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Chronogram ARTS.CULTURE.SPIRIT.

CONTENTS 1/08

NEWS AND POLITICS

WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS

25 WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

72 TREADING LIGHTLY DOWN THE AISLE

26 THE PAKISTAN CENTRIFUGE Vanni Cappelli and Lorna Tychostup examine the current turmoil in Pakistan and see trouble on the road to democracy for this overtly Islamic republic with a history of military coups.

32 BEINHART’S BODY POLITIC Larry Beinhart wonders why the new millenium looks like an acid flashback to the 12th century.

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK 34 LUST FOR LIFE Jen May profiles Kris Carr, whose Crazy Sexy Cancer book and documentary tell a personal and inspirational story of surviving and thriving.

Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis on the do’s and dont’s if an eco-friendly wedding.

76 PIECE OF CAKE Sukey Pett finds eclectic local options for wedding confections.

WHOLE LIVING GUIDE 82 HELP FOR CAREGIVERS Lorrie Klosterman discusses the challenges and gifts of caregiving for someone with a long-term illness, and what support is available for caregivers.

86 INNER VISION: OFF THE HOOK Blair Glaser offers tips on how to avoid getting “hooked” by the energy of others.

BUSINESS SERVICES 64 TASTINGS A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

78 BUSINESS DIRECTORY A compendium of advertiser services.

89 WHOLE LIVING DIRECTORY For the positive lifestyle.

FIONN REILLY

The gist of what you may have missed in the back pages of the global media maelstrom.

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CONTENTS 1/08

ARTS & CULTURE 40 PORTFOLIO Itty Neuhaus talks with Beth E. Wilson about subterranean caverns in Slovenia, volcanic activity in Iceland, and new modes of expression.

42 LUCID DREAMING

60 FOOD & DRINK Kate Sonders samples the flavors of Thailand at Sukhothai in Beacon.

124 PARTING SHOT Elizabeth Mackie’s silkscreen Landscape Series #2.

Beth E. Wilson reviews Anselm Kiefer’s exhibition at MassMOCA.

45 GALLERY AND MUSEUM GUIDE

THE FORECAST 103 DAILY CALENDAR

48 MUSIC Peter Aaron visits the enchanted dollhouse of Gwen Snyder, aka Blueberry.

Nightlife Highlights by DJ Wavy Davy, plus CDs by Sarah Perrotta The Well. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

Frankie and His Fingers One Hell of a Skeleton. Reviewed by Jeremy Schwartz.

The Chrome Cranks Diabolical Boogie. Reviewed by Sharon Nichols.

52 BOOKS Nina Shengold proflies Jonathan Gould, author of Can’t Buy Me Love, a surprisingly refreshing meditation on the Fab Four.

54 BOOK REVIEWS Pauline Uchmanowicz reviews Commodore by Edward J. Renehan Jr. Anne Pyburn reviews Night Work by Steve Hamilton.

Peter Lewis reviews The Unheard by Josh Swiller.

Comprehensive listings of local events. (Daily updates of calendar listings are posted at Chronogram.com.)

PREVIEWS 101 Sparrow eats up the alphabet soup of K. Rakoll’s “Secret Tongues of Babel” exhibition at BeGallery in High Falls.

102 John Prine lets his music do the talking prior to his gig at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. David Malachowski previews.

109 Robert Burke Warren talks to musician Peter Yarrow, author of the new illustrated Puff the Magic Dragon, prior to his Barnes and Noble event in Kingston.

111 Nellie McKay brings her schizophrenic voodoo music to Club Helsinki in Great Barrington for a two-night stand in support of her new album Obligatory Villagers.

112 Joseph Dalton examines the legacy of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Placebo.

PLANET WAVES

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134 SMALL WORLD STORIES Eric Francis Coppolino offers the Planet Waves horoscope for 2008.

AMBER S. CLARK

Poems by Timothy Brennan, Aida Chaldranyan, Terrence Chiesa, William McGreal, Sharon Panaro, Lisa Parisio, Joelle Pome, Imogene Putnam, Noel Sloboda, Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau, and Trevor Wedemeyer.

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L I G HT AB OV E T H E H U D S O N J E N N I F E R TI PTO N FRI JAN 11– SAT FEB 2 DUSK – 10PM Acclaimed lighting designer Jennifer Tipton turns the nearly completed EMPAC building into a dynamic light sculpture that can be seen from near and far.

PE RV E RT’S G U I D E TO C I N E MA S LAVOJ ŽI ŽE K TUES JAN 29 8PM A feature length film wherein the international rock star of comtemporary philosophy, Žižek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.

N I N E Y EAR S LO N E TW I N WED FEB 13 –THURS FEB 14 8PM Built from years of two British artists traveling across the globe, Nine Years is a unique, hilarious and hopeful yet borderline tragic performance event in the format of lecture/travel diary.

DATA S PEAK S— AR E YO U L I ST E N I N G? J O NATH A N B E R G E R THURS MARCH 6 4:30PM In this lecture, researcher and composer Jonathan Berger, a leader in the field of sonification, will describe the creative potentials of data as a raw material for artists and composers.

H I J I NX L I Z AG G I S S TUES APRIL 15 8PM Aggiss will perform Hi Jinx, an homage, featuring dance reconstructions, archival film, and the highly influential ‘dance commandments’ of Heidi Dzinkowska.

M E N I N T H E WAL L L I Z AG G I S S & B I L L I E C OW I E TUES APRIL 15 – SAT APRIL 19 12 – 8PM A 3-D video installation where four men chat across the boundaries of their respective screens, looping through a sequence of poetry, song, stories, dance, and napping.

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untitled soe soe | acrylic and oil on canvas |  Art in the Buddhist-centric societies of Asia—Nepal, Burma, Tibet, and China in particular—has always been explicitly religious, usually taking the form of thangka paintings—depictions of the Buddha used for meditative or ceremonial purposes. The composition of thangkas is quite particular, as the Buddha’s arms, legs, eyes, nostrils, ears, and various ritual implements are all plotted on a systematic grid of angles and intersecting lines. Some iconic thangkas have been directly copied by artists for hundreds of years, each successive painter trying not to interpret the work in a different way (as would be the case in western art; one thinks of the many interpretations of the Virgin Mary, from Sandro Botticelli to Chris Ofili), but trying to make an exact replica of the original painting. According to Jennifer Neufeld, coowner of Lodoe Gallery with her huband Janyang Lodoe, a new art space in Rhinebeck specializing in contemporary Asian art, “Asian art is unique—it’s valued for its ability to imitate a standard rather than for its uniqueness.”

This imitative streak in Asian art is still strong, but in the past 20 years, says Neufeld, painters have begun to break away from tradition. Two artists working within the new paradigm of Asian art are Soe Soe and Khin Zaw Latt, two brothers from Burma whose paintings anchor the inaugural exhibition at Lodoe Gallery, “Visions of Burma.”

Khin Zaw Latt works in a symbolist style more in keeping with the thangka lineage, but his work is a push-pull between tradition and modernity. His paintings often employ images of the Buddha, but in innovative ways, like using an oversized image of the deity’s head that is too big for the frame, or stamping the surface of a painting of the Buddha’s face with a pattern of tiny gold leaf Buddhas, evoking the quality of digital graphics, which have influenced Khin Zaw Latt’s aesthetic. (Gold leaf is a traditionally used in Buddhism to adorn religious statues and monuments.)

Soe Soe works in a more realist style, choosing to paint Burmese street scenes and other commonplaces.The settings, however, almost always involve some element of Buddhism, attesting to the influence of religion in the country. In some of Soe Soe’s paintings, it’s as simple as a representation of young monks walking with umbrellas, or praying, as in the untitled cover image.

“His closely observed depictions of life in Myanmar show the overarching presence of Buddhism, the casualness of it, in everyday life,” says Neufeld.

Gallery Lodoe is also currently showing the paintings of three contemporary Tibetan artists, Wang Shiming, Jiang Yung, and Zung De. “Visions of Burma,” featuring the paintings of brothers Soe Soe and Khin Zaw Latt will be exhibited through March 31 at Gallery Lodoe.The gallery will hold an opening celebration on Saturday, January 26. Buddhist monks will be present to perform purification pujas blessing the space. Call for information.

Gallery Lodoe, 6400 Montgomery Street, second floor, on the corner of Rt. 9 and East Market Street. (845) 876-6331; www.galerylodoe.com.

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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Brian K. Mahoney bmahoney@chronogram.com CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Perry dperry@chronogram.com SENIOR EDITOR Lorna Tychostup tycho56@aol.com BOOKS EDITOR Nina Shengold books@chronogram.com HEALTH & WELLNESS EDITOR Lorrie Klosterman wholeliving@chronogram.com POETRY EDITOR Phillip Levine poetry@chronogram.com MUSIC EDITOR Peter Aaron music@chronogram.com

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CONTRIBUTORS Emil Alzamora, Larry Beinhart, Timothy Brennan, Vanni Cappelli, Aida Chaldranyan, Eric Francis Coppolino, Amber S. Clark, Terrence Chiesa, Joseph Dalton, DJ Wavy Davy, Blair Glaser, Hillary Harvey, Annie Dwyer Internicola, Ruth Kenrick, Peter Lewis, David Malachowski, Jennifer May, William McGreal, Sharon Nichols, Sharon Panaro, Anne Pyburn, Joelle Pome, Imogene Putnam, Fionn Reilly, Jeremy Schwartz, Nina Shengold, Noel Sloboda, Kate Sonders, Sparrow, Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau, Robert Burke Warren, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Terrence Wedermeyer, Beth E. Wilson

SUBMISSIONS CALENDAR To submit calendar listings, e-mail: events@chronogram.com / Fax: (845) 334-8610 Mail: 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 Deadline: January 15

POETRY Submissions of up to three poems at a time can be sent to poetry@chronogram.com or our street address. See above.

Route 28, Kingston, NY 12401 845-340-0552.

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FICTION/NONFICTION Fiction: Submissions can be sent to fiction@chronogram.com.

Nonfiction: Succinct queries about stories of regional interest can be sent to bmahoney@chronogram.com.

PUBLISHING FOUNDERS Jason Stern & Amara Projansky PUBLISHER Jason Stern jstern@chronogram.com SALES DIRECTOR Jeffrey MacNutt jmacnutt@chronogram.com ADVERTISING SALES France Menk fmenk@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x106 Eva Tenuto etenuto@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x123 Jonathan Root jroot@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x105 Kathy Turan kturan@chronogram.com; (518) 731-9929 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE MANAGER Becca Friedman bfriedman@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x113 BUSINESS MANAGER Ruth Samuels rsamuels@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x120 PRODUCTION INTERIM PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Robin Dana rdana@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x108 ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Barbara Strnadova bstrnad@chronogram.com; (845) 334-8600x116 PRODUCTION DESIGNERS Jason Cring Sabrina Gilmore PRODUCTION INTERN Eileen Carpenter OFFICE 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 (845) 334-8600; fax (845) 334-8610

MISSION Chronogram is a regional magazine dedicated to stimulating and supporting the creative and cultural life of our community.

All contents Š Luminary Publishing 2008

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Eileen Carpenter is a junior at SUNY New Paltz studying photography. She grew up in Carmel, and has always favored living in the Hudson Valley area, but plans to travel in Europe, explore the West Coast, and possibly live in New York City. After graduation Eileen plans to find a career in advertising or publishing. Currently she is a design intern at Chronogram helping her to explore the possibilities of the magazine industry and learn more about graphic design. When she’s not working hard on projects and at Chronogram she can be found enjoying a cup of coffee at the local Muddy Cup. Eileen’s photos of the recent Café Chronogram in New Paltz can be seen on page 17.

Robert Burke Warren is a writer, sometime actor, preschool teacher, musician, and erstwhile Mr. Mom. He has become widely known in the Hudson Valley and beyond as Uncle Rock, and has two CDs available via www.unclerock.com. In the ‘80s, Robert toured the world as bassist with garage rock titans The Fleshtones; in the ‘90s, he played the lead role in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in London’s West End. He has written for the Woodstock Times, Texas Music Magazine, and the Da Capo Press anthology The Concert That Changed My Life. Robert’s interview with Peter Yarrow about the publication of Puff the Magic Dragon appears on page 109.

Joseph Dalton contributes regularly to local and national publications, including the Albany Times Union, the Advocate,and Time Out New York, as well as the websites NewMusicBox.org and MusicalAmerica. com. In 2004 he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Music Journalism and, the following year, first place for arts writing from the New York State Associated Press. Prior to relocating to the Capital Region, Joseph worked in the classical recording industry, including 10 years as director of the American music label Composers Recordings, Inc. His preview of Placebo by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Williams College Museum of Art appears on page 112.

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CHRONOGRAM SEEN WOODSTOCK OPEN HOUSE: FIONN REILLY; CAFE CHRONOGRAM: EILEEN CARPENTER; CHRONOGRAM LITERARY PARTY: JJENNEIFER MAY

The events we sponsor, the people who make a difference, the Chronogram community.

Here's some of what we saw in December (and late November): CAFE CHRONOGRAM AT MUDDY CUP, WOODSTOCK OPEN HOUSE, CHRONOGRAM LITERARY PARTY

Captions (clockwise from top right): Grampa Woodstock and The Cover Girlz: Elly Wininger, Peggy Atwood, Terri Massardo plus Christmas guest Diana Mae Munch at far left; Lucas Pond with Frosty, Ethan Carroll, Lucia Winter, and Gabriel Samuels; Gwen Snyder performs at Cafe Chronogram; Chronogram Literary Party revelers: Bar Scott with Richard and Mary Anne Erickson at Blue Mountain Bistro; Amlin Gray and Bobbi Katz with unidentiямБed reveler at left; Alison Gaylin with her latest book.

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FIRST IMPRESSION Under The Sun Yesterday, I went to see Dara and her husband, Dave, in their house in Phoenicia. It’s been a year or two since I’ve seen them. Dave is a kind, dear man.

Those two chose well. They’ve put an extension on the house. It’s gorgeous, luxuriant with Dave’s fine woodwork and handmade touches: a coppertopped storage bench and numerous windows, thermal and double-glazed, knowing Dave. Dara’s voluptuous pottery everywhere, sturdy in earth tones, blues, and some the rich red of newly shed untainted blood. There is plenty of space for lush plants, huge and almost bawdy in their thriving. I suspect Dave and Dara know they are lucky. I told her that the house is so beautiful now, it looks as though grownups live there. Dara assured me they don’t, not really.

Seeing Dave and Dara’s home reminds me of what I appreciate about living with a man when you love each other. It’s a measured domesticity, not the cloying, treacly kind. With a flair for physics, as he makes something lovely out of absolutely nothing, he will naturally yoke form to function. This is how I felt when Billy refurbished the wood holder, moved, emptied, and painted the wood box, filling it with kindling he gathered to keep me warm. And it looks good, to boot. This is one way men show their love. I think of Michael R., entranced, maniacally making the floor for 14 hours straight so that he forgets to eat, for Sophia. Building their home.

What would it be like for Carl and Stephanie to have a house in the woods, instead of his small village apartment? I imagine it: the task of homemaking pulling Carl down toward the prosaic clay layers of mundane life. There is no transcendence in home carpentry. If there were, nothing would be level; edges would not meet like lovers embracing with no space for trouble between them. Mixing paint requires its own devotional contemplation, or one will be sorry. A bed must rock and cradle all its inhabitants, sturdy enough to withstand mercurial mood swings and the tossing tides of dreamtime. When not in use, it should be well dressed. Clothing ought be stored with room to breathe, accessible and unobtrusive. An unusual doorknob or drawer pull is jewelry for the house. As visitors amble through, they think, what a good idea, noting this or that. They are aware mostly of a diffuse feeling of well-being, a desire to stay awhile and then come back. They overindulge in food, wine and conversation, and cannot help but fantasize about the Jacuzzi. A home pulls old friends in and makes new ones fast. Some may even outstay their welcome.

The best houses smell good, like Billy’s, whose home smells of orange and cloves, and something else, impossible to identify except by Billy’s own name.

Making a home is fun. I think of Darrell and Mary doing this together in the old farmhouse, lovingly contained by newly painted colonial sage green walls. The granite kitchen counter is slightly askew, because Mary multitasked during its installation, talking on the phone to someone beloved. I imagine Darrell standing tall and lanky behind her, laughing, gobbling Rice Chex, unpacking and dusting off his great good luck.

A home born of companionship is an impish child, a wanton act of play. It makes no headway against impermanence, nor tries, but emerges in a gritty, basic way to provide some grounded refuge.You never know how things will turn out when two or more get to work. A solitary’s home is just as fueled with presence, but is inevitably less jolly, more ascetic.

What pleasure to see so many friends enjoying making space together.

What pleasure myself to have a mucky rug to clean, a deck to sweep off, colorful dishes clashing bravely to wash, all in my own well-tended solitude.

And lest you think me lacking in my spinsterhood, tonight, when I sleep, I will tunnel under a new Balinese duvet cover of pure batiked cotton—the pattern one of geckos, frogs, masks, spirals, and flowers, kaleidoscopic as dreams themselves—a naked cat stretched out, her head against my breast, to visit again, at home alone with those I love.

—Ruth Kenrick

Esteemed Reader One day, Mullah Nasruddin and his son went on a journey. Nasruddin let his son ride the donkey while he walked. Along the way, they passed some people who said, “Look at that healthy young boy on the donkey!”The boy then let his father ride while he walked. Nasruddin rode and the boy walked by his side. Soon they met another group.

“Look at that! The poor little boy has to walk while his father rides the donkey.’ This time, Nasruddin climbed onto the donkey behind his son. Soon they met another group, who said,‘Look at that poor donkey! He has to carry the weight of two people.’

Nasruddin then told his son.“The best thing is for us to walk and lead the donkey.Then no one can complain.” So, they continued their journey on foot. Again, they met some others who said:“Just take a look at those fools. Both of them are walking under this hot sun and neither of them is riding the donkey.” In exasperation, Nasruddin lifted the donkey onto his shoulders and said,“Come on, if we don’t do this, it will be impossible to make people stop talking.” —Turkish tale

I was visiting in a noisy bar with a fellow father and friend over some beers this evening. We talked about business and other trivia that is less interesting for its content than as a means of connecting man to man. But eventually I felt compelled to ask him, “So, what is meaningful in your life right now?”

“Good question,” he said. After thinking for a moment, he said, “Really it’s my family—my wife and son. I mean I could use more money, a bigger house, a better job, but all those things ultimately seem small in comparison to them.”

I was struck by how his experience mirrors my own. Though I have sought insight in many ways, the persistent pull of family and children has produced the most effective arena for fulfilling my love of meaning.

Once a different friend recounted his conversation with his spiritual teacher, to whom he had confessed his desire to marry and have children. “It’s the most mechanical thing a person can do,” she commented. My friend was disheartened by her response, as he didn’t aspire to be a machine, though it didn’t stop him from marrying and having children. But when I heard him recount the conversation I knew what his teacher told him is true.

Reproduction is one of the biological imperatives. It is so hardwired that the moment the right cocktail of hormones starts flowing we begin assessing our fellow humans almost strictly as competitors or mates. We place this reproductive urge within all kinds of romantic window dressing, but at the end of the day most of what we do is driven by the body’s inherent interest in the continuance of its genetic material.

But like everything else that is mechanically impelled, family can become an arena for conscious action.We can wake up within it, and make use of it not only for enjoyment, but for our being. The fact that attraction and conception are a product of the ingenious machine of nature does not obviate the possibility for a real and intended result. This consequence follows the awesome force of need exerted by a baby and children.

The utter helplessness of the child makes her a powerful center of gravity. The parents become like planets orbiting a newly formed sun. They are required to respond, and unless something is horribly wrong, they do, and perhaps learn the meaning of real commitment and service in the process.

Though the force of need exerted by a child is mechanical, one can enter into the service of the child mindfully, the true engagement of one’s essential nature with life through living, responsive service.

The first time my son named me—“da”—it took my breath away, and the impact of being called daddy only deepens. It simultaneously feels like an awesome responsibility and the opening of a current of love. There is something so unexpected in the depth of love and appreciation that fatherhood draws, that it feels miraculous.

It is no coincidence that priests are called father. In Aramaic the word for father and teacher are the same—“Abba.” A real father is the source of a particular type of nourishment; to be a provider of sustenance at every level—care for the body, granting affection and love, and the meta-nutriment of knowledge and experience digested into insight.

My young son—he just turned three—and I were riding in the car. “Hey!” I yelled, as a car pulled out in front of us. After a long pause he spoke from the back seat. “Daddy, when you say hay, that is what donkeys eat.” I laughed out loud. “What, daddy?” he asked. “You are right,” I said. “Hay is what donkeys eat.”

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note A Few of My Favorite Things

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or monthly publications, December is generally the time to reflect back on the past year and make some overarching statement of conclusion— good, bad, or indifferent; hopeful or hopeless—leaving January open for prognostications on the upcoming annum. Well, consider me late. November was very much a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of month—not the best frame of mind for contemplation—and its abrupt end caught me quite by surprise.

(Why did I think there were 32 days in November?) Now, as we go to print in this darkest hour of the year, hard on the winter solstice, I’m ready to look back on 2007 with the requisite level of repose and clarity.

To immodestly paraphrase Martin Luther King: the arc of Chronogram is long, but it bends toward greatness. Poring over the past 12 issues fanned out on my desk, I see the work of hundreds of people (literally), who believed in this ongoing project enough to lend their considerable talents to its execution.

Thanks is not enough.

And now, a brief stroll through some of my favorite moments from Chronogram in 2007.

January We feature phenomenal local art on the cover each month, so when our creative director, David Perry, told me he wanted to design a calendar for the cover of the January issue—something he thought would be “simple, elegant, and likely to end up under a magnet on the refrigerator”—my first thought was:What? Did the Hudson Valley just run out of artists? David proved himself right, however, and the cover became a icon, making it to more than a few fridges and bulletin boards.

February As music editor Peter Aaron noted in his profile of Adam Snyder, Kingston is not a town known to inspire many songs. Snyder, who grew up in Kingston, decided to record a whole album about the city, This TownWill Get Its Due. Its songs were deftly described by Peter, whose wide ranging taste in music make him as comfortable writing about singer/songwriters as jazz musicians or classical composers—all subjects he covered for the magazine in ‘07. An added bonus to the feature was a video of Snyder performing and talking about his music, shot exclusively for our website by videographer Brian Branigan.

March Chris Ferraro worked closely with senior editor Lorna Tychostup on “Conduct Unbecoming,” an examination of the legal discrimination against homosexuals that’s tolerated in the US military.The article also showcased one of my favorite illustrations of the past year, by Jason Cring, a witty take on the Uncle Sam recruitment posters of old.

April The story goes like this: Flea market devotee Robert Swope found a box of 400 photographs of men in drag at the 26th Street flea market in Manhattan a few years ago. A little research turns up that all the photos were taken at a house in the Greene County hamlet of Jewett, where, during the `50s and `60s, cross-dressing men from New York would come up for the weekend and hang out in women’s clothing. The photos became the book Casa Susanna—the name of the getaway, run by Tito Valenti, aka Susanna—by Swope and Michel Hurst. Jay Blotcher, who penned the piece for us, took the story one step further to find a modern successor of sorts to Casa Susanna in Palenville. And so the story continues.

May Performance poet Eric Mingus, whom Peter Aaron profiled in the December issue, published “Poet Cowboy,” a powerful response and genuflection to Walt Whitman in our Poetry section in May. From “Poet Cowboy”: “Walt Whitman laying at the bottom of a box. Face down. The poet cowboy / surpassing the hold of technology.”

June My favorite photo of the year: Saxophonist Joe McPhee—avant-jazz leg-

end and Poughkeepsie resident—standing, horn at the ready, in an overgrown junkyard in front of a `50s-era Cadillac with bullet points on the grill, the hood smashed in, and a maple sapling growing into the passenger-side window. Sheer incongruity and brilliance by photographer Fionn Reilly. As if to say: A man with a saxophone has as much business standing in a junkyard as a player of McPhee’s stature has living in anonymity in Poughkeepsie.

July Health andWellness editor Lorrie Klosterman was adamant when she spoke to me about a story she wanted to pitch on advance directives—which are written instructions for loved ones (or a proxy of your choice) to use as guidelines for medical care should you become incapacitated. Not an easy thing to think about, especially when you begin to talk about topics like orders not to resuscitate, but an important one. The best service-oriented article we ran in 2007.

August In the current issue of Utne Reader (January/February 2008), you will find a story that begins on page 26 titled “At the Top of Their Lungs,” about Music Together, the preschool musical instruction program for children and parents, written by Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis. The article, under a different title— “Changing the World One Song at a Time”—originally appeared in the August issue of Chronogram, profiling local teachers and classes in the Hudson Valley.

September I admit that John Ashbery is a hero of mine. Books editor Nina Shengold’s thoughtful profile of the Pulitzer prize-winning poet on the occasion of his 80th birthday celebration at Bard, where he teaches, placed Ashbery both in the physicality of his home in Hudson, but also in his poetry, whose quicksilver meanings elude the savviest of commentators. We were also permitted to print a poem from his most recent collection, an unqualified honor.

October Tobias Seamon’s meditation on pet death and animal cremation, “In the Realm of Ashes,” raised more questions than it answered about human relations with the animal kingdom. Who among us really wants to know what happens to our pets when they die? (Some interesting discussions happened behind the scenes as we readied this piece for publication, as a few of us debated the finer points of what amount of revelation Chronogram readers could take regarding the gory details of cremation. The upshot: Different versions ran in the Hudson Valley and Capital Region editions of the magazine.)

November More than one person has told me over the years that Chronogram should lighten up, be less serious, joke around a little.Well, every November we do, via the zany auspices of annual Literary Supplement editors Nina Shengold and Mik Horowitz, and our readers, who send in submissions for our humor contest. This years’s theme: Literature, the musical. Readers were asked to stomach a work of literature and re-envision it for the stage. My personal favorite was submitted by Karl Thropp of Germantown: “My Fair Junkie,” which included the song “The Fury with the Syringe on Top.” December Right before we went to press with the December issue, Robert Burke Warren (aka Uncle Rock), sent an e-mail over the transom with a short essay he had written, “My Last Mix Tape,” about a bygone era of hidden messages encoded in songs and recorded in intensive bursts via a flawed technology that decayed with each listening. The piece served no purpose other than to evoke a feeling, a mood, for 600 words. It charmed the pants off me.

Direct links to all of the above articles and photos can be found online at www.chronogram.com. And as for the photo gracing the top right-hand corner of the page—that’s my favorite fake cover of the year, featuring myself and creative director David Perry in an unintentional homage to Silent Bob and the fifth Baldwin brother.

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LOCAL LUMINARY MARK GREENE LEADING LIGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY

Originally from Texas, Mark Greene settled in the Hudson Valley to start a family with his wife, Sharron Bower, after five years in New York City. In 1994, while still living in Texas, he founded Pecos Design, a company that creates product packaging and logos, textbook covers, web design, flash animation, and other marketing material.

Recently, Greene started a production spin-off, Pecos Pictures, for shorts like the liveaction mockumentary The Rejected Katherine Harris Campaign Video, which won both the People’s Choice and Jury Prize by the Huffington Post Contagious Festival and starred Greene’s wife Bower as the Floridian politician. If he’s not producing comedic political commentary, Greene is reading his favorite comic book, Hellboy, and taking his two-year-old son Gus to the park.

—Francis Cruz

MATT PETRICONE

Mark Greene’s cartoons aren’t just for kids. His brand of political satire forces viewers to examine their role in American consumer culture. The series of Stinky Toons follow Stinky, an average office worker, shopping at the all-in-one Big Mart, surfing the Internet, and taking viewers on a cubicle safari that turns corporate America into an anthropological study. Greene’s work caught the attention of the animators who founded Climate Cartoons, a nonprofit company that produces cartoons about global warming, and he was asked to write a 90-second cartoon. Big Fun with Global Warming, a Stinky Toon that blends environmental activism with slapstick, appealed to the Sierra Club, which licensed the short for use on its website along with a second, Stinky Gets Gas. In November, Greene won an Emmy Award for Big Fun with Global Warming, which was named Best National Public Service Announcement for Broadband Media.

What influences you as an animator/filmmaker?

I read a lot of comic books. As a kid, I was obsessed with comics. The logical next step would have been to draw comic strips of my characters—which I did some of as a hobby—but what really struck me as interesting was the idea of animation. So when the technology came into existence, in the late-’90s when Flash really began to happen, I started to draw little cartoons. I like making cartoons more than drawing comic strips because I’m able to do the voice work, there’s timing issues, sound, editing, and all those things come together—it’s a little bit more like performing.

The character Stinky, in Big Fun with Global Warming and Stinky Gets Gas, is a skeptic and brash about it.

How did he develop?

He’s Bugs Bunny warmed over. There was a time in America when cartoons were high art and were shown before every major movie release. That humor is extremely adult. The characterizations that Mel Blanc did and the music by Carl Stalling in those cartoons were so beautifully done, so wry and funny. Funny to kids, funny to adults, and funny on so many different levels.

Stinky comes directly from, literally, years of watching those cartoons. He’s every man. He’s the self-denying American consumer. There’s a real truth to him. Nobody can say they aren’t him.

Stinky Toons and the Katherine Harris mockumentary both target very different sociopolitical issues. How do you choose your material?

It’s partially a visceral response to what I see as something that has not been covered adequately or honestly by the 22 CHRONOGRAM 1/08

mass media. It comes out of a sense of anger but if you want to talk politics with people, an angry diatribe is not effective. That’s why comedy works. Comedy allows you to say things that people otherwise would be resistant to hear. People marched against the nuclear industry for 30 years just as angry as they could be about some of the implications of nuclear power and didn’t get very far. Homer Simpson looks down and sees a three-eyed goldfish looking out of a cooling pond. “The Simpsons” have done more damage to the nuclear industry than any amount of protests ever did.

Why take aim at Katherine Harris?

I know my audience. I know why people are pissed off. People are angry at gas pumps so doing a cartoon where Stinky harasses gas pumps was pretty simple to do. All you have to do is think for a minute, what is there a boiling anger or resentment about? And Katherine Harris represents a lightning rod of resentment for a lot of people. The election in 2000 that got George Bush elected, most people think Florida was won or lost based on a recount of hanging chads but that’s simply not the case. Katherine Harris threw 50,000 legal AfricanAmericans off the voter rolls prior to the elections. When George Bush won by less than 500 votes you can see that the outcome clearly would have been different had she not done what she did. The argument can be made that she has undermined our Constitution and put in place a government that has done irreparable damage internationally and to the Constitution here.

The films produced by Pecos Pictures have an undeniable political current. Is this coincidental,

or does Pecos Pictures have a particular mission statement?

Yes, I care about politics. Politics is an overriding passion for me. Creatively, it goes back to this war for the hearts and minds of Americans. If I can convince, on the Internet, 500 people to change their opinion on something, it’s well worth my effort. If I can convince 700,000 people to think about something in a little bit different way, that’s well worth the effort. I don’t think there’s a day that I don’t feel sick to my stomach about the Bush administration.

Frankly, their flank is exposed and I think they have failed so miserably that it’s time to kick the crap out of them—hard. The way I do that is with comedy and political videos. So, yes, I have an agenda.

What opportunities does the Internet afford animators/ filmmakers, particularly those who make shorts?

People like me, we get to make animations and short videos and put it out there at relatively low cost to us, to compete with media that [Rupert] Murdoch puts out at a very high cost to him. And if you make a video that matters to people, it will spread like wildfire. Viral video is like wildfire; you can’t keep a lid on it once it goes.

Senator George Allen from Virginia opened his mouth one too many times, made the “macaca” comment, and the Internet lit up. It cost him his job. A guy with a video camera took down a sitting US senator. I think that’s magic. And that’s the potential of video on the Internet.

And the game is wide open. Room for everybody.

Come on in.

Big Fun with Global Warming and other videos by Mark Greene can be viewed at www.stinkytoons.com.

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Over 250 million Americans subscribe to cellular phone services, accounting for 82.4 percent of the nation’s total population. In the past 10 years the number of subscribers has increased by 352 percent. In 2002, just five years ago, 141 million Americans used cell phones, and 10 years ago, in 1997, only 55 million Americans were wireless.

Source: Gearlog.com and CTIA-Wireless Association

On October 29, FEMA held a press conference to brief the public on the ongoing California wildfires. According to an internal review, the agency’s press secretary, Aaron Walker, was given approximately an hour to hold the event. Aides notified reporters 15 minutes before the briefing was scheduled to begin—not enough time for any to attend. Six minutes before commencing the conference, Walker e-mailed external affairs staffers so that they would be prepared to fill chairs and ask questions in place of the absent reporters. It was not clear to the investigators why reporters listening by telephone were kept from asking questions. All of the information deputy administrator Harvey E. Johnson Jr. provided was accurate and he was unaware of the staffers posing as reporters, the review stated. Aaron Walker was asked to resign by FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison for his part in staging the event. As a result of the incident, FEMA will give at least an hour’s notice of news conferences and only allow reporters to ask questions whether present or by telephone.

Source: Washington Post

In late November, Google announced plans to develop more affordable renewable energy to reduce the need for coal-based power, which supplies 40 percent of the world’s electricity. The company’s for-profit philanthropic subsidiary, Google.org, will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the initiative called RE < C (renewable energy less/cheaper than coal), by investing in renewable energy start-ups and hiring 20 to 30 engineers and energy experts. The initiative will focus on green technologies like advanced solar thermal power, wind power, and geothermal systems. The company plans to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy, enough to power a city the size of San Francisco, more cheaply than coal-generated energy within five years. Google has taken steps in the past toward minimizing the company’s carbon footprint. It draws about 30 percent of the electricity for its million-square-foot Mountain View, California, headquarters from 9,000 solar panels installed on the rooftops of the 11 buildings and in parking lot overhangs—one of the largest solar power installations in the country.

