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20 while you were sleeping

47 spring fling at the stockade tavern

Mexico is the fattest country in the world, Al-Qaeda launches women's magazine, Supreme Court supports free speech in Westboro Baptist Church case, donor-conceived individuals agitate for greater access to records of their heritage.

21 beinhartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body politic: mythonomics Larry Beinhart on how the appeal of Republican economic policy rests on a foundation of falsehoods, from the invincibility of capitalism to its anti-tax stance.

22 LIKE MIXING OIL AND WATER: AN INTERVIEW WITH FRANCES BEINECKE Carl Frankel talks with Frances Beinecke, head of the National Resources Defense Council, who sat on the Deepwater Horizon investigation commission.

HOME 24 the house: skylight house .

Anne Pyburn Craig takes a tour of Skylight House, an eco-conscious renovation by Marlys Hann of a 1970s-era hunting cabin in Andes.

29 the garden Garden expert Carolyn Summers goes native in the backyard. 32 the craft Ronnie Citron-Fink visits Wickham Solid Wood Studio in Beacon. 33 the question Jennifer Fairley peeks inside Aldo Lavaggi's tiny house. 34 the item The newest green products for your home and garden.

Virginia Brown, 2004. Ida Weygandt's photographs are on exhibit at Carrie Haddad Photographs through April 10.

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Kelly Merchant photographs the season's hottest fashions from local boutiques.

community pages 39 RHYMES WITH ORANGE: GOSHEN & MIDDLETOWN .

Atticus Lanigan finds new businesses popping up in Orange County.

69 the other tri-state area: millerton & amenia .

Traci Suppa visits two New York towns bordering Connecticut and Massachusetts.

whole living guide 88 less clutter, more joy .

Wendy Kagan talks to clutter experts about the relationship of order and happiness.

92 Flowers Fall: an interview with kim john payne .

Bethany Saltman talks with the Waldorf educator and simplicity parenting guru.

Community Resource Guide 80 tastings A directory of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooking and where to get it. 84 business directory A compendium of advertiser services. 93 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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arts & culture 54 MUSEUM AND Gallery GUIDe 58 music Peter Aaron profiles with Sunjump Records founder John Esposito. Nightlife Highlights by Peter Aaron, plus CDs by A Viberetto A. Reviewed by Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson. Erin Hobson Compact Fortune Cookie Philosophy. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols. Rob Skane Phantom Power Trip. Reviewed by Jason Broome.

62 books Nina Shengold talks with novelist Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharaya.

64 book reviews Jay Blotcher reviews Something to Say by Richard Klin Lee Conell reviews The Empty Family by Colm Toibin.

66 Poetry Poems by M. DiStefano, Richard Donnelly, Bonnie Jill Emanuel, Colleen Gibbons-Brown, N. L. Hoffman, Otto JeckerByrne, Carolee Lockwood, Kristin Lukasik, Adrienne M. Madama, Meggie Monahan, Will Nixon, Thomas Perkins, Judith Saunders, Taylor Steinberg, Lauren Tamraz, and Irene Zimmerman. Edited by Phillip Levine.

120 parting shot Bridget, a photograph by Dmitri Belyi.

sustainable transport 74 running on empty Crispin Kott reports on the state of eco-friendly automobiles in the Hudson Valley.

76 the germinator .

Peter Barrett explains the nutritious and delicious advantages of sprouting seeds.

79 restaurant openings .

Billy Joe's Rib Works in Newburgh, Crossroads Brewing Company in Athens, Fiori in Great Barrington, Gaby's Cafe in Rhinebeck, Henry's at Buttermilk Falls Inn & Spa in Milton, Hopheads Craft Beer Market & Tasting Bar in High Falls, Pizza Shop in Newburgh, Twisted Foods Pretzel Roll Factory in Rosendale.

the forecast 98 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.) PREVIEWS 99 On Main Street in Catskill, the storefront exhibition Masters on Main Street. 101 Indy rockers Of Montreal perform at Vassar College on April 23. 105 Tim Davis's video project Upstate New York Olympics screens at the Dorsky. 107 Veteran journalist Ray Suarez offers insight into the media at SUNY New Paltz. 103 Performance artist Robert Whitman stages Passport at Dia:Beacon.

planet waves 114 Here at the Edge of the World Eric Francis Coppolino examines the myth of the lost continent of Atlantis.

114 Horoscopes What do the stars have in store for you this month? Eric Francis Coppolino knows.

John Harney in the tasting room at Harney & Sons Fine Teas in Millerton. millerton & amenia steffen thalemann

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The green eyes of the manly rabbit on April’s cover twinkle mischievously, as if he’s about to boldly take a bite of a stolen carrot. His perfectly manicured curled hair complements his collared shirt and vest. Odd, considering he’s a rabbit. The rabbit, in addition to tailored clothes, clutches his carrot with hands, not furry rabbit feet.This combination of human and animal characteristics is a technique Carol Rizzo uses in much of her work. “I’m drawn to the mixture of humans and animals, I love using character faces and concepts. I’m able to get across more stories that way, by mixing symbols and faces,” Rizzo explains. As a child, Rizzo’s father introduced her to the world of film, some of whose characters are still noticeably influencing her work. “When I drew this I had Harvey in mind,” says Rizzo, referencing the Jimmy Stewart comedy about a man whose best friend is an imaginary six-foot tall rabbit who wears a bowtie and belt. Another big influence for Rizzo was Alice’s Adventures inWonderland. “I have two copies with the original artwork, and a lot of the work in the book deals with human faces paired with animal bodies,” she says. Though much of her work is rooted in a playful, fantasy-like style, she also ventures into social and cultural commentary. Rizzo uses the same style of personifying animals and inanimate objects to illustrate issues like in-school condom distribution, foreclosure, and debt. In Foreclosure, Rizzo creates what looks like a flyer that reads “Foreclose.” In the center, an incredibly detailed human face stares piercingly and sadly at the viewer as a tear drops from the corner of an eye. The piece is packed with telling details like keyhole shaped mouth to the home, a child peering out an upper window, and an adult standing in the doorway holding a paper, with the posture of defeat. For as imaginative as her work can be, when it comes to execution, Rizzo gets serious. All of the lines and edges in Rizzo’s work have an exactness that come from working exclusively with colored pencils. “Over the years I’ve been able to get the pencil to do what I want. I love the preciseness of a sharp pencil,” she says. Portfolio: www.carolrizzo.com. —Samantha Minasi

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KATHLEEN MADIGAN Saturday April 2, 8pm “One of America’s funniest female comics” -Jay Leno ALICE IN WONDERLAND / CELEBRATING THE MASTERS NY THEATRE BALLET Sunday April 3, 3pm THE PERSUASIONS Saturday April 9, 8pm The widely popular a cappella group, making music since 1962. RON WHITE BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS TOUR Thursday April 14, 8pm Best known as the cigar smoking, scotch drinking funnyman from the Blue Collar Comedy phenomenon. MAX RAABE & PALAST ORCHESTER Saturday April 16, 8pm High style and musical glory of the 20’s and 30’s, focused on German and American standards. DAN ZANES & FRIENDS Sunday April 17, 3pm “Hudson Valley friendly” family rock band filled with irresistible grooves drawn from a wealth of rootsy musical traditions.

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Esteemed Reader The way of the integral being is to join with higher things. By holding to that which is refined and subtle, she traverses refined and subtle realms. If she enters the world, she does so lightly, without attachment. In this way she can go anywhere without ever leaving the center of the universe. —Hua Hu Ching Life is so simple. All you have to do is breath. —Don Diego de Ucayali

Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: There is a Tibetan teaching that suggests three grades of food on the spectrum of nutrition—solid and liquid stuff that goes into the mouth; air breathed into the lungs; and the impressions of light, sound, taste, smell, and touch that enter the senses. The teaching says that the physical and psychic health of a person depends on the quality of all three forms of nutrition. We all know it is important to eat a balanced diet of wholesome foods that are minimally processed. And we know it is vital to deeply breathe clean, fresh air. But how often do we consider the quality of the impressions we imbibe through our senses? There’s a strong suggestion in my children’s Waldorf kindergarten to keep electronic media out of the home. Being that our family is steeped in, and even sustained by, media, this has been a challenge, and we (the parents) have occassionally given in to demands for canned entertainment. Recently we put our feet down and cut out all media. We also elicited promises from the grandparents not to turn on the television. To our delighted surprise the transition has been easy. Imaginative play has taken the place of dead-time in front of a screen. The children make up elaborate dramas with the variety of Scheherazade’s thousand and one stories. Any object can be a prop in the impromptu theater, or most often the object is invisible, but clearly identifiable in context. We have learned that our children’s tender and ripening imaginations are a vast and creative place. Nutritionally, the processed media we consume is akin to freeze dried astronaut ice cream in its vitality and nutrient value. It is denuded of the life force inherent in the living, nature-born impressions from real life that nourish the mind. Even the highest quality canned media is toxic and constipating. Within our science-flattened, marketing-poisoned mindset we have little patience for the notion of levels of things. Assessing the array of screenshots, media products, and processed impressions we pour into our senses, it is clear that we have come to lack innate discernment of coarse and fine, meaningful and meaningless, nourishing and poisonous. But there is truth in the ancient model of a ladder that stretches from the infernal to the heavenly. Everything that exists has a rung on the ladder of reality, and the measure of each thing is in our own being, for within us every level is represented. Protagoras famously said, “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.” The first genuine impression we can have is of ourselves, and by awakening that measure in ourselves, we can measure the world. Sometimes the truth of levels of impressions stands out in relief. For this I love the environs of my hometown, New Paltz. In the evening the sun sets over the Shawangunk Ridge, spilling into the Wallkill River Valley, accentuating the vastness of the sky. The scene is beatific. But standing on Main Street at this hour, one is confronted by a collision of worlds. There is the world that is near—the noise of cars and horns, conflicting music emanating from stores and bars, cacophonous architecture, random wires crisscrossing overhead, advertising and signage; and beyond the landscape of fields and woods, cliffs, sky, and sun, silently emanating the lawful beauty of natural order, its balance and symmetry. The insight is clear: If we possessed the perception to behold the higher beauty of nature, we would treasure and caretake the natural world.We would not build machines or environments that are destructive to great nature or human nature. Instead we would strive to emulate that natural beauty in our lives and manufactured surroundings.We would study it, and hold it as a paradigm for manifesting higher impressions in our collective and personal lives. —Jason Stern 16 ChronograM 4/11

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Forsythia, Taxes, and Tomahawk Missiles

h, April. If I were in a despondent state of mind—and who would blame me for being so, watching unexpected snow blanket the crocuses in late March—T. S. Eliot would be invoked here: April is the cruellest1 month, etc. And yet oddly, as I age, I become more optimistic. I take comfort from John Ashbery’s “Grand Galop”: Hugely2, spring exists again. It hasn’t happened yet, of course, but it will. April is always good for two things: forsythia and taxes. (If you have forsythia3 planted in your yard, as I do, you should know that it’s not native to NewYork. In “Going Native,” p. 29, garden expert Carolyn Summers explains some of the biotic repercussions of nonnative flora.) And while we can ditch the forsythia, taxes ain’t easy to dodge. (Just ask Wesley Snipes.) As I was signing off on my federal tax forms last month, it occurred to me that I didn’t know, specifically, to what purpose my taxes were being put. On the local level, I know where my school taxes go (duh!) and my property taxes fund the municipal services I receive here in Kingston. On the state level, as with everything to do with New York State politics, it is perhaps better to let where the money goes remain a mystery. (It funds retirement benefits for state workers, for one, I know that. But as we note in While You Were Sleeping, p. 20, the hue4 and cry over budget-busting worker benefits is political theater, not financial reality.) Before asking what I was getting for my federal tax money, I checked to see what I was paying in. Turns out about a quarter of my income goes to the Feds. (NewYork State gets approximately eight percent of it as well.) As I have no investments, no children, and only one home, my taxes are fairly straightforward. What does this get me? Well, I’ve included a handy chart from the Congressional Budget Office via the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (This chart is from 2010, so it’s a year behind, but as Congress has yet to pass a budget for 2011, it’ll have to do.) Note that 60 percent of the federal budget goes to defense, social security, and health care for those who can’t afford it/don’t have health insurance. Looks like the biggest benefit to me, personally, is the satisfaction in knowing that we’re giving the terrorists hell in the dirty backwaters of the world so we won’t have to fight them here (price tag of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan thus far: $3 trillion; 4,400 dead American soldiers, 70,000 injured). And although my prediction5 last month that Qaddafi was going to be either dead or in exile by March 1 was incorrect, our tax dollars are hard at work to make it so. The price of one Tomahawk missile, $569,000, is roughly equivalent to what I will pay over the course of my life in federal taxes. Take that, Muammar. And while education only gets three percent of the federal budget, I have no doubt that it is probably going mostly to overpaid administrators and underworked teachers who summer by the pool while the rest of us toil ceaselessly to get this economy back on track. One item not noted in the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ analysis: the tremendous savings possible if the House bill to cut $60 million in NPR funding becomes law.That money would buy another 105 Tomahawk missiles. Who’s next? Hugo Chavez? Bring it on.

P O L I C Y B A SI C S | WHERE DO OUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS GO

PO L ICY B A S ICS | WHERE DO OUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS GO?

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•These Safety net programs: About 14 percent ofofthe programs include: the refundable portion thefederal budget in 2010, or $482 will support programs that earned-income andbillion, child tax credits, which assist lowandprovide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to individuals moderate-income working families through the tax code; programs 1. The odd spelling is Eliot’s. He stretches “cruellest” into three syllables—cru-ell-est—at once prolonging that provide cash payments to eligible individuals or households, and families facing hardship. the agony and creating a more mellifluous flow; a trick not unfamiliar to Jay-Z and Kanye. I know how Eliot

including Supplemental Security Income for the elderly or disabled soundspoor from and a 1935 recording of himinsurance; reciting “Thevarious Waste Land” inof a dusty-depth-of-the-British-Museum unemployment forms in-kind These programs include:thethe portion of the tone, asassistance if he himself were impersonating Sybilrefundable of Cumae, blessed with eternal life yet damned without for low-income families and individuals, including food earned-income and child tax credits, which assist low- oracle and in a basket and eternalstamps, youth. (The Cumeans, cut-ups that they housing were, stuck the tiny andchild-care decrepit school meals, low-income assistance, moderate-income working families through the tax code; programs assistance, and assistance in meeting home energy bills; and displayed her in a public square.) that provide cash payments to eligible various other programs such as those that aidindividuals abused and or households, neglected children. including Supplemental Income for the elderly or long disabled 2.The only remainder of my Queens accentSecurity emerges when pronouncing words where the vowel sound poor and unemployment insurance; in-kind of “u”, preceded by an “h”, begins a word—I turn the “h”various into a “y”.forms Thus, of hubris is pronounced youAassistance Center analysis shows that such programs kept approximately for low-income individuals, including foodnamed briss. This dialectical peccadillo is particularly families troubling inand multi-person conversation with someone 15 million Americans out of poverty in 2005 and reduced the stamps, school meals, low-income housing assistance, child-care Hugh; everyone believes I am addressing them when I am, in fact, talking to Hugh. depth of poverty for another 29 million people. (Such programs

assistance, in meeting energy bills; and likely kept evenand moreassistance Americans out of povertyhome since the recession 3. Forsythia, thatFor riotous yellow wonderprovisions that erases very Recovery memory ofAct winter, is surely various other programs such as the those that aid abused and what Ashbery is began. example, seven of the enacted referring to in “Grand2009 Galop.” inneglected February kept more than 6 million additional people out children. of poverty in 2009, according to a Center analysis.) 4. See footnote 2. analysis shows that such programs kept approximately A Center 2

15 million Americans out of poverty in 2005 and reduced the 5. I also depth predicted, in 2003,for thatanother we would 29 nevermillion invade Iraq, as that country no part in 9/11. The ofback poverty people. (Suchhadprograms reasoning was sokept ill-founded to be farcical. Veteran correspondent Ray Suarez thoughts on the likely evenasmore Americans out of poverty sinceshares the his recession media’s began. poor performance post-9/11 in The Forecast, p. 107. of the Recovery Act enacted For example, seven provisions in February 2009 kept more than 6 million additional people out of poverty in 2009, according to a Center analysis.)

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An Evening with Ray Suarez Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for PBS's "NewsHour" and host of "Destination Casa Blanca" on HITN TV, lectures on the post-9/11 media at SUNY New Paltz on Thursday, April 7. www.newpaltz.edu/speakerseries

Phools Parade This come-as-you-are art parade is a community event celebrating the creative spark in all of us. On Saturday April 16, meet at the New Paltz Middle School at 1pm. Parade starts at 2pm. www.phoolsparade.com

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Al-Qaeda’s media wing has come up with a new way to spread their message to Muslim women: Al-Shamikha, a 31-page glossy magazine for women. (Al-Shamikha translates from Arabic as “The Majestic Woman.”) The publication—whose debut cover features a woman in a traditional niqab, posing with a machine gun, mixes beauty tips with lessons in jihad. The aim of the magazine is to market global jihad in the same dexterous way Cosmopolitan or Marie Claire pushes Western culture to young women, and recruit followers among a wider Muslim world. Source: The Independent (UK) Supreme Court Justice Alito strongly and singularly disagreed with the 8-1 ruling on free speech principles regarding the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church’s offensive antigay protests at military funerals. The case, Snyder v. Phelps, disputed whether members of the church were within their constitutional rights when they positioned themselves outside a 2006 funeral of US Marine Matthew Snyder displaying signs stating: “You’re going to Hell” and “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” The Supreme Court ruled that although the protest was offensive, it was done on public property, in compliance with local officials—and that their views are entitled to “special protection” under the First Amendment. In Justice Alito’s dissent he stated: “Mr. Snyder wanted what is surely the right of any parent who experiences such an incalculable loss: to bury his son in peace.” Alito went on to say, “The court now holds that the First Amendment protected [Westboro’s] right to brutalize Mr. Snyder. I cannot agree.” Source: Christian Science Monitor State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley visited MIT to speak with a small group of students in early March. When asked about Bradley Manning’s treatment—the Army private being held in solitary confinement (often stripped down to his boxers, or forced to sleep naked with no blankets or pillows) at Quantico,Virginia, on suspicion of leaking classified State Department documents to WikiLeaks— Crowley answered by saying that what is being done to Manning is “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” Crowley abruptly resigned the following Sunday, March 13. Some White House insiders say the switch from Crowley to deputy Mike Hammer (who replaced him) was in the works for some time. Others close to Crowley say his comments might have stemmed from personal feelings, as his father was a prisoner of war during World War II. Source: CNN The outcry public dispute over what are perceived as too-high retirement benefits for state and government workers may in fact be somewhat unfounded. While many claim that state and local pension plans are busting budgets; according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, they amount to a mere 2.9 percent of state spending. (The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College puts the number slightly higher at 3.8 percent.) Boston College researchers also estimate that if state and local pension funds were frozen tomorrow there’d still be enough money in most state plans to pay benefits for years to come, many years. Kentucky could cover 4.7 years of benefits, North Carolina 19 years, Florida 17 years, and California about 15 years. In Wisconsin, where Republican Scott Walker is trying to weaken publicsector employee pension benefits—if cut off tomorrow, would have enough money to cover benefits for the next 18 years. Source: McClatchy Newspapers 20 ChronograM 4/11

A bipartisan group set up to analyze the unprecedented use of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has concluded that the US has wasted tens of billions of dollars on these contracts since 2002. The commission’s co-chairs stated that quick reforms are crucial for easing the strain on the federal budget, as well as improving the effectiveness of US operations. The commission even went as far as to say their report may have understated the problem because it doesn’t take into full account ill-planned projects, oversight by the US government, criminal behavior, and blatant corruption by both government and contractor employees. Source: Talking Points Memo New research shows that people who focus on living with a sense of purpose are more likely to remain cognitively intact—and even live longer, healthier lives than those who focus on short-term, or “hedonic,” happiness. Researchers point out that the pleasure that comes from acquiring money and status are fleeting, whereas endeavors like volunteering or raising a family provide long-term fulfillment. In an analysis of American college students from 1938 to 2007, researchers at San Diego State University found increased symptoms of depression, paranoia, and psychopathology. The researchers suggested an increasing cultural emphasis in the US on materialism and status (hedonic happiness), and decreasing attention to community and the meaning of life, as possible explanations. And young people aren’t the only proof. Another study, involving 950 individuals over a seven-year period, found that those reporting a lesser sense of purpose in life were over twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, compared to those reporting a greater purpose in life. Source: Wall Street Journal Mexico is one of the fattest countries in the world. And according to the Mexican government, it starts early: One in three children is overweight or obese. To make matters worse, Dr. José Angel Córdova, Mexico’s health minister, estimates that one-third of Mexico’s health care spending goes toward fighting diseases related to obesity. That’s why as of January 1, Mexico put its schoolchildren on a diet. Although Mexican schools do not provide lunch, snack food companies sell foods like fried pork rinds, potato chips, sweets, and soft drinks in abundance during recess. Schools aim to replace these with healthier, smaller-portioned options. Under the new set of rules, Mexico has pulled 90 percent of fried foods from schools, which Education Minister Alonso Lujambio says is “a very aggressive change.” Many school administrators report having seen changes in students choices already. Source: New York Times According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 100 Americans is now born through assisted reproductive technology yet there are virtually no laws governing the process. Due to the activism of now-grown children of donors, steps are being taken to reform the billion-dollar fertility industry, which goes largely unregulated in the US and overseas. Olivia Pratten, a Toronto journalist and outspoken donor-born activist, is awaiting a ruling from the Canadian Supreme Court on disclosing donor records. Typically, donor-conceived individuals rarely have access to their donor’s information; in fact, records are often destroyed to maintain anonymity. Donorconceived people argue that they have a basic human right to know their heritage. Source: Newsweek Twenty-nine countries currently operate 442 nuclear reactors, and 65 plants are under construction worldwide. Now that climate change is perceived as the most significant threat to mankind, nuclear technology is gaining ground again. Two plants are in the works for the US, China already has 27, and Russia is building 11 new reactors. IAEA director general Yukiya Amano said he estimates between 10 and 25 new countries to bring their first nuclear power plant online by 2030. The seemingly rapid construction of plants is a result of a rapidly growing world population, especially in China, India, South Korea, and the US. According to the IAEA, the world will see an increase in global energy consumption by over 50 percent by 2030. Local organization Riverkeeper has called for a temporary shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear power plant just south of Peekskill until it can be proven that the plant can withstand a 7.0 earthquake. Sources: Der Spiegel, Riverkeeper —Compiled by Samantha Minasi

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Larry Beinhart’s Body Politic

Mythonomics

The appeal of Republican economic policy rests on a set of myths that sound really good. They are completely false. We must choose between capitalism and socialism! Freedom or state control. Laissez-faire free markets vs. communism, fascism, Nazism, welfare-stateism. Well, gosh-a-roony, that’s like choosing between good and evil, happiness and misery, ice cream and boiled leeks. But even in prisons, where the power of the state is at its maximum, people are producing and servicing, buying and selling, on a market basis. There’s no such thing as a pure free market. Or pure communism. Belief in either is theology. All economies, in reality, are mixed economies. Capitalist economies succeed, socialist economies fail! It is true that in the great war between the Soviets and the West, the Eastern Bloc fell and the capitalists thrived. But the Weimar Republic, Czarist Russia, Nationalist China, Batista’s Cuba, and Vietnam were all capitalist countries. They all failed. When the Right rails against socialism today, they rail against France, Germany, Sweden, and Finland. Which are doing very well, thank you very much. They’re mixed economies. Government and business are in opposition. Government is necessary to group existence. If there no government, or not much government, or a weak government, whoever has money will act to create one. They’ll even build their own towns, with their own rules and their own police, as all sorts of companies did during the Industrial Revolution. Or move to strengthen government. By 1924 prominent [German] industrialists and financiers were secretly giving substantial sums to the Nazis. In 1931 members of the Coal Owners’ Association pledged themselves to pay 50 pfennigs for each ton of coal sold to go to the organization that Hitler was building. —US Senate Committee Subcommittee on War Mobilization, 1945 Money will always attempt to influence and control government. From 1998 to 2010, the finance, insurance, and real estate sector in America spent $4.25 billion on official lobbying activities. That does not include campaign contributions. Government jobs are not real jobs. Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee until recently, said that. Next time you’re stopped by a state trooper, tell him so. If you run into a couple of Marines passing through the airport, let them know. When you go to your next parent-teacher meeting, make it clear. Only the market makes good production choices. “Real Jobs, Fake Jobs,” posted on the Ludwig Van Mises Institute website, includes a standard version of this argument. Mises is sort of Ayn Rand without the ripped bodices and swooning heiresses. The point of jobs is for people to work toward providing goods and services that are valued by the marketplace. If there is no consumer-driven demand for the things people are doing, their jobs are nothing more than waste. It does nothing for society if everyone is employed building pyramids. —Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Mises Daily, July 19, 2010 Ahem. Llewellyn, is there any “business” enterprise in Egypt that has brought in as much money as pyramid tourism? It’s been bringing in traffic since 2,600 BCE.

