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20 while you were sleeping

44 beacon: hiptown hometown

Jon Kyl's nonfactual statement, link between obesity and religion, more.

21 beinhart’s body politic: class warfare IV Larry Beinhart questions whether the Republican tax rhetoric makes sense.

22 THE SMALL TOWNS AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL Carl Frankel talks with futurist James Howard Kunstler.

This city of creatives on the Hudson River is its own work of art.

55 fishkill: the main event

Main Street in Fishkill is bustling with restaurants and retail.

75 peekskill: a mighty welcome

A quick and scenic commute to NYC, Peekskill continues to draw new residents.

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24 the house: how to build the kitchen you'll never leave

96 good vibrations: the healing power of sound

Jennifer Farley tours the kitchen renovation at Lauren Tamraz and Eric Judson's house.

29 the garden Michelle Sutton's guide to planting easy growing edibles.

32 the craft Ronnie Citron-Fink visits DC Studio in Rhinebeck.

34 the question Ronnie Citron-Fink wonders: Is a plastic-free home possible?

36 the item The newest green products for your home and garden.

Locally Grown 82 farming in the 21st century

Karin Ursula Edmondson talks to farmers about what it means to farm today.

82 community supported agriculture farm index

A listing of the farms in the regional offering shares for the 2011 season.

128

Itch, Carlos Loret de Mola, 2008.

Loret de Mola will be exhibiting his "Being Upstate" series at the Center for Photography at Woodstock through May 30.

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Wendy Kagan talks to doctors, yogis, and sound healers about the possibilities of sonic medicine and looks into the science behind sound healing.

100 Flowers Fall: a generation of godless girls

Bethany Saltman on the dearth of spiritual exploration and excess of training in ambition among the current generation of young women.

Community Resource Guide 56 weddings Products and services for brides and grooms to be.

88 tastings A directory of what’s cooking and where to get it.

92 business directory A compendium of advertiser services.

101 whole living directory For the positive lifestyle.

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60 Gallery & museum GUIDe

78 the pig dies at noon

64 music

81 food & drink events

Peter Aaron profiles the daddy of all rock ’n’ roll DJs, Cousin Brucie.

64 nightlife highlights Black Violin, Friends of Music Finale with Cliff Eberhardt, Joe Magnarelli and Peter Bernstein, Phish, BOMB Fest.

64 cd reviews Jeremy Schwartz reviews When It All Comes Down by The Last Conspirators.

Sharon Nichols reviews Arrival of Spring by Sharon Ruchman.

Michael Eck reviews Sunny Day by Elizabeth Mitchell.

68 books Nina Shengold talks with essayist turned novelist Jo Ann Beard.

70 book reviews Anne Pyburn Craig reviews The Intimates and One More Stop.

Gregory Schoenfeld reviews Almost a Family by John Darnton.

72 Poetry Poems by Aaron Anaya, Jerrice Baptiste, Guy R. Beining, Miriam Newell Biskin, Jake Heenan, Jane Hirshfield, Nina JeckerBryne, Yana Kane, Wendy Lotterman, Sue MacPhee-Gray, Brian Ricci, Laura Shank, Steven Siegelski, Francine M. Tyler, and Amy White. Edited by Phillip Levine.

128 parting shot St. Peter's 1, a photograph by Carlos Loret de Mola.

Peter Barrett attends a barbecue where the guest of honor is shot, gutted, and grilled.

Taste of Greater Newburgh, Rip Van Winkle Wine & Cheese Festival, and more.

the forecast 108 daily Calendar Comprehensive listings of local events.

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

PREVIEWS 107 Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's sonic installations at EMPAC in Troy.

108 Happy Traum hosts the third annual Dylan Birthday Bash at the Kleinert/James.

109 Iyaba Ibo Mandingo's one-man show unFramed at the Railroad Playhouse.

110 New Genesis Productions stages Hamlet with an all-teen cast at Byrdcliffe.

112 A weekend of open houses at sacred sites across the region.

113 A benefit concert by drag diva Thirsty Burlington at Helsinki Hudson.

116 Too Much Information tells women's stories at the Shadowland Theater.

117 Jeanne Bresciani and Friends celebrate Isadora Duncan at Kaatsbaan.

120 Levon Helm and special guests take the stage at UPAC for a birthday Ramble.

planet waves 122 May is Self-Awareness Month Eric Francis Coppolino examines a special kind of self-awareness.

124 Horoscopes

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

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Cafe mary anne erickson | oil on canvas | 40” x 60” | 2010 Mary Anne Erickson’s paintings not only create an iconic image of “vanishing roadside Americana,” as she puts it, but the colors, lights, and shadows of her photo-realist works evoke a sense of simplicity that makes the viewer literally long to be in that place.

Erickson grew up in 1950s post-war America—a time of seemingly limitless possibilities, before big-name corporations, and chain restaurants. The spirit of start-up, family owned businesses dominated American roadsides. “One of my dad’s goals was to take us on road trips and have us see every state, and every park in the US,” Erickson says. “As time went on, I found myself gravitating toward great old signs and timehonored character from 50s and 60s.”

In the early 80’s, while working as an illustrator for an airline, Erickson was being paid in plane tickets. Then, the most popular route was Florida to New York. This was before Miami’s South Beach was lined with trendy boutique hotels and expensive restaurants. Erickson was blown away by the architecture, and the personality of the Floridian motels. It was after these trips that she began her body of work, which has continued to popularly evolve since.

But somewhere along the line, Erickson’s muse began to slowly disappear. The mom-and-pop shops, iconography, and signage that had been fueling her work started to be pushed out by personality devoid strip-malls and chain restaurants. Her work is a personal attempt to capture some of that before there’s nothing left. “It's a sign of the times,” Erickson says. “I didn’t invent this—other artists have been commenting on the sort of vanishing Americana for years, but each artist has their own take on it.”

Erickson’s paintings have been compared to the work of Edward Hopper and Walker Evans—in that it freezes a moment in our culture. Her collection of work spans over 20 years, and covers almost every area of the country. “At heart, I’m really a documentarian,” says Erickson. “There is part of me that feels a calling to document this vanishing world.”

An exhibition of Erickson’s paintings, “Signs of the Times,” will be on display at Oriole 9 in Woodstock through May 10. Portfolio: www.vanishingroadside.com.

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As president of Scenic Hudson since 1999, Ned Sullivan has guided the organization in its mission not only to protect the Hudson River, but also to help revitalize and restore the riverfronts and scenic vistas on its shores. Serving as a member of New York Governor Cuomo’s transition team, he helped advise the new governor’s administration on preserving land and creating parks as well as promoting valley farms and creating more community farmers’ markets. Sullivan’s goal at Scenic Hudson is to help educate a new generation of children to appreciate the Hudson Valley and understand their role as environmental stewards, to create dozens of parks and preserves connecting people of all ages to the Hudson River, and to generate a growing appreciation that the environment and the economy are inextricable linked.

Prior to joining Scenic Hudson, Sullivan was the environmental commissioner for the State of Maine, and before that he served as deputy commissioner for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He lives with his wife, Tara Sullivan, former executive director of New York State’s Quadricentennial Commission and currently executive deputy director of the New York State Bridge Authority, and their two daughters in Red Hook.

—David Neilsen What changes have your brought to Scenic Hudson during your tenure at its helm?

A stronger partnership with the business community. Also, we partner with citizens and communities to give them a stronger voice in government decisions affecting their community and the environment. Collaboration is an absolutely fundamental principal of Scenic Hudson’s work. We recognize that we have to work with the business community because we are dedicated to having a vibrant, healthy economy in the Hudson Valley.

With the continued recession, the recovery of the region’s economy and restoration of jobs is absolutely critical.

How does Scenic Hudson’s work help restore the region’s economy?

Many of the park and waterfront improvement projects that we sponsor create jobs.

Right now we are building a new waterfront park in the city of Beacon. We are restoring a bathhouse in Sleepy Hollow that had fallen into disrepair. We helped finance the construction of the Walkway over the Hudson. We are making improvements to the state park at Franny Reese Preserve [in Highland] and have done the same to parklands in Hyde Park and in many counties along the Hudson. The work we do, the projects that we sponsor and fund, create construction jobs—2,215 in the last year alone. But in addition, the beauty of the region—the many parks that we own and create and transfer to state and local governments—those are the foundation of the quality of life in the region that is a major asset in companies’ decisions to locate here and create jobs in the Hudson Valley.

initiative “America’s Great Outdoors,” which will deploy those federal resources in support of state and regional efforts like ours.

How are the properties selected for Scenic Hudson’s land preservation program, Saving the Land That Matters Most?

We select properties for the Saving the Land that Matters Most initiative in a very strategic way. We have mapped the entire Hudson Valley based on its scenic resources—the vistas that people enjoy from the public places along the river such as the national historic sites, protected park lands, bridges, and other places that are open and available to the public. And then we have identified, through work with New York State, the most important ecological hotspots of the region that are habitat to critical, threatened, and endangered species. We map all those factors as well as the areas that rank highest in agricultural soils and farm viability. We merge the information in each of these categories and get rankings for the properties that are still in private land ownership and have never been protected.

How much do you work with the New York State government?

Scenic Hudson receives very little government funding for its operations, but we consider New York State and the federal government critical partners in what we do. Governor Cuomo has gotten off to a great start in environmental protection and we are partnering very closely with his administration in identifying critical lands for conservation, and in linking job creation with environmental initiatives—particularly in making sure that the agricultural economy that produces food and delivers it to our grocery stores and farmers markets and the greenmarkets in New York City is viable. The Hudson Valley has a $530 million agricultural economy, and Governor Cuomo has indicated very clearly that this is a top priority.

You championed a project in Yonkers to “daylight” the Saw Mill River—to uncover a section of the river that was buried under pavement in the 1920s. How did that come about?

This is a project that we’ve been working on for years that is just coming to fruition. When most people hear “Saw Mill River,” they think of a parkway. But in fact, there is a river that runs along that parkway and then goes underground, under pavement, under the city of Yonkers, where I was born. When I grew up there, I was never aware of that river running through the city. But during Governor Pataki’s administration, we began to work with him and with the Mayor of Yonkers in uncovering the river in the heart of downtown Yonkers. It currently empties into the Hudson after going through a flume under a parking lot down by the railroad station, the city library, and the post office. In approximately one year, that will be a city park, with the Saw Mill opened up and surrounded by beautiful park amenities. This will be a terrific place for people to gather, to have picnics, and to see a restored habitat that we hope will support fish species and other wildlife. This will be transformative to Yonkers, and we think it will attract additional positive development to the downtown area where it belongs.

What partnerships have you formed at the federal level?

On the federal front, Scenic Hudson coordinated a tour last summer of President Obama’s top cabinet members in the natural l resource agencies—Interior, Agricultural, and the Environmental Protection Agency. We brought them to the Hudson Valley for a forum where they could hear from citizens how the federal government could deploy its resources in support of initiatives like Saving the Land That Matters Most. Congressman Hinchey was there and he’s a key partner at the federal level. We’re currently reaching out to Congressman Gibson who serves on the House Agricultural Committee and we’ve worked very closely with Senator Gillibrand on this front to ensure that the agricultural economy of the Hudson Valley gets federal resources. We’ve also worked with Senator Schumer, who has helped deploy federal resources to support our work. I was privileged to attend a White House briefing by President Obama where he unveiled his federal

How important is education to Scenic Hudson’s mission?

Education is very important in ensuring that the next generation of residents of the Hudson Valley understands their role as stewards of the environment. Getting kids out on the land where they can experience nature first-hand and understand the relationship between the river and the land and the streams running through their communities is important, so that they can enjoy the beauty and wonders of nature and experience pulling a fish out of the water or painting a landscape or writing a little poetry or verse. These are all terrific experiences that will give kids an understanding of nature, give them just a fun experience where they can breathe fresh air, get their feet wet, and enjoy a connection with Mother Nature. We think that this will be formative; that it will ensure that as they grow up, they have a respect for nature and they take on their important role as stewards of their local and regional environment and the entire planet.

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Esteemed Reader of Our Magazine: “Why on this night do we dip twice…?”

We pondered the question as we slurped surprisingly good vegan matzoh ball soup at a recent Passover Seder I attended, with a group of forward-thinking friends and our children. This was one of those rare occasions when form and ritual serve the spirit and meaning of the event. And the spirit of Passover is questioning.

Passover is sometimes called A Night of Questions. The clear reference is to the four questions—Ma Nishtana… “Why is this night different from all others?”—traditionally asked by the youngest child. The tradition of the Hebrews is rife with divisions—milk from meat, sabbath from workdays, even linen from wool. The approach is starkly alchemical in the mode of culling wheat from chaff, metal from dross, and symbolically transubstantiating lead into gold.

There is a mnemonic in all these separations—remembering and navigating them all requires a certain legal acumen, but the spirit of the exercises is that they are tools for remembering what is most important—ourselves.

The Seder is a ritual of a high order. I would suggest that even every non-Jew attend one, just to absorb the refined combination of myth, archetypal meaning, ritual elements, and of course, food. And of course Jesus’ “last supper” was none other than a seder. Every good Christian who attends mass gets a piece of matzoh (host/flesh) and a sip of the four cups (wine/blood), not just twice a year, but every Sunday!

Our Seder-leader proposed the Jungian model of understanding myth and teaching-story: Every character, element, and relationship in the narrative represents some aspect of our inner lives. Every piece of the story, and even every exhibit on the table represents something inside us. And there is no plot-line closer to the bone of the human predicament than an account of moving from slavery to freedom.

Who in us is the Pharaoh that under penalty of every kind of plague will not relinquish the slaves? Who are the slaves? What is the bush that burns and without being consumed? And who is the one that when asked his identity obscurely replies “I am that I am”? (And it is even weirder than that—I learned at this Seder that the Hebrew is a nonsensical combination of tenses or “IWas/Am/Will Be that IWas/Am/Will Be.”) There is a metatext within the Haggadah which represents four children and their responses to the unfolding events. They are wise, wicked, stupid (or simple), and silent children. Each responds according to her capacity to understand the meaning of what is presented.

Some see the four children as types of people—physical, emotional, intellectual, and the one who is balanced in all the parts (wise). Others see them as able to perceive levels of meaning, from the shallow and literal (parsers of the text as an historical document), to interpretive and deeply symbolic (looking within themselves for meaning).

The most startling connection I made in pondering the four children was from a tradition that predates the Jews by at least 10,000 years—the Sarmoun Brotherhood.

Their canon includes a recital that hints deeply at strategies for escaping four unique types of slavery: We who know, and do not know that we know: let us become one, whole.

Let us be transformed.

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Brian K. Mahoney Editor’s Note Two-Wheeling Through the Apocalypse

May is Bicycle Month I started writing about Bike Month six years ago. And while not much has changed since I began my annual promotional campaign touting the benefits (personal, global, social) of cycling more and driving less, I recently received an e-mail suggesting another reason to take to the road on two wheels—disaster preparedness.

A publicist in the employ of a bicycle manufacturer sent me the following pitch for a story on their line of bicycles: When dealing with the unexpected, emergency management officials say people should prepare a kit, plan ahead, and stay informed.You’re familiar with the usual tips: Keep water on hand (a gallon per person per day for at least three days), stock up on nonperishable food, have a NOAA Weather Radio and extra batteries, etc. But what about a bike?

I represent [X]—a top-selling line of bicycles featuring high-quality designs, performance, and safety components at affordable prices. In a disaster, bicycles offer flexible mobility.

[Mr. X], bike expert, is available to discuss the far-reaching lessons we can all learn in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake. Among other things, when making a bike part of any emergency plan, it’s important to know: how to maintain a bike; how to properly haul cargo on a bike; bicycling rules of the road.

While I appreciate any attempt to get Americans out of the driver’s seat and into the saddle, the most salient far-reaching lesson I learned in the wake of the Japanese tragedy was that I probably live far too close to Indian Point. No amount of frantic pedaling will get those of us in the Hudson Valley far enough away if there’s a meltdown.

Futurist James Howard Kunstler would agree with the bike publicist about the imminent need for bicycles as a form of emergency transport. In The Long Emergency, the Saratoga-based Kunstler suggests we’re heading for a postfossil fuel society where life will again become more localized—the late 21st century looking more like the 19th century. Carl Frankel spoke with Kunstler about what a low-energy future might look like in the Hudson Valley, and why small cities like Kingston and Newburgh have a good shot at thriving after the oil apocalypse. (News & Politics, p. 22).

And just a couple facts to remind you why you need to find an alternative means of transport now, this minute:

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• 80 percent of Americans do not get the recommended 30 minutes of moderate daily activity.

• 60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese.

• The number of barrels of oil consumed by cars every day in the US: 19 million.

• Nearly a third of the gas used in the US goes for trips of three miles or less, usually to transport a single passenger.

• Motorized vehicles are responsible for 70 percent of the carbon monoxide, 45 percent of the nitrogen dioxide, and 34 percent of the hydrocarbons we produce.

• More than half of all Americans live less than five miles from where they work.

• In 2006 I wrote: “A gallon of gas is currently $2.25 a gallon. In a few years, gas at this price may seem like a bargain.” Gas is now over $4 a gallon.

• One hundred bicycles can be produced for the same energy and resources it takes to build one medium-sized automobile.

• Owning a car for one year can cost more than $7,000. Operating a bicycle for one year can cost almost nothing, but maintenance will probably run you about $150.

• The League of American Bicyclists has extensive resources at www.bikemonth. com. Bike to Work Day is Friday, May 20.

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California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut are facing the largest budget holes of any states in the nation. Brad Williams, a former economic forecaster for the state of California, says this is because these states in particular in recent years have depended too heavily on the taxation of the wealthy (the top 1 percent of earners) to support their economies. The problem with taxing the rich is that their incomes are usually linked to financial markets—investments, or stock-based-pay— and are prone to sudden drops. Before the recession, about half of California’s income taxes came from the top 1 percent of its earners; in New York—the top 1 percent paid 41 percent, with similar numbers in other states. To understand just how volatile these incomes can be: Between 2007 and 2008, the incomes of these top 1 percent earners plummeted 16 percent, compared to 4 percent for US earners as a whole. Williams has proposed solutions like flatter income-tax rates and “income averaging,” but an intense bipartisan debate over income taxing looks like it’s going to halt any immediate changes.

Source: Wall Street Journal On April 8, the final day of federal budget negotiations, with a government shutdown imminent due to Republican opposition to continued funding for Planned Parenthood, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) stated on the Senate floor that abortion was “well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.” In reality, less than 5 percent of patient care activities at Planned Parenthood are abortionrelated; and by law, the organization is prohibited from using federal money for abortions. Sen. Kyl’s office, when contacted about the factual discrepancy in the senator’s statement, said that “his remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, an organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions.”

Sources: Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Washington Post According to a new study in the Journal of Ornithology, it’s not wind turbines or skyscrapers that kill the most birds each year, but cats. The study, which followed mortality rates of baby catbirds in a Washington suburb, found that 80 percent of the birds were killed by predators—cats being responsible for about half of the avian homicides. Nationwide, the American Bird Conservatory estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed a year by cats, both domestic and feral—a sharp contrast from the estimated 440,000 killed by wind turbines every year, which is expected to rise as wind farms grow.

Source: New York Times New research shows that frequent religious involvement can almost double the risk of obesity, compared with little or no religious involvement. The study, conducted at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, involved 2,433 people that were tested initially at ages 20-32, and repeated with the same group over the next 25 years. Findings showed mixed results for risk factors like cardiovascular disease and hypertension, but one thing stood out: Those who reported attending church at least once weekly were significantly more likely to have a higher body mass index than those who rarely or never did. Experts point to a few possible explanations: Marriage—which is highly encouraged by the church but tends to lead to weight gain over time, church potluck dinners, the depletion of church-sponsored basketball leagues, and people rewarding themselves for their “good works” with a hearty helping of food.

Source: CNN During 2010, General Electric, America’s largest corporation, reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, $5.1 billion of that coming from its operations in the US. What did GE pay in taxes? Nothing. GE actually claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion during 2010.

This is made possible by a combination of tax breaks and keeping its most lucrative business off American soil. In the last decade, GE has spent millions to try and change tax laws, specifically, ones that allow the company to operate mainly overseas where foreign taxes are low, and where American taxes do not apply. In the past five years, on top of $26 billion in American profits, GE was awarded a net tax benefit from the IRS of $4.1 billion. John Samuels, the head of GE’s tax team, claimed that US workers benefit from the overseas profits, saying: “If US companies aren’t competitive outside of their home market, it will mean fewer, not more, jobs in the United States.” Since 2002, the company has eliminated a fifth of its workforce in the US, and increased employment overseas. NBC, which is owned by GE, made no mention of the story.

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in a lawsuit Pittsburgh parents filed against the drug company Wyeth. According to the couple, their daughter (then a baby) received the diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine in April 1992. Within hours of receiving the shot, the child suffered a series of severe seizures, and continues (now 19 years old) to suffer from a residual seizure disorder. But because of a special Vaccine Act passed in 1986, designed to spare drug companies the costs of defending against parents’ lawsuits, many of these kinds of lawsuits never make it to the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia said that when a vaccine is properly prepared and is accompanied by proper directions and warnings, lawsuits over its side effects are not allowed under this 1986 law. Drug companies were worried they would encounter a flood of lawsuits over side effects had this family won the case, especially from families of autistic children. The American Academy of Pediatrics praised the decision, as did Pfizer. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor took issue with Justice Scalia’s views, stating that the 1986 law was not intended to be used this way.

Source: US News A new Canadian study finds a significant link between a person’s exposure to media accounts of exceptional morality and virtue and their desire to change the world themselves. The study found that people with a strong sense of “moral identity” felt inspired to do good after reading or viewing media stories about other good samaritans’ acts.

Karl Aquino, the lead author of the study, said that if the news media focused on individual stories of kindness, honesty, or sacrifice rather than negativity during times of crisis, people in general might feel more inspired to donate to a cause or otherwise try to help.

Source: Canada British Columbia News A report released on March 14 shows that the renewable energy market has had a decade of unprecedented growth. Ten years ago, Ron Pernick, the cofounder and managing director of the Clean Edge Inc. market research firm, predicted that solar power would grow to be a $23.5 billion industry by the end of the decade. While critics doubted his prediction, the global solar market last year hit $71.2 billion—a small number compared to the fossil fuel market’s take of $383.2 billion last year, but clean energy has definitely established itself as a dominant market force. Clean Edge predicts that by 2020 the global biofuel market will reach $112.8 billion, wind power sales will reach $122.9 billion, and solar sales will hit $113.6 billion.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Those who want to live to age 100 and over need not obsess over their caloric intake or workout regime, but their attitude. Geriatricians say something called “adaptive competence” can be more powerful then genetics or other factors when helping people maintain longevity. Adaptive competence is the ability to bounce back from biological and psychological stress. In fact, during a study at the Yale School of Public Health testing the longevity of people in their 50s as a function of their perceptions about aging, “glass-half-empty people” died on average 7.5 years sooner than their glass-half-full counterparts.

Source: NPR Compiled by Samantha Minasi

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Class Warfare IV

Remember Maine?

It’s the state up north with the vast nature preserve that’s supposed to protect America’s last five Traditional Republicans, once known as RWRs, Republicans within Reason. They’re now known as Rinos, Republicans in Name Only, because anyone in the party who pits reason against rhetoric gets knocked out in the primaries.

Maine’s environmental protection agency has apparently failed in its duties because RWRs have become extinct. Word has reached us that the last breeding pair won’t even put down their martinis to get out of their separate beds when dosed with Cialis because they’re upset that their medication might have been funded by Obamacare.

Governors of Maine usually enjoy so much obscurity that they’re hard to distinguish from hibernating bears. But Maine’s new Republican governor, Paul LePage, has managed to draw attention to himself by removing murals from the state’s Department of Labor because some people in them appeared to be working and pictures of people working could be deemed to be hostile to business.

According to the governor’s spokesman, it was “one-sided décor” not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.

That was a symbolic gesture.

How about a real one? Well, Paul LePage’s got one for you. How about rolling back child labor laws? Did you know that children in Maine can’t work later than 10pm on school nights? Just because most school days start at eight in the morning and school bus pick-ups begin at 7am or earlier. Children have to be paid minimum wage, $7.50 an hour. Way too much. Let’s push that down to $5.25.

Is that the end, or just the beginning? State Rep. Bruce Bickford (R), who co-sponsored the bill said, “It’s not up to the government to regulate everybody’s life and lifestyle. Take the government away.”

Median family income in Maine is $5,600 less than the US average. Twelve percent of the state lives below the poverty level. Clearly, the governor believes that if they could only get more kids into the work force, to work more hours, for lower wages, that would that fix things.

Remember the outbreak of salmonella from eggs in 2010? Federal authorities said that the man at the center of it was Jack DeCoster.

In 1996, DeCoster was fined $3.6 million because regulators found that workers had been forced to handle manure and dead chickens with their bare hands and live in filth. In 1999, his company paid $5 million to settle a claim of unpaid overtime for 3,000 workers. In 2001, there was a $1.5 million settlement against a complaint that they permitted supervisors to sexually assault and rape female workers. In 2002, they settled two lawsuits in Maine over working conditions for $345,810 and $3.2 million. In 2003, “Jack DeCoster paid the federal government $2.1 million as part of a plea agreement after federal agents found more than 100 undocumented workers at his Iowa egg farms. Three years later, agents found 30 workers suspected of being illegal immigrants at a DeCoster farm in Iowa. And in 2007, raids at other DeCoster Iowa farms uncovered 51 more suspected undocumented workers.” (Alec MacGillis, Washington Post, August 22, 2010).

What do you do about a guy like that? Or for a guy like that?

Republicans in the Maine legislature have introduced a bill (“An Act To Amend the Labor Laws Relating to Certain Agricultural Employees”) to exempt the three egg farms associated with DeCoster from paying overtime. It also exempts them

from “the laws that govern labor relations between agricultural workers and an agricultural employer.”

Clearly, there are a people who believe that if Jack DeCoster, the man who brought the threat of salmonella to a third of the nation, could just exercise his God-given right to run his farms free from regulations, oversight, and supervision, it would make our nation healthier and wealthier.

The rest of LePage’s agenda lines right up with the other Republican governors across the country: · Raise the retirement age of public workers from 62 to 65. · Cut Maine’s prescription drug and health coverage for the working parents program. · End $400 of property tax relief for 75,000 middle-income Maine households. · Freeze cost of living adjustments for state employee retirees. Average pensions for Maine state employees are only $18,500 per year. · Tax cuts. Most working families will save $83. Upper income earners save an average $874. The one percent who earn more than $363,438 will get a $2,770 tax cut. (Zaid Jilani, March 1, 2011, ThinkProgress.org) There are a lot of strange ideas here.

A logical person, or a student of reality, would say if you want to create jobs, you hire more people. Nowadays, we say that if the state cuts jobs, more jobs will magically appear. This idea is so pervasive that Democrats like Governor Andrew Cuomo have embraced it.

We’ve just had a series of tax cuts, nationally, and in many states as well.

These were all proposed as stimulus and job creation bills. (The Obama stimulus package was more tax cuts than public works, the major reason it was less than successful.) The result was no job growth, falling median income, and, lest we forget, a major crash, bankruptcies, bank failures, and government bailouts to save the world’s economy.

Blame it on public employees. And on their pensions. Make the public sector more like the private sector. Then the states could do to our teachers and firemen what US Airways did to Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who crash-landed his jet in the Hudson River. His pay was cut by 40 percent and his pension has disappeared entirely.

When you work and you get a salary plus a pension plan, you imagine that retirement money is part of your compensation. Shouldn’t a company, or a government, have the right to get out of that obligation if they have problems down the line? Isn’t reneging on a promise to pay an essential part of a real free market?

If no one, private or public employee, can count on having a pension, won’t that lead us to a new era of growth and prosperity? With good jobs!

The record of reality says, quite clearly, that a mixed economy, with regulations, unions, worker protection, pension protection, national health programs, government investment in infrastructure, education, and progressive technology makes for a healthier, sounder economy. To do that, it is necessary to tax whatever makes the most money. Which also, according to the record, makes for a healthier, sounder economy.

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The Small cities at the End of the Tunnel James Howard Kunstler sees a future beyond peak oil. he calls it Newburgh and Kingston.

By Carl Frankel

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e all know there’s a conventional worldview out there—call it consensus reality. It’s football on Saturdays, Bud Light, Banks that Care, America the Greatest Country of All. A lot of people—more and more every day, it seems—view consensus reality as bogus.You’ve got your conspiracy theorists (Mossad!!! The Trilateral Commission!!!), and then there are those who see the world through greentinted glasses and decry a world in denial about things like peak oil, the environmental costs of consumerism, climate change and…the list goes on and on.

The Saratoga-based writer and social activist James Howard Kunstler belongs to the latter category, with an asterisk for originality. For decades he’s been a prophet in the wilderness, proclaiming that the king has no clothes. His 1994 book, The Geography of Nowhere, was an acidulous critique of what he called the “tragic landscape” of suburbia. In The Long Emergency (2006), Kunstler turned his attention to peak oil and forecast hard times followed by a low-energy future built around small towns and local produce.

The author of many fiction as well as non-fiction works, Kunstler is hailed by some for the incisiveness of his vision and excoriated by others for being “overwrought” and “pessimistic”—characterizations, it must be added, that he rejects out of hand.

We recently talked with Kunstler about consensus reality, his quite alternate reality, and the gap between the two.

Jim, when I scanned the Web for responses to your books, I kept coming upon characterizations like “grim” and “apocalyptic.” Are these fair descriptions of your work?

No. My view of the future is realistic, not bleak.

I’ve written two novels set in the postapocalyptic future. Part of my agenda in writing those books was to depict a future world that would be much more austere than the one we’re used to, but would have all kinds of compensations such as making your own music, working alongside your neighbors, and eating real food. I had a conscious mission—to introduce readers to a world that wouldn’t be as bad as their nightmares depicted.

We have plenty to be concerned about, but there are also plenty of ways we can re-organize our world to make it a better place to live.

Please briefly describe your view of the challenges we face.

We are living in a world suffering from population overshoot, growing resource scarcity, and troubling hypercomplexity.

Are we equipped to deal with these challenges? I’m thinking of both our genetic and our cultural endowments.

As a species, there’s some question about our ability to address issues in anything but a short-term manner.

As for our cultural programming, that’s rather unfortunate these days.

There are a lot of assumptions we seem unable to overcome. For instance, all our economic models are based on the idea of limitless expansion when the world isn’t actually limitless.

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Are we screwed?

I wouldn’t leap to that conclusion. People will keep doing what they do until circumstances compel them to do otherwise. Eventually, the time will come when we have no choice but to do things differently.This will happen regardless of how we feel about it. Reality has mandates of its own.

We’ll have to grow food differently. We’ll have to inhabit the landscape differently. We’ll have to do commerce differently. We’ll have to do transportation differently.

We’ll have no choice but to change our ways.

Let’s look at each of these areas of activity in turn.

Food: We’ll need to grow more food locally and regionally on a smaller scale, probably in a way that requires more human attention, and in a way that’s better integrated into local towns and cities.

We’ll have to return to more traditional modes of habitation. Cities will be a lot smaller than the ones we live in now. Places like Kingston and Troy and Newburgh will have a future because inland waterways will be more important.

The contraction process will be painful. Big cities won’t be able to keep offering services the way they do currently. This is already expressing itself in municipal insolvencies, and in arguments about things like bargaining rights for public employees. We’ll see the loss of lots of what is perceived as wealth. A Manhattan office building valued at $500 million may turn out to be a liability.

The success stories will be smaller towns scaled to the resources of the future.

Commerce: Big-box commerce isn’t a permanent institution in the human condition. Reality will tell us we can’t keep organizing commerce that way.

No more endless 12,000-mile conveyor belts of merchandise from Asia to Walmart! Globalism is over, finished.

Things are already starting to shift. A lot of people in business and politics understand that we’re facing serious friction with people who’ve been our historical trading partners. Japan, for instance, may have to stop supporting our debt program. Another example: our relationship with Islamic oil countries is undergoing a severe test. If Saudi Arabia gets into serious turmoil, it’s basically game over for how we do things in the United States.

Our transportation system is also hitting some tipping points. I’m not only talking about the price of oil here. Because governments are so strapped, they’re starting to have trouble maintaining roads. Highway engineers will tell you that if you miss a single cycle of repair, roads deteriorate very quickly. Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have already launched depaving programs, taking country roads back to dirt.

There’s another shift occurring here, too. Because we’re facing problems with available capital, Americans won’t be able to buy cars the way they’re accustomed to. They can’t get installment loans.

Few people will view this as a good thing. I view it as a necessary step for us to get to our destination.

Which is?

More local economies and downscaled activities. We were this society until 90 years ago. We can be that society again. In fact, I don’t see an alternative.

REUTERS/Brian Snyder Customers shop for produce at the Food Project’s Farmer’s Market in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. according to james howard kunstler, as we head into our low-energy future, we will rely more and more on local food and local businesses.

There’s a long way between here and there, isn’t there?

In terms of mental models, definitely. The fact is that we’re not prepared for any of these changes at any level or realm of society. This is partly due to techno-triumphalism—the notion that technological innovation will save the day. This is the attitude that keeps us from repairing the regular rail system because we’re obsessed with creating a high-speed system.

Another misbegotten attitude is what I call the psychology of previous investment. Once you’ve made massive investments in infrastructure, for instance in suburbia, there’s a natural tendency to want to defend those investments. We can see the results—campaign after campaign to sustain the unsustainable, and a national collective imagination that’s unable to construct a consensus that’s consistent with reality.

We have plenty of creativity and plenty of ability to innovate, but we’re fooling ourselves and the leadership is bad. We’re experiencing a comprehensive failure of leadership across all sectors—business, government, academia, the clergy.

Do you include Obama in this indictment?

Yes. I don’t know whether people have frightened him into not speaking about these issues, or if he just doesn’t get it. He clearly doesn’t understand the energy situation. In a recent speech on energy, much of what he said is pure fantasy—for instance, the claim that we have 100 years of shale gas.

I have a deeper critique of Obama as well, which also happens to be my critique of progressive politics generally. Democrats try to solve problems by adding complexity to systems that are already too complex. This is a tragic and unfortunate mistake. Obama’s health-care “reform” and financial “reform” were failures for this reason.

I say this, by the way, as a registered Democrat.

How abrupt and dramatic will the coming disruptions be?

They’re mostly an ongoing process. For instance, the airlines are clearly going to fail. They’ve been doing so incrementally for the last 10 years or so. They’ve already been through one round of bankruptcies.

There hasn’t been a huge implosion yet, though we risk getting to that point. There are tipping points that we can see and understand. For instance, the finance sector now has expanded from five percent of economic activity to over 40 percent. With the replacement of authentic investments with what I call something-for-nothing deals, we can confidently project traumatic failures, and in fact we’re already seeing them in the form of stock market crashes, currency problems, and so on.

Recently, we had a pretty bad crash and papered it over with accounting stunts and “quantitative easing.” This allowed us to artificially goose up the stock markets, with the result that people feel their banking system is okay when it actually isn’t. Eventually, we’ll reach a point when we have another financial crisis and we’ve run out of tricks that let us borrow against the future.

In what ways can we minimize the pains associated with these dislocations and accelerate the necessary transformations?

What happens next isn’t entirely up to us as individuals. Societies are emergent, self-organizing phenomena.You don’t sit back and plan how you’re going to change absolutely everything. Circumstances will prompt us to do things differently and we will make changes, but the process is likely to be less than linear. Sometimes these historic transitions are harsh and traumatic, and sometimes we manage them a bit better. The big challenge our society faces is managing contraction. Unfortunately, we’re not thinking about it very clearly.

We have to scale down and get local, and we’ll be much happier when we get some clarity on that.

What will help is if more people decide to move to places like Kingston. If more people decide to move into agriculture instead of becoming marketing assistants in cubicles. If more people start the sort of businesses that will rebuild local economies.

If, in other words, more people choose to start doing the things we’ll all need to be doing eventually.

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How to Build the Kitchen You’ll Never Leave

Above: The Bertazonni six-burner gas stove and Susan Jablon Mosaics backsplash; right: Judson, Tamraz and Utah at home.

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he’s an artist and poet who teaches composition at the Culinary Institute of America; he’s a biker and journeyman lineman who gets dispatched for emergency power repair whenever and wherever there’s a major storm.

They met cute, of course—walking their dogs—but the last thing they wanted was a sugar-sweet country kitchen for their radically renovated 1954 Sears kit house in the Ireland Corners section of Gardiner.

