarvos (Brazil), and Carlo Mombelli (South Africa), and original music composed by members of the quartet. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-4181. Fall Concert 1:30pm. Jessie Lanza, soprano, and Jane Cardona, piano, assisted by Vassar seniors Evi Lowman and Ilse Heine, violin, Megan Lewis, viola, and Zachary Lucero, cello. Works by Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, Porter, Sondheim, and Bernstein. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Foodstock 7 6-11:30pm. $20. Proceeds go to The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley and the Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie’s food services. This year’s concert will feature the diverse selection of quality musicians that Foodstock has become known for, including internationally-known folk-rock band The Felice Brothers, Kristen Capolino, Sirsy, Adam Ezra Group, and Snaphammer. The Chance, Poughkeepsie. 4711966. Jim Kweskin and Happy Traum 8pm. $23. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048. The Met: Live in HD Rossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia 1pm. Bardavon Opera House, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: Rossini’s IL Barbiere Di Siviglia 12:45pm. $25. The Moviehouse, Millerton. (518) 789-0022.
Peace, Love, Land 5-10pm. $125. Celebrate the Upper Delaware River region, our local communities, and twenty years of conservation and education with the nonprofit Delaware Highlands Conservancy. Enjoy a farm-totable dinner with wine pairings, live music with Little Sparrow, Rounder Recording artist Van Manakas, and a visit to the Bethel Woods Museum. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. 583-1010. Tim Moore & Marc Black: Long Time Comin’ 8pm. $15. The Colony Cafe, Woodstock. 679-5342. Tone Structure Lab Project A cross-genre music incubator initiative designed to explore creative and experimental improvised music. Bopitude plays the music of Kenny Dorham. Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill. Vassar College Madrigal Singers 8pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319. Celebrating Levon Helm & the Songs of the Band 8pm. $30-$40. A five-piece ensemble featuring Jim Weider and Randy Ciarlante from The Band, Brian Mitchell and Byron Isaacs of the Levon Helm Band and Marty Grebb, who worked with Rick Danko and Richard Manuel. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Will Porter 8pm. Opener: Dan Lavoie. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Winard Harper Sextet 8pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701. Wine with Music by Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Win-Win Casino Night and Auction to Benefit Unison Arts Center 6-10pm. $115/$105 members/$95 early tickets/$85 members early tickets. A night of Win-Win casino games, great food and drink, live auction and Fisherman’s Raffle. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz. 255-1559.
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 7:30pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2 & 7:30pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476. Rent 8pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. The Odd Couple 6:15-9pm. $50 dinner/$35 brunch/tax and tip in cluded. The Schoharie Creek Players will present a dinner theater experience with the female version of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple. Villa Vosilla, Tannersville. (518) 589-5060.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Learn How to Crochet with Peggy Norton 1-2pm. $40. Learn three basic crochet stitches: chain, single, and double as you make a simple scarf during four 1 hour sessions. Inner Light Health Spa, Poughkeepsie. 863-4632. Weekend Whirlwind Filmmaking Intensive 10am-4pm. $50. Spend your Saturday exploring the world of media! In this multi-media storytelling intensive for middle school age students (10-13), youth will learn animation as well as radio and film production. In just one day, they will collaborate to conceptualize, script/ storyboard, animate, film, and edit a narrative video. Howland Public Library, Beacon.
SUNDAY 23 DANCE
Remembering Pina 8pm. A dance tribute to German choreographer, Pina Bausch (1940-2009) by Susan Osberg’s Workwith Dancers Company. Ballet Arts Studio, Beacon. 831-1870.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. A variety of items, including re-finished furniture, antiques, vintage purses, mid-century cookware, collectible vinyl, old books, handmade jewelry, and local crafts. Beacon Flea Market, Beacon. 202-0094. The Hudson Valley Hullabaloo 11am-5pm. Focused on showcasing the area’s coolest, most talented designers and craftspeople, Hullabaloo brings the traditional craft fair to the next level, by adding all the components of a great party: yummy food, cool music, fun people, festive decorations, and a designated photographer to capture the memories. Andy Murphy Rec Center, Kingston. 750-8801. Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Alexander Yoga with Joan Arnold 10am. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393.