Taxes take money out of the economy. Governments don’t take money and just keep it. They spend it. In general, they spend it in ways that we all agree are useful and necessary but that businesses have not, or will not, or can’t. Roads and bridges, education, health, science, technology, regulations, safety, national security, education, clean water, clean air, waste disposal, criminal and civil justice systems. Yes, some of that spending is no doubt wasteful. If rich people controlled it they might have invested with Bernie Madoff. Or given it to Lehman Brothers, which would have put it in credit default swaps, derivatives, and repackaged mortgages. Which one takes money out of the economy? Taxes are theft. They forcibly take money from those who have earned them. It sure feels like it. However, as a writer, I need customers who have been taught to read, roads to deliver the books to stores, a legal system that protects copyrights and enforces contracts, and a great deal more. All that great free enterprise stuff takes place in an environment that is expensive to maintain. Even money spent on welfare, Social Security, unemployment, and the like serves the purpose of keeping the rabble from riots and revolt. Money is the only valid measure of value. Over 14 years Lehman Brothers, the fourth-biggest financial services company in America, paid their CEO, Richard J. Fuld, almost half a billion dollars. Fuld made $22 million in 2007 alone. In 2008, under his leadership, Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. The average teacher’s salary is around $42,000. Which do you value more? Your children’s teachers? Or Richard J. Fuld? Markets will always find the best solution. The market solution for Fuld’s befuddlement was to let Lehman make stupid decisions, then pay the penalty with corporate death. Unfortunately, Lehman took the economy of the entire world down with them. People who had no control over what they did are the ones paying for it. Fuld is still rich. But let’s say, for a moment, that free markets do make the best decisions. The question remains, for whom? The invisible hand of the market might be pushing Americans to mortgage all their property, transfer the money to Saudi Arabia and China, so that they will become the new world leaders. Markets have no patriotism. Right now, the Democrats, the liberals, and the left are stuck talking about fairness. In the marketplace of ideas this is greeted as whiny, wimpy, and moralistic. They need an economic message that talks about making money, for everybody. For America. It shouldn’t be hard. Cutting taxes for the rich, deregulation, and waiting for the invisible hand to work its magic has, in reality, led to buying up companies just to gut them, shipping jobs overseas, throwing money into utterly unproductive things like real estate, speculative bubbles, and spectacular crashes. The further we go toward “free markets” the more that will happen. Yet, it hasn’t happened. The left has not developed a fresh and vibrant vision for our economic future that can be expressed clearly and vigorously and that can be repeated over and over again as 'nuff-said catchphrases. 4/11 ChronograM 21

News & Politics

Like Mixing Oil and Water Environmental Leader Frances Beinecke Discusses the Findings of President Obama’s Deepwater Horizon Commission By Carl Frankel

echnological marvels have a way of becoming suddenly nightmarish.Take nuclear power plants, for instance. Extraordinary testimonials to engineering prowess, they also carry extraordinary risks, as the recent catastrophe in Japan attests. Things are no different in the oil and gas industry. For years, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico was hailed as a technological wonder. Owned and operated by Transocean, the world’s largest offshore drilling company, it had been used in September 2009 to drill the deepest offshore well in history at a vertical depth of over 35,000 feet, in over 4,000 feet of water. And then, in one fell blast, it was anything but wonderful. On April 20, 2010, the rig exploded as it was being used to drill a well for the multinational British Petroleum (BP), killing 11 crewmen, creating a fireball that was visible 35 miles away, and leaving oil spewing into the Gulf at a rate of over 50,000 barrels a day. How do you seal a gushing oil well that’s beneath almost a mile of water? The answer came quickly: not easily. By the time the Deepwater Horizon well had been sealed three months later, five million barrels of oil had seeped into the Gulf of Mexico, giving BP and its subcontractors the dubious honor of having co-created the largest offshore oil spill in United States history. On May 22 of last year, President Obama established the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, with the explicit mandate to “examine the relevant facts and circumstances concerning the root causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and [to] develop options for guarding against, and mitigating the impact of, oil spills associated with offshore drilling.” About seven months later, in January 2011, the Commission published its report. Frances Beinecke, president of National Resources Defense Council, one of the country’s largest and most powerful environmental groups, was one of the Commission’s seven members. We caught up with her recently to discuss the Commission’s findings. On April 7, Beinecke will give the annaul Ned Ames Honorary Lecture at the Cary Institute in Millbrook at 7pm. The title of her talk is “Lessons Learned (or Not) from the BP Oil Spill.” www.ecostudies.org. Over the years commissions have earned a reputation as a way for governments to pretend they’re actually doing something. Was that the case here? How happy are you with the findings? I’m genuinely proud of the work we did. We had a strong, diverse team. This was the shortest turnaround time of any presidential commission in history. We delivered the report this past January, on time, and under budget. Our mandate was to investigate what occurred and to recommend ways to avoid having it happen in the future. We looked as deeply as we could into what occurred. There were practical limitations. For instance, we didn’t have access to the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer, which wasn’t pulled from the Gulf until September. We were also working on a short timeline. Despite these constraints, I believe our analysis was comprehensive and accurate. What were your key findings? The blowout at Deepwater Horizon was not the result of a single human error. It came about due to a whole host of decisions by a series of different players, including BP and their contractors Halliburton and Transocean. The disaster wasn’t a fluke. It resulted from a systemic problem in the oil and gas industry. We found a shocking lack of standards on the part of the oil and gas industry with regard to safety and risk assessment, along with a corresponding lack of vigilance. 22 news & politics ChronograM 4/11

The risk we identified isn’t limited to US waters or the Gulf of Mexico. BP will be going offshore in the Arctic and off the coasts of Russia and India. Halliburton and Transocean are employed by companies operating all over the world. This is a global problem. What explains the lack of vigilance? Complacency has a lot to do with it. The last huge oil spill was 20 years ago—the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska.What happens is that there’s high vigilance for three to five years, then complacency takes over. President Obama has used the phrase “shock and trance.” It fairly describes the pattern here—a surge of effort followed by inattention. Ongoing vigilance is critically important. We tried to shape our recommendations so that this kind of shock-and-trance complacency won’t ever happen again. What were your key recommendations? We made recommendations in three areas: administrative remedies under existing authority, changes that require Congressional action, and changes on the part of industry. Many of our administrative recommendations have already been implemented. For instance, the Minerals Management Service in the Department of Interior [DoI] has historically been responsible for both collecting revenues from offshore leasing and for conducting regulatory oversight. There’s a conflict of interest here. Secretary of the Interior Salazar has separated out these functions. Recommendations that require Congressional action including granting more authority to departments and agencies like DoI and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, increasing the $75 million liability cap on oil and gas companies, and redirecting 80 percent of Clean Water Act civil and criminal penalties to long-term restoration of the Gulf of Mexico. Not surprisingly, Congress hasn’t acted yet. As for our recommendations for industry, we looked at what other high-risk industries do. The nuclear and chemical industries created an independent safety institute. They hold themselves accountable internally. The oil and gas industry hasn’t done this yet. An independent safety institute can make a huge difference, especially when combined with more governmental oversight. The Department of Interior currently doesn’t have enough resources to do an adequate job of regulation. The budget of the Minerals and Mining Service is $200 million. That’s only twice the size of my organization, the NRDC, yet it’s managing the program—oil and gas leases—that generates more income for the federal government than anything else besides taxes! We need to increase DoI’s regulatory capacity. One way to do this would be to have Congress authorize more money. Alternatively—and this is one of our recommendations—the oil and gas industry could pay for government’s cost of regulation. This is already the case with the nuclear energy and communication industries. Their fees underwrite the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Federal Communications Commission, respectively. What’s the industry response been like? It hasn’t been dismissive of the recommendations, and while this may not sound like much, it’s a positive development. They usually come out loaded for bear. The truth is, they’re vulnerable right now. There are five million barrels of oil in the Gulf. The American Petroleum Institute [API] is seriously considering our recommendation that they set up an independent safety institute. We’ve recommended that it be

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Members of environmental group Greenpeace pose around a luxury car covered by oil, outside the European carmakers association ACEA office in Brussels on October 20 to mark the sixth month anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

separate from API. They’re considering this, too, but at this point they’re less receptive to having it be separate from API than they are to the general concept of having a safety institute. As a practical matter, the oil and gas industry should be the strongest proponents of getting these reforms in place. The industry has been screaming bloody murder because they haven’t been able to get new leases since the Deepwater Horizon accident. The industry keeps saying it wants to “get back to work.” They could expedite this by championing our recommendations so new leasing permits can be processed. Are there any villains in this drama? Three companies—BP, Halliburton, and Transocean—were participants in the Deepwater Horizon accident. The tragedy happened on their watch. But there’s another level to this. Why are we drilling at 10,000 feet? Because of our addiction to oil. Until we shift that, ecosystems everywhere will be at risk. In this sense, we’re all complicit.

To what extent did climate change play a role in your deliberations? We weren’t specifically charged with addressing climate change. It was on our minds, though. If you look at a city like New Orleans and then at the projected numbers for sea-level rise, you have to think: This city will disappear. Climate change is the context this all plays out in. We need an energy pathway that reduces energy missions 80 percent by 2050. We’re nowhere close to it. It’s the evening.You’re home ranting to your husband about your latest frustration or disappointment.What are you most likely to be ranting about? Most likely, our overall energy direction. We can figure out how to make offshore drilling safer, but even if we do that, we need an energy pathway that transforms the consumption patterns of people in the United States and around the world. We need real leadership to get there and we just don’t have it.

What are the odds of a disaster like Deepwater Horizon happening again? With greater governmental oversight and greater industry accountability, you can reduce risk, but you can never reduce it to zero. Our focus needs to be not only on minimizing the risk of a spill, but also on minimizing the impact if one does occur. In the case of Deepwater Horizon, the industry was totally unprepared to contain the leak once it occurred. A total new regulatory approach is being put into place. Now, for a company to obtain a lease, it must demonstrate that it has the technical and operational capacity to contain a spill.

What silver linings, if any, do you see? The Gulf is an amazing place. Both environmentally and culturally, it’s an extraordinarily rich and productive environment. Our highest seafood take comes from the Gulf. Twenty-three percent of domestic oil production comes from the Gulf. All the resources of the Midwest come down the Mississippi. Hopefully, the Deepwater Horizon disaster brought the value of the Gulf to the attention of lots of people. It’s amazingly resilient, too.When you go down there, what you see is incredible. After hurricanes and oil spills, people bounce back, over and over again. And the ecosystem recovers, too. Despite the ongoing litany of abuses that occurs, it remains a phenomenally productive ecosystem. It gives you hope that Mother Nature can survive our abuses. If the funds can be made available to skillfully manage the Gulf’s resources, its extraordinary value can be maintained.

If the NRDC had been hired to do the review, would the recommendations have come out differently? Our missions are different, so the recommendations would have come out differently. Our focus is on environmental protection. The Commission’s mandate was to find out what happened and make sure it won’t happen again. That said, I’m proud of the environmental recommendations the Commission made. We also placed a strong emphasis on the need to have science play a larger role in underpinning the decision process.

In closing, are there any other points you’d like to make? The Gulf of Mexico is a public resource. The marine environment doesn’t belong to industry, it belongs to us. The oil beneath the water doesn’t belong to industry, it belongs to us. We, not they, have the right to set the rules of the road. The only reason industry is out there is to provide a public benefit. If they’re not serving the public, they don’t have a right to be there. Carl Frankel has been writing about sustainability-related issues for over two decades. www.carlfrankel.com 4/11 ChronograM news & politics 23

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t’s easy to see why, back in the 1970s, an outdoorsman chose this particular location to build a hunting cabin.The approach is a gravel road winding along a Catskills creek through pristine forest. The driveway cuts back up the hill past a large pond, through a swath of lawn and fields still outlined by the stone walls erected by long-ago farmers. At driveway’s end, the Skylight House nestles at the forest’s fringe on the western mountainside, its native fieldstone exterior looking as if it has grown here like one of the trees, its lines classic as a vintage barn. When a couple from New York City, busy professionals with two children, purchased the rather cramped and dark dwelling that once occupied this lot seeking to repurpose it as a refuge where their family weekends would be blissfully distant from traffic and strife, they turned to architect Marlys Hann to enchant the building into their dream retreat. Hann saw, as they did, the lovely home that could be—and the results speak for themselves. “At the first meeting,” says Hann, “the owner, who’s quite tall, said, ‘I can’t see out! Can we open this up and get some light and height?’ So the first objective was to create the opposite of the existing warren of small, low-ceilinged rooms with their all-over wood paneled, messy rustic look.The design concepts evolved from the need for spaciousness, light, height, and the expansive, ineffable feeling of connection and flow between inner space and outer landscape.”

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The original house was almost completely gutted and rebuilt. What had been a “terribly moldy” garage has been transformed into a comfy and practical entryway and mud room, paneled in butt-joined white-painted board siding, with plenty of room to hose down muddy kids and an adjoining bathroom and laundry. A spacious rec room holds an antique pool table and stone fireplace, its stone surround and hearth gracing one entire wall. Off the rec room, two cozy bedrooms are the children’s domain. Throughout the lower level, polished concrete floors with a white tint maximize the available light and make for easy cleanup. Up a floating cantilevered staircase surrounded by tempered glass, the 56-by-24 foot main floor has been completely opened up. Massive sliding panels offer the option of either wide open space or separation between the library, with its two walls of builtin bookshelves and sink-into-me furniture, and the living room/kitchen zone with its free-form trestle table and fireplace. Eight-foot-tall sliders line a long wall, equipped with slatted interior shutters that can be closed or opened to admit the precise amount of sunlight and lake view that suits the occupant’s whim. Floors are vintage quartersawn white oak. A continuous skylight runs along the peak of the two-story ceiling, over 23 feet above the floor. The core of the house contains a bathroom and, on the kitchen side, a pantry. “She wanted a pantry,” says Hann, “so…” She’s got one now, a spacious walk-in big enough

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to house the sink and dishwasher. Spacious kitchen counters are crafted from a warm lilac bluestone. A covered stone patio off the northern exposure offers a cool outdoor dining alternative on summer days, having replaced a rotting wooden deck. On the uppermost level, snuggled to the skylight, is the A-frame master bedroom and bath. As everywhere, light, height, and space define the experience. “Eventually, they’re installing a radio-controlled system to control the skylight apertures,” Hann explains. Despite its polished and thoroughly livable appearance, the Skylight House is still a work in progress in several ways. Originally, the owners had intended to add a covered portico leading to a glass enclosed entry hall and a wing of guest bedrooms, but budgetary concerns led to the decision to keep the house to its original footprint— for now. Another item on the wish list: a geothermal system to replace the propane. Radiant-floor heating is contained by R-Zero E-2000 closed-cell spray foam insulation, and an EFCO solar system provides some of the electricity. A Lifebreath Total Recovery ventilation system keeps the air fresh. “Renovations are inevitably costly,” says Hann. “There’s no getting around it. But we managed to give them over 4,000 square feet of finished living space for around $300 a square foot.” And what a living space it is. The continuous skylight dominates the two upper floors, unimpeded by walls or other structural elements.The simplicity of the décor— black and white warmed and softened by wood and stone—is clean and uncluttered, as is the exterior, where the traditional shape and the loveliness of local fieldstone is topped off by a standing-seam metal roof. For Hann, who graduated from Pratt in 1966 and practiced in Manhattan between 1976 and 2002, the project has been creatively satisfying, something she can point to with pride. “Achieving the continuous flow of light and space wrapped around that central core and keeping the skylight completely unimpeded was challenging,” she says. “But the clients are happy with the results.They’re high-powered professionals, an attorney and a marketing executive—they needed someplace to be with their kids and destress, and they’ve got it now.” Hann’s other upstate projects include transforming a 55-year-old farmhouse into the House of Light, her Stone House, which won a New York AIA Excellence in Design Award, and the unpretentious and lovely Cliff House, all of which can be seen on her website, www.marlyshann.com.

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Hidden Middletown In the center of Middletown is a large parking lot, the southeast corner of which abuts a mysterious patio. On a winter’s day, one can easily find themselves upon it and inside a peculiar sensation. Although the spot is frozen over and empty planters sit in memory of a summer passed, a small speaker stills plays joyful music.The sound mixed with the string of dormant outdoor lights gives an observer a sense that, when full and bustling, memories are created there. The patio belongs to Nina, a well-respected restaurant on Franklin Square, where North and West Main Streets collide. In addition to places like DeStefano’s and the Empty Bottle Saloon, Nina shares the neighborhood with the Paramount Theatre, an 1,100-seat anchor destination built in 1929 in Art Deco style that hosts art exhibits, lectures, fundraisers, dance recitals, school plays, musicals, films, and the sounds of the Wurlitzer organ. At the northern edge of the same lot is James Street, which follows the path of the old Erie Railroad.There sits the historic 1896 Erie Station, an example of Romanesque architecture. Now the popular Thrall Library, the building is a proud example of a rich past but also serves the community with a high-traffic used bookstore and an independent/foreign film series called Reel Eclectic. Also at the north end of the lot is the Interactive Museum, a children’s activity center “dedicated to the exploration of math, science, technology, and the arts.” Some might lament the location of the parking lot because building it helped to destroy remnants of Middletown’s past. However, it allows the city to maintain some of its historically charming density, much of it formed when the city was a rail hub. For instance, it serves visitors to North Street which maintains its original stock of commercial structures, uninterrupted by driveways and black-topped parcels. The variation in height and storefront design coupled with the snug placement of buildings remind one that downtown Middletown was once a regional shopping Mecca. History Intact The intact historical buildings along North Street have actively attracted those looking to invest in an urban setting. One of the mainstays is Something Sweet, a dessert cafe 42 GOSHEN + MIDDLETOWN ChronograM 4/11

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Greg Slick, Untitled, acrylic on birch panel, 20” x 20”, 2010. Part of the exhibit “Far & Wide: The 3rd Annual Woodstock Regional,” April 9 through May 8 at the Woodstock Artists’ Association and Museum.

ALBERT SHAHINIAN FINE ART at prudential/serls 6384 Mill street, rhinebeck 876-7578. “Expansive Work.” Paintings by Eddy, Scheele, Levine & Barclay. Through April 30.

“The World Adventure.” Oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics, photographs, handmade jewelry/hair accessories,drawings and more. April 9-May 27. Opening Saturday, April 9, 6pm-10pm.

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THE DANIEL ARTS CENTER AT SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE

22 EAST MARKET STREEt, RHINEBECK. 505-6040. “Billy Name: Photographs from The Factory.” Through May 31.

ANN STREET GALLERY 104 ANN STREET, NEWBURGH 562-6940 X 119. “In Rare Form: Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition.” Through April 23.

SIMON’S ROCK COLLEGE, GREAT BARRINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS (413) 320-4175. “Simon’s Rock of Bard College Photography Thesis Show.” April 29-May 18. Opening Friday, April 29, 6pm-8pm.

DAVIS ORTON GALLERY

SUNY NEW PALTZ, NEW PALTZ. “1st Annual Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) Exhibition.” April 2-6.

114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON www.DavisOrtonGallery.com. “Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010”: Mixed media by Howard Saunders. “Person/Persona”: Photographs by Meg Birnbaum. “PortfolioX2”: Photographs by Robert Kalman & Gordon Stettinius/ Terry Brown. April 1-May 8. Opening Saturday, April 2, 6pm-8pm.

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54 ELIZABETH STREET, RED HOOK 758-9244. “Annual Student Watercolor Exhibition.” April 2-30. Opening Friday, April 8, 6pm-8pm.

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3 BEEKMAN STREET, BEACON 440-0100 Koo Jeong A, “A Constellation Congress.” Through June 26. Imi Knoebel, “24 Colors—for Blinky, 1977.” Ongoing. Sol LeWitt, “Drawing Series.” Ongoing.

622 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-1915. “Works by Harry Orlyk and Marion Vinot.” Through April 17. “20th Anniversary Exhibit.” April 21-May 29. Opening Saturday, April 23, 6pm-8pm.

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105 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 734-1894. “Animal Visions.” Monoprints and etchings of animals by Bruce Waldman, and watercolors and ceramic animal sculptures by Bernice Entin. April 1-24. Opening Sunday, April 3, 1pm-5pm.

BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598. “Clap.” Featuring more than 60 works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Through May 22.

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128 CANAL STREET, PORT EWEN 338-5580. “Works by Lynne Friedman.” April 2-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 5pm-8pm.

40 MILL HILL ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-4411. “Joseph Pollet: Paintings- Estate Sale.” April 1-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 6pm-8pm.

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Center for the Digital Arts

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632. “150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis and Katherine Newbegin.” Through May 27.

GALERIE BMG 12 TANNERY BROOK ROAD, WOODSTOCK 679-0027. “Jessica Kaufman: Panopticon.” April 8-May 23. Opening Saturday, April 9, 5pm-7pm.

GALLERY AT DAVID DEW BRUNER DESIGN 610 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (914) 466-4857. “Money.” Explores how the idea of money and currency has changed over the years and cultures. Through April 30.

Greene County Council On Arts MAIN STREET, CATSKILL (518) 943-3400. “New Masters on Main Street.” Offers 10 contemporary storefront exhibitions from students and recent alumni of studio art programs. Through May 31.

HAMMERTOWN 6422 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-1450. “I Love Where I Live: Local Animals and Landscapes.” Through May 31.

HOPSON COTTAGE BARD COLLEGE, ANNADALE 758-7008. “In God We Trust: Contemporary Chinese Religious Art.” Explores the theme of Christianity in Chinese art today. April 1-30. Opening Tuesday, April 5, 4pm-12am.

HUDSON OPERA HOUSE 327 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 822-1438. “A Survey.” Gloria Garfinkel. April 3-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 5pm-7pm.

HUDSON VALLEY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 1701 MAIN STREET, PEEKSKILL (914) 788-0100. “Daniel Pitin: Garrison Landing.” Through April 17.

JOHN DAVIS GALLERY 362 1/2 WARREN STREET, HUDSON (518) 828-5907. “Paintings by Susanna Heller.” Through April 24. Opening Friday, April 1, 6pm-8pm.

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105 ABEEL STREET, KINGSTON www.kmoca.org. “New Works by Neal Hollinger, April Warren, and Travis Head.” April 2-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 5pm-7pm.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORSES 37 NORTH FRONT STREET, KINGSTON 340-0501. “Charlie Chaplin Tribute.” April 2-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 12pm-8pm.

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2683 SOUTH ROAD, POUGHKEEPSIE 454-4500. “New Views of Our Old Neighborhood: Photographs of Dutchess and Ulster Counties.” Robert M. Lipgar. April 14-May 21. Opening Thursday, April 21, 5pm-8pm. “Safari.” Paintings by Eva van Rijn. Through April 10.

MARK GRUBER GALLERY NEW PALTZ PLAZA, NEW PALTZ 255-1241. “Baseball: Painting the American Pastime.” Through May 4.

MILL STREET LOFT’S GALLERY 45 45 PERSHING AVENUE, POUGHKEEPSIE 471-7477. “Art Institute Senior Project Exhibit.” Through March 19.

MONTGOMERY ROW SECOND LEVEL 6423 MONTGOMERY STREET, RHINEBECK 876-6670. “Spring Trio.” Paintings and prints by Alix Travis, Louise Kalin and John B. Hopkins. April 1-29. Opening Saturday, April 16, 5pm-7pm.

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SUNY ULSTER, STONE RIDGE 687-5113. “Thread Spool Works Exhibit by Deborah Sperber.” Through April 15.

THE OLD CHATHAM COUNTRY STORE CAFE GALLERY VILLAGE SQUARE, OLD CHATHAM (518) 794-6227. “Fine Art Photography by Nancy Noble Gardner of Slingerlands.” April 1-27. Opening Sunday, April 3, 3pm-5pm.

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159 SULLIVAN ST, WURTSBORO 888-2519. “Ashokan Views.” Jan Sawka. April 17-May 7. Opening Sunday, April 17, 6pm-8pm.

RITZ THEATER LOBBY 107 BROADWAY, NEWBURGH 784-1199. “East End Stories.” Photography exhibition by Eileen MacAvery Kane. Through April 30.

SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART 1 HAWK DRIVE, NEW PALTZ 257-3844. “From Huguenot to Microwave: New and Recent Works by Marco Maggi.” Through April 15. “The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study.” Through July 17. “The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis.” Through July 17. “Thick and Thin: Ken Landauer and Julianne Swartz.” April 9–October 23. Opening Friday, April 8, 5pm-7pm.

SUNY ORANGE KAPLAN HALL, MIDDLETOWN 344-6222 “Illuminations.” Through May 6.

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Miranda, Flag, 2010. Miranda is a student at the Center for Spectrum Services in Kingtson. “Through the Lens of Autism: Photography Work from Center for Spectrum Services Students” will be on display at KMoCA, 103 Abeel Street, Kingston, on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1. www.kmoca.org.

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TIVOLI ARTISTS CO-OP 60 BROADWAY, TIVOLI 758-4342. “Alan Reich: Furniture and Photograph.” April 29-May 22. Opening Saturday, April 30, 6pm-8pm. “Invitational: Greene County Council on the Arts.” Through January 30.

TWISTED SOUL 442 MAIN STREET, POUGHKEEPSIE 705-5381. “Bound II.” Kayleigh Prest. Through May 19.

ULSTER SAVINGS BANK 280 WALL STREET, KINGSTON 658-9665. “Journey Toward Color.” Paintings by Franz Heigemeir. April 8-March 31. Opening Friday, April 8, 4pm-7pm.