Meet Lauren Tamraz, 29, and Eric Judson, 34, together nine years and married for five; she’s the daughter of an artist who grew up in an eight-floor walk-up apartment in Yonkers sharing a bathroom with three sisters; he’s the son of a Smithtown, Long Island, cop-turned-bank-security-director who loves motorcycles, sports, and anything mechanical.

Bought in 2007 from the builders’ son, the Tamraz/Judson home has undergone a massive renovation which included raising the roof pitch, lending a loftlike feel to the 13-by-13 foot kitchen area, now the heart of eclectically updated dwelling. The last and largest project, the kitchen redo, took 14 months and cost $30,000 to complete.

“Lauren loves to cook and entertain, and the idea was to have a Hamptons beach house kitchen in the country,” says general contractor and fellow Gardiner resident Chris Stelmaszyk, 34, one of the couple’s closest friends. “I’ve never seen another house that looks like theirs, and as an added bonus I get to see and feel out how comfortable it is for them.”

Stelmaszyk says the kitchen—a showpiece for him—has also become the gathering place for an ever-expanding group of friends and family, who include the seller’s Uncle Don, the couple’s next-door neighbor; people who have worked on the property; classmates from SUNY New Paltz, (Chris, Lauren, and Eric’s alma mater); and lately contributors to Awosting Alchemy, a literary webzine Lauren launched and edits.

The Epicure and the Engineer Tamraz, a self-described “slobzilla” and “house hermit” blessed with a “fabulous junk gypsy aesthetic,” initially wanted everything to look or be period to the house. She aggressively canvassed styles, materials, and suppliers for ideas. Judson’s job requires travel—he spent two months in New Orleans post Katrina—and being technical, he 24 home ChronograM 5/11

values a high degree of order.

Their homeowner’s insurance policy nixed Tamraz’s plan to buy a swanky 1950’s aqua commercial Vulcan stove on eBay: restaurant-grade stoves are not insulated and are a fire hazard adjacent to residential cabinetry. For their fifth anniversary, Judson splurged on a $6,300 stainless-steel Bertazonni six-burner gas stove with a selfcleaning (a nod to Lauren’s habits) convection oven and matching ventilation hood.

Bertazzoni is based in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region, famous for its sports cars, racing motorbikes, proscuitto, balsamic vinegar, and Parmesan cheese. And in the Tamraz/ Judson kitchen, not only does the pricey appliance get a real octane-burning test drive, but its epicurean-meets-engineering heritage also symbolizes their personal dynamic.

A refrigerator sale at Lowe’s balanced the budget; they “stole” an $1,800 Samsung for $800. The high-heat metal-interior dishwasher, also by Samsung, cost $600. Economizing a bit on the sink and plumbing fixtures, there’s nevertheless a pot-filler spigot above the stove.

“We’re a common case of biker meets hippie,” says Judson. “Lauren is definitely the artist; she sees the big picture, and I can get us there.”

After the Vulcan idea flopped, Pisces Tamraz had a vision: The kitchen overlooks a former ice pond now home to carp so large they ripple intense shadowy circles. In the distance is Gertrude’s Nose, a sharp white cliff on the Shawangunk escarpment. Thus, she conceived of a “white-on-white sparkly, pearly fish” design, and dived into her first purchase: $500 in fish-scale-shaped glass mosaic tile for the backsplash from Susan Jablon Mosaics in Vestal, near Binghamton.

Tamraz and Judson both love stone and even went rock hunting in Zion Canyon, Utah on their honeymoon; hence the name “Utah” for their four-year-old pit bull.

To buy countertops, they went together to Barra & Trumbore Stone Fabricators in Kerhonkson to meet with selection specialist Donna Primoff.

Because Tamraz had already bought the backsplash, the challenge was finding “stone that would relate,” said Primoff. While Tamraz was set on white, Judson felt the kitchen needed contrast in order to integrate with the cedar-paneled ceiling, darkly-stained pine window trim, and dramatic 16-foot oak library ladder leading to a loft office.

After much listening, Primoff identified a brilliant compromise:Volga Blue granite.

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The mirrorlike polish of the speckled blackish rock glistens with natural iridescent blue inclusions. Although green-minded Lauren and Eric try to buy and employ local— she’s a vegan, and grows some of their food—and used only water-based stains, polyurethanes, and other environmentally sensitive products, the virtually indestructible Volga Blue granite, mined only in Ukraine, was a must. The countertops cost $4,000.

Organize Me! Tamraz enlisted UK native Dennis Collins, the owner of English Customs in Mount Tremper, for their kitchen cabinets. Tamraz told Collins, “I’m a slob! You have to organize me!” Kevin Kerins, who works for Collins, became the couple’s good friend.

After an on-site measure, English Customs fabricates the cabinets in its shop, test assembles the set, and then breaks it apart. The contractor does the home installation, which goes faster than with stock cabinetry, since all the pieces fit together precisely.

At $15,000 the largest expense, the cabinetry has rich solid maple interiors with a pigment-loving poplar exterior finished in satin white lacquer. The “baroque clear” handmade glass, which has a watery effect, came from the Dodge Stained Glass Studio in Hopewell Junction. The cabinets self-latch; abundant drawers glide shut via latestthing Accuride slides ($28 a pair). The corner cupboard’s double-tiered shelves turn and swing, courtesy of a German-made $600 Hafele hardware system.

“A lazy Susan only gives you a circle. This brings the actual shelf right out into the room,” explaines Collins. Lauren claims she would waste a lot of cereal without it.

On a scale of 1 to 10, the kitchen’s lighting system rates a “nine” without a doubt, says Tom Nash, an electrician who was also their housemate for two years. “It’s intricate. There’s a huge bank of switches; you’ve got a lot of choices.” In keeping with the home’s organic vibe, the kitchen’s nine asymmetric recessed lights can visually section the overall space. Husband and wife usually dine together at the island illuminated at the setting “romantic”; the island comfortably seats eight.

The trio of pendant lights above the island were a bargain; Tamraz captured them at Ikea for $90; their translucent white petals echo the fish-scale tile. Judson made the eyecatching loft railing panel; he hand-cut the amoeba-like shapes out of wood with a jigsaw.

Are they happy with their renovation? “Oh yes,” says Tamraz. “I don’t really see us ever leaving.”

More information on the materials and craftspeople who helped Tamraz and Judson build their dream kitchen can be found at www.chronogram.com.

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BACKSPLASH TILE Susan Jablon Mosaics Vestal, NY; (607) 748-2302 www.susanjablonmosaics.com

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ubmerged under four feet of Wallkill River water for two days in early March, my overwintered kale is now growing like a champ. The same is true for the garlic I planted last fall.You’ve got to appreciate that kind of tenacity—and when the kale leaves unfold and the garlic scapes spiral, they are among the most beautiful plants in my garden.

Cheryl Hearty, community horticulture educator for Dutchess County Cornell Cooperative Extension, says that edible landscaping is about “looking at fruits, vegetables, and herbs with a garden designer’s eye. Colorful foliage, interesting textures, and architectural shapes can add excitement to your garden.”

Edible landscaping is supertrendy right now, but where do we start? Grapevines and apple trees are major league, and I’ve known many new food gardeners to get discouraged trying to grow them. There’s a real trick to growing heirloom tomatoes that are not ringed with unsightly split skin. Root crops like sweet potatoes need deep, fluffy soil and can get wiped out fast by voles.

I suggest you try the following and build some confidence in your ability to grow lovely looking produce. Consider these for Year One: kale (red, green, and purple), Bright Lights Swiss chard, garlic, blueberries, and robust herbs like parsley and golden oregano. Work your way up to those high-maintenance espaliered apple trees that can be subject to all manner of pest and disease insult. Or maybe skip the apples in favor of Asian pears (read on!)

Choosing the Right Plants As tough as my “quibble-frees” are, they have their needs. Cheryl Hearty reminds us to choose the right plant for the right location, because we all have different growing conditions. Sunny locations (six hours or more per day of direct sun) are necessary for most fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Herbs tolerate some pretty “boney” soils, but vegetables and fruits are going to want a lot of organic matter.

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Hearty says it’s also important that gardeners choose plants they enjoy eating. Three of her favorites are Bright Lights swiss chard, Bull’s Blood beets, and Siam Queen basil. These and many others are on display in a first-rate edible landscape managed by Master Gardeners at the Dutchess CCE headquarters in Millbrook.

Norbert Lazar, owner of the Phantom Gardener in Rhinebeck, where many edible ornamentals are on offer, weighs in next. “Research the plant’s requirements and don’t skimp on soil preparation,” he says. “Don’t try and fit a large plant in a small space. Also, edibles need to be planted away from leach fields and potential contaminants.”

Lazar’s top-of-mind edible is the blueberry. “They have bell-shaped white flowers, berries in summer, and wonderful red fall color,” he says. “A real three-season plant.” One important cultural consideration for this otherwise flexible plant is reasonably acidic soil. For those of us who don’t have indigenous acidity, Lazar says, “Sulfur, peat moss, or acid organic fertilizer needs to be added to the planting hole.” He also notes that watering is extra important at the time of berry formation.

For beauty, ease, and delectability, Bloom Landscape Design owner Liz Elkin of New Paltz votes for garlic, strawberries, and asparagus.

“There is nothing like the tenderness of fresh, homegrown asparagus,” she says. “To grow asparagus, all you need is time. Pick a sunny, welldrained spot to plant them. It takes a few years to lead up to the really good harvest, but they will reward you year after year with the first of the spring vegetables.”

Then you leave some asparagus shoots to grow in order to replenish stored carbohydrates in the roots, and the ferny foliage that results makes a lovely hedge for summer and fall. For all edibles, Elkin advises people to plant more than they need. “This way there is some for the birds and other animals, and less pressure on you for peak production,” she says. take our reader survey at www.chronogram.com 29

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Start Now! Ethan Roland is a principal and lead designer with AppleSeed Permaculture, an edible landscaping and regenerative design firm based in Stone Ridge. He says that the most important thing is to start now. “Many fruit and nut trees take several years to bear their full yields,” he says, “and once you taste fresh organic produce from your backyard, you’re going to want more as fast as possible!”

According to Roland, of the approximately 20,000 edible plants in the world, only 150 are being cultivated on a commercial scale. Furthermore, 90 percent of the calories eaten by the entire world come from just 20 species (yikes). He urges us to grow a more diverse array of food for reasons of biological diversity as well as beauty and nutrition.

Roland recommends these three crops for newcomers to edible landscaping: strawberries, currants and gooseberries, and Asian pears. “Strawberries are easy to grow in a small space,” he says, “and provide quick and reliable yields of tasty fruit. Currants and gooseberries are very tough, shade tolerant, and somewhat deer resistant. And Asian pears require no spray!”

Quibble-Free Quintet Here’s a primer on my Quibble-Free Quintet, those plants that I recommend you try for the first year of your edible-landscaping experiment: Kale Kale can be seeded in spring or fall, and it overwinters. Toscano kale has gorgeous noncurled blue-green foliage on sturdy stalks that look like tiny palm trees. Red Bor kale should be called Purple Bor, and its foliage color intensifies in colder weather. Kale takes 55-65 days from seed to mature harvest; however, as with so many greens, you can harvest younger kale leaves at any time.

Lest your kale become the mere garnish of your garden, have a simple, tested recipe ready to go. I make kale potato soup with a wee bit of gruyère sprinkled on top. I remove the midribs and cook the kale until it is tender and free of bitterness.

Bright Lights Swiss Chard The stems of Bright Lights offer a range of colors including gold, pink, orange, red, and white. It is easily grown from seed.

Harvest leaves incrementally if you don’t want to leave holes in the garden.

When you cook it, the stems will lose much of their color—more so when boiled than when steamed. Chard takes 55 days from seed to mature harvest.

Garlic Garlic likes fertile, well-drained soil, but that is true of most plants, edible or otherwise. Plant garlic cloves around the time of the first fall frost; harvest the following July, when the leaves naturally yellow, signifying the end of the plant’s life cycle. Keep your harvested cloves in a cool, dark place and you can use some of them as your “seed garlic” for your next frost-time planting. I quite enjoy growing the large-clove elephant garlic, though it is really a kind of leek and its flavor is not as intense.

Blueberries Above all, blueberries need acidic soil or acidic enhancements and good drainage. Look for highbush blueberries; many cultivars are available with different degrees of compactness for home gardens. Highbush blueberries are virtually disease and pest free. You may need to cover them with bird netting in order to preserve the maturing fruits for yourself. You will get improved pollination and larger berries if you plant at least two different, concurrently blooming cultivars.With good growing conditions, harvest starts in earnest in year three after planting.

Parsley & Golden Oregano I grow a big patch of parsley for my bunny, Butter. In turn, she supplies me with “bunure” for the garden. The parsley is growing in some pretty crummy sandy soil, but it always looks nice. Golden oregano is a gorgeous edible ground cover that I have used in just about every garden installation.

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The roots of stained glass can be traced back to early Egyptian civilization. Stainedglass church panels portray pictorial art that, to this day tell religious stories. Around the turn of the 20th century, Louis Comfort Tiffany created translucent, opalescent glass landscapes etched with a milky, swirling mixture of colors depicting leaves, flowers, and sky. Many of the grand homes dotting the Hudson River Valley, with their marble and stone elements, were complemented with stained-glass windows.

Inspired by the masters, Doris Cultraro joined the scene in the 1970s. She worked as a restorer of glass during a time when the art and craft of stained glass enjoyed a resurgence. Stepping into Cultraro’s large studio in Rhinebeck, one encounters varying stages of the creation process. The walls are lined with a gradated rainbow of colored glass, and a “marble cake” of assorted recycled scraps with rippled lines that catch the light with sparkle and texture.

Across the region, Cultraro sees old windows crying out for restoration or repair, with sagging, buckling, and leaking. “The Hudson Valley’s stained glass heritage is forever in need of preservation.” Her commitment to restore and preserve the decorative elements of a bygone era is not Cultraro’s only mission.

Cultraro takes pride in the many new windows, panels, lampshades, and smaller commissions she expertly designs. When talking about the design process, Cultraro lights up. She loves the fluidity of working with clients. This piece of “puzzle” Cultraro likens it, “the CSI of stained glass.” Together, Cultraro and clients comb books, as they dig into the legacies of each piece. In newly designed pieces, she works with clients, interior designers, and architects to unify the key elements of a living space. Cultraro then creates a template on her computer using a CAD program.This allows her clients to view their piece in scale. Once the design details are fully fleshed out with the utmost precision, Cultraro begins the ardent task of creating original stained-glass art.

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The Question Is a Plastic-Free Home Possible?

“I just want to say one word to you—just one word: plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.” When Mr. McGuire told Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate that plastic was his future, we had no idea what that future would hold for such a seemingly innocuous word. Flash-forward more than 40 years, and now plastics are becoming the personification of the Eco-devil, doing much more harm than good.

Unfortunately, Mr. McGuire was right. Plastic production has been our future.

Each year, we create more than 200 million tons of the stuff and our plastic obsession continues to double every twenty years.

Let’s take a look at three reasons we need to purge plastic: Toxics Plastics are not biodegradable. They photo-degrade and breakdown into toxic chemicals that contaminate soil, waterways, and oceans, eventually piling up in our food chain.The so-called “bad” plastics—Bisphenol-A (BPA), PVC, and Phthalates, are the most toxic types. The United States has not outlawed BPA. (Europe and Canada do.) These bad-guy plastics are found in food packaging, plastic food storage containers, plastic water bottles, canned foods, toys, cooking implements, and even kitchen appliances like coffee makers.

Depletion of Nonrenewable Resources The process of creating plastic usually begins with carbon from petroleum and natural gas. Since virtually all plastics are petroleum-based products, these two nonrenewable resources are extracted in ways that pollute air and water.

Staying Power They say nothing lasts forever, but scientists estimate that petroleum-based plastic can persist in the environment anywhere from 400 to 1,000 years or more.

As individuals, is there anything we can do to protect our families from plastic overload? Avoiding all plastics is virtually impossible. Plastic is in everything, from your computer keyboard to the car’s door handle. Single-use plastic grocery bags and plastic kids’ toys are obvious choices to ditch. Can we do more to lighten up our plastic load?

When reducing an overall carbon footprint, small measurable changes are great places to start. One small eco-enlightenment may be just the impetus needed to create a lifetime of sustainable changes. Scaling back on plastic can be a massive shift and for some, it might require breaking some long-standing habits.

Start with the kitchen. To keep food safe, completely avoid putting plastics in the microwave. Most plastics leach chemicals into food when heated. Stay away from the “bad plastics.” Replace plastic storage containers with glass or ceramic ones. Single-use plastic bags, if unavoidable, have a second life when reused as garbage or doggy bags. If you do buy plastic goods, look for and encourage retailers to use products that are made of biodegradable and/or compostable plastic.This type of plastic is made from corn, hemp, soy, and other plant-based materials. It breaks down faster than real plastics and is biodegradable. Look for companies that close the sustainability loop and are driven by the belief that social and environmental values are good business.

Maybe Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate said no to plastics because he was green before his time? Probably not. But after 40 years, it may be time to take plastics out of our future.

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here are many words that may spring to mind when considering the economic state of affairs in the Hudson Valley in recent years. Unfortunately, as one sifts through everything from “dismaying” to “outright scary,” the chance that a concept like “prime” might come to mind is—well— something of a long shot.

The good news is, it may be time to reconsider.

Take, for instance, the highly publicized real estate market debacle that has ridden roughshod over the American Dream over the last few years. Surely, no example of economic downturn these past few years has been more instrumental in creating today’s cringing consumer (or, shall we say, “wary”) than the mortgage crisis and its ensuing damage. Still, there are, perhaps surprisingly, several reasons to be optimistic. Some are written in pure dollars and sense, some in an outright change of paradigm.

The Not-So-Hard Truth First things first: Go look out a window. Frustrating times or not, most would be hard pressed not to admit that, throughout the area, we are graced with a singular beauty.The draw of the Hudson River Valley and the Catskill Mountains has, for decades, been a siren’s song to both nature enthusiasts and those wishing to transition to more bucolic climes. Fortunately for the region, that appeal can withstand—and perhaps be accentuated by—the strain of stark economic realities. Though the Hudson Valley has hardly been immune to the ravages of the real estate “bubble” bursting, those effects have been mitigated by a number of factors that spring from the land, the location, and the community.

It is impossible to talk about the hardiness of the local market without discussing where we actually are: specifically, midway between the New York State

capital—Albany—and the mecca of NewYork City. In return for no more than two hours of traveling, city dwellers can find themselves in a completely separate vista of society than the bustle that they came from. Though a price tag cannot be ascribed to that tranquility, it is nevertheless a commodity of great value.

“This is the new way of valuation—the return on my investment has come to me in a different way,” posits recently minted Accord resident Rebecca Shea.

“My family life has become more complete, my relationship to the environment has been strengthened, my responsibility to my community has become enriched.” Shea, an art historian and professor at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, moved with her husband and young child to Ulster County in 2007, just as the proverbial house began to come tumbling down; she is, however, more than satisfied with her investment, on every level. Shea adamantly asserts that the whole scope of the life-changing move must be considered when assessing the value of her family’s investment. Ardent climbers, Shea and her husband get to wake up each day in a proverbial paradise between the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskills; and as an art enthusiast, Shea finds herself surrounded by constant inspiration. “Practically speaking, we were happy to find an affordable home, with acreage and a beautiful view,” Shea adds. “On top of that, I often feel like I’m walking in a 19th-century painting—I can completely understand why the Hudson River School painters were so inspired.

What’s that worth?”

Ulster County Deputy Director of Economic Development March Gallagher is more than happy to concur. An activist for the region’s economic health, Gallagher is enthusiastic about the way that the region is rebounding from troubled times. She cites the restrengthening of the tourism industry here—one of the three primary sources of income for the region, along with take our reader survey at www.chronogram.com 41

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health care and agriculture—as cause for more confidence in real estate investing. Gallagher points to a number of factors, not the least of which are growing efforts towards land preservation in the area, led by such groups as the Open Space Institute. Maintaining the sanctity of open space both kept the area’s appeal and prevented the overproduction of homes that occurred in so many other places during the real estate boom. “A lot of the critical lands have been protected,” explains Gallagher, “and we’re starting to get a real feel for conservation. At the end of the day, we’ll have much smarter development.”

The continuing advancements made in land conservation also help support the all-important agriculture of the region.

Gallagher also suggests that Ulster County and surrounding areas are looking at other positive industry trends that may further bolster the solidity of the real estate market, particularly in the field of manufacturing.With huge investments being made in technology of late in the Albany and Saratoga region, she says, the benefits will trickle down south to the base of resilient producers in the area that have weathered the difficult past decade. She also points to the increasing presence of green technology, like Kingston’s new TechCity residents, Solartech Renewables. “We’re in a prime spot,” Gallagher asserts. “We have location, we have this base of innovative manufacturing. We’ve maintained our beauty, agriculture, and tourism. We’re uniquely poised.”

The Brass Tax Then, of course, there are the numbers—many of which point to real estate investing in the area as a sound investment. Foremost are a particularly appealing set of criteria in place right now for homebuyers. Though the federal income tax credit intended to rejuvenate the market is no more, the opportunity to buy back in to the shaken American Dream of homeownership looks to be an inviting one nonetheless.

“From a residential perspective, it’s the perfect storm,” maintains Laurel Sweeney of Stone Ridge’s Nutshell Realty. Sweeney, Ulster County’s 2009 Realtor Associate of the Year winner, has been at the heart of the market over the last decade, and sees a sort of harmonic convergence of factors that make this an ideal time to buy. “We have historically low interest rates, rates we haven’t seen for 50 years,” Sweeney says, pointing to widely available rates that are consistently less than 5 percent. “Plus, we have a robust inventory, and realistic sellers.” Sweeney also explains that, though home values have certainly dipped considerably in recent years, 2010 figures show a leveling off. Average sale prices for homes in Ulster County, for example, are consistent with that of 2004, suggesting the market has seen its worst days pass by. The advent of government-certified Federal Housing Authority mortgages—which provide fixed rates and require only a 3.5 percent down payment—is also helping to expand possibilities for potential buyers from varied income strata.

Tim Sweeney, co-owner of Nutshell Realty and Ulster County’s Multiple Listing Service president, explains that the combination of low rates and tax incentives make this a wise time for investing. “There are so many long-term reasons to own a home, and several reasons to buy now,” says Sweeney. “As well as the mortgage interest deduction and capital gains benefits, today’s homeowner can deduct yearly property taxes.” The actual numbers can be significant, and it doesn’t require spending a fortune: for example, a homebuyer with a $200,000, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, at 4.5 percent, can expect to save as much as $3,500 when they go to file their federal income tax.

Joe Deegan, principal of Deegan-Sanglyn, a Kingston commercial real estate group, agrees with Sweeney on another key element special to this area: As opposed to the fallout of bank failures nationwide, the solidity of local banks have kept areas like Ulster and Dutchess counties solvent. Beyond the scope of residential buyers, Deegan suggests that the backbone of fiscally reliable area banks make commercial investing a sound option as well. “Around here, I can get you qualified financing for commercial property, which isn’t so everywhere. And, if you educate yourself properly, you can be looking at a 7 to 10 percent return on investment,” says Deegan. Comparable long-term investments—for instance, a 10-year CD—garner no more than 3 percent.

Finally, Deegan evokes that integral, unquantifiable quality that has made real estate investing, on any level, so appealing historically: It is eminently tangible. “At the end of the day,” says Deegan, “it’s still there. It didn’t evaporate with a political mistake. That will never change.” Perhaps it’s time to buy into the solidity of the Hudson Valley.

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Beacon on the Hudson is its own work of art…a colorful, creative, multidimensional community with a vibrant cultural life, a warm and welcoming classic American Main Street dining and shopping experience, and a sacred relationship to the river and surrounding landscape that animates everything.

Named to commemorate the fires set on nearby Fishkill Mountain during the Revolutionary War to alert the Continental Army about British troop movements, today Beacon lights up with more and more good reasons to visit and, for many, great reasons to settle and stay.

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With a packed events calendar and a steady stream of new happenings and openings that keeps flowing into town, the city is in the midst of an ongoing renaissance that started in the late 1990s and was punctuated with a big explanation point in 2003 with the opening of Dia:Beacon­—one of the world’s largest contemporary art museums.

Creatively charged and infused with an infectious community spirit, the sense of spontaneity and cross-pollination here feels like spring is always in the air, inviting you to pick your own bouquet from all that’s blooming.

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The Beacon Sloop Club was founded in 1969 when the newly built Clearwater sloop first visited Beacon Harbor and the Hudson River was suffering from garbage dumping, raw sewage leaks, and other atrocities. Local volunteer members joined Pete Seeger— who makes his home in nearby Fishkill—to help spread Clearwater’s environmental message and make change happen that would not only bring back the life of the river, but also promote it and protect it. Today, Riverfront Park and Denning’s Point Park on the Hudson in Beacon are among the city’s attractions, where people can come to enjoy and appreciate this glorious river once again.

Located at the intersection of Cross and Main Streets, the River Beacons/Mother Hudson mural by Rick Price is framed with the body of an Esopus Indian River goddess who, much like the Beacon Sloop Club, devotes itself to nurturing the river. The mural was created in celebration of the Beacon Sloop Club and the 30th anniversary of the launching of its river sloop, the Woody Guthrie.

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The 8th Annual Great Newburgh to Beacon Hudson River Swim on Saturday, August 6, is an opportunity for experienced swimmers to swim about one mile (72 lengths of a standard 25-yard pool) across the Hudson River and raise funds to benefit the nonprofit volunteer organization, River Pool at Beacon. The 20-foot pool provides a safe, protected area for swimming and wading in the Hudson River for people of all ages. Located just off the north shore of Riverfront Park minutes away from Beacon’s train station and ferry dock, the River Pool is open Tuesday through Sunday (noon to 6pm) from early July to Labor Day.

•Sloop Club Free Sails & Festivals• Located at the Beacon Harbor adjacent to Metro-North’s Beacon Station, the club’s Woody Guthrie, a wooden replica of a Hudson River gaff-rigged ferry sloop, offers free sails to the public and sail training to volunteers, five weekday evenings a week. The club also holds or participates in fundraising festivals and events including its Strawberry Festival (June 12, noon to 5pm at Beacon Riverfront Park) and the Corn Festival (August 14, noon to 5pm at the Beacon Waterfront).

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www.riverpool.org •Recreation, Estuaries & Art• Denning’s Point is a peninsula that juts out into the Hudson River and was once the site of the Denning’s Point Brickworks, which, in its heyday in the 1920s, produced more than 400,000 bricks a day. Today, Denning’s Point Park is a beautiful place to hike, fish, bird watch or just hang out. It’s also the home of the Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries—a global center for scientific and technological innovations that advances research, education, and public policy regarding rivers and estuaries. The Institute offers events open to the public including a history Walk with historian Jim Heron (May 14, 10-11am), author of Denning’s Point: A Hudson River History, and a Sunday Author Series.

Beacon Institute’s Center for Environmental Innovation and Education is both an educational facility and a Visitor Center for the Park.

The Mill Street Loft—part of the Beacon DAC (Dutchess Arts Camp) for children ages 4-12—offers a wide range of arts activities and classes in the newly restored, historic Red Barn near Denning’s Point on Beacon’s waterfront.

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•Riverfest & Art Guitars• On June 25, the second annual Beacon Riverfest, a free daylong outdoor music festival, returns to the city’s Riverfront Park under the direction of musician and producer Stephen Clair whose Local 845 produces concerts and live music shows in Beacon and the surrounding area. Five bands—Gato Loco, Milton, Jack Grace Band, Readnex Poetry Squad, and the Taco Seeger Band— headline on one center stage.

In May, Beacon Riverfest Art Guitars—a citywide public display of more than 40 wood guitars, each painted by a different local artist— leads to the June 18 auction of the guitars at the Marion Royael Gallery, 460 Main Street in Beacon, with proceeds to benefit the artists and Beacon Riverfest.

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Beacon is a walking town, where a stroll up Main Street is an event in itself filled with street life and opportunities for engagement, places to shop and browse, dine, and hang out. Check out progress on the renovation of the Beacon Theater, the future home of 4th Wall Productions theater company. See what’s happening at the intersection of Main and East Main, where The Roundhouse at Beacon Falls project is converting original brick mill buildings into a 20-room hotel, restaurant, and spa and live/work space overlooking Beacon Falls. Stop in and see what’s going on at the Howland Cultural Center in its grand Victorian building on Main.

You’ll find art everywhere—gallery exhibits, poetry readings, chamber music recitals, coffeehouse concerts, theater productions—along with plenty of ways to take the open invitation to relax and enjoy this place on the planet, indoors and outside, with its hiking trails and bike paths, water sports and sailing sloops, Fishkill Creek and Mount Beacon, and the glorious, flowing Hudson River.

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Big Bambú Last year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art invited twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn to create a site-specific installation for the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop was the result—a monumental, moving bamboo structure made of more than 5,000 pieces of bamboo and 50 miles of nylon rope, ultimately measuring 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 50 feet high. Constructed by the artists and a team of rock climbers, it towered above Central Park from April 27 through Halloween. The Met’s Big Bambú was the second; the first Big Bambú lives in Beacon, where the Starn brothers have their studio in the former Tallix Foundry, where they collaborate on works that continue to defy categorization as they define contemporary art.

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Big Art In 2003, Dia Art Foundation put the city of Beacon on the international art map with the opening of Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries in nearly the 300,000-square-foot once occupied by a box-printing arm of the National Biscuit Company. The renovated building is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places and accommodates nearly 240,000 square feet of gallery space, with grounds that feature seasonally-changing gardens and a parking lot in which each car is matched with a flowering fruit tree. The museum houses major works of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present in its permanent collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Irwin, On Kawara, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Lawrence Weiner.

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Big BACA The Beacon Arts Community Association (BACA) is an organization of artists, galleries, businesses, and art supporters that promotes, celebrates, and communicates everything art in Beacon with year-round programs and happenings. A sampling of the innovations and entertainments they bring to town includes Second Saturday, a city-wide celebration— 6-9pm on Main Street, the second Saturday of every month—when galleries and shops stay open late with show openings, artist receptions, music, and special events; Windows on Main, which turns storefronts on Main Street into exciting gallery spaces; and Open Studios in September, when Beacon joins with nine communities in Art Along the Hudson, an annual celebration that invites the public to meet local artists where they work, view works-in-progress, and visit the creative spaces of nationally and internationally exhibited artists, as well as those who will be showing their work for the first time.

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Don’t Miss the JACKSON BROWNE Benefit Concert, June 17th! Circle of Song (sing-along) – Story Grove (storytellers) • Children’s Crafts and Activities ClearwaterFestival.org Jugglers, Roving Artists, Face Painting and more… for more info.

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off the cuff Great Day in Beacon – March 5, 2011 Saturday, my brother William from West Hartford, Connecticut, and I attended Robert Rodriguez Jr.’s Class on LightRoom 3—“Real Life LightRoom.” Was an incredible learning experience. Rob is a great teacher and there is so much to learn about this new technology. Hopefully my brain will retain some of what he taught us…but the experience of seeing his images and how he works so hard—okay, 6 am on the snowy Hudson River…just a wonderful class. And Brenda’s lunch of vegetable soup and sandwiches, and cookies—yumm.

Afterwards, my husband Stu and my sister-in-law Jean joined us for dinner at Homespun….I had the pear-walnut-blue cheese salad and the crab cakes— delicious!! Everyone totally enjoyed their dinner—the duck, lamb dishes were superb!

And to finish the day, we went to the Howland Cultural Center for the Madera Vox Concert. They were wonderful—such an intimate setting and the music was excellent. The talent was absolutely amazing—each performer was superb in their own right—and together they made a performance that was enjoyed by all.

Was truly a great day in Beacon!

—Linda T. Hubbard

Worldwide Recognition “Beacon’s a really hip town that people around the world know about.”

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Resources

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Aubry Associates www.aubryassociates.com Beacon Bath & Bubble www.beaconbathandbubble.com Beacon Cycles www.beaconbikeshop.com Beacon Natural Market www.beaconnaturalmarket.com Beacon Riverfest 2011 www.beaconriverfest.com Carla Goldberg www.carlagoldberg.com Cup & Saucer Tea Room www.thecupandsaucertearoom.com Clearwater Festival www.clearwaterfestival.org Dennis Vetrano (845) 831-1405 Dr. Jane McElduff www.drjanemcelduff.com Echo www.echobeacon.com Gate House Reality www.gatehouserealty.com Giannetta Salon & Spa www.giannettasalonandspa.com Global Home www.globalhomeNY.com Gourmetibles Beacon www.gourmetibles.com Homespun Foods www.homespunfoods.com ICU Publish mtodd@icupublish.com Lauren & Riley www.laurenrileyco.com Leo’s Italian Restaurant www.leospizzeria.com Max’s on Main www.maxsonmain.com Mountain Tops Outdoors www.mountaintopsonline.com MOXIE Salon nowthatsmoxie.com QBS Company www.qbscompany.com River Pool at Beacon www.riverpool.org River Winds Gallery www.riverwindsgallery.com Russel Cusick Gallery www.reflectionsonthehudson.com Seed to Fruit www.seedtofruit.net Tas Kafe www.taskafe.com The Vintage Café www.thevintagecafebeacon.com Virgos Sip n Soul Cafe www.virgossipnsoul.com Wolcott Wine & Liquor (845) 831-0109

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fishkillthe main event Fishkill and Beacon share a common history that dates back to the original Dutch settlement of the Hudson Valley. In fact, many consider the history of Fishkill as beginning in 1709 with the establishment of a homestead and gristmill by Roger Brett and his wife, Catharyna, in Fishkill Landing that is now the town Beacon. Today, there’s a symbiosis between Fishkill

and Beacon that continues to connect the communities to the benefit of everyone—tourists, visitors, and modern-day settlers alike. A cozy hamlet in size compared to Beacon, the Village of Fishkill, centered on Main Street, is dense with restaurants and eateries, unique shops and special events that compliment all that Beacon has to offer and adds a charm all its own.

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Owner-operated, specialty businesses define the shopping experience in Fishkill, with stores like Jody Cleveland’s Hands of Serenity Healing, a wellness center and metaphysical shop, and Rafael Delgado’s jewelry store where fine jewelry, watches and clocks are sold along side a line of retro-design aprons started with his daughter, Gloria. The Fishkill Business Association (FBA) creates and promotes special events to give more good reasons visit. The juried 18th Annual Fishkill Craft Fair takes place out doors with food and music, rain or shine, on June 5 at the Fishkill Village Square Plaza (986 Main Street). The fair features quality items by local crafters, all members of The Hudson Valley Etsy Team of artists and artisans, creators and collectors, who sell their handmade and vintage items. On May 21, Fishkill businesses take to the street for the annual “Rock Around the Clock” block party, an all-day bash that closes Main Street and brings out the crowds with food vendors and live music, face painting, funnel cakes and fun.

RESTAURANT ROW

Fishkill’s location at the crossroads of Route 84, Route 9, and the Taconic Parkway, just a few miles from the Thruway, makes it an easy stop—and be sure to bring your appetite because Main Street in Fishkill is restaurant row, serving up a hearty menu of dining options. The international mix adds to the flavor with cuisines from all over the world—Korean, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Cuban, American— including brunch al fresco at the Tomato Café. Have afternoon tea at Maizie’s Tea Room. Get meatloaf and mash potatoes for lunch at Eleven 11. Chow-down for dinner with a “hand selected, dry aged beef cooked exactly to your instruction” at Sapore Steakhouse. Whatever your palate preferences, from fast-food grab-and-go to white table cloth formal dining, you can find it in Fishkill. main street

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Or take a turn back in history with a visit to the Van Wyck Homestead Museum, 504 Route 9, open for tours from 1 to 4 pm Saturdays and Sundays from June to October. The Fishkill Historical Society, headquartered there, keeps local Fishkill history alive and especially the historic Van Wyck Homestead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which once served as headquarters to a major military supply depot during the American Revolutionary War. The BLT (Beacon Local Transit) shuttle now runs between Beacon and Fishkill with more than a dozen stops along the way to get or and enjoy these towns. Created through a partnership between Beacon Chamber of Commerce and the Fishkill Business Association, it ties Beacon and Fishkill together in a relationship that goes back more than three hundred years.