KIDS & FAMILY
Babysitting Preparedness Course 9am-2pm. $45. Our Babysitting Preparedness Course covers basic first aid, pediatric CPR, diapering, feeding, starting your babysiting business, SIDS prevention, Shaken Baby prevention and how to handle the stress of a crying baby. This course is for
ages 12 to adult. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 475-9742. Holiday Craft and Book Fair 10am-5pm. Hand crafted gifts from more than 20 HV artists, pop up cafe, cookie contest, secret gift contest, making cottages for kids, and silent auction. High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855. Johnny Peers & The Muttville Comics 11am & 2pm. Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, CT. (203) 438-5795.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Nemesis by Philip Roth Wrap-Up 1pm. An interactive book and program discussion will be led by members of the One Book/One New Paltz Committee. Refreshments served. Elting Memorial Library, New Paltz. 255.5030. Photographer Francesco Mastalia: Organic: Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley 4pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, New Paltz. 255-8300.
MUSIC
Bryan and the Aardvarks with Camila Meza 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Christine Lavin & Don White 7:30 pm. Smart and funny take on contemporary life & foible make for a one-of-a-kind concert. As a songwriter, she brings the shrewd insight of a columnist together with a novelist eye for evocative details. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Ingrid Michaelson 7pm. $32-$58. Indie pop. Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown. (914) 631-3390. Jazz at the Falls: Eddie Diehl & Lou Pappas 12-3pm. Eddie Diehl is widely recognized as one of the greats of jazz guitar. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Lake Street Drive 8pm. This classically trained band blends jazz, folk, and pop. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Saints of Swing 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Vassar and Bard Faculty Voice and Piano Concert 3pm. Skinner Hall at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-7319.
THEATER
Durang! Durang! 2pm. An evening of hilarious one-acts presented by SUNY Ulster’s Theater Department. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge. 687-5263. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change 2pm. $20/$18 seniors. Presented by Kingston’s Coach House Players. The Coach House Theater, Kingston. 331-2476. Rent 2pm. $20/$18/$10 SUNY student. McKenna Theatre, New Paltz. The Odd Couple 11am-2pm. $50 dinner/$35 brunch/tax and tip in cluded. The Schoharie Creek Players will present a dinner theater experience with the female version of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple. Villa Vosilla, Tannersville. (518) 589-5060. A Streetcar Named Desire 3pm. $12. Presented by the National Theatre from London. Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale. (845) 658-8989.
MONDAY 24 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network! (ENJAN) is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). New Progressive Baptist Church, Kingston.
The Fred Savages 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Hudson’s Crew 9pm. Modern rock. Main Street Restaurant, Saugerties. 246-6222. O.A.R. 8pm. $29.75-$49.75. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. Syracuse & Siegel 8-10:30pm. With special guests. Catskill Mountain Pizza Company, Woodstock. 679-7969.
THURSDAY 27 HEALTH & WELLNESS
Annual Jivamukti Yoga Giving Thanks Retreat $525. Through Nov. 30. This annual event offers 2 yoga classes daily plus Ashram activities such as meditation, chanting, and special programs. Prices include lodgings and meals. Yoga Society of New York - Ananda Ashram, Monroe. (212) 353-0214 ext. 205. Thanksgiving Weekend Retreat Through Nov. 30. Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Writers Read Fourth Thursday of every month, 5:30pm. $3. Literary reading series featuing at least two poets/writers. David Giannini, Becket, Massachusetts. Davidgpoet@ gmail.com.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Word Art with Audrey Gilbert 3-4:30pm. A visual arts and language workshop for kids 6 and up taught by artist and poet Audrey Gilbert. Children will explore the intersection of language and art as they create paintings, poems, collages, performances, prints, games, murals, and sculpture while exploring various media and techniques that incorporate letters and words. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.
FRIDAY 28 CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS
Chamber Jazz Ensembles III 8pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869. Song Circle Fourth Tuesday of every month, 7-9pm. Our song circle is essentially that, a circle of chairs for instrumental musicians and singers. Taste Budd’s Chocolate and Coffee Café, Red Hook. 758-6500.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Dance Workshop 10:30am-noon. $84/$16 per class. 6-week workshop, all levels with Clyde Forth. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 679-2079.