UNISON ARTS & LEARNING CENTER 68 MOUNTAIN REST ROAD, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Joan Lesikin: Paintings.” April 3-24. Opening Sunday, April 3, 4pm-6pm.

UNISON GALLERY WATER STREET MARKET, NEW PALTZ 255-1559. “Assemblage.” Amber Maxfield. April 16-May 16. Opening Saturday, April 16, 5pm-7pm. “Joshua Kopit and Joseph Mastroianni.” Collages, paintings and drawings. Through April 11.

UTOPIAN DIRECTION 7 WEST STREET, WARWICK 242-8678. “Multimedia and Beyond.” Jan Sawka. April 9-May 31. Opening Saturday, April 9, 6pm-8pm.

WALLKILL RIVER SCHOOL AND ART GALLERY 232 WARD STREET, MONTGOMERY 457-ARTS. “Looking Out.” New works by Debbie Cushman Femiak and Michael Piotrowski. April 1-30. Opening Saturday, April 2, 5pm-7pm.

WOODSTOCK ARTISTS ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM 28 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-2940. “Far and Wide: The Third Annual Woodstock Regional Exhibition.” April 9-May 8. Opening Saturday, April 9, 4pm-6pm. “Harriet Tannin: A Retrospective.” Through April 3. “Remembrances of Things Past.” Collection of meditative photographs by Woodstock Fine Art Photographer David Morris Cunningham. Through April 3.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL OF ART 2470 ROUTE 212, WOODSTOCK 679-2388. “Carolyn Haeberlin, 1913-2000.” Through May 7.

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omeone starting a record label in today’s economic wasteland would seem to be, to put it kindly, quixotic. The middleman-cutting, direct-marketing accessibility of the Internet has at last wrested distribution away from the majors, and theoretically put indies on the same level as those long-monopolizing big boys. But at the same time the system is decimating many of the same smaller, integrity-driven, DIY concerns it’s been touted as helping: The file-sharing genie long ago popped out of the bottle and opened the floodgates, and now every second millions of self-professed “music lovers” plunge a knife in the hearts of the artists they profess to admire by stealing their music, without so much as a thought, via quasi-legal torrent sites. Most of this thievery involves pop music; jazz is less of a target. But, then, jazz has had it way harder for way longer. Jazz record sales reached their commercial peak during the big band era, and since then the genre has barely been able to keep going through artistically pivotal but comparatively modestly selling cult labels (this even includes the vaunted Impulse! ECM, and Blue Note) and occasional money-losing vanity releases on the majors. (There was a record-industry joke a couple decades back that went like this: “Q: How do you make a million on a jazz record? A: You spend three million.”) So those with new labels have it rough enough, but anyone running a jazz label nowadays? Ouch. And one that specializes in regional jazz? Double ouch. Whoever would be behind such an enterprise could only be doing it for the love. Love is clearly what drives John Esposito’s Sunjump Records, an effort the Germantown pianist and educator began in 1986 and reactivated 20 years later. And, despite the odds, since the relaunch the imprint’s managed to survive while doing an exceptional job of documenting not just Esposito’s music, but that of other heretofore overlooked, Upstate-linked musicians. Obviously a selfless man. To some extent. “Well, I partially restarted Sunjump in 2006 for my own sense of moving forward creatively,” he admits. “I’d had a family and helped raise two kids. [Esposito was the companion of singer and voice teacher Pamela Pentony, who had two children from a previous partner.] The relationship ended and I began revisiting all of these early recordings I’d been involved in, as a way of rethinking my work and figuring out where to go next. I decided I wanted to release them, and one thing led to another.” It’s tempting to say it was the Marlborough-raised Esposito’s genetic destiny to become a jazz musician: His grandfather, Salvatore Esposito, was a violinist, saxophonist, and violin maker who played with 1920s jazz king Paul Whiteman. “But I didn’t really find out about that until after he’d died, when I’d already been playing jazz for years,” the keyboardist maintains. “And my parents were more into classical and Broadway stuff.” It was the blues that bit him first—the Delta stylings of Robert Johnson, Bukka White, and Son House, followed by the postwar Chicago greats, and, eventually, the Butterfield Blues Band and Jimi Hendrix—and in his mid teens motivated him to pick up the harmonica and sit in with neighboring guitarist Steve Geraci’s garage band. Geraci taught him some basic piano progressions and introduced him to jazz via records by Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Charles Mingus. Next came studies in composition at SUNY Albany, after which he became the house pianist at the Gemini Jazz Cafe, where he worked with the Capital Region’s two saxophone legends, J. R. Monterose and Nick Brignola, and led his first band. In 1980 he made the leap south, becoming part of Manhattan’s inspired Downtown loft scene and meeting saxophonist, guitarist, and composer Arthur Rhames, with whom he performed for five years. Rhames, who died in 1989 at age 32, never released any recordings during his lifetime but remains an enigmatic firebrand whose all-too-briefly-burning flame is recalled with reverent nods and headshaking disbelief by those lucky enough to have witnessed it. “Arthur’s energy and technique as a musician, his prolific level as a composer. You can’t even imagine it,” Esposito says. “If you believe that John Coltrane’s and Miles Davis’s 1960s work was the pinnacle of transcendence, well, he digested that, along with what Jimi Hendrix did, and took it all to the next level. It was frightening to watch Arthur go by and know that very few people had an awareness of him.” (To date there have only been two posthumously issued Rhames-led dates, on the Ayler and DIW labels; thankfully, Sunjump is readying more material for release.) Following Rhames’s passing, Esposito formed Second Sight, a quintet that also included two other eventual Hudson Valley players, bassist Allen Murphy and drummer Jeff “Siege” Siegel, as well as saxophonist Jeff Marx, and future trumpet star Dave Douglas. At the height of the retro-nostalgic “Young Lions” era the besuited band fit right in visually, but its music, which crossed that scene’s overt bop references with more modern free-jazz influences, often displeased patrons in search of a little Wynton Marsalis to go with their cocktails. “At that time, if you wanted to work in New York clubs you bought a suit,”

recalls Esposito. “But I never wanted to be part of the Young Lions movement. It was like some neoconservative hard bop mindset, where everybody just wished they could be Miles Davis in 1963. At the same time, though, [the band] didn’t fit into the Downtown scene, which was more about contemporary classical and avant-garde than African-American-based music. So we were kind of in between.” Still, Second Sight won the plaudits of critics and even iconic pianist Horace Silver, who sometimes “borrowed” the band from Esposito—with the starstruck junior musician’s approval, of course—for gigs. Flying with the Comet, the fivesome’s debut and Sunjump’s inaugural release, arrived on vinyl in 1986 and in addition to the title piece features other likewise forward-driving performances with giveaway names like “Discoverers,” “Don’t Look Back,” and, naturally, “Jump at the Sun.” (The album was rereleased, with bonus cuts, on CD in 2008.) In 1988 the label issued two other LPs, guitarist Jose Chalas’s Living on Avenue F and vibraphonist Marc Wagnon’s Shadowlines, before both it and Second Sight folded and Esposito turned his attention to his family and the teaching position at Bard College he still holds. In the ’90s he worked with drummer Franklin Kiermyer’s group, which found him recording with saxophone titans Pharoah Sanders and Sam Rivers, and with saxist Eric Person’s band, alongside bassist Dave Holland and drummer Gene Jackson. While the Hudson Valley has a long and deeply embedded jazz community, there’ve been surprisingly few labels to reflect this. Other than Sunjump, Catskill’s Planet Arts and Kingston’s Reservoir Music come to mind, although neither of them have been as locally focused. With his operation, Esposito is fully involved in every step of the process, from gathering the musicians and booking studio time to writing liner notes, from choosing the eye-engaging original art that adorns the CD covers to handling promotion and distribution, and producing and playing on the sessions. He began the label’s resurrection with two 2003 recordings, his trio’s Down Blue Marlin Road and his quintet’s The Blue People, and since then has divided the discography between recent and archival recordings. In addition to the Second Sight album the latter includes two concerts from NewYork’s Knitting Factory, the Esposito-led octet suite A Book of Five Rings and Woodstock flutist Jayna Nelson’s quintet date Bloom of Creation; Geraci’s shelved 1980 set Aliqae Song; and Earthship, a 1996 studio session by yet another unheard avatar, guitarist Sangeeta Michael Berardi. Now living in California, Berardi was a vital contributor to the Manhattan loft scene before immigrating in 1968 to Woodstock, where he performed at the fabled Sound Out festivals and started the Group 212 collective, which introduced free jazz to the region and paved the way for the later Creative Music Studio. Stricken with Parkinson’s disease a few years ago, the indomitable Berardi nevertheless continues to play, readapting his technique to compensate for his affliction. The musician/poet/painter is also the subject of Playing with Parkinson’s, a documentary being produced by area filmmaker Burrill Crohn. “Sangeeta’s such an amazing artist, such a unique and inspiring individual—like John, I knew I just had to help tell his story,” says Crohn, adding that filming is set to culminate with a recording session led by Berardi at NRS Studio in Catskill this summer. “Most other musicians would just give up if they were in [Berardi’s] shoes. But to him [playing has] gone from being largely about virtuosity to being more about, as he calls it, ‘the vibrations.’ It’s about going deeper.” (Clips of the film can be seen at www.playingwithparkinsons.com.) Sunjump has also begun nurturing rising talent in the form of two discs by saxophonist Mitch Kessler: his 2009 debut, Erratica, and its just-out follow-up, Der Erlkönig. “I’ve had a long association with John, dating back a few years to the [now gone] jam sessions at the Pig in Saugerties,” says the Albany-area tenor. “So when I finally felt ready to make my first record, I was already really comfortable playing with John and his trio [which also includes bassist Ira Coleman and drummer Peter O’Brien]. I’m excited to be a part of his label, because it focuses on progressive music, which fits John, musically: He’s about pushing the envelope instead of being formulaic.” The remaining titles in the Sunjump catalog thus far include Inyo, a tense and spidery 2009 offering by Esposito and his erstwhile Second Sight bandmates Marx and Siegel, and last year’s Orisha, another sparkling set by the pianist’s regular trio; Second Sight’s unissued 1987 follow-up, Tiger Tracks, is set to emerge this year. “With Sunjump I haven’t been making money, but as long as I don’t lose any it’s fine,” says Esposito, who also gigs with Latin ensemble Mambo Kikongo. “It’s true that the old model of the record industry is collapsing, but for working musicians CDs still make sense. Not just as a way to preserve their music, but to have something to sell at shows. I’m just trying to keep creating situations where I get to work with other people. I feel like if I didn’t do that it wouldn’t happen. And the label is a really good way to do it.You do what you can.” www.sunjumprecords.com 4/11 ChronograM music 59

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Judy Collins April 3. One of modern folk’s most beloved and instantly recognizable voices, Judy Collins started out as a musical interpreter; first, in the late 1950s, as a singer of traditional tunes, and then, from her 1964 album Judy Collins 3 onward, as a conduit for the songs of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and even Broadway writers. As fine-voiced as ever, the Seattle-born chanteuse makes an afternoon visit to the Center for the Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Guitarist David Temple stars in an updated staging of “Robin Hood” April 22 and 23.) 3pm. $125. Rhinebeck. (845) 876-3080; www.centerforperformingarts.org.

Manhattan String Quartet April 3. The Ulster Chamber Series, now in its 43rd year, presents the much-demanded return of the Manhattan String Quartet. Hailed as “a national treasure” by the Boston Globe, the 41-year-old MSQ has made its name largely through its stunning performances of 20th-century masters; its bar-raising adaptations of Shostakovich’s cycle of 15 string quartets remain the standard to which subsequent chamber outfits aspire. Comprised of violinists Eric Lewis and Calvin Wiersma, violist John Dexter, and cellist Chris Finckel, the foursome regularly plays to sold-out audiences in Europe and Japan. The series holds forth in the Church of the Holy Cross, a setting as acoustically grand as befits this esteemed group’s music. 3pm. $20, $15. Kingston. (845) 340-9434; www.ulsterchambermusicseries.org.

Mother Fletcher April 8. Mother Fletcher is Hudson’s biggest local draw, and amusingly calls its music “Ameri-ska-na”: a quirky, high-hopping, danceable brew that, yes, takes ska as its jumping-off point, and adds rock, hip-hop, reggae, and gypsy folk. The band’s self-titled debut utilizes the standard guitar/bass/drums set-up but also sports fiddle, conga, horns, and harmonium, and was recorded at Catskill’s Old Soul Studios under the expert ears of Kenny Siegal (Johnny Society). Past performances have seen the group paired with local drag diva Musty Chiffon—perhaps she’ll grace us with a surprise appearance at this Club Helsinki date? Never rule anything out when it comes to these guys. (Spottiswoode and His Enemies return April 8; Club D’Elf with John Medeski groove in April 9.) 9pm. $12. Hudson. (518) 828-4800; www.helsinkihudson.com.

“A Night of Amazing Sounds” April 16. In an out-of-the-ordinary move, the normally straight punk-oriented Valentine’s presents “A Night of Amazing Sounds,” a free jazz/experimental electronics program with the quartet of keyboardist Bob Gluck, guitarist James Keepnews, saxophonist Ras Moshe, and drummer Dean Sharp; Duojoggle, featuring saxophonist-guitarist Mitch Elrod and drummer Mike Lopez; and Hopson-Weston, starring Holland Hopson on sax and laptop and Matt Weston on percussion and electronics. Here’s hoping the venue has similar bills in store. (The Charlie Watts Riots and the Last Conspirators plot destruction April 1; the Downtown Fiction hits April 27.) 8pm. Call for ticket prices. Albany. (518) 432-6572; www.valentinesalbany.com.

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April 28. Besides telling the rocker’s own story, last month’s profile of Melissa Auf der Maur unveiled her involvement in the reopening of the city’s Basilica Industria building as a cutting-edge arts center. This kickoff also celebrates the launch of the Drag City record label’s new line of audio books with a live reading by singer-songwriter/actor Will Oldham (Palace Brothers, Bonnie “Prince” Billy) of Slow Fade, the latest from Hudson author/screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer (Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, Two-Lane Blacktop). Oldham will be accompanied by musician Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), and a slide show of photographs by Lynn Davis tops it off. In your face, Brooklyn. (The first annual Ramp Fest, featuring food, live music, and more, happens April 30.) Donation suggested. 6pm. Hudson. www.basilicahudson.com.

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cd reviews A Viberatto A (2010, King of Beasts Records)

The debut full-length release for A Viberatto is more than what this instrumental chamber group advertises its music to be: â&#x20AC;&#x153;acoustic rock music.â&#x20AC;? Yeah, rock music can be tamed to illicit coos and snuggly bear self-hugs. But the 11 pieces here are alluring and transparent in their charm. In listening half way through, A can deceivingly be cast as cutesy and cloyingly sweet. But Leopard Studio recording engineer and producer Jimmy Goodman (vibraphone, piano, bells, and synthesizer) joins seven other Hudson Valley musicians (on cello, organ, guitar, Chapman stick, bass, and melodica) in offering droplets of sounds that resonate within us at different moments of quiet and suppleness. A Viberatto formed in 2008 and put out a five-song EP that same year. Like that one, Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compositions are bite-size (the longest piece is 4:34). Some speak to things we do, like waking up early (if we are to interpret â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roosterâ&#x20AC;? as such) or to deep lament or pensiveness (like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Riiver,â&#x20AC;? which hints at Paul Robesonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature song, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Man Riverâ&#x20AC;?), or to just draw out from us a subtle emotional blip (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Painting,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Afterâ&#x20AC;?). A was produced at Leopard Studio in Stone Ridge on Goodmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own King of Beasts Records, and gives way to peaks of unflustered openness and a short view of how beautiful â&#x20AC;&#x153;simpleâ&#x20AC;? isâ&#x20AC;Śor is that how simple â&#x20AC;&#x153;beautifulâ&#x20AC;? is? www.kingofbeastsrecords.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cheryl K. Symister-Masterson

The Erin Hobson Compact Fortune Cookie Philosophy (2010, Choking Chicken Records)

The songwriting team of Erin Hobson and Stephen Ross churns out catchy melodies and evocative syncopations that never cease to surprise. From alt-pop, rock, Americana, funk, folk, and a world-music sound, their one-ofa-kind ensemble weaves tapestries of intimate, thoughtprovoking musical fare with unexpected lyrical depth and sensitivity alongside Hobsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smooth, cozy croon. One earful of these huge grooves, rich colors, precision-perfect textures, and adventurous solos will keep you coming back repeatedly to pick up nuances you may have missed the first time around. Hot on the heels of 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly acclaimed Talk Radio (Choking Chicken Records), this uncategorizable disc is a welcomed collection for triple-A and college radio. Uplifting, eclectic, and tight with stellar mixes, it combines different generations of music into a sound thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh and new. The tunes are punchy, clean, and diverseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;grown-up without being old. The slinky title track sits on a laidback, almost urban groove, with jazzy chords and colors, and is followed by the political â&#x20AC;&#x153;Material Thingsâ&#x20AC;? and its funky, driving rhythms, sweetly smooth bridge, and subtly angry octave vocals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So Seriouslyâ&#x20AC;? blasts off with guest Pete Levinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gospel organ and ends with an a cappella vocal and funky groove. The beautiful ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;Purple Crayonâ&#x20AC;? will leave Hobsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lovely voice in your head for days. www.erinhobsoncompact.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sharon Nichols

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Rob Skaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website links to Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, Paul Westerberg, and the lesser-known Jim Campilongo. A veteran of the unsung, lo-fi Capital District music scene, Skane boils these influences down to simple and catchy sneaker rock. Deceptively casual, but addictive, and its subtle needles prick until the naĂŻve weekend warrior wakes up one Monday with the sweats, a full-blown junkie. Short, repetitive, and sometimes quirky tunes chug along with lyrics that go down smooth. Highlights like â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Waited,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Preach Peace,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Girl Next Door,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Army of Individualityâ&#x20AC;? dare you not to sing along or hit repeat and repeat again. Filled with hooky melodies, the way-up-front vocals declare, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am power pop,â&#x20AC;? and the backups and doubling by Dale Haskell seal the deal. Despite this, neither the delivery nor the subject matter feels forced into a generic genre balloon. One reason is the refreshingly undistorted solos of vintage tone and nicely polished country bent. The production is decent, considering the record was mixed by Skane in his basement studio. The drums fall flat on a few tunes, but Skaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steady strumming breathes confidence. The voices are dry and unpretentious, and the rawness, combined with brave mixing choices, serve to purify the melody and message. Phantom Power Trip is a vibrant example of someone staying true to their roots and not striving too hard or straying too far from what they do best. Like an old pair of shoes or a T-shirt you wore in college, it delivers a palpable comfort, goes on easy, and everything fits in the right place. www.robskane.net. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jason Broome

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GLOBAL VILLAGE STORYTELLER Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya Explores Muslim Culture By Nina Shengold Photograph by Jennifer May

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hat matters in the end is the truth.” So begins Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya’s novel The Storyteller of Marrakesh (Norton, 2011). But within a few sentences, that simple statement has been deftly tangled—”the truth is precisely that which is transformed the instant it is revealed, becoming thereby only one of many possible opinions”—and set on its ear: “In other words, there is no truth.” Welcome to the quicksilver mind of Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya. The Rhinebeckbased author has fashioned a narrative as intricate, mysterious, and beautiful as the mosaics created by one of its characters. Every year, a storyteller named Hassan gathers an audience in the fabled Jemaa el Fna of Marrakesh, Morocco, to recount the tale of a charismatic foreign couple who disappeared one long-ago night from this very place. To the kaleidoscopic accompaniment of the square’s nighttime drummers, dancers, acrobats, and kif smokers, Hassan unfurls his story, joined by listeners who offer their own contradicting accounts. But Hassan is more than the teller of this tale. His lovestruck brother Mustafa is imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, and as flashbacks illuminate scenes from their childhood and coming of age, the storyteller slowly becomes not just the weaver of his oral tapestry, but one of its principal threads. Roy-Bhattacharya’s rising literary career may follow a similar pattern. His first novel The Gabriel Club (Granta Books, 1998) confounded American publishers by taking place not in his native India, but in Budapest during the endgame of Soviet rule. The Storyteller of Marrakesh launches a trilogy celebrating diverse Muslim cultures: The Book of Baghdad is set in that city’s ancient book market, and Like a Perfect Circle Drawn on Water explores the arts of Persian calligraphy and Sufi poetry. Other works in progress include a reimagined Antigone set in war-torn Afghanistan and a 2,400-page epic about Germany between wars; he’s plotting another novel set in glasnost-era St. Petersburg. Indeed, it might appear Roy-Bhattacharya is eager to tell any story except for his own. But as with Hassan, tale and teller are more intertwined than they seem at first glance. Listen long enough, and Roy-Bhattacharya will tell you the story of an Indian boy who loved books and took an unusually twisting path toward becoming a writer. But first he will tell you another tale, one that explains how he came to live in the well-disguised condo his friends call “The Cave.” Today it is fragrant with the lentil soup and chicken vindaloo he’ll serve for lunch. Every surface is covered with bookshelves and exotic furnishings: mother-of-pearl-inlaid chests, kilim rugs, carved peacocks, a bronze-winged horse, a Berber lamp he bought in Morocco. Roy-Bhattacharya sits on the couch, petting a stray cat he’s adopted. He’s wearing an open-necked shirt, drawstring trousers, and sandals, his dark eyes set off by a silvering beard. He carries a cane that he often forgets to use, especially when jumping up to fetch books, which he does frequently. “I couldn’t write in Manhattan,” he says in a sonorous Anglo-Indian baritone. In 2004, he and his wife left the city for a sprawling Dutchess County farmhouse with acres of privacy. Roy-Bhattacharya taught philosophy at Bard, then creative writing at SUNY Albany. Three years later, everything changed. While vacationing in Marrakesh, he “completely fell in love” with the Jemaa. “I decided while I was still there to write a book set in that square.” He returned at nightfall to witness its “transformation from farmers market to ancient Cirque du Soleil.You can hear the drum circles from a mile away—it’s like a sensory overdose.” The biggest audience gathered around the traditional storyteller. Though RoyBhattacharya spoke no Arabic, he could sense the man’s hold on his listeners, the rhythmic patterns of his words. Returning the following night with a translator, he introduced himself as a writer. The storyteller said, “So, you kill words.” He went on to explain, “Words are like butterflies—when you pin them to the page, they’re corpses, their spirit has flown.” Roy-Bhattacharya was mesmerized by this living literature. “What I was witnessing is a form of communal storytelling that predates Islam and the Greeks. We’ve been a literary culture for about 2,000 years; for 5,000-7,000 years before that we were an oral culture.” Through his translator, he asked, “What do you need for a story?” The storyteller’s response: “Love and mystery. Without the blood of mystery, you don’t have a story.” Roy-Bhattacharya flew home and wrote the first draft of The Storyteller of Marrakesh in four months. But he wasn’t done. Though Hindu by birth, he was “very frustrated with what was going on in American culture post-9/11, the pervasive fear of the Other.” He likens this demonization to the Cold War, with fanatical Muslim fundamentalists taking the place of fanatical communists in Western eyes, and hopes that by celebrating “the positive cultural aspects and heritage of the Muslim world,” he can help combat such black and white thinking. The Book of Baghdad was inspired by a 2005 bombing that destroyed “the old-

est extant book market in the world, dating back to the ninth century. It was a devastating cultural blow to the Iraqi psyche.” The novel’s heroes, an author and a poet, die in the attack. According to Islamic tradition, souls wander for seven days between death and the afterlife. During that interstitial week, the pair search the streets for their loved ones, roaming through Baghdad’s past like Dante and Virgil in the underworld. In 2008, Roy-Bhattacharya sent Storyteller, 200 pages of Baghdad, and a third excerpt to New York agent Nicole Aragi, whose clients include Junot Diaz and Jonathan Safran Foer. She held an auction for rights to the trilogy; Norton won. Roy-Bhattacharya sat down to write, and “my real life turned upside down.” His cat Katya, “the love of my life,” fell ill. The vet diagnosed a rare cancer, and after she died, an autopsy traced her illness to a toxic black mold pervading the farmhouse. Roy-Bhattacharya vacated immediately, abandoning everything but his library; he microwaved 3,000 books. By September he’d lost his cat, home, and possessions; his marriage broke under the strain. He plummeted into “horrendous” depression, but he had a three-book contract to fulfill. When his mother learned he had no furniture, she sent a shipping container from India. Roy-Bhattacharya kept “crazy hours,” working 18 hours at a stretch. In June 2009, he passed out at his computer. When he came to, he realized something was seriously wrong. “It felt like my brain had slid down in my skull,” he recalls. He checked into the hospital, undergoing months of testing. When one neurologist gave him four months to live, The Book of Baghdad took on new resonances. “I was writing a book set in the afterlife and trying not to die.You can’t make this up.” Finally Dr. Ravi Ramaswami at Saugerties Wellness Center diagnosed candidiasis, stemming from toxic mold. “The cat was the canary in the coalmine,” says RoyBhattacharya. “I’ve been chained to my desk because of my health. I could despair— in microcosm, the state of my life; in macrocosm, the state of the world—but it’s better to work.” Roy-Bhattacharya grew up in Jamshedpur, a small industrial city at the confluence of two rivers, surrounded by iron-rich hills. His father, an MIT-trained scientist, died when he was seven; his mother never remarried. “A one-parent family is very unusual in India. I was a single child, so books were my company.” He rode his bike to a grocery shop that rented out 50-page sections of books, not always in order. After he finished pages 100-150 of War and Peace, the grocer gave him pages 150-200 of Anna Karenina, saying, “Well, it’s the same author.” Despite his love of literature, Roy-Bhattacharya went to engineering school to please his family, then transferred to a leftist college to study political science. In his senior year, he “did the unthinkable—fell in love with a younger girl of less prestigious background.” Family opposition only fanned the flames. He gave up an academic fellowship and “became a yuppie with a vengeance” so he could marry his sweetheart. The marriage lasted six months. Newly divorced, he quit corporate life and spent nine months backpacking and hitchhiking through North Africa. At 25, he entered a graduate program in international relations at Penn, where a Romanian adjunct professor invited him to Budapest as a summer research assistant. “We planned to stay for a few weeks, and all hell broke loose—this was the year of the Velvet Revolutions.” Roy-Bhattacharya remembers waking before dawn and finding a line of young people outside a warehouse, waiting for a reading by dissident poets. “I had been in this soulless corporate world, living out of a suitcase, making tons of money,” he says. “I was moved almost to tears by this alternate reality. Can you imagine American college students lining up at four am to hear poetry?” Switching to a philosophy major, he spent the next four summers teaching English in Budapest and Prague, hanging out with an international crowd of raffish intellectuals and buskers. A writer friend, Judy Shapiro, praised his travel journals, telling him they read like fiction. “She planted that seed in me,” he says gratefully. He finished The Gabriel Club in 1996, sending it to a dozen American agents. In spite of its obvious brilliance, nobody bit. Citing marketing issues, they urged him to write about India instead. Discouraged, he shelved it until a Swedish friend convinced him to publish in England. Though it won awards and was translated into eight languages, plans for a US edition again met resistance, and pressure to write “that Indian book.” Novelist Dubravka Ugresic writes of Roy-Bhattacharya, “He is my hero among fellow writers. In a world in which an ‘identity kit’ is something like a toothbrush— that is, something one cannot do without—he has chosen the most difficult way. He has jettisoned his ‘identity kit’ in the name of freedom of literary choice.” “I want to give voice to the voiceless,” affirms Roy-Bhattacharya. He studies the lamp he found in the Jemaa, perhaps contemplating another tale. “What I’m trying to do with these books is to tap into something very, very basic: that we are all human.” Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya will appear at the Millbrook Book Festival on May 14. 4/11 ChronograM books 63