Source: Los Angeles Times, Google Press Release, and Wired

For the first time in over 25 years, obesity in Americans isn’t on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 34.3 percent of adults, more than 72 million Americans, were classified as obese in 2005 and 2006. Since the previous two-year period, the numbers have remained almost unchanged. Experts suggested increased fitness club memberships, the trans-fat ban, and the government’s persistent pleas for citizens to lose weight as possible explanations for the leveling off. Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist at the University of Virginia and author of the iconoclastic book Big Fat Lies, believes that the lull in growth is due to physical limitations. “You can only get so fat,” he said. Time will tell whether the numbers indicate a decline in obesity or just a plateau. Obesity is a serious health issue—400,000 people died of obesity-related illnesses in 2004, just under smoking-related diseases at 435,000. The Department of Health and Human Services set health guidelines that call for the obesity rate to drop to 15 percent by 2010, rates equivalent to the early 1970s.

Sources: Los Angeles Times

Continuing improvement in data collection worldwide shows the number of people living with HIV has leveled off and new infections have fallen. In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people were living with HIV, 2.5 million were newly infected, and 2.1 million died of AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa, the most severely infected region in the world, has 22.5 million people living with HIV, 68 percent of the global total, but has seen a reduction of new infections. Last year’s 1.7 million new cases is a significant decrease from 2001. However, in the same time frame, new infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia increased by 150 percent—from 630,000 to 1.6 million in 2007. People living with HIV in Vietnam more than doubled between 2000 and 2005, and Indonesia has the fastest growing infection rate. These numbers represent more accurate information on the disease collected worldwide. This news was released just days after the death of Dr. Merle Sande, a San Francisco infectious-disease specialist who pioneered HIV and AIDS treatment in the early years of the AIDS outbreak and later worked to create an infrastructure to prevent and treat AIDS in Africa. Under his leadership, San Francisco General Hospital opened the first ward and outpatient clinic for AIDS patients.

Source: The Economist, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization Press Release, and Los Angeles Times

An 80-year-old turtle weighing 90 pounds is now living alone in a blue-and-white tiled-pool in a zoo in Changsha, a city in the Hunan province of China. Unremarkable and ignored for its 51-year tenure at the zoo, until earlier this year it was announced as the last living female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle—the largest species of freshwater turtle in the world. Now it receives a special diet of raw meat and has been surrounded in bulletproof glass. The only male lives in a zoo in the city of Suzhou, is 100 years old, and weighs 200 pounds. Artificial insemination is planned for the spring in an attempt to breed them. These turtles are only symbols of the threatened biodiversity in China, where nearly 40 percent of mammals, 70 percent of nonflowering plants, and 86 percent of flowering plants are threatened.

Competition for land and water in the overpopulated, rapidly developing nation has led to habitat destruction, increased development, and pollution—all of which take a toll on wildlife. Many major international conservation groups have opened offices in China and there have been successes with endangered animals. Approximately 2,000 pandas now live in reserves, and the Chinese alligator and Tibetan antelope are growing in number, but these animals hold national importance and by comparison their numbers do little to reverse the damaging effects to Chinese biodiversity.

Just last year the Yangzte River dolphin, or baiji, was declared extinct and many other species are closing in on such a fate.

Source: New York Times A military air strike on a radio station in Sri Lanka, in late November, that killed three editorial staff members brought the work-related deaths of journalists and media workers to an all-time high of 171 casualties for the year. With more than a month left in 2007 (as of this writing), the incident exceeded the 168 deaths of 2006. “The news media death toll around the world has risen almost every year since the millennium, each year worse than the one before,” said Rodney Pinder, director of the International News Safety Institute. “This is despite international calls for an end to the murder of journalists and other news professionals and an end to impunity for their killers.” Iraq is the most dangerous country for media workers. Since the war began, at least 235 journalists were killed—64 last year. Sri Lanka, with six deaths, has the second highest casualties and Afghanistan, Mexico, India, and the Philippines each have five. Four media workers have died in each of the nations of Haiti, Pakistan, and Somalia.

Source: The Guardian (UK) and International News Safety Institute

The World Economic Forum (WEF) released their second annual Global Gender Gap Report in November. The Swiss-based think tank took economic opportunity, education, political empowerment, and health into account when compiling the list. Topping the list with the smallest gap were affluent, developed nations: Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, respectively. Of the 128 countries monitored, those that enforce traditional gender roles like Pakistan (126), Chad (127), and Yemen (last on the list) ranked lowest because of the inequality between the sexes. Since the inception of the study in 2006, the US has dropped from 23 to 31, behind Estonia, Namibia, and Costa Rica. While wealthier nations show less gender disparity the WEF attempted to eliminate bias by only measuring the inequality within the nation.

Source: Salon.com and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2007 The 11,755 non-US troops from 26 countries account for about 7 percent of the 175,000 multinational soldiers in Iraq. These numbers represent a steady decline since the mid-2004 peak—25,595 soldiers representing 32 nations—and more countries plan to reduce numbers or pull out altogether. Sixteen nations in the “Coalition of the Willing” have 100 or fewer soldiers deployed and five nations have fewer than 10, including three Latvians, two Slovakians, and the lone soldier from Singapore.

America’s largest ally and the only other combat nation, Britain, will withdraw half of its troops, leaving about 2,500 by spring. Noncombat missions carried out by foreign forces include surveillance, reconstruction, hospital administration, security, operating checkpoints, and distribution of food and school supplies. Salvadorian soldiers told the Washington Post that they want to help protect Iraqi civilians from the atrocities they experienced during their 12-year civil war in the 1980s. In response to the dwindling coalition nations Salvadorian Col. José Benítez said, “Perhaps they haven’t lived, in flesh and blood, terrorism like we have.” El Salvador is the only Latin American country left in Iraq and President Elías Antonio Saca announced a 10th contingent of 280 soldiers—100 fewer than previous deployments—to aid in reconstruction.

Georgia, an Eastern European nation seeking NATO membership, has nearly 2,000 soldiers, approximately a quarter of its national army, in outposts along the Iranian border, but by next summer only 300 troops will remain.

Sources: Washington Post, New York Times, and BBC News —Compiled by Francis Cruz

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NEWS & POLITICS World, Nation, & Region

THE PAKISTAN CENTRIFUGE Turmoil and Continuity in an Ideological Land

by Vanni Cappelli and Lorna Tychostup

The declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan on November 3, 2007, by the country’s dual-roled military dictator, General and President Pervez Musharraf, was followed by widespread political turmoil and repression.The US and the international community were confronted with the sleeper issue of our time: To what degree is Pakistan a reliable partner in the fight against terrorism?

This question has been long avoided since Musharraf’s post-9/11 pledge—made in response to direct threats from Washington—to stop aiding the Taliban and join in America’s “War on Terror.” It was then further buried by the subsequent focus on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the question reemerged with a vengeance as growing civil unrest initially ignited by Musharraf’s removal of Pakistan’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudry, escalated into a countrywide pro-democracy movement that Musharraf ultimately responded to with bludgeoning force. As events unfolded, televised scenes of security forces beating, teargassing, and arresting lawyers were followed by opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s confinement to her home, surrounded by rings of barbed wire and policemen. Thousands of political activists, human-rights workers, and lawyers were arrested. Starkly dispersing the aura of “enlightened moderation” the self-appointed president had been endowed by his Pakistani and Western supporters, and placing the stability of the nuclear-armed nation in doubt, Musharraf justified his actions by bombastically saying, “I will not allow Pakistan to commit suicide.”

Musharraf’s actions amounted to a de facto imposition of martial law: He suspended the Constitution, leveled antiterrorism charges against lawyers who had committed no acts of violence, installed a provision which allowed civilians to be tried by military tribunals, and put curbs on the news media that included a ban against saying anything “prejudicial to the Pakistan ideology.” More importantly, he sacked the 10-justice Supreme Court of its more independent-minded judges—who were expected to rule against him on legal challenges to his continuing as president—only to handpick allies as replacements.

“Seventy percent of the judges were sent home, highly controversial appointments have been made in their place, and pliable judges have been kept,” said Osama Siddique, associate professor of law and policy at Pakistan’s elite Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), while speaking to an audience at Columbia University’s Law School in early December. “Given the unfavorable bent of the judiciary to tail his personal agenda, combined with serious inflation, the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills, the Red Mosque incident, the stock market debacle, the Supreme Court’s notice of contempt to the government for illegal deportation of the former disposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and the US pressure on Musharraf to strike a deal with the recently returned former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, put Musharraf between a rock and a hard place and put his legitimacy and longevity in office in jeopardy.”

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Musharraf’s crackdown was the culmination of eight months of unrest and maneuvering following his summary dismissal of the country’s dissident Chief Justice Chaudhry, in early March. Exhausted by eight years of direct military rule, which dated to Musharraf’s overthrow of Sharif in a bloodless coup in October 1999, a loose coalition of pro-democracy activists led by members of the judiciary and the legal profession seized on this event to mount public agitation for the restoration of civilian government. This legal rebellion is unprecedented in Pakistani history. Previously, the judiciary had always acted as a rubber stamp to the will of the military, most notoriously in 1979 when it was complicit in the execution of Benazir Bhutto’s father, deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, on questionable charges of murder.

The Internet and an emerging student activist movement has helped spur the growing pro-democracy movement. “Technology has played a critical role in mobilizing resistance and building international pressure, especially among techsavvy students,” wrote Amber Vora, an independent journalist and researcher, currently in Lahore. In her blog, Vora credits student attending LUMS as the “first to organize protests, breaking a decades-long drought on student activism in the country.” According to Vora, in 1999 the Internet was accessible by only one percent of Pakistanis. Today, in light of telecommunication deregulation in 2003, millions have access to the Internet, which “has become a primary source of information during martial law.” Also, according to Vora, the proliferation of mobile phones, with over 70 million subscribers in 2007, is making it easier for Pakistanis to organize, share information, and mobilize is the.

PERVERSIONS OF LAW “There was great exasperation with the perversions of the law carried out by the military since 1999,” said Pakistani journalist and author of the international bestseller Taliban, Ahmed Rashid. Rashid believes this uprising resulted from a combination of fatigue and important new developments in Pakistani society.

“The constant having to validate Musharraf’s various maneuverings to extend his rule, the holding of suspects without charges and in secret places, the arbitrary decrees. Lawyers and judges wished to work in a freer environment, and at the same time came under pressure from civil society and human rights groups to be more accountable. Then there was also the example of Indian judicial activism.

All of these elements came together to force a decisive break with the past.”

Seriously confronted for the first time with widespread popular dissent, the president tried to ride out the storm by offering such concessions as restoring Chaudhry to the court, promising to hold new parliamentary elections, and vowing to resign his post as head of the army while continuing to rule as a civilian. Yet once it became evident that an emboldened Supreme Court was going to rule that his re-election to the presidency in October by way of a dubious

DEVIN THERIOT-ORR

STUDENTS GATHER WITH LAWYERS AND POLITICAL WORKERS IN THE STREETS OF LAHORE ON DECEMBER 10, 2007 TO DEMAND THE RESTORATION OF THE DEPOSED JUDGES AND THE RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF AS PRESIDENT AND ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF.

parliament election in 2002 was illegal, Musharraf launched what some are calling his second coup.

Amidst all the uncertainty, a central question has emerged: Is Pakistan under Musharraf indeed a “key ally” against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, as the Bush administration has portrayed it over the last six years? Or is Pakistan arguably the most dangerous country on earth, as Newsweek reported in October stating, “It has everything Osama bin Laden could ask for: political instability, a trusted network of radical Islamists, an abundance of angry young anti-Western recruits, secluded training areas, access to state-of-the-art electronic technology, regular air service to the West and security services that don’t always do what they’re supposed to do.” Not to mention Pakistan’s growing and secretive nuclear program, to which the US has given $100 million in known aid to specifically help secure.

Conventional wisdom says Pakistan is both, and therefore the United States has no choice but to heavily support the Pakistani military—10 billion dollars in known aid since 9/11—so it can combat Pakistan’s rising tide of Islamic radicalism.Yet others point to the ideology of the Pakistani military itself.

In America, the themes that dominated reactions to the crisis in news reports, op-eds, blogs, and presidential debates centered on such questions as how the instability would affect the Pakistani military’s ability to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the safety of the Pakistan’s arsenal of 60 operational nuclear weapons, and whether the United States’ chief concern in Pakistan should be promoting democracy or safeguarding its own national security, the last issue often posed in an either/or manner.

Yet amidst all this nervous speculation, there was little sense that the underlying dynamics of the conflicts that are tearing at Pakistan were understood. Few have stated them with more clarity than the Pakistani writer Hamza Alavi, who stressed that the military’s traditional emphasis on an ideology of Islamic unity as a counter to socioeconomic dissent has only proved divisive. “Paradoxically, instead of binding the nation more firmly together, the emphasis upon ideology appears to have convinced disgruntled regional groups that by that means their demands and needs were being ruled out of court. Ironically, therefore, the stress upon Islamic unity and the ideological basis of Pakistan’s existence strengthened centrifugal forces rather than cemented bonds.”

In the light of this insight, it is an interesting coincidence that one of the most infamous controversies involving Pakistan during the last few years was the proliferation of nuclear materials to various countries by its top physicist and father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, A. Q. Khan, which included selling nuclear centrifuges to Iran. A centrifuge of any type is a machine that separates substances that have different densities by centrifugal force, and as Alavi implied, this process can

serve as a useful metaphor when trying to understand the country’s perennial dysfunction. Pakistan’s current turmoil stems from the continuity of its historical patterns, the most persistent of which is that of the military taking whatever action it deems necessary to uphold the “Pakistan ideology,” and the centrifugal resistance this has provoked.

EVOLUTION OF A COUNTRY Pakistan is a country of approximately 150 million people whose geographical position as the northwest doorstep of the Indian subcontinent has always made its possession key to controlling the South-Central Asian region, as well as a perennial launching point for invasions of India itself. A series of such attacks by Arab and Turkic conquerors from the 8th to 16th centuries accounts for the country’s overwhelmingly Muslim character, for it was there that Islam first penetrated the subcontinent and where it put down the deepest roots. Islam is the prime reason that Pakistan exists as an independent state, and is the common denominator of its diverse peoples. Ironically, the determination of what is the appropriate form Islam should take in society is the prime divisive issue among them.

The country’s ethnicities include the Punjabis and Sindhis who live in the agriculturally rich and feudally organized provinces of Punjab and Sindh along the Indus River in the east and south of the country. These two regions account for most of Pakistan’s population and are the chief centers of power.The sparsely populated and arid wastes of Baluchistan—a province rich in natural gas—lies to the west. Pakistan’s rugged North-West Frontier Province is the only one not named after its dominant ethnic group, the Pashtun, whose population spreads across the border into southeastern Afghanistan and whose grievances are at the heart of much of the violence plaguing both countries. Last are the Mohajirs, descended from Muslim refugees who fled India when Pakistan was created by being violently torn from British India in 1947. Although concentrated in the city of Karachi in Sindh, they live throughout Pakistan. President Musharraf is Mohajir, a fact that along with his being a military man, binds him to the “Pakistan Ideology.”

An old but not inaccurate cliché holds that Pakistan may be understood by examining the “Three ‘A’s” that have shaped its destiny: Allah, the Army, and America. Yet there is a fourth “A” that has arisen from the interaction of the others: Alienation, a psychological phenomenon with many dimensions that has placed Pakistanis violently at odds with the peoples of neighboring countries, the West, and with each other.

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movement during the final years of British rule. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of India’s Muslims, raised the specter of Hindu domination once the country gained its freedom, a prospect he claimed placed “Islam in danger.” Though Jinnah was himself a secularist, this cry has been raised by such diverse actors as Pakistan’s religious parties, mainstream military officers, and jihadi terrorists, resounding through the history of the South-Central Asian region with devastating effect. Only by establishing a separate homeland for Muslims in the areas where they were a majority, Jinnah and his party the Muslim League argued, could they be protected from discrimination and much worse.

There was, however, a socioeconomic subtext to this agitation, one that was to define Pakistan as an independent country and plays a substantial role in the current crisis. Jinnah represented affluent Muslim professionals and feudal landowners who felt that their interests and privileges—such as power over their serfs—were threatened by the democratic pluralism and economic populism espoused by India’s founders, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawharal Nehru. By appealing to Islamic identity and instigating fear that Islam was under attack, the Muslim League hoped to maintain an authoritarian exclusivity, and block social and economic reform. Emphasizing that this dynamic was carried over from the independence struggle into the politics of the new country, Pakistani writer Khurshid Hyder wrote, “Lacking economic and social programs, politicians adopted obscurantist tactics and religious sentiments for the furtherance of their respective political aims.” Whenever more secular-minded Pakistanis have raised issues such as democracy, the rule of law, regional autonomy, poverty, women’s rights, illiteracy, and the persistence of feudalism, the military has suppressed demands for change under the guise of defending an endangered Islam.

PROTECTOR OF ISLAM OR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION? The “Pakistan Ideology” holds that the country is not an ordinary state with defined borders and the normal obligations to provide for security, rule of law, and development within that territory. Pakistan’s dictator of the early 1970s, General Yahya Khan, often spoke of “defending ideological frontiers.” Similar to Turkey’s post-Ottoman designation of its military as protector of “Secularism,” in Pakistan, the military is the designated protector of Islam, which in their view translates into military rule. “Pakistan” is as much an ideological concept as it is a place from which Islam is championed wherever it is challenged—a regional and even world mission. There have been four direct military coups in Pakistan’s history—1958, 1969, 1977, and Musharraf’s in 1999—and a military head of state has ruled during almost half Pakistan’s existence.

Even in times of civilian rule, the army has held great influence over foreign policy, and most notably under Musharraf has taken over wide swaths of the economy. Indeed, it has been said that the military’s role is so dominating that Rawalpindi, the city near Islamabad where the military-security services complex is based, is the country’s real capital. Support for Pakistan’s major fundamentalist parties, the Jamaat-i-Islami and the Jamaat Ulema-i- Islami, has for half a century been a means used by the army to shore up the “Pakistan Ideology” by fostering a religious and even jihadi tone in national life. This is despite the fact, according to Osama Siddique, “that only five to seven percent of the aggregate vote was ever won by religion.”

A series of cataclysmic events following the creation of Pakistan, many of the military’s own making, allowed it to maintain its self-appointed role as “Defender of the Faith,” and have been used to justify its preeminent role.The independence and partition of British India that followed the granting of Jinnah’s demands for a Muslim state was accompanied by massacres that killed a million people, mass exoduses of refugees between the two new countries, and severe economic dislocation. At the same time, a dispute arose over whether the Muslim majority province of Kashmir should be included within India or Pakistan, a conflict which has led to three direct wars between the countries—in 1947, 1965, and 1999—and decades of Pakistani-sponsored Islamic militancy in the territory controlled by India. Jinnah’s insistence that all Muslim majority areas be included in Pakistan initially led to half of Bengal state in eastern India being included as a noncontiguous province a thousand miles apart from the rest of the country.

When in 1971 the more-liberal Bengalis proved restive under Islamic nationalist rule and managed to elect a secular social democrat from their province, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as prime minister of Pakistan, the army responded by unleashing a genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of people. This ended when India intervened to stop the killing, forced the surrender of the 92,000 Pakistani 28 NEWS & POLITICS CHRONOGRAM 1/08

soldiers, and created the independent country of Bangladesh.

Islamic nationalists continually flag these past traumas as proof of the accuracy of their ideological narrative.

Pakistan’s comparatively undeveloped economy has never been sufficient to sustain its 500,000-man military armed with modern weaponry, and in order to pursue policies justified under this “Pakistan ideology,” Rawalpindi has traditionally turned to America. Unable to enlist neutral India into the Cold War and confronted by an Asia loomed over by communist Russia and China,Washington solicited conservative Islamic Pakistan as an anticommunist ally. Since then, it has periodically provided Pakistan with massive infusions of military aid, most notably during the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Pakistan was the staging ground of the Afghan mujahideen.

THE 9/11 CONNECTION This policy appeared to end in triumphant justification when the AmericanPakistani-Mujahideen alliance forced the Soviets to withdraw in 1989, but the hard-line jihadi cast that Rawalpindi gave to that conflict had severe repercussions. Focused on driving India out of Kashmir, the Pakistani military adopted a “gaining strategic depth” doctrine: dominate Afghanistan by means of a friendly government. Since secular Afghan governments had long made territorial claims to the North-West Frontier Province due to its being inhabited by the same Pashtun who are the dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan, support was given— similarly in Pakistan and Kashmir—to political groups whose focus was religion, not ethnicity. In the early 1990’s, Pakistan’s top national security agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), backed the Islamist Pashtun warlord Gulbaddin Hekmatyar’s drive to capture Kabul. When he failed, ISI switched its support to the Taliban, whose harboring of Osama bin Laden eventually helped to foster the events 9/11. It was then Washington gave its ultimatum to Musharraf, and his acceptance opened the way to another era of heavy United States backing of the Pakistani military.

Given Rawalpindi’s record and its set of core beliefs, the question of whether this is an alliance of conviction or convenience has been raised. “The Bush administration’s failures in understanding both Musharraf and Pakistan are plentiful,” said Stephen Philip Cohen, the author of The Idea of Pakistan and the leading American authority on the country. “They really have no Pakistan expertise, and went with Musharraf the same way Bush went with Putin.”

Nowhere are these failings and lack of expertise more evident than in the administration’s silence over the tacit alliance between Musharraf and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), a six-member coalition of the country’s main religious parties.The MMA has strong links to the Taliban, is violently anti-Western, and is sarcastically referred to as the “Mullah Military Alliance.” Its cooperation with Musharraf is in line with a longstanding strategy of the upholders of the “Pakistan ideology”: supporting extremist Islamic groups in order to advance the strategic goals of the military.Yet the implications of such alliances and sympathies on the part of a “key ally” in the “War on Terror” seem to be overlooked in Washington.

“These parties are not the ‘moderates’ that the US would like Musharraf to support, because they formed a substantial part of the government for the first time in Pakistan’s history after 9/11, riding on the wave of anti-US sentiment in Pakistan,” said Bilal Tanweer, a former Pakistani journalist and teacher. “Interestingly, this party has been one of Musharraf’s unwavering supporters and they have ratified every unconstitutional measure taken by the government. At no point, they have stood for anything substantively anti-Musharraf, except in rhetoric.

Why does this unholy alliance survive? Reciprocity.The army and the intelligence agencies assist them to come into power, get them the ministries, and they reciprocate by helping to stabilize Musharraf and his regime. Contrast this with the ‘moderate’ sections of society, who are behind bars for terrorism charges.”

BIPOLAR WORLD BROADENED Although the current crisis began with the innovation of the judicial/civil society forces taking the role of protagonists, its center of gravity soon shifted as veteran political actors moved in to take advantage of Musharraf’s difficulties. As the lawyers protested, the rival prime ministers of the civilian governments of the 1990’s, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, started maneuvering to end their years-long exiles and return to the political fray.

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Disappointed with Musharraf’s desultory campaigns against Islamic militants and concerned about his seemingly weak position amidst the unrest, America sought to broker a political compromise between the general and Ms. Bhutto that would bolster his position, give his regime a democratic veneer, and add a strongly secular force into Pakistan’s politics to aid in the fight against terrorism. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was founded by her father in 1967 and has long been the leading left-of-center political force, despite her own social background as a feudal landowner in her home province of Sindh. Pakistani-American financier and media commentator on terrorism, Ijaz Mansoor, wrote in a November 30 Los Angeles Times op-ed, “During two terms in office, Bhutto, the Harvardeducated progressive, looted the treasury, sparked conflict with India in Kashmir to cover her financial misdeeds and ignored the fundamental needs—jobs, education, basic healthcare—of her people.”

Since midsummer, a series of long negotiations occurred between Musharraf and Bhutto.They including a face-to-face session in Dubai aimed at her recognizing his legitimacy in return for being allowed to return to Pakistan and contest the promised parliamentary elections, as well as having old legal charges of corruption against her thrown out. America’s hope was that with Musharraf as president and Bhutto as prime minister, a moderate coalition against extremism could be formed. This initiative culminated with Bhutto’s dramatic return to Pakistan on October 18, when a welcoming procession in Karachi was attacked by suicide bombers, killing140. Although the mutual recriminations that followed between the government and the PPP seem to have poisoned the atmosphere conducive to the US-brokered deal, there are those who say it never had a chance in the first place, precisely because America was ignoring Pakistan’s underlying dynamics.

“The military never wanted a Musharraf-Bhutto deal, but just played the Americans along to please them,” says Ahmed Rashid. “They had no intentions to work with her and still don’t.” Besides the longstanding bad blood between the military and the PPP—which has as much to do with the secular character of the party as it does the traumatic memory of the overthrow and execution of its founder, her father—there were personal and political reasons that made any deal impossible.

“It was naïve to imagine that these two strong personalities could ever have worked together,” said the noted British journalist and Bhutto biographer Christina Lamb. “There are many doubts that Musharraf was ever serious about it. His political allies clearly saw the deal as a way to divide the opposition and discredit her, in one fell swoop.”

To a great extent, they were successful. The public saw the traditionally antimilitary PPP as tainted by the negotiations, and Sharif, who fell in Musharraf’s first coup, moved to take advantage of the disillusionment with Bhutto. Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League is a deeply conservative organization known for its championing of business interests and strong connections with Pakistan’s Islamist movement, which have their own ties to the military. Mansoor was no less kind to Pakistan’s Islamists, writing, “They believe in a in a ‘one man [no women need apply], one vote, one time’ concept of democracy—in which there’s an election but the winner becomes ruler for life.” As Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mansoor continued, Sharif proclaimed Sharia as the law of the land, reportedly met with Osama Bin Laden, took control of much of the country’s resources and industry, placed friends in places of power, and rewarded cronies to the detriment of Pakistan’s economy.

In late September, Sharif attempted to return to Pakistan, was arrested at Islamabad airport, and deported within 24 hours. However, the incident boosted his credentials as an opponent of the military and strengthened his hand when he finally was allowed to return a few weeks after the state of emergency was declared.

What makes the present situation different from Pakistani crises of the past is the addition of the civil-society movement as a third element in the equation, broadening the traditional military versus political parties tug-of-war. Yet for all the history of coups and military interference in civilian governments, this bipolar world has not been a totally hostile one. For all the military’s desire to retain essential power, there is room for cooperation if both the military and the political old timers feel that their interests are threatened by the intrusion of this newcomer, the civil-society movement.

“The sad thing about the current situation is none of the old players are talking about policies or how they will deal with the problems of Pakistan,” says Christina Lamb. “It’s all about power.” Junaid Ahmad, the president of the US-based National Muslim Law Students Association, says that desire can lead to flexibility.

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“We must remember that the relationship between the party politicians and the military is not always an antagonistic one, and can be a friendly, cooperative one, as the situation requires.”

Yet for all the dynamism shown by the civil-society movement, critics say it will likely be a long time before it can have a real impact on Pakistani society, given the overlapping, if unequal, monopolies on power enjoyed by the military and the established political parties.

“People are generally jaded with the major political parties, which many see as corrupt cults of personality,” said Amber Vora. “But given their stranglehold on the current political process, its difficult to envision how viable alternatives will evolve in the near future. However, some do have hope that those politicized during the last month will work in the years to come to effect change both within and outside the system.” Osama Siddique is one of the hopeful. “There is a lot of debate—as never seen before—about the role of the Pakistan military.

People are craving leadership and there is room for new politics.”

The question is, however: Is there enough momentum to make true change?

A FAIR ELECTION? In early December, Musharraf, under heavy American pressure, finally made good on his pledge to leave the military to rule as a civilian president. General Ashfaq Kayani, a former ISI chief, assumed the post of army chief of staff. As president, Musharraf lifted the state of emergency on December 15 and pledged to hold elections by January 8. But with the judiciary devastated by dismissals and arrests, the short campaign season, and the fact that polling officials would be Musharraf loyalists, large questions remained about the fairness of a vote held under such conditions. “And as long as the army remains as powerful as it [is], there will be no meaningful democracy,” said Junaid Ahmad.

Speaking before a US Congressional hearing on December 13, prominent Pakistani attorney and UN special envoy for human rights defenders, Hina Jilani reportedly said, “There is no point in monitoring the elections or watching the poll—the rigging has already happened.” According to Jilani, Musharraf had already destroyed institutions such as the press and judiciary, which oversees the elections. “Under these conditions, the election that is going to take place on January 8 has very little credibility.”

Given the political triumvirate of Musharraf, Bhutto, and Sharif, and the legacy of mistrust they have propagated from nefarious actions, present and past, it can be said that none of these leaders can truly satisfy the public’s demand and desire for democracy. “The truth is,” wrote Mansoor, “all three of these ‘leaders’ have had their chances to rule and spent them destroying the very fabric of what could provide Pakistan with a chance at greatness: a functioning civil society built on the vitality and industriousness of its people.”

The Bush administration, in its support of Musharraf and Bhutto, has been virtually ignoring the grassroots pro-democracy movement whose members see this as an incomprehensible betrayal. “We wonder how Americans can be on the side of democracy and not be on the side of a free judiciary,” lawyer Jamila Aslan reportedly told the Los Angeles Times in November. Critics claim this is also a reckless act vis-à-vis the US war on terror. As stated in the April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States, “If democratic reform efforts in Muslim minority nations progress over the next five years, political participation would probably drive a wedge between intransient extremists and groups willing to use the political process to achieve their local objectives. Nonetheless, attendant reforms and potentially destabilizing transitions will create new opportunities for jihadists to exploit.”

It can be safely assumed that January’s elections, on the surface, will do little to improve the structure of civil society. However, if the growing prodemocracy lawyer’s movement can continue to gain momentum and gain the support of the US—two very large and questionable factors—it can be said that there is certainly room and an opening for a new third tier “middle class” politics to emerge, as well as some very interesting leaders from among the people participating in Pakistan’s pro democracy movement. As Hussein Haqqani wrote in his seminal book Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, “Pakistan was created in a hurry and without giving detailed thought to various aspects of nation and state building. Perhaps it is time to rectify that mistake and take the long-term view. Both Pakistan’s elite and their US benefactors would have to participate in transforming Pakistan into a functional, rather than ideological, state.”

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Commentary

Beinhart’s Body Politic

THE WINE OF WONDERMENT If we really want to figure out what religion is about, we have to start with the assumption that God doesn’t exist.

That may sound odd, but if we begin the other way, the only thing it can lead to are arguments over who has imagined God more correctly. Such disputes end up like this: “The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy.”

—Osama bin Laden “I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq.”

—George W. Bush The agnostic position appears to be very nice and reasonable. But it wanders around in a swamp of incoherence because it can’t ask the fundamental questions.Which are these: If God does not exist, why do we believe?

Why is belief so powerful that we kill and die over our particular beliefs?

If God does not exist, why do all cultures have spiritual and religious practices?

If God is a delusion, why isn’t that delusion dysfunctional? In its extreme cases—as with Osama bin Laden and George Bush—it is. At least for the rest of the world. But in normal cases, it is not. Indeed, with normal use, religion is usually quite helpful to people and to societies.

Here’s a theory.

Our number one need is to understand the world in relationship to ourselves.

If we do not, we’ll stroll off of cliffs, eat pebbles, and attempt to procreate with thorn bushes.Without understanding, we are unable to satisfy any other need.Therefore, it comes before them.

The way we developed (since we’re starting with an atheist assumption, we can say through evolution) we have handy biochemical prompts to arouse us to take care of our needs. If they are not immediately met, the prompting gets stronger and becomes discomfort, even pain. When they are met, the discomfort ends, plus we get an additional biochemical shot of something that makes us feel good.

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further and further out into the world and deeper into ourselves. But we get to certain points where there are no answers. The need does not disappear, anymore than hunger goes away if there is no food, thirst if there is no drink, or the desire for love when everyone hates you.

The pain—biochemically prompted—remains.

Then someone comes along and says, “Here’s the answer! Big Guy in the sky, just like the king, but bigger. Knows it all, does it all, has a plan and a place for you.”

If we believe it, the need is answered. The pain chemicals recede, and the pleasurable satisfaction chemicals rise up.We now know enough about human biochemistry and mood-altering drugs to understand that Karl Marx’s statement “Religion is the opium of the people” is not a metaphor. It is a literal truth.

Like all good psychotropic medication, it affects different people in many different ways. Even the same person in different ways on different occasions, just like alcohol. A Marxian update would be, “Religion is the Prozac of the people, ’shrooms for visionaries, the blessing of a beer with dinner, the wine of wonderment.”

We tend to regard both prescription psychotropics and self-medication as “false” answers. But if there is no “real” answer, then an adjustment through antidepressants, marijuana, vigorous exercise, spiritual practices, prayer, and faith in mythological entities may be significantly better than living in a perpetual state of unease and anxiety. It is healthier and engenders a more functional life.

Nor is it all codswallop.

We have a spiritual sense. In the same way that we have rationality, emotions, social intelligence, morality, and an aesthetic sense. Each of them is a different method for figuring out our relationship to things and events, and we choose reactions to them.

Anything that universal, and that takes up so much time and energy, must have some evolutionary utility. Indeed, most of the universe is invisible to us, beyond our senses, and it operates in terms that we can only dimly comprehend, and only then through metaphors. This is true of our internal selves as well.

We know that, we can “sense” it.

Spirituality is a way to get in touch with all that— very real—unseen existence.

Spiritual practices are methods for manipulating

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our relationship to those forces and things.

Religion is a formalization, and an explanation, of those practices.

Most of our thinking, however, is self-referential, and we really understand new things through metaphors to what we already know.That’s why most gods come out as blow-ups of people and divine cosmologies are blowups of society, fantastical übermetaphors of human order, which are further shaped by competition in the emotional market place.

We don’t actually understand things through logic, strict rationality, or science. We use those methods to check our metaphoric concepts. Then, if we see that these gut-level, intuitive, habitual, buttonpushed, spiritual responses don’t measure up to a reality check, we adjust. Around the 1600s we began to do that, big-time, with science. Science not only produced knowledge where ignorance used to be, it showed that God and the angels, the heavenly apparatus, Satan and hell, were not waiting there where they’d been said to be. We entered an increasingly secular era.