Resources Back Door Studio www.backdoorstudiowoodstock.com Frozen Berry www.frozenberry.net Garrison Art Center www.garrisonartcenter.org Golden Buddha www.goldenbuddhathai.com Hands of Serenity Healing www.handsofserenityhealing.com Mountain Scout Survival School www.mtscoutsurvival.com Pamela’s Java Hut (845) 896-1261 The Tomato Cafe www.tomatocafefishkill.com William Anthony Salon www.wasalon.net

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Explore the landscape and art on foot, by accessible tram, or on a rented bicycle.

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B. Docktor, Three Herondale Sheep, from the exhibit “I Love Where I Live: Local Animals and Landscapes” showing at Hammertown in Rhinebeck through May 31.

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“Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country.” May 1-June 5.

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168 CORNELL STREET, KINGSTON 331-0191.

“The World Adventure.” Oil paintings, watercolors, ceramics, photographs, handmade jewelry/hair accessories, drawings and more. Through May 27.

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“Billy Name: Photographs from The Factory.” Through May 31.

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“Coffee, Friends and Art.” Through June 30.

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“Jim Holl.” Through May 15.

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“Simon’s Rock of Bard College Photography Thesis Show.” Through May 18.

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DAVIS ORTON GALLERY

60 MAIN STREET, PHOENICIA 688-2142.

“That’s the Way I See It!.” Kenn White and Ingrid Mazerat. Through May 14.

114 WARREN STREET, HUDSON www.DavisOrtonGallery.com.

“Axeman Who Will Be 70 in the Year 2010.” Mixed media by Howard Saunders. Through May 8.

“Person/Persona.” Photographs by Meg Birnbaum. Through May 8.

“PortfolioX2.” Photographs by Robert Kalman & Gordon Stettinius/Terry Brown. Through May 8.

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“Anything Goes!.” Members’ group show. Through May 7.

BAU 161 MAIN STREET, BEACON 440-7584.

“Aquamarine.” New works by Carla Goldberg. May 14-June 5.

Opening Saturday, May 14, 6pm-9pm.

CARRIE ANDRESS 166 ALBANY AVENUE, KINGSTON 338-5575.

“20th Anniversary Exhibit.” Through May 29.

CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES BARD COLLEGE, ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON 758-7598.

“Clap.” Featuring more than 60 works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Through May 22.

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“Women of Red Hook Artists.” Elizabeth Avis, Mary Belliveau & Diane Bauer. May 7-30.

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THE FIELDS SCULPTURE PARK OMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTER, GHENT (518) 392-4568.

“David True and Trevor Winkfield:Paintings.” Through June 5.

THE FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER VASSAR COLLEGE, POUGHKEEPSIE 437-5632.

“150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis and Katherine Newbegin.”

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59 TINKER STREET, WOODSTOCK 679-9957 “Photography Now 2011.” Juried by Vince Aletti. Through May 30.

“Being Upstate.” Work by Carlos Loret de Mola. Through May 30.

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“Jessica Kaufman: Panopticon.” Through May 23.

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“Conversations.” Works by eight painters and sculptors who also work on paper. Through May 12.

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“Leticia Ortega-Cortes: Painting.” Through May 22.

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“Home Delivery.” Fresh works by Jim Granger, Tatana Kellner, and Judy Sigunick. May 7-31.

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“The Gun Show.” A group exhibition of multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, photography and more addressing the Gun. May 6-31.

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“Walking Off.” Paintings by Derek Erdman. May 7-28.

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“Zen and the Art of God and Hotrods.” A divine union of spiritual paintings by Robert Lewis Hoover.

May 8-June 9.

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“Far and Wide: The Third Annual Woodstock Regional Exhibition.” Through May 8.

“New Water Colors by Staats Fasoldt.” Through May 8.

“Quasi-botanical Investigations.” Charles Geiger. May 14-June 5.

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“Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II.” May 6-10.

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Relatively Speaking “Cousin Brucie” Morrow

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f at first you can’t quite place the smiling face, the sweater might say “uncle” rather than “cousin.” But the sunny voice is a dead giveaway.

“I was what you’d call an ‘Alan Freed baby,’” he says, referring to the daddy of all rock ’n’ roll DJs, the one most often credited with taking AfricanAmerican rhythm and blues to the white masses in the early 1950s. “As a teenager, I’d go up to WINS to watch him do his radio show. I’d bang my hand on the studio window and press my face up against the glass. I told him I wanted to be on the radio. But he told me [affecting a gruff voice], ‘Kid, this is a boring business. Take it from me, you don’t wanna do this. Go back downtown and work for your dad.’” He laughs. “But for some reason, even though he was my idol, I still didn’t listen to that advice.”

If he had, there’s no doubt the medium of radio—indeed, the story of popular music in America—would have been radically different. Because the speaker is “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, a broadcasting icon for more than 50 years and for multiple generations the very beacon of rock ’n’ roll’s biggest hits. Since com64 music ChronograM 5/11

ing into his own as the British Invasion struck land, for baby boomers Morrow has been, literally, the vocal champion who soundtracked the big break from the polite pop of their parents’ era and the staid culture that went along with it. As he tells it in his new book Rock & Roll… And the Beat Goes On (Imagine! Publishing, 2011), it was a schism that developed into rock’s many subsequent iterations. But before their hit songs became today’s “oldies” repertoire—a format Morrow has come to personify—the decades from the ’50s to the ’80s unspooled in a turbulent, perspective-shaping fashion. And as they did, “Brucie” was the omnipresent, genial gatekeeper. For most kids on their way to join the workforce, raise a family, and quietly assume the mantle of adulthood, the fun-filled hits of the day were simply that. For many, however, the Top 40 was something more. It was a steady stream of seeds that inspired them to dig deeper into music’s unheard, forbidden grounds—whether to find out more about where the new sounds came from, or simply to do something different than what they were hearing. And, in many cases, to go on to make their own music.

Morrow was born in Brooklyn in 1937 as Bruce Meyerowitz, the son of a Lower East Side children’s clothing manufacturer. “Brooklyn was one of the greatest places to grow up in,” the disc jockey recalls. “What made it so great was the diversity of the neighborhood. I got to know people of all races and financial and educational backgrounds.” While there was music in the house (“Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Mario Lanza, okay pop-era stuff, I guess.”), Morrow emerged as an entertainer-personality well before he became a music fanatic. “I was a shy kid,” he says, inconceivably. “Until my English teacher cast me in what they called a ‘hygiene play,’ which was something used to teach sex education, as well as more mundane health-related stuff.This one was about dental health, and I played a cavity! [Laughs.] But when I got on stage, something happened, and I loved it.

Then one afternoon I saw my mom and the neighbors gathered around the radio, moved to tears by the news of FDR’s death. The way radio could reach people in such a powerful, human way like that really made a light bulb go on for me.”

In 1953 Morrow enrolled in New York University’s Communication Arts program. While attending the school he also founded, almost singlehandedly, its first radio station, a campus-only setup that later became indie-music powerhouse WNYU. There, he delivered the news and played classical music, but outside of his duties he was being overtaken by a more savage sound.

“I listened to Martin Block’s [big-band-oriented] ‘Make Believe Ballroom’ on WNEW,” says Morrow. “Every once in a while he’d play a rhythm and blues record, Big Joe Turner or somebody like that. This wild, ‘naughty’ music. My friends and I would just go, ‘Wow, what is this stuff?!’ And then in 1954, Alan Freed, who’d gotten a huge audience by playing this so-called ‘race music’ on WJW in Cleveland, came to New York to go on WINS. People say he came up with the name ‘rock “n” roll,’ but that’s not really true: He just popularized it as a new name for R&B.” In 1957 Bermuda station ZBM-AM, eager to have its own Freed-style jock, gave Morrow his first professional slot. After spinning there for a year he fulfilled his adolescent dream by landing a job at WINS, initially as a producer. His big NewYork break finally came in 1958, when he filled in for a regular DJ, and soon earned a permanent position that found him smack in the middle of the burgeoning rock ’n’ roll explosion.

Although he’d invented the Morrow moniker as a teen, the familial first part of his handle came from a stranger. “I’d just started DJing at WINS—it must’ve been about 1959,” he remembers. “I was on one night, and the security guard let this old, homeless woman—not exactly my age demographic then—into the studio to say hello. She asked me, ‘Sir, do you believe that we’re all related?’ I figured it was some kind of a line, but I said yes anyway. So then she said ‘Well, cousin, can you lend me 50 cents to get back to the Bronx?’ And the way she said it just made me go, ‘Hmmm.’ I gave her the money but I never saw her again, and she never paid me back!” [laughs]. Its genesis aside, the appellation is perfect for the warm, conversational style of Morrow, who famously addresses his listeners as “cousins.” In his ebullient persona one glimpses the vanishing vapors of the vaudeville tradition, and it can be convincingly argued that his jovial presentation did almost as much to sell rock ’n’ roll to America as the songs themselves.

“Brucie always feels like your pal,” says Handsome Dick Manitoba of punk legends the Dictators, who grew up in the Bronx listening to Morrow and now hosts his own “Handsome Dick Manitoba Radio Program” at the elder DJ’s current network, Sirius XM Radio. “Turning on the radio and hearing him light up the room is like ringing a friend’s doorbell.You think, ‘I know him.’”

As Morrow’s stature as an on-air force grew, many of rock’s early movers also got to know him. Well. Elvis Presley was one. “He was such a nice guy,” Morrow says. “He’d call me up, long distance, and say [adopts Elvis voice], ‘Suh’—he never called me by first name—‘Suh, I just wanna thangya fo’ playin’ mah records.’ Very humble man, Elvis.”

After a year, Morrow decide to give Miami’s WINZ a shot and left WINS. But by 1961 he was back in NewYork at WABC, where he really began to define himself as rock ’n’ roll’s ringmaster. His time hosting the station’s popular revues at New Jersey’s Palisades Park prepared him for another date with destiny, this one as the man who introduced the Beatles at the group’s landmark Shea Stadium concert on August 15, 1965. “Sixty-five thousand people!” says Morrow. “The noise from the crowd was just deafening. It was really pretty scary, that much electricity in the air. Before they played, even the Beatles themselves were starting to worry about there being a riot. Lennon, especially, seemed very nervous. He asked me [in a Liverpuddlian accent], ‘Coozin, is this gonna

be okay?’ I tried to look calm and I told him, ‘John, it’ll be fine! They’re all just excited to share the space with you guys.’ Ed Sullivan was also hosting the show, and he was really freaked out. He was just this older guy who never really understood all the excitement over the Beatles. When he and I were about to walk on stage in front of this mass of screaming kids he turned to me, just shaking and perspiring, and said, ‘What do we do?!’ I decided to have some fun with him, and I looked straight at him and said: ‘Pray, Ed. Pray.’ His eyes bugged out!

[Laughs.] No one could hear the band, but the show went fine.”

As that decade rolled into the next Morrow’s ubiquitous presence as the voice of rock ’n’ roll grew well beyond the New York Metro area. Thanks to WABC’s high wattage and the atmospheric phenomenon called “skipping,” at night his broadcasts could be picked up clearly in the Deep South and parts of the Midwest and Canada. In 1974 he replaced another late rival,Wolfman Jack, at WNBC, where he remained until 1977 before leaving to cofound the Sillerman Morrow Broadcast Group, a chain of radio stations that included Middletown’s WALL and WKGL (now WRRV), Hyde Park’s WJJB (now WCZX), and Northampton’s WHMP. By then, Morrow’s reputation and distinctive delivery had also begun attracting TV and movie agents. While he’s starred in the Beatles-themed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Across the Universe (2007), his most celebrated turn came as the magician in 1987’s blockbuster Dirty Dancing. (Morrow will reenter the acting world this month for a limited run—May 3 through May 8—in the Broadway musical Memphis.)

In the early ’80s he returned to New York’s airwaves, signing on with one of the nation’s first all-oldies stations, WCBS-FM, to host the nationally syndicated “Cruisin’ America” and other shows. But the decade also saw the rise of homogenized formatting at odds with the Brucie brand of “human radio.”

“Radio is supposed to serve the public’s best interest,” he explains. “But it was becoming less about the listeners, and more about serving greedy advertisers.

Advertisers are important, but people still need music as a break from their lives. Just to be able to dream a little.”

Morrow stayed with WCBS-FM until 2005, when the station began its controversial—and ultimately failed—experiment with a virtually announcerless, computer-run system. Soon after, he inked a long-term contract with Sirius XM Radio (formerly Sirius Satellite Radio), where since 2010 on the network’s ’60s on 6 channel he’s hosted the live “Cousin Brucie’s Saturday Night Rock & Roll Party” (Saturdays at 8pm EST) and “Cruisin’ with Cousin Brucie” (Wednesdays at 5pm EST; repeated Sundays at 3pm EST). Whereas many old-school DJs might be decry non-terrestrial radio, Morrow embraces it with evangelical gusto. “Digital and satellite technology have made this the best time ever in radio, especially with the variety of music,” says Morrow, who waxes with similar zeal about his new iPad. “I have instant access to an endless library of songs, and I can have a song ready to go instantly. A listener can call in and ask for a song that was maybe a local hit but never made the national charts, and right away I can play it for them. It’s incredible!”

Morrow has three grown children, and he and his wife, Jodie, divide their week between their Manhattan loft and the 1774 Stone Ridge farmhouse they purchased in 1997. For someone who makes his living with his voice, Morrow has a keen eye from behind the lens; a gifted photographer, he’s even exhibited the breathtaking travel photos filling his walls at a few Upstate venues. His foray into authordom began with his 1987 memoir, Cousin Brucie: My Life in Radio (Beech Tree Books), which was followed by 2007’s best-selling coffee-table tome, Doo Wop: The Music, the Times, the Era (Sterling; now out in paperback).

Released in March, the colorful, photo-filled Rock & Roll… And the Beat Goes On charts the arc of rock from its rumbling ’50s dawn to the mellow ’70s, interspersing artist profiles with segments on pop culture and historic events. “It’s really a book about life, not just music,” says Morrow, who’s been inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Radio Hall of Fame, the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and the Radio Hall of Fame; honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; and seen New York’s West 52nd Street renamed Cousin Brucie Way, in 1994.

But although he revels in expressing himself through other media, after so many years for Morrow it’s still radio that rules. “When I get on the mike, my belly warms up and I get this electricity in my whole body,” says the broadcaster. “I just love it!”

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May 21. Thankfully, the Planet Arts organization is continuing its fine “JAZZ one2one” duet series at the Athens Cultural Center. New York trumpeter Joe Magnarelli (whose 2008 album Persistence features liner notes by yours truly) made his straight-ahead bones with Ray Barretto, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lionel Hampton, and Harry Connick Jr. Here, he’s paired with local guitarist Peter Bernstein, who’s worked with Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Lonnie Smith, and many more. (Trombonist Roswell Rudd and Cuban guitarist David Oquendo play June 11.) “Jazz talk” with the artists at 7pm; show at 8pm. $10. Athens. (518) 945-2669; www.PlanetArts.org.

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Joe Magnarelli and Peter Bernstein

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Phish May 27-29. In 2004 the members of this millions-reaping, heap-topping, jam-band juggernaut announced they were breaking up. But after a torturous five years the Vermont band’s legions of “phans” had their prayers answered when the group reunited for three sold-out arena shows in 2009 and decided to keep it going with a tour that included a 5:02 PM Bonnaroo headlining slot and a new studio album, the same year’s Joy. As of this writing, day two (May 28) of the group’s three-night stand at Bethel Woods is sold out, so phollowers (sorry) shouldn’t wait to grab tickets. (Byrds leader Roger McGuinn soars May 6; world-folk unit Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul arrives May 14.) 7:30pm. $45, $60. Bethel.

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BOMB Fest May 28, 29. The third annual BOMB (Bring Our Music Back) Fest lights the summer concert festival season fuse by blowing up Hartford’s Comcast Theater with sets by Weezer, Snoop Dogg, the New Pornographers, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkdelic, Against Me!, Dum Dum Girls, Titus Andronicus, Coheed And Cambria, Wiz Khalifa, Freelance Whales, Best Coast, Holy Fuck, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and too many more. (See Chronogram’s yearly summer concert festival round-up in next month for the season’s top picks.) $99, $129, $349. Check website for full lineup and start times. www.bombfest.com.

cliff eberhardt plays friends of music finale at morrison mansion in middletown on may 16.

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cd reviews The Last Conspirators When It All Comes Down (2010, Driving Rain Music)

Following up on their 2007 debut long player, Warparty, Albany’s Last Conspirators have unleashed another shot across the bow of a too-often-complacent rock soundscape. The songs evince an unshaken belief in the punkrock ethic, starting with the all-in, soulful commitment of front man Tim Livingston’s vocals. Although the defiance of songs such as “History” and “Who Wants a Revolution Anyway” is present and correct, the music is anything but

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7:30pm JILL SOBULE; guest Sam McTavey 8:30pm CHRIS BROWN; also GARY ADAMSON 8:30pm COMMANDER CODY Band; also PROFESSOR LOUIS & THE CROWMATIX Sun 5/8 7:30pm DAVID WILCOX Fri 5/13 8:30pm FRED EAGLESMITH; guest David Ray Sat 5/14 8:30pm HARPIN’ FOR HUNGER BENEFIT w/STEVE GUYGER, punk-by-numbers agitprop.

DENNIS GRUENLING, RYAN HARTT and CHRIS O’LEARY The line-up of Livingston, bassist Jeff Sohn, guitarist Terry Plunkett, and drummer Al Kash is Sun 5/15 7:30pm GARNET ROGERS; guest Shawn Taylor a vibrant testimonial of the Capital District’s close-knit but eclectic scene. The Conspirator’s sonic Fri 5/20 8:30pm BLUE CHICKEN, featuring JIM WEIDER, Brian Mitchell, DNA is encoded with elements of glam, post-punk, psychedelia, and roots-rock.

Byron Isaacs, Clark Gayton and Randy Ciarlante with “Luther Hamilton’s Blues” struts forth on a bedrock rhythmic foundation, then layers on guitar SID McGINNIS of the • David Letterman Show fanfare that is by turns fractured and plangent before Livingston turns the lyric of a personal quest Sat 5/21 8:30pm POPA CHUBBY Band into a parable of a nation’s search to restore its collective mojo, underscored with Iggy-style primal Sun 5/22 7:30pm ERIC ANDERSEN; guest Joe Flood howling. These recordings possess an immediacy that hints at the band’s infrequent but powerful Fri 5/27 8:30pm UNCOMMON GROUND; guest Tim & Slyvia Sat 5/28 8:30pm LIPBONE REDDING & The Lipbone Orchestra; live performances. Sure, the amps are cranked up really high, but the dynamic arrangements are 4/21/2011 JM: see changes below, make sure there is no “$2.00” guest Glenna Bell the real payoff for the listener. lowed to give price Sun 5/29 7:30pm NENAD BACH Band; guest Mark Cohen “History” begins with anthemic guitar scrubbing, propelled by a hook-laden bass line before Fri 6/3 8:30pm KEVIN McKRELL & Train Of Fools Plunkett launches the band to the stratosphere and back, pausing with Livingston cutting through4/20/2011 the We need to change $2.00 to the word “Cheap” Sat 6/4 8:30pm ALEXIS P SUTER Band onslaught with an impassioned cry of “It’s too late for the future!” It’s never too late for music with2. thisThe last bullet point is not needed. The last two points should read Sun 6/5 7:30pm ELLIS PAUL; guest Kati Mac

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Sharon Ruchman Arrival of Spring (2010, Independent)

At the time of year when the weather is unpredictable and we ache for warmth, flowers, and the cessation of snow, there couldn’t be a more appropriate title for the sophomore chamber music CD by Western Connecticut pianist/composer Sharon Ruchman: Arrival of Spring. A few of the pieces here (seven running anywhere from one to three movements) are from her radio show, “Sharon Ruchman Chamber Music,” which aired in 2009, and the recording comprises a blend of various ensembles: a string quartet, a trio, duets for violin and piano and for cello and piano.

There’s a great deal of forcefulness in the first movement, while the second is hushed and the third is, again, more vivacious. The first piece, “String Quartet in F Sharp Minor,” is both lively and beautiful. The moody violin piece “Memoria Dolci” is one that Ruchman wrote to honor her uncle, Rudolph Fuchs, an award-winning virtuoso violinist who played for President Coolidge.

“Solemnity” is a tranquil cello/piano piece that encourages quiet inner reflection. “Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in F Minor” moves through a vigorous and dramatic ambience to a stilled and dulcet one, and back again. “Twilight” is played on violin, coupled with the upper octaves of the piano, evoking imagery of shimmering stars. Welcome spring! www.Sharon Ruchman.com.

—Sharon Nichols

Elizabeth Mitchell Sunny Day (2010, Smithsonian Folkways Records)

Not many nine-year-olds can lay claim to penning the title track of a major album. Fewer still can boast of singing on said record with Dan Zanes, Levon Helm, and the king of the Mekons, Jon Langford. Storey Littleton can. But, then, her mom is Woodstock’s Elizabeth Mitchell. Mitchell’s latest Smithsonian Folkways release, Sunny Day, is, like 2006’s magical You Are My Little Bird, a family affair. Storey and her dad, Ida co-founder Daniel Littleton, are permanent members of the band, which here also includes Zanes, Helm, Langford, cellist Jane Scarpantoni, fiddler Jean Cook, bassist Chris Wood, and utility infielder Larry Campbell. As much as we love kindie pioneer Ella Jenkins figuratively, few folks with facial hair actually listen to her records.The magic of Little Bird is that by singing songs by Lou Reed, Bob Marley, and Neil Young straight, Mitchell created a kids record that parents really could enjoy. With Sunny Day she’s instead simply made a fine album, one that kids can love, too!

Here, Mitchell and Zanes revitalize the Greenwich Village standard “Green, Green Rocky Road”; with Helm on drums she rocks “Mystery Train” and with Langford she balances sugar and steel on “Little Buckaroo.” Storey and Dan, of course, are along for the whole ride. My kids are getting ready for college this summer. I wish Langford had been singing them lullabies when they were younger (instead of sending Dad home to fall asleep drunk on the couch). www.youaremyflower.org.

—Michael Eck

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THE GIRLS OF HER YOUTH Jo Ann Beard Essays a Novel

By Nina Shengold Photograph by Jennifer May

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ou know you’re in good hands when a teenage narrator starts her story with, “We can’t believe the house is on fire. It’s so embarrassing first of all, and so dangerous second of all. Also, we’re supposed to be in charge here, so there’s a sense of somebody not doing their job.” The opening lines of Jo Ann Beard’s just-published novel In Zanesville (Little, Brown, 2011) burrow deep into the 14-year-old mind, where being embarrassed is worse than death and every disaster is “somebody’s” fault.

There are writers who thrive on high drama, and writers who make the everyday sing. Beard is defiantly in the latter camp. In the movies, she’d be a genius character actor, her craft evoking the plainspoken truths, buried emotions, and glinting weirdness of real people’s lives.

Her first book, The Boys of MyYouth (Little, Brown, 1998), a much-praised collection of personal essays, shares a lot of DNA with In Zanesville. Both books brilliantly conjure a Midwestern coming of age in an era when mothers smoked, fathers drank, and plaid culottes were an envy item. In Zanesville’s narrator is a self-described “sidekick,” geeky enough to join marching band and rebellious enough to quit during a parade. Although she’s never named, there’s a bit of a tease: Her first name sounds something like “Joan,” and one of Little Women’s March sisters. Could it be Jo Ann? Is this a memoir in disguise?

“I don’t actually get too involved in that conversation. I have enough trouble just writing it,” Beard says. “For every piece I write, even if I’m writing in a journalistic way about somebody else’s experience, I have to inhabit the character so fully that I feel as if I’m remembering it. Fiction feels exactly the same–the writing process is so intensely about imagining something in order to put it on the page. It’s hard to know what’s true and what’s fiction and what’s in between, which might be a little where my work resides.”

She picks up her teacup and sips. We’re sitting in the kitchen of the Rhinebeck farmhouse Beard shares with novelist Scott Spencer. A cast-iron woodstove squats inside a colonial fireplace scaled for roasting an ox. An old dog named Shep dozes under a window. Outside, it’s still not quite spring— there are patches of late-season snow and a skim of ice over the duck pond, a steady rain falling. Beard pulls her cardigan closer, rearranging a patterned green scarf. She speaks slowly and thoughtfully, and when she falls silent, her eyes have a palpable sadness.

Spencer breezes in with a second dog and a larger-than-life blast of energy, cheerfully complaining that he just came from Pete’s Famous, where he was reading a novel he’s fallen in love with, but people kept talking to him. “You’re too popular,” Beard says drily. “You need to borrow my stay-away face.” She demonstrates. Spencer takes the hint and heads upstairs.

Beard grew up in Moline, Illinois, a factory town on the Mississippi River. A middle child, she fell in love with books “so early I can’t remember,” building a “reading nest” behind a green armchair in the living room.This was considered a sign of early eccentricity. “In my family, reading was not considered a productive way to spend time. Nobody bothered me much, but it was not valued.”

What was? “Conforming,” says Beard. “I defied all their dreams. The expectation was that I would grow up, get a job as a secretary, get married, and have children.”

She complied with the first three. “I was a great secretary,” she reports with pride. “I could type really fast.” She stayed in Moline till age 30, when her husband entered a graduate program at the University of Iowa. Beard also enrolled, earning a BA in studio art. “In my last year, I took a writing class and realized that was just easier for me. It felt deeply familiar because of a lifelong immersion in books.” She earned a master’s in nonfiction writing and worked in a campus office.

But Beard’s life in Iowa City was jolted by tragedy. Her essay “The Fourth State of Matter” describes the shooting deaths of six of her colleagues at the hands of a seventh on November 1, 1991. Several years later, she set out to write about the lingering death of a beloved collie and her dissolving marriage. The events of that day rip through the essay with shocking violence, just as the shootings exploded on an ordinary day filled with dying dogs and failing marriages. It’s a breathtaking piece of bravura writing, connecting the dots of shattered lives like constellations, and its publication in the New Yorker jumpstarted Beard’s career.

In the interim, she moved to Ithaca. “The weather is hideous. There’s one road in, one road out—it’s the depression capital of the world. But I fell in love with the beauty. It’s like a miniature version of the Rocky Mountains.” She

spent hours outdoors every day, taking long walks through the gorges. “I was learning to be alone. I spent so many years with such a cacophony of family, friends, marriage.”

The profound loneliness made her a far braver writer. “You have to be willing to plumb your own depths,” Beard asserts. “How do you know who your character is if you don’t know who you are?”

Then she met Spencer and left. “God love Ithaca, I will always be grateful to it, but I had to bail. I couldn’t take one more day of snow blowing past my window.” She rented a house in Tarrytown and visited Spencer on weekends, giving herself a year to figure out “if I could throw in my lot with another relationship, and live in this rambling old farmhouse for the rest of my life.”

What swung the balance? Beard smiles. “Scott did. As soon as I met him, I couldn’t imagine being with anyone else.”

They’re a contrasting pair. “Scott is the opposite kind of writer from me,” Beard says. “He attends to his writing every day. I attend to it on a yearly basis; I do it in the summer.” (She’s a virtuoso procrastinator—in The Boys of MyYouth, she says of an artists colony, “I hate it here; why did I come here? All there is to do is write.”) Spencer has published three novels since they’ve been together, and he’s a manic reviser, frequently tossing out hundreds of pages to make a fresh start.

“That’s when I feel like I need to take to my bed. It makes me completely frantic,” says Beard. “I never throw away one word. I couldn’t bear to. I choose my words very carefully. I have so much patience as a writer that I don’t give up. I will work on something for years and years. My process is very slow, and eventually, I can usually make it pay off.”

She adds gratefully, “Scott never comments on all the long hours I spend not writing. I want to be writing. I feel better about myself when I’m writing.”

But she will not be rushed.

“I see everything inside my head like a movie before writing a word,” she explains. When the image is crystal clear, she choose the words to describe it.

“My process is 100 percent chronological. I don’t go backward. In Zanesville started with the fire.The first line I wrote was the first line, the second was the second, all the way through.”

This dogged pursuit of the next perfect sentence may explain the long gap between books. Beard also teaches at Sarah Lawrence, where her colleagues include Marie Howe, Stephen O’Connor, and Vijay Seshadri, among many others. “Teaching takes energy away from my work because there’s a lot of reading, but I love talking about great essays: E. B. White, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace.”

Though she kept writing essays, Beard had no plans for another book until a publisher approached her about writing for teens. She wrote the first chapter of In Zanesville as a sample; the consensus was that it felt too adult. But she was unswayed. “By the time they said no thank you, I was well into it and had to keep going,” she says. “I decided to let the story be what it was and let the publishing end take care of itself.”

Clearly it has. A starred review in PublishersWeekly raves, “Beard is a faultless chronicler of the young and hopeful; readers couldn’t ask for a better guide through the wilds of adolescence.”

In Zanesville will have special resonance for those who grew up in the 1960s and can appreciate its perfect-pitch details of time and place, music and wardrobe. But Beard hopes younger readers will find it as well, perhaps lured by the bookjacket image by 15-year-old photographer/blogger Olivia Bee. Before starting her sample chapter, Beard read “a stack of YAs. I got frustrated because everything felt so overt, as though teenagers can’t have conflicting notions in their heads, when they’re nothing but conflicting notions.” She also rejects the idea that period details are a turnoff. After reading at a high school, she asked her audience if they knew who Patty Duke and Hayley Mills were.

“They didn’t, but they got it. They intuit just like we intuit.”

She now owes a YA manuscript to the publisher that initially contracted In Zanesville, and hopes to write it this summer. “I would like to write a book for children that’s as important and meaningful as Charlotte’sWeb,” she says. “I have two book ideas started. Each of them has one sentence.”

Her face lights up in triumph. “YES! I have my first sentence!”

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SHORT TAKES History is written by the survivors. These six new books find the beating heart of the historical past and the most personal of histories.

The Leaves of Fate George Robert Minkoff McPherson & Company, 2011, $24.95

The final volume of Berkshires author Minkoff’s magisterial trilogy is not literary fast food. Exquisitely wrought narration rewards patient readers with a richly detailed chronicle of Captain John Smith’s exile from a beleaguered Jamestown and the rise of tobacco, often in images of startling beauty.

Minkoff’s visionary epic has gained a cult following, including Paul Auster and Richard Ford.

The Affair of the Veiled Murderess: An Antebellum Scandal and Mystery Jeanne Winston Adler Excelsior Editions, 2011, $24.95

The title and alluring bookjacket suggest a whodunnit, and this work of scrupulously researched nonfiction reads like one, vividly evoking the bustling 19th-century Troy in which two Irish immigrants are poisoned. Amid sexual and political scandal, the glamorous suspect goes on trial incognito and heavily veiled; Adler writes, “Today’s National Enquirer and The Star would have been all over it.”

The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way Nava Atlas Seller Publishing, 2011, $18.95

When New Paltz food writer, humorist, and book designer Atlas started wondering why she hadn’t written that novel yet, she turned to a dozen literary foremothers—including Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Anaïs Nin, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf—for inspiration. This bountiful literary quilt of quotations and intimate glimpses of writers’ work lives is an ideal Mothers Day gift for your favorite book mama...or yourself.

Silverlands: Growing Up at the Actors’ Orphanage Judy Staber Troy Bookmakers, 2010, $17.95

One might assume that the wards of a British orphanage in the 1940s and ’50s had lost parents in WWII, but during Staber’s 12 years at Silverlands, her actress mother was very much alive. The Rensellaer County author’s extraordinary tale of childhood abandonment and resilience ranges from Dickensian beatings to bedtime stories read by Marlene Dietrich and field trips with Sir Noel Coward.

The Stone Man and the Poet Barbara Block Adams iUniverse, 2010, $18.95

When poet and Pace professor Adams married a largerthan-life stonemason, wives were expected to keep house and keep quiet. That her lusty, hard-living husband suffered from mental illness, and later was ravaged by cancer, made her role even harder. Adams survived her difficult marriage, raised children, and wrote about all of it. Ironic, though: Look who gets top billing in her memoir’s title.

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller Dutton, 2011, $21.95

Horrified by the recent suicides of LGBT teens who’d been bullied, Savage and Miller uploaded a video about their tormented pasts, promising, “It gets better.” Thousands of messages later, the YouTube phenomenon is a best-selling book, with heartfelt contributions by Hudson Valley authors Eileen Charbonneau, “big rural dyke” Krissy Mahan, Wicked’s Gregory Maguire, and dozens more worldwide.

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The Intimates Ralph Sassone

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011, $24

One More Stop Lois Walden

Arcadia, 2010, $16.95

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he romantic lives of our parents are often shrouded in such mystery that we see only the haziest outlines, interpreting and misinterpreting them through memories formed before we experience the urges that would make the truth comprehensible. If our parents hadn’t made love, they would never have made us, yet the circumstances are seldom explained and often complex.

Ralph Sassone’s The Intimates and Lois Walden’s One More Stop explore the ways in which parental love lives, missteps, and complications reverberate into the lives of the next generation. The protagonists— adult children of shattered marriages— twist in the wind, experiencing numbness in places where they long to feel intimacy.

The Intimates explores the early adult lives of best friends Robbie and Maize, from high school—when a fumbling makeout session left them close friends— through early jobs and relationships. He’s gay, she’s not. Despite or because of this, their connection deepens into the simplest and strongest in either one’s world. Neither can open up romantically, and vivid vignettes of parental disconnection offer clues about why. Maize’s stepfather, Bruce, the most positive adult in her young life, was excised from her world with near-surgical precision by her hypercritical mother; years later, her mother asks almost hopefully if he was ever “inappropriate.” Robbie’s parents divorced bitterly; when he finally meets his father’s lover in Rome, he finds himself preferring her to either of his parents, but knows, sadly, that he will never allow himself the luxury of her friendship.

The feisty, passionate heroine of One More Stop is Loli, a gypsy artist-in-residence who wanders small towns teaching writing to teenagers. She travels light, while toting the crushing baggage of her mother’s suicide. Her parents’ marriage appears to have been a cold and chaotic mess. Her 20-year arm’s-length relationship with an alluring, chilly Frenchwoman leaves her desperately dissatisfied. It’s only an eventful residency in a small Nebraska town that bears her mother’s name—Beatrice—and the knowledge shared by the surviving adult involved in a parental love triangle that, with the aid of a gifted therapist, stimulates Loli’s bud of inner strength into bloom.

Woodstock-based singer, actress, and teaching artist Walden brings us deep inside Loli’s head, not an easy place—her mother has an eerie tendency to show up in there singing nursery rhymes, and Loli’s memories yank her around like a marionette. She’s hilarious and generous and can work a classroom full of teenage malcontents like Silly Putty. The reader rejoices as she finally struggles her way toward stability and, perhaps, lasting love— although Walden makes no promises on the latter question.

The Intimates alternates between the internal realities of Robbie and Maize, both of whom are better company than they realize themselves. Having a close friend of the opposite sex who’s also of the other orientation becomes a safe harbor and a magnifying mirror through which to view their conquests and tribulations.

Both novels delve into eroticism with originality and taste. And both Walden and Sassone, a part-time resident of Annandale-on-Hudson and onetime teacher at Vassar, have near-perfect pitch. Reading either of these enticing novels—or both back to back—will enrich your musings on friendship, family, and the many flavors of love.

2011 Lambda Award nominee Lois Walden will appear at Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck, 5/14 at 7:30pm.

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Almost a Family John Darnton

Knopf, 2011, $27.95

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reating a successful space for empathy may be the most significant goal of effective writing, offering a reader the opportunity to transcend the limitations of individual experience. There are increasing levels of availability that the author can craft; truly inspirational work permits entry on a universal level. What is required is a unique blend of honesty and skill: An author must offer up a willingness not only to delve within, but to painstakingly describe what he has found there.

Bravo, John Darnton.

The part-time New Paltz resident brings all of his considerable artisanship to the pursuit of what is any author’s ultimate story: his own. Chasing the specter of his father, Byron Darnton, who was killed in service as a war correspondent for the New York Times during World War II, Darnton himself served a 40-year career as a Pulitzer Prize–winning Times writer and editor.

His work in journalism and subsequent career as a best-selling novelist—most recently, 2008’s Black and White and Dead All Over—has consistently touched upon the inseparability of writing and self-identity. In Almost a Family, he dives in headlong, investigating the roots of his father’s story and his own journey, seeking to find a common thread of truth.