WEDNESDAY 26
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Basilica Farm & Flea 5-9pm. $3. Black Friday Soiree with Cocktails & Sales. Basilica Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
LITERARY & BOOKS
Laura Ludwig Presents Performance Art and Poetry 6:30pm. Inquiring Minds Bookstore, Saugerties. 246-5775.
MUSIC
Blue Food 9:30pm. Harmony Music, Woodstock. 679-7760. The Brothers of the Road Band 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. David Johansen Duo with Brian Koonin 8pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Livingston Taylor with special guest Don Lowe 8:30pm. Range includes jazz, pop, folk, and gospel. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300. Everett Bradley’s Holidelic 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Leo & the Lizards 8pm. Classic rock. Gail’s Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Grow Against Poverty Woodcraft Sale 10am-5pm. All proceeds from our 2013 holiday sale was for the construction of a classroom and to start a feeding program. Both of these projects have had strong support from the Kenyan families whose children attend the Igero school. Funds raised this year will help build another classroom and to continue the feeding program. North East Community Center, North East. 518-789-4259. Basilica Farm & Flea 10am-6pm. $3. A collection of quality products presented by a diverse group of regional makers, farmers, and vintage collectors. Promoting the talents and resources within our community. Basilica Hudson. (518) 822-1050. Phoenicia’s 4th Annual Turkey Trot $10/$20 family. 2.4 mile run/walk benefiting STS Playhouse. Phoenicia, Phoenicia.
THEATER
Ali Baba and the Four Tea Thieves 8pm. $20/$17/$10 students. Presented by The Pantoloons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
SUNDAY 30
FOOD & WINE Candy Cane Making Demonstration 10am-5pm. Tours and demonstration. Commodore Chocolatier, Newburgh. 561-3960.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
MUSIC
Beacon Flea Market 8am-3pm. A variety of items, including re-finished furniture, antiques, vintage purses, mid-century cookware, collectible vinyl, old books, handmade jewelry, and local crafts. Beacon Flea Market, Beacon. 202-0094.
Cherish The Ladies 8:30pm. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300.
Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
The Bar Spies 8pm. Classic rock. Mahoney’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, Poughkeepsie. 471-7026.
Bill’s Toupee 10pm. Covers. Ramada Inn, Newburgh. David Kain Group 7:30pm. Jazz. BeanRunner Café, Peekskill. (914) 737-1701.
Keith Newman 9pm. Acoustic. The Publik House, Ellenville. Thepublikhouseny.com. Zoe Muth & the Lost High Riders 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.
OPEN HOUSES/PARTIES/BENEFITS
Grow Against Poverty Woodcraft Sale 10am-5pm. Funds raised will benefit Kenyan children. North East Community Center, North East. 518-789-4259.
THEATER
Ali Baba and the Four Tea Thieves 8pm. $20/$17/$10 students. Presented by The Pantoloons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
Basilica Farm & Flea 10am-6pm. $3. A collection of quality products presented by a diverse group of regional makers, farmers, and vintage collectors. Promoting the talents and resources within our community. Basilica Hudson. (518) 822-1050.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Alexander Yoga with Joan Arnold 10am. Ancram Opera House, Ancram. (518) 329-7393. Homemade Holistic Health: A 10 Month Workshop Series Every fourth Sunday, 10am. $50/$450 for all ten. Our health represents a complex interaction between our physical body, environment and ability to process emotional pressure. Holistic approaches to health are only as effective as their capacity to address these aspects in concert. Join Claudia for ten workshops over the course of the changing seasons. The Herbal Acre, Rhinebeck. (917) 992-9901.
MUSIC
Erik Lawrence Quartet 11am-2pm. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970. Straight No Chaser 7:30pm. Male a cappella group. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.
Dance Workshop $15 each/$20 both. Two sessions: 6:30-7:15 & 7:158:00. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120.
Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s; also special guest Petey Hop & The Jackrabbits 7:30pm. Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s have been the torchbearers of a great American blues musical hertitage for two years. Town Crier Cafe, Beacon. (845) 855-1300.
SATURDAY 29
Trans-Siberian Orchestra 3 & 7:30pm. Times Union Center, Albany. (518) 487-2000.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
MUSIC
Black Light Dance Party with Breakaway 9-11:30pm. This band rocks the house and gets everybody up and dancing. Wear white to shine bright in the black light. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.
Candy Cane Making Demonstration 10am-5pm. Tours and demonstration. Commodore Chocolatiet, Newburgh. 561-3960.