Then, in the 20th century, science went even further, and revealed a universe that was so vast and alien, it became obvious that such a place could not give a good goddamn about such as we. It began using words like “relativity” and “uncertainty.” Such things are the exact opposite of our real need, understanding in terms of ourselves, so that we can experience order.

Which is why religion has made a big comeback.

It is both addictive (in a literally chemical sense) and it is attached (through concept, to emotion, to biochemistry) to our most basic need. Therefore, many people are fiercely attached to their own brands (to use Mitt Romney’s expression). When their brand, or the idea of faith itself, is challenged by logic, reason, science, or the traditional liberal ideal of tolerance, they react with fear, which is expressed as anger—righteous anger.

So here we are, at the start of the 21st century, surprised to see that it’s like an acid flashback to the 12th century. We need to understand ourselves and get a handle on ourselves by understanding what religion, faith, and spirituality really are, before the Osama bin Ladens and George Bushes lead us on our merry way to Armageddon.

I’m very interested in anyone’s response. If you like, my e-mail is beinhart@earthlink.net.

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athed in diffused light from the skylights of her Woodstock home, Kris Carr looks calm despite the fact the manuscript for her second book is due in two days. Carr weaves her long and slender fingers through her blonde hair, and it tumbles onto the shoulders of her white faux-lambskin fleece. She twists her blue-jeansheathed legs around each other, her Ugg boots standing in as slippers, and she looks every bit the Hollywood starlet at home. That is, after all, the life the former actress was building for herself until five years ago when, at age 31, she was diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of a dreaded disease. “Cancer isn’t something to say thank you for, but it can be a catalyst,” says Carr.

These days, Carr no longer acts on “Law & Order,” no longer stars on Bud Light commercials televised during the Super Bowl, no longer strips nude on stage when playwrights (such as Arthur Miller) ask her to. She is now the real-life hero of her own documentary, and as the star of her remade life she is endorsed by celebrities such as Sheryl Crow and Donna Karan. Instead of pimping products, Carr inspires thousands of people across the country to get healthy. She inspires people to change their lives.

The diagnosis came as a shock. After an over-enthusiastic Jivamukti yoga session—she hoped her fervent downward dogs would catch the attention of a cute guy—Carr woke the next day with severe muscle and abdominal pain. A series of examinations had the nurses frowning. Scans displayed foreign lumps on her liver and lungs.

Carr sought second and third opinions, and 24 tumors of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) were confirmed. Her liver looked like Swiss cheese. Chemotherapy and radiology are not used to fight this particular cancer, transplants are risky, and conventional treatments come with sobering side effects and no guaranteed improvement. Considering EHE is generally a slow growing cancer, Carr’s doctors advised her to “watch and wait.”

A self-described type-A personality, Carr was not content with that advice. “I had stage four. There is no stage five,” she says. Facing the potentially fatal disease for which the medical community offered no cure, Carr quit auditioning, sold her Upper East Side apartment to support herself, and dedicated herself to researching alternatives.

Two weeks into her new life, Carr set a movie camera on a tripod and began a video journal. Asked what gave her the idea, Carr says, “When I was a director, I was not a patient. When I was an artist, I was not feeling like a victim.” For friends and family who awaited news, Carr sent group e-mails with the subject line “Crazy Sexy Cancer Updates.”

Carr told her friends she would turn her healing journey into a documentary, write a book about her experiences, and one day be a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Carr turned a deaf ear to friends who reasoned that nobody would want to watch a movie about cancer. Four years later, Crazy Sexy Cancer, the documentary, aired on the Learning Channel. The same week Crazy

A self-described type-A personality, Kris Carr was not content, after her diagnosis with cancer, with her doctors’ advice to “watch and wait.” “I had stage four. There is no stage five,” she says. Facing the potentially fatal disease for which the medical community offered no cure, Carr quit auditioning, sold her apartment, and dedicated herself to alternative treatment.

Sexy Cancer Tips (skirt!, 2007) hit bookstore shelves.

Carr spent September and October on an extensive book tour. She was interviewed by Katie Couric and Montel Williams, and she was on “Access Hollywood.” Regional radio and television shows around the country gave her guest spots every day. And then, in October 2007, she was on Oprah.

Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Cancer inspires on many levels. She reveals her vulnerability and terror, but she always returns to hope. With great humor she transforms a desperate situation. Most irresistible is that she seems to have found the antidote for the impossible. At the end of the documentary her doctor says Carr can think of the tumors as no more threatening than warts. They will never go away, but they aren’t getting any worse. Carr will always need to be scanned and tested, but the frequency of the scans has been reduced to once a year.

As a humorous, passionate, gorgeous woman who has beaten the odds, it’s no wonder so many people want a piece of Kris Carr’s magic. She reflects on this from her small country cottage set amidst a forest decorated with Buddhist prayer flags. “A lot of people in the alternative community want to use me as their poster child. But I don’t want to be a poster child for either side. I want to be a conduit for both to come together,” she says. She trusts the information her oncologist brings her, and she relies on her mentor for nutrition and wellness.

Having achieved most of what she desired five years ago, her next five-year plan is equally ambitious. Her second book, Crazy Sexy Cancer Companion: Inspirations and Reflections for the Ride, will be out in June 2008. “I’m hoping to make the message broader and take it into more mainstream media. It’s hip to be healthy. I’m trying to approach it in a way that makes people curious, makes them laugh, even gasp a little,” says Carr.To emphasize her point she untwines her knotted legs, rises from her seated position, and kicks a toe high in the air.

More books are in the pipeline. She and her husband Brian Fassett run a production studio, Red House Pictures, and are pitching ideas for series born from the idea of personal empowerment and taking responsibility for ourselves and the world around us. They are creating short wellness themed “webisodes.”They just wrapped the extras section for the Crazy Sexy Cancer DVD that will be out in March: Look for a 30-minute yoga segment with Rodney Yee, and a section on juicing in which Carr investigates the produce isle at her local “pharmacy”— Sunflower Natural Foods in Woodstock.

Carr is hired for speaking engagements at galas, events, hospitals, and wellness centers across the country. She may write a column for a national magazine. She is creating a foundation for integrative medicine for cancer patients. She envisions Crazy Sexy wellness coaches from coast to coast. Trained

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KRIS CARR AND HUSBAND BRIAN FASSETT SHOOTING A SCENE FOR CRAZY SEXY CANCER. THE COUPLE FELL IN LOVE DURING FILMING AND WERE MARRIED A YEAR AGO.

coaches will help patients renovate their diets and help navigate the world of alternative healing. “It’s very big and it’s overwhelming. I’ve done it already.

I’ve done it for you,” says Carr.

She is meeting with hospital staff to integrate juicing programs for cancer patients. “The sickest people are fed the deadest food,” she says.

At the same time, she plans to stay healthy and balanced and remember her roots. She boosts her immune system with enzyme-rich and alkaline-based foods that are 80 percent raw and 99 percent vegan. She starts every day with a 16-ounce glass of vegetable juice, followed by another one a few hours later, then she brings on the salad courses. She drinks juiced wheatgrass every day, although she admits it tastes disgusting. She learned the body heals eight times faster with exercise. And she believes the most important element to healing is attitude. To replenish her own, she meditates in the morning, then reads inspirational writing by great speakers. Books by her friend Marianne Williamson are on her bedside table, and she often returns to The Four Agreements. She loves the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Carr keeps two photographs of herself and Oprah on the window ledge beside her writing desk. The photographs show the two women standing side by side, flooded with light in front of a hued background. Both are beaming. “[Being on Oprah] was one of the wildest experiences of my life, out-of-body to be exact,” writes Carr on her blog, crazysexycancer.blogspot.com.

Hundreds of people read and post messages on the blog daily. The newly diagnosed, patients, survivors; people suffering from depression or obesity; and people who want to change their lives look to Carr for inspiration and aid.

Carr writes, “If you’re reading this blog on a weekly basis you’re committed to change and you’re on the path.” Her favorite healthy lifestyle choices to blog about include fasting and detoxification, food combining, colon cleansing, and positive thinking.

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Carr, it’s easy to wonder how she handles the pressure. She has the support of her friends and family, and that of her husband, whom she fell in love with and married four years into her diagnosis (she hired him to edit and shoot her documentary). They are now newlyweds and business partners and they work nonstop. They read the hundreds of letters she receives each week, in which people both praise her and recount heartbreaking stories. “I take things in deeply but I don’t absorb the pain. I know what I can give and I honor my limits and boundaries. That is one thing I learned from cancer,” she says. When she gets the blues or is overwhelmed she sits quietly beside a kitchen timer set for 10 minutes. If that doesn’t help, she walks. “Wallowing is smelly. I can figure out the world’s problems on the C-Loop at Wilson State Park,” she says.

Carr brews a cup of chamomile tea in her bright kitchen. She is reminded of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s visit when he came to film a segment for Oprah on juicing. They chatted as they chopped vegetables. “He asked if I think about death all the time,” says Carr. “I looked down at the cutting board. I answered, ‘No, I don’t. Right now I’m thinking about chopping onions.’”

It’s a windy afternoon and as Carr speaks trees can be seen swaying through the kitchen windows. A statue of a golden Buddha sits beside a stone pathway.

A photograph of a monk smoking a cigarette hangs on the wall. Carr’s manuscript is due in two days, her online community is pressuring her to hurry up and add a forum to her blog, and she has agreed to emcee an upcoming fundraiser for a sarcoma group.

Carr acknowledges her path to health is not for everybody, and she doesn’t confuse herself for a doctor, although she is a certified health educator. She wraps the string of the tea bag around the handle of the mug. “There is a lot of work to be done. We are over not participating in our health,” she says. “But tonight, it’s date night with my husband.”

For updates on Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy life, and for health tips and resources, visit www.crazysexycancer.com.

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NIK SCHÖLZEL FOTODESIGN Clouds for Clouds video installation by Itty Neuhaus in “Home for Haus” Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany 2007.

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Portfolio Itty Neuhaus

What do subterranean caverns in Slovenia, volcanic activity beneath glaciers in Iceland, and the fate of German-Jewish designer Friedrich Adler have in common?

They’ve all become subjects of exploration, and jumping-off points for the aesthetic meditations of artist Itty Neuhaus. An associate professor of art at SUNY New Paltz, she engages many different media in her own art, including sculpture, collage, video, performance, and installation work. Her physical/visual artistic production is informed by a broad range of informational and intellectual sources, from glacial geology, botany, and biology to concepts from film editing, philosophy, and history. She picks up key concepts from these disparate fields, merging (or colliding) concepts in a body of work that plays with light and form to create an entirely new mode of expression, an aesthetically palpable way of understanding.

In “Home for Haus,” her latest exhibition, she examines elements of her family’s history (they emigrated to the US in the 1930s), in contrast to the fate of others who stayed behind (especially Adler, who died in the Holocaust, and who designed a desk that still resides in her father’s office).

The exhibition is on view at the Stadthaus in her father’s hometown of Ulm, Germany, through January 27. Portfolio: www.ittyneuhaus.com.

—Beth E. Wilson

ITTY NEUHAUS ON HER WORK See it/say it I don’t really try to make sense of all the disparate parts of me. As an artist, I feel driven to certain interests—it seems so inexorable, why I go where I go, what my interests are.

Sometimes it’s because I’ve got a show (which is always a great motivation), but sometimes I’ll [come up with a concept to] write a grant for something in particular. Right now, I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to pursue more of. It depends on what sort of opportunities I can make happen. I do feel like how it all does fit together, I want to have a common language to express that. It is already there [in the work]. The forms are there, maybe the words will come…today [in this interview]!

Light into mass A Bigger Container was a series of forms that nested inside each other when it was in the back of my truck, and it expanded out into a giant piece that hung from a crossed the ceiling [at SculptureCenter in Queens]. The biggest form

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was cast [in paper mache] over a pup tent, so they went from 7’ diameter to peanut-sized. At that time I was thinking of light as the character of the thing, what sort of brought the objects to life. The actual, physical light and shadow interacted, and was what made it happen for the viewer. It also came out of snow, thinking about forming snow, making snow angels. When I was first thinking about the piece, I was making snow structures, snow huts. The way snow melts and changes, it inevitably had to be recorded with something, video or film or something, to show the change.

Going from light to video is not much of a leap.

From here to there (it’s farther than you think) The strata, the layers in geology in some of the work I’m directly dealing with I think in terms of time lapse.

Something happens, and you shoot another image, and you see a trace of that. It’s about something changing and passing, an accretion, something adding up, or going away. I remember lying in bed when I was a little kid, and I’d heard about Zeno’s paradox, that idea that you could

never actually get through the door, that space is infinitely divisible. I remember lying in bed as a child and looking at the crack of light coming in from under the bedroom door and thinking that the idea is that I can’t get through that door. I know I can, but the idea that there’s some kind of liminal place, this hurdle, this divide between now and then, and that you can incrementally get to then (the future or the past), but there’s this infinitely divisible way to get there. If I [can focus on] describing that, it gives me some way to divide up the time until I die.

Why am I doing this? It’s endlessly fascinating to me to take phenomena and to try and understand them. I think of how I started a lot of this work—snow angels, you lie down in the snow and you make a mark. It’s like the mark you leave, and it either gets filled in incrementally, or melts away incrementally. All of my work has always been about this space in between. At times it’s been very much about cell division, or love and lust, but it’s ultimately about when two things come together, that idea of whether it’s you and a passage, how you pass through a space, or in film the

ABOVE: Fathom video installation at The Islip Museum Carriage House, 2004; Stills from video for Fathom. OPPOSITE: Itty Neuhaus with model for Untermensch, 2006; Untermensch, a two-channel video installation in “Home for Haus” Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany, 2007. Photo credit: Nik Schölzel Fotodesign

idea of the frame, with that black screen projected between each image up on the screen.

Why Iceland?

I read this John McPhee book, The Control of Nature, about how in Heimaey, Iceland, there was a volcano erupting, and the flow of lava was threatening to close off the fishing port. Great minds were coming together to figure out how to redirect the flow of lava. This one guy noticed, walking along the beach, how one little trickle of lava came to the ocean and took a left, formed a wall, which the lava behind followed.

The water was cooling it—so he thought, if he could direct enough water on this lava, he could redirect it away from the port. It was like sculpting the earth. Ultimately, this idea worked, and they were able to save this little port.

This story is what first got me interested in going to Iceland.

When I got there, I became fascinated with the crevasses in the glaciers. It puts you in touch with all the hidden forces, the power inside the earth. They’re actually very dangerous— people have died from falling in them, and when I filmed them,

I had to be all roped up in a safety harness. It makes you feel very vulnerable, which was compounded for me because it reminded me of an incident when I was a teenager, when my father fell into a hot spring. It was like the earth just swallowed him up, a feeling I had again in Iceland.

Wo waren Sie? I am the last person anybody in my family would think of [to do this family-based work]. I don’t remember people’s names, I don’t remember where people are in the family tree. In Germany, at the opening, my father invited five or six different families from southern Germany and Switzerland that were related to us. It’s been incredibly moving to meet these people. At the opening, someone had a family tree with them, and said I fit in here, you fit in there. That was so helpful for me, to have a physical, visual ‘This is where you are.’ I don’t know what my role is in this. Nobody would have expected it of me, but this is all I’ve been doing for the past two or three years. There’s a lot of unresolved stuff.

In the Clouds for Clouds piece [in Ulm] I keep repeating

the refrain “Where were you? Where were you?” in the video projection. You look up to see a Tiepolo-esque mural painting of clouds, layered with two skylights, through which you can see the real clouds. The video projection is an hour of Brooklyn clouds, speeded up 1,000 times so they just race by. When I was in Germany last summer, I found myself following German people around who were close to my father’s age. I kept wanting to ask them, “Where were you?” I would follow an older person onto the bus, filming them along the way. Once I was filming right on the site where my father’s house had stood, and I saw this guy and spontaneously turned the camera on him, and I asked him these questions. Everybody I did get to talk to had airtight alibis of course. Nobody would implicate themselves. On the last day I was there, I just started saying “Where were you” over and over again. I asked one of the curators how to say it in German, so it’s layered with “Wo waren Sie?” in the installation, to address the German audience directly.

It’s been quite an experience to get back in touch with my German roots in this project, which I really appreciate, but it’s been very complicated by the history as well.

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Lucid Dreaming

BY BETH E. WILSON

THE FORCE OF POETRY

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few years ago, at an early press junket to Dia:Beacon, I had an acute, lifeemulates-art experience. Entering the cavernous ex-factory building in Beacon, NewYork, then still undergoing renovation and largely bereft of installed sculpture, I turned a corner to find myself facing a vertiginous expanse of open space, the clear orthogonals provided by the architecture striking me like an unexpected clap of thunder. My first thought was: I’ve fallen into an Anselm Kiefer painting!

With this experience in mind, when I heard that MASS MoCA, the prototype for the Beacon museum, would be hosting a Kiefer exhibition, I could only imagine how his actual work would function in such a space.

The artist, as all the press releases and canned biographies duly note, was born in Germany in 1945, during the waning days of the Third Reich. The cellular memory of this accident of birth resonates throughout his work. The damnation and the living conundrum of being German in the aftermath of the Holocaust have propelled Kiefer’s ongoing project of artistic atonement, beginning with the specifics of this situation, but ultimately extending to embrace a sweeping vision of humanity as well.

In an early, controversial photographic performance, Occupations, Kiefer posed himself giving the straight-armed Hitler salute in various locations throughout Italy, Switzerland, and France. This gesture placed him in a position to powerlessly “occupy” the lands he was visiting, ironically assuming the role of the Nazi occupier himself, in order to demystify and, finally, to defang such a display of power. After studying with Joseph Beuys (who had been developing his own methods to address this thorny historical legacy), Kiefer developed a powerful style of painting that utilized unconventional, deeply symbolically charged materials such as tar, dirt, lead, and straw. Playing on the power of pitched perspective to suck the viewer into these often huge, sculptural works, he opens a deeply visceral yet spiritually transcendent door onto all that lies behind our contemporary, superficial world of transitory images.

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Like many of his strongest works, the centerpiece of the MASS MoCA exhibition is a sculpture, Etroits Sont les Vaisseaux (Narrow Are the Vessels) of 2002, that takes its title from a passage of evocative poetry. Composed of a line of crumbling, undulating raw concrete, with rusted bits of exposed rebar jutting out from its sides (and with a few sheets of Kiefer’s signature lead haphazardly strewn on top), the 82-foot-work initially reads like a collapsed-highway disaster. Or the Berlin Wall after it fell. Or an abstracted rendering of waves crashing onto a beach. Roughly scrawled in charcoal onto an adjacent wall are several lines of poetry (in French, but translated on a wall label) from the French Nobel laureate Saint-John Perse, which puts the work in its most powerful symbolic context: In vain the surrounding land traces for us its narrow confines. / One same wave throughout the world, one same wave since Troy rolls its haunch towards us.

Suddenly, the irregularly stacked sections of concrete animated themselves before me, as the walls of that tragic city collapsing beneath the onslaught of the ancient Achaeans. In this light, the work is a brilliant contemporary realization of the primordial power that courses through the Iliad, analyzed in a famous essay by Simone Weil as “The Poem of Force.” Her essay begins: “The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away.The human spirit is shown as modified by its relations with force, as swept away, blinded, by the very force it imagined it could handle, as deformed by the weight of the force it submits to.”

Appropriately enough, directly opposite one end of the sculpture is a large Kiefer painting from 2005-06, News from the Fall of Troy. Heavily worked in black (here in just oil and acrylic, not tar), a blasted landscape quickly recedes toward its horizon line, placed (typically for the artist) very high on the canvas.

Normally I’m suspicious of art that makes claims to timelessness, but Kiefer very nearly accomplishes it here, invoking a resigned commitment to the universality of destruction, an apocalypse held in store for all of us. Returning

ABOVE: ETROITS SONT LES VAISSEAUX (NARROW ARE THE VESSELS), ANSELEM KIEFER, CONCRETE, 2002; NEWS FROM THE FALL OF TROY, OIL AND ACRYLIC, 2005-06.

OPPOSITE: DETAIL OF ETROITS SONT LES VAISSEAUX.

to Weilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essay, she notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.â&#x20AC;? The raw, mercilessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dare I say itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;authenticity of Kieferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canvas thrusts us into a reflection on this ultimate fate, regardless of the specific mechanics of that downfall. (Trojan horse? Nuclear holocaust? Terrorist attack?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all covered here.)

In the next room, a trio of recent canvases feature what is (for Kiefer) a surprising outburst of color. Even though the titles suggest an opening toward something like transcendent Christian hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as in Aperiatur Terra et Germinet Salvatorem (Let the Earth Open and Bring Forth a Savior)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the vision here is just as terrible (in a biblical sense) as in the Troy-related work. Despite using a higherkeyed, terra-cotta-colored base for the painting, flecked with bright patches ranging from violet and sky blue to orange and yellow, death and destruction are still a fundamental part of the story. These happy bits of color appear in a repeated, irregularly rounded shape, with a sort of hole in the middle, revealing the underlying â&#x20AC;&#x153;groundâ&#x20AC;? painting. Loosely stacked on the canvas, as though strewn across the field (and receding into the distance), they first appeared to me as skulls, the landscape recalling the horrible photographs of Pol Potâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genocidal killing fields. Kieferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rule seems to be disaster first, salvation only in the aftermath.

While the number of Kiefer works on view at MASS MoCA is not large (and not displayed in the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest spaces, as I had originally hoped), together they comprise a body that, in contrast to many of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flash-inthe-pan aesthetic tactics, presents an artist who takes both his audience and his subject matter very seriously. The show itself might rightly be criticized for displaying work drawn from a single collection (that of Andy and Christine Hall)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a dismaying recent trend seen in other institutions that largely serves to pump up the prestige of the collector (not to mention the market value of the art)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;but here the work itself seems too strong to be impugned solely on those grounds. Blunting that issue as well is the presence of a major Beuys piece, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Lightning with Stag in Its Glare is the only full environment Beuys ever had cast (in bronze and aluminum) and, while not formally considered part of the Kiefer exhibition itself, it is installed in the same room as the three more colorful paintings.This proximity highlights the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shared interest in primordial energy and the power of myth, and enables the viewer to see the salient differences in their approaches.

(Kiefer seems much more driven by history or literature, while Beuys was busy inventing himself as myth.)

After seeing this show by Kiefer at MASS MoCA, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have an even harder time settling for the more arid, intellectual charms offered by Diaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minimalism. In our current historical moment, sliding into seemingly perpetual war (in Iraq and beyond), Kieferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visceral, Wagnerian scope seems much more appropriateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, unfortunately, necessary. Initially borne of the tribulations of the 20th century, his work will undoubtedly continue to resonate throughout the 21st.

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Music

BY PETER AARON

THE ENCHANTED DOLLHOUSE Gwen Snyder’s Blueberry Glazed with a coating of early December snow, Gwen Snyder’s brick Victorian two-story in Saugerties could almost be a gingerbread house. But instead of breadcrumbs, one follows a freshly trodden path around the back to the converted mudroom. Inside, the coal-haired nymph-princess brews up a steaming cup of chai while her fluffy-furred “children”—two boy cats, Zumi and Ollie, and Ruby Sunshine, a burly female Akita—stay close to her busy ankles. In the adjacent candle-glowing parlor Snyder has left her vintage Hammond rhythm generator running, and the machine taps out a slow, hypnotic tempo that echoes through the house like a watery heartbeat.

“Sorry,” the petite hostess says, clicking off the device and offering a spot on the davenport. “I was working on a new song. I think I’m gonna call my next album Sound Doilies.There’s also an album called Tempest in a Teacup. I recorded that one a while back but it hasn’t been released.” Somehow all of this 21st-century Lewis Carol whimsy makes perfect sense. After all, this isn’t just Snyder’s home; it’s also the magical domain of Blueberry.

Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records, offerings well described in her press bio as “Erykah Badu, Prince, and Donovan making sweet love to the sounds of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions and Roxy Music’s Avalon. A landscape where quiet storms hover and glide over endless fields of deep, funky hooks.” A reliably shapeshifting concern, Blueberry manifests itself in incarnations that range from just the singer and her electric piano to the slamming, horn-augmented six-piece that played Chronogram’s 2006 Halloween party, a triumphant set dancers continue to rave about.

Ah, Halloween. Open season on reinventing oneself. Most leave it behind when they hit puberty to follow the die-cut trajectory of the “straight” world.

But for more creative types it leaves the indelible taste of delicious possibility.

“When I was a little girl growing up in Oswego, the town historian was this very austere woman who had really long hair that she usually wore in braids,” Snyder remembers. “But on Halloween, she would unbraid it, let it hang all loose and scraggly, and dress up like a witch. And instead of just handing out candy, she would attach it to the outside of her house.You would walk up and pull it off the side of the house, like the house was made of candy. She was also the local theater director and she cast me in a production of ‘Miracle on 34th Street,’ which was my first play. That was a pivotal moment.”

Though Snyder was singing not long after she could open her mouth (“My 48 MUSIC CHRONOGRAM 1/08

photo by Fionn Reilly

dad tells me I used to sing disco songs in my high chair”), she also started playing music at a very young age, although not by choice. “My mom made me start taking piano lessons when I was five, but I hated it,” says Snyder. “She told me I had to stick with it at least until I was a teenager, which I did. But as soon I turned 13, I said ‘That’s it, I quit!’ and started playing bass instead. Of course I’m really glad I learned piano now, and I really appreciate my folks making me learn—even though I never actually learned music theory.”

By 14, Snyder was into heavy metal (“I had every Led Zeppelin album on cassette; KISS and AC/DC, too.”) and playing in a band of like-minded, mostly older high schoolers. “There was a lot of hairspray, a lot of Spandex,” she says with a laugh and a barely detectable wince. “That’s just what people were into [in Oswego]. The singer from Anthrax [Joey Belladonna] and Ronnie James Dio both lived up around there.”

But it was the footlights, not the flashpots, that led Snyder to New York in the 1990s. “There was no arts program at all in my high school, but I had written a play slamming the school administration. Kind of a utopian society story, with a minimal, all-black set,” recalls Snyder. “And I was really lucky, because someone from NYU came up to see it and they liked it enough for me to be accepted into the experimental theater program [at NYU].” While at the Manhattan college she also studied music therapy and began to immerse herself in the Lower East Side’s famously radical theater scene, providing the voice of Janis Joplin’s ghost in the OffBroadway production “Distortion Taco,” working with illustrious composer-choreographer Meredith Monk, and starring in several experimental and indie films.

In 1998, the next turning point came when Snyder met guitarist Kenny Siegel, who was in need of a bassist for his band Johnny Society. Already a fan, Snyder quickly learned the songs and joined the group, a rocking outfit with whom she periodically still performs. Choice vocal session jobs with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and others also helped get her name around, but at the end of the day Snyder wasn’t wholly satisfied. She needed an outlet for the more sophisticated, groove-based soul and light funk songs she’d been writing on her own time. Siegel encouraged her to try out her ideas on the vintage keyboards in his Brooklyn studio, and, after an aborted first album, Snyder and a handful of musician friends recorded Blueberry’s official debut, Twilight (1999).

Snyder and Siegel rented a getaway house in Chichester for a year before moving their upstate quarters to Catskill, where Siegel opened Old Soul Studios, the site of ill-fated cult songster Chris Whitley’s final sessions. Still commuting between the Hudson Valley and her New York apartment, Snyder cut the tracks

for 2003â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Have Another Pillow, a dreamlike Shuggie Otis-meets-Mother Goose excursion packaged with an appropriately outrĂŠ â&#x20AC;&#x153;animated storybookâ&#x20AC;? DVD. During a freelance backing-vocal date in Bearsville, Snyder met engineer Mark McKenna, the future maven of Shokanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world-renowned Allaire Studios, which led to still more vocal session jobs, this time with jazz great Don Byron and others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Snyder] is a true original, and one of the most soulful and versatile musicians I know,â&#x20AC;? says McKenna, who has worked with such platinum-magnets as Sting, Bruce Springsteen, and U2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There really arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a lot of people who can play everything from the kind of rock-solid bass she does in Johnny Society to the Burt Bacharach-inspired pop tunes she writes for Blueberry.â&#x20AC;?

Such versatility as a musician has certainly come in handy over the last few years. Snyder and her pet rabbit, Merlin the Magic Bunny (who, sadly, recently passed away), moved into the Saugerties house in 2005. In the interim, touring slots on bass and keyboards with Soul Asylumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dave Pirner, ex-Brand New Heavies singer Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dea Davenport, David Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, Brooklyn band Nervous Cabaret, and singer-songwriters Ben Taylor, Jonathan Rice, and Joseph Arthur have all helped to offset the mortgage while the singer works on furthering her own profile. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely found her nest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was really taken in by the whole music-community vibe when I first visited the area from New York,â&#x20AC;? Snyder says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many incredible musicians up here, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really great to meet and play with them.â&#x20AC;?

Ex-Gang of Four and sometime B-52s bassist Sara Lee, who lives in Olivebridge, is one of those incredible musicians. A funk-rock player of worldbeating caliber, Lee was blown away when she stumbled upon a set by Blueberry at a Woodstock block party a couple of years back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just remember thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Where did this creature come from?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? the British expat says and laughs. Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing and Snyderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music were a natural fit, and it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t long before Lee became the first-call bassist for shows by Blueberryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expanded permutations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard or played with anyone quite like [Snyder],â&#x20AC;? Lee says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her songs and her playing always have a really strong groove and her arrangements are high-quality and very creative. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s totally authentic.â&#x20AC;?

Early last year, Snyder released Blueberryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most stunningly cohesive disc to date, the sublime Organika. Bearing such infectious treasures as the lopinggroove workout â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fickleâ&#x20AC;? and the propulsive mover â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grubby Wire,â&#x20AC;? the album is a true embarrassment of neosoul riches. (Snyder has shot videos for two of Organikaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tracks, the mysterious opener, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Little Ones,â&#x20AC;? and the Lolita-coy ballad â&#x20AC;&#x153;I AdoreYouâ&#x20AC;?; the latter clip, filmed in the vocalistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garage, depicts her in the company of a gang of Dickensian puppets.) The record saw loud appreciation in music publications and locally, but keeping up with the promotions end proved to be more than Snyder could handle as she wrote new songs, played side gigs, and held down a day job. All of which makes what happened next worthy of a Hollywood screenplay.

One night, as Snyder was waiting tables at a popular Catskill restaurant, a co-worker pointed out one of the eateryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regulars and mentioned that he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the music business.â&#x20AC;? The diner turned out to be Bob Irwin, the president of Coxsackie-based reissue label Sundazed Music and an audio engineer who regularly oversees remastering projects for Sony Music and has worked on box sets by Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and The Byrds, as well as other archive releases. (Irwin and Sundazed were profiled in the September 2006 issue of Chronogram.) Not expecting much but always happy for a new pair of ears, Snyder handed Irwin a copy of Organika and her contact info as he was leaving and said goodbye.

According to Snyder, Irwin called the next day to say that when he played the disc in his car on the way home he was so affected that he had to pull over, going on to say he had listened to it three more times in full that evening. He told her that he was interested in starting a new wing of the label to feature contemporary artists, and asked if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to be its debut act. Cue pixie-dust glissando: Retitled Blueberry, with Snyder reverting to her own name as the artist, the album formerly known as Organika will be re-released worldwide in February. It could only be a storybook fairytale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually, I do live in a fairytale,â&#x20AC;? says the bewitching pop maiden. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really wish it was easier for me to exist in the real world. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a challenge trying to do that. Fairytales are so much better.â&#x20AC;?

Blueberry by Gwen Snyder will be released through Sundazed Music in February.The band Blueberry will perform at Backstage Studio Productions in Kingston on February 2 and at the Living Room in Manhattan on January 10. www.blueberrylounge.com.

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SETTING SUN/QUITZOW January 10. Setting Sun is a misnomer for Gary Levittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ensemble, as constant touring and recording at his Young Love Studio prevents the sun from ever really setting on his one-man project. Here he returns to Oasis Cafe on a Thursday, arguably one of the best nights around for new and original music. Setting Sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infectious pop grooves were perfectly described by David Malachowski in the Daily Freeman when he said the band has â&#x20AC;&#x153;more hooks than a tackle box.â&#x20AC;? Levittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s companion in life and music, Erica Quitzow, performs with her own project, known simply as Quitzow. 10pm. $5. New Paltz.

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Call for ticket prices. Rhinebeck. (845) 876-6816. www.perrybeekman.com.

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Kingston. (845) 338-3881. www.myspace.com/thecrooksmyspace.

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January 18. When the owner of the Rosendale Cafe calls personally to rave about an upcoming artist, you know it must be a show worth seeing. Bluesman Bibb has won accolades from New York to London, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;provides tonic for the restless soul and ease to the aching heartâ&#x20AC;? (Cafe Guide). Here, he appears in support of his latest album, Diamond Days (Telarc), which also features long-time touring partner and Eric Clapton sideman Dave Bronze. Bibbâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent keeps good company, as he recently appeared on stage with Odetta at B. B. Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in New York for a Dance Theater of Harlem beneďŹ t. (Jazz god Joe Giardullo and his Late 20th Century Quartet perform on January 5 and Colorado banjoist Jake Scheppsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Expedition Quartet lands on January 19.) 8pm. $20. Rosendale.

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T debut by Woodstock-based Frankie and His The FFingers sports the stripped-down sound of guitar aand drums straddling the lines between twitchy ppostpunk and pure overdriven powerpop. The Finggers are Frank McGinnis on vocals and guitar (and bbass for these recordings) backed by the ferocious ppounding of drummer Sammi Niss.

McGinnis builds the tension of the songs by strumming minor chords while Niss kicks her bass ddrum to nervous stop-starts, before everything bbreaks into all-out anthemic guitar wailing and cchorus singing.

Ni Gi i hhave an obvious b i chemistry h Niss andd M McGinnis and they pull off the many tempo changes in the songs with a tightness suggesting many hours of honing in the sonic laboratory. Although a decent introduction to the group, One Hell of a Skeleton is far from a perfect release, at least to those who prefer a little grit on their ramalama guitar sound. The production is a little too crisp and clean, taking a considerable amount of heat off Frankie’s guitars. The vocals veer a little too much toward the theatrical, with a touch of overenunciation.