An infant when Byron Darnton departed to cover the Japanese-American front in Indonesia, Darnton was left with only a legend for a father. His mother Eleanor, a Times writer and author in her own right, struggled to create an environment of solidity in the face of this conspicuous absence. Her 1954 memoir The Children Grew paints a brave if misleading picture of the family in disaster’s wake, often more fiction than truth—a prison of deception from which the young Darnton had to escape. He embarked upon a life of early rebellion, bridling against this confounding juxtaposition. Almost a Family is a gripping study of how, and why, he finally took up the mantle of his father’s legacy.

“There is, of course, a problem with a myth, any myth,” says Darnton of his mother’s gradually devolving efforts to maintain a construct of normalcy in their day-to-day existence. “While it may embody a noble aspiration and provide a source of courage and moral sustenance, it is, by its nature, founded on kernel of fiction. And so living a myth is a dangerous business, because fiction is not a solid foundation on which to build a family’s life.” Almost a Family exposes several tiers of the challenge of separating truth from artifice, touching the heart of a battle that each of us fights: what it means to become an autonomous individual, and to operate with integrity—even what it means to be an American.

Darnton’s work here is a genuine gift, and one that comes at no small cost: the price of actual self-knowledge. Whatever the reader’s particular story may be, Darnton’s crisp, literate, and terrifically frank examination into the nature of his own identity opens a much-needed door into our own need to do the same. I hesitate to be so bold as to call Almost A Family a masterwork, but if John Darnton can be this courageous, perhaps I can, too. Read this book—and when you’re done, give it to your children.

John Darnton will appear at the Millbrook Book Festival with Gwendolyn Bounds, Akiko Busch, Marilyn Johnson, and Susan Richards on Saturday, 5/14 at 10:30am, Millbrook Free Library Great Hall. www.millbrookbookfestival.org.

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Standing face on great gloss plain in strands, the face, in colored bands of elemental stranded picture split in color and ended where the great gloss plane begins

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Mine, black.

Let’s light rolled cigarettes and talk semantics.

a yawn is split, your face. Across a plane of transatlantic yawn is caught and spit on screen a transatlantic lag is you, about your face in three seconds, split in picture element plane’s distance stands in minutes miles split to three and lagged three seconds split across colored strands that move a moment’s lag after your face. About your face, in the picture split in three, space winnowed origin, where left is right time slotted so your now is all at once and second-handed facing wherewithal: your face, is about an other that entered where yours split into derivative strips of you in elemental space where one is not but stripped of whole to be for the other, distanced by plane a band of stripes three colors and three seconds lagged from the face you are really about.

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Word Halter .016 (stone fields of winter) who is compelled to speak in wisps of winter air that takes ones breath into white blankness?

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Beltane on the Esopus All day the red and sweet butter tulips Shouted to the split-rail fence Keeping watch over the new grass; Teasing and flirting with no intention Whatsoever of mixing dirt All day clouds were meeting and going Interrupting the hot sun Frogs on the far side keeping on Churring, whistling, mating Roiling the shallow water

Reading “A Day Comes”

A day comes when the mouth grows tired of saying “I.”

Yet it is occupied still by a self that must speak —Jane Hirshfield

I wish it was I Who wrote this poem Spare Like a Japanese long sword, Centered, Focused on its purpose.

But someone else Crafted and honed it.

I can make it my own— I will write a translation.

All day the leather skin of winter erupted The split-rail fence kept a straight face Twig-ends unrolling their new wings Like so many fresh kites Tethered and winking

But try as I might, I am unable To reforge this poem In another language.

I find that its strength Cannot be extricated From its words, From their multiple meanings Melding and folding Across the lines.

All day hopping from one to another to another The light ones mating with the dark ones twice as big The fat ones interrupting the dark ones Squeezing out long bubbled egg chains Snakes of translucent eyeballs

I will seize this poem, Learn it by heart, Enlighten my listeners, As I recite it, Cut through the ignorance Of my opponents.

All day in the heat The kingfisher flew low twice over Interrupting the orgy And two water snakes wove downstream On a determined path

But what really happens Is that the poem, True to its purpose, Slices deeply Into my own Self.

All day the flags of Beltane are flying All day the wings are unfolding The frogs are pushing madly The water is flowing coolly The fence is standing still.

I gasp, Laugh ruefully, Watching the blood Well up and run freely.

—Nina JeckerByrne

—Yana Kane

Justifiable Homicide She upped his hand with reckless play And passed when she knew she couldn’t, If he protested, she’d only say, Oh, dear, I knew I shouldn’t.

Noted for her high IQ She blithely trumped his aces Then recklessly went to five No Trump In a hand devoid of aces.

She babbled and gossiped lightly, Crunching every tidbit served As their partners smiled politely And he became more unnerved.

It was futile to try to teach her Any new conventionJust keeping track of thirteen cards Demanded her full attention.

He told himself it was just a game As he was scuttled by dear wifie, But madness overcame him just the same.

And he murdered her with a knifie.

—Miriam Newell Biskin

Counterpoise Moss slippery rocks test our feet As we step across the splashing waters “Agility now” is the slogan we shout To our laughing daughters.

They leap in denim shoes, Heedless of our endeavors, To be light in the wind are their clues In a ballet of naiads together.

They have not seen where we have crossed With visual circumspection To view in the woodland beyond the slope A tryst of trillium in blooming perfection!

—Francine M. Tyler

Some Days Dedicated to the Children of Haiti Some days, My hollow belly begs Before my body rises.

Some days, My breath is all that sustains me, From sun up to sun down.

At morning, I imagine My mother’s hands Turning over the soil.

Her voice humming,

Chanting for unity and peace,

That is her ritual.

Three Twos Oh Seven There’s a man in a box in the front of the room.

There’s a man dressed in black speaking in tomb.

I’m surrounded by family I don’t even know.

Silently screaming trying to let go.

And I can’t feel anything.

Some days, The waiting feels quite long.

A glimmer of hope Keeps my cup half full.

My father’s father.

And I don’t feel anything.

My eyes keep watch for The mercy, the miracle, The light from the road.

—Brian Ricci

So I sit, and I watch I sit and I watch—

Some make it back.

First Night

—Jerrice Baptiste

a shimmering rises between us.

You have drawn juice from a source archaic and aglow.

Treacherous Confetti Climb the heights above the Hudson Before the road is safe and open Icy pillars line the road cheering I pass in wonder, never fearing The fans would shower down upon me treacherous, mountain thaw confetti Icy stone crashing leeward, fore That’s what I wear a helmet for —Aaron Anaya

Spring breeze on old bones

Through the window the leaves beat a windy song. The chill air brushes on vulnerable skin.

We cling to each other the way an emerging baby insists on air, survival.

Ancient, we are new.

—Amy White

Vintage 1992 I conjured up a potion of all your tears and mine. Kept them in an old carafe and aged them like fine wine.

This mixture was so powerful,

half misery,

half pain. A perfect combination.

I drank and

Poetics the voice of it turns another corner until coming to a dead end, another started in its place, the replacement, wearing the same mood, or maybe too much blue, nevertheless escaped into the next day, chased over fences and the moon’s routine, not taking a breath, but needing more air for the marathon the binding of divorced thoughts in which fingers race to cool an engine overheated by lack of fuel, there is myth here with wings and arrows but still no names are remembered except the chasing of beauty by beard and sword, into the lap of conquest, of strewn limbs and chaos, outlasted choice is heard above all others but only in convivial whispers, becoming receptive, warm, or cool, rejected by the page when it has had enough, becoming white in full surrender

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Peekskill is a small (population: 25,000) but mighty city with the strong, vibrant energy of rebirth and renewal pulsing in its veins. Located in Westchester County, less than an hour from Grand Central Station on MetroNorth and a 10-minute drive to the Appalachian Trail and other magnificent Hudson Highlands settings, this gateway of the Hudson Valley has attracted settlers since its formalized founding in 1684 with the Ryck’s Patent Deed that gave Peeck’s Kil its name. A quick and scenic commute from the heart of NYC, Peekskill continues to draw a new generation here that’s joined with the already established settlers to build a shared vision of making Peekskill shine as an ideal place to live, work, and play. When you come to Peekskill today, you get the benefit of the collaborative efforts of artists and businesspeople and environmentalists and entrepreneurs and elected officials and residents, all working together to make a dream come true.

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The Historic Walking Tour of Downtown Peekskill (available for printing at www.cityofpeekskill.com) gives a warm and welcoming introduction to Peekskill—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Starting with the 1,000-square-foot town mural, Crossroads (corner of Brown and Park Streets), that gives a picture of the city’s history since the 1800s, the self-guided tour takes you to dozens of historic locations, including the Flat Iron Building (101-107 Division Street), built in 1910, which now has artist studios, an art gallery and exhibit space upstairs, and the popular Peekskill Coffee House at street level; the former Kentora Hotel (1 North Division Street at the center of town), with its distinctive golden onion dome; and the irrepressible Paramount Center for the Arts (1008 Brown Street) that was built as a magnificent movie palace in 1930, restored in 2002, and, today, is the cultural anchor of the downtown, hosting top-tier live entertainment, as well as independent art films from around the world.

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•A PRESIDENTIAL PIECE OF HISTORY• President Lincoln made Peekskill one of his speaking stops on the way from Springfield, Illinois, to his inauguration in Washington on February 23, 1861. The depot stop where Lincoln spoke to a crowd of 3,000 is being restored and is scheduled to open to the public as the Lincoln Depot Museum and Plaza this fall, according to Anthony Czarnecki, past president of the Lincoln Society. In the meantime, the Peekskill Museum (The Herrick House, 124 Union Avenue) is perpetuating the memory of Lincoln in Peekskill, along with highlights of the city’s history.

www.lincolnsociety.com www.peekskillmuseum.org •DIVISION STREET & BEYOND• North Division Street is the heart of the Peekskill Business Improvement District (BID), a nonprofit organization working with the city to promote economic development in the downtown area, a mission that translates into the charge to “Make Things Happen!”

The fruits of lots of effort serves up a plate piled high with a robust calendar of cultural events and happenings set in an inviting downtown streetscape with restaurants and shops, music and art—the ideal stopover for food, drink, shopping, and entertainment anytime.

Stop in at The Coop for antiques and handcrafted items or Side Effects/ NY across from the Paramount for fun and unique gifts. Peekskill has independent galleries—The Flat Iron Gallery, Steel Imaginations at the H-Art Gallery, DeMarco Studios, Driftwood Gallery, and Brown Street Studios—as well as numerous galleries operating as annexes in museums, restaurants, and businesses where you’ll find a wide variety of artwork for sale. Located just outside the city center, The Hudson Valley Center for the Contemporary Arts (HVCCA) is home to one of the most outstanding contemporary art collections in the country. On May 14-15, noon-5pm, the Peekskill Arts Council holds its 14th Annual Peekskill Open Studios 2011 with venues throughout the city showing work by more than 100 artists.

Diners, cafés, delis, pubs, and fine-dining restaurants each have their own specialty and charm. Try The Bean Runner Café for light fare—plus it has a playroom for kids. Birdsall House offers 20 draught ales and lagers, and a “farm-totable” menu. The dedicated barristas make Peekskill Coffee House a popular gathering place. Kathleen’s Tea Room for lunch. The Division Street Grill for dinner. There’s live music on small stages, with jazz, rock, and R&B artists performing regularly at eateries and restaurants, including 12 Grapes Music & Wine Bar, Bean Runner Café, and Ruben’s Mexican Café.

In the summer months, the Peekskill BID’s Downtown Entertainment Series closes off downtown streets to traffic on Saturday nights for live music and outdoor dining. The Peekskill Jazz & Blues Festival at the end of the summer attracts thousands of music lovers every year.

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Food & Drink

The Pig Dies at Noon

By Peter Barrett

L

ast summer a friend e-mailed me, asking, “Do you know where a friend can get a pig?” and I directed her to Richard at Northwind Farms, where they raise a variety of first-rate pastured meat. In exchange for the pig hookup, I got to attend a special sort of barbecue: the kind that begins with a live pig, and ends with dinner.Tate, our host, thought it would be a good idea if all of his hipster Brooklyn foodie pals connected with their meat in an intimate and direct way, seeing exactly what it is that goes into bringing an animal to the plate. It was an interesting idea, and the prospect of meeting some nice people while soaked in pig’s blood seemed like a no-brainer. Having been a vegetarian for 18 years, since returning to omnivory I have made a point of only eating properly raised and slaughtered animals. My apprehensions at being involved in the hands-on execution and butchering of a pig were outweighed by my curiosity and conviction that this sort of activity is exactly what constitutes walking the carnivorous walk.

Richard and the pig arrived, and he described how the pig would meet its end. He slipped a couple of ropes around the animal. Tate loaded the .22, and they worked out who would stand where.The was a bit of tumult as the animal came off the back of the truck, and I remember thinking for a moment as Richard yelled, “Shoot it now! Shoot it now!” that there was a real chance that the whole operation could go badly off the rails and end up with us chasing the pig through the woods while she became more feral by the minute. But Tate shot her twice in the head in quick succession, and that was the end of the pig.

She twitched a few times as they dragged her body into the woods to a plywood platform Tate had built for butchering, where children or the squeamish wouldn’t see it. There was a lot of blood.

We lifted the pig up onto the platform, and Richard cut its throat to bleed it out into a bucket. It’s surprising how deeply and easily a knife will cut into a dead animal. Cutting both back legs between tendon and bone, he threaded rope into those holes and we hoisted it up in the air for gutting. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment at which the pig transformed from an animal into

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meat, but by this time it had fully undergone the change. Richard guided Tate through the gutting, beginning with making deep cuts all around the anus to separate it completely so that the intestines could drop out through the opening in the belly, and avoid any rupturing and unpleasantness. He did a surgically gentle job, and the guts spilled forth efficiently. The lack of blood made for an oddly clinical process; for the first time I understood what it is that surgeons do, and how they tell things apart. Richard got deep into the cavity with the knife to liberate the heart and lungs, which meant the end of the viscera. Lungs are firmer than you think. The heart was warm.

We all put on ponchos, kindly provided by our host, to protect our clothes from gory spatter, and skinned it, per Richard’s instructions. He left, since he had better things to do, and because from this point on we had some inkling of what we were doing. This was due in unreasonable proportion to the anatomy classes I took back in art school, the many times I’ve taken various animals and parts thereof apart into smaller pieces, and my fervently held belief that confidence and momentum can substitute for actual skill and knowledge in a pinch. I got the hams and shoulders off really easily, though they looked a bit ragged.Tate used a hacksaw to separate the ribs from the spine. It was work, but remarkably easy and calm.We talked and cut and the pig came apart into recognizable pieces quite quickly.The heat of life lingered in the muscles. It was very matter-of-fact: neither overly jocular nor traumatic. Just real. I’m not going to say that we did a great job—both definitions of “butchered” were appropriate—but there was precious little left on the spine when we were done. And all the rest was in a cooler with ice, ready to take up the hill to the kitchen and grill.We strategized as we disassembled the carcass, thinking ahead to what should get cooked when and how, so that we could actually turn a pig into dinner in a timely manner.

One of the things about pigs is that they do best with time-intensive preparations, ranging from two-day pulled pork to one-year prosciutto. So we thought a bit about how to make the most of a highly foreshortened window. Sue had brought a miso glaze for ribs, and was pretty excited to get at them.

photos by peter barrett and elias smith A pig’s progress from flesh to food at a barbecue in woodstock last august.

We lugged the big blue plastic tub full of rough meat and ice up the hill, along with all the knives, beer bottles, and buckets of skin and guts, and got to work making dinner. First up, Matt and I ground various random boneless bits into sausage, using copious garlic, thyme, lemon juice, and fennel. It’s what there was, and the result was tasty enough, if not emphatic. Since cleaning out the intestines for sausages was a job too ambitious for the occasion, we simply made patties and Matt grilled them. While he did this I put the braised cabbage and baked beans I made earlier into bowls and scrounged up serving utensils for them. Corn bread, coleslaw, and other goodies appeared on the table. I took the shoulders, rubbed them with a spice blend I had brought, and got a decent char on them, then I cut the meat off the bones and put it in our pressure cooker along with smoked chicken stock (which I also brought) and some various spices and condiments from their fridge. After an hour, I strained the liquid, pulled the meat apart, thickened the liquid by reducing it with ketchup, mustard and some decent store-bought barbecue sauce, and then mixed it all together. We took both slabs of ribs and put them in a 200˚ oven, wrapped in foil. After a couple of hours, we took them out and finished them on the grill. Sue garnished hers with her glaze and chopped scallions, and I finished mine with pulled pork sauce and scallions that I stole from her bowl. The pressure cooker and oven allowed us to enjoy persuasive versions of slow-cooked classics.

The majority of the group stayed in or behind the house during the slaughter and butchery, splashing in the pool and tending to the many children at hand, so when things resembling food showed up, they all got very attentive all of a sudden.What was most interesting was the clear division between those of us who wanted to be present for the entire process and those who just wanted to eat; there were four or five of us who did all of the messy work of turning an animal into dinner, and around 20 who ate. Now I understand that watching their dinner get two in the head, mafia style—with all of the attendant blood and twitching and guts—might be off-putting to some, but I was surprised

that more people didn’t want to see a bit more of the butchering, or at least talk about what went in to bringing the meal to fruition. As it was, nobody at all in the house seemed to have any interest at all in what we were doing, let alone a desire to learn or hear about what we did. Having said that, the large number of small children in attendance may have had more than a little to do with the lack of greater audience participation. There was no praise or thanks for the animal, though, or any public acknowledgment that this dinner was any different from an ordinary barbecue, which I thought was strange.

It sounds like an idyllic summer garden party, right? It was lovely. And we few (we happy few, we band of butchers) all agreed that it was way less horrible than we had imagined; it was interesting work and we bonded over it.

But the stated desire—to connect people directly with the nature of meat, and how animals become food—didn’t really reach beyond those of us who were already sold on the concept. It clearly takes more pushing to get nongeeks over that experiential hurdle, but I feel that it’s important to try. Meat is food that comes at a particular cost, and though it is extremely good to eat, people should be fully cognizant of the cost/benefit ratio when they eat it.

Most meat eaters should eat less meat anyway, and those who really can’t deal with watching the death and dismemberment of an animal should reconsider their carnivorous status. Moving the life and death of most food animals far out of sight of most peoples’ lives has robbed us of this much-needed perspective, and also removed certain rituals from our meals. Being mindful of the beings that we eat when we eat them has been one such casualty. This event was a welcome attempt to redefine nose-to-tail eating upward, toward owning the whole animal and its dispatch and consumption. This kind of meal should be more common, since it’s the way humans have eaten from since we became human until very recently.

The original blog post this article is excerpted from can be read at www.acookblog.com. under the “Best Of ” header. Caveat lector: The blog contains graphic images of a pig being shot, bled, and butchered. If you’re a meat eater, you should view them. take our reader survey at www.chronogram.com 79

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May 6 The last of three dinners to benefit the Chatham Chickens, a Chatham Real Food Market Co-op educational initiative. A group of 12 young adults and mentors are raising heritage breed chickens for healthy egg production. The chickens will be raised on non-GMO feed, and will be free-running and pastured in season. A team of talented chefs and local food system advocates will collaborate to bring you the feasts.

Past feasts have included local cheddar polenta, cornmeal-encrusted pork chops, and a spinach salad with pea shoots. In the spirit of spring, May’s feast is geared to be barbeque themed. 7pm, $50/35 for members, reservations required. www.chefsconsortium.com.

Fifth Annual Rip Van Winkle Wine and Cheese Festival

May 7 As the afternoon sun descends on the Hudson River at Catskill Point Park, walk from tent to tent; sample hand-crafted wine from nine Hudson Valley wineries and vineyards that will be present including Hudson-Chatham Winery, Knapp Vineyard, and Cascade Mountain Winery. Complement that glass with some Acorn Hill homemade cheese, or a hand-dipped strawberry from Tom’s soft serve Ice Cream & Candy. In addition to artisanal wines, cheeses, and foods, a number of local vendors will be selling jewelry, farm-stand products, fresh flowers, and crafts. Live music by Lex Gray and Crooked Toe throughout the day. 1–6pm, $20 admission includes a souvenir glass and unlimited tastings. Contact Brenda for tickets at (518) 965-5208; or tickets are also available at Mahalo on Main Street, Catskill.

Beer and Cheese Pairing Dinner at HopHeads

May 10 The recently opened HopHeads Craft Beer Market & Tasting Bar in High Falls offers six rotating taps of microbrews from around New York and around the country. Brewery Ommegang will be visiting Hopheads to present a five-course beer and local cheese pairing.

The evening will feature Ommegang’s five staple year-round beers: The Rare Vos Amber Ale will be paired with Hudson Red Alsatian Muenster; the Ommegang Abbey Ale with a Berkshire Blue cheese, the bright and lively Hennepin will be paired with an Old Chatham Camembert cheese, the Three Philosophers Quadrupel will be paired with the Three Sisters cheese. And finally the Witte Ale—a summer seasonal that won a silver medal winner at the 2008 World Beer Cup— will be paired with Eclipse goat cheese. 5:30–7:30pm; $25 per person.

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May 15 First settled in the 18th century, Newburgh has a diverse history and population, with influences coming from many different countries.

This cultural mash-up can be seen in the great variety of restaurants around Newburgh today. A Taste of Greater Newburgh is an opportunity for Hudson Valley Residents to sample the best dishes Newburgh eateries have to offer. Some of this year’s 12 participants include: Gus’s Tavern (German-American), Machu Picchu (Peruvian), Red Ginger Sushi (Japanese), Avocado (Mexican-American), Beebs (New American), Leo’s (Italian) and many more. 12:30-2:30pm, $30.

Mount Saint Mary College. www.tasteofgreaternewburgh.com.

Butchery 101: A Five-Day Master Class

May 22–26 Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston is at the cutting edge of the local-sustainable-meat movement. They’re now offering that knowledge to you; with a five-day, hands-on course that covers everything from knife and cutting skills to anatomy and understanding the local food system. The event will begin by getting acquainted with the shop, cutting and sawing demos, and a knife skills workshop.

Don’t worry, you won’t be just watching for long. On the second day, participants will take part in hands-on sausage making, and lamb demos. The last days of the class bring sustainability lectures, farm field trips, optional chicken slaughters, knife skills evaluation, and more. 9am–5pm, $2,100 (Includes breakfast and lunch daily and all materials); www.fleishers.com.

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armers—the new black—appear everywhere today.They are in the field, on the tractor, on rooftops, at the market, hosting educational programs, staffing CSA locations in town and country, hosting pizza and movie nights, and partnering with social services agencies “to ensure equitable distribution to impoverished families,” as farmer Cheryl Rogowski does at Rogowski Farm in Pine Island. In the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions, fields formerly worked by taciturn wizened men in Deere caps, figures solitary and remote atop tractors, are now being cultivated by women, former city people, young hipsters, old hipsters, and assorted motley characters not to the land born.

Challey Comer, farm-to-market manager for Pure Catskills, estimates that in her four years at Pure Catskills, 25 new farms have developed. “Every year in the Pure Catskills Guide we feature new farmers,” she says, “second-career farmers, dairy farmers diversifying or changing production methods, or farm apprentices who start their own businesses.”

Factors agricultural, social, civic, and educational have converged to transform what it means to farm and to be a farmer today. Agricultural: copious use of pesticides, chemicals, and herbicides and massive proliferation—sanctioned by the US government—of GMO seed and subsequent patent lawsuits by biochemical companies that target small and organic farms. Educational: general loss of public knowledge of farming and of food preservation such as canning, jarring and pickling. Civic: loss of community sustainability via centralization of food production. Social: deceptive pricing that belies the real cost of industrial food—obesity, diabetes, cancer, rising health care costs, environmental degradation. Farming in the 21st century encompasses agricultural duties but also addresses community social, civic and education needs. “It’s not enough to just ride a tractor today,” states Rogowski.

Progressive Farming Methods Organic, Biodynamic, Natural Agriculture, Permaculture, Veganic, Ecological, Certified Natural, Nutrient Dense Farming, No-Till Farming, and the Eco Apple Program are some of the farming methods practiced in the region. Philosophies common among these methods: balance, respect for the soil, ecological replication, partnering with Nature, natural rhythms, companion planting, closed systems, growing food in harmony with Nature, sustainability, and holistic, interrelational balance with plants, soil, and animals.Technically, these farm practices are similar to pre-industrial farming—inputs of seeds, water, sun, soil, compost, and sweat, sunburn, and aching joints. Several modern implements— tractors, computers, websites, and social media—have improved the process.

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Sharp increases in fuel prices have prompted some farmers like Ken Greene and Doug Muller at the Hudson Valley Seed Library to return to broad forks and human brawn. Computers, social media, and a website allow HVSL to offer paper-free electronic catalog, altogether eliminating paper resource use and waste. Josh Morgenthau, general manager at Fishkill Farms, does “not idealize the farming of long ago. Lead arsenate, a double whammy of human poisons, was the number one weapon in the commercial fruit grower’s arsenal from the 1890s to midcentury.” At Fishkill, natural methods are implemented—and sometimes discovered: “Recently, we have begun grazing laying hens and our sheep under the trees in our orchard,” says Morgenthau. “Our hens find some of the insects that attack our apples, and we have already seen a reduction in insect damage where they have been. There is also evidence that their manure below the tree helps break the cycle of some of the worst apple diseases by hastening the decomposition of the leaves in which they overwinter.”

Crop diversification replaces monocultures for two reasons. From an ecological standpoint, crop diversification assists in soil health by preventing crop-specific pests from thriv-ing. Adjunct to crop rotation is planting cover crops like clover, alfalfa, barley, and buckwheat to enrich soils that have been depleted from heavy feeders like cabbage, greens, beets, corn, tomatoes, and squash. Companion plantings of beneficial flowers—some to attract pollinators, others that repel pests—is another component of crop diversification.

Economics support crop diversification. A farmer who offers heirlooms, unusual varieties, ethnic vegetables, and herbs in response to consumers’ evolving palate expands market opportunities and income. Rogowski Farms grows everything from “raspberries, Native American squash, freckled lettuce, dinosaur kale, black beans, 50 different types of chili, and 20 types of garlic, to Mexican herbs like pepicha, pallo, epazote, and cilantro.” Farmers Bob and Sandy Kiley of RSK Farm in Prattsville “try new seeds whenever they are available.” At Fishkill Farms, in addition to 15 familiar apple varieties, Josh Morgenthau now plants varieties like Cox’s Orange Pippen and Esopus Spitzenberg, heirlooms that his grandfather once raised. Morgenthau relates that the same reasons that rendered certain apple varieties commercially unviable for a period—“funky flavors, low yields, strange shapes and colors”—accounts for their popularity today.

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The phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;farm to tableâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; often connotes the importance of uberlocalization, shortest possible distance between field and mouth. Several regional farmers connected their field to their table. Delaware Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stone and Thistle Farm debuted Fable, their on-farm dinner restaurant, in 2007. Heather Ridge Farm in Greene County opens the Bees Knees CafĂŠ for lunch during the season. Rogowski Farm operates Black Dirt Gourmet, offering kitchen breakfasts every Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 2pm.

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Heart Farming In the 21st century, people are choosing to farm. Care for the land, concern for community, and a personal call to shepherd seed to fruition distinguish current progressive regional farming. Farmer Tierney Dearing Medick says that â&#x20AC;&#x153;moving here was an easy decision. Growing here, I can live in a way that makes me feel truly happy. I feel that I have an ability to grow, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a need for that ability.â&#x20AC;? Desire to grow healthy food, respect for nature, and renewed interest in reviving sustainable communities suggest eventual restoration of â&#x20AC;&#x153;overall local sufficiency, productivity, well-being, and beneficial inter-dependence,â&#x20AC;? as Charlie Blumstein, contributor to the former Olive Press, wrote in a 2008 piece. Pre-1950s Catskill living â&#x20AC;&#x153;demonstrated a lifestyle and ethic that was rich in locally preserved food, hard work, high spirit, neighborly reciprocity, cooperative effort, and high level practical skills.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps the spirit that defines regional farming in the 21st century will reestablish these selfsame attributes. Eat seasonally. Buy local. Plant heirlooms. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your farmer?

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Second Wind CSA at the Four Winds Farm

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205 Huguenot Street, New Paltz (845) 810-0033; www.flyingbeet.com This 77-acre farm grows 125 types of fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Additional fruit share available.

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158 Marabac Road, Gardiner (845) 417-5624; www.secondwindcsa.com Vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Fresh eggs from pastured hens and grass-fed beef and poultry are available.

124 Harmony Road, Patterson (845) 878-3258; www.cascadefarmschool.org Vegetables as well as eggs, honey, and maple syrup.

Indiana Road, Goshen (845) 360-5380; www.jabialasfarm.com Over 150 different varieties of vegetables are grown using organic methods (not certified).

147 Jessup Road, Warwick (845) 234-2045; ejshepard@optonline.net Heirloom vegetables organically/naturally grown.

Clove Valley CSA 81 Clove Valley Road, High Falls (845) 687-0535; www.clovevalleycsa.org No-till permaculture; wide variety of herbs and vegetables.

Common Ground Farm 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls (845) 231-4424; www.commongroundfarm.org A wide variety of vegetables are available.

Eats Village Farm 677 Sawkill Road, Kingston (845) 532-2448; www.eatsvillagefarm.com Only organic fertilizer; fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

The Farm at Miller’s Crossing 81 Roxbury Road, Hudson (518) 851-2331; www.farmatmillerscrossing.com Vegetables and herbs.

Fishkill Farms 9 Fishkill Farm Rd, Hopewell JCT (845) 897-5194; www.fishkillfarms.com 100+ acres of apples, peaches, berries, and vegetables.

Fog and Thistle Farm 4872 Route 9G, Germantown (518) 537-6139; www.fogandthistlefarm.com Vegetables, and animal pasture on 60 acres; apple orchard, an apiary, and a medicinal herb garden.

Glynwood Center 1 Glynwood Road, Cold Spring (845) 265-3338; www.glynwood.org Glynwood grows certified naturally grown vegetables, as well as flowers, eggs, and pasture-fed chickens.

Gray Horse Farm 286 Hobbs Lane, Clinton Corners (845) 242-4200; www.grayhorsefarm.org Currently offering egg and chicken CSA shares, as well as products for purchase at the on-site market.

Hawthorne Valley Farm 327 Route 21C, Ghent (Harlemville) (518) 672-7500 x105; www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Full vegetable share or a vegetable and fruit share.

Healthy Harvest CSA at Johnson’s Farm 180 Carpenter Road, Hopewell Junction (845) 226-8877; www.healthyharvestcsa.org Herbs and produce grown without chemicals.

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Shoving Leopard Farm

492 Rt 217, Hudson (518) 755-3391; www.lineagefarmcsa.com Over 30 varieties of seasonal veggies from arugula and onions, to cabbage, squash, and more.

845 River Road, Barrytown (845) 758-9961; www.shovingleopardfarm.org Mixed vegetables, pick-your-own flower labyrinth, eggs, and honey (from Anarchy Apiaries) are available.

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P.O. Box 195, Chatham (518) 392-0063, www.littleseedgardens.com Vegetables. The farm is certified organic by the Northeast Organic Farming Association of NY.

127 Sisters Hill Road, Stanfordville (845) 868-7048; www.sistershillfarm.org More than 100 varieties of 50 different vegetables.

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Jacob Diaz 205 Hidden Valley Rd, Kingston (845) 339-2731; www.slowrootsfarm.com 200 varieties of classic and obscure vegetables.

156 East Ridge Road, Warwick, (845) 986-9699; www.midsummerfarm.com Vegetables, herbs, greens, cut flowers, eggs, nuts, seeds, and fruit are available.

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352 Gardner Hollow Rd, Poughquag (845) 478-2168; www.nfdfarm.com Heirloom vegetables, herbs, and a little bit of fruit.

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Stone Ridge Orchard CSA

185 West Kerley Corners Road, Tivoli (845)757-5591; www.northwindfarmsallnatural.com All-natural poultry, turkey, duck, rabbit, goat, and pastureraised pork and beef.

3012 Route 213, Stone Ridge (845) 266-3979; stoneridgeorchard.com Partners with Knoll Krest Farm and W.Rogowski Farm to provide fruit, vegetable and egg shares.

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Sycamore Farm

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16 Summit Street, Philmont (518) 672-5509 Fruit CSA runs from mid August through early November; including apples, pears, and peaches. Some vegetables.

45 Phillies Bridge Road, New Paltz (845) 256-9108; www.philliesbridge.org Vegetables, u-pick herb garden and options shares for eggs, sweet corn, berries, and orchard fruits are available.

Poughkeepsie Farm Project Corner of Raymond and Hooker Avenues, Poughkeepsie, (845) 473-1415; www.farmproject.org Seasonal vegetables and fruits, plus pick-your-own.

Red Oak Farm 1921 Route 9, Stuyvesant (518) 799-2052; www.redoakfarmny.com Fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Egg share available.

Rondout Valley Organics

223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook (845) 943-8699; www.heartyroots.com Seasonal vegetables and some fruit.

Wawarsing (845) 647-6911; www.farmtocity.org/affiliates/rondoutvalley Cooperative CSA made up of August Farm, Farm & Granary, and Rusty Plough Farm, all in the town of Wawarsing.

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Roxbury Farm

397 Big Island Road, Warwick (845) 216-1282; www.hesperidesorganica.com A variety of vegetables and herbs are available.

2343 Route 9H, Kinderhook, (518) 758-8558; www.roxburyfarm.com Vegetables, fruit, pasture-raised pork, lamb, and beef.

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Ryder Farm Cottage Industries

641 Hortontown Road, Hopewell Junction (845) 592-4349; www.hudsonvalleyfiberfarm.com The first “Fiber CSA” in the country, offering yarn from Merino sheep and Angora goats.

400 Starr Ridge Road, Brewster (845) 279-4161; www.ryderfarmorganic.com Organically grown vegetables, herbs, and fresh-cut flowers.

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Taliaferro Farms 187 Plains Road, New Paltz (845) 256-1592; www.taliaferrofarms.com A wide variety of fruits and vegetables.

The W. Rogowski Farm 327-329 Glenwood Road, Pine Island (845) 258-4574; www.rogowskifarm.com Vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs.

Veritas Farms 32 Rousner Lane, New Paltz (845) 384-6888; www.VeritasFarms.com Vegetables and pick your own flowers June–November.

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Upstairs is Orient, Hudson Valley's newest and most elegant Ultra Lounge. Orient sets a new standard for destination nightlife and an experience once unavailable outside of Manhattan's Meat Packing district.

Charlotte’s Restaurant and Catering 4258 Rte 44, Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5888 www.charlottesny.com

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

Cup & Saucer Restaurant and Tea Room 165 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-6287 www.thecupandsaucertearoom.com

Division Street Grill 26 N Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 739-6380 www.divisionstreetgrill.com

(845) 473-976 www.kavosgyros.com kavosgyros@gmail.com

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

1433 Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3446 Route 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 838-3446 22 Quaker Avenue, Cornwall, NY (845) 534-3446 www.leospizzeria.com

7100 Albany Post Road, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 758-2267

Osaka Restaurant 18 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-7338 or (845) 876-7278

Gomen Kudasai—Japanese Noodles and Home Style Cooking 215 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8811

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

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

John’s Harvest Inn 633 Route 17M, Middletown, NY (845) 692-4570 www.johnsharvestinn.com

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

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Kavos Gyros 4 North Clover Street, Poughkeepsie, NY

3 River Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3046 www.theriverbank.biz

310 Wall Street Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 Tues - Sat 5-10pm www.elephantwinebar.com Photo: Jennifer May

Rusty’s Farm Fresh 5 Old Farm Road, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-8000 www.rustysfarmfresheatery.com

Suruchi — A Fine Taste of India 5 Church Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2772 www.suruchiindian.com Fresh & homemade Indian cuisine from finest ingredients served in beautiful, calm atmosphere. Local & organic, free-range chicken, vegetarian, vegan, gluten free. Fine Wine/Crafted Beer. Daily Specials. Student and Early Bird Discounts. Reservations Aceepted. Zagat Rated.

Tavern at Highland Country Club 955 Route 9D, Garrison, NY (845) 424-3254 ext 16 www.highlandscountryclub.net

Terrapin Restaurant and Bistro 6426 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3330 www.terrapinrestaurant.com custsvc@terrapinrestaurant.com Voted “Best of the Hudson Valley” by Chronogram Magazine. From far-flung origins, the world’s most diverse flavors meet and mingle. Out of elements both historic and eclectic comes something surprising, fresh, and dynamic: dishes to delight both body and soul. Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. Local. Organic. Authentic.