OUTDOORS & RECREATION
Swing Dance to The Deane Machine 8:30-11:30pm. $15/$10 FT students. Beginner’s lesson 8:00-8:30pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 471-1120.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
MUSIC
FOOD & WINE
DANCE
Jimmy Hendrix 72nd Birthday Tribute 8pm. With Ducks Can Groove & Reverend Jefferson. The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970.
TUESDAY 25
Woodstock Flea Market 9am-5pm. Crafts, vintage clothing, flowers, vegetables, more. Mower’s Flea Market, Woodstock. 679-6744.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Everett Bradley’s Holidelic 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.
EFT & Law of Attraction Prosperity Circle 6pm. $15. FInancial issues resolved quickly with 5,000 year old technique. TG Parker, Kingston. 706-2183.
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Meeting of End the New Jim Crow Action Committee 6-8pm. The End the New Jim Crow Action Network! (ENJAN) is a Hudson Valley network dedicated to fighting racist policies of racial profiling, police brutality, and mass incarceration (the “new Jim Crow”). Family Partnership Center, Poughkeepsie.
MUSIC
Chamber Jazz Ensembles II 8pm. $8/$6/$3. Studley Theater, New Paltz. 257-7869.
Salsa Lesson and Dance Party with Carlos Osorio 8pm. $12 at the door. All levels salsa class and then dance the night away. Uptown Gallery, Kingston. 331-3261.
COMEDY
Bill Engvall 8pm. $29.50-$65. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-5800.
THEATER
Ali Baba and the Four Tea Thieves 1pm. $20/$17/$10 students. Presented by The Pantoloons. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.
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f you dare to watch the news, you may get the idea that civilization is unraveling, or at best, that the political situation of the United States is so mired in its own insanity that it’s never going to get out of the swamp. We are watching, silently for the most part, while every major problem that affects the world is being ignored. We are watching while war and epidemics spiral out of control—and yet while everything else is being made into an issue. All aspects of life—success, failure, education or the lack of it, poverty, wealth, gender, economics, one’s skin color, the food we eat, one’s internal organs (especially if female), the heat that prevents you from freezing in the winter, all communications from the most private to the most public, the meekest personal choice and even the subtlest emotion— are all subject to being politicized. That is a weird word, and a stranger concept. In our time of history, when it seems the destiny of humanity and every other species is being gambled, we are all standing at the intersection of the personal and the political. Every last thing we desire, need, think, or do can be turned into a political commodity, processed by spin doctors, spliced into a 30-second ad, and force-fed back to us with an emotional charge designed to manipulate—that is, politicized. Our political systems, that is, the structures that supposedly run society, are nakedly answerable to nothing but the power of money. We all watch as the opinions and the wellbeing of ordinary people are ignored. We are told there are issues, but nearly all the time, ideology is merely packaging designed to motivate political contributions. Congressional representatives, who must seek reelection every two years, spend their entire terms fundraising for the next election.
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When I look at many politicians, I see a strange sickness emanating from them. It is imprinted on their faces, in their body language, in their voices, and in what passes for reason. The parade looks like a pageant for who should get their photo in the dictionary next to the term “narcissistic wounding.” I look at many of them and wonder how anyone, anyone at all, could take them seriously; could trust them with anything, much less the fate of society. Politics is deceptive, and for at least as long as we know, it always has been. Of the people I know who are involved in politics, I expect most of them to lie to me. I have for many years had friends in politics, and as time has gone on, I have noticed that fewer and fewer of them reveal any capacity for truth—by which I mean their words and their actions being in alignment. It’s not enough to be personable or charming to seem real. The bottom line is that metric between words and actions. When I was in my 20s, I got out of political campaign writing, something I was passionate about, because I figured out that in order to do that particular job, I would need to lie to the public on a routine basis. I have done so personally. I have said things to public bodies, been quoted in newspapers, and made written statements that were untrue based on my understanding that it’s simply how the game is played. For example, in politics one never reveals a candidate’s true position if it’s going to cost the candidate votes. One never gives their opponent an edge like that. If there is a campaign spending limit, and the limit prevented a real campaign, I would break the rules and do it in as untraceable a way as I could, and make sure the supporting documents looked good. I was always sure to lie for the “right” cause and on behalf of the “right”