The best track on the six-song disc is the closer, “Shoes,” which begins with a funky beat, over which McGinnis spits out couplets in an unaffected manner until his guitar threatens to break out of the song’s constraints. This reviewer would encourage Frankie and his Fingers (now a trio after adding a permanent bassist) to stretch the boundaries of their cleaned-up emo/ punk-pop template by adding a little grime. www.myspace.com/frankieandhisfingers.

—Jeremy Schwartz

SARAH PERROTTA THE WELL INDEPENDENT, 2008

I first heard the quixotic vocals of Sarah Perrrotta through her work with the extinct outfit O Outloud Dreamer, when she was known as Sarah M Medenbach. The name has changed but the voice rremains distinctively hers—smooth as vanilla ppudding and lulling as warm liquid velvet, were tthere such a thing. In her current solo incarnation, sshe’s pulled together local luminaries Tony Levin, E Erica Quitzow, Garth Hudson, David Temple, and oother very competent players to help expand her rrepertoire of emotive, ethereal dream pop. A first sspin of TheWell may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing (several tracks were co-written with former Dreamer Carl Adami). With Perrotta on piano, The Well is brimming with upbeat, atmospheric textures and hopeful, fanciful lyrics; from the drifting rhythms of “Rooftops” (“I hear the raindrops coming down / and I roll under, I roll through, I roll right on into you”) to the pensive, bouncy cadence of “Fishes” (“All the flowers of May were asleep in the gray / All the fish in the sea were in love with me”). This is the stuff of dreams, and, like dreams, it’s never frivolous or boring. Dreams always leave us aroused by their strangeness, depth, and beauty, and that’s what Perrotta will be known for. www.myspace.com/sarahperrottaband.

—Sharon Nichols

THE CHROME CRANKS DIABOLICAL BOOGIE ATAVISTIC, 2007

I any hearty record collection, the Chrome In Cranks would be wedged between Nick Cave and T The Cramps. And rightly so. For out of the festeriing wasteland of rockabilly, thrash, punk, and blues ccame the Cranks, slithering out of the muck to take a ssledgehammer to central nervous systems and tymppanic membranes everywhere. Sure, it’s been done bbefore and band influences are obvious (Stooges, B Birthday Party, Pussy Galore), but this one did it w with its guts hanging out. Though the band’s been ddefunct for a decade, Atavistic recently released this hhigh-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos, and rarities—two-plus hours of nerve-wracking arsenal to torch your wig. Waste no time getting down to dementia from disc one, track one:William Weber’s sinister guitar, Jerry Teel’s grunting bass lines, and Bob Bert’s savage drums back Peter Aaron’s (yes, Chronogram’s music editor nowadays) shrieking and moping with the ferocity of a heap of cats in heat. Three promotional videos on enhanced disc two invite your eyeballs into hell as well. Diabolical Boogie may not be the best place to start with the Cranks; this reviewer finds 1995’s Dead Cool (Crypt Records) the most digestible. But if digestion is your objective, this may not be your band anyway.The Cranks lived to gnaw and torture. My only complaint is that this one’s not on vinyl. www.atavistic.com.

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Books

LONG AND WINDING ROAD Jonathan Gould Meets the Beatles

by Nina Shengold photograph by Jennifer May

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magine: A studio drummer who’s never written anything but letters decides to write the definitive book about the Beatles, subject of some 500 previous books. His first query letter lands him an immediate book deal.

Three editors, two publishing houses, and 17 years later, Can’t Buy Me Love is complete. It gets rave reviews and goes into its fourth hardcover printing within two months.

Welcome to Jonathan Gould’s overnight success. The longtime Willow resident opened his recent reading at Woodstock’s Kleinert/James Arts Center by saying, “I’ve run out of jokes about how long I’ve been working on this book.”

Then he posed “the eternal question: Why on earth would somebody publish another book about the Beatles?” As soon as he started to read, the answer was clear: Because no one has done it this well.

Despite the Beatles’ ubiquity, Can’t Buy Me Love avoids the familiar, eschewing gossip, spotlighting obscure songs, and selecting offbeat photos (not the classic Abbey Road cover shot, but the foursome lounging on the sidewalk, waiting to cross). Gould focuses on the Beatles’ musicianship, but also examines their cultural context. And he makes it swing.

An admirer of NewYorker prose stylists John McPhee andWhitney Balliett, Gould wanted to bring the same linguistic elegance to music writing. In a press release, he shrugs off the old saw that writing about music is like dancing about architecture: “What people really mean when they say ‘You can’t write about music’ is that it’s hard to write well about music. But it’s hard to write well about anything.”

Over coffee at Oriole 9 in Woodstock, he elaborates. “There are more words to describe how things look than how they sound, at least in our culture. Like Eskimos with snow, more sound-oriented cultures may have more words.”

Nevertheless, Gould’s virtuoso descriptions of various Beatles songs are one of Can’t Buy Me Love’s many pleasures. Listen to him on “She Said She Said”: “The track opens with the shrilly electrified, Bride of Frankenstein whine of George Harrison’s lead guitar, wringing the neck of a G-major chord as it caterwauls up the scale—smack into the leaden crash of a downbeat and a series of evasive maneuvers from the drums.”

Gould has a runner’s weathered complexion, incisive blue eyes, and a radiant smile at odds with the worry lines on his forehead. He can talk a blue streak, reeling out perfectly formed sentences like silk off a spool. He gives the impression of someone who can’t quite believe his good fortune, but secretly feels he deserves no less.

The author was 13 in 1964, when he watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. (“Just me and 70 million other Americans,” he writes.) Raised on New York’s Upper East Side, with a lawyer father, psychotherapist mother, and two much-older siblings, he attended Cornell University, but dropped out to be a rock drummer.

In 1975, he moved to Boston to study with legendary jazz drummer and teacher Alan Dawson. “I started to play jazz, bebop, really everything,” Gould says. “What’s so great about Alan is that style wasn’t the issue, the instrument was the issue.” Dawson taught him the rudiments, “all the sounds you can make with a pair of sticks.”

Gould worked as a studio drummer in Boston and New York and played for some years with a “floating ensemble” that played occasional gigs under names like The Sphincters. In the `80s, he returned to Cornell to complete his degree in cultural anthropology.Two projects inspired him: a profile of memoirist James McConkey and an independent study on post-WWII British social history, which spurred him toward four lads from Liverpool.

The first chapter Gould wrote covered the summer of ‘62, when Ringo Starr joined the band and the Beatles got their first recording contract. He describes this as a “hinge moment, like an actor who’s been rehearsing something for months and suddenly sees himself in the dressing room mirror in costume and makeup, and he is that character. For the Beatles, ‘Please Please Me’ was that moment.” The 60-page chapter took six months to write. By now, Gould was living in downtown New York with a wife and two children. One night he met lyricist and NewYorker cultural critic Jacob Brackman at a dinner party.

“Jake said, ‘If this book is as good as you seem to think it is, you should send it to William Shawn,’” Gould recalls. Recently deposed from the NewYorker, the legendary editor was now with elite literary publishers Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

For Gould, who venerated the NewYorker, Brackman had touched on a secret fantasy. “I did what I always do. I procrastinated for a couple of weeks.” Then he sat down, wrote “a really good cover letter” and mailed the first chapter to

Shawn. A week later, the phone rang at 10:30 on a Sunday night. “We had young kids. Nobody called us at 10:30,” Gould recalls. “I was one step from yelling, ‘Who the hell is this?’ Then I heard a little voice, talking as if across a great distance: ‘Mr. Gould? This is William Shawn.’”

Days later, Gould had a book contract. “William Shawn took it from being a project to a book,” he says. “He saw the dimension, the ambition of what I was doing. My aspirations were elevated.” Shawn read Gould’s work-in-progress, taking him to lunches at the Algonquin. Gould describes it as a “very complicated relationship. He was the benevolent father, endlessly patient, endlessly appreciative.” What makes that complicated? “Well, we all have our real fathers too,” Gould responds mordantly.

Two years later, Shawn died in his sleep. Publisher Roger Straus assigned Gould to a younger editor, Jonathan Glusman. Despite Glusman’s enthusiasm, Gould found it hard to write. “I felt orphaned, like the psychic apparatus propping me up wasn’t there anymore.” Everything he wrote seemed inadequate.

“I have perfectionistic tendencies,” he admits. “I spend too much time beating up on myself.”

There were external obstacles, too. Both Gould’s parents were terminally ill, and his marriage dissolved. In the difficult months after his divorce, the book he’d been avoiding for nearly a decade became a sort of life-raft. Then a friend set him up on a blind date, saying only that the woman had blond dreadlocks. (“I assumed she was white, not African-American with ironic blond dreadlocks,” Gould laughs.) His response to painter and professor Lisa Corinne Davis is evidenced by the Lennon/McCartney lyric he wrote in her copy of Can’t Buy Me Love: “Changing my life with a wave of her hand.”

“Lisa kept saying, ‘You have to write this.’ She didn’t have to say anything—it was just being around that forceful, dynamic energy, that striving approach to life.” (A friend puts it more bluntly, “Lisa gave him a much-needed kick in the ass.”) Gould started writing in earnest. But there was one more bend in the road. In 2005, Glusman left Farrar, Straus and Giroux in an acrimonious fallout with Straus’s successor. Assigned to another new editor, Gould felt orphaned all over again. (“My editors on this book were like drummers in Spinal Tap,” he quipped at the Kleinert.)

Glusman soon landed at Random House’s Harmony imprint, and wooed Gould there, offering “the kind of editorial attention nobody gets anymore.”

They went over the unwieldy manuscript page by page, spending hours on the phone. “I really learned to write by editing,” Gould says. “Repetition is a form of insecurity.”

Can’t Buy Me Love’s first prepublication review, from Kirkus Reviews, was so awful, Gould’s editor hid it from him. A week later, PublishersWeekly rolled out a starred review, calling it “brilliant,” and Booklist and Library Journal weighed in with raves. Next came an effusive spread in the NewYork Times Book Review’s music issue.

Seventeen years after he set pen to paper, Jonathan Gould had his hole in one.

His next project will be a narrative history of soul music in the 1960s, focusing on Motown and Stax, Detroit and Memphis, Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding, and the infusion of a gospel spirit into black music and black politics in the 1960s. Just as Can’t Buy Me Love parses Britain’s obsession with class, the new book will examine America’s obsession with race. “Hanging around the edges is a much larger question about America and popular music worldwide: What is this thing all us white people have about black music and black culture?”

Gould also hopes to learn “how not to spend this much time on a book.

Don’t be a perfectionist until it’s time, don’t polish until the very end, don’t have something to prove in every sentence.The great thing about playing music, especially live, is you do it and you’re done. One a.m., two a.m., you pack up your stuff and go home. The nightmare about writing is it’s never done. It can be an ecstatic experience, putting not just those words but your whole world in order. Other times, it’s an impenetrable, godawful mess.What I’ve learned is to welcome the godawful mess, to have the confidence to know I can clean up any kind of mess eventually, so let it happen, just get it out there and then deal with it.” He pauses. “There’s some larger metaphor in that.”

Jonathan Gould’s coffee is gone, but one question remains. How does the professional drummer rate Ringo Starr, often reviled as “the luckiest man in show business”? Gould smiles indulgently. “What more would you want?” he asks. “Ringo never burdened the music with the sound of a whole lot of drumming going on. He did what he needed to do and no more. That’s true of writing, too. That’s true of everything. That’s what it means to be good.”

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SHORT TAKES Once again, time to shovel your spiritual path. Whether you meditate, paint, or snowboard your way to enlightenment, let your New Year’s resolutions include reading more books about mind and spirit.

FIN FINDING THE STILL POINT: A BEGINNER’S B GUIDE TO ZEN MEDITATION JOHN DAIDO LOORI JOH SHAMBHALA, 2007, $14 SHA

Co Compact and clear as a bell, this book and CD set (from a series that also includes Pema Chödrön’s Always Maintain a Joyful Mind) C contains a practical introduction to zazen—sitting co meditation practice—and a dharma discourse by m the founder and abbot of Mount Tremper’s Zen th Mountain Monastery.

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TH PAINTING PATH: THE EM EMBODYING SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY THROUGH TH YOGA, BRUSH, AND COLOR LINDA NOVICK LIN SKYLIGHT PATHS, 2007, $18.99 SKY

Ki Kingston gallery owner and Kripalu yoga teacher Novick invites beginning and experienced No painters to touch the divine through their art. pa Each chapter explores a spiritual theme and Ea a different artistic medium, with guided art projects and yoga exercises to free the mind, p body, and breath. b

TH INNER GLIDE: THE TH THE TAO OF SKIING, SNOWBOARDING, AND SKWALLING SK PATRICK THIAS BALMAIN PAT DESTINY BOOKS/INNER TRADITIONS, 2007, $14.95 DES

In Inspiration for those who experience satori on top of Bellayre. The inventor of the skwal (front-facing snowboard) goes deep into the mind-body connection sn in search of “the inner glide” that creates true balance aand harmony in motion.

AW AWAKENING THROUGH LOVE: UNVEILING YOUR DEEPEST GOODNESS UN JOHN MAKRANSKY, FOREWORD BY LAMA SURYA DAS JOH WISDOM PUBLICATIONS, 2007, $16.95 WIS

Th accessible guide for Westerners of all faiths This applies Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices ap to everyday life, in order to increase compassion and all forms of love. Boston-based professor and an la lama Makransky led a winter retreat at Garrison’s D Dzogchen Center in late December.

SP SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION: PSYCHOANALYTIC PS PERSPECTIVES EDITED BY JEROME A. WINER AND JAMES WILLIAM ANDERSON EDI MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES, 2007, $39.95 ME

A thought-provoking collection of 19 essays on various facets of Judeo-Christian and Eastern religions as seen fa through the lens of psychoanalysis. Ana-Maria Rizzuto, th W. W. Meissner, and James W. Jones are among the W distinguished contributors. d

TH EMPATHIC GROUND: THE INT INTERSUBJECTIVITY AND NONDUALITY IN THE PS PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESS JUDITH BLACKSTONE JUD SUNY PRESS, 2007, $19.95 SU

Th director of Woodstock’s Realization Center The explores the frontiers between psychotherapy and ex Asian religious philosophy in this dense, heady As volume. The concept of nondual awareness— vo wholeness—is presented along with 10 “realization w processes” to integrate healing. p

Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Edward J. Renehan Jr. Basic Books, October , .

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f you want to win at Monopoly, buy all four railroads, assuring a constant cash flow. Cornering the market on the freight and transportation industries (sailing vessels, steamboats, and railroads) was the strategy of notorious capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt, who amassed the secondgreatest fortune in American history.

Born on Staten Island to a family of limited means during the administration of George Washington, he died in 1877, two months before the inauguration of Rutherford B. Hayes. Vanderbilt lived through the Louisiana Purchase and influenced the California Gold Rush, ultimately accumulating $105 million in assets, estimated in 2005 to approximate roughly three times Bill Gates’s net worth. Moreover, the 19th-century tycoon’s investments and economic machinations would radicalize mercantilism as well as the stock market.

Acclaimed biographer and Hudson Valley historian Edward J. Renehan Jr.’s Commodore (a title indicating mastery of nautical matters as well as of would-be competitors) is an obsessively researched portrait of a ruthless business operator (on his deathbed, Vanderbilt pronounced himself “insane” on the subject of “money-making”), an overbearing yet distant family man, a notorious penny-pincher, and a coarse anti-sophisticate. One of only four Vanderbilt biographies to date, and the fi rst since 1942, Renehan’s book prominently features the Hudson River and surrounding environs, from which Vanderbilt launched his remarkable career.

A gifted horseman who would later cofound the racetrack at Saratoga, the young Cornelius also “displayed a natural talent for water-borne activities.” At age 16, he purchased and operated his fi rst small vessel, an open-boat periauger, ferrying produce and passengers between Staten Island and Manhattan. Coming of age alongside the New York Stock Exchange and other powerful fi nancial institutions, Vanderbilt established a lifelong principle, applicable to banking as well as to personal morality: “Everything was negotiable. Everything. Always.”

Married by 1813 to cousin-once-removed Sophia Hand, with whom he produced 14 children, Vanderbilt was a stern husband and father, demanding household thriftiness and docility in equal measures; he was also a lifelong frequenter of prostitutes.

Detailing the magnate’s rise to power, Commodore studiously describes the acquisition, building, and sale of dozens of Vanderbilt river- and oceangoing passenger-ferry and commerce boats.

The minutiae of licensing and legal battles related to his assault on steamship monopolies and trade is likewise explored. When American counterparts attempted to cheat Vanderbilt in his dealings with Nicaraguan authorities to secure access to western waterways, he famously issued the swindlers a public warning in the New York dailies: “I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.” He did.

Vanderbilt’s forays into transatlantic service and investments in the country’s railroad system take up the fi nal movement of the book. Highlights include an intimate account (culled from an eyewitness chronicle) of the Vanderbilt clan’s 1850s European tour aboard the Commodore’s palatial, custom-built yacht, the North Star. Renehan likewise titillates in describing Vanderbilt’s syphilis-induced decline into dementia during his fi nal decade, when he succumbed to the wily Woodhull sisters, whom he fi nanced as Wall Street’s fi rst female stockbrokers, and assisted in publishing the fi rst American edition of Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto. (It remains uncertain whether “erotic inspiration” or the ubercapitalist’s illness resulted in this supreme irony.)

Though his great wealth was destined to dissipate “through numerous generations of redistribution,” as a fi nal gesture, instigated by his second wife, the Commodore established Vanderbilt University. Renehan absorbingly traces this fascinating endower’s start from the gate and his race to the fi nish line.

—Pauline Uchmanowicz

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Night Work Steve Hamilton St. Martin’s Press, september , .

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t’s about time somebody wrote a book with a juvenile probation officer as the hero. The good ones are truly heroic, and Hamilton’s Joe Trumbull is defi nitely one of the good ones. He’s buried himself in the job ever since his fiancée was brutally murdered.

We meet Trumbull as he’s embarking on his first date since that tragedy, nervous as a feral cat and hopeful as a child. We sit with him and his date as they stumble awkwardly through the minefield of his past, ending up in a tryst at her apartment. We experience his huge emotional wrench—and the even bigger one as she, too, is brutally murdered.

This is, to the best of my knowledge, the first murder mystery ever set in Kingston. For local readers, this familiar landscape will add huge dollops of pleasure. Hamilton’s Kingston is the same historic, messy, downtrodden, half-corrupt and half-miraculous city we know, love, and loathe, and from the Stockade to the Rondout, he knows the terrain and the cast of characters.

To have the first woman one dates after one’s fiancée’s murder also be murdered might be just an exceptionally cruel twist of fate, and that’s how the local police (one of whom is Trumbull’s best friend) read it at first. But when a third woman with whom he’s had contact—this one simply an acquaintance, a domestic violence victim he’s trying to save—ends up dead too, Trumbull and everyone around him realize there must be a connection. Probation officers, by defi nition, aggravate a lot of people—which of them might have become unhinged? The search sends Trumbull from one end of Ulster County to the other, from slum to McMansion, offering a brilliantly rendered peek at the long-term outcomes of the juvenile justice system.

Meanwhile, a couple of overzealous Bureau of Criminal Investigation guys from Albany have begun to focus their suspicions exclusively on Trumbull himself. This, of course, heightens the surreal aspect of the entire experience, and hampers him in his search for the actual killer—who, it becomes obvious, is deliberately implicating Trumbull.

Ulster County Noir is serious fun for any lover of the genre, and Hamilton pulls it off with enormous panache. The author of seven suspense novels set on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’s put us on a very special map. But Night Work’s gathering confusion and tension, its inexplicable events, would be riveting even if they were set in East Oshkosh. Trumbull is a lovable and flawed hero, a man who believes deeply in his chosen profession and sees the system he serves—and its clients—with a clear, ironic eye: “The kids were in school where they belonged. I knew that for some of them, it would be a brief refuge from everything that was waiting for them when they got home....My knuckleheads. I walk these hallways, looking after them. I chase them down the streets. I go to their houses in the morning and drag them out of their beds. When I have no other choice, I allow them to be locked in a cell for a while, hoping that this might be the one last thing that will save them.”

Please, Mr. Hamilton. Make this a series.

—Anne Pyburn

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You have committed a few cultural faux pas, true; you occasionally have been pigheaded, true again; worst, you have willfully cultivated a disharmonious relationship with the local thug. A rock splinters the windowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glass.

You are Josh Swiller, a Peace Corps volunteer as far from peace as Mununga is from anywhere, and you may well be about to experience a really ugly death.

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Swiller, who now lives in Cold Spring, had also come to Africa to see if it might be a place where his deafness would not leave him marginalized. And much of the beauty of The Unheard is in how he fi nds just that. He is in the fray of life: The ceaseless ambient noise of America is absent in Mununga, so his hearing aids work. People speak to his face, so he can read their lips, and they are happy to repeat themselves. They have never seen anything like Swiller and they have hopes for him.

But they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dig wells with him. So Swiller fi nds other ways to be helpful.

He works in the local health clinic, run by another outsider, and they become fast friends. They tend to the sick and their horrific parade of diseases with little more than aspirin. He also fi nds ways to be unhelpful: He has a drunken fling with his neighborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, which results in a lawsuit; he challenges the authority of Boniface, the thug, which in Swillerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural ignorance he thinks he can do with impunity. In a place where people will happily throw a basketball game to the visiting Zambian Air Force team because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want them to bomb their village in retaliation, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provoke the heavies.

Melancholy plays like the bounce and echo of distant church bells throughout the book, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep Swiller from being a delight to read. His writing is comfortably hip, with the right amount of brio, and his vivid prose brings his new home to life: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evening came and filled the sky with such reds and oranges it was like the valley had been slipped inside a sliced papaya.â&#x20AC;? He never misses an opportunity to laughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sourness could have eaten this story aliveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially at himself: His most successful act of cultural exchange is sharing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

Bikinis canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help Swiller when Boniface turns the town against him. The people no longer welcome him, to say the least. Swiller flees at the break of dawn. Smart boy, he read their lips. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peter Lewis

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Mirabai PROFILES What was the last book youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve read?

Trudi Saugerties, NY

The Three Only Things. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about how seemingly spontaneous events often come about at the same time and bring us opportunities. Actual examples kept unfolding in my life as I was reading the book. I kept thinking this canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really be happening!

What, in your opinion, is the most sacred sound in the world?

The sound of crystal healing bowls. They take me up to angelic realms.

What spiritual, mental or physical practices most enhance your well-being?

A practice called Theta healing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a system of meditation, creative manifestation and other exercises that helped me change some of my limiting belief systems into more positive belief systems that serve me in the highest and best ways.

What teacher has most influenced your life?

I think the energy of the Buddhist deity Kwan Yin has connected me to the wisdom of the divine feminine in many ways.

What virtues guide your life?

Showing compassion, understanding and kindness in all situations.

What word or phrase do you most associate with Mirabai?

Elevating Consciousness.

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POETRY

Edited by Phillip Levine. Submissions are accepted year-round. Deadline for our February issue is January 5. Send up to 3 poems or 3 pages (whichever comes first), by regular mail, to: Poetry, 314 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401, or via e-mail (preferred) to poetry@chronogram.com. Subject: Poetry Submission. Full submission guidelines at www.chronogram.com\submissions.

up above in the blue i see the white of your eyes misplaced i don’t know what i’m doing finding things that were never mine to lose —p

POLAROIDS Eager and thrilled, so easily done with summer, the young tree by the bend in the creek has given everything over to scarlet red while the others hold to their hard-earned green deferring impulse to the wisdom of consensus.

First red leaves of autumn ***** I walk past and consider him behind the cinematic panes of glass although he has no consideration of me, so perfectly consumed is he in his job: hand to towel to table to table, hands to doormats to shoulder to handrail; his life a menu of decisions made years ago.

Ralph’s Pretty Good Café—after hours ***** A police car screams down Center Street on my walk into town.

I recognize the driver but this time I will not wave or nod in passing— each of us a blur to the other.

In the village every siren a name I will learn later this afternoon at the bookstore or in front of the new fabric shop: a child in my daughter’s homeroom class; the old woman in the red house with the hanging gardenias; the man who always pulled his tractor over to let you pass.

Emergency response, 2:15 PM ***** Winter is coming and I fear the garden has gone off her meds: her hair is in tangled knots;

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her clothes are caked in mud.

She grabs at me along the footpath, begging me to deadhead just one stem.

And so I snap and toss and move on— eyes fixed ahead— pocket change pruning to get me from the car to the door.

Neglected Garden ***** If you want to get close enough to touch their metal hides leave your car and take the shortcut to the post office and wait there for the buffalo to stampede in single file over creosote and pitch, where polished steel rails leave them blind and indifferent to your trembling frame.

CSX freight through Chatham Yard ****** Somewhere there is a dead skunk.

Close enough (and far enough) to find the hidden sweetness wafting within the aromatic soul of unexpected death.

Warm winds in October ***** The clock tower moon is full this hour, faithfully hovering just over the village skyline, a honeyed lamp by which to harvest in the secret of night this late longing of mine to come forever home.

Out on Main Street after a movie —William McGreal

HOW TO FETCH FIREWOOD For the women and children of Darfur The first thing you should do, Abidseun, is to coat yourself with dust. Don’t forget that patch on your elbow, that strip of skin behind your ears. You see, here, darkness feeds on dark.

When you walk, Abidseun, walk like you’ve been taught— straight and slick. Don’t count clouds. Don’t kick stones. You should know better than to chase a little bug.

There isn’t much wood left to pick, I know. It takes so long for seed to become fire, and here, you see, there is no water to spill on the dry. So we look, Abidseun, because it is better than asking.

And if in looking you find a stick in someone else’s hands, if in running you stumble on a stone, if in calling the answer stays stubborn and far, then that is the time to stare at the sky, Abidseun. Burning can wait.

As for me, from the moment your small light steps away to the moment you return (on your feet? on their backs?), I will be here, Abidseun, crouched against no one’s soil, breath sharp as memory, praying for history to forget itself.

—Michelle Tandoc-Pichereau

THE COUPLE My reading lamp shines on the turnings of a pair of ladder-back chairs—my parents’ chairs— laying bright spots on the high points, the balls and rings, it settles in valleys and shallow coves, stripes the long cylindrical posts, ripples at the edge of rush—the seats worn through, rewoven, worn through again.

The couple, so like the chairs in their decades together, creaked beneath the weight of the other: their joints loosened with age and the stress of too many children to raise, their hopes and desires stripped and refashioned until hammered into stubborn endurance— endured with their resentments, beginning and end, unalike and alone.

—Timothy Brennan

UNTITLED

SANDY FEET

YOUR TREE

a poem is less burdensome than an inventory of red artificial flowers or a handful of beggar’s pencils

Words are full of meaning.

It is very important to keep things flowing.

When I can’t find the words I feel dumb and empty.

I feel empty in my head.

Like a shell.

My eyes look inside.

I’m not scared when I look inside and can’t find the words.

I’m worried.

I don’t want anyone knowing anything about this problem that I have.

I’m worried that I can’t express myself.

Embody. Vent. Utter. Myself.

Like the ocean on the shore, When I look inside and can’t find the words.

The tree you watered and loved into growing—it grew in your face.

Took hold— make yourself at home! Smile!

It laughed at me—it cackled, it did.

I hacked away at its roots, plucked, tore, dug into its roots with my nails.

Your face came away.

I prefer you like this.

—Jorelle Pome

A man lies at my feet and a woman, and another over there.

I glide between bodies. Hovering, Maybe to touch, where? and what to say?

and I can stand upright or close to it not legless prideless kneeling on a pallet through these dark glasses I can see clearly both promises all the reasons supplied for which-whatever war engagement I have learned has nothing to do with crosshairs or coordinates but more like surrender in cupped hands offering up to love a fragile tribute —Terence Chiesa

FLOOD Southbound quickly the silent hum of train lines swung down coastal catastrophe, we see towns of lives lived in sweetest disposition against the flood, wills resounded reminded of our survival skills, spilled bounty the second strata given away all that is owned, the first that of the soul afloat on the will of the body bound by desire once released seen fulfilled with nothing, neither the notion of drowning held onto the objects of possession, now alive atop towers waiting for the waters to finally subside.

—Trevor Wedemeyer

THE CARVING More permanent than the ice the roads re-carved the Catskills.

They arched around the bases tighter and tighter into strangles and cut straight up the sides gutting the land, splitting it into new valleys.

My grandfather’s face whittled down with them over time and he died, blue-white behind his house along the access road to the cell tower that cast shadows among the basswood and ticked away like a giant sundial.

—Lisa Parisio

YOU EXERCISE IN THE END You know what you must do as much as you do not want to start for you do not want to face what you

—Aida Chaldranyan

A MAN AT MY FEET

My hand on his inner thigh likely to frighten him away, self conscious, shy, in tense predicament, he has detached his shell.

He tries to move a ligament under my professional spell; my gaze investigates the body of this person by my feet.

I know his muscles ache.

I swoop deep, I touch above his calf to make my point.

Talon, forceps, or cradle?

Hazardous, the profile of my power With which instructors earn their fees the wide world over, who presume, preside with an expertise over beginners’ obedient opened bodies on a floor, four fragile yielding limbs, uncertain tendons, trying to explore We can disfigure with our reach— We can wound far more easily than teach —Imogene Putnam

will look like if you stall as you damn well know you are wont to do as you.

—Noel Sloboda

NOTHING Who I am doesn’t matter.

What I have done doesn’t exist.

Where I am bound for is irrelevant.

When it occurs is timeless.

Why I continue is foremost.

—Sharon Panaro

1/08 CHRONOGRAM POETRY 59

Food & Drink

Taste of Thailand SUKHOTHAI

by Kate Sonders photographs by Amber S. Clark

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n April, 2005, Chira and Ray Rabenda opened Sukhothai. The restaurant was packed on the day they opened, and they are filling tables almost three years later. On my visits to the restaurant, the tables were brimming with young couples, families, and groups of friends. Sukhothai, one of the few Thai restaurants in region, fulfills Rabenda’s goal to bring Thai culture and “tasty, well presented” food to the area.

Growing up in northeast Thailand, Rabenda learned to cook from her mother, whom she recognizes as her greatest culinary influence: “She taught me well. She always encouraged me. My parents worked hard and I learned from them.” Rabenda often had to cook for her large family (she is the second of 11 children), on a remarkably small budget. As Thai cooking tends to be based more on oral tradition than written history, she learned cooking secrets from her mother: techniques passed down from generation to generation that cannot be found in any cookbook.

While Rabenda’s mother tended to her large brood, her father supported the family fi nancially, owning a cinema and dubbing foreign films into Thai.

Parlaying language skills learned from her father, Chef Rabenda entered and won a contest in Bangkok doing voiceover narration. Later, she attended Griffith University in Australia where she studied hotel management, earning a master’s degree.

Three days before September 11, 2001, Rabenda moved to New York City.

Shortly thereafter, she met Ray, a Poughkeepsie native, and moved to the Hudson Valley. Having worked in the hotel industry for 12 years, the recent newlywed questioned her career goals. While never having worked as a chef, she had cooked for her large family and her friends, who frequently sampled her culinary creations and encouraged her culinary ambitions. She relished the challenge and the Rabendas set out to actualize their vision for a Thai restaurant. They settled on Beacon, a city poised for growth as it emerged from the Hudson Valley’s post-industrial doldrums.

Educating the public about her culture and cuisine is a fundamental goal for Rabenda, which goes hand in hand with pleasing her patrons. In fact, when the Rabendas purchased their restaurant property, they struggled to agree on a name. Built in 1818 and formerly an opera house, a grocery store, and

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most recently a bar, they took note of the exposed brick walls and the wheels of inspiration began turning. He believed “Bangkok Station” an appropriate moniker due to the nearby train tracks. She was inclined toward “Sukhothai,” the capital of the ancient Thai kingdom, also meaning “Dawn of Happiness.”

To the budding restaurateur, the brick recalled the resplendent architecture of the historic city-state. As passersby approached their storefront during renovation, they sought the opinion of the general public. Eighty percent liked Chira’s choice. Ultimately yielding to the input of the residents, the couple agreed on the name.

The Rabendas designed their 49-seat dining room to have a warm, open feel. The high ceiling is peppered with mini-chandeliers and tropical-inspired ceiling fans and chili red walls contrast the nude brick. Saloon-style kitchen doors constantly swing open, servers coming and going, revealing a glimpse of the cooks in action.

Rabenda’s food represents what you would fi nd in central Thailand, specifically in Bangkok. Traditional food of the region consists of unadorned dishes, usually rice served with vegetables or fish. However, in the dynamic city of Bangkok, an eater can experience fare from all regions of Thailand. The city is a culinary melting pot of Thai regional styles.

Sukhothai’s menu mirrors Bangkok cuisine, offering a potpourri of traditional Thai meals and street food, as well as an array of specialty dishes.

Furthermore, unlike French cooking, for example, which tends to be precise and technical (and serves as the basis for formal culinary training in Europe and the US), Thai cooks formulate their food based on personal taste, and an inclination toward a variety of flavor combinations. Five key flavors dominate Thai cooking: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and hot. Different uses of these basic flavors produce a rainbow of tastes and aromas.

All dishes are spiced to taste so that each individual can specify a preferred level of heat. Rabenda’s gastronomical passion is curry, so we asked for hot, hot heat with ours. The curry sampler is served in four petite bowls, providing the opportunity to compare and contrast flavors and allow the diner to pick proteins to accompany the curries. All four curries are made with coconut milk, giving them a creamy, rich, slightly sweet aroma and flavor. The panang is traditionally

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made with thin strips of beef. Rabenda’s is accented with green beans and red bell pepper. Fish sauce gives it a sour tang. This curry is simultaneously salty, sweet, and sour, a typical Thai flavor profile.