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

Dry rubbeD, wooD smokeD bbQ Ribs, bRisket, Pulled PoRk,Giant tuRkey dRumsticks From the Grill steaks, Fish, chicken, VeGetables AmericAn comFort FooD Pot Pie, meatloaF, mac & cheese thirsty? try one of our 12 local micro brews from our frost covered beer taps, or sip the area’s finest selection of rare tequilas, kentucky bourbons and single malt scotches.

Yobo Restaurant Route 300, Newburgh, NY (845) 564-3848 www.yoborestaurant.com

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985 Main Street, Fishkill, NY (845) 765-1055

Hardcore Tapas elephant

O’Leary’s

The River Bank

Golden Buddha Thai Cuisine

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

246 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-6297 www.maxsonmain.com

Gilded Otter

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

Chef driven and brewed locally!

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TIVOLI 74 Broadway (845) 757-5055 RHINEBECK 22 Garden St (845) 876-7338

Max’s on Main

310 Wall Street, Kingston, NY (845) 339-9310 www.elephantwinebar.com 3 Main Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-1700

Japanese Restaurant

Leo's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria

Want to taste the best Sushi in the Hudson Valley? Osaka Restaurant is the place. Vegetarian dishes available. Given 4.5 stars by the Poughkeepsie Journal. Visit our second location at 74 Broadway, Tivoli, NY, (845) 757-5055.

Elephant

Voted “The Destination Restaurant” ~Culinary Institute of America

A casual, elegant bistro in downtown Goshen serving fresh and delicious fare.

★★★★!– Times Herald-Record (Jan. 14, 2011)

Lunch Tues-Fri: 11:30am-2:30pm Dinner 134 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.bistrolilly.com

845.294.2810

Please also The Goshen Gourmet Café visit:

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All You Can Eat* MONDAY - THURSDAY

$19.95 Adults $9.95 Kids 8 & under

Tues-Thurs: 5-9pm Fri & Sat: 5-9:30pm

FRIDAY - SUNDAY

$21.95 Adults $10.95 Kids 8 & under

Reservations accepted.

Wine • Beer 18 W. Main St, Goshen, NY www.goshengourmetcafe.com

* Order must include combination of sushi, sashimi and roll.

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Pretzel rolls w/herbs, salts and dried fruits, Homemade cream cheeses Freshly squeezed OJ/Grapefuit juice daily, Coffee/Teas Featuring Moxie Cupcakes and Real knishes!

Breakfast sandwiches on a pretzel roll...mmmmm...

Fritattas...Chicken,tuna & egg salad...Delicious...

Indoor/Outdoor Seating! Free Delivery

Open Thurs-Mon 6am-6pm • 845.658.9121 • 446 Main St, Rosendale

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Serving Healthy Food & Real Juice eat in or take out 159 W. Main Street Goshen NY (845) 615-1118

194 Main Street, New Paltz, NY 845-255-2633 Featuring: Whole Grain Crust • Soy Cheese Pizza • Local Organic Ingredients

Serving More Than Just Great Pizza: Bistro Appetizers • Gourmet Entrees • Paninis Subs • Delicious Desserts & More! www.labellapizzabistro.com

My family invites your family to dine at

Hudson Valley’s Premier Caterer Offering fine catering for 38 years in the Hudson Valley

1118 State Route 17K Montgomery, NY 12549

www.holbertscatering.com (845) 457-5806

Fax: (845) 457-4019

New look,old feel,same great food!

HOURS: Mon. 7am-4pm, Tues.-Sat. 7am-9pm, Sun. Closed

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The CraftedKup TEA & COFFEEHOUSE 44 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 845-483-7070 www.craftedkup.com

Your Neighborhood Coffeehouse A great place to be!

Hours of Operation Monday to Friday 7am to 8pm Saturday 8am to 8pm Sunday 8am to 5pm

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900 Ulster Avenue

845-339-3200 POUGHKEEPSIE

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Fine Catering for All Occasions

Catering available

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

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

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

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

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

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

North River Architecture 3650 Main Street, PO Box 720, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-6242 www.nriverarchitecture.com

Art Galleries & Centers

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

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

Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 45 Pershing Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 471-7477 www.millstreetloft.org, info@millstreetloft.org Mill Street Loft’s Gallery 45 features yearround exhibits of works by a wide variety of distinguished Hudson Valley artists as well as students from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft, the Dutchess Arts Camps and art courses and workshops. Mill Street Loft provides innovative educational arts programming for children and adults of all ages and abilities in Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Millbrook & Red Hook.

River Winds Gallery 150 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-2880 www.riverwindsgallery.com

Ann Street Gallery

104 Ann Street, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-6940 X 119 www.annstreetgallery.org, vwalsh@safe-harbors.org Frame of Reference: Dioramas in the 21st Century Artist’s Reception, Saturday June 4th, 6pm9pm. Exhibition runs through July 9.

Back Door Studio

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

Country Gallery

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

Daniel Aubry Gallery

426 Main Street, Beacon, NY (347) 982-4210 www.danielaubrygallery.com

Flat Iron Gallery

105 South Division Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 734-1894 www.flatiron.qpg.com

Garrison Art Center

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

Green River Gallery

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

Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

1701 Main Street, Peekskill, NY (914) 788-0100 www.hvcca.org

Kristy Bishop 207 Market Street, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-8835

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QBS Company 436 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6451 www.qbscompany.com, info@qbscompany.com

Bookstores Golden Notebook 29 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY www.goldennotebook.com

Mirabai of Woodstock 23 Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2100 www.mirabai.com The Hudson Valley’s oldest and most comprehensive spiritual/metaphysical bookstore, providing a vast array of books, music, and gifts for inspiration, transformation and healing.

Exquisite jewelry, crystals, statuary and other treasures from Bali, India, Brazil, Nepal, Tibet.

Expert Tarot reading.

Northshire Bookstore Manchester Center, VT (800) 437-3700 www.northshire.com

Russell Cusick Gallery 474 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0060 www.reflectionsonthehudson.com, reflectionsonthehudson@gmail.com

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY www.newpaltz.edu/museum

Storm King Art Center (845) 534-3115 www.stormkingartcenter.org

Treamaine Gallery at The Hotchkiss School 11 Interlaken Road, Lakeville, CT (845) 435-4442 www.hotchkiss.org

1 Mile Gallery

Kingston, NY www.onemilegallery.com, onemilegallery@gmail.com

Bookkeeping

Lady Audrey’s Gallery

Artists Carla Goldberg www.carlagoldberg.com

Audio & Video Markertek Video Supply www.markertek.com

Brave Edit Hudson Valley / New York City www.braveedit.com

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

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

Beverages Esotec (845) 246-2411 www.esotecltd.com, www.thirstcomesfirst.com www.drinkesotec.com, sales@esotecltd.com Choose Esotec to be your wholesale beverage provider. For 25 years, we’ve carried a complete line of natural, organic, and unusual juices, spritzers, waters, sodas, iced teas, and coconut water. If you are a store owner, call for details or a catalog of our full line. We’re back in Saugerties now!

Immortal Elixir Beverage Corporation www.gotcottonmouth.com, info@gotcottonmouth.com

Bicycle Sales, Rentals & Service Beacon Cycles 178 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-0336

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

Building Services & Supplies Cabinet Designers

747 Route 28, Kingston, NY (845) 331-2200 www.cabinetdesigners.com

Ghent Wood Products

483 Route 217, Hudson, NY (518) 672-7021 www.meltzlumber.com

H. Houst & Son Woodstock, NY (845) 679-2115 www.hhoust.com

N & S Supply

www.nssupply.com, info@nssupply.com

Northern Dutchess Hardwoods and Floor Coverings 19 East Market Street, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2005 www.northerndutchesshardwood.com sales@ndhardwoods.com

Williams Lumber & Home Centers (845) 876-WOOD www.williamslumber.com

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

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

Upstate Films

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

Clothing & Accessories Echo Boutique

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

Lauren and Riley

462 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-3862 www.larenrileyco.com

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

Computer Repair All Computer Services 158 Vineyard Ave Highland, NY (845) 834-2351 www.ACSguys.com Is your computer running slow or infected?

We can fix that!! We do web design, remote assistance as well as computer networking.

We can also repair cracked screens as well as charging ports. We offer a FREE DIAGNOSIS. Ask about our membership program for only $20 a month.

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

Consulting Services TRACKING WONDER: Changing the Way Creativity Happens (845) 679-9441 www.trackingwonder.com I specialize in helping writers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs progress from ideas to completed projects, navigate obstacles, and work with a deeply motivating wonder.

Conversations in creative organization, timeshaping, problem-solving, platform-building, and manuscript review keep you on track while staying authentic to your vision. Impeccable attention. Delight guaranteed. Call to schedule a pro bono conversation.

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

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

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

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

Events

White Rice

Beacon Riverfest 2011

306 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 644-9200

Beacon, NY www.beaconriverfest.com

Woodstock Design

Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts

9 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY (845) 679--8776 www.shopwoodstockdesign.com

Katonah, NY (914) 232-1252 www.caramoor.org

Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Festival Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (845) 418-3596 www.clearwaterfestival.org

Durants Tents & Events 1155 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY (845) 298-0011 www.durantstents.com, info@durantstents.com

Quail Hollow Events P.O. Box 825, Woodstock, NY (845) 679-8087 or (845) 246-3414 www.quailhollow.com The WOODSTOCK-NEW PALTZ ART & CRAFTS FAIR returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds this Memorial Day weekend for its 29th anniversary year. In addition to the juried exhibition area, this spring’s show will feature several of the nations finest builders of handcrafted wooden boats and an Alpaca fiber arts exhibit with several spring shearings.

Also new for 2010 is an expanded food court.

Details & discounts at our website.

Rhinebeck Antiques Fair P.O. Box 838, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1989

Rhinebeck Car Show Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-3554 (6-9pm only) www.rhinebeckcarshow.com

Orange County Farmers Museum 850 Route 17K , Montgomery, NY (845) 457-2959 www.ocfarmersmuseum.com

Phillies Bridge Farm Project 45 Phillies Bridge Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 256-9108 www.philliesbridge.org

Sprout Creek Farm 34 Lauer Road, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-9885 www.sproutcreekfarm.org cheese@sproutcreekfarm.org 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. Come meet all of our cows, sheep, goats, and ducks!

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

And so much more!

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

Calypso Farm

Farm Markets & Natural Food Stores

Kelder’s Farm 5755 Rte 209, Kerhonkson, NY www.kelderfarm.com

Beacon Natural Market

Ghent, NY (518) 929-3076 www.kinderhookfarm.com

42 Bridge Street, Great Barrington, MA (413) 528-9697 www.berkshire.coop

Hawthorne Valley Farm Store 327 County Route 21C, Ghent, NY 518-672-7500 www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org Mon-Sat 7:30am-7pm, Sundays 9am-5pm. A full-line natural foods store set on a 400-acre Biodynamic farm in central Columbia County with on-farm organic bakery and dairy. Farmfresh foods include cheeses, yogurts, raw milk, breads, pastries, sauerkraut, and more.

Two miles east of the Taconic Parkway at the Harlemville/Philmont exit. Farm tours can also be arranged by calling the Farm Learning Center: 518-672-7500 x 231.

Hudson Valley Bounty (518) 392-9696 www.hudsonvalleybounty.com

Kelder’s Farm & Homegrown Mini-Golf 5755 Route 209, Kerhonkson, NY www.kelderfarm.com

Kingston Farmers’ Market Wall Street, Uptown Kingston, NY (845) 853-8512 www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org

Kingston Natural Foods Market 33 Broadway, On the Rondout in Kingston, NY (845) 802-0265 www.kingstonnaturalfoods.com

Mother Earth’s Store House Poughkeepsie: 804 South Road Square, (845) 296-1069 Saugerties: 249 Main Street, (845) 246-9614 Kingston: 300 Kings Mall Court, Route 9W www.motherearthstorehouse.com Founded in 1978, Mother Earth’s is committed to providing you with the best possible customer service as well as a grand selection of high quality organic and natural products.

Visit one of our convenient locations and find out for yourself!

845 • 795 • 1310

Westtown, NY (845) 683-1363 www.kezialain.com

Kinderhook Farm

Henry’s Farm to Table

Now Serving Dinner

Wed. thru Sun. 845 • 795 • 1500

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Financial Advisors JSA Financial Group 7 Livingston Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-1923 www.jsafinancial.com, jeff@jsafinancial.com We are an independent financial firm that has been helping people establish & maintain their long-term financial goals through all aspects of Financial Planning. We also offer our clients the option to utilize socially responsible investments.

Securities & Advisory Services offered through Commonwealth Financial Network — Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser.

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

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

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

Catskill Native Nursery 607 Samsonville Road, Kerhonkson, NY (845) 626-2758 www.catskillnativenursery.com

Northern Dutchess Botanical Gardens 389 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-2953 www.NDBGonline.com

Graphic & Web Design Annie Internicola, Illustrator www.aydeeyai.com

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Berkshire Co Op Market

220 North Road Milton, NY

Staatsburg, NY (845) 266-4664

Newburgh: 1240 Route 300, (845)569-0303, Lake Katrine: 1560 Ulster Avenue, (845) 336-6300, Poughkeepsie: 765 Dutchess Turnpike, (845) 454-4330 www.adamsfarms.com 348 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 838-1288

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Farms

Rosendale Earthfest and Expo

Adams Fairacre Farms

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e-Diner Design & Marketing, Inc.

Hummingbird Jewelers

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

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

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

Greenovation

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

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

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

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845.876.7074 rugessubaru.com 6444 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY 12572

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

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

Moxie 544 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6653 www.nowthatsmoxie.com

Home Furnishings & Decor Global Home 155 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 765-1324 www.GlobalHomeNY.com

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

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

Silken Wool

The quality you expect from the dealer & the service you love from your local business.

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

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

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

Wickham Solid Wood Studio 578 Main Street, Beacon, NY (917) 797-9247 www.jessicawickham.com

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

Hudson Valley Closets www.hudsonvalleyclosets.com

Scott, Daniel & Donna

Over 30 Years’ Experience

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

Jewelry, Fine Art & Gifts Dreaming Goddess 44 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 473-2206 www.DreamingGoddess.com

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

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

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Jacobini Lawn & Snow Service Ulster County, , NY (845) 481-8949

Virginia Luppino Landscapes LLC (845) 246-2047 www.luppinodesign.com

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

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

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Marketing Services Bozarts (800) 269-0709 www.bozarts.com

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

The Erin Hobson Compact (845) 758-1977 www.chokingchickenrecords.com

Woodstock Music Trade Show The Holiday Inn, Kingston, NY www.woodstockmusictradeshow.com

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

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

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

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Rhinebeck Science Foundation Rhinebeck, NY www.rhinebecksciencefoundation.org

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Outfitters Mountain Tops Beacon, NY www.mountaintopsoutfitters.com

Performing Arts Bard College Public Relations Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu

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

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

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (413) 243-0745 www.jacobspillow.org

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

Powerhouse Theater Vassar Campus, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 437-5599 www.powerhouse.vassar.edu

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (845) 758-7900 www.fischercenter.bard.edu 339 Central Ave, Albany, NY 518-465-5233 www.thelinda.org The Linda provides a rare opportunity to get up close and personnel with world-renowned artists, academy award winning directors, headliner comedians and local, regional, and national artists on the verge of national recognition. An intimate, affordable venue, serving beer and wine, The Linda is a night out you won’t forget.

Pet Services & Supplies Dog Love, LLC 240 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-8281 www.dogloveplaygroups.com Personal hands-on boarding and playgroups with pick-up and drop-off available. Insulated kennel room, 5x10 kennels with windows, mats and classical music. Supervised playgroups in a 40x40 fenced area. Walks every few hours.

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

France Menk Photography (845) 750-5261 www.france-menk.com, iam@france-menk.com

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

Picture Framing Atelier Renée Fine Framing The Chocolate Factory, 54 Elizabeth Street, Suite 3, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-1004 www.atelierreneefineframing.com renee@atelierreneefineframing.com A visit to Red Hook must include stopping at this unique workshop! Combining a beautiful selection of moulding styles and mats with conservation quality materials, expert design advice and skilled workmanship, Renée Burgevin, owner and CPF, has over 20 years experience. Special services include shadow-box and

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

Real Estate Freestyle Realty Woodstock - (845) 679-2929, Phoenicia (845) 688-2929, Emerson Resort & Spa (845) 688-2829 www.freestylerealty.com

Gate House Realty 492 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 831-9550 www.gatehouserealty.com

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Recreation The River Pool Riverfront Park, Beacon, NY www.riverpool.org

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

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

Columbia-Greene Community College 4400 Route 23, Hudson, NY (518) 828-1481 ext.3344 www.mycommunitycollege.com

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

Hudson Valley Sudbury School 84 Zena Road, Kingston, NY (845) 679-1002 www.sudburyschool.com

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New York Military Academy 78 Academy Avenue, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (845) 534-3710 www.nyma.org, admissions@nyma.org New York Military Academy is an important part of America’s independent school heritage.

Today, we offer a rigorous global curriculum for students who actively seek to be set apart for excellence in a structured program that enables them to enter college inspired, engaged, and ready for the future.

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

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

Specialty Food Shops Edible Arrangements 900 Ulster Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-3200 10 IBM Road Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 463-3900 EdibleArrangements.com

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Veterinary House Calls Argos Animal Health, PLLC Dr. Ulysses Rosenzweig, DVM (845) 853-3727 www.HudsonValleyVet.com HudsonValleyVet@gmail.com Multiple pets? Trouble with transportation?

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

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Tennis Rhinebeck Tennis Club 2 Salisbury Court, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8008 www.rhinebecktennis.com bob@rhinebecktennis.com Come and discover one of Dutchess County’s best kept secrets........Rhinebeck’s Indoor TENNIS LEARNING CENTER. We are now Open to the Public 7 days a week ( 7am - 11pm ). From pre-school children to adults in the seventies and eighties, everyone can learn and play tennis — the sport of a fit and healthy lifetime.

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We mentor, edit, ghostwrite, and more. Director Jeffrey Davis is author of The Journey from the Center to the Page and teaches in WCSU’s MFA program and at conferences nationwide.

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GOOD VIBRATIONS The Healing Power of Sound by wendy kagan illustrations by annie internicola

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n a recent car ride, my two-year-old daughter made it clear to me that she wanted to be just about anywhere else than strapped into a metal box and hurtling down US Rt. 28 at 45 miles an hour. Amid her cries, I slid Elizabeth Mitchell’s Sunny Day CD into the dashboard player.

If my toddler were a computer, this was her reboot. Mitchell’s molasses-sweet voice filled the car, instantly quelling my daughter’s protests. Helped along by feather-light guitar pickings and soft drumbeats, we sailed peacefully down the highway.

Ever since people have had the ability to record sound, we’ve bottled up soothing rhythms to uncork at just the right moments—piano sonatas, rain showers, bird songs, a heartbeat, ocean waves lapping the shore. We hardly need science to prove what we already know: Certain sounds wash over us like a balm, relaxing and restoring and sometimes transporting us to another dimension entirely, beyond daily pressures and proliferating to-do lists.

Yet many musicians, healers, doctors, and scientists are taking a closer look at the way sound works to shift our awareness and even change our biodynamics to bring about healing. The arts of sound healing and music therapy, alongside participatory practices like kirtan chanting, have gained a toehold in the Hudson Valley, and not just among bearded yogis and self-proclaimed energy workers.

Dr. John Beaulieu—a board-certified naturopathic physician and licensed counselor based in Stone Ridge—has written about the therapeutic applications of sound in his own books and for the peer-reviewed Medical Science Monitor. Like a mad scientist in the music studio, Beaulieu—who is also a classically trained pianist—has conducted various experiments in search of a holy grail: the most calming sounds on Earth. Some of these are nearly universal, while others are more subjective. “I have used Guns ‘n Roses and had it be healing,” says Beaulieu. “It just depends on how it’s received.”

Sound Science Pop music references aside, Beaulieu can tell you all about the way that different sounds and musical intervals can affect the firing of neuron synapses in the brain, the release of theta brain waves, and a host of other effects. The tuning fork—an acoustic resonator with a U-shaped metal prong—is his medium of choice for relieving stress, breaking negative thought patterns, and various other uses grounded in neurological research in sound.

Beaulieu practices both music therapy and sound healing—yet he’s careful to make a distinction between the two. Music therapy is licensed and regulated and comes with psychiatric training, while sound healing is wide open to anyone who feels called to be of service with a crystal bowl or didgeridoo. There’s a place for both, Beaulieu believes. “I don’t think sound healing should have the same rigor as music therapy. People playing crystal bowls with the right intention can do just as good work.” Yet Beaulieu cautions that sound healers should know their limits. They might not be able to recognize when someone is depressed, or they might make bold claims that they can cure cancer.

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“There’s a difference between curing and healing,” says Beaulieu, who notes that to heal is to help a person feel whole and complete, with a union of mind, body, and spirit.

The world of Western medicine could use more healing practices—and thankfully it’s starting to do just that. Beaulieu mentions Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, an oncologist and clinical professor of medicine at the Weill-Medical College of Cornell University in New York, who supervises singing-bowl sessions in a hospital setting for cancer patients and has documented cases in which cancer treatments work better alongside these integrative practices.

Placebo effects? Bring them on. “If people believe they are going to get better, their bodies will create the chemicals necessary both to cure and heal,” says Beaulieu. “We think it’s based on a molecule called nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter. Certain tuning forks create this immediately in the brain stem.” While it’s clear that Beaulieu loves the science behind the music, he’s also wistful about letting the intellect go so the sound can do its medicine-man work. “You can never get rid of your license,” he says with a laugh.

Rhythm Doctor “Sound healer” is a heavy mantle to put on anyone, but Philippe Garnier wears the garment with an easy grace. When I arrive for my session at Sage Center for the Healing Arts in Woodstock, which Garnier co-owns with his wife Lea, I find the French-born healer sitting in a light-filled suite of rooms with objects of beauty everywhere—crystals, feathers, drums, herbs, and clusters of Tibetan and crystal singing bowls waiting to be played.

Garnier explains that the session will begin with a sound bath—a private concert in which he serenades me with the bowls until I reach a meditative theta-brain-wave state. “The mind is shut off by the sound, and I can work on the auric field,” says Garnier. Despite years of yoga I’m a tightly wound girl, not a great candidate for hypnosis. But after several minutes of ethereal music I feel pleasantly groggy—ready for Garnier to perform his “scan.” He’s not really looking at my body; rather, he’s listening. “All disease is dissonance,” he tells me before the session. An organ can be in dissonance with the rest of the body; his job is to hear it and then, via tuning forks and other instruments, encourage the wayward sound back into harmony.

When a cough jolts me midsession, Garnier is waving a pronged, handlike instrument over my belly and striking it to produce bell-like sounds. I’m suddenly aware of how strange this is. I haven’t told him that I’m the daughter of three generations of medical doctors; I think I hear my grandfather chuckling from on high. “Your D and E notes are weak,” he says, waving a hand over my abdomen. Toward the end of the treatment, Garnier is quietly chanting mantras over me, followed by a flutter of feathers (he tells me later they’re from a condor, to “sweep my energy fields clean”). The gesture feels sweet, nurturing, and resonant of shamanism and the Peruvian rainforests, where Garnier has trained extensively with Amazonian curranderos.

Now he passes on the good vibrations to people like Robin Lane of Wood-

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stock, an interfaith minister and psycho-spiritual counselor who started seeing Garnier after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2010. “The sounds seemed to penetrate my body and move energy, pain, discomfort, and toxins,” says Lane, who credits Garnier in large part for her healing and recovery, and continues to see him for a monthly “tuning.”

Over bagels and soup after my session, I ask Garnier what he tells skeptics. “Everyone believes in music,” he says. “But even clients who say they’re not sure the session did anything for them—even they come out with a sense of wonder and peace.” I see what he means. The thought passes over me that as a culture we’re starved for ritual and ceremony, especially when it comes to our health. In a fluorescent-lit hospital, it’s hard to make meaning and feel connected to something larger than ourselves. For Garnier, it’s about letting the mind go—including doubts—so divine sound can coalesce body, mind, and spirit.

The Bhajan Belt Some believe that the most potent instrument for sound healing is your own voice. Just ask one of the many practitioners of kirtan, or call-and-response Sanskrit chanting, which has in recent years crossed over from an ashrambased spiritual practice to a more mainstream pastime thanks to the runaway popularity of yoga in the West. Nowadays you don’t have to travel 8,000 miles to India to attend one of these ecstatic, all-inclusive musical evenings; just pop into your local yoga studio.

The embrace of kirtan and bhajan (Indian devotional chanting) is so strong in the Hudson Valley that the area has taken on the moniker “the Bhajan Belt.” It was local kirtan walla Shyamdas and Mike D of the Beastie Boys who coined the nickname, which surfaced in a New York Times article in 2002. The Saugertiesbased Shyamdas, who began studying devotional chanting in the 1970s with Indian guru Neem Karoli Baba, was instrumental in bringing kirtan to the American yoga scene in the mid-1980s. “The Hudson Valley has always attracted seekers,” says Shyamdas. “I find it amazing that you can attend a kirtan pretty much every night of the week here.”

When the local duo Sri Kirtan is in town, the area’s community of dedicated chanters comes out en masse. With Ishwari on vocals and acoustic guitar and ShrutiRam on vocals and harmonium, each chant picks up from a gentle beginning to reach higher levels of jubilant energy. “Kirtan takes you out of your head and into your heart,” says Ishwari, who started her career as a punk rock singer out of Austin in the 1970s and went on to perform and study such disparate forms as electronic music, dance music, and opera. It was the divine mood created during kirtan, known in Sanskrit as bhava, that really drew her in.

“My heart is 100 percent changed from doing this. I’m a much softer person.”

There’s no getting around the fact that kirtan grows from Hindu roots; the names of such deities as Ram and Shiva form the core of each chant. Yet the practice is all-inclusive. “You don’t need to adhere to any particular philosophical viewpoint,” says ShrutiRam, who like Shyamdas studied with Neem Karoli Baba. “Kirtan doesn’t have to be a devotional practice; it’s a joyful experience.

You can be an agnostic or even a total atheist and you can still feel the energy.”

Considered the father of Woodstock kirtan, ShrutiRam once led weekly chant gatherings in his home, but a surge in popularity led him to seek a larger location (now Yoga Monkey on Rt. 212). More than anyone, he has witnessed kirtan’s transformative effects on a local and personal level. “People come in like overcooked spaghetti—all wilted and tired and sad. Before long they’re dancing and singing, and by the end they’re so happy to relate to each other,” he says. “It’s a scientifically proven fact that when people sing together the neurons and receptors in the brain that create separateness stop firing and a sense of unity is achieved. That’s where the healing comes in.”

Sound Immersions Two upcoming events offer deeper explorations in kirtan chanting and sound healing. The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck presents “Ecstatic Chant: TheYoga of Voice,” May 6-8, with a lineup of luminaries including Sri Kirtan and Shyamdas (www.eomega.org). And Menla Mountain Retreat in Phoenicia will play host June 2-5 to the area’s first “Sound Healing Retreat Intensive” with Philippe Garnier, John Beaulieu, and other leaders in the field (www.sagehealingcenter.org).

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Flowers Fall

By Bethany Saltman

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

— Dogen Zenji, Genjokoan

Mirror Mirror: A Generation of Godless Girls

“What do you think, Rahula: What is a mirror for?”

“For reflection, sir.”

“In the same way, Rahula, bodily actions, verbal actions, and mental actions are to be done with repeated reflection.

—From the Middle Discourses of the Buddha [Rahula is the Buddha’s son] At the heart of all Buddhist practice is what the Buddha realized, sitting under a tree in India 2,500 years ago: The universe is already in complete harmony with itself. No need to do anything. As simple as this might sound, even the Buddha had to work really hard to let go of trying.

At 29, Prince Shakyamuni left the bliss of his palace to embark on a spiritual journey, the passion of which most of us can only imagine. He outdid each master he met, and starved the pants off the most devoted ascetic. Having reached the limits of what was offered in the spiritual communities of his time, he nearly died, emaciated and exhausted. Luckily for us, a local girl found him, and offered him some rice and milk, which he decided to eat. And with this bowl of food, he set off on his own path, the Middle Way, abandoning both the indulgence of his royal upbringing and the fasting of his religious search. He recalled the way he sat as a little boy under a rose-apple tree, and had a feeling that might lead to something. And so he sat there, beneath a bodhi tree for 49 days.

At the end of those seven weeks, the prince had seen through each and every possible permutation of human life, realizing, with unparalleled joy, the impermanence of all things. Each being and creature and rock and speck of dust is exactly what it is: its very own self, yet interdependent, empty of a fixed form—manifestations of the luminous, universal perfection—the Buddha nature. As my late teacher Daido Roshi used to say, each one of us is “perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” The Buddha had freed himself of suffering, and in so doing, proclaimed, “I and all beings, at once, attain the way.”

Zazen has been handed down to us as an opportunity to sit as the Buddha sat, in complete intimacy with the nature of things. As I have sat in that posture for the past fifteen years, and worked with my mind as the Buddha instructed in his 40 years of teaching, and as my teachers have guided me, I have seen my life go from one of pretty drastic suffering to one of relative ease. My good fortune is aplenty, and my internal state is, compared to the hell-realm of my late twenties, pretty darn relaxed. And still, there is this darkness, this broken-heartedness, a compulsion, really, to see myself, and thus the world, through the belief that I am flawed and should not, under any circumstances, be satisfied with myself as I am.

The word the Buddha uses for such habit patterns is attachment, which makes it sound spiritual, but its flavor is sometimes so humiliatingly mundane it’s easily passed over as anything worth shining a spiritual light upon. After all, aren’t women supposed to hate themselves? Especially their bodies? At least a little? Sure, we all have the Buddha nature, which is awesome, but cellulite?

Really? It’s included?

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Due to some recent meanderings, I found myself on Oprah’s website, and watched a feature about disordered eating where women web-cammed themselves, staring into the camera saying things, “I am not hungry, but I am going to eat this cake right now,” their eyes narrowed at themselves, desperate and sad, stuffing themselves. “I hate myself so much,” one woman said to the camera, close up. “I have no self-control.” If this kind of despair over food were the case for an unfortunate few, that would be a bummer for them, but unfortunately, it’s a culture-wide manifestation of our extreme disembodiment. And it can be very subtle. And contagious. And worthy of spiritual medicine. As one rabbi said to an anorectic girl in his congregation, “God wants you to eat.”

And that’s the trick, for me: tolerating the resistance to practicing this.

When I am willing to accept that my “bodily actions, verbal actions, & mental actions are to be done with repeated reflection,” even when they involve mean voices about my thighs and my hunger, the mirror of practice enlarges. And the shameful self-loathing becomes a barrier like any other, which is a relief because if this practice has taught me anything, it’s how to work with barriers: see it, acknowledge it, let it go. From murderous rage to vague discomfort, seeing through suffering is what the Buddha taught. Nothing excluded.

Enter my favorite five-year-old, who, in a fit of basic, human discomfort, has been known to toil in front of her reflection and say, “Mommy! I don’t look good!!” It is clear that all the important work T and I do to protect her from the terrible messages about girls in our world, and from Fat-Talk and dieting schemes and even orthorexia (the obsession with healthy eating), and all the ways we encourage her to be strong and powerful and smart, it’s a losing battle, really, if I am quietly beating myself up for my real and imagined “imperfections.”Talk is cheap. Every parent knows that. Our kids are watching.

My girl is riveted. Whether I am aware of it or not, I am teaching her how to be a woman. Ultimately, there is no guarantee that she will be a happy person, awake in her good-enough body and life, but I am in the position to help her, so I will. By facing into the cellular-level shame about who I think I am. And by practicing, for myself, the radical acceptance the Buddha taught, and passing those karmic seeds on to Azalea.

Courtney E. Martin writes, in the Christian Science Monitor: “Overlay our dearth of spiritual exploration with our excess of training in ambition and you have a generation of godless girls, raised largely without a fundamental sense of divinity. In fact, our worth in the world has always been tied to our looks, not the miracle of mere existence.”

I have heard people say that by having children we have the opportunity to heal our own childhood wounds. I have never really understood what that means. But one of the teachings of the Buddha is about karma, and how it moves in every direction, including backward. It doesn’t make any sense, but I have a feeling that the fundamental sense of divinity I see so clearly in Azalea is transforming the godless girl I once was.

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New Paltz Community Acupuncture

Amy Benac, M.S., L.Ac.

$25-$40 a session (You decide what you can afford) Effective, affordable acupuncture in a beautiful community setting Please see Whole Living Directory listing for more info

21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz TEL: 845-255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com

• Integrating Talk & Body-Centered Therapy • IMAGO Couples Relationship Counseling • Blended Family Counseling • Integrated Kabbalistic Healing • Exceptional Marriage Mentoring (couple to couple)

Active Release Techniques Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a patented soft tissue treatment system that heals injured muscles, tendons, fascia (covers muscle), ligaments, and nerves. It is used to treat acute or chronic injuries, sports injuries, repetitive strain injuries and nerve entrapments like carpal tunnel syndrome, and sciatica.

ART® is also used before and after surgery to reduce scar tissue formation and build up.

ART® works to break up and remove scar tissue deep within and around injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. The injured muscle, joint, ligament, and nerves are moved through a range of motion while a contact is held over the injured structure. This breaks up the scar tissue and heals the tissue faster than traditional treatments. ART® doctors are trained in over 500 hands-on protocols and must undergo rigorous written and practical examination to become certified. In order to maintain their certification in ART® doctors attend yearly continuing education and recertification by ART®.

Acupuncture Acupuncture & Natural Medicine, Stephanie Ellis, L Ac 110 Creek Locks Road, Rosendale Family Practice, Rosendale, NY (845) 546-5358 www.hudsonvalleyacupuncture.com Celebrating 10 years of acupuncture in Rosendale. Specializing in the treatment of chronic and acute pain, fertility and gynecological

issues, pregnancy support, digestive issues, and addictions and other emotional issues.

Private treatment rooms. Sliding scale, nofault, many insurances.

High Ridge Traditional Healing Arts, Oriental Medicine, Carolyn Rabiner, L Ac 87 East Market Street, Suite 102, Red Hook, NY (845) 758-2424 www.highridgeacupuncture.com

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

New Paltz Community Acupuncture — Amy Benac, L Ac 21 S. Chestnut Street, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-2145 www.newpaltzacu.com $25-$40 sliding scale (you decide what you can afford). As a community-style practice, treatments occur in a semi-private, soothing space with several people receiving treatment at the same time. This allows for frequent, affordable sessions while providing high quality care.

Pain management, relaxation, headaches, TMJ, smoking cessation, Gyn issues, anxiety, depression, trigger point release, insomnia, fatigue, recovery support, GI issues, arthritis, muscle tension, chemo relief, immune support, allergies, menopausal symptoms, general wellness, and much more.

SearchLight Medical 2345 Route 52, Suite 1F, Hopewell Junction, NY (845) 592-4310 www.searchlightmedical.com

John M. Carroll H ,T ,S C EALER

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Irene HumbacH, LcSW, Pc Office in Poughkeepsie (845) 485-5933

“ John is an extraordinary healer whom I have been privileged to know all my life and to work with professionally these last eight years. His ability to use energy and imagery have changed as well as saved the lives of many of my patients. Miracles still do happen.”

—Richard Brown, MD Author Stop Depression Now “ John Carroll is a most capable, worthy, and excellent healer of high integrity, compassion, and love.”

—Gerald Epstein, MD Author Healing Visualizations

Massage and Acupuncture also available with Liz Menendez See John’s website for schedules of upcoming classes and events

johnmcarrollhealer.com or call 845-338-8420

H YPNOCOaCHING m I N d / B O d Y I N T e G r a T I O N Hypnosis • Holistic nurse consultant• coacHing Manage Stress • Apprehensions • Pain • Improve Sleep Release Weight • Set Goals • Change Habits Pre/Post Surgery • Fertility • Gentle Childbirth Immune System Enhancement Past Life Regression • Intuitive Counseling Motivational & Spiritual Guidance

Relax • Release • Let Go • Flow

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

stress-related illness

hypertension • asthma • headache • gastrointestinal disturbance • chronic fatigue • fibromyalgia & chronic lyme

anxiety/depression

Institute for Music and Health Rhinebeck & Millbrook, NY (845) 677-5871 www.judithmuir.com

Allergies & Sinus Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner

panic • phobia • insomnia

eating disorder, weight loss, and smoking cessation Kristen Jemiolo, MD American Board of Family Medicine, Diplomate American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Certification Poughkeepsie (845) 485-7168 For more information visit http://mysite.verizon.net/resqf9p2

frog hollow farm Celebrating the Partnership of Human & Horse

English Riding foR All AgEs We now have a new Olympic sized indoor arena with heated viewing area and dust free footing.