people, people I sincerely supported and had personally vetted, though it was deception nonetheless. Not wanting to play that game— indeed, being disgusted by that game— I got out, and pursued being an investigative reporter, where verifiable truth is the only commodity. Deception is the very feedstock of politics, as the game is currently played, and as it’s been played for a long time. One must actually do it personally to understand this fact in a meaningful way, and even then, few will ever admit it. Once you’ve been involved, then it’s possible to look at any person in a position of power making a statement and know that the statement is either an outright lie or conceals some deeper truth. I think that on some level, most people understand this intuitively, though there’s another problem. Many who are eager supporters of one side or another, or who have dedicated their lives to an issue, are happy to have their selfdeceptions affirmed by the glamour and supposed glory of the political ritual. In politics, once you win, it no longer matters how you got there—at least not to the winner. It does not matter if there is collateral damage. This is especially true when a political position hurts others or deprives them of their rights. When you look at the political game, at the orgy of fear and manipulation, and think it’s in some way normal, you have been swallowed. I have also worked for some fantastic candidates who were strong enough that the truth was the thing of value. In those circumstances there was no reason to lie, except for the little part about campaign spending limits, which (where it may have once existed) seems to be a rule made to be broken. This problem manifests on many other levels, most of them rather sly. The idea that it’s okay to lie in order to get your way is a manifestation of politics. A great many people feel that it’s okay to lie, as long as they deem it harmless and convenient (for them). In that condition, there is no question of personal integrity, and it’s then impossible to hold others to a standard of personal integrity and not be a hypocrite. This is a reflection of the larger politics that overshadows us, and it’s something that feeds and vindicates the conduct of politicians. In other words, those who lie, and lie to themselves as a way of life, are far likelier to accept the fact that their supposed leaders lie as a way of life. To compromise truth means that after a while it becomes impossible to see, and is then perceived as nonexistent. Everything is just another position, just another posture. Meanwhile, we are confronted by local and global problems that we know are urgent, and at the same time facing political problems that just seem intractable. The system, especially on the federal level, is not broken; it’s a rusted-out wreck. It has some of its original shape, it’s vaguely recognizable as what it once was—but it sure looks like it ain’t goin’ nowhere.
It therefore takes extra courage to have the discernment to see that there is one political party that has made it a point to repeatedly shut down the government. There is one political party that blocks nearly every vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. It’s a party of government officials, paid from the public coffers, who proclaim hatred of the government itself and are willing to damage or destroy it any way they can. There is one political party that does everything—anything and everything—to block participation in elections. There is one political party whose platform involves being against people having the right to seek health care. There is one party that would block all reproductive rights of women, which lately (and astonishingly) would include blocking access to pregnancy prevention. Both of these are in violation of long-settled constitutional law, and common sense. There is another political party that has problems of its own. In many ways it is equally sold out, not to Greenpeace but to the same megacorporate interests as their counterparts. They demonstrate that being sold out by refusing to fight; for refusing to stand on any principles whatsoever. Together, these parties create a system that seems to support the status quo, that suppresses new voices and new ideas, and that makes you wonder who is who. Meanwhile, the struggle of life has many people feeling exhausted and demoralized. People feeling stripped of not just their humanity but also of their basic energy are not necessarily in a position to participate, or to fight. People who are “entertained to death” may see little reason to get up off the couch, as long as they still have one.
Nearly everything that happens in politics is an invitation to ignore politics, to tune it out, to get distracted, or to do something seemingly more important or more pleasant.
••• It is into this hot mess that we are called upon to show up for an election and cast a ballot. We are called upon to take politics seriously enough to take time out of work, errands, taking care of the kids, Facebook or whatever, and fill in the little circle. We are called upon to have some integrity and participate in a way that is integral to civic life. We are called upon to do what people have been shot at for demanding the right to do. We must, by some miracle, pretend that all of this insanity does not exist, and make some rational choices about who will be better. It’s not easy, because nearly everything that happens in politics is an invitation to ignore politics, to tune it out, to get distracted, or to do something seemingly more important or more pleasant. Everything we see in politics offers some evidence that it doesn’t really matter, and that the best we get is the lesser of two evils.