We asked for chicken with the mustard-colored massam curry. Potatoes create a hearty, thick, stew in this curry. Made with tamarind, cinnamon, fish sauce, and coconut milk, it is less tangy than the panang and rounder on the tongue. The green curry with plump, succulent shrimp is mildly spicy, smooth, and silken. Thai basil gives it a floral aroma and an anise flavor. Kaffi r lime adds a lemony scent. Instead of the chili pepper used to make red curry paste, fresh green peppers are utilized, giving it a lime-green color.

Lastly, we requested pork with the red curry. Made with shrimp paste, it is zesty, fiery, and sweet. To contrast the thick slabs of tender pork, crunchy red peppers, bamboo shoots, and onions swimming in the sauce contribute to a balanced texture.

Rabenda seeks customer input to create authentic, yet personalized fare.

Although her menu reflects the dishes she grew up cooking to feed her family, she is willing to change any recipe to suit a patron’s needs. Not afraid of dietary restrictions like gluten-free, sugar-free, and vegetarian, she informed me that she uses Splenda for diabetic customers. In addition to her flexibility, Chira churns out variations of the same dish. After introducing Pad Thai, one of Thailand’s national foods, to her audience, she expanded her menu to include Woon Sen Pad Thai (made with glass noodles) and Senyai Pad Thai (made with wide noodles).

One of northeast Thailand’s most popular dishes is Som Tam, eaten both on its own and often as an accompaniment to grilled meat. Served at room temperature, the star of the salad is very thinly grated ribbons of green, somewhat chewy papaya. Literally meaning “pounded sour,” chili, garlic, lime, and fish sauce are pounded with a mortar and pestle to create a spicy and sour taste sensation. Dried shrimp give it brine. Som Tom integrates the four main tastes of Thai cooking: piquant chili, salty fish sauce, sugar, and tangy lime. Crunchy green beans, carrots, and tomatoes showcase fresh ingredients often used in Thai cooking. In a country that’s hot climate rivals the heat of their food, eating Som Tam is a healthy, refreshing way to cool

down. Another favorite is Tom Yum Goong, a steaming hot soup that also incorporates many distinct Thai flavors. Gingery galangal and flowery lime leaves, as well as shrimp and vegetables, add depth to a sinus-clearing, hot and sour lemongrass broth.

Some of Sukhothai’s standout entrees include the specialty Ped Yang, a sinfully crispy-skinned duck served with a rich, thick “modified” hoisin (the chef adds sugar and vinegar) atop crunchy, deep fried collard greens. Twice cooked beef, accompanied by sticky rice and Som Tom, is marinated in a tangy teriyaki yielding an intensely rich flavor. Chicken satay and fish cakes are two appetizers commonly found in Bangkok’s endless street vendors.

The menu is vast and diverse, including a wide selection of noodle, rice, vegetable, fish, and meat dishes. Desserts include a rather gluttonous version of fried ice cream, a big enough portion to satiate several people. There are also several versions of fried bananas and ice cream flavors ranging from Thai tea to coconut to green tea. During the summer, they serve fresh mango on top of glutinous sticky rice and topped with silken coconut cream.

When Rabenda is not running her kitchen, she is at the head of the class. A year ago, after a customer told her, “We know your cooking and we hope one day we will be able to cook like you,” she decided to start teaching Sukhothai’s dishes. Her weekly class Monday night class is comprised primarily of her regulars whom she instructs in small groups in Sukhothai’s kitchen.

Between running the restaurant and teaching, Rabenda is keeping busy. Yet she says she never hesitates to take a moment to step aside from her work to reflect on her philosophy: “Bottom line—you have to have a passion. You have to love what you do, particularly the food. I love everything I put on the table.”

Sukhothai is open for lunch and dinner. During lunch, appetizers and salads range from $2.59 to $5.99 and entrees are all $8.95. Dinner appetizers range from $4.99 to $9.99, soups and salads $3.99 to $16.95, entrées $11.95 to $24.95, and desserts from $3.50 to $5.95. Wines by the glass run $7 to $8 and are offered by the bottle from $24 to $38. Small-production domestic beers and imported Thai beers are also served.

Sukhothai, 516 Main Street, Poughkeepsie. (845) 790-5375; www.sukhothainy.net.

Sunday, Tuesday-Thursday: 11:30am-9:30pm; Friday & Saturday: 11:30am-10:30pm.

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Residents consider The Bakery, with its rustic outdoor café and beautiful gardens, to be the center of social life in New Paltz—a place to meet new people, bump into old friends, or sit quietly and read the papers.

Known since 1980 for great bagels, croissants, rolls, rugulah, danish, and butter cookies, The Bakery includes a coffee bar and full lunch menu. HV Magazine awards for Best Bakery, Best Coffee, Best Bagels, and now Best Scones in the Hudson Valley. Experience New Paltz! Visit The Bakery.

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45 South Clover St, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-0654 www.rossideli.com Fine Italian Deli. Combining Traditional Italian staples with constant experimentation, this bustling family deli has been wowing customers for 30 years. An ever-evolving daily menu—with imported meats and cheeses and freshly baked breads and desserts— helps keep this place packed.

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Bell’s Cafe-Bistro 387 Main Street, Catskill, NY (518) 943-4070 www.Bellscafeny.net In a warm and inviting Bistro located on Historic Main Street in the Village of Catskill Yael/Keith Chef/Owners are serving down to earth foods with flavors from around the Mediterranean. Wine and Beer Menu available. Wed-Sat Dinner Sat-Sun Brunch.

Blockheads Burritos 3 Plattekill Avenue, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-TACO Hefty portions of healthy and delicious San Franciscostyle Mexican food at wallet-friendly prices. Enjoy frozen margaritas, Mexican beer and sangria, friendly service and great tunes, in our bright open dining room. Now serving Brunch Saturday and Sunday. FREE DELIVERY 7 NIGHTS per week. Conveniently open adjacent to municipal parking in the heart of village.

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impeccable service. Enjoy the fresh air under our graceful pavilion or venture inside to the warmth of the Catamount spacious dining area, complete with two fireplaces and a full bar. Set along the Esopus Creek, the Catamount is a perfect place to join together friends, families, and business associates for an event to remember. For a site visit or questions, please call us or visit us online.

Emerson Organic Spa CafĂŠ (845) 688-2828 Refreshing, organic veggie and fruit drinks. Made-to-order salads and wraps. Daily soup specials. Everything available to-go or for enjoying in the Asian-inspired design of the CafĂŠ.

Servers will bring your selections to you on the wrap-around sundeck with views of Mt. Tremper and the Esopus Creek. Open for lunch every day, 11am to 4pm. Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa in Mt. Tremper, just 10 minutes from Woodstock.

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Machu Picchu Peruvian Restaurant 301 Broadway, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6478 www.machupicchurest.com The only authentic Peruvian restaurant in Orange County, NY. Family owned and operated since 1990. Serving the community traditional dishes from the mountains and coast of Peru. Trained in Peru, our chefs make authentic dishes come alive. Wine list available.

Main Course 232 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2600 www.maincourserestaurant.com Four-star, award-winning, contemporary American cuisine serving organic, natural, and free-range Hudson Valley products. Wednesday and Thursday nights, food and wine pairing menu available. Voted Best Caterer in the Hudson Valley.

Osaka Restaurant 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY (845) 757-5055 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278 Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available.

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Sukhothai 516-518 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 790-5375 Sukhothai Restaurant, located in Beacon, NY, offers a delicious menu full of authentic Thai cuisine. From traditional dishes, such as Pad Thai and Som Tam, to custom dishes created exclusively by our master chef, our menu is sure to please any palate. Takeout is also available.

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Mexican Radio 9 Cleveland Place, NYC (212) 343-0140 537 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 828-7770 www.mexrad.com pmljs@ecoipm.com Voted Best Mexican Restaurant in NYC and Best Margaritas in the Hudson Valley, Mexican Radio features fabulous, homemade dishes made fresh daily.

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The Phoenix 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper, NY (845) 688-7700 www.emersonresort.com Located at the Emerson Resort & Spa. The areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest restaurant complements the Silk Road design of the adjacent Inn. Chef Ross Fraser uses local ingredients and infuses spices from the Orient and India to create unique, mouthwatering dishes. Two dining rooms, a large bar area, and an expansive deck overlooking the Esopus Creek make the Phoenix a true Catskills dining destination. Tavern and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu available. Open daily.

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A WEDDING CAKE FROM KINGSTON’S ALTERNATIVE BAKER FOR THE CEREMONY OF JEFF DAVIS AND HILLARY THING.

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THROWING A WEDDING OF GREEN

By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis Photos by Hillary Harvey

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. This was our grandmothers’ wedding refrain, and people would scurry to collect said items so that the bride would be ensured lifelong happiness. The old represented a link to her past; the new, a hope for the future; the borrowed guaranteed she could rely on friends and family; and the blue was considered a symbol of love. But today, many betrothed couples are placing fresh significance on the traditional mantra. For these wedding planners, the old is the planet, and they wish to love and honor it along with each other. By making new ceremony choices that support our biosphere, they lead the way for those to come and respect what they will leave behind. After all, the Earth is only borrowed. And while its oceans are blue, the latest wedding color seems to be green. Ceremonies of green are becoming so common, in fact, that a new lyrical phrase has been coined: the eco-chic wedding. So it is that loving the world while showing the world you love each other has become hip.

Take Jenny Brown and Doug Abel. In 2004 they had just purchased the acreage in Willow that would become the charitable, nonprofit Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Brown and Abel were preparing to create a haven for abandoned, neglected, and abused farm animals. To celebrate their new home and refuge, they chose to wed on their land, under the sun and set against the Catskills. The bride’s bouquet was made of wildflowers friends had picked from their grounds, her MoMo Falana dress was hand-dyed with eco-friendly pigments, and her ring was forged of platinum, a metal strong enough to withstand the wear and tear of daily farm work. Their 110 guests gave contributions to the sanctuary in lieu of conventional gifts and sat on hay bales while appreciating a vegan feast lovingly catered by eco-conscious New World Home Cooking of Saugerties. Mock chicken curry salad, chili-spiced seitan cutlets, Cuban black beans, and a chocolate cake of unrelenting richness were a few of the items on the impressive menu. As veganism is a key practice for Brown and Abel, their ceremony included readings from Diet for a New America by John Robbins, the renowned 1987 book on the cruelties of the meat industry and the health hazards of an animal-based diet.

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“Being vegan is a way of treading more lightly on the Earth,” Brown explains as we sip coffee with soy creamer in her kitchen and three five-week-old rescue lambs bleat behind a baby gate nearby. “For us, being vegan equates to being green. Our wedding was a continuation of all that we believe in.”

Indeed, the United Nations published a report in 2006 stating that the livestock industry is the number one contributor to greenhouse gases, far outweighing automobiles. Livestock takes up 30 percent of the Earth’s entire land surface, tainting water sources and promoting further deforestation to make room for more cattle. It would be difficult to plan a green wedding menu without considering the detrimental effects of meat consumption on the planet. Some choose to serve only meat that comes from socially responsible farms, where thought is given not only to the animals’ comfort but also to the minimization of pollution. On-farm biodiversity integrates animals and crops, and such crops—organic, local, seasonal—make wedding guest plates inherently eco-friendly. Organic farming supports a sustainable ecosystem; soil is fed and toxic chemicals avoided. The land is thus set up to thrive. Also, seasonal, local plants do not require long periods of transport or refrigeration, saving fuel and encouraging lack of waste. If fish is desired as part of a meal, caterers can be hired who only purchase seafood from sustainable fishing sources that are certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, a nonprofit seeking to turn around the decline of world fisheries.

And what of the tableware on which to arrange these delectably green victuals? Disposable plastic and paper certainly won’t do. For those unable to afford rented china and silverware, World Centric offers a viable alternative.

With plates and cups crafted of sugar cane and starch-based cutlery, all will biodegrade within 30 to 90 days. It’s the stuff Robin Henderson and her fiancé, Nate Williams, plan to use for their May 2008 ceremony. They will cook their own vegan meal and get their wedding cupcakes from Little Vegan Monsters of New Haven, Connecticut. As Henderson has been an employee and supporter of the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary for two years, she’ll donate money to the sanctuary on behalf of Little Vegan Monsters for the goodies.

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ABOVE, PICTURES FROM THE GREEN WEDDING OF JEFF DAVIS AND HILARY THING: SEASONAL, VEGETARIAN DISHES USING INGREDIENTS FROM LOCAL FARMS WERE SERVED IN THE BARN; TABLES WERE SET WITH THE PROPERTY’S LAKE AS THE BACKDROP. OPPOSITE: FRESH-PICKED FLOWERS AS CENTERPIECES FOR TABLES MADE FROM RECYCLED TREE STUMPS.

Henderson’s guests will be encouraged to donate to the sanctuary as well.

They have also been directed to Gaiam and Home Depot for gift-buying options.An environmentally responsible company, Gaiam takes a holistic approach to its product selection, offering health-conscious items such as organic-cotton bedding and clothing, solar-powered goods, and educational sources on topics such as renewable energy and clean food choices. Home Depot gift cards will supply the groom with materials to build a barn on their property, where they plan to house rescued farm animals.

All of this gift information is being passed along to friends and family through e-mail correspondence. In an effort to save paper, Henderson and Williams created electronic invitations and posted their wedding information on www.theknot. com, a site where couples may display marriage announcements and details.

“We told people not to feel pressured to come if they were traveling from long distances, especially if they would have to fly,” Henderson says as she joins us in Brown’s kitchen, with its baby-lamb backdrop. She prepares syringes for the sanctuary animals’ medications as she speaks, a slight edge of bride excitement and tension in her voice. “We encouraged people to carpool, too. And lots of guests were invited to camp on our land.”

The earth-friendly checkpoints can be ticked off one by one for the Henderson-Williams spring celebration. Paper saved. Fuel conserved. Guests encouraged to sleep on the ground and save money and resources by forgoing hotel accommodations. Then there will be the outfits. Henderson bought her gown for $37 at a vintage clothing store. She will buy her eco-chic, nonleather heels from the vegan MooShoes of NewYork.The couple is investigating an organic cotton or hemp suit for Williams, one that has not cost the Earth and will last him for years.

Williams had the engagement ring done in Kingston, and the jeweler told him that he was the first man ever to ask about whether or not the diamond he wanted was conflict-free. With the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond out last year, awareness was raised of the human cruelties associated with African diamonds. Many are purchasing diamonds mined in Canada for this reason. Yet in planning a green wedding, some are skipping recently mined

gems and metals altogether when choosing their bands. To mine land is to strip it and leave it wasted. It is to destroy the wildlife habitat there. According to greenKarat, a company dedicated to providing ecologically and socially responsible jewelry alternatives, there is enough gold above land to satisfy the jewelry industry’s needs for 50 years. Engaged duos can buy pre-owned pieces from businesses such as greenKarat or have rings made from recycled gold.

The same goes for jewels. Used engagement rings work. There are also manmade, synthetic diamonds that simulate the exact composition, hardness, and sparkle of those taken from the dirt, and that are available at reasonable rates.

Those moments when the rings are slipped on happy fingers are a few of the many folks want captured on film. Green-conscious individuals will keep these photos in the digital domain as much as possible, conserving paper and decreasing the use of toxic development chemicals. Of course, most of the shots will be snapped outdoors, where natural light shines the way forward for the new husband and wife as they perhaps choose to stroll or bike from their nuptial grounds and into their eco-chic future.

The honeymoon can be an extension of greenness. Eco-travel options are available through organizations such as Natural Habitat Adventures, the World Wildlife Federation’s travel provider that donates a portion of its profits into conservation efforts, endeavors to reduce carbon emissions caused by transportation, and ensures recognition of the importance of protecting the beautiful and exotic locales visited.

In the beautiful warmth of Jenny Brown’s kitchen, Brown and Henderson finish their cups of coffee, tie back their hair, and prepare for the rest of the day.

People have arrived who will foster the lambs. There is a busload of visitors from the Ulster-Greene ARC pulling into the dirt driveway. Animals must be tended to, the curious educated. Brown has had her green wedding. Henderson is planning hers. And there is little separation of these festivities from their daily lives. With truly green hearts, their love of the animals, the Earth, their work, and their partners blend into holistic harmony.

For a ful list of resources from this article, visit www.chronogram.com.

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WEDDING CAKES FROM SUGAR FLOWER SHOP IN RED HOOK.

piece of cake eclectic options for wedding confections

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ndulating ruffles. Dripping Edwardian lace. Ivory-colored sugar paste hydrangeas. Few things inspire more “oohs” and “aahs” than a wedding cake (except for the bride) and few are as disaster-prone.

Cake-zilla, anyone?

Worst of all, a cake, pristine and flowery from afar, but up close resembling a woman with too much artifice, only to taste of Crisco and chemicals before turning to dust in your mouth.

Cupcakes with fresh berries? Sugar flowers atop a fondant-covered cake?

Say the hell with it all and get Fudgy the Whale from Carvel? What are a bride and groom to do?

Oliver Kita, based in Rhinebeck, is a true Renaissance culinarian; he is a master chocolatier and pastry chef. Kita caters and makes wedding cakes. I consider proposing to him. Some people will do anything for a piece of cake.

Says Kita, “Hire someone you can fire. The most common mistake a couple can make is to allow someone they love to bake their wedding cake. Hire a professional that you can be completely honest with. No tears, no hurt feelings.You can’t fire your favorite aunt when it all goes badly because she didn’t anticipate her oven not working properly and it impacts the rest of the event as she pulls a marathon and is too exhausted to have fun at the wedding.”

Take one look at any of cakes here and you’ll schedule a wedding, whether or not you have an intended, or whether or not you even want to be married.

When Mim Galligan retired from a 30-year career as an art teacher, she took the CIA’s six-month pastry course and became a pastry chef. She’s also a painter, and has, among other things, re-created a Cézanne painting atop a hexagonal groom’s cake.

Galligan, who bakes in Garrison, does more chocolate wedding cakes than anything else, and most of her work is traditional tiered cakes. “I used to do more minicakes, but now people are asking for cupcakes,” says Galligan. “I think Martha Stewart started that.”

Kita says that cupcakes are a trend for him, too. Both chefs do an intake interview worthy of a Freudian analyst—Galligan sends clients a list of cake, frosting, and filling flavors.

“I guide them, we have a cake tasting to decide on the flavor of the cake, we go from there. I tell them to bring in anything they want—lace, decorations, anything to tie in to the cake.”

Vera Dordick, is the pastry chef/owner of Queen of Tarts in Guilderland.

Dordick worked in PR and communications before deciding a lifestyle change was in order, and became a pastry chef. Queen of Tarts has been open for three years. Of wedding cake trends, Dordick says, “Couples are bringing their personality and style into their wedding cake more. It’s less about white-on-white, and very few of the brides do little people as cake toppers any more. They’re doing sugar bows, monograms, new last name in crystals.”

Nate Heverin, owner of Sweet Nate’s Cakes, says, “People are more focused and educated about what they eat.” Heverin recently baked apple pies for a November wedding. “This was a wonderful example of how I could use regional produce—the apples were as fresh as could be from a local orchard. The bride wanted a pie in the center of each table, instead of a floral centerpiece.The tables were decorated around the pies. ” A trend Oliver Kita has noticed with his clientele are nonwedding cake desserts, such as a coconut cream and mango tart, or three “mini” desserts—for example, 76 WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS CHRONOGRAM 1/08

a small Sacher torte, a mini-Napoleon with a fruit curd and berries, something flavored with green tea, popular a year or so back. “Crisp, creamy crunchy,” Kita says. “It’s all about the textures.This is for the more sophisticated bride, who’s welltraveled and would never wear a veil, and leaves the next day for Mozambique.”

Dordick brings up the “B” word—budget. “Decide what your budget is, and be realistic. If you can spend $5 a slice [an inexpensive price quote], then five tiers and a cascade of sugar flowers is going to be difficult. If you’re having a wedding under 100 people, you might consider a large single-layer round or square cake. Some people are doing petits fours or tartlets.We did six different kinds of tartlets for a wedding.”

Dordick’s tartlet flavors include Earl Grey chocolate, lemon meringue, peanut butter mousse and pine nut rosemary.

But the happy couple’s dilemma doesn’t end once they’ve settled on a cake.

Then there’s the topper that needs to be picked out.

Karen Anne Volpicella, in Slate Hill, runs TopYour Cake and makes vintage-inspired toppers.Volpicella’s toppers are made out of 90 percent vintage materials.

They aren’t edible, and are meant to be kept and passed town. She incorporates vintage fabric and paper flowers, the bridesmaids’ colors, and so on. Sometimes, she’ll make a dummy cake from boxes, for a couple to store their topper and other wedding memorabilia in.

“Once a cake is eaten, the couple has no memories to keep. My daughter Kristin was my inspiration for this business. She bought me a real old topper for an anniversary present. I make a memory that I want the couple to keep.”

Amy DeGiulio runs Sugar Flower Shop in Red Hook. DeGiulio specializes in sugar flowers. She’ll do the cake and the flowers, or just the flowers.

Of trends, DeGiulio says a leading one is “going organic in appearance as well as ingredients. Brides not only want their cake made of high-quality ingredients, but want it to look realistic.They’re choosing seasonal colors found in nature, not colors only found in a Crayola box. They’re decorating their cakes with natural elements—twigs, leaves and flowers.” DeGiulio means sugar paste twigs, leaves, and flowers, of course, not mementos from a hike in the Shawangunks.

Wedding cakes are as capricious as brides, and nowhere near as resilient.

Mim Galligan, who transports her cakes fully assembled, summed it up this way: “You don’t realize how rough a road is until you drive on it with a tiered wedding cake.”

RESOURCES: Oliver Kita Fine Confections Oliver Kita, Rhinebeck (845) 876-2665 www.oliverkita.com Queen of Tarts Vera Dordick, Guilderland (518) 452-7056 www.queenoftartsny.com Sugar Flower Shop Amy DeGiulio, Red Hook (845) 417-6483 www.sugarflowershop.com

Sweet Nate’s Cakes Nathan Heverin, New Paltz (718) 932-9339 Mim Galligan Garrison (845) 265-2328 www.mimgalligan.com Top Your Cake Karen Anne Volpicella, Slate Hill (845) 355-2677 www.hudsonvalleyweddings.com

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ANTIQUES

ART GALLERIES

River Stone Antiques & Design Center 37 West Broad Street, Haverstraw, NY River Stone Arts (917) 532-3090 River Stone Antiques (845) 786-8600

Hudson Valley Gallery 246 Hudson St, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY (845) 534-5ART www.hudsonvalleygallery.com

Featuring 10,000 square feet of elegant booths and showcases of fine antiques, mid-century furniture, and decorative accessories in the newly renovated historic Stone Building. In addition there is River Stone Arts, a spectacular 10,000-square-foot gallery of sculpture, paintings, and mixed media installations with new shows regularly. Hours 11-6 Fri-Sun.

Paintings and limited-edition prints of the Hudson Valley and beyond by Paul Gould. Changing exhibits of representational paintings, sculpture, and photography by established and emerging artists. Gallery offers painting and frame restoration services and art instruction in all media, beginners welcome. For January and February, open Saturday and Sunday 1-5 and by appointment.

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APPLIANCES Earl B. Feiden Appliances 661 Broadway, Kingston, NY, (845) 331-2230 785 Route 9, Latham, NY, (518) 785-8555 A full-service appliance store with a long history in the community and pioneers of the home-appliance industry.

We provide premium products, premium service, and stock name-brand appliances. Our commitment to customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of our business. Visit us when you decide to shop for your next appliance.

Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz Plaza, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-1241 www.markgrubergallery.com Van Brunt Gallery 460 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2995 www.vanbruntgallery.com

Custom Automated Watering Systems for gardens and lawns. Gives you controlled watering where you want it and when you need it. Perfect for time saving and water savings that is more important than ever. These systems are ideal for weekend homeowners and people on the go. Designed, installed, maintained, and fully insured.

AUTO SALES DNL Automotive Inc. (845) 236-2552 dnlautomotiveny@aol.com A family owned and operated dealership that specializes in finding rare and exciting pre-owned vehicles of outstanding quality and value.

BANKS Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union (845) 336-4444 www.MHVFCU.com

Exhibiting the work of contemporary artists. Featuring abstract painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, and video, the gallery has new shows each month. The innovative gallery Web site has online artist portfolios and videos of the artists discussing their work.

Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union is a community credit union serving individuals and businesses in Ulster, Orange, and Dutchess with the financial products they need to achieve goals and prosper. At MHV, Membership Has Value. Find out for yourself. Visit us online or call ext. 6000 for information and applications.

ART SUPPLIES

BEVERAGES

Catskill Art & Office Supply Kingston (845) 331-7780 Woodstock (845) 679-2251 Poughkeepsie (845) 452-1250

Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com

ARCHITECTURE EcoArch DesignWorks Woodstock, NY (845) 247-4620 Award winning design, harmonizing Spirit, Health, and the Environment, Solar and “Green” design. Licensed in New York, New Jersey, and California, EcoArch DesignWorks specializes in Planning, Architecture, and Interiors for Single family or Multi-family homes, entertainment, retail or office environments. Recent projects in New York include the Oriental Emerson Spa, the Ram Dass Library @ Omega, and numerous Private homes and Additions. Unlock the potentials of your site, home, or office, to foster greater design harmony, prosperity, spirit, health, and ecological integrity.

ART & MUSIC Children’s Art Workshop—Nancy Catandella 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845 )255-7990 wwwthechildrensartworkshop.com Bang the Bongo, Jangle a Tambourine, Paint Your Chair, Quilt a Cover, Strum a song, Draw a Super Hero! Get Better In Math! Music,art, and tutoring classes for all ages & pre-schoolers. Fun and adventurous projects individually designed for each student. Study with experienced professionals in the arts and sciences.

Art Materials, studio furnishings, custom picture framing, blueprint copies, graphic design services, large format color output, custom printing, personal stationery, legal forms, cards, maps, and novelty gifts. Three locations dedicated to enhancing your creative adventure—voted ‘Best in the Valley’ year after year.

Manny’s Art Supply 83 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-9902 Since 1962, big-city selection and small-town service have made Manny’s special. We offer a full range of art materials, craft and bookmaking supplies, as well as the best selection of handmade and decorative papers north of Manhattan.

Manny’s, it’s more than just an art store.

R & F Handmade Paints 84 Ten Broeck Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3112 www.rfpaints.com Internationally known manufacturer of Pigment Sticks and Encaustic paint right here in the Hudson Valley. Stop in for a tour of our factory, get paints at discounted prices, sign up for an Encaustic or Pigment Stick workshop, or check out bi-monthly exhibits in the Gallery.

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AUTOMATED WATERING SYSTEMS H2O’Sullivan (845) 626-2085 jerryo1317@hvc.rr.com

Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 21 years, we carry a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and iced coffees. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

BOOKSTORES Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest spiritual/holistic bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts that transform, renew, and elevate the spirit. Exquisite statuary and other art works from Nepal, Tibet, Bali. Expert Tarot reading, astrological charts/interpretation available.

BUILDING SUPPLIES Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwoods.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!

Williams Lumber & Home Centers 6760 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876WOOD 317 Kyserike Road, High Falls, NY (845) 687-7676 2612 Rt 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-2324 www.williamslumber.com The name you know and the name you trust. Our Design Centers are located at our Rhinebeck and Millbrook locations. Come meet with our outstanding design team and start creating your perfect kitchen or bath today!

CARPETS & RUGS Anatolia Tribal Rugs & Weavings 54G Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-5311 Winner: Hudson Valley Magazine â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Carpets.â&#x20AC;? Direct importers since 1981.

Natural-dyed Afghan carpets; Balouchi tribal kilims; Russian sumaks; antique Caucasian carpets; silk Persian sumaks; Turkish kilims.

Hundreds to choose from, 2â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x3â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x12â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Kilim pillows, $20-$55. We encourage customers to try our rugs in their homes, without obligation. MC/Visa/AmEx.

CATERING Jillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Picnics and Parties 221 Maverick Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-4684 www.picnicsparties.com jill@picnicsparties.com

CINEMA Upstate Films 26 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2515 Showing provocative international cinema, contemporary and classic, and hosting filmmakers since 1972 on two screens in the village of Rhinebeck.

CLEANING Merry Maids (845) 297-1009 One thing you can count on when the rest of the afternoon has let you down.

The Present Perfect 23G Village Plaza, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2939 Designer consignments of the utmost quality for men, women, and children. Current styles, jewelry, accessories, and knicknacks.

Featuring beautiful furs and leathers.

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Crafts People 262 Spillway Road, West Hurley, NY (845) 331-3859 www.craftspeople.us Representing over 500 artisans, Crafts People boasts four buildings brimming with fine crafts; the largest selection in the Hudson Valley. All media represented, including: sterling silver and 14K gold jewelry, blown glass, pottery, turned wood, kaleidoscopes, wind chimes, leather, clothing, stained glass, etc.

DANCEWEAR First Street Dancewear Saugerties, NY (845) 247-4517 www.firststreetdancewear.com First Street Dancewear in Saugerties, NY, offers quality dancewear for adults and children. We have dancewear, knit warmups, ballet, jazz, tap shoes, gymnastics wear, skatewear, accessories, and gift items.

We also feature a line of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s active wear clothing suitable for Yoga and Pilates.

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Picnics and Parties specializes in regional American cuisine using fresh and local ingredients. Whether you are looking for the best organic beef or vegan cuisine, for a wedding, corporate events, or a fabulous holiday party, we bring sophistication and attention to detail to every event while keeping in line with your budget.

A quaint consignment boutique that offers distinctive clothing, jewelry, shoes and accessories, and a unique variety of high-quality furs and leathers. Always a generous supply of merchandise from casual to chic; contemporary to vintage; all sizes accepted. Featuring a diverse and illuminating jewelry collection. Conveniently located in Pleasant Valley, only 9 miles east of the Mid-Hudson Bridge.

DIVORCE COACHING Sidney Gale Consultants Pine Bush, NY (845) 978-0548 Compassionate, Confidential, and Strategic planning for your divorce will put you in the position you want to be in. Find out how with Sidney Gale Consultants...see us first. Keep it simple. Then find the road to happiness as you strategically plan your new life. Certified Master NLP Life Coach. Former matrimonial legal assistant. Visa/MC Accepted.

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Southern New Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Favorite Family Resort

DOG BOARDING CLOTHING Pegasus Comfort Footwear 10 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock and New Paltz, NY (845) 679-2373 www.PegasusShoes.com Offering innovative comfort footwear by all your favorite brands. Merrell, Dansko, Keen, Clarks, Ecco and Uggs, and lots more.

Open 7 days a week â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or shop online at PegasusShoes.com.

White Rice 531 Warren Street, Hudson, NY (518) 697-3500 Clothing & accessories for women & children. Furniture & home furnishings. With an Asian sensibility. Open 7 days.

CONSIGNMENT SHOPS Past â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Perfect 1629 Main Street (Route 44), Pleasant Valley, NY (845) 635-3115 www.pastnperfect.com

Dog Love, LLC 240 N. Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8254 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal Hands-On Boarding and Daycare tailored to your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual needs. Your dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happiness is our goal. Indoor 5x10 matted kennels with classical music and windows overlooking our pond. Supervised playgroups in 40 x 40 fenced area.

Homemade food and healthy treats.

FAUX FINISHES DownUnderFaux Red Hook, NY (845) 759-1040 downunderfaux.com murielcalderon@downunderfaux.com DOWN UNDER FAUX is the creation of MURIEL CALDERON, an Australian Faux Finish Artist with more than 25 years of international experience. Muriel is motivated by a passion for transforming ordinary rooms into works of art as limitless as oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imagination. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the look and feel of an aged, luxurious Tuscan Villa,

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an Ultramodern Manhattan Loft, or the loving and authentic restoration of existing Historic Finishes, Muriel works with you (and/or your Designer) to help you create the envisioned reality you desire. See color display ad.

Faux Intentions (845) 532-3067 Cat Quinn, professional decorative artist, setting the standard for excellence in Custom Faux Finishes for your home and business. With infinite possibilities, your walls, floors, ceilings, fireplaces, and furniture can be transformed using my faux finishing techniques. A full spectrum of decorative finishes using plasters, glazes, and many other mediums help to fill your home full of your unique personality and spirit. Don’t miss the beauty and exhilaration of transforming the rooms you live and work in every day into spaces that reflect your sense of style. Portfolio showing a phone call away.

FENG SHUI Feng Shui Solutions 72 North Slope Road, Shokan, NY (845) 231-0801 fengshuisolutions@hotmail.com Discover the richness of the ancient principles of Feng Shui applied to modern life and enjoy a more harmonious and balanced existence. Our consultations are aimed at improving family relationships, health, and prosperity; clearing negative energy from any space; improving business viability and selecting or designing the perfect home or office.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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France Menk Photodesign (845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com iam@france-menk.com A fine art approach to your promotional and advertising needs. Major communications/advertising clients. My work is 100% focused on your needs.

HAIR SALON Mark Ferraro Hair Design 56 North Front Street, Kingston, NY (845) 331-4547 Mark Ferraro specializes in dimensional cutting, a revolutionary technique that breaks up bulk to create a flattering pieced look and defies the rigid state board haircut. He does wild asymmetrical cuts for his funkier clients, simple classy styles for the professional, and sexy, glamorous styles for kittens and cougars. Mark caters to a wide range of adults, including several known celebrities, and is resurrecting and fine tuning his product line—no animal testing.

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS Webjogger (845) 757-4000 www.webjogger.net Webjogger is a local company with offices in Tivoli and Kingston. We have a great solution for small businesses IT including symmetrical high speed internet, offsite on-line data backup and storage, collaborative archived email, web hosting and domain registration, server collocation and management, and IT support by phone or on sight, with nice discounts for bundled services. We’re big enough to have what you need and small enough to make it work for your individual needs. Many local companies swear by us, not at us! We also do high-end routing and switching and Gigabit Wireless connectivity for local hospitals and radiology labs.

JEWELRY & GIFTS Pearldaddy 183 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0169 www.pearldaddy.net Pearldaddy’s newly relocated boutique and fine art gallery originally opened its doors in Manhattan in May 2001.