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Boarding and Training • Summer Program Gift Certificates

visit our web site at www.dressageatfroghollowfarm.com

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New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com Treating allergies (food & environmental) and sinus symptoms in an effective, holistic manner. A unique blend of modalities, supplementation, herbs and nutrition will be utilized to bring you back to a vibrant state of health.

If you need help becoming healthy again call or e-mail for a consultation.

Aromatherapy Joan Apter (845) 679-0512 www.apteraromatherapy.com joanapter@earthlink.net See also Massage Therapy.

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

Astrology Planet Waves Kingston, NY (845) 797-3458 www.planetwaves.net

Body & Skin Care Beacon Bath & Bubble 456 Main Street, Beacon, NY (845) 440-6782 www.beaconbathandbubble.com

Clairvoyant Beauty (888) 758-1270 www.clairvoyantbeauty.com

Medical Aesthetics of the Hudson Valley 166 Albany Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 339-LASER (5273) www.medicalaestheticshv.com

Made with Love (845) 674-3715 www.madewithloveskincare.com.

“Feel The Difference.”

Specializing in: Reducing Pain Lowering Stress Levels Enhancing Athletic Performance Relieving the Discomforts of Pregnancy

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Skin care services also available Monthly Membership Programs

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Located in the Gold’s Gym LaGrange 258 Titusville Rd Poughkeepsie, NY (845) 485-6820 www.hands-on-massage.org

Handcrafted skin care products using natural ingredients, pure essential oils and phthalatefree fragrance oils. No parabens, petroleum or carcinogenic chemicals are used.

Body-Centered Therapy Irene Humbach, LCSW, PC — Body of Wisdom Counseling & Healing Services

therapy/healing approaches, including BodyCentered Psychotherapy, IMAGO Couples’ Counseling, and Kabbalistic Healing, I offer tools for self healing, to assist individuals and couples to open blocks to their softer heart energy. Ten-session psycho-spiritual group for women.

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

Chiropractic Dr. David Ness (845) 255-1200 www.performancesportsandwellness.com Dr. David Ness is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner, Certified Active Release Techniques (ART®) Provider, and Certified Kennedy Decompression Specialist. In addition to traditional chiropractic care, Dr. Ness utilizes ART® to remove scar tissue and adhesions from injured muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Dr. Ness also uses non surgical chiropractic traction to decompress disc herniations in the spine. If you have an injury that has not responded to treatment call Dr. Ness today.

Healthy Place Red Hook, NY (845) 758-3600 102 West Market Street, Red Hook, (845) 758-3600

Counseling IONE — Healing Psyche (845) 339-5776 www.ionedreams.us www.ministryofmaat.org IONE is a psycho-spiritual counselor, qi healer and minister. She is director of the Ministry of Maåt Inc. Specializing in dream phenomena and women’s issues, she facilitates Creative Circles and Women’s Mysteries Retreats throughout the world. Kingston and NYC offices. For appointments contact Kellie at ioneappointments@gmail.com

CranioSacral Therapy Michele Tomasicchio — Holistic Health Practitioner

(845) 485-5933

New Paltz, NY (845) 255-4832 essentialhealth12@gmail.com

By integrating traditional and alternative

Headaches? TMJ? Insomnia? Pain? Brain

trauma? Depression? CranioSacral is a gentle approach that can create dramatic improvements in your life. It releases tensions deep in the body to relieve pain and dysfunction and improve whole-body health and performance.

If you need help feeling vibrant call or e-mail for a consultation.

Dentistry & Orthodontics Dr. Jane McElduff 616 Route 52, Beacon, NY (845) 831-5379 www.drjanemcelduff.com

www.EmpoweredByNature.webs.com lorrainehughes@optonline.net Lorraine Hughes — Herbal Wellness Guide, offers Wellness Consultations that therapeutically integrate Asian and Western Herbal Medicine and Nutrition with their holistic philosophies to health. This approach is grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine with focus placed on an individual’s specific constitutional profile and imbalances. Please visit the website for more information and upcoming events.

Holistic Health

Holistic Orthodontics — Dr. Rhoney Stanley, DDS, MPH, Cert. Acup, RD

Amy Castelluzzo, Holistic Practitioner

107 Fish Creek Road, Saugerties, NY (845) 246-2729 and (212) 912-1212 www.holisticortho.com

20 Jane Wood Road, Highland, NY (845) 594-1254 www.amyIGH.com info@amyIGH.com

Stephen Eric Enriquez, DMD 12 Hudson Valley Professional Plaza, Newburgh, NY (845) 562-3370 www.DrStephenEricEnriquez.com

The Center For Advanced Dentistry — Bruce D. Kurek, DDS, FAGD 494 Route 299, Highland, NY (845) 691-5600 www.thecenterforadvanceddentistry.com

Tischler Family Dental Center Woodstock, NY (845) 679-3706 www.tischlerdental.com

Fitness Centers MaMa 3588 Main Street, Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-8890 www.cometomama.org

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

Healing Centers Hudson River Community HealthCare (877) 871-4742

Herbal Medicine & Nutrition Empowered By Nature (845) 416-4598

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Release stress, strengthen your immune system and open to your healing ability.

Intro Evenings in Stone Ridge, Phoenicia, Cornwall, New Paltz, Pine Bush and Delmar.

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May 28-29 - Stone Ridge, NY May 21-22 - Long Island, NY Call to register.

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH

INTERNATIONAL ENERGY HEALING & MYSTERY SCHOOL

ENROLL NOW! Stone Ridge School begins June 2011!

Ideal for all those desiring personal growth and healthcare professionals.

Learn 33 Shamanic, Esoteric and Holistic techniques for healing others and over 50 self-healing practices that increase your health, creativity, joy and spiritual awareness (NYSNA and National Massage Board cEus available).

Call for info, sessions or a brochure: Nancy Plumer 845–687–2252. www.womenwithwisdom.com Certified One Light Healing Touch Practitioner/Instructor & Kripalu Yoga Teacher

Chatham Holistic Healing Arts 3 Railroad Avenue, Chatham, NY (518) 392-3339 www.chathamholistichealingarts.com chathamholistichealingarts@gmail.com Balance the Mind, Body and Spirit.

Offering Reiki, Hypnosis, Yoga, Wellness Consultations, Massage, Classes, and Workshops.

John M. Carroll 715 Rte 28, Kingston, NY (845) 338-8420 www.johnmcarrollhealer.com John is a spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He uses guided imagery, morphology, and healing energy to help facilitate life changes. He has successfully helped his clients to heal themselves from a broad spectrum of conditions, spanning terminal cancer to depression. The Center also offers hypnosis, massage, and Raindrop Technique.

Kara Lukowski, CAS, PKS, E-RYT 243 Fair St, Kingston, NY 845-633-0278 www.karalukowski.com kara@karalukowski.com

Judy Swallow MA, LCAT, TEP

PSYCHOTHERAPIST • CONSULTANT

Rubenfeld Synergy® Psychodrama Training

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25 Harrington St, New Paltz, NY 12561 (845) 255-5613

Susan DeStefano

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I believe in expansion and gentle forces.

Too much pressure squeezes out essential blood supply and there is no support for tooth movement. I do not recommend extraction of permanent teeth. When teeth are extracted, the bone that holds the teeth is lost and the skin of the face sags. With aging, this is exaggerated. As a holistic practitioner, I consider the bones, teeth, and face, components of the whole. Dental treatment has an impact on whole health. The amount of plague and calculus on the teeth is correlated with that in blood vessels. Movement in orthodontics affects the balance of the cranium, the head, and the neck. To support holistic treatment, I am certified in acupuncture and a registered dietician, trained in homeopathy and cranial osteopathy. At every visit, I do cranial treatments for balance. I offer functional appliances, fixed braces, invisible braces, and invisalign.

I treat snoring and sleep apnea as well as joint and facial pain. We welcome children, teenagers, and adults. Insurance accepted.

Payment plans available.

Mind/Body/Spirit Healing

Kara Lukowski is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist who helps clients with disorders of digestion, weight, circulation, skin, reproduction, chronic fatigue, emotional instability and more. Offering one-on-one counseling with supportive guidance you will receive a personalized nutrition plan, lifestyle recommendations, custom organic herbal formulas, aromatherapy, yoga therapy and body therapies.

Kary Broffman, RN, CH (845) 876-6753 Karyb@mindspring.com 15 plus years of helping people find their balance. As a holistic nurse consultant, she weaves her own healing journey and education in psychology, nursing, hypnosis and integrative nutrition to help you take control of your life and to find True North. She also assists pregnant couples with hypnosis and birthing.

845.255.6482

Nancy Plumer, One Light Healing Touch Energy Healing and Mystery School Stone Ridge, NY (845) 687-2252 www.womenwithwisdom.com nplumer@hvi.net OLHT Energy Healing and Mystery School is a unique, comprehensive, heart-centered and grounded approach toward health, healing and understanding energy. It draws from the shamanic, esoteric and holistic traditions. This certification program in energy healing is for people desiring personal growth, healthcare professionals wanting to learn more energy healing tools, and for those who want to

Imago Relationship Therapy julieezweig@gmail.com

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transform their lives. Stone Ridge, NY School begins June 24, 2011. Call for brochure and to register. Introductory weekends in May.

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

Hospitals Benedictine Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley 105 Mary’s Avenue, Kingston, NY (845) 338-2500 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Benedictine Hospital is a progressive, fully accredited 150-bed acute care hospital.

Benedictine offers elective surgery services and expanded in-patient and out-patient specialty services not typically found in a community hospital including: Orthopedic Surgery, Mental Health Services, Rehabilitation and Detox, Oncology & Breast Center Services, Radiology, Vascular Services and Sleep Center Services.

Kingston Hospital, Member of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley

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396 Broadway, Kingston, NY (845) 331-3131 www.hahv.org info@hahv.org Kingston Hospital is a 150-bed acute care hospital with a commitment to continuous improvement. In addition to the new, state-ofthe-art Emergency Department, a full compliment of exceptional, patient-focused medical and surgical services are provided by staff with dedicated and experienced professionals.

With the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Hudson Valley, other specialized programs include: The Family Birth Place, Wound Healing Center, Hyperbaric Oxygen Center, Cardiology Services and Stroke Center.

Northern Dutchess Hospital Rhinebeck, NY www.NDHKnowsBabies.com

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

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

Sharon Slotnick, MS, CHT New Paltz, NY (845) 389-2302 Increase self-esteem and motivation; break bad habits; manage stress, stress-related illness, and anger; alleviate pain (e.g. childbirth, headaches, chronic pain); overcome fears and despondency; relieve insomnia; improve learning, memory, public speaking, and sports performance; enhance creativity and address other issues. Change your outlook.

Gain control. Make healthier choices. Certified Hypnotist, two years training; broad base in Psychology. Also located in Kingston, NY.

Imago Relationship Therapy Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com

20+ years of experience successfully treating adults, couples, families, children and adolescents. The Imago Dialogue is a simple, respectful and effective way to talk with your partner about the things that really matter. In Imago, there’s no blame, shame or criticism.

Instead, a stronger connection comes through attentive hearing and being deeply heard in an emotionally safe environment. Then surprising answers to age-old conflicts can emerge.

“Conflict (in relationship) is growth trying to happen” -Harville Hendrix Find out more at: www.gettingtheloveyouwant.com

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

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

Massage Therapy

stress management and sports massage.

Skin care services available. Ask about our monthly massage memberships.

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

Mid-Hudson Rebirthing Center (845) 255-6482

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

Jesse Scherer LMT New Paltz, Kingston and NYC, , (914) 466-1517 www.Catskillmountainmassage.com Jessemassage@gmail.com Jesse delivers sessions based on the clients individualized needs, addressing injury rehabilitation, muscular stagnation, flexibility, and stiffness due to lyme and other chronic illness, as well as relaxation and restorative massage. Utilizing Neuromuscular and other Specific Deep Tissue Techniques; with strength and precision, Jesse supports the body’s natural inclination to move from a place of strain and fatigue to its preferred state of flexibility, suppleness and integrity. Also: Maya Abdominal Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Massage. Some Insurances Accepted.

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

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

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Organizations Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. 38 East Market Street, 2nd Floor, Rhinebeck, NY 845-876-2626 rsvp.mhvs.org rsvp@mhvs.org, info@mhvs.org The Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society, Inc. works to promote the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, educating the community about the benefits of a plant-based diet and showing how to change to a more healthful, crueltyfree lifestyle. Members and friends participate in talks, potlucks, a youth group, and other activities; and get discounts at participating stores and restaurants.

Osteopathy Stone Ridge Healing Arts Joseph Tieri, DO, & Ari Rosen, DO, 3457 Main Street, Stone Ridge; 138 East Market Street, Rhinebeck, NY (845) 687-7589 www.stoneridgehealingarts.com Drs. Tieri and Rosen are NY State Licensed Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Osteopathic Manipulation and Cranial Osteopathy.

Please visit our website for articles, links, books, and much more information. Treatment of newborns, children, and adults. By appointment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Healing Mind Psychiatric Care 8 Garden Street, Rhinebeck, NY, 222 Main Street, New Paltz, NY, (845) 255-1117 www.nphealingarts.com

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

Janne Dooley, LCSW, Brigid’s Well New Paltz, NY (347) 834-5081 www.Brigidswell.com Janne@BrigidsWell.com Brigid’s Well is a psychotherapy and coaching practice. Janne specializes in childhood trauma, addictions, codependency, relationship issues, inner child work, EMDR and Brainspotting. Janne’s work is also informed by Emotional Intelligence and Interpersonal Neurobiology. Coaching for all life transitions as well as Mindful Parenting, Mindful Eating and Spirited Midlife

Women. Call for information or free 1/2 hour consultation. Newsletter sign up on website.

FB page: www.Brigidswell.com/facebook.

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

Julie Zweig, MA, Certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner, Imago Relationship Therapist and NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor 66 Mountain Rest Rd, New Paltz, NY (845) 255-3566 www.zweigtherapy.com julieezweig@gmail.com 20+ years of experience successfully treating adults, couples, families, children and adolescents through verbal body-centered psychotherapy, Rosen Method Bodywork, Play Therapy and Imago Relationship Therapy. I can guide you from feeling stuck, and experiencing painful symptoms, to blossoming into your genuine self...a place of ease.

Meg F. Schneider, MA, LCSW Rhinebeck, NY (845) 876-8808 www.megfschneiderlcsw.com

Reflexology Soul 2 Sole Reflexology, Arlene Spool 701 Zena Highwoods Road, Kingston, NY (845) 679-1270 www.soul2solereflexology.com Relief from Stress & Tension. Relaxing foot or hand massage, Raindrop Technique or Reiki Session; private Green healing space or yours! (‘Sole Traveler’). My clients report relief from stress, carpal tunnel, circulation, insomnia, toxins, radiation & chemo side effects + balance; more energy.

Sessions start $32.

Residential Care Always There Home Care (845) 339-6683 www.alwaystherehomecare.org

Blue Deer Center 1155 County Route 6, Margaretville, NY 845-586-3225 www.bluedeer.org Established in 2005, Blue Deer Center is America’s leading shamanic retreat center providing intimate retreats of indigenous ancestral traditions from around the world. Upcoming programs include Plant Spirit MedicineSM trainings, traditional Huichol healing, Celtic, Sufi, Xhosa (South African) and Native American retreats. Discover your sacred song!

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

Women’s Health

(800) 682-4348 www.newagehealthspa.com

Judith Muir

Judithmuir.com (845) 677-5871

M.M. M.AmSAT

Team Northrup

Alexander Technique Private Lessons

Contact Theresa Haney, 845-489-4745 www.teamnorthrupNYC.com theresahaney@teamnorthrup.com We are a league of entrepreneurial men and women from all over the world, who are aligned with the work of women’s wellness pioneer, world-renowned author, and one of the country’s most respected authorities on women’s health, Dr. Christiane Northrup. Team Northrup was founded in 2002 by Dr. Northrup, daughter Kate Northrup Moller and sister Penny Northrup Kirk. We are all independent associates with our product partner, USANA Health Sciences, which makes the highest quality supplements, skin-care and weight management products manufactured to pharmaceutical standards available. Dr. Northrup has used these products and has recommended them in her books and to her patients for the past sixteen years.

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Established in 1999, Jai Ma Yoga Center offers a wide array of Yoga classes, seven days a week. Experience the Mid-Hudson Valley’s only Anusara (R ) Yoga Classes & New Paltz’s only Iyengar classes. Private consultations and Therapeutics available.

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Installation view from Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's Variation, Pinacothèque, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009. Boursier-Mougenot will install his index (v.4) at EMPAC this month.

Made to Be Forgotten Can a piano play itself? Céleste Boursier-Mougenot answers this question with an art installation at the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, opening May 11. index (v.4) consists of two “player pianos” performing music generated by a computer program that translates the typing of EMPAC employees into musical notes.

Depending on how busy the typists are, the music will be profuse or spare.

Every four-year-old has noticed the similarity between a piano and a computer. We use the same word—“keyboard”—to describe the parts of both implements that our fingers touch. Celeste uses this pun to connect two opposites: work and play. We’re not used to piano keys playing without hands, unless they’re performing ragtime music at a carnival. Seeing index (v.4), you feel as if you’re overhearing a grand piano talking to itself.

Installed between the two pianos will be untitled (Series #3), three pools of water with air pumps pointing across their diameters, creating a regular current. Floating in the water will be bowls, dishes, and glasses, clinking together in unpredictable patterns.

The effect is a bit like wind chimes, but more accidental sounding. (After all, wind chimes are intended to produce music and crockery is not.)

This piece illustrates how sound influences vision. We hear the blue of the pools, the white circularity of the bowls. Also, we can watch a bowl and a glass on a collision course. The final sound of them clanking is unexpectedly satisfying.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot was born in Nice, France, in 1961. He was trained as a composer before moving into visual art. His biggest “hit” on YouTube is a video of guitarplaying zebra finches at the Barbican Centre in London. Boursier-Mougenot set up an aviary with electric guitars as perches. When the birds would light on the instruments, they played music. These cheerful, fluffy little birds work against our expectations of

rock guitarists. They don’t close their eyes, grit their teeth, and grimace as they play solos. Instead, they flutter their wings.

EMPAC Music Curator Micah Silver first saw Boursier-Mougenot speak at Wesleyan University in 2001. “I forget what I asked him, but he said to me: ‘You can’t get real complexity without nature.’ To me, there’s something really beautiful about that idea—that as much as we have algorithms, machines that can model all sorts of phenomena, still if you turn a situation over to nature, very, very unusual things happen. Even with something as simple as having three pools with a current. You still can’t predict what the next sound will be.”

All live music is visually interesting, but one is always focusing on people.

Boursier-Mougenot depopulates musical performance. Instead of watching a pianist, we watch the piano. But the ghost of a performer always remains. The viewer wonders, “How random is this music?” John Cage composed using chance techniques derived from the I Ching—usually by flipping coins. Today, the technology exists to transform chance into a science.

Still, Boursier-Mougenot chooses the floating bowls, and tweaks the computer program that translates typing into piano notes. Ultimately, he selects the general range of sounds. And he prefers melodious bowls, poignant self-playing piano music. Humor inflects this work, but his are jokes without punchlines. Perhaps the role of the viewer is to complete the joke.

“My works are made to be forgotten,” Boursier-Mougenot says. “They do not require a focus listening, but rather they produce a music that listens to us.”

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installations will be at EMPAC in Troy from May 11 until September 1. (518) 276-3921; www.empac.rpi.edu.

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SUNDAY 1 Art Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country 2:30pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

Paintings by Diane Serber of Old Chatham 3pm-5pm. Old Chatham Country Store Cafe Gallery, Old Catham. (518) 794-6227.

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

CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 1am-1:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 sessions. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Having It Your Way: Planning for Peace and Dignity at Life's End 1pm-5pm. Exploration 1: Considering Your Options by Judith Johnson, PhD and Laurie Schwartz, MA. $40.

Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie.

(914) 466-5763.

Harvey Citron Band 12pm. Hunter Mountain, Hunter. www.huntermtn.com.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Conservatory Orchestra 3pm. George Tsontakis's Unforgettable for Two Violins and Orchestra, Joan Tower's Rapids for Piano and Orchestra, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. $20/$15. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

Gentle Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

9th Annual Ron Finck Memorial Scholarship Concert 3pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Woodstock Chamber Orchestra 3pm. Performs a world premiere by Jane Barsumian, and works by Respighi, Mahler, Dvorak and Vaughan Williams. $20/$5 college students/K-12 free. Saugerties Reformed Church, Saugerties. 758-9270.

The Grand Montgomery Chamber Music & Theater Series 3pm. Coleman Piano Trio. Senior and Community Center, Montgomery. 457-9867.

Claverack Landing/Tapestry 4pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

FODFest Concert 4pm-9pm. Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk, Connecticut. www.fodfest.org.

Julie Corbalis 6pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Street Poets' Club 7pm. Local hip-hop showcase. $7/$5 21+. The Basement, Kingston. 331-1116.

T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Beginners Mind Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

In the Moment Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

Women's Healing Circle 7pm-8:30pm. With Adrienne DeSalvo. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Film It Happened One Night 7pm. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

New Moon Kundalini Salon 2pm-4pm. With Yogi Bajan's student Nidhi Huba. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

679-5650.

Events 1st Annual Southern Ulster Bark for Life 8am-12pm. Walk to celebrate the companionship and service of canines and raise funds for the American Cancer Society. $35/$25 in advance. Headless Horseman Hayrides, Ulster Park. 339-2666.

Earth Day Fair 10am-3pm. 10am worship service, followed by fair.

The Reformed Church, New Paltz. 255-6340.

May Day Celebration 10:30am. Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-4015.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Kingston WellSpring Festival 11am-3pm. Yoga workshops, health practitioners, drum circle, musical guests. Cornell Park, Kingston.

877-5263.

Cuts for a Cure 12pm-5pm. Held to help 3 local nurses raise the necessary funds to take part in the Avon Breast Cancer Awareness Walk. $15. Locks That Rock, Wappingers Falls. 546-7824.

Annual New Paltz Regatta 1pm-3pm. Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz. 255-1660.

Eleanor Roosevelt Knit-In 1pm-5pm. Henry A. Wallace Educational and Visitors Center, Hyde Park. 229-7711.

Mount Gulian Opening Day 2011: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War 1pm-5pm. $8/$6 seniors/$4 children. Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon. 831-8172.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Exquisite Corpse 3pm-5pm. Game of French surrealists. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Music Brunch with Chris Schaljo Call for times. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro. 236-7970 Claire Chase and Bridget Kibbey Call for times. Both solo and duo works by Rameau, Bach, Takemitsu, Paganini, Bartok, Ivan Fidele and Piazzola. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon.

831-4988.

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Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 11:15am-12:15pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50.

The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

ZumbaTomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music

Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Spring Rock Band Boot Camp 7:30pm-Wednesday, June 15, 9pm. Weekly sessions. $250. Beacon. local845.com/bootcamp.html.

Swing Dance to DJ'd Music 6:30pm-9pm. Beginners' lesson at 6pm. $10/$6 FT students. Arlington Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie.

454-2571.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Spoken Word

Classes

Dance

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

Julian Lage Group 7:30pm. Opening Morwenna Lasko & Jay Pun. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

New Moon Sound Healing 6:30pm-7:30pm. With Philippe Pascal Garnier. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everett Hodge Community Center, Kingston.

Drawing: Learning the Basics 6:30pm-9pm. Weekly through May 24. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & the Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Exploring the Buddhadharma with Jeffrey Mann 4pm-5:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Babysitting Class 9am-2pm. 12+. $30. Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie. 475-9742.

Classes

Workshops Modern Dance Workshop 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Social Networking Basics 3:30pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

Bob Dylan Birthday Bash Hard to believe Bobby Zimmerman turns 70 on May 21. To celebrate, Hudson Valley style, folk legend and Dylan collaborator Happy Traum is hosting the third annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration at the Kleinert/James Art Center in Woodstock on May 21 at 8pm. The show is a benefit for the Byrdcliffe Guild and features some top-notch local talent, including Tracy Bonham, Carl Newman (ringleader of The New Pornographers), Mike and Ruthy, and Kate Taylor.

Tickets are $20 general admission / $15 Byrdcliffe members. (845) 679-2079; www.woodstockguild.org.

The Outdoors

Kids

Spring Sprint 5k Trail Run 10am-1pm. Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 Ext. 273.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 10am-11am. Toddler to age 3. $16. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Spoken Word

Music

Curator's Gallery Talk: Thick and Thin Ken Landauer and Julianne Swarts 2pm-3pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

Symphonic Band Concert 7:30pm. $8/$6/$3. Quimby Theater, Stone Ridge.

687-5263.

Karen Russell 4pm. Reading and signing Swamplandia. Fundraiser for the Red Hook Public Library. Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook. 758-5887.

Sam Lipsyte 4pm. Sunset Reading Series. The Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring. www.chapelrestoration.org.

Theater The Who's â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tommyâ&#x20AC;?

2pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Sisters Rosensweig 3pm. Rhinebeck Theatre Society. $02/$18 students and seniors. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Proof 6pm. Tangent Arts. The Black Swan, Tivoli. 757-3777.

Workshops Life Drawing 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Woodstock Tango: Technique Workshop 2pm-3:30pm. MountainView Studio, Woodstock.

679-0901.

Kiyanaa Persian Dervish Exercises and Whirling 2pm-5pm. $25. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge.

687-4143.

MONDAY 2 Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga for Body and Soul 8am-9:30am. $20/$95 series of 8. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Private Soul Energy Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

TUESDAY 3 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

AM Flow Yoga 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Community Acupuncture 12pm-4pm. $20-$40. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Private Spirit Guide Readings 12pm-6pm. $75/$40. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Yoga All Levels 12:15pm-1:15pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Community Acupuncture 4pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:45pm-7pm. $80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba 7pm-8pm. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

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

WEDNESDAY 4 Body / Mind / Spirit Sunrise Yoga 7am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Balance Beam Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Hoop Dance 7:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Kids Drop In Art Class 10am. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Exploration 2pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Drop-In 3:30pm. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Kids Yoga 5pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Kids' Open Mike 7pm. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill.

(914) 737-6624.

Music Yoga I-II 12pm-1:30pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

The Outdoors Natural History Walk 3:30pm. An exploration of the natural history of the Vassar Ecological Preserve. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. 437-7414.

Spoken Word Solopreneurs Sounding Board 6:30pm. Ad hoc advisory board meets group therapy for your work. $10/members free. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 418-3731.

Livestock Handling Facilities Designer Dr. Temple Grandin 7pm. $12. Palace Theater, Albany. (518) 465-3334.

The Joy of Hiking 7pm. LaGrange Library, Poughkeepsie. 592-0204.

Workshops Abstraction and Drawing: Interpretation and Form 6pm-9pm. Meredith Rosier. 4 weekly session. $140.

Woodstock School of Art, Woodstock. 679-2388.

Angelic Channeling Practice Sessions 7pm-9pm. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

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Iyaba Ibo Mandingo performs his one-man show "unFramed" at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh on May 13.

Nice Rooms are Not Precursors to Jail Iyaba Ibo Mandingo and Brent Buell made a promise 10 years ago: One day Mandingo would write a play about his life and Buell would direct it. They met when Buell was directing a show about slam poetry at Sing Sing, part of his involvement with the arts-in-prison group Rehabilitation for the Arts. Mandingo, one of the nation’s best slam poets at the time, was asked to come in. When Buell saw him perform, he was immediately enthralled by Mandingo’s energetic stage presence and politically infused messages. “A year and a half ago, Iyaba called me and said ‘Remember the play I told you about? It’s ready, I want you to come and see it,’” says Buell. “And my wife and I went up to Harlem to see Iyaba perform and it knocked me out.” The play has evolved into “unFramed”, which will be performed on May 13 at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh. “unFramed” is a one-man show, but Mandingo’s vibrant personality fills the stage as ably as a large cast. At times, he may be frantically painting his self-portrait, sometimes with a brush, sometimes with his hands; or reciting his own lyrics; or telling a story about his life. Whether it is painting, poetry, or even singing, Mandingo is eager to pour out his creative energy in any way possible.

The play’s narrative arc follows Mandingo’s life: It begins with his childhood in Antigua, his move to America as an adolescent, and continues through his post-9/11 arrest for being an “undocumented immigrant.” (Mandingo, who lived in Antigua until the age of 13, has since become a US citizen.) The play illuminates the contrast between a child dreaming of America and the reality of day-to-day existence for a young black man in the land of opportunity. According to Buell and Mandingo, the play is not only an examination of social issues, but also an uplifting coming-of-age tale. The play’s

ability to transcend race and class and give refreshing life to universal themes has made “unFramed” resonate so well across demographic boundaries. “America is one of the greatest experiments, a melting pot where cultures can come together and share with each other,” Mandingo says. However, Mandingo believes that America’s potential has not yet been reached, and says “it will be really exciting to see the day when that idea kicks off full-fledged.”

Mandingo loves the challenge of telling the story through acting, a new mode of expression for him, and though he has been involved with painting and poetry longer than he has acting, he appreciates the subtlety of mastering a new art. Mandingo had to find the balance between years of dramatic oral delivery with his poetry and the importance of movement and dynamics in stage acting. “I learned about over emphasizing words with performance poetry,” Mandingo says, “But I learned that when you’re acting, you’re doing that the least.”

In addition to staging “unFramed,” Mandingo and Buell will be working with Newburgh schools during their two week residence at the Railroad Playhouse, which began in late April. Buell and Mandingo will be providing art workshops and talking to the kids about their futures in the arts. Mandingo, whose “day job” is working as a master teaching artist in New York City schools, is excited to interact with kids in Newburgh. “I want to go into schools, especially where there are black boys like me, and talk to them, explaining that this nice room is not a precursor to jail,” says Mandingo. “unFramed” will be staged at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh on May 13 at 8pm. Tickets are $20. (800) 838-3006; www.rrplayhouse.org.

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THURSDAY 5 Art

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Threads 7pm-9pm. Knitting circle for adults of all experience levels. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

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

255-1559.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art 7:30pm. Carla Goldberg and Jean-Marc Superville talk "Art as Activism." Beahive, Beacon. 418-3731.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Yoga Basics 5pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

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

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

The Outpatients and The Sal Vargetto Band 8pm. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Jackie Greene with The Wiyos 9pm. $20/$25. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

679-4406.

Axiom 9:30pm. Elsie's Place, Wallkill. 895-8975.

The Hahnbone Band 9:30pm. Rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word

Classes

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

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

A Night with Captain Sig and the Hillstrand Brothers from Deadliest Catch 8pm. $32.75/$41.75. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

The Luminous Landscape in Watercolor 10am-1pm. With Betsy Jacaruso through May 26.

Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Hip Hop/Jazz Funk 6:30pm-7:30pm. $12. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494

Theater My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls.

298-1491.

Classes

Dance

Babes in Arms 8pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Studio Techniques for Painters 1:30pm-4:30pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie.

471-2550.

Bard Faculty Dance Concert 7:30pm. Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane’s Continuous Replay. Bard College. 758-7900.

Community Playback Theatre 8pm. Improvisations of audience stories. $8.

Community Playback Theatre, Highland. 691-4118.

25th Anniversary Silver Needle Fashion Show Call for times. 2pm and 8pm, with 7pm cocktail hour. $15-$100. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-5800.

Artists for Autism Gala Call for times. $60-$100. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson. 758-7900.

11th Annual Women's Health & Fitness Expo 7am-5pm. Exhibits, health screenings, seminars, workshops and more. Tech City, Kingston. www.womenshealthexpo.com.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

New Genesis Productions’ “Hamlet”

Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Acoustic Music 7pm-9pm. Featured artist and open mike. Curran's Restaurant, Tannersville. (518) 589-4081.

The Joy of Singing 7pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.

Moutin Reunion Quartet 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Outdoors Pitch in at the Parks 5:30pm-7pm. Help maintain the park's condition.

Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus. 473-4440 Ext. 273.

Spoken Word Poetry: What Are Poets For? 5pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3858.

An Evening with Kristin Kimball 6pm. Author of The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming Food and Love. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art 7pm-9pm. Sponsored by the Beacon Art Salon. $5.

Beahive, Beacon. (917) 449-6356.

Theater The Who's Tommy 8pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Workshops Managing Difficult Clients 9am-2:30pm. Effective strategies for working with emotional clients in conflict. $95. Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Poughkeepsie. 471-7213.

FRIDAY 6 Art Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

Body / Mind / Spirit Kogui and Native American's Elders Gathering in the Catskill Call for times. Menla Mountain Retreat, Phoenicia.

688-6897.

Private Angelic Channeling Call for times. $125. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

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Swing Dance Lesson 7pm-8pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Events

5th Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Conference & Expo 10am-4pm. Procurment: Bridging the Gap. Ramada Inn Conference Center, Fishkill. 787-4328.

Music

Classes

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

Events

Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents 6pm-7:30pm. Ages 9-11. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Heart Vision: A Tarot Happening 10am. $25. Wainwright House, Rye. egistrar@wainwright.org.

Life Lift – Awaken Your Vision/Basic 10am-Sunday, May 8, 5pm. With Melissa More. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Zumba Gold 11am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

African and Afro-Cuban Drumming with Ev Mann 12pm-1:30pm. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Native American Healing Traditions with Karine Gordineer 1pm-3pm. $25. Join us for an informative look at Native American healing traditions. Yorktown Heights. To sign up, call 424-6049 or visit www.skillsoffthegrid.com.

Bard Faculty Dance Concert 7:30pm. Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane’s Continuous Replay. Bard College. 758-7900.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. United Methodist Church, Kingston.

331-6858.

Drop In Music Class 10am. $10. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Dance

Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Kids

Seasons 5pm-8pm. Anne Johann. Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill.

(914) 734-1894.

Art in the Garden 5:30pm. Spring fine art auction. Preview at 2:30pm.

Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie. 454-4500.

Pop quiz: How many characters die in “Hamlet”? Don’t know? The teen actors of New Genesis Productions master class know. (Nine, if you count Hamlet’s father, who’s already dead when the play begins.) For seven months, these young thespians have been smelling what’s rotten in Denmark with playwright and actor Carey Harrison, who has been immersing his charges in stagecraft and the subtleties of the Bard’s language. The master class culminates with four performances of “Hamlet” May 27-29 at the at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock. (845) 657-5867; www.newgenesisproductions.org New York Theatre Ballet 8pm. $24/$20 seniors/$12 children. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

The Sisters Rosensweig 8pm. Rhinebeck Theatre Society. $02/$18 students and seniors. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

Events

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Dip Dinner 6pm. Women's Fellowship of The Reformed Church of Shawangunk. Reformed Church of Shawangunk, Wallkill. 750-0853.

Annual Spring Penny Social 7pm. The Shawangunk Valley Ladies Auxiliary.

Shawangunk Valley Ladies Auxiliary, Wallkill. 895-3673.

First Friday Feast, a Benefit for Chatham Chickens 7pm. $50. Chatham Real Food Market Co-op, Chatham. (518) 392-3353.

Post Cinco de Mayo Party with Las Manos 8pm. $12. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Thirsty: A Benefit Performance 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Kids Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

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

Music Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

337-3546.

Phoenicia Phirst Phriday 8pm. Featuring Dharma Bums and Seth Davis. $3. Arts Upstairs, Phoenicia. 688-2142.

Roger McGuinn 8pm. $53/$48. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Roy Book Binder 8pm. Folk, blues. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

The Purchase Jazz Orchestra 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Who's “Tommy” 8pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Too Much Information!

8pm. Monologues by local women. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Workshops The Singing Life of Birds 7pm. Bird song expert Donald Kroodsma. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook. 677-5343.

SATURDAY 7 Art Photographers' Choice 1pm-5pm. Lady Audrey's Gallery, Millerton. www.LadyAudreysGallery.com.

Drawings by Joseph Yeomans 3pm-5pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Gordon Parks: The Discerning Eye 3pm-8pm. Millbrook School, Millbrook. 677-8261.

The Gun Show 4pm-6pm. A group exhibition of multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, photography and more addressing the Gun. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Walking Off 5pm-7pm. Paintings by Derek Erdman. One Mile Gallery, Kingston. 338-2035.

Home Delivery 5pm-7pm. Fresh works by Jim Granger, Tatana Kellner, and Judy Sigunick. Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston. www.kmoca.org.

Bing, Bang, Boing 5pm-8pm. Handmade musical and sculptural inventions.

GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Community Clean Up Day 9am-1pm. Post-clean up celebration to follow. Ritz Theater Parking Lot, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 110.

Phillies Bridge Farm Project: Open House 10am-1pm. Orientation for CSA members, farm tours, garden plant sale, a guided nature trail walk and children's activities. Phillies Bridge Farm, New Paltz.

256-9108.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Doll and Teddy Bear Show and Sale 11am-4pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Mother's Day Spa Party 12pm-3pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Rip Van Winkle Wine and Cheese Festival 1pm-6pm. $20. Historic Catskill Point, Catskill.

(518) 965-5208.

A Room in Nature 6pm-8pm. Art party of inspired outdoor furniture.

Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Kids Children's African Drum Workshop with Amadou Diallo 11:30am-12:30pm. $15. The Living Seed, New Paltz.

255-8212.

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

247-3342.

Music Hudson Valley Philharmonic Call for times. With Oboist Keisuke Ikuma. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Avalon Quartet: Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov and Schubert 6pm. $40/$30. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

Matt "Guitar" Murphy & James Cotton 7pm. Opening act: Adam Falcon Band. $22. Columbia Greene Community College Performing Arts Center, Hudson. (518) 719-0633.

Peter Calo 7pm. Singer/songwriter. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

Ann Osmond & Dennis Yerry 7:30pm. Jazz cabaret. Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie. 431-8916.

Palenville Love Letter 5pm-8pm. GCCA Catskill Gallery, Catskill. (518) 943-3400.

Bruce Cockburn Band 7:30pm. $34.50/$29.50/$24.50. The Egg, Albany.

(518) 473-1845.

Women of Red Hook Artists 5pm-8pm. Elizabeth Avis, Mary Belliveau & Diane Bauer. Duck Pond Gallery, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

Jim Campilongo 7:30pm. Opening Dziubecko. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

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Friday, May 13th at 7:00 p.m.

Join us for an advance screening of a documentary film exploring how mountaintop coal mining impacts the environment and human health. An Official Selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

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www.caryinstitute.org (845) 677-5343

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Music in the Annex: The Erin Hobson Compact 7:30pm. $5. Northeast-Millerton Library, Millerton.

(518) 789-3340.

Annual Phil Ochs Song Night 8pm. Hosted by Sonny Ochs and Wanda Fischer . $18.

WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Halleluyah—Gospel Goes Jewish!

8pm. Joshua Nelson. $25/$20 in advance/$15 students.

Congregation Shir Chadash, LaGrange. 227-3327.

The Avalon Quartet 8pm-8pm. Steve Reich, Osvaldo Golijov and Schubert. $40/$30/$18 students. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

The Harvest Duo 8pm. Dance music. Nellie Kelly's, Poughkeepsie.

485-5050.

The Hudson Valley Singer/Songwriters Series 8pm. Featuring Vickie Russell and Marji Zintz. Temple Beth Shalom, Florida. 651-7817.

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

Bernstein Bard Trio 8pm. Unison Arts and Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

David Kraai & Amy Laber Band 9pm. Singer/songwriter. High Falls Cafe, High Falls.

687-2699.

Soul Purpose 9pm. Motown. Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz.

255-1000.

Events Mother's Day Brunch 9am. With live jazz. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Mothers Day Family Tour 11:30am. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson.

(518) 828-0135.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Top of the Mountain Tea 4pm-6pm. Sherry, song and making merry. Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Music Bohemian Rhapsodies 2pm. Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Music. $25/$25 Dia members/$10 students/children free. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Collegium Musicum 3pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2700.

Gay Marshall 3pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

The Blind Boys of Alabama 3pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

In the Moment Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:45pm-7pm. $80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Beginners Mind Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Zumba 7pm-8pm. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup 7pm-8:30pm. Psychic enrichment circle. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kuumba Latin Fever 5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Kids

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 10am-11am. Toddler to age 3. $16. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Music Philadelphia Orchestra Concert in HD 6:30pm. Tchaikovsky. $18/$16 students and seniors.

GE Theater at Proctors, Schenectady. (518) 434-1703.

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

Since 1986, the New York Land Conservancy’s Sacred Sites program has supported over 600 religious sites across the state with funds for preservation and maintenance. The Mid-Hudson Valley boasts 15 such sites, including Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper (pictured above), First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poughkeepsie, Christ Episcopal Church in Hudson, Saugerties Reformed Church, and Holy Cross Monastery in West Park. On May 21 and 22, these sanctuaries will be opening their doors to the public for tours and programs. www.nylandmarks.org.

Spoken Word

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8pm. Monologues by local women. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. 647-5511.

Book Signing with Richard Klin and Lily Prince 2pm. Authors of Something to Say. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Workshops

Theater

Backyard Beehive Workshop 10am-5pm. $190/$170 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

The Who's Tommy 2pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Healthy Ulster Week Call for times. Check website for events all week long.

Call for location. www.ulstercountyny.gov.

CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-1:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Home Remedies: 8 Items You Need in Your Kitchen 12:30pm-1:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Plein Air Painting & The Bigger Picture 10am-4pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everett Hodge Community Center, Kingston.

Dance Bard Faculty Dance Concert 2pm/7:30pm. Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane’s Continuous Replay. Bard College. 758-7900.

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An Evening of Latin Jazz Featuring Luis Bonilla, Freddie Jacobs, Lew Scott and John Riley. 8pm. Meet the artists. Music at 8:30pm. $15/$8 with student ID. Kingston. www.lvanhart.com/news.php.

331-7955

Workshops Modern Dance Workshop 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

WEDNESDAY 11 Body / Mind / Spirit

The Who's “Tommy” 8pm. $18/$16. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Choral Ensembles 2 8pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Sacred Sites Open House Weekend

The Callen Sisters 6pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

SUNDAY 8

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 11:15am-12:15pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50.

The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

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

The Improvised Shakespeare Company 8pm. $18.75-$27.50. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

Creating Harmony, Living in Abundance: Intro to Feng Shui 2pm-4pm. $25/$20. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Kids

Music

Theater

African Drum Workshop with Amadou Diallo 1pm-4pm. $40. The Living Seed, New Paltz. 255-8212.

Brewery Ommegang and Local Cheese Pairing Dinner 5:30pm-7:30pm. $25. HopHeads Craft Beer Market , High Falls. 687-4750.

ZumbaTomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Featuring Richard Rizzi and Andy Clausen. $5/ Beahive members free. Beahive Kingston, Kingston.

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Events

Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Four Awesome Poets: Jason Crane, Jill Crammond, Carolee Sherwood, and Christopher Wheeling Read 6:30pm. Half Moon Books, Kingston. 331-5439.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Dance

Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series 4pm. Featuring Ken Holland. College of Poetry, Warwick. 294-8085.

The Sisters Rosensweig 8pm. Rhinebeck Theatre Society. $02/$18 students and seniors. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

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

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson, Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Spoken Word

Babes in Arms 8pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Classes

Classes

Stonefly 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Hansel and Gretel by Kids on Stage 11am. $9/$7. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Yoga Sutras: Chanting with Shawn 7pm-7:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

The Sisters Rosensweig 3pm. Rhinebeck Theatre Society. $02/$18 students and seniors. Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff. 876-2903.

The Full Monty 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Babes in Arms 4pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

Workshops Life Drawing 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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

Community Acupuncture 9am-12pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Amma, Sri Karunamayi 9am-4pm. Spiritual Discourse, Individual Blessings.

Free program with the Divine Mother from India.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. www.karunamayi.org.

(212) 560-2335.

Life Lift – Awaken Your Vision/Advanced 10am-Friday, May 13, 5pm. With Melissa More. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Black Violin 7pm. $15/$10 youth. Hudson Opera House, Hudson.

(518) 822-1438.

Nat Baldwin and Sam Rosen 7pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Spoken Word Stone Strategies 9am-4pm. Documentation, stewardship & preservation of historic cemeteries. $40. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

TUESDAY 10 Art Artist Showcase at Tivoli Free LIbrary 7pm. Free. Hudson Valley artists present their work: Tom Delooza, Shanti Grumbine, Gilbert Plantinga, Stephen Reynolds, Adie Russell, Keiko Sono and Lindsay Stern. Reception immediately following. Tivoli, 757-3771.

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

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Amma, Sri Karunamayi 8am. One Day Meditation Retreat. Pre-registration at www.karunamayi.org. Bearsville Theater, Woodstock.

(212) 560-2335.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

AM Flow Yoga 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Community Acupuncture 12pm-4pm. $20-$40. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

Sunrise Yoga 7am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Balance Beam Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Heart Opening Channeling 6:30pm-8pm. With Nancy Leilah Ward. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

La Leche League Breastfeeding Support Group 7pm-8:30pm. Call for location. 758-2091.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Hoop Dance 7:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Dance Line Dance Lessons Call for times. $5. Gardiner Fire Department, Gardiner. gardinerfireandrescue.org.

Kids Drop In Art Class 10am. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Exploration 2pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Drop-In 3:30pm. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Kids Yoga 5pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music Yoga I-II 12pm-1:30pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Dancing On The Air 8pm. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Spoken Word

Yoga All Levels 12:15pm-1:15pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

The Civil War and Three Great American Poets; Whitman, Longfellow, and Dickinson 6:30pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Community Acupuncture 4pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

My Weedless Garden 7pm. Lee Reich, PhD. Horticulture. Rosendale Library, Rosendale. 658-9013.

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A Thirst for Thirsty Most of the people tuning into RuPaul’s Drag Race or attending Broadway’s Priscilla: Queen of the Desert crave the entertainment guaranteed by men running about in high heels and wielding a sharp tongue. A smaller group looks to drag queens for a tutorial in gender politics and the courage of nonconformist self-expression. (American ardor for drag queens, however, goes only so far: A recent J. Crew ad, in which a mother helps her young son paint his toenails pink, sparked a debate on TV’s “The View.”)

For both groups, Catskill-based filmmaker Margo Pelletier is working on a new film, Thirsty. The title of this “post queer musical,” refers to female impersonator Thirsty Burlington. For those eager to play fiscal midwife to this work in progress, Pelletier’s production company, Thin Edge Films, is holding a benefit on May 6 at Club Helsinki in Hudson, starring Ms. Burlington, the veteran performer Musty Chiffon (the fearless Dini Lamot), and Stephen Bluhm.

Pelletier traces the genesis of her project to 2005. She and business/life partner Lisa Thomas were vacationing in Provincetown. It was off-season and the hordes had not descended yet in their flip-flops, Speedos and attitude.

The pair was still editing their indie documentary Freeing Silvia Baraldini, about a 1970s radical activist who had been railroaded by the American government. Frustrated over the miniscule budget, the two discussed launching a more commercially viable project “that somehow could integrate a subculture with a mainstream culture.”

Walking along Commercial Street, they were greeted by a tall, attractive “boy-man” in front of a club. He shoved a flyer in their hands and convinced the women to attend a drag show about to start inside. There, a statuesque figure in glittery gown, resembling the 1970s-era (read: pre-facelifts) Cher, emerged and began singing. Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Thirsty Burlington.

“We were, like, mesmerized immediately,” Pelletier says. Over the next hour, the pair experienced “this whole gamut of emotions: we’re laughing, we’re on the verge of tears, we’re feeling nostalgic.”

By evening’s end, the pair discovered that the promoter in the street and the lady in the spotlight were two sides of the same person—a Massachusetts native named Scott Townsend. They agreed that Thirsty Burlington would be the subject of their next film project, box office success be damned.

What distinguishes Thirsty Burlington, Pelletier says, is that she eschews the typical raunch of most drag acts, offering glamour rather than an ill-fitting wig and falsies, as well as a life-affirming message.

“It’s like a spirit that jumps out of him—a very warm, fun-loving spirit,” Pelletier said.

“It definitely has a sexy edge, and oftentimes he’s in skimpy Cher outfits, but for me, it feels very right-on.” (Thirsty’s mimicry extends to other show business icons including Judy Garland, Michael Jackson and the thwarted Grey Gardens socialite Edie Beale.)

Pelletier had bucked gender normatives by age four, preferring jeans and a baseball cap to frilly dresses. But as an adult lesbian, she still felt pigeonholed, despite decades of activism and queer theory classes. For her, Townsend was inspiring. “I have been waiting for this.”

The filmmakers eventually shot test footage. Onstage, Thirsty Burlington warbles the Cher classic The Way of Love. Offstage, Townsend revisits a difficult childhood, growing up gay in a working-class Boston suburb. (Find the promotional segment on YouTube or the Thin Edge Films website.) Thirsty would be a hybrid of documentary and screen musical, Pelletier said, the script weaving together fact and fancy and underscored by the affirmations that spring from Ms. Burlington’s rouged lips.

Raising the needed funds will entail “a lot of trying to pull on heartstrings,” Pelletier said, to coax open donor wallets. But she and Thomas are confident that the public will welcome a drag queen that refuses to be the butt of the joke. “This,” Pelletier says, “is the story of a survivor.”

A benefit for the film Thirsty. Friday, May 6 at 9pm. Club Helsinki, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson. Tickets $25. (518) 828-4800; www.helsinkihudson.com.

For more, visit www.thinedgefilms.com.

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THURSDAY 12 Art Threads 7pm-9pm. Knitting circle for adults of all experience levels. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Levon Helm Band with Special Guest Arlo Guthrie 5pm. Concert to stop fracking. $55/$45 in advance.

Ommegang Brewery, Cooperstown. (800) 544-1809.

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

Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858.

Events Open Barn at High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center Call for times. High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding and Driving Center, Ghent. (518) 672-4202.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Open Hive/Game 7:30pm. Socialize, laugh, think, play. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Kids Drop In Music Class 10am. $10. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents 6pm-7:30pm. Ages 9-11. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Acoustic Music 7pm-9pm. Featured artist and open mike. Curran's Restaurant, Tannersville. (518) 589-4081.

The New Zion Trio 7:30pm. Opening Impulse. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The principles and benefits of passive house design and construction presented by Dennis Wedlick.

May 4 6-8pm SUNY Orange, Gilman Center Library Building, Middletown.

Cost: $20 for nonmembers, $15 for members and students at the door, $10 in advance for members and students.

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Neko Case 8pm. With special guests Lost in the Trees. $40. The Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Wicked Knee 8pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Spoken Word Opera, The Ultimate Art - From the Intimate to the Spectacular 7pm-9:30pm. Follow opera from the church and palace to the opera house. $20. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671.

Workshops Your Board and Fundraising 3pm-4pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

May 17 6-8pm Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Cold Spring.

Sponsored by:

FRIDAY 13 Art Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Classes Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Hip Hop/Jazz Funk 6:30pm-7:30pm. $12. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Dance Zydeco Dance 8pm-11pm. Music by ZydeGroove. Beginners' lesson at 7pm. $15. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-7061.

Events Superstitions 11am. Tour through Frederic Church's home and history.

Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. (518) 828-0135.

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

Yoga Basics 5pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Passive House Design

The Last Mountain 7pm. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook.

677-5343.

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

255-1559.

The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Green Building Event

Film

Music

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

Music Theatre Ensemble 7pm. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

Eigsti, Parlato, Stephens & Hampton 7:30pm. Opening The Joanna Teters Experiment. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

The Kurt Henry Band and Trio Mio 7:30pm. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Tony Rice Unit 7:30pm. Sponsored by Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association. $30/$25members/+$5 at the door. Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie. 452-8220.

Beaucoup Blue 8pm. Blues. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Woodstock Music Trade Show 8pm-1:30am. Live music, clinics, master classes, vendors. $10/$15 weekend. Holiday Inn, Kingston. www.woodstockmusictradeshow.com.

Jeremy Kelly and Logan Visscher 8pm. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson.

(518) 671-6006.

Martyn Joseph 8pm. Welsh singer songwriter. $18/$15 with RSVP. Empire State Railway Museum, Phoenicia. 688-7501.

Travers Chandler and Avery County 8pm. Bluegrass. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale.

658-9048.

Vixen Dogs Band 8pm. Gail's Place, Newburgh. 567-1414.

Hair Of The Dog's 18th Birthday Bash 8pm. $18. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Shemekia Copeland 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

3 Ton Jack 9:30pm. Classic rock. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

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

Rondout Creek 6pm. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen.

338-5580.

Theater Fundevogel 7pm. Puppets and dance. $15/$10 10 and under.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Babes in Arms 8pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

SATURDAY 14 Art Conversations 2pm-4pm. Works by eight painters and sculptors who also work on paper. 331-3112.

Teacup Secrets 3pm-5pm. Photography exhibition by Eileen MacAvery Kane. Noble Roasters Cafe, Campbell Hall. 294-8090.

Quasi-Botanical Investigations 4pm-6pm. Charles Geiger. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock. 679-2940.

A Year in the Life!

5pm-7pm. New paintings by Ellen Trayer and Dennis Fanton. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS. Zen and the Art of God and Hotrods 6pm-8pm. A divine union of spiritual paintings by Robert Lewis Hoover. Wolfgang Gallery, Montgomery. 769-7446.

Aquamarine 6pm-9pm. New works by Carla Goldberg. BAU, Beacon. 440-7584.

Primitive Odyssey 8pm-10pm. Paintings by Ford McLain. Poppy's, Beacon. 765-2121.

Body / Mind / Spirit Zumba Gold 11am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Sacred Chumpi Stone Illumination 12pm-5pm. A workshop with Master Healer and Teacher, Eleanora Amendolara. $65. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Qi Gong 1pm-2:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Classes Kiln Formed Glass: Fusing and Slumping 10am-Sunday, May 15, 1pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Dance Berkshire Dance Collective 7:30pm-11pm. Guided warm up with featured artists followed by free-form dancing to DJ'd music.

Sruti Berkshire Yoga Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 329-4933.

Contradance 8pm. Live music. $10/$9 members/kids half price.

Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. 246-2121.

Events Cold Spring Indoor Farmers' Market 8:30am-1:30pm. Philipstown Community Center, Garrison. www.csfarmmarket.org.

Sustainable Living, 17th- and 18th-Century Hudson Valley Style 10am-4:30pm. Friends of Historic Kingston Museum, Kingston. 339-0720.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Dandelion Lunch 11:30am-1:30pm. $35/$30. Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, New Lebanon. (518) 794-9100.

Native American Gathering 12pm-5pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

45th Anniversary A Tribute Concert to Melissa K. Gleichenhaus 8pm. Presented by Masque and Mime Society of RC Ketcham High School. $15. Roy C. Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls. 298-5100 ext. 156.

Bernie Williams 8pm. A Benefit for Good Counsel. $30-$75/$20 with meet and greet. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

Kids Storytime 3:30pm. With Oliver Wyman. Kid Around, Saugerties.

247-3342.

Music The Met: Live in HD: Die Walkure Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Songfest 9am. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Woodstock Music Trade Show 10am-5pm. Live music, clinics, master classes, vendors. $10/$15 weekend. Holiday Inn, Kingston. www.woodstockmusictradeshow.com.

Met Opera Live in HD 12pm. Die Walkure, Richard Wagner. $20/$10 students. Seelig Theatre at Sullivan County Community College, Loch Sheldrake. 434-5750 ext. 4303.

Organ Recital and Reception 3pm. St. James Church, Hyde Park. 229-2820.

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

Rock Tavern Chapter of the Hudson Valley Folk Guild Coffeehouse 7:30pm. $5/$4. Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Rock Tavern. 978-5620.

The Chris Bergson Band 7:30pm. Opening Downside Joyride. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Ben Senterfeit & Friends 8pm. The Community Music Space, Red Hook. 444-0607.

Carmina Burana 8pm. Over 100 performers presented by Putnam Chorale. $20/$15. Brewster High School PAC, Brewster. 279-7265.

Vickie Russell 8pm-10pm. Singer/songwriter. $10. Simply Create, New Paltz. 255-5056.

Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul 8pm. $57/$52. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel. (866) 781-2922.

Fred Eaglesmith 8pm. Singer/songwriter. $20. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

James Hall Group 8pm. Jazz. $5. The Spotty Dog Books and Ale, Hudson. (518) 671-6006.

Keith Newman 8pm. Acoustic. Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville. 647-3000.

Mariposa Jazz 8pm-11pm. Chris Crocco (guitar) and Ross Pederson (drums) will drench you in "Mariposa," an energetic jazz showcase. Beahive, Beacon. 337-1342.

Sonando 8pm. A Benefit Presented By Corazon De Dahlia.

Bearsville Theater, Woodstock. 679-4406.

Stephen Kaiser Group 8pm. Jazz. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie. 485-8411.

The Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert 8pm. Benefits SPCAs of Dutchess and Ulster Counties. $10/$8 students. Church of Messiah Parish, Rhinebeck. 876-3533.

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

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

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

Spoken Word Preservation Forum 9am-5pm. Focus on the Astor Legacy in Rhinebeck. $85. Astor Courts, Rhinebeck. 876-2474.

Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival Reading 2pm. Jackie Sheeler, Mary Eliza Crane. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock. www.woodstockpoetry.com.

Theater Beacon Art Salon TASK Party 2pm-4pm. Watch and/or participate in the TASK party. After the party, participating artists will discuss the topic Art & Play: the role of play in artworks and process. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Fundevogel 7pm. Puppets and dance. $15/$10 10 and under.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

Babes in Arms 8pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

The Air Pirates Radio Theater 8pm. $20. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

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Body / Mind / Spirit Amma Sri Karunamayi Homa (Sacred Fire Ceremony). Free program, all are welcome. N. Westchester. Go to www.karunamayi.org or call (212) 560-2335 CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 1am-1:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

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Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Exploring the Buddhadharma with Jeffrey Mann 4pm-5:30pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Classes Plein Air Painting & The Bigger Picture 10am-4pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Healing Herbal Garden Design Intensive with Karine Gordineer 1pm-4pm. $45. 1540 Buena Vista Street, Garrison.

424-6049.

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Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everett Hodge Community Center, Kingston.

Dance West Coast Swing/California Mix Dance 7pm-9pm. Beginners' lesson at 6:30pm. White Eagle Hall, Kingston. 255-1379.

On Tuesdays receive 8% off any purchase, 13% off any 6 bottles of wine, 18% off any 12 bottles of wine

Events 5th Annual Off-Broadway Run 9am. Sponsored by Safe Harbors. Cornerstone Residence, Newburgh. 562-6940 ext. 110.

Open 7 days

7th Annual Rosendale Car Show 10am-4pm. To benefit the Rosendale Youth Program.

Rosendale, Rosendale. www.rosrods.com.

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Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Riverkeeper Shad Fest and Hudson River Celebration 12pm-5pm. $30. Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison. 265-3638.

Resurrecting the Revolutionary War 2pm. Special presentation. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

45th Anniversary A Tribute Concert to Melissa K. Gleichenhaus 2pm. Presented by Masque and Mime Society of RC Ketcham High School. $15. Roy C. Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls. 298-5100 ext. 156.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock.

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Music Enso String Quartet Call for times. $30/$10. Howland Cultural Center, Beacon. 831-4988.

Trail Mix Chamber Concert 2:30pm. Featuring Austin Hartman, Violin, Rebecca Patterson, Cello, Max Barros, Piano Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. $20. Olive Free Library, West Shokan.

657-2482.

Conservatory Sunday 3pm. $20/$15/$5. Fisher Center, Annandale-on-Hudson.

758-7900.

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The Rhinebeck Choral Club Spring Concert 3pm. Benefits SPCAs of Dutchess and Ulster Counties. $10/$8 students. New Beginnings Church, Poughkeepsie. 453-4774.

College Youth Symphony 7pm. $8/$6/$3. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-7869.

The Tisziji Munoz Quartet Featuring John Medeski 8pm. Jazz. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Saints of Swing 8pm. Wok and Roll Cafe, Woodstock. 679-3484.

The Outdoors Ghoulish History Walk Call for times. 3-4 hour walk. Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie. 471-2236.

Spoken Word Getting Lewis and Clark Right: Who Cares?

Why Worry?

2:30pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

Richard Harper 3pm-5pm. Author of Women of the Catskills. Wallkill River School and Art Gallery, Montgomery. 457-ARTS.

Theater Babes in Arms 2pm. Trinity Players. $15.95-$19.95. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

The Full Monty 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Yoga All Levels 12:15pm-1:15pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Community Acupuncture 4pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:45pm-7pm. $80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba 7pm-8pm. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Full Moon Meditation and Kirtan 7:15pm-9pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Kids

Classes

Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents 6pm-7:30pm. Ages 9-11. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Hoop Dance 7:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Film Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Part I 7pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

Full Moon Morning Meditation 7:30pm-9:30pm. With Beth Ylvisaker. $10. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Kids

Classes

Yoga I-II 12pm-1:30pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

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

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Drop In Art Class 10am. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Exploration 2pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art Drop-In 3:30pm. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Kids Yoga 5pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Drop In Music Class 10am. $10. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Acoustic Music 7pm-9pm. Featured artist and open mike. Curran's Restaurant, Tannersville. (518) 589-4081.

Split Bill Talking Machine 7:30pm. Opening Split Bill Dante DeFelice & Good Night Brother. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 8pm. $39-$129. Palace Theater, Albany.

(518) 465-3334.

FRIDAY 20 Art Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II 5pm-7pm. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz.

257-3844.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Workshops

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Life Drawing 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 2273223.

A Wise Woman's Weed Walk 2pm-5pm. $30/$25. Mirabai Books, Woodstock.

679-2100.

Transformation With Shamanic Sound 6:30pm-8:30pm. Grandmother Barbara Threecrow. $20.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Intermediate West Coast Swing Workshop 5:30pm-6:30pm. $12. White Eagle Hall, Kingston.

255-1379.

Classes

MONDAY 16 Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga for Body and Soul 8am-9:30am. $20/$95 series of 8. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

La Leche League Breastfeeding Support Group 10am-12pm. Bees Knees, Hudson. 758-2091.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Beginners Mind Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

In the Moment Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

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

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Too Much Information Is oversharing your bag? Then “Too Much Information” is for you. A dozen local women (including Julie Novak, above) act out monologues pulled from experiences in their own lives, from the ridiculous to the sublime, but always pointed in the direction of catharsis. Following last year’s initial success with the TMI project, show creator Eva Tenuto brings a fresh edition of the show, with all new writing and performances, to the Shadowland Theater in Ellenville on Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 at 8pm. Shadowland Theater, Ellenville. $15. (845) 658-8410; astarlingproduction@gmail.com.

Hip Hop/Jazz Funk 6:30pm-7:30pm. $12. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Events The Art of the Half Shell 6:30pm-9pm. Eat oysters, hear their Hudson Valley history and learn about their use as a building material.

Garrison Art Center, Garrison. 424-3960.

Kids

Events

Music

A Girl Scout Horsemanship Weekend Call for times. Frost Valley YMCA, Claryville. 985-2291 ext. 205.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons 8pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-5800.

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

Kids

The Outdoors

Music

Find Peace: Learn to Meditate 7pm. Woodstock Community Center, Woodstock.

797-1218.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 11:15am-12:15pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50.

The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

337-3546.

Full Moon Crystal Sound Healing 7pm-8pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Toddler Story Time 11:15am. Canajoharie Library, Canajoharie .

(518) 673-2314 ext. 107.

Observing Nature through Science Illustration 12:30pm-4:30pm. Focused on close observation and slowing down to notice elements of nature that often go unseen. Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, Poughkeepsie. 437-7414.

Classes

Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Art

ZumbaTomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Threads 7pm-9pm. Knitting circle for adults of all experience levels. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Music

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

255-1559.

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 10am-11am. Toddler to age 3. $16. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Workshops How To Rule The World From Your Couch Call for times. Laura Day. $65/$40. Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, Poughkeepsie. 486-4571.

TUESDAY 17 Art Life Drawing Sessions 7:30pm-9:30pm. $13/$10 members/$48/$36 members series. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz.

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

AM Flow Yoga 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Community Acupuncture 12pm-4pm. $20-$40. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

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

Beyond the Horizon 7pm. Mid Hudson Women's Chorus spring concert. $7/$6 students and seniors. St. James United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-3030.

Blues & Dance with Big Joe Fitz & the Lo-Fi's 7pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Workshops Modern Dance Workshop 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

WEDNESDAY 18 Body / Mind / Spirit Sunrise Yoga 7am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Balance Beam Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup 7pm-9pm. Psychic enrichment circle. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

THURSDAY 19

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Yoga Basics 5pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Full Moon Sound Healing 5pm-6pm. With Philippe Garnier. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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

Phineas and the Lonely Leaves 7:30pm. Acoustic. BeanRunner Cafe, Peekskill.

(914) 737-1701.

The String Trio of New York 7:30pm. Opening Neil Alexander. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Richard Barone with Deni Bonet and Special Guests 8pm. $15. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

The Harvest Duo 8pm. Dance music. Riccardi's Hideaway, Kingston.

338-0554.

Fat City 9pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

Jeff Otis & Larry Balestra 9pm. Jazz. Eleven 11 Grille & Spirits, Fishkill. 896-0011.

The Underscore Orkestra and The Lucky Five 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Fat City 9pm. Blues. New World Home Cooking, Saugerties.

246-0900.

E'lissa Jones 9:30pm. Acoustic. 12 Grapes Music and Wine Bar, Peekskill. (914) 737-6624.

Spoken Word

Classes

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

Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Lincoln: Live!

4pm. Ellenville Public Library, Ellenville. 647-1497.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858.

Events

Oral History Project Presentations and Pot-Luck Supper 6pm-8pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill.

254-5469.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

What Lies Beneath: Shipwrecks of Lake Champlain and the Hudson River 7pm. Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon. (914) 879-1082.

DANCE isadora duncan celebration stuart orenstein Jeanne Bresciani and the Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers will perform at Kaatsbaan on May 14 & 15.

Isadora, Adored The Isadora Duncan International Institute was created to perpetuate the art of the doyenne of American modern dance in 1977 by Kay Bardsley and Marie Therese Duncan, Isadora’s adopted daughter. Based in New York City and High Falls, the Institute is directed by Jeanne Bresciani, Ph.D., and educates children and adults in Duncan’s approach to life and dance. Based on a blend of the arts, nature appreciation and spirituality, Isadora’s aesthetic was unique for her time.

All current modern and jazz dancers can trace their lineages back to Duncan. Her pioneering movement style, free of ballet’s restrictive body placements, gave birth to generations of the giants of 20th-century dance. Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp, Bob Fosse, and Gene Kelly all owe a debt of gratitude to her.

Born in California in 1877 to a family devoted to the arts, Duncan claimed she danced in her mother’s womb. Dancing barelegged on the beach as a child, she cultivated the free movement that later became her signature.

At 22, Duncan moved to Europe where she deepened her love of ancient Greek civilization. Studying poses on vases in museums and dancing among the ruins laid the foundation upon which she built her lifelong aesthetic, combining the Greek reverence for nature and an enlightened approach to art, philosophy, and politics.

Eschewing societal restrictions on women, the body, dress, marriage, children, and politics (including an embrace of Soviet Communism, which cost Duncan her US citizenship), she became involved with wealthy and powerful men who enabled her to create a lifestyle inseparable from her choreography, filled with art and nature. Still dancing barelegged, often in loose or revealing materials, she embodied her beliefs, while interpreting the great composers in ways no one had ever dared.

Duncan spent many hours observing herself moving in the studio, which lead to her conclusion the solar plexus was the source of all movement, describing it as, “the crater of motor power.” From her autobiography, My Life: “When I had learned to concentrate all my force in this one center, I found that thereafter when I listened to music the rays and vibrations of the music streamed to this one fount of light within me, where they reflected themselves in Spiritual Vision, not the mirror of the brain but of the soul.”

The technique Duncan taught to the children attending her school was complex. The upper body moved to the melody and texture of the music, while the lower body moved to the rhythm. This translateral approach is now believed to enhance learning skills.

Jeanne Bresciani first studied Duncan’s technique at age five in New York City and has been teaching it around the world (including NYU, The Isadora Duncan Dance Research Center, Athens, and the Isadora Duncan International Institute, Tokyo), for almost 30 years. She will be appearing in several of Isadora’s spring-themed works, as well as presenting her own Duncan-inspired choreography at Kaatsbaan. She brings the Isadora Duncan International Institute dancers (some of whom have been studying at the Institute since they were toddlers), ranging in age from 17 to 60. There is very little footage of Isadora dancing during her tragically short time on earth, so this event is a wonderful opportunity to see her brought to life.

The Isadora Duncan Celebration with Jeanne Bresciani & Friends will take place on Saturday, May 14 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, May 15 at 2:30 pm at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli. (845) 757-5106; www.kaatsbaan.org.

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Theater Fundevogel 7pm. Puppets and dance. $15/$10 10 and under.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

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Benefit for The John Herald Fund and Family of Woodstock 8pm. Harmony, Woodstock. 679-7760.

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Bill Kirchen 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

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Urban Guerilla Theatre 9pm. $15/$10 in advance. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

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The Outdoors John Burroughs' Nature Sanctuary Slabsides Day Call for times. John Burroughs' Nature Sanctuary, Esopus. info@EsopusPreservation.org.

Wildflower Walk 11am-12:30pm. Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center, Ghent. (518) 828-4386 ext. 3.

Spoken Word Readings and receptions 5pm. Rebecca Wolff, Jonathan Dixon, and Monica Youn.

Hudson Wine Merchants, Hudson. (518) 828-6411.

Energy Cultivation, Body Preparation and Shaping for Healing and Personal Power 11am-5pm. Hawks Brother Kirouana Paddaquahum. $40.

Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

William D. Cohan's Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule The World 6pm. Reading, talk, Q&A and wine reception. $25. The Stissing House, Pine Plains. (518) 398-8800.

Introductory Orientation Workshop 11:30am-1:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

Chronogram Open Word 7pm. Includes singer-songwriters, theater monologues, and the like. $5/members free. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 246-8565.

Discovering Your True Divine Self with Vortexhealing 6pm-7:30pm. With Linda Raphael. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Expressive Painting with Elena Sniezek 12pm-2pm. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Elements of Bliss: Holistic Services Sampler 1pm-4pm. $75. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Events Third Annual Pet Palooza Call for times. Guests from the show RESCUE INC., trainers, dog sports demos, adoption drives and an array of products and services for pet owners.

Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck. www.hudsonvalleypetpalooza.com.

Book Sale Call for times. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen. 338-5580.

5th Annual Minnewaska Mountain Bike Festival 2011 10:30am-3:30pm. Clinics, workshops, fittings.

Minnewaska State Park and Preserve, New Paltz.

255-7059.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Literary Magazine & Small Press Book Fair 11am-4pm. 6th Annual Hudson Valley Literary Festival.

Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

2nd Annual "Save a Heart" Golf Tournament 2pm. Benefit The American Heart Association. $65/+$25 dinner. Turtle Creek Golf Course, Plattekill. 229-0425.

Kids Magic Variety Show 10:30am. Steve Johnson. Kingston Library, Kingston.

331-0507.

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

247-3342.

Poetry Evening by Poet-Soldiers 7pm. Followed by open mike. $5/$2.50. Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston.

331-2884.

Theater Fundevogel 7pm. Puppets and dance. $15/$10 10 and under.

Cocoon Theater, Rhinebeck. 876-6470.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

The Full Monty 8pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Los Tres Balceneros: I'd Rather be Grateful than Dead 8pm. Air Pirates Radio Theater. $20/$50 series. Lycian Centre, Sugar Loaf. 469-2287.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 8pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

Workshops Backyard Chicken Flock Workshop 1pm-5pm. $40/$45 members. Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (800) 817-1137.

SUNDAY 22 Body / Mind / Spirit CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 11am-1:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Mama with Baby Pilates 10am-11am. $15/$100 for 8 session. Waddle n Swaddle, Rhinebeck. 876-5952.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 12pm-1pm. Toddlers through age 3. $16.50. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Weigh Less, Live More 2pm-3:30pm. $10/$15. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Beyond Light and Darkness: Uncovering the True Self 4pm-6pm. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Music

Classes

Joe Magnarelli and Peter Bernstein Call for times. Jazz. Athens Cultural Center, Athens.

(518) 945-2136.

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everett Hodge Community Center, Kingston.

Benefit Concert for Phoenicia Library 3pm-8pm. Uncle Monk, Uncle Rock, Amy Helm, more, to rebuild burned-out Phoenicia Library. $25/$20.

Onteora High School, Boiceville. 688-7811.

Events

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie.

337-3546.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Mark Raisch Trio 7pm. Jazz. Wiltwyck Country Club, Kingston. 331-0700.