••• Despite many appearances, the political system is not as monolithic as it seems. There are many voices, many points of view, and yes, there is a power structure that marginalizes and silences many of them. The other thing to remember is that nothing is as intractable as it seems. Nothing is as permanent. The wheel of progress, or of karma, or of justice, is always turning, no matter how slowly. While we are alive, there remains a future, and while there are people younger than us, there remains a future worth investing in. Cynicism is not a viable position because on its own, it will produce nothing. Hope is not a viable position, because it does not lead to progress, and it can be as paralyzing as bitterness. Between these two extreme polarities we have the power to do what we can. My position on voting is that it’s vitally important—and not the only important thing. It is, however, a first step. Just showing up to the polls, even if you submit a blank ballot as a protest, is evidence that people on the ground, which holds up the political ladder, are awake and paying attention. For many years, I was so disgusted that I did not vote. I participated in issues as a journalist, where I had much more influence than a ballot. At some point I changed my mind and made a different decision. It went something like this: I looked at who was benefiting from lack of participation, and I figured out that the other guys were a little better. It was that simple. I also decided that it would be personally hypocritical to advocate awareness of politics and participation in politics and also set the example of not participating on the most basic level. So, I plan to vote in the November 4 national and local elections. I will need to hold my nose in some races, and I may write in the names of my friends in others. But I will be there. CHRONOGRAM.COM READ Eric Francis Coppolino’s weekly Planet Waves column.
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ARIES (March 20-April 19) Something you’ve recently learned or discovered about yourself now must be taken to heart in a relationship situation. Selfknowledge is the basis of any agreement you have with another person, and when you gain some of that (or what looks like quite a bit) it will necessarily influence your agreements with others. Or rather, it will if you are paying attention, and if you want to live sincerely. You have long known that you could not fit yourself into any situation or partnership that is smaller than you are. True, it’s the way of the world to try to cram ourselves into these situations, though such a compromise will eventually fall apart. You might start from the premise that no compromise is possible—not, at least, on the specific matters you have identified. And then what? Well, one solution to that puzzle is that you proceed as an individual on your own terms, and others will get to enter your life as individuals on their own terms. A relationship is not two people living as one, because in truth that is not possible. It’s two people acknowledging their mutual existence, respecting each other for their similarities and their differences. If this sounds like walking over a cliff, it’s because maturity is in short supply these days, though from the look of your chart, you are being called to tap into your deepest reserves.
TAURUS (April 19-May 20) How you feel keeps changing, and that is the key to progress. If you are aware of the changes, then by definition you are aware of how you feel. That is the essence of your ability to direct the course of your life. All your other senses count, but your physical contact with your body and with your environment will provide your most intelligent guidance. That is a moment-to-moment reckoning with reality. You may be looking straight at the illusion that your existence is somehow about all these other people. They are involved, that’s for sure, though not quite in the role that you think. For one thing, they don’t have the power to limit you. To the contrary, their role is to provide support, structure, and at times something to resist specifically so that you can assert your individuality in a meaningful way. There’s a big difference between doing this in theory or in fantasy and trusting people enough to stand up to them with your ideas. You don’t need to be defensive about this, though that temptation will exist. You also don’t want to put anyone else in a defensive position. Rather, you can take an affect of neutrality, or of making an inquiry in the pursuit of truth. Set aside right and wrong for a moment, and allow your ideas to mingle with those of other people, and see what develops.
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For about six months, a topic has been on the agenda of a close personal relationship. It rises to the surface and then disappears. Sometimes it seems easy to consider; other times, it seems too personal to talk about, and it’s the thing to avoid. Yet sooner or later you need to clear the air, with yourself and with people around you who in truth have a right to know what’s on your mind and share what is on their mind. In an intimate relationship, everyone needs to be listened to otherwise, it’s not really intimacy. Said another way, avoiding the most meaningful topics is an excellent way to turn down the level of contact, a way to make intimacy less intimate. Once you check for that factor and make up your mind how you feel about it, the next step is to have the conversation. You may feel intimidated by the weight of the past, or by how much there is to heal, when you write it out like a shopping list—though that is not how healing works. The larger questions all involve trust, and how to consider what has happened in the past. They are closely related. Trust is built and maintained, in a delicate process. Part of how that happens is that everyone involved demonstrates through their actions that they really have learned from history. That, and there are no more agreements to deny or pretend.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) There is a risk involved in everything. You flirt with this; it’s time to embrace it. It’s understandable enough that you’ve been cautious lately. You may have been knocked on your heels by some unexpected factor, and you needed time to review and revise your plan. What is essential is that you gradually draw yourself out of that aversion, use what you know and begin to take some calculated chances again. The key here is strategy, which you need to honor on every level—financial, creative, psychological, and, most of all, relational. One central question is, what’s the role of others in your life? You might also ask, what is the role of others in their own lives? These days you have a tendency to draw to you people who are fundamentally self-centered, and I suggest you learn to spot them before they gain any ground on you. It’s true that everyone needs to take care of themselves; everyone needs to eat. By selfcentered I mean at the expense of taking care of anyone or anything else, and, in particular, you. You will recognize these people energetically because you will feel depleted by them, and never truly nourished. Take the chance and move on quickly. You need partners who share your values, who share your ability to take care of others, and who can be self-focused with a very broad concept of self—all of us here.