SHORT TAKES Hudson Valley authors celebrate everything from the tactile pleasures of print to the lesbian lifestyle, the PC plucked brow, the glorious oddments of our English language, the changing of seasons, and the well-hung artistic career. The Cardboard Valise Ben Katchor Pantheon, 2011, $25.95

From its opening panels (polygamous loggers, autoerotic paper-cut guzzling, Dumpsters brimming with obsolete medical textbooks) Katchor’s peerlessly odd graphic novel is a loopy paean to all things pulp and paper. No e-reader could replicate its witty design, with foldout handles that make the book into its own title character. Reading and slide show at NY State Writers Institute, 125 Washington Ave, Albany, 4/10 at 2pm. The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a Difference Erin McHugh, photographs by Jennifer May Abrams, 2011, $32.50

The 27 women portrayed in The L Life include celebrities (Jane Lynch of “Glee,” humorist Kate Clinton, pulp writer Ann Bannon), politicians and activists, a cancer researcher, a rabbi, a Latina sheriff. McHugh’s insightful profiles, and gorgeous color portraits by Chronogram photographer May make this first-of-its-kind celebration a feast for the heart, mind, and eye. Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Enterpreneur Finally Gets It Right Dal LaMagna, with Wally Carbone & Carla S. Reuben John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2010, $24.95

If at first you don’t succeed...try tweezers. Failed waterbed vendor and drive-in discotheque guru LaMagna had his Eureka moment during a tryst on a splintery deck. His irreverent saga of building a socially responsible grooming tool empire is blurbed by Tom Hayden, Ralph Nader, and Ben & Jerry’s cofounder Ben Cohen, and even dishes some dirt on Dean Gitter. The Word Project: Odd & Obscure Words— Illustrated Polly M. Law Buttonwood Art Press, 2010, $20.95

Pssst, you with the Brobdingnagian vocabulary. Define godwottery, struthiform, and gumifiate. Okay, now illustrate more than 100 such words with bricolage figures crafted from buttons, feathers, and the odd bit of wire. Woodstock Artists Association Museum favorite Law has done all that and more in her delightful Kickstarter-funded opus, a great gift for literate art lovers. Still Speaking of Nature: Further Explorations in the Natural World Bill Danielson Excelsior Editions, 2011, $19.95

“Spring is a diva, and she will not be rushed,” declares naturalist, teacher, and Albany Times Union columnist Danielson in the first of 28 graceful, observant, informative essays about life in our own backyard. Topics range from local songbirds to winter endurance—how various species contend with deep snow (headfirst, if you’re a grouse).

Accelerating on the Curves: The Artist’s Roadmap to Success Katharine T. Carter & Associates Running Hare Press, 2010, $95

Celebrating 25 years as the country’s preeminent publicity and marketing firm for visual artists, Kinderhook’s Katharine T. Carter & Associates has released a pricy but invaluable step-by-step guide to mapping a successful art career, with practical essays by 21 curators, critics, and gallery owners; sample pitch letters and resumes; and 60+ pages of timely resource listings.

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Something to Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America Richard Klin, Photographs by Lily Prince Leapfrog Press, 2011, $14.95

hysically slender but conceptually expansive, the new book Something to Say reads like a speed-dating experience: We meet several personalities in quick succession—in this case, 15 artists currently creating and thriving across the country. (The author, and two personages profiled, call the Hudson Valley home.) Thanks to the judicious selection of Richard Klin, who has written for the Forward, The Bloomsbury Review, and Parabola, your “dates” are far from duds; they are poets, authors, painters, and filmmakers. What unifies them is the objective of their body of work, meant to undercut social injustice and heal the world. Their ongoing struggle is to strike a balance by which their art is not subsumed by political rhetoric, an occupational hazard of trafficking in this realm. Didi Emmons is a chef and food activist, teaching Boston gang members to choose a spatula over a switchblade. Chinese-American poet John Yau explores the challenges of multihyphenated ethnic identities. Painter Freddy Rodriguez’s canvasses celebrate his native Dominican Republic’s culture, which survived decades of dictatorship. Palestinian comic Maysoon Zayid fights the entrenched struggles of her homeland with pitchblack humor. Sheryl Oring’s street performances send up McCarthy-era conformity while reminding us of the need for citizens’ vigilance of the government. Franklin Stein, lead singer of Blowback, proves that music born of uncompromising leftist politics can still have a groove. Klezmer musician Alicia Svigals uses the Eastern European village music, alternately raucous and mournful, as a springboard for issues of Judaism and progressive politics. Most of these people may be unknown to mainstream audiences, but Klin recounts their life stories vividly, offering insight into that quicksilver phenomenon known as the creative process. Among his subjects are three legends: Pete Seeger,Yoko Ono, and Howard Zinn, the latter interviewed two months before his death. The thumbnail sketches range in depth and success; in most cases, Klin captures a subject deftly. Sometimes, however, his words simply circle the person awkwardly. Often, he seems in awe of his subject, and understandably so. But that slack-jawed admiration results in Klin the editor momentarily abandoning objectivity. The reader is saddled with impenetrable walls of verbatim quotations that veer off-subject. Fie on Klin for not redlining ineloquent moments, like this observation by filmmaker Gini Reticker: “I identify with women pretty strongly—I mean, I’m a woman and I have six sisters and I had two aunts who were really close to me.” The author has a marked penchant for pamphleteering, which periodically intrudes on the narrative. When screenwriter (and West Hurley resident) Ron Nyswaner holds forth on the strictures of the film industry, Klin superfluously fulminates, “Movie studios have been absorbed by corporate behemoths, further squelching creative impulses; Netflix and the rise of high-tech gadgetry have injected fear and uncertainty on an already famously jittery industry.” For Chronogram habitués, the ideas in this book are exceedingly familiar. These artists stand against corporate greed, environmental destruction, social injustice, and prejudice. One wonders, perhaps perversely, whether a stable of right-wing artists could fill a similar book. (I might disagree with them all, but their delusions would be fresh and engaging.) Despite occasional emphasis on the obvious, Klin’s Something to Say offers both a compelling read and a sturdy civics lesson for the next generation of American citizens. Klin will read April 17 at 2pm at the Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany; April 30 at 7pm at Inquiring Minds, New Paltz; May 7 at Golden Notebook,Woodstock; and May 8 at 2pm, Spotty Dog Books & Ale, Hudson. —Jay Blotcher

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istening took more work than talking.” So observes Lady Gregory in “Silence,” the first story of The Empty Family, by award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín. Throughout this quiet but affecting collection, readers may have the sense that they, like Lady Gregory, are being called upon to do the hard work of listening and, perhaps more significantly, that Tóibín, although the author of these stories, is doing very little talking. Rather, he has taken on the much more difficult task of hearing and granting autonomy to the wide range of voices belonging to the collection’s protagonists. These include an Irish set designer for famous films, an exiled Communist living in post-Franco Spain, and the aforementioned Lady Gregory, who plants disguised stories from her own life into Henry James’s head (a nod, perhaps, to Tóibín’s 2004 novel The Master, a fictional account of James’ life, which won the Dublin IMPAC award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize).   While the eclectic range of characters might make for a choppy and uneven collection in other hands, Tóibín’s careful attention to the themes and motifs shared by all nine stories—exile and return, wanderlust and a desire for home—allow him to take advantage of one of the best qualities the short story collection has to offer: the drawn-out exploration of key ideas through a number of mediating lenses and voices. His exploration not only reveals a multitude of perspectives, but also creates a sense of rhythm to the collection’s prose that one might more readily expect to find in poetry.   Because of this rhythm, when we move from a story like “Barcelona, 1975,” whose Irish narrator recounts sexual liberation as the “old dictator” begins to lose his health, to “The Colour of Shadows,” which concerns the fading health of the protagonist’s aunt, to “The Street,” a love story between two male Pakistani emigrants in Barcelona, the vast differences between the pieces’ plots and settings matter less than the resonances we hear between characters cut off from their roots and confronting a sense of emptiness. In the eponymous “The Empty Family,” the narrator returns to an empty house in Ireland after many years, and, in his desire to “forget about words,” becomes fascinated with using a telescope to watch the ocean, “a piece of the world indifferent to the fact that there is language.” In “One Minus One,” the Irish narrator living in Texas recalls his mother’s death six years earlier and says of his story, “This should be nothing, because it resembled nothing, just as one minus one resembles zero. It should be barely worth recounting to you.” Yet Tóibín’s narrators feel compelled to recount, to use words that connect to a listener. Although these words are usually not flashy or “loud,” they draw us deep into the text. After engaging, as Lady Gregory does, in the difficult work of listening hard, we begin to notice undercurrents binding the stories to each other, not only through rhythmic links in narrative theme, but through Tóibín’s spare and precise prose, which leaves the reader hearing a sound that only seems to resemble silence. In fact, these commanding stories have much to say, not only about the itinerant, but about language’s power to make us listen harder to the quiet importance of other lives. Colm Tóibín will present “Stories from an Irish Master” at the Woodstock Writers Festival, Sunday, April 10 at 8pm, Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, $25; www.woodstockwritersfest.com.  —Lee Conell

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POETRY

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

art can’t fix it religion can’t fix it your lover can’t fix it

I think that it’s just wind that blows us and when the wind stops, we get in a fight.

fortunately, it’s not always broken —p

—Otto JeckerByrne (8 years) about his relationship with his identical twin, Emmet

From A Place

To Home

Ars Poetica

Where are you from? The white space labeled address demands desperate for the finite of definition the limitation of small scrawled numbers filling, fixating. I am from some place, some geography, some street, some demography. I am from archeology, from the study of antiquity where layers of soil unfold like the corners of a paper fortune-teller revealing scrapers and spear throwers— held in my muddied hands as though I crafted, I shaped, but it is the art of discovery.

Near the house on the farm, the thistle grows thick and free.

Winter poem— dancing blizzard, a-sheen, flying as northern finch up to frozen tamarack trees and listen, snow’s tales, a Kalliope on high, and like March-night fog when you near you are not at all sure it is there. Tastes of ice so candid and cold and like everything.

Where are you from? I’m asked— I am from history, from a “safe harbor” or is it a “reed-covered lodge”? From names long forgotten: colli eminente, San Germano, San Antonio, Sanatatea. From 1609 when Hudson found the Hudson, like a troublesome child wild with play— a game of hide-and-seek this river lost.

I do not step forward, however sweet berries grow among the Dead Thorn.

Where are you from? I’m asked— meaning, Who are you? The explorer of the unknown? The settler of the unfound? The fixated.

stands.

Or like the Hudson, with the back and forth tumbles of her tide an arm grasping the sea and a mouth holding her words deep, secret in her throat, volatile and shifty— Nothing settles here. —Colleen Gibbons-Brown

Contrition Take me to the canyon, and pay for my regrets— here in the land of shells. —Adrienne M. Madama

Each time I go to step past the rocky ledge, I can’t. This is where the old oak, like a crippled hand, grows tall. Through airy spring, the blood of tired ones runs like dust.

I do not step forward, however possessed the wind sings in thistledown. I do not stir a thing because this is where the old oak

—N. L. Hoffman

Sleep Like goats we sleep forehead pressed against forehead leaning, dreaming into each other finding rest. —Kristin Lukasik

—Bonnie Jill Emanuel

Moonlight I ask her to stay She says I’m drunk Yes but I’m also alone That’s what you’ve always wanted to be She says I smile She leaves —M. DiStefano

Revisit the Wonder Taking what I thought had been a “make-believe” moment, Tone stern with warning I wagged A finger at first-grade inventors, A parody of Nixon in mind, “Now Boys. Those paper jet packs You all made may Not, I repeat, NOT Be flown indoors.” Waiting for a chuckle Or at least a rolling groan or eye, The Boys transfixed me With the Sincerity Of their complete Understanding. —Thomas Perkins

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February in Manhattan

April Yellow

I like the days that are bare, fingerprinted with secret stares that have the power to change stories into other stories each time they’re told, each time somebody decides this one’s mine and empties it out with spare change onto the coffee table to fill it with talk and muddy humming while down the street yesterday’s regrets are evaporating and taxis are skidding and everyone is dying to be touched, dying to be tucked into the creased bark of ancient trees that could never survive here, looking down at all the frayed puddle hems and wondering about all the hands hiding in all the gloves, the stopped bodies at corners counting the passing trains and buses, whispering each one permission to run them over as they grip their hands together, press their faces to the windows on a sunless afternoon and wonder why the road bends this way and not the other and why they feel suffocated when they’re staring at a blind date across the table, mispronounce the name and pass the salt and watch the stuck poppy seed grow bigger and bigger until it has its own name and family and habits, wait until the clock releases them back into the shining blur where it’s impossible to tell who’s coming and who’s going and who’s been here forever and will never leave, the whole world motionless and afraid to ask for what it really needs while always a hidden hand, wrinkled and smooth, offers a letter to anyone who will take it— one, small, life-saving sentence scrawled across the bottom of a page.

When palest, juicy willow buds festoon the trees, the green-to-be of leaves soon hits the high notes: lightest, brightest tones. Forsythia! how fragile branches sway and tremble with a starry load of bloom, no room for even one more urgent burst of gold. The daffodils are opening their mouths in round surprise (inhaling sun) new dandelions polka-dot the lawns while blue-crowned pansies bare their glowing hearts to April light (yes) promises of bliss

—Meggie Monahan

—Judith Saunders

My Self as the Space Between the Mist and the Sunrise and the Wind as Cold as Your Heart 4/10: Never The rusty wind nearly drunk Did above a white forest all my after Go on Say away Flooding

Rebel What can be done with the Towhee who sings the wrong song: not the whistle-filled Drink your tea-ee but a hammering Drink your rat-a-tat-tat like the bastard son of a blue jay. —Will Nixon

—Irene Zimmerman

The New Surroundings Tonight I lie awake wondering How life really is beyond these tall Buildings and busy streets. Oh! How I wonder what’s beyond the smell Of pollution and constant moving feet. Would you call me crazy if I wanted to explore? Because tomorrow I am about to go and discover so much more. Now my eyes are opening to the exposed to the bright light shining through the blue sky, realizing that’s where all the precious people go when they die. On my adventures the days grow longer and I become more aware. I imagined so deep, it became reality. I woke up into a better version of gravity. I never once realized how beautiful life was until now. The way the sky moves and the way the wind blows makes everything move slowly, I like it though. I feel so peaceful and relaxed like a big weight was lifted off my back. The things I smell and the things I hear make hope feel so near. Everything I felt, saw, and heard was a new definition for outstanding. I am glad I know now what I never knew being part of my new surroundings. —Carolee Lockwood (8th grade)

The Best Thing That Never Happened Like horses on sand, The light was brightness only of persistent sea. —Lauren Tamraz

Tropicana she told him she was married and he had not expected this he’d imagined the tiny ring a prop to set the hounds off her trail to allow her to move with ease through the maze of men he had asked her jokingly if she would go to Jamaica with him he’d been flirting with her all week while she sat close to him every meeting even touching his hand once he was no expert she saw that she asked if he still liked her and he said of course twice quickly and then don’t tell your husband about me don’t tell anyone about me —Richard Donnelly

Gazing at the Firmament Floating on my back; driftwood wading the current. —Taylor Steinberg

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n a typical Saturday afternoon on Millerton’s Main Street, license plates tell the story of this village’s snug panhandle location.There are equal parts Connecticut and Massachusetts, with a more ample percentage of New York. This Tri-State trifecta serves Millerton’s businesses well. Take, for example, the crowded Harney & Sons tasting room where rows of smartly packaged tea tins line the walls. The scope of varieties is exhaustive, while the price range reflects purity and scarcity. A four-ounce box of Earl Grey is an affordable indulgence at $6.50, while the same serving size of top Ti Quan Yin would fetch $85. “Just like no one was an expert in wine 30 years ago, the same thing has happened with tea,” explains John Harney, master tea blender, founder of Harney & Sons, and patriarch of the family that moved to the area from Pittsburgh in 1957. “There’s still a lot of growth ahead in the specialty tea and coffee industries.” To encourage a proper knowledge of tea, Harney & Sons presents a tasting flight of themed teas every weekend. The honey flight features three glass orbs filled with multihued liquids warmed over tealight candles. The selection includes Assam golden tips, Unnan golden tips, and Elyse’s blend, named for the two Elyses in the Harney family. The server graciously offers tea trivia as you slowly sip each to make sense of the honey notes.

“Tri-State” branding is actively promoted by a chamber of commerce serving not only Millerton and Amenia, but also Salisbury, Lakeville, Falls Village, Canaan, the Cornwalls, and Sharon in Connecticut, and the Massachusetts towns of Ashley Falls and Sheffield. Martha Reynolds, owner of the Simmons Way Village Inn, is an enthusiastic vice president of the Tri-State Chamber. She’s also a de facto Millerton ambassador, advising her guests on local activities. “There’s so much to do here, from riding bikes on the Harlem Valley Rail Trail to working out at the North East Athletic Center, or playing tennis—for free—at the Hotchkiss School or the Webutuck School.” Millerton’s dining and retail offerings reflect a harmonious blend of stalwart businesses that have anchored the community for decades, and newer shops—like Gilded Moon Framing—that have invested in the renovation of historic buildings. Connecting them is a pleasant stretch of sidewalk; 3,500 feet of which will be replaced this year under Mayor John Scutieri, recently reelected for a third term. Gilmor Glass is among the intrepid with many years on Main Street. So is the Moviehouse, the independent theater transformed in the early 80’s from historic theater into a three-screen venue showing first-run films. Then there’s Saperstein’s, established in 1946, an old-fashioned clothing and shoe store. 4/11 ChronograM millerton + amenia 69

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a popular restaurant opened there on weekends to critical acclaim. Over time, it became cost-prohibitive to run the restaurant, so the space is now used exclusively for special events. When the 30-year life cycle of the grapevines came to an end, Wetmore decided to instead buy them from other vineyards across the state. Cascade’s line of seven table wines now includes Seyval blanc and chardonnay whites, Beaujolais and cabernet sauvignon reds, a rosé, and a spice wine. Customers from across the region still visit the wine and tapas bar on weekends for tastings and picnics. Now, Wetmore is counting on his children to continue his nearly 40-year legacy. His “dot-com” son will extend the winery’s reach into cyberspace. There’s also talk of reopening the once celebrated restaurant this summer. Peggy McEnroe has also adapted to a new world of consumerism. That is, she’s mastered the use of the cappuccino machine, which sits atop the counter of her new eatery on Main Street, Back in the Kitchen.The cozy space occupying the bottom floor of a restored 110-year-old farmhouse opened just a year ago, in what many would say wasn’t the best time to launch a new business. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, a local couple finishing their meal thanked McEnroe just “for being here.” McEnroe, who mastered her barista skills at the Irving Farm Coffee House in Millerton, also brought her penchant for baking. Her scones are the toprequested items on the menu. She points out that local tastes are more sophisticated than one might assume. “When we offered both turkey and hummus sandwiches for lunch, demand for each was split down the middle.” A few weeks after Back in the Kitchen opened, Andrea Salvatore opened a take-out food shop upstairs. Pasta di Casa sells fresh, homemade pastas and ravioli in several flavors, from butternut squash to gorgonzola and ricotta. Word is getting out, attracting customers from over 30 miles away. This 4/11 ChronograM millerton + amenia 71

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spring, the pair will break ground for a garden in the back for a ready supply of lettuces, herbs, and tomatoes. What they can’t grow, they source locally. Amenia is evolving in other ways as well. A year round farmers market launched last May to a supportive local base. The Silo Ridge project is moving forward with the promise of transforming a former dairy farm into a world class housing development and resort. Serge Madikians’ Serevan restaurant is again in the spotlight, resulting from his nomination for a James Beard award for Best Chef in the Northeast. Headquartered in the town’s former school, the Indian Rock Schoolhouse is a nonprofit running a number of community programs, like the annual Garden Day and the September Picnic in the Pavilion. The restored 1858 landmark is becoming a focal point of local social and education programs, while remaining a cherished symbol of local history. The Linear Link While Millerton and Amenia differ in size and personality, the common thread between them is covered in asphalt. What was once the Upper Harlem Line of the Penn Central Railroad adopted its new life in 1996 as the Harlem Valley Rail Trail. Regardless of season, locals and visitors alike take to the almost 11 paved miles connecting the Millerton trailhead off Main Street to the Wassaic trailhead at the Metro North station. Another eight miles of abandoned rail bed are in development. Another 23 miles have been acquired in Columbia County, which will lead the trail north into the Village of Chatham. The trail is a joint effort between the Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association, the NY State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the NY State Department of Transportation, Dutchess County, the towns of North East and Amenia, and the village of Millerton.