Now in Beacon, they still offer handmade and custom freshwater pearl jewelry as well as CDs, clothing, bags, and accessories handcrafted by local and international artists with six fine art exhibits a year. Mon. & Thurs. 11am - 5pm, Fri. 11am-6pm, Sat. 12pm-6pm, Sun. 12pm-5pm.

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Women’s Work 65 Main Street, Cold Spring, NY (845) 809-5299 Enabling women to live their chosen/desired way of life through the fair trade of baskets, beads, batiks, and beauty products. Exclusive importer of Maiden Botswana Marula Oil, specializing in San Bushman Art & Ostrich Eggshell Beaded Jewelry.

David Arner (845) 339-7437 I am a classically trained avant-garde jazz pianist and composer, teaching since 1976. I teach beginners, professionals, children, and adults. Every student is different, so how and what I teach varies accordingly. My mission is to encourage creativity, understanding, and technical advancement no matter what your level is. See display ad.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS JEWELRY & FINE ART Jewel 21 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3775 Spectacular jewelry and clothing designers from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America are represented here with many one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Owners Ronny and Michael Widener are committed to providing an inspired and diverse collection of jewelry, accessories, and artwork for your pleasure. Open 7 days a week with extended shopping hours during the holiday season.

KITCHENWARES Warren Kitchen & Cutlery 6934 Route 9, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-6207 www.warrenkitchentools.com Located in historic Rhinebeck, in New York’s beautiful Mid-Hudson Valley, Warren Kitchen & Cutlery is a true kitchenware emporium—a place where inspired chefs and cooking enthusiasts can find their favorite cutlery, cookware, appliances, kitchen tools, and serving pieces for home or restaurant. Knives are our specialty; we have more than 1000 different styles and sizes in stock. We encourage you to take advantage of our in-store sharpening and engraving services.

McCoy’s Guitar Shop Rosendale, NY (845) 658-7467 Is your guitar or bass performing up to its fullest potential?

Do you have fret buzz? Is your action too high/ too low?

Is your instrument just plain old hard to play? Guitars and basses regularly need set ups, much like cars need oil changes and tune ups to keep them running well. Here at McCoy’s Guitar Shop our aim is to make your instrument play as well as, or better than, you ever thought possible.

Remember, if your instrument isn’t playing up to par, perhaps neither are you! Come to McCoy’s Guitar Shop and fall in love with your instrument all over again! McCoy’s Guitar Shop: Expert repairs, restoration, guitars and basses bought, sold, and traded. Give us a call. You’ll be glad you did!

NURSERIES Catskill Native Nursery 607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com We sell North American perennials, shrubs, trees, and fruits.

Native plants are a natural choice for woodland, meadow, and wetland gardens—and the flower borders around your house.

Native plants are ornamental, easy to maintain, and provide food and habitat for birds, butterflies, bees—and yourself.

PERFORMING ARTS MEDIATION & CONFLICT RESOLUTION Pathways Mediation Center (845) 331-0100 www.PathwaysMediationCenter.com

Lehman-Loeb Art Center & Powerhouse Theater Vassar College Box 225, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5902 befargislanc@pop.vassar.edu

We are a unique mediation practice for couples going through divorce or for families in conflict. Josh Koplovitz has over 30 years as a Matrimonial and Family Law Attorney and Myra Schwartz has over 30 years as a Guidance Counselor working with families and children. This male/female, counselor and attorney team can effectively address all your legal and family issues. Use our one-hour free consultations to meet us or visit us on the web.

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MOVING & STORAGE

China Jorrin Photography (917) 449-5020 www.chinajorrin.com

Allways Moving & Storage 85 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-5676 www.allwaysmovingandstorage.com Accurate — Free Estimates.

MUSIC Burt’s Electronics 549 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 331-5011 Good music deserves quality sound! Avoid the malls and shop where quality and personal service are valued above all else. Bring Burt and his staff your favorite album and let them teach you how to choose the right audio equipment for your listening needs.

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (845) 338-5984 www.deeplistening.org Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2079 wguild@ulster.net

MUSIC LESSONS Center for Personal Development Through Music (845) 677-5871 www.cpdmusic.com Piano Lessons for Thwarted Geniuses with Peter Muir.

Barbara Strnadova Photography Kingston, NY (917) 232-3623 www.dova-imagery.com Barbara can provide you with what you need. Product images, event coverage, wedding imagery, portraits and more. Studio set up available. Affordable rates, partial barters accepted.

A Hudson Valley-based photographer dedicated to documenting weddings in a candid and creative style. While remaining unobtrusive she is able to capture key, quiet, and personal moments of the event. Please call for rates and availability.

France Menk Photography (845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com iam@france-menk.com Fine art limited edition prints. Internationally exhibited.

Events / Portraits / Advertising / Fine Art. Private instruction in the art of photography for all levels of experience.

PIANO Adam’s Piano (518) 537-2326 or (845) 343-2326. www.adamspiano.com Featuring Kawai and other fine brands. 75 pianos on display in our Germantown (just north of Rhinebeck) showroom.

Open by appointment only. Inventory, prices, pictures at www.adamspiano.com. Superb service, moving, storage, rentals; we buy pianos!

PLUMBING & BATH N & S Supply 205 Old Route 9, Fishkill, NY Fishkill (845) 896-6291 Kingston (845) 331-6700 Catskill (518) 947-2010 info@nssupply.com

Don’t settle for less, benefit from the best! At N&S Supply, we take pride in offering the highest quality plumbing and heating products at a competitive price.

Our experienced sales professionals will help you determine the right product for your project while keeping you within your budget. With many convenient locations, stop by and see why service at N&S Supply is second to none!

PRINTING SERVICES New York Press Direct (845) 896-0894 At NY Press Direct we exist for one reason— to delight our customers! What does that mean to you? Worry-free shopping for all your printing and fulfillment needs. Our solutions are leading-edge in the industry.

Our pricing is among the most competitive in the northeast region. Call John DeSanto or Larry Read for more information.

SCHOOLS Hudson Valley School of Massage & Skin Care — Maria Ferguson, Aesthetics School 256 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0013 www.HVSAesthetics.com info@hvsaesthetics.com Our graduates have gained a reputation in the aesthetic and massage therapy industry as knowledgeable, qualified, and disciplined workers.

ICU Publish www.icupublish.com info@icupublish.com ICU Publish specializes in intensive care graphic design. On-site personalized consultation and training for both Mac and PC’s, Web design and publishing with customized database-driven websites created with the artist in mind. Limitededition book publishing, artist’s books, portfolios, dummys, proposals, business reports, manuscript editing, off-site or onsite freelance editing available.

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HELP for caregivers How to Survive the Caretaking Years ATTENDING TO A LOVED ONE IN DECLINING HEALTH is a struggle and a gift; a time to learn patience for another but also for oneself; an unparalleled chance to give but also receive.

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“For 25 years I’ve been planning my retirement with my husband. We were going to do all this stuff—I thought I would be doing anything I want.” That’s how Nanette Virgilio of Highland Falls envisioned her life after decades of working. But a few years ago, those plans changed. Her mother began showing signs of dementia, which has progressed to the point that Nanette is now her full-time caretaker. Virgilio even stopped working early to look after her.

As lengthening average lifespans in the US escort our elders into the realm of age-related illnesses, longterm care for a family member with a progressive, incurable illness (one from which there will be no recovery to normal health) is becoming a familiar family tale. Roughly five million people in the US have Alzheimer’s disease, the most prevalent form of progressive illness, and many of them are being cared for by a family member who hadn’t expected to do so.

THE CAREGIVER CHALLENGE Any longterm illness is a challenge to a caretaker who must add that task— usually without much warning—to existing daily demands. Dementia, defined as a decline in cognitive function that is severe enough to interfere with day-today function, is the most daunting to weather. Alzheimer’s progresses from its best-known feature of memory loss to broader and deeper cognitive problems: general confusion and disorientation, impaired judgment, loss of control over a variety of essential brain-controlled behaviors like eating, bathing, walking, and even swallowing. A similar decline is typical of other dementias, and of Parkinson’s disease in its later stages.

Michelle Muir, who works for the Hudson Valley chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, is her father’s caregiver. “My father lived with us for three years after my mom passed, and things started to happen that were kind of unusual,” she recalls. “He had always been the head of household, paying the bills and so on. But we noticed that gradually he was having trouble remembering if he 82 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 1/08

paid a bill, and didn’t know how to find out if he had.” At first it seemed her dad might be grieving the loss of his wife. But eventually, Muir says, symptoms became more complicated and irrefutable. “A person can lose some of the most simple daily functions. Sometimes my father will not recognize his breakfast or a cup of tea. He asks, ‘Should I drink this?’ even though he knows I’ve just made it for him.”

It was through her father’s illness that Muir discovered the Alzheimer’s Association. “When he was first diagnosed, I didn’t know what it would mean,” she says. “All I really knew about was the forgetting. I had a care consultation [through the association], and I went to a support meeting.” That helped a lot, she said, but the task gradually got more demanding. “If you have a fulltime job, or just a full life, you wonder how can you possibly wrap your arms around this, too.”

Fortunately, there’s a lot of help for getting through all stages of caring for a loved one in decline. There are even some benefits a caregiver receives that no other experience can offer.

PLANNING AHEAD End-of-life decisions affecting money, property, and medical care are best done in good health. So, though it sounds grim, planning as if dementia were around the corner is wise. And it’s comforting to everyone to know an elder’s wishes about such things as when and how long life support should be continued in the case of coma, and if the elder would prefer to be at home, in a hospital, or at a hospice for the last days of life. Those wishes should be written in legally valid advance directive documents. (See “Advance Directives” in Chronogram’s July 2007 issue, available at www.chronogram.com.) Writing out clear and specific financial and estate decisions, and acting on any that merit immediate attention, can avoid legal tangles and family battles later. A lawyer specializing in elder care will assist in getting everything properly handled.

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Virgilio says she was able to take care of most of those decisions and documents during the early stages of her mother’s illness. “But,” she adds, “my mom made some decisions about her will that might be different if she had done it before any symptoms appeared.” Virgilio emphasizes two things that must be done ahead of time—including for yourself, as early as your 50s: Take out an insurance plan specifically to cover longterm care (you can’t do so for someone who is already ill), and set up a trust fund that a caretaker can access but which health insurance companies cannot (the fund must be in place for five years before drawing from it).

HELP ABOUNDS Services and support for caregivers range from home visits to assess whether a loved one is beginning to have signs of an age-related illness, to practical and financial support for the full-time, multiyear caregiver. Muir wishes more people knew what the Alzheimer’s Association has to offer through its many regional offices nationwide. “The Alzheimer’s Association specializes in being able to link people with the appropriate community resources in the region,” says Muir. “We have listings of private home care, adult day care, and companionship agencies. We can help determine eligibility for assistance to help pay for programs, and we offer emergency respite care grants.” That last option, called the Time Away Program, helps caregivers in urgent personal and financial need to take a break, through monetary grants and referrals for daytime or overnight care for their loved one.

Other services of the Alzheimer’s Association include: • A 24-hour telephone helpline for information, referrals, and a caring ear; • Ongoing support groups for caregivers, family, friends, and early-stage patients; • Free home-visit or phone consultations with trained experts, to guide the family through health, legal, and financial mazes; • A lending library of educational materials in diverse media, and of recreational equipment; • Social gatherings as a way to get out of the house and keep in touch with others; • The Safe Return Program, providing identification products and optional registry with a national database that helps memory-impaired people get safely home if they wander or get lost.

A great assist for new caregivers is the Savvy Caregiver Program, run by Northeast Health in the Capital Region. These frequent, short-term classes teach caregivers key skills and knowledge in four main areas: managing daily life by keeping the person enjoyably involved; managing behavior to help the person remain calm and in control; caregiver self-care; and managing resources. The classes are free for families living in Albany County, thanks to a grant from the New York State Office for Aging and the Albany County Department of Aging. The Office for Aging also lists a number of other statewide services and resources on its website.

Helpful books are plentiful too. For instance, author Denise Brown crafted a handbook that offers a roadmap to the caregiving journey. In The Caregiving Years: Six Stages to a Meaningful Journey, Brown outlines in an organized, supportive, refreshing manner, the progression of involvement one can expect. The first stage is that of the “Expectant Caregiver,” who prepares for the possibility that a loved one will need care by helping to put end-of-life affairs in order, such as by completing advance directive and financial documents. The middle stages reflect the progression, from early months of care to several years, during which the caregiver learns more about the illness, gets used to caretaking tasks, finds and uses support services, and adjusts to balancing caregiving with one’s life—including the emotional dimension. The last two stages are the “Transitioning Caregiver,” which addresses the needs of both the caregiver and loved one at the end of life, and “Godspeed Caregiver,” covering a period for two years after death, because the caretaker’s personal journey doesn’t suddenly stop when caretaking needs come to a halt.

SHARING STORIES A support group, though it may sound unappealing to some, can be a lifesaver.

Diane Van Dusen, LMSW, runs a number of support groups for caregivers through her work as clinical manager of the Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance 84 WHOLE LIVING CHRONOGRAM 1/08

Center, which covers 11 counties in the Capital Region. “The biggest thing people take away from a support group,” she says, “is the sense of not being alone. Caretaking can be a very lonely job.The exchange within the group gives people the feeling that someone else understands what they are going through.

It reduces their sense of isolation. They can even laugh together, they can cry— no one’s judging.There is a power in the group that goes beyond what someone can get from individual counseling.” It’s also a great way to share information.

“What works for one person might work for someone else.”

In reality, not everybody thinks they can make time for a once-weekly, or even a once-monthly, group meeting. But there are ways to make it happen, Van Dusen explains. “At some support group sites, such as here at the Marjorie Doyle Rockwell Center in Cohoes, the loved one can spend the hour in the adult day-care program. Or, we suggest the caregiver look for a friend or companion aide, just for that time, because getting support is an essential piece to their ability to provide care.”

Virgilio goes to a once-weekly caregivers’ support group. “It’s the one thing I make time for,” she says, because “unless you’ve cared for someone with Alzheimer’s, you don’t understand. I have to remind myself not to get angry at my mom about the things she does sometimes—that’s where a support group really helps. You learn that certain behaviors and problems are universal.”

Virgilio also learned practical ideas from others. “I took the car down to have a switch put in so you can’t start it unless you know where the switch is. That takes away the battle with mom about whether she can drive. Sometimes she forgets that we already agreed it’s dangerous to drive, and insists on getting in the car to drive somewhere.”

RESCUING THE OVERACHIEVER When a loved one falls ill, it’s understandable to want to do everything possible for them. In the short term, that might be manageable. But in the case of progressive, protracted illness, being an overachieving caregiver is exhausting. Nearly a fourth of family caregivers responding to a 2003 survey by the National Alliance for Caregiving/AARP said they spent at least 40 hours a week tending to a person with dementia; 71 percent of them had cared for someone for more than a year, and a third had done so for at least five years, at that level of time involvement. Two-thirds missed work to accomplish their caregiving responsibilities, and nearly 10 percent turned down promotions or lost job benefits.

William Colagrande, a psychotherapist in Kingston and director of the Institute for Human Development, sees how ordinary people try to tackle this task they never expected. “Unlike a doctor or nurse who chooses to be in the caregiver profession,” he says, “the people I speak to [in therapy] haven’t trained for that. The responsibility suddenly drops on them like the Wicked Witch of the West. They often overcompensate for lack of training by overdoing. They won’t even go out for coffee with a friend, or to a show in the evening, because they feel they can’t leave. They isolate themselves and lose the balance in their lives.”

But how does a caregiver shed tasks that it seems nobody else can, or will, attend to? A starting point is to learn about services in the community. Drawing on just one or two of them may put life back into the manageable zone, and boost mood, energy, patience, and endurance. The person being cared for may enjoy something new, such as interacting with someone else or socializing out of the house.

GRAPPLING WITH GUILT Virgilio is her mother’s only caretaker. For close to five years, she has rarely asked for help, and only recently hired a professional in-home caregiver to give her a break occasionally. “It took me a long time to not feel guilty about going out on my own,” she says.

Colagrande tries to educate people about what he calls “real guilt” versus “false guilt.” In brief, real guilt derives from acts of commission or omission that have harmed another, whereas false guilt is often characterized by an element of wishful thinking: “I should have foreseen this,” “If only I had acted more quickly,” and so on. False guilt is a form of self-punishment emerging from feeling you’re never good enough, or doing enough, to please others.

“We must burst that bubble of false guilt,” Colagrande emphasizes. “People must realize that going out isn’t a transgression. It’s incumbent that they take

breaks, get help, relax.” He compares it to that scenario that flight attendants tell you about in case of emergency: Put on your own oxygen mask first, so you’ll survive to help others.

There’s another type of guilt to release: that of fudging the truth or outright lying to your loved one. Says Virgilio, “I’ve come to grips with lying, or saying things that aren’t correct, or agreeing with things that I know aren’t right.

Sometimes it makes her cry when I insist that I’m right. It took me a long time to just let go of being right and agreeing with what she wants to hear.” Her mother doesn’t recall the conversations later anyway, and better to enjoy the moment instead of spending time arguing, Virgilio advises.

REWARDS OF CAREGIVING In spite of significant challenges, the benefits of caring for a loved one with a progressive illness are there for the gleaning. Deana Simpson, a registered nurse who created a website to help those dealing with CJD (Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, a rare form of dementia) after her mother died of the illness, spoke at a caregiver conference a few months back in the Hudson Valley. Simpson offered these positive outcomes from taking care of a dying loved one, which she’s discovered firsthand: • Connecting more deeply or reconnecting with the loved one; • Learning compassion; • Finding personal fortitude and empowerment; • Enhancing one’s resourcefulness and problem-solving abilities; • Learning that daunting challenges are surmountable.

A heightened awareness of one’s own mortality, and questions about spirit and of life’s meaning, also visit the caregiver. It’s not selfish to consider these things while caring for another. In fact, says Colagrande, it’s a good time to explore the spiritual dimension of your life. “Consider it a learning experience on the spiritual level and ask yourself: ‘In what direction does this circumstance point me as a new way to grow?’ Approaching it from this point of view offers the opportunity to impart meaning and hope to a task that is otherwise capable of drowning us in a sea of hopelessness and despair.”

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OFF THE HOOK FREEING ONESELF FROM THOSE NONVERBAL SNARES

BY BLAIR GLASER

Although you may work in a very respectable profession, it is also likely that at some point you have been a hooker. No, no, not in the street-walking sense, but on the energetic and emotional plane. “Hooking” is a phenomenon in which a line of energy is cast from one person into another person’s space where, like a fishhook, it attaches firmly into the solar plexus and/or other energy centers of the body.

When someone hooks you, it feels like a tug in your center or on your entire being. Sometimes being hooked feels nice, such as when someone is charming the pants off of you. Other times it feels awful, such as when someone lays a guilt trip on you. And when you seduce, guilt trip, or otherwise manipulate others, you become the hooker.

Some people hook others intentionally, but it mostly occurs with little or no awareness. Hooking, at its worst, is initiated from insecurity or neediness, and plugs right into those same aspects of others. Very insecure people who are skilled at hooking will instinctively sense another’s weaknesses, find the “holes” in another’s aura (energetic field), and attempt to “latch on” in order to boost their self-esteem. Competitive people can hook with a piercing glance or remark that deflates the hookee and evokes a state of insecurity and selfdoubt. Think of the cinematic portrayals of a powerful older matron putting an ingénue “in her place” (recent example: The Maryl Streep/Anne Hathaway relationship in The Devil Wears Prada). Beauty magazines and advertisements often hook us by preying on our diminished sense of self.

Here are some examples of hooking scenarios and the effects they can have: Hooked with Guilt A young man brings his girlfriend home for a holiday. He reveals that they won’t be staying overnight as they have a plane to catch; he is taking her away for the weekend. His mother, who was expecting otherwise, implies that without the son’s presence, his ailing father and nephews will suffer. Despite feeling guilty, the couple leaves as planned—but bicker the entire time, in the aftermath of the hooking.

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Hooked with Enchantment At an empowerment retreat, several distinguished and married women are mysteriously transformed into panting puppies around the charismatic leader.

The leader had hooked them by adorning each one with personal attention, penetrating them with his insights, and creating a feeling of intimacy.

Hooked by Jealousy/Competition A junior executive presents an idea to the board and it is very well received. The executive’s boss offers congratulations, but, considering the firm’s recent budgetary limitations, sympathetically adds, “Ugh, the timing—you know it’s not going anywhere, right?” The junior executive resumes the day with a gnawing feeling of failure.

Hooked through Sexual Energy A woman walks into a bar, scans the crowd, zeroes in on a target, and moves toward him. She gazes seductively, smiles briefly, and orders a drink. As if on cue, he offers to pay for it. They eventually go home together. Three weeks later, he moves in with her.

Sexual hooking is a very popular way to reel in the opposite sex. When someone hooks you sexually, it can feel like an electric charge running through your body, inciting a sense of urgency. Sexual hooking can eventually lead to meaningful relationships, albeit ones that are often laced with lots of drama and possessiveness. But there is a difference between being hooked on someone and forming a healthy attachment to them. Being hooked on someone is experienced as a desperate need for the other in order to survive, and a belief that all happiness comes from the other. By contrast, building a healthy attachment involves two whole parties who derive pleasure from each other’s company, and come to depend on one another while creating a relationship based on similar values, true affinity, and the choice to love each other.

Why is it important to be aware of hooking if it is happening all around us? Because it is very powerful. Sometimes it’s done intentionally, with good intent, such as when parents reward their children for behaviors they want

(or don’t want) to see, or when concerned loved ones plan an intervention to “manipulate” a substance abuser into getting treatment. But when hooking occurs with underlying negative intent, even if done unconsciously, it knocks us off center, leaving us feeling obsessed, cloudy, or drained, and powerless. When we feel powerless we act out of alignment with our truest selves, which has an adverse impact on us and on those we love.

The good news is, you can’t be hooked unless there is a space in you that is available for it. If at the end of this past holiday season, for instance, you felt drained in ways that weren’t just a result of too much partying, and your energy field looks like a Christmas tree with everyone’s ornamental hooks still hanging from your branches, it may be time to get serious about building resistance to others’ hooks.

If you practice raising your awareness about where people hook you, and how you let them, you can create strength inside that leaves no place for the hooks to stick. Below are some tools to help you stay off the hook as you move through the new year:

CREATIVITY Creativity requires focus and inspiration: two forces that can aid in the defense against hooks. If you find yourself with people who hook you into feeling their negative energy, engage them in something creative. Pull out your guitar, open that coffee table photography book, or get them to help with cooking. This way you can be sociable while creatively engaged.

REAL FUN Hooks don’t stick well to people who are fully engaged in genuine fun. I recently watched a bunch of guys playing touch football. They said some really nasty things to each other in the spirit of competition (one even “dissed” another’s girlfriend!), but they seemed to recycle the effects of the blows back into the game. The more sober kind of fun works best, since using too much alcohol or other substances to avoid the blows of hooks can lead to depressive states that leave more room for hooks. Fun can also ease the aftermath of a hook that has found its mark. The couple described earlier, for example, who bickered during their weekend after being hooked by guilt, might have lightened and perhaps banished the effects by becoming fully engaged in learning how to water ski. Even making fun of their bickering might have helped.

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“RIGHT” HOOK Feeling punched in the stomach by the hostile hook of a supposed loved one? Punch them back with humor, directness, and honesty. I once, in reaction to being hooked, pulled an imaginary dart out from my heart, faced the perpetrator, and said with a penetrating smile, “I believe this belongs to you.” Expressing directly to the hooker how it feels, without blame or expectation of changing the other, is clean. Asking someone directly for what you want is clean. Both are great, hookless ways of communicating.

IMAGINATION Sit quietly and use your imagination to envision what your aura (energy field) might look like. Then, strengthen it with playful imagery, such as by imagining the area around you infused with protective blue or purple light, or envisioning your body in a coat of rubber armor that you put on when you interact with hookers. I like to practice something I playfully call “auric caulking”: imagining where the holes in my aura are that allow hooking energy in and then sealing them up. Practicing this on a regular basis really helps close off places where others can hook you.

In addition, if while reading this you had the creeping sensation of “Hmmm, I do that,” it might be time to do some soul searching. Without beating yourself up for being a shameless hooker, ask yourself honest questions like “What keeps me from directly expressing my disappointment or need to others?” and “What inside me gets threatened by another’s happiness or success?” The courage in asking these questions and heeding the answers can help free you from hooking others, and you’ll feel better about yourself.

And remember, regardless of who you hook or what hooks may come, love yourself no matter what.

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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Judith Muir — The Alexander Technique (845) 677-5871

The Alexander Technique is a simple practical skill that when applied to ourselves enhances coordination, promoting mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

Improve the quality of your life by learning how to do less to achieve more. Judith Muir, AmSAT.

APOTHECARY Monarda Herbal Apothecary (845) 339-2562 www.monarda.net In honoring the diversity, uniqueness, and strength of nature for nourishment and healing, we offer organic and ecologically wildcrafted herbs using tradition as our guide. Certified Organic Alcohol Tinctures, Teas, Salves, Essential Oils, and more. Product Catalog $1. Workshops and Internships.

AROMATHERAPY Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com

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Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves.

It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica. ART® is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up. ART® works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART® doctors are trained in over 500 hands on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART® doctors attend yearly continuing education and re-certification by ART®.

Apothecary specializes in Asian and native medicinal herbs (many local/organically-grown!), tinctures, teas, and more. Herbal Studies Classes begin in May. Main office, apothecary in Kingston; home office, gardens in Accord.

japter@ulster.net See also Massage Therapy.

BODY-CENTERED THERAPY Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services (845) 485-5933 By integrating traditional and alternative therapy/healing approaches, including Body-Centered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Tensession psycho-spiritual group for women in recovery.

Offices in Poughkeepsie and New Paltz.

CHIROPRACTIC Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 Dr. David Ness is a Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider and Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner specializing in helping athletes and active people quickly relieve their pain and heal their injuries.

In addition to providing traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions in order to restore mobility, flexibility, and strength faster than standard treatments will allow. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment, call Dr. Ness for an appointment today.

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Bless Your Hearth (845) 706-8447 Soundofspheres@aol.com Experienced, Professional, Non-Toxic Cleaning and Organizing Service. Pet Sitting. Home/Business Blessings. Excellent References.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Connie Schneider, Advanced Level I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1516 Colon Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle, cleansing process. Clean and private office. A healthy functioning colon can decrease internal toxicity and improve digestion; basics for a healthy body. See display ad.

COOKING CLASSES Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition (845) 687-9666 www.nourishingwisdom.com Holly’s Cooking Classes have been inspiring people to cook since 1999, and will inspire you too! We use seasonal, organic ingredients including produce from local farms. At the end of each class we sit around the table to enjoy a delicious feast. So come on your own or grab a friend, and join us for a great class that is sure to spark creativity in your kitchen!

Visit us online or call for a list of upcoming classes.

COSMETIC & PLASTIC SURGERY Facial Plastic, Reconstructive & Laser Surgery, PLLC M. T. Abraham, MD, FACS (845) 454-8025 www.NYfaceMD.com Dr. Abraham is Double Board Certified and a Clinical Instructor in Facial Plastic Surgery. He is an expert in the latest minimally invasive techniques (Botox™, Restylane™, Thermage™, Thread Lifts, Lifestyle Lifts, IPL Laser Hair, and Vein Treatments), and specializes in rhinoplasty. Offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and NYC with affiliated MediSpas.

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IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776. Fax: (845) 331-6624 www.ionedreams.org IONE is psycho-spiritual therapist, Qi Healer, and inter-faith minister, who is director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. Specializing in myth and heritage, dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates writing workshops and Women’s Mysteries programs and leads retreats to sacred locations throughout the world.

An author and playwright, her works include Pride of Family; Four Generations of

American Women of Color and Listening in Dreams. Offices in Kingston and New York City.

Priscilla A. Bright, MA — Energy Healer/Counselor Kingston, NY (845) 688-7175 Specializing in women’s stress, emotional issues, and physical illness, including stress-related anxiety, depression, and physical burnout. Women in transition, businesswomen, mothers, all welcome.

Experienced counselor. Faculty, Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Convenient offices in Kingston and New Paltz. Initial phone consultation no charge.

DANCE Barushka Belly Dance Tribal Belly Dance Classes Kingston, NY (917) 232-3623 www.barushkadance.com Stretch, tone & learn fun and sumptuous movements: undulations, shimmies, hip bumps, snake arms & more. Tribal Style Belly Dance movements with a dash of Indian & Flamenco. Take these sassy moves to the dance floor, as a soloist or in a troupe. For more information please go to www.barushkadance.com. Classes are Thursday Evenings.

DENTISTRY The Center For Advanced Dentistry — Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry. com Setting the standard for excellence in dentistry for more than 25 years, the Center for Advanced Dentistry attracts clients from throughout the northeast and abroad. Their client-centered approach to providing comprehensive dental services for adults and children includes old-school care and concern combined with the latest technologies. The office is conveniently located 1.5 miles east of the NYS Thruway, exit 18.

Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com With over 35 years experience, Tischler Dental is the leading team of dental care experts in the area. Dr. Michael Tischler is currently one of only two Board Certified Implant Dentists in the Hudson Valley Region of NYS and one of only 300 dentists in the world to have achieved this honor. Sedation dentistry, acupuncture with dental treatment, dental implant surgery, cosmetic makeover procedures, and gum surgery are just a few of the many unique services Tischler Dental offers. Their practice philosophy is that each modality of dental treatment is performed by the practitioner that is best trained in that area. Working as a team, they deliver ideal dental care.

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Counseling & Psychotherapy CENTER FOR YOGA & MEDITATION

403 Warren, 3rd Floor, Hudson, NY 518-828-1034 www.sadhanayogahudson.com

ARiella Morris, LCSW-R EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness Body-Centered and Talk Therapy for Trauma, Abuse, Relationships, Accidents, Illness/Surgery & the hurts of life (Sliding scale) 853-3325

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Nancy Plumer, MS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Energy/Spiritual Healing & Sacred Ceremony (845) 687-2252 Nancy is an intuitive healer, teacher, and guide. Integrates visualization, breath work, and grounding with her hands-on touch to support physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. She has helped people with life-threatening illnesses as well as those who have chosen the path of higher levels of consciousness. A certified One Light Healing Touch Instructor and Practitioner, a long time Kripalu yoga teacher, and a gifted intuitive. Offices in New Paltz and Stone Ridge; distance healings or telephone consultations. She also facilitates sacred ceremonies. Call for a consultation.

Earthbound Herbs and Acupuncture (845) 339-5653 www.earthboundapothecary.com See also Acupuncture.

HOLISTIC HEALTH John M. Carroll, Healer Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 John Carroll is an intuitive healer, teacher, and spiritual counselor who integrates mental imagery with the God-given gift of his hands. John has helped individuals suffering from acute and chronic disorders, including back problems and cancer. Remote healings and telephone sessions. Call for consultation.

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Feng Shui Solutions 72 North Slope Road, Shokan, NY (845) 231-0801 fengshuisolutions@hotmail.com Discover the richness of the ancient principles of Feng Shui applied to modern life and enjoy a more harmonious and balanced existence. Our consultations are aimed at improving family relationships, health and prosperity; clearing negative energy from any space; improving business viability; and selecting or designing the perfect home or office.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH Hyde Park, NY (845) 876-6753 A registered nurse with a BA in psychology since 1980, Kary is certified in Ericksonian Hypnosis, Hypnobirthing, and Complementary Medical Hypnotism, hypnocoaching with the National Guild.

She has also studied interactive imagery for nurses. By weaving her own healing journey and education into her work, she helps to assist others in accessing their inner resources and healing potential.

FITNESS TRAINERS Body Language â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jerome Downey 7 Grand Street, Kingston, NY (845) 224-9173 www.bodylanguage.com Body Language is a personal fitness training studio offering personalized exercise plans, nutritional counseling, education for longevity, diet, correct posture, balance, pain management, stress relief, and healthy solutions for fatigue, chronic back pain, osteoporosis, and arthritis.

You deserve a better body.

HEALTH & HEALING FACILITIES The Sanctuary: A Place for Healing (845) 255-3337 A quaint healing center in a quiet part of downtown New Paltz. Offering Craniosacral Therapy, Massage, Psychotherapy, Reiki, Dr. Hauschka Facials, Counseling, Restorative Yoga, and Kabbalistic Healing. Classes in Spontaneous Theater, Toning, NVC, Pathwork. Call for an appointment.

HEALTH FOOD Pleasant Stone Farm 130 Dolson Avenue, Middletown, NY (845) 343-4040

Margaret A. Cribbinâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Certified Hypnotherapist 658 Aaron Court, Kingston, NY (845) 430-8249 Over 20 years ago, Margaret stopped smoking through hypnosis. Now she is sharing the gift she received with others.

Give your loved ones the gift of health for the holidays with a gift certificate for hypnosis. Stop Smoking. Lose Weight.

Improve Athletic Performance. Overcome Phobias. A perfect chance to guarantee your New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resolutions!

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHt. New Paltz/Kingston, 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.

Other issues. Change your outlook. Gain Control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology.

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Robert Michaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;el Esformes Ashokan, NY (845) 657-9873 Meditation instruction, classes in Jewish mysticism, individual spiritual direction sessions, distinctive and creative life-

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cycle ceremonies (including B’nai Mitzvah and Jewish and interfaith weddings).

Chazzan Micha’el offers his services as Cantor, ritual officiant, teacher, tutor, and certified spiritual director (Lev Shomea).

COME TO SPROUT CREEK FARM MARKET! Grass-fed cheese from our own Guernsey and Jersey Cows...

Free from artificial antibiotics and hormones While you’re here you can also pick up...

Grass Fed Pork, Veal, and Beef as well as Remsberger Farms Honey and Maple Syrup.

Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC (845) 485-5933 Kabbalistic Healing in person and long distance.Six-session Introduction to Kabbalistic Healing based on the work of Jason Shulman. See also Body-Centered Therapy.

Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks!

LIFE COACHING 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie NY 12603 www.sproutcreekfarm.org ~ 845-485-9885 ~ cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org Wednesday–Saturday 10–6

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Shirley Stone, MBA, Certified Empowerment Life Coach Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2194 www.findingthecourage.com Shirley@findingthecourage.com Want to convert fear into courage, stress into power, depression into joy, worry into satisfaction? Consider empowerment life coaching. Get clarity on the life you want plus the tools and techniques to make your dreams a reality. Stop being a problem solver and become a vision creator.

Sidney Gale Consultants Pine Bush, NY (845) 978-0548 Certified NLP Master Practitioner/Life Coach. Neuro Linguistic Master Practitioner. An exciting, new and fulfilling life is in your reach. Set your goals and then make it happen. Make your visions a reality. What are you waiting for? Start today. Office and phone appointments available. Business and Divorce coaching also available. Visa /MC accepted.

MASSAGE THERAPY

Specializing in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Caring for infants, children, adolescents & adults Open Tuesday thru Saturday Call for an appointment 518-567-9977 197 County Route 10, Germantown, New York 12526

Conscious Body—Ellen Ronis McCallum, L.M.T. 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845) 658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com Offering deep, sensitive, and eclectic massage therapy with over 22 years of experience as a licensed Massage Therapist working with a wide variety of body types and physical/medical/emotional issues. Techniques included: deep tissue, Swedish, Craniosacral, energy balancing, and chi nei tsang (an ancient Chinese abdominal and organ chi massage). Hot Stone Massage and aromatherapy are also offered. Gift certificates available.

Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com japter@ulster.net Offering luxurious massage therapy, including Raindrop Technique, with therapeutic essential oils to relieve stress, boost the immune system, and address system imbalances. Natural animal care, individual consultations for a healthy home and personal concerns, spa consultant, classes, and keynotes.

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ing Essential Oils. For more information, contact Joan Apter.

Madhuri Yoga & Massage 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com Healing… with a twist! A tranquil healing space in downtown New Paltz offering treatments and products based on ancient Yogic principles. Our signature Renewal Massage is 80 minutes of flowing, intuitive bodywork using organic oils and a personalized aromatherapy blend to bring body, mind & spirit back to balance. Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga for the Special Child®, and master-level Reiki; 15 years experience. Gift Certificates available. Alice Madhuri Velky LMT, RYT. Michelle Renar L.M.T 224 Fair Street, Kingston, NY (914) 388-5007 Custom Massage therapy for all body types and conditions. Modalities include: Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Swedish, Shiatsu. I also offer Aromatherapy massage using the purest grades of essential oils.

Come enjoy a therapeutic touch tailored to your specific needs. Gift Certificates available. Appointment only.

Sarah Samuels (LMT) Solomon Chiropractic 1145 Route 55 Suite 5, Lagrangeville, NY (845) 430-2266 sarahbethsam@yahoo.com Sarah Samuels is a graduate of the Swedish Institute of Massage Therapy.

Licensed and practicing since 2001, she specializes in Deep Tissue, Trigger Point, Medical Massage, and Swedish massage, offering both table and chair massage. Sarah is available by appointment at Solomon Chiropractic or can meet at your workplace by appointment. Sarah is also available for corporate meetings and gatherings. Gift Certificates available. For more info please call or email.

MIDWIFERY Catskill Mountain Midwifery — Home Birth Services (845) 687-BABY Give birth as you wish, in an environment in which you feel nurtured and secure; where your emotional well-being, privacy, and personal preferences are respected.

Be supported by a tradition that trusts the natural process. Excellent MD consult, hospital backup.

Jennifer Houston, Midwife (518) 678-3154 womanway@gmail.com Since the 1970s Jennifer has been actively involved in childbirth. She is an expert in preserving natural birth and has attended over 3,000 births in hospitals, high-risk medical centers, birth centers, and homes. She is uniquely qualified to provide women with personal, safe, and supportive pregnancy and birth care in their homes. Certified Nurse Midwife and NYS licensed with excellent medical backup.

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NUTRITION Holly Anne Shelowitz, CNC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Director of Nourishing Wisdom Nutrition (845) 687-9666 www.nourishingwisdom.com In addition to private sessions, our programs include cooking classes, teaching tangible ways to incorporate nourishing foods into your life. Shopping trips to natural food stores and local farms are part of our work together, as well as telephone classes and retreats. For the most effective and supportive nutrition counseling you will ever experience, call us or visit us online. Long-distance telephone clients welcome.

Jill Malden, RD, LMSW 1 Water Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 489-4732 Prominent Nutritionist specializing in eating behavior and eating disorders for 15 years. Warm, nonjudgmental treatment. Understand the effects of nutrition on your mood, anxiety level, cravings, concentration, energy level, and sleep, in addition to body weight. Recover from your eating issues and enjoy a full life!

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. We are perceptive, experienced, and certified instructors who would love to help you achieve your goals whatever your age or level of fitness. Private and semi private apparatus and mat classes available. Visit our studio on main street in Rosendale.

Moving Body 276 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-7715 www.themovingbody.com Pilates of New Paltz 12 North Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-0559 www.pilatesnewpaltz.com This studio offers caring, experienced, and certified instruction with fully equipped facilities. Each student receives detailed attention to his/her needs while maintaining the energizing flow of the pilates system. Hours are flexible enough to accmomodate any schedule.

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PSYCHOLOGISTS Emily L. Fucheck, Psy.D. (845) 380-0023 Licensed psychologist. Doctorate in clinical psychology, post-doctoral training focused on adolescents and young adults, post-graduate candidate for certification in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Offering psychotherapeutic work for adults and adolescents.

Additional opportunity available for intensive, supervised psychoanalytic treatment at substantial fee reduction for appropriate individual. Located across from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie.

Peter M. del Rosario, PhD 199 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (914) 262-8595 Licensed psychologist. Insight-oriented, culturally sensitive psychotherapy for adults and adolescents concerned with: relationship difficulties, codependency, depression, anxiety, sexual/physical trauma, grief and bereavement, eating disorders, dealing with divorce, gay/ lesbian issues. Free initial consult.

PILATES Conscious Body 426 Main Street, Rosendale, NY (845 )658-8400 www.consciousbodyonline.com Ellen@consciousbodyonline.com

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Applied Osteopathy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO 138 Market Street, Rhinebeck (845) 876-1700 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge (845) 687-7589 257 Main Street, New Paltz (845) 256-9884 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are New York State Licensed Osteopathic physicians specializing in Cranial Osteopathy. As specialists in Osteopathic manipulation, we are dedicated to the traditional philosophy and hands-on treatment of our predecessors. We have studied with Robert Fulford, DO, Viola Freyman, DO, James Jealous, DO, and Bonnie Gintis, DO, and completed a two-year residency in Osteopathic Manipulation. We treat newborns, children, and adults. By Appointment. For more information call or visit the website.

Psychically Speaking (845) 626-4895 or (212) 714-8125 www.psychicallyspeaking.com gail@psychicallyspeaking.com Psychic Consultations by Gail Petronio, internationally renowned psychic. Over 20 years experience. It is my sincere hope to offer my intuitive abilities and insights as a means to provide awareness of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and destiny. Sessions are conducted in person or by telephone.

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Psychotherapist. Individual, family, and group sessions for adolescents and adults. Currently accepting registration for It’s a Girl Thing: an expressive arts therapy group for adolescent girls, and The Healing Circle: an adult bereavement group offering a safe place to begin the healing process after the death of a loved one. Most insurances accepted.

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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 (845) 255-8039 www.deepclay.com deepclay@mac.com Michelle Rhodes LMSW ATR-BC. Shortterm counseling and in-depth psychoanalytic arts-based psychotherapy.

Activates creative imagination to enhance healing and problem solving for life transitions, bereavement, trauma, and dissociative disorders. Women’s group and individual studio sessions. Children, adults, and teens.

Dianne Weisselberg, MSW, LMSW (845) 688-7205 dweisselberg@hvc.rr.com Individual Therapy, Grief Work and Personal Mythology. Stuck? Overwhelmed?

Frustrated? Depressed? THERE IS ANOTHER WAY! Dianne Weisselberg has over 16 years experience in the field of Counseling and over 8 years of training in Depth Psychology. Sliding Scale fees. Located convenient to Woodstock, Phoenicia, and Shandaken.

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

Jamie O’Neil, LCSW-R Rhinebeck & Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 876-7600 Offering a variety of approaches, both short and long-term to help you regain a sense of personal control, meaning, and connections in your life. Specializing in mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, abuse, addictions, loss, eating disorders, and relationship/communication difficulties. Serving individuals and couples; adults and adolescents.

Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. (845) 679-7005 www.realizationcenter.com Offering traditional psychotherapy and EMDR for healing from trauma and changing limiting beliefs, breathwork for relieving stress and breathing difficulties, 98

and Realization Process, a body-oriented meditation for deepening contact with oneself and others. For individuals and couples. NY State licensed. Offices in Kingston, Willow, and NYC. Judy Swallow, MA, TEP 25 Harrington Street, New Paltz, NY Integrative body/mind therapist using Rubenfeld synergy and psychodrama in her work with individuals, couples, groups, and families. Inquire for workshops and training, as well as therapy.

Kent Babcock, MSW, LMSW — Counseling & Psychotherapy (845) 679-5511 x304 Development of solutions through simple self-observation, reflection, and conversation. Short- or long-term work around difficult relationships; life or career transitions; ethical, spiritual, or psychic dilemmas; and creative hurdles. Roots in yoga, dreamwork, spiritual psychology, and existential psychotherapy. Sliding scale.

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneidertherapist.com Psychotherapy for adults and adolescents. Counseling and guidance for special parent issues: helping children thru divorce, coping with a new single life and communicating with troubled teens.

Long or short term therapy and EMDR.

REIKI The Sanctuary — Reiki New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3337x2 Rev. Denise Meyer offers Usui Reiki treatments. Experience the benefits of deep relaxation and energetic releases through this method of healing touch. Reiki energy supports and heals the mind, body, heart, and spirit through the delivery of Light Energy into the energy field of the receiver.

SCHOOLS Institute of Transpersonal Psychology ITP is an accredited graduate psychology school offering clinical and nonclinical certificates, MA and PhD degrees. The curriculum combines mind, body, and spiritual inquiry with scholarly research and self-discovery. Graduates have strong clinical skills and can communicate in a variety of complex relational circumstances.

SPAS & RESORTS Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-1000 www.emersonresort.com There is a Silk Road running through the Hudson Valley. Introducing the new Emerson Resort & Spa. A place just minutes from Woodstock offering the comforting sense that one is no longer part of the outside world. The new Spa, with 10 beautifully designed treatment

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rooms, celebrates the old-world traditions of India and the Orients with Ayurvedic rituals and Japanese and Chinese therapies. Modern spa-goers will also appreciate more well-known treatments like Swedish, sports, and deep tissue massage, manicures, facials, and body wraps. Individually-tailored treatments are created by the experienced therapists who are skilled at delivering virtually all the Emerson Spa’s 40+ treatments.

Spend the day enjoying the Spa’s hot tubs, steam showers, sauna, resistance pool, cardio equipment, yoga/meditation room, and relaxation area... all included with your Spa visit. Day spa appointments available.

SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY Patricia Lee Rode, M.A. CCC-SLP (646) 729-6633 Speech Language Pathologist with ten years experience providing diagnostic/ therapeutic services for children/adults with speech/language delays and neurological disorders. Specializing in Autistic Spectrum Disorders, PDD, ADHD, Apraxia, memory and language related disorders. Trained in P.R.O.M.P.T. and Hippotherapy. Offer individual therapy and social skills groups. Offices in NYC/ Rhinebeck.

The single most important step an individual can take to help save the planet’s precious resources, improve and protect one’s health, and stop the senseless slaughter of over 50 billion animals a year...is to Go Vegan. What could make you feel better about yourself than knowing you are helping the planet, your own health, and the lives of countless animals all at the same time? If the idea is daunting and seems undoable to you, then let your personal Vegan Lifestyle Coach take you through steps A to Z. Whether you’re a cattle rancher eating meat three times a day or a lacto-vegetarian wanting to give up dairy, it’s a process that can be fun, easy, and meaningful. You can do it easily with the proper support, guidance, and encouragement from your Vegan Lifestyle Coach.

YOGA Madhuri Yoga & Massage 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 797-4124 www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com Healing… with a twist! Yoga for the Special Child®, Gentle and Beginners’ Hatha for special populations; Therapeutic Yoga and one-on-one Yoga Sessions.

Gift Certificates available. Alice Madhuri Velky, LMT, RYT, 69 Main St, New Paltz, NY. Call 845-797-4124 or visit www.MadhuriYogaSpa.com for more info.

SPIRITUAL Healing, Pathwork & Channeling by Flowing Spirit Guidance (845) 679-8989 www.flowingspirit.com It is our birthright to experience the abundance of the universe, the deep love of God, and our own divinity! It is also our birthright to share our own unique gifts with the world. We long to do it. So why don’t we? Our imperfections get in the way. As we purify, we experience more and more fully the love and the abundance of God’s universe. We can have it in any moment. We can learn to purify our imperfections AND experience heaven on earth. Jaffe Institute Spiritual Healing; Pathwork and Channeling available. Contact Joel Walzer for sessions.

TAROT Tarot-on-the-Hudson—Rachel Pollack Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-5797 rachel@rachelpollack.com Exploratory, experiential play with the Tarot as oracle and sacred tool, in a monthly class, with Certified Tarot Grand Master and international Tarot author Rachel Pollack. All levels welcome. Tarot Readings in person or by phone.

VEGAN LIFESTYLES Andrew Glick — Vegan Lifestyle Coach (845) 679-7979 www.meatfreezone.org andy@meatfreezone.org

Satya Yoga Center Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2528 www.satyayogarhinebeck.com Satya Hudson Valley Yoga Center is located in the heart of Rhinebeck village, on the third floor of the Rhinebeck Department Store building. We offer classes for all levels, 7 days a week. There is no need to pre-register: we invite you to just show up.

The Living Seed 521 Main Street (Route 299, across from Econo Lodge), New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8212 www.thelivingseed.com Open to the community for over 5 years.

Inspiring movements of inner freedom and awareness. We offer Yoga classes for all levels of students, gentle/beginner to advanced. Including pre- and postnatal Yoga, family and kids yoga, as well as a variety of dance classes, massage, acupuncture, sauna and organic Yoga clothing.

YOGA & PILATES All Sport Fishkill Health & Fitness Club 17 Old Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 896-5678 allsportfishkill.com activities@allsportfishkill.com All Sport Fishkill offers a variety of yoga classes for all levels. Our classes help members reduce stress, lose weight, and improve their fitness levels. All yoga classes are free with club membership.

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A group designed especially for teenage girls focusing on issues of adolescence: relationships, school, dealing with parents, coping with teen stress, and more.

Group sessions include expressive art activities - itâ&#x20AC;&#x203A;s not all talk!

Group Meditation and Individual Treatment Stress-related illness, chronic pain, anxiety/depression, insomnia, phobia, weight and smoking.

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Die Grenzen Meiner Sprache, K. Rakoll, limited edition digital print, 2007.

The Limits of Language According to the Book of Genesis, all of humanity originally shared one language, and all people lived in one city, Babel, where they gathered to build a tower that would reach heaven. God prevented them, however, by “confounding” their language, and scattering them over the earth.

“The Secret Tongues of Babel” at the BeGallery in High Falls, is a response to this story. The artist K. Rakoll has created a phonetic alphabet that can express every human language. His writing, which is also his art, appears in silkscreens, digital prints, paintings ,and sculpture—and a large sliding tile puzzle. (We all played with sliding tile puzzles when we were eight years old. They are small handheld squares with eight movable tiles, where you must place the numbers in order.) Night Cube is a black cube with illuminated letters from K. Rakoll’s alphabet, installed on the porch of the gallery.

There are quotations from Shakespeare and from Jorge Luis Borges in Rakoll’s work.

One large print, 5’ x 4’, quotes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The boundaries of my language are the boundaries of my world.” The words are written in a circle.

Another says, “In the beginning was the Word,” in German. Of course, you can’t read any of these writings. The alphabet looks like the notation of hyper-intelligent space aliens in a 1950s comic book. (A pamphlet instructs you how to translate each symbol into a sound.)

K. Rakoll’s alphabet was born in 1994, when Rakoll was visiting a friend in Esopus.

He had recently bought a 600-year-old Moorish house in southern Spain, and had become fascinated with its arches. K. Rakoll laid out many drawings of the arches on the floor of the house in Esopus. The writer Sid Hite looked down at the drawings from

a balcony, and asked: “So what is this, some kind of alphabet?”

K. Rakoll took this as a sign. He commenced a year of study of phonetics and geometry. At the same time he took his new name, based on the Spanish word caracol, which means “snail.” Then he began creating his alphabet, influenced by the Islamic designs in the Alhambra.

The number of letters in the alphabet is constantly expanding. At this point it’s 114, Rakoll told me, but he expects the number to rise to 140 by the end of 2008. Each time he discovers a new sound, he adds a letter. Most recently, he’s been researching Korean with a friend who speaks the language.

The artist himself is fluent in German, English, Russian, French, and Spanish. These tongues reflect his personal history. Born in Germany, he dropped out of art school in Berlin, and moved to New York City in 1989. After a year, he relocated to New Zealand, and later to Moscow. He has also lived in France and Holland. Currently, K. Rakoll resides in Madrid.

Every alphabet has a politics. English—written in the “Roman alphabet”—has become the universal language because the English conquered the world. K. Rakoll presents an alphabet promoted by a global artist, not an army or navy.

Using K. Rakoll’s alphabet, builders and laborers from around the earth could erect a new Tower of Babel. And this time, perhaps, they will reach heaven.

“K. Rakoll: The Secret Tongues of Babel” is at BeGallery, 11 Mohonk Road in High Falls, through January 7. (845) 687-0660; www.begallery.com.

—Sparrow

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Goofy Eloquence John Prine didn’t want to do an interview. After more than 35 years making music, he claims he’s said all he has to say in that forum. He prefers his songs to speak for him.

Prine’s debut album, John Prine, was released in 1971 and got him hailed as a “new Dylan,” a singer-songwriter’s kiss of death. He managed to shake off that jinx, and ever since has been writing songs that are, by turns, tender, joyful, droll, poignant, eloquent, and sometimes just plain goofy. Indeed, that’s the name of one of his standards, “It’s a Big Old Goofy World,” a song made up entirely of similes, whose nonsense verses—’cause if you lie like a rug / and you don’t give a damn / you’re never gonna be / as happy as a clam—nevertheless remain both endearing and true.

Prine was born outside Chicago in 1946 and raised in rural Kentucky. He moved back to the Windy City in the 1960s, where he worked as a mailman and wrote songs while walking his route. He came up in the singer-songwriter scene there with fellow songster and kindred spirit Steve Goodman, who introduced Prine’s work to Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson helped facilitate Prine’s signing with his first major label, Atlantic Records.

Prine penned many of his most timeless tunes in the 1970s, like the colorful, “Grandpa was a Carpenter,” about his grandfather who was level on the level / and shaved even every door / and voted for Eisenhower / ’cause Lincoln won the war; the sly “Dear Abby,” which lampoons the advice columnist: Dear Abby, Dear Abby / Well I never thought / That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught / We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze / With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees / Signed Just Married; and the melancholy, often-covered “Angel From Montgomery,” a searing portrait of old age that begins, I am an old woman / named after my mother / my old man’s another / child that’s grown old / If dreams were lightnin’ / and thunder were desire / this old house would’ve burned down / a long time ago.

Tired of corporate record companies, Prine formed his own label, Oh Boy Records, in 1979. He won a Grammy for the 1991 The Missing Years (which he made with Tom Petty producer Howie Epstein), then in 1997 was diagnosed with neck cancer, which, following surgery and radiation treatment, made his voice go lower. He didn’t release another album of new material until the 2005 Fair & Square, which revealed that his heart and mischievous humor were still intact. In one of the record’s best songs, “Takin’ a Walk,” he recounts a surprise visit to an ex-lover: I wish you could have been there / when she opened up the door / and looked me in the face / like she never did before / I felt about as welcome / as a Wal-Mart Superstore. For most, however, a visit from the singer is cause for celebration. Prine will appear at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall on January 6 at 7:30pm. (518) 273-0038; www.troymusichall.org.

—David Malachowski

TUESDAY 1

SATURDAY 5

EVENT

ART

Ashokan Fiddle & Dance: New Years Winter Camp Call for times. Live music, workshops, dances. $465/$435 no lodging. Ashokan Field Campus, Olivebridge. 246-2121.

Paint Job 12pm-6pm. Works by Erica Hauser. Go North Gallery, Beacon. gonorthgallery@hotmail.com.

MUSIC

Bits and Pieces 2pm-4pm. A collage of colors, styles and mediums from the Wurtsboro Art Alliance. Wurtsboro Arts Alliance, Wurtsboro. 647-5530.

Met Opera—Hansel and Gretel 1pm. Live, surround-sound, HD transmission of the Metropolitan Opera. $22/$15. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

Met Opera—Hansel and Gretel 1pm. Live, surround-sound, HD transmission of the Metropolitan Opera. Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-0100.

Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WEDNESDAY 2 CLASSES Jewelry Class 5:30pm-8:30pm. $200. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Pastel Techniques 7pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

MUSIC Open Mike 7pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Jay and Molly Old Time Jam 7:30pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

THURSDAY 3 ART The Artists’ Way 7pm-9pm. Guided journey through the workbook.

Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

CLASSES Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

The Boudoir Project 5pm-7pm. Works by Charise Isis. Galerie BMG, Woodstock. 679-0027.

Scientific Wild Ass Guess 5pm-7pm. Installation & other pieces by Laura Moriarty.

Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. kmoca.org.

Engrams: Traces of Memory 5pm-8pm. Recent works by Renee S. Englander, Martha Hughes, Carol Pepper-Cooper, Elizabeth Winchester. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston.

338-0331.

Assemblage, Collage & Paint 6pm-8pm. Works by Erin Wlarath. John Davis Gallery, Hudson. (518) 828-5907.

CLASSES Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

DANCE Old Songs Contra Dance 8pm. $10. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville.

(518) 356-3197.

The Boscobel Story 7:30pm. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-5506x204.

MUSIC

WORKSHOPS

Met Opera—Hansel and Gretel 1pm. Live, surround-sound, HD transmission of the Metropolitan Opera. $22/$15. Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

How to Write An Artist Statement Call for times. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Vickie Russell 1pm. Singer/songwriter. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

Using the Arts to Energize Core Curriculum 8:30am-3:30pm. Professional development for educators. $90. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.

(518) 473-0823.

High Meadow Songs CD Release Party 4pm-6pm. Featuring live music by many musicians. $5.

High Meadow School, Stone Ridge. 687-4855.

Jazz Jam 7pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

Enter the Haggis 7:30pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

John Prine 7:30pm. Top-notch singer/songwriter. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

THE OUTDOORS Mohonk Preserve Singles and Sociables Ski or Hike: Beacon Hill 10am-2pm. $6. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz.

255-0919.

MONDAY 7

FRIDAY 11 CLASSES Painting with Acrylics 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

MUSIC Malinky 8pm. Songs of Scotland. $17. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197.

The Perry Beekman Trio 8pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

The Providers 8pm. Cozzy’s Cafe Trattoria, Pine Plains.

(518) 398-7800.

MUSIC

Friday Night Open Mike 9pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Open Mike 7:30pm-10pm. Featuring poets, singers, musicians, and speakers. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Jeffrey Foucault 9pm. Roots songwriter. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

THEATER

Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

EVENTS

Contemplative Reading in the Temple 7pm. Pearls of Gnostic wisdom for living in the present. Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, Chatham. (518) 392-2799.

Magic: The Fine Art of Deception 11am. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

EVENTS Slide Presentation of the Venice Biennale 7:30pm. The Italian Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-1378.

MUSIC

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

SPOKEN WORD

Magic: The Fine Art of Deception 3pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Alternative to the club scene; barefoot, alcohol- and smoke-free environment. 389 Broadway, Kingston. 658-8319.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division Open House 11am. Bard College - Blum Hall, Annandale-onHudson. 758-7671.

MUSIC

EVENTS

Kidtopia 11am. Uncle Rock and the Playthings. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949.

The Big Shoe 7pm. Bell bottom blues. The Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie. 486-0223.

Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron.

Kingston. Call to register. 876-1176.

WORKSHOPS Life Drawing Workshop Call for times. Contemplative practice to deepen seeing, for adults & teens. Shuster Studio, Hudson.

(518) 567-1332.

SATURDAY 12

CLASSES People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Thai Cooking Class 6pm-8:30pm. Green papaya salad, more. Sukhothai, Beacon. 790-5375.

ART “Beacon Teen Reflections 2008” Opening 2pm-4pm. RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon. 838-2880.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

KIDS

Reiki I & II Certification 10am-5pm. Become a certified Reiki practitioner. Call for location. 336-4609.

Joe Medwick 8pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

CLASSES

Meet Artist Sean Fitzgerald 7pm. East Fishkill Community Library, Hopewell Junction. 226-2145.

Von Robinson and His Own Universe 8pm. With Ratboy. Muddy Cup Coffeehouse, Poughkeepsie. 452-3940.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

CLASSES

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

FRIDAY 4 ART

Painting with Acrylics 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

EVENTS Magic: The Fine Art of Deception 8pm. $18/$16 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC Studio Stu 8pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

John Gorka 9pm. With special guest Erik Balkey. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Seth Davis 9pm. 60 Main, New Paltz. 255-1901.

Nellie McKay 9pm. Schizophrenic voodoo jazz. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

No Brakes 9:30pm. Blues grass. The Dubliner, Poughkeepsie.

454-7322.

The Locks 9pm. $3. East Side Bar and Grill, Walden. 778-2039.

THE OUTDOORS

Sarah Perotta Call for time. Chanteuse. Muddy Cup, Kingston.

338-3881.

Rhododendron Bridge Ski or Hike 10am-2:30pm. Moderate 7 miles. $9 non-members.

Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Nellie McKay 9pm. Schizophrenic voodoo jazz. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Friday Night Open Mike 9pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Kevin McKrell and the Hard Road Ceilidh Band 9pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

WEDNESDAY 9

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

CLASSES

DANCE

Jewelry Class 5:30pm-8:30pm. $200. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

Woodstock Contradance 8pm. With Peter Blue calling. $10/$9 members/children half price. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

246-2121.

Pastel Techniques 7pm-9pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

FILM

KIDS Sudbury School Information Meeting 7pm-9pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston.

679-1002.

SUNDAY 6

THURSDAY 10

CLASSES

CLASSES

Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Scene Study/Technique 6:30pm-9pm. Through January 31. Acting class. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

DANCE

MUSIC

Meet Balkan Folk-Dance Teacher Ron Sanders 7pm. Sample dances. Jewish Community Center, New Paltz. 255-7556.

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

THEATER Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Personal stories told by audience members are brought to life by this improv troupe. $6. Boughton Place, Highland. 691-4118.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Body of War 2pm. Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock. 679-4265.

KIDS Snakes Alive!

Call for times. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson. 534-5506x204.

Fourth Annual Winter Wings: Birding for Children 10:30am-11:30am. $9 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

MUSIC Kidtopia 11am. Dog on Fleas. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock.

331-6949.

Met Opera—Macbeth 1pm. Live, surround-sound, HD transmission of the Metropolitan Opera. $22/$15. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

French Chanson 4pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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Singer/songwriter Rebecca Martin 7pm. With Larry Grenadier. Adam’Space, Shokan.

331-1300.

Axis String Quartet 8pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

Trio Loco 8pm. The Starr Bar, Rhinebeck. 876-6816.

The Crooks 8pm. Walk On and Wave Goodbye record release show. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society 8pm. $20/$5 students. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

Aliz Dobkin and Nedra Johnson 8:30pm. Jazz. $15. Stella’s Lounge, Catskill.

(518) 943-3171.

Steve Lane 8:30pm. Tribute to Hank Williams Sr. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Popa Chubby 9pm. Blues rock. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

David Munnelly Band 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Pema Chodron Book Group 7-9pm. Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron.

Rhinebeck. Call to register. 876-1176.

CLASSES CLASSES People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Thai Cooking Class 6pm-8:30pm. Thai chicken satay, more. Sukhothai, Beacon. 790-5375.

KIDS Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

SUNDAY 13 BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

DANCE Merce Cunningham Dance Company Call for times. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 400-0100.

MUSIC Saugerties Pro Musica 3pm. Featuring Serafin String Quartet Concert.

Saugerties United Methodist Church, Saugerties.

246-5021.

Jazz Jam 7pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

Eric Erickson 7pm. Singer/songwriter. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Undercliff/Overcliff 10am-1:30pm. $9 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MONDAY 14 MUSIC Open Mike 7:30pm-10pm. Featuring poets, singers, musicians, and speakers. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

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Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

EVENTS

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 12am-12am. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Justice and Injustice, Speaking Out 2pm-5pm. Woodstock’s 18th annual birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. $5. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 679-7320.

Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

MUSIC

WORKSHOPS Stained Glass Workshop 9am-5pm. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah.

(914) 232-9555.

TUESDAY 15

CLASSES Intro Lecture on Honeybees and Organic Beekeeping Call for times. $25. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

FILM A Cool Evening of Hot Glass on Film 7:30pm. Unlock the mysteries of glass. $10/$5 members. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah.

(914) 232-9555.

MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WEDNESDAY 16 A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

CLASSES Jewelry Class 5:30pm-8:30pm. $200. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

SATURDAY 19 ART “Made in Woodstock IV” & “Shadows” Opening 5pm-7pm. Group show and solo show by Jared Handelsman. Center for Photography, Woodstock.

679-9957.

CLASSES Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

DANCE Freestyle Frolic 8:30pm. Alternative to the club scene; barefoot, alcohol- and smoke-free environment. 389 Broadway, Kingston. 658-8319.

Momix: Passion 8pm. Innovative dance/movement troupe. Proctor’s, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Alexander Korsantia Call for times. Piano. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

No Brakes 1pm. Hillbilly bluegrass. Peekskill Coffee House, Peekskill. (914) 739-1287.

Jason Cutmore: Piano 2:30pm. Olive Free Library, West Shokan. 657-2482.

Jazz Jam 7pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

Ambe Rubarth & Adam Levy 7pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Guyot Hill 10am-2:30pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

Van Leuven Cabin Ski or Hike 1pm-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

THEATER Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Anatomy of a Murder 3pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

WORKSHOPS

KIDS

Henna Workshop 1pm-4pm. $35. Tipsy Turtle Studio, Highland.

795-4042.

Impressive Fossils 10am. $5/$3 members. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-onHudson. 534-5506x204.

ART

MONDAY 21

Pastel Techniques 7pm-7pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Sudbury School Information Meeting 7pm-9pm. Overview of the school and our educational philosophy. Hudson Valley Sudbury School, Kingston.

679-1002.

Open Mike 7:30pm-10pm. Featuring poets, singers, musicians, and speakers. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

MUSIC

MUSIC

Open Mike 7pm. $4. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Frank Kimbrough Call for times. Jazz pianist’s CD release party and concert. Adam’Space, Shokan. 331-1300.

Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

THURSDAY 17 ART Artists’ Circle 7pm-9pm. Bring works for round table discussion by peers. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

CLASSES

Cafe Chronogram 8pm-10pm. Music by Joe McPhee, spoken word by Jana Martin, art by Molly Rausch. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

MUSIC

Hotflash and the Whoremoans 8:30pm. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

Friday Night Open Mike 9pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

SPOKEN WORD

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Reptile Conservation in New York 7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, CornwallOn-Hudson. 534-5506x204.

CLASSES Exploring the Impressionist Style 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo 7:30pm. Legendary South African group. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy. (518) 273-0038.

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Kidtopia Featuring Uncle Rock 11am. Uncle Rock acoustic. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949.

Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

WV Area History Meetings 6:30pm. Walker Valley Fire House, Walker Valley.

895-2611.

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THEATER

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT Atelier-Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Off-Hour Rockers 9pm. Cheeseburger in Paradise, Middletown.

343-9252.

SUNDAY 20

Bohm-based Dialogue Group 4pm-6pm. Call for location. 336-8879.

Reiki I & II Certification 10am-5pm. Become a certified Reiki practitioner. Call for location. 336-4609.

CLASSES

Uncommon Ground 8:30pm. Alternative bluegrass. Bodles Opera House, Chester. 469-4595.

SPOKEN WORD

THE OUTDOORS

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

MUSIC

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

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Peter Yarrow performing at a Puff book signing.

The Evolving Revelation of Puff the Magic Dragon “It was probably the FBI,” jokes Peter Yarrow, explaining that upon returning to his New York City apartment, he found a mysteriously overflowed toilet, which delayed his return phone call to me. He is affable and genuinely apologetic, demonstrating his belief that everyone has feet of clay, stuff happens, and to apologize is to create an aura of mutual respect, allowing for progress.

Although best known as one-third of trailblazing folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, Yarrow has a resume featuring a staggering amount of work done for causes that run the gamut from civil rights to the peace movement, to education, and now to a top-selling illustrated children’s book version of his best-known song—“Puff the Magic Dragon.”

The book features an accompanying CD on which Yarrow and his daughter Bethany Yarrow, a vocalist, and her husband Rufus Cappodocia, a master cellist, re-recorded both vocal and instrumental versions of “Puff,” as well as the ancient folk chestnuts “Blue Tail Fly” and “Froggie Went a-Courtin’.” The newly-minted group of Peter, Bethany, and Rufus also has released a full-length CD Puff & Other Family Classics, 11 traditional songs focused through a new lens. Although pushing 70, Yarrow is hitting the road with gusto, intending to use this music—in particular the strange power that the wistful “Puff” has on both toddlers and septuagenarians—to bring people together. Yarrow will perform and sign copies of Puff the Magic Dragon (book with CD) and Puff and & Other Family Classics (CD) on Saturday January 19 at 2pm at the Barnes & Noble on Rt. 9W in Kingston.