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It’s not as complicated as it seems. It will be, if you try to analyze your emotions, and reanalyze them, and expect everything to add up to the same thing every time. To me, your solar chart says the place to start is to set limits, including limits on yourself. If you feel any competitive or jealous vibes, that is the place to start. If you feel resentful that you cannot express some deeply held need or even a basic feeling, that’s the place to set a limit, in the form of knowing that such cannot persist. If there is a need for leadership in your environment, everyone must play their role in a cooperative way. The challenge of your astrology seems to be finding a balance between being the center of your own world, and a being part of the wider world. That balancing point involves being clear what you have to give. You are in an excellent position to offer support and affirmation, even though it’s clear that you are facing certain distinct emotional challenges. Yet as you acknowledge and work out these matters, you must stay a few levels above them, and a few steps ahead of them. Your planning must involve your probable emotional and physical state if certain conditions emerge, and include a plan to avoid those conditions. Be clear, especially with yourself. Be professional, including and especially in you own home.
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VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Maintain your clarity of mind. There are forces in motion that are way larger than you, and they seem to be in operation in all areas of your life. You are not going to control them, but there are more and less appropriate responses. The more appropriate responses all begin with applied intelligence. Rather than being about how smart you are, this is about what you do with your information and your observations. It’s about what information you use to inform the choices you make, and knowing when you must make those choices. I assure you, there will be moments when a decision seems too difficult, without enough time to think about it carefully. That is why you must be aware of your environment, prepare in advance to the extent that you can, and, most of all, know yourself. The sensation of time as pressure is something to consider. Rarely will any perceived shortage of time be as urgent as you think. What is vital is that you set a structure for time, and work with a plan at all times. Set a deadline for everything. If you have to make a decision, make an inquiry and determine how much time you reasonably have. What feels like you have an hour may turn out to be two days. What feels like forever may be one week. Clarity of mind translates to “Time is of the essence.”
LIBRA (September 22-October 23) You must continue to be careful with your money, though if you are both cautious and shrewd, you can come out well ahead by one month from today. Financial literacy is something that’s sorely lacking in a culture that’s supposedly all about money. However, ignorance is not your friend, not now and not ever. Presently, there are practical matters that need your attention, but the larger theme seems to be a question of honor. I know those don’t usually count for much, especially where money is concerned, though at the moment this is something that matters a great deal for you. Honor translates to impeccability. It means that all your actions with money and finance must match your stated values, including how you earn and how you allocate your resources. It’s essential that you work with a plan, and with full knowledge of how much you have at any time. Money is a measurement of power, though few people see it that way; it’s more often a place where they feel disempowered or cut off. Nobody who is good at handling or manifesting money got that way by accident. At minimum it required a decision and at most a long series of experiments, challenges, and lessons. Do your part to help yourself. Get serious about your finances. Get real about how important this is to you and the people who depend on you.