Lifelong Amenia resident Vicki Benjamin is the treasurer of the Harlem Valley Rail Trail Association, and an avid user. “The trail is beautiful, it’s great exercise, and many people have told me getting out there is important to their health and psychological well-being,” she says. The community appreciates the resource, and volunteers are easy to find for the “Adopt a Trail” maintenance program. Benjamin comes from a family with roots in dairy farming, and has witnessed the town’s progression toward horse farming and tourism. She’s raised her family in Amenia. On a nice day, you can find her on the trail, enjoying a bike ride with her grandson. RESOURCES Associated Lightning Rod Company Inc. www.alrci.com Cascade Mountain Winery & Restaurant www.cascademt.com Country Gardeners Florist www.countrygardenersflorist.com Eco Store (518) 592-1177 Gilded Moon www.gmframing.com Green River Gallery (518) 789-3311 Herrington’s www.herringtons.com Horse Leap LLC www.horseleap.com Hylton Hundt Salon www.hyltonhundtsalon.com Indian Mountain School www.indianmountain.org Lady Audrey’s Art Gallery www.ladyaudreysgallery.com Leslie Hoss Flood Interiors www.lesliefloodinteriors.com Millerton www.EnjoyMillerton.com Pringle & Zimring www.pringleandzimring.com Saperstein’s Department Store www.sapersteinsonline.com The Stone Resource www.stoneresourceinc.com 4/11 ChronograM millerton + amenia 73

Sustainable Transportation

Runing on Empty Trading in the Gas-Guzzler for a Gas-Sipper By Crispin Kott

he Hudson Valley is one of the nation’s most progressive regions when it comes to eco-friendliness. Long before going green was the new black, local residents were installing solar panels on their roofs and converting food scraps into compost. But as for eco-friendly cars, well, we’re working on it. In fairness, it hasn’t always been easy. Short of converting your gas-guzzler into a vegetable oil burner, eco-friendly cars aren’t as readily available here as they are, say, in California. But that’s about to change, with a number of electric and hybrid cars about to hit the market in the area. The Nissan Leaf was introduced to American shores last December. The midsize hatchback electric Leaf—an acronym for “Leading, Environmentally friendly, Affordable Family car”—has been making waves in the industry, as its estimated to get around 100 miles per charge, a considerable increase over the initial purely electric models introduced by numerous manufacturers. Joseph Erps, sales consultant and Leaf leader at Nissan Kingston, says that despite the car not being available in the local market until later this year, the buzz is, well, electric. “A lot of people are really interested in coming by and taking a look at it,” Erps says. “Once a week we get people interested in coming in and seeing a Leaf. I’m expecting it to be a huge success for the Hudson Valley.” Unfortunately, that’s not possible yet. The Leaf still exists, at least in the Hudson Valley, as high-tech hype. “We’re planning to have a demo vehicle, at least one, soon,” Erps says. “This way we can have people come in, check it out, and drive it. Our owner has expressed interest in buying one himself.” Already available in New York is the Altima Hybrid, Nissan’s eco-friendly

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version of an already popular mid-size range car. The car utilizes the Hybrid Synergy Drive, licensed from Toyota, where it’s used in cars like the Prius, Auris, and Estima. “You’re not compromising any loss of power,” Erps says. “It actually has more torque than a regular sedan. My parents have an Altima Hybrid and they love it.” Erps acknowledges that the Leaf might not be for everyone. “I don’t think it’s going to be meant as your primary vehicle,” he says. “Obviously if you’re making a cross-country trip, you’re going to be stopping every 100 miles to recharge your engine, and that’s not practical. But to go back and forth to work, or on short-distance trips—picture going 100 miles on one dollar.” In addition to the Prius, which recently introduced a solar-powered ventilation system, other popular eco-friendly hybrids include the Honda Insight, the Ford Escape Hybrid, the Honda Civic Hybrid, and the Ford Fusion. Joe Romeo, general manager of Romeo Chevrolet Buick GMC in Kingston, said two Chevrolet models—the Cruze and the Volt—are eco-friendly cars that are destined to become popular in the area. The Cruze, which Romeo called a “gas-sipper” rather than a “gas-guzzler,” has a more economical sticker price, and can go as far as 42 miles on a single gallon of gas. The Volt, a plug-in hybrid model, is something altogether different. Introduced to the US market last December, the Volt has a lithium-ion battery pack, can run 50 miles on a single charge, and can go an estimated 300 miles farther on a single gallon of gas. “It’s pretty simple,” says Romeo. “If you’re a local guy and you live within 25 miles of where you work, you will never have to put gas into your vehicle.”

The Volt, which takes around four hours to recharge its full battery after use will hit the Hudson Valley a bit sooner than the Leaf. Even so, it will arrive only sparingly. “We have two on order, and both are selected for customers,” Romeo says. “We’re going to have one on display for customers to drive, but it’s a pretty hard car to come by. They’re completely sold out for the 2011 model year. GM just signed a contract for 25,000 more Volts.” Romeo says the popularity of the Volt has already got GM looking into expanding the brand to include family wagons and a small crossover SUV. Local buyers interested in eco-friendly cars aren’t just taking the plunge, dealers say; accustomed to exclusively gas-powered engines, they’ve got plenty of questions. “A lot of people will question the battery on an electric vehicle,” Romeo says. “They’ve always heard with the hybrids that the batteries are so expensive to fix. GM puts a 100,000-mile warranty on its vehicles, which covers that battery, and the average consumer trades out their vehicle at 36,000 miles.” Erps said performance was also a concern for prospective buyers. “Mountain roads are going to be great with electric vehicles like the Leaf,” he says. “With most vehicles you don’t get maximum torque on an incline; with the Leaf, as soon as you hit the accelerator you’re getting maximum torque.” There’s also the matter of safety, but Erps says Nissan has also got that covered. “Nissan has designed breakaway mounts for batteries,” he says. “The circuits get cut off in an accident and you’d still be safe in the car.” But even with the attention eco-friendly cars like the Volt and the Leaf are generating, it still might take a bit of time before they make their mark locally. Part of the reason electric-based cars and their hybrids aren’t sweeping through the Hudson Valley comes down to simple logistics, says Erps. “There’s a handful of Leafs out in California, but their infrastructure [i.e., charging stations] is a bit better than ours,” he says. “We’re still catching up on the East Coast.” Both Nissan Kingston and Romeo Chevrolet Buick GMC are planning on installing their own charging stations for customer use, and Erps added that it might take gas stations and rest stops all throughout the region to make similar concessions to help make the technology more popular in the area. The Zen Dog Café, located in Rhinebeck, is also hoping to start a trend in eco-friendly driving. The popular eatery and live music spot is owned by DJ and Deborah Kadagian, who opened the business last year, in part, because of everything the Hudson Valley was all about. “The Hudson Valley just seems to have more of an organic vibe,” says DJ. “Part of it is just the whole area that we love. It feels like the kind of lifestyle we like, and we wanted to infuse the place with healthy food.” To that end, the Zen Dog Café also has a pair of charging units in its parking lot, each of which allows for two cars to charge at one time. Their Level I charger is 120 volts, while the Level II is 240. The latter charges a car in around four hours. “If somebody came in and hung out for a couple of hours, they could charge their car,” he says. The charging stations cost the Kadagians $10 in a usage fee, and customers using the docks are charged $1.50 by the utility company. It’s part of a new technology DJ says he hopes to see much more of. “I was told that we’re the first in the state that’s privately owned,” he says. Even so, the charging stations at Zen Dog haven’t actually been used. “That’s the interesting thing,” DJ says. “Everybody loves the concept; it looks like a George Jetson kind of thing. But nobody actually has the cars yet. We’re a little ahead of our time.” That’s likely to change, though, as car companies see the demand for hybrid and eco-friendly cars continue to grow. DJ Kadagian says he hopes to help be a part of the revolution. “We’ve actually contacted dealers because we wanted to do a little event and have Nissan bring in a Leaf, Chevy bring in a Volt,” he says. “Hopefully that will happen when they actually have them.” Erps thinks it’s only a matter of time. “I’m a big believer that where the market is going in the future is electric vehicles and other technology like hydrogen cells,” he says.

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Food & Drink

The Germinator From Seed to Sprout

By Peter Barrett Photographs by Jennifer May

at more plants” is a common refrain these days, and rightly so. They’re very good for us. It’s certainly possible to thrive on an all-plant diet; meat is after all vegetable protein converted to a different form. But there’s a catch. All seeds—whether grains, legumes, or nuts—contain compounds that inhibit our body’s ability to absorb all the nutrients our food contains. The more you rely on whole grains and legumes for your nutrition, the more you need to sprout them. Seeds evolved to be indigestible; many of them depend on being consumed and excreted (in a big pile of fertilizer) for their germination. The antinutrients present in their hulls are powerful preservatives: viable seeds have been found in Egyptian tombs. But nature’s way of preserving seeds can work against us, since those protective compounds impair our absorption of important nutrients in the food. Over time, this can lead to deficiencies and illness. Let the seeds begin to sprout, though, and a magical transformation occurs: enzymes within the seeds convert the antinutrients into nutrients. Seeds are storehouses of nutrition, but they’re also factories for generating even better nutrition and as such they don’t work until they’re switched on. Philip Domenico, PhD is a Woodstock-based microbiologist specializing in infectious diseases who has spent 40 years studying nutrition. He advocates sprouting as many of the seeds we eat as possible: “We want to turn to unadulterated foods because they’re wholesome, and yet they are often full of antinutrients that can hurt us. Sprouting is a process of predigesting food that makes it much easier for us to absorb nutrients. Proteins are broken into amino acids, and long carbohydrates into simple sugars. There’s less stress on the pancreas, since because of the enzymatic activity in sprouts we need to produce fewer digestive enzymes of our own.” There are many different anti-nutrients present in seeds, but phytate is among the most serious. Phytic acid is a snowflake-shaped molecule with six phosphate groups around the outside, which bond readily to the minerals in our food. As a result, those sequestered compounds pass through our systems without being absorbed; we end up getting much less from our food than we could. Iron absorption suffers, and calcium is especially susceptible to bonding with phytate. Domenico likens it to “stealing from our bones.”

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Many of our bodies’ enzymes require these minerals as catalysts. Since phytate reduces the amount of available minerals, our natural defenses lack what they need to do their jobs. Metallothyamine, for example, which chelates heavy metals, needs zinc in order to function. If much of the zinc we eat passes through us unused, enzyme function will be inhibited. Over the long term, even a small reduction in the efficiency of our bodies’ chelation can result in a significant accumulation of toxic metals. Other enzymes function similarly, digesting everything from protein to carbohydrates. Tannins in seed hulls bond to protein, preventing assimilation, which can be especially problematic for vegetarians. Sprouts produce phytase, the enzyme that neutralizes phytic acid. “It’s not just decreasing the antinutrients; sprouting also increases nutrients,” Domenico continues. “Vitamin C content can increase up to tenfold in sprouts, and other vitamins increase dramatically as well. Broccoli has more anticancer compounds than almost anything, and sprouting only makes them more powerful.” (And the peppery little sprouts taste great in salads and sandwiches). Lentils are the easiest legume to sprout, and one of the most nutritious. Sunflowers and pea shoots are both wonderful microgreens, as are mung beans. Moving sprouts into sunlight for a day before eating them allows them to produce chlorophyll, Domenico says, further increasing their nutritional content: “Just a little green on the end of a lentil sprout adds a lot of nutrition.” Seeds really want to sprout; all we have to do is let them. Avoiding mold and maintaining moisture levels are the key. Put the seeds of your choice in a mason jar and fill it with water. Get a perforated lid, or just tie some plastic mesh over the mouth and pour the water out. Leave the jar propped with the open mouth facing down to prevent any pooling water (which lets mold grow) and rinse and repeat a couple of times a day. Alternately, put some seeds between two paper towels and dampen them. Keep them damp for a few days, and you’ll have sprouts ready for any purpose. Besides growing sprouts for eating, another important technique is soaking. Traditional cultures all developed techniques for sprouting and fermenting grains and legumes to maximize nutrition, and we can learn from them. Put the beans or grains in a nonreactive container and cover them with water, then leave them alone for a day

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or two at room temperature. A little unrefined sea salt is an excellent addition to the water; the minerals in the salt are converted by sprouting seeds into their bioavailable forms, meaning we get much more benefit from them. Hard water makes more nutritious sprouts for the same reason. A little bit of fermented pickle brine (you make your own pickles, right?) whey or yogurt are both good choices for adding acidity to the water, which is important to sprouting. Both also allow for lacto-fermentation of the seeds, which is especially effective, and since you make your pickles with sea salt, that’s already taken care of. Just soak grain overnight or longer at room temperature with a spoon of yogurt or live brine, and then cook it normally (though it will need less water because the soak will have partially hydrated it). Save a little of the enzyme-rich soaking water for the next batch, and it will have a head start on breaking down the bran, since probiotics also produce phytase. Coarse corn meal soured this way for 2448 hours and then prepared as polenta cooks in no time and has an extra tangy layer of flavor that improves the result. Whole sprouted wheat or rye berries can be cooked like risotto. Sprouted chickpeas make better hummus and falafel. Sprouted grain bread can easily be made by sprouting grains, grinding them into a paste (don’t add water; they’ve absorbed enough) then adding a bit of yeast or starter, some salt, and letting it rise. “The predigesting process actually sweetens grain,” Domenico adds, “and fermentation enhances flavor as well as nutrition.” Rye has lots of phytase, and ferments quickly; add some rye berries to other grains (especially rice) when soaking them. Nuts are a bit tricky; hard to germinate, Domenico recommends soaking them overnight, then dehydrating them with some salt and then roasting them to add flavor. Soak sesame seeds overnight and then make tahini or dehydrate or roast them and then grind them with sea salt to make gomasio, an excellent Japanese condiment. When dealing with whole-grain flour, which cannot be germinated, the solution is to make sourdough bread that ferments at least overnight, using a wild yeast starter instead of commercial yeast. Besides making the bread much more nutritious and digestible, it also improves the flavor; the difference in taste between a loaf of bread or a pizza crust that has soured for two days in the fridge between rising and baking is night and day.

Sprouting makes more food available to people who have dietary restrictions. The glycemic index of foods drops when they’re sprouted; the carbohydrates are converted to soluble fiber and sugars. People with gluten intolerance can digest sprouted grains far more easily, in much the same way that the lactose-intolerant can eat fermented cheeses. In many ways, though, the health benefits of sprouting are invisible; since most of the problems associated with long-term consumption of anti-nutrients are chronic and slow to develop, there’s no immediately visible payoff. But stressing cure over prevention and the desire for instant gratification is a big part of the pill-popping problem in our approach to health as a society. Wouldn’t it be easier to not get diabetes or osteoporosis in the first place? There are real culinary benefits to sprouting, too. Herbs like cilantro, parsley, and chives make excellent microgreens for salads or garnishes. Try sprouting fenugreek (a legume) for a wonderful bright taste that works on any Asian dish. Mustard seeds, fennel, cumin, caraway: If you use the spice in your cooking, use the sprouts as well. These are vibrant, healthy, living foods that can be in constant supply all year long in even the smallest kitchen. And the flavors change, too; we use cilantro and coriander to refer to two different stages in one plant’s life cycle, and they taste different. A sprout splits the difference between herb and spice, opening up new possibilities. Sprouting does take a little time, and you need to pay attention, but the payoff is significant. It’s a great teaching tool for kids as well—hell, put them in charge of it. Even if you don’t sprout, at least soak everything overnight with a little acidic culture added; it begins the germination process and makes a big difference to the nutrition. This is something many of us already do, putting some beans in water to cook the next day. Just do it with your rice, too, and maybe start two days ahead, changing the water a few times. Your body will thank you. A comprehensive resource on the nutritional effects of sprouting and souring: www.westonaprice.org/food-features/1893-living-with-phytic-acid.html. Peter Barrett cooks just about every day and shares his home culinary endeavors and insightful commentary at www.acookblog.com. 4/11 ChronograM food & drink 77

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Restaurant Openings Billy Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rib Works

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27 South Water Street, Newburgh; www.pizza-shop.com Giving new life to the West Shore Train Station along the Newburgh waterfront, Pizza Shop is much more than any old pizza joint; featuring a cathedral ceiling, open air kitchen, Hudson River views, and a dining deck. The refurbished pizzeria also offers a plethora of menu items like crispy wings ($8.95), chopped salads, and cheesy pastas. Pizza options include gluten-free, thin and wheat crust, gourmet toppings ($14.95), delivery and dessert.

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Sushi Village 26 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-5245 www.sushivillagepoughkeepsie.com Sushi Village serves authentic, great tasting Japanese food and sushi with friendly service and great prices. Located near Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Sushi Village offers all-youcan-eat sushi specials and lunch specials.

American Glory BBQ 342 Warren Street , Hudson , NY (518) 822-1234 www.americanglory.com American Glory is a restaurant specializing in â&#x20AC;&#x153;legendary wood smoked regional BBQ of the United States, and classic American comfort foods.â&#x20AC;? In addition to the extensive BBQ fare, the menu includes a wide selection of grilled burgers, steaks and fish, along with an assortment of fresh salads, several vegetarian options, and numerous side dishes like collard greens, cheese grits, garlic mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, cornbread, and creamy ole country coleslaw. All menu items are prepared fresh daily and all BBQ is smoked on site using local wood.

Baba Louieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodfired Sourdough Pizza 517 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 751-2155 286 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-8100 34 Depot Street, Pittsfield, MA (413) 499-2400 www.BabaLouiesPizza.com

Bistro Lilly

5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com

134 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-2810 www.bistrolilly.com

We offer catering for pick up or private parties in our beautiful, calm atmosphere. Fresh & homemade Indian cuisine from finest ingredients including local & organic. Free-range chicken, wild shrimp, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free. Fine Wine/Crafted Beer. Zagat Rated.

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319 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 337-4848 www.bullandbuddha.com The Hudson Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest restaurant, sushi bar and lounge, Bull and Buddha offers customers a unique dining experience. Featuring a modern yet elegant design, Bull and Buddhaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aesthetics are matched only by the caliber of its food. Bull and Buddha, and Orient â&#x20AC;&#x201C; its exciting and chic new ultra lounge located just upstairs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bring a new energy to Main Street Poughkeepsie.

Charlie O’s

Momiji Restaurant

23 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2123

43 East Market St, Rhinebeck, NY

Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering

Our new Momiji restaurant in Rhinebeck has a fabulously fresh sushi bar & 4 hibachi tables & the full-service bar is now open. Experience a great contemporary atmosphere for families, private parties and large groups. Try our extensive eat in & take out menu! Hours: Mon–Thurs 11:30am-9:30pm, Fri–Sat 11:30am-10:30pm, Sun 2:30pm-9:30pm. Catering available, full-service bar, outside dining, handicapped accessible. Reservations recommended.

4258 Rte 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com A few of our reviews: “...wonderful food, delightful ambiance ...a treasure!” “..gorgeous lawn dining in the summer. The woodfired grill will supercharge your appetite.” “tremendous food from a varied and original menu that ranges from devilish to divine.” Perfect for a romantic dinner for two to a jovial family lunch. Also, available for reunions, weddings, rehearsal dinners and showers. Restaurant Hours: Wed & Thurs 5pm – 9:30pm, Fri & Sat 11:30am – 10:30pm, Sun 11:30am – 9:30pm. Gift Cards.

Eddie’s Roadhouse 18 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 986-7623 www.eddiesroadhouse.com

Gilded Otter

O’Leary’s 7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 758-2267

Osaka Restaurant 22 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 www.osakasushi.net

The River Bank (845) 534-3046 www.theriverbank.biz

Rusty’s Farm Fresh

A warm and inviting dining room and pub overlooking beautiful sunsets over the Wallkill River and Shawangunk Cliffs. Mouthwatering dinners prepared by Executive Chef Larry Chu, and handcrafted beers brewed by GABF Gold Medal Winning Brewmaster Darren Currier. Chef driven and brewed locally!

(845) 758-8000

Gomen Kudasai—Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking

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5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com

Howell’s Cafe

Texas Roadhouse

27 W. Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-5561 www.howellsdeli.com

500 Miron Lane, Kingston, NY

John’s Harvest Inn

The Artist’s Palate

633 Route 17M, Middletown, NY (845) 692-4570 www.johnsharvestinn.com

307 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

Karma Road Organic Cafe

Installed in a building once occupied by a Golden Era clothing store, M. Schwartz, The Artist's Palate restaurant has brought back life to Main Street in Poughkeepsie. Designers have reworked the interior space of the 70-seat dining room to combine cosmopolitan elegance with an edgy industrial accent. Like the décor, the menu showcases innovation: An extensive array of wines, handcrafted beers and unique cocktails complement our revolving seasonal menu.

11 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 845 255 1099 www.karmaroad.net info@karmaroad.com Winner of “Best Vegetarian Restaurant in the Hudson Valley” 2010. Friendly, casual breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, juices and awardwinning smoothies for a delicious, healthy alternative to standard fare. Steps from the Rail-Trail in historic downtown. Open 8am-8pm, 7 days. Find us on Facebook!

Kavos 4 North Clover Street , Poughkeepsie, NY 845 473 4976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com

LaBella Pizza Bistro 194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2633 www.labellapizzabistro.com LaBella Pizza Bistro voted Best Pizza in The Hudson Valley. We serve more than just great pizza, including catering for any occasion. Our dishes feature LOCALLY GROWN organic produce! We offer a healthy WHOLE GRAIN PIZZA CRUST! Vegan Pizza is now available as well.

TIVOLI

74 Broadway, (845) 757-5055

RHINEBECK

22 Garden St, (845) 876-7338

Osakasushi.net “Best Sushi”~Chronogram & Hudson Valley Magazine Rated “Excellent”~Zagat for 16yrs • “4.5 Stars”~Poughkeepsie Journal

845-336-7600 www.texasroadhouse.com

(845) 483-8074 www.theartistspalate.biz

The Culinary Institute of America 1946 Campus Drive (Route 9), Hyde Park, NY (845) 452-9600 www.ciachef.edu/restaurants American Bounty Restaurant, imaginative cuisine celebrating the diversity of foods of the Americas; Apple Pie Bakery Café, sumptuous baked goods and café cuisine; Escoffier Restaurant, culinary traditions of France with a contemporary touch; Ristorante Caterina de’ Medici, seasonal ingredients and authentic dishes of Italy; and St. Andrew’s Café, menus highlighting locally and sustainably sourced ingredients.

Towne Crier Cafe 130 New York 22, Pawling, NY (845) 855-1300 www.townecrier.com

BISTRO WINE BAR 307 main street, poughkeepsie, ny 12601 phone 845.483.8074, fax 845.483.8075 www.theartistspalate.biz lunch, dinner & catering available

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387 South Street, Highland, NY (845) 833-0866 www.gunkhaus.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.

Gunk Haus

Japanese Restaurant

3 River Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY

3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700

215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811

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business directory Accommodations Hampton Inn 1307 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 382-2600 Poukg_hampton@hilton.com

Mohonk Mountain House 1000 Mountain Rest Road, New Paltz, NY (800) 772-6646 www.mohonk.com

Windham Mountain Ski Resort Windham, NY (518) 734-4300 www.windhammountain.com edewi @windhammountain.com

Alternative Energy Hudson Valley Clean Energy, Inc (845) 876-3767 www.hvce.com

1955 South Road Square, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 297-1684

Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 486-4571 www.cunneen-hackett.org

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

Garrison Art Center 23 Garrison’s Landing, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3960 www.garrisonartcenter.org

Green River Gallery 1578 Boston Corners Road, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3311

Lady Audrey’s Gallery

Animal Sanctuaries Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Willow, NY (845) 679-5955 www.WoodstockSanctuary.org

Antiques Fairground Shows NY P.O. Box 3938, Albany, NY (518) 331-5004 www.fairgroudshows.com fairgroundshows@aol.com

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Country Gallery

Corner of Market & Livingston Streets, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8444 www.fedonlights.com

Millbrook Antiques Center 3283 Franklin Avenue, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-3921 millbrookantiquecenter@gmail.com

The Eclectic Eye 16-18 Railroad Avenue, Warwick, NY 10990 (845) 986-5520 theeclecticeye@gmail.com A treasure trove of fine eclectic antiques and vintage collectibles from around the world and the greater Hudson Valley. Specializing in Victorian, 18th and 19th century American country furniture, and rare mid-century modern pottery.

Water Street Market (Antiques Center) 10 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1403 www.waterstreetmarket.com

Architecture

52 Main Street, Millerton, NY 518-592-1303 ladyaudreysgallery.com

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

Marlys Hann Architect 161 Main Street, Andes, NY (845) 676-3858 www.marlyshann.com

Art Galleries & Centers Ann Street Gallery 104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org vwalsh@safe-harbors.org In Rare Form: Contemporary Sculpture Group Exhibition— New sculpture exhibition at the Ann Street Gallery featuring artists Ben Bunch, Cary Baker, Kate Clark, Ryan Higgins, Christopher Manzione, Steven Millar, Albert Schweitzer, Philip Simmons, Gamble Staempfli, Teresa Sullivan, and Jean-Marc Superville Chibbaro.The exhibition runs through to Saturday, April 23, 2011.

Back Door Studio 9 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3660 sydhap@aol.com

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Bookstores Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing. Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet. Expert Tarot reading.

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

Building Services & Supplies Associated Lightning Rod Co.

Clothing & Accessories Cow Jones Industrials Vegan Boutique 5 Main Street, Chatham, NY (518) 392-2139 www.cowjonesindustrials.com

Echo Boutique 470 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-0047

Elizabeth Boutique 1 Davis Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-2817 www.elizabethboutique.com

Pringle & Zimring 57 South Center Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-0329 www.pringleandzimring.com

Saperstein’s Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3365

Utility Canvas 2686 Route 44/55, Gardiner, NY www.utilitycanvas.com

(518) 789-4603 (845) 373-8309 (860) 364-1498 www.alrci.com

White Rice

45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org info@millstreetloft.org

Ghent Wood Products

Woodstock Design

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.

Herrington’s

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45

Root 52 Gallery

483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com Hillsdale, NY: (518) 325-3131 Hudson, NY: (518) 828-9431 Chatham, NY: (518) 392-9201 Toll-free: (800) 453-1311 www.herringtons.com

L Browe Asphalt Services (518) 479.1400 www.broweasphalt.com

87 Mill Street, Liberty, NY (845) 295-3052 www.root52.com

N & S Supply

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Ne Jame Pools, Ltd.

www.nssupply.com info@nssupply.com

1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum

(845) 677-7665 www.nejamepools.com

Storm King Art Center

Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings

(845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org

Artisans Hands Across Time (845) 201-0062 www.handsacrosstime.com

Audio & Video

Lynn Gaffney Sharon, CT and, Brooklyn, NY (917) 797-4039 www.lynngaffney.com lynn@lynngaffney.com

juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Auto Sales & Services Jenkinstown Motors, Inc. 37 South Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2500

Mike’s Auto Care Center 6 W Main Street Ext, Goshen, NY (845) 294-8284 www.mikesautocare.com

Ruge’s Subaru 6444 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7074 www.rugessubaru.com

Beverages Esotec

(845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual

19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings is a full service flooring store from consultation/design to installation. We will take you every step of the way. We can ship flooring anywhere in the United States! Call or e-mail for an extremely competitive price quote today!