—Robert Burke Warren Robert Burke Warren: What are these performances/book signings like?

Peter Yarrow: It’s turned into an entity of its own. I sing and we get a sense of community firmly established, and the kids roam the stage and sing “Puff” with me, then I say hello to people. But it’s not just about singing. The feeling that we have is what we miss so much in the country: Feeling like we are a community. [These performances] are equally as special as playing at Carnegie Hall.

When you brought “Puff” (co-written by Yarrow’s school buddy Lenny Lipton) to Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1962, how did it go over? Did anyone have any idea it would become a standard?

We were just getting our wings at the time. I don’t remember ever bringing a song to the group where we spontaneously broke out the champagne.

The way in which people incorporate “Puff” into their lives is an evolving revelation. Its significance is not confined to the lyrics and music; it’s really more a matter of the ethos of the times that it represents, what it brings back to people who lived it or what it brings to kids who see what it means to their parents or grandparents.

The people who first learned it were not kids. It wasn’t a kids’ song at all in their world.

Yes. In folk music there isn’t such a strong line between kids’ music and adult music.

On the accompanying CD you do “Blue Tail Fly” and “Froggie Went a-Courtin’”

which, like “Puff,” have dark elements to them.

“Blue Tail Fly” is about slaves making fun of their masters.

The end of “Puff” is so sad [although the book adds some lighter illustrations to leaven the sorrow]. Has anyone ever advised you to alter the ending of “Puff?”

Oh my goodness, there have been at least a hundred people who have written to me with different endings. But the unanimity of grieving, of yearning, of sadness, is as powerful and as necessary a part of our lives as rejoicing and celebrating at a wedding or a football game. The inability of people to be emotionally open to one another is a grave dilemma in our world.

There’s a community formed around a sensibility, and we are not in touch with those things that bind us together in this country. We were badly fragmented after the Vietnam War, in a state of denial. There was no national call to look at ourselves. A great human being is not a human being who hides from those acknowledgments. A great nation is not a nation that hides from that.

The mechanism for finding our hearts again will of necessity involve children who can break the cycle of denial and open their hearts to others and not bully one another.

Tell me a little more about your nonprofit educational initiative Operation Respect, and how it incorporates music in school curricula.

There’s a website—www.operationrespect.org. We’re in 22,000 schools, we’re in Hong Kong, Croatia, China. We’ve created United Voices For Education, which is 42 educational organizations joining efforts to create a paradigm that is distinct from the No Child Left Behind perspective, and music is a big part of it. The narrowing of the curriculum through NCLB is highly dangerous and destructive to children’s development and to democracy.

You can’t have an electorate making informed decisions if they’re technocrats. They have to have a heart, they have to be able to feel. Songs like “Puff” foster that.

So it was your work with Operation Respect that led to you wanting to do the book and the Peter, Bethany & Rufus CD? Yes. That, in conjunction with the idea that there was a fresh contemporary groove perspective on these old songs—through Bethany and Rufus [a music-making team in their own right, with highly regarded world/folk music CDs and performances to their credit] who have put something new and vital into it. That was the musical key to my enthusiasm and that makes it an intergenerational statement that has a different kind of legs than if I just produced the same-old, same-old.

Is this the most touring you’ve done in while?

Yes. But of all the times that music is needed, it’s needed now. That’s part of why this is so exciting to me. Because singing together is primarily wonderful joyous fun, but it is also ultimately a political act, because it breaks down barriers between people and lets people find common ground.

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MUSIC NELLIE MCKAY AMY T. ZIELINSKI

Whoa Nellie Nellie McKay has built her short and storied musical career (the gamine is only 27) by writing songs that evoke Tin Pan Alley sophistication and polish while seeming off the cuff, as if she had just dashed off a few morsels in the taxi on the way to the studio. McKay’s third release, Obligatory Villagers, is the resplendent flowering of her Rodgers and Hart meet Randy Newman style. (More than one reviewer has referred to McKay’s music as “songs in search of a musical.”) McKay’s songs are at turns funny (she’s a former stand-up comedian), theatrical (she starred as Polly Peachum in a limited run of “Threepenny Opera,” in 2006), and acerbic in the service of satire (from “Mother of Pearl: “feminists spread vicious lies and rumor / they have a

tumor on their funny bone”). They also stick in your head with the deftness of their arrangements and cabaret-pop hooks. McKay self-describes her tunes as “schizophrenic voodoo music”; she prefers to blur the genre definitions that usually proscribe artists. McKay confounds expectations and has built a reputation as an iconoclastic performer who is all over the map musically, but right at home in her songs, from rap to the American songbook.

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In our sugar-laden society, one can often tell the time of year by the candy—peppermint sticks mean that it’s Christmas, chocolate eggs signify Easter, and candy corn can only mean Halloween. But what does one make of a sculpture that consists of 1,200 pounds of hard candy deposited in a gallery, with all 40,000 individual pieces wrapped in seasonally ambiguous shining silver?

The candies do not refer to any particular holiday or tradition, but the work, Untitled (Placebo), a 1991 creation by Felix Gonzalez-Torres now installed at the Williams College Museum of Art, marks time in a different way. As visitors view the sculpture, they are encouraged to take a piece of it with them. Over the course of the exhibition, the carpet of candies that covers the gallery floor thins out, and maybe even disappears.

In effect, the art evaporates.

Gonzalez-Torres made a lot of such interactive, take-some-with-you artworks. He called them public art, a term that usually describes big, heavy, durable sculptures in outdoor locations. “I want to make art for people who watch the Golden Girls and sit in a big, brown La-Z-Boy chair,” he said. Along with his “candy spills,” Gonzalez-Torres is also known for his “stacks”—vast copies of enigmatic texts, newspaper clippings, even blank sheets of paper, piled two to three feet high. Again, viewers are encouraged to take a page, and slowly the piece fades away.

Untitled (Placebo) speaks not just about the elusive flow of time but also about the era in which it was created and the circumstances of the artist’s brief life. The Cubanborn Gonzalez-Torres died of AIDS in 1996 at age 39, one year after being honored with a career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. His partner, Ross—who he always called the muse, inspiration, and main audience for his art—had succumbed to the disease in 1991.

“I wanted to make art that could disappear, that never existed,” said Gonzalez-Torres of Placebo, “and it was a metaphor for when Ross was dying.” Given its title, the piece could also be a commentary on the highly toxic yet ultimately ineffective drugs given to AIDS patients at the time.

The loss of his partner became Gonzalez-Torres’s overriding motif in the ’90s. One of his most widely viewed pieces during this era was a photograph of their empty bed. It was taken shortly after Ross’s death and reproduced on billboards around Manhattan, thanks to sponsorship from the Museum of Modern Art. Such poignant statements about memory, pain, and longing stood in sharp contrast to the more confrontational art of the time.

In the midst of the culture wars of the early 1990s, an exhibit of Gonzalez-Torres’s work was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. A story goes that a Republican senator made a point of attending the opening, convinced that this exhibit of gay art would include incendiary pornographic images. What he found was the candy of Untitled (Placebo), and another work, Untitled (Perfect Lovers), a pair of clocks hanging side by side, synchronized down to the second hands.

Untitled (Placebo) remains on view at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown through March 23. (413) 597-2429; www.wcma.org.

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TUESDAY 22 WORKSHOPS Nature Journals: Make Your Own 6pm-8:30pm. Hand-bind your own journal. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

WEDNESDAY 23 CLASSES Jewelry Class 5:30pm-8:30pm. $200. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

Pastel Techniques 7pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

DANCE

CLASSES

BODY / MIND / SPIRIT

Preparatory Division: Youth Music Program 11am. 13 Saturday sessions for ages 5-18. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7196.

Qigong for Seniors 11am-12pm. $5. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron.

Rhinebeck. Call to register. 876-1176.

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

CLASSES

DANCE Paco Pena Flamneco 8pm. Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-0100.

People Are Singing 5pm-6:30pm. Ages 16 to adult, led by Debbie Lan. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

KIDS

Color Harmony 7pm-9pm. Focus on the use of color in painting. $160.

Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

MUSIC

Richard Loring’s African Footprint 8pm. Dance and song of South Africa. Proctor’s, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

THURSDAY 24 ART Writers’ Circle 7pm-9pm. Bring works-in-progress to share with peers.

Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

BODY/MIND/SPIRIT Pema Chodron Book Group 7pm-9pm. Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron.

Kingston. Call to register. 876-1176.

Kidtopia 11am. Gustafer Yellowgold. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949.

Old Songs Sampler 8pm. Benefit for the 2008 Old Songs Festival. $17. Old Songs, Inc., Voorheesville. (518) 356-3197.

Band of the Coldstream Guards 8pm. Scottish music. Proctor’s, Schenectady.

(518) 346-6204.

The Kurt Henry Band 9pm. Rock. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

SPOKEN WORD

CLASSES

Gallery Talk 1pm. Luc Sante on An-My Le. Dia: Beacon, Beacon.

400-0100.

Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Anne Landsman 7:30pm. Reads from The Rowing Lesson. Oblong Books, Rhinebeck. 876-0500.

DANCE

THEATER

Richard Loring’s African Footprint 8pm. Dance and song of South Africa. Proctor’s, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

FILM

Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

Image and Script 8pm. Six 5-10 minute short scripts inspired by paintings in Size Matters: XXL. $20/$16 members.

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill.

(914) 788-0100.

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

SUNDAY 27

MUSIC Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock. 679-2470.

CLASSES

SPOKEN WORD How to Curb Climate Change by Eating Local 7:30pm. $7/$4. Painter’s Tavern, Cornwall-On-Hudson.

534-5506x204.

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

THEATER

FILM

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Image and Script 3pm. Six 5-10 minute short scripts inspired by paintings in Size Matters: XXL. $15/$12 members.

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill.

(914) 788-0100.

Peru Negro 8pm. Afro-Preuvian dance and song. Proctor’s, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

The Big Shoe Call for times. Motown. Keegan Ales, Kingston.

331-2739.

Jazz Jam 7pm. The Pig Bar, Saugerties. 246-5158.

MUSIC Billy Childs Jazz-Chamber Ensemble 8pm. Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy.

(518) 273-0038.

Friday Night Open Mike 9pm. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties. 246-0900.

The Locks 9pm. Acoustic. East Side Bar, Walden. 778-2039.

Off Hour Rockers 10pm. Covers. Sweeny’s Irish Pub, Walden. 778-3337.

THEATER Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 8pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

SATURDAY 26

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 10:15am-11am. Ages birth to 5 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

Music Immersion with Debbie Lan 4pm-5pm. Ages 6 to 9 years. Canaltown Alley Arts Center, Rosendale. 255-2193.

SPOKEN WORD Bohm-based Dialogue Group 4pm-6pm. Call for location. 336-8879.

Kidtopia 11am. Utopia Soundstage, Woodstock. 331-6949.

Four Nations 8pm. $25/$5 students/children free. Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck. 876-2870.

Johnny A. 9pm. With special guest Jeffery Braun. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling. 855-1300.

Will Kimbrough 9pm. Country guitar genius. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Anthill Mob 10pm. Covers. Michael’s Sports Bar, Fishkill. 896-5766.

Rock ‘n Blue Angels Band 10pm. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

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TUESDAY 29 MUSIC Community Music Night 8pm-9:45pm. Six local singer-songwriters. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

WEDNESDAY 30

Singles and Sociables Ski, Snowshoe, or Hike: Awosting Falls 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD James Howard Kunstler 8pm. Author of The Geography of Nowhere. Speaking on the energy crisis. $10/$7.50 members and students.

Time and Space Limited, Hudson. (518) 822-8448.

CLASSES Beginner Pilates Mat Workout 6:30pm-7:30pm. $72. SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

Pastel Techniques 7pm-7pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

THURSDAY 31 CLASSES Beginning the Journey: Introduction to Watercolor 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

THEATER Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

WORKSHOPS Beautiful Easy Gardens with Larry Sombke.

2pm-4pm. $19/$10 members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SUNDAY 3

Celtic Music with The Rolling Waves 8:30pm-11:30pm. Dragonfly Grill, Woodstock.

679-2470.

CLASSES

SPOKEN WORD

Understanding and Caring For Your Honeybees Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

The History of Borden Home Farm, Wallkill, New York 7:30pm. $7/$4 members. Painter’s Tavern, CornwallOn-Hudson. 534-5506x204.

FRIDAY 1 CLASSES

MUSIC

DANCE

KIDS

Debussy, Dukas, Scriabin, Copland 8pm. American Symphony Orchestra. $20-$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

MUSIC

Atelier—Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

FRIDAY 25

Beginning Art Part I 1pm-3pm. For beginners of all ages. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

MUSIC

Exploring the Impressionist Style 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

Discover Snow Shoeing!

10am. $5/$3. Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s Outdoor Discovery Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson.

534-5506x204.

Batik and Dye 10am-12pm. Textile art. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

THE OUTDOORS

Painting with Acrylics 10am-12pm. $150. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

MUSIC Debussy, Dukas, Scriabin, Copland 8pm. American Symphony Orchestra. $20-$35. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

Singles & Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Peterskill 9:30am-3pm. $9 non-members. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

The Holmes Brothers 9pm. $30/$25 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

THEATER

Hunger Mountain Boys 9pm. New era old time. Club Helsinki, Great Barrington, MA. (413) 528-3394.

Anatomy of a Murder 3pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

THEATER

Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3pm. $22/$20 children and seniors. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Anatomy of a Murder 8pm. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Picnic 2pm. $12-$15. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent.

(518) 392-6264.

Picnic 8pm. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

MONDAY 28 ART Open Mike 7:30pm-10pm. Featuring poets, singers, musicians, and speakers. The Muddy Cup, Kingston. 338-3881.

SATURDAY 2 CLASSES Intro to Organic Beekeeping: Planning a New Hive for Spring Call for times. $95. Sustainable Living Resource Center, Rosendale. 255-6113.

Atelier—Figure Painting 9am-12pm. $120-$300. Wallkill River School, Montgomery. 689-0613.

Shedding Light on Oil Painting 1pm-3pm. $120. Wallkill River School, Montgomery.

689-0613.

MUSIC Elly Wininger and Elise Pittelman 2pm. Art Society of Kingston, Kingston. 338-0331.

Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart 3pm. $25/$20 in advance. Towne Crier Cafe, Pawling.

855-1300.

Organ Recital and Choral Evensong 4:30pm. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie.

452-8220.

THE OUTDOORS Singles and Sociables Snowshoe or Hike: Gertrudes’ Nose 10am-3pm. Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz. 255-0919.

SPOKEN WORD Glass Artist Panel 5pm. $15/$10 members. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah. (914) 232-9555.

THEATER Anatomy of a Murder 3p. $15/$13 students and seniors/$11 children.

Pawling High School, Pawling. 855-1965.

Picnic 2pm. $12-$15. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

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Planet Waves EMIL ALZAMORA

BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO

SMALL WORLD STORIES The Planet Waves Yearly Horoscope for 2008

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wo thousand eight is a year of an unusual transition: Pluto will begin its move from Sagittarius to Capricorn. Pluto is one of those bottom line planets. It sets the theme for the rest of what we experience, spreading out so wide that it colors the entire landscape existence.

With Pluto in Sagittarius between 1995 and 2007, we had many opportunities to focus our vision, and we may have done so with obsessive intensity. It may have been what some call a spiritual vision, of growth, enlightenment, or a better world. Indeed, the Pluto in Sagittarius phase was a time of all things global, from world-beat music to international cuisine restaurants; from “free” trade agreements to the antiglobalization movements and the fair trade movement; and finally, the global war on terror. Anyone with the power to do so kept making the pile higher. Capricorn is a more practical sign, the sign of structuring physical reality. Where Sagittarius meets Capricorn is the place where we begin the process of converting our ideals into tangible creations.

ARIES (MARCH 20-APRIL 19) Recently, it seems you had the truth handed to you. What did you do with it? Do you still have it? While many on this planet complain that the truth is not knowable or is a kind of fictional philosophical concept and not a provable reality, the problem involves how we respond once we encounter it. This peculiar function of the mind, known as denial, makes sure that we are usually out of contact with our most vital knowledge. You can afford no such luxury at this point. The reason for this is that you are gathering too much power to cut yourself off from your personal truth, or any other truth. Much of the past decade has taken you on a prolonged journey where you have seen many strange things, encountered a world bigger than you ever imagined, and endured several difficult tests of your mettle.

You have wrestled with your conscience (and, likely, that of someone else). At times, you have prevailed in these tests of integrity and at other times, events have seemed to crush your preconceived ideas. You are now in a well-deserved phase of reconsidering what you have been through, and the decisions you make through the winter will be absolutely essential in determining your life path for an entire long phase of your life. So, tell me, now that you know this, can you afford to play any games with what you know? I don’t think so, particularly not since all the forces of the universe are conspiring to focus your power.

The whole problem with power in this world is that it does not care much for the difference between right and wrong. Most people in a position to conduct themselves this way—and to some extent, that includes anyone privileged enough to be reading this horoscope—have granted themselves an exemption from karma. You have no such luxury now, and neither do you want it. You have responsibilities that are much more worthwhile.

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This bodes many different directions, because, among other things, Capricorn is the sign of corporations, and for the past decade we have seen multinational firms put out a vision for what a fabulous place the world would be if they owned the whole place, down to the last little clam at the bottom of the deepest sea. On an individual level, we need to take the visions we have held for ourselves personally, and for the world, and put them into action. We may feel that the world is an illusion and/or is not really subject to change—but Pluto takes no arguments. This power that is about to be turned loose on the known cosmos basically has no moral predisposition. It does the job we give it, yet to give it any job at all, we must take an actual risk, and dare to bear full responsibility for our choices. In this edition of Planet Waves, I will look at the meaning of Pluto and Capricorn, and many other factors, for each of the 12 signs. Longer editions are on PlanetWaves.net in a special edition called Small World Stories.

TAURUS (April 19-May 20) You may not see it now, but your current priority is on survival, when what you need to be doing is experimenting with defining yourself openly—very openly. There is no viable meeting between exploring your identity and creative expression in the community, and concealing yourself or struggling to survive. Curiosity is not possible in a state of desperation or of hiding—and while you may or may not feel desperate, you have an exaggerated sense of what is happening to you and what can go wrong. This is little more than fear of the unknown, except what is supposedly so unknown is something about you, and that is a kind of paradox.

Can you really not know something about yourself? Well, you can think it’s possible, and if so, you can set up a smoke screen between you and your selfawareness. Yet even given that basic factor, you have at least two choices: Delve in bravely and with a sense of exploring (which means, yourself and the world), or pull away and hide inside your shell. You may ask what “the world” has to do with this, but if astrology means anything, your process of self-definition is intimately mingled with the society you inhabit; with the people you share creative energy amongst; with your mission in life, as you define it; and most of all, with the patterns that dominate your life. To get anywhere, you need to define those patterns yourself, and to do that, you need to witness the current ones for what they are. One of your greatest liabilities is that you are a creature of habit. If you are going to develop one dependable fixed pattern, let it be that of constantly changing your fixed patterns. That you did something a certain way yesterday is no reason to do it that way today. Face it: today is a lot more interesting than yesterday was, and tomorrow holds potential you can barely dream of now, but would do well to dare.

GEMINI

(MAY 20-JUNE 21)

This business of Gemini and dualism—it’s getting old. I’m not sure who has convinced us all, particularly we the supposedly intellectual ones, that “the world is dualistic.” Somebody did.

Yet however many viewpoints, people, or concepts of ourselves that we encounter or possess, it seems to be a heck of a lot more than two. The only actual dualism that exists, as far as I can see it, is based exclusively on seeing oneself as separate from others (and that may be all it takes). True, it helps not at all that so many people insist with such passion that they are separate from us (greed is a significant influence here), that they have different interests, and, most of all, that they have different ideas that typically turn out to be the lack of ideas. That being said, how you get along with yourself is a critical question at this point. You still tend to project your inner differences onto others, and lately there has been a lot to project. That, at least, provides an organizing principle; you can use this frail concept of dualism to define “in here” (my own) and “out there” (their stuff). If you were to do something else, you would need to plunge into your inner chaos and manage to find your voice in the midst of it. You would need to puncture the many imaginary membranes that seem to separate your interior consciousness from itself. And before long, those inner barriers will go down like Japanese paper walls. Admittedly, you may not feel inclined to admit much, and may feel pinned down by how supremely powerful others seem to be. Remember: that, too, is a projection. All these people you know and encounter and the ones who seem so remote and influential: They are part of you, just like your fingers and toes. You can do everyone a favor by treating them that way. They want to be counted as part of you as much as you need them to be so.

CANCER

(JUNE 21-JULY 22)

The funny thing about you is, you move in cycles, but the cycles are predictable, and you keep coming around to the same basic place of honoring your commitments. It took you a while to learn to trust yourself in this process: to mean it when you say, I’ll be back in the future to take care of this, this is what I intend to get done by this date, or whatever the commitment may entail. The breakthrough came when you discovered that your track record supported the meaning of your words, rather than the words being a promise of speculated future action. If those who doubt you knew how seriously you take your commitments, they would be compelled to question their own integrity, and rightly so. The issue with the world right now is that despite much talk about walking one’s talk, most people don’t vaguely question their integrity except for the occasional panic attack; and that does not qualify as a thoughtful review. There is a do-or-die feeling to your sense of truth and justice right now. This is less about an obligation and more about a sacred trust you have with the universe. While you don’t want to send out a press release saying that you are the arbiter of cosmic obligation, you must have figured out that you get yourself into that role all the time, and by the time five o’clock rolls around, everyone has done pretty well. So, own this power and put it to work—and make sure it works for you, too. Your second breakthrough has been about defining yourself as someone who has given up their prior concept of limits. This does not happen overnight, but you are now seeing that your prior ceiling made of transparent aluminum is now more like the clear sky. Once again, this is not a matter of speculation, but rather of experience. And what it boils down to is that, for you, the world is a very different place.

LEO

(JULY 22-AUGUST 23)

To the extent you can, you need to choose the course your life is taking as a conscious act. In the Western world, this is the only path to enlightenment. We are faced with options; our one remaining power is to make decisions. Believe it or not, those decisions are most often choices between what is true and what is not. Life does not always

seem this simple, and I doubt it seems so simple for you right now, but that is the nature of the moment you are in. Your great lesson the next four seasons is discernment. Surely, in hindsight long after this year has passed, what was worth believing and what was not will seem obvious. In any event, you have learned something in recent years, which is that you can influence the course of your own existence. You have an edge on those who typically refuse to do this, which is that you are willing to take full responsibilities for your successes as well as your errors. This is one of a very few qualities that distinguishes a mature person. Another is the ability to make decisions based on your values. If you consider your values carefully, you will notice that you actually don’t have very many of them. You also don’t need very many of them. Yet the ability to understand yourself and make your decisions based on an authentic sense of what matters to you is one of the highest expressions of humanity. You can be sure when the values of others will seem to warp the ground you stand on, and at such times you will need to be flexible but scrupulously honest with yourself about what matters most. You will need to look at the influences of those who say they are here to help you, and see them for what they are. They may indeed be helpful; they may be something else—you are the one who will need to notice the difference.

VIRGO

(AUGUST 23-SEPTEMBER 22)

Saturn will be in your birth sign for the next two years, and everyone born under the sign Virgo will have this meaningful planet conjoin their natal Sun. This is one of the key life transits, and it can happen at any age; it is happening to you now or in the immediate future. In a personal chart, the theme is about fundamentally coming to terms with yourself. If it portends change, that change is about getting relief from nervousness and instability, and calling your life into focus. It is about having the confidence and substance to stand up to the world, which is so rare to find. Finally, this transit is about finding the ability to go deeper into yourself, your ideas and your sense of existence. These things have life on more than the level of thought or concept. Ideas are powerful, yet this transit indicates one of two things: Either you have reached a point of maturity that you have been working toward for a long time, or you are being compelled to do so whether you like it or not. To the extent you have noticed that you are fundamentally passive, Saturn will compel you to take an active role in your life and in your relationships. To the extent that you understand that authority is something we embody or we don’t grow, you will be granted enormous assistance in taking on your true role in the world. This is always what we must do with Saturn: Embody it fully, if compassionately. In doing so, we take away the authority that others seem to hold over us, whoever they may be. In ordering our lives, we liberate the energy we need to persist in our creative work and our service to the world. You are, by nature, a sober and sensible individual.

You understand that life is an opportunity and a profound responsibility, only magnified by our commitments to others. Be grateful for every day these two years that Saturn is with you.

LIBRA

(SEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 23)

Few people truly want to face their fears. Fewer yet want to face themselves. The planets are pushing you to do both.

Not only will you be a better person for it, you will feel better and live with a greater sense of connection to your own existence, and to all these people who surround you: those whose names you know and those you do not. The whole problem with your fears is that they are so detailed.

This detail gives them a sense of reality that they might not otherwise have.

What this season of your life is trying to teach you is that you are bigger than your anxieties and, as such, they are like pictures you draw rather than lions who can eat you. The ability to see this distinction is not learned in a day. Most people live like they are being chased down the street by a pack of wild dogs.

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Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino psychic chaos. When you express yourself in a daring way, you will take the pressure off of yourself. The hottest focus of your chart these days is on the sign Aquarius, the most creative house in your horoscope, and the place you go when you feel like a genius. This you do from time to time, but the paradox is as follows. To tap into your brilliance, that true light that comes from beyond you, you need to soak yourself in your struggle. You need to feel and live through the extent to which your revelations are the result of your pain, your sense of not belonging, and most of all, your craving for the passion that you have not yet experienced. At least in recent years, you have begun to move toward that hunger, rather than trying to satisfy yourself with a fantasy. Here is a clue: Give the darkness in you a voice that you own. Paint with the colors of your shadow. Feel the freedom in doing so, and listen to what others say to you when they respond. All in all, this is the miracle of healing.

SCORPIO

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(OCTOBER 23-NOVEMBER 22)

You have long felt different; what you must now do is act differently. I know—you are still mulling that one over.

Sometimes you take so long to think about things that you make your friends over in Taurus seem like a kid on Red Bull and rollerblades in the mall. I will concede that at the moment (early in the year) you are still working out all the negotiable points with someone close to you, and they seem to have a viewpoint that it’s difficult to pin down. You may be uncertain if someone close at hand is a friend or an enemy—of themselves. If you’ve got that far in your observation process, you’re living up to the psychological capabilities of your sign. That is precisely the issue: whether anyone who gets close to you is on their own side.

The ones who are, you can work with; the ones who are not, you must consider dangerous. Now, as you sort this out, you’re going to come across a diversity of ways that you are divided against yourself, and that is indeed a great time to pause. Pause, that is, and consider this. You have been dragged over hot coals the past decade of your life trying to establish your independence, your autonomy, or perhaps just a healthy self-sufficiency. Exactly what you were recovering from I cannot be sure, but God did not make you a Scorpio for nothing. Usually someone as strong as yourself is that way for a reason, and the reason can be found in early childhood. But it will show up again and again in your life.

You developed the idea that you have to be sufficiently powerful (in particular, financially and spiritually) to withstand the extreme swings of loyalty that you were exposed to. Now that you have grown up and accomplished that, you are being put back into the position to cultivate mutual trust, a sense of community, and a new lesson, that of interdependence. But this will all go a lot smoother if you remind yourself every moment that you must be committed to your own cause, and use that as the criteria for who you involve yourself with.

SAGITTARIUS

(NOVEMBER 22-DECEMBER 22)

You have the property of setting things into motion; you must accept that you may never see the results of any process you start. Most of them are either invisible to perception or occur too far from the reach of your senses to register consciously.

Some will bear fruit in a measure of years that exceeds the length of a human lifetime. And some, you don’t notice because you’re not doing that elusive thing known as paying attention. Yet set things into motion you do, and you do it effectively: for good, or for ill. You have always known this, but the time has arrived to live as if it were true. If you are some kind of “cause” in www.planetwaves.net 120 PLANET WAVES CHRONOGRAM 1/08

Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino the process of cause and effect, keep the experience as conscious as possible, so that you can make choices while you have the opportunity to do so. See if you can notice the results, be they immediate or extended over time, and observe the vast constellations of forces that have come together in order to manifest anything. Look back and observe what you have inspired, facilitated, or ignited, and be grateful that some of it actually worked. See if you can make amends for that which did not work so well, or that which harmed anyone at all. Remember that you are only getting a small sample of what you could be seeing, but as the next four seasons progress, it will be more than enough to inform you as you make some radical revisions to your values system. There is something from the past, some old idea that you are dragging around, that is about to get torpedoed. As visionary as you are, there is an attribute of your values that could be described as antique. Now, it is true that anyone who is authentically a radical needs to have a strong footing in tradition. Yet it is also true that a tradition is not a tradition unless it is alive. The way things were done in the past is not an excuse for anything; the reason things were done in the past is an excuse for even less.

CAPRICORN

(DECEMBER 22-JANUARY 20)

We live on a planet where people will kill one another for the right to kill a tree. We also live on a planet where people will give their last dollar, their only blanket or one of their kidneys to someone in need. Unfortunately, between the ordinary saints and the boring warmongers there exists a vast ocean of what you might call gray area, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean gray matter. This is the least common denominator, which (paraphrasing The Onion) is getting lower all the time. Look around at the world and notice how many people aspire to mediocrity. Heck, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve even done it yourself a few times. Enter Pluto into your birth sign. This has been warming up for two years as Pluto crossed the Galactic Core. That particular transit (which peaked in December) has put you into contact with a deeply hidden attribute of yourself: the one that is immune from all the limits and conventions of the world; the one that connects directly to Prime Source.

Now your awareness of this is no longer hiding down in a cave but waiting in the wings for its moment on the Great Stage of your life. This is a transit that affects every living creature. We all have approximately one calendar year of the transition until the energy takes hold through 2024. This portends many, many changes for the world, including structural changes to society and the Earth herself (Edgar Cayce was on to this a while ago). For you, it means reaching to your depths and ripping forth into the community with all your energy. It means embodying the Shiva-like attributes of Pluto: becoming the embodiment of change itself. That is to say, by changing, you will set change in motion. By allowing yourself flexibility, you will create the same around you. By being willing to question yourself to the depths of your existence, you will hold open the space for the people around you to ask the questions that they need to ask. By being fair and insisting on fairness, you will create that pattern around you.

AQUARIUS

(JANUARY 20-FEBRUARY 19)

Your sign, like you, presents one of the most complex equations in all of astrology. That makes some sense: Aquarius is the sign of humanity itself. You see how complex you are, and how complex the human race is; you must live with yourself and www.planetwaves.net 1/08 CHRONOGRAM PLANET WAVES 121

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Horoscopes Eric Francis Coppolino the rest of us; the people who live with you coexist in a conscious way with your complexity. Let’s skip for a moment the constellation of planets that has taken up long-term residence in your region of the sky. Let’s consider a bit of theory: Aquarius is ruled by two planets considered vastly different by astrology—Saturn, the planet of tradition and structure, and Uranus, the planet of revolution, innovation, and upheaval. Even in ancient times before the discovery of Uranus, Aquarius was considered the sign representing places where minerals are quarried—a place where old stuff was dug out of the ground to make something new; a place where what is ancient and natural is being made into something new at the hands of human industriousness.

The planets now in your sign, mainly Chiron and Neptune, are taking you to extraordinarily deep places lately. Neptune has been raising a question; it has almost been negating your existence, making you feel like you are distant from yourself or granting you relief from having an ego. Chiron, which arrived more recently, is making it painfully clear that you are indeed a product of and partner in humanity. All your faults are magnified such that you can see the hairs on their nose. The injuries you have suffered in your life seem to be with you still, and you are aware that you can always get hurt again. But for some extremely odd reason, everything you have struggled with is becoming a source of strength and wisdom. Places that were once the scene of an ache or pain are now the place where you can grasp something heavy, carry a load with unusual strength, or express yourself in a way that was, for most of your life, impossible.

PISCES

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(FEBRUARY 19-MARCH 20)

If you tell yourself the truth, you can do just about anything else you want. That is the price you will have to pay in order to go to the next level or stage of your life; the price of freedom. This is a small tariff for some people, and the highest there is for others. Which is it for you? While you’re sizing that up, you can also size up the price of any other way of living, and there are several options, to be sure. Of course, the real price of the truth is that which is not true. For some people that is no price at all; for others, it would represent the collapse of their entire existence, at least psychologically. Now, as a Pisces, you need your fantasies, and you need your dreams. But you need them in moderation, like any drug or substance (including art and music) that provides a pathway beyond the rational world. Yet what you need the most, if astrology means anything, is to break the partitions that separate your visions for your life—and for the world—from your simple desire to make them happen. It’s like you typically get stuck right at the point where you can take something out into the world where it can do some good. You know what you create is worthy of attention and that it would be good for the world. You also know how hard it is to penetrate into that space where the past is not so heavy that it crushes or confines that which is new and seeking to take root and grow. Now, believe it or not (and I don’t blame you if you don’t, yet) you are about to see what kind of impact is possible, particularly where the stalwart structures of society need a little...shall we say...encouragement to update their files. Society can mean your friends, your family, your professional vision and most of all, your personal vision for how you will fit into the world. There is an extremely good reason you must be honest with yourself at every opportunity: You will be handling power that can be dangerous if you are not.

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One would think Elizabeth Mackie is vying for the title “hardest working woman in art.” After showing in 28 group and solo exhibitions in the past three years, she is taking a year and a half to work on new art, part of her Landscape Series. The silkscreen series focuses on visual elements of hair that mimic the lines of a drawing. “Our identity is sometimes linked with our hair color or our features,” said Mackie. “I use hair as a metaphor for larger issues of identity.” Concept, rather than process driven, her themes—fairytales, legends, and Ben Franklin and his women—can be seen across various media. Words also play into Mackie’s work. One piece incorporated all the ways the dictionary defines women and all the negative terms used to describe them. Women are an overarching theme in her art, making Women’s Studio Workshop a perfect match. She began her relationship with WSW when she received the Geraldine R. Dodge Residency Fellowship and Mackie is currently in the midst of her fourth residency at WSW. —Francis Cruz

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