SCORPIO (October 23-November 22) There is a sober quality to your charts this month, though it may take you a little while to catch onto that. You will the moment you get your mind out of the clouds, and away from any idealistic visions of how things might be. There are times for idealism and there are times to be fully focused on what is happening right now. If you want to unlock the potential of your moment, if you want to have it be more than a dream or a potential, I suggest you take the grounded and steady approach to your life. What is required of you the most is commitment. Not the words or the idea, but steadfast action, sustained over time. There are days when you will need to be content with less progress than you know is possible. That is why you will measure your progress in longer stretches of time than a day, a week, or even a month. When things seem difficult, you must not allow yourself to lose your gumption or to choose what seem like easier options. Easier is not necessarily better, though there will be times when you’re sure that it is. In just a few weeks, Saturn will begin the process of moving from your sign to Sagittarius. Saturn has been a consistent guide and mentor to you, and in the remaining time that Saturn is in your sign, it’s necessary to internalize the Saturn principle, which translates to self-leadership.
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You seem to be under pressure to get your life together, as if the responsibility gene has woken up. To me it looks more like the be-true-to-yourself gene is kicking you from the inside. You might say that’s the most significant responsibility you have, and at the moment it seems to be shocking you to your senses. Aspects this month may be sending you the message that this is your last chance to accomplish something of real meaning. It’s not your last chance, though it’s worth respecting the finite nature of time, and of a lifetime. Opportunities are temporary in their current form. They may reincarnate as something else, though the opportunity you have now is an original. You might be wondering if it makes sense to proceed based on a sense of frustration or limitation. For example, if you don’t resolve it before you make a move, will you carry that sensation with you into your next endeavor? There are two distinct schools of thought on this matter, one being that you begin something new exactly where you left off from the previous endeavor; therefore, never make a decision from a point of frustration. Another is that such a place offers you the necessary leverage, friction, or motivation to break out of your inertia. Those moments are indeed precious, and I think they can be rooted in true strength.
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You must keep your cool at all times. There will be times when this won’t be easy. You are potentially the most volatile ingredient in any situation, and in every one of those situations you have something to lose. It is, of course, a blight on our times how many people live like they have nothing to lose, which is creating an increasingly reckless society. You, at least, know you have something at stake. You can remind yourself that you depend on our friends and your allies, and that you would have little to show for your efforts had you not had their cooperation in the past, and if you don’t have it going forward. So you have a good reason to be aware of, and to adjust, your responses and your tactics. One way to know you’re in jeopardy is if you ever get the thought that you can go it alone. That may be your one warning, valid because it contains the idea that the people around you are expendable, and therefore it does not matter how you treat them or how they feel. Yes, it can be burdensome to think about everyone and how they are doing, all the time—and I assure you that such care and attention could save your career, your reputation, your business, or an important friendship. And if you stay alert and level-headed, you will have opportunities to solve problems and regain your creative grounding.
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I suggest you read a little about transactional analysis. That’s the form of therapy that developed the concept of transactions wherein people play the role of adult, parent, or child. Everyone is involved in these transactions all the time, it’s just that they are rarely called what they are. Your job this month is to maintain the posture of adult. In that role, you need to relate to others as adults when possible. That is the easy part. Then comes relating to those acting like parents and children in a way that is appropriate, and wherein you don’t come out of the adult role—the place where you are stable, sane, and fair-minded. People know how to play games designed to get one another out of adult role. People are, for example, constantly setting up situations where they must be treated as children, in a real sense compelling others into adult mode. You must be aware of this, not fall for it, and if you do, get back to your centered, present, adult mind as soon as you can. This is going to take some focus, as there will be situations wherein you will need to be rather bossy. With them, I suggest you do an adult thing and make sure that you establish, by agreement, the priorities and how the pecking order has to work in order to meet preestablished goals on time and in good form.
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What is it that you said you’ve always wanted to do with your life? When exactly do you think you’re going to do it? There is something in your charts saying that “when” is right now. There’s something reminding you to connect your long-term vision with a point of focus—that is, to vision, to look and to actually see. That might feel like a beginning, but the truth is, you began long ago. What you have in your hands is a moment when you can gather your principles all in one place, and recognize their validity. You have an even rarer moment when you can see the shape of time, and work with it. It is vitally important that you recognize consciously that you have a future, and that your future is your most precious resource. It’s even more significant that you become aware of your vision, and that you connect it with these other ideas—the future and the shape of time. As you know it is easy to squander time, and that translates to being easy to squander a lifetime. Every force of nature seems to be guiding you in a better direction, in that of embracing your potential as real, and honoring your own journey on Earth as a matter of integrity. This is not as dramatic as it seems, though you may have to establish some new patterns of consciousness. Like all journeys, that begins with a single step.
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