Pioneer Natural Pools 3622 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY (845) 227-7800 www.pioneernaturalpools.com

Stone Resource Inc 3417 Route 343, Amenia, NY (860) 209-7015 stoneresourceinc.com

Tuscani Pools by Andrea 4293 US Highway 209, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-7900 www.tuscanipools.com info@tuscanipools.com

Cinemas Rosendale Theater Collective Rosendale, NY www.rosendaletheatre.org

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

306 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-9200 9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679--8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com

Collaborative Workspace Beahive Kingston 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.beahivekingston.com bzzz@beahivebeacon.com

Consignment Shops Grandma’s Helping Hands Boutique Nake Plaza - Route 211 West, Middletown , NY (845) 344-5894

Guys Gals & Gadgets Nake Plaza - Route 211 West, Middletown , NY (845) 381-1548

Past N’ Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, accessories, and a unique collection of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise in sizes from Petite to Plus. Featuring a diverse & illuminating collection of 14 Kt. Gold, Sterling Silver and Vintage jewelry. Enjoy the pleasures of resale shopping and the benefits of living basically while living beautifully. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

Consulting Services TRACKING WONDER: Changing the Way Creativity Happens (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com I specialize in helping writers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs progress from ideas to completed projects, navigate obstacles, and work with a deeply motivating wonder. Conversations in creative organization, timeshaping, problem-solving, platform-building, and manuscript review keep you on track while staying authentic to your vision. Impeccable attention. Delight guaranteed. Call to schedule a pro bono conversation.

Cooking Classes Natural Gourmet Cookery School 48 West 21st Street, New York, NY (212) 645-5170, Fax (212) 989-1493 www.naturalgourmetschool.com info@naturalgourmetschool.com

Country Clubs

Financial Advisors

Copake Country Club

JSA Financial Group

44 Golf Course Road, Copake Lake, NY (518) 325-4338 www.copakecountryclub.com

7 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1923 www.jsafinancial.com jeff@jsafinancial.com

Custom Home Design & Materials Atlantic Custom Homes 2785 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY www.lindalny.com www.hudsonvalleycedarhomes.com

Equestrian Services Frog Hollow Farm Esopus, NY (845) 384-6424 www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

Horse Leap LLC 3315 Route 343, Amenia, NY (845) 789-1177 www.horseleap.com info@horseleap.com

Events Durants Tents & Events 1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com info@durantstents.com Durants Tents is a complete party rental company serving the Hudson Valley. Our professional staff prides themselves on quality products, dependability and service. Our extensive selection and vast inventory makes us uniquely qualified to accommodate your event needs, from office and convention to the back lawn or the ballroom.

Rosendale Earthfest and Expo

Woodstock Writer’s Festival www.woodstockwritersfestival.com

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores Adams Fairacre Farms Newburgh: 1240 Route 300, (845)569-0303, Lake Katrine: 1560 Ulster Avenue, (845) 336-6300, Poughkeepsie: 765 Dutchess Turnpike, (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com

Mother Earth’s StoreHouse Poughkeepsie: 804 South Road Square, (845) 296-1069 Saugerties: 249 Main Street, (845) 246-9614 Kingston: 440 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products. Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself! Locations at Kingston 300 Kings Mall Court, Poughkeepsie 765 Dutchess Turnpike and Saugerties: 249 Main Street.

Pennings Farm Market & Orchards 161 South Route 94, Warwick, NY (845) 986-1059 www.penningsfarmmarket.com

Pleasant Stone Farm 7 Liberty Square, Ellenville, NY (845) 647-1300 www.pleasantstonefarm.com

Sunflower Natural Foods Market 75 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5361 www.sunflowernatural.com info@sunflowernatural.com Since 1978, Your source for organic and local, farm fresh produce, eggs, dairy products, bulk coffee, rice, beans, granolas, teas, all natural body & skin care, supplements, homeopathy. And so much more!

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

Florists Country Gardeners Florist PO Box D, Millerton, NY (518) 789-6440 (888) 898-6002

The Greenhouse at Rhinebeck 41 Pitcher Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3974 www.thegreenhouseatrhinebeck.com

Gardening & Garden Supplies Bloom Fine Gardening New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2734 www.bloomfinegardening.com bloomfinegardening@gmail.com

Phantom Gardener Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8606 www.thephantomgardener.com

Our hours are 11AM to 6PM, Friday - Sunday 10 Ann Kaley Lane, Marlboro, NY 12542 Phone: (845) 236-7620.

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Graphic Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

e-Diner Design & Marketing, Inc. 819 Little Britain Road, Suite 200, New Windsor, NY (845) 569-7000 www.e-dinerdesign.com

Greenovation SunDog Solar 343 Route 295, Chatham, NY www.sundogsolar.net info@sundogsolar.net Making power from sunshine! We design and install solar electric and solar thermal systems for sale or lease to homes and businesses. We spray foam insulation, provide energy audits, building envelope air sealing and general greenovation contracting. SunDog also conducts workforce training and community educational programs in renewable energy.

The Natural Gourmet Cookery School For more than 20 years people around the world have turned to Natural Gourmet’s avocational public classes to learn the basics of

healthy cooking. They come to the Chef’s Training Program to prepare for careers in the burgeoning Natural foods Industry.

Hair Salons A William Anthony Salon 29 Elm Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-4950 www.wasalon.net

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

Dazzles Salon & Day Spa 2722 W. Main Street, Wappingers Falls, (845) 297-5900, 738 Route 9, Fishkill Plaza, Fishkill, (845) 897-5100, NY www.dazzlessalon.com

Dennis Fox Salon 6400 Montgomery Street 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1777

Gentle Touch Body Care 126 Wickham Ave, Middletown , NY (845) 342-6668 gentletouchbodycare.com

With the growing awareness of the effect that food has on health and well-being, there is a great demand for culinary professionals who can prepare food that is not only beautiful and delicious, but health-supportive as well. Our comprehensive Chef’s Training Program, the only one of its kind in the world, offers preparation for careers in health spas and restaurants, bakeries, private cooking, catering, teaching, consulting, food writing and a variety of entrepreneurial pursuits. Please browse our website to see how much we can offer you!

WWW.NATURALGOURMETSCHOOL.COM TELEPHONE: 212-645-5170 FAX: 212-989-1493 48 WEST 21ST STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10010 EMAIL:INFO@NATURALGOURMETSCHOOL.COM 4/11 ChronograM business directory 85

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Rosendale Recreation Center, Route 32, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7477 rosendaleearthfest@yahoo.com

We are an independent financial firm that has been helping people establish & maintain their long-term financial goals through all aspects of Financial Planning. We also offer our clients the option to utilize socially responsible investments. Securities & Advisory Services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network — Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.

St. Lawrence Hair Studio

217 Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 360-5565 www.stlawrencehairstudio.com

Village Hair Studio

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55 West Main Street, Goshen, NY (845) 294-8663

Historic Sites Clermont State Historic Site

One Clermont Avenue, Germantown, NY (518) 537-4240 www.friendsofclermont.org

Home Furnishings & Decor Leslie Hoss Flood Interiors 11 Railroad Plaza, Millerton, NY (518) 789-0640 www.lesliefloodinteriors.com/

Lounge

High Falls, NY (845) 687-9463 www.loungefurniture.com

Marigold Home Interiors

Vital Behavior Services

“Creating Positive Behavior Changes in Children with

Autism & Other Developmental Delays”

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747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-0800 www.marigold-home.com

Silken Wool

36 & 56 Main Street, Warwick, NY (845) 988-1888 www.silkenwool.com

The Futon Store

Route 9, Poughkeepsie, (845) 297-1933 www.thefutonstore.com

Timbuktu

Office: (845) 765-0463 Cell: (516) 984-5761 jweinstein@vitalbehaviorservices.com www.vitalbehaviorservices.com CERTIFIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS & SPECIAL EDUCATORS

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2 Tannery Brook Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 619-1169 www.timbuktuwoodstock.com timbuktushop@aol.com

Home Improvement Certapro Painters (845) 987-7561 www.certapro.com

Household Management & Planning Virgo Works

(845) 594-7381 www.virgoworks.us virgoworks@yahoo.com

Internet Services

Wednesday, April 13, 8:30am Tuesday, May 24, 8:30 am

DragonSearch

(845) 383-0890 www.dragonsearchmarketing.com dragon@dragonsearch.net

Meet our students, faculty and parents and tour our campus. Or visit another time: 845-462-7600, ext. 201 admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess

pre-k through grade 12 260 Boardman Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 www.poughkeepsieday.org

many minds, one world

9 Collegeview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

Hummingbird Jewelers

23 A. East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-4585 www.hummingbirdjewelers.com hummingbirdjewelers@hotmail.com

Nick Bee’s Eco Store

56b South Center Street , Millerton, NY

Printed Art

www.printedart.com

Kitchenwares Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6208 www.warrenkitchentools.com

Whether you are in Historic Kingston, NY or Historic Milford, PA, we’ll make you feel right at home.

Kingston, N.Y.

845-382-2600

1307 Ulster Avenue Kingston, NY 12401 www.kingston.hamptoninn.com e-mail the GM: Ramona.Vazquez@hilton.com Sales: Sandra.Sanicki@hilton.com

Matamoras, Pa.

570-491-5280

122 Westfall Town Drive Matamoras, PA 18336 www.matamoras.hamptoninn.com e-mail the GM: Monique.Olivier@hilton.com

Landscaping Appleseed Permaculture

(845) 594-4518 www.appleseedpermaculture.com

Augustine Landscaping & Nursery 9W & Van Kleecks Lane, Kingston, NY (845) 338-4936 www.augustinenursery.com

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

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Santini’s Lawn Care

254 Mt.Zion Road, Marlboro, NY 845-234-5320 www.santinislawncare.com

Lawyers & Mediators Hudson Valley Mediators Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie (845) 876-6100, Kingston and Highland (845) 338-9638, www.hudsonvalleymediators.com

Jane Cottrell (845) 266-3203 www.janecottrell.com

Schneider, Pfahl & Rahmé, LLP Woodstock: (845) 679-9868, New York City: (212) 629-7744 www.schneiderpfahl.com

Wellspring (845) 534-7668 www.mediated-divorce.com

Music Anias Wolf Sacred Music (845) 657-2691

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd 77 Cornell Street, Suite 303, Kingston, NY (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org info@deeplistening.org

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

Organizations Country Wisdom News (845) 616-7834 www.countrywisdomnews.com Country Wisdom News — Subscribe to Country Wisdom News, Ulster County’s newest source for good news — age old and modern thoughts on food, the land, and the home. An annual subscription is $35. Send checks to PO Box 444, Accord, NY, 12404.

Hudson Valley Green Drinks (845) 454-6410 www.hvgreendrinks.org

Kingston’s Opera House Office Bldg. 275 Fair Street, Kingston, NY

Rhinebeck Science Foundation Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebecksciencefoundation.org

US Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, Hudson Valley Branch www.greenupstateny.org hvbranchcoordinator@gmail.com

Performing Arts Bardavon Opera House 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2072 www.bardavon.org

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

Falcon Music & Art Productions 1348 Route 9W, Marlboro, NY (845) 236 7970 www.liveatthefalcon.com

Paramount Center for the Arts 100 Brown Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-2333 www.paramountcenter.org

Starling Productions The Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8410 astarlingproduction@gmail.com

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

WAMC — The Linda 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 518-465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

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

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

High Meadow School (845) 687-4855 www.highmeadowschool.org

Web Design

www.dcstudiosllc.com info@dcstudiosllc.com

icuPublish

Sunrooms

PO Box 145, Glenham, NY (914) 213-2225 www.icupublish.com mtodd@icupublish.com

Hudson Valley Sunrooms Route 9W, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1235 www.hvsk.fourseasonssunrooms.com

Weddings

Tattoos

HudsonValleyWeddings.com

Hudson River Tattoo 724 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-5182 www.hudsonrivertattoo.com hudsonrivertattoo@gmail.com

211 Indian Mountain Road, Lakeville, CT (860) 435-0871 www.indianmountain.org admissions@indianmountain.org

Custom tattoo parlor with friendly cozy environment. 18 years experience as professional tattoo artist with wide range of skill in any style. Preference towards American traditional clean bold TATTOOS!

240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8281 www.dogloveplaygroups.com

Mountain Scout Survival School

SkinFlower Tattoo

Personal hands-on boarding and playgroups with pick-up and drop-off available. Insulated kennel room, 5x10 kennels with windows, mats and classical music. Supervised playgroups in a 40x40 fenced area. Walks every few hours. Homemade food and healthy treats.

New York Military Academy

Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC

The Beacon Barkery 192 Main Street, Beacon, NY info@beaconbarkery

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

France Menk Photography

Photosensualis 15 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7995 www.photosensualis.com

Picture Framing Atelier Renee Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com Formerly One Art Row, this unique workshop combines a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship. Renee Burgevin CPF; 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and oversize framing as well as fabric-wrapped and French matting. Also offering mirrors.

Gilded Moon 34 Main Street, Millerton, NY (518) 789-3428 www.gildedmoonframing.com

Printing Services Fast Signs 1830 South Rd Suite 101, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-5600 www.fastsigns.com/455 455@fastsigns.com

Restoration Ronnee Barnett Textile Restoration Cherry Hill Road, Accord, NY (845) 687-7398 ronneebarnett@hvc.rr.com In private practice since 1978. Among other projects, most often requested is conservation and/or restoration of tapestries, rugs, quilts, coverlets, needle- point, upholstery, samplers, including mounting and cleaning. Featured in many magazines and newspapers, good communication with clients is a must. On staff part time at the MMA.

www.mtscoutsurvival.com mt.scoutsurvival@gmail.com 78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org, admissions@nyma.org New York Military Academy is an important part of America’s independent school heritage. Today, we offer a rigorous global curriculum for students who actively seek to be set apart for excellence in a structured program that enables them to enter college inspired, engaged, and ready for the future.

Poughkeepsie Day School 260 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 462-7600 www.poughkeepsieday.org admissions@poughkeepsieday.org

SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts New Paltz, NY (845) 257-3860 www.newpaltz.edu/artnews

Wild Earth Wilderness School New Paltz / High Falls area, 845-256-9830 www.wildearthprograms.org info@wildearthprograms.org Wild Earth, a not-for-profit located in the Shawangunk Ridge region of the Hudson Valley, offers and supports experiences in nature that are inspiring, educational and fun, while renewing and deepening connections with ourselves, others and the Earth. Our programs, which draw on a broad spectrum of teachings from indigenous cultures to modern natural sciences, offer adventure and fun, primitive skills and crafts, awareness games, and story and song, facilitated by multi-generational mentors.

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

Specialty Food Shops Alps Sweet Shop

Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-3166 www.skinflower.org

Rhinebeck Tennis Club

Come and discover one of Dutchess County’s best kept secrets... Rhinebeck’s Indoor TENNIS LEARNING CENTER. We are now Open to the Public 7 days a week ( 7am - 11pm ). From pre-school children to adults in their seventies and eighties, everyone can learn and play tennis - the sport of a fit and healthy lifetime. Over 80% of our indoor court time is dedicated to instructional programs. Each week over 160 men, women, and children enjoy learning and playing tennis in our premier tennis facility. There’s something for everyone.

Theaters

www.gotcottonmouth.com info@gotcottonmouth.com

Stained Glass DC Studios 21 Winston Drive, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3200

Wine & Liquor In Good Taste 45 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0110 ingoodtaste@verizon.net

Workshops

Torrington, CT (860) 489-7180 www.warnertheatre.org

Writer’s Immersion Workshop at Kingston Beahive 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY www.Transformative-writing.com djlurie@gmail.com

Tutoring Ulster Tutors Mid-Hudson Valley, NY (845) 514-9927 www.UlsterTutors.com admin@ulstertutors.com. Private Tutoring & Mentoring Relationships: Standardized Test Prep - SAT/ACT/SSAT, Regents, HS/College Mathematics, Physics & Natural Sciences, English Reading/Writing, Music Theory and Instrumentation, Field Studies, Critical & Creative Intellectual Development. Competitive rates from highly skilled educators. Serving the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Veterinary Services 680 State Road 343, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-8800 www.centerforveterinarycare.com

Vineyards 10 Ann Kaley Lane, Marlboro, NY (845) 236-7620 www.stoutridge.com

Writing Services CENTER TO PAGE: moving writers from the center to the page (845) 679-9441 www.centertopage.com

Peter Aaron

Multiple pets? Trouble with transportation? Does your pet get car sick? We offer convenient veterinary services in the comfort and safety of your own home. Visit our website for a full list of services including annual exams, vaccinations, blood tests, etc. Argos Animal Health offers personal, loving, and confidential care. Serving Kingston, Woodstock, New Paltz, Rhinebeck, and surrounding areas.

Stoutridge Vineyard

Explore the full spectrum of your creative imagination with a group of dedicated and supportive writers. In this workshop, writers of all levels will develop greater access to their own creative process while strengthening their grasp of story construct. Spring & summer groups forming are now.

Our small team works with writers nationwide— memoirists, scholars, novelists, and people seeking to develop an authentic writing practice. We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

Center For Veterinary Care Millbrook

(845) 853-3727 www.HudsonValleyVet.com HudsonValleyVet@gmail.com

Immortal Elixir Beverage Corporation

Rev. Puja A. J. Thomson will help you create a heartfelt ceremony that uniquely expresses your commitment, whether you are blending different spiritual, religious, or ethnic traditions, are forging your own or share a common heritage. Puja’s calm presence and lovely Scottish voice add a special touch. “Positive, professional, loving, focused and experienced.”

Warner Theatre

Edible Arrangements

64 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 806-5600 www.Go-GoPops.com

P.O. Box 1081, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2278 www.rootsnwings.com/ceremonies puja@rootsnwings.com

2 Salisbury Court, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8008 www.rhinebecktennis.com bob@rhinebecktennis.com

Veterinary House Calls Argos Animal Health, PLLC

Go-Go Pops

ROOTS & WINGS / Rev Puja Thomson

Tennis

269 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-8240 Kingston: 900 Ulster Avenue (845) 339-3200, Poughkeepsie: 10 IBM Road Plaza (845) 463-3900 EdibleArrangements.com

The only resource you need to plan a Hudson Valley wedding. Offering a free, extensive, online Wedding Guide. Hundreds of weddingrelated professionals. Regional Bridal Show schedule, links, wed shop, vendor promotions, specials, and more. Call or e-mail for information about adding your wedding-related business.

www.peteraaron.org info@peteraaron.org ARTISTS, BANDS, and MUSICIANS: Your work deserves ATTENTION!! Chronogram music editor and AP award-winning journalist Peter Aaron can deliver a great, custom-composed bio for your press kit or website. General copy editing and proofreading services (academic and term papers), and consultations also available. Reasonable rates.

TRACKING WONDER: Changing the Way Creativity Happens (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com See also Consulting Services directory.

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Indian Mountain School

120 Morey Hill Road, Kingston, NY (845) 336-4705 www.HudsonValleyWedding.com; www.HudsonValleyBaby.com; www.HudsonValleyBabies.com; www.HudsonValleyChildren.com judy@hudsonvalleyweddings.com

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Less Clutter, More Joy by wendy kagan illustrations by annie internicola Want to make room for more happiness in your life? Start by clearing out your junk drawer. Today’s professional organizers can show you how it’s done, right here in the Hudson Valley.

No matter how put-together we might appear to be on the outside, most of us have a dirty secret. Sometimes it’s an attic or a basement that’s teeming with artifacts and yellowed papers. Or a closet that must be opened carefully, lest its contents tumble pell-mell onto the floor. Our life detritus can spill out onto other surfaces as well—countertops, coffee tables, bookshelves. Those of us with children at home are doubly doomed, what with brim-filled toy baskets, towering board games, and drawers jammed fast with hard-to-toss artworks by budding Michelangelos. Collections like these are the inevitable flotsam and jetsam of life in a culture that tells us we are our stuff. “I buy; therefore I am” is the Western way. It’s known in the self-storage industry that the number of sprawling, aluminum-sided storage facilities has doubled in this country each decade since the late 1960s. We have too much stuff. When our stuff is no longer serving us, when it is no longer useful or loved, it becomes clutter. And clutter can easily become unmanageable. What’s it all about, and what can be done? I huddled with five of the Hudson Valley’s clutter-busting experts for ideas and strategies. According to Sarah Stitham of Olivebridge—Ulster County’s only certified professional organizer and certified organizer coach—excess stuff signals blocked energy. When clutter becomes overwhelming, it’s the sign of a life that’s not running optimally, and of habits that are taking a toll on personal health and well being. “People call me when they’re stuck,” says Stitham. “They want to move forward but they don’t know how. The clutter is a byproduct of that.” True Abundance Like most professional organizers, Stitham—who calls her business Revamp®—will help weed out unused clothing and create filing systems for her clients.Yet Stitham has a unique, holistic approach to organizing. She looks at the whole person, honing in on their optimal health and wellness. Seen in this light, out-of-hand clutter is a just a foil; the true problem is a life that has fallen out of balance. As such, the decision to reorganize becomes an exciting opportunity for personal growth. It’s a chance to recreate a life that’s in line with one’s true values, passions, and joys. This is fertile ground for stories of transformation. When one Revamp client came to Stitham, she was overweight, overworked, eating on the run, and taking too much medication. Her kitchen was cluttered with things like a bread machine that she never used—yet it was devoid of the proper supplies necessary to create a simple, healthy meal. Together Stitham and her client revamped the kitchen and shopped for a top-quality knife, vegetable peeler, and sauté pan. Inspired by her new, spare environment—and equipped with a few recipes from Stitham, who also has a background in cooking—the client started preparing more nutritious meals for herself and eventually lost some weight. “She was thrilled,” says Stitham. “The hot spots for me are the kitchen and the bedroom. Food and sleep,” notes Stitham. She goes on to tell the story of another client, who wasn’t flourishing five 88 whole living ChronograM 4/11

years after a difficult divorce. Like a bloodhound for stuck energy, Stitham went to the bedroom and found what she believed to be the culprit: an old mattress that dated back to the start of the client’s failed marriage. “The mattress was a total disaster,” says Stitham—to say nothing about the ex-husband’s old clothes that were still hanging in her closet. Starting with a new mattress, Stitham helped revamp the bedroom, editing out evidence of the past and choosing a warm, inviting color for the walls. Fast forward to a happier client who was sleeping better and ready to start dating. “People often have things that are not conducive to wellness and vitality,” says Stitham. “Decluttering becomes about paring down what you don’t need so you can have more abundance in your life.” Start Small While other professional organizers might vary in style and approach, most agree that clutter tends to multiply when lives are too harried and overpacked. It can come hand in hand with stress and a lack of self-care and self-nurturing. No matter what path you take, the journey to a clutter-free environment can bring clarity of mind and a sense of satisfaction that comes from completing a long-overdue task. Margot Molnar, a professional organizer based in Woodstock, belongs to a more traditional school of organizing than Stitham’s. For her, the act of decluttering is not necessarily a chance to reassess one’s life; it’s just a task, pure and simple. Molnar has a grounding presence and seems ready to offer reassurance and soft, steady guidance at a moment’s notice. To would-be declutterers, Molnar advises, “Start with one project, just a small area—maybe one drawer. Don’t think of all the projects that need to be done; that’s too overwhelming. You’ll get reinforced by the good results of finishing that project, and you’ll find the motivation to keep going.” For Sue Story, who runs her Clutter Busters business out of West Shokan, it’s about behavior modification and the creation of new habits. She zeroes in on two simple tasks that have instant-gratification results. “I tell my clients to open their mail immediately so that it doesn’t pile up,” says Story. “And when something falls, pick it up right away.” Story comes across as a strong, take-charge person determined impart that strength to her clients. “I don’t want to enable anyone; I want to empower them,” says Story. “That way they won’t need me to come back.” Story agrees with Stitham that clutter is stuck energy—and she also believes that a deep-rooted clutter problem can go hand in hand with low self-esteem. Reorganizing, she believes, can offer powerful medicine to an ailing self-image. Many of Story’s clients have become her friends, and she loves seeing them become more relaxed and happier in their skin after tackling a clutter project. “They feel freer,” says Story. Be Kind to Yourself The route to clarity and freedom isn’t without road bumps—but people like