Music at Ridgecrest Season Finale 7pm. Ravel Violin Sonata, Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins, Martinu Sonata for Two Violins and Piano, and Sarasate Navarra. $10. Ridgecrest Baptist Church, New Windsor.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra 7pm. Mid-Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie.

454-5800.

April Verch 8pm. Country. Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz. 255-1559.

The Harvest Duo 8pm. Dance music. Babycakes Cafe, Poughkeepsie.

485-8411.

Dave Attell 8pm. $29.50. The Egg, Albany. (518) 473-1845.

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Lara Hope & The Champtones 9pm. $5. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Zumba Gold 11am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing Workshop 5:30pm-8pm. With Lea & Philippe Garnier. $35. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

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Pablo Aslan Tango Latin Group 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 8pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

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Evil City String Band 8pm. $10. Rosendale Cafe, Rosendale. 658-9048.

Book Sale Call for times. Town of Esopus Public Library, Port Ewen.

338-5580.

4th Annual Truck Day 11am-3pm. $10. Great Barrington VFW, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-2127.

Ritz Glitz Bridal & Special Event Expo 12pm-4pm. $5. Green Room, Newburgh. 565-1162 ext. 242 .

Annual Russel Wright Awards Brunch and Auction 12pm-4pm. Manitoga, Garrison. www.russelwrightcenter.org.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

The Kabbalah of Bob Dylan 7pm. Seth Rogovoy presents multimedia journey in word, music, and imagery. Club Helsinki, Hudson.

(518) 828-4800.

Dance

Budrus 7pm. $6. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany.

(518) 465-5233.

Kuumba Latin Fever 5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Music

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Jazz at the Falls 12pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Cantatrice Art Song Ensemble 3:30pm. With artists Amelia Seyssel, Maria Rivera White, Greta Parks, Marla Rathun. Reformed Church, Poughkeepsie. towerseries@hvc.rr.com.

The Trapps and Sarah Perrotta 6:30pm. Benefit for MaMA. $15. Marbletown Multi-Arts, Stone Ridge. 687-4143.

Wailers 7pm. Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (413) 528-0100.

Spoken Word

Kids

Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 11:15am-12:15pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50.

The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

ZumbaTomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Noontime Organ Concert Series 12pm. Jim Brockway and John Wiesner. Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady. (518) 346-6204.

Great American Road Trip: Lewis and Clark 2:30pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

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

Theater

Forever Young: A Bob Dylan Birthday Tribute Concert 7pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 2pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

The Full Monty 3pm. $24/$22 seniors and students. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

My Fair Lady 8pm. $20/$17 seniors. County Players, Wappingers Falls. 298-1491.

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

Workshops

Modern Dance Workshop 10am. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

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Workshops

Body / Mind / Spirit

Modeling Our Values to Our Children 2pm-6pm. Introduction to NVC for connection between parents and children. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Sunrise Yoga 7am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

MONDAY 23 Body / Mind / Spirit Yoga for Body and Soul 8am-9:30am. $20/$95 series of 8. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Beginners Mind Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

In the Moment Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Classes Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 10am-11am. Toddler to age 3. $16. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

TUESDAY 24

Balance Beam Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Message Circle: Receive Messages from your Loved Ones in the After Life 7pm-9pm. With medium Adam F. Bernstein. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

A Course in Miracles 7:30pm-9:30pm. Study group with Alice Broner.

Unitarian Fellowship, Poughkeepsie. 229-8391.

Classes Hoop Dance 7:30pm-8:30pm. $15. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Kids Drop In Art Class 10am. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Kids Yoga 5pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Music

Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Yoga I-II 12pm-1:30pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Theater

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:45pm-7pm. $80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba 7pm-8pm. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

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

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Brunch & Music Sundays 10:00-2:00!

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Part II 7pm. Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie.

485-3445.

Art Drop-In 3:30pm. $5. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Community Acupuncture 4pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday Doors, Bar & Restaurant Open at 6:00 Opening Act at 7:00 Main Act at 8:00

Film

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

255-1559.

Yoga All Levels 12:15pm-1:15pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

May 1 Brunch with Chris Schaljo May 3 Julian Lage Group Opening Act Morwenna Lasko & Jay Pun May 5 Moutin Reunion Quartet May 6 The Purchase Jazz Orchestra May 7 Jim Campilongo Opening Act Dziubecko May 8 Brunch with May 12 The New Zion Trio Opening Act Impulse May 13 Eigsti, Parlato, Stephens & Hampton Opening Act The Joanna Teters Experiment May 14 The Chris Bergson Band Opening Act Downside Joyride May 15 Brunch with Tony Jefferson & Kevin Hays Duo May 19 Split Bill Talking Machine Dante DeFelice & Good Night Brother May 20 The String Trio of New York Opening Act Neil Alexander The Rite of Spring May 21 Pablo Aslan Tango Latin Group May 22 Brunch with Akie Bermiss May 26 The Reddan Brothers Band May 27 Dave Liebman Group Opening Act Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder May 28 Sheila Jordan with Don Byron, Cameron Brown & Tony Jefferson May 29 Brunch with The Saints of Swing

Line Dance Lessons Call for times. $5. Gardiner Fire Department, Gardiner. gardinerfireandrescue.org.

Art Exploration 2pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Community Acupuncture 12pm-4pm. $20-$40. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

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Dance

Art

AM Flow Yoga 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

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Brunch with Akie Bermiss Call for times. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Events

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Film

Room on the Broom Call for times. The Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. 473-2072.

THURSDAY 26 Art Threads 7pm-9pm. Knitting circle for adults of all experience levels. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

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

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit The Metaphysical Center Interfaith Worship Service 11:30am. Interfaith/metaphysical prayer, meditation, lecture. Guardian Building, Poughkeepsie. 471-4993.

Yoga Basics 5pm-6:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

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

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SATURDAY 28

Classes Artistic Anatomy 3pm-6pm. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie. 471-2550.

Art

Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. United Methodist Church, Kingston. 331-6858.

Peace and Conflict 8pm-12am. Twenty artists reflect on current world struggles. Tivoli Artists Co-op, Tivoli. 758-4342.

Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 5:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Film Open Hive/Film 7pm-10pm. A film with a message. Beahive, Beacon.

418-3731.

Kids Drop In Music Class 10am. $10. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

Together: Book Talk for Kids and Parents 6pm-7:30pm. Ages 9-11. Roeliff Janson Community Library, Hillsdale. (518) 325-4101.

Music Acoustic Thursdays with Kurt Henry 6pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

Live Acoustic Music 7pm-9pm. Featured artist and open mike. Curran's Restaurant, Tannersville. (518) 589-4081.

The Reddan Brothers Band 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Body / Mind / Spirit Zumba Gold 11am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Restorative Yoga and Guided Relaxation with Shawn 12pm-2pm. $20. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston. 750-6605.

Jungian Psychology, The Sacred Shadow and Reclaiming the Lost Fragmented Soul with the Healing Chod 1pm-5pm. $45. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Classes Getting Known, Being Shown 8pm. Ariel Shanberg and Gerald Slota. $7/$5 members.

Center for Photography at Woodstock. 679-9957.

Events

Theater William Shakespeare's Hamlet Call for times. New Genesis Productions. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 8pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

SUNDAY 29 Art Fine Art Auction/Benefit Woodstock Day School Auction 1pm. Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock. 679-2079.

Body / Mind / Spirit CoSMic Yoga with Elizabeth 1am-1:15pm. $12. Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Wappingers Falls.

Warm Vinyasa Yoga 12pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Kingston Farmers' Market Opening Day 9am. Uptown Kingston, Kingston. www.kingstonfarmersmarket.org.

Akashic Record Reveled 2pm-4pm. June Brought. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

The Woodstock Psychic Wisdom Meetup 4:30pm-7pm. Session share with Adam F. Bernstein. $20/$10 members. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

FRIDAY 27

Swing Dance to The Lustre Kings 8pm-11:30pm. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

Intermediate Swing Dance Workshop 6:30pm-8pm. $15. Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, Poughkeepsie. 454-2571.

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

Music Traditional Folk/Roots Music Weekend Call for times. Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson. www.folkmusicny.org.

Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

Levon Helm All-Star Birthday Ramble 8pm. Natalie Merchant, Donald Fagen and more.

UPAC, Kingston. 339-6088.

Dave Liebman Group 8pm. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Peter Muir & Friends 8pm. $30. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys 9pm. Club Helsinki, Hudson. (518) 828-4800.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Toddlers 10am-11am. Toddler to age 3. $16. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

AM Flow Yoga 9am. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Community Acupuncture 12pm-4pm. $20-$40. Mountain View Studio, Woodstock. 679-0901.

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Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-6pm. Native American festival. $5/$2. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

Cornelia Tappan Clinton 1pm. First person experiential tour series remembers the soldiers on Memorial Day Weekend. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Hide-N-Seek 8pm. Signature games, with musical guest, great food, and networking. $10. WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany. (518) 465-5233.

Film Community TV Nigh: Northern Exposure 7pm. Pine Hill Community Center, Pine Hill. 254-5469.

Kids Storytime 3:30pm. With Oliver Wyman. Kid Around, Saugerties.

247-3342.

Music Piano Bar 7pm-9pm. Orient Ultra Lounge, Poughkeepsie. 337-3546.

Eldar Djangirov Trio 8pm. Jazz. $25/$20 seniors/$15 contributors/$5 students. Windham Performing Arts Center, Windham.

(518) 263-5165.

Peter Muir & Friends 8pm. $30. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck. 876-3080.

Sheila Jordan 8pm. With Don Byron, Cameron Brown & Tony Jefferson. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

David Kraai & The Saddle Tramps 9pm. Wherehouse, Newburgh. 561-7240.

Shorty Kings Clubhouse 9pm. High Falls Cafe, High Falls. 687-2699.

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

Vixen Dogs Band 10pm. Dance music. Pawling Tavern, Pawling. 855-9141.

Theater

The Outdoors

William Shakespeare's Hamlet 7pm. New Genesis Productions. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

T.H.E. Trip Intermediate Padlde 9:30am. Canoeing/kayaking. Call for location. 928-1730.

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Honor Our Nation's Fallen Soldiers 2pm. 18th century graveside mourning ceremony, live music. New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, New Windsor. 561-1765.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Spoken Word

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 8pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-4pm. Native American festival. $5/$2. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Open Meditation 8:15am-8:45am. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Dance

Memorial Day Parade 10am. Floats, bands, costumes and tugboats on display. Main Street, Port Ewen. www.esopus.com.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Yoga All Levels 7am-8am. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Hip Hop/Jazz Funk 6:30pm-7:30pm. $12. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Events

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

255-1559.

Body / Mind / Spirit

Tango New Paltz Beginners 6pm, intermediate 7pm, practica 8pm. $15/$50 4-part series. The Living Seed Yoga & Holistic Center, New Paltz. 256-0114.

Argentine Tango Tango Basics: 6pm-7pm, Intermediate: 7pm-8pm.

Hudson. (518) 537-2589.

TUESDAY 31

Room on the Broom Call for times. Ulster Performing Arts Center, Kingston.

339-6088.

Classes

Classes

Art

Theater

Rumi Night of Contemplative Poetry 7pm-9pm. With Peter Rogen. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock. 679-5650.

In the Moment Yoga 6pm-7pm. $10. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Fiddle and Flute: Memorial Day Concert 3pm-5pm. $12. Ashokan Center, Olivebridge. 657-8333.

Opera, The Ultimate Art - From the Intimate to the Spectacular 7pm-9:30pm. Romantic opera. $20. Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock. 246-1671.

Prenatal Yoga 6pm-7:15pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Beginners Mind Meditation 6pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music

Spoken Word

Kids Yoga 4:30pm-5:30pm. The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls.

227-3223.

T'ai Chi, Yang Style 6pm-7pm. Miriam Cooper. $75/$60 members 5 class series. Beahive Kingston, Kingston. 810-2919.

Classes Learn Sword Fighting with The Order of the Roc 6pm-9pm. Everett Hodge Community Center, Kingston.

Events Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: A Day at the Farm 11am-4pm. Learn more about the animals who have been given a second chance at life. $10/$5 children.

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, Willow. 679-5955.

Pow Wow On The Hudson 11am-6pm. Native American festival. $5/$2. Bowdoin Park, Poughkeepsie. (917) 415-5139.

Tryntje Hasbrouck 1pm. First person experiential tour series remembers Hasbrouck's husband, the Militia Colonel. Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site, Newburgh. 562-1195.

Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 3pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Music Brunch with The Saints of Swing Call for times. Live @ The Falcon, Marlboro.

Peter Muir & Friends 3pm. $30. Center for Performing Arts, Rhinebeck.

876-3080.

Theater You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 2pm. $15/$12 members/$8 children. Ghent Playhouse, Ghent. (518) 392-6264.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet 4pm. New Genesis Productions. Byrdcliffe Theater, Woodstock. 810-0465.

Workshops The Power of Ritual 7pm-9pm. A shamanic workshop with Glenn Leisching. $20/$15. Mirabai Books, Woodstock. 679-2100.

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

Jay Sanders on Walter De Maria 2pm. Dia: Beacon, Beacon. 440-0100.

Gentlest Yoga Ever 4:30pm. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Yoga All Levels 12:15pm-1:15pm. $5. Sacred Space Healing Arts Studio, Beacon. 742-8494.

Community Acupuncture 4pm-6pm. $20-$40. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Pre-Natal Yoga 5:45pm-7pm. $80 series. Waddle n Swaddle, Poughkeepsie. 473-5952.

Zumba 7pm-8pm. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park.

229-9998.

Yoga Sutras: Study with Shri Radha 7:30pm-9pm. $10. Mudita Yoga Center, Kingston.

750-6605.

Classes Sacred Spaces Call for times. Explore the concept of sacred space by examining 3 areas where human beings, through their cultures, have assigned the quality of sacredness: sacred land, sacred architecture, and the sacred space in the heart. $300. SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz. 257-2907.

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

Mother/Daughter Belly Dancing Class 7:30pm. $20/4 weeks $69/mother daughter $118.

Casperkill Rec Center, Poughkeepsie. (914) 874-4541.

Dance Kuumba Latin Fever 5:30pm. Hudson Opera House, Hudson. (518) 822-1438.

Events Ultimate Frisbee Casual Pickup Games 12:30pm. Ages 10 and up. Comeau Property, Woodstock. woodstockultimate.org.

Kids Tiny Yoga Workshop for Babies 11:15am-12:15pm. Newborn through crawler. $16.50.

The Yoga Way, Wappingers Falls. 227-3223.

Drop In Art Class 1pm. Kid Around, Saugerties. 247-3342.

ZumbaTomic 5:45pm. Ages 6-13. $9. Inner Light Health Spa, Hyde Park. 229-9998.

Music High Frequency Channeling: Archangel Metatron and Master Teachers 6pm-7:30pm. With Suzy Mezoly. $20. Sage Center for the Healing Arts, Woodstock.

The Outdoors Lower Wappingers Creek Evening Easy Pace Paddle 6pm. Call for location. 452-7238.

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May is Self-Awareness Month

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arlier this year, one of the Planet Waves editors posted to our blog an article she found about the odd relationship options offered by Facebook (for example, the category “it’s complicated” being a stand-in for everything other than something supposedly normal, without saying what; the insinuation is “more than one partner”). Following that article back to its source, a blog called Onely.org, I discovered the existence of a singles movement.

This is about people for whom conventional relationship models do not work, or more simply put, a movement of people who want to go solo. They don’t want to date in any conventional way, they don’t live with the expectation of marriage, they don’t cohabitate, and they don’t do the boyfriend-girlfriend thing. They don’t want to be half of a couple, in the immortal words of Erica Jong; they want to be a whole person, and the easiest way for them to facilitate that is to be single.

They might count all their friends on an equal par, on the basis that all relationships have value. One is not on a higher rung than another. There’s substantial questioning of how society compels many people to embrace relationship options that might not (or absolutely do not) work for them. There is as much questioning of heteronormative conditioning as there is in any queer community. In case you haven’t heard that word, it’s a keeper—a concept to contain all the rules and regulations you’re supposed to follow in a world oriented primarily on heterosexual relationships, which are considered the norm.

The idea of a singles movement immediately sounded revolutionary because much of the relationship discussion is about what form of long-term committed relationship one chooses (mono or poly, married or living together, gay or straight), rather than questioning the orthodoxy of relationship. Many people have the feeling that if they’re not “in a relationship,” they’re not normal. Many places having a partner or spouse is the equivalent of fully vested citizenship. Once you have someone on your arm, you’re allowed into society.

Exploring other websites in this genre, the discussion I read was often politically astute and a bit indignant. Why should the dentist be asking about your marital status?

Is that vaguely relevant to getting your teeth cleaned? If they need to notify your next of kin that you have cavity, they can call your sister.

Out of curiosity, I started typing the word “masturbation” into search engines on various singles movement sites and getting nothing back (with the exception of one derogatory reference to “mental masturbation”). I thought this lack of discussion was interesting and more than a bit strange. Here was a movement advocating living freely and being detached from relationship expectations as a vocal choice. We all know that many people stay in relationships to assure a supply of sex, even if those relationships

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don’t serve their other growth needs. To be free of these dysfunctional relationships, it would help (in my fantasy world) to have an idea of sexual independence we could aspire to. But the movement advocating how you can be free of these relationships, at least that I could find that evening, had nothing to say about sex with oneself.

This was the last place I would have guessed there was a taboo on discussing solo sex. Clearly, if you’re single and want to be, that implies that sex with oneself is not a substitute for anything, and also that (assuming you have a sex drive) it’s an entirely necessary state of affairs. If being single implied having a low sex drive, Thomas Edison would have never invented the singles bar.

I wrote to the editor of one of these websites, and after a round of e-mails that went on for a few weeks, she basically told me that they just didn’t feel comfortable talking about self-sex. I admit to being a bit naïve, but truly, I was stunned. Okay, just a little stunned. The lack of authentic sexual conversation is normal fare in our culture. In exploring the many reasons why masturbation is still taboo, we must include that as one of them. But I think it goes deeper. It’s fair to say that considerable embarrassment surrounds the topic of masturbation. It’s private, and most people would rather keep it that way (unless you count their fantasies of getting caught).

Now that it’s May, which was officially designated Masturbation Month back in 1995 by the Good Vibrations toy stores in Berkeley and San Francisco, we have 31 days of cultural sanction for the conversation. What, exactly, is Masturbation Month?

It’s a little like Chrysanthemum Appreciation Week, only it involves masturbation and it lasts a month—and it’s a lot more radical. I don’t think Obama signed a proclamation, but we can pretend.

What would the conversation be about? I would propose that masturbation is about a lot more than masturbation—and that’s the nature of the taboo. First, I would say that masturbation holds the key to sexuality. It’s a kind of proto-sexuality, the core of the matter of what it means to be sexual. I mean this in an existential sense.

Masturbation is the most elemental form of sexuality, requiring only awareness and a body. Whatever we experience when we go there is what we bring into our sexual encounters with others—whether we recognize it or not. Many factors contribute to obscuring this fact.

However, people who are comfortable with their sexuality in general are likely to be comfortable with masturbation. It also works the other way; self-sex is a path to self-knowledge, which is a very helpful in mature, healthy relationships. The less mature relationships can be mazes of ignorance and codependency, and often, sexual dependency is a major ingredient in the glue that bonds these encounters together.

This, in my opinion, is why masturbation, and by that I mean conscious self-sex,

is so revolutionary. In contemplating the masturbation taboo, I figured out something that turns out to be a factor in the oldest literature that insists masturbation must be forbidden: It has a tendency to open up one’s fantasy life. And we all know this knows no bounds. That, in turn, can point to desire for sexual and relational options other than what one has at the moment, outside the rules. Far from being a mechanical experience of sexual maintenance that it’s often portrayed as being, self-sex helps us open up an inner world of possibilities.

Within that world are two basic elements: what we want, and what we keep in the shadows. Where pair-bonded relationships are the norm, desire for anything other than we have in the current relationship is often regarded as forbidden territory. If you have sex with yourself, who are you thinking about? That can open up a can of worms. If you have a partner or spouse, I ask you—can you reveal the contents of your fantasy life to him or her? Some brave couples may be able to do this with powerful results. As one of my favorite authors once wrote, only the truth is erotic. Pretend for a moment that the contents of your imagination are not private.

Consider the possibility that the people closest to you, or even those who pick up on your energy, might catch on to what’s going on in your inner world of desire. The more perceptive people in your world can see through you, and those with whom you’re sexually intimate, or attracted to, might be able to tap right in. Yet what we call the ego puts up all kinds of blocks to this awareness.

For many people, knowing that their partner is thinking about past or potential lover (or a current secret lover) would lead to some deep insecurities coming to the surface. So when we stash away masturbation, we’re stashing away the desire element, as well as papering over those insecurities. They will then tend to surface in our relationships in other ways.

The term “shadow material” from Jungian psychoanalysis fits well here. Shadow is all this stuff we contain within ourselves, including guilt, shame, the fear of abandonment, rage, hatred and all their cousins. These are emotions we tend to project into relationships. For example, we might see them as qualities in others but not ourselves.

They might become ‘issues’ in the relationship. It’s easy to understand how this works.

An insecure person is much likelier to be jealous of a partner than someone who is confident. In that case, jealousy would be a projection of insecurity (and/or envy and/ or the fear of abandonment).

Conscious masturbation, and by that I mean your inner erotic reality experienced as part of your ongoing relationship with yourself, is one way to into these dark feelings rather than projecting them outward. If you experience any embarrassment, shame or misgiving around masturbation (and most people do), consider the possibility that these things obscure something deeper, that being your point of contact with yourself.

You can call that self-love or self-esteem; you can call it being centered in your reality.

I am talking about an authentic inner journey, the kind that usually gets categorized in the bin with the label “spiritual,” but which has a distinctly sexual sensation.

Given that religion has not only made sexuality allegedly bad but also built its fortune on doing so, it can take quite a bit of determination to go here. We are all influenced by religion’s misgivings and open hatred of sex. The fact that so many people experience forms of false modesty, embarrassment, shame and guilt, in many facets of life, and also where masturbation is a factor, suggests that there is a connection.

I will leave you with an idea that I’m developing in other venues this month, which is self-centered sexuality. I know, this is the thing we’re supposed to avoid in we’re “not supposed to be selfish.” I’m not talking about selfish, I’m talking about self. Selfcentered sexuality means being centered within yourself.

I would propose as part of this that couples explore getting closer to one another by masturbating in one another’s presence. This is perfectly intuitive for some people and just as counterintuitive for others. In the experience, I suggest including the full content of your mind and not just your body. In case you experience embarrassment, I would offer you the idea that the very hottest sexual experiences are just on the other side of that veil.

For those who consider themselves “not in a relationship,” this opens up many possibilities, including a great option for “friends with benefits”—but absent most of the usual worries about sex. It’s a way to share sex without the baggage of thinking you have to get married.

You’ll also have an opportunity to encounter material that has come up in your past relationships, and (for example) explore the healing of your self-esteem, body issues, or sexual shadow material. Imagine if you could enter your encounters with others from a confident and self-aware place, understanding who you are and what you want.

That would give you a new basis for choosing a partner, or allow you to consider the idea that you might not want to be in a conventional relationship.

So, the sex toy stores may be calling this Masturbation Month. I would revise that to Self-Awareness Month.

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Planet Waves Horoscopes Aries (March 20-April 19) Be careful about being right. I don’t doubt—at least on one level—that you are correct in what you’re thinking, but I suggest you be cautious about any presumed entitlement or privilege flowing from that notion. Right is too close to self-righteous, and that won’t work in your favor. The equation “I have this, therefore I deserve more” is especially toxic, though it takes subtle forms that you may not notice. Any such feeling is being driven by forces lurking beneath your awareness, which may include the fear of isolation, conflict within your values, or a phobia about not knowing who you are. You may find yourself obsessed with trying to figure yourself out, and to evaluate whether you’re acting in an ethical way. I suggest you measure your happiness using factors such as your sense of abundance, your generosity, and your level of fear. This is the time to mix having with giving, rather than to mix having with withholding or demanding. Now, I recognize you may think these are good ideas, but perhaps you’re wondering where you’re going to find the flexibility to keep an open mind. That is an internal matter, something you really cannot negotiate with others. You are not at the mercy of your personality or your conditioning. You are only at the mercy of your awareness. With so much activity in your world, pausing to reflect deeply may not be something that occurs to you naturally; this is your reminder.

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To understand the nature of your inner struggle, consider your parents’ relationship to each other. It may serve as a useful map to your psyche. On what points did they get along? On what points did they conflict? Did they consider one another faithful, and what became of any incident wherein there was some breach of faith? What was their shared experience of sex?

How were decisions about money made? Who ruled the roost, and how? Map out their experiences and you will have a tangible way of mapping out your inner reality. You may notice that in your day-to-day choices, you dramatize the harmony or conflict that they lived with, possibly for decades. And what if you don’t know about some of these dynamics between them? You may have an indication of missing knowledge of your inner territory. How would it feel to ask your parents about their most private matters? What subjects could you broach, and which would you avoid? What does that say about your willingness to explore your own motives? Any psychic or emotional exercise involving one’s parents may point to a missing parent, or a relationship that wasn’t really a relationship. This can provide as much information as direct facts; it always helps to be aware of what is missing. One thing is clear: one of your parents may have been deeply mistrustful and envious of the other. How does that dynamic play out in your inner life? How can you foster trust in yourself? This would be the key to your happiness.

Gemini

(May 20-June 21)

The time has arrived to be bold about your vision, and about putting it into words and especially action. You need all three now; each is an essential ingredient of manifestation. You are past the phase of doing things in a seeming vacuum, or in the confines of your own mind. You are at the phase where cooperation is essential, and where the results of what you create will involve a community experience of some kind. At least that seems to be your intent. Yet if you’re new to this level of accomplishment, you may feel some distinct unease at “putting yourself out there.” For example, you have no way to control an idea once it’s out of your hands. You have no control over how people perceive you, no matter how careful you are about guarding your reputation. I suggest, therefore, that you give up on control and stick to the core of what you are offering. Why is it original? What are the benefits of what you’re doing?

One thing that I’ve seen a lot of people struggle with is the notion that others will benefit from something that they do, without a direct return to themselves. I can think of few things that would more effectively stand in the way of abundance than being concerned that someone else might benefit from you. Take pleasure in that possibility. It seems that at the basis of your vision is some significant benefit to the world; get that going from day one.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) What you do and what you accomplish is not merely directly, intimately connected to who you are; right now, there is no distinction at all. Therefore, project yourself fully into what you’re doing. Bring in every resource that you have, every talent, every idea. I suggest, in particular, that you focus on what you consider your most radical ideas or plans. Radical means reaching into the roots, so what I am suggesting is about depth rather than about how shocking something is. Some may consider it shocking, and one measure of depth is the feeling of being drawn out of your safe zone. Ideally what you begin at this juncture will have a feeling of risk, and of being a little edgy. Ideally, you’ll feel like you have to risk your reputation in order to do something more authentic than you’ve ever done. Think of what would be your most idealistic future plan, and then remember that it’s possible to put into action now. At this moment you are opening a door to a new phase of your creative life, which is what you used to think of as your professional life. Therefore, this is the time to claim your deepest mission. Send yourself the message that what you’re doing is real and you will signal this to the world. Let everything you say and do have the same basic message. If you get distracted or caught in externals, go back to the roots of what you’re doing and express yourself from there.

Planet Waves Horoscopes Leo (July 22-August 23) Various religious manifestos claim that mankind is guilty of usurping the power of God. This has always struck me as odd. It seems that religion is what has stolen many precious things from humanity. It tries to tell us who we are and are not; it defines “bad” and “good” in ways that brutally limit us and co-opt the study of ethics; and it has swiped cosmology wholesale, taking control over our ideas of birth and death. There is just one artist mentioned in the Bible—Bezalel, whose job is to build a temple (go figure). Last and surely not least, I cannot think of one of the world’s major religions that is friendly to sex. So what of the human experience hasn’t religion usurped?

Automotive repair? To a surprising degree, religion has not succeeded in doing much at all to you personally. While it’s better to overestimate the damage caused by turning God into an institution and law book, you seem to have made it into adulthood as someone who has direct access to your cosmic source. You have your own fully conscious ways of discerning right and wrong.

And your notion of who you are is defined not by what anyone has told you but rather by your own impressively restless, staunchly independent quest for truth. Man, I hope even half of that is true! It’s certainly what is possible for you right now. Just remember when you run up to Mount Olympus and get some of that fire, you’re not stealing—you’re stealing back.

Virgo (August 23-September 22) You seem to be involved in many different levels of business arrangements and personal commitments. It almost seems that your quest for self-discovery is being distributed among many situations. This can be confusing, though for the past few weeks it looks like you’ve been experimenting with the possibilities and getting a feel for who your potential collaborators are. This process isn’t over yet, though something interesting seems ready to emerge—which is your vision for yourself. It’s as if the more options you see that involve others, the more you see that you’re different, and that nobody’s model or concept fits your life, your plans or your talent. Yet you can, if you want, draw on the resources and talents of many people in support of your dreams, and that seems to be the most productive use of your options. The beauty of the moment is that no one personal contact is defining or limiting who you are. You now know that you make the final decisions about who you are and what you want, and this is the month to stake your turf.

Put down a solid foundation now, in terms of a clear declaration to yourself, as well as some concrete action or investment, and you are likely to see an excellent return on that commitment during the next few months. The bolder and the more tangible your plan, the better. One last clue—anything you’re envious of, you can do better. So don’t waste your time on anything except creating your world.

Libra (September 22-October 23) For the 17 years I’ve been writing this horoscope, I’ve been sensitive to the idea that many people have multiple relationships, and that others want to, while only rarely referencing the concept directly. Checking my archive of 12,000 horoscope entries, I’ve used the word “polyamory” just three times since 1999. You just heard the fourth. There’s an old expression in art that form follows function.

Your life would seem to be populated by a diversity of truly interesting people at the moment, and full of the surprises, innovative ideas and potential disruptions that they have to offer. From the look of things, you’re interested in several of them, though with different experiences developing independently of one another. One of these influences seems to be radically transforming your vision of yourself, your aesthetic sensibilities and your idea of freedom. Other people have different roles, though the common thread is that you have a point of contact with each of them. There is an equally strong pull to bond with someone in a way that may have been more appropriate for our parents’ generation. Yet you are at a kind of a crossroads where you can look honestly at your predecessors and their relationship style, how that shaped their lives. Remember that nobody is forcing you to make a decision, and you don’t need to follow the old values of the past in thinking that you have to. You have options, and now is the time to keep them open.

Scorpio (October 23-November 22) You’re probably getting tired of working so much—and it seems like a new horizon in a relationship is opening up. I would just offer you a word of caution about one thing. At the moment, you’re becoming aware what a multifaceted person you are. This has always been true, though you’re likely to be feeling its true potential now, as you open up to being a full-spectrum human. The relationship situation that might seem so appealing has the potential to limit this nascent awareness that you’re developing.

So if you choose to get involved with someone, or take a situation to a deeper level, make sure that you bring your diversity with you. You’re under no obligation to be less of a person so that someone else doesn’t feel threatened. This simply doesn’t work; I’m not saying that from theory, I’m speaking from experience, and not just my own. Therefore, don’t make any promises you aren’t sure you can keep, even if they get you something you want. Be cautious if you think you’re compromising your values system for a good cause. It won’t be long before you figure out that you’re boxed in. At the moment, you’re only at the beginning of your journey of self-expression.

I suggest you guard your freedom carefully. Remember that there are concepts of relationship other than the ones that insist you have to give up a piece of who you are as the price of admission.

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When you look around and you see a world that metes out amoral and unethical treatment of others, I imagine you wonder what you can do about it. You don’t need to look far to see this, and at the moment you’re particularly vulnerable to noticing injustice. The appropriate response is connected to what you think the cause of these problems is. You may have noticed that it goes a lot deeper than most people realize. Humans are confronted not only with an environment wherein there is exceedingly little trust in many relationships, but with constant effort to use that as a manipulation device. You could, therefore, respond by striving for trust within your personal relationships, and do what you can to correct the small injustices that you notice. In a world where it’s considered ethical to take, you could invest your energy in giving. I suggest you strive to nourish the world not as a special activity, but rather as part of all that you do. While you’re doing that, notice what is nourishing about everyone you meet. There is always something. You don’t even need to like someone to find something about them that enriches your perception. And you don’t need to like someone to be friendly and supportive. One simple but bold approach to avoiding exploitation is to set up the various exchanges of your life on terms that are mutually supportive.

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You need a new way to express yourself. There is so much steam and fire in your chart, I strongly suggest you not only vent it but put it to creative use. You may be feeling overwhelmed and looking for a way to calm down; you may feel like you’re being crowded out of your own home or your own emotional body. These are real feelings with actual causes behind them; but it’s not the kind of thing you can fix or sort out in a short time.

The sensual world is the place to take refuge. It’s worth reminding you that Capricorn is an earthy sign, so your mode of expression needs a kinesthetic quality to it: Something you can wrap your hands around. Music would work well; a hand drum would let you express some of the fire that’s burning in your soul. If you’re going to do art of some kind, I suggest clay rather than drawing, and if you’re going to experiment with a craft, I suggest something more like welding and less like paper mache. Meanwhile, what are all these factors from the past that have shown up, right in the moment when you want to spring yourself into the future? From the looks of your solar chart, the moment you decided you were done with the past, a whole lot more history showed up for you to look at. Have no fear: the force of progress is a lot greater than anything that could hold you down. Just remember to keep your energy moving, and moving fast.

Aquarius

(January 20-February 19)

While the astrology of the next month doesn’t give your mind, or your workload, much time off, there are big changes in the home and family angle of your chart. For as restless as you are, the emphasis is now on grounding yourself in a meaningful way. You need a solid base of operations. While you may have many ideas for where or what that could be, you seem well poised to make some significant improvements in your situation. If nothing else, you can get clear about your newest idea of what a home really is, and conduct some experiments to see what fits. There is the sensation of making something new from basic elements rather than walking into a pre-fabricated situation. This is more like building a new house than it is like buying an old one, but the implication is emotional rather than physical. Your knowledge of what makes you feel secure is evolving. Your sense of your income potential is evolving as well. But mostly you seem to be getting clear about your necessity for stability and comfort, and this is illustrated by the Taurus New Moon, which happens in the angle of your solar chart associated with putting down roots. If there is a note of caution, this involves the relationship between jealousy and security. Most people you ask would say the two are related, and that jealousy is a sign of true love. I would say you’ll feel a lot more secure if you understand what jealousy is and why you want a better option.

Pisces

(February 19-March 20)

Everything you see in the world has a point of origin, which was invariably a human idea, decision or action—usually all three. You are at a point in your life when the things you think, decide, or go for have a deeply original quality. You not only have the power to make something new, you are very likely doing precisely that. You may not recognize it at the moment; I strongly suggest you bring your full awareness to what you’re doing, and what you can be doing if you give yourself the flexibility and space to express yourself. How you manage space is vital to this, and that primarily involves your mental space. If there’s something you know is important to you, that your soul is calling out to create, make a space for it. By definition the space would be empty at first, existing for the sake of eventually being filled. It will be, soon enough. Have the flexibility to recognize if something a little different comes in the; creative process is enhanced by exploring variables in a playful way.

But remember your purpose, your initial intent, your true desire. And keep holding open that space, as a conscious strategy. It may be a space of time devoted to a single purpose. It may be a physical space that you work in, or alter. It may be some kind of a notebook or online work area.

Remember that these are physical metaphors for honoring and working with the inner space of an idea. Begin in earnest now, apply yourself every day, and evaluate in three months.

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Cuban born Carlos Loret de Mola began his most recent body of work, “Being Upstate,” in 2006 after moving to Hudson, simultaneously tackling an exploration of surroundings and embarking on a very personal inquiry of self.

Loret de Mola photographs the people and situations around him as a way to find a place for himself within a setting. Even when he photographs other residents of Hudson, the images are not so much about the person in the image but how that person reacts to Loret de Mola. Often, this translates into a peculiar stare back into the camera. All the photos in “Being Upstate” are ultimately self-portraits of an immigrant trying to assimilate into rural American life.

But when Loret de Mola photographs himself, the sense of an outsider looking in is completely forgotten. His self-portraits are unapologetically open. In one shot, Loret de Mola stands naked in the shower staring point blank into the camera, as if to say, “Here it is, this is me, take it or leave it.” The viewer goes to the doctor with him, sees him in his robe and slippers, watches him scratch his head in angst. This willingness to offer everything up may be Loret de Mola’s way to cope with the feelings of being on the outside, and try to understand and fit in within a new way of life.

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