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Rosalyn Cherry of New Paltz, the author of Be Clutter Free: Sorting Made Simple, can make the ride a little less painful. Cherry understands that decluttering is difficult precisely because people have emotional attachments to their things. Clients working with Cherry must abide by one golden rule: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re never allowed to be hard on yourself or mean to yourself,â&#x20AC;? she says. A trick of Cherryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is to encourage her clients to take photographs of things that have sentimental valueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and then give the items away. One client had a trunk filled with all the sweaters and scarves that her grandmother and aunt had ever knitted for her. Woven with memories, the clothes no longer fit yet the client had kept them for years. It was time to let go. Cherry advised her to choose one or two items to keep (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that everyone should have a treasure chest,â&#x20AC;? says Cherry); the client took pictures of the rest before giving them to charity. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also easier to let things go when you know where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re goingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to the recycling center or a thrift shop. Giving without strings is a happiness booster like no other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My big thing is shelters for battered women, who have to start a brand-new home because they left where they were living,â&#x20AC;? says Cherry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine the joy it brings people to have the things that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use.â&#x20AC;? Help for Hoarders Sometimes letting go is not just hard; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible. In cases like this clutter is not just an annoyance; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paralyzing. The A&E network television show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoardersâ&#x20AC;? has brought new awarenessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a lot of gawking voyeurismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the psychological problem known as compulsive hoarding. Episodes follow the stories of troubled hoarders who obsessively save everything that comes into their homes, even garbage. In classic, sensationalist reality-show style, experts and therapists arrive on the scene, often in gas masks, ostensibly to offer quick, life-changing help. Some two million people in the United States suffer from this pathological disorder, which is very difficult to treat. As nearly every episode of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hoardersâ&#x20AC;? makes plain, however, the hoarder will not accept help unless he or she is ready and willing to change. Sometimes it takes a crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a threat of divorce, eviction, or even deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to bring about such transformation. According to Sheila Delsonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a Poughkeepsie-based professional organizer with a special focus on chronic disorganizationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there is only one effective treatment for hoarding: steady, consistent intervention with long-term cognitive behavioral therapy. Delson, who is in the early stages of putting together a task force for this problem in the Hudson Valley, has strong views about the A&E show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploitation,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people on these shows are never prepared for the emotional wreckage theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to encounter with the cameras, the indifference, the producers who have an agenda to get the job done.They have two days to make a shoot. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a disregard to the mental health and stability of the client.â&#x20AC;? A myriad of reasons might contribute to a hoarderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disorderâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;most of which lie in the psyche of the hoarâ&#x2030; â&#x2030; der himself. But Delson doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discount the influence of the culture at large. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all tend to overaccummulate,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That makes it more difficult for hoarders to compare themselves to cultural norms and to recognize that they have a problem.â&#x20AC;? Gettingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Stayingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Organized Social scientists might link our modern urge to acquire with a primitive survival mechanism.With hoarders, this ancient switch seems permanently in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;onâ&#x20AC;? positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though many of us have the same tendencies to a lesser degree, exacerbated by a rabid consumer culture. At the same time, most of us also have a natural human needâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a love, perhapsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for order. Can the two tendencies happily coexist? Sarah Stitham of the Revamp method says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key that we start any reorganization project with a vision of a life that makes us feel balanced and truly happy. Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vision of having less computer time and more meditative experiences, and the project becomes about decluttering a space to unroll a yoga mat or sit on a Zafu cushion. Once we have that vision, whatever it is, we can have real clarity about what can stay in our lives and what ought to go. The trick to staying organized, says Stitham, is to have that reason: a clear trajectory for how to bring more joy, passion, and vitality into your life. When you open up that possibility by physically clearing some space, everything else just naturally falls into place. 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Flowers Fall By Bethany Saltman

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing, and weeds spring up amid our antipathy. — Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

It’s a Beautiful World: Kim John Payne on Simplicity Parenting

Kim John Payne has spent the last 27 years studying families. As a school counselor, consultant, educator, and private family counselor, his work has taken him around the world, and he is a longstanding participant in the Waldorf movement. Payne’s latest book, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids (Ballantine Books/Random House, 2009), pulls together his central ideas into one tight, smart, and compassionate argument: Just slow down. And Payne tells us how, through the four paths toward simplicity: Environment: De-cluttering Rhythm: Increasing predictability Scheduling: Soothing schedules Unplugging: Reducing the influence of adult concerns While below are some highlights from our conversation, I encourage anyone interested to check out his book. Payne’s style is so warm and nonjudgmental, even the most overwhelmed among us can find some support. Just this morning I had a conversation with a friend about how her two kids have too many toys and she doesn’t want them to feel disappointed by something going missing. What would you say to her? I think we’re living in an undeclared War on Childhood, and that perspective comes form working in war zones. It doesn’t come as a throwaway comment; it is very serious. I think our children are suffering from sensory overwhelm, like a sensory tsunami. But we, unlike a lot of wars that we see in the world, can declare peace in our homes. There’s so much booming and buzzing in the world, so wanting to have a peaceful home is just establishing a balance. In your book you talk about how we overwhelm children with words, as well as with stuff. Can you say more about that? Explain less, and be more. Don’t just say something; stand there. Let them actually develop the inner experience. rather than they bring you a painting and you say, Good job, let’s bring that down to Kinko’s. Rather, just look at the painting with love in your eyes and be quiet. Shouldn’t we help kids verbalize themselves in times of ordinary stress? My take on this is that even with the most ordinary stress—for instance, bickering between kids—what’s happening is that the behavior that we have been told by society is normal doesn’t need to be. Our children, in their relationships with each other, are overcontrolling and micromanaging and being hyper-sensitive in their play with each other because they’re living an out-of-control lifestyle. Even in a house like ours where we are mostly unplugged, very quiet, and unscheduled, you would say we are being overwhelmingly verbal? That’s right. Shouting has become the new hitting, and now the new shouting is explaining. Ha! What’s happening is we’re taking children to places that neurologically they’re not even close to being able to go. They can’t make those choices, or verbalize what we’re asking them to verbalize. When we ask children to go to their feelings or to use their words and they don’t have the frontal-lobe, neurological capacity to find 92 whole living ChronograM 4/11

the words we’re demanding or explain their feelings, what we’re doing, unwittingly, over and over and over, is saying to the child, “You’re stupid.” I am beginning to see how this desire on my part to have my daughter verbalize can actually be aggressive. It can be. I agree 100 percent. And we’re reinforcing this message that they’re not good enough. Some children get a kind of verbal diarrhea because they’re subject to too many choices, too many questions, and they either collapse, they flee, or they fight, and they become really feisty. And when people simplify, so many difficult situations disentangle. Does it heal everything? No, but in the short term it creates a sensible space to sort problems out rather than this stressed space of fighting for control. I think I try resolve my ambivalence about our privilege by trying to educate my daughter about her entitlement, which can lead to a lot of talking and even shaming. Our children, when they come into this world, what they need to understand, first and foremost: It’s a beautiful world. This is a world full of goodness and kindness and beauty, and you are welcome and you are safe here. The problem with making our three-year-old’s heads shine with information is that they become nervous and anxious. Too much information, and they do not have the neurological capacity to process it. They totally do not. It’s a fact. When people talk to their children about global warming, when they talk to their children about the guilt of enjoying out-of-season fruit, when we, at every mealtime, talk about some global catastrophe, when they’re little, what happens is when they’re 14 or 15 and we absolutely want to engage them in that kind of conversation, they’re done. They roll their eyes and say, There she goes again. This same effort to make children world-wise makes them world-weary. You say we give our kids too many options. How do we respect our child’s desires and preferences and not overwhelm them? In the early phase of life we really need to be benevolent monarchs. We need to be kind, warm, and firm. And that is what secures our children. This is vitally important. We parent little ones like we want to be their buddies, and then when they’re 14, 15, we try to become the dictator, and the genie isn’t going back in the bottle. Your child doesn’t get a lot of choices when they’re little because they don’t have the neurological ability to make them. It’s just quite bizarre to say to a four-yearold, Shall we get in the car? So what do we do if tomato soup is for dinner and our little one doesn’t like tomatoes? Okay, if the child goes into a gag response, then we wouldn’t make it with tomatoes next time. One of our children is very sensitive to food texture and we gave her the tiniest amount, like almost an eye-dropper, of broccoli, and we did that, and it took 10 to 12 times, and now she will literally eat anything. And for the sake of argument, so what? Well, that means, first of all, as a parent, I was in charge. I am a big fan of children learning creative compliance in their first seven years. But what mommy and daddy ask is fair, it’s doable—to learn the difference between a request, which is what most parents do, and a firm and warm instruction. To make the instruction small, stay close, and not ever go into negotiation, to not ever say anything twice. It’s ultimately about connection.

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Acupuncture Acupuncture & Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L Ac 110 Creek Locks Road, Rosendale Family Practice, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.hudsonvalleyacupuncture.com Celebrating 10 years of acupuncture in Rosendale. Specializing in the treatment of chronic and acute pain, fertility and gynecological issues, pregnancy support, digestive issues, and addictions and other emotional issues. Private treatment rooms. Sliding scale, nofault, many insurances.

Hoon J. Park, MD, PC 1772 South Road, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-6060

New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L Ac 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

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Allergies & Sinus Michele Tomasicchio— Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Treating allergies (food & environmental) and sinus symptoms in an effective, holistic manner. A unique blend of modalities, supplementation, herbs and nutrition will be utilized to bring you back to a vibrant state of health. If you need help becoming healthy again call or e-mail for a consultation.

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Bambini offers your family the resources of a typical pediatric ofﬁce. But we also go a step further and recommend options such as herbs, homeopathic remedies, and referrals to natural healthcare specialists. Joseph T. Malak, MD FAAP / Jane Brotanek, MD MPH FAAP 207 Washington Street, Suite 103 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 249-2510 www.bambini-peds.com

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Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com 20+ years of experience successfully treating adults, couples, families, children and adolescents. The physical body is a gateway to our emotional and spiritual being. Rosen Method uses touch and words to contact the physical tension that limits our full experience of life. As the body relaxes or releases this muscular tension awareness of the purpose of this tension can become conscious, so that transformation becomes possible. Rosen Method provides the safety to hear from within what is true for us and trust that truth. Rosen Method bodywork is often used by people who are seeking relief from chronic pain and tension. It is also supportive and transforming for people feeling â&#x20AC;&#x153;stuckâ&#x20AC;?, struggling with emotional issues, and healing for survivors of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This work is about transformation-from the person we think we are to the person we really areâ&#x20AC;? -Marion Rosen. To learn more please see www.rosenmethod.org.

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CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance. If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.

Dentistry & Orthodontics Holistic Orthodonticsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD 107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com

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Fitness Trainers Mountainview Studio 20 Mountain View Avenue, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-0901 www.mtnviewstudio.com mtviewstudio@gmail.com

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OLHT Energy Healing and Mystery School is a unique, comprehensive, heart-centered and grounded approach toward health, healing and understanding energy. It draws from the shamanic, esoteric and holistic traditions. This certification program in energy healing is for people desiring personal growth, healthcare professionals wanting to learn more energy healing tools, and for those who want to transform their lives. Stone Ridge, NY School begins June 24, 2011. Call for brochure and to register 845 687-2252. Introductory weekends in April and May, www.womenwithwisdom.com.

â&#x20AC;&#x153; John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez See Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (800) 944-1001 www.eomega.org

Hospitals Benedictine Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 105 Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2500 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Benedictine Hospital is a progressive, fully accredited 150-bed acute care hospital. Benedictine offers elective surgery services and expanded in-patient and out-patient specialty services not typically found in a community hospital including: Orthopedic Surgery, Mental Health Services, Rehabilitation and Detox, Oncology & Breast Center Services, Radiology, Vascular Services and Sleep Center Services.

Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-ofthe-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals. With the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley, other specialized programs include: The Family Birth Place, Wound Healing Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, Cardiology Services and Stroke Center.

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Anna McConnell, CPT, NSCA has been a Master Trainer for over 22 years. Her objective is to help each person reach their fitness goals by increasing self esteem and confidence with caring professional service. She offers individualized personal training programs designed to motivate and educate for weight loss and body transformations.

Come to the table. Move forward. Free consultation.

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

Vassar Brothers Medical Center 45 Reade Place, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 454-8500 www.health-quest.org

Hypnosis Dr. Kristen Jemiolo Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-7168 mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change your outlook. Gain control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Imago Relationship Therapy

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Integrated Kabbalistic Healing Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Integrated Kabbalistic Healing sessions in person and by phone. Six-session introductory class on Integrated Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy Directory.

Martial Arts Woodstock Aikido At the Byrdcliffe Barn, Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8153 www.woodstockaikido.com

Massage Therapy

rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage. Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision, Jesse supports the body's natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage. Some Insurances Accepted.

Conscious Body Pilates & Massage Therapy 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Deep, sensitive and eclectic massage therapy with over 24 years of experience working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques include: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage).

Hands On Massage & Wellness, Inc. — Heather Kading, LMT, CIMI 258 Titusville Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-6820 www.hands-on-massage.org handsonmassagewellness@yahoo.com Heather specializes in prenatal/postpartum massage. Recently having her first child, she understands what a woman experiences physically, mentally and emotionally when pregnant and/or caring for a newborn. Heather is a Certified Infant Massage Instructor, so she can teach you how to bond with your new bundle of joy. She also teaches women how to prepare for the marathon of labor and how to lose their mummy tummies. Heather and the other therapists also specialize in pain & stress management and sports massage. Skin care services available. Ask about our monthly massage memberships.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net Luxurious massage therapy with medicinal grade Essential Oils; Raindrop Technique, Emotional Release, Facials, Stones. Animal care, health consultations, spa consultant, classes and keynotes. Offering full line of Young Living Essential oils, nutritional supplements, personal care, pet care, children’s and non-toxic cleaning products.

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

Menopause Treatment Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Helping women to move through the process of menopause with ease. A unique blend of healing modalities, nutrition and self-care techniques are utilized to help you to become balanced through this transition. If you need assistance becoming your vibrant self call or e-mail for a consultation.

Jesse Scherer LMT New Paltz, Kingston and NYC (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com Jesse delivers sessions based on the clients individualized needs, addressing injury

Organizations Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. 38 East Market Street, 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-2626 rsvp.mhvs.org rsvp@mhvs.org, info@mhvs.org

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The Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. works to promote the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, educating the community about the benefits of a plant-based diet and showing how to change to a more healthful, crueltyfree lifestyle. Members and friends participate in talks, potlucks, a youth group, and other activities; and get discounts at participating stores and restaurants.

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy. Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

Pharmacies Dedrick’s Pharmacy & Gifts www.dedrickspharmacyandgifts.com

Physicians Bambini Pediatrics, PC 207 Washington Street Suite 103, Poughkeepsie, NY www.bambini-peds.com

MD Imaging 1 Webster Avenue Suite 307, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 483-5352 www.endovasculartherapy.com

Pilates Conscious Body Pilates 692 Old Post Road, Esopus, NY (347) 731-8404 www.consciousbodyonline.com ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Husband and Wife team Ellen and Tim Ronis McCallum are dedicated to helping you achieve and maintain a strong healthy body, a dynamic mind, and a vibrant spirit, whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semiprivate apparatus sessions available.

Psychics Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com

Psychologists Emily L. Fucheck, Psy D Poughkeepsie, NYC (845) 380-0023 Offering therapy for individuals and couples, adults and adolescents. Insight-oriented approach with focus on understanding patterns of thought and behavior that interfere with life satisfaction and growth. Licensed psychologist with doctorate in clinical psychology and five years of post-doctoral training and certification in psychoanalytic work with adults, young adults, and adolescents. Located across the street from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Psychotherapy Amy R. Frisch, LCSW New Paltz, NY (845) 706-0229

Debra Budnik, CSW-R New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4218 Traditional insight-oriented psychotherapy for long- or short-term work. Aimed at identifying and changing self-defeating attitudes and behaviors, underlying anxiety, depression, and relationship problems. Sliding scale, most insurances accepted including Medicare/Medicaid. NYS-licensed. Experience working with trauma victims, including physical and sexual abuse. Educator on mental health topics. Located in New Paltz, one mile from SUNY.

Deep Clay Art and Therapy New Paltz/Gardiner and New York City, NY (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LCSW ATR-BC, 20+ years leading individual and group psychotherapy and expressive arts healing sessions. Brief intensive counseling for teens and adults, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, child and family play therapy, parent counseling, and “Dreamfigures” a clay art therapy group for women.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Body of Wisdom Counseling and Healing Services. See also Body-Centered Therapy directory.

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Spirited Midlife Women. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation. Newsletter sign up on website. FB page: www.Brigidswell.com/facebook.

Judy Swallow, MA, LCAT, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-5613

Reflexology Soul 2 Sole Reflexology, Arlene Spool 701 Zena Highwoods Road, Kingston, NY (845) 679-1270 www.soul2solereflexology.com Relief from Stress & Tension. Relaxing foot or hand massage, Raindrop Technique or Reiki

Aspects Gallery Inn & Spa Woodstock, NY (917) 412-5646 www.aspectsgallery.com liomag@gmail.com

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

New Age Health Spa (800) 682-4348 www.newagehealthspa.com

Retreat Centers Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center (518) 589-5000 www.peace-village.org

Blue Deer Center

We are a league of entrepreneurial men and women from all over the world, who are aligned with the work of women's wellness pioneer, world-renowned author, and one of the country's most respected authorities on women's health, Dr. Christiane Northrup. Team Northrup was founded in 2002 by Dr. Northrup, daughter Kate Northrup Moller and sister Penny Northrup Kirk. We are all independent associates with our product partner, USANA Health Sciences, which makes the highest quality supplements, skin-care and weight management products manufactured to pharmaceutical standards available. Dr. Northrup has used these products and has recommended them in her books and to her patients for the past sixteen years. As members we have an affiliation with the authors of The Healthy Home; Simple truths to protect your family from hidden household dangers by Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz, Vanguard Press, 2011.

The Fiction Writer’s Journey

Rt. 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-4800 www.garrisoninstitute.org garrison@garrisoninstitute.org

Writing, Creativity and Ritual. A Retreat for Women: Glastonbury, England, Isle of Avalon, July 25-August 4. All levels of writers welcome. The weekend fulfills the retreat pre-requisite.

Phoenicia, NY (845) 688-6897 www.menla.org menla@menla.org

Spiritual Flowing Spirit Healing 33 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com Jwalzer@flowingspirit.com

Reverend Diane Epstein 670 Aaron Ct., Kingston, NY (914) 466-0090 www.hudsonvalleyinterfaithminister.com

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Jipala R. Kagan “Thank you so much for your session last week! It felt good to be able to share one of my biggest concerns and have it addressed through the treatment and follow up remedy. I thank you for the previous watershed session that truly helped me unlock a lifetime block and aided in dramatic healing. Thank you! Thank you! Youʼve been a blessing in so many ways!” – D.J.

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Yoga Jai Ma Yoga Center 69 Main Street, Suite 20, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-0465 www.jmyoga.com Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Classes are in the lineages of Anusara, Iyengar, and Sivananda, with certified and experienced instructors. Private consultations and Therapeutics available. Owners Gina Bassinette and Ami Hirschstein have been teaching locally since 1995.

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Stockbridge, MA (800) 741-7353 www.kripalu.org

Imago Relationship Therapy julieezweig@gmail.com

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Susan DeStefano

The Yoga Way 2 Commerce Court #3, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 227-3223 www.yogaway.info yogaway@earthlink.net Celebrating our 9th year of service! Classical yoga taught in a way that is both applicable and accessible to everyone. Offering ongoing classes for adults, prenatal, baby, toddler, and children. Introductory classes are held on select Saturdays. Affiliate of Lakulish Yoga, LLC. Jahnvi Formisano, Director.

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995 Chapman Road, Yorktown , NY (914) 962-4432 www.thefictionwritersjourney.com www.creativesoulworks.com emily@emilyhanlon.com

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Unique writing & creativity adventures from writing coach & novelist, Emily Hanlon. Journey Into the Imagination Writing Weekend in CT. April 30-May 1.

Retreats supporting positive personal and social change in a monastery overlooking the Hudson River. Featuring Deeper Center, Living Prayer, with David Frenette, Mar. 18-26: training in the Christian contemplative practice of Centering Prayer.

Healing mind, body, and spirit combining traditional medical practice, clinical hypnotherapy, 12-step work, and Reiki energy healing.

Established in 2005, Blue Deer Center is America's leading shamanic retreat center providing intimate retreats of indigenous ancestral traditions from around the world. Upcoming programs include Plant Spirit MedicineSM trainings, traditional Huichol healing, Celtic, Sufi, Xhosa (South African) and Native American retreats. Discover your sacred song!

Contact Theresa Haney 845-489-4745 www.teamnorthrupNYC.com theresahaney@teamnorthrup.com

Integrated Health Care for Women

1155 County Route 6, Margaretville, NY 845-586-3225 www.bluedeer.org

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Session; private Green healing space or yours! (‘Sole Traveler’). My clients report relief from stress, carpal tunnel, circulation, insomnia, toxins, radiation & chemo side effects + balance; more energy. Sessions start $32.

FRIDAY 1 APRIL Art

Some Lives by David Ives 8pm. 3 one-act plays. $15.$12 students and seniors. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

The Man who Planted Trees Call for times. Puppet Theater of Scotland. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Fancy Meeting You Here Gallery Tour 5pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3858.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8. Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118.

Storytime 3:30pm. With Oliver Wyman. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Opening Reception: Paintings by Susanna Heller 6pm-8pm. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Music

Body / Mind / Spirit Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125/90 minutes. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100. Active Seniors: Gentle Yoga 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. New Moon Class 1:45pm-2:45pm. Honor the cycle of the moon and create an intention to reconnect with our inner light. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Nicole Beutler: 2:Dialogue with Lucinda 7pm.9pm $15/$10/$5. EMPAC at Rensselaer, Troy. (518) 276-3921. The Secret Garden 7:30pm. $15/$10 students. John Coleman Catholic High School, Hurley. 338-2750.

Workshops Intro to D-SLR Video for Photographers Call for times. Dennis O'Clair. Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock. 679-9957.

Restorative Yoga Class 5pm-7pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

How to Create a Home Yoga Practice 12pm-1:30pm. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

New Moon Projective Dream Group 6:30pm-8:30pm. With Melissa Sweet. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Support Group for New and Expecting Moms 10am-12pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6pm-8pm. Weekly through May 6. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dance

SATURDAY 2 APRIL Art Charlie Chaplin Tribute 12pm-8pm. Little Shop of Horses, Kingston. 340-0501. Tom Hedderich Opening Reception 1pm-4pm. Watercolor illustrations. Barnes & Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224. Reflectionist Spring Exhibit Opening Reception 1pm-4pm. Arts on the Lake, Kent Lakes. 225-7601.

Hudson Valley Philharmonic IV Call for times. With violinist Judith Ingolfsson. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Bindlestick Bill 10am. Children's music. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The U.S. Navy Sea Chanters 3pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334. African Drum and Dance Show 4pm. Kofi Donkor and Sankofa. $3. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds 5pm. Soul. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888.

Mama with Baby Pilates Call for times. $15/$100 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

The People's Open Mike 8pm. Peint o Gwrw Tavern, Chatham. (518) 392-2943.

Shivinanda Style Yoga 9:30am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Adrian Sicam 8pm-10pm. Jazz. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.

KinderArt 11:15am-12pm. 15 months-3 years. $65/6 sessions. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

New Works by Hollinger, Warren, and Head 5pm-7pm. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

Midnight Ramble 8pm. James Maddock and Levon Helm. Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock.

A Girl Scout Senior Leadership Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291.

Works by Lynne Friedman 5pm-8pm. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Wheels of Steel DJ Dance Party 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Harmony Musical Yoga 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010 6pm-8pm. Mixed media by Howard Saunders. Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson. www.DavisOrtonGallery.com.

Spottiswoode & His Enemies 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Music with Miss Amy 2:15pm-3pm. Age 0-2.5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Joseph Pollet: Paintings 6pm-8pm. Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock. 679-4411.

Rock and Roll Resort Fest Call for times. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. 626-8888. Mozart's The Magic Flute 11am. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922. Fairweather Blonde 7pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. The Longy Chamber Orchestra 7pm. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900. Ljova and the Kontraband 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Anusara Yoga Class 9am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Dance

Hudson Valley English Country Dance 7:30-10:30pm. Dance to traditional tunes played by local musicians. Reformed Church of Port Ewen, Port Ewen. $10. 679-8587.

Toad the Wet Sprocket 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm-1am. $5/$2 teens and seniors/free children and volunteers. Knights of Columbus, Kingston. FreestyleFrolic.org.

Axiom 9:30pm. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975. Johnny Fedz & da Bluez Boyz 9:30pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word 100 Poems in 100 Minutes 7:30pm. $5. ASK Arts Center, Kingston. 338-0331.

Theater Gunmetal Blues Call for times. Kings Theater Company dinner theater. $50/$48/$30. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. The Heiress 8pm. $15/$12 GPH friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

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DosDiablos 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company, Hyde Park. 229-8277. Nuts in a Blender 10pm. $5. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.

Warmth and Competence: Universal Dimensions of Social Cognition Call for times. Princeton University psychology professor Susan T. Fiske. Villard Room, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Mad Agnes 8pm. Hudson Valley Folk Guild's Friends of Fiddler's Green Chapter. $10/$8 members. Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Hyde Park. 758-2681.

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

Terry Adams with The Willie Amrod Band 9pm. $25/$20 in advance. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Spoken Word

KJ Denhert & The New York Unit 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Bernstein Bard Trio 8:30pm-11pm. Blues. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

The Bush Brothers 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Supply and Demand 2pm-3pm. Breast pump information session. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Dzul Dance 7:30pm. Modern dance from choreographer Javier Dzul. Presented by Millbrook Arts Group. $15. Millbrook High School, Millbrook. www.millbrookartsgroup.org.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring Dorraine Scofield and Jeff Entin. Followed by open mike. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Idan Santhaus Big Band 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Classes

Master Teachers Reiki Level One Certification 2pm-5pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $170. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the sanctuary. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. 11th Annual Women & Identity Festival 5pm-9pm. Art, readings, and performances. Deep Listening Institute, Kingston. 338-5984.

Film A Woman Like That 7:30pm. Ellen Weissbrod meets Artemisia Gentileschi. $6. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

10th Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction Preview Check for times. Vassar Haiti Project. Features 350 original Haitian artworks and handicrafts. Multipurpose Room, Vassar College. http://thehaitiproject.org.

Ljova and the Kontraband 8pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Man who Planted Trees 10am/12pm. Puppet State Theater of Edinburgh. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Music

Animal Visions 1pm-5pm. Monoprints and etchings of animals by Bruce Waldman, and watercolors and ceramic animal sculptures by Bernice Entin. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill. (914) 734-1894.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Mary Flower 8pm. Acoustic blues. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Spirit Essence Portraits Call for times. $195. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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David Bromberg Big Band, Al Kooper & The Funky Faculty 7:30pm. $44.50/$34.50/$29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

Survey 5pm-7pm. Gloria Garfinkel. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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Mastering the Reveal: The Director's Challenge 10am-4pm. W/award-winning writer/director Robert Celestino. Intensive look at the filmmaking process. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Joan Lesikin: Paintings 4pm-6pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Kids

Threads 7pm. Knitting circle for all levels of experience. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Goethean Explorations of Light and Color 9am-12:30pm. Explore the visual world through various observations and experiments. $20-$40. The Nature Institute, Ghent. (518) 672-0116.

Wooden Nickel 7:30pm. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton. (518) 789-3340.

Looking Out 5pm-7pm. New works by Debbie Cushman Femiak and Michael Piotrowski. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Dave Leonard's April Fools Dance Party 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Workshops

Koo Jeong A: Perspectives from the Curator 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Artist Talk with Eric Lind 4pm-6pm. Discussion of the inspiration and creative process. The Beacon Institute, Beacon. 838-1600. Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Paul Clemente. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085. Poetry Reading by Joan Murray 4:30pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101. Tim Lefens 4:30pm. Artistic Realization Technologies Founder. Lecture Center 102, New Paltz. Barberal@newpaltz.edu.

Theater A Fairy Went A-Marketing Call for times. Magical Puppet Tree Theatre. $4. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 103. You Can't Cheat 6pm. Dinner theater, dancing, auction. Colden Manor, Montgomery. 978-0351.

Hypnobabies Call for times. $375. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Qi Gong 1pm-2:30pm. $15. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998. New Moon Kundalini Salon 2pm-3:30pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Community Talking Circle with James Porter 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605. Out of the Darkness with Vortex Healing 5pm-6:30pm. What's holding you in separation. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Butchery 101 Course Call for times. Fleisher's Grass-Fed , Rhinebeck. 876-7507. Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everette Hodge Community Center, Kingston. The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth 6pm-8pm. Through May 22. $300. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Dance Swing Dance 6:30pm-9pm. DJ's Erin and Iain; beginners lesson with Ron Fields 6-6:30pm. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the sanctuary. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955. 5th Annual Beacon Barks 1pm-3pm. Animal Shelter Appreciation Day, dog parade and street festival. Beacon Welcome Center, Beacon. 454-5345 ext. 100.

Kids Excel Baby 12:30pm-1:15pm. Guiding baby through basic play. Newborn to 9 months. $65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Cea Marie 12pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. An Afternoon with Judy Collins 3pm. $150/$125. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Heiress 8pm. $15/$12 GPH friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

Conservatory Sundays: Chamber Music 3pm. Strauss's Sonatina No. 1 for 16 wind instruments. $20/$15. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. di.vi.sion Piano Trio. Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties. 246-5021.

Some Lives by David Ives 8pm. 3 one-act plays. $15/$12 students and seniors. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345.

Manhattan String Quartet 3pm. Ulster Chamber Music Series. $20/$15 seniors. Holy Cross Church, Kingston. 340-9434.

Kids

Gunmetal Blues Call for times. Kings Theater Company dinner theater. $50/$48/$30. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Music and Art Without Borders 4pm-9pm. Fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders. $20/$15 in advance. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. musicandartevent@gmail.com.

Juggling with a Magical Twist 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

The Secret Garden 2pm/7:30pm. $15/$10 students. John Coleman Catholic High School, Hurley. 338-2750.

Best of 12 Grapes' Singer/Songwriter Showcase 6pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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Faye Eng, Miss Havasham's Banquet, stoneware, 2009. "Masters on Main Street" will be exhibited in Catskill storefronts through May 31.

Luminous Storefronts With the launch of “Masters on Main Street,” the Greene County Council of the Arts seeks to banish the desolation of Main Street’s empty store fronts by filling them with cutting edge contemporary art made mainly by BFA and MFA students. “We’ve showcased local artists in storefronts, which brings in the same crowd,” says Fawn Potash, the GCCA’s visual arts director and the project coordinator. “But with the ‘Masters’ program, the intent was to get fresh talent in town and make Catskill a magnet for collectors.” The first round, which was unveiled on the evening of February 26—new artworks will be installed in June and again in October—consists of videos, sculptures, photographs, paintings, and mixed-media work by more than 30 artists, who are either students or alumni of the School of Visual Arts, Vassar College, Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, SUNY New Paltz, the College of St. Rose, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. On opening night, a lively crowd descended upon Catskill’s main drag, clustering around each well-lit storefront-cum-art display, spilling into ancillary attractions, such as the group show of works in paper at the council’s exhibition space, and eventually pooling at Brik Gallery, filled with videos and photographs by MFA candidates in SVA’s photography program, where a party was under way. Conceived as a kind of theater space for commodities—what Baudelaire famously described as “the great poem of display”—storefront windows (here handsomely embellished with Italianate bracketed overhangs) occupy the fascinating border between public and private space. The most successful “New Masters on Main Street” installations play with this contextual gray area, reflecting upon or intruding into their real-life settings and transforming them into dreamlike realms. For example, the private-viewing tableau created by Noe Kidder in her piece, GOAD, incorporates a silent movie shown on a TV, a frame within a frame that

telescopes and isolates a communal art form that once drew crowds to downtown. The film is a grainy black-and-white rendition of Samuel Beckett’s mime, Act without Words II, and the TV is perched on an antique cabinet against a blue-painted wall—now playing to a nonexistent audience, symbolized by the empty, rush-seated chair. Another window resembles a gigantic light box, hung with four photographs by Joseph Tripi. The nonchalant images, which include two bleak, featureless landscapes of the northern Plains and a vintage Impala bathed in the amber, faded colors of an old snapshot, evoke an America of understated possibilities, which lends a Hopperesque poignancy to the adjoining real-life tableau of the matching storefront, its black, Decoera Cosmetics sign still intact in the transom and a sign advertising a tax return service pasted on the glass, saturnine in the green light. The most exciting piece is Jesse Cain’s large-scale twin video installation recording his disassembling and re-assembling of a car in his garage. The rear-screen projections completely fill the windows of two storefronts, which flash in the night like drive-in movie screens, the cryptic goings-on consisting of a hand appearing and withdrawing over the abstracted close ups of engine parts. The real-time videos, turned on at dusk, run for 13 hours, imbuing the arcana of auto mechanics with meditative mysticism. One passes the car mechanic’s lot across the street with newfound respect. While some of the artworks, notably Jaleesa Johnston’s lush narrative paintings, are eye candy, drawing attention to the cloistered interiors, the show’s ultimate aesthetic reverberates back onto the street, the cadence of door, window, and wall vested with fresh, mysterious beauty. “Masters on Main Street" will be exhibited in 13 storefront locations in Catskill through May 31. (518) 943-3400; www.greenearts.org. —Lynn Woods 4/11 ChronograM forecast 99

Jazz Club Jam 7:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590. Nadav Snir-Zelniker Trio 7:30pm-10pm. Jazz. $12. Turning Point Cafe, Piermont. 359-1089.

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Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion 7:30pm. $18/$15 with RSVP. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501.

Spoken Word Poetry Reading by Bruno Navasky 2pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101. Taconic Writers' Sunday Afternoon in the Library 2pm-4pm. Sixteenth annual reading. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Some Lives by David Ives 4pm. 3 one-act plays. $15/$12 students and seniors. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. Gunmetal Blues Call for times. Kings Theater Company dinner theater. $50/$48/$30. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. Auditions for Mac-Haydn Theatre, Inc. 1pm-4pm. Ages 12 and under. Methodist Church, Chatham. (518) 965-7301.

Workshops Woodstock Writers' Workshops Call for times. Taught by Larry Beinhart, Susan Richards, or Abigail Thomas. www.woodstockwriters.com. Pregnancy 101 2pm-5pm. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

MONDAY 4 APRIL art 10th Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction Preview Check for times. Vassar Haiti Project. Features 350 original Haitian artworks and handicrafts. Multipurpose Room, Vassar College. http://thehaitiproject.org.

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T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919. Women's Healing Circle 6:30pm-7:30pm. Adrienne DeSalvo. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm Intermediate: 7pm-8pm. Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Events Hudson Juggling Club 6pm-9pm. Informal practice session for all ages. $5. John L. Edwards Elementary School, Hudson. www.hudsoncityschooldistrict.com/ headfiles/10_11Calendar.pdf.

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High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron & Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Meszoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118. Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

The Heiress 2pm. $15/$12 GPH friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-4pm. $40/$75. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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Qigong for Seniors 11am. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

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Active Seniors: Stretch, Strengthen and Balance 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

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Garrison Keillor 5pm. $50-$85. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston. 339-6088.

Yoga for Body and Soul 8am-9:30am. $20/$95 series of 8. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

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Belly Dance with Barushka 7pm-8:30pm. Open Space, Rosendale. (917) 232-3623.

Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Open House 9am. Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-4015 ext. 105.

Film Soundtrack for a Revolution 7pm. Closing Celebration for the Season for Nonviolence. $10. Rosendale Theater, Rosendale. 658-8989.

Kids Toddler Story Time 11:15am. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie. (518) 673-2314 ext. 107. Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342. Infant and Toddler Group 2:30pm-4:30pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Matt Finley 7:30pm. Brazilian jazz. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8050. Yale Strom: In the Memory Of 8pm. Carei String Quartet. $8/$6. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869. Local Musicians Showcase 9pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

spoken word Poet Barbara Adams 4-5pm. Author of The Stone Man and the Poet. Curtin Memorial Library, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh.

Workshops Tourism Marketing Tools, Tips and Insider Tricks 1pm-5pm. Presented by Dutchess County Tourism and Ulster County Tourism. $75/$40. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 246-8733. Art Journal Workshop 7pm. Self discovery through art journaling. The Old Stone house of Hasbrouck, Woodbourne.

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL art 10th Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction Preview Check for times. Vassar Haiti Project. Features 350 original Haitian artworks and handicrafts. Multipurpose Room, Vassar College. http://thehaitiproject.org.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Martin Luther King: His Complete Legacy 7pm. A community gathering. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 569-8965.

Mama and Baby Yoga 10:30am-11:30am. $12/$65 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Music

Hypnosis for Working Mothers and Mothers-to-be 6:30pm-8:30pm. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Colin Fisher + Nick Millevoi 7pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

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Anusara Yoga Class 7:15pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Sir David Cannadine 5:30pm. Renowned British historian on Winston Churchill. Laslo Bito Auditorium, Bard College. 758-7008.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner. Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Theater

Classes

Moments From Midsummer 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hudson Teen Theatre Project orientation. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

French Bistro Supper Cooking Class 7pm. $65. Beacon. (917) 803-6857.

TUESDAY 5 APRIL Art In God We Trust: Contemporary Chinese Religious Art 4pm-12am. Explores the theme of Christianity in Chinese art today. Hopson Cottage, Bard College. 758-7008. Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Green Drinks 3rd Anniversary 6pm-9pm. Networking night for people in the environmental fields and sustainably minded. $10. Bull and Buddha, Poughkeepsie. 454-6410.

Kids Drop In Art Class 10am. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342. KinderArt 12pm-12:45pm. 15 months-3 years. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

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Of Montreal will perform at Vassar College on April 23.

What’s in a Name? As far as band names go, Of Montreal might just be the most mystifying moniker since Johnny Winter And. It trips you up, to say the least. Unless, of course, you’re already a fan, and are thus well over the group’s potentially perplexing handle. If that’s the case, you most likely know that 1) Of Montreal isn’t actually from Montreal and 2) its DBA was supposedly inspired by leader Kevin Barnes’s failed romance with a woman hailing from the titular Canadian city. Oh, these kids and their crazy rock-band names. In any event, on April 23 you’ll have your chance to ask the man himself about it, when Of Montreal performs at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. The Athens, Georgia-based band is identified with the loose circle of ’90s neopsychedelic acts known as the Elephant 6 collective, a rambling, interconnected grouping spearheaded by its big three: the Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, and Neutral Milk Hotel. Of Montreal debuted with 1997’s The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit’s Flower (Kindercore Records), a release whose lo-fi, garagey take on twee sunshine psych now seems universes away from the band’s current mode of comparatively slick, Day-Glo theatrical pop. But Of Montreal is actually part of the Elephant 6 scene’s second wave of bands: The movement began in tiny Ruston, Louisiana, in the late 1980s via the home recordings of high schoolers Robert Schneider, Bill Doss, and Jeff Mangum, and next took root in Denver when Schneider moved there to attend college and start both the Apples in Stereo and the Elephant 6 Recording Company label; by the mid ’90s

Doss and Mangum had relocated to Athens, where they each founded, respectively, Olivia Tremor Control and Neutral Milk Hotel. Inspired by the buzz, singer-guitarist and Athens native Barnes hopped on board, beginning Of Montreal and further bolstering the Southern town’s sobriquet of “E6 East.” The band’s concept-heavy, 13-album arc has seen it shed the early bedroom Beatles' experiments that culminated with its two commonly cited high-water marks, 1999’s The Gay Parade (Bar/None Records) and 2004’s Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl Records), to morph into the synth-driven sound of 2005’s Sunlandic Twins (Bar/None), wallow in the post-breakup despair of 2007’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl), and finally burst into the glammy dance-funk of 2008’s Skeletal Lamping and last year’s False Priest (both Polyvinyl; An Eluardian Instance, a Grammy-nominated EP of Skeletal Lamping remixes by producer Jon Brion, appeared on the label in 2009). Concurrent with his outfit’s newer big-production, Prince-like direction, Barnes has even created an alter ego, the flamboyant, makeup-sporting Georgie Peach. But don’t be confused: Underneath the glittery guise and cheeky epithet it’s still the same old Barnes, continuing to mess with your head. And after all, what’s in a name, right? Of Montreal and the Knocks will perform at Vassar College’s Walker Field House in Poughkeepsie on April 23 at 9pm. Tickets are $30. (845) 437-7300; www.viceisnice.org. —Peter Aaron 4/11 ChronograM forecast 101

Harmony Musical Yoga 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Music with Miss Amy 2:15pm-3pm. Age 0-2.5. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Music Kids' Open Mic 7pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624. Karaoke with PJ the DJ 8:30pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Spoken Word New Paltz Regional Chamber of Commerce Business Luncheon 12pm-1:30pm. $25/$20 members. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 255-0243. An Update on Stroke 6:30pm. Learn about stroke risk factors, symptoms and available treatments that could save a life. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

Workshops

JP Harris and the Tough Choices 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Melissa Ferrick 8pm. Acoustic. $25/$22. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233. Open Book, Margaret Vetare & John McGrath 8pm. Acoustic. Whistling Willies, Cold Spring. 265-2012.

The Outdoors Mid Week Hike Call for times. Call for location. 592-0204.

Spoken Word The Media's Perspective in a Post 9/11 World 7:30pm. Ray Suarez. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3477. Working Mom Support Group 5:30pm-7pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Developmental Pediatrician Patricia Quinn 5:30pm. Expert on ADD/ADHD talks about ADD/ADHD in girls. Stevens Building Auditorium, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. 437-5370.

Film 8 1/2 7:30pm. Fellini's surrealist masterpiece of narcissism. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Litchfield Hills Film Festival Downtown New Milford, New Milford, CT. www.hillsfilmfestival.org. Dead Poets Society 7:30pm. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Kids Winnie the Pooh Call for times. Kings Theater Company. $15/$12 children. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287. A Girl Scout Earth Day Celebration Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291. Harmony Musical Yoga 1pm-1:45pm. Ages 3-5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Music with Miss Amy 2:15pm-3pm. Age 0-2.5. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Pregnancy 101 6pm-9pm. $40. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Developmental Psychologist Susan Engel 6:30pm. Author of Red Flags or Red Herrings?: Predicting Who Your Children will Become. Berkshire Country Day School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. (413) 637-0755.

EFT & the Law of Attraction, Love & Relationship "Soul Mate" Workshop 7pm-9pm. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Heart Health and Smart Nutrition 6:30pm. Learn new heart healthy tips, as well as nutrition choices to keep you satisfied. Northern Dutchess Hospital, Rhinebeck. 876-3001.

Music

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art 7pm-9pm. Sponsored by the Beacon Art Salon. $5. Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356.

KJ Denhart & Marc Von Em 7:30pm. $12. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

One Year After the Greatest U.S. Oil Spill 7pm. Frances Beinecke. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.

Lac La Belle 8pm. Americana. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Saki Rizwana Opening Reception 3-5pm. Opening reception for "Sankofa: A Look Back at a Designer's Past." saki.rizwana@gmail.com.

The Slave Connection 7pm. Look into Hyde Park's involvement in slavery, and the section of the cemetery at that time reserved for “blacks”. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Reality Check 8:30pm. Rock. La Puerta Azul, Millbrook. 677-2985.

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Workshops

Butter 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

THURSDAY 7 APRIL Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993. Pilates Fusion Mat Class 5:30pm. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166.

Breastfeeding Support Group 11:30am-1pm and 1:30pm-3pm. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952. Angelic Channeling 7pm-9pm. $15/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

FRIDAY 8 APRIL

Pre-Natal Yoga 6:15pm-7:30pm. $15/$80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Art

Green Meditation Society Practice with Clark Strand 6:30pm-9pm. Followed by Koans of the Bible discussion group. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

10th Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction Check for times. Vassar Haiti Project. Features 350 original Haitian artworks and handicrafts. Multipurpose Room, Vassar College. http://thehaitiproject.org.

Classes Euro Dance for Seniors and Others 1:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858. Painting and Drawing 6pm-9pm. Brian Shapiro. Crawford Library, Pine Bush. 733-5915. Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Events Lessons from Adversity: Strengthening Preparedness with Reflections from 9/11 Call for times. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-3477.

Journey Toward Color 5pm7-pm. Paintings by Franz Heigemeir. Ulster Savings Bank, Kingston. 658-9665. The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz. 257-3844. Annual Student Watercolor Exhibition 6pm-8pm. Betsy Jacaruso Gallery, Red Hook. 758-9244. Thomas Rowlandson Opening The Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 437-5632.

Body / Mind / Spirit Active Seniors: Gentle Yoga 9am-10am. $1.50. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469. Breastfeeding Essentials 6pm-8pm. $55. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Jazz and Poetry 7:30pm-10:30pm. Virgo's Sip and Soul Cafe, Beacon. 831-1543.

Medical Intuitive Connection 6:30pm-8pm. With Darlene Van de Grift. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Film

Classes

Litchfield Hills Film Festival Downtown New Milford, New Milford, CT. www.hillsfilmfestival.org.

Kids Drop In Music Class 10am. $10. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342. Hop and Healthy, Inc. 11:30am-12:30pm. Exercise for 18 months to 5 years. $50/6 sessions. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952. Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents 6pm-7:30pm. Ages 9-11. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Music United States Air Force Band of Liberty Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072. Acoustic Thursday with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699. Live Acoustic Music 7pm-9pm. Featured artist and open mike. Curran's Restaurant, Tannersville. (518) 589-4081.

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114. First Aid : National Safety Council 6pm-10pm. Health Quest Community Education. $50. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 454-8500.

Dance Cajun Dance 8pm-11pm. With C'Est Bon. Lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Jay Collins & The Kings County Band 7pm. Opening: Kyle Miller. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Dan Landa Duo 8:30pm-11pm. Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff. 876-0590.

Mother Fletcher 9pm. Ska and crazy sounds. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800. Lucky Peterson with Tamara Peterson 9pm. $15. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406. Blond and Blue 9:30pm. Americana. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900. Connor Kennedy Band 9:30pm. Blues. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Maria Hickey Band 9:30pm. Hyde Park Brewing Company. 229-8277. Dr. Mudd 9:30pm. $5. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975. iS 10pm. Bacchus, New Paltz. 255-8636.

Spoken Word Woodstock Writers Fest: A Tribute to Lucille Clifton 4pm-5:15pm. Featuring Sarah Browning, Cornelius Eady, Aracelis Girmay, and Patricia Smith. $10. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Woodstock Writers' Festival Woodstock. www.woodstockwriters.com. The Bioregional Bash 5-11pm. Celebrating the activist community in the Hudson Valley, a beenfit for HV Earth First!, Active Potential Collective, and Railroad Playhouse. Railroad Playhouse, Newburgh. www.rrplayhouse.org.

Joe Fiedler Trio 7pm. Opening: Tulula. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. The Fools + Sean T. Hanratty + Cyrus Gengras 7pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Just for Laughs II: A Dinner & Comedy Show 8pm. 12 Grape Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Jessica Kaufman: Panopticon 5pm-7pm. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027. Multimedia and Beyond 6pm-8pm. Jan Sawka. Utopian Direction, Warwick. 242-8678. Laura Coffey opening Reception Call for time. Opening reception of "Bill's Garden," landscapes by Laura Coffey. Echo Boutique, Beacon. 440-0047. Emoscapes: Paintings for the Soul 6pm. Maureen Drury & Jaqueline Schwab. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446. The World Adventure 6pm-10pm. Oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics, photographs, handmade jewelry/hair accessories, drawings and more. Cornell St. Studios, Kingston. 331-0191. Transformative Journeys 6pm-9pm. MountainView Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901. Morgan Donohue, Mary Giehl, Rick Rogers Marion Royael Gallery, Beacon. www.marionroyaelgallery.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit Anusara Yoga Class 9am. $15-$17. Vikasa on the Hudson Yoga Studio, Cold Spring. (914) 588-8166. Spring to Health 11am-2pm. Sponsored by HealthAlliance. Andy Murphy Neighborhood Center, Kingston. 334-3182. Psychic Saturday 12pm-5pm. With Suzy Meszoly and Adam Bernstein. $25. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650. Ceremony with Nepali Shaman, Pramod Sapkota 6pm-9pm. The Call of the Spirits. $40. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Dance Barefoot Dance Company 11am-8pm. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080. Berkshire Dance Collective 7:30pm-11pm. Guided warm up with featured artists followed by free-form dancing to DJ'd music. Sruti Berkshire Yoga Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 329-4933. Philadanco 8pm. $27-$39.60. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Events Orange County Antique Fair & Flea Market 8am-5pm. Orange County Fairgrounds, Middletown. 282-4055. Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the sanctuary. $10/$5 children. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Theater

Rock Painting 1pm-2pm. $5. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

The Heiress 8pm. $15/$12 GPH friends. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

LOL Comedy Night 9:15pm. $20/$15 in advance. Virgo's Sip and Soul Cafe, Beacon. 831-1543.

A Midsummer Night's Dream 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and children. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Film

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play 8pm. $18. Comedy by 4th Wall Productions. CunneenHackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571. Some Lives by David Ives 8pm. 3 one-act plays. $15.$12 students and seniors. Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock. 679-6345. Cabaret 8pm. $18/$14 students and seniors/$12 families and groups. StageWorks, Hudson. (518) 822-9667. Gunmetal Blues Call for times. Kings Theater Company dinner theater. $50/$48/$30. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

WORKSHOPS Support Group for New and Expecting Moms 10am-12pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

SATURDAY 9 APRIL

Events

Bollywood on the Hudson 5:30pm. Benefit Kingston Sunrise Rotary Club's PolioPlus campaign. $35. Mount Saint Alphonsus, Esopus. 417-8891.

102 forecast ChronograM 4/11

Threads 7pm. Knitting circle for all levels of experience. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Far and Wide: The Third Annual Woodstock Regional Exhibition 4pm-6pm. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

Art 10th Annual Haitian Art Sale and Auction Check for times. Vassar Haiti Project. Features 350 original Haitian artworks and handicrafts. Multipurpose Room, Vassar College. http://thehaitiproject.org. Opening Reception foe Andres San Millan 9am-12pm. Installation of "Shrine."M&T Bank, Rhinebeck. 876-6470. Community Free Day 11am-4pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100. Sidewalk Art Exhibit ASK the Artist 12pm-3pm. Photographers, crafters and painters. Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston. www.askforarts.org.

Litchfield Hills Film Festival Call for times. Downtown New Milford, CT. www.hillsfilmfestival.org. The Met: Live in HD: Le Comte Ory Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Kids Kindergarten Open Morning 9:30am-11:30am. Parents and children age 3-5 are invited to join us for a joyful morning in celebration of spring. Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent. (518) 672-7092 ext. 103. Close Encounters with Birds of Prey 10:30am. Kingston Library, Kingston. 331-0507. Storytime 3:30pm. With Oliver Wyman. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Music Bindlestick Bill 2pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559. Maggie Seligman 2pm. Acoustic. Taste Budd's Chocolate and Coffee Cafe, Red Hook. 758-6500. Children's Taiko Drum Concert 2pm-2:30pm. Mid-Hudson Children's Museum, Poughkeepsie. 471-0589. Bernard Purdie's Funk Band 7pm. Opening: Cod Trio. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. $5/$4. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 978-5620.